Chapter 60: Legalism
Talented!
Capable people!
Wang Mang sat on the chair, looking at a piece of music in front of him, his brows were furrowed, and what Wang Mang saw in front of him was a piece of music sent by the Chinese Book Province.
The gist is that there are incapable people in the court today, and many people are eating and waiting for death, eating and drinking, and the ideology of contributing to the country and the people, and even directly opening the map cannon in the middle of the play, and 90% of all the officials in the entire court are unqualified, and finally the result is that the country will not be a country in the long run.
Therefore, the imperial court must reform the existing talent selection system, and even the official evaluation system, and select a group of truly capable and good officials for the country.
Generally speaking, it is difficult to get in front of Wang Mang like this, the court always loves face, even if the inside is rotten, but face still has to be maintained, how can it make people so angry.
However, through this twist and turn, Wang Mang also saw his current embarrassment, that is, Wang Mang's hands have no useful manpower, especially capable manpower.
These days, Wang Mang mainly relies on Li Lan to help him work, and then there is only one Deng Fang who is cultivating, and then at most Lin Guodong, Wang Kun and others who are secretly wooed, and then there is no one to be found.
And it's not just that Wang Mang has no one in his hands, but there is no manpower available in the imperial court, the most typical one is just let the ministers nominate the household servants, but there is no suitable candidate to push around, and in the end, there is really no way to launch a fan in the opposition.
Fan Li, since offending some ministers in the court, was kicked out of the court decision-making circle, sent to the local government to be the chief official, and then since last year's term of office returned to Beijing to report on work, the court has no arrangements for it, if it were not for the vacancy of the household servant this time, the household department could not get the right manpower, and others did not want to enter the muddy waters of the household department, Fan Li had to continue to live at home.
Although pushing the fan is a matter of last resort for the ministers, at least the lack of talent reserves in the imperial court can be seen in the tube.
According to common sense, Wang Mang can only hope for the triennial triennial election that will start soon, but Wang Mang does not like this.
From Fan Li's point of view, Fan Li is undoubtedly capable and very capable, which can be seen from the fact that the ministers have no objection to Fan Li as the head of the household, and there should undoubtedly be a lot of people like Fan Li in the imperial court, if they can win the support of these people, the overall level of court officials can be improved a lot.
The question now before Wang Mang is how to get the opposition ministers in these political struggles back to the court.
In the court, there is more than a pit of a radish than a pit, but a pit is not just a radish staring, and it is not easy to get the ministers who have been beaten down to come up.
Wang Mang sighed, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt that the matter of Fang Xizhi could be emulated.
A series of things caused by Fang Xizhi's resignation made Wang Mang feel that there seemed to be an opportunity here, as long as he could find a way to pull out a bad radish like Fang Xizhi, he could naturally leave a pit, and the new pit could naturally arrange ministers.
So how do you pluck a turnip?
Wang Mang only felt that his thinking suddenly became clear, what he had to do now was two things, one was to find a way to collect the evidence of the crimes of the ministers he didn't like, and then pull out the turnips, and the second thing was to find his own people from the hundreds of officials, whether they were in office or in the opposition, and put them in the radish pit.
Looking for evidence of the crime, Wang Mang felt that it was very simple, a single household left waiter could do so many bad things, and most of the other officials were not very clean under their buttocks.
So where do you look for talent, especially those who are capable and can be used by yourself?
Wang Mang looked at the fold in his hand, and suddenly said: "Xuanzhong Shuling is here!"
Zhongshu Province, somewhat similar to the secretariat of later generations, was responsible for helping the emperor screen the folds, after all, the country is so big, I don't know how many twists and turns are passed to the capital from all over the country every day.
It is difficult to read so many recitals by relying on the emperor alone, so for some non-top-secret recitals, they will be handed over to Zhongshu Province first.
The Zhongshu Province is responsible for selecting important pieces of music for the emperor, and at the same time will highlight and put forward opinions, and the Zhongshu Province is also responsible for managing all the documents and archives in the imperial palace.
The officials of Zhongshu Province are generally not of high grade, but those who can enter Zhongshu Province are very valued, because half of the Tang officials and the second official of the left half of the six departments of the imperial court are from Zhongshu Province.
The boss of Zhongshu Province is the Zhongshu Order, similar to the secretary of the leadership of later generations, although the level is not high, equivalent to the staff of the six departments, but as long as there is no accident, every Zhongshu Order is a bright future, no way, who calls people close to the emperor, is the so-called near the water and the building first to get the month.
The current Zhongshu Order is called Changsun Wuji, from the southern Changsun family, originally he was not called this name, but obtained this name after doing the Zhongshu Order, which means that the emperor can do things without scruples, and there are no taboos.
Although Wang Mang didn't know why the eldest grandson Wuji would call such a name, this name really impressed Wang Mang, and he always felt a little unconscious.
The eldest grandson Wuji is more than eight feet tall, with a white face and a beautiful beard, a calm look, and a high appearance, Wang Mang was also taken aback by his appearance when he saw him for the first time, and he still sighed that this kid was so beautiful when he was summoned this time.
Of course, Wang Mang just sighed, and there were absolutely no thoughts such as the goodness of Longyang.
When the eldest grandson Wuji saw Wang Mang, he pushed the golden mountain and bowed down to the jade pillar, and then said: "The eldest grandson of Weichen Wuji came to see Your Majesty Tianyan, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”
"Eldest Sun Wuji!" Wang Mang squinted his eyes, looking at Eldest Sun Wuji angrily, and then threw the fold in his hand directly to Eldest Sun Wuji's face, and asked: "I am very surprised to see this fold! How can there be such slanderers in the world, I need your explanation, I want to know who wrote this fold, and who handed it into my hands?"
The eldest grandson Wuji didn't open the fold, or even pick it up, he just looked at the cover of the fold and the emperor's attitude, and he already knew what the content was.
The eldest grandson Wuji looked up at Wang Mang, and then kowtowed: "Your Majesty, this is the one that Weichen personally handed over to Your Majesty." ”
"You are so bold!" Wang Mang slapped the table and said, "Do you know what this thing you handed over represents?
"Nature knows. The eldest grandson Wuji said loudly: "This recital represents the rolling of people's heads, represents the long-term stability of this imperial court, and represents that His Majesty will be able to lead Great Qin to unify the Eight Desolations and Liuhe!"
Wang Mang's eyes lit up, and he said: "Unify the eight wildernesses and six combinations, your heart is quite big!"
"It's not big enough to make it happen. The eldest grandson Wuji said loudly: "Today, my Great Qin is full of flowers on the surface, but in fact, the outside is strong and the middle is strong, and one Fang Xizhi has trampled the prosperity of the entire Great Qin under his feet, so my Great Qin must change, first of all, change the personnel system of the imperial court......"
"Legalist?"
Looking deeply at the eldest grandson Wuji, Wang Mang's mouth suddenly popped out of two words, and the eldest grandson Wuji's face changed greatly.