Memorials of grievances and dissatisfactions from southern officials floated to His Majesty the Emperor like snowflakes.
Zhu Jianshen didn't know whether to laugh or cry after seeing it.
The official positions on both sides have highly overlapping responsibilities. They both have ministers and ministers, but one is real and the other is imaginary. If they are not put together, Nanjing officials can still be in charge of part of Jiangnan affairs, but Now that they are put together, the little power they have left and their sense of existence are immediately gone.
As long as you have outstanding abilities and are well versed in court matters, you should remain silent at this time.
But these officials wrote memorials to the emperor one after another, saying that they had nothing to do. Aren't they just putting things on the table that the emperor had tacitly knew? If they had been financially healthy before and were confused in a few years, it would be very possible. Yes, but now the problem of overstaffed officials is directly placed on Zhu Jianshen's imperial case, and the continued development of the situation also forces Zhu Jianshen to make a decision earlier.
In some ways, the bloated bureaucracy hindered the progress of the Ming Dynasty. However, under the social system where everything was low-grade and only those who were educated were high-ranking, the court needed a lot of official positions to give to those scholars.
In this dilemma, Zhu Jianshen initially chose to acquiesce. As long as the new tax system can be implemented, retaining the southern team is not a big problem.
But now the southern officials have reported it, and the officials from the capital who came with the emperor have heard about it, and they are not happy either.
Mad, I'm exhausted.
For the future of the Ming Dynasty and for the peace of the people, you wake up early and work hard every day, and you have lost several pounds. You guys, you get your wages for nothing, and you don’t have any secret pleasure, but you dare to beat up and file a complaint. Isn’t this just taking advantage of others? You think about it? Isn't it nonsense to catch a chicken with one hand and want to catch a duck with the other hand?
At present, officials from the north also began to complain that the overlapping of officials was too high and too bloated.
Of course, most of these officials in the north were from Nanjing, but at this time, they did not consider the future of their hometown. They all shared the same hatred and were tit for tat with the officials in the south.
In recent times, the security issues in Nanjing have been put to a great test.
In teahouses and restaurants, you can always see a group of people insulting each other and even fighting. However, these people who fight are not hooligans, but are all knowledgeable scholars in the past.
The soldiers patrolling the city came to stop and arrest people.
I was surprised to find that the one who cursed the most unpleasantly and had a very high vaginal content was the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I heard that he had a particularly good relationship with the censor of Xudu.
The one who rushed to beat the man was from the Ministry of War. I heard that the magistrate who had worked in Liaodong for several years had been a ruthless man in Mongolia and had killed people.
The people involved in the fight were all officials above the fourth rank and over fifty years old.
The soldier pulled the old man who was fighting vigorously. When he came up, he said: "I am the right servant of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Don't ask me about it. I'll give these guys a lesson."
The leader of the team, General Baihu, looked at a loss and did not dare to arrest anyone, so he could only separate them.
Things are getting more and more outrageous.
From meeting by chance at the beginning, they turned into meeting as promised, and they actually started to have fights...
It's really like having a fight with those gangsters.
Who doesn’t want to go, who is my grandson, I shouted out in a very Wen Zou Zou way.
Make an appointment? If you don’t make an appointment, you will be a grandchild.
Later, there was a real fight, and whoever hit me was my grandson.
Less than five days after the ancestor worship, the farce between the North and the South began.
Zhu Jianshen, who was in the palace, quickly noticed this sense of tearing. He knew that if it was not resolved as soon as possible, something big would happen.
Of course, Wu Xun couldn't feel the quarrel between these civil servants. What was going on? It wasn't like they were robbing your wife or digging up your family's ancestral graves. Didn't they just say a few words to end up like this?
Zhu Jianshen summoned Li Xian, Peng Shi and others to discuss countermeasures.
Li Xian was an old fox. He immediately gave the emperor an idea. He issued a ban on officials not to fight in private, otherwise they would be fined and confiscated, and their year-end bonuses would be lost. Then, Li Xian thought of another crooked trick. Officials in Beijing When we arrive in Nanjing, let some officials in Nanjing City take some of it out and find any excuse to resolve some conflicts first.
Zhu Jianshen accepted this.
After many bans were promulgated, they were considered to have had a certain effect, but Zhu Jianshen knew that further reductions in Nanjing's six departments were imminent.
Of the six ministries in Nanjing, only the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of War have certain responsibilities.
During the reign of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong, there were more than 300 guard posts and 1.8 million soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. The Nanjing Ministry of War has about 300,000 troops, all of whom are guards. In addition, Nanzhili is located between the river and the sea, where the tiger occupies the dragon. The responsibilities of the Nanjing Ministry of War are very important. The Minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War usually also serves as the counselor of Nanjing. Together with the Nanjing garrison eunuchs and the Duke of Wei, they became the troika of Nanjing, and almost all the wars in the south were caused by the Nanjing Ministry of War deploying troops to quell the rebellion.
The garrison, the inner garrison, and the counselor and maintenance officer were the three most powerful people in Nanjing.
The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of collecting money and grain from Zhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other provinces, and then submits it to the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing and to the emperor through water and land transportation. Of course, the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue also controls the national salt survey and survey. Even if the collection and management of yellow books were banned, a yamen would still have to be established with the same responsibilities as the Nanjing Household Department.
But the positions of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment are rather awkward.
The Six Ministries of Nanjing had long been reduced. He was only assigned a minister and a minister, and did not have the official position of Yuanwailang. Although his rank was the same as that of the six ministers and ministers in Beijing, his power and responsibilities were in the sky and below.
Of course, Xu Youzhen couldn't keep up with the hustle and bustle of Nanjing.
The day after he worshiped his ancestors, he went south to Hangzhou and Qiantang to worship Yu Qian on behalf of the emperor.
Xu Youzhen came here seriously this time. Although Liu Qing'er, who was given to him by the emperor, was always with him, he was addicted to handcrafts and did not go straight to Huanglong because he still admired Yu Qian in his heart and did not approach women before the sacrifice. , this is the rule.
Because he was offering sacrifices to the Taibao on behalf of the emperor, Xu Youzhen's move south this time was relatively loud.
A team of 560 people, carrying the sacrifices prepared in Nanjing, headed south. Along the way, gongs and drums were loud, and the imperial guards cleared the way.
The first place Xu Youzhen visited was Yu Qian's tomb next to the West Lake in Hangzhou.
When the people of Hangzhou learned that the imperial official had come on behalf of the emperor to offer sacrifices to Yu Taibao, they arrived at Yu Qian's tomb early.
Under the watchful eyes of a sea of people, Xu Youzhen completed a complete set of procedures. He first offered sacrifices on behalf of the emperor, and then after the ceremony, in order to gain some fame for himself, he knelt down and cried bitterly in his own name. kind.
The eyes of the people around him were filled with tears.
After Xu Youzhen paid homage to Yu Qian's tomb in Hangzhou, he had to go to Qiantang. Therefore, after he achieved his goal of mourning at the tomb, Xu Youzhen wanted to leave surrounded by Jin Yiwei.
At this time, Xu Youzhen saw a man wearing official robes among the crowd of people.
He stopped immediately.
Then he looked at this man and frowned.
Although the man in official robes was only a fifth-rank official and his statement was not obvious, Xu Youzhen knew who this man was the first time she saw him.
Because it left such a deep impression on him, even six years later, he still clearly remembers the decree His Majesty the Emperor gave to an official who was knocked down and bleeding in the Fengtian Temple in the twelfth year of Chenghua. The contents were, Xu Youzhen has not forgotten it either.
"The emperor was entrusted with the destiny of heaven, and the edict was given to Zhang Huaizhi. He had the world in mind and had the courage to remonstrate to death. He was a model for the court and an example for officials. However, Zhang Qing is a mortal body. There are many things in the world, and he always hits the pillars. , will always die, I feel pity for Zhang Qing's head as an official, and I pity the innocent pillar of Fengtian Palace. I specially transferred him to the Ministry of Rites and Ceremony, seizing the right to report to the court. Ryukyu envoys came to the court, and Zhang Qing was granted permission. On the day when the injury is healed, I will go to Ryukyu with the Ryukyu envoys to show the majesty of the heavenly kingdom. I admire this..."
Zhang Huaizhi...
The first man to hit a pillar in Fengtian Palace and almost die...
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