The children of the yamen are all the highest and only show their fame, and their fame is not enough.

If it weren't for the fact that Daming's scientific examination was too strict, it would be impossible to make a name for himself, these people would have already been officials, and they actually did not lack connections.

The fame of the new Kejin Shi is enough, and there are many children of wealthy families, and silver is not a big problem, but there are few years of experience in going to the local county magistrate.

Moreover, if you go to the local area to be a county magistrate for several years, you can't guarantee that you will return to Beijing to be the imperial history, which is an important springboard for promotion, and only civil officials who have been speech officials can have the opportunity to serve in a more high-level official position.

Now Wei Bao keeps giving these two kinds of people the opportunity to be promoted, which makes the more than 1,000 incumbent officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple very dissatisfied.

Originally, they didn't think that Wei Bao had such great power before, but tens of thousands of people made trouble in front of the palace, and they didn't make Wei Bao mess up, and Wei Bao is now blatantly selling officials, which makes them scratch their heads.

The basis of all this is that Wei Bao has temporarily isolated everyone from the world, if they can come and go freely, this thing will not be so smooth, and other yamen people will also come to block it, at least they can support.

In that way, people who want to buy officials don't dare to buy it, and now they are isolated from the world, and Wei Bao is the largest in such a small world, creating an atmosphere that officials can buy and sell at will, and he can cover it very well.

"What do you want to do? Whether we buy officials or not, what does it matter to you? Have the ability to make trouble with Master Wei! Yang Shuo, the new science and technology scholar, said loudly.

Standing beside Yang Shuo in support were Li Limin, the former junior official, and Guo Wenliang, the current imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who had already bought officials in Wei Bao's hands, although there were only more than a hundred of them, they were extremely united.

It's not okay to be ununited, the money has already been paid, and it's already on Wei Bao's ship, so you can only make peace with Wei Bao.

These people who relied on Wei Bao to keep their official positions, or relied on Wei Bao to get official positions, or relied on Wei Bao to get promoted, are all people who are tied to Wei Bao.

Now and in the future.

This is a typical officialdom seat-master relationship, although Wei Bao is not the chief examiner of their imperial examination, but they are the promoter of officialdom, and they have interests.

Whether they confessed that Wei Bao received their silver, or Wei Bao confessed that they bribed themselves, neither side had good fruit to eat, so one was prosperous and the other was lost.

"It's none of our business? What qualifications do you have to be officials? You've taken all the places, what are we going to do? An incumbent official said angrily.

"You're looking for Master Wei, what are you looking for us to do?" Guo Wenliang said loudly.

Anyway, he just needs to grasp this sentence, if something goes wrong, he must be looking for Wei Bao.

Li Limin, Zhang Shuo and others also spoke loudly for Guo Wenliang.

"We're looking for you, what's wrong?"

The two sides did not give an inch of land, and after a while, the more noisy and fierce it became, and they moved their hands.

These people are all civil officials, and they have no power to use their hands, that is, they push and shove.

"President, what should I do? Do you want to catch all the troublemakers? Lin Wenbiao asked.

Wei Bao shook his head, "If these people want to make trouble, let them make a fuss for a while, it's okay." ”

Lin Wenbiao then asked a group of officers from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple who were ready to appear to return to the yamen, otherwise, these officers were ready to end.

Although the number of more than 2,000 people is far greater than theirs, and there are only more than 150 servants, most of these people are selected by Lin Wenbiao from the General Administration of Statistics and the President's Guard.

The reason why Wei Bao let them make trouble is that he knows that nothing big will happen, and now it is only half of the time, there is still half a day today, and there is still one day tomorrow, and it is still too late.

These people are making such a fierce fuss now, even if they are all arrested, it will already affect other people who want to buy officials.

So, simply let them let out all the anger and let everyone see, what's the use of making trouble?

"Kill me if you want to, I'm not afraid!" A Donglin Party official shouted louder.

A eunuch party official and another Donglin party official kept echoing the person loudly, and at this moment, the eunuch party official and the Donglin party official were strangely united together.

Because, they have one thing in common, they are all incumbent officials.

Both sides go from pushing to noisy, and from noisy to pushing, and so on.

Wei Bao seemed to be a nobody, calmly smoking a cigarette next to him, while watching, at this time, Wei Bao firmly stood with the officials who had not yet bought the official, but were ready to buy the official, and stood with the official who had already bought the official.

Wei Bao just wants to hint to these people, don't panic, everything is under my control.

He believes that when this wave of anger passes, these people will retreat from the difficulties, and even the incumbent officials will buy officials one after another, because if they don't buy again, the official positions will be gone, and they will have to be sent back to the ministry to wait for the by-election again, which is a very troublesome thing.

This is a kind of struggle of faith, like gambling, Wei Bao firmly believes that he can sell all the official positions of the Duchayuan and Dali Temple within three days, and he is not afraid that they will disturb it!

"I'm not going back to the mansion today, I'll get a bucket of water later, and I'll take a shower in the official hall." Wei Bao said to Lin Wenbiao.

It was easy to do, and Lin Wenbiao agreed and went.

The two sides confronted each other from mid-afternoon until late at night, and finally couldn't stay up anymore and dispersed.

It's the first time they've encountered this situation, and after beating and scolding for so long, no one cares?

Who cares?

This is the largest Weibao.

During this period of time, Wei Bao did not say anything to anyone, and he would not particularly encourage those who wanted to buy officials and those who had already bought officials, nor would he particularly suppress the incumbent officials.

He's more of a spectator.

In fact, Wei Bao was observing and thinking.

There is no other way in the traditional society, one is to decentralize power, separate the local ruling power, and engage in what kind of political envoys, envoys, and commanders; The other is "people-to-people", setting up supervision bodies and supervision officials, and the result is only a huge agent group and more agency costs.

Zhu Yuanzhang's murder can't be solved, and Yongzheng's high salary and honesty can't be solved.

Traditional China does not manage in numbers, in fact it is really impossible, because there is no technical condition.

In fact, Zhu Chongba's descendants found the best way of that era to "use corrupt officials to govern corrupt officials", just like Jiajing and Emperor Tianqi, let the ministers get money, and if the corruption was serious, they would kill a group and replace another group.

There was no such problem in the feudal society of Western Europe, the lord was in charge of the peasants, and the king could only find the main tax, and the lord did not have to embezzle, because the peasants' land rent was originally his.

At the same time, it also means that the power of the monarchs of Western Europe is weak, and the state is not strong, and must share power with the lords.

In capitalist society, this line of governance is basically continued, and the less the government manages, the better, and the less it manages, the less agency costs will naturally be.

How to eliminate corruption, traditional Chinese society pinned its hopes on the rule of virtue and virtuous people, and practice proved that it was completely bankrupt.

Later, there was a kind of "institutional myth", which was developed by Westerners in modern times, through a kind of system design, coupled with the basic assumption that everyone is for himself, corruption can be eliminated through supervision and restraint.

It is certainly not possible to eliminate it all, at least in the absence of much increase in costs, it is well resolved.

However, this is only a hypothesis, anyone with life experience or a little knowledge of game theory can understand, this assumption does not exist in reality, and those who participate in the game can easily turn the adversarial game expected when designing the system into a cooperative game, and as the number of games increases, the tacit understanding of cooperation will inevitably be established.

In later generations, many countries with two-party systems in Europe and the United States have long formed a tacit understanding in the game of more than 100 years, monopolized all the resources of American politics, and stifled the efforts of ordinary people to change in the cradle.

There are also many unspoken rules and tacit understandings of corruption between the Congress, the government, the courts, social organizations, and enterprises.

Members of both houses of Congress, especially the powerful Senate, who were originally designed to oversee the federal government on behalf of the people of the states, have now become corrupt brokers between the federal government and business.

Senators and House members have two different levels of corruption, the low-level corruption is over-reporting, and the high-level corruption is using the positions they assume to seek benefits for the enterprise.

Members of federal and state legislatures wield a lot of power, especially some long-term legislators, who control the power to nominate judges and many key positions in state organs, and control the power to oversee government departments, forming a complex network of corruption and profit transfer around these senior legislators.

Under certain conditions of social production, the practice of supervision departments, supervisory personnel, and supervision systems is not ineffective, but rather has a limited role.

As time progresses and the number of games increases, it will slowly become invalid.

Take a classic example of game theory: the prisoner's dilemma, if two criminals are caught for the first time and interrogated in isolation for the first time, they will both tend to confess and let the police win the most.

But these two criminals are repeat offenders, have been committing crimes together for decades, and often go to the police station, can they still expect the prisoner's dilemma to work?

The separation of powers will not work, and the role of other supervisory mechanisms will diminish over time.

The fundamental solution to the problem of corruption can only rely on the upgrading of the level of productive forces and science and technology.

To use a simple analogy, let the tax personnel go door-to-door to collect taxes, there must be serious corruption, let the merchants install tax control cash registers, corruption will naturally be reduced, no need for education, no need to engage in the construction of a system of marking people.

Assuming that modern technological conditions are used to travel to the Ming Dynasty to govern the country, the space for corruption is compressed to very small.

With accurate land measurement across the country and satellites surveying and mapping in the sky every day, the central government can clearly know what floods and droughts are occurring in various places, and land yields can be accurately predicted.

There is still corruption in modern society, the biggest reason is that many transactions (land that generates wealth) are not controlled by the central government, once all transactions are digitized electronically, and under government control, corruption will disappear naturally.

At that point, the question becomes how to avoid absolute corruption when the central government has absolute power.

Finally, corruption does not promote economic development, but it is an inevitable by-product of economic development, and economic growth can only be achieved if new forms of transactions emerge outside of government surveillance.

Corruption must be controlled within the scope of not harming fair competition, and we should not be under the illusion that there is any way to completely eliminate corruption, and any anti-corruption measures must take into account the social costs.

Wei Bao doesn't have this kind of means, he can't get high technology, even if he wants to be in his time in the Ming Dynasty, from now on, in another ten years, he will at most make the steam engine popular, and it has little to do with the industrial revolution, let alone with modern technology.

These officials could not go home, and their families stayed at the door at first, coming from time to time to ask what was going on.

Under Wei Bao's instructions, the servants would ask the families of these people to look through the gate of the yamen, and more than 2,000 people crowded the yamen compound, but nothing happened.

Now, because the incumbent officials are making trouble, Wei Bao simply asked people to seal off the streets at both ends of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, and ropes were tied up at the gates of the two yamen gates.

When these people are making trouble, no one is allowed to approach the gate of the yamen, and when it is quiet, individual family members are allowed to take turns to see the situation.

In short, although it is only allowed to enter and not to leave, the outside world is not completely unable to understand the general situation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Yamen of Dali Temple.

Wei Bao waited until midnight to sleep.

Early in the morning, a group of incumbent officials and others made another commotion.

Wei Bao was suffering, and theirs was even worse.

Wei Bao figured it out that the most leading Donglin imperial history is called Shen Hezhe, the more fierce Donglin official is called Zheng Xiuhua, and the eunuch official is called Xu Shangjing.

Shen Hezhe is a Qingliu official, he doesn't have much ability, but he seems to be really honest, he is in his forties, he is still a person, he doesn't even have a family, and he has been serving as the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Zheng Xiuhua and Xu Shangjing are different, although Zheng Xiuhua is a Donglin official, he is also very greedy, not to mention Xu Shangjing, those who defect to the eunuch party are speculators, and there is no one who is not greedy.

This night, Wei Bao figured out the situation of the three of them.

"Don't make any more trouble, what's in it for you to keep making trouble like this?" Although Li Limin is a person who bought an official, after all, he has been serving as the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a long time, and his words still carry a bit of weight.

"Of course you say that, you have already bought an official!" Shen Hezhe said angrily: "Master Li, I originally thought that you were a person who liked to meet and shoot horses, had no position, and was quite decent, but I really misjudged you." ”

Li Limin said angrily: "Then let's keep making trouble!" I don't believe that you are as good as the tens of thousands of people who made trouble at the gate of the palace last time, including cabinet ministers! ”

Li Limin's words are very powerful, and this is the biggest reason why Li Limin bought an official from Wei Bao.

Wei Bao smiled: "Let me say a few words, other adults who already have official positions can go to work, don't pay attention to them!" However, let me say it first, if anyone dares to make trouble when adults are dealing with official business, they will wait to be brought to justice! Also, Zheng Xiuhua and Xu Shangjing, I already have a lot of the charges of the two of you, and I will verify them one by one! Originally, I didn't want to investigate many things that happened before I came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, after all, everyone used to be colleagues in the same yamen, and feng shui took turns, so it was inevitable that they would not meet together in the future. You don't want to hurry up and find a way to find a way in your career, just make trouble, what can you gain? I am willing to only arrange for the more than 100 officials who have passed the examination now, and leave the remaining 200 or so official positions vacant and slowly add them, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Yamen of Dali Temple can still operate normally, do you believe it or not? ”

Wei Bao said, raising the two 'charges' in his hand, "Xu Shangjing, Zheng Xiuhua, do you believe what I said?" Do you have to go to jail to regret it? ”

Xu Shangjing and Zheng Xiuhua were frightened by Wei Bao, although they didn't give in to Wei Bao on the spot, they didn't dare to say anything.

Wei Bao turned to Shen Hezhe: "I know that you can usually keep clean, your foundation is relatively clean, and it is not easy to catch the evidence of the crime, but what have you done in Dali Temple for so many years?" In addition to getting into trouble with your colleagues, do you have any political achievements that you can handle? ”

"That's because the yamen is not clean in the first place! I like to be evil with people? Shen Hezhe said: "It's impossible for me to buy an official, I don't want to say that I don't have silver, even if I have silver, I won't pour dirty water on myself!" Wei Bao, if you have the ability, kill me, or lock me up forever, otherwise I must impeach you, and if you can't be impeached, I will die outside the Forbidden City! ”

Wei Bao said with a smile: "There are many people who die outside the Forbidden City, and you are not the only one!" I just want to say to people like you, you must correct your thinking and focus on running errands, which is much more important than staring at your colleagues in the yamen all day long! You don't have any money, and I won't embarrass you, but I will arrange it according to your ability! The key is, have you come up with a convincing ability? What kind of ability is this just by making trouble? There are so many files left over from the past by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, do you have the ability to take a few copies of each person, and solve them in the near future? ”

"Eunuchs are in power, officials are corrupt, there are jackals, tigers and leopards everywhere, officials protect each other, what can we do?" Shen Hezhe said angrily.

"These are not the reasons why you can't do things, it's not the reason why you don't do things every day, there are many things that can be done! The official is not a judge, have you seriously investigated the files you have handled in the past? Have you ever left a text trail? No, I've seen the cases you've handled, and they're all clean, cleaner than white paper! Wei Baolang said.

Shen Hezhe was still very unconvinced, he was a man in his forties, and he was scolded in public by a teenager wearing a five-grade official uniform, and he would not be convinced, "The mouth grows on you, you can say whatever you want!" ”

"If you don't listen to persuasion, forget it! I declare one thing to you! I personally don't have any selfish intentions, everyone knows what the situation is now, we are not immortals, we can't change anything at once, but the people who take out the money, the opportunity has been placed in front of you, today is the last day! If you can't get the money, you think you are really capable and want to do things, I welcome you to talk to me! Remember, the most important thing for me is to choose people who can really do things, so that the Duchayuan and Dali Temple will continue to be the mouthpiece of the Ming court, and become the pen and heart of the Ming court. Wei Bao is telling the truth, he can't talk about any sincerity in the Ming court, but even if he thinks about himself personally, he doesn't want the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple to be a miasma after selling his official position. You can't do anything, that's not going to work.

Wei Bao's words specifically aimed at Qingliu without silver played a great role, at least pointing out a way for this small group of people.

Although the number of this small group of people is very small, most of them are Donglin Party members, only about twenty, but they are the strongest opposition force, because they feel that they have not made any money, so they can be justified!

In particular, they feel that a speculative villain like Wei Bao is in power and has no intention of official business, which they will never agree.

But Wei Bao's current practices have made them see that Wei Bao really doesn't just want to make money, but also wants to do things, and by virtue of this, Wei Bao is stronger than a pure eunuch.

Almost everyone here classifies Wei Bao as a neutral party that tends to be eunuchs, and no one will think that Wei Bao is a pure eunuch party, and it is even more impossible for a pure Donglin party.

Wei Bao saw that everyone was no longer noisy, and it was temporarily suppressed, so he once again asked the people who had bought officials to do things: "Everyone can pick a few files according to their own ability, they can pick a few files, eat one bite at a time, and walk step by step, let's do a little bit every day, fulfill our responsibilities, have a clear conscience, and are not afraid of what others say." ”

"Yes, Master Wei." A group of new science and technology scholars and yamen disciples who bought officials, as well as a small number of incumbent officials, agreed in unison.

Wei Bao asked them to do things, just to give them the best encouragement, we have something to do, you have nothing to do, after today, you have to be beaten back to the ministry, see who has the last laugh!

Since these people can buy officials, most of them have no problem with their financial resources, and only a few borrow money to buy officials.

Even if it is borrowed silver to buy officials, it is enough to show that they have the financial ability, otherwise, where can people who do not have the financial ability to borrow silver?

"Master Wei, let's go to the official hall first, right? The official halls at the first level of the imperial history are empty, and everyone can't do anything in the compound. Li Limin said to Wei Bao, this is his purview.

"Yes." Wei Bao said: "The specific official hall will be distributed tomorrow, and everyone can open a part of the official hall today to squeeze it." ”

"Yes, Master Wei." Li Limin then went with more than 100 people.

As soon as more than 100 people left, although the large courtyard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple was not empty, the hearts of those who stayed were empty.

"Lord Wei! What about us, we have to do things too! But you can't get any money! Someone shouted.

Wei Bao looked at the man: "I know that there are more than a dozen officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple who can be regarded as Qingliu, Qingliu is good, but they must also be able to do things!" I've just made it clear! As long as you think you can do things, but you can't get the money, you can come to me and talk to me! Also, all of you listen, there are so many people, and there are only so many official positions, and in the end, it must be one out of 5! But those of you who can't take the turn to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple don't have to be discouraged! ”