"What? The subordinates...have all resigned?"
Yan Xizhe was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Everything that goes wrong must have a reason. Can you find out why?"
The subordinate officials collectively resigned, which was indeed a big event for the Ministry of Revenue. You must know that the Ministry of Household Affairs is responsible for household registration, finance and taxation in the world. In terms of workload alone, it can be regarded as the highest among all departments.
Therefore, the Hubu Yamen also recruited many subordinate staff who were not on staff to deal with the complicated work on weekdays.
These subordinate staff are not impressive individually, but if they are gathered together, they are of great importance to the Ministry of Household Affairs. After all, there are many official officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs who actually do not know anything about arithmetic and finance. They are only responsible for issuing orders, and the most basic tasks are often done by these subordinates with the lowest status.
Now that all the subordinate officials have resigned collectively, it is no wonder that the old servant looks like the sky has fallen.
"Why? Why else?" The old servant's face turned red. "It's not that Laoshizi Enke!"
"Because of Enke?" Yan Xizhe thought for a moment and then suddenly realized. His Majesty decrees that those who succeed in Enke can be appointed to the Taxation Department and serve as the sixth-grade taxation envoy. These subordinate officials have been in the Ministry of Revenue for many years, and they are very knowledgeable in tax arithmetic.
Originally, they were in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which is the facade where they work in the Ministry of Household Affairs in the picture. After all, the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, even though he is just a subordinate working in the Ministry of Household Affairs, he still has some respect among the people.
But now, there are serious channels for them to become full-time officials. Who would want to stay in the household department and be a helper with no name or status? It is reasonable for everyone to resign and sign up for Enke.
"Master Shangshu, you must come forward to retain these subordinate officials!"
"No matter what, we cannot allow them to resign and leave!"
"Otherwise, how will our household department deal with ourselves!"
The old servant said to Yan Xizhe anxiously. If you want to resign, you must get approval from an adult at the level of minister. Now the only person who can stop these subordinates is Yan Xizhe. These subordinate officials come from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and they, the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, can't hide it from these people. If they were allowed to join the Taxation Department...
Isn't that just giving people a handle, and the old man hangs himself? Isn't it too long to live?
"Master Zheng, don't panic." Seeing this old guy getting angry in a hurry, Yan Xizhe only felt waves of pleasure. "The subordinate officials have always worked hard for our household department, but now they have been greatly favored by the Holy Spirit. They can participate in Enke and seek a higher position. How can the headquarters stand in the way?"
"This is unjustifiable in terms of emotion and reason."
"Just resign. The officials in my household department are supposed to fulfill their responsibilities and do their best to receive the emperor's salary. Previously, most of the things were done by subordinate staff. The officials just sat in their rooms, read and drank tea. Now I just take advantage of this opportunity. , let all the officials in the Ministry of Revenue support themselves and do the work themselves."
"In this way, we can live up to the emperor's trust."
Yan Xizhe, the old man, sat down and took a sip from his teacup. Seeing that this empty-headed minister actually talked to him in an official tone, and was still sarcastically mocking himself for being a vegetarian, the old minister suddenly flew into a rage, and he didn't care about his decency, decency, and arrogance.
Pointing directly at Yan Xizhe's nose, he jumped and cursed: "Yan, don't think that you can just sit on the Diaoyutai and watch me suffer."
"If I don't have a good time, you won't have a good ending either!"
"Don't forget that you are the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, but I am just a minister!"
"If our Ministry of Revenue is in trouble, how can you, the Minister, survive alone? If the Holy One punishes you, how can you bypass the Minister and blame the Minister!"
He burst out suddenly, and Yan Xizhe was stunned. Then he frowned and started thinking. What this person said is true. His Majesty hates evil as much as he hates it, but he has a temperament that would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go. If the Department of Taxation is allowed to investigate the Household Department, I, as a minister, will definitely have no chance of being spared.
Seeing Yan Xizhe's hesitation, the old servant even pushed further. "If you don't approve the resignations of those subordinate staff, everything will be fine. But if you approve it, my household department will never have peace again."
"If we are harmed by His Majesty, you, the Minister, will not end well!"
This can already be called a threat. He just made it clear that he wanted to drag Yan Xizhe into the water with him.
Yan Xizhe's face was ugly and he could only watch the old guy walk away proudly. Later, when someone brought him the resignations of his subordinates, he really couldn't sign them. After all, what the old guy said was right. No matter how much he disliked these old guys, Tobe was still a ship carrying all of them.
If these people were allowed to take advantage of the Ministry of Household Affairs to the Taxation Department, he, the Minister, would not be able to get away with it.
Yan Xizhe was pacing back and forth in the check-in room. Suddenly, he felt blessed and came up with a way to break the situation.
"Since this household has become a broken ship, why should I be buried here?"
"Instead of colluding with these old guys, it is better to simply comply with His Majesty's wishes and let me be His Majesty's sword. If you accompany these people to deceive you, you will definitely be dead in the future."
"Since the subordinates can find other jobs, why can't I?"
After thinking about this clearly, Yan Xizhe felt that his whole body suddenly became enlightened. He sat down suddenly, approved the resignations of all subordinate staff, then raised his sleeves to study ink, and began to write a memorial to be submitted to the emperor. …
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Over there, Enke's registration time has ended, and the exam is finally about to begin. Although Zhu Su was eager to take charge of the examination, he alone would not be able to properly arrange such a large-scale examination. What's more, he is inherently lazy and impatient with these too complicated affairs.
Fortunately, Enke also had a very trustworthy deputy examiner this time, and this person was Lee Shan-chang, a Korean publican.
At the time of registration, Li Shanchang was kept in the Korean government office to avoid suspicion and never appeared again. But at this time, His Highness the Fifth Prince obviously wanted to be lazy, so he had no choice but to go out to work as a deputy examiner. Who told him that he was still a guilty person with Lao Zhu and had to do things well in order to save some impression?
However, because of this, many officials who had friendship with Li Shanchang thought they saw an opportunity, so they came to visit Li Shanchang one after another. She told him the pros and cons, hoping to limit Enke's reference quota to some extent and exclude candidates who were not famous students.
"Your Majesty, the scientific examination does not follow the rules. Non-scholars can refer to it... Isn't this a joke?"
"The commotion even caused subordinate staff in various ministries and yamen to resign one after another. This caused serious vacancies in major yamen and the suspension of affairs... This is a policy that is harmful to the people!"
"Not to mention that most of these subordinate officials are slippery people. How can such people with evil intentions be given great responsibilities in the government?"
A former disciple of Li Shanchang took the opportunity to go to Beijing to resign and said something to Li Shanchang.
Li Shanchang looked ugly and didn't say a word. Before the disciple could finish speaking, he was kicked out of the Korean government. As soon as the disciple left, Liu Bowen walked out from behind the screen, looked at the door and said with a smile:
"Brother Li's disciple doesn't seem to be very smart. Don't you know that when Brother Li was in Yuanting, he was also a minor official. When he said this, didn't he mean to criticize Sang and Huai?"
When Li Shanchang heard this, the veins on his forehead jumped even more. He took a sip of tea and asked Liu Bowen quite dejectedly: "Brother Liu, what did you learn when you came here?"
(End of chapter)
