Chapter 2167 Gui Zi rolls hands and sharpens the knife
It only took three days for the governor's Yamen to be quickly put into operation. This efficiency shocked the people in the Chief Envoy's Department and the Inspection's Envoy's Yamen.
I originally thought that after Feng Ziying arrived, she would probably need to recuperate her energy for a period of time, such as convening people from the Chief Envoys' Department, the Inspector's Envoys' Department, and the Metropolitan Commander's Department for liaison discussions, or first visit the Third Division and the Xi'an Prefecture to understand the situation. , listened to the opinions of the officials of the third department, and waited until the time was right before listing the office. However, they did not expect Feng Ziying to move so quickly, which caught both Lu Chuan and Sun Yijie off guard.
The relationship between the governor's yamen and the three divisions' yamen is relatively complicated. Theoretically, the chief envoy's office is responsible for five of the seven imperial departments, the prosecutor's office is responsible for the criminal department and the imperial prosecutor's office, and the imperial envoy's office is responsible for the military department, while the governor only also serves as the military department. The positions of the Imperial Procuratorate and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have guidance and responsibility for the Procuratorate and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, while the Chief Envoy has more supervisory powers.
But this is on the surface. As a deputy to patrol the sky, the governor has the right to intervene in any affairs of the province, but the intervention and specific handling are another matter. It depends on the influence of the governor on the officials in the entire officialdom. and how much control there is.
Just like in a chief envoy department, in addition to the left and right chief envoys, there are also a number of political advisors, including the Experience Department, Zhaomo Office, Counseling Office, Prison Department, Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, and Baoquan Bureau. Bureau, Weaving and Dyeing Bureau and other agencies, as well as countless low-level officials, Lin Lin finally calculated that the number of political and council members from the third and fourth grades alone ranged from five or six to eight or nine.
These are the deputies and assistants of the chief envoy, and their role is not trivial. The chief envoy can suppress and idle individual political representatives who do not listen to you and are against your will, but it is absolutely impossible to shelve a large number of political counselors. , of course, if it gets to that point, you, the chief envoy, will not be able to play anymore.
So this is a question of influence. When these political and political councilors all feel that the governor's instructions must be accepted and implemented, it is meaningless for you as a chief minister to object. You cannot even openly oppose it. At most, you are violating it in disguise. , but you have nothing to do if people participate in politics and participate in councils in accordance with the governor's instructions. After all, if you go to the stage, it means that as the chief envoy, you may be impeached by the governor.
In the final analysis, it still depends on who has more dominance in the officialdom of the province, and whether the governor can transform the trust of the court into influence on the entire officials.
What Feng Ziying is doing now is to quickly establish his dominance and influence control through the military operation of quelling the chaos.
For officials across the province, especially those living in Xi'an, the civil unrest in the east has seriously endangered their own safety. Not only is the black gauze hat crumbling, but it has also endangered personal safety, such as in Hancheng and Heyang. Many local officials either died in the chaos, or fled back to Xi'an and were removed from their posts pending investigation. Some of those who neglected their duties were even imprisoned.
In addition, the situation in northern Shaanxi has deteriorated overall, making all the officials in Xi'an like ants on a hot pot, unable to sleep or eat well.
Feng Ziying's arrival and the listing of the Governor's Yamen undoubtedly suddenly became the backbone of the officials and people in Xi'an City.
No matter what, the presence of the imperial envoy in person, and the fact that he came to Xi'an during such a stormy time, made everyone feel a lot more at ease.
Moreover, this governor was born in the Imperial Academy, and came from Shuntian Prefecture in the capital. Others would have been unable to hide, but he was not afraid of hardships and dangers. Naturally, he had the confidence.
The son of the Governor of the Three Kingdoms, he participated in the counter-rebellion in Ningxia a few years ago, and also defeated the invading Mongolian army in Yongping Mansion. No matter how you look at it, he looks more like a general, but he is also a Hanlin family. This identity aura is intertwined. This makes Feng Ziying even more mysterious and extraordinary.
In addition, when Shaanxi came to Xi'an, it was not to sit in Xi'an, but to visit northern Shaanxi in person. With three strikes, five divided by two, most of Yan'an Prefecture was pacified.
It is not clear whether the former rebel armies of the Guards and Minzhuang who have been recruited and settled now are more like a rabble, and they actually drove the remaining northern Shaanxi rebel troops into a wolf-like attack.
Seeing that the situation in Qingyang and Pingliang was quickly reversed, everyone had to admit that the imperial court made the right choice in choosing such a young governor to take charge of Shaanxi. This also affected Lu Chuan and Sun Yijie, the two former chief officials of Shaanxi. Some opinions came up.
Why was it that when the two of you were here, there were always emergencies and wars were raging, and Feng Keng came here single-handedly. In less than three months, the whole situation changed. Could it be that just because of his status as an imperial envoy to governor Shaanxi? So powerful?
This thought will naturally sprout if it exists in the hearts of caring people, and it will continue to grow as the situation in Shaanxi further improves.
Of course, there are also the imperial censors who stayed in Xi'an City, which is what Feng Ziying needs to focus on.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate was established in the city of Xi'an, that is, the Shaanxi Dao censors and the Tea Patrol Procuratorate were co-located.
The Tea Patrol Inspectorate is responsible for the jurisdiction over the tea and horse trade in the Western Xinjiang region, and there is also a tea patrol censor, which is similar to the salt patrol censor, but with different division of labor and responsibilities. However, as the Zhou Dynasty began to control the Western Regions and Tibet The control power has weakened, and the tea inspection censor has been vacant, or in other words, it has been directly filled by a certain censor from Shaanxi Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
It is slightly different from the previous Ming Dynasty's imperial system. Although the imperial censorship of the Great Zhou Dynasty inherited the constitutional powers of the imperial censorship of the former Ming Dynasty, the Thirteen Dao also established Taoist censors with a similar number of personnel, but the rotation of censors was The system is different.
The thirteen censors of the Great Zhou Dynasty took turns to inspect local areas, either openly or covertly, or sat in the capital to conduct detailed inspections and reviews of cases, or patrolled in the provinces, or paid secret visits in secret. Take the Shaanxi Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an example. At present, Feng Ziying knows that two are stationed in Beijing, three are in the province, that is, in the city of Xi'an, and three are on their way back to Beijing. The whereabouts of the other two are unknown. They are probably conducting secret visits throughout Shaanxi Province.
Such a rotating inspection system can, on the one hand, avoid as much as possible the monopoly of inspection power by one or a few persons, and prevent the use of power for personal gain or forming cliques for personal gain. On the other hand, it can also speed up the verification progress of investigated cases and improve efficiency.
“Sir, several royal censors from the Procuratorate have arrived.” Ruixiang came in quietly, interrupting Feng Ziying’s contemplation.
“Oh, they are here?” Feng Ziying nodded, “Please come in and bring me some good tea to brew.”
Feng Ziying still respects these censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate very much. As a censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Feng Ziying may not be as qualified as these censors.
The requirements for censors are very high. Although they are basically the seventh rank, as a censor, the seventh rank is basically equivalent to the sixth rank of a local official. The so-called official is two levels higher, and he has even more authority. .
As long as these censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate serve as censors for a few years and then go out to work, as long as they don't make mistakes or offend big bosses, they will basically be promoted to the third level, that is, they will go out to serve as censors of the seventh grade. , most of them start from the fifth rank, and it is not impossible for some particularly outstanding ones to obtain the fifth rank.
“Xiaoguan Xiong Jianqiu (Lu Minghao, Chang Xuande) has met the governor.” The three green-robed officials of different heights and fatness who came in bowed respectfully when they saw Feng Ziying.
Although the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty was based on seniority and age, the direct superiors, coupled with scholars from Shujishi and Hanlin backgrounds, were enough to overwhelm factors such as age and seniority.
"Haha, excuse me, you three. Before I came here, Mr. Ru Jung specially told me that Shaanxi Road is the most important road in the north of our Metropolitan Procuratorate. They are all elites in the Metropolitan Procuratorate..." Feng Ziying replied with a smile. After a salute, he extended his hand to signal the three of them to take their seats.
Xiong Jianqiu is the leader among them, and the other two occupy a subordinate position. Although they are all seventh-level officials, seniority is still an important basis for their primary and secondary status in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Xiong Jianqiu was probably in his early thirties. Feng Ziying remembered that this person was a Jinshi in the 39th year of Yuanxi, and the other two were a Jinshi in the 42nd year of Yuanxi and the other in the second year of Yonglong.
"My lord, I have gone through many twists and turns to come to Xi'an. I'm afraid it must have been extremely hard along the way." Xiong Jianqiu is a short, fat man who sweats every time he moves. However, his fat face has very lively features, and the front and back of his green robe are covered with tears. A big ball was wet with sweat.
"I can't say how hard it is, but as long as the hard work pays off, it's worth it." Feng Ziying smiled, "I originally wanted to cross the river from Laoniu Bay, or come in from Tongguan, but after thinking about it, I still felt that I couldn't take the ordinary way. Since When I came to Shaanxi, I wanted to take a good look at the worst real situation in Shaanxi, so I finally chose to cross the river from Wubao, which can be regarded as a true experience of the ugliest side of our Shaanxi."
The three of them couldn't answer for a while. The most ugly aspect may not only be the arrogance of the rebels, but also the conduct and practical performance of the officials.
Finally, it was Xiong Jianqiu who spoke up: "Your Majesty, the Procuratorate has made many overt and covert visits to the three prefectures of northern Shaanxi in the past two years, and has also discovered some problems. However, the three prefectures of northern Shaanxi are poor, the people are tough, and the people in many places Officials were forced by the local gentry and controlled by powerful people, and they were timid in doing things, which led to such disasters..."
"Jianqiu, I'm afraid this is not a reason." Feng Ziying looked at the short fat man, "It is neither a situation where officials can neglect their duties and slack off, nor is it a reason for our imperial censors to let it go or even deliberately ignore it. What do you think? ?”
(End of this chapter)