How to restrain the local officials of the Ming Dynasty is not a trivial problem.

Zhu Qiyu scratched his head secretly, he couldn't make the Tusi rebellion in Yunnan and Guizhou, it was made up by those civil and military attachés.

Eighty percent of them are too strong and blow up the mentality of the toast masters.

The center hasn't floated yet, and the local officials have floated first.

Zhu Qiyu asked Li Zan: "Do you want to prohibit any civil and military generals from kneeling down to worship the officials, and the violators will be punished severely." ”

Li Zan was stunned by the question, and he was dignified and bright, and he actually talked to a small one in a good way.

At this court meeting, the six departments were called over rarely, and they didn't know what medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd.

Li Zan replied with courage: "Weichen thinks that it is also necessary to prohibit officials from ushering in and sending them to each other, and increase the number and rights of the imperial historian to strengthen local supervision." ”

When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he fell into deep thought. There is truth in this, local power needs to be checked and balanced. It is not enough for the governor, the governor, and the chief of the three divisions. The Qing Dynasty abolished the system of patrolling the imperial history, which led to the power of the governor and the governor to sit on the throne and be able to restrain it.

So Zhu Qiyu asked again: "Aiqing thinks how many patrols should be set up in each province according to the imperial history?" ”

Li Zan didn't dare to answer this, and if he was so noisy, it was time for the officials to put on small shoes for themselves: "Qiqi Sheng, Weichen thinks that this matter should be discussed by the cabinet ministers and the ministry, and it is not for Weichen to say anything." ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "According to what Aiqing said, the cabinet and the ministry will discuss it, and then it will be performed."

In addition, in the future, you can also participate in the small court meeting, and the six departments will be given to participate in the matter, so I don't need to call it every time. ”

On this issue, Zhu Qiyu and Li Zan happened to see the same thing, Li Zan's focus was on the place, while Zhu Qiyu was staring at the center, wanting to limit the power of the six departments slightly.

The specific method is to enhance the status of the six departments in the matter, so as to strengthen the supervision of the six departments.

This should form a permanent system, so that in the future there will be no young lords who will be robbed of power by powerful ministers.

Don't look at the Ming court, there are many checks and balances, and the design is very strict, but as long as there is a young lord and a weak lord, there will always be some ministers who jump out to do things.

Needless to say, the big traitor in front of him, Sanyang, did something outrageous.

There was also a Zhang Juzheng in the back, taking advantage of Wanli's young age, to form an iron triangle with Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao.

This Zhang Dashoufu, borrowing the examination method, brought the six section speech officials into the direct control of the cabinet. He was happy at the time, but the imperial power was trampled on hard.

Poor Wanli, originally in the process of recovering the imperial power was greatly resisted, Zhang Juzheng had a stormy reform, he took all the good name himself, and the disadvantages of the reform were all thrown to Wanli to wipe his ass.

With Li Zan throwing bricks and attracting jade, Shen Yi, the secretary of the household department, also stood up and said: "Holy Lord, as usual, the governors of various places go to Beijing in August every year to discuss matters, and now the hungry people are waiting for relief, and the money and grain are not finished, and the thieves have not stopped, please temporarily exempt yourself from going to Beijing to respond to the discussion, so that Gu can be heard." ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "I know about this, change it in the future, the governor will send it out, just work hard in the local area, don't go back to Beijing every year to discuss matters."

The governors of Shandong and Shanxi are better, but you say that the governors of Yunnan and Guizhou travel 5,000 miles to Beijing every year, and then travel 5,000 miles back to the place, isn't there something wrong with it.

What if there is a local rebellion during the governor's visit to Beijing?

Moreover, our territory is getting bigger and bigger, and when civilian officials go to places like Annam and Burma, it is easy to be unaccustomed to the water and soil, and they toss people back and forth, except for making people live two years less, which is meaningless.

Excuse me, this system has been abolished, if there is anything, just write a notebook, there are not so many things in this world that you can't understand on paper. ”

He Wenyuan, the secretary of the ministry, asked, "Holy Lord, what about the Hajj inspection of the local officials?" ”

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "It's also exempt." ”

Since the Hongwu Dynasty, the system of pilgrimage inspection has been established, and foreign officials take turns to go to Beijing to report on their work, accept the examination of the officials, and finally give rewards and punishments in the name of the emperor.

Taizu stipulated that pilgrims should arrive in Beijing on December 25 every year, but in practice, it was not so strict.

There are also many officials who will set off in advance, all the way up the mountains and rivers, visiting relatives and friends.

This is actually a great waste of administrative resources, and Zhu Qiyu has long wanted to abolish the Hajj inspection system.

Moreover, the inspection of local officials is the responsibility of the governor and the governor.

If you have to go to Beijing for inspection, it is just a formality.

For example, a prefect, he entered Beijing and went to the ministry. The officials asked, what are your political achievements in the past three years, and what have you done?

Just facing a table, you asked me what I could know. After some questioning, you can evaluate the performance of this prefect in the local government?

Moreover, the Ministry of Officials is facing the Hajj officials of the world, and there are a large number of people in Wuyang, and the officials of the Ministry of Officials are afraid that they will not even recognize all the people, so how can they have the ability to screen the achievements of local officials one by one.

At the same time, there is still the disadvantage, under the Hajj system, it is easy to have a situation where there is no chief official in a place for several months.

He Wenyuan was taken aback by the emperor, and the emperor said 'also exempt', and the power of the officials disappeared by a small half, which was really a disaster.

Zhu Qiyu knew what He Wenyuan was thinking, and added: "In the future, under the Department of Literature and Anthology of the Ministry of Officials, there will be three directors in each province, who will be stationed in the local area and be responsible for inspecting officials.

Under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there are three additional inspectors in each province.

In this way, each province sent three superintendents of the imperial history and three directors of the Ministry of Officials to supervise the local officials at any time, and the officials were also saved from making the annual pilgrimage and toiling. ”

As soon as these words came out, He Wenyuan immediately felt at ease, as long as he did not reduce the power of the officials.

The clever ministers quickly reacted, and the emperor added more than a hundred positions to his protégés in one go.

was disturbed by the emperor's sudden reform, and everyone had no intention of breaking other things with the emperor, and the two sides scattered after some perfunctory trivialities.

Zhu Qiyu returned home, freshened up, changed into light clothes, and leaned on the backrest leisurely, enjoying the scenery outside the window.

Lin Xiangyu asked curiously: "Why don't you have a headache today, the ministers didn't take the precedent of the "Ming Code" to be difficult for their husbands?" ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I proposed two reforms, they were stunned, and they were in a hurry to go back to study, how could they take care of me." ”

"Oh? What reform is so powerful? ”

"The governor is no longer allowed to go to Beijing every year to discuss matters, and local officials are no longer allowed to make a pilgrimage every three years to report on their work."

"Does that weaken control over local officials?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "Then how can it be, civil officials, they are all mobile." If you work in this place for a few years, and then transfer to another place for a few years, and you are not a military general stationed in a border town, it is impossible for a civilian official to be unstoppable.

You can't call them back to Jingshi at every turn, except for tossing, it doesn't have much effect.

There is also a post station set up by the imperial court with a lot of money, and they don't do anything to receive these pilgrimage officials, which is not a pure waste of people's fat and people's ointment. ”

There is a saying, Zhu Qiyu didn't dare to say it directly, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen was tortured by these consumptions and couldn't bear it, so he cut out Li Zicheng at the cutting station.

(End of chapter)