Huang Qiong still understands Jia Quan's character. He wanted to restore his ancestor, Hou Rongguang of Wei Shouting, and he had always wanted to make a career from the day he followed him. It's just that he didn't expect that the civil service system of the Qi Dynasty would actually exclude people without merit. In the past few years, he has reached the position of Secretary of General Affairs and participated in politics, but he is still suffering from exclusion and suppression. Now that he has chosen someone to go to the Western Regions and go on an expedition with the army, being a third-grade scholar is undoubtedly an opportunity for him to exact revenge.
He doesn't care whether he gets promoted or not. What he hopes is that he can show off his talents there. Of course, I am afraid that he has been holding his breath in his heart, and he also has the idea of competing with those two-ranked Jinshi. I want to make a career in the Western Region and show those two-ranked scholars who are the incompetent rats. Huang Qiong, who understood this, also understood Jia Quan's thoughts. Jia Quan didn't get angry at his final, even angry answer, and just patted him on the shoulder.
In fact, Huang Qiong has always had a headache about Jia Quan's placement. Back then, when this guy sold his body to bury his father, he was wearing the clothes of a civil servant. Huang Qiong thought that this guy was really from Juren. It wasn't until a year later that Huang Qiong realized that the suit he was wearing at that time actually belonged to his deceased father. This guy was so poor at the time that his clothes were so torn that he could no longer mend them. If you don’t want to recruit, you have to go out on the street naked. The body shape and height of his father and son are almost the same, and it is just right to wear his father's clothes to cover themselves.
Although his father has passed away, firstly, there are not so many taboos between father and son, and secondly, if he doesn't find a way to find clothes to wear, let alone sell his body to bury his father, or be thrown into the Jingzhao Mansion Prison by an official as an impediment to his moral integrity. That’s pretty good. If gold is not used as a stall for Wotou, there will be no worries. In addition, in order to find a good home for yourself, the key is to sell yourself a good price. After all, for people who generally understand those twists and turns, being promoted is more valuable in terms of status and status.
After all, you can still get a good price. Therefore, his status as a civil servant is completely illusory. The identity of the judge is his father's. Huang Qiong originally didn't know about this. It was the waste man of Shu at that time who secretly wanted to persecute Huang Qiong. What's more, after the old man granted Jia Quan and Jinshi status, he removed Huang Qiong's only two arms and sent people to Jia Quan's hometown. As a result of the investigation, this guy was not a Juren at all. In fact, the real fame is just that of a child who has not passed the college examination.
As for him, he failed to pass the college examination and obtain the status of scholar. It's not that he has no talent, but that he deliberately gave up after a few college examinations or because he looked too ugly. Or because the test paper was too arrogant, it was not selected. The last time, I passed the college examination. However, when he was answering the question with the examiner, because of his excessive words, he was slapped with a slap in the face, stripped of his scholarly title, and kicked out of the examination room. Since that time, I have never taken any college examination. Therefore, he did not even gain the reputation of a scholar.
After the Shu waste man found out all this, he instigated a confidant in his official department to report the matter to the old man. At that time, the old man considered that although this person was ugly, he did have some talent, and it would be a pity to abandon him. Besides, judging people by their appearance is not the way of a sage in the eyes of the old man. In addition, this person is Huang Qiong's side, the only two people who can be regarded as counselors. The old man suppressed the matter directly. Although they were unable to drive Jia Quan out of the capital, Shu Fei people sent people to secretly publicize the matter.
It turns out that when Jia Quan was just a minor official of the King of England, Jia Quan's background was such that not many people cared about him. When everyone saw him, the most they could do was give him a few blank looks or just ignore him. When Huang Qiong was in power, some officials even fawned over him in order to get promoted. But after Huang Qiong succeeded to the throne, almost everyone in the court began to change their attitude toward Jia Quan. The reason is simple, his background is too low. Even a scholar is not the same. But he was also the emperor's confidant at the time.
As long as such people don't make any big mistakes, the emperor will definitely reuse them after he ascends the throne. But Jia Quan was an alternative. His background was incompatible with the officialdom of the Qi Dynasty. Since the founding of the Qi Dynasty, except for the founding ministers, there has almost never been an official with such a low background in the officialdom of the Qi Dynasty, which attaches great importance to imperial examinations. If such a person were allowed to sit in a high position. This was undoubtedly a big humiliation to those officials in the court who had studied hard for many years before becoming a Jinshi.
Those officials who controlled most of the government affairs in the DPRK, officials with two-ranked Jinshi background, were even more worried. Once an official like Jia Quan takes a high position, he will undoubtedly destroy the entire imperial court and its solidified civil service system. If there is such a beginning, then in the future, officials who are not Jinshis may flood into the center of the imperial court in large numbers, harming the interests of officials who are not Jinshis. If all the children in the world can get into high-ranking positions by climbing on dragons and phoenixes, then who will still study hard?
Why don't everyone try to find a way to become a dragon and a phoenix? Studying hard for ten years in a cold window is no easier than farming, and it may even make you feel more tired. And they also have to bear the pressure of supporting their families, or they are in an embarrassing situation where they have failed repeatedly. Didn’t those two-ranked scholars come through step by step like this? Why can those people achieve great success by relying on the so-called ministers of the dragon? It is human nature for an emperor to take care of his private residence and to be an official. To say that everyone from top to bottom worked together to stop it would be a bit unkind.
But if they are allowed to reach high positions just like this, where will those students who have studied hard for ten or more years be left? Huang Qiong knew how great the resistance would be if he really dared to use Jia Quan. Not to mention those officials who were born in the second rank of Jinshi, even the three prime ministers whom I trusted very much would not agree. In order to reduce the number of clan members, he encouraged clan members to give up their clan membership and pass the examination to become officials. All aroused unanimous opposition from the top and bottom of the DPRK, including Fu Yuanshan, who firmly opposed it.
I spent a lot of time and effort to gain the support of Fu Yuanshan and the other three. He also promised that if the clan really came to serve as an official, the treatment would never be better than that of officials with Enmeng background, so he reluctantly calmed down. When he first wanted to select a clan official, he encountered unanimous opposition from the civil servants in the court, including the three prime ministers who had always cooperated with him. Jia Quan, a man who was almost born in Baiding, is now a fourth-rank official, even an official in name only in their eyes.
None of them would accept it. It is the three of Fu Yuanshan. If Jia Quan had not gone to the General Affairs Department, but to the Sixth Ministry to be a fifth-rank Yuanwailang, or to be a low-level official in Yushitai or Dali Temple. Or they would not accept it if he was sent out to serve as a magistrate. As for the Hanlin Academy, don’t even think about it. This is the lifeblood of all Jinshi and officials in the court. Even a broad-minded person like Fu Yuanshan will never allow a person who is not a Jinshi to occupy a high position of real power in their eyes.
Not to mention, those who are arrogant and look down on officials who came from miscellaneous classes just because they were Jinshi? Therefore, the Manchu civil servants secretly rejected Jia Quan almost unanimously. Not to mention officials with Jinshi and other grades, those officials who were elected by the general election all looked down upon and ostracized Jia Quan. Even Su Jin, who was also an old man in the Royal Palace, went around to persuade Huang Qiong more than once that it would be more appropriate to give Jia Quan wealth and honor instead of giving him an official position. Jia Quan's background is really too low.
A fortune can be regarded as worthy of his hard work in the British Prince's Palace. When Su Jin and Jia Quan were both in Prince Ying's palace, they got along quite well. In the eyes of others, Jia Quan, an official with a childlike background, might be humiliating her and others by being in the same palace as them. Compared with the military attaché's sword, the civilian officer's mouth and pen are even more deadly. The reasons of the civil servants were consistent with those of the superiors and subordinates. Even Huang Qiong, who had always been meritocratic and did not attach much importance to fame, had to make concessions.
Huang Qiong also has some headaches about Jia Quan's background. Sometimes, I blame this guy for cheating and getting himself into trouble. But if he is really asked to give up his power, it will be absolutely impossible for him to do it for public or private reasons. Jia Quan is not only talented, but also talented. Now that Jia Quan has taken the initiative to go to the Western Regions, he is actually trying to solve a big dilemma for Huang Qiong. As long as Jia Quan is in the Western Regions, even if he only makes a small achievement, and Huang Qiong is transferring people back to Beijing for promotion, the resistance will not be as great as it is now.
Jia Quan, who had not spoken since he expressed his feelings, looked at Huang Qiong's face that changed slightly after hearing what he said. He opened his mouth again, but in the end nothing came out. Huang Qiong looked at Jia Quan, whose face was calm even though his words were a bit angry, and there was no anger in his tone. In the end, he just sighed softly and said nothing more. Until Jia Quan left, Huang Qiong looked at his now slightly hunched back, but did not move.
In fact, the reason why Huang Qiong asked Wang Xuemei's brother to go to the Western Regions to be this fellow. It wasn't because of his affair with Wang Xuemei's sister-in-law Zhao Xiu. Send that man to the Western Regions so that he can monopolize that woman with a plump figure and charm to the core. But to stabilize the morale of the army, it is very important whether food and pay can be provided in time. That man is indeed a bit rigid, but they need someone who is rigid and dogmatic. People with too flexible minds are not suitable for this job of supervising and supervising people.
But now Jia Quan has asked for this position. Although Huang Qiong doesn't want Jia Quan to go, he can't help but think that Jia Quan is right. The situation in the Western Region is complex, and it is not appropriate to supervise food and salary alone. It’s more about dealing with more complex situations. He even assumes the responsibility of supervising the army when necessary. This position is more suitable for someone like him. It only took persuasion to convince him, but Huang Qiong still felt a little resistant when he thought of the ominous premonition that flashed through his heart after nodding.
Huang Qiong stood at the entrance of the Ideological and Political Hall for a long time, watching Jia Quan's back disappear. Even though Jia Quan's back had completely disappeared, he didn't turn around immediately. The eunuchs and maids around him didn't know what the emperor was thinking at this time, and they didn't dare to make any noise to disturb the young emperor.
This emperor was different from the late Emperor. Although he was not usually harsh, he was extremely harsh in controlling his eunuchs. Especially the eunuchs around him, the rewards are extremely generous. But it is not only required to be strict in speech, but also to be discerning. If someone violates his taboo, not only will he be unlucky, but he may also be buried with his whole family. Therefore, no eunuch dared to disturb Huang Qiong's meditation.
