Zhang Yingwang knew that the emperor's affirmation of him showed that his official career was still promising.
At this time, Zhang Jingxiu also reported: "Your Majesty, the Jin Yiwei sent to the county jail reported that the prisoners were indeed captives, not thieves. In addition, according to interviews with the people in the county, it was learned that the captives were caught Finally, there are no more thieves."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun nodded and looked at Wang Xijue, the Second Assistant to the Cabinet: "He is indeed a capable official who was almost slandered by his superiors! Your cabinet also almost caused others to be wronged."
Zhang Yingwang was even more moved when he heard what the emperor said. His heart felt like it was being grabbed, and his eyes suddenly became moist.
At this time, Wang Xijue came to Zhu Yijun and bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty is right, I am ashamed."
"For this reason, I advocate that your Majesty personally inspect the world. No matter how good the examination is, no matter how good the supervision is, as long as there are people in charge, there will be mistakes due to the differences between wise and foolish people, and the cabinet cannot fully understand what is going on. The truth is that we can select truly talented officials for Your Majesty."
"After all, the cabinet also makes judgments based on the examination results provided by subordinates, ministers and even the government."
Wang Xijue then analyzed a few more sentences.
"I know!"
"Your cabinet didn't dare to severely punish Zhang Yingwang based on his test results. You must be afraid that being too harsh would make him suffer even greater injustice, right?"
Zhu Yijun asked Wang Xijue as he spoke.
Wang Xijue handed over his hand again: "Your Majesty, the Holy Ming Wu Guo."
"There is no problem with your vote like this."
"But his boss, the prefect of Yan'an, whether he slandered his subordinates out of selfish motives and hated him for not paying bribes, or because he was out of his wits and only listened to the villain's words without asking strict questions, so he mistakenly blamed his subordinates. In this way It is not appropriate for any of the prefects to keep him any longer, and he should be dismissed directly! Then he will be arrested and interrogated by the Jinyi Guards to give him a chance to plead his case."
Zhu Yijun ordered at this time.
Wang Xijue raised his hand and said yes.
Then, Zhu Yijun said: "The examination result of Zhang Yingwang, the county magistrate, has been changed to excellent. If you take the exam this year, you must give him a good grade."
Luo Wanhua, the official minister in charge of the examination, handed over his hand and said yes.
There were three systems for selecting officials in the Ming Dynasty.
The first is tingtui, which is mainly for the appointment of senior officials above the governor and general soldier level.
The second is the annual rules, which mainly involves the selection of some good officials to serve in local areas to increase local governance experience, and to serve in the six ministries to increase the governance experience of central ministries. After Wanli ascended the throne, he was changed to Hanlin and also participated in the annual rules.
The third is to select, that is, to select some capable local officials or county magistrates who are close to the people, that is, officials who have direct contact with the people at the grassroots level, to the central government to serve as ministers or censors. After Wanli ascended the throne, he could also directly enter the Imperial Academy. He was appointed Hanlin in the academy.
Now, Zhang Yingwang has been appointed by Zhu Yijun to be promoted to Shizhong, Yushi, or Hanlin, and he is about to enter a fast lane for promotion.
You must know that officials like Ji Shizhong and Yushi are known to be small and powerful, and can decide national decisions.
As for the Hanlin, they had little power, but they were better than nobles. They had the opportunity to serve in the cabinet and the imperial court at any time, and had the opportunity to get in touch with the core ruling circles. Once they were favored by the emperor or a certain ruling party, they would be promoted quickly.
Therefore, Zhang Yingwang burst into tears after Zhu Yijun said this, and immediately prostrated on the ground and bowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Get up."
"This is also the result of your own serious efforts."
"No matter what level you reach as an official in the future, don't forget your original intention today."
Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhang Yingwang at this time and said lightly.
Zhang Yingwang stood up to thank him and said, "I will remember the holy teachings."
Zhang Yingwang was very lucky to have met such a wise emperor.
Otherwise, he really didn't expect that he had such an image in the eyes of his superiors, and the cabinet had already decided to dismiss him because of this. Fortunately, he thought that if he worked hard, he would be promoted or transferred to a good job after passing the exam. He became a local official, but if the emperor hadn't come down and seen his true abilities, he would have been dismissed from his post.
For Zhang Yingwang, the emperor was the person he was truly grateful for and his benefactor.
For Zhu Yijun, this is also the meaning of his personal patrol.
It is impossible for him to select people who satisfy him and enough people who can be his future arms just through the supervision system and the examination system.
Because according to the urinary nature of the bureaucracy, no matter how good the examination and supervision system is, it will be soured by the word "human feelings", and it will also be unwilling to bother because of its lazy nature, especially to offend others, and the reason is that there is nothing wrong in the world. There is nothing worthy of impeachment when everyone is doing good.
This situation exists not only among civil servants, but also among factory guards and common people. For example, many common people are even though the emperor has given them the power to sue officials, few are willing to target their local officials and only want to focus on making money. above.
Therefore, the emperor still needs to see for himself. No matter how good the supervision is, it will not be perfect, nor can it completely replace the emperor's own eyes.
If the emperor wants to select his own people, he has to go there in person, especially those who have no background but are very capable, he needs to discover them in person.
If Zhu Yijun had stayed up there, he would have been wrapped in an information cocoon and deceived intentionally or unintentionally.
During this western tour, although Zhu Yijun discovered many officials who were corrupt and perverted the law, he did find a few good officials personally, such as Shen Jun who had been appointed the prefect of Xi'an and Zhang Yingwang in front of him. Wan Shide and Xiao Ruxun.
To know.
In history, Wanli's neglect of government was particularly serious after the 20th year of Wanli.
Regardless of whether there is a vacancy in a certain official position, whether it is a civil servant or a military officer, the Wanli emperor in history always did not fill it if he could. The wise and foolish did not bother to ask. As a result, the quality of officials after Wanli 20 years is not the same as the quality of officials before Wanli 20 years. , serious faults occurred, resulting in many capable and famous ministers in the back being less than those in the front. The most direct manifestation is that each generation of chief ministers is not as good as the previous generation.
Therefore, if Zhu Yijun wants to ensure that the Ming Dynasty still has enough trustworthy capable ministers, he can no longer rely solely on his familiarity with history, but can just directly find celebrities in history. He needs to take the initiative to discover them.
There is no way, it turns out that Zhu Yijun in history was lazy.
He is destined to be more diligent and proactive now.
Not long after Zhu Yijun met Zhang Yingwang, Qi Jiguang raised his hand to Zhu Yijun and said, "Your Majesty, I asked Zhang Zhixian that he was born in a military household. None of the three generations of his family had any fame. When he was young, he learned literature by attending hundreds of private schools. Thanks to the support of the whole fort, I was able to win the top three Jinshi, be selected as a foreign class, and become the county magistrate."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Then where is the current prefect of Yan'an from?"
"Confucianism."
Qi Jiguang replied.
Zhu Yijun knew what Qi Jiguang meant when he suddenly said this to him, and he was just telling himself that it might be related to Zhang Yingwang's humble background and military status, which was the most discriminated against by Confucian scholars, so he said: "We will wait until the confession from the Yan'an prefect comes out. "
Qi Jiguang raised his hand and said yes.
Not long after, the royal banquet began.
The sound of silk and bamboo orchestral music began to appear, and Zhu Yijun also changed into his regular clothes.
Zhou Shice and Jia Xikun, a number of rural eunuchs who had become officials, also came to the imperial court. After paying homage to Zhu Yijun, they successively sat down on the seats below Qi Jiguang, Wang Xijue and other members of the entourage.
These local sages now no longer dare to force Zhu Yijun in the slightest, especially when they look at the pro-military guards around them who are like iron towers, they are even more submissive.
Therefore, at the banquet, the monarch and his ministers also enjoyed themselves.
Zhu Yijun also asked these rural officials and wise men about the public sentiment, commented on the literary talents of local young scholars, and also listened to many flattering words.
The atmosphere can be said to be very harmonious.
However, just when Zhu Yijun asked the gentry present if there was something wrong that he wanted to personally report to him as the emperor, Zhou Shice suddenly stood up and said:
"Your Majesty, I have recently learned that before the Emperor came to the throne, the former Yanzheng Jia Xikun, together with the postmaster Lin Yanting, forged the magistrate Jun's order and forced more than 70 people from Baiyanggou to work, and killed more than 50 people. They were all buried in his home. The county magistrate does not know about Baiyanggou, but the remaining people in Baiyanggou know about it. However, these people are strictly ordered not to come out and are guarded by their slaves in Baiyang Village. Your Majesty can quickly send someone to check."
After Zhou Shice said this, Jia Xikun was shocked. He glanced at Zhou Shice, then immediately left his seat and walked out, kneeling in front of Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, forgive me. I was just lucky enough to do such a thing."
Zhu Yijun looked at Jia Xikun: "So, you admit that you did such a thing?"
Jia Xikun nodded: "I dare not lie in front of His Majesty!"
Then, Jia Xikun added: "But Your Majesty clearly knows that this Zhou Shice is a villain. He deliberately exposed me in front of the emperor, and also deliberately said that he only knew about it now. The purpose of doing this is because he saw that enslaving the people has already It’s impossible, but he just wants to report on me and then annex my property. He has bad intentions!”
"That makes sense, but you can also report him. Isn't he afraid that you will report him?"
Zhu Yijun said at this time.
Jia Xikun replied with a tearful face: "Your Majesty, his family only manages land and does not do business, so they do not use the people to work. In response to your Majesty's call to develop industry, the poor minister opened many workshops, and then because of a temporary evil intention and It was a fluke that I did something like this, and now I am being framed by a villain because of it. I just ask Your Majesty to show mercy to me for the sake of your loyalty!"
Jia Xikun was really aggrieved now. He really didn't expect that Zhou Shice would suddenly stab him in front of the emperor.
"Your Majesty clearly knows that I only exposed it out of loyalty to Your Majesty and my injustice to the people of Baiyanggou. I have absolutely no selfish motives as Jia Yanzheng said."
Zhou Shice said at this time.
Zhu Yijun smiled faintly at this. He had to admit that as the overall situation became certain, these gentry began to consciously criticize and expose each other.
(End of chapter)
