Chapter 131: The Imperial Meeting (II)

Hearing the performance of the election like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, Liu Zhijin's doubts in his heart were verified: Huguang has really undergone earth-shaking changes this time!

Jian Jing can hope to go out without vacation, but by no means to go to Yunyang to be the governor. Poor mountains and bad waters are everywhere, it's a thankless place! At this time, the governor system of the Ming Dynasty had just begun to change from temporary dispatch to permanent duty, and in general, there were three types of governors at this time. First, such as the governor of Jiangning and the governor of Henan, the political envoys and envoys of the province have become subordinate officials of the governor's yamen, and they are in charge of the army and the people on the horse, and the governor of a province is a genuine feudal official. The second type, similar to Kou Shiyi, the governor of Huguang, is nominally the respect of a province, but it is hollowed out below, just an ornament - of course, it is also due to the fact that the feudal division is more cunning and has too deep roots, but sooner or later, it will become a permanent position, and this general trend will not change. The third is Yunfu, with the title of governor, only the Fubiao Guard has no civilian subordinate officials, and the eight prefectures under its jurisdiction sound very powerful, but some are in Henan, some are in Huguang, some are in Sichuan, and some are in Shaanxi! To put it bluntly, he is a firefighting captain who deals with special affairs! Things are not being done well? That's a negative grace, waiting to be cleaned up! Got things done? Hey, that's good, what should you do, what should you do! So before Jian Jingneng took office, he went to Lord Liu's mansion to send an evil fire. Liu Zhijin originally thought that when this term of office expired, he would move a place for Lord Jane - whether it was a good errand or a thankless drudgery, everyone had to take turns. Especially the latter, who has no grievances and no enemies, can't hack any of them all the way, so they will have a mortal enemy. Of course, the premise is that Master Jane must understand the reason: five thousand taels are always wanted. The money is not swallowed by Lord Liu alone, not only Mi Xuepeng Xiao Guanghao below Master Meng above, but also the elders, the internal supervisors in the palace and the officials of the Taoist language...... Gotta have a copy! Otherwise, just jump out of a mischievous ...... Daming's matter, alas, no one dares to give you a packing ticket to say that it can be done, but if you want to say one thing to make a mess for you, hehe, just pull out one, no matter how good it is, 100% will definitely be able to stir up yellow for you!

As for Kou Shiyi, he had already released his words that dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, and it is a big deal to die in Hufu. Master Meng also hinted that since this is the case, let him continue to do the decorations - the problem must not be used to! Learn from him, how will the officials work in the future? Originally, the plan was that if he got acquainted, in addition to moving a place for him, Li and Teng would also transfer one of them. In this way, the two new ministers who took office at the same time would naturally rely on each other, and they would be able to settle down in the local area. After that, we can't wait for the new arrivals to take root and make another transfer, and the situation of the vast number of small ministers in the lake will open up the situation of mutual containment. But since you openly argue with the officials, then no one will move! Let Li Teng and the others continue to disgust you...... It's no wonder that the old guy secretly sent three thousand taels a few days ago, and asked to stay in office! Thinking of Jian Fu's sudden surge, the only explanation can only be...... Huguang is a place that is very profitable!

What's changed? Found gold, silver, and copper mines? No way. The former emperor's mine supervisor traveled all over the place, and he didn't find how many civil uprisings came out of the demolition of houses and houses, how could there be any missing places!

Thinking about it, the only variable in Huguang is the newly appeased giant Guan Shengyun!

Well, it must be him! Otherwise, even if any mine is really discovered, it will not be Kou Haizhou's turn to get involved! Presumably, it was the newcomer Guan thief who had a black eye, and he gave gifts when he saw an official, and even the mud bodhisattva did not miss it......

It seems that this thief really wants to settle down, so he will use the huge wealth he has plundered to bribe several important feudal ministers. Those few people also tasted the sweetness, and at the same time, they must have firmly grasped Guan Shengyun's lifeline, so that he didn't dare to have any more objections, and he could continue to knock the bamboo bar all the way! As a servant of the ministry, Lord Liu knows too well the style of your lords: if it is profitable, naturally everyone will be responsible, but as long as there is a little risk, it is good to take the soles of your feet and apply oil after eating - it is not uncommon to wipe your mouth and turn your face and not recognize people! If you want to continue to stay there, you must squeeze out the thieves who have huge wealth! Poor thief, don't look at your invincibility across thousands of miles, falling into the hands of these sanctimonious guys who eat people and don't spit out bones...... Hmph, when the floating wealth is knocked out, you have to find ways to exploit your own soldiers, and when those soldiers turn back to calling Hanako, you yourself have been squeezed to the point that you can't escape! The court tolerates you because the knife in your waist is hard enough, and when the day comes when you abolish your martial arts, what else can you do if you don't kill you to set an example?

But the officialdom of the two Huai provinces in the south has been impeached, which is ...... What's going on?

"I see." The Holy Celestial Son's Yuyin interrupted Liu Zhijin's contemplation, "Jian and Kou Erqing are all very good. Li Linyang and Teng Shiheng are also very good. That off...... Well, it seems that there is really a bit of a change of heart? ”

"My Emperor Shengming." As a leader in the right capital of the imperial history and the leader of the specialty of picking bones in eggs, Zhao Dongzhu was like a mirror in his heart: this was clearly the fact that those guys were pinched by Huguang's peers in pigtails, and it was probably a helpless move to be caught by someone with all the stolen goods. However, when the saint spoke, he had no choice but to salute with a flushed face and retreat into the queue.

"Since all the secretaries of Nanzhili are participating in themselves, then this matter is confirmed. Submit it to the ministry. How to deal with it specifically, Meng Aiqing and Liu Aiqing, you can do it. However, knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and there is great goodness. Don't be too harsh. The Son of Heaven secretly thought: Shaanxi and Henan are full of defeats to win, they are already rotten, and they have all been rewarded, and the officials of Nanzhili have indeed neglected to supervise, but after all, they can take the initiative to admit their mistakes, and if the punishment is too heavy, it will inevitably be too unfair.

"Obey." Meng Liangchen and Liu Zhijin came out of class and responded respectfully.

"Your Majesty. Jiangning Governor Qian Qianfu also has this music. Shen Xuan continued, "After receiving Huguang Zhaohe*, the private gangsters and traitors in Yangzhou have been confiscated, and the number of fines confiscated is about 300,000 taels. ”

"So many ......" The imperial education that the Son of Heaven received since he was a child made him not show huge emotional ups and downs most of the time, but when he heard this number, he was still shocked - at this time, the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty was only about 10 million taels, and the family copied out three percent of the country's total annual income, which really shocked him. It's a pity that the Son of Heaven only knows that the Ming Dynasty's income of 10 million taels is 10 million taels, but he doesn't know that the wealth of the vast majority of these Aiqing who are kneeling in front of him will not be much less than this salt lord - a few will be much more!

Although there is still a lot to be done in the election. Recently, there have been too many official documents from Huguang Province, accounting for more than half of all the official documents of the General Administration Department, and all prefectures and even health offices have them. However, he also knew that the entire early dynasty could not listen to him alone. Besides, the content is almost the same, all good news, the saint is happy, but the good things keep saying, in case the saint is suspicious, or which imperial historian shouts in a stern voice, "The minister hears that the political secretary colludes with the local government to help the public and private interests!" The saint didn't say anything, but he planted a seed of doubt in his heart, which was very bad for his future. So he shut up, pinched half of the wat board and bowed and withdrew.

The last person to play in the class was Yuan Shijie, the head of the household department, who reported the running accounts of the provinces. Surprisingly, it was Jian Jingneng: Yunyang Fubiao's pension, silver reward, and food and salary totaled more than 10,000 taels, but he didn't ask for it from the household department! Jian Jing's report to the household department was paid from the money for the sale of private salt. Not only that, but he also organized more than 10,000 displaced people to open up more than 100,000 acres of wasteland in barren mountains and mountains, and he didn't ask the court for a penny or a grain of rice!

"Hahahaha, that's good! I didn't see anyone wrong! The Holy Son of Heaven Long Yan was happy, he could no longer suppress the joy in his heart, and laughed loudly, "Let's talk about the merits of the officials, and talk about the merits from you!" I am not a mean king, and I must not treat such a loyal servant badly! "The Son of Heaven remembered that the Ministry of Officials had reported a list of four or five people back then, and it was he who hooked Jian Jingneng out and released it - in the final analysis, he still knew people by himself!

After the ministers finished their work, seeing that their boss had lost face in front of the emperor, the imperial historians in charge of the court went out one after another to report the situation of the civil and military "loss of honor in front of the king": which body of the Ministry of Rites has been swaying back and forth, which one of the soldiers has yawned a few times, and everyone who has been infected has also been beaten, which one of the Taichang Temple is secretly smiling, and which one of the Zhan Shifu is looking left and right...... I want to find some ground for Zhao Dongzhu. But the Son of Heaven was in a good mood, and said casually: "I know, pay attention next time." Then he turned to Mao perimeter.

Mao Qianqian saw the Son of Heaven looking at him, and nodded at Ni Boshan, who came out of the class to "sing" and "finish". Three whips sounded, and in the mountain cry of the ministers "Long live my emperor", the Holy Son of Heaven drove back to the palace.

The expressions of the ministers who left the palace were much more relaxed, and they walked and chatted with each other. Shen Xuan and Liu Zhijin walked side by side, and after a few words, an internal supervisor rushed over from behind: "Lord Liu, Lord Shen, please stay." The Holy One wants two adults to summon the right person in the middle of the pole hall * platform".

*Various types of official documents in the Ming Dynasty.

Edict: The Son of Heaven bestows titles on civil and military officials below the sixth rank and their ancestors' wives. The benevolence of officials of the first to fifth grades is called the decree.

Answer: The six departments are called the answer to the upper and lower lines of the yamen and the five military governors' offices to the commanders of the guards and the political envoys to the yamen.

Survey: The document is stamped with a letter, divided into two halves, and the parties each hold one of them, and check the half seal as a certificate. It is mostly used for border dispatch, and there are military transfer surveys and military status surveys.

Zhaohe: Also called a note (that is, the word that today refers specifically to diplomatic correspondence), it is used for the exchange of official documents that are not affiliated with each other. There are two kinds of A and B, one is called "ink pen photo", the two sides of the official rank and the same product of the same level of notification, the date at the end of the text is written with an ink pen; One is called "Zhu Bi Zhaohe", which is written from top to bottom, such as the political envoy of Province A to the prefect of Province B, and the date at the end of the text is written with Zhu Pen.

Question book: The recital that is inconvenient to present in person, such as military punishment, money, food, local civil affairs, etc., is called the title book, which is printed by the official and sent to the General Secretary for transmission to the cabinet for performance. Private matters are called transcripts, and do not need to be printed. However, the boundary between the two gradually blurred later, and the main difference was that the inscription was printed and the transcript was named.

Consultation: The six ministries of the five military governors' offices, and the provincial undertaking to announce the official documents of the six ministries of the political envoys.

Submission: Each government gives the punishment according to the procuratorial envoy department and the ten guards command the envoy division, and the criminal envoy department according to the procuratorial envoy department to the undersecretary of the political envoy department (the level of the Tianfu is higher than that of the ordinary government, and the direct superior crosses the procuratorial envoy department according to the criminal envoy department, and the civil and military affairs are the political envoy department and the capital secretary office respectively). The official document under the military system is called the official document on the top.

Revealed: This one is the most interesting. At first, the prime minister was deposed by Taizu, but the emperor couldn't keep busy with the affairs of various ministries and localities anyway, so he established a cabinet system, "Confucian ministers are directly in the office, and advisers are just prepared". To put it bluntly, the cabinet of scholars is the emperor's secretarial team. But then a new question emerged: if the Holy One does not "care" or "ask", the cabinet has no right to do things! If you want to solve it, it's simple in theory, wouldn't it be nice to give them the right to write and say things? Not really. Because if the officials of the six ministries write and the ministers write again, the power will overlap, which will not only affect the efficiency, but also cause a lot of trouble - the six ministries perform their own duties, and the ministers have everything, and the layman and the insider play one thing together, who do they listen to? So, it's not a matter of one sentence. So Ming Shizong came up with a good idea and gave the ministers "a hundred pieces of small su to each other", and asked them to express their opinions to themselves by passing notes. For the ministers, this is a disguised right to do things, and, in case the saint does not agree, there is no need to say no in front of the public (that is too formal, and the official often has to resign and apologize), no one will know, and the saint is also convenient, on the one hand, you can learn more information at any time that is inconvenient for public discussion, and on the other hand, you can shake the pot - for example, if the saint himself has any idea, let the cabinet minister report it by revealing the post, and if something goes wrong in the future, that is, the cabinet minister carries the black pot. Many of the cabinet's "votes" have been approved, and the outer court seems to have full trust, but in fact, the two sides have already communicated through unveiling posts. In addition, the unveiling post is also very useful in the cabinet fight: the cabinet has not been able to take the appointment and dismissal power of officials from the ministry, but it can give the Holy Son of Heaven a preventive shot by revealing the post, and by the way, give the officials eye medicine......

* The three major halls of the Ming Dynasty

Today's Forbidden City's Taihe Palace, Zhonghe Palace, and Baohe Palace, the original names are Fengtian Palace, Huagai Palace, and Jinshen Palace, which have the same name as the Nanjing Forbidden City.

Wuzong Zhu Houzhao died, and Xiaozong was the heir, so the throne passed to Wuzong's cousin, Zhu Houxi, the son of Xingxian King Zhu Youqi, this is Emperor Jiajing. Later, there was a fire in the palace, from the three major halls to the noon gate were all burned to the white ground, after the rebuilding, Jiajing re-named the three major halls as the Huangji Palace, the Middle Pole Palace, and the Jianji Hall - because he always had a small pimple in his heart that "the side branch succeeded the unification", so by renaming, he said that he had created a new era for the Ming Dynasty.