Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1414, go home and grow sweet potatoes
Although you, Liu Jin, are Minister of the Ministry of Officials, you are known as a heavenly official, and you are in charge of the promotion, assessment, appointment and dismissal of officials all over the world, but that is only for officials of the fourth rank. It's almost the same as Liu Jin, and Liu Jin has no right to appoint or dismiss at all.

Liu Jin had nothing to do with Feng Shiyong.

Besides, Feng Shiyong is over sixty years old, he has been in the officialdom for many years, and he doesn't know how many disciples, old officials, etc., among other things, he doesn't know how many of these important ministers of the Ming Dynasty are related to Feng Shiyong Therefore.

Even if Feng Shiyong doesn't like you, Liu Jin, what can you do with him?
Everyone looked at Liu Jin, waiting to see Liu Jin's jokes.

"As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials of the imperial court, I select and appoint talents for the emperor. Naturally, those who are capable will be promoted and appointed more. For officials like you who are doing nothing but do not want to make progress, and who have nothing to do, they will naturally be dismissed."

"Thousands of people in Nanzhili are waiting for an accomplished official to lead them to a better and better life, but you, who have been favored by the emperor and have a heavy responsibility, have done nothing. One question and three questions, such an official is a danger to Nanzhili and the Ming court."

Liu Jin stood up, looked at Feng Shiyong, an old man, and said righteously.

Then he turned to Emperor Hongzhi and said, "Your Majesty, I implore Feng Shiyong, the chief envoy of Nanzhili, to dismiss Feng Shiyong. Thousands of Li people in Zhili."

Seeing that Liu Jin directly asked Emperor Hongzhi to dismiss Feng Shiyong, everyone present couldn't help but gasp.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials cannot directly appoint and remove officials of the fourth rank or above, and he has no right to appoint and dismiss officials like the chief minister of Nanzhili.

Generally, the appointment and removal of officials above the fourth rank is discussed with the cabinet first, and then reported to the emperor after the discussion is completed. The emperor chooses one of the selected candidates.

However, if the Minister of the Ministry of Officials feels that a high-level official has not acted, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials formally proposes the removal of the emperor, it will basically be passed.

Not only the emperor will pass it, but the cabinet will also pass it, because the face of the minister of officials must be given, and the majesty of the heavenly officials must be maintained, so that the officials in the world can be controlled well.

Of course, the official ministers generally would not do this, and few officials would force the official ministers to directly apply to the emperor for removal. After all, where is the official minister's power.

Now Liu Jin directly proposed to Emperor Hongzhi to dismiss Feng Shiyong, which basically means that Feng Shiyong will definitely go home to grow sweet potatoes, and it is even impossible to go to Nanjing for the elderly.

"you~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Feng Shiyong was so angry that he couldn't speak, and pointed at Liu Jin, out of breath.

Thinking of him, Feng Shiyong, a Jinshi of the Chenghua Dynasty, had been an official for more than [-] years, and it was only with great difficulty that he managed to achieve the position of the Chief Minister of Southern Zhili step by step. At that time, I even thought about whether it is possible to go further in the future.

However, who would have thought that this Liu Jin was so stubborn that he directly applied to Emperor Hongzhi for his dismissal.

Liu Jin was a popular person around Emperor Hongzhi. He was already a great minister at a young age, and he was always trusted by Emperor Hongzhi. When he opened his mouth, he definitely wanted to go home to grow sweet potatoes.

Even if there are many old friends, former disciples, fellow students, fellow countrymen, etc. in the court, do they dare to speak out for themselves?
Feng Shiyong was out of breath when he thought that he really wanted to go home for the elderly.

As for the officials below, they were all surprised, and then looked at Emperor Hongzhi.

Some secretly rejoiced that it wasn't him and Liu Jin who came up against each other, while others scolded Feng Shiyong for being an idiot, no matter what age.

Emperor Hongzhi and the imperial court made repeated orders and five times, and the policies made by many big bosses above, he even came to oppose it. The key is that in his own position, he didn't know anything about the situation in Nanzhili, so he was dismissed It also deserves it.

Others are already thinking about whether they should find someone to walk around. The position of Nanzhili chief envoy is a lucrative position, and the place of fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River is far from being comparable to other places.

Many governors, governors, chief envoys, etc. who are working overseas are eager to transfer back to the Ming Dynasty to serve here.

"Oh, this Feng Shiyong~"

Liu Jian looked at Feng Shiyong, and couldn't help shaking his head. This Feng Shiyong was from Henan, and he was from the same town as Liu Jian. The position is inseparable from Liu Jian's promotion.

But who knew that Feng Shiyong would do so badly in the position of Nanzhili chief envoy.

Although Zuo Long, the chief envoy of Beizhili, did not do very well, he is very clear about the situation in Beizhili, and he has built a lot of roads. In the past, there was an explanation.

But what about you Feng Shiyong, you don't know what to ask, and you try to use fancy rhetoric to deal with this debriefing meeting. Are you the emperor and these ministers in the current court all fools?

Sitting on the dragon chair, Emperor Hongzhi looked stern, and he was also thinking about many problems.

He remembered the past. In the past, most of the officials in the imperial court were similar to this Feng Shiyong, or even far inferior to this Feng Shiyong.

To be an official is to be one's own official with one's legs crossed. Regarding the matters within one's jurisdiction, many times you don't know how many people you have, how much tax you can collect in a year, and what is the income of ordinary people?

When you were an official, did you do any good or practical things for the common people?

Most of the officials in the past could only move their mouths. They spoke more beautifully and wrote more beautifully than the other. However, few of them had real talents in handling state affairs.

The imperial court was invaded by foreigners, the army was slack, lack of training, old, weak, sick, and vulnerable. It was invaded and plundered by the Tatars in the north every year, but they could only defend the city, so that many times, the Tatars were ambitious. , approaching the capital, threatening to stay in the Central Plains again,

Even the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast became more and more rampant, but they still couldn't find a useful person to exterminate these Japanese pirates.

There is also the issue of taxation. The huge Ming court can only receive less than three million taels of silver a year, and the treasury can starve mice to death, and nothing can be done.

If you want to do something, these officials are best at telling you that you have no money, and you should pay from your majesty's internal funds if you want to do something, so that I have been the emperor for ten years, and I can say that nothing has been done.

In the final analysis, there are too many officials like Feng Shiyong. They do nothing, and they eat a vegetarian meal. They don't think about sharing the worries of the king, but for the well-being of the people.

As the chief envoy of Nanzhili, this Feng Shiyong didn't know anything about the situation in Nanzhili. He didn't know anything. He really didn't know how he became the chief envoy.

Southern Zhili, a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, has always been the richest place in Ming Dynasty, but now it is surpassed by Northern Zhili, and the gap is getting wider and wider. There are too many, too many officials like Feng Shiyong.

"Yes~"

Emperor Hongzhi spit out two words lightly.

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Feng Shiyong collapsed immediately.

After decades of hard work in the officialdom, he finally became a second-rank feudal official, but now he was dismissed with a single sentence.

He really couldn't accept this fact.

More importantly, he felt that he had done nothing wrong all along.

He just does things in accordance with the tradition and style of being an official. He even feels that he is still an upright official with a clean sleeve and attaches great importance to cultivating talents. When he was an official in Nanzhili, he attached great importance to the imperial examinations. The gentry and so on jointly organized many private schools, academies and so on.

He felt that his idea of ​​persuading farming and mulberry and ignoring corvee and sacrificing Fu was right, because it has been like this since ancient times.

The imperial court should collect less taxes, let alone set up a tax bureau, and use tax police to forcibly collect taxes from the people. This is robbing the people of their wealth, which is wrong.

I didn't do anything wrong, but in the end it was such a result.

He doesn't agree!
"Your Majesty, I don't think I did anything wrong."

"Since ancient times, there has been a policy of light corvee and low tax, persuading farmers and mulberry, and recuperating with the people. The imperial court set up a tax office and forced taxation. This is wrong in itself.

"I'm not wrong. I'm a clean and honest official. I can't accept all this."

Feng Shiyong looked at Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin, and said very loudly.

He was not convinced, he was so angry that his beard was crooked.

"Why did the imperial court set up a tax office to force taxation? Don't you, the chief envoy of Nanzhili, not understand?"

"In the past, the imperial government's annual tax payment was only three million taels, and even the officials' salaries were difficult to support. What did the imperial court use to build a powerful army and build the country?"

"When there was a famine, starvation spread across the land, wars broke out, and foreign tribes invaded and plundered our border people year after year, and even threatened to live in the Central Plains again."

"The imperial court is extremely poor, but the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan and other places are very rich. They can spend a lot of money on flower boats, but they are unwilling to pay even a penny to the imperial court."

"The establishment of the tax office is just to collect the taxes that the imperial court should have collected, but you are here to say that you are seeking the people's fat and anointing, twisting the facts, and talking about the government. You are still a senior member of the second rank, and you can't even understand this."

"Come on, get rid of fame, dismiss from office, go home and grow sweet potatoes."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Feng Shiyong and opened his eyes.

He is even more angry than Feng Shiyong. Is this the court's chief official?

Is this the important minister of the court?

A dignified second-rank official doesn't understand the imperial court's decree at all. The establishment of a tax office by the imperial court and the compulsory collection of taxes are just to collect the tax that should be collected. When it comes to him, it turns out to be a search for the people's fat and people's anointing. This will make Emperor Hongzhi half dead .

Originally, I just wanted to dismiss your official, to keep your fame and rank, and to be able to go home to take care of the elderly, but in this anger, even the fame and other things were taken away.

(End of this chapter)