Chapter 140 Imperialism with Emperor Ming Characteristics
The iron-faced judge Cheng Zhengji is still very efficient in his work. How much money does an official want, who can buy it from, and how it can make it impossible for outsiders to speak. He is completely compliant in the procedures, and Chief Cheng has long had a case.
In short, this person is also an old man.
If I were not an old man, I wouldn't have traveled everywhere under the name of official business back then, but I didn't even have to work for several years, and finally ended up in the French Open in Wuxi.
After half a year of ideological transformation and labor education in the study class, Cheng Zhengji changed his past and became a firm Wei Liangchen ideologicalist.
At the same time, he is also an active practitioner and communication promoter of Wei Gong's thought.
The reason why Eunuch Wei’s idea of buying official positions for his comrades was that it was a personal ideological report to Mr. Wei in the second day of the Chinese New Year.
In this report, Cheng Zhengji raised a confusion, that is, Duke Wei was a member of the inner court, so even if Duke Wei's thoughts are beneficial to the country and the people, and have the advanced significance of the times, due to his background, Duke Wei's thoughts are difficult to get the support of most court officials.
"The thoughts of the Lord are far-reaching, but the origin of the Lord is ashamed of scholars. How far can the Lord's thoughts go?"
Cheng Zhengji even tactfully used "people leave and tea is cold" to describe Wei Gong's entrepreneurship.
It means that the careers that Duke Wei do now are all because of the emperor's support, but the emperor is old. Once the new emperor ascends the throne or the emperor no longer favors Duke Wei, Duke Wei's career will have a dream and collapse instantly.
When receiving this personal ideological report, Eunuch Wei was busy deploying the encirclement and suppression of the Jin and White Banners on the Liaodong frontline, but he still took the time to reply.
"Comrade Zhengji, our family has received your letter and read it. Our family has carefully considered the questions you raised. Now I will reply to you.
...Our family believes that the greatness of thought has no practical connection with personal origin, so we should not deny a person's thoughts based on his origin.
...We must never look at its phenomena only, but also look at its essence. Many of our scholars and officials believe that there is a difference between inside and outside. Our family’s origins are not worth a lot in their eyes, and they even say it as a joke, treating comrades as eunuchs...
This makes some of our comrades very passive when spreading our thoughts, and even shaken. If they do not receive firm support and understanding for a long time, comrades will inevitably have negative thoughts, believing that our career is destined to not succeed.
We must admit that these situations exist objectively and will inevitably exist for a long time. We cannot deceive ourselves and regard these bad things as non-existent."
In his reply, Eunuch Wei gave a positive answer to the confusion raised by Cheng Zhengji, and he did not avoid the impact of his background.
The attitude is sincere, this is the usual attitude of Mr. Wei.
When a problem is raised, there must be a solution.
This is what Eunuch Wei said about how to solve it.
"Accumulate more with less and accumulate big with less, and do not blindly seek success. First gather a small number of people, build them into an unbreakable alliance, and build them into an invincible group. This is to win by quality rather than by quantity."
In the letter, Duke Wei proposed a clear argument for the formation of a clique for the first time, and for the first time in the open letter, he gave a formal title on what the group he had gathered in his thoughts should be called.
"Donglin is named after the academy, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, and Xuan are named after the place name. Our party is different from them. It should be named after a new word, which can be called the new party, to show the difference from these old parties."
"The new party is the new party for comrades, not the new party for us..." Eunuch Wei also proposed that the new party is a group, not an individual.
"We must clearly understand whether the source of the power of the current spread and practice of thought comes from bureaucrats... All comrades in our new party can make progress in the officialdom and have a certain right to speak and power. Comrades will still feel confused and confused, and think that our career will be ridiculed and will stop moving forward?"
Buying officials for current comrades and allowing them to make progress is the solution given by Eunuch Wei.
"As long as we join our new party, we can gain firm support from the party, and our new party will become the choice of more officials. One year or two, five or ten years, the more party members we have, the greater our strength. Will there still be any questions raised by Comrade Zhengji?"
"The extent to which the new party can grow depends on how big the party members can be. The bigger the comrades, the more people support our thoughts."
Shortly after this reply letter, Mao Shilong, the clerk of the Criminal Department, received a secret order from his father-in-law, asking him and Cheng Zhengji to conduct actual research on the feasibility of buying an official.
After doing a lot of preliminary work, the next thing was to simply register. After a busy morning with Mao Shilong, Cheng Zhengji finally gave the plan to Eunuch Wei.
According to this plan, the 14 people participating in the Xishan Friendship Talk need approximately 40,000 taels of official purchase funds.
This is only limited to the promotion of the official position, that is, the chief officer is promoted to the position of the staff, and the promotion of the staff is also given to the staff. Moreover, it is an internal promotion of the unit and does not involve outward transfers.
If Leng Yamen moved to Re Yamen, the expenses required will naturally be more.
For example, Lu Mingde is now the seventh rank of the Zhan Shi Mansion. Although this yamen is an auxiliary institution for the Prince's East Palace, as long as the prince is still the prince for one day, the officials in this yamen are the coldest-headed one.
At about 3,000 taels, Cheng Zhengji could try to help Lu Mingde seek promotion in the agency under the Zhanshi Mansion, such as the head of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, but if he wanted to transfer him to the household, worker, official and other hot yamen, the money would be far from enough.
Eunuch Wei set three principles for buying an official this time.
First, it is limited to internal promotions in the unit; second, it is limited to first-level promotions; third, it is not involved in local areas for the time being, that is, the Beijing officials will not be moved out.
Cheng Zhengji asked Eunuch Wei why he set these three principles. The word "father-in-law" was answered, which means "low-key".
"This is a bold attempt and a brand new attempt. Through this attempt, we need to confirm the feasibility of organizing and large-scale buying of officials."
Eunuch Wei picked up the pen and circled the plan three times, asking Cheng Zhengji to send the plan to Zuoanmen Maritime Office later.
Chen Mo, who was in charge of the office, knew his father-in-law's handwriting and would allocate silver after receiving it. Where did the funds come from? It was Chen Mo's business.
At lunch later, everyone tasted the wild boar meat carefully cooked by Monk Chen.
"Wei Gong's breeding industry has advocated the development of aquaculture, the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry..." Sun Bixian picked up a piece of pork belly and put it in his mouth. He was in a good mood because Cheng Zhengji promised him that he would definitely be promoted to another level within three months.
"It's good to raise pigs. It can not only kill and eat meat, but also sell and save money, and improve the quality of life..."
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The comrades of the New Party are very interested in the discussion on pig farming and getting rich, and they have a lot of discussions.
Yang Sichang poured cold water on everyone, and he said: "In recent years, our dynasty has been suffering from disasters. Some places have been affected by natural disasters, and the grain output is not enough, and the people do not even have a living food. They have to rely on the court to allocate grain to provide relief. Where can we get surplus grain to feed pigs?"
Chapter completed!