Time flies, and the white horse flies.

In the blink of an eye, it is already the end of the third year of Longhan, and the fourth year of Longhan is coming. For the students in the hall of Beijing Normal University, they have been enrolled for two years before they know it. In the first year of the Longhan Dynasty, more than 8,000 of them finally entered the Beijing Normal University for further study.

Now two years have passed, and there are still two years left for the official conferment, but the two-year training period of the Jingshi University Hall has ended, and in the next two years, they will have to intern for two years in the central and local yamen.

"Time flies."

In the Zhejiang Hall, several students from the Beijing Normal University Hall from Zhejiang gathered together.

"yes." A classmate said that these students of Jingshi University, who are known as the pride of heaven, are the lucky ones of the imperial examination. Especially the few people gathered here today are all new science and technology scholars from Zhejiang. "How do you feel about this year-end exam? I think this year's questions are a bit tricky. ”

This year's year-end exam is quite important, and it is related to what kind of yamen you will be assigned to next year. And everyone understands in their hearts that if you enter a good internship yamen and have a good internship transcript, you will definitely be assigned to a better local unit after one year, so that after the internship period of the last year, when you are officially conferred an officer, you may be able to confer an important position and a good official.

There are also various kinds of sweet, sour, bitter and salty officials, academic officials are sour officials, and judges are authoritative officials

"I think we're in a good time." The other person looked relaxed, "The imperial court has proposed the civil service law a few months ago, as well as the official evaluation law, and the imperial examination law, and these three bills have been submitted to the Senate and will be resolved soon. As soon as the three bills are passed by the House of Representatives, the official written law will be established next year, and the imperial examinations, including the appointment and dismissal of officials, will have detailed legal provisions. According to the provisions of the law on the evaluation of officials, as soon as the new law is implemented, a large number of officials who fail to pass the examination will be eliminated next year. ”

Recently, everyone in Beijing knows about the Imperial Examination Law, the Civil Servants Law, and the Official Examination Law, and the Senate is arguing about them every day, and the major newspapers also publicize the provisions of these bills every day, so that although the three laws have not yet been implemented, they are already known to everyone.

Especially the people of Jingshi, who are most concerned about military affairs, all of them seem to be parliamentarians, even if it is a few old men basking in the sun in the streets and alleys, or the coachmen waiting to pull guests on the side of the road, they have to discuss it together.

These three new laws are very controversial. Some people applaud, mainly those who are not in their positions, such as scholars, especially those preparatory officials in the hall of Beijing Normal University, as well as peddlers and pawns, also like to mix two sentences, pulling rickshaws, but every day they discuss how the imperial court should take the imperial examination and evaluate the appointment and dismissal of officials.

There are also quite a few people who oppose it, mainly those who have already gotten on the bus. Most of the officials, large and small, who have finally crossed the single-plank bridge with great difficulty and are now in office, do not want to see these three laws implemented, especially the Civil Servant Law and the Official Evaluation Law.

For thousands of years, it was a lifetime of officialdom. Unless you really don't do a good job, you can't go home and eat old rice. But now as it is said above, being an official is not the master of the people, and being an official cannot do a good job, so you might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes.

If it is said in the assessment law, once you fail the assessment twice, you will be demoted, and after the demotion, you will have to go home and sell sweet potatoes.

Especially this kind of dismissal, it is not a retirement, there is no retirement salary, at most there is a one-time settling-in allowance, and it has been studying hard for more than ten years, and finally going home to sell sweet potatoes, who is happy. In particular, the officials who were dismissed because they failed to pass the examination have no chance to make a comeback, and they have no official body after returning home, and they are complete civilians, and basically have no chance to be rehired.

The mood of these current officials is the same as that of the passengers who ride the bus. Even if the bus is full, when it's their turn to be outside, they always want to be able to squeeze in. But once they squeeze up, they are more opposed than anyone else to the people behind them squeezing up.

"I think these three methods are good, there has always been no shortage of mediocre officials in the officialdom, there is an assessment law to supervise, eliminate some mediocre officials every year, and then add some fresh blood, so as to maintain vitality forever."

"Yes, a radish and a pit, the official positions are fixed, if there is no vacant position for the predecessors, how can the descendants have a seat. Let's just say that in our department, there are 600 Jinshi records alone. The Jingshi University Hall even recruited more than 8,000 scholars at a time, and these people are all officials after they come out. You can't just wait for it all the time, right? ”

"I still envy Senior Huang and them, we are still here and don't know where to go tomorrow, they have been half-studying and half-working as early as two years ago, working in the Hanlin Academy, this year's New Suggestion Academy, Senior Huang and several of them were transferred from the Hanlin Academy to the Senate all at once, and now they are all important members of the four grades."

"Yes, at this moment, Senator Huang is in the Senate deliberating on the three bills that will determine our fate."

The senior Huang they are talking about is Huang Zongxi, the champion of the upper department, the big star, his father is a veteran of Donglin, his teacher is the current imperial historian, and he has also served as the president of the Fu Society. participated in the imperial examination, even won the third yuan, and the five brothers also won the jinshi. After the imperial examination, he directly entered the Hanlin and was awarded the eight-rank official.

He only stayed in Hanlin for more than a year, and the two years of further study in the hall of Beijing Normal University had not yet been completed. Then, only a few months later, the emperor promoted the senator from the fifth rank to the fourth rank, and Huang Zongxi was suddenly promoted to three levels in a row and became a fourth-grade senator.

All the good things in the world seem to have been taken up by him alone, they are both from Zhejiang, and they are both from the same science and technology, compared with Huang Zongxi, it is a world of difference. Huang Zongxi ascended to the first place and then entered the office, and it only took two years to reach a position that may be surpass them in their lifetime.

"I haven't seen Senior Huang for a long time, he's really busy in the Senate right now." The words of the fellow villager inevitably carried a hint of sourness.

"Isn't this busy with the three laws, and sometimes I have to go to Lord Liu's house to study with the teacher, can you not be busy?"

The other person said on the side, "Not only that, I heard that a few days ago, a Hanlin scholar was sick and took leave to recuperate, and he couldn't enter the palace to give lectures to several princes, so he temporarily selected Senior Huang to enter the palace to give a lecture." ”

Everyone shook their heads again and again, envy and jealousy.

"I haven't even submitted my graduation thesis." One said with a wry smile.

"I didn't pay it either."

When asked, most of the dozen or so people did not complete their graduation thesis.

"Come back early, you can't pass the argument a year ago, but there is no good fruit to eat, and if you don't get an internship, you won't have a chance, and you will be wiped out directly."

The Jingshi University Hall is called the Central Government School by the common people, and the people in it are all preparatory officials, but in fact, these people are not completely worry-free, and after the two-year study period, they have to submit a graduation application and take the graduation exam. And this graduation exam has a 15 percent elimination rate, that is, no matter whether everyone writes well or not, 1,200 people will have to be eliminated in the end anyway.

This elimination rate is actually very high, and the eliminated students, whether you are a jinshi or a person before entering the school, in short, the career is over, go home and sell sweet potatoes.

The competition was fierce, although for the jinshi, they were not too worried, after all, out of the eight thousand bachelors, there were only six hundred jinshi, and the vast majority of them were the best among the students.

But if you can't even complete the graduation thesis, you will definitely not pass the graduation exam, and whether you are a jinshi or not, you will have to become one of the 1,200 people who will be eliminated.

Everyone was not interested for a while, and hastily settled the bill, and called a few rickshaws to rush to the school.

Senior Huang was taken in the same exam as himself, and now he is a member of the fourth grade, so he is embarrassed to talk nonsense here?

The sixteenth day of the third year of Longhan.

On the same day, the Imperial Examination Court, the Civil Service Bill, and the Official Officials Examination Act were put to public vote in Hall 1 of the Senate House of the National Assembly, which had just been put into use.

In Hall 1, all 100 senators arrived.

In addition to the senators, there were many officials in attendance, including officials from the cabinet and the Imperial Historical Tower, as well as chamberlains from the Forbidden Palace, as well as people from major newspapers and periodicals, and some of them were allowed to watch the vote after being screened and verified.

The final vote is actually quite simple, and every senator has to vote openly for or against.

And their votes are held at the same time, and the final vote is opened.

The young senator Huang Zongxi sat in his seat and did not hesitate, directly writing the word "yes" on his ballot, and then writing his name on the back and affixing his personal seal.

Huang Zongxi supports all three bills, which he thinks are good laws.

His teacher, Liu Zongzhou, a doctor of imperial history, also thought that this was a good law, but there were still many people who felt that the three bills were wrong, and even some officials came to persuade him to vote against them.

A startled wood woke up the distracted Huang Zongxi.

The counting of votes begins.

"Senator Chen Zilong, oppose."

"Senator Huang Zongxi, yes!"

"Senator Ni Yuanlu." The clerks who counted the votes chanted loudly, and all the parties in the hall obviously sat up straighter, and everyone wanted to know the attitude of the senator immediately.

"Against!"

As soon as the words fell, many voices immediately came from the hall, and everyone whispered and exchanged ears.

Ni Yuanlu, as the chairman of the Senate, actually voted against it, which was greatly unexpected by everyone. Although the three bills were still submitted by the cabinet, everyone knows that the three bills were decided by the emperor himself, and it is said that many of the articles were drafted by the emperor himself, and some people say that the emperor directly drew up the draft of the three bills, and then convened the cabinet, the imperial history platform, and many other officials to discuss and then add, delete and revise them.

Now the president of the Senate actually voted against it.

"There are 100 senators in the Senate, one president and one deputy senator, a total of 100 and 2 votes, and now 100 votes and 2 votes are cast, the votes are correct, and the vote is valid, and the result of the vote on the official evaluation bill is 67 votes in favor and 35 votes against, and the official evaluation bill did not receive more than two-thirds of the valid votes in favor of it, and it was not passed in the end!"

No one could have imagined that the Senate would finally veto a bill, and that the first veto bill was such an important bill.

In particular, there were 35 votes against, and the president of the Senate actually voted against.

According to the rule that two-thirds of the votes are passed, the Senate has a total of one hundred and two votes, and two-thirds is sixty-eight votes.

Now only sixty-seven tickets have been obtained, and only one ticket is missing.

If Senate Speaker Ni Yuanlu's negative vote were changed to an affirmative vote, the affirmative vote would be exactly 68 votes, exactly two-thirds of the votes in favor.

Ni Yuanlu's vote seems to be so crucial.

Many people were stunned by this result, the first bill of the three bills voted on did not pass, and now regardless of whether the next two passes or not, this matter is afraid that it will not end well.

Voting on the other two bills then proceeded.

The next two bills also had twenty or thirty votes against, but they barely crossed the two-thirds line, and they were officially passed and became written laws.

However, everyone's attention is still focused on the official evaluation bill, and among the three bills, this bill can be regarded as the most important bill, and it is also the most controversial bill.

But he didn't pass the bill.

Everyone is even more focused on Ni Wulu, as the chairman of the Senate, why doesn't he keep up with the emperor's attitude? Why against, and why exactly thirty-five votes.

Some people even wonder why the Senate voted on the official evaluation bill first. What's so funny about this, and how will it end up with such an unexpected result?

According to the Dahan system, bills that were rejected by the Senate would be shelved.

But it can also be continued next time, if the same bill is voted down by the Senate three times, then there is only one result for this bill, either the emperor dissolves the Senate, re-establishes a new Senate, and appoints a new group of senators. Either that, the House will be shelved forever and no further submissions will be prohibited.

Now, will the official evaluation bill continue to be submitted? If it is proposed, will the Senate still veto? If it is rejected the second time, will there be a third submission, and if it is rejected the third time?

Will the emperor dissolve the current Senate and appoint and dismiss a number of new Senators to form a new Senate?

Big news, many newspaper editors and reporters who were qualified to watch the voting resolution couldn't help but get excited, and their eyes were shining.

As soon as this news is released, it will not be paid attention to by everyone and detonate hot spots? (To be continued.) )