The head of governing the country is to govern the officials, the officials are not clear, the country will be chaotic, Gao Gong has summarized the "eight evils", and the shortcomings of the Ming officialdom have been revealed to the fullest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The tall beard thinks he is the best in the world, and no one can surpass him.

But when the Longqing New Deal was really implemented, Gao Gong found that he was wrong, and the real problem was ignored by him.

Take the Qingzhang Tianmu in full swing as an example, he thought that he couldn't push it down, there were legal problems, local resistance, and officials deceived the upper and lower levels, but he couldn't calculate everything, but he didn't calculate it, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty didn't know arithmetic and geometry......

This is not a joke, many officials who are on the right path in Kejia can only do eight-strand essays, what "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Zhou Ji Sutra", I haven't even read it.

A boxy field can barely be calculated, and if it encounters a deformed place, it will be blind, and it can only be blinded by slapping its head and making a lot of jokes.

Zhang Juzheng had no choice but to borrow a lot of manpower from banks and money banks, and there were many omissions in them, if the imperial court had a sufficient number of high-quality officials, at least one or two million acres of land would be more.

After this incident, at least the cabinet accepted Tang Yi's point of view, there are indeed redundant officials in the Ming Dynasty, but those redundant officials are in the shadow, donated, and the officials who really do things are not too many, but too few, especially in some remote states and counties, so few that they are outrageous, and they can't even do the basic arrest of thieves, and all local officials most often deal with the most common thing is to try cases. It's not that they don't want to do anything else, it's that they really can't do it.

"There is no fault in the imperial examination, but there are many candidates for the exam, and there are few admitted, only three or four hundred people are selected every three years, and they have to pan for gold in big waves, and the difficulty of taking the exam is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it falls on the eight-strand essay that is easy to mark and difficult to write!"

Gao Gong concluded: "In this way, all those who are in the middle of the imperial examination think that they are high and have seen different things, and there is nothing they will not do." Once these people are awarded officials, at least they are the seven-grade county order, and the court says that the seven-grade officials are sesame mung beans, and when they arrive at the place, they are Baili Hou, which is the sky on the heads of the people! How can they be willing to pull down their skins and learn really useful skills, eager to seize the time, enjoy the good days of being powerful, don't know how to pretend to understand, and the corpse is a vegetarian meal, what they are talking about is the waste of these imperial examinations! ”

The tall beard is really powerful, and he can see the officials on the right path clearly. Gao Gong asked himself, if he hadn't sat on the cold bench in the Hanlin Academy for ten years, and was sent to Yuwangfu for ten years, and for twenty years of calming down, observing and studying well, how could there be Gao Suqing today?

Like Tang Yi, there are too few demons and precocious wisdom after all.

"Although the officials on the right path of Kejia are hateful, they are better than those officials who eat people and don't spit out bones, I don't know how many times. The local officials are hereditary, marry each other, and have strong strength, and they are out-and-out local snakes. The officials sent down by the imperial court are alone, with at most one master, where is their opponent, so most of them are played in applause, and the little officials have no room to rise, and they are despised by the officials, they have long been self-despise, and they don't want to be cheeky, they only have two words in their hearts: silver! There is no money they dare not be greedy, there is nothing they dare not do! Although the officials are small, the embankment of thousands of miles is destroyed in the anthill, they are the anthills on the body of the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later the officials force the people to rebel, and the uprising is all made by them! ”

Slap, slap, slap......

Tang Yi applauded, happy, indeed happy.

"Zhongxuangong said in one word, the disadvantages of the rule of officials lie in this!"

Gao Gong said ashamedly: "Yuan Fu praised it, I'm afraid you would have seen it a long time ago." ”

"It's not much different from not seeing that you can't do anything." Tang Yi said meaningfully.

"Can you do it now?"

"Yes!" Tang Yi said decisively: "The two problems that Zhongxuan Gong just summarized, I can solve them with one prescription. Once every three years, too few jinshi are admitted, which causes each non-commissioned officer to think very highly of himself and is not familiar with popular affairs. But it is undeniable that they are all talented people, and as long as time goes by, they are all talents. The number of people admitted to the imperial examination has increased greatly, and the value of each jinshi's ability is shrinking, and they have to bow their heads to learn more things and absorb more useful knowledge. Moreover, the number of people has increased, the difficulty has decreased, and the corresponding age of admission will be reduced, and they will enter the officialdom early, and they will have more time to study, and they can enrich their skills, so that they will not waste their energy on the eight shares. ”

The reform of the rule of officials, Tang Yi has been working on it for a long time, and the number of admissions in the second year of Longqing will be more than before, after a successful experiment, Tang Yi's pace is greater, and the reform is more thorough.

"Lower the threshold of Jinshi, the starting point for the first time to confer officials is also low, and now it is the ninth grade, and below, the wardens, the inspectors, the warehouse ambassadors, the cell heads, and the six-room scribes, can all consider using the section officer."

Gao Gong opened his mouth wide in shock, how many people do you need?

Tang Yi said with a smile: "Gao Ge Lao, we can divide it into the national examination, the provincial examination, and the county examination, the starting point of the national examination is the ninth grade, the starting point of the provincial examination is the six-room scribe, and as for the county examination, it is an ordinary small official." Once you enter the yamen, regardless of your academic background, you will be treated equally, and you will be assessed and promoted, and the same standards will be adopted. Breaking the boundaries of officials, officials can be promoted if they do well, which naturally reduces the number of people who are bent on seeking wealth. The starting point of the non-commissioned officers is low, which forces them to increase their talents and be more pragmatic rather than retreating, and the final result is that there are more officials available to the imperial court, the quality is higher, and the execution of the imperial court is also stronger! ”

In the past, he talked about many things about rectifying the rule of officials, but this time Tang Yi had no reservations and threw them all out.

Gao Gong certainly understood Tang Yi's thoughts, in fact, they have followed this idea in the past few years, such as increasing the number of scholars in the middle school, assigning subordinate officials to the Kedaoyan officials, and sending Shen Shixing and other Hanlin officials to the local experience......

After a long time of preparation, he finally wanted to show his strength and completely reform the rule of officials, and the tall beard could not hide his excitement.

"Yuanfu, increase the number of officials, expand admissions, large-scale education, the world is absolutely supportive, even if some people are dissatisfied, they can't stop the rolling tide. But there's only one problem......"

"It's silver, isn't it?" Tang Yi asked with a smile.

"Motosuke is wise." Gao Gong smiled bitterly: "There was a silver crisis last year, and the imperial court was tightly sized, even if the Qingzhang fields were done well and the land endowment increased, they couldn't afford the income of so many officials." ”

Gao Beard has not yet said that while rectifying the rule of officials, Tang Yi continued to increase official allowances and give out red envelopes in the name of the cabinet.

At present, Ming officials can get at least three parts of their income, second to none, that is, the original dry Yulu, followed by tax rebate grain, a grade official 50 stone per year, down in turn, the lowest grade, there are also 20 stones, enough for a family to eat and drink. The third part is the employee subsidy fee, an official, especially a local official, must be equipped with at least one master, four palanquin drivers, and caretakers, and the money must be paid by themselves, and the poor money is not enough at all.

Tang Yi stipulated that hundreds of officials were not allowed to sit in a sedan chair, and he assigned each official a master, a sedan chair man, a steward, and three servants, and the court was out.

In addition, Tang Yi also continued to increase the holidays for the big guys, and in the eyes of many officials, Tang Ge Lao was definitely much cuter than the black-hearted Zhu Yuanzhang.

But there are also disadvantages to giving grace widely, the expenses of the officials have risen sharply, and now they have to increase the number of officials and burden the local people, so it will not crush the household department!

"I can do it, but you can solve the money!" This is the attitude of the high arch.

"Hahaha, Zhongxuangong, I'll take you to see something."

Tang Yi called Zhang Juzheng and Zhao Zhenji, a total of four elders, came out of the capital, galloped all the way, and rushed to Tongzhou. Right at the pier, there was a big ship docked.

Someone led the way and invited them into the cabin.

In front of all the elders, there were many wooden boxes, all locked and sealed.

"Guess what's in there?"

"Don't guess, the draft is so deep, and the guards are so strong, it's either yellow or white, am I right?" Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.

Tang Yi nodded with a smile, and as soon as he waved, someone opened the box, and suddenly a white light shone, almost blinding his eyes.

Everyone approached, all dumbfounded, such a big silver bar, pick up one, I am afraid that there are a hundred taels, heavy press, color, texture, are impeccable.

"Motosuke, how much silver is this?" Zhao Zhenji asked in surprise.

"Not much, 800,000 taels of silver, and another 50,000 taels of gold!" Tang Yi replied happily.

It stands to reason that as a pavilion elder, he should have seen money, and how much silver is in a warehouse as big as the household!

Not to mention, the money of the household department has always been paid with the inflow, and the deposit is not much, or even a deficit. Then there are banks that have developed, many of which are just numbers on the books, and it is quite shocking to really see millions of gold and silver.

Zhang Juzheng was careful and noticed that the silver bar had the words Yonglu and Yuan Turtle on it, as well as strange ghost drawings.

"Yuansuke, isn't this Daming's silver bar?"

"Hahaha, when you get to Daming, it is naturally Daming's silver bars, but Brother Taiyue is not wrong, these gold and silver come from the Wa Kingdom!"

The three elders are all deaf and clear-sighted, and it is not a secret to set up Beiyang Company, but I didn't expect that after a few months of hard work, there will be results, which is really fast!

"Motosuke-sama, how did you get here?" Everyone asked curiously.

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Tang Yi sent his opinion to Mao Haifeng, and Mao Haifeng had no choice but to take the "Shang Fang Sword" to find peace. These days, Heian took Qi Anguo and the monkeys around Kyoto, watched two big fat men of three or four hundred pounds wrestling, watched the dancing girl with her face painted like a hanged ghost twisting her body, and tasted Sen no Rikyu's weird tea ceremony...... I don't know what's going on, the feeling of the Wa Kingdom to them is awkward, and they are so uncomfortable from the inside out.

Ping An couldn't understand why a petite and lovely girl would snuggle up next to a huge and friendless sumo wrestler, her arms were thicker than her body, and a big face could cover ****. What a fucking demon!

After the three little guys saw it, the whole person was not good, they swore to God that they would never touch the women of the Wa Kingdom, even if Oda Nobunaga sent more, they would not touch it!

Ping'an had two letters in his hand, the earlier one was sent by Mao Liyuan, who owned Iwami Ginzan, and the second was from his father Tang Yi.

"Your old man is really confident, since you are sure to submit Oda Nobunaga, then you can only sell Maori!" Ping An gritted his teeth and laughed wryly. (To be continued.) )