How many people did Lu Yijian have in the imperial court? No one knows the answer, and I'm afraid it's hard for Lu Yijian to say it himself. But one thing is certain www.biquge.info not to mention the locality, there are Lu Yijian's people in key positions in each yamen in the imperial court. Not to mention the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council, other people, from the Academy of Scholars, to the Imperial Academy, the Court of Judges, and the Court of Judges, Lu Yijian can be directly controlled. is the third division, in addition to Wang Weizheng, Chen Zhizhong and the other two deputy envoys also have a close relationship with Lu Yijian.

Lu Yijian is a powerful minister, not a traitor, he has the desire to pursue power and control the government, but he does not have the ambition to control the world in the palm of his hand, and his small group is relatively loose. The first time the imperial examination jinshi formed a party was the first few sessions that began in the Taiping Xingguo period, undisguised, ambitious, Hu Dan's small group even conspired night and night, leaving the idiom of "three watches in the middle of the night" for future generations. Since then, the political group has been much looser, everyone is only colluding for political power or pure promotion and wealth, and there is no even unified political demand, and it is not surprising that there are even people with diametrically opposite political positions in the same small group, typical of which is the Lu Yijian group.

In history, it was not until after Fan Zhongyan that Ouyang Xiu's "Theory of Friends" came out, and the officials were divided into two camps, gentlemen and villains, that political demands and party formation were united, and the party struggle suddenly became fierce.

Xu Ping has more than a thousand years of knowledge, and he can still grasp this point. Therefore, for Lu Yijian, he has always adopted an attitude of respectful selection, neither taking the initiative to get up, nor deliberately provoking disputes with him. Anyway, as long as it doesn't affect the interests of most of the people in his small group, they won't take the initiative to attack others.

This time, Lu Yijian directly provoked a political dispute against Jingxi Road, which was quite unexpected by Xu Ping. He felt that his actions had always been very cautious, not touching the interests of high-ranking officials in the court, and trying to start anew. Because the age gap is too big, Lu Yijian and Xu Ping are not a generation at all, and they will not be bored to suppress him.

The times are different from before, and now that the imperial examination is in charge, Lu Yijian does not have the method of fighting for a hundred years of wealth for his descendants. In fact, his family education has always been very strict, except for the eldest son Lu Gongqiu, who is busy with secular affairs and has poor learning, and his sons are all deeply educated, and their future prospects are limitless. Several rulers of this era, when it comes to the education of their children and grandchildren, there is really no one who can compare to Lu Yijian, and the Lu family in history is a real scholar.

In Xu Ping's mind, by the time he was able to threaten Lu Yijian's status, he would already be old, and the two had no direct conflict of interest. At this time, Lu Yijian aimed at himself, what did he want?

Xu Ping asked a few more words, but Yang Zhao was not very clear about the affairs in the court, but he knew that Qianzhuang's new policy had become a thorn in the side of some people, and he would want to get rid of it quickly. Although the candidate has not yet been decided, it is estimated that the minister will still be sent to Jingxi Road.

After sending Yang Xuan away, Xu Ping sat alone in the small flower hall for a long time. After thinking about it again and again, I finally determined that except for those branch officials involved in Tong Dalang's case, there was no damage to the interests of the people. As for Mengzhou and Xiangzhou, which did not implement the new policy, Li Di and Zhang Qi were already outdated figures, and they were at odds with Lu Yijian when the dynasty was in power, so it should have nothing to do with this matter.

Then there is only one answer, the new policy he implemented on Jingxi Road stimulated Lu Yijian. In fact, if the imperial court really affirmed the new policy of Jingxi Road, then the officials of Jingxi Road with outstanding political achievements would be promoted, thus breaking the balance of personnel in the imperial court. In this situation, Lu Yijian's careful layout in the past two years has been greatly impacted.

Out of the Little Flower Hall, Xu Ping returned to his chief hall and called Chong Shiheng over.

After saluting, Xu Ping said to Chong Shiheng: "It's almost the end of the year, have the money and grain applications of the states and counties been handed in?" ”

Chong Shiheng didn't know what to do, but replied respectfully: "Back to Ducao, most of them have already arrived, and only a few states in the south of the road are left." ”

"I sent a message urging them to send it as soon as possible, don't wait until the end of the year! -- Also, since last year, Zheng Gouyuan of the Third Division has sent people to help the officials of the Transmission Department in Xijing City learn to check the accounts, how are they learning now? ”

"Because the dog also used to learn, the lower officials know a little about this matter. If it is said that the people who do not have an official body follow the study, because they have a life without worrying about the job when they are born, they learn very well. It is precisely with these people that the accounts of the companies in Xijing and the surrounding prefectures and counties can be clear, and there is no major chaos. However, the transfer envoys and the officials of various states and counties did not follow up with satisfactory learning, and although they spent a lot of effort, most of them still could not do anything. ”

Seeing that Xu Ping was silent when he heard this, Chong Shiheng said again: "Du Cao, there is a sentence that the lower officials don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"If you have something to say, you have been with me for more than a year, what are you afraid of!"

"The lower officials thought that the officials who followed the study, first, were distracted by the original errands in the yamen, and the other did not have much impact on them by studying well or badly, so they were naturally much lazy. If Du Cao really wants officials to learn this skill, he still has to learn the same as the common people, after studying the exam, what about after passing the exam, but what-"

Xu Ping shook his head and said softly: "Things can't be done like that, it's too much-"

The ordinary people follow the learning, and after the study, they will issue a written pleading, which is actually Xu Ping's accounting in his previous life plus the practice qualification certificate of several related majors. However, in his previous life, these practitioners were in the service of economic entities, and it was those economic entities that fed them, which was essentially antithetical to official regulation. And the jobs that Xu Ping is cultivating now are given by the official forced economic entities, which serve the official supervision and are consistent with the interests of the government.

Different eras have different measures to control the economy, and no matter what methods are adopted by the authorities in this era, no one will object to interfering with the operation of the economy and restricting the freedom of businessmen.

Xu Ping's approach is much gentler than the previous guild's direct distribution and purchase measures. He wanted to use this relatively strict control to limit the relatively limited funds of this era to the circulation of the commodity economy. If left unchecked, the marginal benefits of the commodity economy will be rapidly reduced, and capital will be withdrawn from the chain of the commodity economy and flowed into industries with higher returns. Whether it is lending money or buying a house or buying land to speculate at a high price, the temporary income is much higher than that of honestly doing business, and in doing so, it is possible to cut off the chain of commodity economic production and return to the old road.

For the ordinary people who have obtained this kind of qualification, it is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl without worrying about food and clothing, and the enthusiasm for learning is naturally higher. For officials at all levels who follow the study, their ability to improve their ability to make political achievements and thus promote them is an illusory thing for most people, so it is naturally much more negative.

As for what Chong Shiheng said, officials should also be qualified, and those with certificates should be given priority to be promoted, which sounds reasonable, but in fact it will not work. It is a good thing to give officials the ability to manage the economy, but if it is further changed to let only people with the ability to manage the economy become officials, then a good thing will turn into a bad thing, and this is a matter of principle.

The economy is only one aspect of the country's society, not everything. It's not that the economy is developing, and everything is fine. If you only pursue good-looking data, get the rich Tian Lianqianmo, and the poor have no place to stand, Xu Ping is digging a pit for himself.

This is the reason why the administrators of the government are divided into officials and officials. Those who only specialize in one item often lack the overall situation, and they often drag down the overall situation if they play in the scope of their expertise.

Not to mention this ability to audit and count, even the officials selected for the imperial examination have degraded a lot after the main direction of examining political integrity and ability has been changed to examining Jingyi. It sounds like selecting talents according to ability, but in fact, where is the real ability is tested by an examination. Whether it is the imperial examination or other methods, the original purpose of selecting officials is to select those who are qualified in intelligence and morality, and the most important thing is to break the worldly official system and let the ranks of officials flow.

Ability is originally cultivated at work, assessed at work, where it is possible to test it at the first test. The original meaning of the imperial examination is not to take the great Confucianism, but to focus on the poor and let the officials have mobility.

However, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, and the real effectiveness is to rely on the performance evaluation indicators to guide, and adjust it according to the actual situation at any time. When the economy is not good, the economy is important, when education is not good, and when social fairness is not good, fairness is emphasized.

Due to the limitations of Shiheng's status, he didn't understand why Xu Ping said this, so he had to stand there quietly.

Xu Ping said: "In the next few days, you will arrange for the officials of the transfer envoy to count the money and grain on Jingxi Road this year. No matter how bad those officials are, they will always fill out all kinds of forms. If you can't even fill out the form, you have to be removed from the list. It's not good to drive them home, but the people who sprinkle and feed the horses in the yamen still have to do what they can. ”

Chong Shiheng promised, and there were not many people in the transfer envoy Si Yamen, and I don't know which ones will be unlucky this time.

Xu Ping said again: "You should hurry up and do this well, and the more detailed you do, the better." Don't wait until the end of the year, it's best to finish within this month. -- The imperial court may have to send someone down, and if you don't wait for someone to come, it won't look good at that time! ”

As long as there is solid data, Xu Ping is not afraid of Lu Yijian oppressing himself. No matter how great the prime minister's power is, it is still far greater than the emperor, how can it be said that Zhao Zhen in the palace supports Xu Ping. No matter who the imperial court sends down, what Xu Ping has to do is to put his political achievements on the bright side, everything is to speak with facts, and he always suffers from his own losses.