It's useless for others to say this, but when Liu Bei said it, it was really useful and powerful.
The people of the Ancient Literature School had just witnessed the end of the Modern Literature School with their own eyes, and saw the tragic end of the Modern Literature School being liquidated as a whole. Once Liu Bei mentioned that "the same thing happened to him", fear would inevitably arise. produced.
Facing Liu Bei's strength and real deterrence, they had no better way.
In the public opinion environment and political environment dominated by Liu Bei, everything the Modern Literature School did was wrong. The Modern Literature School was a complete failure in the past. If the Ancient Literature School wanted to imitate the Modern Literature School, it would be digging its own grave.
Using the tragic end of the modern literature school to give eye drops to those impure-minded guys in the ancient literature school is very useful in the current public opinion environment.
Therefore, after a fierce debate meeting, with the support of Lu Zhi, the ancient literature school passed Liu Bei's resolution with a relatively small advantage.
Opening up part of the ruling knowledge to grassroots students of the Ancient Literature School who can enter Taixue does not involve the ruling knowledge and political knowledge of real senior officials, but it can at least involve some at the county magistrate level and popularize some political common sense to them.
In other words, under the leadership of Liu Bei, the senior officials of the Ancient Literature School were essentially forced to carry out a limited "academic downward movement."
This is Liu Bei's route victory.
After establishing the reform of Taixue, Liu Bei began to make small moves again. He wanted to take advantage of this good opportunity to make slight improvements to the country's personnel system.
The personnel selection system of the Han Empire is actually very interesting.
Its personnel power is not held by one fixed department, but by many departments and even individuals, so that the personnel power is ridiculously dispersed.
Not to mention the governors of each county, the governors of the states, and the subordinate officials of the state shepherds. At the central level, in addition to the selection department of the Shangshutai, which has certain personnel power, there are also the General's Office and the Sangong's Office that have personnel power.
The general can recruit subordinate officials and recommend officials directly to the emperor. The three princes can also recruit subordinate officials and recommend officials directly to the emperor.
In the personnel structure of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shangshu Taixuan Department, which was backed by the emperor, competed with the four public offices, and the central and local governments also highlighted a separate branch.
Since personnel power cannot be unified, it is difficult to say how powerful the imperial power is. It is really uncertain how much deterrence an emperor without comprehensive personnel power can have on the empire.
Therefore, the current political structure of the Eastern Han Empire is taken for granted.
Liu Xiu's reforms took away the superficial political power of the three gongs, thus forming a centralized administrative power in the Shangshutai, but they did not take away the personnel power of the three gongs, so that the further it developed, the more the three gongs were able to reverse the situation through personnel power. influence the political landscape.
Therefore, in the political field, the relationship between the Shangshutai Selected Department and the Three Dukes is quite subtle.
But now, a sudden rise of general Liu Bei has appeared. Relying on his military merit, prestige and special status as a clan member of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei's power has obviously surpassed that of Shangshutai and Sangong, and he has become the well-deserved most powerful person.
As the person with the most authority, Liu Bei's suggestion for improvement was to connect the Taixue graduates with the Shangshutai Selection Department. What the Taixue graduates faced after graduation was the Shangshutai Selection Department. The main assessment was conducted by the Shangshutai Selection Department. Conducted under the auspices of the Ministry.
Then, the Selection Department of Shangshutai will make government arrangements for the students based on their qualifications, and assign them to various grassroots positions for training.
It turns out that the futures of Taixue graduates are diverse. You can take any path you want, as long as you can get through it. It doesn't matter whether it's a government or county government.
Now, Liu Bei hopes to embark on a standardized path, connecting the path of Taixue graduates with the selection department of Shangshutai, and then adjusting the assessment method for selecting graduates from the original symbolic transition to a A real and real assessment.
The graduates' place and job after graduation will be decided by the Shangshutai Selection Department. Of course, it is limited to grassroots positions in some areas, mainly official positions. Only the top ten in the graduation examination can be assigned to official positions.
In the central government, Liu Bei suggested that positions below 600 shi, not involving the Sangong Mansion and the General's Mansion, should be arranged by the selection department, and positions above 600 shi should be negotiated by everyone.
Regarding Liu Bei's suggestion, at the Jiade Hall meeting, many people looked at Liu Bei's teacher Lu Zhi inexplicably, because Lu Zhi was the only three-gong-level official still in office at that time, and the Shangshutai Selection Department and the three-gonggongfu In a sense hostile.
Liu Bei put forward this suggestion to strengthen the power of selecting troops. It seemed that it was not friendly to the three princes, and it was not even a good thing for his own general's office. Why is this?
Lu Zhi raised some questions at that time.
Although he had communicated with Liu Bei before and knew Liu Bei's true purpose, he knew that someone cared and needed him to be a compliment.
Therefore, Liu Bei said that he believed that talent selection needs to be standardized, institutionalized, rigorous and cautious.
"There has been a folk song circulated in Luoyang for many years, which is to commend a scholar, who knows no books, to be filial and honest, whose father lives away from home, who is poor and white and turbid as mud, and Gao Di's good generals are as timid as chickens. This is something that every child in Luoyang knows. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty But as if it never happened, year after year passed like that.
What happened in the end, you all have seen, the Liangzhou Rebellion, the Hedong Rebellion, the Luoyang Rebellion, the Yuzhou Rebellion, the Jizhou Rebellion, the Youzhou Rebellion, the great chaos one after another, one after another, endless. Stop, is this what we want to see?
What is the reason for all this? The ballad has made it very clear. Really useful talents cannot be selected, and incompetent mediocre people occupy high positions. Under the dominance of Jinwen School, real talents have no chance to become officials. But their children are in high positions one by one, dragging the big man into the abyss.
This situation is not what I want to see. Therefore, while carrying out reforms in running schools, the selection of talents must also be corrected. The mistakes of the Jinwen School must be corrected. The first step is to start from the present, from Taixue Let’s start from the chancellery.
The Selection Department is responsible for this area. It has a fixed staffing and is easy to adjust and handle. Moreover, Zhang Changshi is definitely willing to cooperate with the court in handling this matter. Am I right, Zhang Changshi? "
At that time, Liu Bei just looked at Zhang Rang. Zhang Rang, who served as Shangshu Ling, blinked and nodded. "If it is the need of the imperial court, Shangshutai will naturally respond."
Liu Bei then looked at Lu Zhi.
"Lieutenant Lu, you can rest assured, right?"
Lu Zhi looked at Zhang Rang and said nothing, just nodded slightly.
"It would be great if the Chancellor is willing to cooperate. The selection of national talents is indeed a top priority. This can be discussed more later."
With Lu Zhi's nod, the matter was settled without any complications. Regarding this matter, Zhang Rang's attitude is relatively ambiguous.
He felt that Liu Bei had an idea about the selection of troops in his hands, and he specifically talked to Liu Bei about this.
"I won't hide it from you. At the moment, I have no plans to reach out to the selection department, but in the next stage, I plan to concentrate all the power of employing people in the entire court, whether it is the general, the three princes, or any other government. I will find ways to consolidate the power of the general in employing people, and the selection department is certainly one of them."
Zhang Rang was surprised by this.
"This is an unprecedented thing. Since the establishment of the Selected Ministry, it has indeed had the idea of sharing this part of the power. However, the existence of the Four Dukes of the General and the Three Dukes is deeply rooted. Even Emperor Guangwu cannot shake it, let alone now. ?”
"Don't talk about Luoyang. I even want to take back the power of local employment, so as not to use counties as the country every day. People who don't know think that the Han Dynasty is more than a hundred small countries rolled together. "
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Of course, I also know that this matter is a bit difficult and it is not easy to accomplish, so I will not act rashly. Isn't this a step by step approach? Everything must be tried step by step."
"I feel something is wrong about you."
Zhang Rang thought for a while and asked tentatively: "Having said that, if I don't want to hand over the selection department to you, what will you do? Will you do anything to me?"
"I promised you that I would make you rich and prosperous until your death, that's for sure."
Liu Bei smiled and patted Zhang Rang on the shoulder: "But it's just to make you rich and wealthy forever, you know." Zhang Rang looked at Liu Bei's smiling face and trembled for no reason.
"Understood." "That's good."
Liu Bei's smile remained the same as before.
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