Tang's dining table

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 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 more 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 years, the Tang Dynasty's frontier troops often displayed hundreds of thousands of horses, or more than one hundred thousand, or one person destroyed an entire country or a whole 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 were certified, so that there was a normal atmosphere for promotion in the border army.

However, what the court valued most was scientific examination.

Over the years, Pei Xingjian has completely improved the scientific examination system. He anonymizes names, transcribes papers, does not appoint an examiner in advance, and does not predetermine examination questions in advance. Those who judge papers afterward must 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 very rare in the Tang Dynasty to promote a scholar who did not know how to read, to promote a filial and honest man, whose father lived away from home, who was as clean and turbid as mud, and a good general who was a high-ranking disciple was as timid as a chicken.

Whether it is military merit or exams, only brave men and scholars can be screened out. As for whether these brave men are good officers and whether scholars are good officials, it is a matter of opinion.

The queen placed a bronze coin in Luoyang back then, so that people, even prisoners, could report illegal things they knew to the court, and they were rewarded in the end, but the sequelae still exist.

The sequelae of this is 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 enough hoped to use this method to gain the favor of the queen and then achieve the goal of upgrading their own class. Get a chance to jump.

For one day as a scholar, even if they were beheaded and ransacked, their family would still be able to consider themselves 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 marquis 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. The 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 have been able to afford the amount of saliva he 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 silence in the house.

Not only that, whenever the sun shines brightly or it rains continuously, Yunshi will put up a pergola and serve tea to prevent the Marquis of Liang from being exposed to the sun or rainwater 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 sins.

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 sternly: "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: "I recognize this concubine. 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. , I can’t blame you for that.”

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, lest they would run out of new ideas when criticizing Yun.

"By doing this, my husband can seduce everyone who is dissatisfied with the Yun family?"

Yun Chu nodded and said: "Everyone pushes down a wall, beats a drum and beats it. This is an unbreakable truth since ancient times. They don't dare to 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 my 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 suit, 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. .

Fortunately, there is still some distance between the backyard and the gate. As long as the door is closed, the shouts and curses made by Marquis Liang and others will be much quieter.

When Yun Chu saw that his eldest son was back, he smiled and said, "Did you send the money from Buddhism?"

Yun Jin said: "I went to Liushui Brand today to solicit money, which alarmed everyone in Chang'an. Everyone is worried that Liushui Brand will make the same mistake again. As a result, today's selling orders are more than ten times larger than buying orders, and the selling price is higher than the previous selling price. 10% lower.

Two days later, the boy will still go to solicit money. This time, there should be room for the selling price to continue to drop. If it drops by 30%, the people arranged by Aye can enter the market. "

Yun Chu sighed and said: "Actually, we make more profits by popularizing the popular brands, but we can't bear the suffering of the people who follow and buy. Forget it, 30% makes 30%, and a stable transition is the most important."

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 east and west cities, as well as the various grass markets The governor, middlemen, and supervisors of Fangshizi have almost all been replaced by our people. This is a big deal and cannot be destroyed. Tell Master Qiuji that you might as well have a bad attitude when collecting debts. "

Yun Jin said: "Aye let the Wu brothers come in, let His Majesty, the 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: "However, over the years, Aye has still taught the Wu brothers."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Tell me who you taught me."

Yun Jin frowned and said, "Brothers of the Wu family, the son of Li Jingxuan and more than a dozen of his 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 they 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 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 and 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 into fools that everyone despises.

People are all selfish. For the sake of their own future, those people, even if they are pretending or completely delegating their power, will not expose their unbearable side to others. After all, their wise performance in that position has made them too proud. Lots of 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 local officials, 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."

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