For Shen Shixing, people like Jiangdong are really a piece of cake. After staying in the court for more than 20 years, he has dealt with super big names like Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng, and his merits have reached a superb level.

The gang of minions who came out of the mountain in the fifth year of Wanli (1577) were naturally no problem.

Mix is ​​a life skill. Except for a few people, people around the world will basically mix up, because mixing does not affect social progress. Human development, if you should mix, do what you should do, and if you should mix, you should just mix it, you should not. It is called a gangster.

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Shen Shixing is not a gangster, he is just his means, and doing is his goal.

Generally speaking, a new official always needs to burn three fires to make some political achievements and do a big job. However, looking at the various performances since the Shenshi administration, you will be surprised to find that his big job is not to do it.

His actions are inaction.

The first thing Shen Shixing did was to abolish Zhang Juzheng's examination method.

This is an extremely unexpected move, because in the eyes of many people, Shen Shixing is Zhang Juzheng's direct descendant and has no reason to counterattack.

But Shen Shixing did this because it was correct to do it.

The examination method is the main content of Zhang Juzheng's reform, that is, the work indicators are implemented at all levels. If they fail to complete the work, they will be dismissed from office at the worst, and they will be imprisoned at the worst, which will make officials at all levels frightened.

For a long time, this Ming Dynasty attendance played a great role and effectively improved the work efficiency of officials. It was Zhang Juzheng's proud work.

But Mr. Zhang didn't know that there was a very serious flaw in the examination method.

For example, the court stipulated that the Ministry of Revenue would collect one million taels of taxes this year, and distributed it to Zhejiang, which would be 300,000. This matter would be assigned to the Zhejiang Department of the Ministry of Revenue (the fifth rank) and would be supervised and implemented by him.

When the Zhejiang Department receives the order, it will urge the Zhejiang Governor to handle the matter. The governor will go to the Zhejiang Governor to receive all the money within a specified period of time.

Of course, the Zhejiang governor would not be idle. He immediately convened the prefects at all levels and collected them within a specified period of time. After the prefect returned, he summoned the magistrates at all levels and collected them within a specified period of time.

Although the magistrate was young, he would not do it himself. He went back to the yamen to summon the yamen runners and collected them within a specified period of time.

The last thing they did was the yamen runners, so they had no choice but to come to collect taxes one by one.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has been basically the same method. As far as management studies are concerned, it is quite reasonable. It has been done for more than two hundred years and no major problems have occurred.

Once the test is completed, things will be in trouble.

Originally, the central government issued an order that local governments could implement it, and even if it could not be implemented, it would be easy to discuss. Assessment every three years, there were great disasters and many troublemakers. If you can’t take it all this year, it doesn’t matter. You can flexibly grasp the policies, work hard next year, and continue to do it well.

After the examination is completed, it will not work. You will have to complete as many tasks as you give. You will make up for it yourself if you are not worth it. If you can’t make up for it, you will be punished after class.

Now it's a waste of life. The yamen runners cannot collect them all, which will implicate the magistrate. The magistrate cannot collect them all, which will implicate the magistrate. The magistrate also implicates the governors, and they will hold them accountable layer by layer. Everyone is on the same boat, and no one can escape if something happens.

Lose.

Instead of falling from bottom to top, it is better to push the platform from top to bottom. With a command, officials at all levels mobilized one after another, without asking for reasons or excuses, and had to complete the task.

So the order was turned over again, and the governor suppressed the prefect, the prefect suppressed the county, the magistrate suppressed the yamen runners, and the yamen runners... they could only suppress the common people.

The next thing is simple. The superiors suppress the subordinates, and the subordinates suppress the people. Generally, the years can still be dealt with. If they encounter a famine, it will be miserable. The yamen runners still come to their doors and say that their homes are suffering from disaster. He nodded.

He said that people in the family were dead, but he nodded, and he had to hand over it after nodding. Whether it was impossible to expose the blame or the whole family was dead, if the official was not accepted, he would be gone. Do you think I would take it?

The above is a routine matter, but later on, things became worse.

Because the performance of the examination and the official position is linked, the more work is completed, the faster the assessment is, and the faster the promotion will be. Therefore, many local officials have begun to report false numbers. The remote areas where dogs do not shit dare to report to the big ones.

I don't suffer any losses myself.

But the court doesn't care about those things, and they have to get money after reporting, so they collect them from house to house. If they can't collect them, they will be forced, they will be beaten, and if they can't be beaten, they will run away if they are in a hurry. And the people who run away are called refugees.

Refugees were a serious problem in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. In today's terms, it was a social instability factor. These people left their hometowns and wandered around, had no household registration, no residence, and did not apply for temporary residence permits, which often affected the stability and unity of society.

By the middle of Wanli, the number of refugees was already very impressive. Even the suburbs of Beijing at that time were occupied by a large number of refugees. Moreover, these people were generally not honest farmers. It was common for stealing, stealing, robbing, and other things to do.

It is very difficult to send troops to sweep them every now and then.

And these situations were unexpected by Zhang Juzheng.

So Shen Shixing resolutely abolished the examination method and opened up a large amount of land to resettle refugees from all over the country to farm, so that social conflicts were greatly alleviated.

Abolishing the examination and success method was an important choice for Shen Shi to rule. Although it was reform, it didn't take much effort. After all, Zhang Juzheng was a dead person and a useless person. No one helped him stand up. His rules were not abandoned.

But next time, there will be no such cheap thing.

In the 18th year of Wanli (1590), Deputy General Li Lianfang was ambushed while leading his troops to inspect the border and the entire army was destroyed. The one who took the lead was the Mongol Tatar tribe, the Talik.

Things got a big deal because Li Lianfang was a senior general of the Ming army, and the Tatar tribe killed him, which was a serious provocation to the Ming government. So when the news came, the ministers were all ready to send troops to deal with these guys who were troubled.

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No matter from any angle, it is necessary to fight. In the Ming Dynasty, if someone beats him, he will not fight back. He will be a turtle with his head and can't argue. Moreover, the emperor knew about this, and even he felt that he was embarrassed.

send troops.

The boss spoke, the masses supported it, and war was imperative. However, at this time, Shen Shixing stood up and said to the emperor:

"Can't fight."

In Chinese history, whenever the country is in trouble, the place is occupied, and people are killed, the court immediately becomes angry and everyone shouts and beats. It seems that everyone is a national hero and the incarnation of justice, but there are other secrets:

When the war was about to be fought, the country was full of hatred and family hatred, and everyone was excited. At this time, it was very exciting, and it was costless. Anyway, there was no need to fight the battle by yourself, and you could still gain a reputation, so why not do it?

The Lord is different. Regardless of whether it is true or false, everyone will shout and beat you. If you don’t shout, you will be separated from the masses, and the masses will trample you to death.

Therefore, the one who is the master of war may not be brave, and the one who is the master of harmony may not be timid.

Shen Shixing of the Lord is a brave man. As it turns out, his proposition is very correct.

Because the bad guy Talik was not an ordinary person, his identity was King Shunyi of Tatars.

King Shunyi was the title given to Altan by the Ming Dynasty. This Talik was Altan's successor, but this person was neither happy nor righteous. He was not good at trading well and expanded to the outside world all day long. He also planned to join forces.

Mongolia and Tibet tribes formed a Mongolian Empire to confront the Ming Dynasty.

For this number of people, fighting is the right thing to do. But the great Prussian military strategist Clausewitz once said that war is the continuation of politics. To put it bluntly, the ultimate goal is to make the other party obedient, and if there are other methods to achieve the goal.

Why do you need to fight?

Shen Shixing found this method.

He keenly discovered that although Tallik was King Shunyi, his subordinates were not monolithic, but were composed of various tribes and had their own opinions. Most people did a good job with the Ming Dynasty and did not want to fight at all.

, If a war starts rashly, fight those who want to fight, and fight those who don’t want to fight, it will be really not worth the loss. Dividing and disintegrating is the best strategy.

Therefore, Shen Shixing objected.

Of course, he would not do anything publicly oppose such things with Shen Shixing's level. He would not do it. He would draft it alone and hand it over secretly, so he would do it without any miss.

After receiving the memorial, Wanli recognized Shen Shixing's opinion, agreed not to move troops for the time being, and ordered him to handle the matter with full authority.

The news spread and there was an uproar, but the emperor said he would not fight, and no one could settle the score with the emperor. Mr. Shen Shixing also looked innocent: Although I am the chief minister of the court, the emperor disagreed and I had no choice.

There is no need to fight the war, but this matter is not over. Shen Shixing immediately ordered Zheng Luo, the Minister of War, to assemble heavy troops on the border, and not launch a large attack. He squatted there every day, and the other tribes ignored it and focused on attacking Lick.

He also specially picked his transportation convoy and ran away if he snatched it.

This kind of playing method is cost-effective and has a very high yield. Ming Jun is happy, but he complains so much that he really can't hold on anymore, so he has to lead his troops to hide far away. In this way, there is no need to make a big move, no matter how hard he is, no matter how hard he is,

With one soldier, Shen Shixing easily solved this problem and restored peace on the border.

Although the court situation was very complicated after Zhang Juzheng's death and there were many gangs, Shen Shixing responded with his unrivaled "mixed skills" to the point of dealing with it with ease. What is even more commendable is that he not only could he be able to make trouble himself, but also helped him selflessly.

A comrade who is mixed, such as Wanli.

Since becoming the throne, Wanli has been busy with two things, one is to deal with government affairs, and the other is to mess with Zhang Juzheng. In a sense, these two things are actually one thing.

Because Zhang Juzheng was so awesome, he had been an official for twenty-six years and a "emperor" for ten years (in fact), and was even more famous than the emperor. Although he died, the tea was still so hot that it was so hot that he would not make Zhang Juzheng smell bad.

, I can't do government affairs well.

But if you want to do this, you have no way to do it, and you must find a thug. Wanli soon discovered that the best thugs are censors and ministers.

During the Zhang Juzheng era, censors and ministers were not popular and were beaten to death. Now Wanli decided to open the gate and release the dog.

In fact, these people performed well, such as Jiang Dongzhi, Li Zhi, Yang Keli and others. Although their fate was not very good, they all performed their duties as dogs at least during their work.

Wanli was very happy to see Zhang Juzheng being chased and beaten up;

Wanli was not sad because in his opinion, this was just a slight side effect. It would be better to hit Teacher Shen, so as not to be the chief minister for too long and make the mistake of his ex-official (Zhang Juzheng) again.

He liberated the censors and ministers and commanded them calmly because he believed that these men would always obey his orders.

However, he didn't know how terrible a mistake he made. Because in terms of his level of cursing, there is only one difference between censors and ministers and street aunts: aunts are amateurs, while censors and ministers are professional.

After the aunt scolds the street, she has to go home to do laundry and cook; after the censors and ministers scold this, they will scold the next one. Therefore, when they grow strong enough, the attack will no longer be the dead Zhang Juzheng or the living

Shen Shixing was the supreme emperor.

For censors and ministers, Wanli does have reasons to be scolded.

Since the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587), Wanli has not been in court much. It often has "sometimes there are minor diseases". At first, it was really "sometimes there are", but later it became common, and "sometimes there are minor diseases" gradually became

"Dirty and dark, weak and unrestrained." In short, ministers have seen him less and less.

It must be noted that Wanli does not attend court, but it is not that he does not attend work, so he still has to do things. For example, if you get up in the morning, don’t want to go to work, and change to work at home. Except for not having to attendance and seeing a few people, it is no different.

.When later generations talk about this kind of brother, he always doesn't work for decades. This is either an unintentional misunderstanding or intentional slander.

Being an emperor in China has high returns and you can have whatever you want, but the risk is also great. The position on your butt is like a person. Therefore, today is a conspiracy, tomorrow is a rebellion, and life is like that.

If you don’t read the official documents for a few days, you might have a knife on your neck. Anyone who is in power, except for a mentally retarded, is basically a skeptic, whoever you see is doubtful.
To be continued...