Guo Wenliang still wanted to say that Wei Bao ordered someone to get up again.

"Lord Wei, Lord Wei." Guo Wenliang continued to chase.

Wei Bao's guards glared, Guo Wenliang was so frightened that he stood on the spot, thinking that not only the three thousand taels of silver might have been lost, but he might also be implicated, and suddenly cried, grief came from it, and he couldn't help but die.

Wei Bao sat in the sedan chair and heard Guo Wenliang's crying voice, so angry and funny, a big man, crying on the street, what does it look like.

Back at the mansion, Wei Bao told Wu Xuexia what happened in the Metropolitan Procuratorate today.

Wu Xuexia didn't expect Wei Bao to really do what he said, and he did it so thoroughly.

"In fact, there is no problem with the examination, the question is whether a person like Guo Wenliang who shows off his talent and fame is really justified?" Wu Xuexia asked.

"His father is a member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he meets the hereditary standard." Wei Bao Road.

"But he only shows off his talents, and at best he is a small official." Wu Xuexia said.

Wang Qiuya and Princess Zhenming didn't say anything, Wang Qiuya didn't know what to say, and Princess Zhenming felt that the matter had come to this point, and it was useless to talk about it.

Wei Bao sighed, originally fantasizing that there would be a lot of people holding silver to find him and walk through the back door tonight.

"Anyway, now that the matter has come out, we can only wait to see the reaction of the imperial court tomorrow, if I am not mistaken, tomorrow will definitely be very lively." Wu Xuexia said with a smile: "Childe, have you ever thought that maybe you, an official, will come to an end tomorrow." ”

"Perhaps. Maybe it's already lively by now. Wei Bao said, stretching, "It doesn't matter how he is tomorrow, go to bed first, I'm tired this day!" If Wei Zhongxian and the emperor support me, these will not matter! If they don't support me, this official will not be big for a while, and it won't help my career! ”

This is Wei Bao's heart, after more than a month of mixing in officialdom, his patience has been a little lost.

Wei Bao felt that if he kept messing around like this, he was unlikely to be released within two or three years, because he was born in Tanhualang, and his starting point was too high, so it was unlikely that he would go out to seal a county order or something, and if he wanted to do it, he would at least be the prefect.

The position of the prefect is not so easy to get, his current level is completely enough, the fifth grade of the imperial gift, and the prefect of the fourth grade, it is also said in the past.

But his qualifications are definitely not enough, the prefect must be at least a person in the officialdom for more than ten years, unless he has a very convincing political performance!

For example, in the past two or three years, he has been in charge of the important yamen in Beijing, and he has managed things very well!

So, in any case, in two or three years, it will be difficult to change this situation.

Wei Bao will be a little anxious to take this risky move.

Guo Wenliang said that he was not qualified enough to be directly promoted to the imperial history, which is indeed not qualified enough, and he is not qualified enough.

But Guo Wenliang wants to say that he can be promoted to the imperial history, because his father is an old man in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is not completely unreasonable.

This brings us to a jurisprudence.

This legal principle is not explicitly stipulated, but the Ming Dynasty did it accordingly.

Guo Wenliang's father is the imperial history, Zheng Qipin, Guo Wenliang only has the fame of Xiucai, and he came in as a small official, a small official of eight grades and nine grades, no problem at all.

Directly promoted to the Seventh Rank Imperial History, then Guo Wenliang only met one hereditary condition, and the other conditions were unreliable.

If the emperor and Wei Zhongxian supported Wei Bao this time, the entire imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty would be loosened.

Wei Bao has found the most powerful root of the eunuch party's attack on the Donglin party.

On the one hand, the imperial examination promoted the development of the whole society, and before the imperial examination system, there were those who promoted filial piety and honesty, and there were those who were promoted, which led to the uneven level of talents in the imperial court, and the ministers and princes formed parties for personal gain.

It greatly hindered the rule of the entire feudal society.

It can be said that a imperial examination system has promoted many aspects, and it has to draw inferences from one another.

At the same time, it also consolidated the rule of the rulers, and the previous officials only relied on the recommendation of others, and after taking the position, they would naturally repay their promoters.

In this way, the best ruler was given food, and the imperial examination system was in the end, which was actually equivalent to the candidate being a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

There are advantages and disadvantages to everything, and the imperial examination system can be said to be an invisible ideological imprisonment for all cultural people at that time.

Just like a small tree, if it grows in its own direction, it may grow crookedly, or it may become a towering tree among towering trees.

But the imperial examination system is like a ring sleeve, which is put on the small tree when it is a sapling, resulting in the small tree can only grow according to the shape of the ring sleeve and is condemned to death.

In the prosperous times, there is no problem in this way, but in the troubled times, there is a big problem.

The big tree has rotted from the middle, and if it doesn't take drastic medicine, it is still a step by step to get a bunch of Donglin Party-like just talk and don't practice fake tricks to come to power, and can only follow the trajectory of history, the whole country was wiped out by the peasant army, and the largest bargain in the history of the whole world was picked up by the Jiannu in the northeast!

Jiannu was not as powerful as the Jin state of the Song dynasty, let alone the Mongols of Genghis Khan.

It was very accidental that Jiannu won the world.

Wei Bao has always firmly believed that no matter when something goes wrong with such a powerful behemoth as Huaxia, the biggest problem must be in himself, not external factors.

Decentralization of power to local governments breeds corruption. After all, as long as you are admitted, as long as the candidate is willing, you can always be an official, regardless of the size and position of the official.

So what is the purpose of the cold window for ten years? In ancient times, reading was not cheap, not to mention the cost of books, people also needed money to eat, drink, and take exams, and supporting a scholar was enough to feed a family of five.

After more than ten years or even decades, once they are admitted, in ancient times when transportation and communication were extremely bad, what would those candidates who had worked hard to get into the exam do after becoming officials? Making money is a matter of a certain amount of money.

It is impossible for poor students to study without borrowing money, and after entering the official career, even if it is the Donglin Party, the Donglin Party is greedy, and it is not much better than the Eunuch Party.

The Donglin Party has just a good reputation, but in fact it is the same as the Eunuch Party, and there is no big difference in political attributes, but on the one hand, it represents the civilian official group, and on the other hand, it represents the imperial power group, and that's the difference.

The various benefits of the scholars after becoming officials exacerbated the land annexation and further dragged down the finances of the imperial court.

In the end, the establishment of the imperial examination system pushed down the already low worth of martial artists, which led to the aggravation of "good men are not good soldiers", and everyone wanted to study and become a champion rather than expand their territory.

The imperial examination was a system created to seize talents from the family and break the family's talent monopoly, what was the talent selection system before the Sui Dynasty?

Although the rights of the people are smaller than those of the imperial examination system, the system of promoting filial piety and honesty at least avoids the situation that officials are both referees and athletes.

Centralization, at least at the Jinshi level, requires the emperor to personally approve it, reducing the family's clamping on the imperial power.

Cultivate more literate people and improve the literacy rate.

Dramatically, or even several times, the chances of civilian participation in politics have been increased.

Wei Bao does not deny the benefits of these imperial examinations, which are of ruling significance for the consolidation of feudal society.

But since Zhu Baba has such a gap as hereditary, can the standard of hereditary be increased, such as the seventh rank and below the seventh grade officials can be hereditary as appropriate! Loosen the shackles of the imperial examination?

There are too many cases like Guo Wenliang in the entire Ming Dynasty, Lao Tzu is a seven-grade official, but his son can't even show off his talents, or he can't take the exam, there are a lot of people, if he can loosen the restrictions in this regard, how many candidates will be released at once? This is a huge blow to the imperial examination system.

What will be the consequences of this shock?

Wei Bao didn't know, but Wei Bao knew very well that he must be more powerful than the Flood Beast.

Wei Bao's estimate was very accurate, and at this time, Wei Zhongxian had already gotten the news.

"Nine thousand years old, something big happened, Wei Bao was selected in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple today, and all the officials above the fifth grade were excellent, including the people of the Donglin Party. Except for Hu Damin, the officials of the fifth rank and below are all in the middle grade, waiting for the reassignment of errands. The most amazing thing is that Wei Bao mentioned a small official named Guo Wenliang who only has a talent for his fame as the imperial history! Wang Tiqian reported to Wei Zhongxian.

Wang Tiqian is in charge of the East Factory, and he is very well informed, although it is difficult to get out of the palace, he knows everything.

Wei Zhongxian's nephew Fu Yingxing is also in charge of the East Factory.

Wei Zhongxian is cautious, and the important yamen is managed by several of his own people, and he is not afraid of someone turning against him.

"I already know, what do you think should be done now?" Wei Zhongxian looked at Wang Tiqian.

Wang Tiqian said: "I really don't dare to talk nonsense. ”

"Let's talk about it." Wei Zhongxian said: "What else are we here for?" The grasshopper on a rope is both prosperous and lossy, and our family has never regarded your prince as an outsider. ”

Wang Tiqian nodded, and then said, "Wei Bao will definitely be good for the nine thousand years old if he does this!" If Guo Wenliang can be promoted to the imperial history of the seventh grade, this will play an exemplary role in the entire Ming Dynasty! How many people like Guo Wenliang are there in the world? They can be promoted or not, this power is in the hands of nine thousand years old, and the people who are promoted, one is counted as one, they are all nine thousand years old, when the time comes, where will the Donglin Party stand? Isn't the biggest reliance of the Donglin Party on the vast majority of officials? Also, most of the people who participate in the examination every three years are Donglin students. Therefore, no matter how we get people up, we will never be as fast as Donglin's side, and if we don't break it, there will always be more officials in Donglin. If a few high-ranking officials are eliminated, a large number of officials will be replaced. ”

Wei Zhongxian nodded and said, "It's true, it can't be broken!" Wei Bao is also a good thing to do this, you can throw stones and ask for directions. I estimate that the Donglin Party will have a big coalition to impeach Wei Bao this time! ”

"They impeach Wei Bao, let's also join forces to protect Wei Bao to the death!" Wang Tiqian said firmly: "This is a good opportunity for nine thousand years old. ”

"Yes, the decisive battle with the Donglin Party, our family is not afraid, they take a defensive position, rely on the strength of the crowd, one by one to get our people, when we get them, they will all unite together and form an iron plate!" Wei Zhongxian hated the way.

Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian were discussing, and Wei Zhongxian's personal eunuch came over: "Nine thousand years old, it's not good, tens of thousands of ministers of the Donglin Party gathered in front of the palace gate, shouting to see Your Majesty and impeach Wei Bao." ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he frowned: "The Donglin Party is becoming more and more presumptuous, gathering so many people to besiege the palace gate at every turn, what do they want to do?" Want to rebel? ”

"That's what they're going to do! It must be Yang Lian and Zhu Yanxi's gang taking the lead. Wang Tiqian said: "This is a big matter, and they can only go out in person at the age of nine thousand, otherwise, they may go to beat the drum." ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "They can't knock if they want to, our family has long ordered the Imperial Forest Army to hide the drumsticks, and dozens of Royal Forest Army guards next to the Dengwen Drum every day, they can't get close to the Dengwen Drum, how can they knock?" ”

"It's still nine thousand years old." Wang Tiqian patted his ass. I secretly think that you are deceiving the king! Dengwen drum can be beaten by anyone, this is the charter set by Taizu, but he is afraid that there will be a giant rape to hinder the emperor's audio-visual.

The Dengwen drum was set up in Xinhuamen, and during the Jiaqing period, the case of poisoning and killing the disaster relief official Li Yuchang shocked the government and the opposition.

Although it is only an isolated case, it can still play a role in redressing unjust imprisonment to a greater or lesser extent.

You must know that this kind of system designed by the imperial power is contrary to traditional concepts.

In ancient China, the values of "harmony" and "no litigation" have always been oriented, and even if there is a dispute, it must be resolved from the grassroots level and step by step.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has been stipulated that those who directly file a lawsuit with the state government without going through the trial of the county yamen are called "overstepping the lawsuit", and they are not allowed to accept it, and the violator will be punished with 40 lashes.

Not to mention the grass people, even the officials who see the emperor every day can't complain directly to the emperor.

Moreover, allowing people to go beyond the level and complain directly does give the unscrupulous scoundrels an opportunity to take advantage of it, they are unreasonable to extort money, and even gather crowds to hold the government hostage, from the Beijing division to the localities, and the officials are overwhelmed with annoyance and bitterness.

So much so that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, one of the criteria for evaluating officials was the number of cases in your jurisdiction that exceeded the permissible standard every year, indicating that you had no way to govern and provoked civil uprisings, so the magistrates always did everything possible to prevent the prosecution.

With the principle of prohibiting overstepping litigation, supplemented by the exception of allowing direct litigation, Zhu Yuanzhang really had good intentions when he first stipulated this article.

When the emperor must want to know the people's feelings below, but he is high above and is isolated by the ministers, and the emperor who is isolated is very dangerous.

So the emperor will always leave an opening. The world is privately owned by the emperor, and there are many disadvantages in the world, and the only advantage is that the property rights are clear, and the emperor hopes that the family will be passed on to all generations.

And the officials took the emperor's money to work for the emperor, and the officials must have deceived the officials and protected each other.

If you don't open your mouth, the people won't be able to live.

Chinese have a Qingguan complex, but Qingguan is not a judge, always hope to find a big official at the top, the bigger the trouble, the better, the emperor is the biggest Qing official.

For the emperor, relieving the people is secondary, and the key is to understand the place and deter the place.

You Wei Zhongxian hid all the drumsticks of Dengwen Drum, aren't you still guilty of bullying the king?

"There you go! Set the soldiers and horses of the East Factory and the Imperial Forest Army on fire! Wei Zhongxian said to the eunuch.