Unexpectedly, Sima Guang would be the first person to recommend officials for promotion, and Fan Zuyu would be the first person to recommend officials for promotion.
The current promotion of officials in the imperial dynasty still bears the traces of the previous dynasty to a large extent.
Although the imperial examination was completely formalized, changing the previous model of relying on benefactors to serve as officials, it still retained the recommendation model.
The head of the Zhengshitang can recommend five people every year. Of course, the recommended people must have a good background and can only be promoted within the scope of the law.
Because Sima Guang presented "Tongzhi", Zhao Xi sincerely praised Sima Guang's spirit and ability to focus on history... We cannot let this great masterpiece "Zizhi Tongjian" be buried because of him.
Therefore, Zhao Xi gave Sima Guang various conveniences in revising his history.
At that time, Sima Guang named Liu and Liu Shu, but did not recommend them for promotion.
Fan Zuyu is now considered to be the first person recommended for promotion by Sima Guang for the purpose of revising history.
"Fan Zuyu was an orphan and grew up with his uncle Fan Zhen, who is now Fan Jingren, the Minister of Rites."
"Fan Zuyu has a good reputation in Shilin. He is also the son-in-law of Uncle Lu Jie, and he was a Jinshi in the year of Jiayou."
In-laws everywhere!
After listening to Wang Zhongzheng's report, Zhao Xi was also helpless.
The court is so big, there are so many important ministers, and there are so many people who have passed scientific examinations over the years.
It is said that catching a son-in-law under the official list of the country is a passion of merchants, so why not the ministers of the court?
It is said that the government of the country is not the government of aristocratic families. Look at these ministers who are arranged in a ladder. Their connections are everywhere.
It's just a sigh of relief, what should be accurate must be accurate. Not to mention that Fan Zuyu is really good, but he can't be promoted. With Sima Guang's recommendation, Fan Zhen's reputation, and Lu Gong's love for the Lu family, Fan Zuyu has to be promoted.
Right.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Anshi recommended Lu Huiqing to be appointed as Prince Zhongyun by the Imperial Academy Professor. In fact, Lu Huiqing had the experience of accompanying the King of Dali in the Imperial Academy, so he was already qualified for this promotion.
It's just that the ministers of the political affairs hall all flaunted their own character, and they couldn't stand some of Lu Huiqing's little actions when he was accompanying Duan Silian in the palace, so no one recommended him.
After Wang Anshi returned to the court, the court was busy for a while due to the scientific examination, and this year was a big year for official rotation. Lu Huiqing's promotion was put on hold until now.
Zhao Xi also looked at Lu Huiqing differently, but he was not close to Zhao Xi. The key was that Zhao Xi intended to leave Lu Huiqing to Wang Anshi.
Therefore, it is logical to promote Lu Huiqing at this time.
The qualifications and achievements are all there, and no one can say anything about them.
With these two beginnings, recommendations came one after another.
A concise introduction, the comments of the former governors and imperial yamen, the time when they passed the Jinshi examination, the results of the examinations over the years, and their achievements are listed one by one.
This is what Zhao Xi saw.
To be honest, Zhao Xi, who was used to the evaluation system of later generations, really couldn't understand the basis of these evaluations at this time.
To put it bluntly, they were all specious conclusions, and even the evaluation indicators made him feel baffled. It was better to say that it was an evaluation than to endure the sun and the moon.
Examination, training, promotion, recommendation, dispatch, etc., seemed to be a complete set of procedures with certain rules and principles, but in Zhao Xi's eyes, they were full of loopholes.
The so-called evaluation only involves years of experience, qualifications, background, resume, performance and mistakes. However, performance focuses on whether there is civil unrest, increase or decrease in population, etc. These are indicators that do nothing and do not change. In other words, they are not determined by people.
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Then let’s talk about recommendations. Regardless of whether low-level or mid-level officials are promoted, there must be a recommender. On the surface, it is for the recommender to bear the responsibility of recommendation, but behind the scenes, it is better to say that it is to give the salesman a good name.
Looking at Wang Zhongzheng's report on these recommended officials... Zhao Xi was not just filled with emotion.
Yes, it is true that there is no aristocratic family in the country, but Zhao Xi seems that such a twisted relationship is more terrifying than a pure aristocratic family.
The nephew of the minister's family is the son-in-law of a Hanlin scholar, the daughter of the royal family is the daughter-in-law of the husband, the censor is an in-law of the official department, and the household department and the privy minister are family friends...
Only the royal in-laws were military generals and merchants.
To say that the world is shared by the scholar-officials is rather to say that the world has been kidnapped by the scholar-officials.
Suppressing military power and promoting literature...this is the whole relationship between the scholar-bureaucrats being regulated and fighting against the imperial power and the military.
The aristocratic family and the king share the same world. In terms of interests, they are a unit most of the time.
And what would such a structure be like? In addition to fighting against the imperial power and the military, at other times, the entire court is in one word: chaos!
Each family has its own interests and demands, and each family has its own connections. They draw each other in, undermine each other, oppose each other, and join forces. How chaotic this must be!
Zhao Xi was very glad that what he did when he was young was able to tie up the Lao Liu family tightly.
Otherwise, he really doesn't know how to face such a court.
Very unhappy, Zhao Xi was very unhappy. Even though he knew that this was the reality, he still felt unhappy.
This situation... even in later generations, is difficult to avoid, or it is commonplace.
Back then, in his county, ministries, commissions, bureaus, and towns, there were more in-law relationships, and even more close relatives.
In later generations, Zhao Xi once heard that 70% of the heads of state in the West were descended from more than two dozen nobles in the past.
How should I put it? It’s not that it’s a wise saying to be in the same family, but there is a real difference in the circles.
You can't force a Zai Zai's daughter to marry a barefoot man, right? Even a merchant is a pig that can be slaughtered at any time in the Zai Zai's eyes.
The so-called poor noble son...who are you coaxing? If the family doesn't have any food left over, who dares to raise a few young people who can do nothing but eat, sleep and study?
Not to mention the expenses for studying and traveling.
It should be a common phenomenon to teach by words and deeds that what kind of family produces what kind of talents. If a family has a Jinshi, and they realize the benefits of being an official, they will naturally make great efforts to let the children of the whole family continue to work hard on their studies.
This is also the story of several Jinshi in a certain discipline.
Today's dynasty, in addition to the Han family, the Lu family, the Wang family, and the Fan family, which have been passed down for hundreds of years, include the Zeng family in Nanfeng, the Zhang family in Jianning, Fujian, and the Li family in Nankang, including the Su Shi family from Shu, and Wang Anshi from Jiangxi.
One family, Lantian Lu Dafang’s family, etc., which family is not one with several Jinshi?
No matter how many of these families have eugenics, a large number of children, nieces and nephews, and no matter how many in-laws there are, these relationships cannot be clearly distinguished in the court.
Of course, there is no denying that there are indeed poor nobles, but that is just another family of in-laws.
Similarly, families are not without decline and decline. For example, Kou Xianggong and the Yan Shu family obviously have no successors.
Sigh... Zhao Xi was prepared for this, which is why he didn't kill this or that recklessly.
Although the literati of the imperial dynasty also pursued profit and gain, they still adhered to some of the moral principles on the surface.
If he had really raised his guillotine, he might have emptied the court.
In this era, family and country were not higher than the family. More scholars and scholars, including military commanders, believed from the bottom of their hearts that family inheritance was more important than the court.
There is a thousand-year family, but there is no thousand-year dynasty. No matter how the dynasty changes, it cannot be separated from the ministers who govern the court...
I’m really unhappy!
Fortunately, the original guard camp and now the martial arts hall are where Zhao Xi rooted his ideals of family and country. I hope it will be effective in the end.