Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 200, Court Balance and Imperial Examinations
The next day, when Ziyou Youyou woke up, it was already noon. Last night's celebration banquet, in the end, everyone poured on him alone. Even the Grand Master couldn't resist so many people coming together, Knowing when Ziyou was already drunk, the camp was full of lying soldiers, the lieutenants and generals were also down, Wang Jian and Meng Wu were helped away last night.

Ziyou rubbed his aching head and stepped out of the camp. As for these drunken soldiers, someone will come to watch them. The patrolling soldiers last night were not only for guarding, but also to prevent the soldiers from getting drunk and making trouble. , a group of warriors coupled with the stimulation of alcohol will inevitably do impulsive things, and there is the cleaning of the camp the next day.

After walking out of the camp, Mo Ya was already waiting here with a carriage. As a qualified groom, Mo Ya knew the truth of not driving while drinking, and not drinking while driving, so he didn't drink much last night and stayed sober until The next day, I drove Ziyou back. After all, Moya had a lot of things to do yesterday. He sent Shao Siming to Wang Shifu and Chen Ping to the recruiting hall. Although Chen Ping was Ziyou's disciple, he still had to leave. process.

After Ziyou returned to Master Wang's Mansion, everyone was eating. After seeing Ziyou came back, Xue Nu brought breakfast to Ziyou. Drinking a bowl of porridge after a hangover made Ziyou feel extra happy.

"It's too uncomfortable. I won't drink with them anymore. Hundreds of people will take turns pouring water on you." Ziyou rubbed his head and said.

"It's good if you can come back alive." Startled salamander said, and then went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of hangover soup, which was prepared last night, but Ziyou didn't come back, and it was hot again just now.

Ziyou took two sips of hangover soup and put it down, looking at Shao Siming who was sitting beside Concubine Yan, said
"You all know each other, right? Xiaoyi is living here during this time, I want to see how Donghuang Taiyi can save people."

"He made a move?" Concubine Yan said in surprise.

"Didn't attack me. When Xuan Jian was chasing the moon god, he fought Donghuang Taiyi. In the end, it was Feng Wuze and Bai Yifei who arrived with an army and surprised Donghuang Taiyi." That bloody black cloth.

Concubine Yan looked at the black cloth and immediately knew that it belonged to the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and there was no surprise when she saw the blood stains on it. If the army had no choice but to take the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, then the Eastern Emperor Taiyi would not have been so timid in the first place. Acted in secret.

"I have received a secret order from the Yinyang family's old His Excellency Donghuang. They hope to join forces with you." Concubine Yan said, taking out a piece of cloth with the characters of Yan Kingdom written on it.

"Did the Donghuang Taiyi of the previous generation die?" Ziyou asked in surprise, he thought the Donghuang Taiyi of the previous generation would have died a long time ago, otherwise it would be impossible for the current Donghuang Taiyi to make the Yinyang family like this.

"No, Donghuang Taiyi defeated the previous generation of His Excellency Donghuang back then. He controlled the Yin Yang family, and Donghuang Taiyi was raised by the old Lord Donghuang, so he didn't kill the old Lord Donghuang. The Eight Yin Meridians have been staying behind closed doors at the Jieshi Palace in Yan State." Concubine Yan said, this is the secret of the Yinyang family, and she only discovered it when she went to Jieshi Palace to break through the master.

"What does he want to do with me?" Ziyou asked curiously.

"He said he wanted to protect the Yinyang family, but I always felt that there was something in his words, and he also said that if you want to know, you can go to Jieshi Palace." Concubine Yan said.

"I don't care about him, it's not like I begged him to cooperate with me." Ziyou said, Jieshi Palace is one of the strongholds of the Yinyang family, and in the country of Yan, he didn't want to go so far .

"So I won't reply." Concubine Yan said with a shrug.

Ziyou was called away by Zhao Gao before he could continue to say a few more words. After arriving at Zhangtai Palace, Lu Buwei, Li Si and Han Fei were all here. Looking at the expressions of these people, Ziyou knew that something big had happened something happened.

"Your Majesty." Zi saluted.

"Teacher, please sit down and read this memorial first." Ying Zheng gave the memorial to Ziyou.

Looking at the content inside, Ziyou felt his expression became serious. This memorial was played by the manager of the recruitment hall. It said that there are many Confucian disciples in the recruitment hall, while there are fewer disciples from other sects. Although Qin still has a lot, it is not as good as before. Although this is just a simple work report, the crisis contained in it is great.

Because if things go on like this, Confucian disciples will fill all aspects of the Qin court. If it is only at the grassroots level, it is okay to say, but now more and more Confucian disciples have reached the middle and high levels by relying on their political achievements. Case.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The sophistication of the world will make them hug each other to keep warm and protect their own interests. This is inevitable. In order to prevent one family from dominating and controlling the court, other people are needed to check and balance. At the beginning, Qin Zhaoxiang During the king's period, in order to fight against the relatives of the Chu family who controlled the Qin State, they recruited scholars from the six countries into the Qin Dynasty and let them enter the court to fight against the Chu family. For another Chu family.

Today's Confucian Jiuqing, Tingwei, Zhisu Neishi, and Dianke are all Confucianists. After Li Si replaced Tingwei, Yao Jia went to serve as Dianke and was in charge of Qin's foreign affairs, while Gongsun Bai He is a pedestrian who is one of the three officials who serve as Dianke, and Ziyou, the leader of the Confucian family, as a king and teacher, has the same status as the Sangong, and can intervene in Qin's government affairs, which is equivalent to being a prime minister. Now it seems that Confucianism is in the court of Qin. It is not an exaggeration to say that the power is number one.

If it weren't for Lu Buwei as the prime minister, relying on scholars from the six countries and the semi-disabled Zhao family and Chu family to check and balance, the current state of Qin is already a Confucian one-word hall, so it is very dangerous to continue like this. If it is really turned into a one-word hall, Leaving aside the matter of decision-making, even recruiting talents will become very difficult, and talents from the hundred families will choose other countries because of the scruples about the influence of Confucianism.

Ying Zheng looked at his think tanks, three of them were Confucianists, the military was okay, Confucianism is not good at military affairs, they couldn't intervene, and fortunately Ziyou separated himself from Confucianism, otherwise the current Nine There are not only three people in Qingzhong who are Confucian disciples.

"Fortunately Your Majesty saw this memorial, otherwise it would be a big mistake." Ziyou said.

"Maybe it's the blessing of the ancestors. When the widow woke up in the morning to review the memorial, I took one. It happened to be this, otherwise I wouldn't have found it." Ying Zheng said.

"Qin's continuous expansion abroad requires a large number of scholars to move in. Qin's martial arts style is a bit weak, and it cannot support such a large-scale employment. It can only rely on recruiting scholars from the six countries. In the country, scholars and Confucian disciples make up the majority, and this cannot be changed," Li Si said.

At the beginning, the scholars in the Six Kingdoms were mainly hundreds of families and powerful families, of which the main force of the hundred families and the rich families accounted for the majority, while the powerful and nobles were slightly inferior, and the Confucian disciples were the majority of the hundreds of families and the great families. This is an unsolvable proposition. In the past, because of the Confucian prejudice against Qin and the contradiction between Qin and Confucianism, Confucian disciples were reluctant to enter Qin. Later, Xunzi praised Qin's policies in some articles, which changed a little. Confucianism's contradictions eased a little, and some Confucian disciples also entered Qin Dynasty, and Meng Gong and Yao Jia also entered Qin Dynasty because of this.

In history, Chun Yuyue, the teacher of Fusu, was chosen to ease the conflict between Qin and Confucianism, because too many talents and officials were needed to govern the world. Most of these talents and officials were Confucian disciples, whether they were civilians or powerful families. The purpose of making Fusu partial to Confucianism is to open up this situation, but what I didn't expect was to choose the wrong person, and let Chunyuyue teach Fusu only to be a loyal minister, and he forgot how to be an emperor.

This proposition itself is unsolvable. The only way is to allow scholars other than Confucianism to enter Qin or vigorously train native scholars in Qin.

"There are two ways to solve this problem. The first is to focus on cultivating old Qin people. No matter what the old Qin people learn, they are loyal only to the king of Qin, and they are trained by the state. They can stipulate the knowledge they learn. Second, Introduce hundreds of schools and establish the Daqin Academy like the original Jixia Academy, and let the hundreds of schools take root in Qin. Even though there were mostly Confucian disciples at that time, there were still hundreds of disciples, which could check and balance Confucianism, so that it could break the one-word hall. The situation." Han Fei said.

Everyone nodded when they heard that, Lu Buwei said again

"However, the scope of talent selection in this way will be narrowed. Qin's talent pool is mainly recruited by the recruiting hall. When recruiting talents, although the recruiting hall does not recognize their background, they will also focus on the big families and hundreds of families. This is too passive. , unable to attract talents from all over the world.”

In addition to recruiting scholars from the Six Kingdoms, the Qin State selected three main types of officials, military merit titles, recommendation and recruitment, but the latter three are completely inferior in quality and quantity to the Recruitment Hall. The attractiveness is not enough, and the recruiting hall is set up in Xianyang. Although there are local recruiting halls, scholars in the local recruiting hall want to come to the recruiting hall in Xianyang. Most of them need the recommendation of local officials, so a lot of talents are missed.

And as time goes on, the court will be monopolized, and the common people will have less and less chances to stand out.

"But compared to other countries, the recruiting hall is already the biggest way to recruit talents. Does Zhongfu have other ways?" Ying Zheng said.

"I'm stupid, no." Lu Buwei spread his hands and said, he knew what the problem was, if he could figure out a way, wouldn't he have done it earlier?
"Imperial examination to obtain scholars." Ziyou said, if you want to break this situation, you can only rely on imperial examinations to obtain scholars, and you can also safely use Confucianism to obtain imperial examinations. The relative fairness of imperial examinations lies in the fact that everyone's channels are the same. It is all based on grades rather than relationships, and different types of talents can be selected through different examination subjects. No matter how many Confucian disciples there are, it is impossible to have every type.

　Thanks to book friend 20210731211213510 for correcting all typos, language problems and incoherent sentences. Thank you very much. I have already contacted the editor to open and modify them. I will modify them one by one in the afternoon.

　　
　
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