Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 404: Ming Dynasty Officials Assessment System
In March of the 16th year of Qianxi's reign, Zhu Gaoxu was worried that some local officials would enrich themselves by building railway trunk lines.

For example, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan, which the Beijing-Kunming Railway passes through, are all wealthy provinces. There will inevitably be local officials who cannot control their greed and take advantage of the special funds allocated by the court for road construction, so they send Prince Zhu Zhanyu to inspect the places along the Beijing-Kunming Railway. provinces.

After all, the Zhengsanpin Railway Department Yamen was newly added in March of the 16th year of Qianxi, and it was only established for eight full years in March of the [-]th year of Qianxi. Although each province has its own branch provincial railway department yamen, these provincial railway departments cannot communicate with them. The chief secretary of the local government office with real power can only influence the local governor, let alone the local governor.

The construction of railways started at the same time in all provinces, requiring local governors to coordinate various local yamen. It also related to a series of railway industries such as local steel smelting plants, sleeper plants, screw plants, and gravel plants.

At that time, Prince Zhu Zhanyu bypassed Henan and went directly to Hubei.

The Chief Envoy of Hubei led the officials to welcome him, and the ceremony and dinner were arranged with great grandeur and luxury. However, Prince Zhu Zhanyu's meals needed to be arranged by Guanglu Temple and were not provided in the place where he would eat.

Since he deliberately bypassed Henan and went straight to Hubei, the Hubei envoy was very well prepared, which surprised Zhu Zhanyu.

However, Hubei's chief envoy was also a man of talent. He took the initiative to explain that after receiving the news of His Royal Highness's tour of the provinces, he had made careful preparations.

At that time, Zhu Zhanyu did not overreact, but sent someone in advance to tell the Hunan chief envoy to keep everything simple when welcoming him.

However, when Zhu Zhanyu arrived in Hunan, he found that it was even more luxurious and grand than in Hubei, and it was simply too extravagant and wasteful.

Zhu Zhanyu had a jealous temper at his core, but after many years of being a prince, he had also raised the city government. He originally planned to settle accounts in the future, but he saw that all the officials at the banquet were drunk, and he even saw several upstarts bragging about themselves in the seats of wealthy businessmen. I was so angry that I had no appetite for food for several days and even had stomachaches from time to time.

After that, Zhu Zhanyu visited Guizhou and Yunnan, stayed at Mu's house for three days, and finally returned to Beijing.

However, when he reported his work to Zhu Gaoxu after returning to Beijing, he did not mention the corruption of local officials. He only said that the provincial chief secretaries' offices, railway departments' offices, etc. were doing their jobs diligently and diligently.

However, Zhu Gaoxu received the news from the Jin Yiwei secret investigation and learned that the two chief envoys of Hunan and Hubei turned a blind eye to local participation in politics and the corruption of prefects, and that these two chief envoys were particularly fond of Make some silly things to whitewash the peace.

Therefore, in February of the following year, Zhu Gaoxu ordered the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to conduct "inspections."

At the end of that year, he not only gave the Chief Envoy of Hunan and the Chief Envoy of Hubei an "impetuous" comment, but also charged them with "fraudulent" and "fooling the court" respectively. They were dismissed from their posts and their property was confiscated. .

During the Qianxi New Deal period, the imperial court promulgated a detailed and complete official evaluation system, which was different from that in the original history.

There are three types of assessments for officials in the Ming Dynasty formulated by Zhu Gaoxu. The first is called "full examination", the second is called "inspection", and the third is called "inspection".

The first two are carried out for all officials, with the purpose of increasing or decreasing rewards and punishments, while the third is only carried out for officials in a certain area and is a temporary surprise inspection.

"Complete the examination" is divided into three stages, the preliminary examination, the re-examination and the general examination.

Every official will be assessed once after three years in office, called the preliminary examination; after six years in office, they will be assessed again, called the reexamination; and after nine years in office, they will be assessed again, called the general examination.

Only after passing the test three times can it be said to be "passed."

At the same time, officials above the fourth rank in the capital "will be dismissed after nine years of service, and will be deposed by superiors." When foreign officials have passed the examination, they will be reviewed by superior leaders, and then reviewed layer by layer, and finally handed over to the emperor for decision.

The inspections are divided into two methods, namely "Beijing inspection" and "Outer inspection", both of which are held every three years.

As the name suggests, the Beijing Inspectorate is for all Beijing officials in Beijing. As long as they are officials of fourth rank or above, they are required to submit a performance report based on the specific circumstances during their tenure according to the template issued by the court that year.

External inspections are inspections of local officials. Local governors in various places need to compile their work contents into books on a quarterly basis, and then report them to each level for review.

There is a fixed time limit for the examination and inspection system, which mainly assesses officials whose terms have expired, and determines whether these officials will stay or leave based on the inspection results.

The inspection system does not have a specific time and is conducted irregularly. It is mainly used to detect officials in a certain area who are corrupt and violate the law, and promptly investigate and deal with them. It serves as a timely stop loss and warning function.The assessment standards for those who have passed the exam are different from those of inspection and inspection. In inspection and inspection, there are eight comments: greedy, cruel, impetuous, inadequate, old, sick, tired, and careless, while for those who have passed the exam, there are only three comments: competent, ordinary, and incompetent.

If Zhu Gaoxu's comment on the chief envoys of Hunan and Hubei was "corrupt", then the fate of these two people would not only be dismissed from their posts to serve the people, but their property would be confiscated. Detention and reform through labor.

Now, when he heard the words "Funan" and "Chaos" from the mouth of Prince Zhu Zhanyu, he naturally thought of Yang Wei and Liu Xin, the governors of North Siam and South Siam.

Zhu Gaoxu has never been completely at ease with Prince Zhu Zhanyu's confidants. Fortunately, in the capital, Jin Yiwei's spies are everywhere. Once he leaves the capital, he will definitely send people to spy on intelligence regularly.

Because he wanted to find out whether the people surrounding Prince Zhu Zhanyu were acting people or powerful people.

Before the secret agent could send back the information from Siam, he needed to send Yu Qian to Funan.

"For the past ten years, every year on the prince's birthday, Liu Xin has given him weapons, while Yang Wei has given him military books. Do you know this?"

In the Wuying Hall, Zhu Gaoxu sat behind the royal table and said coldly.

"Report to Your Majesty, the guilty minister knows."

Yu Qian replied respectfully.

As Zhan Shifu of the East Palace, of course he knew these things.

Prince Zhu Zhanyu likes martial arts and loves to study military books. The east palace and west warehouse are filled with all kinds of weapons, including swords, guns and sticks. At the same time, half of the books in his study are military books.

Yang Wei and Liu Xin seemed to have agreed that every year on Zhu Zhanyu's birthday, they would neither send money, nor rare treasures, nor any fancy auspicious things. Keep giving the same type of gifts for ten years.

However, every birthday gift Liu Xin gave to Prince Zhu Zhanyu was not an ordinary weapon, but a weapon used by a famous general or minister in history.

The same is true for Yang Wei. The military books he sent were either handwritten by a famous person in history or the original.

Obviously, in order to obtain such scarce military books and weapons, Yang and Liu worked hard, racked their brains, tried every means, used a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and spent a lot of time to collect them.

They did not violate the imperial ban by sending scarce weapons and military books, and they also seemed to be giving gifts with great care. However, it is hard to say whether their subordinates used secret means to plunder the original owners of the weapons and military books.

"I will give you a chance to take the blame and make meritorious deeds."

Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "You are the third-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry. I asked you to also hold the title of right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Go to Funan to see if Yang Wei and Liu Xin have lived up to my expectations."

"The sinful minister accepts the decree to thank you!"

Yu Qian kowtowed.

Zhu Gaoxu warned: "Don't tell the prince about your trip to Funan. You should go back and pack your bags and set off immediately."

"The guilty minister obeys the order."

Yu Qian took the order.

(End of this chapter)