Many of them have more prestige among the people than the officials in charge, but they are still cheap servants in the eyes of the court.

There has always been a clear chain of discrimination in the imperial political arena, where everything is clearly distinguished, clean is expensive, and turbid is cheap.

Those who sit in the center are clear, and the place of office is turbid, and the center is also divided into all positions that move their mouths are clear, and all positions that move their legs and hands are turbid;

At the local level, the parent official is clear, the subordinate official is turbid, the official is clear, and the official is turbid;

Among the officials, those who use their mouths and pens to deal with their parents, officials and other superiors are clear, and those who use their hands and feet to deal with the common people and prisoners are turbid.

Therefore, most of the officials who received the invitation letter from the secretary's cabinet were turbid, and if they met the hypocritical officials of the Qing Dynasty, they would probably walk with their noses covered.

And now, they have been invited by the secretary to participate in the most important Hajj of the year, and they can see at a glance that this is a big thing!

If this is the case, then it can also be praised that Qin Xiang wants to "reduce talents without sticking to one pattern", but another change is even more "moving".

In the past, the top and second leaders at the provincial and state levels, regardless of the success or failure of governance, must have a place at the time of Hajj, but now, this iron threshold has disappeared.

There are five criteria for evaluating the gains and losses of imperial officials, excellent, good, middle, mediocre, and inferior.

Regardless of the level of officials, anyone who is judged to be "inferior" will be reprimanded or even deposed.

In addition, the higher the official position, the higher the tolerance of the imperial court.

For example, the chief politicians at the town and county levels do not have one "excellent" or several "good" evaluations in their resumes, and it is delusional to want to be promoted. But if you become a county or prefect at the county or government level, occasionally one or two "good", and a few "medium" is considered good.

And at the state and provincial level, the assessment of "good" and "excellent" has almost disappeared, that is already sitting in a million or even tens of millions of square kilometers of land, if at this level are still "good" and "excellent" talents, then it can be called a national scholar, and there is no suspense about going straight to the center, so as long as you can get a "middle" and "mediocre" assessment, you may be able to mix into the center to support the elderly.

The empire has developed a peculiar notion over thousands of years, that you are at the bottom, that you are active, that you are at the top, that you can;

But if you go to the top and still do this, and you can't come up with a talent that can convince everyone, it will only attract disgust.

The higher you go, the more stable it is, and no fault is merit!

From the invitation letter of the Secretariat, a signal can be revealed - the rules must be changed.

Those state and provincial leaders who were assessed as "yong" were typical representatives of the "corpse vegetarian meal", and none of the officials who did anything serious all year round, did nothing wrong, did nothing, and did nothing, did not receive an invitation to the Hajj.

Those who were assessed as "medium", although the level of handling of things was not good, but at least they did things, and although the results were not good, they were not bad, so they were invited to participate in the Hajj.

The secretary's cabinet and the ministry have already released rumors that after the Hajj, local officials will make great adjustments.

It is not difficult to imagine that those who have obtained the Hajj qualification this time will become political upstarts, and those old rotten people who are not in the position of corpse are counting the countdown to become officials.

This is really a political purge like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and this situation is terrifying.

What is even more frightening is that from the prime minister, to the heads of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and other ministers, it seems that this issue is treated as a normal matter. You must know that such a change is enough to disturb the imperial court for decades at any time in the past, how can there be such a reason to implement it lightly!

And some courtiers who are interested in the empire are also worried, although the situation maintained in the imperial political arena in the past is affected by the old corruption of the imperial political arena itself, but it is also a means to show a "harmless" image to the kingdom of heaven.

The current change, at best, is called forging ahead, but at worst, it is more stunned, and from the perspective of the identity of the nations, the empire is more aggressive, more ambitious, and more threatening.

And what makes more courtiers most shocking is that there have been rumors flowing out of the secretary's cabinet, the rectification of the imperial political arena is all-round, not only limited to the localities, but also including the center of the court, now it is just to maintain the situation that there is no action for the time being, and when the place is rectified, it will be the turn of the center of the court next year.

Regarding the undercurrent of the courtiers below, Emperor Xuanyuan just left and watched from afar. There is no doubt that the change in this Hajj is rooted in him.

If it was proposed by him himself, he would not worry that Qin Mu would not agree, as the great era approached day by day, the empire would also complete the reorganization of its posture, and he would not mention that Qin Mu might introduce similar measures. And in this way, he will definitely gain more respect from the courtiers and more loyalty from those who make the pilgrimage.

But he didn't hesitate to throw this matter to Qin Mu to deal with it specifically, and he only gave this one opinion from beginning to end. There are thousands of reasons, and the one that is most in his mind is too troublesome.

In order to facilitate his casting of the seal of all qi, each pilgrim would go to a place not far from him to meet him alone, and in order to enrich this process, the secretary's cabinet also specially designed a brief description of each person, describing his main merits in three words and two words, and introducing them one by one by a few eunuchs who chanted praises.

Although the words are short, there are always memorable highlights that make you believe that they are indeed extraordinary, and they deserve to enter this temple.

There are outstanding officials with unique insight and superb governance, who have turned a poor and poor place into a land rich in things and people; there are technical officials who have outstanding performance in construction, economy, agriculture, and other fields; and there are charismatic officials who are silent, as if they have done nothing, but can solve problems and resolve disputes, make the people of the place they govern the same direction, and strive to work in one place;

There are insightful and discerning criminal officers who deduce all the truth from the clues; there are famous detectives who hunt for murderers for thousands of miles, and another murderer is afraid of others, and his children and grandchildren are all over the world; there are also lawyers and lawyers who seek justice for the people and fight against the imperial court yamen......

Watching them kowtow excitedly and piously one by one, regarding this recognition as the highest honor, he sighed in his heart, 100 million square kilometers of land, 5,000 years of continuous inheritance, how can the empire have no talents, among them 1,247 people, which one is not a talent!

By the time the 1,247 people had finished their visit, the sky was completely dark, and today's great court meeting actually opened from early morning to evening, and the reason why it took so long was that the number of pilgrims was nearly ten times more this time, and Emperor Xuanyuan had to meet them one by one, although each one took a short time, but in total, a lot of time was eaten.

But at this moment, no one felt sluggish, some because of the atmosphere in this hall, and more because of a fire ignited in their hearts, listening to the singing of the eunuchs in a few words to introduce the deeds of the pilgrims, one by two, ten hundreds, thousands, gradually, they actually felt a mountain of momentum surging.

All have an inexplicable thought, with such a companion and such a teammate, there is nothing in this world that cannot be done!

Invincible, invincible, invincible, invincible, unbreakable!

Finally, Emperor Xuanyuan made a rare concluding speech and said with a smile: "Okay, today's Hajj has come to a successful conclusion. According to the old practice, the state banquet has already begun, but now the envoys of the nations will be waiting hungry and empty, and then you will toast and apologize to them for many generations. ”