The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1 A letter begging for death, blowing Zhu Yuanzhang into a rage!

"Self-assessment of officials,"

"Qizou Your Majesty, I participated in the first scientific examination in the Ming Dynasty in the third year of Hongwu, and served as the county magistrate of Yanmen County as a Juren."

"The minister has been an official for three years, corrupted millions of dollars, secretly built super-standard mansions, and engaged in business as an official!"

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"I felt that the crime was serious, so I took the opportunity of the expiration of the examination to submit a letter to surrender, and only asked your majesty to order to beheaded."

"If His Majesty feels that the subject is not worthy of His Majesty's handwritten imperial decree, oral orders are fine."

"It's an honor to be named and killed by His Majesty!"

"That's all I've said, I'll pay my respects to the chief minister!"

"Signed: Ye Qing, the guilty official of Yanmen County Magistrate!"

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Yangchun March.

Yingtian Mansion, in the royal study of the imperial palace.

On the dragon case, there are several stacks of half-person-high memorials.

No matter the color of the cover, or the width and thickness of these memorials, they are all exactly the same.

Even the text on the cover is exactly the same.

Written on the cover: [Self-assessment of officials in the Ming Dynasty].

Yes,

These are memorials produced by the Ministry of Officials and dedicated to officials' self-evaluation.

The assessment system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two types: inspection and full examination.

Inspection is to inspect all officials, not limited to the specific term of office of any official.

The test is full of inspections for an official during the three, six, and nine years of his tenure.

The three-year exam is called the preliminary exam, the six-year exam is called the re-examination, and the nine-year exam is called the general exam.

And the assessment level is set as competent, average, and incompetent!

The assessment is competent, verbal praise and then promotion!
The assessment is normal, and it's over if you get scolded!
The assessment is incompetent, go home and farm!

Of course, this has to be the case that there is no crime of adultery, no use of power for personal gain.

If you are greedy for a hundred and eighty taels of silver, then you have to let someone collect the corpse.

The memorials that appear here are all self-assessments by local officials who have passed the examination.

Self-assessment by officials is one of the assessment methods for 'full examination', but the proportion is very low!

It stands to reason that officials who can appear in the dragon case must have a grade four or above to be eligible.

But this is the first time since the promulgation of the assessment system, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to attach great importance to it.

He attaches as much importance to this full exam as Hongwu's first scientific exam in three years!
There is no other reason,

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was inspired to "expel the barbarians, restore China, set up guidelines and disciplines, and relieve the people" knew that his Ming Dynasty was completely built on ruins.

He wants to make this ruins come back to life and return to China's heyday!

But to do this, he alone is not enough, and he has to rely on the national officials with black hats on their heads.

Therefore, the administrative level of officials is very important.

Under the Panlong Candlestick in the Royal Study Room,
Zhu Yuanzhang, wearing a dragon robe, was sitting there looking at the self-evaluations of these officials.

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was less than 45 years old, and he was still a middle-aged man with a burly figure and great energy.

But no matter how good the energy is, looking through hundreds of memorials will inevitably show tiredness.

But there was a self-assessment memorial that cheered him up all of a sudden.

It's like having chicken blood!
The more he looked, the more energetic he became, and the more he looked, the more red blood in his eyes.

at last,

He violently closed the memorial signed as 'Criminal Yanmen County Magistrate Ye Qing', and threw it out of the imperial study room with all his might.

"I'm so pissed off!"

"I have lived for most of my life, and I have seen someone courting death, but I have never seen someone who put his head directly under our knife."

"Is this surrender?"

"This is obviously to use your own neck to test whether our knife is fast enough!"

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The eunuch who was waiting outside the door was also frightened off by Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden rage.

He didn't dare to rush in without calling, but slowly bent down to pick up the whisk.

Even this movement did not dare to make a big noise.

Just as the eunuch in charge picked up the whisk, he also subconsciously looked at the memorial that was scattered on the ground and swayed in the wind.

He also wanted to see who the official was, who actually had such an all-powerful ability?
Writing a self-evaluation can still make the emperor Laozi write the wrath of thunder?
It stands to reason that the self-evaluation of officials is nothing more than two kinds of hyperbole and conservative!

The hyperbole faction is satisfied with their political achievements in various ways, and flaunts them with gorgeous rhetoric.

Conservatives just look at it without boasting or belittling, but in fact, between the lines are praises of their own character.

But no matter whether it is exaggeration or conservative, Zhu Yuanzhang cannot be so angry!
Who is Zhu Yuanzhang?
He started with a bowl and ended with the emperor of a country!
He broke through strong winds and waves!
He has been to the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood!

He can handle the intrigue in court!
He is indeed impulsive, irritable and bloodthirsty, but someone who has no ability really can't let him have such a thunderous rage!
Thinking of this, the eunuch Chang Shi became more interested in this memorial that was swinging in the wind at the door.

But he dared not,

Satisfying curiosity is not as important as being alive!

"Come on!"

"Commander Mao Xiang, the commander of the Duwei Mansion of the Xuanqin Army!"

Listening to the dragon's roar that made people's eardrums swell through the wall, the eunuch in charge didn't dare to go in to receive the order, and told people to go after answering at the door.

quickly,

A general wearing golden armor for the army, with eyes as sharp as a sword, walked into the imperial study.

"Go to Yanmen County yourself."

"Give death to Ye Qing, the magistrate of Yanmen, and execute him Ling Chi, we'll smash it to pieces!"

"It must be scraped to pieces for us!"

"What are you looking at?"

"Aren't you going soon?"

The eunuch who was waiting outside the door was frightened all over his body.

It's like every time you say a word, you slap the table!
"The minister leads the order!"

After Mao Xiang saluted, he also hurried out the door.

But when he passed by the memorial that was still swaying in the wind, he paused for a while.

It is clear,
He also wanted to see what kind of abilities this Ye Qing had, if he wrote a self-evaluation, could he write himself as the ending of Ling Chi's execution?

But he didn't dare, so he could only quickly pack his luggage and set off to do business.

(End of this chapter)