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Shen Xi, as the speaker of the East Palace and the official of the day, came to his house to post worship posts and invitations, but in order to avoid suspicion, he almost never went to participate in the literary meeting, but Xie Pi invited him once, he was very warm, but after participating, he did not mention the things related to the examination, so as not to get into trouble.

After Jiang Liwei's visit, the imperial court had no intention of transferring Shen Xi's work, and there was no news from the official assessment for a while, so he still commuted to and from work on time.

The assessment will be conducted in batches, but the results will be announced at the same time.

Shen Xi knew from the beginning that he had no chance of becoming an official and becoming a knight, but in order to fight for Xie Yun'er and the Zhou family, Shen Xi still worked very hard. You must know that as long as you are a five-grade official, you can fight for "pleasantness" for your family, and once you get your wish, Xie Yuner and Zhou will be honored wherever they go.

On this day, Shen Xi had just returned to Zhan Shifu from the East Palace, and Wang Zhi, the right secretary on duty, informed him to go to the Ministry of Officials.

Shen Xi estimated that the assessment results came out, and he went to the yamen of the ministry with trepidation, and after passing in, he was received by Song Yuncheng of the ministry of officials, and only Shen Xi was invited to come this time.

After Shen Xi reported his name and official position, Song Yuncheng took out a copy of the case and said: "Shen Yude, this is your official evaluation results this year, please take a look at it first." ”

The Ming Dynasty's assessment of officials is divided into upper, middle, and lower levels, that is, competent, ordinary, and incompetent, and its purpose is to "distinguish between the virtuous and the virtuous, in order to show persuasion and punishment", as the basis for promotion and retention.

Qiu Jun, a cabinet scholar in the early years of Hongzhi, clearly stated in his "University Yanyi Supplement": "Those who are full of officials will make a book, prepare a book of their achievements in office, and the subordinate officials will first test their strengths and write their most important goals." So far, the examination of merit and the examination of its merits, the book of its hall is the most. Where there are three grades, one is called, two is ordinary, and three is not called, both the book, the introduction is taken, the reinstatement is made, and the re-examination is carried out in six years, and the same is true. The nine-year general examination is to count the three examinations of the book, in order to determine its rise and fall."

Shen Xi took it and took a look, his results were divided into several parts, one was the evaluation given by Zhan Shifu, the evaluation of the Hanlin Academy was also "medium", and Shen Xi's policy book and exam questions were also "medium".

According to the reason, the three "in" are just ordinary achievements, belonging to the period of office without fault, then the final comprehensive evaluation of the ministry is the most important, if the final ministry is also given "in", then he basically means that the assessment has passed, and the official position should be slightly promoted.

Shen Xi wasn't too worried, since the first three were all "medium", Ma Wensheng, the secretary of your ministry, wouldn't be embarrassed by us juniors, right?

The last page is the comprehensive evaluation of the officials, but he didn't write, but directly drew a red bar, which made Shen Xi scratch his head.

Shen Xi asked in some surprise, "Is this ......?"

"Shen Yude, please forgive me, this is a standard for the assessment of the officials, if it is a horizontal line, it means that your assessment this time is decent...... No up, no down. In fact, this is also the most common result, and eighty or ninety percent of the officials who are evaluated every year end up with this result. ”

Shen Xi asked with some dissatisfaction: "What does Song Langzhong mean, this official has been working in vain in the past few years?" ”

"Shen Yude, you can't say that, in the past three years, you have been promoted from the Hanlin Academy to the ......."

The latter words, Shen Xi can think of them with his nose, it is nothing more than saying that his official promotion is too fast, but the problem is that since the rules are set, they should follow the preset rules, either don't let me participate in the assessment, or give me a "down" evaluation in the assessment, let me know that I am indeed not qualified for promotion, and finally you give me a few "medium", and then use high-sounding words to perfunctory, which is not interesting.

However, there was no point in worrying about these with a minister, and after Shen Xi got the evaluation, he went home a little disappointed.

Although he had expected this result for a long time, Shen Xi didn't expect that it was Ma Wensheng who made him stumble. But in fact, it's easy to understand when you think about it, according to the promotion system of the bureaucracy, there are many people in the Hanlin Academy who are in their early teens and twenties, just like Wang Hua, who is also the champion of the Ming Dynasty, has a good relationship with a group of old ministers in the court, and many people appreciate him.

Ordinary officials, to seventy or eighty mixed with the Ministry of Rites Lang Zhishi, if you are lucky, hang the name of a bachelor of Hanlin, and posthumously present a book when you die, which can be regarded as a name in history.

But this is not what Shen Xi is pursuing at all.

Shen Xi gained power, although he did not hope to immediately dominate the world, but at least he should not be controlled by others, not like before, Zhang Yanling framed him but had no power to fight back.

Before he arrived at the door, the servants of Xie Qian's mansion were waiting outside the gate, delivering Xie Qian's letter and asking him to go to Xie's mansion, needless to say to comfort his wounded heart.

Playing a stick to give a sweet jujube has always been a habit of the imperial court, and Shen Xi is no longer surprised, but Shen Xi doesn't know what the sweet jujube is this time.

"Let me go in first and talk to my family......"

Shen Xi entered the door of the mansion, bathed and changed his clothes unhurriedly, and simply ate dinner, and then came out, at this time the servants of the Xie Mansion had been waiting outside for more than half an hour.

"Let's go."

Shen Xi got on the sedan chair that Xie Qian had prepared for him and went to Xie's mansion.

When he arrived at Xie Mansion and entered the study, Shen Xi knew that it was not only Xie Qian who invited him, but the person who secretly interfered in his evaluation was actually there, it was Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry.

With Shen Xi's current official position, it is rare to be able to often see officials at the level of pavilion elders and scholars, and Ma Wensheng specially went to Xie Qian's mansion to see him, which is even more commendable.

“…… Shen Xi, do you already know the situation of the assessment of the officials? It was not Ma Wensheng who asked, but Xie Qian, needless to say, Ma Wensheng told Xie Qian about his assessment.

A naked conspiracy!

"Yes."

Shen Xi saluted respectfully.

Xie Qian said with a smile: "Don't be discouraged, you have been promoted twice in three years, and if you rise again, I'm afraid that no one in the court will be convinced." Even His Majesty mentioned that you can put off on your promotion......"

Don't be promoted just by doing things, don't be discouraged by what you say, it's not that you are aggrieved, right?

Even the sick Emperor Hongzhi is concerned about my promotion? You're a liar! The emperor is now bedridden, where is the spare time to take care of this trivial matter of sesame mung beans?

What do you want the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to do?

"Students don't dare to ask for extravagance." Shen Xi showed his attitude against his will.

"Oh, but you have done a good job in the past two years, the prince's twenty-first history has always been well studied, Your Majesty has a lot of praise, the southern province is pro, and you have made a lot of achievements, so that the Francois surrendered to my court......"

Where can you see that the Francophone man is subservient to the Ming Dynasty?

People are obviously here to do business and trade, is it good? In other words, what is the benefit of people surrendering to you? With the opening of the Age of Discovery, the Francophiles are now all over the world, and in another decade or two, the total number of overseas colonies will be larger than that of the Ming Dynasty.

“…… Even sending artillery to the northwest is also very good, and Liu Shangshu of the Ministry of War has praised you many times in front of the old man. Xie Qian continued to talk about Shen Xi's exploits.

Shen Xi said modestly: "Students don't dare to take credit, what does the elder of the pavilion command, just explain." ”

"What are you talking about? Does the old man often arrange people to do things? Xie Qian's face was a little displeased. Shen Xi said these words in front of Ma Wensheng, which made his old face a little unbearable, "But the old man does have something for you to do, have you heard about the prevalence of bandits in the southeast of Fujian and Guangdong?" ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, why is it for this matter again? He immediately saluted and said, "The student has heard of it. ”

"Okay, you come up with a recital, and after the old man reads it, if he is satisfied, he will play it for you, Your Majesty." Xie Qian waved his hand.

Shen Xi was a little puzzled: "Elder Ge, it seems that the matter of bandits in this place is not for the students to ask, right?" ”

"Let you write that you do what you are told, and the old man is waiting to use it...... Well, don't go back and prepare, there is paper and pen here, write it on the spot and read it. ”

Xie Qian pointed to the pen and paper on the desk next to him, his feelings had already been prepared, and he was waiting for Shen Xi to come.

Regarding the bandits and robbers on the southeast coast, Shen Xi hadn't thought about it in detail before, and he really didn't want to be Xie Qian's free laborer anymore, so he saluted at the moment: "Elder Ge, I'm afraid the students will have to go back and think about it carefully." ”

"Don't think about it so much, think of what to write, weren't you very capable before, and there are still urgent talents, the old man wants to see if you have a name for nothing, or if you do have the ability. Ma Shangshu also wants to see it, right? Xie Qian smiled at Ma Wensheng, who had been silent next to him.

"Hmm."

Ma Wensheng stroked his beard and shook his head in response.

Shen Xi was a little inexplicable, the assessment of the emotional officials was not over, and a second assessment was prepared for him...... This time, he was asked to play a role in writing about the pirates and pirates that ravaged the southeast coast.

This is a cliché, what should I do?

Send troops to fight!

What if there are no soldiers?

Mobilize the soldiers and horses of the local guards!

What should I do if I don't have money to eat?

The local government paid donations, or reached out to the political envoy and the yamen to ask for money, but they couldn't ask the court for money anyway.

What if the bandits and the pirates avoided fighting?

That's better, you can report the victory to the court in a grand manner, and wait to receive the credit.

Shen Xi only went to Quanzhou once, and he completely understood the local bandits, which was to deceive the superiors and subordinates and deal with things.

Even if the imperial court allocates money and grain, the local government and the bandits and the robbers secretly collude from time to time, and today the bandits come out to loot, and when the officers and soldiers go, the bandits withdraw first, and after killing the good and taking the merits, the soldiers and horses of the court withdraw, and the bandits continue to make waves until the local government pokes the matter to the court.

In the past few years, the imperial court will think that there is another wave of bandits, but in fact, it is still the same group of people in exchange, but they have just changed their banners.

Anyway, Shen Xi felt that Xie Qian asked him to write the recital, so he was not polite and expressed his opinions.

There are no soldiers, local recruitment.

No money, bring your own rations.

has no combat effectiveness, brings its own weapons and horses, and builds its own ships.

The bandits bully the weak and fear the hard, so they drive a boat to the lair of the bandits and the robbers, see a hill and a mountain, and see an island occupying an island.

Writing this, Shen Xi suddenly felt that the mouth cannon was a little too much, a little unrealistic. But I have already written, and I have no choice but to continue writing. In the end, on the issue of the local government's non-cooperation, Shen Xi boldly put forward a proposal to "rectify the rule of officials".

The fundamental reason for the repeated prohibition of bandits on the southeast coast for a long time is that in addition to the factor of the imperial court's ban on the sea, the more important thing is that the local government shirks the blame.

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