Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2059, hard work has a future

"Yang Yiqing, tell me."

Emperor Hongzhi successively asked two important officials of the court to leave and go home for the elderly, which also made all the officials in the ruling and opposition parties tremble with fear.

It's not easy to be an official, especially in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to be an official, you can only take the imperial examination. Many ministers were admitted when they were in their [-]s and [-]s. So easily lost.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you go down to practice or experience, isn’t it just a process? Anyway, everyone has actually acquiesced to the current rules. Non-jinshi can’t enter the Hanlin, and non-hanlin can’t join the cabinet.

It's nothing more than going to a place to experience and go through the process. You still have to be promoted. No matter what, it's much faster than other officials.

There is no need to fight Emperor Hongzhi over this matter. It is rare for Emperor Hongzhi to mention one thing, and it is not a particularly excessive thing.

Isn't it just to change the future development path of the Imperial Academy? In a word, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty will still come from the Hanlin of the Imperial Academy.

"Your Majesty is right!"

"The epidemic this time has indeed exposed a lot of problems. It is good to experience it properly. It is also good for officials to know more about the suffering of the people."

"What's more, even the prince has been practicing step by step from the county magistrate, magistrate, and chief envoy. Everyone should learn and learn."

Yang Yiqing is naturally a smart person.

"Ok!"

"Well said, everyone knows what the prince was like before."

"But now the crown prince has experienced a lot of experience and has matured a lot. The Hanlin of the Imperial Academy, as the important reserve talents of our Ming Dynasty, naturally need more experience. Not only must they be talented, but they must also have the ability to govern the country. .”

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and nodded, then looked at Yang Tinghe and said, "Yang Tinghe, tell me."

"Your Majesty and the princes are right."

"The minister also thinks that it is necessary to practice, to know the local situation, and to understand the sufferings of the people."

Yang Tinghe had ten million objections in his heart, but he couldn't object with his mouth.

It took him more than ten years to come back to the imperial court, and he was favored by the emperor. He didn't want to just go home and take care of himself.

So even if you don't support it, you should support it.

He knew very well in his heart that the stronghold of the old school was the Hanlin Academy. These Hanlins didn't need too many assessments, and they could be promoted very quickly.

But once they are sent to the localities to practice, they will participate in the assessment like local officials, such as the annual tax increase, population growth, how many roads are built, and so on.

These are rigid indicators. If you want to be promoted, you must do some performance. This will naturally and slowly become a practical person.

This must be a heavy blow to the old school.

But that's what the emperor meant, and he can't help it. What's more, the officials are not of one mind, and there are officials from the practical faction supporting it. There is no way to say that it is the same as before. will.

"Well, then it's settled like this."

"From now on, the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy must go to other places for training, and only those who perform well can become important officials of the court."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction, then glanced around and settled the matter.

It is useless for some officials to object. The main ministers in the court have no opinion, and it is useless for a few people to have opinions. If you get angry, you will go home and retire.

"Now many important positions such as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of Rites, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, Chief Minister of Shandong Province, and Chief Minister of Nanzhili have been vacant, and they must be filled as soon as possible."

"Korean ~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the officials, thought for a while and then said.

"Chen is here!"

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi calling him, Han Wen quickly stood up.

"Now the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials is vacant, and I will temporarily take over the position. This time, you will draw up the list of relevant candidates."

"The minister obeys the order!"

Hearing Hanwen, he quickly and respectfully accepted the order.

"Retreat!"

Immediately, Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand, he was too lazy to waste time here, and directly stepped back.

Seeing Emperor Hongzhi leaving, the officials slowly pushed out of the Golden Luan Hall, all of them frowning with serious expressions.

After leaving the Golden Luan Hall, many ministers rushed to curry favor with Han Wen.

Of course, Han Wen himself is the chief minister of the cabinet, and there are usually many ministers who fawn on him, but now there are more people who fawn on him.

Because the personnel changes this time are very large, several important key positions have been vacated.

The three positions of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of Rites, and Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites are all the positions of Minister of Ministers, which are particularly critical and important. Once they can achieve the position of Minister of Ministers, it will be completely different.

So many people are trying to curry favor with Han Wen, wanting Han Wen to help push themselves to this position.

In addition, there are also a lot of vacancies for Shandong's chief envoy and Nanzhili's chief envoy, as well as the inspector, Jianshi, magistrate, and prefect of the two provinces.

After that, the Hanlins of the Hanlin Academy will go to other places to practice. These two provinces are both good places, both of them are natives of the Ming Dynasty, and they are both rich and plain places, so it is easy to make achievements. of.

It is much, much better than places like Golden Continent, Australia, and Black Earth Province. If you can go to these places to experience, that is also very good.

Therefore, there are also a large number of Hanlin people who are fawning around Hanwen, hoping that Hanwen can appreciate him and send himself to these places to practice.

"What a bunch of weeds!"

Liang Chu couldn't help but despise those Hanlin people who were surrounding Hanwen.

"It's not easy. After decades of studying hard, I was awarded a Jinshi and entered the Imperial Academy. Naturally, I hope to be promoted step by step, and I will become an extremely human minister."

"Now that the system is changed, the strength of character is lost."

Yang Tinghe smiled and sighed.

In the past, the Hanlin of the Imperial Academy could be said to be the most powerful existence in Ming Dynasty. The heaven and the earth are big, and the Hanlin of the Imperial Academy are the largest. bone clank.

But it's different now, there's no way to spit on the emperor's face and not say anything, and from now on I have to look at the faces of the officials, and it's not as easy as before to get promoted.

"Mr. Yang, you can still laugh."

"From now on, our conservative faction will lose its power greatly, and the hard-working faction will overwhelm us again."

Liang Chu shook his head helplessly, this Yang Tinghe could still laugh at this moment.

"That's actually pretty good."

"National affairs can't really be decided by a group of people who can only write articles. Sometimes it is still necessary to use some people to do some practical things. Otherwise, my Ming Dynasty will not be as strong as it is today."

Yang Tinghe said with a smile.

Liang Chu listened to his words, then took another look at him, what exactly did Yang Tinghe mean.

On the other side, a large number of Hanlin scholars gathered together, discussing the matter of going to other places to practice in the future.

"Every place is different. In the thirteen provinces of our Ming Dynasty, it is naturally easier to achieve performance. Take the same road construction as an example."

"Northern Zhili is definitely different from Guizhou. It is very simple to build concrete roads in Northern Zhili. They are all flat. It is easy to build and requires less funds. The key is that Beizhili is rich and prosperous. Anyhow, enough silver can be raised to build roads."

"But it's different in Guizhou. Guizhou has rugged roads and dangerous mountains. It is very difficult to build roads, and it costs a lot of money. It is difficult to raise enough silver. We can only rely on the appropriation of the imperial court."

"So, if you go to a place to practice, the best thing is to go to the provinces attached to the mainland."

"I heard that going to Hezhong, Heitu, Nanyun, and Western Regions is also very good. The population of these identities is growing very fast, and this area can get good results."

"Oh, that's good. I'm waiting for the noble Hanlin to go to a place to practice. I still don't know what to do there."

"In fact, that's the case. It's nothing more than paying attention to the three areas of taxation, population and infrastructure. If you collect more taxes, encourage more births, build more roads and reservoirs, you can't go wrong."

"Does that Tong Rui know?"

"I know, Henan Chief Envoy."

"He has made great achievements by building rivers. Both sides of the Yellow River in Henan have been given up to build new rivers. This time, the north is drought. They were dug several meters lower.”

"Because Xiuhe Tixiu's achievements were appreciated by Liu Jin in the past, so he has achieved the position of chief minister step by step. It is estimated that this time he may become a minister."

"Is it okay to build rivers?"

"Yes, what does the construction of rivers have to do with governing the country? Since ancient times, governing the country has depended on studying. The construction of rivers is only effective for a while and in one place."

You Hanlin was very puzzled and said, in their view, the way of governing the country is all in the sage books, and it is enough to do what is said in the book, and it is nothing more than building a river lift or a river channel.

"This is the concept and thinking of the practical people. They feel that what a person can do is limited. When an individual can do their own things well, the whole society and the country will be completely different when combined. gone."

"This Tong Rui is building rivers and dredging river channels in Henan. It may be just that section of the Yellow River, but if officials from all over the country can do this, the whole Ming Dynasty will be completely different."

"From now on, the roads in Daming will be more and more spacious, the river will not break its embankment easily, and the Yellow River will not flood easily. When little things accumulate, sand will form a tower. When countless small things come together, a huge event will happen in the whole of Daming. changed."

"Their belief is that hard work will lead to a future!"

"I see. It seems that we still need to learn more from them in the future."

(End of this chapter)