After Yu Shenxing said this, Wang Xijue replied: "People in the world just want to sit back and enjoy the success, and don't want to cut the thorns themselves. In that case, why bother asking people in the world, as long as it is profitable!"
Yu Shenxing was speechless after hearing this and didn't know how to refute for a while.
Zhiluo Wanhua chuckled at this moment and said: "Steam engines may be useful, but once you really promote steam engines and something goes wrong, the world with steam engines may become worse than the world without steam engines."
Wang Xijue did not answer after hearing this.
The next day, Yu Shenxing, Luo Wanhua and other senior officials took the initiative to submit their resignations.
Zhu Yijun did not stay.
He knew that not everyone was willing to continue working hard for the future of the country and nation in such a prosperous age.
And the Ming Dynasty did not lack people who were willing to work hard for the long-term interests of the country and nation to serve as officials.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun will not force anyone who is unwilling to continue to work hard to resign.
For an official, when the country is strong, there are basically no external or internal troubles, and many long-standing shortcomings have been dealt with, it is indeed better to be able to retire with an official status and return to his hometown and live a leisurely and leisurely retirement life in advance. In this position, it is better to serve the emperor and the people of the world.
In essence, most people still prefer to be officials who can just go about their lives, or to be officials who can exchange power for various benefits even if they can't, rather than being forced by the emperor to accomplish various grand goals with a whip.
Because of this, over the years of the Ming Dynasty, high-level officials and cabinet ministers were often changed.
This creates a problem, that is, many officials rarely serve more than three years in a position, so they clamor to resign and find various excuses to resign.
Although there is no shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty, if people are replaced frequently for a specific position, it will affect the efficiency of the implementation of a policy.
Generally speaking.
If it is at a local level, it takes one to two months for an official to take office, sometimes even half a year.
Then it will take at least half a year to familiarize yourself with the bureaucratic temperament and customs of your place.
Then, it would take more than half a year to try his best and get the officials below to listen to him.
Then, it will take half a year or a year to implement the above policies and develop your own administrative skills.
Therefore, if an official’s term is less than three years and he can truly serve the country and the people, he will have very little time to implement the New Deal!
If there are any more setbacks, it is likely that the new policy will not be implemented until after retirement, and then it will be delayed again because of the replacement of new officials.
And the new officials have to get familiar with it all over again and re-establish their prestige.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun announced to Wang Lin, the new official minister, and said to him:
“Most of the people who are officials today are unwilling to suffer the hard work of filing papers, so that once they get their position, they want to become officials in order to return home in glorious robes, and to show that they are not interested in fame and fortune, but the country will be harmed by it. Not light."
“After many officials took up their posts in local areas, they even only stayed there for a year and a half. In the name of inspection, they visited the historical sites and scenic spots under their jurisdiction and then resigned, and some of them were ignored even before they got Zhu’s approval. Political affairs, this has caused some places to be in a state of having officials in name, but in fact they are in a state of having no officials, so that good governance cannot be implemented, and local powerful people wantonly embezzle public welfare and people's wealth!"
"Such a situation must be contained, and must be contained. The official system must be reformed, requiring officials to serve the full term of office once they take office. Those who resign before the term is completed are considered idle and unwilling to serve the country. If the officer is deprived of his official status, he will only be asked to return to his hometown as a commoner. For those who resign after their term of office has expired, although they will not be deprived of their official status, if they have no achievements, they will not be given honors in life and will not be granted titles after death. For specific details, your officials After the ministry has discussed it, it will be submitted to me."
After hearing this, Wang Lin suddenly raised his head and glanced at Zhu Yijun, then lowered his head and said yes.
"Your Majesty wants to strengthen the administration of officials and restrict all officials from serving only for fame and reputation. This is understandable. But if you really want to implement it like this, I'm afraid I will become the target of public criticism!"
After Wang Linze returned to the Ministry of Personnel, he mentioned Zhu Yijun's intention to the Ministry of Personnel to institutionally curb the situation where officials only wanted to be officials but not work, and sighed because of this.
After hearing this, Huang Fengxiang also sighed and said: "What Otsuka Zai said is right. Now it seems that we can only act according to the order. It is just that when establishing the system, it would be better to be more accommodating."
Wang Lin nodded: "That's the only way."
He knew that it was impossible for him to resign now.
After all, the emperor was angry at the fact that many officials were unwilling to do practical things, but only wanted to gain fame and reputation, and only wanted to have the honor of being a high-ranking official. If he resigned as soon as he became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, it would only cause trouble. Your Majesty is disgusted.
Therefore, he could only give up the idea of resigning.
"How to be accommodating must be discussed carefully, and we cannot be careless and make the etiquette difficult."
Huang Fengxiang added another sentence.
Wang Lin nodded: "We need to discuss it seriously, let every colleague in the official department speak, and every colleague's opinion must be discussed seriously."
So, the officials started to discuss it seriously.
From the first day of the ministry meeting, many officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs actively expressed their opinions, and many actively refuted it, so that the quarrels continued and no results were produced for several days.
At this time, Zhu Yijun received a secret report from Jin Yiwei from Zhang Jingxiu.
A record of a conversation between Wang Lin, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Huang Fengxiang, the left minister.
After seeing this, Zhu Yijun said to Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang in front of the emperor: "This official department is trying to engage in delaying tactics!"
"What your Majesty said is that Otsuka Zai probably only planned to resign after staying in the position of Minister of Civil Affairs for a while, and did not think about doing anything for the world's official administration after becoming Minister of Civil Affairs. After all, if he really wants to strengthen The administration of officials, forcing officials to do their jobs conscientiously during their term of office, will offend the bureaucrats all over the world."
"But it's natural that Otsuka Zai can't object directly, so he can only delay it by having serious ministerial discussions."
Qi Jiguang said at this time.
Li Chengliang followed and said: "Restraining the indolence and indolence of officials is different from the previous good governance that Otsuka was ordered to implement as the Minister of Household Affairs. This will offend the world's bureaucrats, so Otsuka must not be willing to do it." Of the."
"Since he doesn't want to do it, I don't have to actively do things for them."
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he looked at Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang and said:
"The Ministry of Personnel is so unclear about my will to seal and refute me, so I can't find any reason to punish, so I can only deal with it in other ways. Therefore, next, the memorial to the Imperial Guards Department will involve the sealing of current civil officials. Those who asked for posthumous titles after the death of official officials, and those who asked for favors for their parents all stayed in the imperial examination on the grounds that the country's famous utensils must be used with caution. These memorials will be dealt with when the Ministry of Personnel comes up with a plan to reform the official system. "
"According to the order!"
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The Ming Dynasty was a centralized empire.
As long as the emperor, the supreme ruler, does not want to be lazy, the bureaucrats below cannot be lazy if they want to.
For example, this time, the officials of the Ministry of Personnel wanted to delay the implementation of the emperor's decree, and the emperor also delayed, preventing the officials from getting the honor they wanted.
"Please make up for the inscription of the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple in Nanjing. Isn't it still accurate?"
A few days later, Wang Lin asked about Huang Fengxiang because the Ministry of Personnel's application for filling official vacancies had not been approved by Zhu.
Huang Fengxiang nodded, and then replied: "Not only is this question not accurate, I heard that after Prince Nan Sinong fell ill, he asked him to return home to recuperate his body. Even after studying for half a month, it was inaccurate!"
"I also heard that after the death of the former General Secretary Xin Gong, the Ministry of Rites' request for memorials and posthumous titles has not yet been released. Now the Xin family has been anxious about this, waiting for the imperial edict to come down quickly so that it can be written Where’s the epitaph?”
"In addition, Hanlin Academician Wang's petition for his mother's death has not yet been resolved!"
Fan Qian, the right servant, also followed suit.
After hearing this, Wang Lin slumped down on his chair and said with a trembling voice: "Your Majesty is angry!"
"What Otsuka Zai said is that it is difficult to violate the holy will. We should hurry up and act in accordance with the holy will. The most important thing is to preserve our holiness!"
Huang Fengxiang said at this time.
Wang Lin raised his head and glanced at Huang Fengxiang, but did not immediately agree with Huang Fengxiang.
Because he knew that once he did this, he, the Minister of Personnel, would have to bear the reputation of treating hundreds of officials harshly.
But Wang Lin knew that he was riding a tiger now, so he nodded and said: "What you said makes sense. Please come up with a set of regulations for restructuring immediately."
"We can take it out overnight, but it's better for the public to write the question book."
Huang Fengxiang replied with a smile.
Fan Qian also replied: "Yes, this can only be decided by Otsuka Zai himself."
Wang Lin said anxiously: "You draw up a draft, and I will copy it and publish it in my name. Is that okay?"
"yes!"
Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian then handed over and replied.
Wang Lin simply stood up at this moment and said with a serious face: "Remember to add these few points. First, in order to prevent bureaucrats from hindering the national government and military affairs, anyone who leaves without being appointed before the expiration of his term is deemed to have harmed the country. You deceive the emperor, and your majesty decrees that anyone who commits this matter will be killed! Secondly, although the term of office has expired, but he left without waiting for the decree to arrive and before making friends, please decree that the person who violates the law will still be excused for leaving his post without permission. , those who commit this matter will be punished with punishment ranging from three years in prison to three thousand miles in exile, depending on the seriousness of the losses caused to the country's people."
After Wang Lin said this, Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian were both stunned.
"Why is Mr. so strict all of a sudden?"
Huang Fengxiang asked.
Fan Qian also asked: "Yes, won't this make the world's bureaucrats hate Otsuka Zai even more?"
Wang Lin smiled helplessly and said: "You have to attract hatred anyway, so let's just do something practical. As the saying goes, things must be reversed when they are extreme. Maybe some people in the world will understand this."
Huang Fengxiang and Fan Qian said nothing after hearing this.
Soon, the Ministry of Personnel published an inscription in the name of Wang Lin, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, asking the emperor to reform the official system and strengthen restraint on bureaucratic idleness. (End of chapter)
