"Reporting to the emperor." Lu Haowen stepped forward awkwardly, took several deep breaths to calm down, and then reported his work. "The matter of local rule is under the overall supervision of Minister Xu, and a rough outline has been made. However, this matter involves a lot of things, and the central departments, temples, and courts are very short of staff. Local officials also have many vacancies after the war from last winter to this spring. Therefore, we can only ask some people to stabilize the military and prefectures and let them do a rough job first. If we want to come up with a proper proposal and deal with it properly, I'm afraid we have to wait until the personnel are in place..."

"I understand this." Zhao Jiu remained calm, but paused. "On the way here, I figured it out. We are determined to fight against the Jin. The first thing is to be able to fight. In order to fight, in addition to selecting generals and training soldiers on the front line, we also need to gather food and money in the rear. To properly gather food and money, we have to do two things: one is to increase revenue, and the other is to maintain stability... Tuduan is both to increase revenue and to maintain stability. It is a long-term plan. We can do as much as we can. We don't expect you to succeed in March and be ready in May."

"The government is wise." No one knew whether the words "open source" and "maintaining stability" hit the nail on the head, or whether the government's unhurried attitude made people feel at ease, or whether it was because he was embarrassed about some things, anyway, Lu Haowen's attitude today was very good, and he even said the word "wise".

"But I have two more points to make about this matter." Seeing the other party's praise, and having a great time outside the city these days, Emperor Zhao couldn't help but feel a little flattered, so he recalled his high-end online knowledge and said a few more words. "One is to set up pacification envoys and control envoys... In short, in places where troops are stationed, we must handle it properly. On the one hand, we recognize that they do some things to attract refugees in order to support and comfort the troops, but on the other hand, we must adhere to the big principles and not let them do anything excessive. We can't control the faraway ones now, but if Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun make trouble, there is no need to worry. Just come to me to impeach them, and I will talk to them! You must know that they may be bastards, but they will not have ambitions after all!"

At this time in the palace, apart from Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan who were as stiff as wood on the left and right, and a few eunuchs, the ones who were qualified to discuss politics were actually all civil officials, except for Wang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Camp... When everyone heard this, they had different thoughts. Some thought that Emperor Zhao had thought it through properly and knew to guard against these military generals, while others thought that Emperor Zhao still trusted Han and Zhang too much.

But for a moment, apart from Lu Haowen bowing his head and saying "I have received the order", there was no other sound, as if they were waiting for the second point.

"The second is the problem of the officials." Zhao Jiu hesitated for a moment as he looked at the civil officials in the hall, then gritted his teeth and said, "Officials and officials are separated, and they are like fire and water. This is a common problem in the local area. Officials cannot suppress officials, so they will be bullied by them... I don't understand local affairs, but this should be the case, right?"

"yes!"

"Exactly."

Officials from local areas such as Yan Xiaozhong and Liu Ji immediately responded sporadically.

"Just now I heard that there is a shortage of local officials." Zhao Jiu sighed. "But most of the administrative affairs are handled by clerks. In this extraordinary time, can we give them some benefits from a political perspective?"

"What does the official mean?"

"I think, in times of national crisis, can we take advantage of this opportunity to make exceptions and allow some officials with outstanding contributions to be promoted to county magistrate and assistant magistrate?" Zhao Jiu asked tentatively.

The hall was suddenly so quiet that it was a little scary, but this silence was different from the previous silence... In fact, as soon as Emperor Zhao spoke, he realized that he was a little anxious, and then regretted it slightly.

Again, the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty generally had conservative characteristics. This had nothing to do with the New Party or the Old Party's advocacy of war or peace, but was due to the political ecology created by the style of scholars, national policies, Confucianism, and the political traditions formed by the officials and scholar-officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Although there have been successes for new parties and officials doing things under the banner of new parties, there are many things that people feel are wrong deep down, let alone such particularly excessive behavior.

This is blatantly using officials to encroach on the lifeblood of the scholar-officials!

Even Lü Haowen, who was born under the influence of a family, dared not say a word about this matter... In fact, there are such officials, and the so-called "selection of people" still exists. In other words, Emperor Zhao's strategy is not without precedent. However, those remote military states that are common in the south and Guanxi are basically impossible to successfully become regular officials in the capital without passing the imperial examination. The military states that need to be judged are either the large states along the Huai River to the west of the capital, or the wealthy military states behind. These positions are originally exclusive to officials in the capital, so how can they be the same?

Here, leaving aside theories, there is only the reality that "once an official, always an official."

In the final analysis, the official civil servants of the Song Dynasty, or the so-called Beijing officials, were mainly those who came from the imperial examinations or those who were granted imperial favors, with a small number of people such as students from the Imperial Academy mixed in. Among them, the proportion of officials who were granted imperial favors was extremely high, and they could also reach the top positions, but it is worth mentioning that scholars are scholars, literati are literati, those who were granted imperial favors can also be scholars, and students from the Imperial Academy need not be mentioned, so the boundaries between the groups are extremely clear, and even those who were granted imperial favors must have sufficient knowledge to be actually accepted by the literati.

Back to the present, it is not uncommon for the literati to be squeezed by the unlearned officials among the imperial officials, and even in this time of national crisis, there appeared a prime minister like Lu Haowen who was born in the imperial family, but is this not enough? What are the clerks? Can they also be appointed as county magistrates and magistrates on a large scale?

"It's just a temporary measure, a temporary emergency measure, and it's limited to the basic national policy of Tujue." After a pause, Zhao Jiu suddenly laughed. "Besides, aren't you guys shouting about the lack of personnel? And didn't we use the recommendation system of the Han Dynasty on the road before? Will we continue to use it? When things are settled and the threat of the Jin people is lessened, we will eventually hold an imperial examination to recruit scholars. Otherwise, just stop at the county magistrate?"

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