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◎ Special privilege! The road to the Eight Banners!◎
Ashan is also a legendary figure in the Qing Dynasty.
Because he was a descendant of the Eight Banners, Ashan did not take the imperial examination, but directly entered the officialdom through the Bi Tieshi.
The so-called "Bi Tieshi" is actually a "translator", an official with a formal establishment.
It sounds quite high-sounding, but it is actually just a translator - this is to talk about the official document writing habits of the Qing Dynasty.
Because it was a Manchu regime, basically all official documents of the Qing Dynasty, including memorials, imperial edicts, etc., had to be written in both Manchu and Han characters. Speaking of this, because of this tradition, the "tampering with the edict of succession" in the folk legend is pure nonsense.
Because according to this tradition, the edict that Master Kang passed the throne to the fourth master must have been written in both Manchu and Han characters.
So even if Master Kang really wanted to pass the throne to the fourteenth prince, he should have expressed this meaning in both Manchu and Han. It is definitely impossible to just change "十" to "于".
And the official title in writing is not as casual as the fourth prince and the fourteenth prince.
It should be "皇四子" and "皇四子".
Therefore, whether it is Manchu or Han, it is impossible to directly change "四" to "于四".
Otherwise, it will become "皇于四子", which is too strange.
Because of this need, the court needs some people who know both Manchu and Han to do translation.
Moreover, these people must be from the Eight Banners - that is, only our own people can do this important job more easily.
It can be said that this Biteshi is a shortcut to enter the official career, of course, we still have to take care of our own people, not those foreigners.
Therefore, all Biteshi are descendants of the Eight Banners, and this job is also called "Eight Banners descendants", which means that you ordinary Han people are not qualified at all.
Not to mention, during the entire Kang Master era, there were several people who rose rapidly from the position of Bi Tieshi and eventually became high-ranking officials.
Among them, there is an old acquaintance, Lord Sony, who also took this route.
Sony also started as a Bi Tieshi and eventually became a Grand Academician of the Cabinet, known as Prime Minister Suo, and was simply the boss of the Bi Tieshi world.
This Ashan eventually became the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, also a first-rank official. It can be said that he is slightly inferior to Sony, but he is also very capable.
And compared to Sony, who was imprisoned in the Imperial Clan Court because of his standing and party struggles and eventually died there, Ashan's life was much happier.
First of all, this man is not just greedy.
Secondly, not only is he greedy, he also plays power games.
People in the public say that although Lord Ashan looks honest and capable, he is actually a person who bends the law for personal gain and seeks fame.
He likes to be the CPU in the workplace the most, and disciplines all the officials under him. He must do whatever he wants, and everyone is united. He bullies Master Kang and the ministers above, and oppresses and exploits the people below. He even sells official positions and bullies men and women. He is really evil and does everything he can.
If any of the officials under him disobeys, Ashan will order the entire small group to isolate him and make him pay for it.
This trick has been tried and tested, and soon there is only one type of people left in the place where Ashan is in charge, that is, those who flatter him and listen to him.
As the governor of Liangjiang, Ah Shan lived a complacent life in Jiangnan. On the one hand, he took the opportunity to build the Longtan Palace for Master Kang to make money. He became the tyrant of Jiangnan and the actual controller of Jiangnan.
In fact, he had already succeeded. In those two years, the entire Jiangnan region really became his world. Who would have thought that the good times would not last long. When he was showing off, God happened to let him meet a stubborn old man who was upright and refused to go along with him.
This old man is the current Jiangning prefect Chen Pengnian.
This old man came to Jiangning to take office the year before last. Before that, he mainly circled in the north. Because of his integrity and outstanding ability, he was warmly supported and loved by the local people.
I heard that when he left his last post, the local people cried, lined the streets to see him off, and tried desperately to keep him, but it was difficult to disobey the emperor's order, so he could only bid farewell with tears and embark on a new journey.
This old Chen is indeed a man of action.
As soon as he arrived in Jiangning, he did several big things. The first thing was to redress unjust, false and wrong cases.
Since he is the prefect of a place, he is the parent official of the place. Basically, he has to take care of everything from beginning to end, even the smallest things. So asking everyone to redress grievances is a common practice.
Chen Pengnian had served as county magistrate and prefect in several places before, and it can be said that he has accumulated sufficient experience in being a parent official.
After all, he was also a Jinshi, completely different from those who relied on their family background and status to get an easy job as a scribe and then were promoted step by step.
He has real ability.
So, why has the imperial examination not been cancelled after so many years? Because it is indeed the most fair way to select talents.
And it is the only way for the vast majority of Han people, especially the grassroots people, to enter the officialdom.
Oh, you said Mo Yu is not, this is of course different.
After all, no matter how salty he is, he has a golden finger. How can he be compared with ordinary natives?
What's more, his father Lin Ruhai was a real Tanhualang, passed the imperial examination and achieved third place in the country. It's okay for him to be a little special.
Not to mention that the Lin family was originally a five-generation marquisate. Lin Ruhai was already the sixth generation, and by the time of Mo Yu and Xiao Daiyu, it was the seventh generation.
It was already the seventh generation, and it was time to "help the poor" as appropriate.
This was also one of the favorite tricks of the Qing emperors.
That is, if you have made great contributions, they will make you a king and a noble, and stipulate whether it is "hereditary" or "hereditary without replacement".
If it is "hereditary without replacement", it proves that the throne or title can be directly passed on to future generations without damage.
But if it is just "hereditary", then it is terrible.
This means that only the first generation has the real throne or title, and starting from his son's generation, it starts to decline generation by generation.
Basically, by the third or fourth generation, there is no throne or title.
At this time, it is the time of life and death for a family.
Because at this time, the fourth or fifth generation who should be the pillars of the family are basically waste.
No matter what the ancestors are from, after living in such a pampered life for several generations, the children will have some problems to a greater or lesser extent. It is the old saying "it is easy to be full when you are full", which is roughly the reason.
People who eat too much tend to think too much, so it is better to find something for them to do.
Therefore, once the emperors of the Qing Dynasty saw a prince of a different surname, a marquis, a noble, etc. who had made outstanding contributions and whose family had been passed down for three or four generations, they would be careful.
"The family heirloom is passed down from generation to generation" would be fine, as there were too few such cases and there were rarely any problems.
But "the family heirloom is passed down from generation to generation" would not work.
By the third or fourth generation, it was basically impossible to find a child who could inherit the family business.
Even if our ancestors were so angry that they had a cerebral hemorrhage in heaven, they could not change this human nature problem.
Fortunately, there are always some people who can overcome the weaknesses of human nature and do not value the wealth of the family. Instead, they want to make a name for themselves in the world.
Lin Ruhai was such a case.
The Lin family's title had already ended when Lin Ruhai's father passed away - it was originally twice the title of Lin Ruhai's grandfather, but Master Kang felt that this family had a hard time. They had made military achievements and were granted the title of King of Juxu by the previous emperor. Such a tragic ending was indeed too rude.
Considering this, Master Kang couldn't help but be kind - after all, he became more soft-hearted as he got older, but it didn't mean that he was not soft-hearted when he was young.
Okay, let them do whatever they want, or leave the title to them for another generation? It's just a matter of words. I've made the decision, so let's do it.
Huh? What?
I heard that Lin Ruhai, the eldest son of Mr. Lin, is very good and has already taken the imperial examination. I have to take a good look at him.
Unexpectedly, in the palace examination, I found that Lin Ruhai, the eldest son of the Lin family, not only wrote beautiful articles, but also had a good appearance.
Under such conditions, it would be difficult to end up without a third place winner. Master Kang waved his pen and directly appointed Lin Ruhai as the third place winner.
With Master Kang's operation, the Lin family became a fifth-generation marquis, plus a third place winner.
So, all the pressure was passed on to Mo Yu and Xiao Daiyu.
Unfortunately, the health of the siblings was not very good. Although they were all very smart and good-looking, it was probably difficult for them to create anything brilliant.
However, what moved Mo Yu and Xiao Daiyu was that both Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were very caring towards them.
The proof was that these two parents never forced them to do something they didn't like.
They never treated them as little kids who knew nothing, but always discussed things seriously and treated them with the same attitude as their peers. This alone was enough to kill many parents in seconds.
Even many parents in the world would feel ashamed of themselves. This was an extremely advanced teaching concept.
Mo Yu and Xiao Daiyu grew up in such an environment, and no matter their character, personality, or ability, they would be able to play out their minds freely.
Needless to say, Mo Yu was originally an adult at heart, so it was normal for him to be a little different from ordinary people.
But what he never expected was that his cheap little sister, Xiao Daiyu, was also growing up very fast.
The last time he went home, he saw that his little sister had actually begun to learn to be a housekeeper from Jia Min.
That guy, the account book was flipping noisily, and the beads were clacking, which was simply not the speed of an ordinary human.
And this, Xiao Daiyu said, she had only learned it for a few months.
This is probably what a genius is.
Mo Yu said that fortunately he was a salty fish by nature, and the future of their Lin family depends on you, my little sister Daiyu.
Mo Yu was thinking about these things here, and Ah Shan had already knocked his head to the ground and started the process of complaining.
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