Chapter 110: The Tiger's Mouth is Hard to Move
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The "Reward Order" promulgated by the Great Qi Imperial Court clearly marked the price of each vacant position and openly sold it.
However, the sale was limited to official officials of the imperial court, including foreign officials at all levels in various localities.
The so-called "retribution" is naturally to repay the court with silver.
The details are as follows: The "Decree of Effectiveness" is promulgated on the same day, and it can also be banned by the emperor's decree at any time. The registered officials of the imperial court can participate in this transaction, but in fact, this is most beneficial to those officials who have been demoted and removed because they have made small mistakes before, such as those who are innocent but are implicated by others and demoted, those who are demoted because of the advice of the ministers, and those who are demoted because of offending the imperial family, etc. These officials can all declare to the Imperial Observatory and exchange the corresponding value of silver for promotion, and get the official position they want.
Not all officials who buy officials with money can get their wishes, and each of them must first pass the review of the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Ministry of Officials, and then be personally approved by the emperor before they can succeed.
If more than one official bids for the same official position, the Imperial Historical Observatory will review the official's performance and select the best one.
During the implementation of the "Reporting Order", the special inspection department of the Imperial Historical Observatory was responsible for reviewing the officials who bought officials, with the imperial historian Yin Jiheng as the overall coordinator, Qin Yongnian as the chief prosecutor in the imperial history, and the three supervising imperial historians, including Gu Qingxuan, as the assistant inspectors.
After all, this is a special method used at a special time, and there are all the drawbacks and potential negative effects of the "retribution order"; among the hundreds of officials, even if a few people are aware of it, they will not say it, because they all know that this will hurt the interests of many colleagues and offend Yin Jiheng.
Yin Jiheng naturally knows the pros and cons, so he, like Gu Qingxuan, is not fully responsible for this matter, and pushes all the main affairs to Qin Yongnian, on the surface, because of his deep qualifications, the implementation of the "service order" must be presided over by him, but in fact, it is blame, Gu Qingxuan pushed it to him, and he pushed it to Qin Yongnian, and he took the credit for his good reputation, but Qin Yongnian was tired of his hard work.
Most of the things in the court are like this. As an official in the court, weigh the pros and cons, protect oneself wisely, and advance and retreat freely, in order to be exquisite and stand tall.
But there is one person who will not do that.
That night, Qiao Huai'an entered the palace to face the saint and traveled with Chen Jingxing in the imperial garden.
Chen Jingxing listened to the cicadas quietly, walked on Hua Mo, and asked Qiao Huai'an: "Mr. is watching in Yushitai for a day today, what do you think is the effect of this "retribution order"?"
Qiao Huai'an followed him, and turned his eyes to look at the thick recital book on the stone table in the Lan Pavilion behind him, and also knew that Chen Jingxing had been working hard recently, and it was rare to have such a little time to enjoy the cool at night.
But he is even more happy about this, since the fall of Lu Yuanzhi, there is no such powerful courtiers above the court, and the important affairs of the state are finally decided by one person, although this situation is not reliable for a while, but Chen Jingxing has successfully taken the first step as a real emperor - pro-government, his intentions can be seen.
Qiao Huai'an replied: "The excerpt of the household department should have been sent to Your Majesty, Your Majesty naturally knows what the results are, why bother with it?"
Chen Jingxing looked back at him and smiled: "I am indeed very pleased with the excerpts presented by the household, but what about the Yushitai? Bystander, I think Mr. is here to remind me of something, right? ”
He said: "There is no reminder, listening to Your Majesty's words, Weichen also knows that Your Majesty is clear in his heart, so he will have no worries." On the first day, although the Imperial Historical Observatory was busy, but the action was efficient, everything was in order, and the inspection matters were very thoughtful, Lord Qin was worthy of being the old man of the Imperial Historical Observatory, he was keen in judging things, thoughtful, and His Majesty could rest assured that he was presiding over this matter. ”
Chen Jingxing lowered his eyes and looked at the deep flowing river in the imperial river under the bridge, and said, "I don't worry, it's also because Mr. is in the imperial history platform." As for Qin Yongnian...... Poor man, poor man......"
Qiao Huai'an only thought about it, glanced at him, and had a tacit understanding, Qiao Huai'an said: "It's just that my colleagues in the Imperial History Observatory are busy tonight." ”
"Busy with what?"
He replied: "I'm busy entertaining, I don't know how many times have everyone in the special inspectorate eaten at this time and received a few car gifts......?
Chen Jingxing smiled: "Well, I also thought that it would be like this, but I thought that Gu Qingxuan could also think of it." ”
Qiao Huai'an thought for a moment and nodded: "He can naturally think of it, maybe he originally wanted it." ”
Chen Jingxing said: "At this time, Master Gu should also be very busy......
Qiao Huai'an replied: "Your Majesty's thoughts are correct, Master Gu should be seeing someone at this time." ”
"Who?"
He paused, looked at Chen Jingxing's face, and replied: "Today, Li Yongcheng and Li Guozhang went to the Yushitai to find Dr. Yin, and Dr. Yin happened to be absent, so he went to see Lord Qin, and then handed invitations to the three inspectors of the Special Inspectorate and invited them to eat and drink. ”
"Li Guifei's father, Li Yongcheng, what does he want to do? He also wants to buy an official?"
Qiao Huaian said: "He's a lot older, and he's definitely not asking for himself." I'm afraid that some officials' political achievements are really not good, or they have violated the law too much before, and they want to take this opportunity to spend money on promotion, so they can only hope that the review on the side of the Imperial Historical Observatory will be relaxed a little, Li Guozhang is the brother-in-law of Doctor Yin, such a close relationship, coupled with the face of the National Prince, it is very useful to ask him to open up the joints of the Imperial Historical Observatory. ”
"Hmph. He couldn't help but snort coldly and flicked his sleeves: "Even if I expected that they would aim at the Yushitai, I still didn't expect them to move so fast." That's it, that's it, let them play, I want to see how Master Gu will deal with this kind of thing?"
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The next morning, Chen Jingxing listened to Qin Yongnian's affairs, flipped through the details and list of officials submitted by the special prosecutor, and paid special attention to Gu Qingxuan's measures and attitude, but saw that he did not have any abnormalities.
The other two Overseers were struggling to recommend those officials to him, and even made a few special requests for him to approve those promotions or exemptions.
After Chen Jingxing asked Yin Jiheng about his attitude, he approved it, and a large amount of silver was filled into the treasury, which solved the urgent need of the household department. Du gradually was overjoyed, and personally promoted Zhang Lin to the former household lang, and he himself sat in the position of Zuo Sicheng.
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A few days later, Gu Qingxuan took several boxes of treasures and entered the palace to meet him, and reported to Chen Jingxing in the imperial study that Li Yongcheng had bribed the imperial history platform to supervise the imperial history, colluded with others to sell officials, and made huge profits from it.
Li Yongcheng was summoned to the palace, and when he saw that the things he used to bribe before suddenly became evidence against him, he was angry because he expected Gu Qingxuan to go back on his word, thinking that there was Li Guifei in the harem, and Chen Jingxing would not be too strict with him, so he was a little arrogant, and denounced Gu Qingxuan for slander in front of Chen Jingxing.
Gu Qingxuan explained his crimes one by one, pointed at him and reprimanded him impassionedly, "Li Guozhang! You actually relied on Your Majesty's grace to take advantage of opportunism, corrupt my imperial officials, and poison the officialdom! You are the real heinous! What do you regard as an official position in the imperial court? Are you a prostitute? If you have money, you can go to school?"