Two hundred and fourteen chapters are bound to win
Chapter 214: Destined to Win
Li You and Zhu Bulang watched Zuo Ban wake up and change his previous ways, and left. They looked at each other in shock when they came to their senses.
"Do you still want to cancel your Imperial College registration?" Zhu Bulang asked.
Li You said helplessly: "Stop making fun of it, just keep it. Maybe you will actually use it."
Zhu Bulang smiled and said, "Why don't you look annoyed or resentful at all?"
"What's the use of worrying about my subordinates? Although the votes are good, it's not what I think. Whether it succeeds or fails, it's up to God and people, not me. To borrow from the Spring and Autumn Festival: Meat eaters plan for it."
"He is truly an open-minded man." Zhu Bulang praised.
"Everything is like a floating cloud..." Li You said with some emotion: "Mr. Fanghe is not the same as me."
Zhu Bulang didn't know what he meant and waited for Li You to explain.
Li You raised his hand and pointed upward and said: "Other people have the sky above their heads, but you and I have the roof beams above our heads, so we have to be open-minded."
Zhu Bulang pondered for a moment, and was also filled with emotion and sigh. This sentence was interesting. He quickly raised the wine pot and said: "Winning words and wonderful words should be toasted with wine."
One was born into a civil servant or one was born into a clan. It may seem that one is humble and the other is noble, but in fact they are very similar in the officialdom. Both are born with deficiencies and nurture is limited, as if there is an invisible roof blocking their climb.
Zhu Zongshi and Li Xiaoli immediately felt sympathy for each other, and they both held wine bottles and made wine orders while making wine.
When both of them were half drunk and half awake, Zhu Fanghe remembered something: "I almost forgot to talk about the business. Next month is the birthday of the Holy Mother and the Empress Dowager. I originally wanted to join forces with you, me and Lin Consort to contribute to a work...
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The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Li You deliberately interrupted and said: "I only heard you say that Consort Lin is talented, but I have never seen it."
"You... he talks like that, don't be familiar with him." Mr. Zhu Fanghe nodded and Li You said: "Lin's consort is the best in painting, and he is the best in Beijing. I thought, the consort will paint, and you will write the poems.
My inscriptions are the best in the world. Wouldn't it be beautiful if the three of us joined forces to dedicate it to the Holy Mother? Besides, the consort is the son-in-law of the Queen Mother, I am a clan member of the Queen Mother's husband's family, and you are a fellow countryman of the Queen Mother. Each has its own characteristics and superb skills.
No one can compare with other people’s congratulations!”
Li You didn't care whether it was the Queen Mother's birthday or not, and deliberately asked: "The prince-in-law is among the best among men, and he leaves the restaurant and stumbles into the sedan chair...his face instantly darkens and becomes gloomy."
Is Mr. Li really an open-minded person?
If Li You were asked to compare the difference between living in Suzhou and the capital at this time, he would definitely say that the difference is that he doesn't have to act most of the time in Suzhou, while he has to act most of the time in the capital.
Today is really not in vain. I didn’t expect to know that the eldest princess of Guide is also thinking about the ticket-sharing Zhongshu, Li You thought secretly. When joking with Zhu Bulang, he seemed to be pure-minded, indifferent to fame and wealth, free and easy, free and meaningless,
In fact, this is not the case in my heart...
When he was in the Tianguan Mansion, Li You focused mainly on dealing with Xu Shangshu's endless temptations, and did not think deeply about serving as the Central Secretary of the branch. On the one hand, he could not stand the temptation to step into the Central Committee, and on the other hand, he lacked the ability to directly refuse the official minister.
I had the courage, so I agreed.
After withdrawing, he thought deeply and thoroughly understood the mystery, and made up his mind to win it. Because this was a very rare opportunity for his official career, it had extraordinary significance and should not be missed. Otherwise, he would not be able to hold on until he was full.
Worry about being able to write?
With Li You's background, it was quite extraordinary to be able to reach the sixth or seventh grade these days. If he wanted to make progress, the only possibility was to be gifted and please the emperor and become a minister.
The so-called "jianfengguan" refers to an official position directly awarded by the emperor's decree without being selected by the Ministry of Civil Affairs or recommended by the ministers.
According to the tacit understanding formed in recent decades, the emperor will reward those who are willing to reward those with miscellaneous official positions below the seventh rank, as well as idle official positions in the inner court such as Shangbaosi and Guanglu Temple, as well as those in the two palaces.
Professional and technical officials and honorary relatives need special care, and the ruler must have these powers.
However, when the civil servants and local officials of foreign dynasties reach the seventh rank and above, they can no longer be awarded by imperial edicts. As for the two special official positions of Minister of Personnel and Grand Scholar, there are options that can be specially abbreviated by the emperor.
It just so happens that Mr. Li has now reached the threshold of the seventh-grade civil service group...
Master Li, who was born as an official, is not a descendant of a distinguished family, has no fame, and is not an imperial doctor or craftsman. Suppose he was inexplicably favored by the brain-dead emperor like countless time travel novels, and was promoted to the sixth rank by an imperial edict, and Master Li was happy to do so.
Accept it, what will happen to the world?
He will be drowned in verbal memorials, criticized by big-character posters, written in notes and spread to vilify him, and will be racially segregated by scholar-officials... Moreover, he must always be wary of countless possibilities for settling scores.
I think that during the Chenghua period, the emperor went too far with the promotion of ministerial officials. He created various four-digit ministerial officials ranging from the third to the ninth rank. It is still regarded as an era of evil and evil by the scholar-bureaucrats.
I'm going too far. All in all, this is a time of peace in the world, not an era of heroes in troubled times. The inertia and stability of the system are super strong. Although Mr. Li is a time traveler with an aura, he does not have the ability to completely subvert tradition.
Even if the prison sentence is upgraded, how will the situation change? For example, what is the essential difference between being a sixth-grade general judge and a seventh-grade judge?
If you want to find a breakthrough point, you can only find it in a place that is not limited to tradition.
The splitting of votes into letters is a new thing that has not happened in the past seventy or eighty years. Although it is in the name of restoring the old system of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the old records of the previous dynasty are lost and cannot be tested.
Therefore, if you want to stick to the old ways, there are no rules that you can follow. And because it is close to the center, this position is extremely uncertain. In other words, there are many possibilities and it is very malleable. It may be good or bad.
The above characteristics are what Li You values most after thoroughly thinking about it. If you don’t give it a try, how will you know whether it is a good opportunity or a bad opportunity? How could you know that it is not a breakthrough point?
In order to restrain powerful ministers and high-ranking officials, the dynasty has a tradition of suppressing the big with the small. For example, there are six subjects around the seventh rank, and the thirteen supervising censors, who can refute edicts at the top and supervise hundreds of officials at the bottom.
A typical example of low status and power, how could one know that the secretary-general of the ticket division would not go down this path?
Now that the opportunity has appeared, why not seize it? Even if it is brought out by Xu Shangshu and used as a puppet on the stage, that is what it should be. There is no free lunch in the world.
But at this time, Guide Chitose unexpectedly appeared...
To say that Li You regrets digging his own grave and accidentally irritating Lin Consort into a competitor is purely funny and superficial. If Lin Consort is not involved, there are others. In essence, it is Princess Guide who is intervening. It is just like Li You is not there.
There is also the theory that Zhang You and Wang You are all involved by Xu Shangshu.
On the contrary, Mr. Li has to thank Consort Lin, a political novice, for casually revealing this matter to outsiders who did not know the details.
Of course, if it were the position of another yamen, Li You wouldn't worry. No matter how powerful the princess was, she would not dare to compete with the official official official of the imperial court. After all, there is an unwritten rule that the inner court belongs to the royal family, and the outer court belongs to the royal family.
The civil servants, together they are the imperial court.
But from this perspective, the cabinet and the two subordinate offices belong to the category of neither internal nor external, internal and external in the imperial court structure. It can be called the buffer zone between the outer court and the inner court. This is the relationship between the imperial court system and the former
The most peculiar and subtle thing about the generational comparison is that the cabinet is called prime minister, but in fact it is the least like a prime minister.
Another meaning of buffer zone is wrestling field...
Thinking of this, Li You shouted to the bearer: "Change the road! Go to Tianguan Mansion."
Guide Chitose's whispers to his consort should be very confidential. Letting him know now when it's not time to spread the news is the biggest disadvantage. It's only strange that you chose this unsatisfactory consort.
