It is good to change the prisoners and reduce the profits of the treasury that have been stolen by the powerful of the world, but it is clear that in the feudal era, it was best for the imperial court to directly control the trade and trade of salt and iron, which was necessary for the people's livelihood, after all, it was a stable state revenue.

The control of salt and iron can not only obtain huge monopoly sales profits and obtain high state financial use, but also play a role in stabilizing the situation from the side.

After all, in ancient times, when the government's finances were insufficient, and the simple and crude expropriation of land was very easy to provoke popular revolt and force the people who could not survive and had no money to pay taxes to rebel.

But the salt and iron trade was controlled, and on the surface, it seemed that the imperial court did not directly levy taxes, so naturally it would not cause any complaints from the people, but secretly, the dominance of the price of salt and iron was in the hands of the government.

In the face of these necessities of life, ordinary people can grit their teeth, eat less and use less, but they will never say that they want to rebel because of the high price of salt and iron.

In this way, it will be very easy for the central government to achieve the goal of "seeing the form of giving, not the reason of taking it", and such a disguised tax collection method is a very clever way of state finance.

In Fu Quan's view, this is the same as the oil of the Celestial Empire in the future, how cheap foreign oil is, but the domestic price is still those prices, occasionally give you a small price reduction, once the situation happens, immediately increase the price back, and even grab money from the people with interest, but you have no choice but to sit and wait to be slaughtered.

Even if some foreigners come to the Celestial Empire to buy and sell oil at prices far below the market price, but after a few days a rectification document that disrupts the order of the market economy is handed down, those outsiders can only honestly follow the government, and the common people will naturally be exploited in disguise, and they can only endure it.

Therefore, when Fuquan could not master the salt and iron of the world overnight, for the salt and iron trade, he planned to follow what Jia Xu said, starting from two steps, starting with taxes, replacing prisoners, and making up for the financial needs of the imperial court; On the other hand, it is to slowly take back the control of salt and iron in various places, and gradually replace them with people loyal to the court and him.

Of course, if this is done, first of all, that is, the people sent by Fuquan must not repeat the mistakes of these dereliction of duty prisoners today, and they must not be allowed to be too corrupt, and finally get involved with the powerful people of the world and steal the interests of the Han court for their own.

As for how to choose these substitute prisoners, Fu Quan thought about it and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, I want to be transferred to the Japanese army to be disabled and veterans, with the people of the poor family, to replace the prisoners in the world, what is this method?" ”

After hearing this, Jia Xu nodded and said: "The wounded and disabled old soldiers under the command of the hussars are all loyal people, and they can be responsible for checking the tax on salt and iron." Coupled with the people of the Han family, even if the talent is not as good as the children of the Han family, it is more than enough to serve as the salt and iron supervisor in all parts of the world. ”

"Good!"

As soon as Fuquan praised it, Jia Xu changed his tone and said: "However, the salt and iron supervisors and officials needed in various places are not a small number, if the hussars choose one or two places, it is okay to select capable and poor people, and there are still hundreds of salt and iron places today, I am afraid of arbitrary appointments, it is inevitable that there will be people with bad minds and poor talents, and I hope the hussars will think carefully!" ”

"Hmm......" Fu Quan nodded with a smile in response, but he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, and secretly said that this Jia Xu would finish speaking at one time, so he was so uncomfortable.

Of course, what Jia Xu said is also the truth, the selection of talents, naturally to be extremely cautious, now the Han was found in the land of salt and iron, not too much, but also a lot, if Fuquan slowly listened to the recommendations, and the recommended Hanmen people were transferred to the salt and iron land in various places, it is really difficult to guarantee that there are no people among them who he looks away.

Moreover, Jia Xu's reminder also made Fu Quan have another worry, that is, he promoted these poor families by relying on the recommendation of his subordinates, and then promoted them through his own assessment and review.

Although those people in the poor family are mostly recommended by the poor family, they will not be like the Yuan family in Runan, who serves as a high-ranking official and constantly recommends talents, and finally expands and grows into the world's first gatekeeper, but it must not be guarded against. After all, it is difficult for these Hanmen to replicate the miracle of the Runan Yuan clan's ascent to the top, but there is no guarantee that they will not form a party and give birth to another force that Fuquan himself may not be able to control.

This is very likely to happen, the officials of the cold family are already weak, and the position of the senior officials in the court is still controlled by the powerful of the world, as long as these officials of the cold door are not fools, they will definitely unite together, and over time, as the number of people who join is getting bigger and bigger, it is impossible to say that Fuquan himself may not be able to control this force.

In the final analysis, it is still backward in the way of selecting talents, all recommended by people, and it is good that the recommender is selfless, but if it is selfish, not to mention whether this will cause the loss of talents, so that talented and capable people can not emerge, just say that the person who is recommended by the person who is recommended has a close relationship, whether the other party has talent, it is not known.

Thinking of this, Fu Quan had already made up his mind, and he felt that it was time to take out what he had always wanted to achieve.

I saw that Fu Quan said: "Wenhe, it is not difficult to select talented people, there is a way to do it!" ”

"How can you choose it?"

"Open the exam!" Fu Quan's eyes lit up, looked at Jia Xu, and said slowly, finally he had the opportunity to realize the idea he had a long time ago.

"Huh? Examining the officer? After Jia Xu heard this, his eyes wrinkled slightly and asked, "How to take the test?" How to take it? ”

"Wen He comes with the orphan." After speaking, Fu Quan got up and walked out of the lobby, Jia Xu saw it, looked puzzled, and followed Fu Quan respectfully.

The two of them went to the study in the palace of the hussar general, which was also considered a forbidden place in the palace, and Fuquan sent a team of soldiers to guard it, and no one else was allowed to enter unless he was with Fuquan.

The reason why this is so is because since three years ago, after Fu Quan took control of the government and the opposition, he knew that as a relative, if he wanted to change the shortcomings of the Han family, he had to come up with some good laws in later generations at the right time, so he had already considered many policies.

However, people's memory is limited after all, and it will continue to weaken with time, so Fu Quan wrote down all the policies and other things he thought of in the later generations, put them in his study, and sent his henchmen and horses to guard them, even his wives and concubines, and they were not allowed to get close to half a step.

Now, Fu Quan took Jia Xu to the study, naturally to take the silk book he had written to open the examination and take the officials, which recorded the method of selecting talents that he had improved according to the current situation in the Han Dynasty.

Of course, Fuquan did not copy the later Song and Ming Dynasty scholars, and even the selection of civil servants in the Celestial Empire, each dynasty had its own national conditions, and it was completely copied and said that it was impossible to steal chickens and rice.

Just like Fu Quan said, what he wants to do is to open the examination to get officials, instead of naively replacing the filial piety and honesty recommendation system that has been formed in the Han Dynasty with the imperial examination system, and let those who pass the examination become officials, which is unrealistic!

I'm afraid that if Fuquan really mentions it like this, he can't say that the world is strong, and he will join forces to play the banner of the Qing monarch and overthrow his "tyranny".

The reason why the family can ensure their unique social status in the Later Han Dynasty is that in addition to mastering more resources and producing family talents, they have also studied the filial piety and honesty recommendation system thoroughly, and they can operate it privately, so that the family talents are more prominent, otherwise, even if your family has more talents, but if you can't be an official, what use can it be for their family?

Now, if Fuquan directly changes the filial piety and honesty recommendation system of the Later Han Dynasty, so that the heroes of the world and the children of the poor family are on the same running line politically, the final result can be imagined, the world's heroes and heroes will oppose him, and even the civil and military forces under the command of Fuquan who are born in the family will also follow the backlash, and Fuquan really wants to do this, it is obviously too stupid.

Think about it, in real history, from the Sui Dynasty to the Song Dynasty after hundreds of years, the imperial examination really replaced the recommendation system to become the mainstream, and now Fuquan wants to replace it overnight, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Therefore, Fuquan will retreat to the next best thing to come to a "open examination to get officials", and the officials are naturally fighting food and serving officials, and they are important assistants to officials in various ministries.

Don't look at the small officials who obey the officials, but to a certain extent, they are also powerful figures, but since the Later Han Dynasty, the appointment and dismissal of these fighting officials have been gradually replaced by county magistrates. And the county magistrates in various places, appointing and dismissing the adjutants, are all people who are close to the cronies, so the rights of those adjutants are naturally controlled by the county magistrates in various places.

Fuquan is now "taking the examination to select officials", which is naturally to slowly regain the personnel appointment and dismissal of these small officials and the real power in the local area; just imagine, if all the local officials in the world are selected through the central examination, then it will undoubtedly be very useful to weaken local rights.

And this kind of petty official position will not touch the sensitive nerves of the powerful people of the world, and the left and right are just small officials, not to mention that he is an official, in fact, it can't be talked about at all. Even if the powerful people of the world are obsessed with controlling the place, they can't be guilty of fighting Fuquan for this matter.

Moreover, they are reluctant to serve the position of assistant, and they can only take the examination for the children of their families who are not brilliant and cannot be high-ranking officials, so although it is more troublesome than in the past to directly appoint and dismiss, it also has an impact on their rights.

In this way, when the examination is slowly accepted, subtly, the original filial piety and honesty recommendation system will be canceled, and it will be completely turned into an examination to take officials, then it will naturally be logical.

At that time, all the officials in the world were appointed and dismissed by the central government, which not only greatly strengthened the centralization of power, but also weakened the influence of the powerful people in the local area.

Of course, Fu Quan knew in his heart that if that time came, he would also have to consider that for those newly rising bureaucrats and doctors, he must restrict them, and there must be no such thing as Song Ming's group of bureaucrats and doctors contemptuous of imperial power and defending the interests of the landlord class.

Now, replacing the prisoners in the world is a good opportunity for Fuquan to take the exam, so he naturally wants to use it.

In this case, the supervisor can use those disabled veterans who have made military merits to fill the position, after all, the Han family has always had an example of a veteran of military merits as a hundred stone officials. In addition, the small officials selected by the examination, the supervisors and officials have no direct interest relationship and supervise each other, so it is difficult for the salt and iron tax to be corrupt in a short period of time.

When he arrived at the study, Jia Xu also looked at it curiously, to be honest, the mystery in this study is also one of the talking points of the wealthy family in Luoyang, but no one knows what is in it, even a few people who have been to the study with Fuquan also say that there is no abnormality, and naturally this study is even more mysterious.

It is said that Fu Zhuo, the beloved daughter of Fu Quan, forcibly broke in, and after being learned by Fu Quan, he directly let the hussar general, who was famous in Beijing and loved his daughter, took out his horse whip and whipped Fu Zhuo ten times, and since then, no one in the hussar general's mansion dares to enter the forbidden place of the study.

Jia Xu is also the first time to come, and he is naturally very curious, but, with his keen eye, he didn't see anything wrong with this study, if it was weird, it was the boxes in the study, it seemed that there were a lot of them, there were dozens.

With Fu Quan's movements, Jia Xu saw Fu Quan flip through for a while, took out one of the boxes, handed it to him and said, "Wen He, look at this method, can it be useful?" ”

"No!" Jia Xu took the box and answered, and then opened the box, but saw that there was a roll of silk inside, which seemed to have words on it, and took it out to check it immediately.

Who knows, when I saw this, my eyes widened, and I was extremely surprised, and I looked at it all the way and was speechless for a long time.

It wasn't until Fu Quan took the initiative to inquire about him that Jia Xu said: "This method is very wonderful, and I can't tell it!" ”

On weekdays, although Jia Xu is low-key, he is also a proud person in his heart, and it is not as good as being admitted by him, which shows that the content of this silk letter really shocked him.

In fact, there was no quotation of scriptures on the silk book, nor did it show off the words, and the whole article was just about one thing, opening the examination and becoming an official.

It means that a "examination" method is used to select the world's fighting officials, and they are no longer appointed and dismissed by local officials, but are comprehensively selected by the central imperial court examination, and then distributed to various localities one by one to control the localities.

In the silk book, there are no requirements for those who take the exam, except for criminals, anyone else can sign up to take his exam, and then through layers of selection, from all the references to select the qualified, qualified people are already qualified to become officials.

After that, the imperial court sent competent officials to conduct a final round of interviews, and finally decided where these qualified candidates would go to serve as assistants.

This novel system of examining officials is simply unheard of for Jia Xu, of course, if it is just because of this, Jia Xu is ashamed, it is impossible.

What really shocked Jia Xu, and admitted that he saw the future of the Han Dynasty as officials and officials, if this method is used, since the restoration of Guangwu in this dynasty, the problem of the great power of the Han family has been around the Han Dynasty, and in a certain period of time, it can indeed be fundamentally solved.