Generally speaking, most of the rulings of the Jingchao are made in the first trial. When the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the left (right) censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate preside over the court hearing, only some people with minor connections will be dealt with separately.
In a word, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Yushi of the Zuodu are "in charge", mainly targeting high-ranking officials or special officials. The vast majority of "inspections" are actually conducted by the Ministry of Personnel's Examination Division, the Du's Inspectorate of Henan Province and the Like
To be done.
The implementation of Beijing inspection includes two aspects: court inspection and self-examination. The in-person inspection targets low-level officials of the fifth rank and below, while the self-examination targets middle and high-level officials of the fourth rank and above.
Before the court hearing, a series of preparations need to be made, sometimes the whole process takes almost half a year, so these work are usually carried out in advance - the same is true for this Dinghai Jingchao - and the actual court hearing only takes one day.
Self-presentation by mid-level and senior officials does not require much preparation.
After the court review and self-examination, approval must be made in the name of the emperor, and then the official of the Department of Science and Technology can "recover" the relics. After the Ministry of Civil Affairs reviews the results of the relics and reports them to the emperor for final decision, the Beijing inspection will be completed.
Like the principles for handling other major matters, the results of the Beijing Investigation are also affected by many aspects.
The emperor had supreme authority in the Ming Dynasty. He had the final say on whether officials should be retained, rewarded or punished. This was of course the same in the imperial censorship, where he had the final decision-making power.
The cabinet is an auxiliary administrative agency. Since Yan Song, cabinet ministers have been superior to the Ministry of Personnel, so its influence in the Beijing inspection cannot be underestimated; the Ministry of Personnel, as the agency in charge of officials, is also the main responsible agency for the Beijing inspection.
The impact of the results of the Beijing Procuratorate is obvious; the Metropolitan Procuratorate can also provide cooperation or restraint to the officials to a certain extent.
As for the superiors of various yamen halls like Gao Jingshi, because they have the right to fill in the test statements, they can also give a certain degree of care to their subordinate officers during the Beijing inspection - of course, if you want to suppress them, it is "by the way".
The reason why Gao pragmatic got the news so early was precisely because he was a senior official in Hubu Hall and had the right to evaluate subordinate officials. However, he did not intend to actually exercise this power - the reason was obvious, he just took office
He was imprisoned and locked up for a few days, and it was only today that he came out to see what was going on.
Seriously speaking, he actually only served as the Minister of the Ministry of Finance for five days, so he planned to delegate this power to Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili. He himself was regarded as a ghostwriter, and he would just write comments according to their opinions.
Perhaps the news about the Jingcha came too suddenly, and Gao Pragmatic took matters into his own hands and it was no longer a big deal. Even the popular "Zhengguoben" incident had to give way to Dinghai Jingcha.
Everyone was caught off guard, and the officials were clearly in the eye of the storm.
Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Tianguan, had just returned to the Ministry of Personnel for a visit. He immediately returned to the palace under the pretext of discussing with the cabinet the key points of this capital inspection and went to the cabinet's main room in Wenyuan Pavilion to take shelter from the wind.
However, although he sneaked into the cabinet to check the direction of the situation, as a branch of the Real School, he was obviously not lucky to be able to sneak into the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
When he went to the cabinet, he naturally went to Xu Guo, Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui to discuss what to do, but this was only a public action. In private, he immediately sent his trusted servants to quietly come to the Ministry of Household Affairs to ask for a meeting with Gao Pragmatic.
Speaking of which, Yang Wei has already prepared for this year's Dinghai Beijing Inspection. After all, the six-yearly Beijing Inspection has been "ordered" for decades, and preparing in advance on time is what every official should do.
It's just that the situation in the DPRK this year is not very stable, and the situation has been changing even more since the Northwestern Rebellion was basically settled. Sometimes there is a case of defamation of the emperor, and sometimes it is a case of Zhengguo Ben, it really cannot stop.
He has also been busy trying to stabilize people's hearts in the past few days, hoping that his old friends, disciples and former officials who are related to him will not interfere at will, and must wait until the situation becomes clear - for example, after Gao Gao pragmatically expresses his position, and then follow up.
Now, with the arrival of Wang Xijue in Beijing, the dispute between the two factions is obviously intensifying. Although Yang Wei is a heavenly official, it is now a period when cabinet power suppresses ministerial power. In addition, the Real School and the Heart School are both political groups.
He couldn't afford to offend anyone with this level of power, so he had no choice but to follow the crowd.
However, this Daliu was not very easy-going. After much deliberation, he decided to be pragmatic, but he also followed the rules of etiquette with Xu Guo and tried to avoid offending both sides.
Although Yang Wei didn't know why the emperor suddenly acted like this, as a heavenly official, he quickly guessed that the emperor might want to use the capital inspection to distract the officials and continue the matter of "zhengguoben".
Delay later.
However, no matter what the emperor's purpose was, now that Dinghai's imperial inspection was launched, the officials were the first to bear the brunt. He must figure out how to determine the general direction of this imperial inspection.
For things like the general direction, asking Xu Guo is just for show, and asking for high-level pragmatism is reliable. After all, things like Beijing and Chaoyang can cause a big mess if you are not careful. If you want to be okay after it gets big, you often have to rely on "public opinion"
"Pragmatic", and the vast majority of people in the pragmatic school follow Gao pragmatism.
But Gao Pingshi's reply to him was very simple: "The responsibility of the examination committee is only for the Heavenly Official to depose him at his discretion. There is no need to go into details."
Yang Wei did not receive this message until almost noon. After hearing it, he felt relieved and immediately returned to the ministry from the cabinet. He ordered the Ministry of Personnel to take a merit examination and clean up the official affairs. A total of four people, including the doctor, Yuan Wailang and the two chiefs, were fully responsible for this matter.
Being highly pragmatic is not nonsense, and there is nothing wrong with this approach. As the department directly responsible for the inspection of the capital, the Examination Department is responsible for "examination of officials, diligent involvement in matters, and praise of ministers." Its duty is to "examine the performance of officials"
"The merits and demerits are distinguished, and the meritorious ones are the best, and the memorial is requested to depose the emperor." It played an extremely important role in the imperial inspection. People in the Ming Dynasty always attached great importance to the role of the imperial examination department. For example, when Chen Younian wrote the inscription for the imperial examination department, Du General
Its status is highly praised to the level of "the world will be bright if it is gained, and it will be dark if it is lost; it will be rational if it is gained, and it will be chaotic if it is lost."
In the original history, Wang Xijue once said when talking about the Beijing inspection in the 21st year of Wanli: "This year's inspection is exclusively under the charge of the doctor Zhao Nanxing." This time the Beijing inspection was "different from Taiwan Province", which led to divergent discussions. However,
"If the superior of the department is responsible for the matter, he will not plead guilty on his behalf, or he should be decent enough not to be deeply guilty."
Chen Younian, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel at the time, also said when evaluating the performance of Qian Shiwan, a doctor in the Nanjing Examination Department in the 21st year of Wanli, during the inspection in Beijing: "When things are difficult, it is especially difficult when there is resentment. What the ministers saw
, there is nothing left to complain about when a scholar is finished."
The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel believed that the imperial examination was specifically responsible for the imperial examination, so the adverse consequences should be borne by the imperial examination officials; the cabinet ministers also believed that this approach was "proper and proper"; the chief of the capital inspection department also believed that the imperial examination department was responsible for the actual
There is nothing to complain about.
It can be seen that the Gong Kao Department plays a huge role and has such huge responsibilities in the Beijing Chaos, so much so that everyone in the imperial court considers the Kao Gong Department to be the "supervisory unit" of the Capital Censorship.
This situation is not unique to the Wanli Dynasty. As early as the 24th year of Jiajing, Xue Yinglu "worked as a doctor in Nanjing's examination department and was in charge of the capital inspection. Yan Song, a great scholar, was impeached by Wang Ye during the incident and ordered Shang
Baocheng and all the heroes sent letters to respond to the journey, and ordered Dian Ye."
Even Yan Song, who had great power in the government and the public at that time, wanted to depose someone with personal grievances, but he still had to ask the imperial examination doctor to do it. This shows the importance of the imperial examination doctor in the imperial examination.
Specifically, "In every year of internal and external planning, the examination of meritorious services must be limited to the spring and summer of the previous year. The public consultation will be discussed, and the public will not be able to bear the responsibility. The internal and external inspections will be done hastily.
After that, the chief seal officer of the merit department should still stay in the department for a few days. If there is any discussion in the records that the official has not been punished, either because of the defense of the department or because of public sentiment, he should write it down clearly by hand, seal it with a seal, and pay it to the selected officer in person. No confusion is allowed.
This is a bad act. This must be noted by the seal official before the fifth or sixth day of the second lunar month and presented to the court for brief reading."
It can also be seen from these regulations and instructions that the doctor of the examination department usually needs to prepare for the Beijing inspection for almost a year in advance; and even after the Beijing inspection, the doctor of the examination department is still responsible for the follow-up work of the Beijing inspection.
In this case, Gao Pragmatic asked Yang Wei to "dismiss him as appropriate without further investigation" based on the preliminary evaluation results of the merit examination department. From a theoretical and customary point of view, there is no problem.
But after Yang Wei gave the order, he didn't feel relaxed at all. He always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something.
After a while, Yang Tianguan, who was already seventy-two years old and had been forced to stay in office for two more years by the emperor, was suddenly shocked: Oops! There is no doctor in the examination department now!
To be precise, it's not that the Kao Gong Division didn't have a doctor, but that the then doctor of the Kao Gong Division got seriously ill half a month ago. During this time, he stayed at home to recuperate. It was said that he couldn't even get out of bed.
Nowadays, there is a shortage of chief officials in the Ministry of Civil Service and the Qing Dynasty Civil Service Department. The deputy officer, Wai Lang, is in charge!
Who is the examiner Wai Lang? Gu Xiancheng.
When Yang Wei thought of this, he threw away his panic and thought to himself: Okay, okay, Gao Qiuzhen, this guy is really scheming... Is he trying to borrow a knife to kill someone this time?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Gu Xiancheng, the famous "Mr. Donglin" in later generations, was in the same year as Gao Pangshi, and his grades were also very good, ranking second in the top two.
He had a good reputation among the scholars, but his official position was not high at that time. He was just a member of the Ministry of Civil Service, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he was only a fifth-grade official.
Although his official position is small, he is famous. One important factor is that although he is not an official of the Practical School, he often criticizes the political views of the Xin School.
One thing that must be said here is that Gu Xiancheng and even the early Donglin Party thought that what they learned was practical learning. However, they were actually the same as the Xin School and should be classified as "moral practical learning", similar to Gao Gong.
It has little to do with a series of practical studies of economics.
Since they are all "moral practical studies", and Gu Xiancheng disagrees with the exaggerated style of the Xinxue School, it is normal for Gu Xiancheng to criticize the Xinxue School in order to "get to the bottom of things".
Yang Wei himself had never thought about one thing in detail before, but now he had to doubt: Gu Xiancheng has been in office for seven years, he is not from the Practical School, and he always criticizes Xinxue, why has he not lost his official position now? Or even
He even entered the civil service department in a majestic manner, and safely held a powerful and important position like Yuan Wai Lang, Chief Examiner?
Does Gu Xiancheng have anything to rely on? His reputation as a scholar is definitely unreliable. If Shen Shixing really wants to punish him, he will just find a fault and get out. His reputation as a scholar cannot save him.
Yang Wei thought about it and found that the only possibility that Gu Xiancheng could rely on was that he and Gao Pragmatic were of the same age. Others, including those from the Xin School, were not sure whether touching Gu Xiancheng would cause Gao Pragmatic to overreact.
Yang Tianguan suddenly felt a chill in his back: Could it be that even Gu Xiancheng's job arrangement was an ambush prepared by Gao Qiuzhen in advance?
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