The characteristic of official positions in the Song Dynasty was the separation of official positions and dispatches.
But this system sounds very troublesome, but it is convenient in practical application.
For example, some officials serve as censors. Officials in the censorship station are not allowed to be promoted for several years, and some have worked for more than ten years. Or some officials serve as officials in remote places and stay there for several years. They cannot be transferred unless they are promoted, and they are so anxious that they have no choice but to do anything.
The separation of official positions and dispatches solves this problem.
An official position is equivalent to a rank, such as a first-rank, second-rank, fifth-rank, or ninth-rank official.
There are a total of forty-two ranks of officials in Beijing.
The imperial court promoted stipend officials based on three years of seniority. Generally speaking, as long as they were officials in the capital and did not make mistakes, they could be promoted to the tenth rank after casually dawdling for thirty years.
The thirty-second level happens to be the driving department or the test of merit, and the treasury department member Wai Lang.
Beijing officials who have no family background (not Jinshi) will reach the end of their career after reaching the thirty-second level, and they will not be able to rise further. Therefore, in Bianjing City, calling Yin Guan's children "member" means shouting loudly.
The so-called shouting means shouting high and not low. It's like meeting a Yin official's son and not sure how old the other official is. Regardless of his young age, he may have started working as an official at the age of three. If you bid low, you are disrespectful. If you bid high, you will never make a mistake.
Later, following the example, wealthy businessmen donated an official position and could be called a member. After that, as long as you are rich, you can also be called a member.
And sometimes you don't have to wait three years to advance to the next level. When you are appointed to an official position, you will receive a great gift (the new emperor ascends the throne) and send you a salary to advance to the next level.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Dali Pan-level promotion system only promoted people to the casual and honorary ranks, but in the Song Dynasty, those who could be promoted were actual positions and benefits. Therefore, when the emperor of the Song Dynasty was buried, the officials of the Song Dynasty had very complicated emotions.
This classification of officials based on seniority may seem unreasonable, but it actually makes sense. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials were selected based on their seniority, which was of great help in stabilizing the ranks of officials.
But in the Song Dynasty, it was normal for officials to have no errands. It is common for officials with mixed backgrounds to work for three years and take five years off.
Only high-ranking officials like Jinshi can fill in any vacancies.
Zhang Yue was previously a judge of Dali Temple. This was a stipend official. The 40th rank of the imperial official decided your treatment. The stipend official was transferred to the Judge's Court.
The dispatches are the official affairs of Chuzhou's signing magistrate's office. These dispatches are not all assigned to the Ministry of Personnel. They are divided into relatives, halls, and officials.
It is the emperor's special decree to remove relatives. For example, if a prime minister is of third rank or above, the emperor must personally intervene. There are also Taiwan admonishers, who also require the emperor to personally marry Jane, as a force to check and balance the two governments. The so-called "Taiwan officials must follow the Central Order, which is the law of the ancestors".
In the Tang (Political Affairs Hall) hall, the Prime Minister of Zhongshu personally appointed officials in the Hall. For example, half of the magistrates in the Song Dynasty were appointed in the Prime Minister Hall.
As for the general judges, judges, and officials in key places, there are also many scripture halls to eliminate them.
As for the special purpose that is not involved, it is all under the annotation of the Ministry of Personnel, except in the hall.
If a new scholar becomes an official for the first time, he will be given annotations (annotations) by the Ministry of Personnel. When Zhang Yue was the first scholar in the imperial examination, he had to go to Liu Neiquan to do official business in Chuzhou. Nan Cao took a look at the faces of the officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Therefore, Wang Jie asked Yang Tian: "May I ask if this is the time of Tang Que or Bu Que?"
Zhang Yue and the other four's ears perked up. In addition to the church, the department's attention is completely different.
Yang Tian smiled and said: "It's a palace."
Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and Su Shi said to Su Zhe: "Xiangong Han is really the truth!"
Although Tang Chu is in the name of 'selecting people for officials', he is actually 'selecting officials for the purpose'. For example, if he has made meritorious deeds, Tang Chu will often give him exceptional treatment.
The special purpose is not involved, and regardless of whether the hall is removed or not, it is all under the annotation of the Ministry of Officials. This is what they say, but there is still a limit to the hall. The selected people all belong to the Ministry of Personnel. Some of the officials in the Beijing Dynasty belong to the Ministry of Personnel, and some belong to the Political Affairs Hall. The scope of this division has something to do with whether the prime minister is strong and whether the country is in turmoil. In short, the water here is very deep.
When Cai Jing was in power, he liked to appoint cronies in all official positions, or sell officials at home to gain titles, which usurped the power of the staff.
However, the assignments given by the Department of Systematic Affairs are sometimes assigned to the Department of Political Affairs, and sometimes they are assigned to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for annotation. There is no fixed number. Such ambiguities are prone to disputes. Now that Han Qi wants to be expelled, the officials will definitely be dissatisfied and think that the prime minister has violated the law.
Therefore, Su Shi said that Han Qi meant that the truth was public, and this is also what he meant. Don't be afraid of the officials. They will make irresponsible remarks on the stage, and they will all return to the hall to get rid of them.
The political affairs hall maintains an expulsion book, which records the origin, age, tenure, seniority, whether there have been any offenses, and whether the officials who have been expelled are relatives or ministers.
Officials who have been appointed by the Ministry of Personnel are replaced by the hall, which is called hall election. Officials who have been elected by the hall can be directly occupied by the hall. This means that any "good things" in the political affairs hall in the future can be locked for you in advance.
In other words, from now on, your personnel relations will no longer be under the management of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but will be transferred to the management of the Political Affairs Hall, and will be personally handled by the prime minister.
Once you understand this, you will know how awesome this system is.
Those who have been removed from the hall are called 'promoted'.
With the same official position, officials expelled from the hall have higher standards than those appointed by the ministry, and their future prospects will therefore be different. Thinking of this, Zhang Yue's dissatisfaction with Han Qi for showing off in front of him just now faded a bit.
Han Qi was not yet the prime minister of Zhaowen, so he ordered the House of Humanity not to modify the text of the imperial edict, and also removed the officials from the imperial court. The intention of taking power is self-evident.
At this moment, the edict to eliminate the Jingzhong Book Hall has arrived at the Sherenyuan within the Zhichiyuan.
There are six rooms in Sherenyuan, which are made according to the room. Tonight it is Wang Anshi's turn to be the master.
Wang Anshi was reading in the duty room until nightfall, when he suddenly saw a bright light in the courtyard, so he put down his book and walked out of the study, only to see that it was the moonlight shining on the ground.
Wang Anshi looked at the moonlight in the court, and suddenly remembered that he was the general magistrate of Shuzhou and stayed in Geyang at night, and the moonlight was like this.
At that time he wrote a poem.
The moon is missing, the moon is dim and leaking, and a lamp is turned off to illuminate the autumn bed. When the patient is ill, he feels wind and dew most early, and when he returns to his dream, he does not know how long the mountains and rivers are. Sitting there, I feel that the songs of my age are generous, and I look at the desolate look of the sky and the earth. The chirping cicadas are even more confusing to the pedestrians' ears, and they are hugging the sparse tung leaves, which are half yellow.
Thinking of the scene that day, Wang Anshi felt a little ridiculous. Now that the moonlight is so beautiful, it would be a pity not to write a poem.
While Wang Anshi was contemplating his poem, an official suddenly came and said, "I'd like to inform you that the elected official from the left side of the official's office has arrived."
Wang Anshi heard this and asked: "I know, it will be a matter of extermination again."
The matter of court removal was not handled by the prime minister personally because it involved too many things. Usually, the prime minister left the responsibility to Zuoxuan, an official under Zhongshu's sect.
The official room is one of the five rooms under the Zhongshu Gate.
When they arrived at the room of the house, Wang Anshi paid homage to Zuo Xuanguan.
"It's so late, how can Xu Zuoxuan still go to Sherenyuan?"
Zuo Xuanguan smiled and said: "How dare we delay the dispatch of officials and husband for a moment, even in the middle of the night, we have to do it."
After finishing speaking, Zuo Xuanguan presented the preface to Wang Anshi and said: "Please also ask Shiren to draft the words on the spot."
The so-called preface means that Zhongshu handed over to Sherenyuan a document containing the granting orders and basic dictation requirements, which is called preface. As for the detailed content, it was written by Sheren. Finally, it was a complete edict, which was handed over to the emperor. batch.
Wang Anshi took a look at the prefix, and it turned out that Zhang Yue, Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Wang Jie, who were admitted to the imperial examination, were awarded officials respectively by Han Qi's middle school.
Wang Anshi took a look and said, "It's easy to handle."
Zuo Xuanguan smiled and said: "Okay, please hurry up, Wang Sheren, my husband is urging me to ask for it."
Wang Anshi immediately wrote three copies of the lyrics one by one, and then said to Zuo Xuanguan: "Leave it to the Prime Minister."
After checking them one by one, Zuo Xuanguan asked: "Did Wang Sheren write one less letter?"
Wang Anshi said: "There is indeed one less person to write about."
Zuo Xuanguan looked at it and saw that the lyrics written by Wang Anshi contained the names of Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Wang Jie, but Su Che was missing.
"Wang Sheren, what's going on?" Zuo Xuanguan's expression changed slightly. Is Wang Anshi kidding himself?
Wang Anshi said: "Wang has made it very clear that he does not want to compose a word for this son, so I will return the prefix!"
The first four words of the word "Feng Huan"!
It was like a huge hammer hitting Zuo Xuanguan's heart.
It is a shocking event to return the prefix to a foreign-made official title. This was to reject the order and bring the Emperor and Zhongshu into disrepute.
The prefix "Feng Huan" originated from the Tang Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty it originated from today's emperor.
At that time, Fu Bi was in charge of foreign affairs, and he granted the emperor Suiguo's wife the title of Cishou. Later, Hu Su, Cai Xiang, and Liu Chang were in charge of foreign affairs, and they successively restored the title of Ci, which was an improper imperial edict. From then on, the status of Sherenyuan became increasingly important. .
Sherenyuan has the right to return the title, which was constantly fought for by Fu Bi and other predecessors. Now that Wang Anshifeng has returned to the court, he can't be called a slap in the emperor's face, but he actually slapped Han Qi in the face.
Zuo Xuanguan remembered that Wang Anshi had refused to change the text of the imperial edict before, and he immediately became furious and said: "Wang Sheren, are you taking revenge for the past? You were not allowed to change the text of the imperial edict, so you simply changed the prefix of the edict to The seal has been returned, but you still have enough time to study poetry and books, but you act despicably like this."
Wang Anshi said calmly: "Wang has no shame in dealing with others. How could he do such a villainous thing? Su Zhe, the right prime minister in the center, specializes in human masters, which is comparable to Gu Yong and others. Wang is unwilling to do this. Zi made words."
Selector Zuo was stunned when he heard what Wang Anshi said.
The officials of Sherenyuan on the side were also stunned with shock.
Who is Gu Yong?
An admonisher in the Han Dynasty, he attached himself to the general Wang Feng. When Wang Feng was at the height of his power, Gu Yong wrote more than forty stories to attack the emperor and concubines in order to flatter the Wang family.
When Wang Anshi compared Su Che to Gu Yong, he compared Han Qi to Wang Feng.
Wang Feng was Wang Mang's uncle and a powerful official. When this person was in power, any official who disagreed with him would be expelled or killed.
Wang Xuan said: "Wang Sheren, don't dare to say nonsense like 'the right prime minister, specializes in the people's master'."
Wang Anshi said: "Xu Zuoxuan returned the prefix, and Wang went to a meeting to explain to the officials that the words 'right prime minister, specializing in people's leadership' just mentioned will not be modified word by word, and will be written into the words. "
Zuo Xuanguan almost fell to the ground after hearing Wang Anshi's words.
He decided to choose Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Wang Jie to compose the lyrics and planned to go back to the throne first. He walked to the door of the house in a somewhat embarrassed state, looked back at Wang Anshi, and said bitterly: "Stop being an official."
Wang Anshi heard this and said nothing.
When Xu Zuoxuan saw that Wang Anshi was unmoved and looked determined, he couldn't help stamping his feet in anger, and then ran back to Zhongshu to report to Han Qi.
