At this time, there will be a single-day meeting, and a two-day meeting. The second day of Du Zhongxiao's official entry into Beijing was the sixth day of August, not the day of the last dynasty, and he arrived at the Yushitai early. Du Zhongxiao's home is in the east of Yujie, Yushitai is in the west of Yujie, and the south of Zhongshu, which is a few miles away in the past.

The officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory have already arrived, standing in front of the door, to greet the new chief of the Imperial Historical Observatory. Everything was as good as a ceremony, and he entered the gate of the Imperial Observatory.

At this time, the Imperial Historical Observatory officially had 11 officials and 32 officials, divided into 14 cases. Standing in front of the official hall, the officials themselves stepped forward to introduce. Du Zhongxiao couldn't remember it completely for a while, but he just remembered the eight most important officials.

Guo Shenxi, the eighth year of Tiansheng, was more than sixty years old at this time, with gray hair and strong spirit. This is the deputy of Yushitai, Du Zhongxiao's assistant, and his status is not comparable to others. Serving the imperial Shi Liang Qian, Wu Zhongfu, and Fan Shidao, all of whom are Tiansheng and Baoyuanjian Jinshi, have been officials for many years, have political voices in the local area, and are in charge of the Taiwan Academy. In the palace, the imperial Shi Lu Jingchu and Zhao Luan were in charge of the palace. Supervise the imperial historian Ding Xu and Shen Qi, and take charge of the procuratorate.

Among these eight people, Zhao Luan, the palace attendant, was Du Zhongxiao's superior when he first entered the office, and the rest were meeting for the first time. Everyone is not familiar with it, and Du Zhongxiao is not familiar with the affairs of the Yushitai, so he has nothing to say, but said: "The Yushitai is a place of wind and constitution, and it is not an ordinary place to go in charge of the imperial court. You have all been in Taiwan for a long time, so in the future, you should only be sincere and fearful, and live up to the trust of the imperial court. ”

Everyone bowed down and said yes.

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's not early, you go back to the official office early to deal with official business." This afternoon, I invite you out for a drink and to have a good time. Zhao Dianyuan, you come to the official hall and gossip. ”

When everyone heard this, they took their leave. Zhao Luan stepped forward and followed Du Zhongxiao into the official hall. When they arrived at the official hall, the two of them sat down, and the soldier on one side served tea. Most of these soldiers are subordinate to the Third Division, do some miscellaneous things, and are not subordinate to the Imperial History Taizhong. The establishment of this era was to be paid by the imperial court, and the number of officials was determined, and it could not be increased or decreased at will.

Du Zhongxiao invited tea and said to Zhao Luan: "I haven't seen you for many years, but I didn't expect to meet the judge here." ”

Zhao Pan said: "The lower officials were appointed as the judge in Bozhou back then, and Zhongcheng was dissatisfied with it, so it was good not to be surprised." ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "How come! When I was in office in Bozhou, if I didn't have your help, where would I be today. Over the years, I have been an official everywhere, and I have been lucky enough to have some credit, and I have been appointed to the position of Zhongcheng, but I am above the palace. ”

Zhao Pan arched his hand and said: "Zhongcheng is naturally smart and has a degree of work, how can he be compared with ordinary people." ”

After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled. The ups and downs of these years have all been turned into this laugh. Zhao Luan is an iron-faced imperial history, he has been in the imperial history platform for many years, and when it comes to offending people, there is no one in the imperial history platform who can compare to him. And Zhao Luan has a hard temper, Du Zhongxiao shows kindness, and the two can work together. Yushi Zhongcheng is the head of the Yushi Tower, but now the officials below are playing things, and there is no need for Yushi Zhongcheng to agree, and there is a lot of independence.

After some gossip, Du Zhongxiao said: "Palace, what affairs in the court and the central government need special attention from the imperial history platform now?" ”

Zhao Pan thought for a while and shook his head: "In the first half of this year, the Holy Communion was not safe, and the Prime Minister Wen and Xianggong handled things in a moderate manner, and there was nothing important about it. However, before Zhongcheng returned to the court, the Privy Council Di Taiwei and Han Taiwei were appointed as the economic envoys of the north and south of the party respectively, and the imperial court was obviously interested in the party. If there is a war, the affairs of the party front are naturally the most urgent. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "This is the truth. Now that the finances are abundant, there are no major internal events, and there is only the attention of the government and the opposition to the party's war. ”

After speaking, Du Zhongxiao said: "According to the palace, what should be played in the office of the imperial history?" ”

Zhao Pan said: "At this time, the so-called Taiwan admonition is really the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and what you say and do is very important. I thought that the first thing to do was to divide the gentleman and the villain. If it is a villain, even if the fault is small, it should be vigorously admonished in order to get rid of it. If you are a gentleman, even if you don't check your mistakes for a while, you should protect and cherish them in order to achieve your virtue. This is the top priority, and Zhongcheng cannot ignore it. ”

Du Zhongxiao listened, nodded, and did not speak for a while. Heavy villain gentleman, he has heard more than one person talk about it in the past few years, and it has gradually become a trend. But what I learned and the education I received in my previous life emphasized that I was right about things and not about people. If you think you are a gentleman, you are really a gentleman? Things in the world are extremely complex, where can they be so simple to distinguish?

Paying attention to gentlemen and villains in politics, and even dividing officials into gentlemen's party and villain's party, shows that there are big problems in the political system and the bureaucratic system itself, and some people are unable to adapt to it. Even if you follow the rules, it's not all right. Not to mention, in many cases, it is more appropriate to ignore the regulations and make your own claims. In addition, in the two dynasties of Zhenzong and the current emperor, it was the time when the status of the literati was rising rapidly and they were fully in control, and their responsibilities were not clear, and more attention was paid to character.

Are there any gentlemen and villains in officialdom? Realistically, there should be. But for officials, the number of people who can be clearly divided into gentlemen and villains is very limited. In other words, the vast majority of officials can neither say that he is a gentleman nor a villain, but that they are nothing more than receiving a salary and doing a ministry. These people who can't be distinguished are forcibly separated by the requirements of the gentleman and the villain's party.

When Du Zhongxiao came to take charge of the Yushitai, he no longer wanted to use gentlemen and villains to distinguish officials, but sought truth from facts. Regardless of identity, doing it right is right, and if it's wrong, it's wrong, and Yushi is relatively neutral. Now it seems that there should be many difficulties in doing so.

After thinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao suddenly smiled: "According to the palace, am I a gentleman or a villain?" ”

Zhao Pan hurriedly gave up his hand: "When Zhongcheng was on Jingxi Road, he opened camps, shopping malls and the like, so that there was no shortage of money. Out of the border for the handsome, successively defeated the great enemies of the imperial court, the Khitan, the party, expanded thousands of miles, the court relied on it. Sending troops thousands of miles to restore the Western Regions is a peerless achievement that people dare not imagine! Like Zhongcheng, the gentleman is not good, who dares to look at it as a villain! ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, and shook his head again: "But when I think back to what I have done every day, it seems that many things cannot completely return to the gentleman's trip." Although he is cautious in doing things on weekdays, there is no lack of opportunism. If I want to divide officials into gentlemen and villains, it is really difficult for me. Of course, I don't know the courtiers well, and when I first came to the capital, maybe it will be different after a long time. ”

Zhao Pan said: "Zhongcheng said this, it's just that you used to pay attention to facts, and you didn't pay much attention to character. As long as we carefully observe and think carefully about what officials of the DPRK and China are doing, we will always be able to distinguish what they are doing. ”

Du Zhongxiao knew that Zhao Luan was himself, and he would burn incense and pray every night, tell the heavens what he had done during the day, and check whether he was at fault. For such people, their own set of theories is of great use. He has his own rules of doing things, and he has the perspective of observing others, and he will not be changed by a few words. In fact, Zhao Luan is suitable to be a counselor, but now the Taiwan official and the counselor are converging.

After thinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "I thought that the Taiwan official should be divided into two parts. Part of it is for the ministry, what the ministry should do, and if the official does something wrong, he can be impeached. The other is a person who does things in accordance with the rules but has selfish intentions. These two aspects should not replace each other, and should be the first one as the main and the latter as the secondary, with a clear distinction between primary and secondary. Of course, the rules of the ministry are not so clear, and they are too cumbersome to know where to start. ”

Zhao Pan nodded and did not speak, obviously disagreeing with Du Zhongxiao's opinion.

This is where Du Zhongxiao felt embarrassed, what he learned in his previous life, when it comes to gentlemen and villains, that is, gentlemen are hypocrites, but they are not as good as the real villains among villains. In fact, now is the time when the dispute between gentlemen and villains really enters politics, where do so many hypocrites come from? Most people choose not to join at all, and only when the gentleman and villain have become the common mask in politics in the back, do they wear it separately.

Zhao Luan is a true gentleman. No matter what he does, what he knows, what is not in line with what he says is a gentleman, from the bottom of his heart, he treats himself as a gentleman, and he is strict. After this time, there are hypocrites and real villains.

It is precisely because we know that the clear division between the gentleman and the villain in politics has become common, and the destruction of politics itself will be opposed to the political division of the gentleman and the villain, rather than the other way around. Countries without this kind of history are different, just like the political correctness of many European and American countries in Du Zhongxiao's previous life, in fact, they have the legacy of gentlemen and villains.

If it didn't happen, how could Du Zhongxiao convince others? Du Zhongxiao himself had a headache because of this. If you are in charge of the Imperial Throne yourself, you should establish a system to prevent this from happening. It's just that how the system will be established is still not well said.

After chatting for a while, Du Zhongxiao said goodbye to Zhao Luan, and pondered after the case.

Zhao Luan's attitude represents not only him, but actually represents the general attitude of the current Taiwan officials. This is also a political reality, where the specific supervisory duties are emasculated and added to the function of speech, the reaction of officials to their own status. In order to rectify this trend, the first thing should be to improve the supervision responsibilities. When there is more ministry to do practical things, there will be fewer false words.

Although there are regulations of each yamen, and the specific decisions of the Zhongshu and the Privy Council are sent here before the performance, there is still too little real supervision. With so few officials, it is impossible to achieve real supervision, but only superficially.

What can be changed to achieve true surveillance, not just superficiality? Du Zhongxiao sat there, deep in thought. I still have too little understanding of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the current Chinese book, and the privy, and I feel that there is no place to start for a while.