In the evening, Han Gang said goodbye to his parents and Han Yunniang, rode a borrowed old horse, and arrived at the city before Qinzhou locked the city. The officers and soldiers guarding the south gate of Qinzhou were already very familiar with this Han Sanguan who had to go home every few days, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly put Han Gang into the city. After entering the city, Han Gang went straight to the Puxiu Temple, where he had recently settled in the city.

As soon as Han Gang arrived at the gate of the temple, the abbot and the old monk greeted him with a little monk, and nodded in front of the horse, "Sanguanren!" Wang Yanai is here! I've been waiting for you in the wing room for a long time. ”

"Thank you, master!" Han Gang arched his hand after dismounting, handed over the reins to the little monk, and walked quickly into the temple by himself.

Han Gang now resides in the Puxiu Temple, and the abbot monk is more attentive to him than ever, giving Han Gang the best guest room. Although Qinzhou was only less than five miles away from home, separated by a narrow line of water, Han Gang still chose to live in Qinzhou City, and only returned to his home in Halong Bay every few days.

The gates of Qinzhou have always been closed early and opened late, and it is very inconvenient to go out of the city and enter the city every day, and Wang Hou, Wang Sunchen and Zhao Long, as well as Li Xin, who was also recommended to Wang Shao's door and listened to the dispatch in the Economic Strategy Division, also often came to him. And in front of Wang Shao and Wu Yan, he also had to put on an on-call posture. Therefore, it is more convenient to live in the Puxiu Temple. Chen Ju's remnants have been wiped out, even if there are some small fish and shrimp that have escaped the net, they will not be able to become the climate, let alone have the courage to assassinate again, and Han Gang no longer has to worry about the safety of his family.

After officially becoming an official and earning a fortune, Han Gang is also ready to find a house in the city and set up his home in the city. I can't be an official at home, and I have to grow vegetables and sell vegetables with my mother.

But there is a disadvantage of living in the city, that is, there is a lot less time to read, and every time you pick up a book, someone will always come to disturb you. After many days, Han Gang's reputation for refusing gifts has spread, and there are a lot fewer door-to-door gifts, but Wang Sunchen, Zhao Long, and Li Xin come over every once in a while with wine and food, and Wang Hou is even more diligent.

"Yukun! What a happy event! Great joy! As soon as they met, Wang Hou arched his hands, walked up with a smile, and said hello to Han Gang repeatedly.

Han Gang walked towards the house, and said angrily: "The last time you talked about the great happy event, it was Dongcheng Bupi Li who proposed marriage for his hemp-faced daughter, and last time it was a widow with a son. Which one is it this time? ”

After the two got acquainted, Wang Hou's true nature was revealed, and he was a witty and joking character. The two happy events he said earlier were the best in proposing to Han Gang, but they were pulled out by Wang Hou as a joke. It may be that he is too depressed by Wang Shao's side, Wang Hou runs out of the house every night in a different way, and drinks and chats with him, so that Han Gang has very little time to study at night.

But Wang Hou is the son of an official eunuch, commonly known as Yanei, who knows a hundred times more about the affairs inside and outside the DPRK than Han Gang. After drinking a little more wine, as soon as his conversation box was opened, most of what he said was the secret news of the government and the opposition that Han Gang had never heard of, as well as the judgment of the new affairs in the DPRK and China—Han Gang guessed that most of them were told by Wang Shao to his son—these were of much greater use to Han Gang than the Confucian classics.

It's just that this time Wang Hou looked very serious, "It's a really happy event." Just now, the court newspaper came to Beijing, and after the commander Zhang Hengqu met the Son of Heaven, he was promoted to the crown prince Zhongyun and served as the secretary of the Chongwen Academy. I'm afraid it won't be long before it comes to a big hand. ”

Han Gang stopped and turned around in shock, and said in surprise: "That's really a happy event!" ”

Zhang Zai and Wang Shao are fellow scholars. Compared with Wang Shao's reuse of a "Ping Rong Strategy", Zhang Zai's promotion speed is step-by-step, of course, this is also related to a large part of his energy on educating students. Unexpectedly, after Zhang Zai entered Beijing this time, he was suddenly promoted to the official of the eighth grade, which was the same as Wang Shao's own official, and he got the position of the museum, which is a sign of great use.

In the official system of the Northern Song Dynasty, the difference between the eighth grade and the eighth grade seems to be only one level, but in fact there is a world of difference. The civil officials of the Northern Song Dynasty were divided into three parts: court officials, Beijing officials, and people selected from high to low. Among them, the grades of Beijing officials and selected people are from the eighth grade to the ninth grade. Judging from the title, the Beijing official is named in Beijing, and the selection person is also called the shogunate official, and it is a local official, and the two are nominally equivalent to the state civil servants and local civil servants in later generations, and there is no difference between high and low in rank, but in fact there is a great difference.

Nearly ninety percent of the more than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 civil officials have been elected for the rest of their lives. Only after being recommended by five high-ranking officials at the first level of the road, called the Five Cutting Perfection——, and having met the Son of Heaven, can he be promoted to the rank of Beijing official.

Under normal circumstances, only Beijing officials can be done in the inland counties, and the seven-grade sesame officials of later generations are a joke in the Northern Song Dynasty. The lord of a county, the marquis of a hundred miles, is basically from the eighth grade, to the seventh grade, and he can already serve as the governor of the state - Du Zhan is under the jurisdiction of Xiang Bao, and he is the second person among the military ministers of Qin Fenglu, and his official imperial city envoy is also the seventh grade.

In the Song Dynasty, the official quality was valuable, and the first time he was the prime minister was generally only four or five grades, and there were also six and seven grades, but it was not as vermilion as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the first rank was full of officials.

When the Beijing official was promoted to the eighth grade, he became a court official, also known as a promotion official, as the name suggests, he was able to participate in the court meeting and meet the Son of Heaven. Think about how big the palace is and how many people can it hold? The total number of civil and military classes of the promoted officials is only more than 1,000 people. Except for most of the officials who served abroad, the civil and military attachés who were able to participate in each Shuowang Dynasty Meeting were only four or five hundred, and Zhang Zai was already among them after 12 years of being a Zhongjinshi, which was enough to make most of his peers envious.

And Zhang Zai's position as the secretary of Chongwen Academy, even Wang Shao has to envy three points. Chongwen Academy, also known as the Secret Pavilion of the Three Pavilions, is the collective name of the Zhaowen Pavilion, the History Museum, the Jixian Courtyard and the Secret Pavilion. The number of Chongwen Academy is the place of talent, and entering the museum is equivalent to entering the fast lane of promotion, once there is a vacancy in the court, it will first be selected from the members of the Chongwen Academy and other museum members.

As a disciple, it is of course a joy that the teacher is reused. But for Wang Hou, who has nothing to do with it, it's just an excuse to come out to drink.

"How could a foolish brother lie to you!" Wang Hou smiled and crossed Han Gang and entered the house first.

Han Gang also followed into the room, the table in the side room was already full of wine and food, and a brazier had been lit, baking the room warmly. Wang Hou had already sat down, and was picking up the wine jar and pouring it into a large copper wine jug used to heat wine.

Han Gang sighed secretly, with Wang Hou, a friend who drinks and meat, he comes to make trouble every day, and he can't settle down to study at all. Although you don't need to be famous now, you can already be an official, but it is beneficial to open the book, only by reading more and increasing your knowledge, you will not be timid in front of those famous ministers through the ages in the future.

Wang Hou didn't know how Han Gang complained in his heart, he threw the empty wine jar under the table, hung the copper wine pot on the brazier and heated it, sat back and smiled at Han Gang: "Fortunately, it's a happy event, I don't know if Yukun has any good sentences to remember?" ”

"Brother Dao, you are also a junior brother who knows that Daoist is not good at poetry, so don't make fun of it." Han Gang sighed, isn't it embarrassing for him, "If the ability to chant poetry is stronger, the younger brother will go to the Jinshi examination." ”

Wang Hou comforted Han Gang and said: "But Yukun, you are familiar with history and are good at political affairs, this is serious learning." ”

"No matter how high the scriptures are, they can only take the Ming scripture, and the Jinshi has no hope."

"You don't know anything about Yukun," Wang Hou touched the big wine pot on the brazier with his fingers, tried to heat and cold, and said casually: "Wang Xianggong originally intended to replace the poetry and song of Jinshi with Jingyi Strategy, and with Yukun's talent, he should be useful." It's a pity that Su Zizhan was disturbed. ”

"What!" Han Gang was suddenly shocked, "There is such a thing?!" ”

Wang Houqi said: "Yukun, you don't know the way? Oh yes! This was more than half a year ago, and you happened to be sick...... At that time, Wang Xianggong wrote a letter suggesting that schools should be built, the imperial examination should be changed, and poetry should be abandoned in favor of scriptures. The officials have all let the ministers of the two governments, the two systems, and the three pavilions discuss together, and they ordered everyone to go to the paper. The city of Tokyo is boiling, the people in the country prison are panicking, and the whole world has spread it, do you say it?! However, Su Zizhan's book was rejected in the end, and the matter was over. ”

"Really? ............" Han Gang's voice was low, secretly speculating about Wang Anshi's intentions, what kind of impact would this move have on the political situation and himself?

It is very easy to understand that the purpose of reforming the imperial examination and revitalizing schools is to select and cultivate talents -- talents who change the law. And Su Shi will object, it is not difficult to understand, after all, he is famous for his poetry, and he is also a jinshi who was admitted by poetry, and his friends and disciples are all good at poetry. The butt determines the head, and no era will change.

Han Gang was willing to bet his head that although Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were political enemies of each other, he had never opposed Wang Anshi on the reform of the imperial examination. Why? It's not because he's from Shaanxi - a Shaanxi Jinshi who is not good at poetry and articles. It's just that if you want to interpret this matter further, you have to get Wang Anshi and Su Shi's recitals in your hands.

Seeing that Han Gang suddenly stopped talking, Wang Hou asked, "What?" Still thinking about the poetry to change the scriptures and ask the righteous policy? ”

Han Gang raised his eyes and said to Wang Hou: "I'm wondering why Wang Xianggong wanted to change the imperial examination. ”

"Why?"

"Because talent is rare. The key to changing the law is to win souls. And the imperial examination is one of the most important roads, if you are the prince of the Dao, do you want to see the Jinshi who is good at chanting poetry and writing, but opposes changing the law, or is it a comrade who is familiar with the scriptures and history and is good at countermeasures? ”

"Comrade?" Wang Hou chewed on this strange word used by Han Gang and said with a smile: "This word is well used. "Chinese" has a cloud: 'If you are united in virtue, you are in the same heart, and if you are in the same heart, you are comrade.' If the foolish brother is the prince of the king, of course he wants to use talents who are of the same heart and mind as himself. Wang Xianggong also said in the song, 'The court wants to do something, and there are many discussions, and Mo Ken admits to listening, and this covers the court for the sake of morality'. Of course, the purpose of building schools and reforming the imperial examination was to select talents, educate comrades, and 'one morality.' It's a pity...... But it was denied. ”

"Who said that if you don't give it to someone, you can't mention it again? It's impossible to do this course, but in the next subject three years later, it's very likely that you will switch to Jingyi Ce and ask the scholars! Maybe the younger brother will ...... by then" Han Gang suddenly laughed as he spoke, and shook his head: "I already have an official body, and I can't take the Jinshi exam, whether Wang Xianggong can change it in the future has nothing to do with me." ”

ps: Well, the article mentions a little bit about the official system of the Northern Song Dynasty, although it is not detailed, it is enough to leave an impression on everyone. There were few high-grade officials in the Northern Song Dynasty. It will also take a long time for the rank to be promoted, and there will be no officials who are in their twenties or thirties and will be in their third and fourth grades. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, five or six pins could also serve as rulers, which provided a way for young officials to gain power.

Anyway, in a word, throw away the impression left by the Manchu bureaucracy, in the Northern Song Dynasty, sending and the official are two lines. High-ranking officials do not necessarily have high-ranking assignments, but low-ranking officials can enter the political hall. As for the detailed classification of civil and military officials, they will be posted when I am sorted out.

Today's first update, a stone's throw away from the top fifteen on the homepage, but it has never been able to cross, brothers, red tickets and collections are a little more powerful.