Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 657
Several ice holes were dug in the ice of Xiaohai, and the nets were lowered to catch ice. The guards caught a lot of fish.

Stewing fish directly in stone pot on the boat has a unique flavor. You can even put the green onion, garlic sprouts, coriander, celery, spinach and cabbage on the table directly into the pot as sauerkraut, which is extremely fresh and tender.

After the business was settled, the expressions on the faces of the bachelors changed from the original solemnity to a relaxed one. Even when Zhu Yihai invited Wang Sangyu to eat fish with him, many bachelors were surprised, but at the end they saw the temperamental beauty and chose to remain silent. accept.

It is not easy for anyone to achieve the position of a bachelor, minister, and servant. Even if Liu Zongzhou is called a nerd, he knows that even a holy king cannot be perfect. A sage is like Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and Taizong is also recorded in history books A lot of capricious behavior.

In today's troubled times, let alone perfect, even if it is seven or eight percent good, it will be a blessing from heaven.Besides, looking at Wang's smile and looking at the emperor's eyes, who doesn't understand the concubine's intentions of the descendants, so what are they talking about.

The emperor's military victory, especially now that he has gained a decisive overwhelming advantage over the captives, made some of the emperor's seemingly radical decisions, and his courtiers were very happy to accept them.

If the emperor's temporary post plan had been released a year ago, I'm afraid it would have been fiercely opposed, but today it feels a bit silent.

After eating the stewed fish, not only did Jiang Dejing request that he also be assigned a second job to practice, others such as Zheng Sanjun, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Shenyan, etc. actively invited them to go out.

With a smile on his face, Zhu Yihai toasted everyone.

I am very satisfied with the result.

The attitudes of these bachelors have already shown that the matter of appointment is basically settled, it's not that his words frighten the Confucians, it's actually not that simple.One is that since the emperor raised his troops, he has made great achievements, and the New Deal has been successful.

Secondly, of course, the old allusion is still the same. If you want to open a window, it is best to first propose to knock down the house, then open the door, and finally agree to only open the window. This is the continuous adjustment of psychological expectations.

Zhu Yihai deliberately spoke at the Imperial College first, and he kept on saying something that was not astonishing. The sentence of "cleaning Donglin" scared many people so that they could not sleep or eat.Then, after the emperor passed with a stick, he came to appease him again, saying that the appointment was not a relegation, but a reward for reuse, and a second assignment for exercise.

In the beginning, it might not be satisfactory to directly throw out this kind of relegation-style temporary position, but now you are dizzy with a stick, and it is undoubtedly completely different if you keep the rank and go to the temporary position for exercise.

The academicians are also afraid that the emperor will really carry out the purge, not all Donglin people, but they are afraid that the purge of Donglin will not stop at that time. It wasn't just Donglin who cleaned up in the end.

Everyone is afraid that the emperor will go in that direction.

So now that this result can be achieved, they are already very grateful, and they dare not object any more.

"It is necessary to adjust the positions of the central cabinet, the six ministries, the two institutes and the temples and other officials in a timely manner,"

In the system before the Ming Dynasty, it took nine years for officials to take the exam, and the evaluation was carried out every three years, and the evaluation results were divided into three grades. According to the results of the evaluation grades, officials were promoted and transferred.

All promotions must be completed.

The examination methods for low-level and middle-level and high-level officials are different. Officials above the fourth rank in Beijing, all close servants and censors, etc., the chief minister and above the fourth rank, and the inspection department and the salt transportation department above the fifth rank are all passed by the emperor himself. .

Those under the fifth rank of the six departments in Beijing and the subordinate officials of each yamen will be tested by the official of the yamen, and then the Metropolitan Procuratorate will conduct the assessment.

Therefore, when officials fill vacancies, especially when middle and lower-level officials are promoted, they will be selected from among the officials who have already passed the exam.

However, the longer the dynasty, the fewer official vacancies, and the occurrence of official vacancies does not exactly coincide with the time when the examination is completed. Therefore, when there are vacancies, under certain circumstances, you can also choose suitable candidates from officials who have never completed the examination.

Those who are short of staff should be filled, and those who do not wait for fullness will be promoted.

In the final analysis, the most critical thing is vacancy, that is, position. Only when there is a vacancy can one be promoted.

Otherwise, even if the exam is passed, it is useless if there is no vacancy. At most, it will be promoted, but not promoted.

If there are vacancies for officials who have not completed the examination, if the grade is the same as the original one, they can also accumulate the previous years of service and continue to pass the examination.

Hou Que, an official who is no longer in office, is relatively more complicated.

Officials who resigned voluntarily, such as returning to their hometown Dingyou, or resigning for burials, funerals, relatives, ancestor worship, family visits, seeing off relatives, sending off children, sickness, etc., also resigned due to official business.

Those who resign due to business must go to the Ministry of Officials to make a vacancy and get a time limit for resignation. After the period expires, they will report to the Ministry of Officials and listen to the appointment and reconciliation of the vacancy.

Generally, those who have newly obtained the qualifications to be officials still need to be selected by candidates. They are divided into regular candidates, miscellaneous candidates and other candidates for official positions.

The term of office of all officials is officially called the full test, and the full test can be divided into middle and high-level officials and low-level officials, as well as Beijing officials and local officials, and even the distinction between inland and border areas. Different distinctions have different standards.

If you pass the exam, you should be promoted.

However, we still have to look at the shortcomings.

Passing the exam is just to get the qualification for promotion, and it belongs to the various classes of the Ministry of officials to enter the selection process.

Normal promotion does not exceed two grades at a time, and demotion does not exceed three grades at a time.

But for officials above the fourth rank, the emperor has the final say.

Before the Shaotian Dynasty, officials in the Ming Dynasty held office for three years, and generally served two consecutive terms for a total of nine years. During their tenure, they were evaluated by their superiors and had relatively mature performance evaluation rules. Among the items of dereliction of duty, such as greed, cruelty, impetuosity, old age, poor health, and carelessness at work, each of the above-mentioned failures will result in deduction of students, and correspondingly, if the official has good performance during his tenure, he will receive extra points.

Finally, according to the number of plus and minus points, the grades are divided into excellent, ordinary, and poor, and then the promotion or reduction is determined based on this.

In addition to the regular exams, officials are also subject to regular and irregular inspections by the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Regular inspections of Beijing officials are called Jingcha, which occurs every six years.The inspection of local officials is called Daji once every three years.

Unscheduled assessments happen at any time, and if the inspector censor goes on tour on behalf of the sky, he has the power of assessment.

However, the higher the official position, the more difficult it is to be promoted, and the harder it is to have a real strict term of office, let alone at the level of a bachelor.

The cabinet scholars of the Ming Dynasty usually served for two or three years, and even many of them took less than a year, and those who could complete five years were considered to be the only holy families.

Basically, senior officials rarely have real tenure.

But today Zhu Yihai still brought up the term of office.

He still advocates that there should be a term of office, one term every three years, and a maximum of two consecutive terms, nine years at most.

It is more reasonable to take one exam every year and one term every three years.

If the term of office of an official is too short, it is difficult to do a good job, but if the term of office is too long, especially for some important positions, there will obviously be great hidden dangers.

Song Zhipu, Zhu Yihai's first assistant, has been working for three years, but he has always been controversial. Many people think that he is not qualified or has insufficient ability.

Said he was nodding the prime minister.

However, Zhu Yihai used it quite smoothly before, especially at the beginning of the army, what he needed most was a prime minister like Song Zhipu who was both loyal and capable, and who could cooperate very well with the emperor. The cabinet was only his assistant, not a restraint for the emperor.

Generally speaking, Zhu Yihai was very satisfied with Song Zhipu's performance, and now that he has served as chief assistant for three years, Zhu Yihai began to consider whether to start with him and standardize the term of office.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, there has been no such thing as a term for prime ministers, and it depends on whether the emperor can be satisfied.But generally speaking, the prime minister's term of office is not long.

Song Pu is a good prime minister, but the system is higher than the rule of man.

Important official positions, especially prime ministers, if their tenure is too long, they will undoubtedly take advantage of their positions to cultivate influence, or even amass wealth and party struggles.

If the prime minister has been in office for more than five years, this situation is generally prone to occur.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Pu was alone for ten years, and in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng was in power for ten years, and it was inevitable that he would become a power minister.

Therefore, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the group system was practiced, and each other was hindered, and few even stayed in power for a long time.

In the Song Dynasty, the magistrates of the prefectures and counties at that time were appointed for a three-year term. The Song people said that one year establishes prestige, two years abides by the rules, and three years receives favors.

Zhu Yihai tends to think that chief officials, such as imperial scholars, ministers, local governors, governors, and magistrates, should serve at least three years, unless those who are extremely unqualified can be taken in advance. , and should serve at least three years before being promoted.

If they are not particularly outstanding, they can serve two terms for six years. If the six-year performance is not outstanding enough to be promoted, they should be transferred from the original post, transferred to the same post, or transferred to another post at the same level. question.

The term of office of an official is less than three years, so it is impossible to achieve any practical results.

Today, the six cabinet bachelors of the Shao Dynasty have all served for three years.

For example, Jiang Dejing is an unqualified cabinet co-organizer, and he has only been in office for one year.

The emperor followed Jiang Dejing and others' invitation to go out to experience this. When he talked about the term of office of officials, after a phone call, the human-like scholars immediately understood the holy meaning.

the next day.

The six Diange Grand Scholars took the lead in writing to ask for transfer, and many other central ministers also wrote to ask for transfer.

Zhu Yihai didn't seem to be in a hurry all of a sudden.

During the first month, I inspected a capital yamen every day, and still kept meeting with the court envoys who were still in Beijing, and even took the time to meet with the Qing envoys, and finally held a palace banquet to welcome and entertain Princess Changping and his wife who went south, giving warmth to their families care.

The wives and concubines of the three Dorgon brothers sent by the Tartars to serve their daughters, Zhu Yihai unexpectedly brought them into the harem, and it is said that several green cards were turned over in half a month.

But the conferred rank is very low, and those who have been served by Lin Xing are only given the name of Chang Zai.

Chang Zai promised that it was a harem level that did not exist in the Ming Dynasty, and it was established in the Beijing Tartar Palace.

The lowest status.

After Zhu Yihai proclaimed himself emperor, he still adopted the harem hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty.

Up to now, a new system has been established. In the harem, there are queens, imperial concubines, noble, virtuous, Shu, Zhuang, Jing, Hui, Shun, Kang, and Ning nine concubines, and then there are nine concubines such as Dexian.

Under the nine concubines, there are also nine concubines, namely Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Jieyu, beauties, nobles, talents, servants, and ladies.

Now there are permanent presence, commitment, and non-level quotas.

In the past, there was also a promise in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, referring to the low-status maids, but the Tartars were used as the first level of the emperor's harem, which was the eighth rank.

Those who lived in the womb of the Tartars in Beijing were always there, and their treatment was even better. There was still 60 taels of silver per year, but they could not get two catties of pork every day, fifteen plates of beef, and five kinds of poultry every month.

The wives, concubines and daughters of the three Dorgon brothers who were sent by the Tartars to the new palace, Zhu Yihai only gave them the name of permanent presence even though they were fortunate enough to be taken in, and those who were not lucky were only given the name of promise, which was barely higher than the palace maids. .

The Horai Palace in Tokyo is small, Chang Zai barely has his own room, and promises that he doesn't even have an exclusive room, so several people have to live in one room.

Back then when the Tartars attacked Yanzhou, they slaughtered countless people and kidnapped many family members of the palace, now it is considered the reincarnation of heaven.

(End of this chapter)