Cai Jing did not hesitate and immediately bowed: "I am stupid, please give your Majesty the command..."

Zhao Xu didn't hesitate and said to him directly: "In my opinion, the selection of officials should also be assessed!"

"Assessment?" Cai Jing held his breath.

This is a big change!

Since ancient times, subordinate staff have been selected by officials.

Moreover, highly professional subordinates like Seng Lusi come from a few established families that specialize in this line of work.

Apart from them, there are few alternatives.

Because most people will never touch this highly professional but narrowly oriented department.

Take the Seng Lu Division as an example. The subordinate staff of this organization that specializes in dealing with Buddhism and Taoism must understand Buddhism and Taoism.

Otherwise, we won’t be able to figure out what those monks and Taoist priests are doing.

If you don't understand the tricks of monks and Taoist priests, it will be difficult to control those Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

In a sense, professional subordinate staff are remnants of the medieval clan system.

It was also a chronic disease of the Song Dynasty.

Officials are temporary officials, but civil servants have been working for generations on two-thirds of the local land.

Many people have been doing the same thing since their great-grandfather.

No one is more familiar with local regulations and overt and covert traps than they are.

In a sense, they strangled the officials by their necks.

All the subordinate officials said he could be killed!

Is this the sentiment of how many civil servants and officials?

However, except for a few people who can control and tame these people, most officials are helpless against them.

A subordinate in the Senglu Division is nothing!

The really powerful ones are the subordinates who are in charge of money, food, punishment, and warehouses.

These people can really manipulate and frame those Jinshi who have just entered the officialdom at will.

Cai Jing naturally has personal experience of this.

However, he was very powerful, so not only was he not controlled by his subordinates, but he trained them like dogs.

Zhao Xu laughed and asked, "What? Is Aiqing in trouble?"

Cai Jing lowered his head and replied: "Your Majesty, I dare not be in trouble..."

"That's it?"

Cai Jing paid his respects again: "Your Majesty, I tell you that all the officials in the Senglu Department of Kaifeng Prefecture are from the Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu and other families of Bianjing City..."

"Those who asked for bribes this time are all from these families..."

"Even if there is an assessment, I'm afraid these companies will still take the exam..."

Naturally, he did not dare to deceive the emperor, so he chose to confess.

This is also his cleverness. He knows where to tell the truth and where to use spring and autumn brushwork.

Zhao Xu smiled: "Then we won't allow these families to participate in the official assessment!"

Cai Jing was going to say something more, but Zhao Xu had already said it in advance: "You want to say that only these families know the details of Taoist temples and temples inside and outside Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Don't worry!"

"There are more people in Kaifeng Mansion who know and understand these things than you imagined!"

"This is not before Qingli started school!"

After the Qingli Education Movement, knowledge began to spread at an unprecedented speed.

The literate population in Bianjing continues to rise.

It was also from that time that poverty spread all over the world.

The literati of the Song Dynasty immediately entered the era of involution.

In local military prefectures, incidents involving thousands of people vying for a quota for the exam began to appear.

"What's more... today's officials are not the officials in the past who had no salaries!"

Before the Xining Reform, Zhao officials prostituted free services to the common people, and procured merchants' goods for free. Even subordinate officials were treated equally and prostituted for free.

After the Xining Reform, the old ecology was changed.

Subordinate officials began to have salaries, and the salaries of subordinate officials in Kaifeng Prefecture were even as high as those of low-ranking petty officials in remote military states.

Take Seng Lusi as an example. The monthly salary plus salary is more than Qiguan, and the monthly income is 5,000 yuan!

In Bianjing City, this income was already two or three times the income of the laborers who resisted the siege and the civilian laborers who dug trenches outside the city.

In Bianjing City, how much can the poor people earn in a month by copying letters or painting for others?

Is there any money for Sanguan?

Nowadays, the monthly income starts from 7 guan, and job opportunities that guarantee income during drought and flood appear in front of these poor people.

What will they do?

Of course it's a steal!

As long as the cardinality is large enough, the range of choices will be large enough.

Are you still worried about not being able to select qualified subordinates?

joke!

Zhao Xu has seen the wave of public examinations in modern times.

Even he himself has considered whether to take the exam?

Cai Jing was stunned for a moment and then realized what he was doing.

What a smart man he is?

Naturally, it is clear what Zhao Xu means.

He quickly congratulated: "Your Majesty, the Holy Ming Wu Guo!"

"It's just, how do you take the test for a subordinate official?"

Zhao Xu smiled. He thought of some things he had heard in modern times and said casually: "It's simple..."

"First of all, I should choose a son of a good family who has three generations of innocence and no bad deeds!"

This is natural!

If any cat or dog can sneak into the government, then there is no need to think about the integrity and efficiency of the government.

Only people from good families, and those who have been clean for three generations, can be selected.

Because this kind of people generally have a trait that the emperor likes - loyalty and simplicity.

There is no emperor who doesn't like such a person.

Such people are also convenient for officials to control - good family members all have families and families, but in modern terms they have weaknesses.

"Then, we will issue test papers to test liberal arts, criminal law, and arithmetic..."

"Of course it doesn't have to be as rigorous as the examination... After all, the people selected are not scholar-bureaucrats, but just subordinate officials. As long as they are qualified in writing, savvy in arithmetic, and have a basic understanding of criminal law..."

"Then, the top fifty people will be selected from among all the people and entered into the Kaifeng Mansion. The ministers and the Kaifeng Mansion's recommended officials and judges will jointly interview them to test their talents and moral character..."

"Finally, choose the best one and use it as an official..."

Zhao Xu spoke slowly.

Cai Jing was extremely surprised when he heard this.

He knew that this entire system of hiring subordinate staff was perfectly coherent and logically clear.

Moreover, Cai Jing was also keenly aware that in this way, officials may also have the same fluid characteristics as officials.

Apart from other things, if all the officials in Kaifeng Mansion are selected in this way, they can be transferred at will.

Those who are disobedient can be kicked out of the government directly - if you don't do it, someone else will!

I'm afraid this is not something this little official came up with on his own.

It can only be the handiwork of the late emperor!

It is even possible that the late emperor pondered it for a long time and finally taught it to this official.

And officials are indeed able to hide things!

Before today, I'm afraid no one knew about this.

This made Cai Jing's body begin to tremble. He held up the imperial edict and bowed respectfully again: "Your Majesty has divine wisdom, far-reaching plans, and the demeanor of a saintly monarch. I admire you greatly... I only act in accordance with the imperial edict and do not dare to deviate from it."
To be continued...