At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Page 1404

These people can still live to the present, and they probably dare not continue to oppose Guo Peng.

Already scared out of my wits.

Therefore, Sima Yi was always a little worried, worried that Guo Peng would do something to the Sima family because of this unresolved contradiction.

If he was going to do something, the Sima family couldn't survive.

But fortunately, until he abdicated, the Sima family was alive and well, and two high-ranking officials with two thousand shi were born.

Three years ago, Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang, passed away, and Cao Cao went to offer his condolences in person, reminiscing about the past.

As a result, the Sima clan had gained a firm foothold in the Wei Empire, and was not swept into the dustbin of history along with the Han Empire.

Was Guo Peng not aware of this problem, or was he aware of it, but did not attack Sima for some reason?

Like admiring him or something...

Sima Yi didn't know.

But he knew that he had to smooth things over for Guo Peng's behavior.

This is what he must do as a vested interest.

He thought about it for a while, and decided to find another way, instead of explaining this matter from the logic of the matter itself.

"At that time, although Xun Yu and others were killed, the power of the wealthy Yingchuan family was still there. My elder brother was not buried for the rebellion of Xun Yu and others. I was dissatisfied, so I secretly attacked my brother, causing my brother to go home and lose his job."

Sima Yi skillfully dumped the blame on a group of dead people.

A dead man never speaks or reacts to dirty water being thrown at him.

Ren Yong immediately understood Sima Lang's "situation" at that time and expressed deep sympathy for him.

"So it turns out that those people are so arrogant... Also, before the imperial examinations were held, these scholars indeed occupied all the senior official positions, and there was no place for us people from humble backgrounds.

People from humble backgrounds, not to mention being an official, are unable to read and write, and spend their entire lives digging and eating in the fields, with no day in the sky, how miserable!Now that I think about it, I feel desolate in my heart!

Moreover, not to mention the past, even now, the imperial examination has been carried out for several years now, and thousands of officials have been selected. Aren't all the senior officials still relying on the examination?It can be seen that their power is so deep, if it wasn't for the Supreme Emperor Xiong to roughly wipe out these remaining evils, I don't know what it is like now. "

Ren Yong was full of sighs.

Sima Yi felt a little embarrassed.

He was also from the imperial examination, and he did not take the road of imperial examination. He was also an old official from the imperial examination, and he did not get the ticket for the new era.

Thinking of this, he thought of his friend Zhuge Liang.

This guy was really lucky. At that time, he took part in a talent-discussion ceremony, which was obviously not the same thing as the imperial examination, but in the end he was inexplicably identified as the same attribute as the imperial examination.

So Zhuge Liang's status as the No. [-] scholar was recognized, becoming the first No. [-] scholar from the imperial examination in history, and he was very popular at that time.

Where is this going to make sense?

As a result, Zhuge Liang, who became an official earlier than him, became the leader of the imperial examination officials. He was automatically marked as a pioneer of the imperial examination. ?

Today, when the imperial examination system is prosperous, officials who are not born in the imperial examination are called old officials by officials who are not born in the imperial examination, which means eliminated people who do not meet the historical needs.

And they themselves are new officials with unlimited futures and possibilities.

Indeed, this is also an objective reality. The examination and examination has been terminated, and the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law and the expropriation system have become history. Now there are still some officials under the examination and examination system, but the future must belong to the imperial examination officials. .

They say that the replacement of the old with the new is indeed a reality.

Even if there are no political incidents, decades later, after the death of the last prosecutor, there will be no more prosecutors.

But this kind of reality often makes officials who are not from the imperial examination very unhappy, feeling that they are artificially contemptuous.

Moreover, this group of officials who were not born in the imperial examinations were not only those with vested interests in the procuratorate period, but also those small-level rural officials and county officials who were suppressed and breathless during the procuratorial period.

They were all born in Li Shu, so the difference was not up to them, and they were not those with vested interests in the imperial examinations, but more like a group of excessive products.

It does not belong to the investigation group or the imperial examination group.

The procuratorial examination group despises them from their humble backgrounds, and the imperial examination group despises them for not receiving formal school education, ignorance and lack of knowledge.

But this group of people was the mainstay of the central government of the Wei Empire at the time, and was transferred to Luoyang by Guo Peng during the Luoyang Rebellion to replace the more than [-] officials of Li and Shu.

They have grown up to the present, and they are basically the mainstay in the central government of the Wei Empire, and they often serve as clerks in the local government.

As a result, he was disgusted by both the prosecutorial bureaucrats who were old and the imperial bureaucrats who were newcomers.

This difference in identity recognition within the official group has actually brought about factional struggles in the central government.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that although the bureaucrats have a high status and hold great power, their time is numbered.

As the representative of the old era, the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng has abdicated, which symbolizes that the old era is about to pass. The new emperor Guo Jin received a school education, which is also a symbol of the new era in the eyes of the imperial examination bureaucrats.

Therefore, these people have high status and great power, but have no successors, and it will eventually become a piece of history.

As a product of transition and compromise, Li Shu officials in the Chaju era actually have no successors.

Chapter 1555 One thousand four hundred and seventy five and Kong Ming, if you drink alcohol, you will not feel drunk

In the future, no matter whether they are descendants of scholars, powerful descendants or descendants of Li Shu, they will all be in the big group of imperial examinations.

This kind of differential cognition of official status will gradually disappear with the passage of time, and the last thing left is the bureaucratic group of the imperial examination.

It is precisely because of this recognition that Sima Yi and Sima Fu's descendants did not continue to follow the path of the imperial examination, but instead enrolled one after another, taking the path of the imperial examination, trying to become a member of the new era.

But I don’t know if it’s because the education he received couldn’t keep up with the times, or because he was just unlucky. When the content of the imperial examinations in the early years was biased towards scholars, Sima Fang felt that all this was still open to discussion, so he asked them to wait and see, and did not take the imperial examinations.

Later, the content of the imperial examinations was more and more biased towards mathematics and other subjects that were not valued in the past, and the proportion of the Five Classics and Fourteen Schools of Law that had been studied by everyone was shrinking day by day, and the advantages of the children of the gentry were getting smaller and smaller.

Sima Shi saw that he couldn't do it, so he immediately asked his children to take the imperial examination, but in the first exam, Sima Yi's younger brothers all failed.

Originally, it was planned to test the waters, and if it didn’t work, we would fight again next year. As a result, when [next year] came, Sima Fang passed away, and the brothers had to keep their filial piety, so it was inconvenient for them to take the imperial examination.

I don't know if the heavens are against the Sima family. Apart from Sima Fu being successfully operated as the governor of the two thousand stones, the Sima family has never made any political breakthroughs.

Sima Yi himself had no political breakthrough.

So his anxiety is multi-level, whether it is age, political trends, or the competitive relationship between him and Zhuge Liang.

He didn't know if Zhuge Liang regarded him as a political competitor, but he did regard Zhuge Liang as a political competitor.

At this time, Sima Yi didn't know what Zhuge Liang was doing.

Under the general background of economic depression, the commercial development of Beiting Protectorate's Mansion is so good, there should be a big crisis lurking in itself.

He used the police force to settle the matter, and the next road will be easy, so what will Zhuge Liang do?

Will he also use the police force, the ultimate violent means of dealing with problems?

Afterwards, he actively inquired about how the Beiting Duhu Mansion did this, and it didn't take much effort to learn about Zhuge Liang's approach.

Zhuge Liang did not use the police force, did not use coercive force to deal with disobedient people, of course, there were indeed disobedient people in Beiting Dufu Mansion, but Zhuge Liang did not force them to close the shop.

Zhuge Liang's approach was to hold a joint business meeting, first held in its dry city, and called together all the owners of shops in its dry city that met the imperial court's closing standards, and held a meeting.

Zhuge Liang is different from Sima Yi.

Sima Yi is more concerned about the majesty of being an official. He believes that being farther away from the people is easier to bring majesty and mystery, so that people don't know him, don't know him, and have natural fear of him, then he will do things easily. Some, because people are afraid of him.

He seldom shows up in public, and his lifestyle is reclusive, so ordinary people don't know him, and don't know his emotions, so that when he shows up with the police force, everyone is willing to believe that he can really do those things.

This feeling is like the Spring and Autumn Period, before the Zichan Zhuxing Shu was announced to the whole society. Whether the people made mistakes depends entirely on the wishes and preferences of the slave owners and nobles.

On the surface, the slave-owner aristocrats followed the principle of Zhou etiquette and raised Zhou etiquette very high, but in fact they did not want to let the people know the legal provisions so that they could profit from it and interpret the law arbitrarily.

The common people will be questioned if they don't know what to do, and they will be in panic all day long, and their hands and feet will be tied up, which facilitates the rule of slave owners and nobles.

Zichan, aristocrat of Zheng State, believed that such a situation would only exacerbate the exploitation of common people by slave-owner nobles, intensify social conflicts and conflicts, and eventually detonate social conflicts.

So he decided to carry out self-reform, cast the legal provisions on the golden tripod that symbolizes power, and announce it to the whole society.

Those who can read will naturally understand it, and those who cannot read can ask someone who can read, and if they pass it on to ten or ten to a hundred, everyone will know.

Since then, people finally know what to do and how to protect themselves.

Although many dignitaries can still be above the law, their days of arbitrarily interpreting the law and acting recklessly are over, and their interests have been damaged to a certain extent.

Sima Yi learned wisdom from it, and felt that although Zichan was great, the wisdom of predecessors was also very meaningful.

As long as the ruler does not show his face and let the people understand and know, the people will naturally fear the ruler. Then when the ruler makes an order, the people will not know the bottom line of the ruler, so naturally they dare not not follow it.

It was done.

And this can also prevent low-level officials from figuring out his preferences to a considerable extent, so as to prescribe the right medicine and bribe him.

Sima Yi is a clean and honest official, he doesn't take bribes, he doesn't ask for entrustment, he doesn't have contact with officials except for official business, and he doesn't have any friends. The officials around him don't know what he likes. Foggy.

Sima Yi used this method to control his status and power.

Zhuge Liang is different. Zhuge Liang is very happy to show his face, and he likes to directly contact and chat with ordinary people, and talk about everything.

Common people ask him questions, as long as he knows, he will answer them personally, explain them patiently, and help them understand, such as legal provisions.

Zhuge Liang also went around in plainclothes, walking around in the eight counties under his jurisdiction, and he didn't know when he would appear where and talk to whom.

And he has a wide range of interests and hobbies, and he is also a versatile person.

He often came to burn incense and play the piano when he was in the mood, and the melodious sound of the piano spread throughout the Duhufu. Everyone who heard Zhuge Liang's piano sound, no matter how busy they were, would stop temporarily to enjoy a piece of wonderful music.

Or write articles by yourself and send them to good friends, and then ask good friends to write articles and send them back, and appreciate each other across the mountains and rivers. I am an official here, and I don’t forget my literary hobbies.

Or use your generous salary to buy some mutton, pork, and horse meat, go out of the city to find a place with beautiful scenery, and have a barbecue with your wife on the spot, and have a comfortable meal of meat.

He handles government affairs very quickly, so even if he has a wide range of interests, his daily work will not be delayed. Although he can't go back to Luoyang and his hometown, he will never stay in the government office foolishly to work overtime and stay up late on [-] on statutory holidays.

As he got older, he gradually learned to enjoy life instead of simply working overtime and overtime.

He feels that although the responsibility is heavy and the work is hard, as long as he has some work skills, there is no need to work at his desk all day long, right?

Of course, this is mainly because Zhuge Liang is really smart and a genius in dealing with government affairs. No matter how complicated the documents are, he can always quickly find the key points and give instructions.

So the problem is always solved quickly.

Ever since, Zhuge Liang feels like a spring breeze.

No matter who it is, Zhuge Liang will greet him with a smile, and whenever he sees him, he won't feel any sense of urgency.

As long as he works beside him, no matter who he is, it is difficult to get anxious.

Relying on such a work style and attitude, coupled with outstanding political achievements, the Beiting Duhu Mansion is convinced of Zhuge Liang. Even the heads of the local branches of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Punishment have a good relationship with Zhuge Liang. Much praise.

Although I don't know if there is a reason why his elder brother is an official in the central government, or whether his elder brother has a close relationship with Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

But it is an indisputable fact that officials are happy to associate with Zhuge Liang.

They often discuss in private, even if Zhuge Liang's political attributes are put aside, and Zhuge Liang is simply evaluated from the perspective of a friend, it is still first-class.

[With Kong Ming, if you drink alcoholic mash, you will not feel drunk]

Qian Yi, a doctor in the finance department of Beiting Duhufu, who is about the same age as Zhuge Liang, commented on Zhuge Liang in this way.

This part of his evaluation has also been unanimously endorsed by officials of all sizes.

Therefore, the entire Beiting Protectorate Mansion has a lot of trust in Zhuge Liang's ability and character.

And this kind of trust is accumulated by Zhuge Liang's high-level performance day after day and year after year.

Usually, it may not be obvious that it has any great effect, but once a major event occurs, it will immediately show an extremely important effect.

Chapter 1556 Zhuge Liang who shakes the fan

Zhuge Liang's accumulated fame may not seem to have any effect, but when things happen, everything becomes different.

The crisis of economic depression hit, after Qian Yi got the official documents from the central government, he took a quick look and frowned.

He sorted out the list of some of the shops that had to be closed according to the central government's order. Seeing that the number was so large, he suddenly felt dizzy.

Doing so will make the small households who run shops hate them to death.

The so-called public anger is hard to offend, even if they are officials, they dare not offend public anger rashly, otherwise they will definitely end badly under public anger.

The central government is relaxed, let them do things, and then dismiss them. After the work is done, there is an explanation to the people.