In addition, the time point of two years is also very suitable.
Although the Song Dynasty stipulated a three-year examination time limit, the terms of many officials would not be completed.
After watching the government for two years, it is also very consistent with the current situation.
However, Liu E didn't know that Li Jie was not very satisfied with the current tenure system.
One term of two to three years and one transfer?
This is obviously inappropriate.
Considering the current administrative efficiency, it is more appropriate to refer to the five-year term in later generations.
After all, officials have just taken office and it always takes time to familiarize themselves with local people's conditions, right?
If you are a county-level official, you can probably get a feel for it in two or three months, but if you are a state-level official, you may not be able to understand the local situation in less than a year and a half.
As a result, the time left for people-friendly officials will be even shorter.
Under this system, the policies set by the previous people-friendly official have just begun to be implemented, and before the effects are seen, the people-friendly official himself will be transferred.
Immediately afterwards, the next pro-people official arrives. If he encounters someone with similar political views, this system may still be preserved.
But this is not the case often.
Over time, the motivation of pro-people officials to implement restructuring was greatly reduced.
Compared with these thankless tasks, most people-friendly officials will turn their attention to other things, such as dredging rivers and persuading farmers.
Or simply do nothing.
However, changing the term of office must be done slowly.
Because as an official, the most important thing is promotion.
The shift from one transfer every three years to one every five years has undoubtedly slowed down the promotion of officials.
Move one hair and move the whole body!
Changing the term to five years will require a series of supporting mechanisms.
For example, the qualifications for certain assignments must be changed accordingly. For example, for example, the mandatory qualifications for deputy envoys of the Third Division. Officials must not only meet the standards for their own positions, but also must serve as three-way transit envoys.
Before the reform, it only took about six years to serve as a three-way transport envoy.
What about after the restructuring?
Fifteen years.
In ancient times when average life expectancy was low, fifteen years might be half a lifetime.
And this is just the time spent as a three-way transporter. How long does it take to be promoted to a transporter?
If the transfer standards are not changed, even if one is promoted to the central government, how much time will be left for officials?
By that time, all the people in the court will be elderly people.
"Sixth Brother, do you plan to implement Guanzheng from next year?"
It's no wonder Liu E thinks so, because next year happens to be the year of the imperial examination, and the dynasty will give birth to a new batch of new scholars.
"Um."
Li Jie does have the intention to implement it directly, but now, there is still some time before the provincial examination.
As the New Year is approaching, scholars from all over the country who come to take the exams are arriving in Beijing one after another. With this common trend, the scholars can prepare in advance.
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Two days later.
The ministers of the two governments successively received hand-written edicts from the Forbidden City, although the hand-written edicts were nominally to seek their opinions.
But no one knows the temperament of officials.
consult?
No!
This is a notification!
Although the ministers of the two governments have some complaints about the government-watching system issued, these complaints are not directed at the system itself.
Rather, it is aimed at the practices of officials.
Once again, the officials bypassed the court discussion and directly issued a decree.
Putting aside the practices of officials, their acceptance of the government-monitoring system is still very high.
After all, the vast majority of them made their fortune by taking the imperial examination. Except for Lu Yijian and other people who came from official families, the others were somewhat in a hurry when they entered the officialdom.
Studying and being an official are two different things.
Being good at reading does not mean that you will do well as an official.
There are many people who have high ambitions but low ambitions and talk on paper.
However, the approval of the ministers of the two governments does not mean that the scholars also approved it.
When this gust of wind blew towards the scholar group, it immediately triggered a heated discussion.
Different locations have different views and opinions.
From the perspective of a consul, the government-watching system can indeed speed up the time for scholars to integrate into the officialdom, and it also has the effect of supervising the local area.
But from the perspective of scholars, this system will undoubtedly delay their entry into officialdom.
One step is slow, each step is slow!
There is a proverb in the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties: Thirty old people learn the classics, fifty young people become Jinshi.
Among the imperial examinations, the Jinshi subject is the most important and the most difficult.
Many scholars are often not young when they achieve Jinshi. Like Kou Zhun and Yan Shu, there are only a few Jinshi who become famous at a young age.
Around thirty is the norm.
Thirty, half a lifetime has passed, and the imperial court still wants to allow new scholars to observe government for two years?
This... this is simply the Song Dynasty version of 'Why not eat minced meat'?
Of course, except for the ministers of the two governments, no one else knew that this system was proposed by Li Jie himself.
Therefore, in the eyes of the examinees, this is entirely the fault of the court officials!
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Ying Tianfu.
On this day, Fan Zhongyan received a fellow villager.
This man's name was Zheng Jian, and he was also from Wuxian County, Suzhou. Not only that, Zheng Jian's childhood was quite similar to that of Fan Zhongyan.
Both of them lost their fathers when they were young. They focused on their studies and aspired to take the imperial examination.
In addition, the two are not only from the same hometown, they are likely to become brothers-in-law in the future.
During this period, Fan Zhongyan was not only proud in officialdom, but also in love. Fan Zhongyan, who had been unmarried for more than thirty years, was finally getting married.
Speaking of which, I have to thank Qi Shunbin for this.
After Fan Zhongyan was transferred to Yingtian Academy by Li Jie, Fan Zhongyan became famous and immediately became a celebrity in official circles.
As the saying goes, the one who is near the water and the tower first gets the moon.
The Li family, a wealthy local family in Yingtian Mansion, fell in love with Fan Zhongyan, who was still unmarried.
In the third year of the Taiping Xingguo reign, three brothers, Li Changtu, Li Changyan, and Li Changling, were admitted to the Jinshi Department at the same time, becoming three Jinshi in one discipline. From then on, the Li family became completely prosperous.
What a coincidence, the three Li brothers are also students of Suiyang Academy. Among the "Seven Lists of Fifty-six Jinshi" in Suiyang Academy, the three Li brothers occupy three seats.
It is precisely because of this connection that Li was able to take the lead in getting in touch with the famous fan Zhongyan.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, but Fan Zhongyan's fate has obviously changed, but after seeing Li Changyan's daughter Li, he still fell in love at first sight.
If nothing goes wrong, the two will get married next year.
(PS: Zheng Jian married Li Changyan’s daughter, but the time is hard to determine. However, considering that Zheng Jian once studied under Yang Yi, and Zheng Jian was already in his early thirties at this time.
It is tentatively determined here that Zheng Jian has married Li Changyan’s daughter)
When literati meet, in addition to learning, they inevitably talk about current affairs. As the two of them were talking, the topic turned to the matter of observing politics.
"Brother Xiwen, the system of Jinshi observing government has been widely spread in Beijing recently. I wonder what the students in the academy think of it?"
In fact, Zheng Jian also criticized this system.
Two years is not a short time.
At the same time, there was a similar conversation in Lu's mansion.
The two brothers Song Qi and Song Chu took advantage of Lu Yijian's father-in-law Ma Liang to visit him and participate in political affairs.
However, the topic was not raised by the two brothers Song Qi and Song Chu, but Lu Yijian took the initiative to ask them their opinions.