Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the actual positions of the three provinces and six ministries have begun to be "virtual", and "errands" have replaced their positions and become the executors of actual government affairs. In other words, if a household servant does not have a position such as a "transfer envoy", then he can basically only sit in the yamen of Shangshu Mansion and wait for work.

The manifestation of this situation at the top of the central leadership is the blurring of the functions and powers of the "Six Shangshu".

These positions were often held by the prime ministers, and in fact, the day-to-day operations of the six ministries were delegated to the level of squires.

For example, Li Linfu, the right minister, concurrently serves as the secretary of the ministry, and Zhang Shouqi, the left minister, concurrently serves as the secretary of the military department.

They are supposed to be in charge of the affairs of the corresponding department, but in fact they are not in charge of the affairs of the department, which is the so-called "can intervene in the relevant situation of the department, but are not responsible for the daily operation".

Among them, the exchange and transfer between "sufficiency" and "necessity" is where the flexibility of high-level government affairs lies.

Whether there is responsibility or not is often not the matter itself. There are two official words, and the clear rules are used to rectify people.

And similar situations have changed from unspoken rules to "explicit rules" in the political arena.

Therefore, Li Linfu's appearance in the "Shangshu Mansion" where the official department is located, instead of in the "Council Hall" where he often works, is a very strange thing that is worth scrutinizing!

Sure enough, Fang Chongyong had just walked into the room, and before he could sit down, he heard a kind-faced Li Linfu say, "Today's appearance is waiting for you on a special trip." ”

"The subordinates were flattered and extremely frightened."

Fang Chongyong crossed his hands and saluted, bowing his head and being very humble, he couldn't understand what Li Linfu was doing.

If you don't stay overnight, the owl comes into the house and has nothing to do. Li Linfu made a special trip to wait for himself here, there is absolutely no good thing!

Li Linfu stood up and circled around Fang Chongyong a few times, looking very satisfied.

He nodded slightly and said, "I heard that you have already decided to marry, can you still withdraw from this family business?"

Although marriage is the order of parents, I still want to hear your advice. ”

Huh?

Fang Chongyong was stunned for a moment, and the right minister of the Tang Dynasty was in the office study of the Ministry of Officials, asking a young man who was elected an official if he wanted to quit his family...... That's a lot of information!

The angle is extremely tricky!

"Although they are not married, they actually live together; childhood sweetheart, very affectionate; The water and milk are blended, and the two injuries are divided.

I'm afraid I can't retreat from this family matter, and my subordinates have disappointed the right minister. ”

Fang Chongyong clasped his hands together, bowed and said.

"Well, it's really a good man who values love and righteousness."

Li Linfu sighed inexplicably and continued:

"But it's okay, the wife of the chaff can't be abandoned, the true appearance is also a person from the past, understand and understand.

But it's okay for you to take a concubine, and you don't mind. Benxiang has more than 20 daughters, including more than a dozen unmarried.

How about choosing one of them to be your concubine? ”

Belch......

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong was speechless, if he hadn't seen Li Linfu, he really thought that the person in front of him was a fake.

However, Fang Yanei can be regarded as understanding Li Linfu's style of doing things at this moment.

This person is really not a good-looking person, and he is extremely "pragmatic"!

But if there is a slight possibility, this right-hand minister of the Tang Dynasty is profitable, but he will not let go at all if he bites it!

Besides, Wang Yunxiu is now bright and beautiful, and she is also a big beauty with an outstanding temperament.

It's just that she is not as bewitching as Anaye's figure, where is this "bad wife"!

"Sit down."

Li Linfu put away his smile and pointed to the cushion in front of Fang Chongyong.

After the two sides sat down, Li Linfu put away his kind smile and said indifferently: "There is a family banquet tonight, you can come and participate." After the banquet, I have important things to ask you, do you have any questions? ”

"The subordinate obeys."

Fang Chongyong crossed his hands and said, not saying much nonsense.

Li Linfu nodded with satisfaction, knocked on the table and said, "Just put your official identity certificate here." There are still a lot of things to do, so I won't chat with you, let's go. ”

Seeing that Fang Chongyong hadn't moved yet, he asked suspiciously, "Do you have anything else?" ”

"Back to the right minister, I want to study after resigning, and then take the imperial examination. I don't know if it's too late to sign up now? ”

Fang Chongyong asked cautiously.

Hearing this, Li Linfu, who has always been moody and angry, was shocked and shocked by this stupid question that had already made the history of the four-grade border town!

But all the children of the official family, I am afraid that children of six or seven years old will not ask such ignorant questions.

Those who have channels to be officials directly will not ask, and those who do not have channels to become officials directly have studied hard since the beginning of their sensibility, and are ready to pass the entrance examination all the way, so how can they not even understand the basic rules of the imperial examination.

"You mean, you want to take the imperial examination again after stepping down from the official position of assassin history, right?"

Li Linfu thought for a while, he spread out the big paper, picked up a pen and wrote a letter of introduction, then folded it and handed it to Fang Chongyong and said:

"It's definitely too late to sign up for the imperial examination now, and the saint will have to take the shiko exam soon after his birthday.

I heard that you didn't succeed in the Chongwen Museum in the past, and I don't know why you dropped out, so now you don't even have the qualifications to register.

But it's easy to do.

You take this letter and go to the Ministry of Rites, and he will find a way to let you enter the country.

And after you enter the Guozijian, you will go directly to the Guozijian Sacrificial Wine to go through the graduation procedures, and get the qualification to participate in the imperial examination, and you don't have to make extraneous branches. ”

Is it so casual?

Seeing that Li Linfu said it lightly, he obviously didn't take the imperial examination seriously. Fang Chongyong took the letter of introduction that the ink had not dried thoroughly, and his heart was shocked!

It turns out that the real magnates can handle the entire process from Guozijian enrollment to graduation in one day, and get the qualification for the imperial examination.

For ordinary poor families, you must first study in a local school and get the recommendation of the school to participate in the state exam. Every year, according to the different levels of a state, there will be 2-4 student places, and after the state examination, they are recommended to participate in the scientific examination held in Chang'an and other places.

Note that this is only a qualification to take the exam!

Those who graduate from Guozijian are automatically qualified to participate in the scientific examination, which in itself is an extremely unequal regional discrimination.

Institutions such as Chongwenguan and Hongwenguan, not only graduates can directly participate in Jinshike, but also Tianzi often opens "junior colleges" to select talents from these graduates.

is similar to Fang Chongyong's previous life, a radish and a pit, and fixed-point enrollment. Of course, the officialdom prospects of these people are still not as good as Jinshike.

But compared to the real magnates, these people are all younger brothers!

It only takes a day for the real powerful to complete the process, and they don't even need to go to an institution like Guozijian to learn at all!

What's even more weird is that Li Linfu didn't ask Fang Chongyong why he was a good four-grade official and wanted to go back to the imperial examination!

Fang Chongyong felt that this might be the extraordinary thing about the right minister of the Tang Dynasty.

After getting what he wanted, Fang Chongyong handed over his official identity certificate to Li Linfu, bowed respectfully and left.

Looking at his departing back, Li Linfu smiled mysteriously, took this official certificate and looked at it, and then put it into the corresponding cabinet for archiving.

These small tasks should not have been done by him, but I don't understand why he wants to support the officials of the Ministry of Officials to come here to do this "little thing" in person.

"Fang Chongyong is really a wonderful person, it is not in vain that he spent ten days thinking about this combination of official positions.

If you don't want to be an official, you have to come to the imperial examination when you go back, and you have to discuss this matter with the sage.

Fang Quanzhong's son, Wang Zhonghe's son-in-law, the predecessor of Shazhou Thorn History, Ganzhou Thorn History, Liangzhou Prefecture Governor joined the army, and the actual evaluation has been all on the top in the past five years. If such a former official fails the imperial examination, then wouldn't the imperial examination be child's play? ”

Li Linfu said to himself, and then fell into deep thought.

There are many things that he didn't feel like at first, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt wrong.

In fact, in Li Linfu's view, Fang Chongyong's nonsense is not only not frivolous, but has extremely serious political significance. The right minister of the Tang Dynasty felt that it might just be that the young and ambitious Fang Yanei didn't realize the seriousness of the problem.

If Fang Chongyong did it deliberately, then this person is definitely ill-intentioned, and even his heart can be punished!

Although it is claimed to be beautiful to the outside world, the main purpose of the introduction of the imperial examination itself is not to select talents, but to urge the children of officials and eunuchs to be motivated, give them competitive pressure, and provide a difficult path for scholars who do not have the opportunity to become officials through their family backgrounds or who fall in the middle of the family road.

The "catfish effect" is formed.

Since this is the case, no matter what the actual situation is, at least when publicizing it to the outside world, the content of the imperial examination must have the most basic persuasiveness to prove that "only if you are admitted to the imperial examination can you have the qualification to be an official".

In fact, officials like Zhang Jiuling, who were born in the imperial examination, believe in their bones: All officials should be able to pass the imperial examination, so as to put an end to the injustice caused by the merits of the family.

Therefore, the ability to take the imperial examination is, to a certain extent, the ability to be an official!

This is no longer an idea, but a clear rule that most officials in the imperial court admit, or do not admit and dare not speak!

Both the central and local governments have been most widely recognized. The imperial examination scholars look down on officials who are born in the shade, and the root cause comes from this!

However, things have changed. There was a reckless "big fool" in the original normal rules! There is a big fool who "drives in the opposite direction"!

If a person has been an official for four or five years, the evaluation and official reputation are even quite good, and most of the officials of the same level are killed in seconds, and they will be promoted during rotation.

This fool suddenly had convulsions and didn't want to continue to be an official, but wanted to come back to take the imperial examination, but in the end he didn't get in!

So does this prove that in fact, even if a person fails the imperial examination, he is very likely to have the ability to be an official?

Even this person who can't pass the imperial examination may become a very good official!

Then this counterexample will pierce the layer of window paper that many children of official eunuchs, especially those from Enyin's background, are scolding behind their backs: In fact, the content of the imperial examination has nothing to do with the ability to be an official!

The person who is admitted does not mean that he has the ability to be an official at all; And those who are really capable of being officials may not be able to pass the exam!

Therefore, the imperial examination system of the imperial court is simply nonsense, excluding real talents, and selecting some waste who can only take exams, which should have been abolished a long time ago!

At that point, the credibility of the imperial examination will be gone!

This is a serious consequence that even the center of the imperial court cannot bear.

Typical people are broken by points!

Many times, the window paper is pierced, then it is the time when the quantitative change produces the qualitative change. In comparison, whether Fang Chongyong can be a jinshi or not, this little thing is insignificant.

An average of 27 students are admitted to the Jinshi Department every year, and one more person makes up the number, is it a big problem?

Not a big problem at all!

Li Linfu knows very well that the current Li Longji just wants to enjoy peace and stability, and he doesn't want to reform the imperial examination system at all, as long as the old system can still be used without major events, this Chang'an sage doesn't want to toss!

Although Li Linfu was scolded behind his back as "jealous of the virtuous and jealous", in fact, he was one of the few bigwigs among the court officials who emphasized "governing the country according to law".

The reason why he gave Fang Chongyong a "letter of introduction" was not because he was used to breaking the rules on weekdays.

On the contrary, Li Linfu was determined to help Fang Chongyong be admitted to the Jinshi, not only not to break the rules, but to save the "correctness of the imperial examination" that was in danger and was about to be stirred up by this Fang Ya!

"Did he do it on purpose, or did he ...... Unintentional mistakes? ”

Li Linfu sat in front of the table of the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials, and was suddenly a little unsure of what Fang Chongyong thought in his heart.

He is also a person who is accustomed to "harming the people".

This right-hand minister of the Tang Dynasty forgot to leave for a while, so that the people waiting outside for the election did not dare to come in at all!

The queue of people queuing up to elect officials outside the official department became longer and longer, and these people couldn't help but complain noisily, which for a while actually caused chaos outside the yamen of Shangshu Mansion.

……

There is a small building on the north side of Xingqing Palace as a "fixed post", standing on the small building, half of Yongjiafang in the north can be seen at a glance (the other half has become a part of Xingqing Palace).

On this day, after a good night's sleep, and because of the huge wealth obtained from the Xing family, Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty who was in a good mood, was bored standing on the small building and looking at the distant scenery.

Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure, so he turned to Gao Lishi and asked, "Lux, is that Yin Zheng Shuqing of Jingzhao Mansion?" ”

Who is Lao Zheng, Brother Ji knows very well, and it is appropriate to send him the word "dog official", which is recognized by the government and the opposition.

Although Jingzhao Mansion Yin is in charge of Chang'an's trivial matters, since he is a dog official, he will definitely not be diligent in government. Therefore, it is strange for Zheng Shuqing to travel through most of Chang'an and run to Yongjiafang.

"There's an ox cart behind him, is it a gift?"

Colliers looked at it and was also surprised. I saw Zheng Shuqing first call the door, and then was led in by a servant, which was Fang Youde's old mansion.

"He went to find Fang Quanzhong."

Colliers said calmly.

"Huh? Where is Quan Zhong now? ”

Li Longji patted his head, he seemed to remember that Fang Youde was sent far away by himself, but he didn't remember where he was.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty is not thousands of miles, where can officials not be placed?

"It is to serve as the Lingnan Economic Envoy."

Colliers reminded in a whisper.

"Oh, oh, my birthday is coming, you go and tell my brother to make an edict and call Fang Quanzhong to Chang'an to congratulate me on my birthday.

I haven't seen him in years, and I miss him. ”

Li Longji said with emotion. As this person gets older, he often remembers things from a long time ago. Li Longji recently remembered a lot of the past when he was not on the throne, and many of the old people of the year are no longer there.

The clothes are not as good as new, and the people are not as good as the old.

"It's a lot, slave will do it."

Gao Lishi was about to leave after receiving the order, but Li Longji pulled his sleeves.

"In that house, it should be Fang Quanzhong's son Fang Chongyong who has returned.

You send someone to quietly check what is the relationship between Zheng Shuqing and Fang Chongyong. What is the gift he gives, and why does he give it, and what is it?

If you find out, just report it to me, and don't let them know that I'm checking on them. ”

Hearing this, Gao Lishi was slightly stunned, and asked with a crossed hand: "Sage, it is common for officials to give gifts......

"I just want to know how capable Fang Quanzhong's son is, and I don't mean anything else."

Li Longji waved his hand indifferently and explained.

To let a court give a gift from the Jingzhao Mansion Yin of the third grade, it must have an unusual ability. Brother Ji is now wondering, what is this ability?

Tickets, tickets!

(End of chapter)