Early the next morning, Gao Shishi returned to the household yamen to inspect the affairs in accordance with the words promised to the emperor yesterday. Although yesterday's emperor's decree was a central decree, since Gao Shishi had already received the decree, this decree had to be archived in the celebrant supervisor, the cabinet and the six sections, and this process had to pass through the general administration department, so the content had already spread.

Under the premise that the emperor ordered Gao Pragmatic to go out and look at things three times a day, there was no problem for Gao Pragmatic to return to the household department, and others could not say any gossip. If you really want to say it, the emperor's third will itself is the focus, and if Gao Shishi accepts such a will and refuses to come out, it will be big news.

There are Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili in the household yamen, and they can basically maintain normal operation these days, although there is a backlog of some documents that need to be reviewed and approved by high pragmatism, but the smaller things are handled cleanly, saving a lot of trouble for high pragmatism.

As for the "ministry" level official documents that need to be signed and printed by Gao Pragmatic, there are only seven or eight in total, all of which are neatly placed on Gao Pragmatic's desk, and even the two waiters also wrote a note to make a brief introduction and approval suggestions for these official documents, so that Gao Pragmatic can experience the feeling of looking at the vote.

Although it has only been six or seven years since he was officially released, the experience of his previous life and the experience of observing politics are not in vain after all, and he has also reviewed Jinghua's internal documents for a long time, so that Gao Shishi can read the official documents very quickly, and he will complete the rewriting of these seven or eight official documents in less than half an hour.

He was about to invite Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili to discuss the specific arrangements for the establishment of the "Two Offices and Eleven Divisions", but suddenly received news that the emperor had announced the cabinet elders and important ministers such as Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, and Shen Li, the imperial history of Zuodu, to the Wenhua Hall early in the morning.

Then after a short time, news came out from the palace that Ding Hai Jingcha was about to begin.

Jingcha is a political system initiated by the Ming Dynasty to regularly inspect officials in the north and south of Beijing. The establishment of this system has been a long process.

During the Taizu period, an attempt was made to Jingcha, but its implementation was carried out according to the emperor's personal will, and it was not until the early years of Yingzong's orthodoxy that a certain system was formed; After the continuous adjustment and attempts of the four emperors of Yingzong, Jingdi, Xianzong and Xiaozong, a fixed system of "one inspection in six years" was finally formed in the Wuzong period.

After the year of Jingcha was relatively fixed, there were many other factors that had an impact on the specific time of Jingcha, mainly including the emperor's personal wishes, celestial changes, and the involvement of powerful ministers in politics.

This Dinghai Jingcha should normally be carried out at the beginning of the year, but at the beginning of the year, the emperor's main energy was spent on "where to cut expenses". Immediately after that, there was the Northwest Rebellion, so Jingcha was delayed, until today it was suddenly mentioned by the emperor - for the hundred officials of the Jingshi, this is a bit like a sneak attack.

The responsibilities of Jingcha were shared by a large number of departments and officials. The departments that played the most important role in it were the Ministry of Officials and the Imperial Procuratorate, and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and the Imperial History of the Left (or Right) were the most important officials in charge of the Jingcha; The prefects of the Examination and Merit Department of the Ministry of Officials, the Henan Province of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the three yamen of the Officials Section (one of the six departments) jointly undertook the duties of the preliminary examination of the Jingcha.

Generally speaking, most of the rulings of the Jingcha were made at the first trial, and when the court trial was presided over by the Minister's Department Shangshu and the Left (Right) Metropolitan Imperial Historian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, only individual persons with minor connections were dealt with separately. In other words, the official department Shangshu and the Zuodu Imperial History are "in charge", mainly for high-ranking officials or special officials, and the vast majority of "inspection" is actually completed by the Ministry of Officials' Examination Division, the Metropolitan Procuratorate Henan Province and the Officials Section.

The implementation of Jingcha includes two aspects: court trial and self-presentation. The court trial was aimed at low-level officials of the fifth grade and below, while the self-presentation was aimed at middle and high-ranking officials above the fourth grade.

Before the trial, there is a series of preparations, sometimes taking almost half a year, so these tasks are usually carried out in advance – this is also the case in this case – and the actual trial takes only one day. The self-presentation of middle and high-ranking officials does not require much preparation.

After the court trial and self-presentation, it is necessary to approve in the name of the emperor, and then the official can "pick up the legacy". When the Ministry of Officials reviews the results of the collection and reports to the emperor for final ruling, the Jingcha will be over.

Like the principles of handling other major matters, the outcome of Jingcha was also affected in many ways.

The emperor has supreme authority in the Ming Dynasty, and has the "final decision" over the departure and retention, rewards and punishments of officials, and of course the same is true in Jingcha, holding the final decision.

As an auxiliary political institution, the cabinet has been above the officials since Yan Song, so its influence in Jingcha should not be underestimated; As the competent agency of officials, the Ministry of Officials is also the main responsible agency of Jingcha, and its influence on the results of Jingcha is obvious; The Metropolitan Procuratorate can also cooperate or contain the officials to a certain extent.

As for the officials of the yamen hall like Gao Shishi, because they have the right to fill in the examination language, they can also give a certain degree of care to the subordinate officials of their own departments in the Beijing inspection - of course, if you want to suppress it, it is also "by the way".

The reason why Gao Pragmatic got the news so early was precisely because he was an official of the household ministry and had the right to evaluate the subordinate officials of his own department. But he doesn't really intend to exercise that power — for obvious reasons: he was impeached and closed on his role only a few days ago, and he didn't come out to see the matter until today.

To be serious, he actually only did the Household Department Shangshu for five days, so he planned to delegate this power to Cheng Wen and Hu Zhili, and he himself should be a ghostwriter, just write comments according to the opinions of the two of them.

Perhaps the news of Jingcha came too suddenly, and it was not a big deal for Gao Shi to come out and look at things, and even the "Zhengguoben" incident, which was in the limelight, had to give way to Ding Hai Jingcha.

Everyone was caught off guard, and the officials were clearly the eye of the storm.

Yang Wei, the official of the Ministry of Officials, just returned to the Ministry of Officials for a while, and immediately returned to the palace again under the pretext of discussing the key points of this Beijing inspection with the cabinet, and went to the cabinet of Wenyuan Pavilion to hide from the wind.

However, although others slipped away to the cabinet to see the direction of the wind, as a side of the Shixue School, it was obviously not fortunate that he was able to mix in the position of the secretary of the ministry.

When he went to the cabinet, he naturally went to Xu Guo, Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui to discuss the action, but this was only an action on the surface. In private, he immediately sent his cronies to quietly come to the household to ask for Gao Shishi.

Speaking of which, Yang Wei has long been prepared for this year's Dinghai Jingcha, after all, the six-yearly Jingcha has been "written as an order" for decades, and preparing in advance on time is what every official should do.

It's just that this year's situation in the DPRK is not very stable, and since the rebellion in the northwest has basically calmed down, it has changed even more. One moment it is a case of slandering the king, and another moment it is the foundation of the country, which really cannot be stopped.

He has also been busy stabilizing people's hearts these days, hoping that his old friends and protégés related to him will not interfere at will, and must wait for the situation to be clear, such as Gao Pragmatic's statement, and then follow Shangshu.

Now the dispute between the two factions with Wang Xijue's arrival in Beijing, there are obvious signs of white-hot, although Yang Wei is a heavenly official, but now is the period when the cabinet power suppresses the power of the ministry, plus the real school and the heart school are both political groups of this level of power, he can't afford to provoke any of them, so he naturally has to follow the crowd.

However, this trend is not very easy to follow, he still bets on Gao Pragmatic after thinking about it, but he also does the etiquette to Xu Guo's side, and strives not to offend both.

Although Yang Wei didn't know why the emperor suddenly made this move, as a heavenly official, he quickly guessed that the emperor might want to use Jingcha to distract the attention of hundreds of officials and continue to delay the matter of "Zhengguoben".

However, no matter what the emperor's purpose is, now that Dinghai Jingcha has started, the officials are the first to bear the brunt. How to grasp the general direction of this Jingcha, he must figure it out.

The general direction of this kind of thing, to ask Xu Guo is just for example, and it is reliable to ask Gao pragmatic. After all, if you are not careful, this kind of thing in Jingcha may make a big fuss, and if you want to be okay after the trouble, many times you have to rely on "public opinion", and the vast majority of people in the real school are following Gao Pragmatism.

But Gao Pragmatic's reply to him was very simple: "The responsibility of this examination is only for the heavenly officials to depose at their discretion, and there is no need to investigate deeply." ”

Yang Wei didn't receive this message until noon, and after listening to it, he was relieved, and immediately returned to the ministry from the cabinet, and ordered the officials to take full responsibility for this matter.

High pragmatism is not nonsense, and there is nothing wrong with this approach itself. As the department directly responsible for the Beijing Inspection, the Department of Examination of Meritorious Service is "in charge of the examination of officials and the affairs of the diligent affairs, and praises the books", and its duty is to "evaluate the merits and demerits of the officials, do not do their best and do the best, and play the role of deposing the officials", which plays an extremely important role in the Beijing Inspection. The Ming people have always attached great importance to the role of the examination department, for example, when Chen Younian wrote the title for the examination division, he respected his status to "the world is clear if it is gained, and it is quiet if it is lost; If you gain it, you will be reasonable, and if you lose it, you will be chaotic".

In the original history, Wang Xijue said when he talked about Jingcha in the 21st year of Wanli: "This year's inspection is under the special charge of Zhao Nanxing in Langzhong", and this time Jingcha is "different from Taiwan Province", which has led to different discussions, but "the officials of the headquarters and halls are in the department, and they do not admit guilt on their behalf, or their system should not be deeply guilty."

Chen Younian, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Officials at the time, also said when evaluating the performance of Qian Shiwan in the Jingcha in the 21st year of Wanli's Nanjing Gong Gong Lang: "It is difficult to do things, and it is especially difficult to deal with grievances. What the ministers have seen, the scholars have no complaints."

The official department of Shangshu believes that the Jingcha is specifically responsible for the examination of merit, so the consequences of causing bad should be borne by the officials of the examination department; Cabinet ministers also consider this approach "decent"; The chief inspector also thinks that the meritorious examination is really a matter of grievances.

It can be seen that the role of the Examination Division in Jingcha is so great and the responsibility is so great that the imperial court thinks that the Examination Division is the "competent unit" of Jingcha.

This kind of situation is not only in the Wanli Dynasty, as early as the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, Xue Yinglu "for the Nanjing Gong Shi Langzhong, the main Jingcha." Yan Song, a university scholar, was impeached by Wang Ye in the matter, and instructed Shang Baocheng Zhujie to write a letter to the brigade, and ordered Dianye.

Even Yan Song, who was in power at that time, wanted to depose people who had personal grievances, and he still needed to ask the meritorious officer to do it, and the importance of the meritorious examination in the Beijing inspection can be seen.

Specifically, "every year of internal and external calculations in the examination of meritorious service, its use must be limited to the spring and summer of the first year. After the internal and external inspections, the official in charge of the seal of the meritorious department should still stay in the department for a few days, and there are no officials in the search, or the department is the secretary to distinguish it, or it is the public opinion of the common pity, one by one, the note is clear, with the seal cover, personally pay the election of the department, and shall not engage in bad deeds. This move must be completed by the official before the fifth or sixth day of the first month of February, and submitted to the court for brief reading. ”

It can also be seen from these regulations and explanations that it is usually necessary to prepare for Kyocha for almost a year in advance; And even after Jingcha, Kaogong Shilangzhong still undertook the task of doing a good job in the follow-up work of Jingcha.

In this case, Gao Pragmatism asked Yang Wei to "depose as appropriate, without further investigation" according to the results of the preliminary evaluation of the Gong Division, which is no problem in terms of reason and habit.

But after Yang Wei ordered this, he didn't feel relaxed at all, he always felt that he seemed to have neglected something.

After a while, Yang Tianguan, who was already seventy-two years old and had been forcibly retained by the emperor for two more years, was suddenly shocked: Oops! There is no Lang Zhong in the Gong Division!

To be exact, it is not that there is no Lang Zhong in the examination division, but that Lang Zhong was the then examination meritorious secretary who had a sudden illness half a month ago, and he has been staying at home to recuperate during this time, and it is said that he can't even get out of bed.

The current Ministry of Officials Examination and Clearing Officials Division lacks the chief officer, and it is the deputy official who examines the merits of the Wai Lang who is in charge!

Who is the examiner Wailang? Gu Xiancheng.

Thinking of this, Yang Wei threw his panic away from the clouds again, and secretly said: Okay, good, this kid Gao Qiuzhen is really scheming...... I'm afraid he wants to borrow a knife to kill someone this time?

Gu Xiancheng, the famous "Mr. Donglin" in later generations, was the same year as Gao Shishi, and his results were also very good, and he was the second in the second class. His reputation among the Shilin is not small, but at this time, the official position is not high, and he is just a foreign officer of the Ministry of Officials, and he is only a minor official from the fifth grade.

Although his official position was small, he was famous, and one of the important factors was that although he was not an official of the Shixue School, he often attacked the political views of the Xinxue School.

One thing must be said here is that Gu Xiancheng and even the early Donglin Party believed that what they had learned was real. It's just that they are actually the same as the school of mind, and they should belong to the category of "moral practice", and they have nothing to do with the Jingshi practice of the high arch lineage.

Since they are all "moral realism", and Gu Xiancheng does not agree with the exaggerated style of the Xin School, it is normal for Gu Xiancheng to criticize the Xin School in order to "clean up the source".

Yang Wei hadn't thought about one thing in detail before, but now he had to doubt: Gu Xiancheng has been out of office for seven years, and he is not from a practical school, and he attacks Xinxue at every turn, why hasn't he lost his official position now? Even he entered the ministry in a grand manner, and safely and securely achieved the real power position of the meritorious secretary Wailang?

Does Gu Xiancheng have any justification? Shilin's reputation must be unreliable, Shen Shixing really wants to fix him, just find a fault and he will get out, Shilin's reputation can't save him.

Yang Wei thought about it and found that there was only one possibility that Gu Xiancheng could rely on: he and Gao Xiancheng were in the same year, and others, including the Heart School, were not sure whether moving Gu Xiancheng would cause Gao Xiancheng's overreaction.

Yang Tianguan suddenly felt a little chill behind his back: Could it be that even Gu Xiancheng's job arrangement was an ambush laid by Gao Qiuzhen's kid in advance?

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