"father."

Du Shouyi was practicing calligraphy in the study, and Du Ruo walked in and saluted him.

"Ruoer, I came just right, how does it mean to be a father?"

Du Shouyi quickly greeted Du Ruo to approach, and he stared at his words with a satisfied smile on his face.

Du Ruo approached and looked at it. There were four big characters written on the paper in front of Du Shouyi, which were "family, country, and world". He used official script. His pen was penetrated through the back of the paper, and the characters were extremely large, almost filling the entire piece of paper.

‘I’ve just been promoted, I’m just expanding like this?’

Du Ruo complained in his heart, but praised him: "Good words! They are vigorous and powerful, all-encompassing, and their power is the prime minister's demeanor!"

When Du Shouyi heard the word "Prime Minister", his smile became brighter. He looked at his words carefully and said unconfidently: "Do you really have the temperament of a prime minister? I wonder if you will enter the East Palace or the West Palace in the future. The three departments are also good..."

‘Old man, you have enough!’

Du Ruo gave Du Shouyi a secret glance. The East Prefecture was the office of the Prime Minister and the Chief of Political Affairs, the West Prefecture was the office of the Privy Councilor of the Wu Prime Minister, and the Third Office was the office of the Ministry of Finance. Du Shouyi was really brave to think about it.

However, Du Ruo estimated that even if he was lucky enough to be promoted to the Central Committee in the future, he would never have the intention to join the Privy Council in his life. After all, he had made a big mistake in military affairs.

"As with your level, you can at least enter the East Mansion!" After flattering Du Shouyi, Du Ruo continued: "Dad, you have the ambition to be strong and your child is very infected, so there is one thing to tell your father."

"What's up?"

Du Shouyi put down his pen and signaled Du Ruo to sit down.

After Du Ruo sat down, he said, "I want to have a look."

Du Shouyi nodded: "This is what you deserve. You won't write a thank-you form? Didn't I ask Du Qing to take the reference to you?"

"It's not that I can't write, nor do I have to write a thank-you form." Du Ruo said solemnly: "I plan to give the official a speech."

"Division?"

Du Shouyi was stunned and asked, "What are you quitting?"

"Of course I'm resigning to the official of grace."

"Why, with my father's grade, I'm not inferior to the official position of the kindness! Do you know how many people can't even come to dream of?"

Having a favored official means that you can get a high salary for the rest of your life and you will never have to worry about food and clothing. It is indeed something that many people will never ask for in their lifetime.

Du Ruo curled his lips disdainfully and said to Du Shouyi: "Children are not interested, and...Children want to pass the imperial examination!"

As soon as the four words "Jinshi passed the imperial examination", Du Shouyi stood up instantly and looked at Du Ruo in disbelief.

Different from Jinshi, the Jinshi list is divided into three levels, namely first, second, and third.

The top three are first-class, and only the title of first-class is "Jinshi".

The remaining second graders are, and the number of people admitted to the third graders is different. The second graders are "Jinshi" and the third graders are "Jinshi". Adding "Same" means different. Therefore, in ancient times, some people with strong self-esteem will be ashamed to receive the "Three Granshi" exam and will repeat the next time they will take the exam.

Du Shouyi was the last place in the "Second Class" in the scientific examination before, and almost fell into the ranks of Jinshi.

"good!"

After thinking for a while, Du Shouyi nodded in his head: "My son has lofty ambitions. I support you for my father, go and write a statement!"

Du Ruo stood up and said goodbye and left.

Du Shouyi agreed so readily that he didn't expect it, but it was reasonable.

The disadvantage of "redundant officials" in the Song Dynasty was not as written in later history textbooks. There were too many officials, and it took many years to wait for the Jinshi to be admitted to the Jinshi. This did not exist at all.

In fact, the imperial examination was held only once every few years in the Song Dynasty, and only about a hundred people were admitted each time. The total number of Jinshi was similar to that of Ming and Qing Dynasties, so raising these people was not considered a redundant official position.

Jinshi doesn’t have to wait for a vacancies. Once they pass the exam, they will be arranged to serve as judges in each state immediately after a year’s vacation.

It was too easy to arrange officials in one or two hundred states in the Song Dynasty.

The real "redundant officials" of the Song Dynasty were "grace-benevolent officials". The Song Dynasty court was very good at the official class. Not only did the wages and benefits, but they also had no restraint on the kindness and rewards of officials. There was a collective kindness during festivals and holidays, and they also found reasons to be grateful to the children of officials.

Officials of each grade have different numbers of grace and shade, and officials of the prime minister have nearly twenty grace and shade. During the Zhenzong Dynasty, the son of a gatekeeper in a prime minister's house was embraced by a ninth rank scattered official.

These officials of Enyin Sanyi have no real power and will not interfere in government affairs. However, they have a lot of salary and benefits, which eventually became one of the major disadvantages of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, if Du Ruo didn't want this kind-hearted official, he was naturally not afraid of consuming public finances. It was nothing to do with him for the time being.

The main reason is that the Song Dynasty had a huge group of officials who were kind and lofty, and the country was not afraid of spending money to support them, but was afraid that they would undermine educational equity.

Therefore, since the reign of Emperor Taizong, the country has clearly stipulated that when "officials" with kindness and emphasizing officials participate in the interpretation of poems, they must set up separate venues and cannot be in the same venue as ordinary scholars.

This is a bit like the relationship between Chinese household registration and the college entrance examination in later generations. Candidates in Jiangsu cannot let him go to western provinces to take the college entrance examination.

Almost all of these "officials" are children of officials and have received the best education since childhood. Therefore, the country will separate them and not allow them to plunder civilian candidates to take the Jinshi exam for the Ministry of Rites.

It was not only that. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the country also stipulated that after an official passed the Jinshi, he was not allowed to enter the first or second grade. In other words, even if you are a genius, you can only be a Jinshi.

This is also to limit the aristocratic families to become clans.

During the Zhenzong Dynasty, the system was slightly relaxed, but it was only "choose the best and enter the second grade", and there were still restrictions; by this dynasty, the Song Dynasty had been stable and prosperous for nearly a hundred years, and folk culture and education were prosperous. The imperial examinations of ordinary people may not be as good as those of officials, so the system was relaxed again, allowing officials to enter the second grade.

But the top three in the first class will still firmly exclude officials. Even if you are the son of the prime minister, you will not be able to win the No. 1 pick in the Tanhua!

Therefore, when Du Ruo told Du Shouyi that he did not want this kind-hearted official in order to be a "Jinshi" and did not want this kind of official, Du Shouyi was so shocked. Of course, he was shocked that Du Ruo had a lofty ambition and was actually heading for a first-class!

At the same time, he agreed readily without asking, because he believed in Du Ruo's strength.

After leaving Du Shouyi's study room, Du Ruo looked at the blue sky and smiled bitterly.

Two years later, he would participate in the No. 1 Dragon and Tiger List in the Thousand Years. The great people were all over the ground. According to his idea, if he could get a Jinshi exam, he would worship Buddha and burn incense. How could he dare to expect a Jinshi?

What he said just now is just an excuse, but in fact he dared not take the "no first test".

"Not the first test" is the title of an official who participated in the test of the answer. Among them, the second and third generations of officials who received good education from an early age, the competition is fiercer than the ordinary test of the answer.

The key is that Du Ruo doesn’t know the test questions!

A year later, Su Shi participated in the Meizhou civilians' answer test, which was not a bad test, so Du Ruo only knew about the Meizhou civilians' answer test test, but didn't know about the Meizhou civilians' answer test test at all.

So even if he dies, he cannot get the official position of the kindness this time. If he fails to pass the exam, he will be embarrassed and thrown to his grandmother's house.

———

Bianjing was also called Bianliang and Tokyo by people at that time.

But it is definitely not called Kaifeng.

Kaifeng Prefecture was an administrative organization of the Song Dynasty, including Bianjing and the twenty-nine counties around Bianjing. Kaifeng Prefecture, which was mentioned by the Song people, refers only to the Kaifeng Prefecture Office.

At this time, in the Chuigong Hall of Bianjing, Emperor Renzong Zhao Zhen was waiting for his prime ministers to come. His rich face had a bit of sad expression and his crow's feet were always entangled.

He couldn't figure out why he had chosen Wen Yanbo Fu Bi, who had been called a virtuous person, had delayed a major event related to the destiny of the country for several years, and could not come up with a solution.

The big thing that Zhao Zhen was worried about was that three years ago, the Yellow River broke the dike and diverted the road at Shanghukou, northeast of Bianjing. The dike and diverted the road of the Yellow River have been major issues related to the national destiny since ancient times. This diversion was no exception. It flooded hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in Hebei and formed a land with a span of nearly a thousand miles.

Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced, and the country has to invest tens of millions of dollars in order to rescue and control the Yellow River every year. However, this matter has been discussed for three years in the court and fought for three years, but it has not even discussed a specific method.

Zhao Zhen pinched his eyebrows and felt confident that today the rulings must decide on a plan and then implement it!

Soon, several husbands wearing purple official robes, holding jade scepters and goldfish bags on their waists came to Zhao Zhen, called Zhao Zhen the "official family" and bowed.

"Several husbands can make a decision..."

As usual, Zhao Zhen first asked that as the emperor, he also respectfully called the prime minister "Xu Gong".

"Report to Your Majesty..."

Wen Yanbo took the lead and stated the improved version of his "Six Towers" plan, and Fu Bi attached it.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Gongchen, the deputy general, immediately stood up to object, saying that the Liuta River flow was too small and not enough to carry the water of the Yellow River. The development of the old path of the Yellow River by Mr. Jia Chaochang was the only way to do it.

Jia Chaochang was the former prime minister of Wen Yanbo. After being dismissed from prime minister, he now led the title of the Secretariat of the Secretariat Pingzhang to serve as the prefect of the Daming Prefecture in the North. He was also the prime minister.

After Wang Gongchen finished speaking, Wang Gui stood up again and said that neither of the two plans were feasible, but he himself could not come up with any good plans.

Seeing that it was about to be in a stalemate again, Zhao Zhen lowered his eyes, tapped his fingers on the armrest of the seat, and whispered: "Stop fighting, just choose one of these two plans. This matter cannot be delayed anymore. You can afford to wait, and the people can't wait."

All the priests have been with Zhao Zhen for more than ten or twenty years. Knowing Zhao Zhen’s character, if he doesn’t say anything or argues with the ministers, this is nothing. Ministers can do their own things.

But when he speaks weakly in a very light tone, it means he has made up his mind.

At this time, he was fighting against him, and there was only one person who was kicked out of the center.

Although Zhao Zhen was kind, his power control skills were also top masters among the emperors of ancient and modern times. After he ascended the throne, he was a famous minister and strong minister, just like a minister who crossed the river, but no one could threaten his power.

It is recorded in historical books that Bao Zheng was spitting out, and Tang Jie said in front of him that he had lost his sons and grandsons. That was because he knew that these ministers were loyal and disdainful of their concerns.

"Liuta River!"

Finally, under the democratic vote of several priests, the plan to govern the Yellow River was finally determined.

Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction. He didn't understand the river workers, nor did the priests understand it, but this plan was planned by officials from Yihehe family in Hebei.

He also felt that this plan was at least more reliable than Jia Xianggong's.

After confirming the plan, everyone in the Chuigong Hall breathed a sigh of relief, but the tense atmosphere was still there. Seeing that Zhao Zhen's expression was relaxed a little, Wen Yanbo took out a memorial from his cuff and presented it to Zhao Zhen.

"Your Majesty, this watch on Du Ruo, Meizhou."

When they heard Du Ruo’s name, the eyes of the priests and Zhao Zhen lit up a little. Although it had been more than a month since the reward of grace, they often thought of Du Ruo’s name over the past month.

Because after the fingerprint method was promoted nationwide, it was reported from various places almost every day that it was reported to solve cases by this method, and the Qingming scene of the prison in the Song Dynasty was in the Qingming Festival.
To be continued...