Chapter 360: There is a second move
As mentioned last time, the imperial historians would record the facts of the violations of discipline and regulations by the various yamen, and they would not finish recording the evidence, and they would also bring in the officials who were watching as witnesses to sign and testify in the record book. If the onlookers refused to sign and testify, he would record that someone who witnessed the scene refused to testify, and did not take the initiative to report the irregularities when he saw them.
As a result, the onlookers collapsed, and although their record may not be used as evidence to bring them down, it will certainly become a stain on their lives. Especially when they knew that the records made by these imperial histories would be presented to the emperor for inspection, they were even more frightened. Who knows if the emperor will have a bad impression of himself because of this.
As a result, from then on, no one watched the imperial history do things, and even where these imperial histories appeared, everyone would run away in an instant. However, this did not bother the imperial historians, who would go to the offices and invite people to testify.
The monks can't run away from the temple, and since those officials don't dare to skip work, they can only stay obediently in their respective offices, so that once someone violates discipline and is caught by the imperial history, they will be forced to be witnesses who are not people outside there.
This time everyone is miserable, only everyone does not violate the law is the best, once someone violates the law, someone will be unlucky to be the witness who offends the person. In the future, everyone will have to work in a yamen, and if they look down and don't look up, if they become witnesses of the other party's violations, how will the two sides get along in the future?
What's more, these imperial histories not only ask the colleagues of the offending officials to sign and testify, but also ask the offenders themselves to sign to confirm that they have committed crimes, which is a bit like signing and drawing on the confession. This is particularly unsatisfying to the high-ranking officials.
Since ancient times, he could not be punished as a doctor, and the minister who could go to the court in his own dignity should be treated like a prisoner, isn't it a big mistake in the world? However, they did not dare not sign, and once they did not sign the name, the imperial historians would add to the back of the record: the party refused to sign for confirmation, and the attitude of admitting the mistake was bad, and the mistake could not be changed
These records are not a joke, these black-faced imperial historians will skip work, doze off at work, arrive late and leave early and other disciplinary incidents one by one, and then summarize them into the imperial history platform, and then organize and summarize them into an impeachment chapter overnight.
When he went to court the next day, the imperial historian would go to the court to impeach people. Those officials who had violated the rules the day before would soon find out that the Imperial Doctor's impeachment recital contained his name. The Imperial Doctor openly impeached him at the court meeting, and the little emperor said that he attached great importance to it, and asked everyone to interrupt the discussion of Guan Xing and the Second Division's handling opinions and solve this latest issue first.
For such trivial matters, the ministers naturally did not pay too much attention to it, and they all wanted to end it quickly, and then continue to discuss the incident of Guan Xing and the Second Division, after all, it was the main battlefield, so the conviction and punishment of these officials who violated discipline were often easily passed.
These punishments are not severe, generally warnings, fines, etc., but for those who have a bad attitude towards admitting guilt, that is, those who refuse to sign the confession, they will be punished with a higher degree of guilt, and some of them will be temporarily suspended, and if their attitude is extremely bad or their behavior causes serious adverse effects, they will even be demoted or dismissed.
In normal times, I am afraid that the punishment of these people will not be so easy to pass, and there will definitely be many friends who will come out to say good things for them, or plead with the emperor, or criticize the court for treating ministers too harshly, etc., but in this extraordinary period, everyone's attention is attracted by Guan Xing and the Second Division, and they are not willing to dwell more on these bullshit things, so those officials who violate rules and disciplines are unlucky, and they are quickly punished one by one.
Of course, those ministers who were punished were all "opposition" people, and since this matter was handed over to Guo Youzhi to operate, he certainly knew how to find ways to protect his own people from harm. It's not that he bribed or ordered those imperial historians to bend the law for personal gain, he only needed to inform his own people in advance that there would be imperial histories to go to various yamen tomorrow to strictly check the discipline at work, so that everyone should pay attention and not violate the rules.
Those "own people" who received the notice will naturally endure fatigue and insist on working with a strong spirit, and will not give Yushi a chance to catch them. And those opposition officials, after suffering losses on the first day, also began to behave with their tails between their legs the next day, and one by one they also sat in the hall with high spirits.
After all, once he was impeached by the imperial historian, it would be in the court, in front of the public, and this time he would not only make a fool of himself in front of the ministers, but also in front of the emperor, leaving a bad impression on the emperor, and it would be difficult to compete for the highest positions in the court in the future.
Even those officials whose official positions are still low and far from reaching the level of the emperor's attention, they do not dare to neglect this discipline inspection, because once they are impeached, they will also be recorded with a stain on their resumes, and their future promotions will also be affected to a certain extent. So, no one wants to feel uncomfortable with themselves now.
As a result, it is not uncommon to see some old men sitting crookedly in the ministry room, their eyelids constantly kissing each other, and their heads are like chickens cutting rice, but they still hold a pen in their hands, pretending to write and draw on paper, and if you look closely, you will find that what they write on the paper is more ugly than ghost drawings.
And they are very vigilant, as long as there is a little wind and grass, the whole person will bounce up, this is to be able to react in time when the imperial history snoops on them. There are also some courtiers who are smarter, they let their subordinates stand guard for themselves outside the door of the ministry room, if the imperial history is coming, the subordinates will give them a warning and reminder in time, and the adults in the room will be alert in time and ready to deal with the imperial history.
Those imperial historians are not polite, they will pace around outside the rooms of these adults, so shocked that the adults in the room do not dare to doze off at all. These imperial historians are all young and energetic, and when they were studying at the academy, they did not miss physical education classes and military training, and they all had a good set of muscles, and for them, pacing for an afternoon was not a problem at all.
If you can use your own afternoon of leisurely stroll to change the adult in the room who can't sleep for an afternoon, it is worth it. It seems that these imperial historians know their real task, and their task is not to catch evidence of these officials' violations of discipline, but to make it impossible for the courtiers who are to go to court early in the morning to sleep.
Strict discipline was merely a means, or rather an excuse, which their immediate superior, Dr. Goshi, had secretly told them before they set out to inspect the discipline.
This is Liu Hou's first move, although this trick is a little childish, but it is undoubtedly very effective, and it successfully made the courtiers unable to use the afternoon time to rest. However, this move hit a little harder, and not only the opposition officials, but also the officials of the support faction were also affected, and they could not rest well.
But it doesn't matter, when they get home from work, they can seize the time to sleep and regain their strength. Since Liu Hou has the first move, it means that there is a second move, that's right, once he makes a bad move, he usually uses one move after another, and he keeps using it, and he vows not to stop until he reaches his goal.