609 Changing the system (2-in-1)

Shen Yichen finally said his heart, this kind of thing is actually mutual, Yanguan Qingliu regards Shen Yichen as a minister, how could Shen Yichen not think that the other party is a group of "rotten Confucians"?

Listening to Shen Yichen's criticism, Ni Qian was silent and did not refute, in other words, he would definitely not agree a few years ago. But as the head of the Hanlin Academy, no one knows the drawbacks and shortcomings of Qingliu better than Ni Qian, not to mention that Shen Yichen has been in charge of the government for many years, and he has proved with his actions that hard work and prosperity are far better than empty talk about misleading the country!

Since there is no way to refute the other party, there is no need to argue meaninglessly, and Ni Qian was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Xiangbei, I will do my best in this matter, and I can only obey the destiny of heaven as a result." ”

"The juniors have thanked the seniors Ni for their help!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Yichen immediately thanked him, he actually had full confidence in "luring them to profit", and asking Ni Qian to come forward was nothing more than to give this group of clear streams a step down, a step that was enough to convince himself that he was not sent for fame and fortune.

"It's too early to say thank you, if there is a large-scale dispatch of Beijing officials, there are many troubles and difficulties, you have to be mentally prepared."

Ni Qian opened his mouth to remind him, it is not easy for officials to dispatch and execute, Shen Yichen has to do a detailed planning step, don't send people out first as soon as his brain is hot, and then the local government affairs will be in chaos, and it will be the people who suffer.

"Ni seniors rest assured, the juniors have already made a pre-eulysis with the head of the household department, and this Beijing official assignment is just the beginning, in the future, if you want to be promoted to the cabinet department, you must have local political experience, and this will be written into the examination law!"

To tell the truth, it is not only for the sake of clearing the country's acres of land, Shen Yichen also plans to take advantage of the situation to reverse the promotion system of Ming officials, and no longer let a group of nerds who only know how to read from the book appear in the imperial court.

You must know that the promotion path of regular officials in the Ming Dynasty, especially the cabinet ministers, relied on the identity of Hanlin officials or Shujishi to squat in the Hanlin Academy to repair books and die. After ten or twenty years, the former cabinet ministers will either die of old age, or after becoming a minister, they can be promoted step by step.

Such people are not to mention local political experience, many of them have not even had much contact with the government affairs of the Beijing Division, and are more like scholars who are purely academic. For a long time, the center of the imperial court and the people at the bottom have formed two completely different worlds, and the decrees and regulations promulgated are simply based on the wishful thinking of imagination, and they don't understand the real people's suffering at all!

With the help of the opportunity of Qingzhang across the country to lay a foundation, the temporary Beijing official dispatch process was slowly fixed, and finally evolved into the form of legal assessment, which is Shen Yichen's ultimate goal.

After listening to Shen Yichen's words, a look of shock finally appeared on Ni Qian's face, he never expected that the other party's plan would be so grand and would change the entire promotion system of Ming Dynasty officials!

Fan Wenzhenggong has two sentences in "The Story of Yueyang Tower", which is called that the height of the temple is worried about the people, and the distance of the rivers and lakes is worried about the king. Ni Qian himself is the head of the Hanlin Academy, and he knows very well that the vast majority of literati only achieve the latter sentence, and often forget the previous sentence in the dim officialdom.

If all this can really be carried out according to Shen Yichen's plan, then the high-ranking officials in the temple themselves come from far away from the rivers and lakes, and to a certain extent, they will improve the drawbacks and defects of "writing all the peaceful things in the article and refusing to look down at the common people".

"To the north, I still remember that at the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting, I replied that you have a public heart for all the people, which is the right way."

"It turns out that you did, how can I stand idly by."

Ni Qian was full of emotion at the moment, he knew very early that Shen Yichen was a resolute person, otherwise it would be impossible to finish compiling "Huanyu Tongzhi" alone, let alone resolutely go out of the town to control the water in Shandong.

It's just that I didn't expect that after so many years, Shen Yichen, who is in a high position, has not been changed by officialdom in the slightest, he is still the young man who has his family and country in mind and wants to make a life for the people!

With Ni Qian's persuasion, the news of the dispatch of Jingguan soon spread throughout the entire Yanguan Qingliu group, and Shen Yichen introduced the reward and punishment regulations in a timely manner. It is almost clear to tell this group of trolls whether to choose to stay in Beijing and be a strong player, or choose to be sent abroad to fight for a chance to be promoted and make a fortune, the two paths are already in front of them.

To tell the truth, everyone has a utilitarian heart, but a naked plan like Shen Yichen to tear off the fig leaf of "clear stream" is the first since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, it caused a lot of controversy in the Yanguan Qingliu group, and some people thought that Shen Yichen was defiling and humiliating, how could his full of righteousness be measured by money?

Some people also think that Shen Yichen is dividing, obviously feeling that the civilian team is ready to fight back, and he is afraid that he will become the loser in the court, so he hurriedly sent out the most effective batch.

Of course, there are more people who are ready to move in their hearts, after all, the Yanguan Hanlin group does not look at the status of nobles, in fact, in addition to impeachment and spraying, most of them are idle officials who have no real power in their hands.

In order to protect their reputation, Qingliu people are not good at learning from corrupt officials to make a lot of money, and many people can only live a poor life to borrow money to live, and wait until one day to pay off their debts.

And the officialdom is a radish and a pit, and the six departments are better, and the Hanlin Academy and the Qingliu of the Guozijian have been boiling for ten years, which is a normal thing. Many Hanlin Zhongjin scholars were already thirty-four years old, and as a result, they stayed up to death in the cabinet, not to mention being in the cabinet, and they didn't even wait for the opportunity to wear a scarlet robe.

Now Shen Yichen has given them a reasonable and legal opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, not to mention the promotion of such a thing as a subjective assessment, just measuring a hundred acres of hidden land, you can get a reward of one or two silver, which is enough to make people's hearts moved.

The officialdom is all human spirits, and they all know very well that the Ming Dynasty is a random county, and the land concealed and hidden is more than 10,000 mu, which is a hundred taels or even a thousand taels of snowflake silver, which is worth a lifetime of official money.

Shen Yichen's ministers, ministers, traitors or something can be put aside, this guy has one thing that has won the recognition of officialdom, that is, he is not deceived when he does things with a clear price, and even the most ordinary soldiers have never been in arrears for military expenses, and this money can be 100% in the pocket!

With the existence of this kind of temptation, even if the crowd on the surface was indignantly opposed, secretly the household department received hundreds of applications for assignment, and the number had already accounted for more than 80% of the Qingliu such as the Kedao Yanguan and the Hanlin Guozijian!

For this result, Shen Yichen is not surprised, there is a saying in later generations, it is called don't test human nature. Some things are not weighed as four or two, and they can't be beaten even if they weigh a thousand catties, and they are also human beings, so there is no way to avoid vulgarity.

Clearing? Grandees? How much are these things worth?

Compared with Shen Yichen's determination, the two of them, Nianfu of the Hubu Shangshu and Ni Qian, the head of the Hanlin Academy, learned that this result occurred, and their hearts were mixed.

They are all traditional civil officials, and they have accepted the scientific thinking of literati all their lives, but in the end, they found that the most noble group of people did not withstand the bombardment of Shen Yichen's "sugar-coated shells".

It's not that Nianfu and Ni Qian didn't think that someone would "compromise", but they didn't think that there would be such a scene of defeat, which is really unacceptable.

But having said that, this is not how spineless the civil official Qingliu is, after all, the promulgation of the imperial decree is from a reasonable and legal perspective, and it is nothing more than a slap in the face compared with the previous hard mouth.

But when this result reached the civilian clique, especially Yang Hongze's ears, he felt completely unacceptable. After all, Yang Hongze is different from many hypocrites who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, he is a bachelor of science doctor who is truly self-denying, and he is not moved by fame and fortune.

Yang Hongze immediately found He Wenyuan, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and wanted to discuss the matter with him, but unexpectedly found that Zhao Rong, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, arrived one step faster than himself.

After several people bowed their hands to each other politely, Zhao Rong first couldn't hold back the accusation: "The lower officials also asked the great uncle to be the master, and the new secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Xu Youzhen, was in charge of the ministry, and he was dictatorial and could not listen to any objections, and he also humiliated the lower officials in front of his subordinates. ”

"Shi can be killed, but not humiliated, the lower officials are bound to impeach Xu Youzhen's villain, and at the same time, they must also advise His Majesty to sink the palace to protect the party for personal gain!"

Zhao Rong was furious when he said this, you must know that his ancestors were from the Western Regions, and the Yuan Dynasty only entered the Central Plains to settle down, and his appearance was a little exotic.

Because of this, Zhao Rong suffered a lot of strange eyes during his official career, and he was not born in the traditional imperial examination, but took the path of a scholar in the middle school, and changed from the status of an official to an official, all kinds of factors made him feel a little inferior.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry discussed dredging the Qin River so that it could be directly connected to Caoyun, and Zhao Rong and Xu Youzhen had a huge disagreement on the plan. For Zhao Rong, this position of the Ministry of Industry should have belonged to him, and Xu Youzhen was able to parachute in with Shen Yichen's thigh, and he was already unconvinced.

As a result, Xu Youzhen is also a high-minded and arrogant person, and he does have a talent in water conservancy projects that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, so he really can't tolerate Zhao Rong's unprofessional opinions.

Just this sentence of "no learning and no skills" accurately hit the pain point of Zhao Rong not having the status of a scholar in the imperial examination, and the two sides broke up directly in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry.

Today, unlike in the past, He Wenyuan passed the court push to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which means that the civil official group finally has a leader to compete with Shen Yichen. Zhao Rong came to He Mansion as soon as possible, ready to blow the horn to fight back against the Shen Party.

"Shao Situ is a little restless, Xu Youzhen is just a villain who is good at studying flattery, it is not an exaggeration to call him a slave with three surnames, it is easy to ask him for blame, but the premise is to beat his backer!"

He Wenyuan replied calmly, and after appeasing Zhao Rong, he looked at Yang Hongze.

Compared with the impeachment of Zhao Rong, a squire of the Ministry of Works, Yang Hongze, as a cabinet minister, is a pivotal figure in the court. There is a more important point, that is, Yang Hongze is the son of Hu Hu's personal descendant, and he has accepted the political legacy left by the other party in politics for decades.

Don't look at himself as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, many people in the civil official group still favor Yang Hongze, and only he can take the lead in setting off an officialdom storm.

"Yang Zhongtang, I don't know why you came this time?"

Yang Hongze is upright, he is not the stunned young man he was after so many years of officialdom, and he can probably guess the meaning in He Wenyuan's eyes.

But this time, his affairs were completely different from Zhao Rong, so he replied: "Uncle Zong, the matter of Shen Gong Bao's foreign envoy Qingliu Qingzhang Tianmu has been rumored in the court, and judging from the data transmitted to the cabinet by the Ministry of Households, eighty percent of colleagues have submitted applications. ”

"I'm worried that Shen Gongbao will use the Qingzhang Tianmu as an excuse to transfer the opposition forces of the DPRK and China to the local area, but in fact, it is to completely control the government and the opposition."

"The way of the court lies in balance, especially if the son is young today, monopolizing power will only give birth to powerful ministers!"

Yang Hongze has no problem with his own private morality, but his vision is far from reaching the height of Shen Yichen, and he still regards the country's Qingzhang fields as a means of political struggle, and he can't believe that this is the other party's sincere pursuit of the people.

Listening to Yang Hongze's words, He Wenyuan sneered and replied: "Shen Yichen is already a powerful minister, Yang Zhongtang, you can see that this son is too late!" ”

In fact, He Wenyuan has always had some dissatisfaction with Yang Hongze in his heart, because the relationship between him and Shen Yichen is vaguely "ambiguous". You must know that Hu Hui chose Yang Hongze as his successor back then, with the original intention of taking a fancy to his upright temperament, and using it to snipe Shen Yichen's power to the government and the opposition.

As a result, things went in a completely different direction, Yang Hongze not only did not become an obstacle to Shen Yichen, but also helped in several key palace changes, and he simply forgot his Qingliu identity.

In the face of He Wenyuan's secret accusation, Yang Hongze was silent, and his emotions were complicated.

According to common sense, Shen Yichen is indeed in power, and it is not too much to call the shots above the six ministries. But the truest emotion in his heart does not agree that Shen Yichen is a "powerful minister" in the traditional sense, but this concept cannot be said.

Seeing that Yang Hongze didn't speak, He Wenyuan didn't get an inch, and said in a gentle tone: "It's not too late to make amends." ”

"Shen Yichen has transferred Beijing officials on a large scale, and it is easy to go out and difficult to return, and this official speculates that he wants to fill the vacancy in the court with Shen party members. We must make his wolf ambitions public, return the world to a prosperous world, and return His Majesty a clear rule. ”

"Yang Zhongtang, Senior Hu had high hopes for you back then, and the same is true for this official today, the dark clouds above the Forbidden City still need you to get rid of it."

He Wenyuan's words are almost equivalent to making it clear that Yang Hongze can no longer choose to stand by and watch, and must stand up for impeachment against Shen Yichen. The effect and influence of the "same room" between the ministers and ministers are far greater than those of the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the officials of the six ministries.

It's time for the civilian clique to officially declare war on Shen Yichen!