Chapter 1199: Appointment of Officials
Although the ordinary sergeants in the Shayuan camp were disbanded one after another and returned to their hometowns, the generals and generals were still on standby. After briefly gathering with their families for a few days, they all returned to Shangyang Palace to wait for summons and orders.
"I will see you at last, your Majesty!"
In Shangyang Palace, Yang Kun, who rushed to wait after receiving the notice and finally waited until he came to the palace to worship, could not bear the excitement. After entering the palace, he respectfully bowed to the King of Tang who was sitting in the palace.
Li Tai withdrew his gaze from the register on the case and turned to look down at the Yang Kun below. He raised his hand and said with a smile: "Yang Lang, there is no need to be polite. Come to the table and answer."
After hearing this, Yang Kun quickly nodded in agreement, then stood up and sat down carefully on the table.
"This expedition lasted for several months. It must have been hard work for Yanglang. Looking through the merit book, I can see that your achievements are quite impressive. You are truly worthy of a distinguished family."
After Yang Kun took his seat, Li Taicai pointed to the book on the table and said with a smile that what he had just been browsing was the achievements related to Yang Kun.
Yang Kun followed Hou Jing during Hou Jing's rebellion. Later, when Hou Jing was defeated, he killed Hou Jing and surrendered to Wang Sengbian. After Wang Sengbian was eliminated by Chen Baxian, he, together with Wang Sengmin and other Wang Sengbian's remaining troops, defected to Li Tai, who had been in Shishannan before. When Li Tai entered Guanzhong, he transferred Shannan officers and soldiers to Guanzhong, and they were also included in the conscription.
This time the army went out, Yang Kun was controlled by Liang Shiyan, and fought successively in Jinzhou, Jianzhou and other places, which are now renamed Tangzhou. Although there were no outstanding achievements such as beheading generals and capturing flags, the cumulative achievements of beheading and defeating the enemy added up. It can also be said that he has made meritorious service in all battles and performed very well. After this battle, he has been promoted to Kaifu.
Although the value of relevant official positions has been decreasing in recent years, Kaifu, as a relatively special official title, is still a symbol that distinguishes upper-level generals from middle-level generals.
"Those who have lost their family have found a place to stay because they have received the Lord's grace and protection. How dare they not do the hard work of dogs and horses and sacrifice their lives in return!"
After hearing this, Yang Kun hurriedly bowed slightly and said: "I will only give you a small reward, and my kindness is as heavy as a mountain, but I have to do something, and I am bound to do it!"
"I have called you here today to teach you something."
Li Tai was quite satisfied with Yang Kun's attitude, so he stopped talking nonsense and directly stated the intention of summoning him: "I will negotiate with the Qi thieves and force them to cede the territory of the Huainan counties to me. The counties need to choose good generals. To the town, all the remaining prefectures and counties are affiliated, but the two prefectures of Yangping and Xuyi are connected to Qi Tu in the north and Chenjing in the south. They are in dangerous positions and cannot be lightly awarded to ordinary talents. Only those who are brave, wise, and capable of both civil and military affairs can be appointed. "Does Yanglang dare to accept this appointment?"
"The last general is so trusted by the king that he is so frightened that he dares to refuse his order! If he receives this mission, he will live with the two counties and share life and death!"
Although Yang Kun had been prepared in his heart, when he heard this, he couldn't help but look surprised. He quickly stood up, bowed to the ground, and said respectfully to King Tang.
The six counties in Huainan ceded by the Northern Qi Dynasty, except for Guangling, which was previously occupied by Nanchen, the other counties were also completed in the previous period. Shuofeng and other newly appointed military and political chiefs have also rushed to Huainan to take up their posts, but some important positions are temporarily vacant because there are no suitable candidates.
Yangping and Xuyi are both located in the lower reaches of the Huai River, adjacent to the Huaibei Prefecture of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and also bordering Guangling and other places occupied by the Nan Chen Dynasty. The quality requirements for the personnel sent to sit in charge are even higher. They not only need to have sufficient military literacy, but also maintain a certain degree of civil and governance capabilities to ensure the stability of the local situation. At the same time, they must be able to coordinate and handle external personnel exchanges and contacts.
Simply listing these conditions reflects the importance of the two places in the next three-way game, as well as the difficulty of personnel selection. Although the conditions are relatively harsh, the sheep kun can meet these requirements perfectly.
First of all, in terms of personal ability, although the Western Wei Dynasty accepted a large number of military talents from the Southern Dynasties, most of them were limited to their own experience and talents, and could not perform well in both the south and the north. Yangkun was one of the few who could A brave general who can board ships and ride horses and adapt to various combat environments.
Although when he first entered the Wei Dynasty, Li Tai gave him preferential treatment for the sake of his father Yang Kan, but his future promotion was mainly based on his own performance. After several battles, he had become the general of the founding government. , there is no problem in terms of ability.
The next most important thing, and the main reason why Yang Kun is qualified for this position, is his background. After all, a simple brave general can be placed in any frontier location, but in complex areas such as Yangping and Xuyi, it does not have high universal applicability.
Yang Kun was born into the Taiyang clan, which was not only a famous Shandong clan during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but is still a very powerful and influential clan in the Qingxu area today. Yang Kan made a lot of noise for Nantou back then, and his name is still spread in this area, and no matter in the south or in the north, the name of the Taiyang family is also somewhat prestigious.
Before conventional governance methods and order management have been established, if the influence and control possessed by local powerful people can be properly used, they will undoubtedly achieve twice the result with half the effort and greatly reduce the cost of governance. With such an identity and background, Yang Kun can not only govern the two counties, but also more conveniently penetrate into the Xuyan area in Huaibei.
Of course, this kind of special selection and appointment is only limited to relatively unique places. Most other newly conquered territories still follow a relatively standardized process for the selection of officials.
When he was still in Shannan, Li Tai's military office had already established a system for training talent echelons. When he entered Guanzhong, the scale of this training echelon was further expanded, including more people, and talents were selected from the entire territory of the Western Wei Dynasty.
As early as when he just entered the court to quell the rebellion, he formulated a policy of promoting national studies. The Imperial College, the Imperial College and various private schools all recruited students on a large scale. After several years of accumulation, the number of students studying in the library has increased year by year, and now it has become a very considerable number.
While the scale of education has developed, the procedures and regulations for selecting officials have also been standardized.
Although the Western Wei Dynasty has not yet conducted the imperial examination with determined content and names, various selection tests have actually been selected in different subjects. All students who passed the selection test were registered as reserve officials, and then entered different administrative agencies for training and observation.
The Ministry of Personnel has a register of candidates to manage these reserve officials. The candidates' initial test scores and subsequent training and internship evaluations will be recorded in the register, so that the ability of the candidate group has also been divided into a ladder.
A considerable number of these candidates have already had mature administrative management experience and can be regarded as qualified officials. However, since there were not many vacancies in the past, these candidates can only continue to stay in this talent reserve pool.
Now with the expansion of the territory, a large number of vacancies in counties and prefectures have emerged, just in time to release all these reserve talents and arrange them in different governance positions.
Although the places where these candidates are going have different hometowns, and the official skills and management experience they have learned in the past may not be applicable, people and things always need to be adjusted to each other, and there are not many coincidences that are just right. Friction and contradiction are always inevitable, and both sides need a process of mutual adaptation and mutual accommodation. If it is really difficult to adapt and accommodate, then the only way is to use a knife.
Thanks to the rich talent pool and official selection system of the Hegemony Mansion, although the newly added territory is large and the various rural situations are relatively complicated, under the careful selection and arrangement of Li Tai and a group of Hegemony Mansion members, by the late autumn, all the newly added county officials had been in place, and the relevant matters were not delayed until the winter.
This time node is also relatively important. This year, due to the continuous wars between the east and the west, coupled with the severe drought, the livelihood of the people in the entire north is not optimistic. Once winter comes, the survival problem will become very serious in the absence of food and clothing. Moreover, it will be very difficult to dispatch and provide relief materials from other places when it is cold and freezing.
Although the climate is gradually turning cold, there is still some time before the cold winter. After the county officials enter the government, they can quickly investigate the livelihood of the people in the country and report to the Hegemony Mansion, so that the Hegemony Mansion can provide certain disaster relief materials. As long as they can survive this cold winter, the integration of the people's sentiments in these areas will be greatly enhanced, which will make the subsequent governance and recovery smoother.
After finishing the selection of officials in the counties, it was time for the review of the soldiers. Although there were many war tasks this year, Li Tai did not intend to give up this year's review. He just reduced the scale. The soldiers from several states in Guannei, which were closer, participated in the review. The location of the review was also set in Jingzhou, and no longer went too far.
The daily life of the leader of the Bafu was so plain and unpretentious. He was still worried about the people in the previous moment, and he had to lead thousands of troops in the next moment. When the Western Wei was carrying out military and political affairs at the same time, the envoys from the Turks arrived in Guanzhong again.