Zhang Gui and Tianqi have already reached a consensus.

This consensus is that in order to make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, it is necessary to eliminate a large number of powerful bureaucrats who enjoy peace and honor.

This is also the reason why Zhang Gui dared to directly drink the Ling Jiading team before and shoot at Yang Jingchen and other Qingliu civil officials.

And Zhang Gui had already expected that his doing so would cause dissatisfaction among many civil officials.

And the way for these civil officials to express their dissatisfaction is to ask the apocalypse to deal with him, a relative, if they don't use the conspiracy behind their backs, on the surface, they can only choose to resign after being disappointed.

Because Zhang Gui expected that many civil officials would resign, he also asked to see Tianqi in advance, and asked Tianqizuo to improve the examination method and the official selection system, and took the opportunity to establish an audit system for outgoing officials and a new official examination system.

This is because the original examination method only examines incumbent officials, and there is no system for examining officials to leave their posts.

However, the original system of selecting officials had no other examination system except for the imperial examination.

In many cases, the appointment of officials is only hastily decided by officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Department of Cultural Selection, and the Department of Military Selection, or on the basis of the amount of bribes paid by the person chosen.

However, the Ming Dynasty needed professional bureaucrats, especially the middle and lower levels, so it was necessary to select officials through more professional examinations.

"The Great Age of Genes"

Zhang Gui decided to take this opportunity to make a statement, so that Tianqi issued an edict to reform the examination law and the official selection system, and at the same time, it was also a lesson to those who decided to resign because they were dissatisfied with him, first to get rid of the corrupt officials who were corrupt and caused by the deficit before they left Beijing, and also to save these corrupt officials from returning to their hometowns to harm the people, and in addition, to make other officials in office dare not resign hastily.

"An opportunity to change the law?"

Han Yi and Wei Zhongxian glanced at each other after hearing this.

At this time, Zhang Gui motioned to Chen Zizhuang to elaborate first.

Chen Zizhuang said: "First of all, take this opportunity to form a monitoring team by those of us who support the reform of the law, to supervise the departure of the departing officials, to check whether they have left a deficit during their tenure as an official, whether there are unfinished government affairs, whether they left their duties in advance when the imperial approval was issued, and the remaining shortfall should be ordered to make up for it within a time limit, or to recover it from their homes; Unfinished government affairs shall be ordered to be completed within a time limit; Those who leave their duties without authorization before the issuance of the imperial approval will be dealt with according to the severity of the consequences, and if the military aircraft is seriously delayed, they can be beheaded! ”

Han Yi was quite surprised when he heard this, and asked, "In other words, take advantage of the opportunity of a large number of officials to resign this time to start such a supervision?" ”

"That's right! There are no rules, even if you resign, you have to be responsible for the court, the society, and the people of the world, and you can't affect the entire government because of your resignation. As the saying goes, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, which can be regarded as a supplement to the test method. ”

Zhang Gui added at this time.

Chen Zizhuang continued: "Secondly, since the number of resignations this time is relatively large, it is natural to select a large number of new officials from among the alternate officials in a short period of time. As a result, the ministry had to add new alternates. According to the past practice, the Ministry of Officials is to select those who have talents as alternate officials from among the sons and scholars of the whole country, but for the selection of talents in the Ministry of Officials, there are many good and bad people, so we decided to set up another examination in addition to the imperial examination, called the official examination. First of all, the central government offices will start with the trial implementation. ”

"Each official office will summarize the number of officials who need to be supplemented and added to the official department one year in advance, and the official department will release the alternate Beijing officials who need to be appointed by the imperial court to the whole country, and regularly hold official examinations by the official department every year, and the chief examiner participating in the official examination will be temporarily arranged, and then those who pass the examination can first observe the government in the official office as a person who was born as a scholar of the same Jinshi, and then arrange a real post for one year."

Han Yi nodded after hearing this: "This also prevents the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Military Affairs from selling their officials and lords due to excessive powers, and causing the entire court to be corrupted, at least those who want to be officials by bribing and accepting bribes will bribe a few more officials, and they have to be like the imperial examination, they can only temporarily go to the door after knowing who is the main examiner, which is indeed conducive to the rule of officials." ”

As he spoke, Han Yi asked Wei Zhongxian, "What does Grandpa Wei think?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "The affairs of the foreign court, a few of you can decide, draw up a will, and give our family a red approval." ”

Han Yi knew that Wei Zhongxian meant to agree when he said this, so he drafted a decree and handed it to Wei Zhongxian for approval.

At the same time, the resignation of more than 600 civil servants was not immediately approved.

Zhang Gui, Han Yi, and others first agreed on the officials of the supervision group who would be responsible for the outgoing audit and investigation, including Xu Guangqi, Bi Ziyan, Wen Zhenmeng, Jiang Dejing, and Qi Biaojia, who supported the reform of the law.

The leaders are Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Bi Ziyan, the right attendant of the Household Department.

However, they will all temporarily take on the post of overseer of the imperial history, and investigate these officials who are preparing to resign as the wind magistrates.

Xu Guangqi and Bi Ziyan have good abilities in arithmetic and money accounting.

Therefore, it is easy for them to investigate the true financial situation of these officials during their tenure.

However, what Liu Guangdou and others did not expect was that the imperial court did not directly approve their resignation as before, but first promulgated a system of supervising the departure of officials who resigned.

Peng!

After Liu Guangdou knew this edict, he fell directly from his chair to the ground, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale: "I actually don't want to resign so much. ”

Zhang Sunzhen glanced at Liu Guangdou, and hurriedly came over to help him up: "Why do you say that!" If they want to investigate, I don't believe it, he Xu Zixian and Bi Jinghui still dare to frame them? ! ”

"But the problem is, I didn't expect these cool officials who want to change the law and that Uncle Zhang Guo would come up with such a vicious method! Leaving the post of supervision, checking the deficit, and checking the lazy government, this is simply not to force people to death! ”

Liu Wandou said bitterly.

Zhang Sunzhen, who had just been promoted to the rank of sergeant and didn't have to worry about any deficits, didn't hate this system so much, and only said: "They have always been so mean, what can they do." ”

Peng!

"Is Liu Wandou here in the matter?"

At this time, as soon as the curtain was dropped, several brocade guards and several civil officials walked in.

The leader is Wen Zhenmeng.

Wen Zhenmeng said: "We are the supervising imperial historian of the outgoing supervision team, and now we are ordered to take him, if there is any concealment, he will be punished with the same crime!" ”

After hearing this, Liu Wandou hurriedly hid in the back room, and said to Zhang Sunzhen: "Just say that there is no me here!" ”

"He's here!"

Zhang Sunzhen hurriedly shouted.

Liu Wandou looked at Zhang Sunzhen incredulously.

Zhang Sunzhen had already stood outside the screen, and said to Wen Zhenmeng and the others who had already walked over: "Don't blame the difference!" Later Sheng just talked about scriptures with Liu Zhizhi here, and didn't know what deficits he had in office. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Sunzhen pointed at Liu Wandou: "He is the official who admonished Liu Wandou." ”

Wen Zhenmeng nodded when he saw this, and said to Liu Wandou: "Because of your resignation, we have investigated you during the period of serving as an officer, you have three accounts of unknown origin, the largest of which is the purchase of charcoal in the bureaucracy, why do you keep an account of 30,000 taels, but the actual cost of the bureaucracy is only 5,000 taels, and what is the matter with 20,000 taels?" Although your accounts are weird, Bi Butang and Xu Butang still checked and calculated them, you go and explain them to them. ”

As he spoke, Wen Zhenmeng said to the Jinyi Guard Military Academy who was transferred to the supervision team: "Take him away." ”

The brocade guards lifted Liu Wandou, who had lost his mind.

Liu Wandou came back to his senses at this time and said: "Duke Wen, I won't resign, I won't resign, can you not investigate me again!" The deficit of 20,000 taels, I will slowly make up for it later! ”