Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1301 Two servants
On both sides of the Royal Street between Chengtianmen and Damingmen, there are the civil and military yamen of the imperial court.To the west of Yujie are the Five Army Commanders' Mansion and Jinyiwei Yamen, as well as Taichang Temple and Tongzhengsi; to the east of Yujie are the Zongren Mansion and the Five Departments (the Ministry of Punishment, Duchayuan and Dali Temple are listed separately). , located in Fucaifang, southwest of the imperial city), as well as Hanlin Academy, Honglu Temple, Qintianjian, Taiyuan Hospital, etc.

Generally speaking, with the exception of the Hanlin Academy, the closer these yamen are to the Imperial Street, the more noble, or in other words, the more prominent their status.

The Hubu Yamen reflects its dignity and prominence - it is facing the Royal Street, and its area ranks first among the civil official Yamen on the east side of the Royal Street.To the north of the House of Hubu Yamen is the Libu, and further north is the Zongrenfu.

This kind of setting is obviously symbolic: because the clan's house manages the affairs of the clan, Zhu Yuanzhang made the clan's house the head of the world, so it is not only placed on the side of the civil servants, but also the closest to the imperial palace. Its corresponding Wuchen Yamen is The Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army.

Below the Zongren Mansion is the Ministry of Personnel, and once again it is the Ministry of Household's turn.However, although the Ministry of Officials is honorable, like the Zongren Mansion, it occupies a small area. The two yamen together are even slightly smaller than the Ministry of Household.

From today onwards, Gao Pragmatism is the Tang Shangguan in the center of the six largest yamen departments.

It is no trivial matter for the head of any yamen or unit to assume a new position throughout the ages. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang set up a lot of rules for civil servants, as long as he died, these dead rules naturally could not stop the living officials.

Although the Ming Dynasty had a lot of rules, in theory, it was not allowed to make a big deal when an official took office, but some procedures were really necessary, such as a "meeting meeting" is absolutely necessary.

In the face of the apparently clean household yamen after the "big cleaning", as well as the full house of officials and subordinates, Gao pragmatism will of course give a leadership speech.

However, he didn't shout any big slogans. He just mentioned a work goal, which is to ensure that in the three years when the imperial court opened the ban on feudal vassals, the Ministry of Household can make every effort to ensure the good financial situation of the imperial court, and try to eliminate the antecedent cause of the outbreak of such a rebellion in the Northwest as far as possible—— The antecedent is the reduction of military pay, this guy has known it for a long time.

This goal is neither high nor low, but everyone can accept and understand it.Originally, the current imperial court's requirements for the Ministry of Household are almost the same. After all, if there is another Northwest Rebellion, the people involved may not be as few as the previous one.

This time, thanks to Gao Pragmatist, the rebellion in the Northwest was quickly settled. Although it was a big shock at the time, it was also successful in fighting, and many things were covered up, otherwise everyone would not end well.

You see, if you really want to be held accountable, there is such a big mess in the local area, and Liang Wenmeng, the governor, is not just fired?And small chaos leads to big chaos, can Gao Guang live in a crown first?
Not to mention the two of them, I'm afraid they won't be able to run away even by patrolling.As for the local officials such as the Chief Secretary and the Prosecutor, each of them can find the responsibility for their ineffectiveness and be implicated.

And is this really just a matter of place?That's not it, your Ministry of War is not responsible?The Ministry of Accounts is not responsible?Even the officials are responsible!

Why did the Ministry of War agree to such a reduction in military salaries earlier?Have you made a mistake in your calculations and overestimated the local "pressure resistance"?
Why can't the Ministry of Household provide more money and food, so that it can only transfer the pressure to the localities?Is the work of your household department not "effective" enough?

And the Ministry of Personnel, what happened to the selection of officials by the Ministry of Personnel?Liang asked Meng harshly, Gao Guang was cowardly first, how did you choose the local chief?Is a place like the Northwest suitable for such an official to rule one side?

The above, don't care if it makes sense or not, if you really want to care about it, you can take it out for accountability.Even if you are "not afraid of the face of the sky", even the emperor can get involved - after all, it is your emperor's approval to cut the army's salaries, so you can't take the leadership responsibility as a dignified emperor?

Of course, generally speaking, everyone still has a tacit understanding, and usually does not involve His Majesty the Emperor.But the truth is that, it just means that once the problem is involved, it may get out of control.

Although the rebellion in the Northwest has basically been settled, the past and the future will not be forgotten. If the Northwest can cause trouble because of insufficient military pay, will other places be foolproof?No one dares to play this package, so the pressure on the Ministry of Households is very high at present, and we must find ways to raise money to eliminate these hidden dangers.

Although Shen Li's transfer to Zuodu's Censor is not a demotion, everyone can almost guess the secret behind it - he must have been transferred because of poor financial management, otherwise why is the person who is now replaced by Gao pragmatic, the golden saint. ?It is said that in the previous cabinet meeting, Gao pragmatism was asked to be the chief minister and even the sage himself proposed it. Isn't this intention still obvious?
Therefore, everyone understands Gao pragmatism's simple speech today, and doesn't think that he is arrogant and arrogant to deliberately want to give everyone a slap in the face.

Of course, the Ministry of Households was originally the sphere of influence of the Shi School, and Gao Pragmatist really couldn't do it.

There are too many people at the meeting, dozens of people. Of course, Gao pragmatic can't be too specific. Besides, according to his habits, he will not carry out any major actions without knowing the details of the household. Not the habit of a good leader.

In later generations, there is an ironic expression to describe this kind of leadership, which is called "slap the head and it's there; slap the chest and it's done; slap the thigh and it's broken; slap the butt and leave." Grass-roots cadres, but still take warning.

After the general meeting, there is a small meeting, which is routine.After the meeting was over, it was time for the three senior officials of the household department to have a high-level meeting, which was probably equivalent to a meeting of local secretaries in later generations.As the saying goes, a meeting with a lot of people is not important, and an important meeting has few people. This is also an inherent feature of the past and present.

Unlike the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Household does not have a system of four servants. There are only two servants on the left and right, Cheng Wen, the left servant, and Hu Zhili, the right servant.

Cheng Wen was the Gold List in the 44th year of Jiajing, and the examiner in that year was Gao Gong, and Gao Gong had personally taught Gao Yushi to study, so although Cheng Wen was more than 20 years older than Gao Yushi, he often called Gao Yushi in formal occasions He is called "Senior Brother", and Gao Yushi is also called "Senior Brother".

The two of them knew each other very early. In the past, Gao Gongqi returned to Beijing, and Gao Wushi came with him. They soon met Cheng Wen.Later, Gao Wushi became a political watchdog. Cheng Wen was the official ambassador for the first time on behalf of the prince, and the friendship between the two was excellent.

Later, Cheng Wen went through many positions. When Gao pragmatically returned to Beijing to discuss the issue of Taoism at the Chongyang Conference, Cheng Wen was already the left servant of the Ministry of Households.

In a sense, Cheng Wen was the landlord of the household.And the reason why he can hold such an important position is that the Ministry of Household is one of the basics of the Shi School, and needs to be guarded by a "housekeeper general"; secondly, it also shows that his ability is still good - after all, when Shang Shu is transferred, sometimes political affairs Factors are greater than others, and Zuo Shilang is the "executive deputy", and many times actually "presiding over the overall work".

Although Shen Li was reassigned due to poor work, it is not Cheng Wen's fault for this. After all, he is not the ruler, and there are many things that can only be followed in Shen Li's footsteps.Once Shen Li can't show his courage, Cheng Wen can't stand out. Sometimes it's like this in officialdom. If you are more powerful than the number one, but you are already the number two, what will the leader think of you?So Cheng Wen could only honestly follow Shen Li's baton.

Because Cheng Wen and Gao Wushi had a close relationship, Gao Qiushi knew about these situations, but at that time, Gao Wushi had no good ideas.

After all, Shen Li is not Xu Guo, and Gao Pragmatism can quietly compete with Xu Guo for who is the party leader of the Shi School, but it is not easy to do this to Shen Li.

If he gives full support to Cheng Wen and lets Cheng Wen do his own thing, on the one hand, Shen Li's situation will be very embarrassing, on the other hand, the outside world will laugh at the internal conflict within the Shi School, and even cause other incidents. Come, isn't it big and beautiful?

Now that Gao Wushi has become the Minister of the Household, this situation can obviously be improved. He also believes that with the relationship between himself and Cheng Wen, Cheng Wen can fully support his work.

As for Hu Zhili, his qualifications are even older. Not only has he held multiple positions, but he is also regarded as an "old householder".

Hu Zhili, whose name is Ruli and Yazhai, is a native of Yongchang, but his ancestral home is in Lanzhou, and he is a member of Yongchang since his father.

At the age of nine, Hu Zhili was already brilliant and outstanding, and was highly praised by the people of the time. He was called a child prodigy (as expected, the Ming Dynasty was rich in child prodigies); at the age of 11, he was a student of Dr. Bu; at the age of 17, he was a candidate; officialdom.

As mentioned earlier, most of the Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty were obtained in their 30s, and people like Hu Zhili who passed the Jinshi exam in their 70s were basically trained with emphasis.But it is a pity that although Hu Zhili passed the Jinshi examination, his ranking at that time was not very high - there is someone in his same discipline who is now a elder, and that is Wu Dui, who is a second-class "given Jinshi".And Hu Zhili not only ranked in the top three, but was even No. [-] and nine in the top three.

Obviously, this ranking also missed the Hanlin Academy, so Hu Zhili was appointed as the official of Baoning House.

Pushing officials are officials in charge of prisons in various prefectures, equivalent to the presidents of local intermediate courts in later generations.At that time, the prefect Luo Tingshen regarded him as childish, so he despised him a little.

At that time, when Hu Zhili came to his mansion, Lord Luofu remained calm, as if speaking to himself: "You were awarded a jinshi at such a young age, and then you promoted me to the Baoning mansion. You must have a backer in the court, right?"

Hu Zhili replied: "Now the ministers of the imperial court, most of the famous people in the Central Plains of Jiangnan, my ancestral home is in Gansu, and even if the students want to climb, they don't know who they can find!"

Luo Fujun laughed again: "In today's world, there is a saying that money can make ghosts run the mill."

Hu Zhili replied rightly: "The government's words are wrong. One is that the students are from poor families and have no money to bribe and court officials; the other is that they have been taught by their parents since childhood, and their teachers have clearly taught that bribes are unrighteous. If adults regard students as young , but have you ever remembered Qin Zhi Gan Luo, Western Han Qu Bing, and Dong Wu Zhou Yu? They were very useful before they reached the crown. The students are ashamed of their talents. , really ashamed."

Hearing that his family was poor, Luo Tingshen was a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "So, the old man is over half a hundred years old, and he has only become a prefect, and he has nowhere to be ashamed."

This Baoning Mansion can be briefly introduced. From the Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan to the 13th year of the Yuan Dynasty to the first year of the Republic of China, Langzhong was ruled as Baoning Mansion for 630 years.In the Ming Dynasty, Langzhong was divided into Shoudao, Xundao and Bingbeidao in northern Sichuan.

Chuanbei Road also governs 31 prefectures and counties including Baoning Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Longan Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture, of which Baoning Prefecture governs two prefectures and eight counties (namely: Jianzhou, Bazhou; Langzhong, Cangxi, Nanbu, Guangyuan , Zhaohua, Zitong, Tongjiang, and Nanjiang counties), in the Sichuan Opera that was widely circulated in the local area in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a singing tune that later evolved into a common saying, "I am not afraid of a lawsuit even in Baoning Prefecture", which shows that it was in Sichuan at that time. Sichuan's status and influence.

When Hu Zhili took office, regardless of the pommel horse's fatigue, he reviewed the old cases over the years in the two prefectures and eight counties under the jurisdiction of the government.Three days later, he brought all the more than [-] old manuscripts and slips to visit the prefect. Luo Tingshen was greatly puzzled: "Did he read all the files so quickly?"

Hu Zhili replied, "If you don't believe me, you can do random checks at will."

Luo Fujun really didn't believe it, so he flipped through a few volumes and asked Hu Zhili, "What do you think after reading the volumes?"

Hu Zhili replied: "There are 36 volumes, the judgment is wrong, and it must be retried. Especially in the case of Zhao Ting in Jianzhou who raped a civilian girl and forced her to death. Law."

The prefect Luo Tingshen was born in Chunhua, Shaanxi. After being elected in the 25th year of Jiajing, the officialdom was ups and downs, and he finally survived until his early fifties. He was promoted from the chief officer to the prefect of Baoning in [-]. In addition to being devoted to welcoming and sending off official entertainment, he was more keen on sparrow cards, gold stones, and cultural relics (the "Xiaoshan Zhi" written in his life was also lost in the future).

He is good at perfunctory, buck-passing, and flattery regarding government affairs, and his life can be considered uneventful.Unexpectedly, I meet a newborn calf now, who is neither well-informed nor humane, but insists on being truthful, and threatens to help the righteous, eliminate evil, and eliminate violence and peace.What's even worse is that the Zhao Ting he mentioned was the son of Zhao Bingran, the minister of military affairs at the time.

Luo Fujun wanted to get in the way, but he was pushed back by the "nerd Hu", so he had to avoid it because he was not feeling well and needed to adjust for some days.

In fact, Hu Zhili knew who Zhao Ting belonged to, but he knew better that Zhao Bingran was an important court official who was able to govern the country with martial arts and civility.

This public patrol also assisted Qi Jiguang, the deputy commander-in-chief, to fight against Japanese pirates in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.He has successively served as the imperial censor of Shuntian Prefecture, the censor of Jiangxi Province, and the governor of Datong of Xuanhua.

Hu Zhili thought to himself: Zhao Bingran is an honest official, loves the people like a son, and is famous in the court and the public, and he will never condone his son's corruption of the dynasty and his reputation.So, Hu personally re-trialed the case. When all the witnesses and evidence were available, the domineering Zhao Ting wanted to deny it in every possible way, but he no longer had the arrogance of the past.

Hu Zhili was worried that the case would be implicated in Zhao Bingran, so he decided to send the case file to the Ministry of Punishment, and then went to the Ministry of War to meet Zhao Bingran to explain it, so as not to attack by the ministers.

Just as he was about to get up, the then governor of Sichuan, Zhang Shi, came to Baoning Mansion again, and scolded Hu Zhili fiercely: "Zhao Ting's case has been closed, and it has been reported to the Ministry of Punishment for instructions, so why bother now?"

Hu Zhili replied: "Although the case has been closed, the trial was not fair. Now the retrial is for the justice of the country and the injustice of the people. Why not?"

Zhang Shi said, "Who ordered the retrial of this case?"

Hu Zhili replied, "It's all the subordinate's idea."

Zhang Shi sneered and said, "You disobeyed the instructions of the Ministry of Punishment and retrialed the old case without authorization. What's your crime?"

Hu Zhili said: "It is the purpose of our Daming king's law to eradicate violence and bring peace to the good, and to avenge the people's grievances. Besides, Article 120 of the criminal law has the law of 'trial of injustice cases without going through the Ministry of Criminal Affairs first'. Futai will not forget it, right?" Zhang was at a loss for words for a moment. Be right.

Afterwards, Hu Zhili hurriedly prepared the documents for submission, rushed to the capital day and night, exchanged opinions with Zheng Xiao, Minister of Punishment in time, and repeatedly emphasized that "Zhao Ting forced people to die, so he should be executed. It is full of evil, and not killing is not enough to comfort the souls of grievances and appease the habit of the people.”

When he went to the Ministry of War to meet Zhao Bingran and tell the truth, the young Sima was silent for a long time, and suddenly choked up: "It's all the fault of the old man who has no way to teach his son. The sinful son will be dealt with according to the king's law, and will never be tolerated...".Later, he wrote a handwritten letter and asked Hu to pass it on to Zhang Shi, an old friend who was recommended by Zhao Bingran to serve as governor of Sichuan.

After reading the letter, Zhang Shi had no choice but to agree to escort Zhao Ting, who had been taken away in advance, to Baoning Mansion.Seeing that Hu Zhili was so powerful, Luo Tingshen was frightened in his heart and decided to "send the god of plague", so he took the initiative to recommend it to the court, and Hu was soon promoted to the head of the punishment department.

After Hu Zhili entered Beijing, he successively served as the chief of the Criminal Department, the chief of the Ministry of War, the Selected Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, the Minister of General Affairs and Political Affairs You Tongzheng Admiral Huang, the Minister of Taipu, the Minister of Guanglu, the Minister of Taichang, and the Deputy Commander of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The censor, the left servant of the household and the right servant of the household in Nanjing, etc., until he was transferred back to Beijing from Nanjing, and he is the right servant of the household today.

The above two people are Gao Wuzhen's right-hand man.
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