The warriors are half dead in front of the army, but the beauties are still singing and dancing under the tent.
This line of poetry comes from "The Journey of the Songs" by Gao Shi, a poet from the Tang Dynasty. It talks about the soldiers on the front line working hard, and the generals watching the beauties dancing in the middle tent. How can a military with such an appearance be invincible?
Zhang Juzheng gave a banquet to the emperor, talking about the Battle of Queshu Valley, how the King of Qin fought fiercely, and Li Jiancheng's extravagance. He hoped to use his knowledge to educate the emperor as a warning, and he also hoped that his majesty could take care of state affairs seriously.
Zhu Yijun said with emotion: "Just like now, the sergeants are working hard on the front line. There is singing and dancing inside and outside the capital. Anyway, the Tatars can't attack the city of Beijing. They are looting the people of the capital. What's the difference between them and the masters in the capital?" It’s a relationship.”
"At worst, I'll just agree to give you more horse money."
Zhang Juzheng felt a little blocked when he heard His Majesty say this. He didn't know how to answer for a while, so he just froze in place without saying a word.
Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but think of Qi Jiguang, whom everyone regarded as a wart, superfluous and useless.
Zhu Yijun wondered if he had exerted too much force. The force of the hammer wheel that broke the wall was too strong, causing Zhang Juzheng's indestructible belief to waver?
If Zhang Juzheng had a bad heart, despaired of this rotten world, and colluded with the Jin Party, wouldn't Zhu Yijun be in big trouble?
Zhang Juzheng said quite solemnly: "I was entrusted by the late emperor to serve as the first minister of the world. I will never forget the support of the people. I am loyal to the end of my life, knowing that I can't do it, but I still have one breath left. This ambition is unremitting!"
There is still one breath left and this ambition is unremitting, which is Zhu Yijun's annotation of the word "Hongyi".
Zhang Juzheng once told himself that his knowledge is unwavering. He knew all the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty and was determined to improve it and revive the Ming Dynasty. This was his ambition. As long as he had a breath of life, he would not relax.
"When will Commander Qi return to Beijing?" Zhu Yijun asked.
Zhang Juzheng quickly replied: "After the Qingming Festival."
Zhu Yijun's life was very simple. In the morning, he listened to politics and gave a banquet in the Wenhua Hall, then practiced martial arts. After practicing martial arts, he ran to Jingshan to hoe the earth. After hoeing the earth, he began to print. In the evening, he summarized the day's harvest and read the agricultural books annotated by Xu Zhenming.
Zhang Juzheng's entrance examination method finally began to be tried out in the capital, and there were complaints. However, in order to calm the matter, the leader of the Jin Party agreed to implement it with Zhang Juzheng.
Before the official examination system was established in the Ming Dynasty, it was divided into Jingcha and Daji.
The capital inspection is to assess the officials of the capital, and the main plan is to evaluate the officials of the world, once every six years. The government is loose and the country is weak. Ji Ming has fallen. After the official administration has been corrupted, the plan of the capital inspection has become a mere formality. Zhang Juzheng's examination is to test all human relations. All beaten to pieces.
The core of the examination method is to set limits on examination matters and hold people responsible for them.
The first thing that the capital examination method aimed at was the six subjects. In just three days, the six subjects were almost changed. They were either dismissed or sent to other places to serve as officials.
Then he was replaced by Xunli, who was highly respected by Zhang Juzheng. Most of these officials came from all over the world, and had no relationship with Zhang Juzheng by marriage, master, apprentice, or hometown.
Set a time limit for something, which must be completed within the specified time.
The cause, time limit, and degree of completion are all recorded in three account books. One is kept by the Sixth Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, one is held by the Sixth Section, and the last one is submitted to the cabinet, which is reviewed against the account books every month. account.
The affairs officers of the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are responsible for the execution of specific affairs, and their completion and failure must be recorded truthfully.
The Sixth Section is responsible for supervising the work, supervising and managing the completion situation, and registering it truthfully.
The cabinet audits the work of the Sixth Section to verify the work. Once the Sixth Section is in cahoots with the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Sixth Section will be dismissed directly.
In this way, the basic evaluation mechanism of the cabinet leading the supervision, the supervision and supervision of the six departments, and the six departments commanding all officials in the world has taken shape. This is an extremely complete set of administrative system designs.
To appraise people's talents, there is no need to test them by doing things; if they are allowed to do things, there is no need to test their success, so it is called the test of success.
Whether the examination method is effective or not, the little emperor has his own unique set of criteria for judging whether it is the resentment of the officials in the capital.
The heavier their resentment, the more effective the test method is.
In just a few days, the courtiers who were frightened by the authority of Zhang Juzheng's chief minister finally stood up and began to impeach Zhang Juzheng!
The resentment is so great that I am no longer afraid of Zhang Juzheng’s revenge!
The resentment was so great that he wanted to impeach Zhang Taiyue even if he quit his official position!
The sky is filled with boiling water.
There are countless reasons for impeaching Zhang Juzheng, including impeaching Zhang Juzheng for arrogating divine weapons, Zhang Juzheng is a corrupt official, Zhang Juzheng is a party member and opposes dissenters, Zhang Juzheng has no benevolence and morality, Zhang Juzheng is arrogant and has many partialities. Damn it, the country will be destroyed tomorrow!
Zhang Juzheng is just a frame, and any crime can be packed into it.
Zhu Yijun only had three words to comment on this: Got it.
He didn't leave it in, nor did he draw a circle or a cross. He only had three words: Got it.
Those who are unable to complete the affairs of the headquarters within the time limit will be fined, demoted, sent to other places, dismissed, reduced from official status and returned to their hometowns to live idle, exiled to the mist, border and other places according to the number.
If punishment cannot be implemented, no matter how objective and real the results of inspection, supervision, and leadership are, it will be just a showpiece.
In the twelfth year of Wanli, the third year after Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli issued an order to abolish the imperial examination law. From then on, the official administration of the Ming Dynasty deteriorated, and there was no clear atmosphere anymore.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to pick up the examination method again and personally presided over the examination, but by then everything had stopped and completely collapsed.
Zhu Yijun was waiting for Qi Jiguang to return to Beijing. Before Qi Jiguang, he waited for the monthly exam.
On February 19th of the first year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun, the ten-year-old leader of the Ming Dynasty, finally passed the exam. The ministers were bound by the exam law, and the little emperor also passed the exam, but no one dared to punish him, and no one could punish him. emperor.
The monthly exams are coming as scheduled.
Among the various charges that the courtiers impeached against Zhang Juzheng, there is one thing that is definitely not a false accusation, that is, Zhang Juzheng's authority overwhelms the master. As the emperor is the supreme king in the world, who can test the emperor!
Zhang Juzheng was ahead of the emperor's orders. As a minister of the auxiliary country, he did have the power to evaluate the emperor, but there was no punishment after the evaluation. This was the dilemma of the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty studying.
The content of the assessment is the first two chapters of The Analects of Confucius and the four stories told by Emperor Jian Tu.
Zhu Yijun is also a little worried about the monthly exam. If these ministers give him problems, if he fails the exam, how can he confidently ignore his job!
With a slightly uneasy mood, Zhu Yijun came towards the Wenhua Palace.
"Your Majesty." Feng Bao said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Xu Jue left the palace and asked the chief assistant if the exam papers were coming. Would your Majesty want to take a look at them in advance?"
Zhu Yijun was stunned, looked at Feng Bao and said: "This... is not good."
What kind of behavior is this! This is blatant cheating! Is there any more royal method! Is there any justice left!
"Take it and take a look." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand.
His monthly exam not only involves whether he can continue to do his job, but also whether Zhang Juzheng's exam method can be implemented smoothly.
The examination papers were written by Wang Xilie, Wang Jiaping, Fan Yingqi and other great scholars, and Zhang Juzheng, the imperial master, was responsible for reviewing them.
If the emperor can successfully pass the monthly exam, it means that Zhang Juzheng is able to fulfill the duties of the late emperor as a tutor and tutor, and it represents Zhang Juzheng's justice in assisting the country.
The supreme Ming Emperor could pass the monthly exam as scheduled, and if he could pass the assessment, why couldn't all the officials in the world pass the exam!
For such a big thing, for Zhu Yijun, who is not a man of virtue, why should he cheat openly?
He has extremely flexible standards and measures for morality.
He even wanted to move the examination room to the back hall of Wenhua Palace to avoid the invigilation of the officials and conduct open-book examinations.
Zhu Yijun took the test paper, looked at it for a moment, folded it and handed it to Feng Bao and said, "Destroy it. In the future, you don't have to ask the chief assistant for the test paper anymore."
Zhu Yijun finished reading the test papers and knew what he was doing. He raised his hands, took four steps, and arrived at the Wenhua Hall smoothly.
After three blasts of the whip, the ministers filed in, stood up one after another, bowed five times and kowtowed three times, and shouted: "I have come to see your majesty. Is your majesty bowing well?"
"I'm in peace, all dear friends." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand and said calmly: "Stop talking and let's get started."
"I am overstepping my bounds." Wang Xilie and other bachelors handed the examination papers to Zhang Hong, who laid them flat on the imperial case.
Zhu Yijun picked up the brush, stained it with ink, and began to answer the questions. The Wenhua Hall was extremely quiet. In order not to disturb the emperor's monthly exams, the Wenhua Hall did not even open the windows.
Two-quarters of an hour later, Zhu Yijun put down his pen, dried the ink, left it there for a moment, and signaled Zhang Hong to take the examination papers to the officials.
The ministers all looked at the exam paper with some anxiety. You must know that the little emperor's study homework in the past six months was actually unsatisfactory. To put it bluntly, he didn't learn anything.
Would the situation be better if Zhang Juzheng taught it alone?
For Zhu Yijun, the content of the exam is too simple!
That's it? That's it? Do you have the nerve to take the exam that month?
It was so simple that Zhu Yijun even doubted whether Wang Xilie had colluded with Zhang Juzheng and deliberately set up some simple questions to let the emperor pass.
The exam requires silent writing, that is, the first two chapters of the Analects, only the first sentence, and the second sentence is written silently;
The test papers have explanations, take out a certain word or paragraph and explain its meaning;
There is a brief description, the emperor's picture tells a certain story, and the emperor is asked to briefly describe the outline of the story.
Exam papers suitable for a ten-year-old child.
How difficult is this for Zhu Yijun? Absolutely not.
Of course, Zhu Yijun thought it was simple. He and Zhang Juzheng always rushed to break the wall when playing against each other. However, Zhang Juzheng, a wall-faced man, felt a headache because of the little emperor's simple and ignorant questions.
Wang Xijue was in charge of grading the paper. He read it very solemnly, making corrections while having doubts. This neat answer paper exceeded his expectations. In the six months since Emperor Longqing's reign, the little emperor's schoolwork has been very good. Difference.
With mixed emotions, Wang Xijue finished marking the examination papers and handed them over to the bachelors.
After the bachelors verified that everything was correct, the examination papers were handed over to Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng actually knew without looking that the little emperor could pass the test. Even with his eyes closed, the emperor could answer the test correctly. The little emperor was very smart. He was just lazy and slippery before and refused to study hard.
No, it was the words of you and me, the great scholar, that confused the ten-year-old master. It is all the fault of the ministers!
This is in line with the ethics and etiquette of monarchs and ministers for thousands of years.
Zhang Juzheng teaches alone, and his results are outstanding.
Zhang Juzheng opened the test paper and looked at it. As he expected, the little emperor's handwriting was quite satisfactory and his answers were very good.
"Your Majesty is wise and wise, and your virtue is already like this. If you continue to improve in the future, all people in the world will be blessed! I congratulate you on the great Ming Dynasty and congratulate your majesty!" Wang Xilie came out and knelt on the ground sincerely. , said Zhensheng.
"I am ashamed of my late emperor." Wang Xilie said with some excitement, and his tone was extremely fierce. He was an old scholar. The little emperor could not read well, so he, a bachelor of banquets, bore the brunt.
As a member of the Hanlin Academy, Wang Xilie had a really high opinion of the little emperor's examination papers. They taught the late emperor for six months, but nothing was learned. They were anxious and anxious, but there was nothing they could do.
"It can be a little more difficult next time." Zhu Yijun hesitated to speak, but he already had an idea in his mind.
The Ming Emperor's monthly exams might not be worth using.
The recent momentum (public opinion) to impeach Zhang Juzheng is really too great.
