It was reasonable for the emperor Lei Lei to be outraged by this righteous bullet, and Xiao Liangyu didn't find it strange at all. The strange thing is that Shen Yuanfu didn't seem to notice some of the details. In the draft, he only responded to the pragmatic "slandering the king" part of the bullet. This is a bit abnormal.
Xiao Liangyu thought for a while and really couldn't figure out the reason, so he looked through the subsequent memorials, drafts, and Zhu's comments. He read all the subsequent twenty-six similar bullets in succession, and then he realized that Shen Shixing might be a simple man. I missed it.
The biggest commonality between these twenty-seven bullets is that they all impeach Gao Pragmatic's "Qi Yong Shu" for slandering the emperor. Xiao Liangyu estimates that this is the reason why Shen Yuanfu used the exact same ticket to post it.
However, although Shen Yuanfu's bullets are worthy of being called a master of Tai Chi, they ignore the subtle differences in the specific contents of these bullets. Although most of these bullets use pragmatic slander as the biggest attack point, there are a few bullets that are mixed with other things.
The emperor also processed these twenty-seven bullet seals separately. Twenty-three of them were exactly the same, just two sentences and sixteen words:
"The words are alarmist, but the writing is exaggerated. I use Yuan to supplement my words, but I will forgive you now."
The first sentence does not need to be explained, but the meaning of the second sentence is "Because Yuan Fu's vote plan suggests that I don't care about it, so I will let you go for the time being."
In other words, Shen Yuanfu's proposal was still very effective. Although the emperor felt that these people were talking nonsense and wanton, for Yuanfu's sake, he decided not to care about it this time.
I don’t care about these twenty-three bullets, so what’s going on with the remaining four?
Naturally, we have to worry about the rest. As for the reason, the previous Zhu Pi has already said: What is your intention of being arrogant and shallow, making crazy nonsense, slandering the ministry, and alienating the monarch and his ministers?
The charge is obvious, "defaming the ministry and alienating the monarch and his ministers". This crime can be big or small, it all depends on how the emperor understands the "degree of harm" involved.
The bullet that Xiao Liangyu saw just now was probably the one that the emperor considered to be the worst in nature and the most harmful, so he punished it the most severely. He gave the direct and straightforward sentence: "I'll go down to the town of Zhenfu and ask the Secretary to report it." This is the most severe punishment for Yan Guan since he came to Yuji today.
However, "Zhu Xia Zhen Fu Si really inquires and reports" is only one of them, and Zhu's comments on the remaining three bullets are also different.
One of them is "Go to town to ask questions at Fusi", the other is "Reform for the people, leave the capital immediately", and the last one is "Demote to three levels and transfer to a foreign post".
Even the person with the lightest punishment was demoted three levels in a row and transferred to another job - Gao Pangshi had also received this punishment before.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic's situation was completely different from that of the official. He took the blame for the emperor that time, and because the Empress Dowager Cisheng did not explain to what position he was demoted, he was let go when he was demoted to a foreign post. An important position with real power in the place, such as Guangxi's censor, was a blessing in disguise and achieved some miraculous achievements.
The ordinary downgraded foreign appointment was not as good as Gao Jingshi's, and the censor who impeached him was also different from Gao Jingshi's Pinyi at the time.
In the Ming Dynasty, like most dynasties, the official grades were "nine grades and eighteen grades". Among them, the supervisory censor was only the seventh grade, so downgrading one level was from the seventh grade, downgrading two levels was the eighth grade, and downgrading three levels was only the eighth grade. From the eighth grade.
Starting from the eighth grade, and only being able to work in other places, the options are very limited.
The first-level yamen of the prefecture include the prefect of the fourth rank, the tongzhi of the fifth rank, the general judge of the sixth rank, the official of the seventh rank, the experience of the eighth rank, the governor of the ninth rank, as well as the ninth-rank Zhaomo and the unqualified inspector and prison officer. ——There is no position from the eighth grade.
At the prefecture-level yamen, there are only officials who know the state from the fifth rank, Tongzhi from the sixth rank, judges from the seventh rank, and officials from the ninth rank - there are no positions from the eighth rank.
At the county level, there are only the seventh-rank county magistrate, the eighth-rank county magistrate, the ninth-rank chief registrar, and the unofficial Dianshi - there are no positions from the eighth rank.
Oops, what should I do?
Don't be afraid, there are still ways. The most direct one is to strictly follow the eighth-level job arrangement. Although the three-level yamen of the prefecture, state, and county do not have the eighth rank, then we will arrange for them to go to the provincial government-that is, the chief envoy's yamen.
In the Chengxuanzhengshisi Yamen, there is an organization called Chengxuanzhengshi Si Zhaomo Office, and its chief officer is called Zhaomo, and his rank is exactly the eighth grade. Perfect.
What if all the Chief Secretary Teruma is full and there is no way to arrange it? Then let the Ministry of Civil Affairs check again to see if the "governor" with the lowest formal official position in the salt transfer department in each capital has been fully staffed.
What should we do if these two positions are fully staffed? Then we have to be accommodating and follow the idea of "raising one level for officials outside the capital". It is said to be downgraded by three levels, but in fact it is only used down by two levels - strictly speaking, the salary and other benefits are still downgraded by three levels. Yes, but the position gives him a "high match": he will be used according to the eighth level when he is promoted one level. It is impossible to find a position, because there are still many positions for the eighth rank.
The four impeachments were regarded by the emperor as "slandering the ministry and alienating the monarch and his ministers". The youngest initiator of the impeachment was "relegated three levels to foreign service", another was dismissed and expelled from the capital, and the remaining two unlucky ones were even impeached. After passing the Sanfa Division, he was sent directly to the imperial edict.
What this means may not be easy to determine at the moment, but the most lenient and peaceful era of government since Wanli may have passed. For the first time, the emperor really used the killing stick to show some people some color.
Judging from this result, Gao Pragmatic has won the first round of the "slander case".
He did nothing in this. He just followed the practice of the Ming Dynasty and locked himself in the palace without asking about political affairs. This resulted in such serious consequences. His weight in the emperor's mind was such that no one would be able to do it again. Suspect.
After all, Yan Guan's status is special. To deal with Yan Guan so harshly is the first time in the Wanli Dynasty, and it has never been promoted to Mu Zonglong Qing Dynasty even once! Only the Jiajing Dynasty had such thunderous methods earlier.
While Xiao Liangyu happily signed and stamped the Zhu batch on behalf of Hu Ke, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
He always felt that the matter might not end so easily this time. Although the Xin School did not have an advantage among the higher-ups in the court, the situation has changed slightly: Wang Xijue may have arrived in Shandong and will arrive in the capital in a few days. Qi Fu has resumed his new role; the Erlai Xin School still has an advantage among the middle and lower-level officials in the court, especially in the south, where it has a clear advantage.
It was hard for Xiao Liangyu to believe that the Xin School would immediately cry for father and mother and give in under the emperor's killing blow. Instead, it was very likely that they would launch a more powerful counterattack.
At this time, he had already sent the memorial away, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong it was. After hesitating again and again, he called his retainer, quietly gave him some instructions, and let him go first.
Naturally, this servant's destination could not be anywhere else, but the "Shang Shu Gaofu" in Jinggongfang, Zhaohui.
When the news about Xiao Liangyu came, Gao Jingshi had actually already known it. After all, the news that the Li Supervisor learned was equivalent to Gao Jingshi being defenseless, unless Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju believed that the news had nothing to do with Gao Jingshi.
However, the message sent to him by the Chief of Ceremonies only explained the situation and did not include any opinions. Xiao Liangyu added his own concerns.
Gao Pragmatic completely understands Xiao Liangyu's concerns, because he also believes that this matter will not end so simply.
It was probably just an accident that Shen Shixing's ticket slipped through the net. Gao Pragmatic estimated that it was probably because there were too many bullets of the same type, so he didn't read the words carefully. After a few glances, he found that it said "slander you". Then I wrote the voting plan according to the "standard answers".
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This is understandable. After all, Shen Shixing, as the chief minister, cannot only read these memorials. There are still many government affairs waiting for him to deal with.
But in this way, we can in turn see the emperor's attitude towards this matter - Shen Shixing had many memorials to read, and the emperor had many memorials to read, but the emperor was carefully attracted by these memorials. After reading the chapter, I was able to pick out four typical examples.
Perhaps, the emperor had already anticipated today's impeachment trend, and had even made up his mind...
Of course Gao Pragmatic was quite pleased, but at the same time he was a little alarmed.
On the one hand, the emperor's attitude of attaching great importance to Gao Pragmatic himself was naturally on the one hand, but on the other hand, it was also his regard for the changes that would be caused by placing Gao Pragmatism in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
What changes does Zhu Yijun hope Gao Pingxi will bring when he takes office as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs? There is no doubt that the most direct and basic point is to effectively ensure the smooth implementation of the ban. Secondly, of course, it is to ensure the financial security of various places, so that there will be no more catastrophes caused by insufficient money and food like the Northwest Rebellion.
Based on his understanding of Zhu Yijun, Gao pragmatically estimated in private that Zhu Yijun could probably guess that he would find a way to deal with commercial taxes after taking office, but... he probably didn't expect that he would take such a big step.
It's not strange to think of ways to deal with business taxes, because Gao pragmatism has always been this idea. He often mentioned this idea when he was still studying with Zhu Yijun as the prince's companion, and Zhu Yijun was very familiar with it. Not to mention that his imperial examination policy at that time was also based on the collection of commercial taxes, which almost caused controversy in the court at that time.
But Zhu Yijun most likely would not have guessed that Gao Pragmatic did not engage in roundabout encirclement this time, but directly punched him - this is indeed not in line with Gao Pragmatic's style. In particular, if Gao Pragmatic wanted to propose any restructuring or reform in the past, he would lay the groundwork long in advance and wait until everything was ready before stepping forward to act as the east wind.
The benefits of doing this are of course obvious. After all, there will be much less opposition and less pressure. Every measure is almost ready, saving time, effort and worry.
But this time, Gao Pragmatic was really "shaking the ancestral system" - he made it clear in "Qi Yi Shu": "This is not the reason why the independent tax law should be changed, but also the old system of accounting and accounting by the Ministry of Household and other government offices should be changed. "
"It should change" and "It should also be easier", isn't this a clear statement?
In this case, it is reasonable to arouse strong opposition.
Gao pragmatic felt that Zhu Yijun still chose to stand up for himself because he had been deeply influenced by him in the past ten years. Secondly, he had a strong desire to change the status quo. Thirdly... he was his personal employer. It's a matter of getting used to it.
If the Minister of the Ministry of Finance who has just been personally selected is extinguished by himself at the first opportunity, this is obviously not in line with his employment habits. And he couldn't slap himself in the face so easily. Even if he dared to be Song Shenzong for once, he would have to protect Gao Pragmatic, "Wang Anshi" now.
However, Gao Pragmatic knows very well that this only shows that his current political situation is not dangerous, but it does not mean that he is always safe.
Whether it is safe or not depends on whether the fiscal reform is implemented smoothly and whether the dividends after the reform are abundant.
If the implementation of the reform is not smooth, or more seriously, if there is another big chaos like the Northwest Rebellion, it is difficult to say whether Zhu Yijun can continue to support it.
It is true that he is Gao Jingshi's classmate, but he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty first. It is impossible for him to grit his teeth and refuse to let go despite the danger of chaos in the world. He must accompany Gao Jingshi to die together and take the country and country inherited from his ancestors. Come to the funeral.
That's not an emperor, that's a fool.
Whether the dividends after the reform are abundant is also important. If after all the effort to complete the reform, the annual income would only increase by 100,000 to 80,000 yuan, think about it and know that Zhu Yijun would definitely feel that it was not worth it.
Making the emperor regretful, can being pragmatic still reap the rewards? Even if he doesn't say it, his reliance on high pragmatism will definitely be greatly reduced.
Fortunately, this is all a thing for another time. Gao Pragmatic is relatively confident in the "curative effect" of the commercial tax reform. The real difficulty lies in the implementation process.
Commercial tax reform is easy to handle in the north, but the difficulty lies in the south. In particular, the areas in South Zhili and Zhejiang are the most difficult. What’s even more troublesome is that they are not under the direct control of the Ministry of Household Affairs – they have to go through the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs in the middle, which makes it even more difficult.
While Gao Pragmatic was thinking, the fingers of his right hand tapped rhythmically on the armrest as a habit, and he didn't speak for a long time.
Liu Xin, who had been sitting not far from him, finally broke the silence and asked: "The emperor supports you so much, why don't you express your gratitude or something?"
Gao Pragmatic was startled, then laughed dumbly: "May I express my gratitude?"
Liu Xin was a little surprised by his reaction and asked, "Shouldn't it be?"
"Of course not." Gao Pingshi shook his head and said, "You really don't seem to know much about these activities in the court. At this moment, not only can I not express my gratitude, I even have to go to the court to persuade the emperor to take back his life. Don’t punish those four unlucky guys.”
Liu Xin was a little stunned, but as soon as she rolled her eyes, she seemed to understand again, and suddenly said: "Oh, this... is this playing hard to get?"
"No, it's not because of lust, it's because I really want to persuade you - you can understand that this is the tacit understanding within the civil service group." Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly and added: "But I just need to say it with emotion. Whether the emperor accepts it or not is not something I can decide. What's more... the emperor also has his own understanding of this kind of memorial, do you understand?"
"Understood." Liu Xin reacted quickly this time and shrugged: "It's just a show, to show your magnanimity and magnanimity, and your broad mind of repaying evil with kindness."
Gao pragmatic laughed loudly, and then joked: "Now that you know it, why are you still standing there? Go and study ink quickly. The main department wants to show my magnanimity and broad-mindedness of repaying evil with kindness..."
Liu Xin rolled her eyes at him, but she got up obediently and walked towards the study.
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