This article aims to elaborate on the efforts made by Xu Zhigao and his descendants to implement a new practice that recruited local literati to positions of power as well as the extent to which the practice helped facilitate civil transformation and civil administration for their regime. One important way to achieve civil transformation was to bureaucratize the local administration, which involved staffing the mechanism with civil officials. After succeeding in the civil service examinations, local literati of humble origin could take advantage of this possibility for prosperity and honor their families by means of becoming part of the bureaucracy. However, the life span of the Southern Tang was limited to only thirty-nine years. Except for the relatively low number of those who successfully passed the civil service examinations, most of the meritorious officials and official families still considered relying on the protection privilege to be the ideal way to launch the bureaucratic careers of their descendants. Therefore, although the civil service examinations may have exerted some positive impact on civil transformation and civil administration, the advantages did not last long enough to thoroughly change the administrative feature of the Southern Tang.

本文旨在阐述徐志高及其后人为推行吸纳地方文人上位的新做法所作的努力，以及这种做法在多大程度上促进了其政权的民政转型和民政。实现民事转型的一个重要途径是使地方行政官僚化，其中包括为机制配备文职官员。在科举考试成功后，当地出身卑微的文人可以通过成为官僚机构的方式来利用这种机会来发家致富和孝敬家人。然而，南唐的寿命却被限制在了三十九岁之内。除了通过公务员考试的人数相对较少外，大多数功臣和官家仍然认为依靠保护特权是他们后裔开展官僚事业的理想方式。因此，科举虽然对文革和民政产生了一定的积极影响，但这种优势并没有持续多久，不足以彻底改变南唐的行政特征。