Forbidden City, Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Yijun put down the memorial in his hand and sighed helplessly. Hai Rui was indeed Hai Rui. In just a few days, the impeachment memorial was delivered. He reached out and put the memorial aside. Zhu Yijun fell into deep thought.

"It seems that civil servants are going to be on the agenda!" Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said to Zhang He: "I will be discussed tomorrow."

Civil servants are not a trivial matter, and they need to be recognized by the cabinet if they continue to be promoted. After all, it involves the civil servant group. However, Zhu Yijun believes that the resistance to implementation will not be too great, and it is still beneficial to the civil servant group.

"I understand!"

When the imperial decree reached the cabinet, Shen Shixing frowned. He really couldn't be interested in the imperial decree. After Zhang Siwei left, Shen Shixing took the position of chief minister of the cabinet, but Shen Shixing also felt the pressure.

This pressure comes not only from the court and officials, but also from the emperor.

Shen Shixing never thought about what attitude to face the emperor, whether he should obey the emperor or stand on an opposing position. Now, Shen Shixing has seen that the current emperor is far-reachingly influenced by Zhang Juzheng.

In other words, as the imperial teacher, Zhang Juzheng was successful, and he instilled many of his ideas into the emperor.

If it is still impossible to see that the emperor wants to reform and reform, he is not worthy of reaching the current position. The implementation of Yangshiyin is still unknown, but Shen Shixing can feel the emperor's determination.

When it is really time to implement it, I am afraid that the court will be in trouble again. I am afraid that my cabinet chief will not be able to fall well!

There are now four cabinet ministers in the cabinet, Shen Shixing is the chief assistant and Yu Youding is the second assistant. Compared to Yu Youding, Shen Shixing is more worried about Chen Xu. Pan Sheng, who is also a cabinet minister, is not so angry or so in power.

However, Chen Xu is different. Since he can get along with Zhang Siwei for joining the cabinet, he may not have any bottom line in order to curry favor with the emperor.

Although Yu Youding was the second assistant, Shen Shixing was confident that he could suppress him. In addition to the four Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the six Ministers were not a solid piece of law, and many times they would not keep pace with themselves!

After rubbing his swollen head, Shen Shixing sighed. Is this the situation the emperor wants to see?

The next morning, the court held the meeting as scheduled.

Zhu Yijun swept over the four cabinet ministers, looked at the six ministers, and said, "The court has a stubborn disease, which is the clerk. I will not elaborate on the harm to clerks, and you all know it in your heart."

"The court needs to rectify clerks every few years, but it recurs every year and there is no result."

"I am also worried about this. You must know that the people are not in contact with the officials of the court, not the people here, nor me, but the clerks. The clerks are corrupt and harsh, and the court is the one who suffers damage."

"In the eyes of the people, clerks are people from the court. Cerks harm localities, and the people hate the court."

The ministers stared at Zhu Yijun's words and their expressions became serious. The issue of clerks has always been a ill of the court. They can also recognize the seriousness of this ill, but some people don't care.

Civil officials looked down on even military generals and nobles, let alone clerks. However, after the emperor said so, they couldn't say anything.

No one or two ministers who have suffered losses in local officials, unless they are like Shen Shixing, who have done well in the imperial examinations, then entered the Hanlin Academy, and directly transferred to the six ministers, and then entered the cabinet.

They have never been out of the room and have never been an official in the local area for their entire lives, so their feelings are even less deep.

"I want to change the system of clerks!" Zhu Yijun's voice was unprecedentedly serious, and his eyes swept over the ministers and said.

Although I just thought of it, now when I heard this, the ministers still felt a slump in their hearts. When the reform clerks reformed, a person appeared directly in their minds, and this person was Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi's reputation for reform was so famous that civil officials didn't know.

It is not surprising that Wang Anshi, who is an official, especially Wang Anshi's sentence "The changes in heaven are not worth fearing, the ancestors are not worth law, and people are not worth care about", is really famous and everyone has heard of it.

In Wang Anshi's reforms, there were reforms aimed at clerks, and they were very detailed.

Wang Anshi's reform of clerks can be summarized into three points. The first point is the assessment and selection of clerks. Wang Anshi believes that the assessment and selection of clerks should be included in the assessment of court officials, and like officials, the assessment is conducted every year.

The second point is about the promotion of clerks, which opens up the path to promotion of clerks to officials, so that clerks can have ways to promote and have ideals, rather than letting them lose their future and just focus on making money.

Third, Wang Anshi believed that the officials of the court should be familiar with local affairs, and that when they become officials, they should start with clerks.

Zhu Yijun was also very clear about Wang Anshi's three points of reforming clerks, but after reading it, Zhu Yijun knew that Wang Anshi could not do it. Not only Wang Anshi could not do it, but he could not do it either. This could only be an ideal.

Perhaps many years later, I can do it myself, after receiving the support of clerks and officials, but it is absolutely impossible to directly implement this policy.

The first point is also mentioned in the past. The officials and the association agreed that the assessment of clerks has little impact on them, but instead increased the rights in their hands. Why is the Ministry of Personnel powerful and the Minister of Personnel still called the Heavenly Official? Is it because they hold the performance of officials in their hands?

The second point is that officials will not agree. How difficult it is to become an official after ten years of hard work? You will directly promote clerks. How can we bear it? How can those scholars who are crowded outside the official career?

In addition, the status of clerks and scholars is unequal, so how can we make a group of lowly people the same dynasty as me?

The scholars of the Song Dynasty looked down on Di Qing and all exclusions were everywhere. Will they look down on clerks? It is impossible. When the officials across the country are all scholars, how can they promote clerks as officials?

As for the third point, that's even worse. Scholars are all high-ranking people and are reading the books of sages. How can they become clerks?

What is the purpose of studying and becoming an official? How can a high-ranking official sit, a horse rides, and becoming a clerk?

From this perspective, Wang Anshi's reform of clerks will definitely be boycotted by all scholars. After Zhu Yijun studied Wang Anshi's reform of clerks, he understood in his heart that reforms according to Wang Anshi's behavior were not possible.

"I am preparing to establish a civil service system!" Zhu Yijun said directly when he saw that the ministers did not speak.

"The so-called civil servants are taken from the 'words and behaviors of public affairs, governing for the people, and pacifying the people on behalf of the emperor'. Civil servants will be included in the imperial court's official system. When civil servants become civil servants, they will be ninth ranks and receive a salary from the imperial court."

"Civil servants can be promoted every three years for performance evaluation."

As soon as Zhu Yijun said something, everyone's faces changed. Do you really have to learn from Wang Anshi?

Shi Zuolang is a civil servant with a ninth rank. He can be promoted every three years. This means that the court has to incorporate clerks into the official system. The key is that it can be promoted. This is amazing. clerks can become officials!

"Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate!"

Before anyone could speak, Wang Guoguang, as the Minister of Personnel, spoke first.

"If this law is followed, the court's annual expenditure will increase significantly, which will cause redundant officials. Although the court's finances have improved in recent years, if this law is adopted, the court will probably not make ends meet!"

"The clerk is a traitor, and the clerk has already caused trouble to the local area. If you are promoted to an official, will the disaster be even more fierce?"

Yu Youding, the second assistant to the cabinet, also spoke, "Your Majesty, all clerks are those who do not read the books of sages. If you don't know that you are loyal to the emperor and patriotism in your heart, how can you be an official? Once a clerk becomes an official, where will you be a hard-working scholar? Your Majesty, it's inappropriate!"

Next, several ministers spoke, all with the same attitude, that is, opposition.

Zhu Yijun sighed, and it turns out that Wang Anshi forced this policy back then, but failed.

Although Zhu Yijun also wanted to achieve Wang Anshi's reform goal, Zhu Yijun knew that this was unrealistic, at least it was unrealistic now. After looking at the ministers present, Zhu Yijun and Chen Yu looked at the face of a different person.

You don’t have to think about it, but this old guy probably wants to agree, and he has no bottom line.

However, Zhu Yijun knew that even if Chen Xu agreed, it would not be easy to push this matter. As the saying goes, county officials should be better off now. Letting a group of clerks be under the hands of scholars and then promoted is a dream.

Unless the scholars are asked to be clerks themselves, this is also the solution that Wang Anshi came up with, but this method is even more difficult to implement.

"Don't be impatient!" Zhu Yijun glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "I don't want to adopt the clerk as a civil servant. How can I not know how the clerk is? It's because the clerk is not good enough that I want to change the clerk."

The ministers looked at each other and didn't understand what Zhu Yijun meant for a moment.

"Do you guys know how many scholars there were in the Ming Dynasty? What kind of career did these scholars do?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I think it is a waste to place these scholars in the countryside! So I want to recruit scholars as civil servants."

"One of the time, the scholar can have a way to become an official and not be idle at home."

"Secondly, the scholar can also make a living so that he will not be unable to study because of poverty."

"Three times, scholars are all Confucian disciples who have read the books of sages. They are naturally more loyal to the emperor and patriotic than clerks, and they also know how to cherish the people."

"Fourth, scholars can also contact the people's livelihood in advance, which will also be beneficial to becoming officials in the future."

As soon as Zhu Yijun's words came out, the ministers were silent and were thinking about this matter in their hearts. It is wrong to let the scholar be a clerk, but it is not easy to deal with. If it is a clerk, no one would be willing to do it.

But civil servants are different, they are of grade. They are ninth rank and are given a scattered rank. This is different in attraction.
Chapter completed!