"Naturally, it should be!"

Before Zhu Geng could think about how to speak, Shen Li, who was on the side, stood up and said.

"However, the major events of national politics affect the whole body, how can you just look at one side? Of course, the trend of corruption should not be indulged, but if the regulations of the Ministry of Officials are abolished because of this, it will cause turmoil in the court. ”

is similar to what Zhu Geng expected, Li Tingji has indeed planned it a long time ago, and as soon as Zhu Geng answers, he will use words to block him, and even plan what to say.

But who would have thought that Shen Li would jump out.

In this way, he could not say what he had in mind.

The reason is nothing else, the word seniority!

In the cabinet, Li Tingji's qualifications are the shallowest, and Zhu Geng, who has the least qualifications among other cabinet ministers, has also ascended to the Jinshi more than ten years earlier than him, so Li Tingji has always been tied up in the cabinet.

Among the ministers, in addition to Li Tingji, Zhu Geng is the least qualified, and he is the only one who is a jinshi in the second year of Longqing.

The other three were all former ministers during the Jiajing period.

In other words, those three are all the elders of the four dynasties, and Li Tingji, a new young junior, naturally can't refute it at will.

Relatively speaking, although Zhu Geng's qualifications are equally profound, but with a one-time difference in qualifications, Li Tingji has a lot more means at his disposal.

At least it doesn't hurt to bluntly refute his injustices, and it's not impossible to grab words once in a while.

But Shen Li is different, he is a forty-four year jinshi of Jiajing, and he is two generations higher than Li Tingji in the cabinet, a place where seniority is ranked.

So when he spoke, Li Tingji must not interrupt, although Li Tingji no longer cares about reputation, but as a civil servant, he must always abide by some rules, otherwise, he will be completely excluded from the ranks of civil ministers.

"Yes, this is exactly what the old man meant, the wind of corruption should naturally be grasped, but the officials plan and do heavy tasks, how can they act rashly, and the selection of officials has always been strict, how can it be judged from the same thing? If the atmosphere of officialdom is like this, even if we have the heart to return to heaven, we should act slowly, and rashly purge the officialdom with severe punishments and harsh laws, will it not chill the hearts of meritorious officials? ”

Zhu Geng breathed a sigh of relief, and then followed.

Li Tingji's brows furrowed slightly, it should be said that Ye Xianggao's performance is indeed problematic, and Shen Zhu and the others are not wrong on this point.

What Ye Xianggao said in the song is indeed impossible to achieve in accordance with the law.

Because there are too many corrupt people in the officialdom, if the punishment is really strict, more than half of the entire court will be deposed as a citizen.

This is absolutely not a no-no!

In this way, the government will inevitably be paralyzed, and for today's Ming Dynasty, even a short period of paralysis will be fatal.

What's more, the paralysis of the government is only the influence of the central government, and more importantly, the influence of the local government, the officialdom has never been independent, and behind every official stands at least one or even several gentry families.

They play a vital role in the safety and security of the local government, and the first thing that every magistrate does when he takes office is to gather the local gentry and celebrities to contact each other, and some even require the magistrate to visit him in person, which shows his importance.

These gentry were the basis of the Ming dynasty's rule, and they relied on the court officials to maintain their own transcendent status in the region, and in turn managed the place for the court, forming a virtuous circle.

And once the officials were dismissed on such a large scale, it was difficult to guarantee that the local gentry would not be involved in a riot.

Therefore, Ye Xianggao's performance is actually not very feasible.

But in fact, Li Tingji deliberately wrote it like this.

He had no intention of following this draconian plan.

The reason why he wrote this way was, first, considering the problem of overkill, and that if he wanted to grasp the corrupt atmosphere in the officialdom, he would inevitably meet with strong opposition from the Zhejiang Party, which he had long expected, so he deliberately wrote the situation extremely serious, so that the room for maneuver was much greater.

He first advocated strict punishment, and then the emperor would reduce the pardon and put the opportunity to give grace to the emperor's hands, which is what the minister should do, otherwise, directly hand over a perfect plan, what else can the emperor do except approve a word?

Of course, another point is that although this note was written by him, it was written by Ye Xianggao, and the more righteous and correct the words written, the easier it was to pick out Ye Xianggao.

However, what made Li Tingji a little distressed was that looking at Zhu Geng's appearance, he didn't plan to discuss it at all, but planned to use this loophole to completely reject this performance.

Knowing this, he should have sent the song to the Son of Heaven first, and then handed it over to the cabinet after the Son of Heaven's approval, so that although the effect was worse, it would not be so passive.

"Don't worry, the old man looks at Ye Shilang's performance, in addition to talking about the officialdom, it is also directly pointing to the corpse of Kedao Taiyuan, there is a suspicion of dereliction of duty, the old man is from the old Fengxian, what do you think about this omission?"

When Li Tingji was annoyed, the old Shoufu spoke up and relieved him.

While Li Tingji breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes also lit up.

Why didn't he think of it?

On top of Ye Xianggao's recital, in addition to the requirement to strictly grasp the trend of corruption, the rectification of the Taiyuan is also a key point, when Li Tingji was writing, he only wrote on the former one, but the latter one didn't care much.

The main reason is because the importance of the two things is different, even though the Kedao Taiyuan is clear, but now Li Tingji's hand can't reach so far, not to mention that although Kedao is crowded, compared with the entire imperial court, it is still a little inadequate.

Of course, the most important point is that the rectification of the Taiyuan was crossed in front of the Son of Heaven in the Qianqing Palace that day, and the Son of Heaven wanted to make a move, so there was no need for him Li Tingji to say too much.

Therefore, in this recital, Li Tingji only mentioned the matter of Fengxian, and did not focus on it.

But what he didn't expect was that Lao Shousuke was keenly aware of this, and took this opportunity to lead the topic to Zhen Zhenji.

You must know that Zhen Zhenji's identity is very special, and the special thing is that he used to be a wind magistrate, but now he is not a wind magistrate.

These two points are very important, the former point determines the absolute right of the heart to speak in the field of science and technology, and the latter point is to relieve the heart of the second assistant when he speaks......

Since he is no longer the Feng Xian Officer, even if something goes wrong with the Feng Xian, it will be difficult to investigate him.

More importantly, if the Son of Heaven wants to rectify the rule of officials, no matter which aspect he intends to start from, the first step must be Fengxian, and the second assistant is precisely the person with high seniority and prestige in the Dao......