The ministers were speechless.
Don't even dare to make a sound.
Because they are really frightened!
The implicit meaning behind Emperor Wude's words was almost a showdown.
Isn’t it enough for the imperial court to leave these gentry?
That’s really not necessarily the case!
Thanks to the new learning of Nalaoshizi promoted by Emperor Wude when he was still the prince of Han Dynasty, a new force that cannot be ignored by the court has been cultivated!
This group of new disciples, headed by Xie Jin, the Minister of Academic Affairs, and Wang Ji, the former Minister of Academic Affairs, number in the tens of thousands, and their scale is still increasing.
They first participated in the implementation of Zhou Chen's whipping method, and then followed Yang Shiqi to clear the world. Now most of them have entered the palace, directly bypassed the imperial examination, were recommended by Yang Shiqi to become officials, and all were decentralized to the local governments as county magistrates.
The living example was right in front of his eyes, instantly attracting countless students to imitate him and switch to the new school.
And this so-called new learning has two major themes.
One is loyal and patriotic, the other is true knowledge through practice!
Compared with Cheng Zhu Jinshen who only knows how to shout slogans, the new students give full play to their subjective initiative and like to do practical things the most.
It is said that a certain local county official personally led the people to cultivate the fields, so he was praised by the local people as "the county magistrate of fields" and his reputation spread all over the world!
Therefore, these older batch of Cheng Zhu Jinshen are indeed not irreplaceable!
The Wude Emperor on the Dragon Throne had already started to make plans when he was still the Prince of Han, and forcefully cultivated a group of completely different new students!
What is this concept?
One emperor and one courtier!
But they just changed the important ministers in the court!
The current posture of the Wude Emperor is to replace them all!
Zhu Gaoxu felt that the heat was almost done, so he sat back on the dragon chair.
"Jian Yi, read out the new test method!"
Exam into law?
Is there a new advanced version?
Upon hearing this, all civil and military officials in the court subconsciously looked at Jian Yi.
Jian Yi was ordered to stand up, and then he calmly took out a small notebook, which made all the courtiers curse.
This damn old guy has actually hooked up with His Majesty the Emperor a long time ago!
And he didn't even reveal any information to them. He was really a bastard to the extreme!
Jian Yi looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who nodded.
"Because the Three Laws Division is about to be restructured and will be stationed in local areas to expand its scale, there will be a large increase in officials."
"In order to cooperate with the new policies of the imperial court, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has specially introduced this new examination method. I ask all colleagues to listen carefully."
"The examination method is mainly used to evaluate officials. Therefore, after discussion between the Ministry of Personnel and the Emperor, it is mainly divided into the following three parts. In the future, officials will be promoted and demoted mainly based on these three contents. Don't say that you are unforeseeable!"
As soon as these words came out, all the civil and military officials in the court pricked up their ears, fearing that they might have missed something.
If you miss it now, it won’t be long before the Metropolitan Procuratorate comes to arrest you!
The "Integrity Department" of the Procuratorate has independent power to interrogate and approve arrests. It is even more feared than the Ministry of Punishment!
Don’t say you didn’t predict what you said!
It means that I say the ugly things first, and if you make a mistake, you can't blame others.
"The first item is the specific circumstances of the official's performance of the mission!"
"This is also the main focus of the old version of the examination law. All court officials must record everything they did in the month and submit it to the Sixth Section for review. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for random inspections."
All the officials understood this first point, and they continued to do things as before, completing their work honestly.
"The second item is the subjective initiative of officials!"
"If a local official follows the rules, is stuck in his ways, and has nothing to show for himself, then this official evaluation will naturally be inferior; if a local official gives full play to his subjective initiative, such as personally leading the people to cultivate the fields, For example, if we support the development of local characteristic products according to local conditions, then this item will be excellent in the official evaluation!"
Upon hearing this second point, many courtiers frowned.
Show your subjective initiative?
Isn’t this too difficult?
You must know that officialdom pays attention to "conservatism". This is a tacit and unspoken rule that everyone understands.
Because the officialdom is different from other places, if you do something wrong, what awaits you is to be imprisoned and thrown into a sky jail!
Therefore, it is not just the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but officials of all dynasties. They would rather not do something than do something wrong!
But now Emperor Wude is forcing them to do things, forcing them to show political achievements!
This content is more difficult to handle!
"The third item is the official's political performance!"
"The imperial court has considered that after the implementation of the New Deal, officials may not be able to support their families with their previous salaries, so they have officially implemented the national policy of high salaries to support integrity. The salaries of all officials will increase from three to ten times according to the corresponding official grades!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole court was in an uproar.
The officials and courtiers who had looked sad before suddenly became happy when they heard this.
The salary increase is really a great thing!
If their salaries were sufficient, why would they need to take corruption and bribes, and risk their heads to do such stupid things?
In the past, corruption and bribery might not be discovered.
But if you are now corrupt and accepting bribes, you are bound to suffer disaster.
Because it’s not just the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but also the Jin Yiwei, and the Dongchang that are staring at you!
It is precisely because of this that from the late Yongle Dynasty to the early Wude Dynasty, official corruption was greatly reduced. The main reason was that they were really afraid. Even if they wanted to be corrupt, they would only stop it symbolically, and they did not dare to be as arrogant as before. Arrogant.
"However, the salary is not directly added to the original salary, but is linked to the official's performance!"
"Increased salaries will be decentralized in the form of bonuses, and will be decentralized based on the results of the official department's assessment and the corresponding bonus level. For example, if an official's assessment result is inferior that month, not only will he not receive a bonus, but he will also receive a warning. If he does so for three consecutive months I'm inferior, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will petition the Emperor to dismiss him from office and never hire him again!"
"In addition, it should be noted that the tasks assigned by the superior officer are part of the job and do not belong to the official's performance. If it is difficult to complete the job, it proves that the person is incompetent and has extremely poor moral character, so he is not suitable. For his current position, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will also ask the emperor to dismiss him from office and not to hire him!"
After hearing this, all the civil and military officials in the court were dumbfounded.
What do you mean?
What a banditry!
Deliberately setting a bonus there to encourage officials to strive and innovate?
Moreover, there are still people chasing after you. If you continue to cheat and cheat, you will face the risk of being impeached and losing your official position!
You are treating the imperial officials like donkeys!
Isn't this a little too much?
All the courtiers looked at each other, their previous joy long gone.
This damned bandit emperor used one counterattack after another to blind everyone!
Those officials in Beijing are fine, but the local officials are really miserable.
Not only are the three judicial departments of the Central Committee always watching, but they also have to give full play to their subjective initiative. Otherwise, if they fail the assessment and their political performance does not meet the standards, not to mention bonuses, they will be dismissed from office!
Such excessive means are simply unconscionable!
