Chapter 339 Selection
After the emperor and Empress Wu held the Fengshan ceremony, they left Qianfeng County, and the peace in Qianfeng County was restored.
As soon as the emperor and Empress Wu left, Li Rizhi immediately began to rectify the matters in the county government. He first dismissed all the county magistrates, county magistrates, and chief clerks. These people had already known the result in advance, so Li Rizhi ordered them to leave. It was a good marriage and dispersion, and he did not cause any trouble.
Then Li Rizhi appointed Fu Guibao as the county magistrate of Qianfeng County and Cheng Zizai as the county magistrate of Qianfeng County. As for the position of the chief clerk, Chen Yingying was acting as the agent. As for the procedures, he had already greeted Xu Jingzong and everything had been completed.
Chen Yingying's procedures were more troublesome. Li Rizhi told Xu Jingzong this point, but Xu Jingzong did not give him a clear answer. Judging from his superficial attitude, Xu Jingzong had no attitude and no attitude, which actually means he was accusation.
As for Tong Guinu, Tong Guinu had no problem at all, and he was even quite happy to let Chen Yingying come out to act as a small official!
Empress Wu also knew about Chen Yingying. Empress Wu certainly had a positive attitude. She originally wanted to express her support on the surface, but later Empress Wu thought that it would be better to calm down a little after the Fengshan ceremony was just completed. After returning to Chang'an, she sat firmly and was able to formally interfere in the government, then Chen Yingying, as a woman, became a small subordinate official at a county level, and in the eyes of Empress Wu, there was no problem. She even wanted to set up a female official in the future so that the female official could also become an important member of the court.
Of course, Empress Wu thought so. As for whether he could still remember Chen Yingying after returning to Chang'an, let's talk about it. If she really couldn't remember it, Li Rizhi could also remind Empress Wu through Tong Guinu.
Li Rizhi was still very serious about selecting officials in the county government. The method he used was the most fair method now, similar to scientific examinations.
However, the county-level scientific examination he held was mostly based on the people's livelihood in Qianfeng County. He asked the candidates to answer the questions. Whoever answered the best will have the highest name, and the ranking will mean that he can get an official position.
Most of the children of the landlords and wealthy families are literate, so of course they must have read them, but whether they are good or not is uneven to the extent.
The educational level of the children of the rich family in Qianfeng County is related to the importance the rich people attach to education. Of course, it is not just Qianfeng County. At this time, the situation in various prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty was almost the same. In addition to the higher the education level in Chang'an, the worse the teaching level in the more remote places, the worse the students they teach.
The education level in Qianfeng County should be the highest level among the middle class. Of course, it is incomparable to the education level in Qufu, but the number of scholars is much higher than that in other places.
The rich man from about 200 families sent about 100 scholars. The level of these scholars was basically average, because the children who had the best students in the family had to take the Chang'an scientific examination. It was impossible to waste their time in the county government office and be a small official. Unless the scientific examination was repeatedly missed and there was no hope for the future, those children would enter the county government office to be a small official. Otherwise, the scientific examination in Chang'an should be the main focus.
In addition, if the children with poor academic qualifications cannot stand out from the competition anyway and cannot become officials, the rich will not send them over and will not lose sight of this person. It is better to do business and get the title of an official businessman. With the background of the government, it is easier to make money in business. This is the most visible and tangible benefit that can be obtained, and the rich will naturally know how to choose.
The county-level scientific examination held by Li Rizhi actually only took two tests. The first one was eliminated, which was the kind that was really not good. The first one was eliminated. However, Li Rizhi did not treat them badly, at least he asked them to do it.
If there are people who are unwilling to be the village, it doesn't matter, because Qianfeng County has an emperor's palace. Part of the palace has been changed to a county school according to the queen's requirements. Li Rizhi arranged positions in the county school. It is okay to be willing to study in it. If he is unwilling to study here, then he can be named here. In short, these people will not be allowed to take such a county-level examination in vain.
As for the remaining dozens of scholars, Li Rizhi took the second exam and ranked them according to their grades.
The scholars who are ranked high can be officials or officials, while those who are ranked low can be divided into various officials and become civil servants.
Because Qianfeng County was equal to the counties in the capital during the Qianfeng period, of course there were more staffing in the county government. As for the imperial court to change the year name and no longer use the Qianfeng period, the status of Qianfeng County was reduced and there was no longer enough staffing. So whether these scholars should continue to stay in the county government office to serve in the imperial examination, or go home, it depends on their respective choices.
However, it is estimated that Li Rizhi had been transferred from Qianfeng County at that time, so it was not his concern.
In fact, the most difficult choice is the servants in the county government office, such as the constable, which is not easy for this scholar.
For the selection of constables, one source is the children of the landlords and wealthy families who practice martial arts, and the other source is the young and strong in the county.
Li Rizhi planned to choose twenty formal constables, two of which were the captains. Qianfeng County is a big county, and twenty constables are definitely not enough. Therefore, there are also needs to be idle outside the staff, the kind of person who helps the constables do things.
Most of the time, those who maintain the county's public order are not staffed constables or servants, but these gangs, who also wear soap clothes that the county officials have, and also hold a piece of work and food and silver issued by the county, but they are not real officials, and can only be regarded as minions of the government.
Li Rizhi chose the selection, but only nineteen constables were selected. He could not choose the twenty constables no matter what. His requirements for constables were quite high, and it must be higher than the average level, but not many of them could meet his requirements.
If he really couldn't choose, Li Rizhi didn't force it. The nineteen people were divided into two teams, one team of ten people, and one team of nine people. There was no captain selected for the time being, so Cheng Zizai was in charge of them.
Perhaps because of the Fengshan ceremony, and the horses of Zhen Mengde and Wu Penghui were wiped out, the public security in Qianfeng County was very good, and no cases occurred in the past two months.
Chapter completed!