It’s not that others don’t understand.

Although Jiangning Prefecture was included in it last year, the newspapers were already popular. In addition to the spread of restaurants and teahouses, basically every issue of the newspapers was spread, so it is well known.

The people are particularly envious and respectful of scholars and scholars' fame, especially their scarcity, as they are already half an official position.

Therefore, Jia Ping was awarded a scholar, but he was not awarded a juren, but was still respected by his neighbors. In the entire Jinling City, Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, except for such a juren, there were only a few scholars, which were extremely precious.

Over the past period of time, sachets and handkerchiefs and matchmakers have been extremely frequent, which is very different from the past.

Moreover, according to the requirements of the court, if the government offices in local prefectures and counties can use scholars and juren, try to use them as much as possible. If there are too few, it will lead to a stigma of disrespectful scholars and the Shangguan will not like it.

With the successive recruitment of prefectures and counties, Jia Ping refused indifferently.

You should know that after the reform of the officialdom, although the clerks in the Sixth House were still officials, they had already been included in the ranks and reached the eighth or ninth ranks. They were already an official and everyone envied them.

For those high-ranking officials and nobles, under the fifth rank do not belong to officials at all, let alone those officials, which are not worth mentioning at all.

For ordinary people, they are exempted from corvee service and enjoy their achievements. Although they only have a hundred stones of royal salary every year, they are already a top-notch master!

Jia Ping was just a scholar before, and his family was poor. Now he has been leaping into the essay. Wouldn't it be so beautiful? It's much more unhappy than those who copy scriptures?

"My son is thinking about getting the juren again?" Jia Mu said, "If the court rules are for officials, please refer to them again. While we study and become officials, it is not a conflict!"

Hearing his mother's doubts, it was obvious that these have been in his heart for a long time. Now that he has revealed them, it is not easy. Jia Ping hesitated for a moment before saying:

"Although the child has a reason to pass the imperial examination, it is not important. The only thing he is concerned about is the official registration!"

"It would be fine if you serve as a clerk, but the court clearly stated that his household registration was not registered. If he missed the household, he would probably be the sinner of the Jia family!"

Upon hearing this, Jia Mu was stunned and had never spoken for a long time. Finally, she sighed: "My son understands the truth and knows the right way. You can decide this matter, but it is absolutely impossible to join the official household!"

"Mother is more considerate!" Jia Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

The yamen runners were simply called "Xu" because "Xu is a common person." "The connection between them and the others is followed and serve them." To put it bluntly, they are slaves who work.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, there were prisoners who were punished as official slaves and worked in the government. The Book of Han: King Yuan of Chu said that "no sinners are punished without any ruling, and do not use armed hands and feet to do mercy." The captured criminals must be led by ropes and served in the government for chores.

In the Tang Dynasty, household registration was divided into two unequal class identity labels: "household registration" and "non-household registration". Among them, household registration was a good citizen, also called a free citizen; non-household registration was a bad citizen, but in fact it was a non-household registration, and there was a more ruthless title for the Tang Dynasty government - a untouchable citizen.

The untouchables in the Tang Dynasty were divided into two categories: one was the untouchables who served the government (workers, music households, and miscellaneous households); the other was the untouchables who were dependent on the aristocratic clans (teachers, slaves).

Clerks belong to "member households" or "miscellaneous households". They are untouchables and are not allowed to marry the people of the same kind. They are slaves of the country. They are driven by the government and serve all year round. A large part of them do rough work in the government. "They are assigned to the various departments and are in charge of the responsibilities."

The Tang Dynasty called the constable bad people because they came from untouchables and their household registration was "miscellaneous households".

The Tang Dynasty had many restrictions on low-ranking households. Take "Life" as an example: "Life" who is not a registered household cannot intermarry with the common people, men cannot study and enter the official career, art must be passed down from generation to generation, and they cannot easily change their careers and leave their family members, etc.

Therefore, although the court encouraged scholars to serve as clerks, many people were lingering with their household registration. The court did not say it clearly, and they were afraid that they would serve as clerks and their whole family would become low-court households, which would affect the future of all descendants.

Jia Ping also viewed this way. It is impossible for him to destroy his future for a temporary meal and let his descendants become cheap households!

He would rather go to the Buddhist temple to copy scriptures every day than sit in the yamen to become a clerk or a low-key household.

Those ordinary people only saw the majesty of clerks, but how could they know the pain behind them?

On this day, the county magistrate of Shangyuan specially sent his staff to invite scholar Jia Ping to serve as a clerk in the sixth wing of the county yard.

Jia Ping couldn't bear the gift from the county magistrate and hurriedly refused.

The staff quickly gave in, and finally said helplessly: "Jia Xiucai, the clerk of Shangyuan County, is in charge of the sixth rank, the ninth rank official, with an annual salary of 100 stones. Although he is not as strong as the county magistrate, he is much stronger than now, which is much better than copying books!"

Seeing that the staff said this on behalf of the county magistrate, Jia Ping was really rude and could only say helplessly: "It is really a last resort for Jia to be unwilling to serve the county magistrate!"

As he said that, he vomited out the worrying things about the cheap household.

"Now the court is obscure about this. Although I am determined to repay the county magistrate, I am afraid of it and can only give up!"

Jia Ping said with a bitter look on his face.

"Is this true? But I'm waiting for abruptness. I will report it to the county magistrate. I will definitely have an idea at that time!"

The staff knew the roughly, then suddenly realized it, and then hurriedly said goodbye.

Immediately, the magistrate of Shangyuan reported the problem to the court.

Later, the Zhengshitang discovered that such incidents were not isolated, and there were many other places, and many scholars and juren were afraid of the low-court system, so they were afraid to move forward.

After all, in the past, such clerks were inherited from generation to generation, and were drawn from miscellaneous households. They were rashly allowed to serve as good households, and they did not have any rules of law. It is no wonder that the scholar hesitated to move forward.

The prime ministers discussed for a while and handed over the problem to the emperor.

"The miscellaneous household system has not changed for hundreds of years, and now it is time to have to change!"

The emperor did not have so many concerns in his heart. He directly served the prime ministers and said without hesitation: "Since ancient times, there has been no system that has not been changed. If there is a gap, it will be filled, and if there is an inappropriate situation, it will change. What should I do if there are so many things?"

In the Qin and Han dynasties, clerks were called "official history" and "ruling history", and they were also an official who could be promoted by seniority. The superiors were all appointed officials of the court, and there was no difference in identity.

In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the nine-rank central system was in charge, with no poor families at the top and no aristocratic families. The wealthy families of aristocratic families monopolize politics, and senior officials were all children of aristocratic families. Of course, they looked down on minor officials from poor families.

As a result, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, officials became "low-down" positions, and they were completely "not in the market" and "all were ashamed of officials."
Chapter completed!