After being squeezed by Pan Cheng, Zhang Siwei couldn't help but blush, clenched his fists, and finally had to change the subject and asked:
"Not to mention the servants, there are so many backlogged exams for six subjects suddenly passed, how busy can the public wait?"
"When the Grand Master is away, the servants in the Sixth Section will be very lazy. I know how lazy they will be. They probably keep their eyes on the camp and don't know that they are responsible for inquiring about people's sentiments and government affairs!"
"I'm afraid I've put off a lot of paperwork and deregistration of subjects, and I'm just focusing on the candidates."
"Please don't delay other important things because you have to strictly pass the six subjects!"
Zhang Siwei then added another sentence and looked at Shen Shixing and others.
"Yuanfu, don't be anxious!"
Shen Shixing said with a calm face: "The three of us divided it up. I was responsible for taking the official and criminal subjects, Pan Gong was responsible for the household and military subjects, Yu Gong was responsible for the rites and engineering subjects, and then Let’s make a preliminary review together and then give it to Yuan Fu, so it’s not considered disorderly.”
"In addition, we have been informed by several officials from the Sixth Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate that they will help sort out the government affairs of the Sixth Subject that have not yet been reviewed and reviewed in advance. We can just follow the pictures here, which is not the case. It won’t be too much trouble.”
"We have also roughly calculated the number of backlogged government affairs based on the estimates of the ministry and court officials. It will not take too long and the exam can be completed before the year. The key is that the backlog of government affairs cannot be postponed until next year."
"If our central government delays for one month, it will delay for a year. If there is a famine and we wait for relief, people will probably starve to death for two generations!"
"That's right, it's just a matter of staying up a few nights and burning a few extra candles."
Pan Cheng followed.
Yu Youding said: "If it doesn't work, stay up all night! No matter what, we have to remove the silverfish from the six departments. After all, the six departments have an important position. If the six departments are not upright, the ministries will not be upright. If the ministries are not upright, the local chief secretaries will be wrong." If the place is not right, the world will not be right!"
Zhang Siwei, who had obviously been ignored, felt more and more uncomfortable the more he listened.
However, Zhang Siwei's exclusion was his own choice, not that he really did not have the ability to unite the ministers.
Therefore, Zhang Siwei did not lose his composure at this time, but asked: "Do you really want to be so Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao?"
"For the sake of justice in the world, for the common people of the country, to stay upright and diligent, is it not what a gentleman should do?"
Yu Youding asked directly.
Pan Cheng was more direct and asked Zhang Siwei: "Why, what Yuan Fu means is that the officials are only allowed to treat our ministers with justice and people's hearts. Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao. It is rare that our ministers cannot also be fair to the world." Is it Ding, is it Mao?"
"If a minister is guilty or incompetent in his duties, he should be impeached; but if an official is incompetent or guilty, he cannot be shielded! Even more severe, otherwise how can he speak for the world?!"
"That's right, if Yuan Fu feels it's too heavy, he can change the draft during the final review and report it to His Majesty."
Yu Youding followed.
Zhang Siwei naturally did not dare to object to the examination results agreed upon by Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, and Yu Youding, because he knew that these three people were drafting in accordance with the holy will.
Therefore, although Zhang Siwei was the first assistant, he could only watch Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, and Yu Youding doing what they called cabinet ministers but actually acted as prime ministers.
"In the case of the official affairs, Wang Shixing had a backlog of 76 government affairs that needed to be copied by the official department, and nine mediocre officials were discovered by patrols because they were not included in the official affairs. This can be said to be a dereliction of duty and to treat the state affairs as such. It's child's play, a hundred imperial staffs, you will be dismissed immediately!"
"Hu Ke Zuo gave an official to Zhongwen Shanlian to inspect the locust plague in Shangdang, Shaanxi Province and falsely reported that there was no such thing. However, the North Direct Inspection reported that there were refugees in Shangdang, Shanxi Province. They asked whether it was because of the raging locust plague that the disaster was not relieved in time, so they were exiled to the army!"
"The sixteen things that Yan Xi reported to the Ministry of Rites for commendation were verified by people sent by the Ministry of Rites, and all of them were false reports. Although it was heard that the reports were in line with the official's authority, he was not careful to damage the famous imperial weapon, so he was dismissed from his post. The people will never be used!"
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For a time, many officials were dealt with by cabinet ministers Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, and Yu Youding because of laziness or incompetence in their duties.
Zhang Siwei was quite shocked after seeing these processing results, and couldn't help but find Shen Shixing and Pan Cheng to discuss it.
At this time, Shen Shixing brought a memorial and said: "Yuan Fu came just in time. The Fusi of Jinyiwei North Town asked how to deal with those who were sentenced to prison for interceding for rebels at Huijimen. Your Majesty We have discussed the proposal for the cabinet vote, and we have proposed a hundred imperial staffs for all, I wonder what the public thinks?"
Zhang Siwei couldn't help but be startled after hearing this.
No matter how much Zhang Siwei tried to hide himself, he still couldn't accept that hundreds of ministers would be executed for not letting the emperor kill the officials, so he asked Shen Shixing and others with a cold face: "Why do you have to be so harsh?!"
"With a hundred imperial staffs, do you still have life?"
"Since your Majesty took office, in order to show your benevolence, you have intentionally lenient sentences and cautious punishments, so you also used the birth of the emperor's eldest son to grant amnesty. Now, wouldn't it be contrary to the holy will to vote like this?!"
After Zhang Siwei asked, he continued to ask, and couldn't help asking: "Do you take His Majesty seriously?"
"Yuansuke, you are in a hurry!"
Shen Shixing looked at Zhang Siwei, replied dissatisfied, and then said: "We decided to vote like this just because we considered the integrity of His Majesty!"
"As a minister, you must be upright and upright, and hate evil as much as hatred, so that you can correct the course of the government; as a monarch, you should be lenient and strict, and even govern with benevolence as the mainstay and authority as the supplement;"
"Therefore, the cabinet votes should be drawn up strictly, and it is better to be strict than to indulge! Let the government and the public know that we are not ordinary people, but we are strictly controlling the common government of the world for His Majesty!"
"At the same time, this will make it easier for Your Majesty to show mercy. Your Majesty is a wise king. He can change the death sentence to prison, or the imperial staff to exile, or he can just fine him a salary. All of them are fine. These are all holy graces!"
"Even if His Majesty is unable to consider today's kindness, the ruling minister of the Political Affairs Hall can still give advice and remind him, so as not to affect the saint's benevolence."
"In this way, the world's resentment towards the majesty of the king's law can be attributed only to the ministers; and the kindness can be attributed to your majesty. This will be your majesty's virtue and help consolidate the country."
"And this is also in line with the Taishi's will. The kindness belongs to the Lord, and the principles are established by the ministers, which is conducive to protecting the safety of His Majesty. Even if there are people in the world who are dissatisfied, they will only be dissatisfied with the cabinet!"
Shen Shixing started talking.
Zhang Siwei was speechless for a long time after hearing this. In the end, he just sighed and forced a smile and said: "What you said makes sense, let's just go ahead and play it like this."
Soon after, Zhu Yijun received the cabinet's draft plan for handling the case for passing the sixth subject and the handling plan for civil servants who petitioned for rebellious ministers.
Zhu Yijun is very satisfied with the results of these treatments.
He had to admit that the cabinet had finally returned to the cabinet that could play the central role before, so that he could really control the government through the cabinet.
And this also means that he is no longer alone against the conservative landlord officials who oppose Zhang Juzheng's reforms. The reformists left behind by Zhang Juzheng have finally become tough and proactive.
Zhu Yijun also came to the Imperial Service Department, met Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, Pan Cheng, etc., and said: "Those who are officials who need court staff are exempted! They all have their dignity. After all, the country should respect the dignity of the people. As long as They are the subjects of this dynasty. If they can avoid being humiliated, they will not be humiliated. If they can be spared, their lives will be spared. Besides, I am not good at killing people, so they were all exiled! They were exiled to Liaodong, Busan, Tsushima, and Japan."
"In addition, those civil servants who followed Yang Zhao and knelt down to remonstrate after the edict to reply to the remonstrances were issued, how could they have a hundred imperial staffs? Is there still life in such an imperial staff?"
Zhu Yijun asked pretending to be dissatisfied.
Shen Shixing hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty said that this matter should be lenient. After all, although they did not comply with the edict in reply to the remonstrance, it was obvious that they did not have the same intentions as Yang Zhao. He was rebellious, but he didn't know his loyalty and treachery, thinking that this was His Majesty's holy virtue, and at the same time he was intimidated by Yang Zhao and did not dare to object."
Zhang Siwei was about to say something when he saw Shen Shixing spoke first, so he had to sit back and his face suddenly turned bitter.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "In that case, we will all be exiled to Dongying and Dongfan, as well as Liao. We can arrange for them to serve as officials in these places of exile as appropriate."
Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Siwei as he spoke: "Yuanfu, no matter how ignorant or cowardly they are, they are Han people after all, and they are scholars trained by the country for many years. We must save those who can be saved, and do not humiliate them easily, making the world think that this dynasty does not know how to care for them. People, please pay attention in the future!”
"These people would rather let them go to a Protestant place to experience and change, than to be executed directly with the imperial rod."
"If the experience and transformation are good, it can naturally be put back for use. If the experience and transformation are not good, death in a foreign country can be regarded as a punishment for its stubbornness!"
"After all, although there is no shortage of scribes in the mainland, there is still a shortage of scribes in the newly acquired territories and even outside the customs to educate the local barbarians and make them know etiquette!"
After being scolded by Zhu Yijun, Zhang Siwei groaned, and then just said yes without any excuse. He only raised his eyes and glanced at Shen Shixing.
