Li Shanchang stared at Zhang Ximeng. If you don't write, I will leave. If you can't leave, I will die!
Anyway, being the prime minister is too boring for me.
Li Shanchang was a minor official, and he was strong in his ability to do things. Zhang Ximeng and Zhu Yuanzhang discussed important affairs of the country, and he was responsible for implementing them, so there was no problem.
But now the officials below are unwilling to obey orders. They can't influence the emperor from above, and they can't manipulate hundreds of officials from below... So what's the point of this prime minister?
It’s better to just die!
Lao Li is like breaking a jar and breaking it to the end.
Seeing his determination, Zhang Ximeng had no choice but to pick up his pen and start writing seriously.
To be honest, in the current court situation, Lao Zhu faces south and faces north, sitting on the dragon throne. For example, Beichen, Zhang Ximeng leads hundreds of officials, and calls his ministers from the south.
There is another saying: South Dipper is the master of life, Beidou is the master of death!
With Lao Zhu's decree, thousands of people were beheaded, but the emperor's anger left millions dead.
This person is in charge of death, so the death-free gold medal he issues is just that, and of little use.
But Zhang Ximeng was different. He was in Nandou. If he was determined to save a person's life, Zhu Yuanzhang could only do nothing.
This is the tacit understanding between monarch and ministers.
Li Shanchang also saw the key, so he wanted Zhang Ximeng's death-free gold medal.
After a while, Zhang Ximeng really finished writing. Li Shanchang couldn't wait to grab it in his hand and read it quickly. But when he finished reading, Lao Li's face turned dark.
"Zhang Ximeng, don't bully others too much!"
With a snap, Li Shanchang struck the case with his hand, and his hair and beard were all scratched.
It turns out that Zhang Ximeng wrote: If Mr. Li offends Tianyan, and it is not a heinous crime, I am willing to intercede for Mr. Li.
What Li Shanchang wants is a gold medal for immunity from death, and you give him such a sentence! On Valentine's Day, they gave him nine hundred and ninety-nine roses, but you got a dogtail grass... It's a little bit uninteresting.
"Zhang Ximeng, you are just begging for mercy. I asked you to protect me from death! Do you treat me like a three-year-old child?"
Zhang Ximeng smiled calmly, "Brother Li, the favor of deposing me comes from above. I can only intercede for you, but I cannot protect you from death. If I write like that, you can send it back to His Majesty to impeach me for being arrogant and bullying."
Your Majesty, Your Majesty, steals the power of your father and pardons the guilty ministers. What should I do at that time?"
It turns out that Zhang Ximeng was still on guard!
Li Shanchang even cried, "Prime Minister Zhang, when has this happened? How can I, Li Shanchang, seek death on my own!"
"That's it." Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "If you have this intention, you will not seek death... With Brother Li's years of hard work and my intercession for you, you will probably not be punished with death. Why should you be worried?
?Do you really think that the Lord is crazy?"
Li Shanchang was startled, silently pondered, and said with a helpless smile: "What Mr. Zhang said makes sense, but Mr. Zhang, now that I continue to stay in Zhongshu Province, what else can I do? What do you have to teach me?"
Zhang Ximeng smiled and said, "What can I teach Brother Li? You just need to choose the right ministers and take them to the right positions, that is, ministers of various ministries, ministers, imperial envoys and officials, censor Zhongcheng, Dali Temple, Honglu Temple, Taipu Temple, Yuanma
Temples, local chief envoys, and inspection envoys, these are all Brother Li’s duties and responsibilities.”
Li Shanchang frowned, is this any different from before?
Isn't it still the same?
After making so much noise, do you think you are still standing still?
Am I sick or are you sick?
Li Shanchang looked at Zhang Ximeng doubtfully.
However, Zhang Ximeng did not want to explain more. In fact, there is no need to say more. Li Shanchang will soon realize any changes.
Why do you know that the disadvantages of the imperial examination are so obvious, and not all those selected are necessarily talented people in governing the country? All dynasties, even the Yuan Dynasty, are not exempt from the custom and must go to the imperial examination?
The reason is very simple. After all, what you get in the exam is due to hard work and hard work.
It goes without saying how difficult it is in the Gongyuan examination room.
After ten years of studying hard in a cold window, and after several days of torture of life and death, eating, drinking, and defecating, all in such a small place, it is not possible to be tempted to endure and gain what is beyond your ability.
But at least these people who passed the imperial examination will not be bribed easily... Even if the teacher who takes the examination gives such great benefits, these scholars will give up even if they should give up.
Just like Xu Jie, he spent so much effort to promote Zhang Juzheng, but when Gao Gong came to power and dealt with Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng remained indifferent and chose to play dumb and even served as a dog-headed strategist for Gao Gong.
Of course, don't blame Zhang Juzheng. When his master Xia Yan was unlucky, Xu Jie just silently gave his granddaughter to Mr. Xiao Ge's son as a concubine.
In the same situation, Shen Shixing also sat back and watched his teacher Zhang Juzheng being opened into a coffin by Shenzong and whipped to death...
Very ruthless and cruel.
But this is the master and apprentice of the imperial examination, plastic to the extreme.
What would happen if it were replaced by a recommended one, someone who came up through in-laws, who would be both prosperous and deprived...?
Probably these people would gather around Grand Tutor Sima Yi, carry out the Gaoping Ling Incident, and plot to usurp the throne.
Master and apprentice are like father and son, but master and apprentice are not father and son after all.
Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been few powerful ministers in the past who can depose the emperor, especially in the Song and Ming dynasties... Even the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty could manipulate the emperor at will, and did not hesitate to act like Dong Zhuo.
But in the Ming Dynasty, there were so many famous eunuchs, but none of them could threaten the emperor's safety?
Where does this problem lie?
Just do a search and you'll find countless answers.
However, few people have noticed that after the development and maturity of the Tang Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty, the selection method of officials mainly became the imperial examination... all the officials in power in the court were selected.
I am a high-ranking official, and it is true that I am in awe of you for nine thousand years. It is also true that I am afraid of the Jinyiwei of Dongchang... But let me rebel against you and just dream!
I am an official who passed the examination. Although I may have received favor from you, it is completely different from the kind of kindness that requires sacrificing my life to repay.
Even if anyone dares to jump out and threaten the imperial power, those high-ranking officials who are usually obedient will take decisive action to reorganize the world and clarify Yunei.
To seize a dragon's power is to capture it easily, just like what the Donglin Party did in the palace transfer case.
Having said so much, the biggest benefit of the imperial examination system can be easily seen. The imperial examination changed the rules of power operation and ensured the stability of imperial power.
Even if the ministers teamed up to deceive the emperor and deceive the emperor, no one wanted to replace him.
No matter how aggrieved the emperor of Lao Zhu's family was, he was still many times better than his predecessors of Bo'er Jijin's family.
This difference cannot be discerned except by those who study the laws and regulations of the past dynasties.
Zhang Ximeng naturally has this skill, but the slightly different thing is that he has carried it forward.
Ever since he entered Jinling and opened the imperial examination to obtain scholars, Zhang Ximeng has constantly advocated expanding the number of people in the imperial examination.
Hundreds of people, thousands of people, general examinations, business examinations, over the years, many yamen clerks, more than 80% have passed the examination.
This group of people widely exists in various yamen. They usually lament the unfairness of the court and their bad fate. They have obviously passed the exam, so why can't they win the title of Toad Palace and soar to the sky?
Still in the yamen, doing the most trivial things, feeling dizzy from exhaustion, with no future in sight!
This kind of life lasted for more than ten years in most cases and three to five years in rare cases.
Now the opportunity finally came. They were promoted and became officials in the court one after another, enriching various ministries.
Of course, for these people, on their first day as officials, they received official documents from Menxia Province.
All officials must strictly abide by the laws and act in accordance with the court rules. Not only cannot they accept the arbitrary orders of their superiors, they must also report them to the Yushitai and the Menxia Province.
All in all, you are officials of the Ming Dynasty, not someone's slaves. You should work impartially and serve the public health wholeheartedly.
All officials, unless they are derelict in their duties, can remain in office until they are seventy years old.
Holding this official document in hand, people who had been in the officialdom for several years immediately understood. It was completely clear that this was for this salt affairs case.
Senior officials in the ministry are separated from their subordinates. Senior officials cannot recommend subordinates casually, and there is no need for subordinates to pick chestnuts from the fire and go through fire and water for others.
Do everything according to the rules!
change?
It's true that you can't see many changes from the outside, but from the inside, it's earth-shaking.
The power of the Zhongshu Province has greatly declined, and the Menxia Province, which is responsible for the evaluation of official files, has become the second yamen that rivals the Zhongshu Province, and even surpasses the Yushitai and the Fifth Army Governor's Office.
The importance of a yamen often depends on how many subordinate officials there are and how much power it has... If you look at the rank alone, the number one yamen in the Ming Dynasty was not even Zhongshu Province, but Zongzheng Temple.
But who would think that Li Zhen is the leader of officials?
Needless to say, Zhang Ximeng was very powerful in the past, but the real sect province was very weak. There were only a few subordinate officials such as Yao Guangxiao, and at most one Du branch.
There is no way to compare it with Zhongshu Province.
Even the talented Yushitai is inferior.
However, after this battle, the Menxia Province became a powerful yamen that challenged the Zhongshu Province, and the entire court situation was completely rewritten.
On the surface, the Menxia Province was only in charge of officials, but in fact, the power of the Menxia Province was rapidly expanding... First of all, the civil servants who were originally under the Hanlin Academy were naturally under the control of the Menxia Province.
Therefore, it is logical that Zhang Ximeng also obtained the power to supervise the revision of national history.
In addition, each department's work performance, task objectives, and main efforts...these also require suggestions from the subordinate department.
After that, someone still needs to give advice to the ministers of various ministries and the prime minister of the Zhongshu Province. In other words, Zhang Ximeng's job of delivering wooden boxes to Zhu Yuanzhang in the past has now been assigned to the Menxia Province.
Although everyone said that you can't become a fat man in one bite, Menxiasheng did it. Not only did he eat it, he became a fat man, but he also became a terrifying beast.
The tigers stared with eager eyes, and the ministers trembled!
From top to bottom, everyone was still experiencing the changes and worried... But at this time, there was a person, leading the team, holding a special wine bowl, beaming with joy, and finally made an unparalleled contribution. Lan Yu moved towards
Juyongguan City Wall shouted, "The champion... is me! I, Lan Yu, am back! Go and report it!"
He yelled three times, but there was no response... Lan Yu's temper was rising, so why not rush in!