Chapter 79

Jingcha...

This is a system used by the Ministry of Officials in the Ming Dynasty to assess Beijing officials. During the Hongwu period, it was stipulated that the examination should be held every three years, and later it was changed to every ten years. During the Hongzhi period, it was stipulated that the examination should be held every six years.

The existence of the Jingcha and Daji system is to reward the good and punish the bad, so that officials at all levels can fulfill their duties and make contributions to the rule of the court.

However, because of the rewards and punishments of officials, the phenomenon of party formation such as favoritism and fraud is very obvious, and it is difficult to truly realize its due role in the later stage of development.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the rise of the Zhejiang Party, Qi Party, Chu Party and other township parties after Zhang Juzheng died of illness, party struggles broke out among them, which led to the weakening of the Ming Dynasty's national power.

In the face of factional manipulation of the government, political darkness, military decline, financial constraints, and heavy taxation and taxation, the Donglin Party came into being.

And because the Donglin Party is not limited to the regional characteristics of the township party, the Donglin Party has developed rapidly and has a large number of people, and soon occupied a place in the court.

The Donglin party members believed that the party struggle had led to the weakening of the court's national power, so the simplest idea was to end the party struggle.

They strongly demanded to change the situation of eunuchs' monopoly and chaotic administration, and advocated that "political affairs belong to the six ministries, and public opinion should be given to officials", so that the world "joys for governance".

As for the royal family, they strongly opposed the emperor sending mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to plunder wildly and extort money.

As for civil affairs, he also advocates emphasizing both agriculture and industry and commerce, and demands that businesses benefit the people, reduce taxes, reclaim wasteland and farmland, and build water conservancy projects; he opposes common imperial examination fraud.

It sounds good, but in fact, because the Donglin Party members come from all over the world, everyone has their own small thoughts, so many of them joined the Donglin Party in order to seize power from other parties.

This kind of joining also led to a split within the Donglin Party.

For example, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others advocated the construction of water conservancy, valued industry and commerce, valued agriculture, opposed imperial examination fraud, and valued Liaodong military affairs.

The second is that they just want to kill the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties in Beijing, snatch power from them, and seek benefits for the gentry class behind them.

The sum of these two factions is that Yang Lian and others want to collect business taxes and make enemies of the Zhejiang Party in disguise, while the other faction wants to impeach everyone and make enemies of everyone.

The internal forces of these two Donglin parties are huge, and the three parties of Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang are facing the Jingcha three years later. If they want not to be killed by the Donglin party, they can only support a leaf who is not hated by the Donglin party and has no party affiliation. Up high.

After figuring out everything, Zhu Youjian's heart beat a drum.

He wasn't afraid that Ye Xianggao would get in trouble after he took the position. To put it bluntly, Ye Xianggao's position was also good for him.

To put it bluntly, it means not to fight or to grab, and if someone impeaches him, Ye Xianggao will make peace if he thinks about it.

But here comes the problem. Now Zhu Youjian wants to collect business taxes and land taxes with his good brother, so he must curb the Zhejiang Party.

Then, after Ye Xianggao took the position of chief assistant, if he made too much peace with the mud and the Zhe Party survived in Beijing, then he would unite the Qi and Chu parties to defect to Wei Zhongxian as in history, and form an anti-East Party. The eunuch of the Lin party.

The eunuch party and Wei Zhongxian are two different things. If the eunuch party is really formed, then Zhu Youjian will be a little unpredictable.

Even if Wei Zhongxian is killed later, as long as the three parties join forces, it doesn't matter whether Wei Zhongxian is dead or alive.

As strong as the Donglin Party, after Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, wasn't it kicked out of the cabinet by the three parties that quickly changed their status from the Eunuch Party to Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang in the second year of Chongzhen?

It is best to maintain the situation where many parties are in a common political struggle. It would be even better if some practical things can be done while fighting.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian had a headache.

If he remembers correctly, Ye Xianggao seems to be at odds with Yang Lian...

What he has to do now is to use Yang Lian and other small teams to carry out reforms, and then use Wei Zhongxian to drive away all those who want to fight for power in the Donglin Party.

But if Ye Xianggao came up, it would go against his plan...

"You have to figure out a way."

Zhu Youjian's face was cloudy and uncertain, and at this time Xiang Ren also came to the rear left door, and let Zhu Youjian see a large flat bluestone square.

Not far away, under the umbrella covered by Huang Luo, Zhu Youxiao changed into a round-neck gown, tied up his hands and feet with wrist guards, and tucked the front of the gown into the belt around his waist. A pair of clothes is ready look like.

Beside him, two colts about four feet tall were kicking the green bricks non-stop, and beside them, there were two taller army horses.

On the opposite side of them, there are various weapons, bows and arrows. It is obvious that Zhu Youxiao not only wants to ride a horse, but also wants to play other things.

In the distance, there are several straw targets standing on the square, which are probably used for riding and shooting.

"Come on brother!"

Seeing Zhu Youjian's Xiang Ren, Zhu Youxiao immediately waved towards this side, and Xiang Ren's speed also accelerated to come under the Huang Luo Gai umbrella.

After Zhu Youjian got out of the car, a little eunuch stepped forward to put on the wristbands for him, and pinned the front of the round collar robe to his belt.

"Brother still wants to practice riding and archery?"

"That's natural!"

Zhu Youjian asked, Brother Hao Huang replied with a smile, and picked up a short bow from the bow stand, tried to pull the bowstring, and then slowly returned to its place with a buckle.

The bow cannot be shot in the air, as it will damage the bow.

Zhu Youxiao's every move, it seems that he has played bow and arrow for a long time.

But I have to say that with this outfit, Zhu Youxiao, who is about five feet five tall, looks like a hero.

Compared with him, Zhu Youjian put on wrist guards and finger guards for riding and shooting, and stood next to him, looking a lot shorter.

"My brother rides this colt, and I ride this horse from the Western Regions that the Maudi tribe paid tribute to! I will name him Tougulong!"

While talking, Zhu Youxiao led a yellow war horse nearly five feet high and stroked it with his light hands.

This horse has white hair on its head, which is round like a full moon. The white spots are mostly located on the belly and sides.

"According to the Tatars who paid tribute, this horse has the blood of bloody horses, so it grows tall."

"It's just a pity that there is only this one in the whole Ming Dynasty..." At this point, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youjian again and said:
"If my brother wants it, I will give it to you."

"Forget it..." Zhu Youjian quickly waved his hand and said:
"This war horse is too tall. I'm afraid I won't be able to ride it. I'd better ride it, brother. When I get older, I'll get a sweat horse myself!"

"Okay!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Youxiao smiled, turned on his horse, and his movements were very skillful, and he could see that he often rode a horse.

This is in line with the Ming Dynasty eunuch's description of Zhu Youxiao's "good riding on horses".

It's just difficult for Zhu Youjian, the first time I learn horses, I have to practice with Zhu Youxiao...

(End of this chapter)

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