"Your Majesty, outside the residence of Duke Zhen Guo (Fei Ruhe), there are many visitors every day. However, they are all sent by merchants, and no court officials are involved. Duke Zhen Guo... closed the door to thank guests, but in fact he did not live at home at all.
He hid in the house of Lord Baoguo (Fei Chun). Now all the merchants who wanted to see Lord Zhenguo ran to the racecourse in the eastern suburbs. In addition, the prince also showed up at the racecourse. Yesterday, more than 5,000 people bought tickets to enter the racecourse."
"I understand, please step back. There is no need to monitor you anymore."
Zhao Han rarely monitors the whereabouts of ministers. He sent people to keep an eye on Fei Ruhe simply because he wanted to know what his childhood friend would do.
Facts have proved that Fei Ruhe is very smart.
Fei Ruhe knew that he was based in the north and businessmen who wanted to do grassland business would definitely come to visit and get close to him. He was too lazy to pay attention and simply refused to live in his own home. The place he lived in was also very interesting, and he actually lived directly at Fei Chun's house.
What does this express?
First, although I let my clan brother do business, I will do everything legally and abide by court laws when making money, and I will not accept bribes from other merchants.
Second, I do not collude with the ministers of the DPRK, or even deal with them. But I am nostalgic. There is no need to avoid suspicion in my relationship with Fei Chun. I believe that His Majesty the Emperor will not be suspicious. I regard Fei Chun as an old friend, and I also
I will definitely regard His Majesty the Emperor as an old friend.
What really made Zhao Han dumbfounded was that none of the civil and military ministers of the dynasty dared to take the initiative to visit Fei Ruhe.
Xu Ying's large-scale purge of Jiangsu's officialdom was followed by a nationwide purge. More and more local officials were arrested, and occasionally the ministers of the DPRK and China were involved. This series of operations frightened the officials in the capital.
It feels like Zhao Han is trying to play Zhu Yuanzhang's game, so how can he dare to meet Fei Ruhe in public?
After all, Fei Ruhe was not only the Duke of Zhenguo, not only the Left Governor of the Governor's Mansion, but also the uncle of the current prince!
What should I do if I get too close to Duke Zhen and arouse the emperor's suspicion?
No longer caring about Fei Ruhe's affairs, Zhao Han opened a memorial and became angry just after reading the beginning: "Am I so scary? The dignified Minister of the Ministry of Industry is so scared that he wants to resign and return home!"
Ding Shijing, who was immersed in writing notes on daily life, muttered in his heart: Not only is it scary, everyone inside and outside the court is almost scared to death.
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Li Zhai.
Li Rixuan complained to Yang Zhong who came to visit: "How dare you come to my place at this time? Be careful of being targeted by guards in black!"
Yang Zhong said: "The black guards have been changed to the National Security Agency, and they never monitor ministers."
Li Rixuan stepped back, took Yang Zhong into the study, and said in a low voice: "How do you know that His Majesty does not monitor the ministers? Maybe when you and I meet today, we will already fall into the sight of the black-clad guards! Your Majesty will be Zhu Hongwu, the black-clad
Wei is Jinyiwei!"
"Uncle Hui is worried too much," Yang Zhong asked. "I heard that Uncle Hui asked to be appointed official? This is great, why doesn't he do it as Minister of the Ministry of Industry?"
Li Rixuan said: "A major case of corruption has just been discovered in Zhejiang. I used to be the chief envoy to the left in Zhejiang. This time, the Zhejiang official responsible for the case was the one I used in Zhejiang. This guy is so bold.
He actually bought and sold his official position, which is like eating arsenic for a long-lived person. He is impatient to live! If such a big thing happened to an old subordinate I trusted, how can I still have the face to be an official? How can I still have the courage to be an official? "...
In addition to being responsible for evaluating the performance of officials in the province, the civil servant selection departments in each province also have the power to appoint miscellaneous officials within the province and to appoint officials at all levels of the provincial government.
To be honest, Zhao Han never expected that just eleven years after he ascended the throne as emperor, there would be officials who dared to buy and sell official positions on a large scale!
The specific operation is: give money to the chief official of the Zhejiang Civil Service Department, and the official's provincial assessment will be rated as excellent. The central civil service department generally will not overturn this performance evaluation, and it will be easier for the official to be promoted in the future. This is
The falsification of political achievements is a disguised form of selling officials. It is more convenient to sell officials directly. For miscellaneous officials and staff in the province, the Zhejiang Civil Service Department can handle it within the scope of its authority.
This time, the Zhejiang official-selling scandal was actually implicated by Qingtian.
A middle school dropout who didn't get his diploma because his grades were too bad applied for the county government office with a primary school diploma, and he actually passed the exam due to nepotism. Because his family was rich, he started spending money and got excellent results every time.
, was quickly promoted to a fourth-class official. Then he spent money and was transferred to Qiantang County as the head of the household department, in charge of the household registration and field registration of the entire county.
The land clearing operation in Zhejiang Province was launched first in Qiantang County and Renhe County. The land management in these two counties was in complete ruins.
The head of the Household Section of Qiantang County was arrested. After some interrogation, the matter of buying an official position for promotion was exposed. Following the clues and investigating step by step, it was found that the chief official of Zhejiang's official office was led by the chief official of Zhejiang's official selection office.
There are some major or minor problems in the assessment and promotion of officials throughout Zhejiang Province.
"Zhejiang is going to be like Jiangsu, and people are being killed by the Inspectorate. I have been in charge of Zhejiang for several years, and if such a big thing happened, I could resign early and still be dignified." Li Rixuan said.
Yang Zhong persuaded: "Everyone in the world knows that Uncle Hui is honest and honest. Even if he is investigated, it will at most be due to unclear understanding of the person and improper employment. There is really no need to resign."
Li Rixuan shook his head: "I have made up my mind. After three requests and three resignations, Your Majesty will definitely agree."
Yang Zhong couldn't persuade him any more and could only sigh and leave.
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Hanlin Academy.
Zhang Pu, who was ill and bedridden every year, survived ten years without dying.
Zhang Pu and Qian Qianyi had previously thought about becoming officials in the cabinet department, and then they thought about becoming teachers to the prince. Now that all their hopes were dashed, they became more open-minded and stayed in the Hanlin Academy to compile the "History of the Ming Dynasty" with all their strength.
Qian Qianyi gloated: "The two parties are fighting, but before they really started fighting, your Majesty made both sides suffer. Yu Shiqin thanked guests behind closed doors, as if he no longer wanted to be the party leader; Li Rixuan was even more interesting, and he directly resigned. The two
What a fool, who was not sober from the beginning and still wants to form a party in front of the founding emperor?"
Zhang Pu said: "The cleanup of the officialdom and farmland this time was really great. Many of the gang members of the two of them were arrested one after another. How could they still dare to jump up and down in the capital? The current emperor is indeed the reincarnation of Zhu Hongwu.
If this continues, it will really be like the early Ming Dynasty, when officials were allowed to work in chains."
"That's not the case," Qian Qianyi said with a smile. "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many scholars, and there were not enough officials. Zhu Hongwu's laws were strict, and officials were often offended, so they made prisoners wear shackles.
Sitting in the Yamen. The Ming Dynasty has been raising scholars for three hundred years, and the world has been strict about education. It is hard to find three-legged toads, but two-legged scholars are everywhere. Where can there be a shortage of officials now? Just kill all the local officials, and there will be enough officials to make up for it.
There is a vacancy.”…
Zhang Pu suddenly sighed: "If Chongzhen had the courage he has today, how could the Ming Dynasty have perished so quickly? Alas!"
Distance creates beauty, and time can filter out all shortcomings.
The person who scolded Chongzhen the most was Zhang Pu, who described Chongzhen as a willful and independent man. Only a few years later, he actually started to miss Chongzhen again and felt sorry for Chongzhen from the bottom of his heart.
Qian Qianyi said: "It's not that Chongzhen has no courage, it's that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the core. The Donglin Party has too many old scores and will never gain Chongzhen's trust. It can only use the remnants of the Eunuch Party to govern the country. The two parties are fighting, regardless of whether they are right or wrong.
Wrong, it only depends on winning or losing. If Chongzhen dares to order an investigation and rectification of officialdom, the world will be in chaos if the imperial edict is issued, and the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party will bleed like rivers."
Qian Qianyi also belongs to the Donglin Party, but he is a pseudo Donglin Party. For the sake of his own future, he can even sell the Donglin Party at any time.
At this point in the discussion, Qian Qianyi was completely aloof from the matter, as if he had never been a member of the Donglin Party.
He laughed and Qian Qianyi shook his sleeves: "It's better for you and me. Sitting in the Hanlin Academy and writing history, the officialdom is killing people and it has nothing to do with us. How much money can you be greedy for when you are in charge of the Hanlin Academy? Just be greedy.
Paper, pen and candle, hahahaha!”
"Whatever, my life is not long anyway." Zhang Pu felt that his body was very weak.
Hearing this, Qian Qianyi wanted to roll his eyes.
Zhang Pu suddenly started talking about business: "There can be no more mistakes in "History of the Ming Dynasty". During the last proofreading, someone from Wujiang presented "Wujiang Chronicles". The mistakes we made in that section were ridiculous. Fortunately, we did not submit it to His Majesty for review, otherwise you and I would
It will all be a shame."
The story that Shen Wansan wanted to spend money to build the city wall but was exiled to death by Zhu Yuanzhang has been widely circulated in the late Ming Dynasty and was even recorded in many unofficial histories.
Qian Qianyi and Zhang Pu compiled "History of the Ming Dynasty", but they encountered someone who contributed "Wujiang Chronicles".
Mo Dan, the author of "Wujiang Chronicles", is related to Shen Wansan's descendants, and the book contains detailed records about Shen Wansan. Qian Qianyi was afraid of making mistakes, so he sent people to Wujiang to inquire about the Shen family's genealogy.
Get it to verify.
The actual situation is that when Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Shen Wansan had been dead for 12 years. If he had not died, Shen Wansan would have been over 80 years old. Because Shen Wansan's son Shen Rong was already 62 years old at the time, and his grandson Shen Sen was already
39 years old. And when the Ming army pacified Yunnan, Shen Wansan was almost 100 years old. Even if he was still alive, would he exile a centenarian to Yunnan?
According to the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty", elderly people over ninety and children under seven years old will not be sentenced to death even for murder, except for major crimes such as rebellion and disobedience. Exile is also not suitable for the elderly and children.
The editing work of "History of the Ming Dynasty" was divided into four editing groups by Qian Qianyi, responsible for the chronicles, chronicles, lists, and biographies respectively.
Under the four major editorial groups, there are many smaller editorial groups, such as one group for geography and another group for food journal.
Qian Qianyi himself does not do anything himself, he is only responsible for arranging manpower and reviewing manuscripts. Even so, the review is often in darkness. The compilation activities of each group require a huge workload. In addition to the official historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as there are local chronicles, they can be found.
When you arrive, you have to read the local chronicles first.
While they were watching the excitement and complaining about officialdom, they were immersed in compiling history books, completely staying out of the political whirlpool.
In September of the 11th year of the Republic of China, Li Rixuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, asked for three resignations and was approved by the emperor to resign and return home. Before leaving Beijing, he was promoted to Crown Prince and Tutor, which was regarded as the imperial court's recognition of his work.
The ministers of the imperial court, no one dared to argue for anything, they all worked hard at their jobs, for fear of being involved in the local investigation.
Even when Fei Ruhe left Beijing to go north, no official except Fei Chun and other old friends dared to see him off.
Who doesn’t know the story of Zhu Yuanzhang’s killing spree?
In the eyes of many ministers, Emperor Zhao looked more and more like Zhu Yuanzhang.