Mr. Lu Xun once said: If there is a kind of violence that "does not treat people as human beings", it is not even as good as a cattle and horse; when people envy cattle and horses, and sigh "disaster people, not as good as a Taiping dog", then give him a price slightly equal to a cattle and horse, people should be convinced and praise the prosperous era of peace.

This principle is also effective in managing the expectations of the lower-level scholars for the official selection system.

If the scholars in this world had seen the system of "scholars and juren who had to be admitted one by one" after the Song and Ming dynasties.

Then let them look back at the system that Li Su has implemented now, which is like the Sui and Tang Dynasties that "there can be handled casually in the local area, and only the last level of the central examination is fair and just". Lower-level scholars will definitely be indignant and will definitely want more.

But the lower-level scholars in this world have never seen what it is like to be a human being. They have only seen pigs and dogs treatment, so the price of cattle and horses has been gradually improved, and all lower-level scholars have praised them.

In the end, at the central level, at least one test, it is much better than the fact that all local officials were randomly operated by secretly and secretly in one fell swoop.

The only ones who oppose the vested interests who originally reached the top in one fell swoop, and their opposition will be won over by the divisive and encircled by the court, and the specific situation will be specifically targeted.

Since the imperial edict of the draft imperial examination system was issued in half July, in just half a month, all parts of Guanzhong had basically reached the county and township level. By mid-August, the county level could basically receive news at the county level in Liangzhou and Yizhou.

Guanzhong area gets information quickly and reacts quickly. Just at the end of July, the first group of people who want to raise objections, at least secretly dissatisfied, are about to emerge.

Fazheng's reaction was also very fast, and he quickly discovered the location where the most likely thing to happen:

Among the three auxiliary assistants, Jingzhao Yin was relatively calm because "Jingzhao Weidu" had been cleaned up, and no one dared to cause trouble in the area of ​​the emperor's feet.

In the Zuofengyi area, because the Hedong Wei family was cleaned up, the remaining aristocratic families were not strong enough and were in a wait-and-see state. I wanted to see if there were any troubles in Sanfu, and I had to wait and wait for others to be the first to make a comeback. The wind direction was possible, and then I considered fighting for better conditions.

Therefore, at the end of September, the first one to raise opinions and make trouble was the Youfufeng area.

In Chencang, Meixian, Huaili, Meiyang and other places, some families want to delay the collection of autumn taxes, or organize the people under their rule to secretly slack off work, or destroy local public security, and cause more trouble. In short, it is not the kind of uncooperation that openly rebelled.

It is definitely a death to rebel, and no one dares to do so.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the powerful families threatened local officials and asked the prefect to entrust their families. The common threat method was "If you don't entrust our families, you will not be able to collect taxes on time. Or you will let you rule the murders and robberies happen every day, causing your political achievements to collapse."

Among them, the aristocratic families are mainly based on the former, and the tyrants are mainly based on the latter. (The common saying "to crack down on local tyrants and bad gentry", the local tyrants are powerful, and bad gentry are noble families. The former corresponds to gang associations, and the latter corresponds to public intellectuals' big Vs)

These soft knives that prevent the government from catching direct handles are still very useful. Some local governments have ways to delay administrative efficiency. After all, the ancient rule was not so refined, and the fact that the imperial power did not fall into the county must be recognized.

Therefore, at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the autumn harvest was about to end and the autumn tax collection work was about to begin, and many areas in Youfufeng had delays in corvee and tax collection, which made Du Ji, who had replaced Fa Zheng as the chief secretary of Youfufeng this year, was very depressed.

After all, Du Ji is a member of the "Jingzhao Weidu". Even if the Du family has a better attitude towards cooperation with the imperial court, it is still a noble family. The trust level is definitely not as good as that of other direct civil servants of Liu Bei.

Moreover, Du Ji joined Liu Bei's camp, which was the autumn harvest in 194. It was not long before Li Jie was destroyed and Guanzhong was restored. In this way, Du Ji joined Liu Bei to seek an official position for only three years. Even if he was sincerely serving the family in order to win over the local area, he would have given him the county chief for three years.

However, even if people like Du Ji are unified in the future, they are just a county magistrate. They will not be able to achieve greater development within ten or eight years. It would be great if they could clean up one area.

After learning about the problems facing Du Ji, Fa Zheng pretended to ask the court for half a month's vacation and handed over the work of Tingwei Zheng to others for a temporary replacement. He wanted to go back to his hometown in Ji County to "visit relatives".

Fazheng's family, the Legal family, is not considered a strong family of Youfufeng, but no one can challenge them on this acre of three-point land around Mei County. Fazheng's father is nearly fifty years old and has been transferred by Liu Bei to Longxi to be the prefect. Otherwise, if the Father family was the leader of Youfufeng, this little thing would have been done long ago and no one dared to resist.

However, if Liu Bei wants to implement reforms, he cannot only consider the support rate of one place, so he cannot concentrate all resources. The land in Longyou was also cleaned with relatively small force and someone needed to suppress it.

After Fa Zheng returned to Mei County, he met Du Ji, who came to Mei County for inspection and inspecting work. Then Du Ji was very well-informed and visited him on the way.

"I have met Tingwei Zheng." Du Ji was very polite.

Fa Zheng asked the maid at home to set up the wine and food for guests, and then whispered and whispered, "You are polite, I'm just going back to my hometown to visit relatives. I heard that the autumn tax is coming, and the progress of Fufeng's side is worse than that of Jingzhao and Fengyi.

This is a matter of dragging the three auxiliary players down. Your Majesty has just been in power for a month. I don’t want to make a bad thing. You can try to make a big deal worse. This winter, you may have to re-engage with Yuan Shao. It is not easy to go north to support Jing, Yiqian and grain, so you point to the grain support of Guanzhong family to fight against Yuan Shao.”

Du Ji sighed, "Fa Tingwei, this matter is really not something I am not attentive. In fact, you should know the inside story. Fufeng and several well-known families, even when Zhong Situ was the You Fufeng, you were filial to queue up in the past few years, and you also cooperated with money, grain and tax payments.

Now the imperial examination has been changed, and five were selected to be officials. Those who lined up to be filial and felt that their previous cooperation was in vain. The court did not repay them, so they did not want to cooperate so much this year. And they also took some advice.

You know, in the past two years, after all, there will always be small disasters and small wastelands after going around. Even if the whole county is not affected, some townships and counties will not be able to collect them in any year? Those powerful families have more or less helped to cover taxes, so they pointed to the taxes for the court and exchanged for a few filial and honest people. This is not a private bribe, but a direct service for the court."

The tax-inclusive system is undoubtedly a bad habit and a bad policy. However, in ancient times, when tax payments were distributed at the county level, some places where the situation was particularly difficult could not be collected.

There are certainly some big families who are willing to come forward to help the government, or threaten by force to make up for other areas that have paid full amounts for their neighbors, or pay for their own profits and losses.

No matter how despicable the means are, the court will most likely not look at the process as long as the result is, so as not to dirty the court's eyes. According to the unspoken rules, there are also those who have contributed to the local taxes and the prefect who will give them a vassal of filial piety and honesty to make up for favors.

Fa Zheng was naturally not surprised at all because he was the chief minister of Fufeng County last year, and those people were the taxes he paid for on his posts and Zhong Yao. He knew very well whether Fa Zheng had paid off his favors.

So he didn't play with Du Ji, who was taking the blame, and directly asked for the conditions: "Will you not think of a simple thing yourself? Filial piety and integrity have to be selected for five candidates, and five of them are theirs. Isn't it equivalent to giving him a filial piety and integrity in reality? What else are you worried about giving him a favor for free?"

Du Ji: "But the person they want to name the most is not good at learning."

Fa Zheng finally had the opportunity to say the lines he had prepared for a long time: "Then replace the remaining four with the worst knowledge!"

Du Ji sighed relieved: "If this is true, I promise that all the families of Fufeng and all the powerful support the imperial examination reforms, but this matter will be successful? Will Li Sikong and Xun Lingjun find out, right?"

Fa Zheng said proudly: "Li Sikong can't control so much, and I am also deeply trusted by Your Majesty. After all, the Tingwei has to decide on the matter of supervision. Now that the Tingwei is vacant, I am the Tingwei Zheng, and I am here for a year. I will help you cover this matter for a year. You can do it within ten or eight years.

After all, the world is still fighting, and the wholeheartedness of the whole country is the most important thing. You can discuss whether it is fair or not. Just keep it a little calmer and don’t do it clearly.”

After hearing Fazheng's promise, Du Ji certainly knew how to comfort the lower body.

In fact, Fa Zheng’s promise does not count at least that “this Dharma will not tighten within ten or eight years” is absolutely false. Perhaps it will only take two or three years, and when everyone accepts the imperial examination, Fa Zheng will turn against him.

Of course, the specific method of turning against each other is not that Fa Zheng refuses to admit the account, but that Fa Zheng may not be the courtier in three years and will be transferred away. Those who were willing to support the imperial examination after hearing Fa Zheng's tricks at that time will not be able to settle the scores at that time.

The slowest and slowest, Li Su probably won’t exceed two classes of Maocai. Maocai is admitted every three years, which means that after taking Maocai this year, he will be admitted again in the fourth and seventh year. And when Maocai opened a college degree in the seventh year, these unspoken rules must have been patched and plugged.

It means that Fa Zheng's own reputation has been completely destroyed, and his interpersonal relationships in the officialdom have also been damaged, but it has also taken away the hatred of the court's fraudulent reform. Moreover, Liu Bei will definitely protect Fa Zheng. After a few years, Fa Zheng's final official position will definitely be bigger than that of the Tingwei.

After Du Ji left the court, he began to mediate the same day, surrounding the filial piety and integrity of Fufeng County this year, and also surrounding the virtuous and virtuous people of other Mingfa.

If the two big families have to compete evenly, that's fine, and it's okay to say it secretly that the five candidates are three of them, and the other two outstanding children of their respective families will rely on their own skills.

Anyway, the family that won the final victory and became a filial and honest family, even if the government returned a favor with him, the lost one would be considered a favor with half a quota. He blamed himself for giving him the opportunity to be useless. In this way, selling Du Ji can be sold as one and a half a quota every year, and returning half an extra, which can solve historical problems faster.

The final analysis of the calculating subject is not easy to surround, mainly because no one knows the real math scores of those spare tires running. Some people have secretly made up for math in the past two years, but on the surface they are not showing off, and they still pretend to be a pig and eat tiger. If they are pulled into the list of running, they will eventually kill the ones that are determined, which will be embarrassing.

Therefore, for those who want to participate in the judicious subject, Fa Zheng also reminded Du Ji to be careful: the government should not help secretly find a escort, and let those aristocratic families find it themselves.

The government is only responsible for orders. The people who accompany the runners cannot appear to be from the same family and must find outsiders to run away. Only in this way can the public trust the reform of the government. Moreover, the people who accompany the runners cannot completely have no reputation for knowledge in the local area, which would be too fake.

In this way, whether you will step on a dark horse who pretends to be a pig and eat a tiger and pretend not to understand mathematics will be transferred to those aristocratic families who want to take over the farm. In the end, if the dark horse is intercepted, the government will not be able to take over. Anyway, the government has paid off its favors, and it is still considered "giving the aristocratic families who take over the farm will have a chance, and you will not be able to get it yourself."

When Fa Zheng was about to come, he secretly said to Du Ji, asking Du Ji to hint to those aristocratic families:

The first one who supports the new law can get more private tutorials that use the rules. The more you resist, the more you are targeted. If you are stubborn, you must handle the matters of corvee and tax collection until the end.

The court will also review the qualifications of the examination personnel. It is mutual respect for you in the end.

Du Ji expressed his understanding and used even darker channels to imply all these words. The situation on Youfufeng was soon settled by Fa Zheng in secret.

After that, Fa Zheng personally went to Fengyi County and Hedong County, and made the same move, completely building the Guanzhong area into the best area that fully supports the imperial examination reform.

After entering August, Fa Zheng traveled several times to Longxi, Wudu Yinping, Hanzhong, and then walked on Baoxi Road to return to his hometown in Ji County. He was constantly parading. He, the Tingwei, took more and more leave, and basically took at least twenty days off every month to do research outside.

He did not go to the southern part of Yizhou and Xiliang, and the other areas were hoping that Li Su would personally go to appease him. In short, the law ensured that the local forces in Yongliang and Hanzhong tried their best to differentiate and support the new law, and some other thorns also made excuses to deal with them.

At first, those thorns thought they would raise their heads and shout out that they would respond from neighboring counties and states. But after the incident, they found that the clown was the only one who was the clown, and the others were making a fortune in silence.

Can you enjoy the system dividend for at least ten or even twenty years? Who is so stupid that you will be the first to be a pioneer? The neighbor wants to be a filial and honest man and is destroyed by the imperial court's power, and just clears out the market share of our neighbors and divides the rest of us.

Resources such as official positions have been the most competitive from ancient times to the present, because the cake cannot be bigger, and official positions are zero-sum games where you have and I have nothing.
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