Just when Zhu Cixiang finished interviewing Qi Yuanbi, Yan Yingyuan and Xu Ermo, Huang Xiaobao came in from the outside. When he saw Zhu Cixiang, he bowed and said, "Master, several pavilion elders, as well as the number one scholar in the new department, the second in the list, and the third overall pick, have all arrived. We are here for lunch." The time has come.”
"Oh," Zhu Cixiang nodded and said with a smile, "Today's interview ends here. Now I'm going to announce that a few pavilion elders and top picks, second picks, and top picks in this department are here to meet."
"Here."
Wei Zaode, Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, Chen Rui, Lin Zengzhi, Song Quan, six pavilion elders and ministers, as well as Luo Dagong, the new champion, Huang Zongxi, and Zhang Huangyan, a total of nine people, followed Huang Xiaobao into the Wenhua Hall. , and together they saluted Zhu Cixiang who was standing up to stretch his muscles, "I respectfully invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin An!"
"No courtesy, please give me a seat!" Zhu Cixiang smiled and waved his hand, and the Xiao Huangmen who was waiting on the side moved nine embroidered piers under Huang Xiaobao's command, so that the nine ministers could sit down one by one. However, Zhu Cixiang himself was still wandering around the hall. He explained with a smile, "I have been interviewing tribute ministers all morning. It's really boring.
So I won’t go to court today, so I’ll ask you guys to come over, have a meal together, and discuss the new deal. We have to continue the interview in the afternoon! "
It turns out that being an interviewer is not easy either! Especially when there are hundreds of tributes who have to try one by one, it is really not easy.
Gongshi! Those are all powerful people who have passed the examination of the Ministry of Etiquette! After passing the interview, you will become the parents of the people of Ming Dynasty.
Couldn't Zhu Cixi, the crown prince, be more serious about the interview? They were originally a group of nerds with little practical work experience, but now they are asked to become senior cadres at the county and bureau level. It is nonsense to think about it. If he doesn't take care of it seriously, God knows how many confused officials will be recruited?
In addition to interview checks, the only trick Zhu Cixi could come up with was "elimination at the bottom" plus "high salary". This trick was familiar to him in later generations, but he was trained by others using these tricks at that time. Now, After surviving, they can be used to punish various officials of the Ming Dynasty.
After turning around a few times and stretching his muscles, Zhu Cihong passed the meal around again, and then sat down on the chair. He glanced at the nine officials in front of him with a smile - none of them were good people anymore, and they would be guaranteed to be killed after a while. All civil servants in the Ming Dynasty drew circles and curses!
"Duke Luo, you are the number one scholar, you speak first!"
The number one scholar finally went to Grand Duke Songjiang Luo! Because during the interview, this man volunteered to go to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, to be the magistrate of someone who had offended someone - it was not allowed for locals to be local officials in the past, but Zhu Cixiang changed this rule.
When you are a local official, you must first understand the place! Is it okay to hire an out-of-town official who can't hit eight poles to become a parent official, and then leave after a short time? If he were assigned to a larger state or county, it is estimated that by the time he leaves office, this official would still have many villages and towns under him that he has not visited!
In addition, Mandarin is not promoted these days, and ordinary people speak dialects. Parents of what kind of people, can their senses understand the dialects spoken by their "children"? How can such parents take care of their children if they can’t even understand the words?
Therefore, the first thing to do in the new officialdom policy led by Zhu Cihong was to allow, no, encourage local people to become local officials.
Prince Zhu is not afraid of the collusion between the civil servants below and the local gentry (can you collude with foreign officials? Can you be an official without collusion?). If local civil servants are corrupt and pervert the law, they will have the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to raid their homes - now The censors can get a commission for fighting corruption, so they are very motivated! Even if the officials below are free from corruption, in the end 80% of them will belong to the imperial court.
If they want to rebel, the new army will not be a vegetarian! The martial arts families in Nanjing have all attacked, so the scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan should not think too much. Rebellion will also end in death.
Of course, Zhu Cihong's territory in the direct-administered area was not large, which was one of the reasons why he was not worried about local officials and local gentry colluding to seize power. The distance from Nanjing to Shanghai is only 700 miles, and it can be reached in three or four days at the marching speed of the New Army. It would only take an early day to deliver the message 600 miles away. In this case, separatist rule and rebellion are impossible to succeed!
Therefore, Grand Duke Luo now released the Shanghai County Magistrate and concurrent governor of the Shanghai Commercial Port - the Shanghai Commercial Port is the "Yangtze River Estuary Port". The governor is concurrently served by the Shanghai Minister of Commerce and Foreign Affairs, and the candidate for the minister has not yet been decided. As for Tongzhi (deputy position), the Shanghai County Magistrate Luo Dagong, a local snake, holds this position, which is more important than the Shanghai County Magistrate himself! If we really do it well, it is completely foreseeable that the cabinet will be able to seal the territory in ten years!
Therefore, the magistrate of Luoda has made up his mind that he must be a good official for ten years and wait until he becomes a cabinet minister before engaging in corruption. He must be careful not to let cruel officials like Ji Kun get the handle.
"Master Qiansui," the energetic Grand Duke Luo heard Zhu Cixiang's question and immediately began to offer suggestions, "I think the civil service positions in the Ming Dynasty should be divided into two types: court officials and court officials.
The so-called court official does not necessarily have to be an official in the court, but an official position that must be appointed by the court. Such as county magistrate, county captain, chief registrar and other officials.
As for court officials, they are official positions that can be recruited and appointed by the prefectures and counties themselves, including the original officials. "
"Okay! This is a good suggestion!" Zhu Cixiang nodded repeatedly, "The local officials should be given some personnel rights, otherwise they will not be able to command. However, we cannot remove all the subordinate officials just by changing the local officials. There must be someone Quota.
In addition, there must be a way for promotion for court officials. If they do well, they can also be promoted to court officials. You can discuss it carefully when you go back and come up with a practical solution. "
"I will accept the order."
Zhu Cixiang turned his attention to Huang Zongxi again, "Taichong, you are the second best, do you have any good suggestions?"
Huang Zongxi never thought that he would be depressed after being ranked second, but when he thought that a little guy like Luo Dagong took the lead in everything, even being the number one in providing advice and suggestions, he felt bad in his heart!
However, he still cheered up and worked hard, otherwise he might not even be an official for long! Huang Zongxi stood up and replied, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, I feel that the recruitment of court officials cannot be solely decided by superior court officials. There should also be a method of examination and recruitment. The imperial court has just canceled the meritorious service, and the local gentry must be very dissatisfied." . If an examination method for secretarial officers can be introduced in due time, it will surely gain a lot of hearts.
In addition, the shogunate officials are not court officials, but officials who do things. Therefore, Confucianism is not the focus of the assessment, but must be based on unique knowledge. Such as arithmetic, martial arts, construction, agricultural administration, medical skills, etc. "
This Huang Zongxi had some knowledge. In later generations, his reputation suddenly became very bad, and he was labeled as a public intellectual. However, in Zhu Cihong's opinion, his knowledge was still better than 90% of Confucian officials in this era.
Just because he can propose using "unique skills" to recruit officials is better than those who only know how to study hard.
As for his bad deeds of bullying the fat King Fu, Zhu Cixiang was not worried at all - King Fu was a fat man who was easy to bully, far worse than Emperor Chongzhen, let alone compared with himself. He was so cruel and cunning, Huang Zongxi would be a fool if he dared to offend him.
Guys like this who can be great scholars are very clever and must be very knowledgeable. They know who can be bullied and who cannot be provoked.
So Zhu Cihong "collected" Huang Zongxi and raised him as a second-ranked man. Instead of just being released, he was sent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to become a villain - Yuan Wai Lang, the official's merit examination department, was eliminated from the last rank of civil servants! This is the most hated official in the Ming Dynasty
"Okay," Zhu Cixiang nodded with a smile, "The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites will also discuss it and formulate a method for the secretarial officer examination.
Zhang Cangshui, do you have any good suggestions for me? Talk about it too! "
Zhang Huangyan is the most popular person in this department and has also been awarded an official title. Like Grand Duke Luo, he was granted the title of county magistrate. But instead of going to the wealthy hometown of Ningbo to be the county magistrate, he was released as the county magistrate of Penglai County, Shandong Province-Penglai is the first county of Dengzhou and where the city of Dengzhou is located!
Going to Dengzhou to be a county magistrate is equivalent to going to the front line!
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