In the other courtyard, Zuo Guangdou picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
This "big plan" inspection of the four prefectures in the east and south of Beizhi was led by him as the head of the Examination Department of the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, he was assisted by a right-hand official from the Engineering Department and a person transferred from the Ministry of Punishment. The three deputy directors formed an inspection team.
According to convention, the lead investigator and the facilitator must be one scholar from the north and the south, and the other one is random.
Sitting diagonally across from him was Hui Shiyang, the right student from the engineering department, looking at Zuo Guangdou with a sullen face.
On the other side was Fang Zhenru, deputy director of the Ministry of Punishment, who looked indifferent.
"Brother Yiwo (Hui Shiyang), let's talk about the situation now?" Zuo Guangdou was also a little helpless. Facing this guy with a weird temper, he also had a headache. Their line was from the south to Those coming from the north start from Daming Prefecture, then Guangping Prefecture, then Hejian Prefecture, and finally Yongping Prefecture.
When they were in Daming Mansion, the assessment of the three people went smoothly. Starting from Guangping Mansion, conflicts began to emerge.
Hui Shiyang always felt that he was targeting the Northern scholars, and always argued for those officials from the Northern Territory. Previously, Zuo Guangdou still tolerated a little, but later he found that the result was that the other party would take advantage of the situation. If this continued, the assessment It will only deviate from the direction, which Zuo Guangdou cannot tolerate.
So in Hejian Mansion, the two of them had tit-for-tat confrontations and had several quarrels. Zuo Guangdou stopped giving in and argued with reason. After several arguments, Hui Shiyang was at a disadvantage, while Fang Zhenru, who was ranked last, basically The government supported Zuo Guangdou's opinions, which made Hui Shiyang resentful several times, and he was at a disadvantage in the identification of the inspection opinions of many officials.
"Then let's talk, Yi Zhi (Zuo Guangdou), I will not give in this time. If you continue to suppress and bully me, I will go back and ask for punishment myself, and I will not sign again." Hui Shiyang He gritted his teeth bitterly.
"Brother, why are you like this?" Zuo Guangdou didn't want to get into a quarrel with the other party, but the other party went too far, and he couldn't give in too much, otherwise wouldn't this "big plan" become child's play? "If my brother really thinks that I have done something wrong, I can report it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate after I return to Beijing. After all, isn't my brother an official in the Sixth Section?"
There was also a hint of teasing in Zuo Guangdou's words.
If among the seven ministries in the current ministry, the scholars from Jiangnan are dominant, then in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is obvious that the scholars from the north have the upper hand.
Although Liuke did not belong to the Imperial Examination Yuan, they belonged to the same lineage as Yanguan Yushi. They had frequent exchanges and appointments with the imperial censors of the Imperial Examination Yuan. Many Jinshis were junior in qualifications, had strong fighting spirit, and had bad tempers. That is to say, he first went to the Liuke Yanguan to gain experience, and then transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate system for promotion after his experience was mature. Therefore, the northern scholars also had the advantage in this area.
Hui Shiyang snorted softly, "Yi Zhi, what you said is really heartbreaking. The imperial court has a set of regulations. It's your turn and mine to comment? As a scholar, we should serve the public wholeheartedly. How can we distinguish between them?"
Unexpectedly, this guy even hit him with a rake. Zuo Guangdou felt angry and shook his head.
There is no point in arguing further. We still have to cooperate after all. The dispute in Hejian Mansion has already wasted a lot of time. Zuo Guangdou doesn't want to have a complete quarrel at the last stop in Yongping Mansion and delay the business. However, if the opponent is too aggressive, Zuo Guangdou's temper is not easy to offend, and he will never give in without a bottom line.
"Brother Yi Zhi, brother, we don't have much time at this time. The princes in the court are still waiting for us to go back and report as soon as possible. Our journey has taken us too far and we have been delayed on the way. If we continue to delay like this, I'm afraid, It's going to hold us back. If you two want to tolerate each other for the sake of the country, you should both tolerate it."
Fang Zhenru was the most junior among the three, and most of the time he listened to the two bickering, but whenever they were at loggerheads, he had to take a stand.
Along the way, he felt that Zuo Guangdou and Hui Shiyang actually didn't have much conflict. Most of the time, they were just grudges over trivial matters, especially Hui Shiyang. Sometimes he was too careless, and several times Coming down, Zuo Guangdou may have felt that it was too much, so he fought back.
Fang Zhenru had been fighting with each other before, but when he saw that there was no winner or loser, he couldn't hold back anymore, so he had no choice but to show his attitude, which naturally made Hui Shiyang feel a little grudge against him.
Hearing Fang Zhenru's interruption, Hui Shiyang snorted, and Zuo Guangdou said no more, and then asked the two officials who had been huddled aside to take out the relevant books, "Let's start, then. My brother, let’s start with Zhu Zhiren.”
The practice of inspection and evaluation in Dazhou is top-down, and everyone is inspected and evaluated from three levels: conduct, performance, and qualifications. Among these three aspects, the first two need to be divided into several parts, similar to In the assessment of modern civil servants, morality, ability, diligence, performance, and integrity are divided into several areas. Among them, morality and integrity are the first, ability and performance are the second, and diligence is somewhere in between.
There is not much controversy about Zhu Zhiren's assessment.
He has sufficient qualifications and performance. His performance in two of the first three years was mediocre, but last year he was a blockbuster. Although everyone knows what is going on, as the supreme leader of the house, all achievements must be attributed to him. Of course, he also has to bear the first responsibility for risks. As for conduct, as long as no one reports it and there are no special bad deeds, he can basically pass the test.
The evaluation of Zhu Zhiren took less than half an hour to come to an end, with a consensus reached and signatures signed.
Next up is fellow intellectual Feng Keng.
Previously, the opinions of the three people on Feng Keng's assessment were not unanimous. According to Zuo Guangdou's opinion, Feng Keng had just served in the Yongping Mansion from the Hanlin Academy for one year. In any case, he was not included in the assessment target and asked to be removed directly. However, this was firmly opposed by Hui Shiyang.
Hui Shiyang's attitude is very clear. Although the "big plan" clearly requires the evaluation of officials who have been at least three years old, those with outstanding talents and outstanding achievements can also be evaluated to prepare consultants.
Zuo Guangdou found it unbelievable. He knew very well about the situation of this kind of exceptional evaluation. Generally speaking, only those who have been in office for three to five months but have outstanding performance would be included in this kind of exceptional treatment. Feng Ziying did perform outstandingly, but this It has only been one year, and it is too far away from the regulations of the Ministry of Personnel, and it is absolutely impossible to be included.
Zuo Guangdou naturally knew Hui Shiyang's thoughts, hoping to use Feng Ziying's popularity to bring glory to the scholars in the North, but this was going too far.
The two had argued a few days ago, but this time Hui Shiyang refused to give in, and Zuo Guangdou did not back down. In the end, Fang Zhenru reconciled with Xini and proposed to conduct the evaluation first, but whether it would be reported in the end, The evaluation team does not take the initiative to submit submissions, but leaves it to the Ministry of Personnel to decide.
Zuo Guangdou was also forced to accept such a humiliating suggestion, but he also knew that Hui Shiyang was determined this time. If he did not agree to this condition, he would definitely not sign a single word in the subsequent evaluation. .
There are not many objections to Feng Keng's evaluation. The performance aspect is all solid. Even Zuo Guangdou does not deny it. In terms of conduct, there are not many criticisms from the local gentry, which are mainly concentrated in Leting and Changli counties. Zuo Guangdou was surprised.
As far as he knew, Feng Keng had made some big moves last year that angered the local gentry in Yongping Prefecture. He also received a lot of bullets from the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, but some big shots suppressed them, but he also had After hearing what I heard, I originally thought that I would make a fuss about it this time when I came to Yongping Mansion, but I didn't expect that the situation reported was far less than expected.
Flicking his fingers on the book, Zuo Guangdou said softly with a somewhat dull expression: "Hai Wei, this Feng Tongzhi is said to be the best in your Qingtan Academy, and he has also won the great title written by Xiao Feng in Beijing. Fame, but I never thought that it was so fierce in the place. The Qing army defeated Mongolia in household inspections, opened mines and built shops to develop commercial ports. What a little Feng Xiuzhuan. I heard that last year Yongping Prefecture paid the Ministry of Industry Jie Shen's treasury for the mining tax. How many times have you done it? But I don’t know how much moisture there is in it?”
Hui Shiyang was immediately furious, and even Fang Zhenru was a little displeased. He said before Hui Shiyang could, "Brother Yi Zhi is wrong."
Zuo Guangdou seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and looked sideways at Fang Zhenru: "Oh?"
"This section of Shenku's accounts can be verified after returning to Beijing. This deception must be something no one would dare to do. It only takes a little reconciliation, and that would be a serious crime."
Although Fang Zhenru and Feng Ziying were both classmates of Qingtan Academy, they actually had a normal relationship. Moreover, he and Zuo Guangdou were both from Nanzhi and Tongcheng. However, Fang Zhenru moved to Shouzhou when he was young. , so the relationship between the township and the party is still very close, which is why Hui Shiyang is so dissatisfied with the arrangements between the DPRK and China.
Fang Zhenru also disagreed with Zuo Guangdou's prejudice. What Feng Ziying did in Yongping Mansion was obvious to all. Just repelling the Mongols and keeping Yongping Mansion safe was worthy of special praise, but Zuo Guangdou originally came from Shuangqiao Academy, and he was prejudiced against Northern scholars who came from Northern academies like Qingtan Academy.
"Hai Wei, what you said makes sense, but how do you feel about the gentry we have met in the past two days? Last year, the people of Yongping Mansion were filled with resentment, and the gentry rushed to criticize Feng Ziying. But what is the result of our discussion this time?" Zuo Guangdou's eyes were cold.
Hui Shiyang couldn't hold it back anymore and looked directly at him: "Yi Zhi, what do you mean?"
"If the bullets and criticism received by the Metropolitan Procuratorate last year are true, then what we see this time was deliberately suppressed and covered up by some people!" Zuo Guangdou said categorically: "Besides, There is no other explanation!”
Zuo Guangdou's words made Hui Shiyang and Fang Zhenru silent for a while.
They had also heard about this, but it gradually faded away and did not have much impact. There were different opinions on the specific reasons, but Zuo Guangdou's suspicion was indeed justified.
