While Zhang Tang was recruiting people, Liu De was not idle either.
He stood on the steps outside Qingliang Hall, waiting to be summoned by Cheap Daddy.
There is no way, after the burial of the Empress Dowager, the cheap daddy has too many things to deal with.
Liu Den can occupy a position here, which is considered to be quite important.
Because the person in front of him who was fighting against the cheap daddy was the current Prime Minister Shen Tujia!
After waiting for about half an hour, Liu De's legs were numb from standing, and he finally saw Shen Tujia's figure coming out of Qingliang Hall.
Liu De straightened his clothes, stepped forward and saluted: "Young man Liu De has met the Prime Minister!"
Shen Tujia is almost seventy years old this year. According to Liu Bang's regulations, old people of this age, even if they are just commoners, have the privilege of being given a seat before the emperor without bowing before the emperor.
Therefore, even if Liu De is a prince, he must take the initiative to salute him, and even Liu De, his cheap father, must treat him with courtesy.
Shen Tujia squinted his eyes and looked at Liu De. He recognized it for a long time before he recognized it and said with a smile: "I am an old minister, how dare you be a gift to His Highness!"
"Your Highness is here to meet the Holy Spirit?" Shen Tujia asked.
"Exactly!" Liu De nodded: "There are some things that I need to ask my father for permission!"
"I heard that His Highness is in charge of politics under Chao Cuo's family?" Shen Tujia narrowed his eyes and teased: "Is there anything Chao Cuo can do to embarrass His Highness?"
Liu De chuckled after hearing this and said: "Thank you, Prime Minister, for remembering that Chao Neishi is devoted to serving the public and has never made things difficult for me..."
Shen Tujia laughed out loud after hearing this, with four words clearly written on his face: It would be weird if I believed you!
Liu De shrugged his shoulders and laughed helplessly.
I have long heard that even if he became prime minister, Shen Tujia, the prime minister of the current dynasty, still could not change his stubbornness as a soldier. In his eyes, the world is black and white, good people will always be good people, and bad guys will definitely do bad things.
There is no doubt that in his eyes, Chao Cuo is the biggest villain of the day.
Liu De must have been so tortured by that bad guy that he came to complain.
What can Liu De say about this?
Could it be that he was told that Chao Cuo did not make things difficult for him, but only treated him slightly coldly.
Doesn't it mean that there is no three hundred taels of silver here, and Wang Er next door didn't steal it?
Shen Tujia laughed for a while, took the crutches given by the two servants, and walked down the steps step by step. As he walked, he said: "If your highness is in trouble and cannot complain to your majesty, you can do it."
Come to see me, I have fought with Emperor Gao for ten years and defended the world for Emperor Taizong for twenty years. I will crush every one of these rebellious officials and traitors of the Han family to death!"
At the end of the sentence, he was already full of murderous intent.
After hearing this, Liu De could only smile bitterly and said: "You have to order me..."
He finally understood why Shen Tujia was so angry at Chao Cuo in his previous life that he vomited blood and died - with his temper, it was really difficult to live a long life!
"Your Highness, Your Majesty orders you to go in!" A eunuch came over and said.
"Got it!" Liu De nodded and followed the eunuch into the Qingliang Hall.
"My son, Liu De, pays homage to my father. I wish my father long life!" Liu De walked to the hall and paid his respects.
"Get up..." The emperor Liu Qi was not very happy today, and his mood was not pleasant, so even his voice was a little tired when he spoke: "In front of me, there is no need to be so glib!"
This may sound dissatisfying, but Liu De knows that he, a cheap dad, actually likes people to flatter him, but unlike those mediocre people who readily accept flattery, cheap dad knows how to refuse and welcome back.
The implication is that those who flatter him will usually be scolded on the spot, but as long as you can scratch his itch, you will be pleasantly surprised afterwards! So he stood up with a smile and said: "My son, everything is from the bottom of my heart."
talk!"
The emperor snorted noncommittally and asked, "You came to me, but you have something to say?"
"Father is a wise man!" Liu De paid his respects again: "My father ordered me to take charge of the government in the Imperial Palace. Chao Neishi divided four cities for my son to take care of. However, my son was short of money when he came, so
I want to ask for some rewards from my father, but secondly, I don’t have any elite soldiers, so I want to ask my father to appoint some capable ministers..." At this point, Liu De burst out laughing.
"Didn't Queen Bo just give you a thousand gold pieces? You spent it all so quickly?" The emperor sneered, waved his hand and said: "The rules of my Han family have always been to rely on one's own efforts and rely on one's own efforts... However, I am not an unreasonable person either.
, since the queen gave you one thousand gold coins, then I will also give you one thousand gold coins..."
"As for capable ministers?" A friendly smile appeared on the face of the emperor sitting on the dragon throne: "I am in short supply myself! It's up to you to decide what to do. As long as it doesn't violate the law, it's up to you..."
Liu De had known that this would be the result.
Liu De knew that the court was short of people, otherwise he would not have allowed Shen Tujia to shine in the position of prime minister at the age of seventy.
His purpose is just to get a promise from Cheap Daddy that he can do things cheaply.
He took out a silk book from his arms, presented it in his hand, knelt on the ground and said: "I would like to report to my father that I want to openly recruit outstanding talents in the field in Chang'an City. This is my son's plan. Please ask my father to
Take a look and give me some advice..."
The emperor Liu Qi winked, and a eunuch came over, took Liu De's silk letter, and took it to the emperor's case.
Liu Qi opened the silk book and was a little surprised when he read it for the first time.
It turns out that the content of Liu De's silk book this time was extremely strange.
Liu Qi read line by line, reading it the first time, then the second time, and then the third time.
After a long time, he asked: "Liu De, did you design this alone?"
Previously, Liu De made a push for favors, and although he took the wrong approach, it was still normal.
But what I wrote this time is very novel, very bold, and very... good!
There are no quotations from scriptures in the silk book, and there is no show of words. The entire text is just talking about one thing.
First of all, Liu De proposed in the silk book that he wanted to recruit fifteen educated and literate people in Chang'an. This was nothing to make a fuss about, but what he wrote after that made Liu Qi secretly shocked.
Liu De actually planned to use an 'examination' method to select those fifteen people.
In the silk book, Liu De said that except for criminals, anyone else could sign up to participate in his "examination".
Then through layers of selection, fifteen people were finally selected from all the candidates to serve as his helpers. Therefore, Liu De asked the emperor to grant him fifteen official positions with a rank higher than a hundred stones to award these selected people.
Fifteen people.
This examination is simply unheard of.
But Liu Qi read hundreds of words on the silk book and instantly thought that it was a waste to use this examination to recruit fifteen people for Liu De!
Since the founding of the country, the Han Dynasty has suffered from a lack of talents.
Not enough talents means not enough officials. There are not enough officials to govern the local area. The so-called centralization of power is empty talk.
But this talent will not fall from the sky for no reason. Even if he can fall from the sky, as the emperor, how can he know whether the other person is a truly capable person with real talents or a mediocre person who just pretends to be a fool?
In the decades since the founding of the Han Dynasty, all emperors since Liu Bang have struggled to solve the problem of lack of talents.
All methods such as giving orders to the local government to complete a certain number of recommendation tasks have been exhausted, but most of the ministers coming and going in the court are old faces or second-generation officials, and there are only a few who have climbed up from the bottom.
And few.
Undoubtedly, this is not good news for the Han family!
But the examination mentioned in this silk book perfectly solves this problem.
"In the future, local officials may no longer need to recommend anything. If this examination can be implemented and all scholars in the world are ordered to take this examination, then naturally there will be no shortage of talented people!" Liu Qi thought to himself,
He knew that if this examination was really implemented, those who were not recognized for their talents or who thought they were not recognized for their talents would come to participate.
However, the question is, is there any risk in this examination?
In addition, how to ensure that the examination is fair, just and open, and what standards are used for the examination?
Should we examine the thoughts of the Huang Lao School, the legalist criminal law, or the Confucian classics?
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