Jingcha is a system of assessment of Beijing officials in the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Hongwu Dynasty stipulated that it was a three-year examination, and then changed to a ten-year examination, and then changed to a six-year examination in the Hongzhi Dynasty of Ming Xiaozong, and then Jingcha was set to be a six-year examination, until the Apocalypse Dynasty has not changed.

At the beginning of Hongwu, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also formulated a detailed Jingcha system, during the Jingcha, the officials above the fourth grade were personally inspected by the emperor, and the officials below the fourth grade were inspected by the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The purpose of Jingcha itself is to reward the good and punish the bad, so that officials at all levels can fulfill their duties, but precisely because of the rewards and punishments of officials, the result is that the phenomenon of forming parties such as favoritism and malpractice is very serious, and it has developed into a tool of party struggle in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Originally, before the Apocalypse Dynasty, Jingcha was mainly aimed at officials below the fourth grade, because the officials above the fourth rank were personally inspected by the emperor, and the inspection method was still written by the officials themselves "self-Chen Shu".

In other words, the Jingcha of officials above the fourth rank is actually the courtiers themselves to report to the emperor the various shortcomings in the past six years of work, hoping that the emperor can depose him.

This statement is a bit ridiculous, but this is the case, of course, after reading Zi Chen Shu, the emperor generally does not treat officials above the fourth rank as well, usually encourages them, and then retains them.

Therefore, for officials above the fourth grade, Jingcha is actually a formality, which can play a very small supervisory role, and will not dismiss a few people.

Under normal circumstances, Jingcha will only deal with officials in Beijing below the fourth grade, especially when the party dispute is serious, and it is not impossible to oust a large number of people at once.

It can be said that there are problems with the Jingcha system itself, at the beginning, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang relied on incomparably iron-blooded means, and he could also let these officials honestly investigate, but the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty, except for Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, could also deter the ministers with the power of Jingjing, and the others basically couldn't suppress the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

This also made Jingcha slowly turn into a farce, a farce that was staged in the north and south of Beijing every six years.

In these farces, the Beijing officials above the fourth grade are desperately trying to find innocuous little faults for themselves, asking the emperor to depose himself, and the emperor is desperately retaining, and replies vigorously "not allowed" and "not allowed", while the officials below the fourth grade polish their eyes and begin to stand in line, looking for a backer, the backer is right, then sit back and relax, if the backer is not right, then be careful, people can really observe, if you can't find a problem, count you as powerful, if you find a problem, then wait to be deposed.

The farce of Jingcha has been staged again and again, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty have slowly become accustomed to it, and everyone understands that Jingcha is just like that, and officials above the fourth grade can find more shortcomings such as "focusing on work and not paying attention to the body", and officials below the fourth grade can find a backer to stand in line, as long as the eyes are open, there will be basically no problem.

However, this Beijing inspection in the fifth year of the Apocalypse was greatly unexpected by all the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and this Beijing inspection was very different from the past.

However, this difference is not the end of the farce in Jingcha, but the stage of a big farce.

In fact, this big farce has long been foreshadowed, and before Jingcha has started, Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, Gao Panlong, the imperial history of Zuodu, and Chen Yuting, the servant of the ministry, have been handed off, and most of the promoted Wang Shaohui, Cui Chengxiu, Wu Chunfu and others are Wei Zhongxian's godsons, which indicates that the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong is going to do it.

Like Gu Bingqian, the scholar of the Scholar Department of Jianji Palace, and Wei Guangwei, the scholar of the Scholar Department of Dongge University, and other people who tend to be inflammatory, all hurriedly threw themselves into the arms of Wei Zhongxian, among which Wei Guangwei took refuge particularly thoroughly, because he and Wei Zhongxian have the same surname as the same township, at the beginning he recognized Wei Zhongxian as his brother, and then he was not respectful enough, so he simply recognized Wei Zhongxian as his uncle!

However, Han Yi, who succeeded Ye Xianggao as the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhu Guozhen, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and Zhu Guozhen, a scholar of the household department, and other upright people were "ignorant" and ignored Wei Zhongxian's wooing, and the Donglin Party in the court was even more desperate to impeach Wei Zhongxian, wanting the emperor to take back the power in Wei Zhongxian's hands.

As a result, as soon as Jingcha began, an epic farce was staged.

First of all, Han Yi, the first assistant of the cabinet, "self-confessed" according to the usual practice, self-confessed his mistakes, and asked the emperor to depose.

He thought that the emperor would also follow the usual practice, not allow or not allow, and then say good words to persuade and try his best to keep it, because one or two hundred years of Jingcha have basically played like this.

As a result, this time, the emperor just replied that he was not allowed, and then, there was no then.

This face is embarrassed, the emperor is clearly looking down on him, Han Yi resigned angrily and retired!

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Guozhen, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, succeeded as the first assistant of the cabinet, and he was not stupid to go to "Zi Chen Shu" again and begged the emperor to depose him, but Wei Zhongxian instructed his godson Yushi Li Fan to impeach him.

Zhu Guozhen was angry, and he was three times in a row, and he resigned and returned to his hometown.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Bingqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and Rites of Jianji Temple, succeeded him as the first assistant of the cabinet, and the cabinet has been controlled by Wei Zhongxian since then.

The cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Officials were all in hand, Wei Zhongxian no longer had any scruples, he waved his hand, and directly dismissed the dozens of officials who had impeached him, such as Yang Lian, the left deputy capital Yushi, Li Banghua, the squire of the Ministry of War, Zhou Chaorui, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and Gu Dazhang, a member of the Ministry of Rites, who had impeached him!

For a while, the entire government and the opposition were shocked, Jingcha, it seems, isn't that how to play!

Jingcha really doesn't play like this, but Wei Zhongxian wants to play like this.

And this is just the beginning, there are still things to play later, such as playing an autumn settlement or something.

Zhu Guozhen is not a member of the Donglin Party, and he didn't offend him much during his tenure as the first assistant of the cabinet, so he just resigned and returned to his hometown.

However, Han Yi, who is the Donglin Party, offended him many times during his tenure as the first assistant of the cabinet, and this account cannot be counted.

He first instructed his godson Bingke to impeach Han Yi by Li Lusheng in the matter, and took the opportunity to cut Han Yi's reputation and remove Han Yi's official status.

Then he ordered his godson Cui Chengxiu to frame Han Yi for harboring 2,000 taels of stolen silver, and forced Han Yi to sell his property and land and borrow money from relatives and friends before repaying the so-called stolen silver.

In the end, Han Yi had nowhere to live, so he could only live in the cemetery of his ancestors, and the whole family was hungry and unclothed, which was extremely miserable.

A cabinet chief assistant was turned into such a thing by him, the officials of the DPRK and China were all cold, and for a time the court officials who were attached to the eunuch party were like carp crossing the river, and most of the upright people resigned and left, and more than half of the officials in the DPRK and China were gone!

These upright officials were intimidated by his hooliganism and did not dare to impeach him again, so they could only fight in this way.

Everyone's meaning is obvious, you don't have a face, we still have a face, if you don't play like this, we will all resign, see what you do.

At this time, what should Wei Zhongxian do?

What should he do, he directly pretended to pass on the holy decree with Zhu Tongmeng and Guo Yunhou as the servants of Shaoqing, Lu Pengyun and Sun Jie as the Dali Temple, Huo Weihua and Guo Xingzhi as the middle of the matter, Xu Jinglian, Jia Jichun, Yang Weiyuan, etc. as the imperial history, and enabled Xu Zhaokui, Qiao Yingjia, Xu Shaoji, Ruan Dacheng, Chen Eryi, Zhang Yangsu, Li Yingjian, Li Song, Yang Chunmao and other officials who depended on him, filling the entire court!

At this time, Zhang Bin, who was waiting for news in Chongxing Temple, was also taken aback, is it appropriate for Father-in-law Wei to stay in the capital and serve in the capital so unruly?

If, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was accidentally classified as a eunuch, wouldn't everything be over!