Idle courtiers

Chapter 221
If I can't beat you on the field, then I'll be a referee and kill you.

This is probably Zou Yinglong's idea.

Zhou Nan was secretly surprised, and couldn't help but said: "Zou Yinglong, a small official seventh-rank official, was actually transferred to evaluate the Pedestrian Division. Has he passed the Beijing inspection? Instead of worrying about his own affairs, he came here to seek bad luck?"

Guo Shuban: "Pedestrians, you have forgotten that Mr. Zou's is the disciple of Mr. Xu Ge. Besides, he is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, so he has the right to investigate us according to the system."

Zhou Nan nodded: "Yes."

When the Ming Dynasty set up this evaluation system, the original intention was to evaluate the moral performance and work performance of officials as a reward and punishment for everyone.Therefore, it was the Ministry of Human Resources of the Ming Dynasty who first presided over this matter.

However, there are two problems here.

First of all, the officials who presided over the evaluation were not of high rank, and the evaluation of the magistrate at the first level was okay, and the senior officials who were above the fourth-rank magistrate had concerns.

Secondly, just because the evaluation is directly related to the future of an official, the matter is of great importance.The employees of Daming quickly realized the powerful lethality of the test language. Whenever the test is over, everyone will move up and down, communicate actively, and strive for a good comment.

The officials don't want to offend people, unless they are very dissatisfied with you, they are usually happy to be a favor.

In this way, the test words are either praises or clichés, "the test words are all great sages and sages, Chuanyue Fengyun, Bingyu Linfeng and so on", and the rare few test words mentioned the shortcomings of officials, but they were also well written. The obscurity, "imitation of incompetence is good, imitation of aging is old", I don't know whether it is a compliment or a derogation.

So some people sighed: "Is there no one who is incompetent? No one can go, but everyone should stay?"

Very quickly, this evaluation becomes meaningless.

Later, probably the emperor felt that this would not work, so he divided the Jingcha and Waicha into two parts.

External inspections are carried out by local supervisors and reviewed by the Ministry of Officials.

The Jingcha is handed over to the cabinet, the six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the three systems will dispatch personnel to each unit to give everyone a comment.The performance of all the officials under investigation was recorded in three account books, one was kept by the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate as the bottom book, the other was sent to the Sixth Division, and the last one was submitted to the cabinet.The Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate audit their officials according to the account book registration; the Sixth Division can also audit the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate based on the account book registration;

The three systems supervise each other, are responsible for each other, and restrict each other.In this way, even if an official wants to be a good person, it is useless to give people good reviews. How many eyes are staring at you outside!

Zou Yinglong was in charge of the Ministry of Industry, so he only needed to say a word to Xu Jie, and it was not easy to preside over the Jingchao.

Jingcha, who is in charge of a department, is also a political achievement. It would be best if two incompetent officials can be caught.

In addition, by the way, Zhou Nan was cleaned up to avenge his death in Yanqing.

Guo Shuban said: "Unexpectedly, this Zou Yinglong would hold grudges so much. He is such a villain. Zhou Xingren, you should prepare early."

"It's understandable for a gentleman to report his complaints directly." If it were Zou Yinglong who had suffered such a loss, he would have to find his way back. I attended the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Dacheng’s most holy teacher in Yanqing Prefecture, but I’m not afraid of him coming to investigate.”

Zhou Nan disagreed.

Guo Shuban: "Pedestrians should be more careful in everything, and colleagues need to move around more to get close to each other. Isn't tomorrow a winter solstice rest? All the pedestrians in the office have privately invited banquets and fun. Zhou Xingren may as well invite all the adults one time."

Hearing that there was something in his words, Zhou Nan said: "Old Guo, you can speak directly if you have something to say."

Guo Shuban: "Zhou Xingren is not on good terms with his colleagues on weekdays, so you must guard against them being unfavorable to you."

Zhou Nan: "Could it be that I'm afraid that others will find me wrong, and besides, I'm a carefree person in the department, and I don't have any conflicts with everyone."

Guo Shuban stumbled: "Pedestrian, you really have a big heart, have you forgotten about the interview form?"

Hearing what he said, Zhou Nan suddenly remembered, and his complexion changed drastically.

The so-called manual is an anonymous questionnaire.

In view of the fact that the former officials evaluated the Ministry of Officials for fear of offending people, all the evaluations were excellent, and the employees' evaluations could not bridge the gap, which was impossible for Mr. Ge to explain.

In order to change this situation, the Human Resources Department of the Ming Dynasty quickly invented a new system called the Visit Form System.The so-called interview form is a questionnaire, which is initiated by the Ministry of Officials and distributed to officials who have interests and business-related relationships with the officials being evaluated, and ask them for their opinions on the evaluation of the officials being evaluated.

This interview form is still anonymous. The benefit of anonymity is to encourage everyone to tell the truth, but it has also caused some people to take the opportunity to retaliate against their grievances. Wrong case.

This Beijing inspection system has begun to take shape in the 360-degree comprehensive performance appraisal system of later generations. On this basis, Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant in the Wanli year, carried it forward and simply conducted a monthly examination.This is the test method that makes the elders of the court frightened by the news.

Zhou Nan has only been in the Pedestrian Department for three months, and is quite excluded by the officials. It is estimated that there will be no good things in the anonymous questionnaire.

Those passers-by have long thought that he, who was born as a scholar, was not pleasing to the eye, so how could he let this opportunity go?
This is inevitable.

Thinking of this, Zhou Nan couldn't sit still any longer, and said, "Thank you, Lao Guo, I'm going to sit with my colleagues right now, and I'll treat them to a meal to clean their teeth in the evening."

Seeing Zhou Nan's back in a hurry to go out, Guo Shuban couldn't help but scratched his bald head, depressed in his heart: My old Guo also had a hard time following such a master. I guess I won't be able to stay in this pedestrian department for long. Fortunately, after the new year, I will be driven back to my hometown.

It turned out that the secretariats of the central ministries were either candidates in the capital waiting for election, or students who had completed their term in the Imperial College.The imperial court did not have a suitable official position to place them, so they were sent to various yamen to run errands to study.Wait until you have accumulated experience and achievements, and then take up a miscellaneous real job.

He followed Zhou Nan, not to mention failing to get the grades, and being implicated, his future was bleak.This time, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of standing in the wrong team.

There are 37 people in the Pedestrian Division plus the Supervisor and the Left and Right Deputy Divisions.

Regardless of these three chiefs, according to the system of the Ming Dynasty, they did not participate in commenting on the subordinates' instructions.The remaining 34 people are not bad, and there are only three or four tables.

It doesn't take much effort to do the tasks one by one.

Zhou Nan thought for a while, and suddenly felt happy. This situation is a bit like pulling votes in modern society.Speaking of it, the political system of the Ming Dynasty was quite perfect. If it weren't for the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who knows what it would have turned into.

(End of this chapter)