Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1326 Dinghai Jingcha
Early the next morning, Gao Wushi returned to the yamen of the Ministry of Households to take care of the matter according to what he promised the emperor yesterday.Although the emperor's imperial decree yesterday was a central decree, since Gao Yushi has accepted the decree, this decree must be archived in the Supervisor of Rituals, the Cabinet, and the Sixth Division, and this process has to go through the Secretary of General Administration, so the content has already been spread .

Under the premise that the emperor ordered Gao Yushi to come out three times a day and take matters into consideration, there would be no problem for Gao Yushi to return to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and no one else could gossip about it.If you really want to say, the emperor's third decree itself is the focus. If Gao Wushi accepts such a decree and still refuses to come out, it will be big news.

There are Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili in the yamen of the household department, and they can basically maintain normal operation in the past few days. Although there is a backlog of some documents that need to be reviewed and approved by Gao Pragmatic, the smaller matters are handled cleanly, which saves Gao Pragmatic a lot trouble.

As for the official documents of the "Ministry" level that need to be signed and printed by Gao Yushi, there are only seven or eight in total, and they are neatly placed on Gao Yushi's desk. Made a brief introduction and approved suggestions, allowing Gao Yushi to experience the feeling of reading a ticket.

Although it has only been six or seven years since he officially became an official, the experience of his previous life and the experience of observing politics are not free after all. In addition, he has been reviewing Jinghua's internal documents for a long time, so that Gao Yushi can read the official documents very quickly, and he can read them in less than half an hour. Complete all the seven or eight official documents.

He was about to invite Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili to discuss the specific arrangements for the "two departments and eleven divisions" when he suddenly received news that the emperor had sent all the cabinet elders and the minister of officials to the office early in the morning. Yang Wei, Zuodu Yushi Shen Li and other important ministers went to the Wenhua Hall to summon them.

Then, after a while, news came from the palace that Dinghai Jingcha was about to start.

Jingchao is a political system established by the Ming Dynasty to regularly inspect officials in the southern and northern capitals.The establishment of this system has gone through a long process.

At the time of Taizu, the trial of Jingcha had already begun, but its implementation was changed from time to time according to the emperor's personal will. It was not until the early years of Yingzong's orthodoxy that a certain system was formed; after the four emperors Yingzong, Jingdi, Xianzong, and Xiaozong The continuous adjustment and experimentation, finally formed a fixed system of "six years and one inspection" during the reign of Emperor Wuzong.

After the year of Jingcha is relatively fixed, there are many other factors that affect the specific time of Jingcha, mainly including the emperor's personal wishes, changes in celestial phenomena, and the involvement of powerful officials in politics.

This Dinghai Jingcha, as usual, should be carried out at the beginning of the year, but at the beginning of the year, the emperor's main energy was spent on "where to cut the expenses".Immediately afterwards, there was a rebellion in the Northwest, so Jingcha was delayed, until today it was suddenly mentioned by the emperor-for the officials of the capital, it was a bit like a surprise attack.

The responsibilities of Jingcha are shared by many departments and officials.The departments that play the most important role in it are the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. (One of the six departments) The chiefs of the three yamen jointly assumed the responsibility of the initial trial of the Jingchao.

Generally speaking, most of the judgments of the Jingchao are made at the first trial, and when the minister of the Ministry of Officials and the left (right) Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate preside over the trial, only a few people with minor ties are treated separately.In other words, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Yushi of Zuodu are "in charge", mainly targeting high-ranking officials or special officials. Section to complete.

The implementation of Jingcha includes two aspects: court trial and self-report.The court trial is aimed at low-level officials of the fifth rank and below, while the self-chen is aimed at middle and senior officials of the fourth rank and above.

Before the trial, it is necessary to go through a series of preparatory work, sometimes the whole process takes nearly half a year, so these works are usually carried out in advance—the same is true for this Dinghai Jingcha—while the real trial takes only one day.The self-reporting of middle and senior officials does not require much preparation.

After the court trial and self-reporting, both need to be approved in the name of the emperor, and then the Kedao officials can "pick up".After the Ministry of Officials reviewed the results of the collection and reported it to the emperor for final decision, the Jingcha came to an end.

The same as the principle of handling other major matters, the results of Jingchao are also affected by many aspects.

The emperor had the supreme authority in Ming Dynasty, and he had the "final judgment power" to decide whether officials would go or stay, reward and punishment.

As an auxiliary government agency, the cabinet ministers have been above the Ministry of Officials since Yan Song, so its influence in the Jingchao cannot be underestimated; The impact of the Beijing inspection results is obvious; the Metropolitan Procuratorate can also cooperate or restrain the officials to a certain extent.

As for officials like Gao Wushi, because they have the right to fill in the comments, they can also give a certain degree of care to the officials of their subordinates in the Jingchao-of course, if you want to suppress it, it is "by the way".

The reason why Gao Yushi got the news so early is precisely because he is the upper official of the household department hall and has the right to evaluate the officials of the department.However, he does not intend to actually exercise this power-the reason is obvious, he was impeached behind closed doors after only a few days in office, and he did not come out to see things until today.

Seriously speaking, he actually only served as Minister of the Household Department for five days, so he planned to delegate this power to Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili. He himself was a ghostwriter, and he just wrote comments according to their opinions.

Perhaps the news of Jingcha came too suddenly, and it is not a big deal if it is highly pragmatic and it is not a big deal. Even the "rectification of the country" incident that is in the limelight had to give way to Dinghai Jingcha.

Everyone was caught off guard, and the official department was obviously the eye of the storm.

Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, had just returned to the Ministry of Officials for a turn, and immediately went back to the palace under the pretext of discussing the main points of the Beijing inspection with the cabinet, and went to the cabinet Datong Room in Wenyuan Pavilion to hide from the wind.

However, although he slipped to the cabinet to see the direction of the wind, as a collateral branch of the Practical School, it was obviously not fortunate that he was able to get into the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

When he went to the cabinet, he naturally went to discuss with Xu Guo, Zhang Xueyan, and Wu Dui, but this was only a superficial move.In private, he immediately sent his confidant servant to the household department to ask Gao Wushi to see him.

Speaking of it, Yang Wei has already prepared for this year's Dinghai Jingcha. After all, the six-yearly Jingcha has been "ordered" for decades, and it is what every official minister should do to prepare on time.

It's just that this year's court situation is not very stable, and the situation in the Northwest has changed even more since it was basically put down.For a while it was a case of slandering the emperor, and for a while it was a matter of rectifying the country, and it really couldn't stop.

He has also been busy these few days trying to stabilize people's hearts. He hopes that his old friends from the same year and old students and officials who are related to him will not intervene at will.

Now, with Wang Xijue's arrival in Beijing, the dispute between the two factions is obviously showing signs of intensification. Although Yang Wei is a heavenly official, it is a period when the cabinet power suppresses the power of the ministers. In addition, the Real School and the Mind School are both political groups With this level of power, he couldn't afford to offend anyone, so naturally he had no choice but to follow the crowd.

However, this trend is not very easy to follow. After thinking about it, he still bet on high pragmatism, but he still has enough etiquette for Xu Guo, so as not to offend both.

Although Yang Wei didn't know why the emperor suddenly made such a move, but as a heavenly official, he quickly guessed that the emperor might want to use the Jingcha to distract the attention of all the officials, and to continue the matter of "rectifying the country". Postpone later.

However, no matter what the emperor's purpose is, now that the Dinghai Jingcha is launched, the officials are the first to bear the brunt.He must figure out how to determine the general direction of this Beijing inspection.

General direction about this kind of thing, asking Xu Guo is just a show, and it is reliable to ask high-level pragmatism.After all, if something like Jingcha is not careful, it may become a big mess. If you want to be okay after the big mess, you often have to rely on "public opinion", and the vast majority of people in the practical school follow the high-level pragmatism.

However, Gao Wushi's reply to him was very simple: "This is the responsibility of the meritorious service, and the heavenly officials can dismiss him at their discretion, so there is no need to go into it."

Yang Wei didn't receive this message until almost noon. After listening to it, he was relieved, and immediately returned to the Ministry from the cabinet, and ordered the Ministry of Officials to test their merits and clean up the officials.

High pragmatism is not nonsense, and this approach itself is not a problem.As the department of the Ministry of Officials who is directly responsible for the Beijing inspection, the Kaogong Division "is in charge of the officials' examinations and diligent work, and praises the ministers". The role played in Jingchao is extremely important.Ming people have always attached great importance to the role of the Kaogong Division. For example, when Chen Younian wrote the title note for the Kaogong Division, he once praised its status as "the world will gain light if it is lost, and it will be secluded if it is lost; it will be rational if it is lost. chaos" height.

In the original history, when Wang Xijue talked about the Beijing inspection in the 21st year of Wanli, he said: "This year's inspection is in charge of the doctor Zhao Nanxing." The officials in the hall, however, regard the matter as the responsibility of the department, and do not plead guilty on their behalf, or they should not be deeply guilty because of their decency."

Chen Younian, then Minister of the Ministry of Officials, commented on the performance of Qian Shiwan, the doctor of the Nanjing Kaogong Division, in the Beijing inspection in the 21st year of Wanli. I'm done with resentment."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Officials believes that the Beijing Inspection is specifically responsible for the examination of meritorious service, so the consequences of the bad consequences should be borne by the officials of the examination of meritorious service; the cabinet ministers also believe that this practice is "appropriate"; Be a matter of resentment.

It can be seen that the Kaogong Division has such a great role and responsibility in the Beijing Chase that the entire court believes that the Kaogong Division is the "competent unit" of the Jingchao.

This kind of situation was not unique to the Wanli Dynasty. As early as the 24th year of Jiajing, Xue Yinglu "was the doctor of the Nanjing Kaogong Division and the master of the Jingchao. Yan Songchang, a scholar, was impeached by Wang Ye in the matter, and asked Shang Baocheng Zhu Jie wrote a letter to answer the trip, so that Dianye ".

Even Yan Song, who was in power at the time, wanted to depose those who had personal grievances, but he still had to entrust Kao Gonglang to do it, which can be seen from the importance of the status of Kao Gongsi Lang in the Jingchao.

Specifically, "Kao Gong Langzhong's appointment must be limited to one year's spring and summer for every two years of internal and external planning. He consulted with the public and Xu Zhezhong Jing, and he was not allowed to take care of it. The internal and external inspections After that, the officer in charge of the meritorious department should still stay in the Ministry for a few days. If there is a discussion in the search book that the official has not been dealt with, whether it is a case of the department's argument, or a public opinion, it is clear with one hand, stamped with the seal, and paid to the selection department in person, and must not be confused. The disadvantages of doing it. This move must be printed and annotated by the official before the fifth or sixth day of February, and presented to the court for brief reading."

It can also be seen from these regulations and instructions that the kaogong doctor usually needs to prepare for the Beijing inspection for almost a year in advance; and even after the Beijing inspection, the kaogongsi doctor still undertakes the task of doing a good job in the follow-up work of the Beijing inspection.

Under such circumstances, Gao Yushi asked Yang Wei to "dismiss him as appropriate, without further investigation" based on the results of the preliminary evaluation by the Kaogong Division. There is no problem in terms of reason and habit.

But after Yang Wei gave this order, he didn't feel relaxed at all. He always felt that he seemed to ignore something.

After a while, Yang Tianguan, who was already 72 years old and was forcibly retained by the emperor for two years, was suddenly shocked: Oops!Kao Gongsi has no doctor now!

To be exact, it’s not that there is no doctor in Kao Gongsi, but that the doctor in charge of Kao Gong had a sudden illness half a month ago. During this time, he has been recuperating at home.

The current Ministry of Officials is short of a chief official, and the deputy official, the meritorious official Wailang, is in charge!

Who is the tester Uiro?Gu Xiancheng.

Thinking of this, Yang Wei threw his panic out of his mind again, and thought to himself, "Okay, okay, this kid Gao Qiuzhen really has a good plan... Maybe he wants to kill someone with a knife this time?"
Gu Xiancheng, the famous "Mr. Donglin" in later generations, was in the same year as Gao Yushi, and his grades were also very good. He was No.2 in the second class.He has a good reputation among scholars, but his official position is not high at this time. He is just a member of the Ministry of Officials' examination of meritorious officials, Wai Lang, a mere fifth-rank official.

Although the official position is small, he is famous. One of the important factors is that although he is not an official of the Real School, he often criticizes the political views of the Mind School.

It must be said here that Gu Xiancheng and even the early Donglin Party believed that what they had learned was practical.It's just that they are actually the same as the School of Mind, and should be classified as "moral practical studies", and have little to do with Gao Gong's line of practical studies of economics.

Since they are all "practical moral studies", and Gu Xiancheng does not agree with the exaggerated style of the Mind School, it is normal for Gu Xiancheng to criticize the Mind School in order to "get to the bottom of it".

Yang Wei himself hadn't thought about one thing carefully before, but now he has to doubt: Gu Xiancheng has been an official for seven years, and he is not from the school of real school, and he always criticizes the school of mind, so why hasn't he lost his official position now?He even entered the Ministry of Officials in a grand manner, and safely and securely achieved such a powerful and important position as the meritorious service officer Wai Lang?
Does Gu Xiancheng have anything to rely on?Shilin's reputation is definitely unreliable. If Shen Shixing really wants to punish him, he will leave if he finds any trouble. Shilin's reputation can't save him.

After thinking about it, Yang Wei found that the only thing Gu Xiancheng could count on as his reliance was one: he and Gao Yushi were in the same year, and others, including those from the Mind School, were not sure whether touching Gu Xiancheng would cause Gao Yushi's overreaction.

Yang Tianguan suddenly felt a little cold behind his back: Could it be that even Gu Xiancheng's job arrangement was an ambush laid in advance by that kid Gao Qiuzhen? ——
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