"Have you gained anything from the conversation I just had with your elder brother?" Shao Xun looked at his second son, Badger Lang, in the secluded mountain path and asked.

"An official must understand the sentiments of the people." Badger Lang replied honestly.

"These are my exact words, do you have your own ideas?"

Badger Lang held it in for a long time and said, "You can't be deceived by cunning and cunning officials."

"So how can we not be deceived by them?"

"If everything is clear to the mind, the petty officials will not dare to act arrogantly. If you use kindness and power at the same time, you will be safe for many years."

"Is this the insight you gained from the battle?"

"Yes." Badger Lang said, "My father is both kind and powerful in Pingcheng, and he is very familiar with the people's sentiments and military affairs, so no one dares to deceive him."

Shao Xun stopped, looked at the lush pine forest in the distance, and said: "People are like trees, and they have to experience some wind and frost before they can have their own insights. Does Zuo Guocheng know?"

"Know."

"It's a bit dilapidated there. It will be repaired next year. You can go there." Shao Xun said: "I wanted to get horses to plow this year, but I haven't been able to do so. Now hundreds of plow horses have been transported to Zuoguocheng. I will go there again."

I will allocate you some households, farm tools, and seeds, and you can start this work for me next year."

"yes."

"You will be sixteen after the Chinese New Year. You must not still think about having fun." Shao Xun said.

"yes."

Shao Xun walked a little further and couldn't help but ask: "Except for what I entrusted to you, you have no strategy of your own?"

Badger Lang was stunned.

"Do you know where Lishi is?"

"The place where Liu Yuanhai started."

"It's good that you know." Shao Xun said: "There are more Xiongnu and Shanhu people in that place than Jin people. If you can make a difference, your father will think more highly of you."

Badger Lang suddenly understood and said: "I know what to do."

Seeing him like that, Shao Xun smiled and said, "Okay, I won't ask you either. We'll see when the time comes. Let's go down the mountain. Your mother-in-law is waiting impatiently."

Sure enough, Lu Xun was walking around at the foot of the mountain.

When he saw the father and son coming down, he actually looked at Shao Xun with an angry look, as if he was blaming him for frightening his son.

"A loving mother often loses her son!" Shao Xun shook his head helplessly.

I think back then, he was still a good young man in his early twenties, but he ended up making his aunt, who was in her forties, pregnant.

My aunt has only had one child in her life, and now she has gray hair on her temples. She still loves her as much as she did when she was a child. It's really speechless.

However, Badger Lang didn't look so squeamish, which reassured him a lot. But he couldn't help but wonder, wouldn't it be better if he had undergone enough training?

After walking dozens of steps forward, I met Lu Chen, the secretary supervisor.

Lu Chen withdrew his eyes from the mother and son on the mountain road and reported: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister has criticized the military system of the government and said that it needs to be changed. Here are the details -"

After that, he handed over a manuscript.

Shao Xun took it and looked at it, then asked casually: "They still want to change the election of officials?"

"Exactly." Lu Chen replied: "No one can be transferred to an official position as a decorated official, nor can a decorated official enter an official position."

In theory, a decorated officer can be transferred to an official post after being inspected by the Ministry of Personnel - usually a demotion appointment.

The same goes for Men Yin entering an official position.

Now they just want to block these two avenues and preserve the base of officialdom.

If a decorated officer wants to become an official, he can only perform meritorious service and enter the official position through the methods of "conquest", "worship", "removal" and "conferment".

"Is this their biggest concession?" Shao Xun quickly finished reading and asked.

"That should be the case." Lu Chen said: "Wang Taiwei also said that there are nine-level and eighteen-level officers. It is better to have eighteen levels of honorary officers instead of twelve. That is, there are eighteen levels of honors, not ten.

Second turn."

In the current system of honorary officers, the highest rank is Shangzhuguo, the second rank, and the lowest rank is Wuqiwei.

The twelve levels include Che Duwei, Mount Qi Duwei, Qi Duwei, Xiao Qi Wei, Fei Qi Wei, Yun Qi Wei and Wu Qi Wei.

What Wang Yan means is that the honorary official system and the official official system are in line, from the first grade to the ninth grade, which is exactly the eighteenth grade, corresponding one to one, one conversion of merit changes to the ninth grade, and eighteen conversion of merit changes to the first grade.

The principle makes sense, but the underlying idea is also obvious.

"You can tell me something for me. I can agree to the eighteenth rank of the Honored Officer. However, the Honored Officer must be able to participate in the inspection of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The same applies to the children of the Honored Officer who enter the Imperial Academy." Shao Xun replied: "As for the ones that have been sent out before,

The old system will still apply, and the official seal of the Flying Cavalry Lieutenant will not be taken back."

"Yes." Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, this condition is not difficult to agree to. It is necessary to have scholars and honorable officers to participate in the inspection, and the birth, good looks, appearance, knowledge, and character are the hard conditions.

Ninety-nine percent of the honorary officers have poor backgrounds and are illiterate, let alone bad calligraphy. This alone blocks the vast majority of people from the door.

Even if there are people who are literate, most of them only have a rough grasp of writing and writing, and they are not good at writing official documents. Their writing skills are probably very ugly, which will eliminate a large number of people.

Those who can actually pass the inspection are probably not military officers who come from noble families. In the final analysis, it is still prepared for them.

Of course, this is now, and it will be difficult to say in the future.

When the second generation of the honorary officer family grew up in large numbers, many of them must have received education, which actually expanded the scope of the Liang King's selection in disguise.

Perhaps this is one of his purposes.

When King Liang did things, he really followed one step after another.

From the perspective of talent, the fact is that the Xunguan Group grabbed land from the Scholar Group, and then had the capital to educate their own children. God knows how many more people will be educated, literate and capable of martial arts.

At that time, if there are still people who choose officials based on their family background, I am afraid that they will cause public outrage. If you don't know, you have to come up with another method, such as setting up a test?

But then again, this is a long-term process.

In the short term, the gentry don't have to worry too much, they still have at least a few decades to live a good life. As for what will happen in a few decades, the gentry who have a long-term vision have seen it and dare not care about it.

People always have a sense of luck, and there are still a few decades left. Who knows what will happen at that time? Do I have the right to oppose King Liang now because of this kind of thing? Even if I jump out to oppose it, what if others don't support me? Then what should I do?

Isn’t my family ruined?

This is the dilemma faced by scholars.

In fact, Lu Chen had already seen that the award of an officer was irreversible. With the support of King Liang, in another twenty years, it would become a huge force that even the scholars could not easily overthrow until the system collapsed.

, the government soldiers died out, but what would be the situation of the scholars at that time?

The drastic changes in the world always make it difficult for people to see the full picture.

****

After Shao Xun left, Lu Chen fell a few steps behind.

Lu Xun understood and walked over with Badger Lang.

"Uncle." Badger Lang bowed first.

"Badger man, there is no need to be like this." Lu Chen put on a smile, helped his nephew up, looked at him carefully, and said with a smile: "A handsome boy as gentle as jade, but I don't know which daughter has such a blessing."

When this matter was mentioned, Lu Xun nodded repeatedly and said, "Ziliang, are there any good people in Hebei?"

Lu Chen shook his head and said: "Hebei is inappropriate."

After speaking, Lu Chen pondered for a while and said: "I also have a close friend in Henan. I will look around and find a good family for Badger Lang. Then you can use your strength to get King Liang to agree."

It is customary at this time that the mother's opinion is of vital importance in the marriage of children. Lu Chen's words are not without purpose.

"Then please forgive me." Lu Xun felt a little relieved, and then said: "There is no need to find someone with a high family status. I am worried that the king will have doubts..."

Lu Chen was speechless.

How can we take such an important matter as marrying a wife casually? Without help, what is the point of marrying a wife?

"I'm just a kid like Badger Lang..." Lu Xun said again. As he spoke, he didn't know what he thought of, and his eye circles turned red.

Lu Chen sighed heavily.

Since the death of his father, the morale of the Hebei gentry has been low and dispirited. They cannot think of a solution?

Seeing the frequent activities of the Cui family in Qinghe, there are signs of challenging the status of the Lu family in Fanyang, don't we need to think of a way?

"What did the king just say?" Lu Chen suppressed his anxiety and asked.

"Badger Lang is going to Zuoguocheng next year..." Lu Xun briefly described.

"This is a big deal!" Lu Chen said, "Don't worry, I will find a solution for whatever Badger Lang needs. Just do it well."

Lu Xun sighed, obviously not very happy.

Lu Chen ignored him.

Is it possible that people who have experienced the melee between kings are afraid?

"How is Hebei lately?" Lu Xun asked.
To be continued...