The efficiency of the iron-faced judge Cheng Zhengji is still okay, how much money does an official want, who can buy it, and how to do it so that outsiders can't speak, and he is completely compliant in terms of procedures, and Cheng has already had a case.

Counting, this person is also an old fritter.

If it weren't for the old fritters, he wouldn't have traveled around in the name of official business, but he didn't even go to work for several years, and finally fell into the legal net in Wuxi.

After half a year of ideological transformation and labor education, Cheng Zhengji changed his past mistakes and became a staunch Wei Liangchen ideologue.

At the same time, he is also an active practitioner and promoter of Wei Gong's thought.

The reason why Wei Gonggong had the idea of buying officials for his comrades was because Cheng Zhengji gave Wei Gong a personal thought report in February of the first year.

In this report, Cheng Zhengji raised a puzzle, that is, Duke Wei was a member of the inner court, so even if Duke Wei's ideas were beneficial to the country and the people, and no matter how advanced they were of the times, limited by his background, it would be difficult for Duke Wei's ideas to be supported by most courtiers.

"The thought of the public is ancient and the present, but the public is born and is ashamed of the scholars, how far can the public thought go?"

Cheng Zhengji even euphemistically used "people go to tea and cool down" to describe Wei Gong's entrepreneurship.

It means that the career that Wei Gong is doing now is because of the emperor's support, but the emperor is old, once the new emperor ascends the throne or the emperor no longer favors Wei Gong, Wei Gong's career and thoughts are a dream, and it collapses in an instant.

When he received this personal thought report, Wei Gongcheng was busy on the front line in Liaodong to deploy the encirclement and suppression of the Jin Liang White Banner, but he still took time out of his busy schedule to reply.

"Comrade Zhengji, we have received and read your letter, and we have seriously considered the questions you raised, and we are now replying to you.

… We believe that the greatness of an idea has no practical connection with one's origin, and we should not use one's origin to deny one's thoughts.

… In all things, we must not only look at its phenomena, but also at its substance. Many of our scholars and officials believe that there is a difference between inside and outside, and that our family's background is worthless in their eyes, and they even pass it on as a joke, and regard comrades as eunuchs...

As a result, some of our comrades are very passive in disseminating our ideas, and even waver because of this, and if we do not receive firm support and understanding for a long time, our comrades will inevitably have negative thoughts and think that our cause is doomed to fail.

We must admit that these situations exist objectively and will inevitably exist for a long time, and we cannot deceive ourselves and treat these bad things as if they do not exist. ”

In his reply, Father-in-law Wei gave a positive answer to Cheng Zhengji's confusion, and he did not shy away from the influence of his background.

The attitude is sincere, this is Wei Gong's usual attitude.

When a problem is raised, there must be a solution.

As for how to solve it, Grandpa Wei said this.

"Accumulate more with less, accumulate big with small, do not blindly seek success, first unite a small group of people, build it into an unbreakable alliance, and build it into an invincible group, which is to win by quality, not by quantity."

In the letter, Wei Gong put forward a clear theory of party formation for the first time, and for the first time gave an official name in an open letter about why the party should be called the group in which his ideology was cohesive.

"Donglin is named after the academy, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, and Xuan are named after places, our party is different from them, and when it is named after a new word, it can be called a new party, in order to show the difference from these old parties."

"The new party is a new party for comrades, and it is by no means a new party for one of us..." Wei Gonggong also pointed out that the new party is a group, not an individual.

"We need to clearly understand that the current source of power for the dissemination and practice of ideas still comes from the bureaucracy... Let the comrades of our new party all make progress in the officialdom and grasp a certain amount of voice and power, but will the comrades still feel confused and confused, and will still think that our cause will be ridiculed and will stop moving? ”

Buying officials for the current comrades and letting them progress is the solution given by Gonggong Wei.

"As long as you join our new party, you will be able to gain firm support from the party, and our new party will become the choice of more officials. In one year, two years, five years, and ten years, the more party members we have, the greater our strength will be, and will there still be the questions raised by Comrade Zhengji? ”

"The extent to which the new party can grow depends on how big the party members can be. The bigger the comrades, the more people will support our ideas. ”

Soon after this reply, Mao Shilong received a secret order from his father-in-law to ask him and Cheng Zhengji to carry out the actual investigation of the feasibility of buying officials.

After doing a lot of preliminary work, the next thing is a simple registration work, and after a busy morning with Mao Shilong, Cheng Zhengji finally took the plan to Grandpa Wei.

According to this plan, the 14 people who participated in the Xishan Friendship Symposium needed about 40,000 taels of money to buy officials.

This is still limited to the promotion of the official to one level, that is, the director is promoted to the outsider, and the promotion is given to the middle of the matter. And it is an internal promotion of the unit, which does not involve external relocation.

If the cold yamen is moved to the hot yamen, the cost will be even more.

For example, Lu Mingde is now the master of the seven products of Zhan Shifu, although this yamen is an auxiliary institution of the prince's East Palace, as long as the prince is still the prince for a day, the officials in this yamen are the officials who are the coldest benches.

About three thousand taels, Cheng Zhengji can try to help Lu Mingde seek promotion in the institutions affiliated to the Zhan Mansion, such as the head of the Economic Bureau, but if he wants to transfer him to the hot yamen such as households, workers, and officials, this money is far from enough.

Gonggong Wei set three principles for this purchase.

First, it is limited to promotion within the unit; the second is limited to one level of ascending; Third, it does not involve localities for the time being, that is, Beijing officials do not move out.

Cheng Zhengji asked Father-in-law Wei why he set these three principles, and his father-in-law replied with two words, which was "low-key".

"This is a bold attempt, but also a new attempt, through which we want to confirm the feasibility of organized and large-scale buying."

Wei Gonggong put pen to paper and circled the plan three times, asking Cheng Zhengji to send the plan to the Zuo'anmen Maritime Yamen Office later.

Chen Mo, who is in charge of the office, knows his father-in-law's handwriting, and will dial the silver after receiving it. Where the funds come from is Chen Mo's business.

Later in the lunch, everyone tasted wild boar meat carefully cooked by Monk Chen.

"There is an advocacy in the development of the Wei Gong Breeding Industry on the development of aquaculture, and the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry..."Sun Bixian picked up a piece of pork belly and put it in his mouth, he was in a good mood, because Cheng Zhengji assured him that he would definitely be promoted to the next level within three months.

"It's good to raise pigs, you can not only kill and eat meat, but also sell them to save money and improve the quality of life..."

“……”

The comrades of the New Party were very interested in the theory of raising pigs to get rich, and the discussion was very lively.

Yang Sichang poured cold water on everyone, he said: "In recent years, I have suffered a series of disasters, some places have been affected by natural disasters, grain output is beyond their means, and the people have no food to survive. ”

Hearing this, Mao Shilong immediately said: "Yes, one of the major characteristics of imperialism with imperial characteristics proposed by Duke Wei is that the people must not be allowed to starve!" ”