Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 654
Last winter was extremely cold, and it is still raining and snowing next year.

A large ship frozen in the small sea became the place where the emperor occasionally used to summon his courtiers.

"Successful people have one characteristic, focus. If you set a good direction, you will go on without turning back."

The emperor put on a bearskin cloak and came to the bow of the boat to meet the ministers.

"The sky is full of wind and snow, and all the loves are called here temporarily. You have worked hard, and entered the cabin. It is very warm and hot tea is prepared."

Lead the ministers into the cabin.

The emperor could see that the ministers had countless things to say to the emperor, but he didn't give them a chance to speak. After a chatter, the emperor directly took out a booklet.

"Mr. Yuzhen, please read it for me first."

Everyone had no choice but to shut up and sit down patiently.

The cabin was originally narrow, but because it has been specially modified, it is actually quite spacious inside, especially because it is very warm inside. Under the throne of the Emperor Chilong, there are two rows of long tables. There are actually many pots of green vegetables, garlic sprouts, Cabbage, celery, coriander, etc. grow lush.

Substituting vegetables for flowers seems a little different.

Zhang Guowei, a scholar of the Martial Arts Hall, held the copybook with both hands, and when he opened it, he recognized that it was written by the emperor himself. It had the charm of Zhao Mengfu, and even a bit of Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming.

However, Zhang Guowei cared more about the content of the booklet than the emperor's beautiful regular script.

Like all emperors, even Emperor Shaotian, who raised his troops halfway, was still naturally wary of the stability of imperial power.Even now, the ministers in the court and China believe that the emperor is more autocratic, and even appears to be dictatorial and domineering.

The emperor has just passed his thirties, but his achievements are enough to occupy a place among the emperors of all dynasties in China.Even if he died suddenly at this time, it would be comparable to the achievements of Yu Wenyong, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Shizong Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

Or defeat the 800,000 former Qin army in the battle of Feishui, gather power and restore the imperial power. Sima Yao, the only Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty who really held power in his hands, selected the northern refugees to build an army capable of fighting the northern government, defeated the former Qin, and even He sent Liu Laozhi all the way to Yecheng, Hebei.It's a pity that he used Sima Daozhi later to indulge himself in drinking and sex, and in the end because of a joke about finding a new love, Zhang Guiren suffocated him to death with a quilt after drinking, which is embarrassing.

Or like Tang Xianzong Li Chun, known as the Little Taizong, in the era of separatist regimes in the late Tang Dynasty, he was able to rectify the imperial court, flatten the feudal vassals, and achieve the prosperity of Yuanhe Zhongxing. hand.

In just a few short years, Zhu Yihai's achievements can already be compared with Yu Wenyong, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Shizong Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Li Chun of Emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty, and Sima Yao, Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

No matter how bad it is, it is comparable to Li Cunxu, Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty at the beginning of his succession.

But now the emperor did not show any signs of self-indulgence.

Even if the emperor suddenly said that he wanted to clean up Donglin and release a large number of officials, Zhang Guowei and others did not think that the emperor was confused.

They were full of doubts and only wanted the emperor to give an explanation. The content written by the emperor himself in this booklet was undoubtedly the answer they wanted.

Today's emperor is wearing the five-clawed dragon robe of the Jiulong regiment. Among the purple robes in the cabin, the bright yellow dragon robe is more conspicuous.

A few years ago, before the city of Beijing was broken, Zhang Guowei was ordered to go out of Beijing to raise food and pay, train the soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River, and then went to Yanzhou to confer Zhu Yihai, the general of the town, as the new king of Lu.

At that time, although Zhu Yihai was able to ride, shoot, and fire guns, he still wore expensive gold and jade finger gloves when entertaining him, and he still had the nobility and pompousness of a young son of a vassal.

Later, when I met King Lu again at Mendao Island in Qiantang Bay, he was already a supervisor, and his whole person became passionate and passionate. However, after a few years, His Majesty the current emperor has restrained his vigor, calmed down and matured.

That face was more resolute, without half of the fat, as tough as a knife and an axe.

His eyes revealed calmness and wisdom.

This is already an emperor who can't be seen through and guessed, but always admired by his courtiers.

Zhang Guowei is in his early fifties. Among the ministers today, he is actually in the prime of life, or it can be said that his qualifications are relatively low. At least there are more than [-] cabinet scholars in the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties. Not counting those who entered the cabinet during the Hongguang Dynasty.

However, Zhang Guowei's status in the Shaotian Dynasty was higher than most people here. Not only was he ranked third in the cabinet, but he was also given the title of prime minister.

Not only was he the court minister who was canonized King Lu, but also Zhu Yihai came to loyally support him as soon as he raised his troops, and he was the supervisor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time, with excellent qualifications, loyalty, and ability, and now he has a daughter who is Emperor's concubine.

"This foreign official is not demoted, let alone guilty, but to delegate experience and gain experience, especially the experience of local chief officials, so it is called temporary appointment."

The emperor gave the ministers a new term.

Officials who are transferred out of Beijing are not called relegation or Zuoqian, but suspended posts.

For example, Mao Pijiang was originally the official official of the third rank of the Admonishment Academy, and he was also the editor-in-chief of the Guardian Daily. He was also the editor and special commentator of several major newspapers such as the Admonition Daily and Fuxing Daily. He went to Taipei Prefecture, Taiwan Island, Fujian Province to be a co-prefect, the fifth grade, or the second co-prefect, and served as the newly established Taipei You Tongzhi.

This is obviously a convict and relegation, and it even has the meaning of being exiled to the frontier.

But now the emperor said that it was not demotion, but suspension.

Hearing this new word, everyone couldn't help being confused. Fortunately, there is a detailed explanation in the emperor's notebook.

Originally, under the old system of the Ming Dynasty, there were many kinds of punishments for officials. The specific ones were divided into poor performance appraisal, this kind of general serious dismissal, and the lightest one was demotion.

There is also the punishment for official crimes. In the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, officials were even punished for crimes with demerit records. The third or fourth offenders were dealt with according to the law.

Xuande went to the Jingtai Dynasty, and after the officials who committed the crimes made atonement, they were granted their origin as the people.From Tianshun to the Chongzhen Dynasty, in addition to committing stolen goods, other behaviors that were considered to be detrimental were also dispatched to the people after atonement.At the end of Chongzhen, there were too many stolen goods, and there was no redemption.

There are actually many kinds of punishments officials receive for various reasons such as performance appraisal or crimes.

The lightest is the fine, ranging from one month to two years.

Above the penalty salary is downgrading, and downgrading is divided into different punishments such as downgrading one level, downgrading two levels, downgrading three levels, downgrading and retaining, downgrading and transfer.

Downgrading and then going up is dismissal.

Dismissal can also be divided into three categories: dismissal and retention, dismissal, dismissal and never to use.

There are also two types of dismissal, one is to stay idle with the crown and belt, and the other is to remove the nationality and become a citizen.

Living idle with a crown belt means that although you are resigned from an official position, you still retain your rank, and you can still enjoy some corresponding rank treatment when you return to your hometown, so you are still an official.

Removal of nationality for the people means removal of official status and direct reduction to common people. If any immediate family member is an official, they will be treated as relatives of the official.

As long as it is not expelled for the people, and never used, there is still a great chance of reactivation.

There is another important distinction in the punishment of officials, that is, public crimes or private crimes.

The consequences are the same, but the punishment is different. The penalty for a private crime is greater than that for a public crime, and it is often added to the public crime.

Of course, the punishments imposed on officials in the Ming Dynasty were not limited to those, and there were also more severe punishments such as court rods, exile, and even execution, ransacking of homes, and punishment of ten clans.

The punishment for officials in the Ming Dynasty was relatively severe. It is unknown how many people were beaten to death by the imperial staff. Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Liehuang Zhu Youjian were all emperors who killed many officials.

After Zhu Yihai raised his troops and proclaimed himself emperor, in order to win people's hearts, he was still very generous to the officials.

It even decreed to formally abolish the officials' court staff, and seriously restored the eight-discipline system. , one rank lower than exile crimes, and officials above fifth rank can enjoy various privileges of immunity or light punishment.Official crimes are even tried exclusively by Dali Temple, Metropolitan Procuratorate Prison, Imperial Prison, etc.

In addition to criminal sanctions due to economic problems, administrative sanctions due to various problems are more used, including fines, demotions, and dismissals.

Zhu Yihai basically abolished punishments such as imperial staff, exile, ransacking of homes, and beheading, except for crimes such as treason, treason and disrespect. Generally, especially corruption, dereliction of duty, etc., the punishment will not be excessive.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor had to devolve thousands of officials at a time, which caused such a big reaction from the court. Everyone worried that the emperor was going to change the old customary system.

During the special period of turmoil, the officials came because of the confusion in the administration of officials, and secondly, many people had gone through detours.

Before the emperor transferred Mao Bijiang and others, everyone thought it was demotion.

But now the emperor said it was a temporary post.

"Mao Bijiang retains his position as an admonishment official, and he also retains his position as a third-rank prose official, Jin Ziguanglu. He is only exempted from concurrently serving as a Hanlin scholar and editor-in-chief of the Guardian, and he is delegated to a temporary position for experience , temporarily appointed as the right magistrate of the Taipei government..."

Zhang Guowei was reading there, and a group of scholars and ministers sat there and listened carefully, savoring carefully.

Emperor Shaotian liked the system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, so in the past two years, he has made many changes to the system of the Ming dynasty.

In the punishment of officials, many old examples from the Tang and Song dynasties were even used.

First of all, the officials are assigned to the scattered officials, and the official products are designated as Jilu officials, and the official posts are real posts.

The disposition of officials has also been changed to the relegation and dismissal of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Relegation and removal of officials refer to the dismissal of official ranks, and there are also demotions, dismissals, dismissals, and transfers between the same levels. .The demotion of positions mainly involves going out, that is, central officials are demoted to local places, and there are also near, big, and far small.

There are also those who are dismissed before the end of their term of office, and those whose circumstances are minor require re-election, vacancies, and appointments.

The serious responsibility is to be demoted directly to various idle officials, basically without duties, and even not allowed to handle official duties, and not to sign official documents.

(End of this chapter)