Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 606 The style of "Patrolling the Eight Houses" (4 more 1W1)
Guilin, the provincial capital of Guangxi, is on the sixth day of September.

A suburban welcome was being held on the outskirts of Lingui County. Many local officials from Guangxi, led by Governor Zhang Ren, welcomed the arrival of Gao Yushi, the new Guangxi inspector censor, at the gate of the east gate.

For the inspector to take office, this is a rare grand occasion. After all, no matter how much the inspector's power has expanded in these years, he is only a small official of the seventh rank in name, and his official ranking is also high. Below the governor.

What's more, Zhang Ren, the current governor of Guangxi, heard that he was seriously ill, and the officials in Guangxi were wondering how long he could last, but he still insisted on coming to greet him, which is really rare.

However, compared with the grand ceremony of welcoming the inspectors in the suburbs, Gao Yushi, the new inspector censor, is also the biggest among the previous inspectors, none of them.Because he brought a full 300 people with his servants holding firearms.The most amazing thing is that it is said that this matter was allowed by the emperor himself.

The prosperity of the holy family can be seen.You must know that during the Hongwu period when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, the inspector and censor was appointed, and he could not even ride a horse, but could only ride a small donkey to show that he was here to make decisions for the people.Later, during the Renxuan period, because there was a censor who said that other officials took office with a tall head and a big horse, but the inspector rode a broken donkey when he took office.

It's just that I didn't expect that now that the seventh-rank patrol has arrived, even the second-rank chief envoy can only serve respectfully.

As long as the officials in this corner of Guangxi are not on the opposite side of the high party, who doesn't want to curry favor with this new inspector who can be heard at any time by saying a word?The supervision power of the inspector censor is important not only because he can supervise any officials in the province, but also because his supervisor is willing to listen.

Given the emperor's trust in Gao Zhizhi, how important should his comments be?
Because of this, all the Guangxi local officials who could find a reason to come to Guilin, all came today.

When the high-spirited official sedan chair landed, Governor Zhang Renzhang, who was supported by the left and right, came up with a group of civil and military officials.

When Gao Yushi stepped off the sedan chair, he saw the skinny Zhang Ren. Whether it was the style of his official robe or his position, Gao Yushi knew his identity immediately.

Without waiting for Zhang Ren to approach with difficulty, Gao Yushi took the initiative to step forward, bowed his hands, and bowed slightly: "Xin Zheng, Gao Yushi, has met Zhongcheng."

Zhang Ren smiled, and cupped his hands with difficulty, and said, "Shanghai Zhang Ren, the attendant teacher, be polite."

Sergeant students, to put it bluntly, are "students waiting for your guidance", and governors and inspectors meet each other and call themselves "attendant students". It has a history of about 20 years.

In fact, in terms of the nature of their duties, the governor and the inspector can really "guidance" each other. The governor is a superior official, and all the inspectors supervise. Isn't this the same as "mutual guidance"?

Gao Wushi returned the gift again, but Zhang Ren turned his side slightly, expressing that he did not dare to accept the gift, and then said: "I mean, I am new to Guangxi, and I will introduce you to my colleagues first."

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "I have Lao Zhongcheng."

Zhang Ren was obviously trying his best, and even his voice could be heard to be extremely weak, but he still introduced the officials who came to greet him today to Gao Yushi one by one.

There are too many people who came here today, and with a highly pragmatic memory, they can't even remember all their faces, names, dialects, hometowns, etc.

Some of the relatively important people he remembers are as follows:

Zhang Shaoyi, the guarding eunuch of Guangxi; Wang Shangwen, the general soldier of Guangxi; Counselor Peng Yingshi; Guangxi inspector Lin Chengyuan; Guangxi inspector deputy Lin Han; Guangxi right counselor and deputy governor of Liuzhou Qingyuan Sien Jiang Xin; Bai Yu; Guangxi Yongning Candidate Yu Song; Guilin Prefect Wu Zhaodong...etc.

What's more funny is that almost all of these people are red-robed officials (first to fourth-rank Fu Fei), but when they see him as a green-robed official, they all call themselves "lower officials" and "lower officials".No wonder it is said that when you become an official in the Ming Dynasty, you can just take a look at the title, and you can't be serious.

But when we met today, Gao Yushi also felt the strength of the Gao Party. Even in a border area like Guangxi, there are Gao Party officials.For example, Guangxi Xuezheng Hu Wei, Guangxi Zuozheng Zhao Yumin and others are all members of the high party.

Among them, Hu Wei was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing and a student of Gao Gongmen.His qualifications are already pretty good, he was the admiral of Xuezheng as the censor of the right deputy capital, so his official rank is the third rank, Xuezheng usually has little power, but he is noble and has a respected status. When Zhang Ren was seriously ill, he could welcome Gao Yushi on behalf of Zhang Ren.

Zhao Yumin was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing, Guo Pu's student, and Gao Yushi was considered a brother-in-law relationship.His promotion was not fast at first, and last year he was only a member of the official department. However, because he led the impeachment of Ling Yunyi in the event of bringing down Ling Yunyi, he was later promoted based on his merits. Promoted to Guangxi left to participate in politics, he can be regarded as the most popular among Guo Pu's disciples after he became prime minister.

However, both Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin were very affectionate and even respectful when facing Gao Yushi.

As for the other officials, Gao Wushi is still not sure about their identities and positions, and this will have to wait and see.

After Zhang Renqiang worked hard to introduce this group of important officials from Guangxi, he couldn't hold on any longer, so Gao Wushi asked him to withdraw from the ceremony, and everyone went back to the yamen.

The highly pragmatic yamen is not called the Guangxi Xunyan Yamen, but the Guangxi Xunyan Procuratorate.In fact, the inspector censor does not have a fixed location, because he has to patrol around the country, so there is a "procuratorate" in each place as the actual yamen of the inspector censor.

This procuratorate has a long history and was built during the Hongwu period. It has five main halls and ear rooms, three berth rooms, one Zhishe, three back halls, six left and right corridors, seven gate houses, and left and right auditoriums. There are three rooms each, which can be regarded as a large courtyard, but compared with the governor's office, it is still not worth mentioning.

After all, the inspector censor still requires a low profile in name, and requires a little appearance of making decisions for the people.

By the way, in addition to supervision, patrols also have the attributes of a court, and have the right to accept lawsuits from the military and civilians.If ordinary people feel that the county government office is unfair and they are unwilling to appeal to the government office, it doesn't matter. There is another option, which is to go to the patrol office to appeal.

Originally, the Ming court stipulated that lawsuits should be fought level by level. If ordinary people have disputes, they usually let the elders mediate first. If the mediation fails, they will go to the county to file a lawsuit; if the county cannot resolve it, they will appeal to the government. If the government is not satisfied, it appeals to the highest provincial judicial institution - the Judiciary.

This order cannot be messed up. If someone dares to leapfrog appeals and disrupt the judicial order, then no matter whether you are justified or not, you will be flogged fifty first.

The inspector censor is an official of the central government, and it is not considered a lawsuit to file a lawsuit with him, and the identity of the inspector is independent of the local area, which can ensure that the trial will not be interfered by local interests to a certain extent, which is another way for the common people to avenge their grievances. aisle.

Movies and TV shows of later generations often see that at the critical moment when local unjust prisons appear, a certain "patrol officer of the Eight Governments" appears on the stage, upholding justice and majesty. Officials, big or small, kneel when they see him-in fact, the so-called "Eight House Patrollers" "Fu Xun Chan" has never been a formal official position, and its origin is the inspecting censor, and the inspecting censor has no difficulty in managing the "eight prefects"-in many cases there are more than eight prefectures.

The office of Gao Wu, the newly appointed Guangxi "Eight House Patrol Officer" in Guilin, Guangxi Province, is the procuratorate in front of him.

(End of this chapter)