The characteristic of official positions in the Song Dynasty is the separation of official positions and dispatches.
But this system sounds very troublesome, but it is convenient in practical application.
For example, some officials serve as censors. Officials in the censorship station are not allowed to be promoted for several years, and some have worked for more than ten years. Or some officials serve as officials in remote places and serve for several years. If they are not promoted, they cannot be transferred.
I was so anxious that I couldn't help it.
The separation of official positions and dispatches solves this problem.
Official positions are equivalent to ranks, such as first-rank, second-rank, fifth-rank, and ninth-rank officials.
There are a total of forty-two ranks of officials in the capital.
The imperial court promoted officials to salary officials based on three years of seniority. Generally speaking, as long as they were a Beijing official and did not make mistakes, they could be promoted to the tenth rank after casually dawdling for thirty years.
The thirty-second level happens to be the driving department or the test of merit, and the treasury department member is Wailang.
The Beijing officials without origin (non -Jinshi), when the thirty -two levels arrived, could not rise up again. Therefore, in the city of Jingjing City, it was called a member of the Yin officials.
The so-called shouting means shouting high rather than low. It's like meeting a young official and not sure how old he is. Regardless of his young age, he may have been an official since he was three years old. Calling low is disrespectful.
If you bid high, you will never make a mistake.
Later, following the same example, wealthy businessmen who donated an official position could be called Yuanwai. Later, as long as they were wealthy, they could also be called Yuanwai.
And sometimes you don’t have to wait three years to advance to the next rank. When you are appointed to an official position, you will receive a great gift (the new emperor ascends the throne) and send you a salary to advance to the next rank.
In the Tang Dynasty, the promotion of great gifts and promotions only promoted the official ranks and the honorary ranks, but in the Song Dynasty, those who could be promoted were actual positions and benefits. Therefore, when the emperor of the Song Dynasty died, the officials of the Song Dynasty had very complicated moods.
This classification of officials based on seniority may seem unreasonable, but in fact it makes sense. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials were selected based on their seniority, which was of great help in stabilizing the ranks of officials.
But in the Song Dynasty, it was normal for officials to have no errands. It was common for officials with mixed backgrounds to work for three years and take five years off.
Only officials with good backgrounds such as Jinshi can fill in any vacancies.
Before Zhang Yue, he was the judge of Dali Temple. This was the salary official. The fortieth rank of the Beijing official decided your treatment. The salary official was transferred to the judge's court.
The dispatches are the official affairs of Chuzhou's signing magistrate's office. These dispatches are not all assigned to the Ministry of Personnel. They are divided into personal divisions, hall divisions, and official divisions.
It is the emperor's special decree to remove relatives personally. For example, if the prime minister is of third rank or above, the emperor must personally check it. There are also Taiwan admonishment officials, who also need the emperor's personal approval, as a force to check and balance the two palaces. The so-called "Taiwan officials must follow the imperial edict" is the ancestral law.
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In the Tang Dynasty (Zhengshitang), officials were appointed by the Prime Minister in person. For example, half of the magistrates in the Song Dynasty were appointed by the Prime Minister's Hall.
As for the general judges, judges, and officials in key places, there are also many scripture halls.
As for matters not related to special purposes, it will be left to the Ministry of Personnel for comment without asking.
If you become an official for the first time when you are a new and high-ranking scholar, you will be assigned to the Ministry of Personnel (annotation of the Ministry of Personnel). When Zhang Yue was born as the number one scholar, he had to go to Liu Neiquan for official affairs in the Chuzhou Judicial Hall. Nan Cao saw the officials of the Ministry of Personnel
their faces.
So Wang Jie asked Yang Di: "May I ask whether this is the time of Tang Que or Bu Que?"
Zhang Yue and the four of them all had their ears pricked up. There was a world of difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ministry.
Yang Tian smiled and said: "It's a palace."
Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and Su Shi said to Su Zhe: "Xiangong Han is really the truth!"
Although Tangzhu is said to be in the name of "selecting people for officials," it is actually "selecting officials for officials." For example, if you have meritorious service, you will often be given special treatment by Tangzhu.
The special purpose is not involved. Regardless of whether the court is in charge or not, it all falls under the annotation of the Ministry of Personnel. That’s what it says, but there is still a limit to the division of the hall. The selection of officials all belongs to the Ministry of Personnel. Some of the officials in the Beijing Dynasty belong to the Ministry of Personnel, and some belong to the Ministry of Political Affairs.
.The scope of this division has something to do with whether the prime minister is strong and whether the country is in turmoil. In short, the water here is very deep.
When Cai Jing was in power, he liked to appoint cronies in all official positions, or sell officials and titles at home, usurping the power of the staff.
The tasks assigned by the system department are sometimes assigned to the government affairs department, and sometimes they are assigned to the official department for annotation. There is no fixed number. Such ambiguities are prone to disputes. Now that Han Qi wants to eliminate the department, it will definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of the official department. He thinks
The prime minister infringed.
So Su Shi said that Han Qi was the official of the truth, and this is also what he meant. He was not afraid of the officials, and the Taiwanese admonitions made irresponsible remarks, and all the system and subjects were returned to the hall.
The political affairs hall maintains a banishment book, which records the origin, age, tenure, seniority, whether there have been any offenses, and whether the officials who have been expelled are serving relatives, etc.
Officials appointed by the Ministry of Personnel are replaced by hall selection, which is called hall election. Officials who have been elected by hall can be directly occupied by the hall. In other words, any "good buildings" in the political affairs hall in the future can be locked for you in advance.
In other words, from now on, your human relations will no longer be managed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but will be transferred to the management of the Political Affairs Hall, and will be personally handled by the prime minister.
When you understand this, you will know how awesome this system is.
Those who have been removed from the hall are called "promoted".
With the same official position, the officials who were dismissed by the Tang Dynasty had higher standards than the officials who were notified by the Ministry, and their future prospects would be different because of this. Thinking of this, Zhang Yue's dissatisfaction with Han Qi for showing off his power in front of him just now faded a bit.
Han Qi was not yet Prime Minister of Zhaowen, so he ordered the House of Humanity not to modify the text of the edict, and also removed the officials from the imperial court. The meaning of taking power is self-evident.
At this moment, the edict for the closure of the library in Jingzhong has arrived at Sherenyuan within the Zhichiyuan.
There are six rooms in the Sheren Courtyard, and each room is responsible for making the decoration. Tonight, it is Wang Anshi's turn to make the decoration.
Wang Anshi was reading in the duty room until nightfall, when he suddenly saw a bright light in the courtyard, so he put down his book and walked out of the study, only to see that it was the moonlight shining on the ground.
Wang Anshi was looking at the moonlight in the court, and suddenly remembered that he was the general magistrate of Shuzhou and stayed in Geyang at night, and the moonlight was like this.
At that time he wrote a poem.
The moon is missing, the moon is dim, and the light is shining on the autumn bed. When I am ill, I feel the wind and dew most early, and when I return to my dream, I don’t know how long the mountains and rivers are. I sit down and feel that the songs of the old age are generous, and when I look up, the sky and the earth look desolate. The chirping cicadas are even more disturbing to the ears of pedestrians, and they are hugging sparsely.
Tung leaves are half yellow.
Thinking of the scene that day, Wang Anshi felt a little ridiculous. The moonlight was so beautiful now that it would be a pity not to write a poem.
While Wang Anshi was contemplating his poem, an official suddenly came and said: "I'm going to report to you that the elected official from the left of the official's house has come."
Wang Anshi heard this and asked: "I know, it will be a matter of extermination again."
Things involving court removal are not handled by the prime minister personally because they involve too many things. Generally, the prime minister leaves the responsibility to Zuoxuan, an official under Zhongshu's sect.
The Li's Room is one of the five rooms under the Zhongshu Gate.
Arrived at the house of the master, Wang Anshi paid homage to Zuo Xuanguan.
“It’s so late, how can Xu Zuoxuan still go to Sherenyuan?”
Zuo Xuanguan smiled and said: "How dare we delay the dispatch of officials and husband for a moment, even in the middle of the night, we have to do it."
After speaking, Zuo Xuanguan presented Wang Anshi with the preface and said: "Please also ask Shiren to draft the words on the spot."
The so-called preface means that Zhongshu handed over to Sherenyuan a document containing the granting orders and basic dictation requirements, which is called preface. As for the detailed content, it was written by Sheren. Finally, it was a complete edict, which was handed over to the emperor.
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Wang Anshi took a look at the prefix and found out that Zhang Yue, Su Shi, Su Zhe and Wang Jie, who were admitted to the imperial examination system, were awarded official posts respectively by Han Qi Zhongshu Hall.
Wang Anshi took a look and said, "It's easy to handle."
Zuo Xuanguan smiled and said: "Okay, please hurry up, Wang Sheren, my husband is urging me to ask for it."
Wang Anshi immediately took up his pen and wrote three copies of the lyrics one by one, and then said to Zuo Xuanguan: "Leave it to Xianggong."
Zuo Xuanguan checked them one by one and asked: "Did Wang Sheren write one less letter?"
Wang Anshi said: "It is true that there is one less person to write about."
Zuo Xuanguan looked at it and saw that the lyrics written by Wang Anshi included the names of Zhang Yue, Su Shi and Wang Jie, but the only one missing was Su Che.
“Wang Sheren, what’s going on?” Zuo Xuanguan’s expression changed slightly. Is Wang Anshi trying to make a fool of himself?
Wang Anshi said: "Wang has made it very clear that he does not want to write a word for this son, so I will return the prefix!"
The first four characters of Fenghuan!
It was like a huge hammer hitting Zuo Xuanguan's heart.
Returning the prefix to the official title of a foreign official is a shocking event. This is a rejection of the emperor's order, and the emperor and the secretary of state have lost all face.
The prefix "Feng Huan" originated from the Tang Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty it originated from today's emperor.
At that time, Fu Bi was in charge of foreign affairs, and he granted the emperor Sui Guo's wife the title of "Shou". Later, Hu Su, Cai Xiang, and Liu Chang were in charge of the foreign affairs, and successively returned the title of "the title" to the emperor. This was an improper edict, and from then on, the status of Sherenyuan became increasingly important.
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The authority to return the title to the House of Commoners was something that Fu Bi and other predecessors fought for. Now that Wang Anshi has returned the title to the House and removed the title, it can’t be said to be a slap in the emperor’s face, but he has actually dumped Han Qi.
A slap in the face.
Zuo Xuanguan remembered that Wang Anshi had refused to change the text of the imperial edict before, and he immediately said angrily: "Wang Sheren, are you taking revenge for the past? You were not allowed to change the text of the imperial edict, so you simply changed the prefix of the edict to
The seal has been returned, but you still have enough time to study poetry and books, but you behave like this in a despicable manner."
Wang Anshi said calmly: "Wang has no qualms about doing things, so how could he do such a villainous thing? This Su Zhe Ce, the right prime minister in the middle, specializes in human masters, comparable to Gu Yong and his like, Wang is unwilling to do this
"Zi Zhi Ci."
Zuo Xuanguan was stunned when he heard what Wang Anshi said.
The officials of Sherenyuan on the side were also stunned with shock.
Who is Gu Yong?
The eunuchs of the Han Dynasty, attached to the general Wang Feng, and when Wang Feng was prosperous, Gu Yong played more than forty things to attack the emperor, the concubine, and the Wang's Wang family.
Wang Anshi compared Su Che to Gu Yong, which is like comparing Han Qi to Wang Feng.
Wang Feng was Wang Mang's uncle, and he was a powerful official. When this person was in great power, any official who was at odds with him would be expelled or killed.
Wang Xuandao: "Wang Sheren, don't dare to say nonsense about this 'right prime minister, specializing in the people's master'."
Wang Anshi said: "Xu Zuoxuan returned the preface to the poem, and Wang went to a meeting to explain it to the officials. The words he just said, 'right prime minister, specializes in people's leadership', will not be modified word by word, and will be written into the poem."
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Zuo Xuanguan almost fell to the ground after hearing Wang Anshi's words.
He decided to choose Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Wang Jie to compose the lyrics and planned to go back to the throne first. He walked to the door of the house in a somewhat embarrassed state, looked back at Wang Anshi, and said bitterly: "You are an official, don't do it anymore."
Wang Anshi heard this and said nothing.
Xu Zuoxuan saw that Wang Anshi was unmoved and looked determined. He couldn't help stamping his feet in anger, and then rushed back to Zhongshu to report to Han Qi.