Chapter 137 Differences between officials and officials
The rest of the officials of the household department are not qualified to hear the emperor's personal sentence on them. With the decree that more than 500 people were beheaded, the minister of the Ministry of punishment led the decree to go, and the hall was instantly filled with the sorrow of rabbits, foxes, and things hurting others. atmosphere.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the officials and said: "The most precious thing on a fox is fur, the most precious flesh and blood on cattle and sheep, and what is the most precious thing on a human being? The solar terms are the bones. Wang Qing and others cherish and love themselves, so don't go astray! "
Hundreds of officials bowed their heads to express their respect for the hadith, and Zhu Yuanzhang stopped wasting words with them. He had already said what he needed to say, and those who didn’t listen would have their own fate.
After today's court meeting ended, Zhu Biao was not in the mood to watch more than five hundred people be beheaded, so he followed Zhu Yuanzhang back to the imperial study.
Li Shanchang saw that the father and son above had left, so he also had to go back to the Ministry of Education to deploy manpower to plug the gap in the household department.
Yang Xian walked out of the Fengtian Temple, ready to see what happened to those household officials. Who dared them to check their old background, and didn't think about their own clean ass.
Zhu Yuanzhang and his son walked to the imperial garden. Zhu Biao looked at his father and said, "Rectification of the officials will not happen overnight. Father, don't worry about them."
Zhu Yuanzhang supported the flower bed and said: "We know this, but I just feel sorry for them. It took decades of hard work to climb to a high position. If you make a mistake in one step, you will never come back."
After the father and son walked around, Zhu Biao said: "The imperial examination is just around the corner, and the emperor has already thought about the content of the imperial examination."
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Where do we know this, let Liu Bowen write a few and submit them, and let's pick the one we like."
Zhu Biao nodded with a smile: "The three hundred candidates for the imperial examination can just fill the vacancies in the household department."
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so: "We plan to let them go to Shanxi with you to experience it. After all, they know how to write and write, so they can help you deal with immigration affairs."
After hearing this, Zhu Biao thought that his father was worried about himself: "Father, my ministers are sure to do a good job in relocating people. All parties in the court are in urgent need of talents. Instead of handing them over to my ministers, it is better to put them in the hands that need more people." The place."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Most of them are the children of aristocratic families who didn't know the daily necessities since they were young. They may have done a good job in learning, but we don't feel at ease if we let them do business directly!"
Zhu Yuanzhang folded his hands behind his back: "It is the best test to deal with the emigration with you. Let them take a good look at the sufferings of the people at the bottom of our Ming Dynasty, so that they will know how to deal with local affairs in the future. These are not things that can be learned from the Four Books. Learned from the Five Classics."
Zhu Biao smiled, and the melody of intellectual youth going to the countryside rang in his mind. After knowing what his father meant, Zhu Biao had no intention of declining.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked back at his son and said, "It doesn't matter what their backgrounds are when they get to the place, the dirty work will be done on them, let's take a good look at their appearance."
Zhu Biao nodded in agreement, and the father and son walked around a few times before Zhu Yuanzhang had to go back to work, and Zhu Biao also had to go and see about the imperial examination.
Zhu Biao went back to the East Palace to change his clothes, and then went to Song Lian's side first. He learned that dozens of candidates from the north came over in the past two days, and some of them happened to be under special circumstances. Song Lian was going to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions.
It turned out that among the candidates who came from the north this time, they were all recommended by local officials. Four of them belonged to the children of yamen servants. They should not have been recommended, but the local officials also specially wrote a letter.
Zhu Biao thought about it and decided to agree. Zhu Biao knew that place, it belonged to the northernmost border, and the living conditions were bad. It was really hard to find other candidates.
In ancient times, there were actually political trials. Prisoners, monks, Taoist priests, businessmen, prostitutes, You, Li, Zao, and their descendants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.
The first two are easy to understand, but the last two are a bit puzzling. Officials and arresters are still considered members of the public family, so why are their descendants not even qualified for the imperial examination.
Song Lian explained, because catching fast-drying work is a kind of bad behavior, a job that offends people, and a kind of cheap work.
Always want to arrest people, always deal with bad people and bad things, decent people are bound to disdain this, so we can only let the untouchables do it. Those who do bad things can only be bad people.
Zhu Biao was a little speechless, but the reality is true. Most of the local officials are like this. Sometimes it is true that no one can be found. How to govern the local thugs.
Zhu marked that the security guards of ancient Greek city-states were also made by slaves. If citizens committed crimes, slaves with low status should arrest them. Every time a citizens' meeting is held, many lazy citizens who refuse to come out to the meeting are also driven out by slaves with ropes
It seems that ancient civilizations have their commonality, but Zhu Biao intends to elevate the status of officials. Those who come from imperial examinations are at least officials, not officials.
The difference between officials and officials is like the difference between heaven and earth. Officials usually go to the end of the county government.
Zhu Biao wants to give the officials some channels to rise. They may not have enough talent and learning, but they are experts in managing local people, collecting grain and paying taxes, etc. If they can become a county magistrate, it is not impossible.
A county magistrate in a certain place doesn’t really need any talent. After all, the place he manages is only big, and it’s not a TV series, and he doesn’t have so many cases for him to settle.
But the county magistrate is the most important grassroots official in Ming Dynasty, so he must have a sufficient understanding of the local people's livelihood.
This is precisely the biggest problem for officials with imperial examination background. Their vision is too big.
Most of the Jinshi recruiters are eager to find connections after they become county magistrates. In fact, local affairs are still handled by the servants, and a habit has been formed from generation to generation. Overhead county magistrate.
Zhu Biao valued talents in imperial examinations, but he valued talents who can do practical things more. There are always people who can read the Four Books and Five Classics, but there are not many talents who can help Zhu Biao manage the place well.
Of course it is impossible to raise them all at once, and it is also impossible to let them stay in the local area for promotion, otherwise they will form local forces, and their grades and the difficulty of promotion will also be restricted.
And it’s not something that should be done now, but Zhu Biao also needs to prepare well. This kind of thing belongs to breaking the old system, and it is not an easy thing.
My father is a person who values the system, and the literati will not agree. After all, this is a preemption of their position, and this matter is not only beneficial, but also has many disadvantages. Zhu Biao himself needs to carefully weigh it. The pros and cons are not something that can be decided in a flash.
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(end of this chapter)