Chapter 553: Planning
Now, there is a problem in front of them, although Zhang Fan and Zhang Juzheng have already seen through how these methods work in the DPRK and China, and even Zhang Fan and Zhang Juzheng have already figured out what kind of method should be used to replace the current official evaluation system, which has long been extremely rotten.
However, the problem now is that they can't just take this trick and come to the front of Empress Dowager Li, saying that there is a problem with the current official evaluation system, and the officials are too corrupt, and now we have a new method here, and it is effective and effective, and the effect is fast, so we will use this.
Empress Dowager Li is not a fool, even if she can see the current situation in the court clearly, and she also understands that the old-fashioned official evaluation method in the court is full of loopholes, and it has long been used by officials and has become the best way for them to get promoted and make a fortune, even if Empress Dowager Li has unconditional trust in Zhang Juzheng, and the same is true for Feng Bao.
But even so, it is impossible for Empress Dowager Li to make such a decision just because of a few words from Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, which is not only unreasonable, but even the ministers in the court will not agree to it.
In this way, Zhang Juzheng has to think of a way, find a reason or something, so that the Empress Dowager Li can agree, even in the face of the disagreement of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty in the future, she will be able to come up with an explanation, of course, as for whether it is a foolish thing, it doesn't matter, after all, the Empress Dowager Li is now in real power, although she can't make something out of nothing, but it is still very easy to point to the deer as a horse.
Therefore, no matter what, no matter how ridiculous it is, Zhang Juzheng always has to find a reason for Empress Dowager Li.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Fan are now studying this matter, and it is actually very convenient to find a reason, after all, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is in front of them, and there are too many examples that can be taken out to say things, but Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Fan understand that everything must be done in moderation.
If the matter is too small, it will not work, if it is too small, it will not matter, even if it is the Empress Dowager Li, it can be said, but it will not work if it is brought to the court, most of the big officials in the court are involved in these things, and now when they see these things from above, they will inevitably be nervous in their hearts, but they will feel that things are really nothing in addition to being nervous, and fierce denial will inevitably follow.
If the matter is too big, and the official position of the people involved is relatively high, there will inevitably be trouble, especially in this matter, Zhang Fan is just giving him advice behind his back, and he does not intend to stand in front of people, so it is Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao who will come forward after this matter, of course, Zhang Fan will not stand behind Zhang Juzheng all the time, and go on in obscurity, when necessary, he will also stand up and speak.
So now Zhang Fan is also discussing with Zhang Ju what kind of way to persuade Empress Dowager Li to be appropriate.
He still remembers that when he was in middle school in his last life, whether it was politics or physics, he raised a question, the question of quality, politics and physics seem to have nothing to do with each other, but many of them can be combined with each other.
Just like now, Zhang Fan suggested that Zhang Juzheng should start from small things, transfer files from all sides, extract some strengths, and some local examples, and the closer to now, the better, and Zhang Fan also specially said to Zhang Juzheng that things don't need to be too big, and smaller ones are fine.
Zhang Fan's words made Zhang Juzheng a little confused, just now the two of them had just unified their opinions on the determination of the Empress Dowager Li to be unable to shake the small things, but now Zhang Fan asked him to do the same.
Seeing Zhang Juzheng's puzzled expression, Zhang Fan smiled and said to him: "Teacher, don't take some things too seriously, just like inviting guests to drink, invite two or three people, put three or five pots of good wine, then drink, and have similar tastes, but if you invite more than a dozen or dozens of people to the banquet, and put a few jars of less and slightly worse wine, it is also a big banquet, this wine has not gotten better, but it is worse, but the name of this banquet has to be changed."
"The small banquet is pleasant, but the number of people is too small, even if the people who come are high-ranking officials, but the impact is much smaller after all, and even many people may not know, but this banquet is different, although the wine and dishes may not be so exquisite compared to the small banquet, but it is better than the number of people, even if it is the prefect of the seven products, but this scale may be the same day, so that the news can also be spread farther, whether it is the court members or the common people, they will know it,"
"What do you mean......" Hearing Zhang Fan say this, Zhang Ju began to ponder, his item is really what Zhang Fan said, this person is not fine, the key is that the number of people is large, and the influence will naturally be great.
Without speaking, Zhang Fan looked at Zhang Juzheng and nodded.
Zhang Fan's meaning is very simple, if the people associated with the example are too big, it is not good, no matter whether the people involved above are still in the court or not, it will be shocked, one is not good, and then make people's hearts float and make some big trouble, it will not be good.
After all, Zhang Juzheng first wants to say that it is the Empress Dowager Li, and for people like Empress Dowager Li, the size of the matter is not important, what matters is the nature of the matter, and after that, Zhang Juzheng only needs to give some more examples, so that the Empress Dowager Li feels that the corruption in the imperial court has reached a certain level, and it is enough to not reform it.
After all, in the final analysis, although the members of the imperial court are very important, but the foundation of the imperial court is the people, but the society of the country, and those lower-level officials are really related to these things, if there is something wrong with them, it means that there is something wrong with the foundation of the society, the foundation is the foundation, how can it be shaken.
In this way, not only can Empress Dowager Li be able to say it and let her agree, even if these things are put in the court, with so many examples, even if the ministers in the court want to refute something, they are powerless to fight back.
Thinking of this, Zhang Juzheng was full of praise for the method that Zhang Fan came up with, and the idea that Zhang Fan came up with is just right now, because they want to exemplify, the things they came up with are naturally closer to the present.
And now, it is just an opportunity, last year, it was only the six-year "Jingcha" carried out, and last year, the triennial "plan" of a place was also in the same year, although because of the "old tradition" of the imperial court, many officials who originally had problems escaped the catastrophe, and even many people because of this incident but soared, promoted and made a fortune, but this does not mean that no one is unlucky, these people are the examples that Zhang Juzheng needs.
Even, those who thought they had escaped a catastrophe, and now they have been promoted, their affairs are not unknown to the people in the court, and it can even be said that they all understand in their hearts, and they don't say it, Zhang Juzheng, as the first assistant scholar of the cabinet, naturally understands these things very clearly in his heart, and now he only needs to sort out these things, and then with his good writing, organize them into articles that make people feel that they are too arbitrary.
And in this matter, Zhang Fan is not idle, it is naturally not enough to rely on Zhang Juzheng to sort out these things alone, he also wants to help.
And Zhang Fan's help, it's not like this at all, he is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he has many "private" things of different ministers in his hands, after all, is it the Jinyi Guard, the Minister of Supervision is their own job, it is no exaggeration to say that for the Minister of Supervision, what things have been done, how many silver taels have been embezzled, how many concubines have been married, and even the belly pockets of the concubines in the first few rooms are known, of course, the last one is indeed exaggerated.
However, these also prove from the side how powerful Jinyiwei's strength is.
Therefore, if Zhang Fan wants to help Zhang Juzheng in this matter, it will not be limited to the previous events, the files in the court, or the open secrets that all the officials in the court know, he can let his subordinates go through some investigation, find out some things that have not been discovered now, and then put them in Zhang Juzheng's article to the Empress Dowager Li.
Compared with those things that have passed, or some things that everyone knows, Zhang Fan's things that have not yet been widely known by people, but they also really exist, whether it is for Empress Dowager Li or for the civil and military ministers in the court, it is undoubtedly more convincing.
Even Zhang Fan was a little excited, he had already made up his mind, if anyone dared to accuse him of saying something false and deliberately made up, Zhang Fan might stand up and refute him in person.
Even Zhang Fan understands that in this matter, even Ge Shouli, who had a lot of conflicts with Zhang Juzheng before, will stand on Zhang Juzheng's side to speak, after all, what Zhang Juzheng wants to do is a good thing, and he Ge Shouli is the left capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, these things are his own job, and Ge Shouli will naturally not sit idly by.
This is Zhang Fan's understanding of Ge Shouli, he understands that Ge Shouli is not a calculating person, even if he had an unpleasant quarrel with Zhang Juzheng before, but for Ge Shouli, the distinction between public and private is the truth.
The matter, under the active planning of the two, was slowly completed.