Dongping Prefecture has now been renamed Yunzhou, and Shenji Military Advisor Zhu Wu is the prefect.
The desperate Saburo Shixiu was appointed as the governor of Jeju, and the iron-faced Bae Xuan was appointed as the governor of Shanzhou.
But these three people alone cannot manage the affairs of a state. In order to deal with these heavy state affairs, some scholars must be promoted and used.
Zhu Wu also made a recruitment list, but there were only a few applicants, and most of them were down-and-out scholars with average talents but the scholarly habits that the Zhao family was accustomed to.
After taking office, he did not do anything, only left the work to the petty officials, and just enjoyed every day.
After Li Gui found out, he immediately had the dog chopped off and gave the official position to the clerk.
"Brother Zhu Wu, we don't engage in the Zhao family's business. Only those who can work can be officials. Those who can't work, no matter how talented they are, it has nothing to do with us."
"If you are short of people, capture all the literati and let them work."
"If you do well, you will be rewarded, but if you do poorly..." Li Gui slashed down with his big hand, "Behead him!"
"A certain family is a rough man and doesn't know how to cultivate talents, so it has no choice but to grab those that others have cultivated and use them directly."
"There are many academies in the local area. You don't care whether they are scholars or academicians. As long as you can read and do math, you can use them first."
Zhu Wu was dumbfounded and couldn't even speak.
"Brother, don't make fun of me!"
"This forceful melon is not sweet. We need to be polite to the literati."
"If my brother is willing to treat Xian as a corporal and let people publicize his reputation, there will definitely be those unsuccessful scholars who come to apply."
Li Gui sneered and said:
"What a polite corporal!"
"A certain family only knows how to put a knife on their necks and ask them if they want to work, but they don't know how to treat a corporal!"
"This is to let them become officials, not to harm them, but to take advantage of them!"
"I give them an official job, and then I have to beg them. Who could get used to their bad habits?"
"You have to turn around and let those who want to be officials come to beg for help. This is only reasonable!"
Li Gui couldn't help but ask people to arrest all the scholars.
The original government office has been destroyed, and now a house of a wealthy family has been randomly found to serve as the government office temporarily.
Those literati were caught in the garden and surrounded by a group of wolf-like soldiers. They didn't know the purpose of the bandit leader, and they suddenly started to tremble.
In the Zhao and Song dynasties, the literary style was at its peak. There were many wealthy households in the city, and there were so many people who were practicing writing that they could not catch them all at once, and they had to come in batches.
Li Gui asked someone to gather fifty people and send them into the garden, where he personally "persuaded them to surrender."
He stopped in front of the crowd and said directly without any nonsense:
"A certain family has occupied the land of three states, and now it is short of people."
"Whoever you are waiting for wants to be an official, you might as well come forward and sign up."
"As long as you pass the assessment and no imperial examination is required, you will be appointed as appropriate."
"Even if you fail the examination, you can still join the Yamen and become a clerk. Your talents and learning will not be wasted."
All the literati looked at each other in confusion, and then they realized that the thief had come looking for him, and their backs straightened immediately.
Literary people's minds move quickly and they tend to think too much.
One of them wanted to show his integrity and shouted loudly:
"How can I be a thief after receiving the favor of the country in this life?"
Li Gui glanced at him, hooked his finger, and a bodyguard stepped forward, pulled the idiot out from the crowd, pulled him to the front of the team, knocked him down and stabbed him.
With just a "click", the head of the clever guy who had messed up rolled up on the ground with a "gurgling" sound.
The literati had never seen this before. Seeing the head rolling towards him, with blood spurting out from behind, they screamed and backed away, huddled together, and half of the garden was emptied out.
Everyone was panicked, anxious, and confused.
This process is wrong!
According to the normal process, the leader of the thieves should not find a famous person and good ancestor for himself, and explain that he is a descendant of several generations of Li Shimin, how he is orthodox, and cannot be regarded as a rebel.
In other words, he had a vision when he was born, with great ambitions and ambitions to conquer the Central Plains. He advised everyone to act in accordance with nature and be a founding hero.
No matter how bad it is, he will scold the emperor for being ignorant and his treacherous ministers will cause harm to the country. He wants to clear the emperor and give everyone a step forward.
Worst of all, you should put gold, silver, and beauties on display!
Once he has made enough of these gestures, everyone's face has been fully respected, and he has a way to convince himself, then everything will be easy to discuss.
When the time comes, hello to you, hello to me, hello to everyone, it won’t matter even if you serve as an official under him for two days.
But what kind of trick did he use to kill people?
Li Gui didn't care about this, he just watched there. When the commotion subsided a little, he pointed with his finger and asked questions one by one from left to right, front to back.
"Would you like to work for a certain family?"
As long as the person refuses verbally, or shakes his head, or even hesitates for a little longer, Li Gui's finger will click.
The bodyguard then stepped forward, pulled out the warrior, and chopped him down in front of everyone.
Only three or five were chopped down, and the rest fell to the ground and called themselves lord.
After everyone had asked, Li Gui laughed loudly, looked at the scholars all over the floor with their butts sticking out and kowtowing, and he shouted with great satisfaction:
"All the talented people in the world have come to my rescue!"
At that moment, he asked Zhu Wu to take these people down to wash up and change their pants, and then find time to conduct assessments and assign them according to the situation to see whether they would be officials or officials.
He continued with the next batch of "interviews."
Li Gui was very efficient in his work. He followed the same process every time. He first killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, and then asked questions one by one. It was like an assembly line operation. In one day, he recruited all the literati in the city under his command.
As the "cost" of the interview, it was the dozens of heads that were placed at the gate of the new Yamen.
Li Gui made it very clear that if you do well, you will be rewarded; if you do poorly, or if you deliberately fool yourself, you will contribute to the capital.
His "interview" method was easy to learn and easy to master. The guards only watched it once and learned everything.
Li Gui then sent them to three states and counties to act as "interviewers".
This method is very good, but in just a few days, talented people from all over the country "came to apply" one after another, and they were not picky whether they were officials or officials.
Suddenly, the phenomenon of "redundant officials and redundant officials" appeared in the three states under Li Gui's command.
This is bad!
In order to solve the work problems of many young heroes, Li Gui specially convened a meeting of brothers and decided to learn from the lessons of that day and let Liangshan directly control the countryside.
In the past, royal power did not go to the countryside. From today on, all rural officials must be dispatched directly from Liangshan.
Not only were these literati sent to the countryside for further training, but all soldiers who were disabled on the battlefield were also assigned to the countryside to serve as local officials.
These people do not always stay rooted in the countryside. If they perform meritorious deeds, they can be promoted and transferred to county or state capital posts.
Even if there is no meritorious behavior, they must be rotated between different towns and counties every three to five years to avoid colluding with each other and dominating one party.
(End of chapter)
