Chapter 045 The magnificence of the 'Eight Prefectures Patrol'
Guilin, governed by Guangxi Province, falls on the sixth day of September.
A suburban welcome is being held in the outskirts of Lingui County. Many local officials from Guangxi, led by Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangxi, greet the arrival of the new Guangxi censor Gao Pragmatic at the gate of the East City Gate.
This is a rare grand occasion for the Inspector to take office. After all, no matter how much the Inspector's power has expanded in recent years, he is only a minor official of the seventh rank in name, and his official ranking is also low.
Governor and below.
What's more, Zhang Ren, the current governor of Guangxi, heard that he was seriously ill, and Guangxi officials were doubting how long he could survive. It was really rare that he still insisted on coming to greet him.
However, compared with the solemn ceremony of welcoming the inspector in the suburbs, the pomp of Gao Pragmatic, the new inspector, is also the largest among all the previous inspectors. Because he only brought servants with firearms.
A total of three hundred people. The most amazing thing is that it is said that the emperor personally approved this matter.
The prosperity of the holy family can be seen. You must know that during the Hongwu period when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, the imperial censor was not allowed to even ride a horse. He could only ride a small donkey to show that he was here to make decisions for the people. Later during the Renxuan period
It was because there was a censor who said that when other officials took office, they had tall horses, but when the patrol commissioner took office, he rode a poor donkey, and the official prestige was completely lost, so the emperor allowed the patrol commissioner to ride a horse.
But I didn't expect that now that the seventh-rank patrol officer has arrived, even the second-rank chief envoy can only serve him respectfully.
Officials in this corner of Guangxi, as long as they are not on the opposite side of the Gao Party, would not want to curry favor with the new inspector who could go to heaven to listen to his words at any time? The inspection power of the inspector is not only because of his heavy supervision
You can supervise any official in the province, but you still need to listen to him when it comes to supervision.
Given the emperor's trust in Gao Zhizhi, how important should his evaluation notes be?
Because of this, all the local officials from Guangxi who could find a reason to come to Guilin came today.
When Gao Pragmatic's official sedan landed, Governor Zhang Renzhang, who was being supported by the left and right, came up with a group of civil and military officials.
Gao pragmatically saw the skinny Zhang Ren as soon as he got off the sedan. Whether it was the style of his official robe or his stance, Gao pragmatically knew his identity immediately.
Without waiting for Zhang Ren to approach with great difficulty, Gao Pragmatic took the initiative to step forward quickly, bowed his hands in a bow, and said, "Attendant Xinzheng Gao Pragmatic, I have met Zhongcheng."
Zhang Ren smiled and raised his hand with difficulty, saying: "You are polite, Shanghai Zhang Ren."
A student, to put it bluntly, is a "student waiting for your guidance", while governors and governors have called each other "a student" when they meet each other. This has a history of about twenty years. This is also one of the signs of the skyrocketing status of the governor.
In fact, in terms of the nature of their duties, the governor and the inspector can really "instruct" each other. The governor is the superior officer, and the inspector supervises all. Doesn't this mean "mutual guidance"?
Gao Pingshi returned the gift again, but he turned slightly sideways, expressing that he did not dare to accept the gift, and then said: "I have just taken up my new post. I am new to Guangxi. I would like to introduce you to my colleagues."
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "Thank you for your help, Prime Minister."
Zhang Ren was obviously trying hard to keep himself up, and even his voice could tell that he was really weak, but he still introduced Gao Pragmatic one by one to the officials who came to greet him today.
There are so many people who came here today, and with my highly pragmatic memory, I can't even remember their faces, names, surnames, place of origin, etc.
Some of the relatively important people he remembered were probably as follows:
Guangxi garrison eunuch Zhang Shaoyi; Guangxi general soldier Wang Shangwen; Guangxi political advisor Hu Chui; Guangxi left political envoy Zhuang Guozhen; Guangxi right political envoy Wu Shan; Guangxi left political advisor Zhao Yumin; Guangxi right political advisor Wang Tianjue; Guangxi left political advisor Chen Shangyi; Guangxi right political advisor
Counselor Peng Yingshi; Guangxi Inspector-General Lin Chengyuan; Guangxi Deputy Inspector-General Lin He; Guangxi Right Counselor and Deputy Governor Jiangyou Guan Liuzhou Qingyuan Sien Jiang Xin; Guangxi Branch Inspector Guilin and Yongning Prefecture County Fuyi Councilor Hou Guozhi; Guangxi Dusi Wang
White jade; Guangxi Yongning ginseng Yusong; Guilin prefect Wu Zhaodong...etc.
What’s funnier is that almost all of these people are red-robed officials (first to fourth-grade uniforms), but when they see him, a green-robed official, they all call themselves “low officials” and “humble positions.” No wonder it’s said that in the Ming Dynasty
When you are an official in the court, you just need to take a look at your rank, but you cannot take it seriously.
However, when we met today, Gao Pragmatic also lamented the power of the Gao Party. Even in a borderland like Guangxi, there are still high-ranking Party officials. For example, Hu Chui, a political scholar in Guangxi, and Zhao Yumin, a left-wing political participant in Guangxi, are all members of the Gao Party.
people.
Among them, Hu Wei was a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing and a student of Gao Gong. His qualifications are already good, and he supervises academic affairs as the right deputy censor of the capital. Therefore, his official rank is the third rank, and he usually has little power in academic administration.
He is big, but noble, and has a respected status. In theory, when Zhang Ren is seriously ill, he can represent Zhang Ren to welcome Gao pragmatism.
Zhao Yumin was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing, a disciple of Guo Pu, and he and Gao Pragmatic were considered brothers. He was not promoted quickly, and he was only a member of the official department last year, but because he took the lead in overthrowing Ling Yunyi
After being impeached, he was later promoted based on merit. He first served as a leftist senator in Huguang for a few months, and then due to a vacancy in Guangxi, he was promoted to a leftist political councilor in Guangxi. He is considered to be the most popular among Guo Pu's disciples after his restoration as prime minister.
However, both Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin were very affectionate and even somewhat respectful when facing Gao Pragmatic.
As for the other officials, Gao Pragmatic still couldn't figure out their identities and positions for the moment, and they would have to wait and see later.
After Zhang Renqiang worked hard to introduce the large number of important officials from Guangxi, he could no longer hold on any longer, so Gao Pragmatic asked him to cancel the ceremony and everyone went back to the Yamen.
The highly pragmatic yamen are not called Guangxi Patrol Yamen, but Guangxi Patrol Procuratorate. In fact, the patrol censor does not have a fixed location, because he has to move around to patrol, so there is a "Cha Yuan" in each place as the actual patrol censor.
The yamen above.
This procuratorate has a long history. It was built during the Hongwu period. It has five main halls and wing rooms, three waterfront rooms, one direct room, three back halls, six left and right corridors, seven gatehouses, and hearing halls on the left and right.
There are three rooms each, which can be regarded as a large courtyard, but compared with the governor's Yamen, it is still not worth mentioning.
After all, the censor is required to keep a low profile and act like he is making decisions for the people.
By the way, in addition to supervision, the patrol magistrate also has the nature of a court and has the right to accept lawsuits from the military and civilians. If the people feel that the county government office is unfair and are unwilling to appeal to the government government office, it does not matter. There is another option, which is to go to the government office.
Patrol appeal.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty court stipulated that lawsuits should be fought level by level. If the people had a dispute, they usually asked the local elders to mediate first. If the mediation failed, they would go to the state and county to file a lawsuit. If the state and county could not resolve the matter, they would appeal to the government.
If the government is dissatisfied, it will appeal to the highest judicial body at the provincial level - the Procuratorate.
This order cannot be messed up. If someone dares to appeal beyond the level and disrupt the judicial order, then no matter whether you are justified or not, you will be slapped fifty times first.
The patrol censor is an official of the central government. Bringing a lawsuit against him is not considered a lawsuit. Moreover, the status of the patrol censor is independent of the local government. This can ensure to a certain extent that the trial of the case will not be interfered by local interests. It is another way for the people to redress their grievances.
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In later generations of movies and TV shows, we often see that at critical moments when local unjust prisons occur, a certain "eight governors" appear on stage, presiding over justice, and are so majestic that all officials present, big or small, kneel when they see him - in fact, the so-called "eight governors"
The "prefecture inspector" has never been a formal official position, and its origin is the inspector censor. It is really no difficulty for the inspector censor to manage the "eight prefectures" - in many cases, there are more than eight prefectures.
The office of Gao Jingshi, the newly appointed "Inspector of the Eight Prefectures" in Guangxi Province, who governs Guilin in Guangxi Province, is the Procuratorate in front of him.
