Guo Yunhou felt a little surprised in his heart about Chongzhen's reaction, but he still didn't show it in the end. To be honest, he submitted this plan to Chongzhen, not to recommend Li Changshi to the emperor.

The other officials' ignorance of practice led to too many loopholes in the plan he had submitted to the emperor, and Guo Yunhou obviously did not plan to take his political life for the sake of the face of the household officials.

As Chongzhen said, in terms of operability, the plan drawn up by Li Changshi, who was still a small official, is more in line with reality. The household department not only saves a lot of manpower, but also does not have to spend too much.

As for whether this plan met the emperor's requirements or could be approved by officials from other departments, Guo Yunhou felt that this was not a question for him to consider. If the emperor supported this plan, even if something went wrong, the responsibility of the household department would be reduced by half.

If the emperor did not approve of this plan, it would be just a good time to suppress those officials of the household department who were not from the right path. These officials relied on their own understanding of the practice of the household department and the support of the emperor, but they slowly began to look down on the officials from the imperial examination.

No matter what choice Chongzhen makes, Guo Yunhou thinks that there will be no harm in him. But he really didn't expect that Chongzhen could restrain his emotions in such a short time.

After all, in Li Changshi's plan, he mercilessly criticized the emperor's land reform in Shunyi, believing that the best result of this land reform was to add some prestige to the emperor, but this land reform policy could not be extended to all parts of the country.

Even if the landlords everywhere did not resist, they obediently obeyed the emperor's orders and handed over their land to the imperial court for redistribution. However, land alone could not be used for agricultural production, and the imperial court had to distribute farm tools, livestock, grain, fertilizer, and so on to these landless peasant households.

This kind of land reform policy may not succeed even after Zhang Juzheng's reform, when the treasury is at its fullest, let alone the unusually empty treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Guo Yunhou thought that the young and vigorous Chongzhen would be furious after seeing these comments. So he didn't plan to take out this plan, and in order to avoid leaving the impression in the emperor's mind that the household department was ineffective, he had to take out this plan again.

As he expected, when he saw the plan for the first time, Chongzhen was indeed a little annoyed and angry. However, he did not expect that the emperor would be able to calm down in such a short period of time and revisit this plan.

Guo Yunhou naturally couldn't refuse the emperor's current request, and he promised to retire to the emperor. And after Chongzhen handed over the plan to Wang Chengen and asked him to put it away, he passed on the new minister's left attendant Wen Tiren to see him.

Wen Tiren was very satisfied before entering Chongzhen's office, and he asked Zhou Yanru to join him with him, Xu Guangqi's Scientific Progressive Party, but he did not expect that he would be immediately promoted to the position of the left squire of the ministry.

Speaking of which, it gave him a jackpot. Therefore, when Wen Tiren walked into the office of the emperor of Wenhua Palace, he seemed to be a little imposing.

Looking at Wen Tiren who walked in, Zhu Youzhen motioned to the attendant on the side to give him the treatment of giving him a seat, and asked Wen Tiren to come and speak. In fact, the promotion of Wen Tiren was completely advocated by Zhu Youzhen, and Xu Guangqi actually didn't agree with it.

Zhu Youzhen promoted Wen Tiren not because he had some influence on the name, but because he heard that Wen Tiren persuaded Zhou Yanru, and both of them joined the Science Progressive Party in the first batch.

This is the first time that a minister who advocates Xinxue has asked to join the Party for Scientific Progress, and most officials either hesitate to wait and see, or have been recruited into the party by Qian Qianyi.

Zhu Youzhen naturally wanted to set an example for everyone and let the officials below know that although he verbally said that the two parties were treated equally, in fact there were still some differences.

After all, he could not watch the Scientific Progressive Party eventually become a small group marginalized by the mainstream officials of the imperial court. Therefore, despite Xu Guangqi's obstruction, he appointed Wen Tiren to a new position.

Transferred from a Qingshui Yamen to the first official of the six departments as the left waiter, Wen Tiren naturally wanted to do some work to show himself. And Xu Guangqi's busy affairs also made the daily affairs of the Ministry of Officials fall on the two servants of the Ministry of Officials.

Wen Tiren only observed for a few days before he understood the inner workings of the ministry. Xu Guangqi rarely interfered in the specific affairs of the ministry, but only grasped a major direction.

And Cheng Ji, who served as the right attendant of the ministry, was only 3 months ahead of him, and this prestigious minister in the Donglin Party was originally elected as the left servant of the ministry, but under the suppression of the emperor, the Donglin Party still did not get his wish.

Now that he jumped out and took away the position of the left servant of the ministry, Wen Tiren thought that Cheng Jiming would never be happy to see him take over this position.

And with Xu Guangqi's age and the many affairs he is responsible for, Wen Tiren believes that the new school leader that Chongzhen relies on may not be able to stay in this position for a long time.

In this way, he has a good chance to compete for the position of the No. 1 Shangshu in the six departments. And if you want to take over Xu Guangqi's position, you naturally have to get Chongzhen's approval first.

Therefore, he was extremely cautious about the first meeting with Chongzhen of the newly appointed minister, Zuo Shilang, hoping to leave Chongzhen with an impression that he was reliable and able to do things.

Zhu Youzhen didn't think much about Wen Tiren's thoughts, and after Wen Tiren sat down, he said to Wen Tiren straight to the point: "Wen Shilang has just taken office, and he should have given you a few days to familiarize himself with the environment of the new department. However, now there are too many places in the Ming officialdom that need to be renovated, so you can only get familiar with the environment while working, so I think you shouldn't have any problems, right? ”

Wen Tiren naturally followed Chongzhen's meaning and immediately replied that there was no question, but he was confused in his heart, and he didn't know what task the emperor was going to arrange for him just after meeting him.

Zhu Youzhen quickly cleared up his doubts, "Some officials in the Ministry of Officials were gloomy and blindly copied the previous rules, and promoted their official positions based on seniority, completely ignoring the needs of various departments and localities, and whether these promoted officials had the ability to do things.

As a result, there was a miasma in the court, and everyone took not doing things as the best policy, just waiting for the time limit to be upgraded step by step. There are also many officials who look for ways everywhere when they come to the mediation, bent on running for official positions and seeking officials, getting themselves a beautiful job, and scraping the ground after taking office.

Some officials do not like to go to the border areas where the old and the young are poor to become officials, nor do they like to go to the places where the trend of litigation in the south of the Yangtze River is prevalent, and it is better to be officials in Jiangxi, Anhui, and Zhejiang, where there are many rivers and rivers, and there is a lot of money and grain. If this kind of unhealthy trend is not brought under control, I am afraid it will not work.

Therefore, after Wen Shilang took office, I have a lot of hope for you, and I hope that you can rectify this unhealthy trend in officialdom after you take office. The appointment and dismissal of officials by the imperial court is for the purpose of governing the country and the locality, not to satisfy the needs of some people who are soaring and engaging in the trick of chickens and dogs ascending to heaven..."

Wen Tiren sat on his knees and listened to Chongzhen's complaints tremblingly. He didn't expect that before his position as the left attendant of the ministry was hot, Chongzhen would throw such a big trouble.

Last year, it can be said that the officials of the six departments in the capital were well cleaned up, and the officials of the household department, the official department, and the military department were replaced the most, and many old and incompetent officials were persuaded to return home.

In addition, the addition of new official posts in the six ministries, together with the establishment of the Archives, has quietly broken the original situation of non-interference between the ministries, and the working relations between the ministries have now relied mainly on the coordination of the ministers in charge of the cabinet.

Now Chongzhen is saying these things to him, obviously to expand the scope of official rectification to the localities, which is not a good errand.

After Zhu Youzhen said a lot, he seemed to remember Wen Tiren who was sitting in front of him, and asked him: "Wen Shilang, do you think what I said makes sense?" ”

Wen Tiren didn't dare to slack off and replied: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, and the minister thinks that it is indeed necessary to kill this unhealthy trend." ”

Zhu Youzhen immediately said to him happily: "Sure enough, I didn't misunderstand you, only people like you Wen Shilang can understand my hard work."

Then after you go back, you will come up and talk about how to rectify this unhealthy trend. I have a few suggestions, one is to restore the examination system established by Zhang Jiangling, of course, I don't ask for it to be as harsh as Zhang Jiangling.

My idea is to base last year's economic data from each county and compare it with this year's data. If there is no increase, it is considered medium, and if the data regresses, the reason must be explained, otherwise it is inferior. All the data have increased, which is good. The growth rate ranks among the top three in the province and is excellent.

Priority should be given to the promotion of officials with the majority of outstanding positions during their tenure of office, and they should be included in the list of key official evaluations. In the future, each province will set up a list of key officials to be evaluated, and all vacancies in important central and local posts will be given priority to selecting candidates from this list.

The list is divided into three grades, and the list is divided into three parts, one to be kept by the ministry, one to the cabinet, and one to the inner court.

If the Cabinet and I have any doubts about the candidates on the list, the Ministry of Officials must give a reasonable explanation. Otherwise, I will consider transferring the officials on the assessment and selection list out of the ministry..."

Wen Tiren suddenly felt that his heartbeat was a little faster, these words of the emperor were a danger to him, but they were also an opportunity.

In the past, the Ministry of Officials has always had the final say on the promotion or transfer of officials. Although the secretary and the squire can verify the work of these two departments, if they encounter a bold and reckless Wenxuan Shilang like Gu Xiancheng, they can push back the orders of their bosses.

Now, according to Chongzhen's intentions, the establishment of a list of key officials to evaluate objects not only limits the power of the subordinate departments of the ministry, but also greatly improves the already relatively detached status of the ministry.

In the past, it was difficult for the ministry to intervene in the appointment of the cabinet and the six ministers, but now it is not necessarily.