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"I came here with all the hard work just to send a decree to the imperial court?" Hou Baosen, the governor of Tianjin, glanced at it, a little suspicious.

In front of him, there was a tired man, this was the person from the General Administration, who had obviously come in a hurry to deliver the letter for eight hundred miles.

On the side, Yang Weidou, the head of the household department who rushed to hear the news, looked at the letter in Hou Baosen's hand with an expectant face: "Fuxian, take it open and take a look, what's inside!" This time, since we can break through the outside chaos and eagerly send the news in, it must be a very important thing. Perhaps, there will be good news to solve the war chaos outside! ”

After Yang Weidou finished speaking, Hou Baosen was also moved.

"Isn't it true that the court has already made a decision on this mutiny?" Thinking like this, Hou Baosen slowly opened the envelope of the decree.

Just looking at it, Hou Baosen couldn't help but gasp: "The test method is here again?" ”

"Wait, ...... fixed 100,000 yuan bonus? 100,000 yuan, silver dollars? A new style of treasure banknotes? The emperor is sage! This time, Tianjin is saved! This time the chaos can be calmed down! Hou Baosen laughed, carefully refolded the envelope in his hand and put it in his arms, strode to the main hall of the governor's yamen, and said loudly outside the door.

"Decree all departments, this official will raise the account today, and if you don't do it, you will be dealt with by military law!"

Looking at Hou Baosen's back, Yang Weidou laughed in a low voice, pinched a private letter in his hand, patted the tired herald on the shoulder, and said, "Where is the director of the department now?" Please take me over and see you. ”

It didn't take long for Yang Weidou to meet Si Qi.

After a salute, Yang Weidou looked at the young man carefully.

The General Administration of Corruption, like the General Administration of Press and Publication, has a new yamen with only five grades, which sounds quite aggrieved compared to Si Qi, who once served as the executive military adviser of the Military Aircraft Division, the predecessor of the Privy Council.

But just think of this man's vigorous and boundless energy, and you can guess the age of this man, who is only in his twenties at the moment.

At such a young age, he has already become the helmsman of such a key yamen.

Si Qi was wearing a white uniform, similar in style to the police uniform Yang Weidou had seen in the Jingshi Police Station, except that the color was white, and a flying fish was delicately drawn on the cuffs. It's not just the clothes, it's the temperament. It's the same neat, well-acted, more like a soldier than a civilian official.

In fact, Si Qi has been in the army for three years.

Si Qi looked at this also young and elegant tax official, and said sincerely: "I want to thank Yang Langzhong for his help when I entered the city this time." If it weren't for the escort of the household division to take us into the city, I'm afraid we would have had to entangle with the rebels from outside. ”

"The Director was gracious. This time, did it really bring the key intelligence to solve the cause of the rebellion? Yang Weidou's eyes were blazing.

Si Qi showed a rather weird smile, looked at Yang Weidou and said, "Yang Langzhong probably doesn't know much about a new official office like our General Administration of Integrity. ”

"Yes, indeed." If it weren't for the previous dealings with Si Qi in Nanjing, Yang Weidou really didn't know that the imperial court had such a yamen.

Si Qi laughed and said, "Part of our predecessor is the Six Science Corridor, and now it is mainly responsible for the specific promotion of the examination method. The other part has a large number of operational forces and is responsible for the investigation and handling of specific cases. This time, we found out that there were incumbent officials and gentry secretly conspiring with people to contact the officers of the Tianjin Sanwei to launch a rebellion to force the imperial court to disrupt the government. Therefore, this is the reason why this official came to investigate this time. ”

Yang Weidou nodded slowly: "I also heard some rumors about this matter. It's just that it's all plausible, and those chaotic soldiers outside the city are indeed too strange. It's just ......"

As he spoke, Yang Weidou thought about it. There are not many people who have returned to Tianjin, and when they first come to Tianjin, they will be able to find out?

"It's like I just said...... I haven't told you about the origin of the other part yet. Si Qi suddenly became a little embarrassed, for fear of scaring Yang Weidou, and tried his best to show a warm smile: "Previously, our scouts were mainly from the soldiers of Jinyiwei. That is...... Nanzhen Fuji. This time, there will also be Jinyiwei Tianjin Qianhu to help. ”

"South...... Pacification Division? Yang Weidou glared suddenly, and all his doubts were understood in an instant.

No wonder these people have so much confidence to know so much detail!

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Not many people in Daming know the name performance appraisal at this time.

However, as long as the test method is mentioned, it is enough to make officials big and small feel terrified, and they all have to be a little frightened.

But for people of insight, this test method is a good prescription for the world, and it is a way to solve many stubborn diseases of the current Ming Dynasty.

Today's Ming Dynasty and the Wanli period are quite similar.

It's nothing more than internal and external troubles.

It's just that, compared with the Wanli period, the current Ming Dynasty has already had signs of the demise of the country.

The rest has been said countless times, without mentioning it, but there is one point that is closely related to all officials: the slackness of the organization.

Before Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, the center had gradually declined, and its strength was getting weaker and weaker. Not only did the fiscal revenue not come up, but the local government also faintly began to become unmanageable.

In the imperial court, the officials were not thinking about how to do things, but about how to govern the party and how to oppose political enemies. Political corruption goes hand in hand with superficiality. Embodied in the central government, it is the party and government that are violent, and when it is embodied in the localities, it is faintly bigger. Even if the central authorities come up with all kinds of elaborate decrees and issue them to the localities, they are like a dead letter, and no one pays attention to them, no one implements them, and no one supervises them.

But the advent of the test method has changed all that.

In 1573 A.D., that is, in June of the first year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng sent a letter to Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong on the "Request for Inspection and Correction of Chapters and Followers" to Emperor Wanli, asking for the "examination law" of purging the rule of officials, and Emperor Wanli approved.

As the name suggests, the method of examination is the method of examining the effectiveness, and as soon as this method came out, the rule of officials was suddenly reversed, and the original shortcomings could be clarified.

Shi Kefa and Huang Dao, who were originally talking about clarifying the rule of officials, heard that they really wanted to clarify the rule of officials, and their attention immediately focused.

The so-called test method, the specific way to do it is to assess level by level. The specific method is that each yamen shall set up three books, one of which shall be a register of all the official documents and official affairs handled by the yamen, and shall be kept as the base book. Then the routine and unnecessary examination are eliminated and two identical books are created. A copy of the six corresponding six remarks to the six departments, the implementation of a write-off, if there is not completed on time, that is, by the section to play the instructions. A copy was sent to the cabinet in case the ministers could check the affairs of the six departments and the six ministries at any time.

Subsequently, a system of examination was formed: "All the six departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, when encountering each chapter, or the inscription is expressly decreed, or the repetition of the Qinyi, and the change of career to each of the yamen, they all first consider the distance in the road, the urgency of the matter, set the schedule, and place the document book for record." ”“

If there is a delay in the actions of the officials, the ministry shall take action; If there is room for concealment and deception in the cancellation of the documents of various ministries and courts, the ministers will cite them; The six subjects have the ability to tolerate and conceal those who deceive, and the ministers will take them. In this way, there will be an examination every month, and there will be an audit every year, not only will the voice be true, but the matter can be obliged, and the law of comprehensive examination will be strict, that is, the legislator will also be concerned about the ultimate ineffect, and will not dare to be careless about its beginning."

After the account books are kept, the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate register them according to the account books and inspect them month by month. For the things undertaken by the subordinate officials, one must be posted for each completed item, otherwise it must be truthfully declared, otherwise it will be punished for violating the law; The six departments can also register according to the account books, and require the six departments to report the implementation of the implementation every six months, and the violators will be dealt with in limited cases; Finally, the Cabinet also registered the books of accounts to verify the inspection work of the six sections.

This law is in place, and the officials of the world are suddenly awe-inspiring.

In the third year of Wanli, a total of 237 unfinished incidents were found under the names of the provincial officials according to the examination method, and 54 ministers were appeased. Fengyang Governor Wang Zongmu and Inspector Zhang Genghua, Guangdong Governor Zhang Shouyu, Zhejiang Governor Xiao Li, were suspended for three months for too many unfinished events.

There were so many punishments, which immediately made the hundred officials who had been snub cheer up one after another, and changed the scene of procrastination and scattering in the past, and the officials clarified it.

Of course, Zhu Cihong's new version of the test method is still a little different from Zhang Juzheng's test method at the age of Wanli.

Although they are all implementing the test method, many new things have been added.

For example, a new yamen has appeared, which is the General Administration of Integrity that previously showed its face in Wanping County. This yamen became independent from Jinyiweili, merged the original six branch corridors, and was directly subordinate to the cabinet. However, what worries Shi Kefa is that the General Administration of Integrity did not let Shi Kefa directly lead the office, but served by a name that was quite familiar and unfamiliar to the senior officials of the DPRK and China.

This person is Si Qi.

Many people have heard of Si Qi's name, but if you think about it, it is a little wrong.

Of course, with the passage of time, more and more information was investigated, and the origin of this one was soon clear. Si Qi is Si En's own son, although Si En has gradually retired and no longer shows up. But everyone knows that the relationship between this palace dignitary and Zhu Cihong is the foundation laid by going out of the palace together.

As for Si Qi, he also saddled Zhu Cihong, and when the new army was created, he served as the deputy head of the staff body of the Privy Council.

When Zhu Cihong later went to Nanjing, Si Qi was responsible for civil affairs and public security in Nanjing, which can be called the existence of Zhu Cihong's left arm and right arm.

At present, Zhu Cihong founded the General Administration of Integrity under Jinyiwei, and asked Si Qi to lead people to set up this yamen.

Now, the General Administration of the Corruption has merged part of the original Jinyi Guard, and added the six department corridors, which have always been lowly and powerful, and the new department is suddenly particularly dazzling.

This is because the General Administration of Corruption (ICAC) will assume the supervisory function as the actual promoter of the law. As a result, the Cabinet will expand its powers and become the de facto controller of the law, rather than being promoted by the Ministry of Officials, as was the case in the past six years.

As soon as the test method came out, the biggest blow was those who had a loose style and ran around.

For example, Liang Qingbiao was the editor of the Hanlin Academy, but he took a long vacation and came to Tianjin to connect with him. Another example is Gao Eryan, who is trying to get a good position, and after he goes back, he will definitely have to hold his tail between his legs, for fear of being taken into the test.

"This is the bottom of the kettle!" Liang Qingbiao understood the power of this method.

Gao Eryan rubbed his head, constantly thinking of countermeasures, and kept thinking in his heart: "The way to collect land endowments with treasure money is to invite people to buy people's hearts." This uses the test method to spur the officials, using the left hand to slap and the right hand to sugar. If you confess and be lenient, you can just scrape together some worthless money and pay your taxes. If you resist strictly, there must be a test method waiting for you...... As soon as this law was introduced, the local officials who were already encouraged by the restoration of the value of the treasure banknote must have been enthusiastic......"

"If you still let the test become a ......," Gao Eryan was terrified......

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There was silence in the room, and everyone was speechless with the sheer amount of information.

Only a few guards in the corner who did not understand the rules of the civilian world looked at each other with blank expressions.

Here, especially the most obese man was very annoyed, and quietly gathered: "We came here, originally it was good to enjoy Qingfu and meet a few big guys." As soon as I came in, the song stopped, the dance stopped, and the troupe ran away. Until now, a group of people are crying and mourning, so they don't have a good face? ”

"I can't say, it's better to be outside. When the woman saw it, she forced her to go home and play, where is it better than sneaking around in the city......"

"Hmph, what are the big guys in the DPRK and China, I think these people ......"

Knock knock knock......

Suddenly, the sound of silent, dense footsteps interrupted the discussion of several of the officers of the guard.

Everyone looked at it and found that one person was crawling on the ground and rushing in again, and behind him, there was a group of men and women who were screaming strangely.

It was the troupe owner who had just been rewarded with a gold ingot.

"Presumptuous! The gold has been given to you, and what are you doing here? Do you want anything more? Come on, fork out and kill it! Goyle was furious.

But soon all the anger was wiped out like a bucket of ice water.

"This is it?" At this moment, a person slowly stepped in with his back to his hands.

The class leader hurriedly got up and said, "Lord Hui...... That...... That's it...... We are all a group of singers. Don't do anything, don't dare to do anything......"

So saying, the sergeants went down with the leader.

"Everywhere at the door, strict handles. Clear out the tunnels, secret passages, and the like. No one in this room is allowed to let go! "The man's anger sank into the dantian, like a Hong Zhong, which shocked people's hearts.

What made people even more panicked was that groups of sergeants rushed in, guarding the doors and windows everywhere, preventing a single person from escaping. dared to make a move, and they all smashed down with the butt of a gun.

"Who are you?" At this time, Liang Qingbiao roared in horror: "This official is Liang Qingbiao edited by the Hanlin Academy, who dares to be presumptuous here!" ”

"This official Gao Eryan, on the ground in Tianjin, no one should be unrecognizable? You dare to break into my Gao family's house, do you really think that the Ming Dynasty has no royal law? Goer's face was gloomy.

"Oh?" Si Qi smiled and said, "Of course, there is a royal law, so I will come here on the emperor's order to implement the royal law!" ”

As he spoke, Si Qi arched his hand towards the north, revealing the famous flying fish logo.

"Jinyiwei is here!" Hou Qing sat down, kicking his legs and trying to run, but was pressed by the two sergeants. (To be continued.) )