Li Qianshun has cooled down, even more completely than Colonel Ka.

If Li Liangfu and Ren Dejing hadn't fled early with a hundred thousand captured troops, it is estimated that the entire Xixia would have cooled down with Li Qianshun.

Even so, life was not easy for Li Liangfu and Ren Dejing.

According to Ren Dejing's plan, the two of them would lead a hundred thousand captured troops from the Baimaqiang Town Military Division to Xuanhua Mansion. After replenishing supplies from Xuanhua Mansion, they would go straight to Suzhou, with their final destination being Shazhou.

However, as luck would have it, it was normal when the two of them ran away from the Baimaqiang Town Army Division with the captured army. However, as soon as they arrived at Xuanhua Mansion, they ran into someone who had just recaptured Xiliang Mansion, and was now planning to Among the planting masters who regained their hometown in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Almost all the breeders laughed to death——

One hundred thousand captured troops is equivalent to 500,000 guan. Among them, the rewards for Li Liangfu and Ren Dejing are as high as 5,000 guan, adding up to 510,000 guan.

No one can resist such a big temptation, and planting masters are no exception.

So the situation later became that Li Liangfu and Ren Dejing were running in front, and Zhong Shizhong was chasing after them with their troops.

As for the millions of Xixia people, they were accepted as a joke by Qin Hui.

After all, to build the Great Wall, build roads, and engage in other production, it would be impossible without labor.

The Xixia people are the best labor force because they don’t need to pay.

Zhao Huan also led his troops back to Bianjing.

Then he sharpened his knife and went to the court.

The first knife struck directly at Red Officer.

In the Song Dynasty, there were three redundancies: redundant officials, redundant troops, and redundant expenses. Among the three redundancies, the phenomenon of redundant officials was the most prominent and the most difficult to control. Indiscriminate career development and overlapping institutions were the causes of the phenomenon of redundant officials. root cause--

The Song Dynasty gave special favor to the clan and close disciples, and appointed officials at will. Boys in the imperial clan could be appointed officials at the age of seven, and some even had official ranks and received salaries in their infancy; outside the clan, other branches, different surnames, and disciples were all You can get help from officials, and thousands of people flood into the bureaucracy every year.

During the Li Er period of the Tang Dynasty, the number of officials "above the imperial court" was reduced from more than 2,000 to 634. By the time of Song Renzong, the number of subordinate officials inside and outside the "chaotang" had exceeded 17,000 .

However, the territory of the Song Dynasty was only one-half of that of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty also had a very advanced method, which was the separation of official and post. Among them, official was a false name, called "Jilu Guan", which represented a certain level and salary, and "post" was for managing specific affairs, also known as As a "official official".

Later, because the number of big shots in the court was too large, and there were often five or six people sitting in one official position at the same time, many civil servants no longer took care of things. They were only specially assigned to take charge of something. Only officials will handle some actual duties.

For example, in the official title of "Li Bu Lang Zhong, Long Tuge Bachelor, Zhi Kaifeng Prefecture", Li Bu Lang Zhong is an official, Long Tuge Bachelor is a position, Zhi Kaifeng Prefecture is the actual position, the first two are empty titles, they are specialized Used to receive money.

The entire Great Song Dynasty Hall is basically like this egg shape.

The scholar-bureaucrats were not very satisfied with this, because "this is not the treatment of Confucian officials."

If we look for the root further, we will probably find the God of Gaolianghe River——

It was after the Gaoliang River chariot god rode a donkey and drifted in the Gaoliang River, only throwing a donkey's tail at the Liao people, that the Song Dynasty really began to clearly implement the policy of "emphasis on culture and restraint on military affairs".

If you want to emphasize literature and suppress literature, you must emphasize the use of civil servants. If you want to reuse civil servants, you must have a large number of civil servants. If you want to have a large number of civil servants, you must expand the scope of admissions in the imperial examination.

After coming to such a magical conclusion, Gaolianghe car god Zhao Er tried to make a simple do... while loop and found that no bugs popped up in it, so Zhao Er started executing according to this loop -

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In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examinations were still subject to restrictions on family status, but in the Song Dynasty, the restrictions on family status were abolished. This is an advantage and should not be criticized.

However, the Song Dynasty added subjects such as Jing Yi, Li Zhi, En Ke, and Prodigy. If Jing Yi and Li Zhi are still within the understandable scope, what on earth are En Ke and Prodigy?

In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, only twenty or thirty people were admitted each time, while in the Song Dynasty, seven to eight hundred people were admitted each time.

For example, the famous donkey racer Zhao Er. In the 22 years of Zhao Er’s reign, nearly 10,000 people passed the imperial examination and won official positions——

However, this is not the upper limit of the Song Dynasty.

For example, in the third year of Xianping reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Zhenzong personally examined people, Jinshi, and various subjects (including those who failed in repeated examinations), and admitted more than 1,800 people in one year. In the 12 years of Song Renzong's reign, 13 imperial examinations were conducted by Jinshi and one subject.

There are 4,517 people who have obtained official positions and more than 5,000 people in various subjects.

But the crux of the problem is that these people are officials! Not pigs! A pig can be killed for meat, but an official needs an official position to be placed!

Do you think this is the end?

But it didn't.

Because this kind of gameplay can only be regarded as increasing the scale of recruitment. After all, it is still a normal way to select officials. Even if it can create a certain degree of redundant officials, it is actually limited.

But the officials in the Song Dynasty were so arrogant. In addition to constantly increasing the scale of recruitment, the officials in the Song Dynasty also opened up ways to become officials indiscriminately.

"Favor" was taken to the extreme by the officials of the Song Dynasty. Even when the emperor held a memorial ceremony in the suburbs, when an official took office or when an official passed away, he could use "favor". Anyway, as long as there was a reason, he could "favor".

Especially for the royal family, the threshold for "favor" is incredibly low -

The original rule of the Song Dynasty was that the royal family would be conferred an official position at the age of seven. During Renzong's reign, it was changed to an official position at an infant. In the seventh year of Qingli, more than 1,000 people were conferred officials by the royal family alone in one year.

As for other civil and military officials, they were appointed to their close family members based on their status. Even a low-ranking doctor or a foreign minister could get an official position for one of his descendants. It is true that "a person who favors hundreds of officials is afraid that he will not be enough."

For example, after the death of Taiwei Wang Dan in the first year of Tianxi reign of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, the emperor "recorded his sons, younger brothers, nephews, grandsons, retainers, and appointed more than ten people as officials."

In the third year of Renzong's Qingli reign, Fan Zhongyan once expressed his opinions on this situation: "If there is a person who has been a bachelor or an official for 20 years, then 20 of the descendants of the same family will be promoted to the imperial court one after another. This is extremely excessive.

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However, it was of no use. The officials of the Song Dynasty should continue to play the "favor" game.

Moreover, in addition to "favor", there are also "abnormal" ways to become an official by losing food and money, and selling officials to win titles, which also contribute to the expansion of the bureaucracy and the formation of "redundant officials".

For example, in the event of a famine, as long as the landowner is willing to open a warehouse to provide grain or hire a peasant and is willing to pay, the court will grant him an official position depending on the amount of money he contributes——

The intention of this kind of gameplay is good, but no matter how good the gameplay is, it can still be played in different ways: "Three thousand ropes, Zhimi Pavilion, five hundred strings, and Tongpan."

Therefore, there were so many officials in the Song Dynasty.

Even if Zhao Huan had said before that he would solve the problem of redundant officials, it was actually of no use——
Chapter completed!