Jin Liang didn't have the slightest interest in such a person who had no vision and didn't know the current affairs, he just snorted coldly, and Guo Jia, the Chinese military division behind Jin Liang, hurriedly ordered someone to record these twelve families and more than fifty small and medium-sized families attached to them and put them on the gray list. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jin Liang has four kinds of lists for these families, such as the Zhen family, the Tian family, the Fu family, the Chen family, and the Dong family, all of which are on the red list, and they are the families that focus on supporting and cultivating, it's the turn of these gray families.

In order to achieve the goal of splitting the family, Jin Liang deliberately ignored their mutual vassal relationship, and treated the head of each small and medium-sized family as the future head of the family, and treated them with the same etiquette. It's a pity that people don't give him a chance to differentiate, and when he introduces himself, he will vaguely say that he will follow the head of a certain family.

After Jin Liang entered the banquet, the loud Taifu Lu Zhi announced the beginning of the feast of the Son of Heaven. Lu Zhi first followed the tone of discussing Dong Weiwen, how Dong Zhuo threatened the Luoyang court, how the Son of Heaven and the Empress Dowager were panicked, how Lu Zhi, Jin Liang and other ministers persuaded the Son of Heaven and the Empress Dowager to leave Luoyang to avoid Xiangyang, how Dong Zhuo then supported Liu Xie to wreak havoc in Luoyang, how Jin Liang and Lu Zhi led the army to destroy the white wave thieves and black mountain thieves, and how Jin Liang quelled the rebellion of Li Cheng and others. In this impromptu speech, several auxiliary ministers of the imperial court were said to be very wise and resolute. Especially praised Jin Liang's exploits as if Wei Qinghuo was sick in the world. This old man is also selfish. Jin Liang is his disciple, and Jin Liang's merits can also show that he teaches well.

The reason why Lu Zhi tried his best to boast about the strength of the Central Army and the wisdom and prestige of the cabinet ministers was to reassure these families, our Xiangyang Imperial Court is more promising, mix with us, don't hook up with Dong Zhuo's side anymore, they have no future.

Lu Zhi then said: "Now the imperial court has newly arrived in Xiangyang. The Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother were worried, and specially set up a feast of the Son of Heaven to summon you here, one is to let you come to meet the holy face of the Son of Heaven, the second is to let you meet the ministers of the court, and the third thing is to discuss the vacancies of these official positions, and after the discussion is settled, start to serve food and wine. Drink to celebrate the success of the construction of the Xiangyang Imperial Palace. In this way, I wish the great cause of Dong Dong to be successfully completed. ”

The first ritual was for the heads of the families to visit the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven and say some words of gratitude and flattery, needless to say.

The second ritual is when the heads of the families bring their outstanding sons to meet the ministers of the court, led by the ministers of the cabinet.

Some keen-eyed, far-sighted, and knowledgeable family heads took the opportunity to show their loyalty to Jin Liang, of course, there are very few such families, only five, namely the Feng family of Zhao County, the Liao family of Bohai County, the Jiao family of Pingyuan County, the Fu family of Changshan County, and the Guo family of Wei County, Jin Liang saw that their attitude was very sincere and promised to give them support in terms of money and land, Jin Liang quietly promised that they would give some care when they were waiting to recruit talents, and Jin Liang asked Guo Jia to temporarily put them on the yellow list, which is between the red list and the white list, It takes further observation to further deepen the family cooperation.

The rest of the families all nodded generally, and did not express any special kindness to Jin Liang, maybe some of these families will take the initiative to go to the General's Mansion in the remaining days, at present, Jin Liang has no special affection for them.

When it came to the third matter that these family heads were most concerned about, everyone thought that it was still Taifu Lu Zhi who was presiding over this matter, but Lu Zhi announced that Jin Liang would be in charge of it. Lu Zhi had always doubted Jin Liang's loyalty to the Han court and was worried about the rapid expansion of his power, and asked Jin Liang to recite Confucian classics with him every day, in a vain attempt to strengthen the loyalty in Jin Liang's heart.

It wasn't until Jin Liang's slogan "There was King Jiang Shang Zuowu in the past, and now there is Jin Liangfu Young Emperor" spread, and Lu Zhi knew that the upper limit of Jin Liang's ambition was just to follow the ancestors and become the king of Qi, so he slowly relaxed his vigilance against Jin Liang and handed over many major matters of the cabinet to Jin Liang for decision. Lu Zhi knew that his body could not support him for a few years, and the other auxiliary ministers were as old as him, and now the only ministers of the imperial court were Jin Liang and Zheng Tai, but Zheng Tai was not familiar with military affairs, could not control the army, and could not really take charge of the dilapidated ship of the Han Dynasty in the future situation, Lu Zhi wanted to entrust the major affairs of the court to Jin Liang before his death, so he deliberately cultivated Jin Liang.

Jin Liang had already communicated his thoughts on how to select the most qualified officials with the cabinet ministers, who were not very familiar with Jingzhou, and the previous probation system had basically become ineffective, so they had to agree to use Jin Liang's current model. Because the selection of officials is time-consuming, the banquet of the Son of Heaven began in the time of Shen.

The reason why it is necessary to determine the officials between the banquets of the Son of Heaven is because Jin Liang considered: "Let these officials be directly produced in front of the Son of Heaven, so that they can feel that they are protégés of the Son of Heaven, so that they will have loyalty to the Son of Heaven from the beginning, not just to their family master and recommended master." ”

Lu Zhi and other cabinet ministers felt that it was very reasonable, so they suggested that the Son of Heaven Liu Wei should handle it according to Jin Liang's opinion.

Jin Liang stood up, walked to the high platform in the middle of the banquet, and said loudly: "A certain young and learned literature, and long and performed martial arts. With an inch of iron in hand, there is the courage of ten thousand people; Cover the body with a piece of armor, and there is a power that thousands of people are invincible. Stepping down to ride the famous red rabbit, the cold knife in his hand is called the stone dragon. The heroes of the world are afraid, I am the brave and mighty Jin Xianting. Everyone was stunned, and they didn't know why Jin Liang boasted so much.

Seeing everyone's stunned expressions, Jin Liang explained unhurriedly: "Just now I recommended myself to the Son of Heaven. Now that the son has just arrived in Xiangyang, I don't know much about the powerful families in Jingzhou, and the ministers of the imperial court are also in Luoyang all the year round, and they don't know much about Jingzhou, and the inspection system of the imperial court was originally set up for officials such as county magistrates, and those county decrees can be transferred to the imperial court only if they do well. However, the current situation is that the central and various yamen of the imperial court lack capable ministers and officials, and the inspection system is not enough. For today's plan, I hope that the talents of each family will learn from Mao and come to self-recommendation. As for the self-recommendation, let's learn the format I just had. It doesn't have to be too long, and it doesn't have to be too long. ”

When everyone heard Jin Liang say this, they realized that the boast he just made was originally a self-recommendation. Jin Liang asked Liu He, the servant, to read out the vacant positions in the imperial court, there are more than 180 official positions in total, and basically the families present can get one, but the level of official positions and power depends on the talent performance of each family child. There were eighteen important positions decided on the spot at the banquet of the Son of Heaven, including the three princes and nine secretaries, the cabinet secretary and the servant, and other important positions.

For the other positions, they are interviewed and hired in various yamen, and the children of the family who are willing to take up that official position can go and sign up for the interview. If you are suitable, you will be hired on the spot, and you will be hired.

The first official position is the Imperial History Zhongcheng, responsible for picketing hundreds of officials, and Shang Shuling, Si Li, and the school captain sit on a special seat, and the Jingshi is called the three sitting alone, and the authority is very great. Jin Liang had already given this position to Tian Feng, and this time he took it out as a formality, which was of a performance nature, so that all families could see it clearly. The imperial court is indeed willing to appoint the children of your Jingzhou family as important ministers of the imperial court, but they don't know that Tian Feng has already joined Jin Liang. Otherwise, Jin Liang would never give him such an important position.

Shang Shu ordered Huang Wan to announce that the official position of Zhongcheng in the imperial history was temporarily vacant of capable ministers, and anyone who felt that he had the ability and qualifications to take on such a heavy responsibility could stand up and recommend himself. According to the previous arrangement, Tian Toyoda Yuanhao stood up and told the glorious deeds of impeaching a certain eunuch and a powerful minister in the imperial history before, and the children of other families listened to Tian Feng, none of them had the courage to stand up and compete with Tian Feng, and Tian Feng successfully served as the middle of the imperial history.

Most of those family heads don't know that this is the dark box operation of Jin Liang and others, seeing that the imperial court has taken out such a key position for the people of Jingzhou, which is enough to witness the sincerity of the imperial court, then what are we hesitating, we will fully support this imperial court, if we can kill Dong Zhuo and then unify the world, we are also the ministers of the new imperial court, and the family power must be much better than before, thinking of this, all the family heads are excited.

The second position is to be the minister, in charge of the construction of the palace, the temple, the road, and the cemetery.

This position is in charge of construction, oil and water are abundant, and more than 50 children of the family suddenly stood up and said that they were willing to serve as ministers, excluding those under the age of 30, excluding those who have never had experience in civil construction, only five people remained, these five people said their respective resumes, their families are in Hejian County, and the first emperor Liu Hong had known each other before entering the palace, with old friends, they have all participated in the construction of the Luoyang Imperial Palace, the tomb of Emperor Ling, and also participated in the construction of the private residence of Zhao Zhong, the predecessor of this palace.

When Jin Liang found out that one of them was Li Zhi, the head of the Li family in Hejian, Li Zhi, who was known for his knowledge of Yixue and was proficient in civil engineering and construction, and the other four were either on the white list or the gray list, so Jin Liang decided that Li Zhi would be appointed as the minister, and the other cabinet ministers in charge of the final election did not want to offend Jin Liang in this inconsequential appointment, so he agreed.

Both Fu Zhi and Li Zhi nodded gratefully at Jin Liang. When Li Zhi took office, Jin Liang handed over all the repair tasks of Xiangyang, the Imperial Palace, and the General's Mansion to him.

The subsequent positions were successively appointed by a series of high-ranking officials and prominent officials who did not hold real power, such as Taichang Cheng and Zong Zhengcheng, and Jin Liang let other auxiliary ministers decide the most suitable candidates, and only when the children of those gray lists and the children of red and yellow families were close to each other, Jin Liang gave priority to the children of the families on the red and yellow lists, and suppressed the families on the gray list.

Eighteen positions after Mao Sui's self-recommendation, qualification screening, talent display, cabinet assistant minister interview four links, in the end, Jin Liang's row of red and yellow list of family children actually got ten positions, and Jin's red list only Tian family, Fu family, Dong family, Chen family, Zhu family and other five families, the yellow list of families also only Zhao County Feng family, Bohai County Liao family, Pingyuan County Jiao family, Changshan County Fu family, Wei County Guo family, it is ten big families to get ten official positions, And only two of the twelve big families on the gray list got official positions, and the ten big families on the white list only got six official positions.

The heads of those big families have only now understood that it is Jin Liang who really has the right to speak in the cabinet.

Some heads of big families went directly to Jin Liang's general's mansion to meet Jin Liang after the banquet of the Son of Heaven to discuss the issue of further in-depth cooperation, and of course there are many families who are obsessed. is still bent on making enemies of Jin Liang. What awaits them will be an extremely tragic end.

In addition to these eighteen positions. There is also a very special position to recruit from all Maisons.That position is Da Changqiu, announcing the queen's will, managing the affairs of the palace, and being the head of the queen's close attendants, which were originally held by eunuchs, but after the rebellion of the ten permanent servants, Jin Liang and Lu Zhi strongly disagreed with the queen mother to continue to recruit eunuchs.

Jin Liang felt that the existence of eunuchs contributed more to the chaos of the country than to human nature. He didn't want to always face those miserable yin and yang people, so he took the opportunity of the rebellion of the ten permanent servants to completely abolish the eunuch system.

The eunuch system is a system derived from the ancient emperor's desire to "own" and "monopolize" multiple wives and concubines after he grasped the absolute power of the whole country. If you let the palace maids manage these miscellaneous servants, it will sometimes increase the problems in the harem, and in ancient times, it was believed that women were weaker and more difficult to do rough work, so it was best to deal with them by incomplete or castrated men, so there was a castrated male system as eunuchs. The Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe and later the Ottoman Empire also had eunuch systems. And there were also many high-ranking eunuchs who influenced the political situation in the palace. But in Western Europe, the eunuch system was not very popular. In the Middle Ages, many countries had courtiers and itinerant poets for the music of princes and nobles, but there were no eunuchs, and eunuchs were considered to be the products of the slavery system of the Eastern emperors.

Jin Liang didn't think that a country in ancient times had to have eunuchs, and a country without eunuchs could still maintain the palace very well. The existence of eunuchs has no absolute relationship with the strength or weakness of a country, and having eunuchs is just convenient for the emperor to engage in selfishness such as the so-called 3,000 beauties in the harem. If the king indulges in women, how can the country be strong? There is less harem competition for favor, and less energy to spend on useless places. The mere rivalry of mistresses between Madame de Montespan and Madame de Mantenon at the French court turned the world upside down. If China had abolished the eunuchs in the earlier Qin Dynasty, without Zhao Gao and without the Ten Permanent Attendants, the country would have saved a lot of unnecessary trouble. When Jin Liang was in that time and space, he had heard that the so-called eunuch body was not clean many times, but in short, it may have grown again after a few years after playing. So many times when the harem pampers a certain eunuch, you really have to think about it, after all, the emperor alone doesn't have that much ability, doesn't he?

It's far away, let's get down to business. After Jin Liang consulted with other auxiliary ministers and the queen mother, he distributed the power outside the palace to the cabinet, and the queen mother, the queen mother, and the princess were responsible for the female officials in charge of the queen mother, the queen, and the princess, and no longer raised eunuchs.

This time, facing these families, the selection is not ordinary palace maids, but female officials, female officials headed by Da Changqiu, most of the original ten permanent servants are responsible for it, Jin Liang wants to let those talented women of the family enter the palace as female officials, and those with more seniority will have the opportunity to do Da Changqiu.

After expressing this meaning, many family heads have a solemn face, although there are often women selected to enter the palace and promoted from palace maids to female officials, but those palace maids who are selected into the palace themselves are selected from the Hanshu family, and the daughters of these families are reserved to marry the children of other families to consolidate the family marriage alliance, and it is impossible to enter the palace to serve people, although it is the royal family personnel who serve.

In response to the concerns of these family heads, Empress Dowager He Lian lightly opened her lips: "The female officials in the palace do not pay attention to beauty, only talent, they are the ones who manage the palace maids, serve the palace, the queen, and the princess, there is a difference between the female officials and the concubines, if it is not for the consent of the female officials themselves and their families, the emperor and the future royal men cannot force the female officials." Because the female official replaces the position of the original eunuch, it can be called the internal official, which is different from the foreign official inside and outside the court, but it can also be applied to the official position setting of the outer court, the highest female official is Da Changqiu, and the official is better than Shang Shuling; followed by the female scholar, then the maid, and then the ordinary palace maid. ”

Jin Liang remembered that in the Tang Dynasty, the harem was modeled after the six departments and set up six bureaus: Shanggong Bureau, Shangyi Bureau, Shangfu Bureau, Shangshi Bureau, Shangshu Bureau, Shanggong Bureau, and the chief female officials of the six bureaus were collectively called "Six Shang", with two members each, and five products, which were Shanggong, Shangyi, Shangfu, Shangshi, Shangbed, and Shanggong, which were equivalent to six Shangshu. The six bureaus lead the twenty-four divisions, all of which are positive six products; There are twenty-four canons under it, all of which are seven products; There are twenty-four palms below, all of which are eight grades; Under the palm, there are female histories to manage the affairs of the palace.

Jin Liang wrote this system into a seal and submitted it to the Empress Dowager He Lian for approval, and there was a message hidden in the seal, that is, female officials not only ruled the inner palace, but also controlled the women of the world, and you, the empress dowager, were in charge of the women of the world, and as for the men of the world, I managed them on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Empress Dowager He saw that if she acted according to Jin Liang's rules, her power would increase invisibly, so she happily agreed. (To be continued.) )

ps: There's one more chapter to fill in.