Chapter 190: The Great Cage-Changing Bird Technique
Chapter 1265: The Art of Elevating the Cage and Changing Birds
Autumn is just around the corner, and the city of Chang'an is crowded with scholars coming to take the exam.
Nowadays, the behavior of gaining the favor of nobles and then obtaining official positions through official documents is completely unworkable.
Both Empress Wu Mei and Prince Li Hong were very disgusted with this kind of almost private appointment of imperial officials. Of course, the person who was most eager to put an end to the practice of writing documents was undoubtedly the current emperor Li Zhi.
On this point, the three highest-ranking people in Datang agreed.
Therefore, if you want to become an official in the Tang Dynasty, there are very few ways. Among them, the easiest way is to get the favor from your father and ancestors. However, this road is not easy to take now. The emperor is now very stingy and will not give any help easily.
This is convenient for officials.
The first one is military merit. There is nothing to say about this one. It is commonly used by people in the military. This is how Yunchu got his earliest official position.
However, over the past few years, the Tang Dynasty's border troops often displayed hundreds of thousands of horsemen, or more than one hundred thousand, or one person wiped out a country, wiped out an entire clan, and often opened up territories and expanded hundreds of miles of territory. The imperial court was very worried.
anger.
After sending the censor to conduct a thorough investigation on several great meritorious deeds, he found that he either killed good people and took credit for it, or collaborated with foreigners to act in a show to defraud military honors. The censor killed countless people in the border army, and when he returned to the capital, the scholars were almost turning into butchers, so this man was allowed to
This bad atmosphere gradually disappeared, and by the way, the military merits of those brave soldiers who had accumulated hundreds of enemy heads under their tents were certified, so that there was a normal atmosphere for promotion in the border army.
However, what the imperial court valued most was scientific research.
Over the years, this guy Pei Xingjian has completely improved the scientific examination system. His name is anonymized and papers are transcribed. Examiners are not designated in advance, and examination questions are not predetermined. Those who judge papers afterward have to go through three reviews and three schools.
The test papers will eventually be published.
After this set of procedures, although it is impossible to select all talents, at least those who have passed the examination and obtained official positions are all well-educated people.
It was a rare sight in the Tang Dynasty to promote a scholar who did not know how to read, to promote filial piety and integrity, whose father lived away from home, who was as cold and pure as mud, and who had a good brother and a good general as timid as a chicken.
Whether it is military merit or exams, only the brave and the educated can be screened out. As for whether these brave men are good officers and whether the educated are good officials, it is a matter of opinion.
The queen placed a copper coin in Luoyang back then, so that people, even prisoners, could report illegal things they knew to the court, and were rewarded in the end, but the sequelae still exist.
This sequelae was that false accusations became common. Although they were later corrected by the prince, after the queen gave several false accusers official posts, many people who knew that they were not talented and learned enough hoped to use this method to win the favor of the queen and then achieve the goal of upgrading their own class.
Get a chance to transition.
For one day as a scholar, even if they were beheaded and their family ransacked, their family would still be able to regard themselves as scholars from now on. This is the worst trend in the Tang Dynasty.
There are many people in this world who risk life and death just to gain the reputation of being a scholar.
For example, this person named Liang Hou.
This guy's name sounds official. At first glance, I thought he was a respected prince of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, this guy is nothing. He is just a guy who has been studying in the Imperial College for many years and still failed to take the imperial examination.
A student who failed to pass the exam.
He didn't know where he collected all kinds of illegal things about Yun Chu, and also listed Yun Chu's ten major crimes.
He did not send this document filled with the ten deadly sins of Yunchu to Dali Temple or Yushitai. Instead, he posted it directly in front of the Yun family gate and recited the content loudly to the onlookers. His loyalty was so generous that it made people laugh.
Upon hearing this, I felt that if Yun Chu had not committed these crimes, he would not be able to afford the amount of saliva others have wasted.
Just when everyone thought that there would be no trace of this crazy life, the Yun family closed the door tightly and allowed Marquis Liang to yell and scold him outside. There was no sound in the house.
Not only that, whenever the sun was shining brightly or it was raining continuously, Yun would set up a pavilion and serve tea to prevent the Marquis of Liang from being exposed to the sun or being watered by rain and getting sick.
When the Marquis of Liang was tired of scolding him, the Yun family would send someone to take the Marquis of Liang home and hand him over to his family to ensure that he returned home alive.
This kind of retreat could not make Liang Hou stop. On the contrary, more and more scholars joined the ranks of Liang Hou, and Yunchu's ten sins eventually evolved into thirty major crimes.
The scolding was in full swing outside, but the situation inside the Yun family's house was extremely calm.
Yu Xiurong took a look at the list of Yun's Fifty Deadly Sins that her husband had just drawn up, and couldn't help but said: "Is it a big sin that I am jealous?"
Yun Chu said seriously: "Why don't you count it? It's just because my wife is so jealous that the Yun family's back house is empty and there are not many heirs."
Yu Xiurong curled her lips and said: "This concubine has been recognized. Speaking of heaven, the wife of the Yun family can only have one concubine. As for the lack of heirs, it is because the husband was away from home for many months when the concubine was most fertile.
, you can’t blame me for this.”
Yun Chu blew dry the ink on the note with a smile, and called the housekeeper Lao Liu, asking him to send the new charges to Liang Hou, so that they would not have any new ideas when criticizing Yun.
"By doing this, husband, you can seduce everyone who is dissatisfied with the Yun family?"
Yun Chu nodded and said: "When a wall falls, everyone will push it, when a drum is broken, thousands of people beat it. This is an unbreakable truth since ancient times. They dare not take the lead in going against the Yun family. However, I think they still have the courage to follow the crowd."
of."
Yu Xiurong said: "When all the followers come, what will your husband do?"
Yun Chu sneered and said: "Of course we will beat these people who like to follow the crowd until they dare not follow the crowd."
Yu Xiurong nodded repeatedly and said: "After a few more times, no matter who impeaches my husband, others will suspect that they are the bait set out by our family. From now on, no one will follow anyone who impeaches my husband for illegal activities."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "That's the truth. Now, Madam, do you know how much I hope that the Wu brothers can follow me, so that I have an excuse to teach them a lesson again?"
Recently, these two brothers have become so arrogant that they dare to drink my tea without my consent."
When Yun Jin went home, he didn't dare to go through the front door. He entered the house through the back door of Da Ci'en Temple. He didn't plan to stay at home today. He planned to go to Princess Anding's Mansion to find Li Si. The house was too noisy.
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Fortunately, there is still some distance between the backyard and the gate. As long as they are closed, the shouts and curses made by Marquis Liang and others will be much quieter.
When Yunchu saw that his eldest son was back, he smiled and said, "Send the Buddhist money?"
Yun Jin said: "I went to Liushui Brand today to solicit money, which alarmed everyone in Chang'an. Everyone was worried that Liushui Brand would make the same mistake again. As a result, today's selling orders were more than ten times larger than buying orders, and the selling price was higher than the previous selling price.
10% lower.
Two days later, the child will still go to solicit money. This time, the selling price should have room to continue to fall. If it falls by 30%, the people arranged by Aye can enter the market."
Yun Chu sighed and said: "Actually, we make more profits by selling popular brands, but we can't bear the suffering of the people who follow and buy. Forget it, 30% will make 30%. Stability is the most important thing."
Yun Jin said: "Aye, our plan to vacate the cage and change the bird is not too big. The child is very worried that he will be exposed. Will this ruin Aye's big event?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "It took us two years to completely replace the head of the district and the head of the district. It also took us two years to completely replace the officials in Chang'an and Wannian counties. The two cities in the east and west, as well as all the grass markets.
The governors, middlemen, and supervisors of Fangshizi have almost all been replaced by our people. This is a big deal and cannot be destroyed. You tell Master Qiuji that you might as well have a harsher attitude when collecting debts.
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Yun Jin said: "Aye let the Wu brothers come in, let His Majesty, the crown prince's subordinates and the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty enter Chang'an, and gave up all the important positions in Chang'an, just to stabilize the officials and those temporary positions that were not popular.
Once there is a change, I am worried that those people and officials will betray collectively."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Don't worry, it won't change. In the future of Chang'an, officials will be officials and officials will be officials. The two will not live under the same sky."
Yun Jin added: "But, in these years, Aye still taught the Wu brothers."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Tell me, who have you taught them?"
Yun Jin frowned and said, "The Wu brothers, the son of Li Jingxuan and more than ten other disciples."
Yun Chu smiled and said, "Is there anything else?"
Yun Jin thought for a while and shook his head: "No more."
Yunchu asked again: "Where are they now?"
Yun Jin smiled and said: "Except for the Wu brothers, the rest are all officials abroad and are important officials. Even if we return to Chang'an, there will not be so many equivalent positions."
Yun Chu sneered and said: "In the beginning, I did teach those people wholeheartedly so that the court would know that I had no intention of controlling Chang'an. This made those people think that once their nephew came, he would also be
I teach very well.
In fact, except for the Wu brothers, who I carefully taught, the rest were taught by senior officials. The reason why those people did things well was not because of their talents, but because of the skills of the officials under their command.
superb.
At this time, even if a pig is placed in an important position, that pig will definitely be the best choice in the experience evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Once something changes, if we don't let the officials continue to help them, their true colors will be revealed, and they will turn from what people call geniuses to fools that everyone despises.
People are all selfish. For the sake of their own future, those people will not expose their unbearable side to others even if they are pretending or completely delegating their power. After all, their wise performance in that position has made them too proud.
There are so many benefits.”
Yun Jin laughed and said: "It seems that the Yun family's defeat is irreversible. Is it - Fu Bing?"
Yun Chu glanced at Yun Jin and said: "The emperor values military power, the queen values military power, the prince values military power, and the court values military power. We do not touch the soldiers. As a local government, we only have the power to manage the families of the soldiers.
Besides, there are still eight thousand bad people in Chang'an, which is enough."
Yun Jin nodded, and then said with a smile: "These days, the child is hiding in the princess mansion and never goes home."
Yun Chu smiled and said, "It's time for you and Sisi to have a child."