At the beginning of February of the sixth year of Tang Wude, the Shangshu Province in the Chang'an Imperial Palace, the Ministry of Officials.

Zhang Chao took this document on the promotion of officials, and then scolded in a low voice: "Really, there was no investigation, and he was promoted by virtue of a word from his boss, which is really unreasonable." Don't you know that this kind of promotion can easily form personal dependence, and the party will fight against differences? It's really too backward, the official promotion system in the Tang Dynasty is too backward, and it can only be promoted by relying on the guarantee of the boss. This will definitely promote a group of sycophants, and then what will help the country? ”

"I thought, I should change it!"

Zhang Chao had just picked up the pen and was about to write a recital for Emperor Li Yuan, but finally stopped.

"Hey, how did I travel to this unlucky Tang Dynasty!" Zhang Chao complained in a low voice.

No one knows that Zhang Chao is actually no longer the Zhang Chao of the past, and the current Zhang Chao is a person from the next generation. Zhang Chao was an old civil servant who served in the national development and reform department for 20 years, and experienced the process of major reforms in the country's political and economic system, social system, and various major reforms. And when he was about to celebrate his preparation for promotion to deputy department-level cadre, he suddenly got drunk, and then traveled to the early years of the Tang Dynasty and became a fifteen-year-old student in one of the four official schools of the Tang Dynasty.

Later, he chose to take the imperial examination, and then he took the Jinshi examination. Why did he choose to be admitted to the Jinshi Department, it was because the content of the Jinshi Examination was to ask questions, that is, the imperial court came up with a few difficult problems for you to find a way to solve. If the solution is answered well, then you can get in. For ordinary people, Jinshike is the most difficult, because where do ordinary people have any experience in governance, how can they write any excellent solutions? But this is difficult to Zhang Chao, who has worked in the development and reform department for 20 years. Zhang Chao answered very well directly, and as a result, he became a scholar of the Jinshi Branch and the first one. And Jinshi is the best subject, and he has a good start to success and first.

Next, according to the regulations, all officials who pass the examination must go through the assessment of the Ministry of Officials again, and then they can be assigned official positions according to the vacancies of official positions and the results of the examination. And Zhang Chao was very lucky, but he was favored by Feng Deyi, the secretary of the school inspection department, and stayed in the ministry to serve.

After Zhang Chao heard this, he suddenly felt that his ancestral tomb was smoking, because what kind of unit was the Ministry of Officials, that is, the department that manages personnel. And this position is a well-known organization department in later generations, and anyone who wants to be promoted must go through the inspection and selection of the organization department before they can be promoted. As an official in charge of the personnel department, he is a third-level official, and no one dares to offend the officials of the ministry, unless he doesn't want to be promoted. This is what makes him feel very lucky, his first position was in the ministry, so it is very important for him to accumulate contacts. How can anyone who is an official not want to accumulate contacts? If you don't have connections, how can you be promoted? So Zhang Chao feels very lucky.

However, the next thing he did was in great pain.

"It's too backward, the Tang Dynasty's selection and employment system is too backward, and there is no way to compare with later generations! Your grandfather, being an official in this Tang Dynasty, is really aggrieved! I really wanted to change it, and it was so unpleasant to my eyes. How can I look at such a backward system of selecting and employing people? Zhang Chao scolded.

Once Zhang Chao entered the official department of the Tang Dynasty, he found that he seemed to have fallen into a hell. Because the Tang Dynasty's selection and employment system was too backward, there was no way to compare it with later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, their selection system relied on the guarantee of your boss, and your immediate boss had to protect you, so that you could get promoted. However, this kind of system is actually very backward, and this kind of system that relies on the boss to ensure promotion is very easy to form personal dependence, because the future and destiny of every subordinate is attached to the direct boss, so that in order to get promoted, it is inevitable that they will try their best to please the direct boss, and then make the direct boss happy, so that they can get the boss's guarantee.

And this kind of system makes it easy for a superior to control many subordinates from top to bottom, and then become a system of personal dependence. And this kind of personal attachment is definitely an important reason for the party's differences, and then it is very easy to produce powerful ministers after layer of dependence. What's more, what kind of talents can be guaranteed by relying on superiors? I'm afraid they are all a bunch of sycophants, and then in the long run, it will make the country miserable. Therefore, even in later generations, the organization department is responsible for recruiting and promoting officials, and even the personnel department is responsible for recruiting new civil servants. This is also to avoid the reason why a department is self-aggrandizing and then becomes a gluttonous monster to threaten its superiors. But the current situation makes Zhang Chao very depressed, these subordinate officials are not only qualified to promote their subordinates, but also can recruit officials on their own. Even the current Datang has not formed a fixed standard for the selection of state officials. It's all the boss who says you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, it's okay. If you can't please your boss, you can't do it. How backward this system of selecting and employing people is, so Zhang Chao is very painful. Therefore, seeing this scene, Zhang Chao wanted to write very much, and then write a plan for personnel reform to Emperor Li Yuan.

Zhang Chao worked in the development and reform department for 20 years, and he got an occupational disease, that is, he saw any phenomenon that was behind the times, and he inevitably wanted to blame it, and then find a way to make the other party change and change to a situation that conformed to his ideas. This is also Zhang Chao's occupational disease for many years, and he can't get used to those phenomena that lag behind the times, so he came to this Tang Dynasty official department and found that this place is simply his hell! The personnel system is completely backward, making him feel like sitting in a crater in this official department, and his ass is very uncomfortable and he can't sit still!

"To write or not to write?" Zhang Chao picked up the pen and thought hesitantly.

Zhang Chao wanted some of this music very much, but his experience of being an official for many years in his previous life, especially working in the development and reform department for 20 years, told him that any reform was to touch those old vested interests. If you write this reform plan, you will offend many people. At that time, how many people will lose their official hats, how many people will lose the right to promote officials, and how many people will not be able to form their own factions. Therefore, every time there is a reform, it is meant to offend people, especially those with vested interests. If you write it yourself, can you, a little arm and leg, resist the revenge of those with vested interests!

"Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao, you have traveled to this era, then you will be at peace when you come, why do you have to make any achievements? Why do you have to be a reformer to eat well in the imperial court? What's so good about being a reformer? If you don't see the reformers in history, how many people can have a good end? At that time, Shang Ying reformed the Qin State, but didn't he also suffer the revenge of those who died from vested interests and was torn apart? Don't talk about it from afar, let's just talk about Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty, he made Wang Anshi's change, and in the end, wasn't it the result of a person's death? Later, Zhang Juzheng, after his death, his reforms were also counter-attacked, and he was also dug up and whipped. A lesson from the past, you must guard against it! Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao, ancient times are not later generations, you can come by your temperament, the ancient officialdom is deep, unlike the later generations that the whole country advocated reform, reform is not only not a sin, but a fashion. But in this era of reform, it can't be said that it is a head-off thing! Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao, you have to overcome occupational diseases! Zhang Chao said to himself in his heart.

Zhang Chao finally left the text of the piece with the brush in his hand, and then stared at the blank piece of music, feeling very uncomfortable. It is obviously not easy for him, a person with an occupational disease, to give up the "reform addiction" in his heart. And occupational diseases are very difficult to cure, especially Zhang Chao, which is completely a mental illness, and it is even more incurable!

"Psychiatrist, why didn't there be a psychiatrist in the Tang Dynasty!" Zhang Chao is really going crazy.

Zhang Chao knew that he was sick and very unhealthy. But he didn't pay attention to it in the afterlife, and only after crossing over did he realize that he was not lightly ill. If you advocate reform in later generations, no one will scold you, but countless people will support you. But in this time and space, reform is very dangerous, so the kind of "poison" in his heart. "It's very hard to quit!" It's a pity that there was no psychiatrist in the Tang Dynasty, which made him very depressed. Seeing this backwardness, he inevitably wanted to start reforming.

"Stop the birds, stop the birds, and get over the addiction!" Zhang Chao thought.

Next, Zhang Chao immediately wrote the blank recital, and then wrote all his plans on personnel reform, and then finally felt comfortable.

"Ahh I'm finally done writing it, and I'm finally able to get a good night's sleep today. In the past few days, looking at this backward selection and employment system, my heart is like a cat scratching, and I can't sleep well if I want to. Today, I finally wrote out the recital, and my heart is much more comfortable. Zhang Chao thought with a sigh of relief.

Zhang Chao then immediately lay down on the table to sleep, wanting to make up for a good sleep.

But Zhang Chao didn't think about it, just when he was sleeping, a scribe habitually came over and took away the music, and as a result, his share of the music was also taken away. And the scribe saw that the words "Presented to the Emperor" were written on it, and then it was classified as a list of items sent to the Emperor Li Yuan for personal approval.