Wanli Youming

Chapter 280

Chapter 280

Shen Shixing met Zhang Siwei's gaze.

Now that the struggle to seize power has been decided, there is no need to hide anything.

And Zhang Siwei asked for sick leave in the next secret disclosure.

He knew that Shen Shixing and other ministers must have been summoned by His Majesty to the front and back of the imperial court because of the fact that Yu Shi Fuque Yang Zhao and others turned against him that night and reached an agreement. .

But unless Zhang Siwei really dared to directly express his true opinion to the emperor and tear off his real mask, otherwise, he could only be a paper chief assistant who could only pass on words and nod his head.

But Zhang Siwei actually has his own ideas, and he doesn't want to be a vegetarian, and he actually has a great desire for power.

However, the emperor's attitude made him unable to use the hands of officials to eliminate the reformist public officials and civil officials left behind by Zhang Juzheng, and he did not dare to directly disobey Shangyi so that he did not accumulate prestige among the opposition civil servants, so that he is now isolated. very.

Zhang Siwei also knew that the emperor must hate him, otherwise he would not have blamed him in the name of being merciful, forgiving, kneeling and begging civil servants.

Therefore, Zhang Siwei chose to take sick leave, so as not to be an eyesore in front of the emperor and make the emperor hate himself even more.

But Zhang Siwei did not resign directly.

Because he couldn't let Shen Shixing get the chief assistant position easily for nothing, he had to let Shen Shixing show his favor to him first.

"Wu County is hateful!"

However, Zhang Siwei couldn't help gnashing his teeth even though it was evening now when he thought of Shen Shixing's act of rushing ahead of him in front of the imperial court today, deliberately undermining the majesty of his chief assistant in order to find out His Majesty's intentions.

Because of this, Zhang Siwei couldn't help but ordered Cheng Jiu: "Send a letter to the second master and ask him to arrange people to go to Nanjing to build momentum first, saying that Shen Shixing wants to be the second in Jiangling and exclude dissidents!"

Cheng Jiu clapped his hands and said yes.

After Zhang Siwei gave this order, he felt a lot better.

But at this time, because Zhu Yijun had already approved the disposal of the non-official speech officials and intercession civil servants, and also showed some kindness, he did not humiliate and kill the ministers with the court staff, but exiled them, and even asked those who had meritorious service to continue to be sent overseas to serve Therefore, not long after, many speech officials and intercession civil servants in the imperial prison received the decree and learned the original intention of the cabinet.

For a while, these officials all looked mournful or full of grief and indignation.

"This is going to one Jiangling, and several Jianglings have come?!"

"They're even crueler officials than Jiang Ling!"

Because of his neglect of duty, the local officials were corrupted, and Wang Shixing, the official who was only assigned to teach in Hirado, Dongying, by the imperial decree, said indignantly at this moment.

"The original draft of the cabinet was originally for one hundred imperial staffs. My brother is a servant in the imperial court, so I saw the original draft."

At this time, Song Yingchang, who was in the process of returning to Beijing and being promoted to the military department, spoke to Wang Shixing.

"Your Majesty is benevolent! Only the cabinet officials are hateful!"

Yan Xi, who was in charge of the Rites, came over at this moment and said something.

"Xia Yongchang played too few civil and business affairs in the Zuowei of the Bingke, so he was judged mediocre after passing the examination, and he was transferred to a idle position!"

"Engineering is all given to Li Fen, and Li Fen has nothing to do with civil affairs. If he passes the exam, he will be judged as lazy, and he will be dismissed from office!"

"Wang Zun was late for the provincial examination during his inspection tour of Beizhili, and mistakenly brought Zhu Juan, who had already been ranked, to the stage. After passing the examination, he was judged as dishonest, and he was fined for half a year!"

……

The cabinet continues to pass the exam, and no matter whether it is a big mistake or a small mistake, it will be strictly investigated.

And the cabinet's strict test results did bring the Sixth Division back to the state of Zhang Juzheng's life. He had to earnestly complete the government affairs of the audit department and pay attention to the national economy and people's livelihood instead of concentrating on fighting people.

Especially the suffering of people's livelihood, the six departments have to continue to pay attention to the work.

Because according to the examination method formulated by Hai Rui, among the six subjects, there must be a certain proportion of reports on people's livelihood and hardships in order to be rated as excellent or qualified.

But before passing the strict examinations, none of the six subjects has the motivation to speak for the common people. After all, it is not beneficial for the common people and offends the dignitaries.

Therefore, now the officials of the Sixth Division began to continue to pay attention to the sufferings of the people.

As soon as the six subjects became serious, the department had to follow suit.

Li Sancai, a member of the household department, was called to the value room by Zhang Xueyan on this day, and said: "The amount you supervised the Tianjin granary this year and the amount you handed in to the Tianjin granary this year is wrong. It is 1 shi less. Why? What's going on?"

After hearing this, Li Sancai couldn't help feeling a chill down his back.

"say!"

Zhang Xueyan scolded.

Li Sancai hastily clasped his hands: "Sir Nongrong said, maybe the audit by the household department is not right, please give your subordinates a little time, I will definitely give you the reason."

"How much time do you plan to ask the church to give you?"

Zhang Xueyan asked.

Li Sancai said: "This..."

"There must be a time for everything. This is stipulated by the examination law. If you don't finish it within the specified time, Hu Ke will have to resign you."

Zhang Xueyan said.

"Three days!"

Li Sancai replied.

Zhang Xueyan nodded.

But Li Sancai returned home with a sullen face, and immediately called his servant to order: "Immediately transport 1 shi of grain from home to the granary in Tianjin, and tell Ambassador Liu who is in charge of the granary to make a new album and submit it." .”

After Li Sancai gave the order, he found Gu Xiancheng, a member of the Ministry of Officials, "What's the matter with all the members of the Huke admonishing Xiao Gong, so unkind?"

"The root of it is that the cabinet has strictly passed the six subjects."

"Everything is back to the era when the power and the treacherous treated the officials."

"I'm also very tired of writing papers now. The edicts of 23 counties have been admitted by the official department because they didn't select candidates in time. This year, I don't want to get an honor in the exam! This year, Wenxuan Langguan probably won't be my turn! "

"If I knew it earlier, I shouldn't have used the opportunity of impeaching Otsuka Zai in Six Divisions to imply that Otsuka Zai recommended me as a Lang Guan. It would be better to complete the government affairs in my hand honestly!"

"It's just who would have thought that this would happen!"

Gu Xiancheng said, "I don't have much time to talk to you, I have to hurry up and report the birthplaces of all the candidates to be elected officials and the evaluation status of the local academics!"

Li Sancai nodded: "I don't know if Wang Taicang has gone to talk to them in Shenwu County. Such a tyrannical administration is really an official's life! There is no tolerance and clarity!"

Wang Xijue found Shen Shixing and Yu Youding not long after Gu Xiancheng met him, and said: "I came to seek peace with the second lord on behalf of the younger generation. Now that the examination is so strict, the official is not able to survive. , is the wish of the second prince really true?"

"What's wrong with obeying the imperial order to obtain the outline of the law, not to be false and submissive, and to ensure the cleanliness of officials?"

Yu Youding asked a question.

"I didn't say it was wrong!"

"I even think that strengthening the power of the cabinet can effectively curb eunuchs, harem relatives and other unauthorized powers. What's more, the biggest problem in this dynasty is that the power of the prime minister is not clear, so that all plans are based on power tricks, and even have to rely on making friends with insiders. Eunuchs make things happen."

"But governing the country with benevolence and harmony between the upper and lower levels is the common law for the monarch and his ministers to live in harmony and help each other."

"If this goes on like this, fear and counter-insurgency will easily lead to great changes!"

"After all, the grand master has been in the country for ten years, and it has made the officials of the world unbearable, but he just thought that the emperor was taught the right way, and sooner or later he would be kind to the world, so he persevered until now."

"You and I can wrong ourselves for the sake of the country, but not everyone is willing to do so. People have public and private hearts, but there are still more people who only know selfish desires."

Wang Xijue spoke up.

As he said that, Wang Xijue said: "What they mean is that they still hope to abolish the examination, and to be more lenient and prudent in punishment. They hope that the cabinet will take into account the friendship between scholars and agree to abolish it, and that they will no longer look down on the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty with other old Taishi!"

"Easyness should be eased, but it cannot be eased by sacrificing the interests of the country, and it cannot be eased by corrupting the government of the country!"

Shen Shixing spoke at this time.

Yu Youding also nodded: "That's right! What's more, we can't just allow them to criticize, and the ruling ministers are not allowed to purge the court for the country. What's more, the old grand masters are now afraid of being liquidated with the grand master. How can they give up easily? It’s not the time to go right now.”

Wang Xijue nodded: "It is necessary to play [-] boards each. When both sides know the pain, can't stand the current system, and are willing to talk about it."

"However, when will it be?"

"When the world no longer criticizes the grand master, when the world recognizes the grand master's merits and virtues, and even accepts the grand master's way of governing the country as the right way!"

"Now it is only His Majesty and the Minister of the Court admitting it."

"So it's still too early to talk about reconciliation."

Shen Shixing said at this time.

(End of this chapter)