Chapter 26: Recruitment

Towards the end of the year, there was a sudden increase in the number of commissions and institutes in various ministries, and although there were no major matters, they were very cumbersome. For example, most of the compendiums of the officials are aimed at the year-end evaluation of a group of officials, and I am not familiar with so many officials, but I can't help but give instructions, otherwise so many officials will have to leave class next year.

The time of the court meeting is also being extended, and it is necessary to evaluate this year's performance and set a plan for next year, in short, a lot of things.

"The ministers seem to have folded and played." Jia Rudao, who has always spoken little at the court meeting, spoke first.

"Master, please speak."

"Your Majesty, at the end of the year, officials from all over the country must go to Beijing to report on their work, because of the large number of personnel, Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and it is the ministers who have screened some officials to return to Beijing, this is the list that the ministers have prepared, please look at it."

Xiao Qi took Jia Rudao's recital and presented it to me.

I took a cursory look, most of the people above didn't know, Li Tingzhi, the envoy of Yangzhou, and Lu Wende, the envoy of Xiangyang's pacification, were on the list, so he said: "This matter will be played by the minister." ”

"Chen Ma Tingluan has a fold to play."

"Please."

"Your Majesty, the name of the year for the coming year discussed before, the Ministry of Rites has drawn up three names, and I ask Your Majesty to decide."

"Ma Aiqing, I have already thought about this matter, or is the word Xianchun agreeable, what is the opinion of the minister?"

Jia Rudao said indifferently: "Your Majesty, the minister agrees." ”

"Okay, Ma Aiqing, let's handle it here."

"The minister obeys the order, the minister still has the music, according to the system, the list of personnel who return to Beijing drawn up by Prime Minister Jia Cheng should be reported by the ministry, and it should not be directly reported by the Privy Council, and the minister thinks it is not in accordance with the etiquette system."

I thought for a moment and said, "Ma Aiqing, this matter has been reported to the senior minister first, and the list played by the senior minister was reviewed by the senior minister and then submitted to me. ”

Ma Tingluan was stunned for a moment and knew that I was speaking for Jia Yidao, so he had no choice but to say: "This is still in line with the etiquette system." ”

"Ma Aiqing, these words, I am very satisfied with the work of the Ministry of Rites, but the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites has been vacant for a long time, so I will appoint you as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, that is, I will take office."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ma Tingluan hurriedly knelt down and thanked him.

Jia Yidao glanced at Ma Tingluan coldly, and suddenly got up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister's body is itchy, so retire first." After speaking, he didn't wait for my consent, and walked straight towards the door of the main hall.

I sneered in my heart, suppressed my anger, stood up and said, "Since the master is unwell, go back and rest first." ”

This Jia Rudao really thinks that I am Zhao Yu, and I can't turn away without him? I appointed a second-grade Shangshu and showed me a look. Now that I have been initially recognized by the Queen Mother, this has strengthened my determination to eradicate Jia Yidao in advance. The reason why Jia Nidao has so much power is not given by Emperor Lizong, Lizong's own incompetence has created Jia Nidao's arrogance, not that Jia Nidao is capable, and Zhao Yu in history is even more soft and incompetent, only caring about his own pleasure, for fear that Jia Nidao will be a hoof, and no one will take care of the country for himself, this psychology is firmly grasped by Jia Nidao, so there is Jia Nidao's arrogance, otherwise after Zhao Yu's death, the little emperor who has no ability at all can destroy Jia Nidao, which shows that Jia Nidao has Lizong, Zhao Yu's acquiescence will be like this.

As soon as I thought about it, I felt that it was not as difficult as I imagined to take down this Jia Yidao, as long as his henchmen were slowly weakened, it would be much easier.

I stood for a while, waiting for Jia Yidao to go out before I sat down and said, "Everyone, Aiqing, continue." ”

The ministers in front of the hall were silent, despite their different hearts.

After a while, Chen Zongli, the head of the household department, came out and said: "Your Majesty, the household department counted the population of our Great Song Dynasty before December of the fifth year of Jingding, including the two Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Chengdu, Jingxi, Tongchuan, Kui, and Lilu, with a total of 5,696,989 households, and 1,326,532 mouths. ”

"Chen Aiqing has worked hard."

Subsequently, all departments reported to me, and I couldn't remember so much on the spot.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I will review the folds of each ministry in detail and transfer them to you as soon as possible."

At lunchtime, Xiao Qi saw that there were no others around and whispered: "Official, this Jia seems to be too much." ”

I smiled and said, "It's okay, the evil retribution will come to an end, Xiao Qi, have the formalities for Wenzhang's recruitment been completed?" ”

"The official family, everything has been done, Xie Daolin sent a guard of 100 people to help, and it is estimated that it has already begun at this time."

"Okay, call Yuan Jian, Song Rui, and Junshi in the afternoon, let's go to pay a private visit to this recruitment."

In front of the imperial guard camp on the west side of the palace, it was bustling with people.

The people of Lin'an City all knew that the imperial guards were well paid, and they didn't have to go to the front line to fight, so they wanted to send their sons into it.

Wen Zhang, dressed in the uniform of the guard, sat upright in the center, and ten guards stood neatly behind him. The mighty uniform, the handsome young man, is really a good young general.

"Nine-Star Arch Guard? If this Wenzhang is one of the nine stars, how can there be eight stars, and who is it? "I remembered what the Dao Dharma letter said.

To the left of Wenzhang is the registration office, applicants only need to meet the age of 16 to 18 years old, fill in the form, and the corresponding household registration certificate can take the test. A large open space on the right was originally a training ground for the imperial guards, but it has been converted into a testing ground.

This is the first time in the history of the Imperial Guards that such a scale of recruitment has been expanded.

The first level of the test is called the test of eyesight, Wen Zhang according to my method to turn the word "mountain" upside down, left and right, hanging five meters away, the tester one by one to look at the direction of the word mountain, the person who can see the direction of the word mountain is considered to have passed.

The last few levels are the ability test, there are strength tests, speed tests, endurance tests and other conventional test items.

The whole place is crowded but not chaotic, and it seems to be orderly.

"Song Rui, your third brother is a talent."

"Childe has won the award, that is Childe's discerning eye, and he is also a master of Taoism."

While they were chatting, suddenly the registration point became noisy.

"See for yourself, is it written on this recruitment board that only Lin'an people will be recruited?" A young man with an urn sound said. The young man was poorly dressed and tall, but his face was yellow, as if he hadn't eaten for a long time.

"We don't just recruit Lin'an people, but we must have a household registration certificate, this brother, you need to show the certificate."

"I'm from the north, my hometown is fighting, and I finally escaped to Lin'an, what proof is there there."

"This brother, we are also acting according to the rules."

"Is Lin'an the world of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Of course it is."

The young man said angrily: "That's fine, I'm also from the Great Song Dynasty, why can't I sign up?" I want to see your rulers. ”

Wen Zhang walked over and looked at the young man and said: "This brother, the family has family rules, the country has national laws, we are recruiting the former guards, naturally we have to review these certificates, you come to Lin'an from the north, you can go to the government to apply for the certificate first and then apply for the exam." ”

"You're the official here? It doesn't look older than me, don't lie to me, I'll go to the government to apply for a household registration certificate, this back and forth is not going to take many days, and the registration has already ended, I'm starving to death, where can I wait. ”

Wen Zhang said in his heart, you shouldn't be here to cheat and cheat.

"No, you have to go through the certificate first."

The young man said angrily, "I have to sign up today." ”

The young man was in a hurry, and he slapped it with a palm, and immediately smashed the registration table.

Wen Zhang is also a young man, seeing that this young man is so domineering, he was about to get angry, but he heard me cough a few times and said: "This little brother is angry, you have to be reasonable in everything, right, tell me why you want to sign up, and what are your abilities?" ”