Not long after, Fu Bi brought several followers and moved several thick books bound together in front of Zhao Xin. Each book was one foot thick and so heavy that even an adult would need both hands to hold it.
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But this is normal!
Zhao Xin waved his hand, and Liu Yongnian immediately stepped forward to serve him. He moved these books to the young prince and opened them for him.
Then, a piece of printing paper posted in the book came into view.
The Song Dynasty had a system whereby all official documents and archive paper must be printed on printed paper.
There are two types of printing paper.
One is that the slightly yellow paper that Zhao Xin is seeing now is made under the supervision of the Procuratorate and has been marked for anti-counterfeiting.
The main purpose is to issue it to the chiefs of various departments, and then distribute it to their subordinate officials. It is used to record the political achievements, merits and demerits, time in office and time of leave of these officials during their tenure.
He held ordinary official affairs, raised some criminal and prison affairs, drew signatures, and finally handed them over to the court for assessment and final decision.
The other type is the printing paper issued by the emperor's order and supervised by the Shaofu general, which is called the imperial printing paper.
This kind of paper was issued to various governors, general magistrates and other officials in the capital.
Let them record for themselves how many cases were judged this year, how much taxes were collected, what things were done, what the situation was like inside the country, how many unjust cases were vindicated, what the people's reaction was... and so on.
After writing these things, I don’t just forget about it.
These officials had to show it to their colleagues who were also officials in the capital, and then signed and stamped it together to confirm that there were no omissions or problems. Finally, when the official resigned from office at the end of his term, he took it back to the court and handed it over to the emperor for inspection.
In the Song Dynasty, whether it was the printing paper issued to ordinary officials or the imperial printing paper issued by officials in Beijing, they were very serious legal documents.
It is a personal report to the official, written in a written form, as a proof of his or her transfer to another official position.
Its importance is even higher than the official seal.
If you lose your official seal, you can apply for a new one, print the paper, sue yourself, or lose the official seal. Basically, you have lost your official position.
Unless he is a relative of the emperor or a person with great hands and eyes, otherwise the Quancao Siyuan will not bother to select a mere person, a Beijing official, to waste manpower and material resources and make a new one for him.
Just wait aside.
Anyway, there were so many officials in the Song Dynasty, one more was not too much, and one less was not too much.
Under the printing paper, there is also a piece of rice paper.
This is called a role, and it records the official's age, place of birth, three generations of his father and ancestors, and whether he has ever committed a crime, whether he has committed corruption, perverted the law, or abused his power.
It can be said that the civil service system of the Song Dynasty has basically developed to the peak that the civil service system could reach in the classical feudal era.
The roles, printing papers, personal reports, and writings are like a net, scanning everything, recording the past, present, and future of the officials clearly and carefully.
Zhao Xin looked at the stickers and the words on the stickers in front of her without saying a word. It wasn't until she felt her eyes were tired after looking at them for a while that she turned to Fu Bi and asked, "Where is the list of the three-color people?"
When Fu Bi heard this, he was slightly stunned and quite surprised, but he immediately stepped forward and brought a book with a yellowed cover that was buried under all the books in front of Zhao Xin.
Officials of the Song Dynasty were all from a certain background.
For example, there are five levels of Jinshi, including Jinshi rank, Jinshi origin, and Jinshi origin. In addition, there are Mingjing, Zhuke, Jiujing, and Zhouyi. There is also a special title of Jinshi with the nature of grace.
There are also national meritorious officials who become officials according to Zhiyinbu. This is called zoubu origin.
All of the above are on the right path and will not be looked at through colored glasses in the officialdom.
They were the own people of the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords.
But some people are different.
For example, the sons-in-law of clan members are relatives of Zhao Guan's family and are required to be officials according to the system. However, because these guys do not rely on ability and imperial examinations to become officials, but rely on women to become officials, they are called nepotistic officials.
In addition, the empress, the empress dowager, and the concubine's in-laws were also excluded from Qingliu because of Yin En's special purpose to serve as officials. They were called holding incense. Whose incense was held? The empress dowager and empress in the palace!
But regardless of whether he is a crony or a favorer, he rarely competes on the same track as orthodox civil servants.
Therefore, the civil servants usually just complain about one or two things, but when they actually meet, there are many people who make fun of them!
Those who are really looked down upon and despised by the Qingliu Zhengtu people are called "three-color people".
That is to say, subordinates who work hard, work diligently, and are appointed officials according to the system; those who respond to the call of the country and the emperor, donate money and food, accept millet as officials, and those who become officials through other reasons.
These three types of people are either vulgar subordinates, rich upstarts, or idiots who don't know where to look.
The orthodox civil servants felt headaches and looked down upon them when they saw them. If it weren't for the oppression of the Song Dynasty system and the ancestral laws, there would be countless people who would want to kick these three-color people out of officialdom.
Naturally, the difficulties and dangers that "three-color people" encounter when changing their positions are far greater than those from other backgrounds.
Apart from that, any petty official in Quancao Fourth Courtyard can make a tricolor person's life's hard work go to waste with just any excuse.
As a result, the officialdom of the Song Dynasty buried the ambitions and aspirations of countless reckless heroes.
Fortunately, the number of Dayan is fifty, and its use is forty-nine. Whether it is heaven or the country, there will always be a window left for those who are thoughtful.
In the Song Dynasty, tricolor people were not always discriminated against, nor did they have no chance to get rid of their tricolor origins.
Because the state has also stipulated a special measure: to collect leftovers.
According to the system, local ministers with or above the rank of general magistrate of the three capitals of the country or with official posts, as well as chief officials of the Zhengfu, Privy Council, and the three yamen, can recommend to the emperor those talented officials who are unable to become officials through the imperial examination route for various reasons.
If the emperor accepts the recommendation, he can issue a special edict to transfer him to an official position and directly include him as a Beijing official.
For example, in the fifth year of the founding of Emperor Taizong, he accepted the recommendation of Han Pi, a scholar in the Hanlin Academy, and promoted Wan Shi, Yang Pu, Tian Jie and others.
In the fourth year of Zhenzong's reign as Dazhong Xiangfu, Liu Xuan from Hezhong Prefecture was directly moved to the Dali Temple.
However, in the hundred years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, countless magistrates and scholars from the three capitals have changed. There have always been very few ministers who are willing to use their own reputation and future to present their legacy to the emperor, only a few every year.
The only important ministers still in office today are Zhang Dexiang and Du Yan.
When Zhang Dexiang was the Cao of the Ministry of Punishment and the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, he recommended to Zhang Xian the Empress Dowager Mingsu more than a dozen subordinate officials, all of whom were promoted to officials in the capital. Now some of these people have even become Luti criminal officials.
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When Du Yan learned about Jiangling Prefecture, he also recommended several minor officials in several places. Some of the people he recommended have now become the chief officials of Dali Temple.
On the other hand, Fan Zhongyan was actually a beneficiary of this system. He was personally recommended to the court by his old boss Zhang Lun, who was the Deputy Envoy of Production and Shipping of Jianghuai at that time, so Fan Zhongyan was able to become a Beijing official that year and was immediately awarded
Except for Xinghua County.
This is the result of the emperor’s special eviction!
With these things in mind, Zhao Xin's eyes scanned the book Liu Yongnian was turning.
