The Yangzhou government is empty......

The thunderous storm that swept through the salt administration in the first year of Jiajing, it was obvious that Yangzhou officialdom and business roads had become the hardest hit areas.

However, it is not difficult to understand that Yangzhou has always been a gathering place for big salt merchants, and collusion between officials and businessmen is as common as eating and drinking.

There is no need for strict inspection, just twist a servant out, and there will be no clean place on the body.

As a result, the yamen of the Yangzhou prefect was wiped out, and the prefect, Tongzhi, and Tongju were escorted to Beijing, and the rest of the subordinate officials were either imprisoned or dismissed.

There are also embarrassments in the court's punishment of corruption, knowing that corruption in officialdom is rampant, if it is really ruthless, more than ninety out of five officials in the world will be finished, but there must be someone to govern this world, so what should I do? You can only open one eye and close one eye.

Therefore, although the hurricane of the salt political storm blew fiercely, it also brought down more than 500 officials with major corruption and bad deeds.

Now sitting on the right seat of the government is Pei Si, the right attendant of the ministry.

Pei Si was originally a political envoy in Zhejiang, and after the expiration of his term, he was transferred back to the capital and became the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry.

From the left waiter of the Ministry of Works to the right waiter of the Ministry of Officials, it seems that he has been demoted by half a level, but in fact, no one thinks so.

The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Industry are both one of the six ministries, but the Ministry of Officials is in charge of the appointment, dismissal, promotion and demotion of officials in the world.

The Ministry of Rites is the nominal head of the six departments, but the real head of the six departments is the Ministry of Officials.

Pei Si became the right attendant of the ministry, in fact, if he was transferred to other departments, it would basically be Shangshu Zhengyin, and he even had the opportunity to step down from his official position in the ministry and enter the cabinet.

Zhu Houwei succeeded to the throne, and the old girl of Pei Si's family suddenly became a concubine, which can be said to have shocked all the courtiers at that time, no one thought that Pei Si, an old yin goods, would have such a relationship with the Son of Heaven, what is this?

This is a rising star in officialdom.

Pei Si sat in the seat of the prefect of Yangzhou, but it did not mean that he exercised the power of the prefect with the respect of a squire, to be honest, he was more depressed than anyone else.

As a servant of the Ministry of Officials, he has the power to directly appoint officials under the five grades, which is a loophole in the system, and in the end it is nothing more than a process in the Ministry of Officials.

Pei Si did come to appoint officials when he went south this time, and before that, Pei Si was still ignorant of what he was doing in the south, and the Son of Heaven just asked him to visit Jiangnan officialdom under the name of an inspector, rectify the officialdom atmosphere, and bring hundreds of appointment documents......

It wasn't until Qian Ning made a move and hundreds of officials were dismissed and locked up that Pei Si knew what he was doing with hundreds of appointment documents.

The moment he knew, he felt that he had been cheated by his son-in-law......

But if you get pitted, you can only pinch your nose and admit it......

If you want to be an official in Daming, the easiest way and the most difficult way is to become a three-rank jinshi in the imperial examination, this road is the most difficult to walk, but as long as you can step on it, you will definitely walk very steadily in the future.

There is also a kind of election officer, that is to say, as long as you become a person, you have the capital to be an official, at that time the person can put his resume into the ministry, archived by the Department of Literature and Selection, once the official is vacant, and the ministry does not enter the non-commissioned officer can be transferred, it will let the person take office, such as the famous Hai Rui in later generations is to raise people.

It's just that there are very few opportunities to raise people, and there are many people who can't wait for the opportunity to be an official for more than ten or twenty years after their resumes are invested in the Wenxuan Division, or even a lifetime that can't wait for the opportunity to be an official.

The biggest difference between a non-commissioned officer and a lifting officer is the starting point, just as the first-class Hanlin looks down on the second-class jinshi, the second-class jinshi also looks down on the third-class fellow jinshi, and the same jinshi looks down on the official who is from the top three.

This is class division.

Generally speaking, even if the starting point of the top three is a county magistrate, the most unfortunate is also the county, but generally speaking, the highest is a county seal, and the normal one starts from the county and the main book.

The other is the speed of promotion, as long as the non-commissioned officer does not make mistakes, then it is normal to move every three years and transfer every nine years, even if he has no power, no power and no backer, it is very common to mix in a prefect or a state for a lifetime, but it is not the same for people.

If you want to be promoted, you have to make connections and political achievements, throughout the Ming Dynasty, you are ranked in the court as a person, and those who are mixed with the three grades are rare.

In this salt political storm, more than 500 officials were dismissed, of which eighty percent were sixth- and seventh-grade officials, and there were a few prefects in the prefecture, so Pei Si directly screened out some older ones from among the people, and basically had no chance to go further to serve as county-level officials.

Jinshi is the top of the pyramid of scholars, and Juzi is the mainstay, such a move is simply too many in Jiangnan to count, as the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, Pei Si can be directly appointed.

But when it comes to the level of Tongzhi and Tongju, it will be officially appointed by the imperial court, but Pei Si will also be directly appointed by the emperor to temporarily replace this position.

The trouble is the local high-ranking officials at the level of the prefect and the governor!

Many Jinshi may not be able to achieve the high position of a mansion in their lifetime, not to mention a big house like Yangzhou, you must know that the ordinary prefect is also from the five grades, but such as Yangzhou, Suzhou such a big house, the prefect's grade is at least five grades.

Moreover, Yangzhou is rich, how many Jinshi want to squeeze their heads to become officials in such a big mansion, and it is too easy to get 100,000 taels of silver in three years.

It is simply unrealistic to let someone enter the office to act as the prefect of Yangzhou Mansion, at least Pei Si didn't think about it, even if he thought about it, he couldn't pass it.

But the candidate for the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture is directly appointed by the Son of Heaven! And the only one and only appointment.

The appointed lifter is Tang Yin!

For Tang Yin, Pei Si didn't know much, only knew that this guy entered Beijing as Xie Yuan, but in the end he was involved in the Xu Jing fraud case and was finally deprived of his fame.

Tang Yin, who should have had a desperate career, was recruited by King Yong to become King Yong's staff, and this staff member was seven years long.

One can imagine how deep the relationship between the Son of Heaven and Tang Yin was.

So soon after Yongwang supervised the country, he overturned the case for Tang Yin and restored Tang Yin's status as a lifter, but Tang Yin had no intention of conducting scientific examinations, so he hung up the name of the official in the ministry.

For the sake of the Son of Heaven, the officials soon appointed Tang Yin to go to Zhejiang and serve as the magistrate of Jinhua......