The Shangshu Province is located in the imperial city not far from the political affairs. Compared with the noisy gathering places of various temples and supervisors, it is much quieter. The position of Shangshu Province in the imperial city can be seen from the location alone.

The buildings of the Tang Dynasty, especially the official yamen, were still spacious, and the Shangshu Province, which is the best in the world, was no exception. Tang Song saw a large area of ​​houses outside. After entering the gate, he walked through the screen wall and faintly saw that as soon as he entered the yard and entered the yard, it was difficult to see the end...

Although the architecture of the Shangshu Province is not very beautiful, it shows the atmosphere and pressure of the big yamen in this simplest and most domineering way, making people unknowingly win over it.

After explaining his origin in the gatekeeper, the minor officials in charge of guarding the gate heard that Tang Song was a new member of the seventh-rank Shangshu in this yamen. He saw that he was so young and had a good temperament, but he seemed very polite. The head of the official even took him to the office room himself.

After walking around left and right for a long time, the head of the official pointed to a small courtyard in front and said with a smile: "Since Tang Dushi is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, he will take care of official business here in the future. The official documents of the Ministry of Personnel must have arrived, but before the Ministry of Personnel have joined the job, he must first go to the courtyard on the left to meet Shangguan."

Tang Song looked at the place where the official leader pointed. After thanking him, the official leader left with a smile.

When I walked into the small courtyard on the left, a slight noise came. Through some half-open and half-closed windows on both sides, I could see many people. At this moment, a man in his early thirties wearing a uniform of a clerk came over, looked at Tang Song's official clothes and asked, "I wonder if I am from that yamen. Why are you here?"

The steward is a kind of official, whose responsibilities are to take care of warehouses and furnishings, and to do odd jobs in daily life. He is the lowest-ranking person in the Shangshu Province.

After Tang Song explained his identity, the expression on Zhang Mu's face suddenly became much softer, and he bowed and said, "I didn't know Tang Du's affairs before, I'm negligent! I'll report to Doctor Liu later."

The Shangshu Province is now headed by two Shangshu Pushe, one of whom is in charge of three of the six ministries. The Ministry of Personnel has always been under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Zuo Pushe. Under him, there is a fourth-rank Shangshu Zuo Cheng, and there are also one doctor and one Yuanwailang under the Shangshu Zuo Cheng as an assistant. Here, the Shangshu Tudu is in charge of Shangshu Zuo Cheng. Although Tang Song is under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Zuo Cheng, the gap in the rank is too large, and his immediate superior is the two doctors and Yuanwailang. It is also the object of his visit.

After just waiting for a while, the Zhanggu, who was called Sun Shan, walked out of the main room in the courtyard and was in the middle. "Dr. Liu had no time to meet Tang Du affairs, so he could only go to visit Tang Du affairs to invite Mr. Wei."

According to the standards of the six departments, the doctor who is from the fifth rank is the chief official, and the official who is from the sixth rank is the deputy.

It’s not that he is not here, but that he is not here! Seeing a new official is just a few words of encouragement. How much time can he spend? Doctor Liu doesn’t have time to see him, he doesn’t want to see him at all.

As a result, Tang Song naturally remembered the scene when he came to the government affairs a few days ago to invite Lu Yuanfang to meet him. At that time, this was the officials waiting in the gatehouse outside the government affairs. Later, when Tang Song walked in, he heard him vaguely telling another official that Tang Song was a confidant designated by Lu Xiang himself, "How dare I control such a person when I got to me?"

It seems that Dr. Liu has some ideas about Lu Yuanfang's personnel arrangements directly interfering in his territory. But he did not dare to doubt Lu Xiang, so Tang Song became a punching bag. At this moment, he didn't see him deliberately, which was actually a very obvious knock.

Although Tang Song felt uncomfortable with this little bit of care that Doctor Liu played, he could figure it out. He was not ignorant of the world, and naturally understood that Lu Yuanfang's approach was indeed a taboo in the officialdom, and would make people like Doctor Liu feel uncomfortable and awkward.

After thinking about this, Tang Song didn't care about it. He followed Zhang Gu to another office room opposite to Liu's office room, which was directly opposite to Liu's office room. Needless to say, this was Wei Yuanwailang's office room.

Compared with the past, the treatment of this experience is really a world of ice and fire. After Sun Shan entered for a while, he saw an official in his thirties who was in his thirties and had no beard and walked out with a smile, "This is Tang Song, Xiangzhou, who has been famous all over the world for many years? I have long admired his name but thought that he would meet him today. Come on, come in quickly."

No matter why this Wei Yuanwailang was so enthusiastic, his attitude did make Tang Song, who was coldly treated by his boss on the first day of his tenure, feel much better.

Wei Yuanwailang's office room is not small, and the decoration inside is not surprising at first glance, but if you look at the utensils carefully, none of them are ordinary road goods, which makes the office room less dull and more elegant. A small red mud stove in the room was boiling tea on the room, and the heat was almost seventy-fourth, and the tea fragrance filled the room.

After entering the office, seeing these, and looking at the seemingly ordinary clothes and accessories of Wei Yuanwailang, Tang Song had a preliminary impression of this enthusiastic boss. This person's family background must be very ordinary, and he seemed very idle in the yamen. But he didn't know if this idleness was intentional afterwards, or if there was nothing to do at all.

It's still very early now, and the bell at the yamen has just been ringing, so it shouldn't be the time to cook tea by yourself no matter what. So Tang Song didn't see the tea fragrance in the room and the small red mud stove, and there was no mention of it. He sat down right across the desk and listened quietly to Mr. Wei.

During this period, Mr. Wei said a lot, and Tang Song never talked much except for necessary words. In short, his performance was no different from other new recruits in the imperial city who were cautious in their words and actions. It was in line with the four key words of "meaning and orderly".

Seeing him like this, Wei Yuanwailang was no longer too enthusiastic. After the two completed the normal pre-job conversation, Wei Yuanwailang personally sent him to the office and introduced him to some colleagues.

It was at this time that Tang Song realized that he was actually the leader of the Six Ministers of the Six Ministers. This was not that his official rank was higher than those five people, but because he was in contact with the Ministry of Personnel. There was actually a difference between the six ministers in the three provinces and six ministries. At present, the officials, households, rites, soldiers, punishments, and labour. The Ministry of Personnel is the well-deserved leader of the Six Ministers. He, the person in charge of contacting the Ministry of Personnel, naturally rose in the process of the Ministry of Personnel.

In addition, he is not a commander who is a commander who is from the eighth grade lower level and a commander who is from the ninth grade upper level. In addition to these two internal officials, there are three other internal officials, six internal officials, one official, one official, and two solid masters. If the internal and external officials are added together, there are also more than ten people under his command.

Seeing the expressions on the other five Shangshus when Wei Yuanwailang introduced him, he was obviously not unfamiliar with him, but under the greetings of face, these five people were not enthusiastic about him. Tang Song even felt a faint hostility in two of them.

Tang Song naturally would not reveal these thoughts. He met his colleagues and subordinates in a proper manner. After Wei Yuanwailang completed the task, the five ministers left, and at this point, Tang Song officially joined the post and became a member of the Secretariat.

As a blessing from the great yamen of the Shangshu Province, Tang Song could have his own office house from the seventh rank. Although the area is not large, the layout inside is also very simple. But it is a ** space after all.

After looking around in the office room, the head of the man in charge came in. The two of them had an inevitable conversation, and Tang Song asked him in detail about his scope of responsibility and current work arrangements.

After everything was cleared, Tang Song smiled at the head and said, "You are all old yamen, but I just came to work. What can I do? What should I do in the past? What should I do now? Just don't make any mistakes. As for the others, it's not too late to wait until someone is familiar with me. By the way, since you are about to start taking the exam, please come to me for the court's regulations on exams."

After listening to Tang Song's instructions carefully, the head of the department felt relieved and also looked down upon. The most feared thing about him is that Shangguan would mention something blindly and command when he didn't know anything. This would add countless hard work to him, and these hard work would not have any effect.

Of course, if they really encounter such Shangguan, they will not be able to deal with it without any secret hands, and they can even force Shangguan to lose face. However, if they really do this, they will be a loss-win situation. If they were not forced to suffer, then the head would not want to do so.

Originally, Tang Song was too young, so the head was still worried. After hearing what he said, he knew that he would not make any mention of it, he felt relieved. At the same time, he also understood that this young Shangguan was not a foolish person.

Shortly after the head of the army left, a thick stack of statutes was sent, all of which were the basis and standards for the current imperial court to take the test.

In the following day of employment, except for finding a restaurant outside the imperial city at noon to invite more than a dozen subordinates to have a meal together, Tang Song focused all his thoughts on reading the rules and regulations.

After a closer look, Tang Song felt cold at that time, because when he completed the task assigned by Lu Yuanfang, his process of selecting the final list was quite different from these regulations. If so, even if Lu Yuanfang trusted him, how should he view the list he handed over and how should he treat the list he handed over?

If this mission was a test by Lu Yuanfang for him as he had originally speculated, does that mean that he had completely failed in this test?

Tang Song stood up from the desk and walked slowly in the office room, feeling both regretful and a little unwilling to be upset.

I regretted that I was so careless. Since I was selecting people, why didn’t I think I would use the test standards to carefully study them. I made such a big low-level mistake when I stayed at home every day.

As for unwillingness and injustice, it is in his opinion that the "Four Goods and Twenty-Seven Best" test standards that the imperial court today performs seem to be a complete system, but if measured by goal-oriented standards, its operability and effectiveness are really a big question mark.

The four good and twenty-seven sins are the general term for the examination standards. The four good that is the most brutal are the standards of morality. One is that there is knowledge of virtue and righteousness, the second is to be cautious and clear, the third is to be fair and fair, and the fourth is to be diligent. These four conditions are common requirements for all officials taking the examination course. In the specific examination, the more good the officials get, the higher the order. If all the four good ones are prepared, they will be the best.

As for the twenty-seven crimes, they are standards for talent based on the different positions of each official office. For example, one is whether the offer can be replaced, and the relic can be supplemented, which is the most important one among the closest attendants; the second is to compete for the person, promote all the talents, and select the officers; the third is to promote the clear and turbid, and praise and criticize them, which is the most important one among the exams...

The above regulations and standards cannot be said to be incomplete, but they cannot avoid it. First: consistent with the current tradition of Shilin's emphasis on Taoism and neglecting techniques, this test standard has a clear tendency to value virtue and neglect talent. This is not the main problem. The biggest problem is that these four standards sound good, but their operability is too poor, which means it is difficult to distinguish one official from another. "My" itself is a relatively broad concept. How to use such a broad and difficult to quantify standard?

The second is that the "Twenty-Seven Best" standards are too generalized and simple, which brings ambiguous disadvantages. What are the standards for picking up the missing? What is the level of completing the missing? Based on this article, how can the attendant officials be classified as third-class and ninth level? What are the standards for selecting and promoting the talents of the officers...

In short, it is just a sentence: the standard adopted by the court now looks beautiful, but it is too unsatisfactory to use, the operability is too poor, and the corresponding randomness is too high. Based on this, it is a worrying effect to evaluate the pros and cons of officials!

Compared with these four good and twenty-seven, although Tang Song's criteria for selecting the list before were far less than its perfection, they all started from actual political achievements one by one. For example, after becoming a county magistrate, has the population under the county increased? How much has it increased? Is the entrusted land and Yongye land increased? How much has it increased? Is the entrusted tax adjustment increased? How much has it increased... His assessment of each official has these real data statistics to support the advantages and disadvantages of officials; the final conclusion is also made after calculating and comparing the data.

The Four Goods Twenty-Seven are the most gorgeous and empty, but he is cumbersome and real; the Four Goods Twenty-Seven are the most operational, but he comes from real operations. In this case, if Lu Yuanfang is still dissatisfied with the result of the test and then abandons his list of hard-working efforts, but how can he be content with it? How can he not feel unfair?

In this somewhat entangled state of mind, a leisurely sound of a scattered yamen bell came from outside. Tang Song rubbed his dry eyes and was about to go home. The head of Wang Feng led a small eunuch in, saying that His Majesty summoned him and ordered him to enter the palace immediately.

Upon hearing this, Tang Song suddenly felt shocked, and then he felt a little nervous. The crystal incident caused by Zhang Changzong's secret arrow was finally coming to an end.
Chapter completed!