Chapter 42 The Examination of the Little Emperor
The soldiers were half dead in front of the army, and the beauties were still singing and dancing.
This poem comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Gao Shi's "Yan Ge Xing", which is about the front-line soldiers working desperately, and the generals watching the beauties dancing in the middle tent.
Zhang Juzheng gave a banquet to the emperor, talked about the battle of the Bird Mouse Valley, how the King of Qin fought fiercely, and said that Li Jiancheng was extravagant, hoping to use his knowledge to educate the emperor to take it as a warning, and even more hoped that His Majesty the Emperor could seriously take care of state affairs.
Zhu Yijun said with emotion: "Just like now, the sergeants are working the front line, inside and outside the Beijing Division, singing and dancing are leveling, anyway, the Tatars can't break through the city of Beijing, and the people who loot are the people of Jinggi, what does it have to do with the lord in the Beijing Division." ”
"It's a big deal to promise to give more money for horses."
When Zhang Juzheng heard His Majesty say this, his heart was a little blocked, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, but he was stunned and didn't say a word.
Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but think of Qi Jiguang, everyone regarded him as a warts, superfluous and useless.
Zhu Yijun wondered if he was too strong, the strength of the hammer wheel that broke the wall was too great, causing Zhang Juzheng's indestructible belief to waver?
If Zhang Juzheng is heartbroken, he has a desperate mood for this rotten world, and he is in the same stream as the Jin Party, wouldn't Zhu Yijun be in big trouble?
Zhang Juzheng said quite solemnly: "The minister was entrusted by the first emperor, appointed as the world's Yuanfu, Li Min's send dare not forget, loyal to the best, know what not to do, a breath is still alive, this will be unremitting!" ”
A breath still exists, and this ambition is unremitting, which is Zhu Yijun's annotation of the word Hongyi.
Zhang Juzheng told himself that he knew that he knew all kinds of ills of the Ming Dynasty, and was determined to improve and make the Ming Dynasty rise again, this is his ambition, as long as there is a breath of air, he will not relax.
"When will Qi Shuai return to Beijing?" Zhu Yijun asked.
Zhang Juzheng hurriedly replied: "After Qingming." ”
Zhu Yijun's life is very simple, in the morning Wenhua Hall listened to the government, after the feast, he practiced martial arts, after practicing martial arts, he went to Jingshan to hoe the earth, and began to print after hoeing the earth, and summarized the day's harvest in the evening, and looked through the agricultural book annotated by Xu Zhenming.
Zhang Juzheng's test method finally began to be tried in Beijing, and there were many complaints, but the leader of the Jin Party agreed to implement it with Zhang Juzheng in order to calm things down.
Before the examination method, the Ming Dynasty's examination system for officials was divided into Jingcha and Daji.
Jingcha is to assess the Beijing officials, the plan is to assess the officials of the world, once every six years, the government is weak and the discipline is fallen, after the corruption of the officials, the Jingcha plan has been a formality, Zhang Juzheng's examination method, is to beat all the human relations to pieces.
The core of the test method is: to limit the examination and to take responsibility for the matter.
In just three days, the six subjects were almost changed in the middle of the matter, either deposed or released as an official.
and then replaced with Zhang Juzheng's highly respected followers, most of these things are from all over the world, and Zhang Juzheng has no in-laws, no master and apprentice, and no fellow villagers.
Set a time limit for a certain thing and must complete it within the specified time.
The reason, time limit, and degree of completion are all registered in three account books, one of which is kept by the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one is given to the six departments in charge of the matter, and the last one is submitted to the cabinet, and the accounts are reconciled according to the account books every month.
The affairs officers of the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are responsible for the implementation of specific affairs, and the completion and completion of the affairs must be truthfully recorded.
The six sections are responsible for supervising the matter, supervising and managing the completion, and registering truthfully.
The Cabinet will verify the work of the six departments in the course of the inspection, and once the six departments are in collusion with the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the six departments will be directly dismissed.
In this way, the basic evaluation mechanism for the cabinet to lead the supervision, the six departments of supervision and supervision, and the six ministries to command the world's hundred officials has taken shape, which is an extremely complete set of system design for the administration of officials.
To call people talented, you don't have to try things; If you let it go, you don't have to test it more, so it is called the test method.
Whether the test method is effective or not, the little emperor has his own unique set of evaluation criteria, that is, the resentment of the Beijing officials.
The heavier their resentment, the more effective the test method is.
In just a few days, the courtiers who were intimidated by Zhang Juzheng's authority finally stood up and began to impeach Zhang Juzheng chapter after chapter!
The resentment is so big that he is no longer afraid of Zhang Juzheng's revenge!
The resentment is so big that if the official doesn't do it, he will impeach Zhang Taiyue!
Noisy.
There are countless reasons for impeachment, including the impeachment of Zhang Juzheng for trespassing the artifact, Zhang Juzheng's fish and meat officials, Zhang Juzheng's party is the same as the other, Zhang Juzheng is unkind, Zhang Juzheng is full of arrogance, bias and taboo, the reasons are strange, as if Zhang Juzheng is the great traitor of the Ming court, if this harm is not removed, the country will be destroyed tomorrow!
Zhang Juzheng is a frame, and any crime can be put into it.
Zhu Yijun's evaluation of this is only three words: I know.
He neither left in the middle nor did he draw a circle and a cross, only three words, I know.
If the affairs of the headquarters cannot be completed within the time limit, according to the number, they will be fined, demoted, exiled, deposed, reduced to return to their hometowns, exiled, and border areas.
If the punishment cannot be implemented, the result of inspection, supervision, and command will be more objective and truthful, and the test method will also be a decoration.
In the twelfth year of Wanli, the third year after Zhang Juzheng's death, the Wanli Emperor issued an order to abolish the examination law, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty was corrupted from then on, and there was no clear atmosphere.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to pick up the examination method again and personally presided over the examination, but at that time, everything was already closed and completely collapsed.
Zhu Yijun was waiting for Qi Jiguang to return to Beijing, but he didn't wait for Qi Jiguang, but waited for the monthly exam first.
On February 19 of the first year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, the ten-year-old lord of the Ming Dynasty, finally ushered in his examination.
The monthly exams are coming as scheduled.
The courtiers impeached Zhang Juzheng for all kinds of crimes, and one thing is definitely not a false accusation, that is, Zhang Juzheng is authoritarian and shocking, the emperor is the supreme in the world, who can assess the emperor!
Zhang Juzheng led the emperor's order, as an auxiliary minister, he did have the power to assess the emperor, but there was no punishment after the assessment, this is the dilemma of the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
The content of the assessment is the first two articles of the Analects and the four stories told by the emperor.
Zhu Yijun is also a little worried about the monthly exam, if these ministers give him a problem, if he hasn't taken the exam, then how can he be justified in not doing his job!
With a slightly uneasy mood, Zhu Yijun came towards the Wenhua Palace.
"Your Majesty." Feng Bao said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Xu Jue went out of the palace and asked Shoufu that he was coming to the exam papers, would Your Majesty want to take a look in advance?" ”
Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, looked at Feng Bao and said, "This... Not so good. ”
What an act of this! This is blatant cheating! And there is no royal law anymore! There is no heavenly reason!
"Take a look." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand.
His monthly examination not only involves whether he can continue to do his job, but also whether Zhang Juzheng's examination method can be implemented smoothly.
The examination papers were written by scholars such as Wang Xilie, Wang Jiaping, and Fan Yingqi, and Zhang Juzheng, the emperor, was responsible for reviewing them.
If the emperor can successfully pass the monthly examination, it means that Zhang Juzheng has the ability to perform the duties of the first emperor and the emperor's teacher, and it represents the justice of Zhang Juzheng's auxiliary country.
The supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can pass the monthly examination as scheduled, and he can pass the assessment, why can't the hundreds of officials in the world pass the examination!
Such a big thing, for Zhu Yijun, who does not cultivate morality, why not blatantly cheat?
He has extremely flexible standards and yardsticks for morality.
He even wanted to move the examination room to the apse of the Wenhua Palace, avoid the invigilation of the ministers, and open the book exam.
Zhu Yijun took the exam paper, looked at it for a while, folded the exam paper and handed it to Feng Bao and said, "Destroy it, in the future, you don't have to ask Shoufu for the exam paper." ”
Zhu Yijun finished reading the exam papers, knew in his heart, raised his hand, took four square steps, and came to the Wenhua Hall in all directions.
The net whip sounded three times, and the ministers rushed in, stood in turn, bowed five times and kowtowed, and the mountains and the sea shouted: "The ministers see Your Majesty, is Your Majesty bowing to the Holy Peace?" ”
"Zhen'an, Zhu Aiqing is flat." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and said quite calmly: "Don't talk about it, let's start." ”
"Ministers and others trespass." Wang Xilie and other scholars handed the exam papers to Zhang Hong, and Zhang Hong spread the exam papers on top of the imperial case.
Zhu Yijun picked up the brush, stained it with ink, and began to answer the question, the Wenhua Hall was extremely quiet, in order not to disturb the emperor's monthly examination, the Wenhua Hall did not even open the window.
Two quarters of an hour later, Zhu Yijun put down the pen, dried the ink, and put it for a while, signaling Zhang Hong to take the exam paper to the ministers.
The ministers all looked at the exam paper with some apprehension, you must know that in the past six months, the little emperor's homework was actually unsatisfactory, and to put it mildly, he didn't teach anything.
If Zhang Juzheng is taught alone, will the situation be better?
For Zhu Yijun, the content of the exam is too simple!
That's it? That's it? Is this embarrassing to take the exam that month?
It was so simple that Zhu Yijun doubted whether Wang Xilie had colluded with Zhang Juzheng, and deliberately set up some simple questions to let the emperor pass.
There is silent writing in the exam, that is, the first two articles of the Analects, only the first sentence, and the second sentence is written silently;
The exam paper has a definition, take out a certain word or a certain paragraph and explain its meaning;
There is a brief description, the emperor tells a certain story, and the emperor briefly narrates the synopsis of the story.
Exam papers that meet the difficulty of a 10-year-old.
What is the difficulty of this for Zhu Yijun? Not at all.
Of course, Zhu Yijun thinks it's simple, he and Zhang Juzheng's performances on weekdays are all rushing to break the wall, and Zhang Juzheng, the person facing the wall, feels a headache for the little emperor's slightly simple and ignorant problem.
Wang Xijue was in charge of marking the papers, he read it very solemnly, while correcting, while doubting, this neat answer sheet exceeded his expectations, the six months after the Longqing Emperor's big trip, the little emperor's schoolwork, has always been very poor.
With mixed feelings, Wang Xijue handed over the examination papers to the scholars after completing the examination papers.
After the scholars checked that they were correct, the examination papers were transferred to Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng actually knew that the little emperor could pass the test, just this exam paper, the emperor could answer it correctly with his eyes closed, the little emperor was very smart, he was lazy and slippery before, and he refused to study hard.
No, it's the scholar's words and my words, and the ten-year-old lord is confused, it's all the courtiers' fault!
This is in line with the moral etiquette of kings and ministers for thousands of years.
Zhang Juzheng taught alone, and the effect was outstanding.
Zhang Juzheng opened it and looked at the exam paper, as he expected, the little emperor's words were decent and his answers were very good.
"Your Majesty's Majesty is longitudinal, Junde has been like this, if it grows up in the day after tomorrow, then all the people from all over the world will be blessed! Congratulations to Daming, congratulations to His Majesty! Wang Xilie came out of the ranks, knelt on the ground quite sincerely, and said in a loud voice.
"Shame on the first emperor." Wang Xilie said a little excited, and his tone was extremely intense, he was an old pedant, the little emperor couldn't read well, and he, a bachelor of feasts, bore the brunt.
As a member of the Hanlin Academy, Wang Xilie's evaluation of the little emperor's examination papers is really high, the first emperor has been on a tour for six months, they have been teaching for a long time, and they have not taught anything, they are in a hurry, but there is no way.
"It can be a little harder next time." Zhu Yijun wanted to stop talking, stopping and talking, and already had an idea in his heart.
Emperor Ming's monthly examination may not be able to take advantage of it.
The wind (public opinion) that impeached Zhang Juzheng recently is too great.