Since ancient times, officials from the bottom step by step to climb up, it takes a lot of hard work, most of the officials, it takes many years to climb to the next level, even, there are many officials in the most basic positions, a job is decades, even to the time to return to the hometown, or the position when they were young, it can be seen that promotion is not an easy thing, you need to sharpen your head and drill up.

But there are also a small number of officials, the progress of promotion is very fast, you can be promoted several times in a year, and even, within a day, you can be promoted many times, however, such lucky people are really not many, and they belong to the treatment that only a few people can get.

Of course, there is another situation that will also lead to this situation, that is, the emperor's eccentricity, and Yang Guozhong belongs to this situation, and Yang Guozhong is stained with the light of the concubine, otherwise, at his level, he will not be able to become an important minister of the court under any circumstances.

Before Yang Yuhuan was favored, Yang Guozhong, as a cousin, was just a very humble county lieutenant in a small town, equivalent to the county-level director of later generations, and it seems that the official position is not too small, but this kind of official position, in any era, is a very small position, that is, the appearance of eight or nine grades, and it can't even be called an official, it can only be regarded as a small official.

But since he was stained with Yang Yuhuan's light, his official position was like a rocket, and he suddenly crossed a lot of intermediate positions, and directly became the superintendent of the imperial court, and compared with his previous official position, he rose a lot.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor promoted him to be a member of the branch of the foreign lang, and also served the imperial history, and in less than a year, he held more than 15 positions, becoming an important minister of the Tang Dynasty.

After that, the emperor gave him a purple gold fish bag, and he was also the secretary of the Taifu, and he became more and more favored, making other ministers envious and jealous.

In the Tang Dynasty, the clothing of officials was divided into different colors, the purple robe above the third grade was a purple robe, wearing a goldfish bag, the fourth and fifth grades were big red robes, with silverfish bags, and the officials below the sixth grade were all green robes without fish bags, that is, you only need to look at the color of an official's official uniform to roughly know his grade.

However, when the prime minister is sealed, if the prime minister's official position is less than the third rank, his official rank will be given a purple gold fish bag, so that the fourth rank official can also wear a purple official robe and wear the decoration of a gold fish bag.

There is also a very important favor is to give a name, Yang Guozhong's original name was Yang Zhao, he thought that this name with a golden knife, not a good name, so let the emperor give him a name, and Emperor Xuanzong, almost without thinking, gave a name of Guozhong, this name once again greatly improved Yang Guozhong's political status.

All kinds of holy favors together, so that Yang Guozhong has become a very popular person in the Tang Dynasty, of course, Li An is also very popular, and the care he gets is no less than this, but Li An is more to do practical things, responsible for the research and development of various machines, and has very little participation in the government and politics, and has no interest, while Yang Guozhong likes to drill the government very much, and has the will to replace Li Linfu.

In short, according to the predictions of many ordinary people, Yang Guozhong has great hope of becoming the head of the prime minister, and this is naturally not what ordinary people want, they hope to have a virtuous minister like Yao Chong to lead the ministers.

However, I am afraid that this wish is not easy to achieve, because over the years, after Li Linfu's exclusion, the capable ministers of the world have been squeezed out, and some have been killed, and most of them are still in the court, most of them are slippery old fritters, such as Chen Xilie, such old fritters, no one can harm him when he is the prime minister, although he has no real power, but his status in the Tang Dynasty has always been very high, when Li Linfu was in power, he was the second-in-command, and after Yang Guozhong took the throne, he was still the second-in-command.

And because the power is taken over by the first leader, in this way, he, the second-in-command, has nothing to do, but the salary and bonus will not be less, and there is nothing to do but he has a high salary, this kind of work is not too comfortable, many people in later generations are very optimistic about this kind of work, such a corpse vegetarian meal is the most nourishing, otherwise, Chen Xilie would not have been raised for such a long time.

Any virtuous minister is not born, it needs to be exercised step by step, and it is not so easy to cultivate and train a virtuous minister, it takes time and process, so once the existing virtuous minister is killed, it will be a very huge loss for the court.

In addition, officialdom, like shopping malls, has a great deal of inertia, and once the atmosphere of officialdom changes, it will be difficult to reverse.

For example, when most of the officialdom is old fritters, no matter how capable a leader is, he will be dragged to death, even if he wants to do things for the people, he is also powerless, because the top does not cooperate, and at the same time, the people below are not good at work, so, this person will be disheartened after a long time, and then go with the flow, transform into a new old fritter, has been in the position of messing around, can do less is a little, there is a job to deal with it, can push off as much as possible, really can't push off will be dealt with, This further aggravated the atmosphere of officialdom.

The officialdom that many ordinary people hate the most, one is the prevalence of corruption, and the other is the prevalence of clean talk, and once these two tendencies are formed, they will be fatal to an empire.

The disadvantages of the prevalence of corruption are obvious, and those who are in charge of the government will do things for whoever gives them money, and once this kind of atmosphere prevails, it will be okay.

The style of clean talk is also very terrible, because all the officials are unwilling to do practical things, all of them are talking about things, saying things that have nothing to do with the government and people's livelihood, and they don't care about their own work, and even feel insulting and feel that these topics are too vulgar.

If this kind of clean talk prevails, the government will become more and more corrupt, and the life of the common people will be very difficult, and this trend is mainly rampant in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

The beginning of the wind of Qing talk, is the reign of Cao Cao, the traitor Cao Cao, not only has the ability to lead the army to fight, the ability to write poems is also very strong, there is a sense of escape, the southern expedition when the enemy is current, the situation is already very critical, but Cao Cao is still in the mood to drink Linjiang, Heng Lance poems, but also through the strength of wine to kill the wrong sound of the people in the rhythm, he acts freely, and the poems have the air of the emperor.

After that, the world was initially decided, the economy was gradually rich, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi and Cao Zhi's poems, the words began to be gorgeous, Cao Zhi was an alcoholic poet, his drinking style, even Li Bai was admirable, the style of this period was summed up as Qingjun, Tongfu, strong, gorgeous.

And at the end of the Wei Dynasty, the Sima family was in power, and there was a bamboo forest seven sages, all seven of them were drunkards, and they were also very drunk, and they had the way to get rid of it, and there was a person named Ruan Ji who was even more excessive, and he was disheveled when he was drunk. Among the Chinese literati, there were many hermits, and there were also non-hermits after the Seven Sages, and Ruan Ji and Ji Kang cut off relations with these non-hermitages.

After the Jin Dynasty settled the world, the country was more stable, the life was rich, and the achievements in literature and art were higher, so many literati liked to wear wide-sleeved cannons, drink and write at parties, and talk loudly, and those who were not good at talking would be ridiculed.

In general, since the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the literati have paid great attention to spiritual feelings, Mr. Tao Yuanming can't even eat enough, and he is in the mood to go to Cai under the East Fence to pick chrysanthemums, and he also saw Nanshan leisurely, in the eyes of later generations, these various behaviors are quite fairy, so the essence of the Wei and Jin relics is in a hidden word, people who study literature, when it comes to hermit style, most of them are quite fascinated.

Even in the civilized society of later generations, there are many people who take drugs and drink alcohol, and there are even more people who talk about it.

However, in general, the officialdom of Datang in this era is more corrupt, most of the officials are old fritters, even famous generals like Guo Ziyi are full of old fritters, but they are old fritters who can do big things.

As for the style of Qing talk, there are also a lot of them in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai should be the representative, the poems written by this product are very heroic, the kung fu of patting sycophants is not weak, and drinking is incomparable.

But Li An always felt that Li Bai had never done anything practical, and this product had never had the opportunity to be an official, so he finally had the opportunity to play in the palace, and he was drunk every time, and even, after getting drunk, he asked the powerful Gao Lishi to take off his boots for him, and buried his political future in vain.

Moreover, Li Bai's poems are bold and exaggerated, full of the artistic conception of the style of pure talk, even if he is made a big official, he may not be able to be a good official, just imagine, a big official who is drunk all day long, what kind of good official can he be, an official who invites friends to a restaurant to drink and compose poems when he has nothing to do, can he be a good official who does practical things for the people? In short, Ang Lee always has no good impression of alcoholics, and always feels that alcoholics are not good people, and in addition, people with a dissolute personality are not suitable for being officials.

Although it is taboo to talk about officialdom in any era, in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people still can't help but talk about state affairs.

"Look at this, Liu Dasha actually jumped into the well, an insignificant subordinate, is it really impossible to think of jumping into the well, anyway, I won't believe it."

"Could it be that the shortcomings of the imperial history were exposed, and they were retaliated against."

"Probably not! How can a minister in power deal with a fool? ”

"Maybe it was really an accident?"

"Whatever? Anyway, it has nothing to do with us, let's just look at the excitement. ”

"This can only be regarded as a trivial matter, but he is just a fool, and if he dies, he will die! Now the big thing, have you heard of it, the right minister has passed away, it's this morning, this is the big thing related to the court. ”

"Yes! We've all heard that it's been going on for more than half a year, and finally we can't stand it anymore. ”

"After so many years, are there still fewer people killed by him? Now it's finally his turn. ”

"Be quiet, and be careful that the wall has ears."

"What are you afraid of, people are already dead, are you still afraid that he will not be able to retaliate, the tree will fall and scatter, and as soon as the master dies, the people below will all seek another master, and there is no need to be afraid."

"This right minister has passed away, who will be on the throne next? Who do you think it will be? ”

"The one who has won His Majesty's favor the most today is Yang Guozhong, could it be that it wasn't him, this is all a sure thing."

"But if you look at this Tang Daily, Yang Guozhong's family has had accidents one after another, won't this have an impact."

"These are all trivial things, they can't affect anything, and the holy favor he gets is not less at all, but I'm afraid that he will soon be the right minister."

"This Manchu Dynasty civil and military, I'm afraid that I will never be able to find a good official like Yao Xiangguo anymore, no matter who is the prime minister, it will be like that."

"Forget it, let's talk less! No matter who is the prime minister, we can live our lives however we want, and as long as our business is not affected, everything else is a minor problem. ”

"Yes, yes, as long as our business is not affected, who will be the prime minister?"

In a luxury restaurant, several big businessmen with heads and faces got together to discuss national affairs.

Although officialdom is clean and honest for businessmen, but these people are old fritters, even if officialdom is corrupt, they also have a way to make themselves live a good life, giving gifts and stammering officials is their strength, that is, spending more money, the impact is really not big, after all, reach out and don't hit the smiling person, even if the corrupt officials are rampant, they will not deliberately let the businessmen not do business well, if the businessmen are driven away, these officials will have no one to respect, and at this moment, Datang's business is very prosperous, and, It is still in the stage of take-off, as long as you open a store to do business, you can easily make a lot of money, just like when the business of later generations just began to develop, you can make money by opening a store casually, so even if you take out some for gifts, it is not painful.

As a bystander, a businessman can only care about the changes in court officials, no matter who is in power, it will not have a great impact on them, but as an official, it feels different.

After learning the news that Li Linfu had died, Yang Guozhong was the most nervous, he didn't want Li Linfu to die, but unfortunately he didn't want to die at the right time, and he hung up when something happened to his family, which made him very uncomfortable.

Originally, relying on the emperor's favor, he was full of confidence in sitting in the position of the head of the prime minister, but since the thing in the family that not only offended the princess, and then made the emperor unhappy, but there are follow-up things in this matter, which further damaged his reputation, in this case, his position as the right prime minister is very likely to change, for this, he is worried.