These sharp words from Liu Bei directly undermined the legitimacy of those officials who bought their posts.

Liu Bei said it very well. His Majesty did sell his official position. He spent money on it, and he should indeed become an official. However, what he spent on buying an official position was just an opportunity to serve the country. As he said,

It is a great kindness from His Majesty to exchange a mere amount of money for an opportunity to serve as an official.

The meaning of this sentence is very obvious. What you buy when you buy an official is just an opportunity. Once you give this opportunity, everything will be settled.

Therefore, if you buy an official position, neglect political affairs, and accept another person's official position, you should also do so.

This is the legal principle that defeats the official position of a person who buys an official position from the perspective of the buyer-seller relationship.

Secondly, Liu Bei said it well, the country, the country, the country, cannot be bought with money.

As soon as this sentence came out, the law of heaven suppressed it, and no one could deny the rationality of selling the official and then taking the official away.

Originally, Emperor Ling sold his official position. As long as someone gave him money, he could become an official. Due to emotions and reasons, Emperor Ling could not sell his official position and then take it back. This was too unruly.

However, after Liu Bei explained it, it suddenly became clear.

For those officials who bought an official position, the official position they bought went from being stable and worry-free to one that could be taken away at any time, and there was no reason to judge if it was taken away.

Emperor Ling suddenly discovered that he could sell limited official positions an unlimited number of times in a very fair and honest way. He could sell an official position twice, three times, or even ten times. Moreover,

It's very reasonable, very wise, and very in line with the rules, and no one can raise an objection.

If it is said that selling an official position would make Emperor Huan Jue Ling feel embarrassed and find it difficult to talk about it, then, to put it another way, what he is selling is not an official position, but what he is selling is to give the people of the world an opportunity to serve the country. In this way, he becomes more dignified.

Those who are selling are not officials. They are just pitying the people of the world and giving them a chance to show their ambitions. As for the money? Isn’t the money given by them themselves in order to serve the country? What a good person, who would rather spend a lot of money to serve the country.

Serving the country, he is truly a loyal minister and righteous man.

Even so, the loyalty of the righteous people who buy official positions can be learned, but political affairs are related to the safety of all people. This is not just about loyalty, but also the ability to govern the country.

If there is a "righteous man" who spends a lot of money to buy an official position in order to serve the country, but although this righteous man is loyal and loyal, he has no ability to govern the country. If he is allowed to stay in office for a long time, it may not be a blessing to the people. Therefore,

For these people who are dedicated to serving the country but have no ability to govern the country, we have no choice but to ask them to resign.

Selling an official position to win a title is foolish and perverse. Emperor Ling himself felt that it was wrong and felt ashamed. However, Liu Bei changed the way of saying it and gave a reasonable legal explanation. He turned this foolish thing of selling an official position into an opportunity for the people of the world to serve the country.

It turned into a noble thing with the emperor's great grace and incomparable sage. Face, money, everything was gained, and even the official position could be easily taken back. There were many advantages and no disadvantages. How could the Ling Emperor not do this?

agree.

It was an idea secretly discussed between Emperor Ling and Liu Bei to summon the court officials to come, in order to take action on those who bought official positions.

As for whether someone else will buy an official position after being removed from office, there is no need to worry about this.

First, there is a reasonable legal explanation for the dismissal of officials, and even the dismissed officials themselves are convinced.

Secondly, there are too many people who want to be officials, but there are too few official positions, so there is no need to worry about the people who don't buy them.

Thirdly, if you buy an official position, you will not necessarily get it back. As long as you make no mistakes and do well, you can stay in the position for a long time. This is still a fatal attraction for those who want to enter the official career.

Emperor Ling was crazy about selling officials. The list of officials he gave to Liu Bei included the names of hundreds of officials involved in all aspects. Liu Bei followed the list and checked the officials one by one.

Judgment, more than 80% of those who bought official positions have been eliminated. This means that if the hundreds of vacant official positions are sold, it will be a huge fortune.

Liu Bei has stood at the highest point of truth and law. Those who want to buy an official position can only hold their noses and admit it. They can only accept the reality that their money is wasted. No one dares to argue in front of the Ling Emperor. Liu Bei

The truth has been blocked with one sentence. Liu Bei said that the country's valuable weapons cannot be bought with money. With just this sentence, if anyone dares to argue, no one will dare to say anything. He will be executed on the spot.

This was a Hongmen Banquet aimed at the Han bureaucracy, or to be precise, it was specifically targeted at those officials who bought offices.

At the end of the Hongmen Banquet, Liu Bei recommended this person who was the top scholar in Luoyang's imperial examination to Emperor Ling.

Among the nine liberal arts subjects in the imperial examination, the person who ranked first in the total score of the nine subjects was a scholar named Hua Yan (dan). This man was not too old, in his early twenties, and was unknown. He was originally managing the library of Taiyuan University, and heard that

When the imperial examination was held in Luoyang, this man participated with some Confucian scholars. As a result, he surpassed all the talented people in Luoyang and topped the high school list.

Combined with this person's identity, it is not difficult to understand why the number one scholar is this person. This person collects books in Guantai College, that is, the librarian. Generally, there are many good people in this position. For example, I am the librarian.

The person who collected books in the Zhou royal family is another example of Confucius. Confucius was in charge of the book collection in Lu. There was also a great man in later generations who was also the librarian.

These people who manage books often produce outstanding talents. The reason is probably that these people are exposed to too many books, read a lot, and have far more knowledge than ordinary people, so they stand out from the crowd.

This is why, when Liu Bei's exam questions involved military, law, forensics, medicine, mathematics, water conservancy, agriculture, government, and engineering, etc., Hua Yan, a young scholar, could answer all subjects very well.

As the face of the Luoyang imperial examination, Emperor Ling awarded Hua Yan the title of Zhonglang Ling of the Ministry of Rites.

This Ministry of Rites is an official position specially set up for the imperial examination. Liu Bei is the Minister of Rites, and Hua Yan is the Minister of Rites. He is subordinate to Liu Bei and serves as an official in the Ministry of Rites.

Emperor Ling appointed ministers to the Ministry of Rites, and it seemed that he wanted to continue the imperial examination for a long time.

Liu Bei made many important contributions, such as the law on national debts, the law on land allocation, and the imperial examination law, and he was promoted from a white body to the minister of the Ministry of Rites.

As for the scholar Hua Yan, he did not have many meritorious achievements. Just because he came first in the exam, he jumped from a librarian with no establishment to a lieutenant. It can be said that he reached the sky in one step.

Hua Yan became the first scholar in the imperial examination and became the first scholar in the world.

The first person in the martial arts examination was Wang Yue. On that day at the school, the Ling Emperor had seen Wang Yue's bravery. The Ling Emperor ordered Wang Yue to be the tiger warrior general and lead the martial arts scholars to guard the palace. The martial arts scholars were removed.

In addition to those who held positions in various places, there were probably more than 400 people left, all of whom were warriors selected from a hundred, and hundreds of sharp soldiers, all of whom joined Wang Yue's command.
Chapter completed!