After Yu Shenxing said this, Wang Xijue replied: "The people of the world only want to sit back and enjoy their success, not to cut the thorns, even so, why bother to ask the people of the world, as long as it is profitable!" ”

Yu Shenxing was speechless after hearing this, and he didn't know how to refute for a while.

Only Luo Wanhua smiled at this time: "The steam engine may be useful, but once you really implement the steam engine, if something really goes wrong, it may make the world with the steam engine decline more than the world without the steam engine." ”

Wang Xijue did not answer after hearing this.

The next day, Yu Shenxing and Luo Wanhua took the initiative to submit their resignations.

Zhu Yijun did not stay.

He knows that not all people are willing to continue to work hard for the future of the country and the nation in such a prosperous era.

And there is no shortage of people who are willing to work hard for the long-term interests of the country and the nation to be officials.

Therefore, for those who are unwilling to continue to work hard to resign, Zhu Yijun is not reluctant.

For an official, under such a situation where the country is strong and prosperous, there are basically no external and internal troubles, and many accumulated evils have been dealt with, it is indeed better to be able to return to his hometown with his official body and live a chic and leisurely retirement life in advance than to work for the Son of Heaven and the people of the world in this position.

In essence, most people still prefer to be an official who can live a mixed life, or an official who can exchange power for various benefits even if he can't get a good life, rather than being forced by the emperor to accomplish all kinds of grand goals with a whip.

Because of this, over the years, high-level officials have often changed, and cabinet ministers have also changed frequently.

This creates a problem, that is, many officials who rarely serve in a position for more than three years, and then shout that they want to resign, and find all kinds of excuses to resign.

Although there is no shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty, when it comes to a specific position, if it is often replaced, it will also affect the efficiency of the implementation of a policy.

Generally speaking.

If it is a locality, it takes one to two months for an official to take office, and it can take half a year for a long time.

Then it will take at least half a year to get acquainted with the bureaucratic temperament and customs of this place.

Then, it will take more than half a year to clean up the officials at the bottom and listen to their own words.

Then, it takes half a year or a year to implement the above policies and develop one's own administrative skills.

Therefore, if an official's term of office is less than three years and he can really do things for the country and the people, the time to implement the new policy will become very small!

If there are any more twists and turns, it is likely that it will be delayed until retirement, and the new policy will not be implemented, and then it will be delayed because a new official will be replaced.

And the new officials have to start over and start over and re-establish their prestige.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun announced that the new secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Wang Xuan, said to him:

"Today's officials, most of them do not want to suffer from the hard work of the case, so that once they get their position, they want to become a general, in order to return to their hometown, and show that they do not admire fame and fortune, but the country will be harmed by it."

"After many officials take up their posts in the localities, they even only stay in the local area for a year and a half, and in the name of inspection, they have resigned after saving the historic sites and places of interest in the jurisdiction, and some of them have not yet received Zhu's approval and directly ignored political affairs, which makes some localities nominally in a state of being official, but in fact they are in a state of being unofficial, so that good governance cannot be implemented, and local tyrants wantonly embezzle public interests and people's property!"

"Such a situation cannot but be curbed, but must be contained, the official system must be reformed, requiring that once an official takes office, he must complete his term of office, and those who resign before the end of their term of office will be stripped of their official status on the grounds that they are lazy and unwilling to serve the country, and they will only be ordered to return to their hometowns as ordinary people; For those who resign after the expiration of their term of office, although they do not take away their official status, if they have no achievements, they will not be given honor in life, and they will not be posthumously awarded in death. ”

After hearing this, Wang Xun glanced up at Zhu Yijun for a while, and then lowered his head and said yes.

"Your Majesty wants to strengthen the rule of officials and restrict hundreds of officials from being officials only for the sake of fame and reputation, which is understandable, but if you really want to implement it like this, I am afraid that I will become the target of the public!"

After Wang Xun returned to the Ministry of Officials, he mentioned to Zuo Shilang Huang Fengxiang and others Zhu Yijun's will to curb the situation that officials only want to be officials and do not want to do things, and sighed because of this.

After hearing this, Huang Fengxiang also sighed and said: "What Otsuka Zai said is right, now it seems that he can only do what he wants, but when he establishes the system, it is better to have more accommodations." ”

Wang Xun nodded: "It can only be so." ”

He knew that it was impossible for him to resign now.

After all, the emperor was angry that many officials were unwilling to do practical things, but only wanted to sell their fame and reputation, and only wanted to get the honor of being a high-ranking official.

Therefore, he could only dispel the idea of resigning.

"How to be accommodating must be carefully discussed, and it is not good to be careless and make the etiquette not workable."

Huang Fengxiang followed up and said again.

Wang Xun nodded: "Yes, we have to discuss it seriously, let every colleague in the ministry speak, and the opinions of every colleague must be seriously discussed." ”

So, the officials discussed it so seriously.

From the first day of the ministerial meeting, many officials and officials actively expressed their opinions, and many actively refuted them, so that the quarrels continued and there were no results for several days.

At this time, Zhu Yijun received a secret report from Jinyiwei from Zhang Jingxiu.

A record of a conversation with Wang Xuan, the secretary of the ministry, and Huang Fengxiang, the left waiter.

After Zhu Yijun saw it, he said to Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang in front of the emperor: "This official is going to engage in delaying tactics!" ”

"What Your Majesty said is that Otsuka Zai must only plan to resign after staying in the position of the official secretary for a period of time, and he didn't think about doing something for the world's officials after becoming the official secretary, after all, if he really strengthens the rule of officials and forces hundreds of officials to do things seriously during their term of office, it will offend the bureaucrats of the world."

"But Otsuka Zai naturally can't oppose it directly, so he can only delay it in a way that he wants to discuss it seriously."

Qi Jiguang said at this time.

Li Chengliang followed and said: "Restraining the nature of hundreds of officials to be indulgent and disgusting, unlike the previous good governance such as Otsuka Zai's implementation of 'exemption from forced labor' for the head of the household, this is to offend the bureaucrats of the world, so Otsuka Zai must be unwilling to do it." ”

"Since he doesn't want to do it, I don't have to actively do things for them."

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang as he spoke, and said:

"The officials are so unclear about the will of the refuge of me, so that I can't find a reason to punish me, so I can only deal with it in other ways, so next, to the Imperial Division, all those who involve the sealing of incumbent civil officials, the death of officials and the posthumous seals, and the grace of their parents, are all left in the middle on the grounds that the country's famous weapons cannot be unprudent, until the officials come up with a plan to reform the official system, when they will deal with these notes."

"Yes!"

……

The Ming Dynasty was a centralized empire.

As long as the supreme ruler, the emperor, does not want to be lazy, the bureaucrats below cannot be lazy if they want to be lazy.

As in this case, if the officials of the ministry wanted to delay the execution of the emperor's decree, the emperor also delayed and did not let the bureaucrats get the honor they wanted.

"Is it not accurate to please make up the question book of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple in Nanjing?"

Within a few days, Wang Xun asked Huang Fengxiang because the question book of the Ministry of Officials to fill the official vacancy had not been criticized by Zhu.

Huang Fengxiang nodded, and then replied: "It's not just this question, I heard that after the prince of Nansinong fell ill, please return home to recuperate the book, and it may be half a month!" ”

"I also heard that the former chief constitution Xin Gong died, and the Ministry of Rites asked for a sacrifice according to the rules to increase the proposal, and now the Xin family has been in a hurry for this, just waiting for the will of the court to hurry down so that I can write an epitaph."

"In addition, the matter of Master Hanlin Wang's request for his mother's order has not yet come down!"

Fan Qian, the right waiter, also said.

After hearing this, Wang Xun directly sat down on the chair, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

"What Otsuka Zai said is that the holy will is difficult to violate, we should hurry up and act according to the holy will, and the most important thing is to preserve the holy virtue!"

Huang Fengxiang said at this time.

Wang Xun glanced up at Huang Fengxiang and did not immediately echo Huang Fengxiang.

Because he knew that once he really did this, he, the official secretary, would have to bear the infamy of treating hundreds of officials harshly.

But Wang Xun knew that he was already difficult to ride a tiger, so he nodded and said: "What the public said is reasonable, and please come up with a set of regulations for restructuring immediately." ”

"We can take it out overnight, but it's better to have to write the question book."

Huang Fengxiang replied with a smile.

Fan Qian also replied: "Yes, this can only be decided by Otsuka Zai himself." ”

Wang Xun hurriedly said: "You have prepared a draft, I will copy it, and I will copy it in my name, right?" ”

"Yes!"

Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian replied at this time.

And Wang Xun simply stood up at this time, and said with a serious face: "Remember to add these articles, first, it is said that in order to prevent the bureaucrats from delaying the national government and military aircraft, anyone who hangs up the crown and leaves before the end of his term of office is a mistake to the country and the king, and please Your Majesty decree that those who commit this matter will be beheaded!" Second, for those who have completed their term of office but do not wait for the will to come and do not wait for the friendship to leave, please ask Your Majesty to issue an order that those who commit such acts will be punished with imprisonment ranging from three years to 3,000 miles to exile for 3,000 miles, depending on the severity of the losses caused to the people of the country. ”

After Wang Xun said this, Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian were stunned.

"Why is the public suddenly so strict?"

Huang Fengxiang asked.

Fan Qian also asked: "Yes, doesn't this make the bureaucrats in the world hate Otsuka even more?" ”

Wang Xun smiled helplessly: "Anyway, you have to be hateful, so just do something practical, as the saying goes, things must be opposed, so maybe some people in the world will understand." ”

Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian didn't say anything after hearing this.

Soon, the Ministry of Officials published an inscription in the name of Wang Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, asking the emperor to reform the official system and strengthen the restraint of bureaucratic laziness. (End of chapter)