The next day, Yuwen Wen met with the Secretary of the Secretariat Wang Hu in the palace. Seeing that the emperor was tired, Wang Hu couldn't help but care: "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself, don't work too much."

"Well, I know the right way"

Yuwen Wen replied vaguely, he was not busy. Although he was confused and puzzled after reading the memorial last night, he went to bed on time.

Because Zhang Lihua's performance was good and short, she almost overslept.

That's all.

As for the questions in my heart, I will wait for Wang to answer them now.

Yuwen Wen sorted out his thoughts and asked, "I have something unknown about this redundant official. Please ask Wang Qing to analyze it."

"Please speak with your Majesty."

"Well, I read the "Book of Wei" a few days ago and saw the death of Zhang Yi and his son, I wonder what Wang Qing thinks?"

Wang Jun had already expected the question the emperor would ask today. He knew that the emperor would definitely ask this question after reading his memorial, so he answered confidently: "Zhang Yi and his son died for the country, but the building would collapse, and everything would be in vain."

Zhang Yi, a minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was born in the Zhang family of Qinghe and was a famous scholar in the Qingliu. His son Zhang Zhongyu wrote a letter in the second year of Shengui, asking the court to modify the standards for selecting officials, and suppress the military personnel, and not allow military personnel to be appointed as officials of Qingwang.

It means that you, the gang of warriors, just be a hawk and dog, don’t yell all day long to be a senior official in the capital.

When the news came out, the reckless men were in a rebellious way, and the Yulin soldiers immediately mutinized and attacked the official office, wanting to "reason" with Zhang Yi and his son.

Seeing that Zhang Yi and his son were not in the official office, the soldiers gathered together, picked up all kinds of equipment, and rushed towards the Zhang Mansion in a mighty manner.

Zhang Yi was seriously injured by the rioters who broke into the door. After a few days of persistence, he died of breath. The house was ignited. His eldest son Zhang Shijun was thrown into the fire by the rioters and burned to death.

As the capital city, such atrocities actually occurred in Luoyang. The Yulin Army, who should have protected the palace, openly attacked the official office and tortured the imperial ministers. In theory, the first and accomplices should be severely punished.

However, the final result was that the court killed several so-called "culprits" and then turned big things into small numbers, "not as an example."

The death of Zhang Yi and his son originated from the serious conflict between the Wuren Group of Yuan and the Scholar Group of Yuan Wei. The court had limited positions, but there were too many people waiting for officials, that is, there were many people and few people.

In order to compete for good official positions, the Wenwu Group has reached a point where it is incompatible.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Cui Liang, the Minister of Personnel, came out to put out the fire and gave a solution to how to select officials fairly.

That is the suspension of the year.

In order to ensure that everyone has an official position, no matter how talented the officials are, all the officials are awarded according to their seniority.

Anyone with vacant positions does not ask about the wise and foolish, and chooses older people to be given priority. This is the so-called suspension of the year.

The saying in later generations is about seniority and employment.

Cui Liang's suspension of the year was opposed by many people, and even his nephew persuaded him, saying that this approach was too confused and was a major regression in the official selection system. Later, many knowledgeable people said that after the implementation of this system, the court (Wei State) could no longer select talents.

There is no doubt that the suspension of the year (in terms of seniority) is a very rigid official selection system, but Wang Jun believes that this is a helpless move, because the redundant officials in the Wei State at that time were serious, and the civil and military fights were red. The method introduced by Cui Liang was purely an emergency.

The problem is that the nobles and gentry groups in the capital want to reduce the competitors of official positions, and want to take off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and directly cut off the rise of warriors. Those good official positions have no share of warriors, so the angry warriors began to get ready.

The court was unable to resolve this conflict. Because there were too many employees and fewer people, it could only rely on Cui Liang's "stop the year" to mix the gap in order to "remain from civil and military affairs". As a result, the gap was still not mixed for more than ten years.

The conflict finally broke out, and that was the rebellion of the Six Towns.

Yuwen Wen read the "Book of Wei" not long ago and probably understood this history. So when he saw the solution given by Wang Jun in the memorial, he felt that his country was about to be completed, so he had to use a method that was very similar to "suspension of the year" to solve the problem of redundant officials?

"Although the 'qualification' matters discussed by Your Majesty, I am also involved in the prevention of the problem, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages."

Wang Xu first talked about the history of Cui Liang's dynasty, and then explained to Yuwen Wen, explaining what the "Xing Nian Clasty" meant after many years of debate.

Qualifications, just like suspending the year, are used as the official selection system, and seniority is the condition for promoting officials. To put it bluntly, it is the seniority ranking. Everyone will accept appointments based on their qualification rankings.

This system can be seen at a glance by a discerning person.

Mediocre people can be an official with just one's qualifications. Because of their low seniority, even if they make more political achievements, they have to queue up to endure it honestly, which is extremely unfair.

At first glance, the qualification is the same as the suspension, but it is actually different.

If you want to tell what the difference is, you have to start with the current official selection system. Wang Jun took out the information. Seeing that the information was as thick as bricks, Yu Wen Wen's eyelids twitched and said, "Let me read it carefully and discuss it."

"Yes, my servant follows the order."

......

Yuwen yawned, put down the information in his hand, looked at the dark night outside, and looked at the clock.

It's 23:00 p.m. It's time to go to bed.

However, looking at these information, Yu Wen Wen was not convinced.

The information prepared by Wang Jun for him was related to the current dynasty's official selection system, and there were various pros and cons analyses. It was more than 100,000 words. After reading it for several days, Yuwen Wen felt that the more he read it, the more confused he became.

To put it bluntly, Yuwen Wen is not good at selecting officials, so although he agrees with the "disadvantages" analyzed by Wang Jun, he is not sure whether the "profits" mentioned by the other party are really correct.

As an emperor, there is no need to understand everything, but Yuwen Wen wants to save face in this matter. He doesn't want to admit that he is an outsider, he keeps his neck and doesn't ask others to solve his doubts, he chews the information and slowly "understands".

According to the information given to him by Wang Jun and some conclusions given in the end, all of them prove that "qualification" and "suspension of the year" are different, and the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Taking advantage of the fact that the number of officials is greater than the lack of officials (redundant officials) is not serious, the system will be established quickly.

After the imperial examination is on the right track, there are more and more wars in the border areas. A large number of soldiers who have made meritorious service and new Jinshi can enter the queue according to the "qualification" regulations.

Whether civil and military officials, qualifications, merits, political achievements, and performance are converted into seniority according to the new rules, and then they are appointed by the seniority, An Anxinxin.

This is true for newcomers, and those full-time officials are waiting for promotions by the Ministry of Personnel to arrange for promotion, and the same is true for transferring.

For each official who has expired (for example, the governor is once every three years), the new rules will be based on the ranks and ranks of his or her official position (for example, the governor of the upper, middle, and lower states), risks (who are of course different as an official in the Central Plains or in the smoky land), and the results and performance of the annual assessment are reduced to part of his or her seniority (can be regarded as weighted scores).

Then sort by yearly qualifications and wait for new appointments.

In other words, we will be in line by year, divided into fruits and fruits, in a well-organized order, and the court and the country are harmonious inside and outside, and the situation is not small but big.

Faced with such a complex design, Yuwen Wen became a lost lamb for the first time. Seeing someone guiding the road ahead, he hesitating, afraid that it was a trap.

Qualification means seniority, which was criticized for being a rigid, inefficient and unfair system in later generations, which made Yuwen Wen instinctively feel bad.

Just think about it, for example, a salesperson’s income depends on how much business it has been to calculate commission, but how old it has, it would be strange if such a business can get business.

The same is true for the expansion of trading companies to the country. If you can get more experienced, you can improve step by step. Who will still strive for political achievements and who will try your best to show yourself?

But Yuwen Wen felt that Wang Hu had no reason to fool him, because the other party had no motivation, and secondly, he could not afford the consequences of his anger.

The officials of the Zhengshi Hall have reached a consensus on "qualification". In their respective memorials, they all stated that this system certainly has disadvantages, but as long as one content is added, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and are very feasible.

The so-called "content" is the system of "sending envoys".

Positions that have not yet been fixed are called appointments, and positions that have been fixed are called envoys, such as observation envoys, market envoys, etc. The current official system of Zhou State has already been destined and envoys.

Sent and entrusting are expedient measures. In order to complete a temporary task, the emperor or the magistrate must temporarily draw officials to go to a certain place to perform certain functions.

For example, when Henan held a provincial examination for the imperial examination, the center needed officials to go to the site to "observe", so Yu Wenwen temporarily appointed Yang Ji as the academic and political observation envoy to "observe". After the provincial examination, the mission was over.

But for the next imperial examination (country examination), someone will have to "observe" again, so the academic and political observation can be fixed.

The selection of the candidates for the assignment and the position is not included in the qualifications. In other words, a new Jinshi, as long as he is favored by the emperor or the prime minister, can be appointed to do things as a certain envoy, which has the intention of "breaking the qualifications".

This is true for government affairs and military affairs. If a riot occurs somewhere and the General Administration cannot suppress it, the court can appoint a "recruitment envoy" to allow a military academy graduate with excellent grades to lead troops to quell the rebellion.

Qualifications are about seniority, dispatch, and assignment is an exception. If the official appointed by the exception is better completed the assignment and assignment, then his performance will be reduced to his seniority and achieve "ranking improvement" with additional "plus points".

In this way, after the implementation of qualifications, it is easy for officials to become officials to be squandered by their seniority. Those aspiring and capable officials, regardless of civil and military, can strive to obtain dispatch, serve and show their talents.

Complete your mission well to get "plus points" and quickly improve your seniority, rather than relying on spending your days.

Therefore, one of the major reasons why the officials of the Political Affairs Hall were able to reach a consensus on qualifications was that the premise was to synchronously institutionalized dispatch and assignments, otherwise it would have been criticized by everyone for being simply a simple plagiarism.

The officials of the Political Affairs Hall have been fighting for many years, but now they have reached a consensus and come up with a draft of the plan. Yuwen Wen feels that he has such a good character, and it is unreasonable that a group of middle-aged and elderly people join forces to deceive him.

But he was unsure and his doubts came from his unfamiliarity with the official selection system. After all, as an emperor, there was no need to understand everything.

So, how effective is this improved "year suspension" (qualification-based)?
Chapter completed!