In fact, Zhang Juzheng gave the Empress Dowager Li a fold, recording the names of hundreds of county officials and prefects, all of whom are still in office today, but at the same time they all have problems, as for what the questions are, Zhang Juzheng did not write on the fold, but presented a stack of documents to the Empress Dowager Li, and on those documents, everything is clearly recorded.

Although it is impossible for Empress Dowager Li to check every document in detail and find out if there is a problem, Zhang Juzheng has been waiting for this day for a long time and preparing for a long time, he naturally does not want any accidents to happen, so he, Zhang Fan and Feng Bao are also very careful and careful when selecting these, everyone can see it clearly, and after confirming that there is indeed a problem, they will write the person's name on it.

Sighing, Empress Dowager Li asked: "Since these things are true, how does the Zhang Qing family plan to deal with it?"

Zhang Fan didn't know what the sigh of the Empress Dowager Li represented just now, maybe it was agreement, or maybe it was a little sad, but these are not important, the important thing is that the Empress Dowager Li finally agreed with the truth of this situation, maybe she knew it in her heart before, but she has always refused to admit that the Ming Dynasty under her rule is so unbearable, and now, she finally puts things in front of her, which has the least conditions to talk about.

"Zhang Qing's family doesn't want to impeach these people like this," Empress Dowager Li asked, "You know, although these people have small official positions, but they are all local prefects and prefects, and the involvement between them and the people is very deep, if there are three or five people who are ruled by the imperial court because of corruption and perversion of the law, and then find someone to replace their official positions, it is nothing, but now, this involves hundreds of people, if they are impeached like this, hundreds of people are dismissed, and the people of the world are happy, but what should the court do, this matter is too sudden, The imperial court will not be able to find hundreds of fifth-grade and seventh-grade officials to replace these people for a while and a half, and what will happen at that time, I think the two Qing families can understand better than the mourning family,"

What Empress Dowager Li said, no one can deny it, her words seem to be identifying something for those people, but in fact it is not at all, those officials are guilty of things after all, and the documents provided by Zhang Fan and Feng Bao are enough to explain the problem.

Of course, this is also because of Empress Dowager Li's belief in Zhang Fan and Feng Bao, or should be in Jinyiwei and Dongchang, it is true that whether it is Jinyiwei or Dongchang, there will always be some small actions that do not conform to the rules in private, and some even openly disobey the emperor's order, but at this time, when they need to come up with something to announce it to the public, they will definitely not do those things.

After all, they knew in their hearts that the officials of the imperial court had always had a bad attitude towards them, and even if it was the best, they wouldn't talk much, and now, since they wanted to come up with something that would convince those people, it was naturally impossible to deceive, and if the Empress Dowager Li knew about it, the trouble would be even greater, and no one wanted that kind of thing to happen.

Therefore, the things recorded in these documents are absolutely true, and the Empress Dowager Li is willing to believe it.

But the more she believed, the more she felt that this matter was extremely tricky, just as she said just now, since there is real evidence, and Zhang Juzheng's walk has also been presented, then once the impeachment is down, these people will definitely not be able to run, and losing their positions is a trivial matter, and if they don't get it right, there will be a few people who lose their heads.

But the point is not here, the point is that the number of people is too much, if all these people lose their officials at once, the imperial court will not be able to find so many people to replace these people for a while, then in the first place, these hundreds of counties will be chaotic, this in the Ming Dynasty, which is constantly uprising, it is naturally a very worrying thing at first sight, and no one dares to have any negligence in this.

Of course, there is another way, that is, to impeach these people, but it is not to wipe them all out and dismiss them, but after Zhang Fan and others discussed it, they felt that if they did that, the situation might be worse.

It is true that not dismissing all these people will allow the localities to continue to operate normally even though there are still magistrates, but they have to worry about one thing.

First of all, those who have obviously been impeached, but have not been dismissed, are not stupid, they know in their hearts why they have committed such a big mistake but can still wear official uniforms and black hats, and they also know in their hearts that not removing them now does not mean that the court will forget them, on the contrary, this kind of thing, especially when it comes to political affairs, it is absolutely no one will forget anything, in the future, maybe when the situation is stable, the court will naturally turn over old accounts, even, In the future, if there is a need, someone will turn up their affairs and impeach them again against individual people.

In this way, since these people know that their official positions will not last long, then they are still in their positions, and they naturally have to leave a way back for themselves, and it is possible to escape secretly, and it is even more certain that they will start openly embezzling bribes in a self-defeating manner, and plan for the future.

After all, even if you use a person who has no talent, in the case of Zhang Juzheng now in power, the minimum character of these people is still good, but after keeping the original person and starting to be unscrupulous, the harm will not only be so, the people will inevitably hate it even more, and no one dares to predict what kind of situation it will cause at that time.

And there is another point, it is impossible to leave a group, it is said that officials protect each other, and many officials have a relationship with each other, especially these low-level officials, although these people, everyone wants to step on the shoulders of others to climb up, but after all, they are weak and need to unite with each other to be able to "make progress together", if one of them can take the position in the future, with their relationship, and other people hold his handle, it is natural to carry it out.

If some people are dismissed, and some people don't, those who are dismissed will inevitably be jealous, not to mention that Zhang Juzheng's compromises will not impeach other people, even if there are no other people's names in the compromises, those who have been dismissed will also confess, if that is the case, the court will not be able to ignore them at all.

"Wechen understands the stakes in his heart," Zhang Juzheng said, "Wechen is not trying to impeach these people now,"

"Then you ...... the Qing family" Hearing Zhang Juzheng say this, Empress Dowager Li was even more confused, since Zhang Juzheng didn't want to impeach these people, why would he present this fold now, besides, now that the fold has been in the hands of Empress Dowager Li, she has also seen it, since she has seen it, it can't be regarded as if this incident has not happened.

"The reason why Wechen wants to say this to the Queen Mother is to say ...... to the Queen Mother," Zhang Juzheng explained, "What matters now is not these officials who make mistakes, but the problem of restraint on them in the court,"

"Restraint," Empress Dowager Li heard Zhang Juzheng say, and only after a while did she understand, "The Qing family means that there is a problem with the imperial court's 'Jingcha' and 'Great Plan',"

"Back to the Empress Dowager's words, Weichen didn't mean that," Zhang Juzheng said, "'Jingcha' and 'Great Plan' were set when this dynasty was founded, and their original intention was to evaluate officials, how could there be mistakes,"

"Then what do you mean......" Empress Dowager Li was even more confused by Zhang Juzheng's words.

"What Weichen means is that there is nothing wrong with this, after all, it is for the good of the imperial court," Zhang Juzheng explained, "but after so many years, this 'Jingcha' and 'Great Plan' have become a system, and the 'Jingcha' of the Beijing officials is once every six years, and the 'Jingcha' of the local officials is ' The plan is not once every three years, it is too fixed, so that those officials will not be prepared at this time, just like last year, it is said that when the New Year has just passed, the prefects and prefects in these places have begun to prepare, to deal with the people who supervised the court shooting, and when it was over, more than 50 people were found to have problems, and more than 20 people were done, but the other people did not have a little problem, Weichen checked the file, not to mention the corruption and perversion of the law, and the other hundreds of county officials, that is, they have not even been corrupted, the queen mother thinks, can this be believed, ”

As soon as Zhang Juzheng's words came out, everyone present laughed softly, even Zhu Yijun was no exception, it wasn't that they lacked tension, or that they felt that this matter was irrelevant, but what Zhang Juzheng said was a little funny.

No matter who knows a sentence, "Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", of course, this sentence may be exaggerated, and it may not be strong enough, but there is one, what it says is the truth, not to mention the county officials, prefects, and even the county officials below, the head arrest is unhappy, and even the pestle of the coffin autopsy will have some gray income, if a person has been an official for a few years, he has not received a penny, it is really hard to believe.

However, although in the face of Zhang Juzheng's words, several people laughed, but there is nothing to sigh about, and there is nothing to be sad about, after all, accepting bribes is such a thing, whether it is this Celestial Empire, or other countries in the Western Regions, whether it is in the past or in the future, this situation cannot be eliminated.

Since corruption is only a little more powerful in this dynasty, but it is not unique to this dynasty, then what else do people have to be sad and ashamed of.

"In that case, I don't know if the Zhang Qing family has any good plans," Empress Dowager Li asked.