Chapter 3 Fuyao (Fifth Period) Anyone who is willing to advance and retreat with the six counties can donate money to get an official position! Once this example is opened, there is undoubtedly an additional channel for selecting officials in addition to the imperial examination. For those who are accustomed to colluding with each other to control local places
For a wealthy family, this is tantamount to cutting off a large chunk of their privileges. However, whether it is the Cui family, the Zhang family, or the Wang family, a few stomps can make the six counties dazzle for a long time.
The wealthy families and their spokesmen actually did not express any objection!
With the intelligence and sophistication of Cui Qian and Zhang Jiuyi, they would not fail to see that Li Xu had another intention hidden under the name of selling officials and porridge. But while seeing the danger, they also clearly saw the consequences of this policy.
Looking at the opportunities brought by his own family in the six counties, there will definitely be no more than three rich people like Lin Quanzhong who can make up 24,800 shi at once, and the other two are just named Cui and Zhang! This means that
Now, Li Xu's plan to implement the Congee Jue strategy will not only benefit the nouveau riche in each county, but also the wealth of those people. At most, they will be able to donate regular eighth-grade officials worth 1,600 kilograms. From the seventh grade to the sixth grade,
In these four levels of taste, except for traditional big-name people like Cui and Zhang, others have almost no chance or courage to ask.
Compared with those small families, wealthy families hope to have the opportunity to get involved in the officialdom. It is true that there are many people in high positions among their nephews, but they are only a few people after all. For a large family with thousands of household registrations, each generation only has
It is not enough for a few outstanding people to become officials. Li Xu's strategy of selling his official position is equivalent to opening a shortcut to the official career in front of them.
Casual officials have no real power, but they can turn into actual positions through activities and management. Compared with the newly emerged newcomers, the connections of traditional aristocratic families are far beyond what they can compare with. What's more important is that at this moment, Li Xu is still the sixth person in the Sui Dynasty.
The county manager, the casual positions he awarded are impeccable in legal terms. No matter who replaces Sui in the future, in order to prove the rationality of his replacement of Sui, and at the same time to appease the local government, he will definitely maintain a certain range of recognition for these casual positions.
Of course, if Li Xu can ascend the throne in the future, it would be more cost-effective to buy his official position now, which is equivalent to the merit of serving the dragon. His status will be glorious for a long time with the position of a generation in the court.
Therefore, for the wealthy families in the six counties, buying Li Xu's official position at this moment is tantamount to a very promising investment. In the worst case, it will neither rise nor fall, and it may skyrocket like a cloud of smoke in summer until Gao and Tian
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"It's four hundred at the right time, from eight or eight hundred, and one thousand and six at the right time..." Not only Cui Qian and Zhang Jiuyi can see clearly, many well-informed local officials are no less sensitive to opportunities than Cui, Zhang and others.
From the moment Li Xu's words fell, their fingers were stretching behind their backs. Although they did not read out the abacus, they gave the sons in the family the corresponding donation targets that they had already selected.
"I have a younger brother at home, who doesn't look like he's good at studying!" Fang Yannian kept rolling his eyes, calculating how long he would have to work to earn enough to buy his younger brother a ninth-grade part-time job. He is now a full-fifth grade
Chang Shi, with an annual salary of 200 shi without food or drink, could just buy his younger brother the lowest rank, a ninth-grade general. Although he did not have a salary, in the relatively strict hierarchy of the Sui Dynasty, even the lowest official position could guarantee you
Not being bullied by the gangsters in the yamen, and having the privilege of not kneeling before an official is something ordinary people can never dream of asking for. He speaks with his knees on the ground, and he can't stand upright anyway and speaks happily.
Seeing the enthusiastic reaction of the officials below, Li Xu and Zhao Ziming, Shi De and Fang looked at each other and smiled. After receiving the reminder from Zhen'er yesterday, they discussed it all night and finally expanded an imperfect idea into a practical one.
For Li Xu, the decree was not just to raise rice to settle the refugees, nor was it just to break the monopoly of wealthy families on officialdom. To some extent, the reason why he wanted to implement this decree was because
In order to give the wealthy families of the six counties a way to step down.
Troubled times have arrived, and the two sides cannot live together forever. Today's six counties cannot do without Li Xu and his soldiers, and they cannot do without the support of those wealthy families. If both sides continue to maintain the current attitude of emptiness and resignation, unless Li Xu can be ruthless.
Learn from Dou Jiande and uproot all the big names under his rule, otherwise, his internal affairs will never be stable.
But it is difficult to say whether it will be more destructive or constructive to the six counties. The children of the wealthy families are so domineering. At the same time, they have received the purest political influence and the most complete strategies and martial arts education. Now the court is no longer attractive to wealthy families.
Besides, every family is busy looking for new dependents. If we can seize the opportunity and let them devote themselves wholeheartedly to the General's Mansion, it will be equivalent to adding wings to a tiger.
At present, Li Xu's shogunate is mainly composed of poor people and military generals, so he cannot, like Liu Bei back then, exchange the support of the powerful six counties with a look-out attitude. Due to the inertia of previous indifference to Li Xu, several major
Even if the wealthy family was forced to do something wrong by Luo Yi and Dou Jiande, they still couldn't lose their face and took the initiative to go to the General's Mansion to sell their services. After giving the order, a bridge was built between the two parties. The children of the wealthy family could do it openly and honestly in the name of donating places.
To move closer to Li Xu, Li Xu can also rely on donations from various families to legitimately recruit some well-known talents under his command.
"I would like to ask, Commander-in-Chief, if you have a son or nephew at home who would like to donate a military position, can you be accommodating..." People are never satisfied. As soon as they got the opportunity to obtain civilian officials, someone immediately set their sights on Bo.
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Whether it is the six counties at present or the six counties in the future for a long time, military generals will definitely be better than civil servants. These are troubled times. In troubled times, nothing is better than mastering the sword. From Dou Jiande, Luo Yi, Li Xu, etc.
You can see the process of people's rise. It's just that the Boling Army is not like other armies of the imperial court. It can't sneak in and become an official by relying on the shadow of the father's generation. The promotion standards within the Boling Army are completely based on military merit. It's easy to become an official.
When you go to the battlefield to fight, even if your background is lower than that of Zhou Daniu, as long as you can cut off the heads of more than a hundred enemies in a few years without dying, you will not have to worry about being unable to stand out!
"If you can be granted a military position just by donating some money, if the bandits come to kill, will there be anyone fighting for the six counties?" Li Xu glanced at the person who asked the question, and answered as calmly as he had prepared before.
"Now our six counties are weak, and the world is in chaos. We must use martial arts to protect ourselves. The strong must fight, the old and the weak must guard, the dead will not regret, and the living will advise. If the people can hear the war and congratulate each other, the world will
Who dares to invade me? If all soldiers can gain wealth by fighting, who will hide themselves after hearing the golden drum?" He smiled, cleverly combining the wisdom of the ancients with his own experience.
If the imperial court had really been able to "get fame immediately!" there wouldn't have been so many people escaping the Battle of Liaodong. The reason why I have been tirelessly galloping on the battlefield over the years is that Your Majesty has always been able to reward me with appropriate encouragement.
War achievements are inseparable. Therefore, no matter what the world situation is in the future, the six counties under his rule must practice martial arts. The people must be proud to have sons and nephews in the family who join the army. Those who have shed blood and sweat for this land will never shed the tears of grievances again.
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"My lord actually quoted the text from Shang Jun's book?" Shi Defang was delighted when he heard this. He suddenly raised his head and looked straight at Li Xu.
He found that after seeing him for only a few hours, his lord's eyes were less confused and more mature.
As if feeling the attention of everyone, Li Xu looked around with a smile, and then continued: "For the future of the six counties and everyone, even if I can't make the people see war like hungry wolves see meat, I will never do it."
I will not wrong the brothers under my command, so I have decided that from now on, no one who has achieved merit in actual combat will ever be awarded a military position!"
Military positions are not for sale, fame is only earned on horseback. I have been saying this for countless years, and finally someone seriously made it a reality! In an instant, Zhang Jiang, Lu Qin, Wang Xuba, Zhou Daniu and others all straightened their bodies and stood up.
In the envious eyes of everyone, they raised their heads high
They are not soldiers, they are the protectors of this land and the creators of peace in troubled times. Without them, all prosperity will be fleeting.
As if he did not see the excitement in Zhang Jiang, Lu Qin and Zhou Daniu's eyes, Xuzi paused and continued: "Not only can military honors not be obtained through donations, but also, from now on, all military ranks from ninth rank to deputy lieutenant will be awarded.
Fifty acres of land can be resold or leased to others. No matter whether the military position is real or empty, for each level of promotion, an additional fifty acres of land will be granted to the soldiers. For each turn of the meritorious service, the reward will be five acres of fertile land and a piece of silk, which will never be capped!
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"Coax!" At this time, not only some low-level officials began to whisper because they could not bear the shock, but also some local officials such as county guards and county magistrates could not hold back and quickly joined the discussion. Today, Li Xu quoted from "Business Times"
"The Book of the King" and the policy of respecting martial arts and raising scholars were all originated from the Great Qin Dynasty, which had been destroyed for nearly 800 years. It was by virtue of its martial arts that the Great Qin Dynasty in the west finally swept across Liuhe and became much richer and more populous than the land.
The six countries in Shandong, which were several times higher than him, were defeated one by one.
Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, people have been talking about the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty, but they have intentionally or unintentionally ignored his great martial arts.
Still don’t dare to go south to herd horses!
It can be said that without the martial arts of the Qin Dynasty, there would not have been the glory of the Han Dynasty, let alone for hundreds of years, everyone would be proud to have the surname of the Central Plains.
Literary men can ignore all this, but as a warrior, Li Xu can't help but admire the glory of his predecessors!
"The general's strategy for raising troops is very good!" Cui Qian hesitated for a long time, and finally, at the request of his colleagues behind him, he came out to advise on behalf of everyone, "But the land of the six counties is limited, and our Boling soldiers are brave, and every battle is due to
There are no less than a hundred people who have been awarded meritorious service, and those who have been dismissed from their jobs due to the war have numbered nearly a thousand..."
Li Xu knew very well what he meant. No sensible person would object to raising an army to prepare for war in troubled times. But if the resources or even land needed to raise an army harmed the interests of some people, they would definitely protect their own interests.
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That's not ten acres or twenty acres. According to the Sui Dynasty's method of calculating military merit, if three beheads are killed in each battle, one will be promoted to the next level. It won't be long before all the free land in the six counties of Boling will belong to the soldiers.
In our hands, if others want to develop their family business, there will be no land to buy and no tenants to hire!
If it were yesterday, Li Xu would not be able to solve this dilemma
But today, he has found the right answer
"Zhuojun!" Xuzi replied loudly, pointing to the map hanging on the wall, directing everyone's attention to the tens of thousands of miles of great rivers and mountains inside and outside the Great Wall!
