The next day, the Academy of Liberal Arts released a bombshell news in the name of Vice President Xia Yuanji.
——From now on, the School of Liberal Arts will begin a month-long field trip.
If it was just an outing for inspection, it would certainly not surprise everyone. What really surprised them was the content of the outing: rectification of the Yellow Book Library.
At the beginning, they were of course opposed to the rectification of the Yellow Register, but when the Yellow Register was linked to political achievements and the eighteenth-level merit system, these people immediately changed their faces, and they all became "ministers" He must look like he has devoted himself to death and died."
After all, if they just rectify the yellow book, it will harm others and not benefit themselves. What does the court's affairs have to do with them? I have offended too many people for that little political achievement, and this deal is not worth it.
But if it is associated with the eighteen-level meritocracy and benefits oneself at the expense of others, then they may have to start becoming loyal ministers to the country and the people.
…
Zhu Gaojie stood in front of the gate of the College of Liberal Arts, sending each student of the College of Liberal Arts out of the school with a smile on his face, and wished them all the best during their field trip.
When it was Yu Qian's turn, he patted his bachelor's shoulder happily: "Do a good job and don't embarrass me."
Yu Qian cupped his hands and said, "Sir, don't worry. If Qian can't make a big splash during this trip, he won't have the shame to come back to meet you again."
Most of the officials who rectify the yellow records do so within their own jurisdictions, but there are also those like Yu Qian who do not have their own jurisdictions. He was the Master of Ceremonies at Zuo Chunfang, and his main task was to accompany the prince to study, so he had no jurisdiction. Therefore, for these officials, Zhu Gaojie is needed to help them find jurisdictions.
This matter is not difficult to solve. For example, Annan Province is a good place. There are many vacant positions in Annan. If these court ministers are thrown in as errands, they will not have any objections. It will be good if they have jurisdiction. What kind of bicycles do you want?
But these officials who originally had no jurisdiction would definitely suffer some disadvantages compared to those who had jurisdiction. After all, they don’t know how long it would take them to go all the way to Annan. You might have already finished your work and returned to the Academy of Arts as soon as you arrived. This is a loss at the starting line.
Although Zhu Gaojie gave the officials who rushed to Annan an extra ten days, they would still suffer a big loss in the end. It was difficult to do things because they were unfamiliar with the place. What others can solve with just one sentence may require them to battle wits with others for a long time.
But Zhu Gaojie didn't interfere too much. The ten days he gave these officials was already the limit. How can there be real fairness in this world?
fair? Do ordinary people dare to talk to the county magistrate about fairness?
When you embark on this official career, don't think about fairness. The road to pursuing power is doomed to be full of thorns, fights with heaven and people. Only by trampling all the people who are traveling with you can you climb to the top of the mountain and enjoy the highest scenery. , and the joy of not being too cold at high places.
"What is this, raising Gu?"
In the tea room of Wenyuan, Yao Guangxiao asked doubtfully while holding a tea cup.
He originally came to the Academy of Liberal Arts to inspect Xiao Zhu's work under the order of His Majesty the Emperor, but he didn't expect that everything here surprised him.
"Raising Gu, this word is quite appropriate to describe it."
Zhu Gaojie smiled and said, "If you throw these Gu into a comfort zone suitable for their survival, even the most ferocious and poisonous Gu will slowly degenerate and lose their original ferocity and toxicity. The Tiger King in the Mountain is prisoner He has been caged for a long time and fed two or three pieces of gizzard meat every day. If things go on like this, the tiger king will not know the use of his claws and teeth."
"For officials, we have to make them tougher."
"As the saying goes, fighting against the sky is endless fun. The fittest survive. If you don't let them get involved, how can they actually do anything?"
Yao Guangxiao asked with some confusion: "Involution?"
What new vocabulary is this?
"Involution, irrational internal competition or voluntary competition. The phenomenon in which peers compete for more efforts to compete for limited resources, resulting in a decline in the individual benefit-to-effort ratio, can be regarded as effort inflation."
Zhu Gaojie thought for a while and said, "To put it in layman's terms, the county government is looking for two executioners to behead. There are two executioners in Caishikou, and the government sent a servant to investigate which one is more suitable."
"The first executioner said: I need a subsidy of three taels of silver to behead my head."
"The second executioner said: I only need a subsidy of 20,000 yuan to behead my head."
"The first executioner said again: I only need a subsidy of two to three dollars to behead my head."
"..."
"This is involution. In fact, it is not that there is no better solution. After all, the vicious competition among their peers has already cut the price lower than the market price."
"For example, the first executioner can say to the government servant in private: I need five taels of silver to help you, because I have to give you a kickback of two taels of silver!"
"Two executioners can also raise the market price of each other. For example, one charges five taels of silver, and the other charges ten taels of silver. After all, they are monopolies. How many executioners can a county have? They can obviously make more money. Why bother oppressing yourself?”
Yao Guangxiao couldn't help but laugh after hearing this: "This is interesting. Involution, this word is quite fresh."
Zhu Gaojie continued: "For these students in the liberal arts academy, they are naturally unwilling to get involved. Because they belong to a high-IQ group, the focus is on the 'group'. How can they be willing to break the rules of the group if they come from a group? ?”
"But this group is not a good thing for the court. When officials unite, they will exclude dissidents and suppress non-group members. Non-group members will find it difficult to fight against the group with their own strength, and they will form a new group, which is different from the original group. Group confrontations...repeated over and over again, will form party strife that will overwhelm the imperial court."
"And what I did was to force them to involute, either to get involved or to die. In the environment of involution, the best will survive, and the group will naturally fall apart."
Yao Guangxiao touched his bald head and asked, "How did you come up with such a damaging move?"
In his memory, Zhu Laosi... Ahem, even though His Majesty the Emperor is quite bad, he is not so wicked!
As for Queen Xu, she is even more virtuous, reserved, graceful and noble.
Then how did Zhu Laosi and Queen Xu give birth to such a wicked creature?
Could it be possible... There is a faint green light on the fourth child's head...
hiss!
Yao Guangxiao didn't dare to think about it any more. He quickly twisted his beads and recited Amitabha silently. How could a monk think like this?
Zhu Gaojie felt a little strange: "Young Master, what are you doing?"
Yao Guangxiao asked in confusion: "What's wrong with me?"
Zhu Gaojie touched his chin and said, "Now you give me the feeling of looking directly at me as if I just came out of a brothel."
Yao Guangxiao: "..."
…
Annan Province.
Yu Qian, wearing a green official robe, took office as the prefect of Xuanguang Prefecture.
Logically speaking, Xuanguang Prefect is a fourth-rank official. Even if he is appointed on behalf of others, at least a fifth-rank official should be transferred. However, the official in the capital has been promoted several levels in succession, not to mention that Yu Qian is the Master of Ceremonies of Zuo Chunfang, and he is also the official in the capital among the officials in the capital.
In the past, Su Wu's resume was just a trial in the royal palace. Later, King Qi supervised the country and followed King Qi to work in the imperial study. Although his official rank was not high, he was parachuted directly to Koryo Province and held the important position of chief envoy. After returning to Beijing, he was directly transferred to the imperial censor of the capital.
After Yu Qian took office, the first thing he did was not to count the yellow books, but to ask his colleagues in Xuanguang Mansion: "Why did I see no one speaking Chinese along the way, and only Jiaozhi dialect?"
The co-president of Xuanguang Mansion felt a little confused: "Master Futai, Annan Province is originally Jiaozhi, and the locals naturally speak Jiaozhi language."
Yu Qian said seriously: "But after I came to the government office, why did the officials working in the government office also speak Jiaozhi dialect?"
The colleague of Xuanguang Mansion smiled and said: "Master Futai is still young, and I don't know what the old saying is, 'when in the country, do as the Romans do'. Everyone has to serve the court. Although many government officials are Han, if you want to work here To survive in such a big environment, you must know how to live in harmony with the light, and it is not difficult to learn a few words of Jiaozhi dialect.”
Yu Qian asked: "Why should the Han people speak Jiaozhi dialect?"
The magistrates of Xuanguang Mansion were embarrassed on the spot, not knowing how to respond.
This Master Futai seems to be not very clear-headed?
Yu Qian continued: "The Crown Prince conquered Annan twice and conquered the Cochin people. All he wants is for the court's policies to be decentralized smoothly in Cochin and to assimilate the local area. However, now that I have just arrived, I see that no one in Cochin is learning Chinese. , On the contrary, all the Han people are learning Jiaozhi dialect, isn’t that going against the grain?”
"After such a long time, in less than thirty years, Jiaozhi has returned to its former arrogance and arrogance. Is it possible that the soldiers will bleed again?"
"The territory that the prince and I, the Ming Dynasty soldiers, fought so bloody hard for has been so ruined by you. Why don't his Cochin people learn Chinese? Did he, the Cochin people, win this battle, or did I, the Ming Dynasty, win the battle?" This battle!”
Yu Qian said in a sonorous and righteous manner, "Pass this government order to order the officials in Xuanguang Mansion to abolish Jiaozhi dialect and switch to Chinese. I will personally verify it. As for the Jiaozhi officials who have not learned Chinese after seven days, , depose them all!”
The co-president of Xuanguang Mansion said quickly: "Master Futai, this is absolutely impossible. How can those Jiaozhi people learn Chinese in seven days? If so, they will be forced... they..."
He really couldn't say what happened next.
Jiaozhi people are rebellious by nature. If they are so forced, they will most likely cause trouble.
"What else can they do?"
Yu Qian scolded, "They can still rebel. Can't they kill me, the official of the imperial court? Well, you can publish a newspaper in front of the government office and tell everyone in Xuanguang Mansion that I, Yu Qian, will not go anywhere else and will wait in this government office." Wait, if anyone wants to take my head, wait for the assassin!"
"In the past, Mr. Lu Chaoyang, Mr. Lu, was on a patrol in Shandong as an imperial envoy. Because he was an official, he was hated by others. In just a few months, he was stabbed thousands of times. His heads rolled all over the ground and the steps in front of the government office were soaked red."
"Although I am not as heroic as Mr. Lu, I still have the courage to fear life and death. If anyone dares to assassinate me, I will offer him two ounces of fine wine and send him to see King Yama!"
…
Annan Province, Chief Envoy Si Yamen.
Fu Boyan was leaning on the Taishi chair, singing and dancing in front of him, listening to the little tunes and watching the beauty dance, it was so leisurely.
He was also a student of the Academy of Arts and served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry. During the inspection period of the Academy of Arts, he served as the acting envoy of Annan. As for the former chief envoy of Annan Province, he was given a month's rest.
Unlike Yu Qian, after he took office, he lay down in the yamen and listened to music.
"Master Fu, the task assigned to us by the Academy of Arts is to rectify the pornographic books. We have been so leisurely as soon as we took office. We won't be criticized by the superiors, right?"
Sitting next to Fu Bo'an was Annan's chief envoy Si Zuo Shenzheng, a student from the liberal arts college who came to Annan with Fu Bo'an.
The chief minister's face was intoxicated, but he was uneasy and sat on pins and needles.
"What the hell do you know?"
Fu Boyan said lazily, "Old Minister Xia from the Ministry of Revenue is too old and confused. He is fooling around with a young man like the prince. What nonsense is there to rectify the yellow book? You have been an official for many years, don't you know how much water there is? Shen, you and I will only stay in Annan Province for a month, and then leave after that, why take such a risk?"
Zuo Shenzheng asked: "Sir, it's not very good for us to criticize Mr. Xia and the Crown Prince in private."
"You also know it's private?"
Fu Boyan sneered and said, "The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Don't worry, no matter how long Donggong's hand is, he can't reach Annan!"
Zuo Shenzheng: "..."
Seeing his eldest master being so arrogant, he always had an ominous premonition.
"Clang!"
With a loud noise, the door of the Chief Envoy's Yamen was kicked open, frightening the dancing dancers and running away in panic. The scene was chaotic for a while.
Fu Bo'an was trembling all over, and subconsciously shouted angrily: "Who is this bastard who is so reckless? Don't you know that I am enforcing the law impartially?"
"Justice and law enforcement?"
The visitor was dressed in black, with a long sword on his waist, and asked doubtfully, "It turns out that Mr. Fu's impartial enforcement of the law is openly in the dignified Chief Envoy's Yamen, listening to small songs, drinking small wine, and watching beauties dancing. ?”
Fu Boyan angrily yelled: "Bold! Don't talk nonsense!"
"Ha, I'm afraid if I'm one step late, Mr. Fu will be on the bed with the beauties impartially enforcing the law. It won't be easy for you, sir." The man sneered.
"How dare you slander me!"
Fu Bo'an stood up and said angrily, "Who are you? How dare you break into my chief envoy's yamen without permission? Come, drag this person out and beat him up for fifty bucks!"
However, no one responded to him.
"Master Fu is probably overthinking it. All the people in the Chief Envoy Si Yamen have been put down by my colleagues below."
The man took off his waist badge and said calmly, "I am not talented, so I am temporarily appointed as the Inspector Guard Commander. In terms of official rank, I am on the same level as you, sir."
Fu Boyan was a little confused: "Inspector Guard? I've never heard of it. Where did you come from as a commander?"
"Sir, of course you haven't heard that the Supervisory Guard is a newly established guard station, independent of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and is directly dispatched by His Majesty and the Crown Prince."
The commander of the Inspectorate Guard smiled and said, "The Inspectorate Guard specializes in investigating corrupt officials."
"Master Fu, come with us."
…
In Beijing, Zhu Gaojiao looked up at the sky.
Snowflakes are falling one after another, and the sky and the land are the same color.
"Snowing."
"Maybe I haven't killed someone for a long time, so I should warm up."
(End of chapter)
