The foreign officials of the Ming Dynasty paid homage once every three years and underwent external inspections.

The so-called external inspection is opposite to the Beijing inspection. The Beijing inspection investigates officials from the two capitals, and external inspection is naturally targeting local officials.

This case was decided by Emperor Taizu. In the early years of Hongwu, local officials had to pay homage to the capital once a year, but because of the long journey of many prefectures and counties, it took several months for officials to arrive in the capital. As a result, it was all on the road in one year.

It was later changed to every three years.

Usually, prefectures and counties conduct monthly inspections and report to the government office. The government office will report to the provincial government office every year. In the third year, the governor and the Censor Office conducted a verification of officials in the province, wrote comments, and made a record of documents as the basis for the inspection of the Hajj.

All eight types of greed, cruel, impetuous, poor, old, sick, dismissed, and uncautious will be punished by the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate of the People, and will be punished by the Ministry of Personnel, demotion, idleness, and serving the people.

This year is the year of external inspection, and all local officials must undergo inspection. However, only a few officials who have performed outstandingly and received praise can be allowed to pay homage and report their duties to the court in person. Most local officials can only wait for the results to come in their own yamen, anxiously waiting for the results to come...

At the end of last year, officials from various provinces who were allowed to pilgrimage gathered in the capital. Even if the number of people entering the capital was limited, it exceeded 1,000.

The key is that after reporting on the work, you have to decide to lift, lower, stay or stay.

Therefore, just after the Shangyuan Festival and in the first month of the year, a long queue was lined up outside the Ministry of Personnel's Office. The provincial governors, censors, senators, assistants, and officials from prefectures, prefectures, counties and prefectures, prefectures, counties and prefectures, counties and prefectures, counties and officials were eager to report their duties to the examination department, and it was a first come, first served position.

In previous years, the report on work was a formality, because the examination department would not easily reject the comments written by the provincial inspection departments.

Especially those second- and third-rank officials who came to report their duties in person, the doctors in the examination department should give them face. Otherwise, they might fall under someone else's hands one day and have him to eat.

But this year's situation is different.

Gao Gong, the Minister of Personnel and the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace, actually took charge of the examination and listened to the officials' reports one by one.

This is a sign of death. The tall bearded man looked like lightning and knew the situation in each province. He could see through their carefully decorated work report at a glance, and a few words could reveal them, which was irrefutable.

As a result, almost every day, a large number of Hajj officials received bad reviews such as being unpretentious, impetuous, old, sick, and sack. Then, they would soon announce severe punishment in the name of the emperor. At the least, they would be reduced to the transfer, and at the worst, they would be demoted to the people, and there would be bloody storms.

Zhao Hao knew that Gaoge was always using this method to clean up. Who should clean up? First, old, poor, incompetent officials, second, officials who offended him and fought against him, and third, officials who did not follow him.

The officials in Jiangnan were naturally also affected by a considerable impact, but the disposal was generally reasonable. They only dismissed some incompetent waste snacks, leaving behind shrewd and capable people. Zhao Hao knew that this was already the mercy of the old man Gaoge, otherwise how could Gao Huzi missed this great opportunity to mix sand for the ten palaces of Jiangnan?

Therefore, Zhao Hao was very sensible and suppressed the noise of the Jiangnan Gang and prevented them from following Zhao Zhenji and the censors.

On the first day of the first lunar month, my father-in-law had already announced that. Gao Ge Lao was going to clean up the Kedao and take down Zhao Zhenji. At this time, he was still involved. He was because Gao Ge Lao, who was crazy about killing, didn’t he cut his knife on their heads?

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Of course, some people are demoted, some are praised and promoted.

Mr. Zhao Er was the first official to be praised. He was promoted to three levels in a row. He was from the magistrate of Kunshan, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and moved to the right of Tongzhi of Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong.

However, he is not the only official to be promoted. In fact, the ones who received excellent evaluation this time have been promoted by at least two levels...

This is because at the end of the first month, the officials and ministers gave advice to the officials, Han Ji and others, "If all ministers are given special gifts for the banquet, they should be promoted to the generals to show their advice. Those who have not moved for a long time will be given a salary and a first-time employee. After the Great Inspection, there are vacancies in the prefectures and counties, so I would like to ask whether they are far or near, and not to be subject to the tribute, and to provide all the responsibilities for the gradual pursuit of the long term."

As the number one horseman of Gaoge, Han Ji expressed two meanings. One is that the local officials who received excellent evaluation this time should be promoted instead of being promoted step by step, using their talents to make full use of them and encourage them later.

Second, all vacant positions should be replenished after external inspection, and they should not be related to their background, so that officials can feel at ease in the local area for a long time.

This is very important because, contrary to the keen braids who are keen on the outside, the Ming officials like to be officials in Beijing, but they regard the scattered way. They believe that even if they are planting flowers and walking birds in Nanjing, it is better than going to the place to join the treacherous clerks.

The main reason is that in the two centuries of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, deeply rooted local interest groups have been formed. The clerks and gentry firmly control the prefectures and counties. They are not allowed to be dealt with by one in three years. They have a few teachers and servants.

If a local official cannot compete with local interest groups, then the things he can do are very limited, and even if the government orders cannot be out of the county town, how can he achieve success in this way? Naturally, the promotion will be slow. If it is not done well, it will be three or three years, and he will not be able to move in a place for nine years. Look at the same year when he was an official in Beijing, he has been promoted to a sixth ministry official, and he is still a magistrate there, so no one can stand it...

In fact, the difficulty of promotion is not the most important thing. The biggest problem is that local officials have little power and great responsibilities. Although you can do very limited things, if something happens in the local area, you will not be able to run away when you hold them accountable. If the taxes are not complete, you will have to lose your money. If the collection is tight, you will have to lose your veil. If the river breaks, you will be dismissed from office. If you offend someone above, you will still be dismissed from office. In short, it is a capital letter "decline".

For example, during this pilgrimage, the Ministry of Revenue suddenly made a quarrel and asked the officials to come to the sky to find the officials, whether their provincial governments and counties have any taxes.

Isn’t this nonsense? Which county in the Ming Dynasty did not owe a lot of taxes?

After some verification, 90% of the prefectures and counties all have accumulated debts. So the salary is suspended for the mild case, and the salary is demoted for the severe case, without any mercy! And they all wrote a guarantee letter to make up for the reimbursement this year. Those big men were crying for the New Year...

Therefore, it is better for Beijing officials to be better. If there is little responsibility for the work, it is lighter and quick promotion, and has always been the best choice for officials. Therefore, foreign officials entering Beijing at the same level are regarded as high promotion, and even if they are reduced to one level and half rank, they are still gratifying. If Beijing officials are not promoted to one level and two levels, they are regarded as derogatory.

There are even many officials from the two capitals who are unwilling to take office even if they are promoted and released. Usually they will beg for leave because they are sick...

The high emotional intelligence theory is that you go home and travel under the forest to serve your mother.

The low emotional intelligence statement is that as part of a local interest group, they happily embezzle people's land, bully men and women, and then wait for the opportunity to recover. If they cannot get the official position they like, they would rather not become officials in their entire lives than go to another country to suffer.

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Therefore, the reason why these literati and officials could not "betray their backs for five dou of rice" was not because of their noble morality. The exploiting class, even if they were full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, could not change their thieves and prostitutes.

It’s just that because they are all exploiting classes, they have a family business and don’t just point to the salary of being an official… Although Zhang Siwei’s example is extreme, Zhao Hao has never seen a Jinshi from a poor family in the past few years.

This is not surprising. At a time when the class has been solidified, the Ming Dynasty has long been a poor family. It is certainly certain that those who passed the imperial examination were all children of wealthy families, but it is definitely true.

Even a poor scholar with extraordinary talent, after passing the Jinshi exam, would soon lead the entire family to a class leap like the "Fan Jin passed the imperial examination" - countless land assets would be devoted to his name, and the income alone would be far more than that little salary.

To put it bluntly, what the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty only had the privileges brought by the title of Jinshi and the status brought by the noble official positions, so they showed so strong points and regarded their own official positions as clouds.

As for why the braids turned over? It was because the fourth brother had "spread acres to make acres", "gentry and gentry work together to pay grain" and "fire consumption to the public"... Abolished the privileges of officials and gentry, and legalized local officials' corruption, so that "three years of Qing magistrate, 100,000 snowflakes". As one goes up and down, officials are naturally keen on exile, and they are very good at making a lot of money. If they cannot make enough money, they will not resign easily...

Therefore, the world is bustling with people, all for profit, and the world is bustling with people, all for profit. From ancient times to the present, there is nothing like this. The economic foundation determines the superstructure, which is actually an indelible truth.

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In order to avoid officials evading from being sick, Gao Gong reported on the 28th day of the first lunar month that "In the future, those officials from both capitals who have been transferred to work outside their posts for illness and are allowed to retire. Those who have evaded will be demoted and replaced. Those who dare to disobey and do not go to live without a name. Those who dare to disobey and do not go to live without a name. Those who have vacancies must be urgent and ask for help. Those who have recommended to work for recovery must be assessed by the governor and the officials shall not be punished for their own purposes.

Emperor Longqing naturally followed everything and agreed immediately.

Now that they had nowhere to escape, they were completely killed... The officials had to pack up their luggage aggrievedly, and reluctantly left Beijing to take office under the sympathetic gaze of their colleagues.

Among them, the one who received the greatest sympathy was Zhao Erye who was far away in Kunshan.

This is easy to understand. As Zhao Erye was the top scholar, he was a Hanlin editor of the sixth rank, it should not be released at all. Not to mention being released from the magistrate, which was a serious derogatory reprimand. When he was successful in his life, he fell to the bottom of the valley, but he was not discouraged or lie down and was not allowed to do anything. Instead, he worked hard to manage and achieved earth-shaking results in Kunshan County.

This fully demonstrates the scholar-officials' unwillingness to be fond of favor and disgrace when they "walking to the end of the water and watching the clouds rise", and has won a very high reputation for Mr. Zhao.

What's more, he was also the "Tiejizz No. 1" certified by the eunuch of the East Factory. The emperor didn't like him, and he was not allowed to be the first official who had been outstanding for three consecutive years, and he was also sent to a dangerous place like Chaozhou to be a second-ranking official!

All kinds of injustice are superimposed, can Shilin not feel sympathy for him? He just mourns deeply, okay? Some people even went to Zhaojia Lane to cry, which made Zhao Hao brothers furious. Our grandfather is not dead yet, so why are you in a hurry to cry?
Chapter completed!