Whether it is the dissatisfaction of low-level officials or the loopholes in the economic review, it is the business of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which makes Gao Panlong, Yang Lian and others very embarrassed. In addition, in the first half of the year, there was also dissatisfaction with the system of selecting officials, and the Donglin Party members who controlled the Metropolitan Procuratorate knew that they should have to find a way, if this matter was not managed well, they lost the trust of the emperor, and let others come in and mix sand, not to mention that they would also be very faceless to use to visit this site.

After careful discussion with Yang Lian, Gao Panlong thought that he should first show his attitude to Apocalypse. Although Tianqi has already said that they should handle small matters by themselves, the economic inspection system and the training of people in various provinces were all proposed and implemented by Tianqi himself, and no matter what he did, he had to report to Tianqi to be reasonable. The result of the discussion between Gao Panlong and Yang Lian is the division of labor between the two, Gao Panlong is responsible for reporting to the apocalypse and expressing his attitude, and Yang Lian is responsible for finding out the specific situation and coming up with a reasonable method.

Who knew that Tianqi did not see Gao Panlong, Tianqi only asked the eunuch in charge of the message to tell Gao Panlong: "Let the Metropolitan Procuratorate handle the small matters by itself, and the major matters will be handled by several people in the newly established Supervisory Yuan. ”

After listening to the words of the Apocalypse, Gao Panlong understood that after the establishment of the Supervision Yuan, things were less, and various departments were automated, etc., just relative to the emperor, and these ministers only had a busier and more tired life after the emperor became the shopkeeper, and it was precisely because of their busyness that they could give the emperor a spare time. Now it is mainly to solve the problem, Gao Panlong immediately came to the Supervision Yuan to report the situation to King Xin, and asked Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi to help think of a way.

After the establishment of the Supervisory Yuan, King Xin handed over the Richen affairs to Ye Xianggao to deal with, and he brought a few Xiao Hanlin who came to the Administrative Yuan to help and transferred them to the Supervisory Yuan on duty, and Liu Zongzhou and Xu Guangqi also handed over the Richen affairs to others. Since there were not many things to do, the apocalypse allowed them to come only half a day every day, and in the afternoon, they could go back to the departments or go home, and the king of letters was bored, so he took the affairs of the pre-administration office to the government affairs to do, and planned in advance so that he would not be in a hurry when something happened.

Seeing that Gao Panlong explained the story of these two things in detail, Liu Zongzhou said softly: "The lower officials knew that there was such a day, but they didn't expect this day to come so quickly ♀, both of which were within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one was that the unfairness of the rank and position caused dissatisfaction, and the other was caused by the lack of supervision by the supervisors. The matter of the supervisor's dereliction of duty is being investigated in detail, and since this matter has happened for a while and a half, it will not come out for a second time, so there is no hurry. The lower officials think that we should first calm down the emotions of the adjutant officials in the counties, because there are so many affairs in the country, and they are prone to chaos when they handle affairs with emotions. ”

Gao Panlong asked, "Where did Lord Liu see that these things would be exposed sooner or later?" Is it evident from the fact that a few months ago some courtiers were dissatisfied with the selection of officials according to the system of court promotion? ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "That's just a corroboration, the reason why Xia Guan said this is mainly because of what Deng Yuhan and a few other Taixi people said a few days ago. At that time, the emperor asked everyone to find out the future development trend of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Yuhan said that he didn't know how to do things, but people should be equal and free. After the emperor came back, he asked the lower officials to think carefully about whether it was correct, and the lower officials thought for two days that Deng Yuhan was reasonable, didn't this official feel unequal when he was emotional? ”

Gao Panlong pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's really the case, these Cessie crow's mouths!" ”

King Xin looked at Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong and said, "Since this matter is more urgent and cannot be delayed, is it better to set a charter and issue it now to appease people first?" This king remembered that last time, because Qiao Yingjia and the others were dissatisfied with the direct appointment of officials without court push, the imperial brother once asked the Holy Academy to think about what to do, how did the Holy Academy think about it in the past few months? In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate should also make detailed regulations on specific appointments and dismissals, and without a specific provision, others will make conjectures based on their personal ideas, which is inappropriate. ”

As soon as King Xin said this, it was equivalent to easily putting the responsibility on the Holy Academy and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Liu Zongzhou was better, but Gao Panlong was a little dissatisfied, but these people had a good temper and would not quarrel over trivial matters. Gao Panlong smiled and said: "King Xin doesn't know, the promotion in the past was mainly based on merit, of course, there are also considerations according to seniority≡ since the emperor said that it is not allowed to say that promotion according to merit should be promoted according to ability, the promotion of this official has become more casual than before." There is no disrespect to the emperor when I say this, but it is true that there were rules to follow in the past, and now there is no system to follow. ”

King Xin frowned and said: "Brother Huang does not say that he is promoted according to merit and ability, but ability is only a comprehensive consideration, unlike merit, there are specific standards, many times it is Shangguan who has the final say, saying that you can do it, you can do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't convince the public." Before the Holy College determines the specific criteria for competence, can you refer to the seniority system that I talked about at the beginning? After all, everyone has to respect the old and respect the virtuous. ”

Gao Panlong said: "King Xin is right, respect for the old and respect for the virtuous really want to talk, but the emperor seems to have gone too far, he has used age to limit the promotion of officials, what age can only be a few grades of officials to the limit, except for the military no one can be an exception." And this time, the people who complained were all small officials below the seventh grade, they were all very old, and the age cap limit did not work for them, so they couldn't all be promoted to five or six rank officials according to the highest standards, right? In that case, of course, they won't have a problem. ”

Seeing that Gao Panlong said that the Metropolitan Procuratorate had no good way, he could only see if he could think of ideas in the Holy Academy, so he asked Liu Zongzhou: "Lord Liu, four months have passed since Qiao Yingjia and them made trouble, and the Holy Academy has not found any way?" Since you can't rank seniority based on merit or seniority, then you can only do it according to what the royal brother said, what is the specific standard for this ability, and does the Holy Academy have a charter? ”

Liu Zongzhou thought for a while and said, "After the emperor made this request in May, the Holy Academy has been discussing this issue to no avail. No one can say exactly how capable a person is, and even if a person has great ability, it is unknown how much ability he is willing to exert to do things. Xia Guan thought for a long time and only thought about whether he could judge a person's obedience attitude instead of focusing on the judgment of personal ability. That is to say, an official only looks at his obedient attitude to be obedient, and the lack of ability is made up for by collective wisdom. ”

Gao Panlong said: "The emperor originally said that he only needs two kinds of people, one is capable and the other is obedient. After the emperor has made a decision, he still needs two kinds of people, one is an obedient person and the other is a very obedient person. It can be seen that obedience is an essential quality of officials, and the issue of ability is ranked second, of course, when ability is needed, it is still necessary to advocate personal ability. Before making a clear standard for ability, his knowledge is his ability, and it is for this reason that we have entrusted the important task of lifting people to train people for a period of time. ”

Seeing that Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong were both vigorous, King Xin turned to Xu Guangqi and said: "Lord Xu, after these people have been trained, they are mainly to cooperate with the qualifications of the Great Iron Company to sell mines and start factories everywhere, it is said that the teachers in the Hanlin Academy who taught them are all people in the Bo Academy to impart knowledge, can the Bo Academy make a specific ability judgment in it?" For example, through exams and other means to screen the good and bad, to avoid other people from dissatisfied. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "This is no problem, but the emperor said that this time there is no need to go through a relatively qualitative examination, as long as one is qualified, even if one is one, there is no quota limit, so that as long as people who are a little more attentive can be competent, they cannot distinguish the advantages and disadvantages." Moreover, the people who are dissatisfied this time are not the ones who conduct the training, but those adjutant officials such as the county officials, the chief managers, and the canons who work in the counties, and if they are also allowed to learn to compete with the judges, they are afraid that no one will do the things in the county. Coupled with the fact that they are not young and have poor memory and comprehension skills, they may think that we are embarrassing them if we really stipulate it like this. ”

King Shin asked, "Is there no way?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "There are many ways, but they are all restricted by the emperor in advance, if you can get the emperor's permission, whether it is meritorious, seniority, seniority, or examination screening." ”

When King Xin heard that the last solution was to find the apocalypse, he said very uncomfortably: "The reason why the imperial brother set up the Prison Yuan is that we don't have anything to do to disturb him, I heard that Lord Gao has already gone to find him and was rejected, so this method is not considered." ”

Liu Zongzhou said slowly at this time: "Actually, this matter has a lot to do with the Government Council, and if the Government Council makes some changes, I am afraid it will be much easier to do." ”

In ♀ order to prevent the Government Council from interfering in the appointment and dismissal of officials at the same time, Tianqi simply dismantled and merged the officials into the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials in the future could not be related to the Government Council in any case. Now Liu Zongzhou actually said that it is related to the Government Council, and I don't know where to start.

Liu Zongzhou saw that King Xin looked puzzled, and said with a slight smile: "A few days ago, the emperor agreed with Deng Yuhan's statement that equality and freedom are the trend of employing people in the future development. ”