Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety Six: Pointing to the East and West?
In the system of the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy was also a very special yamen.
Although it is said that, like other yamen, the Hanlin Academy has chief officials and assistant officers, and the bachelor in charge has the power to control the officials in the yamen.
However, the special thing about the Hanlin Academy is that this yamen is the closest yamen to the emperor besides the cabinet.
Diligent study has been the way to prosperity for saints since ancient times. Therefore, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been a tradition of sutra feasts.
The banquet of learning scriptures has therefore become an errand of reward.
However, no matter who the ministers were who knew the banquet, it must be these ordinary officials of the Hanlin Academy who were really responsible for running the banquet and often discussing the history and political affairs with the emperor.
The so-called Qingliu Huaxuan, the attendant ministers, comes from this.
It is precisely because the high-ranking officials of the Hanlin Academy are qualified to participate in the morning dynasty and the Sutra banquet. Therefore, in fact, Xiao Fan, the bachelor of the Academy, wants to use power to bring these arrogant Hanlin people under his sect. It is actually very difficult.
difficulty.
Although on the surface, these editors and lecturers were all polite when treating Xiao Tan.
However, it is basically impossible to make them obey the command of Xiao Fan, the bachelor of the academy, like other yamen.
In many key government affairs, these people would rather help their teacher, Chen Xun, the current minister of the Ministry of Industry, than follow Xiao Fan, the bachelor in charge of the academy.
As for those common people, because Xiao Tan held their future in his hands, he was respectful.
However, they only watch the government and do not even have serious official positions, let alone speak out in the court. At most, they are reserve troops.
Therefore, for Xiao Tan, on the one hand, he hopes to use this spring to recruit a group of talents and bring them under his sect.
On the other hand, he also hopes to promote a group of people who are close to him through Shujishi's disbandment.
You know, during this period of time, although Xiao Tan seemed to have done nothing, he had already identified several candidates.
He originally planned to temper the remaining ones, but now...
Seeing Wang Wen's smiling face, Academician Xiao cursed in his heart, but he didn't speak for a long time, just a sad look on his face.
He doesn’t want to go against the emperor either!
Xiao Tan's career was actually not smooth. He sat on the bench at the Imperial Academy for many years, but in the Jingtai Dynasty, he was suddenly promoted to the position of Hanlin bachelor.
Xiao Tan was grateful to the emperor.
During this period, the emperor's attitude towards the Hanlin Academy was not very popular, which made Xiao Tan feel even more sorry.
He always felt that he was not capable enough to unify the voice of the Hanlin Academy, so that the emperor could not use such a great team of close servants in the court.
From this perspective, he actually did not want to disobey the emperor's wishes.
However, the three places in the hospital are too few...
Academician Xiao hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to try again.
As a result, before he could speak, the emperor's voice rang again.
"Mr. Xiao, how many people are there currently in the Hanlin Academy who serve as readers, lecturers, editors, editors, and reviewers?"
The Hanlin Academy is the same as other yamen. The chief officer is the Hanlin bachelor, who is also called the Zhangyuan bachelor in the government and the public. There are four assistant officials, two ministerial bachelors and two ministerial bachelors each.
Further down, there are the 6th level official, serving as a reading and lecturer, the 6th level editor, the 7th level editor, and the 7th level review.
At ordinary Sutra banquets, it was usually Xiao Tan who came forward with one of the bachelor's students and one of the bachelor's lecturers, while the others served at a distance. Therefore, it was not surprising that the emperor did not know exactly how many of them there were.
What puzzled Xiao Fan was why the topic suddenly turned to this place?
But even though he didn't want to understand it, Xiao Tan didn't dare to neglect and said.
"Your Majesty, in the Hanlin Academy, there are four people who are reading, three people are lecturers, six people are editors, seven people are editors, and eleven people are reviewers."
These people are all Chen Xun's disciples...
Academician Xiao added silently in his heart.
As a result, everyone could see with their naked eyes that there was a look of doubt on the emperor's face, and they could only hear the emperor say.
"Otsuka Zai, Hanlin Academy, why are there so many people?"
This sentence confused the elders present.
What does this mean?
Why, did you only know today that there are so many people in the Hanlin Academy?
Besides, is there anything wrong with this?
Seeing everyone's confused looks, the Emperor's brows quickly furrowed, and he was obviously a little angry.
At this time, Mr. Wang, who claimed to know the emperor best, finally reacted and said.
"Your Majesty, the Imperial Academy's system was established in the 14th year of Hongwu's reign. According to the system, the Imperial Academy has one bachelor, two attendant bachelors, two attendant lecturers, two attendant bachelors, two attendant lecturers, and three compilers.
There are four people each, including editors and reviewers. Nowadays, there are indeed more officials in the Hanlin Academy than custom-made ones."
When Wang Wen said this, the other ministers immediately reacted.
The ministers who were able to enter the hall today, except for the clan members and nobles, were all knowledgeable and memorized people. They were at least familiar with the many changes in the imperial court's regulations, if not familiar with them.
Indeed, from an institutional perspective, the Hanlin Academy should not have so many officials.
However, this is actually a historical issue.
Wang Wen just said that the quota system of the Hanlin Academy was established during the Hongwu period.
However, the system of Shujishi was only established in the second year of Yongle.
According to the original design of the Hanlin Academy, the top three in the first class can enter the Hanlin Academy and be directly appointed as officials. The examination is held every three years, which coincides with the number of years for the assessment of Hanlin Academy officials.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, every three years, the Ministry of Personnel will conduct an assessment of the officials of the Hanlin Academy. The superior ones will be promoted, the inferior ones will be demoted, and the vacant positions will be given to the newly promoted first-class Jinshi.
However, due to the addition of a Shujishi system in the Yongle Dynasty, this cycle was broken.
The first-level Jinshi are still awarded directly, but the Shujishi will stay in the Hanlin Academy after they leave the academy, which leads to a serious oversubscription in the Hanlin Academy.
As time passed, the courtiers got used to it.
Just like these official positions in the Hanlin Academy, except for the bachelor's degree in charge and the second assistant officer, all others have no quota and are awarded as many as there are.
However, after reacting, the elders were suddenly shocked.
Could it be said that the emperor had already planned to clean up the Hanlin Academy?
Thinking about it more carefully, it seems that the emperor has never been very close to the Hanlin Academy since he ascended the throne, and...
The elders looked around and realized that Chen Xun, the Minister of Industry and Industry, who was the former academician in charge and could best solve the problems of the Hanlin Academy, had not been summoned.
In fact, just before Wang Wen said these words, no one thought about it. After all, the discussion of military settlements had nothing to do with the Ministry of Industry. It was normal that Chen Xun was not summoned.
But, if you think about it more deeply, is this really the case?
Others don't know the memorial to the Ministry of War and Yu Qian's plans, but if he didn't tell the emperor in advance, the elders would definitely not believe it.
So, if the emperor really planned to let Shu Jishi transfer to the academic field and let Chen Xun come over, it should be the best way.
After all, these shujishi are different from the editors and editors who have been awarded officials. Although they have a teacher-student relationship with Chen Xun, since they are shujishi, it means that they have not been in the Hanlin Academy for a few years, and the new head of the academy
The bachelor is also their teacher.
Therefore, if it was possible to transfer them out, Chen Xun would be very happy.
However, the emperor did not do this, and the implications of this are worth pondering...