Chapter 30: A Generation of Tianjiao ()

Counsellor? Doctor?

The Gyeongju scholars and squires who participated in this day's meeting couldn't help but dance with Venus in front of their eyes in the face of the two official names spit out from the mouth of Gao Shaoyuan, the governor of Zhizhou.

The so-called counselor has given birth to many branches, such as Zhengyan, Gleaning, Mending Que, etc., but tracing the source, they all have a clear or implicit blood relationship with this "Counseling Doctor". Since the Qin Dynasty set up the Dingding, the post of counselor was set up to be in charge of the discussion, and it has a history of more than 1,000 years. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the doctor was just a small official with 600 stones, to the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties all placed this official, the rank was set from the four products, the Sui Dynasty was abolished, the early Tang Dynasty was replaced, and it was set as the five products.

Although the counselor has little real power, he has always been regarded as a prominent official in the Qing Dynasty, and the shortcut to the south of the prime minister is the most sought-after in the civil service system. Its specific administration, as the name suggests, one is "admonition" and the other is "discussion", both of which are verbal errands.

Until the first year of Xiande, there were many cattle who went out from this position and finally entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, the most famous of which was Zheng Guowen Zhengong Wei Zheng, who was powerful during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty.

What does such a ministry have to do with a group of rich landowners in the countryside of Gyeongju?

Although the rank of the counselor is not very high, it is only authorized by the central imperial court to appoint it, and Taiwei Li stomped his feet in the northwest and shook the earth, but after all, he has not reached the point where he can lawlessly establish his own court, right?

Albeit...... His small court had long been formed......

Xie Yu looked at Gao Shaoyuan, who was explaining above, and the surprise in his heart became more and more serious.

Gao Shaoyuan even said with comparisons, and after talking for a long time, everyone had a basic understanding of this "counselor" in the seven states of Yanqing.

In this notebook drawn up by the Eighth Route Army's festival to join the army, the traditional "counseling doctors" are divided into two levels, the low-grade is the "lower doctors", each county has only one place, and the lower doctors of each county do not work in the county, but concentrate in the state capital, and outside the state capital, another official party is set up, which is called the "counseling room"; The high-level "middle doctors", with two places in each state, do not work in the state counseling room, but are concentrated in the Yanzhou administrative office, and are not under the jurisdiction of the Jiedu Prefecture, but a new institution called the "Counseling Hall" has been set up in the East Mansion of Li Binxianggong.

As for the rank, the lower doctor is set as the seventh grade, and the middle doctor is set as the fifth grade.

The so-called lower doctors and middle doctors have existed for three generations, but at that time, these belonged to the nature of half titles and half ministries, and large and small were also feudal monarchs, directly linked to the land. However, now this has absolutely nothing to do with land, and the most direct evidence is that in Gao Shaoyuan's explanation, the promotion of the lower doctor and the middle doctor will be recommended by the counselors at the county and state levels, rather than the canonization of the government, and the scope of the recommendation is limited to the students who passed the preliminary examination in the imperial examination of the seven states of Yanqing. More importantly, not only can the doctors and the middle doctors not be hereditary to benefit their descendants, but they themselves cannot serve for life, and the middle doctors can only serve for three years and must be re-elected and rotated, and the next doctors are shorter, and they must be re-elected once a year.

People who have a little understanding of the imperial court rules and regulations or who have read a little more history books have unconsciously thought of one thing.

In the ancient system of the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes were divided into five classes, the princes were divided into three classes, and the doctors were divided into three classes, upper, middle and lower......

Above the middle doctor, there is also a first-class title - the doctor!

However, the high envoy did not mention the doctor......

The county lifts the doctor, the state lifts the doctor, and who lifts the doctor?

The lower doctor served in the state, and the middle doctor served in the observation of the eastern mansion, and the upper doctor ...... Where to serve?

Ran Wei and Xie Yu glanced at each other, and both of them looked a little shocked in disbelief...... Both of them obviously saw through the inner intention of this new document, and Mrs. Li's heart of Sima Zhao was too straightforward, right?

Xie Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile in a low voice: "It's not surprising, Yanqing's official system and tribute have all changed a long time ago......"

Ran Wei sighed: "Taiwei Kenna's advice, after all, it is a good thing......"

The eyes of the two flashed at the same time, born in troubled times, the literate scholar is far more sensitive than others in terms of political smell, and the two obscure scholars who have fallen into the first place almost saw a golden "shortcut to the south" at the same time.

Compared with this "counselor" who has changed his taste, the setting of this "counselor" is even more inexplicable.

The key is that the production of this Lang official is very different from the two-level counselors, who need to pass the preliminary examination of the imperial examination to be qualified, and they need to be elected by the counselors; As for the dismissal of the Lang, as long as the county has obtained the rank of the general Shilang from the ninth rank but has no actual ministry or dispatch, this rule is really strange to the extreme.

The most bizarre aspect of this rule is that it is average, as long as you have a civil official rank, regardless of your rank, you are a counselor. In other words, whether you are from the Jiangshilang under the Nine Grades or from the Kaifu Yitong Sansi from the First Rank, as long as you do not serve as an actual minister, then you are a counselor - from the Counselor Lang under the Nine Ranks, that is to say, the position of the Counselor Lang can be held by cadres from the deputy unit level to the deputy state level, and there is only one precondition, you have no other ministry rank or assignment. On the other hand, even if you come to this counselor from the Kaifu Yi and the Third Division of the First Rank, the ministry level is only from the ninth grade, and the ruling is exactly the same as the general Shilang from the ninth grade.

Of course, this is a very exaggerated statement, at present, the civil officials of the seven prefectures of Yanqing are only in the second rank of the special Jin Guanglu doctor - that is Li Bin's loose rank, in order to be worthy of his ministry - Shizhong, and according to this rule, Li Bin himself cannot be a counselor, because he has the ministry of Shizhong and Yanzhou Observation and Disposition Envoy. In fact, if Li Bin is not counted, the highest rank of civil officials in Yanzhou is only from the third rank of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu - that is Qin Gu's scattered rank.

After Li Wenge reformed the official system, the corresponding officials, big and small, had corresponding administrative ranks, that is, scattered ranks. However, there are very few officials who can get a relatively high rank of loose rank, among the civil officials, Li Bin is the special entry Guanglu doctor of the second grade (Tang system special entry Guanglu doctor from the second grade, Li Wenge changed to the second grade, from the second rank of the scattered rank to the Guanglu doctor), Qin Gu is the silver green Guanglu doctor from the third grade, and the rest of the civil officials are only the highest rank of the fifth grade of the Zhongsan doctor, which is a few actual state officials, for example, the article, his official title is the Zhongsan doctor Quan Zhiyan Prefecture political affairs.

Among the civil and scattered officials who did not have actual ministry or dispatch, many of them were local clan chiefs who were correspondingly appointed in the new land tax policy last year because they were "sold" acres of land, such as Gao Yunwen, as the first large landowner, his scattered rank was the Chaosan doctor from the fifth grade. There are also a few exceptions, such as Zulin, who was awarded the Asasan Daifu Sasan rank as a reward for inventing a new dam irrigation system.

The most common type is the third type, that is, the "Dongshi" who were elected as the governor of the agricultural society or the same governor after the implementation of the agricultural cooperative system in Gyeongju and Haju, and the highest rank among these people is the governor of the township community, who is awarded the rank of Zhengbapinxia Seishi Langsan, and the lowest rank is the Tongshi of Tingsha, who is awarded the rank of Shiro San, who is awarded the rank of Shiro Sanzan from the ninth pin.

According to the current rules of the game, these three kinds of people will automatically become the "counselors" of the seven states of Yanqing.

There are two functions and powers of the counselor - to consult the county government and to recommend the counselor.

There are two specific implementations of the so-called senate county government, one is that before any county order is issued, more than two-thirds of the county's counselors must be convened for a meeting, and the counselors can discuss the county orders and record them, but the counselors have no right to veto the county orders; Second, if more than 10 counselors jointly sign a petition against any official in the county administration, the reason for initiating the interrogatory, the content and the reply to the interrogator shall be recorded in the order of the official, but the interrogatory shall also not be vetoed by the county.

In the process of recommending the doctors, the scholars who pass the preliminary examination are equivalent to the candidates who have the right to be elected, and these "counselors" are the voters who have the right to vote.

However, this authority has been restricted by many cheaters.

For example, if you are a "mengsheng" (referring to a candidate who has passed the preliminary examination at the county level) who also holds the title of governor or co-governor of the pavilion or even the township community, then you must first resign from your position in the agricultural community and the rank of loose rank you have received before you can become a candidate for the post of counselor.

For example, a person with actual ministry assignment cannot be elected as a counselor, which means that if you have managed to find a good minister or dispatch at the county, prefecture or even the Jiedu Prefecture through the imperial examination or other means, then you must first resign from this hard-won vacancy of real power before you can become a candidate for counselor.

Who is willing to easily give up the shortage of real power officials who have finally obtained positions of real power, and replace them with a false name that has a good name but in fact has no real power except for being able to open his mouth to speak?

And the current imperial examination, except for the candidates who have been brushed down in the re-examination, all the jinshi will be hired, and the worst can also be mixed with a position in the history of the order, this is a real civil service establishment, compared to the "counseling doctor" who has to be nominated and voted to determine, the things in hand are always more secure, which actually decides that anyone who wins the jinshi will not become a counselor.

Xie Yu somewhat understood why Gao Shaoyuan wanted to summon a scholar like himself who was from a poor family but failed in the spring re-examination, there are many people in this living room who can be a "counselor", but there are not many people who meet the criteria of this "counselor", and he happens to be one of them......

On the other hand, Ran Dao and the classmate he called "Ning Sanlang" just now, but their faces were a little dark, Ran Dao himself was the same governor of Tongyuan Village, and he had Wen Linlang's loose rank, as for Ning Sanlang, it was even more amazing...... He is the governor of Zhenyuanji under the rule of Qingyang County, which is also the only township-level agricultural community in the eight counties of Gyeongju.

The three of them all participated in this year's Spring Festival, and they were also deposed in the re-examination, Ran Dao and Ning Saburo have their own industries in their families, but they don't worry about their livelihoods, they can continue to study hard every day and wait for the autumn exam in half a year, but Xie Yu's life is quite difficult.

However, now in this living room, Ran Dao and Ning Saburo both wish that they could be in a different position with Xie Yu at this moment.

There are many governors and governors of the agricultural community from Lepan County, and there are five or six of them, but there is no loose rank but has passed the county's preliminary examination, but only Xie Yu is one......

This *** is simply an equal election......

Although Ran Wei didn't know what an equal election was, he was also full of all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred for Xie Yu at this moment......

is also a fellow villager from the same village, and the same is a grass chicken who was defeated in the examination room, Xie Yu saw that he was about to be a doctor under the advice of the seventh grade, this identity is a head higher than Ning Sanlang, and even more, if he is lucky, it may be possible to bump into a middle doctor from the fifth grade, but he can only mix a tasteless "counselor".

Looking at Xie Yu with an excited face, Ran Wei couldn't help clenching his fists, and couldn't help but let out a howl in his chest-this gap between people and people, why is it so big?

……

In Jinyang City, all the sounds are silent, the dark night sky is covered with a cloud of black mess, not to mention the stars, even the moonlight can not be seen, the metropolis of this era still retains the night ban system of the early Tang Dynasty, but whenever it is night, the squares in the city are closed one after another, idlers are prohibited from walking around on the street, there are patrols along the street Ding Wuhou patrol and vigilance, one is fire prevention, the other is to prevent thieves, the city gate around is locked, the suspension bridge is dragged up, and it can be reopened only after dawn.

This is still the case on weekdays, but now the war is still frequent, and Jinyang, as the national capital, is more heavily guarded.

Yang Chonggui stood at the head of the city, looking up at the dark sky, silent.

Behind him, a young officer in iron armor was curled up and sleeping against the battlements of the wall, his heavy iron helmet resting at his side, and a long-handled wooden spear against the base of the breastwork behind him.

The officer did not comb his hair like other non-commissioned officers, but cut his hair to the length of his ears, which is quite rare in this era, even as a traverser Li Wenge, also follow the customs of the villagers with long hair and comb the bun, as for the haircut, he also thought, after all, it is always more convenient to wash his hair like that, but unfortunately he just crossed that time, there is really no unconventional capital, and then he worked hard, finally had such a capital, but he was used to the days of long hair, not to mention entering Beijing to see the emperor Lao Tzu, It's not like a flat head or a split head. When he came back from the capital, he made Luo Yiniang his girlfriend again, for Taiwei Li, who had to summon infinite courage to even hold a hand, sitting there every day and listening to Ren Yiniang combing his hair was a rare opportunity to enjoy "intimate contact", which naturally made him even less thoughtful about keeping short hair.

The so-called "body is skinned, and parents are received", Li Wenge has not yet corrected this kind of outdated and bad habits that are not close to each other.

Besides, wearing a left hat, that's a barbarian custom, isn't it? Even the Tuoba family of the Dingyan Army, most of them put their buns on their heads, and sealed the harriers who had to roll around in the field every day to earn their lives, and they had to use good cow tendons to end their hair neatly every day......

We're civilized......

If Li Wenge saw this young officer behind Yang Chonggui, he would definitely sigh - avant-garde people are really in any era......

What's more—the short-haired officer's cheeks were round, his eyebrows were picturesque, and his complexion was pale, and apart from the slightly upturned corners of his mouth, which slightly ruined the beauty, there was hardly a single blemish on his face.

This officer with short ear-length hair...... It's a female general.

The noise on the other side of the moat under the city gate suddenly woke up Yu Hua, who had been sleeping unsinkingly, and it took only a short breath from the time she opened her eyes to the time she turned over and stood up, and almost instantly, she was standing by her husband's side with a spear in hand.

Under the city gate, someone is shouting for the door......

The person who shouted the city can not be regarded as an outsider, his name is Liu Jiting, ranked eighth among the nine righteous sons of the prince Liu Chengjun, although he was not knighted, he was also quite popular with Liu Chengjun and Liu Min father and son on weekdays, the Northern Han Dynasty court was very polite to him, even the prime ministers, on weekdays, they had to call him "Balang", this kid also knew the severity, and he did not dare to be too presumptuous in front of the important ministers, although the ministers with humble positions were more domineering, but no one sued Liu Min and his son.

As a gentleman, this Liu Balang doesn't have too many bad deeds on weekdays, just one thing - he loves to ride and hunt.

This kid's Wen Taowu is not worth mentioning, but his riding skills are good, his favorite thing on weekdays is to go out of the city to fly eagle lackeys, and often play some game to please Liu Min's father and son, compared to those fake sons of the Liu family who secretly compete for favor and like to stir up trouble in the court, whether it is the emperor or the important ministers of the court, but they like this Liu Balang who has no wit but loves to have fun......

Although there is a war these days, after all, the Han army is the attacker, although the city defense of Jinyang has strengthened its security, but it is not forbidden for the people in the city to go out of the city to collect firewood and sell it during the day, and naturally it will not stop Liu Jiting from going out of the city to hunt.

Liu Jiting himself knows what is good, although it is fun, he can always abide by the basic rules and regulations, and he returns to the city before sunset every day, so there is no trouble these days.

It's just that I don't know what's wrong today, but I didn't come back until midnight, standing outside the moat and calling the door.

Yang Chonggui's complexion, which was originally as white as snow, became more and more solemn at this moment, and his eyebrows gradually twisted up as he listened to Liu Balang's increasingly annoyed and hurried shouts outside.

Fold Yuhua looked at the dark and dreary area outside the chest wall, his eyes cold.

It's already April, but the weather is still cold, it's foggy at night, standing on the city and even the reflection of the moat can't really be seen, the situation on the other side of the moat is even more gray, and Liu Jiting's location can only be roughly judged by the sound.

No one spoke in the city, and in the silent night sky, only Liu Jiting's increasingly eager shouting and scolding could be heard.

Zhi Yuhua's eyes became more and more fierce, and he coldly spit out four words from his mouth: "The number of people is wrong!" ”

The corners of Yang Chonggui's mouth raised, and he said dryly: "Eight hundred people, three thousand horses, the least!" ”

Fold Yuhua coldly ordered: "Ring the bell, be on guard!" ”

The distant bell sounded in the sky above Taiyuan City, but Liu Jiting on the opposite side scolded more and more eagerly, Yang Chonggui did not answer, and took off the Tuomu bow behind him, opened the bow like a full moon, and shot out with an arrow.

The shouting and scolding on the other side stopped abruptly!

On the other side of the moat, Yelu Chusi looked at Liu Jiting, who was struggling on the ground with his throat covered, and was speechless.

Liu Jiting's trachea and throat have been completely injured by arrows, although he can't die for a while, but it is difficult to speak, Yelu Chusi shook his head, waved his hand, and a general stepped forward and cut Liu Jiting's neck with a knife, blood spurted out, and Liu Jiting was completely relieved.

Yelu Chusi frowned, and asked the general in a low voice, "Didn't you say that he is the grandson of the Han lord?" ”

The general's face was embarrassed: "The Southern Barbarian is unreasonable...... Whoever wants to get it over there will do it, and there is no ...... if you pretend to do it."

Yelu Chusi snorted coldly and ordered: "The whole army retreats a hundred steps, since it can't open the city gate, it can't be stormed tonight...... You go and report to the marshal, Baizhike City, I don't have enough soldiers in my hands......"

He raised his head and glanced at Jinyang City, which could faintly see the outline in the night: "Send a distant probe to the fence horse, go upstream to investigate and investigate, and find a way to divert the water in the moat...... "IO! ~！