Since Zhu Ge Lao is the leader of the Zhejiang Party and enjoys the various benefits brought by the Zhejiang Party, he must also shoulder the responsibility of seeking benefits for the Zhejiang Party.

In the final analysis, whether it is a friend or a faction, it is just a union of interests, and only interests are the glue that binds everyone in the party.

In other words, Zhu Geng's status determines his attitude.

For the Zhejiang Party, whether it is Wang Xijue's proposition or Ye Xianggao's performance, it is very unfavorable, and the affairs of the imperial court, sometimes just a sentence is different, which will make the whole thing change its taste.

As the largest party in the imperial court, the Zhejiang Party is mixed, the relationship is intertwined, the number is large, and the huge power is their advantage and disadvantage.

Zhu Geng, or the reason why the Zhejiang Party advocates leaving the big plan to go to other things, is because the Zhejiang Party has many powerful people.

Although it is said that all major plans are in charge of the Ministry of Officials, how can such a major event really be handled by one department of the Ministry of Officials.

In particular, in the evaluation of officials' political performance, the Zhejiang Party has an absolute advantage.

You know, generally speaking, the evaluation of an official is composed of three parts.

The first part is the political achievements of the hard state, money and grain, people, and criminal names, these things are not easy to cheat, and the duty of the magistrate is to guard the pastoral side, as long as this can be done well, it will naturally be able to get a good evaluation in the evaluation of the officials.

However, there is a very ruthless fact that the Ministry of Officials has very high requirements for excellent evaluation, and unless there is an extremely outstanding political performance, it is difficult to stand out among many officials.

And the vast majority of officials are able to keep things done without causing trouble to the localities, let alone making any earth-shattering achievements.

Therefore, if this part of the officials wants to seek promotion, there are only two ways, one is to curry favor with the officials!

Although theoretically speaking, there is no complete control relationship under the Ming system, and the official hats of the county and the prefect are in the hands of the officials, but the upper and lower levels still exist.

Generally speaking, the biggest clamp on officials like the prefect to the official with a strong independence of the county is the year-end assessment.

At the end of each year, the prefectural-level official will make a comprehensive assessment of all aspects at the county level, and make an evaluation of the official seal.

This evaluation will not directly become the criterion for the transfer of officials, but it will be included in the evaluation of the Ministry of Officials.

Therefore, if you want to be promoted, a very practical way is to please Shangguan, if Shangguan says a few good words in your comments, it will definitely greatly improve your rating in the big plan.

So if you don't have a good relationship with Shangguan, or if Shangguan deliberately embarrasses you, will you not be able to seek promotion?

No, there is still a large part of the evaluation of the officials, which is called Shilin's reputation.

Fame is actually a very empty thing, but it is really useful.

If a person has a good reputation in Shilin, then the officials will consider how it will affect Shilin if they give him a bad review.

As for how much influence this kind of thing has on the big plan, please refer to the Shen Sixiao incident in the twenty-third year of Wanli.

And where did fame come about?

Naturally, it depends on what people say, the so-called sedan chair is carried by everyone, one person praises you and others don't believe it, but a hundred people praise you, and everyone will definitely believe it.

The Zhejiang Party controls the largest number of middle-level officials in the imperial court, and it is natural that it controls the trend of public opinion in Shilin.

With this sharp weapon, almost every big plan, the Zhejiang Party can get a lot of benefits from it, and this time the Son of Heaven intends to rectify the rule of officials, for the Zhejiang Party, it is simply a cat smelling fishy, and naturally refuses to let go of this piece of fat.

But to be clear, the plan that the Zhejiang Party wants and the plan suggested by Ye Xianggao are not the same concept at all.

The fundamental difference between the two is that the Zhejiang Party advocates the evaluation of officials by the evaluation method of officials, while Ye Xianggao clearly put forward whether officials are corrupt as the evaluation criterion.

Once the standard is set so clearly, then the advantages of the Zhejiang Party will be lost, and even on the contrary, the Zhejiang Party will suffer the heaviest losses in this plan due to its large number.

Such a simple truth, Zhu Geng naturally thought of it in a moment, so he stood up without hesitation and expressed his opposition.

"Cleaning up the rule of officials and sweeping away the accumulated evils, the old man naturally agrees with it, and it is imperative to do the big thing, but the court has its own charter, whether the officials are judged by corruption alone, is it biased?"

Zhu Ge has always been a teacher of political struggle, and he is naturally spicy in his actions, and he touches on the fundamental problem as soon as he opens his mouth.

Let's not talk about the standards of the Ministry of Officials for the evaluation of officials, just say that the method itself mentioned in Ye Xianggao's recital is not in line with the regulations of the imperial court.

The plan of the Ministry of Officials is a very strict and huge system engineering, and all the standards are the most appropriate and relatively fair methods that have evolved after many deliberations and compromises.

However, judging an official solely on the basis of corruption is a serious violation of the principle of selecting officials, and once a precedent is set, the consequences that will evolve will be unpredictable to everyone.

If nothing else, since such a standard is adopted in this big plan, what about next time? What about next time?

Will the future plan be carried out according to the rules, so the ability of officials, the performance of local governments, and the rules of officialdom and Shilin are still considered effective?

If the plan of the officials is only based on this, then will it cause large-scale officialdom attacks, and the courtiers do not focus on the government affairs of the court in order to seek promotion, but instead frame each other for corruption, what should we do in this situation?

Such a situation is only a preliminary consequence, and other uncontrollable risks have not yet been predicted.

These things, as a cabinet minister, must be considered in advance, otherwise, when things really happen, the situation will be difficult to manage.

Therefore, it should be said that the reason that Zhu Geng came up with is completely defensible and completely in line with the things and attitudes that his cabinet ministers should consider.

However, Li Tingji is not a vegetarian, so he sneered and said.

"Regardless of whether it is biased or not, the old man only asks you, should the corruption of officialdom be cured? Should officials be punished for accepting bribes? ”

"This ......"

Zhu Geng was a little speechless for a while, and some words could be expressed subtly, but when it came to a clear statement, some mistakes could not be made.

Li Tingji is forcing him with words, I am afraid that as long as he says a word that he should, then the latter will immediately have the handle to hold his words and use this to make trouble.

But if he shouldn't or say no, in his capacity, it's a little unreasonable......