In addition to the Wenxuan Department, the second fat in the Ministry of Personnel is the Examination of the Gongshu. Like the Wenxuan Department, the function of the Examination of the Gongshu can also be seen from the name. It is responsible for the KPI assessment that all officials in the world hate the most.

Of course, there was no such fashionable name in the Ming Dynasty, but the specific situation was similar, and they were all performance appraisals. Yes! In the Ming Dynasty, like later generations, officials also had performance appraisals. However, the KPI in the Ming Dynasty was called the Beijing Cha Da Plan. Beijing Cha refers to the performance appraisal of Beijing officials, once every six years. The major appraisal refers to the performance appraisal of local officials, once every three years.

The specific assessment goals are related to the work of officials. For example, if you are an official of the Huguang Qingli Department of the Ministry of Revenue, then you will assess how much grain has been collected in Huguang Province you are responsible for this year. Officials of the Dushui Qingli Department of the Ministry of Works, how are you repairing your farmland water conservancy facilities, etc.

Local officials have more assessment indicators, such as how much tax they charge, whether there are murderers, what crises occur, etc. The most ruthless performance assessment in the Ming Dynasty was Zhang Juzheng. When he was in power, many provincial prefectures were forced to commit suicide because they failed to complete the performance indicators issued at the beginning of the year.

Like the Wenxuan Department, the Examination Department is also responsible for the assessment of officials who are ranked fifth in Beijing and local governments, and has great power.

In addition to the two departments of the Ministry of Personnel, there are two fat flaws, namely the Ministry of War's Wuxuan Qing Lishu and the Armamentary Qing Lishu. One of these two departments is in charge of the promotion of military generals and the other is in charge of the manufacturing, storage and distribution of weapons and equipment. However, I will not explain the specific operation in detail.

Yue Qijie made great contributions in the coup and was promoted to the Minister of Personnel by Ma Shiying. He was responsible for the Wenxuan Department and the Examination Department. It was noon today, Yue Qijie was going home for dinner. When he saw Ma Cheng wandering in Qianbulang, he spoke up and asked him.

When Ma Cheng saw Yue Qijie, he quickly got off the horse and came to Yue Qijie, bowed and asked, "Uncle, have you not returned to Zhejiang yet?"

Yue Qijie smiled and said, "Zhonghe, your kid's news is not effective anymore. I am now the Minister of Personnel and have already handed over the errands in Zhejiang!"

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard Yue Qijie say this. He had never received any news of Yue Qijie's promotion.

Yue Qijie saw Ma Cheng's appearance and knew that this kid really didn't know. However, Yue Qijie didn't take it seriously. Now Ma Cheng has a noble status, and he can know all the changes in the officials in the capital one by one?

"Boy, what are you doing here? I just happened to have no meals at noon. Please arrange for me to have a meal!"

A meal was completely a bit of a slight meaning to Ma Cheng. Ma Cheng quickly said: "Of course there is no problem with this. Huaiyang Tower in Nancheng is our property!"

Ma Cheng occupied the property of the Xu family of Duke of Wei, and this Huaiyang Tower naturally became Ma Cheng's property. Yue Qijie nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, got into the sedan chair next to him, and followed Ma Cheng out of Hongwu Gate.

Ma Cheng is now the Duke of Zhenguo, with a prince of the rank. He has personal guards leading the way in front of him when he travels. He is extremely majestic. When he arrives at Huaiyang Tower on the Qinhuai River in the south city, Ma Cheng gets off the horse and comes to Yue Qijie and says respectfully: "My uncle, you have arrived. Please go upstairs!"

Yue Qijie came out of the sedan chair and saw that Ma Cheng's personal soldiers had closed the road. At the same time, the shopkeeper and the clerk of Huaiyang Tower were kneeling at the door to greet him. When they walked into the hall, Yue Qijie saw that there was no one inside. They knew that Ma Cheng drove all the guests who had eaten in advance to entertain him.

"My nephew, just having a meal, how can I chase everyone else away?

Let's go? Will you not let your nephew spend money?"

Huaiyang Tower is one of the best restaurants in the south city. The daily flow of water is 3,400 taels of silver. Now, in order to entertain Yue Qijie, it is not open.

When Ma Cheng heard Yue Qijie say this, he smiled and said, "My uncle is extremely noble in my nephew's heart. How can he eat with those ordinary people?" After Ma Cheng said that, he helped Yue Qijie walk to the No. 1 box, Tianzi, on the third floor of Huaiyang Tower.

Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Empire. In order to demonstrate the emperor's majesty, there are no buildings in the city that are higher than the palace walls of the imperial city. However, the premier of Huaiyang Tower was the Xu family, who could build Huaiyang Tower into three floors, which was extremely close to the height of the imperial city.

This Huaiyang Tower is nearly ten meters high, and it is almost as high as the city wall when standing on it. When you open the window, you can see the crowded Gongyuan Street outside. A little further away is the Confucius Temple. The extremely prosperous Qinhuai River is downstairs. Yue Qijie stood on it and looked so relaxed and happy.

Yue Qijie looked at the Gongyuan and smiled and said, "Nephew, in order to calm people's hearts, Yuan Fu decided to hold the provincial examination on March 15th. Then you will have a chance to make money in Huaiyang Tower!"

The Ma Cheng family is very good at doing so much money. After hearing Yue Qijie say it, he frowned and asked, "Country Examination? Is the country going to resume the imperial examination?"

The closest exam to the current 17th year of Chongzhen was five years old. Zhu Yousong was about to hold an exam in the first year of Hongguang, but the progress was interrupted by the Qing Dynasty. When Zhu Lunkui became emperor, he fought for several years, and Nanzhili and southern China provinces were in chaos. So he had the intention to conduct the imperial examination? So he stopped.

"It's not an imperial examination, but a provincial examination. This time, the Ministry of Rites issued a document. In addition to Nanzhili, you can go to Nandu Gongyuan's provincial examination, and students from other provinces can also come to participate in the provincial examination in Nanzhili. At the same time, because there are currently a shortage of talents, the juren selected from this provincial examination directly participated in the department selection, which means you can become an official without going through the imperial examination!"

The imperial examination system was very mature in the Ming Dynasty. If a scholar wanted to become an official, he had to go through the child examination and become a scholar in the college examination, and then become a juren after the provincial examination. He could come out to become an official here. However, the juren could only be a small official in the seventh and eighth ranks, and he could also become an official in the fifth and sixth ranks, but the fifth rank was already the ceiling, so it was basically impossible to enter the ranks of senior officials.

If a scholar has the aspiration to be the chief minister of the cabinet, he will have to participate in the three-year imperial examination after the imperial examination and become a tribute scholar after the imperial examination. However, the imperial examination does not rank, but will also have to participate in the palace examination.

The examiner of the palace examination is the emperor. The emperor decides the ranking of these tributes. If you are lucky enough to become the first class, you will be awesome. You will basically enter the cabinet preparatory class and your career will be extremely smooth in the future. As long as you don’t commit suicide, you can get to the deputy ministerial level when you retire.

If you are poor in your studies, you will be very awesome. The top few of you are qualified to pass the Shujishi exam and can also enter the cabinet preparatory class after passing the exam. Even if you don’t enter, it’s nothing. You can go to the Sixth Ministry to observe politics. Three years later, you will become a low-level official in the Sixth Ministry. There is no special opportunity when you resign and you can get to the fourth grade.

The rest are the third-class people. Although these people are not as good as the first-class and second-class people, they can also be magistrates in the local area. These guys are called tiger squads and are very awesome when they are short of them. However, it is difficult for these third-class people to reach the fourth-class people, and most of them are only in the fifth-class people. However, some lucky people have become the chief assistant, such as Zhang Cong, the old flatterer in the early stage of Jiajing.

Ma Cheng doesn't understand the imperial examination system

He didn't want to know these things, and at this time he was not on this. He was a little absent-minded when he heard Yue Qijie explain the system of the imperial examination. When Yue Qijie saw that this guy was not interested, he stopped talking and sat in the seat and drank tea.

Ma Cheng looked at Yue Qijie sitting wherever he didn't say anything, and secretly scolded the old guy in his heart for being so calm that he didn't really want to arrange for him to have dinner today, but Ma Cheng couldn't see the political situation clearly, hoping that this old guy could explain it to him.

But now Yue Qijie just didn't speak, so Ma Cheng had no choice but to speak, "Uncle, why didn't my nephew know that my uncle became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel? When did it happen?"

"It's been half a month. On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the cabinet issued a document as soon as I started working. I stepped down as the governor of Zhejiang and became the Minister of Personnel!"

"Uncle, how did the other officials in the court change?"

"Well, the Tianguan of the Ministry of Personnel is Li Zhan, you know, it is your elder brother Bo Yu, the Ministry of Revenue is Tian Yang, the Ministry of War is Yang Weiyuan, the Ministry of Rites or Wang Duo, and the Xing army is Zhang Jinyan, you don't know other officials. By the way, there is also your other uncle, Yang Wen, Yang Longyou, who went to the Censorate to be the Left Censor!"

Bo Yu is the name of Ma Cheng's eldest brother Ma Luan. Ma Cheng heard about the personnel changes in the court that were similar to what he expected. However, wasn't the former Minister of Works Song Yingxing, his teacher? Why did Ma Luan be replaced this time?

"Uncle, what about Song Yingxing, the former Minister of Works?"

Yue Qijie smiled when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Your teacher is really ignorant. Your father originally wanted to reuse him, but he didn't expect that Song Yingxing heard the emperor hand over all the power to your father, and he resigned from his post and returned home in anger! Why didn't your teacher tell you?"

When Song Yingxing returned to his hometown? Ma Cheng was shocked when he heard this. You should know that Song Yingxing mastered the complete production process of Ma Cheng Arsenal. The most important gunpowder formula and steel production process are known. If it falls into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, it will be a big deal.

Thinking of Ma Cheng waved his hand to summon a guard outside the door, and said a few words in his ear, and then the guard bowed and went out.

Yue Qijie watched Ma Cheng like this from the side and smiled and said, "What? Isn't you worried about your teacher?"

"Where, my nephew has a deep relationship with Teacher Song. Now the teacher leaves without saying goodbye. My nephew is very worried, so I send someone to send money to the teacher!"

It has been more than half a month since Song Yingxing left, so why are you going to send money? Yue Qijie knew that Ma Cheng was cruel and ruthless, so he would definitely send someone to assassinate Song Yingxing, but Song Yingxing's life and death had nothing to do with Yue Qijie, so he ignored it.

The facts were the same as Yue Qijie thought. How could Ma Cheng let Song Yingxing return to Jiangxi safely under the control of the Qing Dynasty? The spies of the Military Information Department caught up with Song Yingxing in Jiujiang, killed Song Yingxing's family in the post station, and then burned all of them.

Ma Cheng sent his subordinates away and then continued, "Uncle, I don't know anything about it. Can you ask me to analyze it on my behalf!"

"Yes, I've eaten your meal anyway, it's nothing to analyze it for you!"

"Uncle, my nephew went to see my father just now. I learned from my father that the inner city admiral had replaced Zhang Guozhu, and the imperial city commander had replaced a guy named Zhang Kunyuan. Why did my father not listen to my nephew's recommendation and insist on using someone else?"
Chapter completed!