It can be said that Wang Xijue's proposal is actually an optimized version of the test method.

The examination method is aimed at people, quantitatively and regularly dividing government affairs into the hands of officials, and if they fail to complete it, they will be punished, and Wang Xijue's plan is aimed at departments, and it is also through clarifying the rights and responsibilities to clearly divide the government affairs into the hands of each yamen, so as to avoid the situation that each yamen shirks each other, resulting in the stagnation of government affairs.

Moreover, compared with the examination method, although Wang Xijue's plan takes longer to take effect, it is a system that can be implemented for a long time, and the examination law is a kind of wartime policy that Zhang Ju implemented during the reform period, and does not have a basis for long-term implementation.

Of course, their common feature is that they will promote the efficiency of the imperial court's government affairs, but Zhang Juzheng's examination method is more stringent, once the official does not meet the standard, he will be immediately deposed and replaced, and Wang Xijue's plan is to divide the government affairs into the yamen, even if something goes wrong, it will not be all blamed on one person, but by the entire yamen to bear the responsibility, of course, the official must be the most responsible, in this way, the fault tolerance rate is improved, and it is more operable than the examination method.

However, it is not a simple matter to clarify the rights and responsibilities of the various yamen, and there is not only one issue involved, but also one issue involved.

That is about the supervision of government affairs, since the Ming Emperor Taizu abolished the prime minister, the six ministries have become the nominal supreme yamen, and the assessment and transfer of officials has always been in the full control of the ministry.

Every three years, once every six years, the Beijing inspection is presided over by the Ministry of Officials, for the assessment of officials, the Ministry of Officials has its own set of detailed standards.

With such a large number of officials, all of them are selected by the Ministry of Officials, and it is naturally impossible to check and judge the ordinary government affairs of officials one by one, so the solution of the Ministry of Officials is very simple, not looking at the process and only looking at the results, which is the so-called political performance.

In the general plan, the assessment of local officials depends on the rigid criteria of money, food, population, criminal name, and servitude, and all of them meet the standards for the medium, one or two of the items that do not meet the standards but are not serious are the middle and lower grades, one or two items that are particularly serious or do not meet the standards are inferior, one or two items that are better than other places are the middle and upper grades, and those who are higher than other places or have one that is extremely outstanding are the top grades.

The selection of officials based on the results of the final evaluation saves a lot of work on the part of the officials, but if it is carried out according to Wang Xijue's reform, this method of selection is somewhat inadequate.

Clarifying powers and responsibilities means that officials should be evaluated according to the merits of handling government affairs, and if this is not the case, then it is meaningless to clarify powers and responsibilities.

However, the various yamen of the imperial court have to deal with countless government affairs in a year, and there are many mistakes, if the quality of government affairs is used as a criterion for evaluating officials, it will certainly improve the efficiency of government affairs and make officials more careful, but in this way, the difficulty of evaluating officials will be greatly increased, and it will become more complicated.

Of course, in view of this situation, Wang Xijue must have considered that reform is a set of interlocking policies, and a single policy reform cannot actually be called reform.

Therefore, in his second plan, he put forward a solution.

Emphasizing the cabinet over the six ministries, using the cabinet to reconcile the situation and supervise the behavior of various ministries and institutes, to put it bluntly, is to strengthen the power and status of the cabinet, so that the cabinet can directly participate in the examination and selection of the six ministries, or more directly, the ministries.

Because if the reform is carried out according to Wang Xijue's plan, the difficulty of the examination will be greatly increased, and it is not something that a department of the Ministry of Officials can afford, so the best way is to be co-chaired by the cabinet.

And in Wang Xijue's assumption, the cabinet should naturally occupy a leading position in the reconciliation of the court situation, and with the joint chairmanship of the cabinet and the ministry, no matter how complex the examination and selection can be handled.

Of course, in this way, there will be a new problem, that is, the division of supervision power, you know, the imperial court has its own supervision system, that is, the official line of science and technology led by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Cabinet came forward to monitor the actions of the Six Ministries, in fact, violating the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is notoriously difficult to provoke, and anyone in the imperial court who provokes them will face endless crazy impeachment.

Therefore, in the third plan, Wang Xijue deliberately gave a sense of appeasement, changing the Beijing inspection and general plan presided over by the Ministry of Officials in the past to the joint participation and supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that it can offset the impact of the cabinet's encroachment on the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After all, for most of the officials, relative to the power held by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they may pay more attention to the promotion of their careers, in previous years, although the imperial history also has the right to rumor, can impeach the ministry anytime and anywhere, but if you can really participate in the examination, it will inevitably picket more shady scenes, and for the imperial historians, impeaching others is a political achievement, and only impeachment is the foundation of their promotion.

It should be said that Wang Xijue's plan took into account the influence of all aspects, and tried to achieve a balance of interests on the basis of reform, if anyone's interests were damaged.

That is undoubtedly the six ministries, especially the ministry, the six ministries are actually fine, for so many years, the cabinet has interfered in the affairs of the six ministries is actually not a lot, but the ministries are miserable.

The most core official selection power was not only inserted by the cabinet, but also by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which simply slaughtered them as fat.

If this is really done, then the Ministry of Officials will probably have to look forward to the head of the cabinet from now on, not to mention the head of the six departments.

This is also the reason why Wang Xijue has always insisted on dealing with Sun Piyang.

In fact, it is also a coincidence, these days, from the reform of official governance to the current promotion of Xu Guangqi, it is all manipulated by the Son of Heaven behind the scenes, but it is always Wang Xijue who comes out to take the blame.

Everyone thought that it was this old Shoufu who persuaded the Son of Heaven to cooperate with his reform policy, but this time it was the other way around, and it was Wang Xijue who borrowed Zhu Changluo's momentum.

From the very beginning, it was this old chief assistant who insisted on taking action against Sun Piyang, but because of his identity limitations, if he directly dealt with the ministers and the secretary, it could easily escalate into a struggle between the cabinet and the six ministries.

After all, the name of the head of the six ministries is not for nothing, and in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were times when the ministers of the ministry were stronger than the cabinet ministers.

And the Son of Heaven made a move, it was more appropriate, and it was less likely to arouse suspicion, the new emperor ascended the throne to hold the officials in his hands, even if it was for the purpose of rectifying the rule of officials, it was a normal thing, and it would not cause excessive reactions from the courtiers.

So in the end, it was Yang Lian who came forward to impeach Sun Piyang at the court meeting, and the ministers also thought that the Son of Heaven was going to deal with Sun Piyang, but no one expected that it would be Wang Xijue who had always been the main one to deal with Sun Piyang......

ps: The next chapter is a little later, everyone understands