.After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all the yamen opened seals to do business. The top priority after the reign of Longqing was the Beijing Inspection. At noon that day, the Ministry of Personnel, together with the Censorate and the Six Corridors, transferred documents to the major yamen of the two capitals and distributed the "Commentary of the Ministers" drafted by the cabinet: I first inherited the great throne, and I want to eliminate the major traits, so I want to use them to clear the turbidity of the air......Don't the book say? No biased, there is no party, the king's way is shady, no party, no bias, and the king's way is mediocre. I warn the ministers that from now on, they are more refined and kind and respectful as their duties... If you are addicted to the old rules, stick to the old ways, and think that the court must be obeyed and the law and discipline must be done, then my ancestors' constitutional code is very strict, and I dare not forgive me."

A murderous edict announced the beginning of the first Beijing inspection plan of the Longqing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.

Since ancient times, China has had a tradition of governing officials but not the people. All dynasties regarded the official team as the foundation of their rule, and they were very strict in their examinations of merits, and this dynasty was even more so. Among them, the sixth year of Beijing inspection was the most important. Thousands of officials from the thirty-six yamen in the two capitals, and the fourth rank and above, truthfully stated their gains and losses on political achievements and ethics, and sent them to the emperor for review and ruling. Those under the four ranks will be examined by the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate of the Two Capitals... Among them, the North rank is the main one.

During the evaluation process, the two parts cooperate to supervise each other to determine whether the officials are involved in the dismissal. The censor of the Six-Charge Gate is mainly responsible for supervising the entire Beijing inspection process, whether there are any behaviors of favoritism and fraud, and violating the king's law. After the results are released, they will be submitted to the cabinet, and the cabinet will be voted to stay or leave, or will be issued and re-examined whether it is appropriate. The book is submitted to the government for the emperor's decision, and the investigation results will be issued.

After the inspection, Liukelang will also pick up the remains of officials and impeach the missed ones. Although there are not many officials attacked by the relic, no one will be spared.

This is an assessment with strong supervision significance. The subjects are the morality and faults of officials during their tenure. They investigate and punish officials' incompetence, and make mistakes without considering merit. There are eight goals: "It is called greed, cool, impetuous, shallow, lack of talent, old, sick, soft, and unpretentious. There are four corresponding punishments: greed, cruel, and cruel for the people; if you are not careful, you will be idle: old, retire from office; if you are not enough, you will be impetuous and downgraded.

As a result, they are usually demoted but not promoted. Because this is an evaluation of the ability and ethics of officials, their blow to their personal career is almost fatal... If they are demoted and transferred, they will be able to come back in the future. But once they are dismissed, it often means the end of their political life. If not, Jiajing's will, such a magical weapon, will never come forward in their lifetime. It is a real gate of hell...

The entire Beijing inspection process usually lasts for two months or even three months. During this period, the officials of the two Beijings were silent and lived like the New Year, which was extremely painful. In the past, after returning to work after the New Year, officials would still be lazy for a while, either gathering together to brag about the ox, sneaking out to drink and have no intention of doing things at all. But this year is completely different. Officials, regardless of whether they have anything to do, sit upright in their own room, neither visiting or whispering. Those officials who are doing fat or in important positions were extremely arrogant in the past, and they looked at people with their nostrils all day long. Now they have shrunk their necks and softened their voices. When they see the old man who swept the floor at the door, they all smiled and didn't dare to eat or take the cues, for fear that they would offend others at this critical moment and be accused of accusation.

The officials of the Ministry of Personnel cut off all contacts. Except for staying at home and staying at work, they are not allowed to come to their homes. They are afraid that they will be impeached by the censors of the Six Clauses. The atmosphere in the entire capital is extremely tense.

As an important official in the execution of the Beijing Inspection Office, Lu Guangzu, the doctor of the examination department, moved into the yamen after the New Year. He would never go home after the Beijing Inspection Office. There was no way. Although the Beijing Inspection Office was mainly the Minister of Personnel, Yang Bo had too high prestige and status, and he said he would not see a guest, and no one dared to disturb him at any time. He did not dare to do this. After all, there were too many relationships that could not be offended, so he could only hide in the yamen to find Qingjing, and no one could say anything.

At this moment, he was focusing on reading. The last file this morning was the last file of an official. It consists of two parts. One is the resume, political achievements and examination words of the officials sent by the official officials of each yamen. The other is the anonymous visit form issued by the Ministry of Personnel to each yamen. The so-called anonymous visit form is an unnamed public review form. It requires officials to evaluate the ethics and officials of the yamen. Of course, it is not named. After taking it home, it will be sent to the Ministry of Personnel directly. No one knows what you wrote. Even if you have a great power, you can get it through relationships, because everyone wrote the Taige style, and you can only guess and cannot determine who made the report.

The duty of the examination officer is to collect the received evaluation and interview form, give preliminary opinions, and then submit them to the Shangshu Lord's ruling... Although the examination contents are subject to observation, it is difficult to determine due to the connotation of the examination, and seemingly clear items often contain subtle meanings, leaving a gap for the randomness in use. Therefore, whether to show mercy in the writing or killing people in the writing is only in his thoughts.

For example, "old," can be regarded as "the umbrella of protection for officials with outstanding evil deeds, seemingly discarded, and have controversial ethics, and can also be regarded as an excuse for officials who have both good character and administrative but are not popular with their superiors. Many officials who were resigned as old in their prime were caught in this trick.

, the lack of talent is not actually related to the talents of officials. For example, this time, Li Shaoxiu, the doctor of the Ministry of War Military Selection Department, was usually impartial and selfless, but because some people above were disliked, he was falsely accused of "hiring fellow villagers on weekdays, going to and from the government offices, and having private banquets. There were both ways to open the path of drilling and thorning, and opening the door of rifts." All of them were false charges. Although Lu Guangzu knew that he was innocent, he could only provide support and support, and was not enough to be transferred externally. Zhou Yongquan, the assistant minister of the Cangchang, was famous for being violent and even more greedy and lustful. The officials of the Cushion Bureau were confidant, depressed and disgusted, and pulled out their beards, cruel and sounded." But because he gave him enough gifts, the superiors instructed him to sit down and be transferred to the governor.

Although Li and Zhou were punished the same, "their traces were flawed and they were not too focused yet, and they were not planning to be under the tutoring and reform." However, the differences in the severity of the plot were so great that the same investigation example could be seen as blurring the connotation. The same is true for other investigation examples, so the power of the examiner's examination department in the Beijing inspection was greater than that of the minister of the headquarters and even the left censor.

But when he met a powerful Shangshu, he could only act on his own terms. Just like Li and Zhou, who had just reported the results, he was beaten back. After the Shangshu's hint, Lu Guangzu had to do it indifferently. However, he had been in the army for many years and had seen how many good officials were wronged and how many corrupt officials were soaring. He would have long since done anything to resist because of the so-called sense of justice.

But some people have to fight for it, because they gave up the opportunity to be promoted two years ago and transferred from Wenxuan to the position of the Kaigongsi to wait for this dog." "Because of Lu Bing's relationship, he had long been an ally with Chen Mo. The two of them were in the same temperament and got along very well, so he had long become a backbone of the Chen Party. The two of them asked him to go to the mansion two years ago. Chen said that the interests of this plan told him that the Chengongsi might face a great danger. In order to be protected by someone at that time, he asked him to make some sacrifices for the time being and must leave Wenxuan, which is the most important person, and come to the Kaigongsi, which is specially offended by others.

To be honest, Lu Guangzu thought that silence was a worry at that time, and felt that with Master Xu, Shen would not have any big trouble. But although silence was polite to others, you must do what he decided, unless he broke up with him. Lu Guangzu's political future had long been tied to Shen Mo, so although he was unwilling to accept the arrangement.

Then he didn't know how to operate Chen Si, so he left Wenxuan and really became a doctor in the examination and meritorious service. As time went by, he could see the situation more and more clearly... As Chen Si was promoted to Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Chen Dang had obviously become independent from the Xu Party. In this way, Xu Jie would not provide protection as usual, but would instead suppress it secretly. Chen Si condemned Yang Bo several times, and the two of them had deep grudges. Lord Shangshu would definitely take this opportunity to revenge. As a result, this idle chess set up by Chen Si early became extremely important. If someone else was to be the doctor, even if he didn't say hello, he would definitely be flattered and desperately deposed the Shen Party member. Now that he has tried his best to maintain it, the situation will be much better.

Lu Guangzu felt incredible. How did Lord Shen foresee the current situation more than a year ago? After all, Yang Bo was still eating sand at the border, and the Minister of Personnel was still Gao Gong. In fact, this was not the result of silence, but the conclusion drawn by his advisers who repeatedly deduced the court on the premise that the late emperor was not long ago. However, Lu Guangzu only thought that he was a prophet in silence, and was already impressed by him.

After writing the last comment, the morning work was finally completed. Lu Guangzu breathed a sigh of relief, got up and moved his sore shoulders and backs, and someone carried these files to Yang Bo's pay room.

Yang Bo still valued Lu Guangzu very much because he was sincere and low-key, was serious and meticulous, respected his superiors but did not blindly follow him. He could always put forward his own opinions in an appropriate way. Such subordinates were both comfortable and reassuring. In addition, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not replace this young man and ordered him to assist in the Beijing inspection.

Yang Bo also wanted to break this eye and make a three-day mission. It was not that he took over the power, but that the Beijing inspection plan. The fewer people involved, the better. As there are more people, the more favors it will be. The more difficult things are, he told Lu Guangzu: This time, we are the two of us, and others are the ones who are the ones. It doesn’t matter if we are tired and hard, but it’s worth it to be less complained in the end. Therefore, this time, except for some business work, no one is allowed to participate. They are only the first and final reviews of the two of us.

In this way, time is not enough, so when Lu Guangzu came in, Yang Bo did not look up, and continued to write his stuff, just said, "Is it over?"

"I finally didn't delay the affairs of the ministry." Lu Guangzu knew that time was tight, so he didn't take turns and answered straight in one fell swoop.

"Well, let it go, don't leave for now." Yang Bo said: "I'll see if there is any change on site. After the change is completed, I have to send it there." During the entire Beijing inspection period, the results will be submitted once every ten minutes. Today is the first time I will submit them.

"Yes..." Lu Guangzu was sitting there, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried, because there were more than a dozen party members on this list of reviews, including many backbone members of the important yamen. Although Yang Bo had no objection to his initial trial results a few days ago, it might not be so easy to pass today.

After Yang Bo finished writing what was in his hand, he picked up Lu Guangzu's briefing and read it. He read it very carefully, frowned and asked questions, which made Lu Guangzu always startled and dealt with it carefully. He sweated all over the middle of winter.

"Are you very hot?" Yang Bo looked at him and said strangely.

"The earth dragon is a bit prosperous, so the lower officials may have worn too much." Lu Guangzu smiled dryly and said, "It's not hindering."

Yang Bo just asked casually and returned to the main topic: "I have finished reading it. I basically agree with your opinion, but I have circled it out several places. Do you think about it?"

"Yes." Lu Guangzu quickly stood up, took the briefing with both hands, and then sat opposite Yang Bo, quickly flipped through the list above, and couldn't help but fall into the ground... The master of the ministry actually let go of the Shen Party member and circled out a single official from the Wenxuan Department...... The appointment of officials in charge of the Wenxuan Department is the key department of the Ministry of Personnel. Yang Bo wants to use his own people, which is also the meaning of the question, not for the Shen Party.

Based on the performances of the previous few days, Lu Guangzu could basically confirm that Yang Bo did not intend to attack Shen Dang but allowed himself to protect him. This was really incredible. I wonder what kind of ** soup Lord Shen gave the old man.

"What?" Yang Bo asked when he saw that he was a little trance.

"Oh..." Lu Guangzu hurriedly replied to his god: "Mido's opinion is very correct, but..."

"Say." Yang Bo rubbed his temples.

"It's just that the above-mentioned people are in charge, aren't they..." Lu Guangzu said carefully: "Why should the subordinates show mercy?"

"It is clear that these people have been foreign officials and have more or less bad comments. What's wrong with deposing them?" Yang Bo said dismissively.

"You are right, but the people from the Sixth Corridor have been investigated by our headquarters for the first time. It seems that it is okay to be a little relaxed..." Lu Guangzu quickly explained that he was afraid of Yang Bo's misunderstanding: "Although the Sixth Corridors are only at the sixth and seventh ranks, the court has always ordered them to tell themselves to the emperor in order to protect the Yanlu. It is basically a formality. This time, it was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate came to take charge. Of course, they were unwilling to do so, and they were all angry."

Seeing Lu Guangzu's nervous look, Yang Bo asked, "What did you hear?"

"Everyone is rumoring outside. Gaoge lends you your hand to give the censor a good look." Although Lu Guangzu did not leave his home, he was still well-informed.

"This is all about catching the wind and shadows. You are a doctor in the imperial examination and believe these rumors?" Yang Bo stroked his long beard and scolded angrily.

"Ministry Hall and Liuke Galleries are hornet's nests. Don't look at each inconspicuous person, but if you walk around, you will get into a group of people. You will rush up like a madman. If you don't bite people to death, you will also annoy people to death!" Lu Guangzu sighed and said, "I still think that they have no great evil, so it's okay to open the door." Although it seems to have contradicted the leader, it is actually considering the leader, so he is not worried that Lao Yang will turn against him.

Yang Bo was involved in the government affairs for a long time, and his ideas about the ministers were naturally clear. He smiled and said, "It is true that the emperor has always been the presidency of the Beijing Officer of the Six Directors. However, since this time, I can only treat everyone equally." As he said, he looked at Lu Guangzu and said, "Don't worry about it. It's not too early, hurry up."

Lu Guangzu was originally just reciprocating his favor. Thanks to Yang Bo for not refuting his face, he said a few more words. Now that Yang Bo doesn't appreciate it, he naturally stops talking nonsense. So he revised the briefing according to his boss's wishes, and read it to Yang Bo and passed it.

After asking Lu Guangzu to go back, Yang Bo ordered the sedan chair to go to the cabinet. There was only such a major plan for the Beijing investigation, and he had to enter a sad place in Hua.

After leaving the Ministry of Personnel, Tianjie was at noon. It was noon. The street was filled with cars, and the bustling was just a bustling bustling.

Although Tianguan traveled with banners and umbrellas, the melon money was used to open the road, but there were still too many people on the road. Yang Bo did not urge him, so he closed his eyes and rested without paying attention.

Although his eyes were closed, he was not idle for a moment. He repeatedly recalled Lu Guangzu's words, should he show mercy on the handling of those censors?

While he was thinking about it, the sedan chair suddenly stopped. Yang Bo was about to ask, "Have you arrived?" But he heard a scolding from outside, saying, "Gei Master! Avoid quickly!"

What kind of court master? Yang Bo's face immediately looked very ugly. He lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and looked out. The curtain was also raised opposite the sedan chair, revealing a handsome face with a square beard. It turned out to be Zhang Juzheng.

As soon as he saw that it was Yang Bo, Zhang Juzheng's expression suddenly became cramped and scolded his housekeeper, "I'm blind, didn't you see that it was Yang Shaobao's sedan?" As he said that, he bowed to Yang Bo and said, "The servants don't understand the rules, so please forgive me." Then he asked someone to quickly avoid the sedan.

"Haha..." Yang Bo smiled and said, "Where is where I should be avoiding it." After pushing, he went there first.

After a small episode, the sedan chair was on the road again, and Yang Bo's face became very ugly. According to the old rules, all officials and cabinet ministers had to take the initiative to avoid it when they met on the way, but only the Minister of Personnel could not avoid it. However, Yan Song was in power and was highly powerful, and the Minister of Personnel began to take the initiative to avoid it, and then it became a custom.

But no matter what, Zhang Juzheng is the last minister of the cabinet. His sedan chairman dares not take him seriously. This is really unbearable!
Chapter completed!