The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 823 Opposition from Jiangnan

In the first year of Rende, the weather was a bit cold, so the queen's canonization ceremony was delayed for some time, and at this time the female officer had not yet been determined.

On January 28, after several months of training and assessment, the female officer candidates in the palace finally came to the time to decide on the candidates.

Today is the rest day of the imperial court, and Ding Yi also got up very early, and then he went to Dongnuan Pavilion to approve the meeting memorial. Now many small things will not be sent to him for review, but those that can be sent to him for review are local death penalty cases. , Big case.

Tax data, income data of each province, promotion of officials above the third rank, promotion of generals above the third rank.

There is also the promotion progress and effectiveness of the reform.

Judging from the memorial, the people are looking forward to this year's new imperial examination.

If you put this kind of memorial in the Ming Dynasty and other dynasties, it may not be a real response from the people. Officials can deceive the central government by reporting happy funerals.

But in Dagan, there are two kinds of memorials that local officials report to the emperor. One is mandatory, such as reform data, tax data, local income, official assessment, etc. These mandatory memorials require local leaders and The heads of all ministries unanimously approved, stamped and signed, without one less.

For matters such as imperial examinations, the county magistrate, county magistrate, master, inspection, and edicts must be approved before they can be reported to the emperor.

It is not easy for so many officials to communicate with each other, and it is not easy to tell lies together. After all, many county-level officials are promoted by Ding Yi.

Moreover, each government will supervise the county and provincial governments to verify the facts and double guarantee the accuracy of the memorial.

Because Ding Yi knew that there were too many things that deceived the heavens in ancient times. The emperor sat in the capital and didn't know what happened outside, and didn't know whether it was true or false.

In ancient times, there were only a few officials in a county, and a few people had the final say, so it was easy to deceive the higher authorities.

Now Ding Yi has hundreds of officials in a county, and it is almost impossible to collude to deceive others.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice also has officials patrolling the country all year round, which are used to crack down on fakes, tell lies, and report false information. Those who report false information will be severely punished.

Another kind of memorial is not mandatory, such as county magistrates, prefects or governors, if you want to report important matters to the emperor separately, you can report.

No other people's consent is required, but you have to guarantee that this is a major matter, and it must be accurate. Once the report is submitted, the emperor will ask someone to verify it. If it is found to be fake, the house will be ransacked and beheaded.

Ding Yi read the relevant memorials from across the country, and the memorials said that the common people responded urgently, and they were all waiting for the first imperial examination in the first year of Rende.

The following reaction is so excited because now Ding Yi has established 22 cabinets and [-] ministries in the central\central government, and the local government is still the county magistrate, the chief minister, patrol inspections, and edicts.

Therefore, this year we need to align the local administrative system with the central\central government.

There are more than a dozen bureaus in each county (some functions of the cabinet are merged in the county), and there are also more than a dozen bureaus in prefectures, and seventeen divisions at the provincial level correspond to the seventeen ministries in the capital.

This will increase a large number of officials and officials.

According to Ding Yi's current regulations, each bureau and division has a bureau chief (doctor), two deputy bureau chiefs (Yuanwai Lang), some department heads are officials, and the people below are officials.

Of course, the officials of the big cadres are similar to the officials, it's just a matter of treatment and rank.

When officials make mistakes, retire, or get promoted, officials can replace them.

For this imperial examination, all counties directly recruit people locally.

And many professional bureaus (divisions) require only professional people to take the exam.

For example, the Education Bureau and the Health Bureau, only doctors and teachers can take the exam.

The Energy Bureau needs to be proficient in minerals, including salt and sugar.

Now the test is not only for studying, many miners and salt merchants can take the test.

So the local people welcome it very much. Of course, most of the scholars in the past were very dissatisfied. The Ming Dynasty gave the scholars too high a status. Now a miner can sit on an equal footing with them. Is this okay?

So some memorials also mentioned that the scholars were dissatisfied, but no matter how dissatisfied, the number of officials in each county is now more than the total number of imperial examinations in Ming Dynasty.

In the past, you didn’t become an official even if you passed the college test, you didn’t become an official after you passed the township test, and you still didn’t become an official after you passed the confidant test. What else do you think?
Now once you pass the exam, you can become officials and officials. There are more people than before, and everyone has the opportunity. Therefore, the real dissatisfaction is still a small number of relatively arrogant people.

After a while, Ding Yi saw the memorial of the governor of Nanjing. Qian Qianyi, the former minister of the Imperial Academy in Chongzhen, and Qian Qianyi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, encouraged scholars everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River not to refer to it.

Qian Qianyi has a high status in literature.It was said by later generations of Manchu and Qing scholars that "the poets of this dynasty (Qing) came out in large numbers, and those who are incompetent can go beyond their scope."

Including Zheng Zhilong sent his son to him to teach, which shows that his status in the Jiangnan literary world is very unusual.

He stood up suddenly and soon won the support of a large number of scholars in Jiangnan.

They all said that other people were not worthy of taking the exam with the scholars, so they decided not to take the exam.

According to the memorial, Nanjing does not plan to take the exam, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of people.

Nanjing's strong reaction, including Qian Qianyi's strong reaction, is also related to Ding Yi's strong suppression of Nanjing.

Back then, Ding Yi dismantled the six ministries in Nanzhili. Qian Qianyi and others did not wait for the benefits, and then they vigorously suppressed nobles in Nanzhili, confiscated land and wealth, set up a shareholding, and everyone paid taxes, offending a large number of officials and scholars.

Now in the world, the people who are most opposed to Ding Yi are probably the Jiangnan area.

Ding Yi quickly instructed that there are plenty of people in Dagan, and if they don't take the test, some people will take the test, so don't worry about them.

After the approval, Ding Yi ordered that the commander of Jinyiwei be summoned, and Lu Chao enter the palace.

It is very easy to recruit someone into the palace in movies and TV shows. Ding Yi usually has to wait for more than half an hour.

In order to save time, Ding Yi also allowed the eunuchs to ride horses in the imperial city and leave the palace as soon as possible.

But the capital city is a bit big, and it took more than half an hour for many officials to call in.

He approved the memorial again, already feeling bored.

Suddenly thought of something: "Zhong Xian, what am I going to do this afternoon?"

Zhong Xian came over in small steps: "The female officer will be selected in the afternoon, and the emperor said that he wants to go and have a look."

Ding Yi thought, why didn't I let the female officials choose, and let the eunuchs choose what good ones they could get?
But it was like this in the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't change it himself. Now he regrets it a bit, and feels that he has to make an order in the future to get rid of this bad atmosphere.

But after thinking about it, Xu Ying is here this time, if I let myself choose, will I choose or not?Well, let the eunuch choose.

In fact, he wanted to hint to Wang Xiangyao not to choose Xu Ying, not to choose Xu Ying, but he felt sorry for Mrs. Xu.

The man is so strange, after all Xu Ying has a very strong feeling in his heart.

"Let's go, walk with me." Ding Yi threw away the pen and stood up.

Zhong Xian and Su Yue left and right, followed by maids and eunuchs, followed Ding Yi and walked to the right.

After exiting Dongnuan Pavilion, Jinghe Gate is not far on the right, and through Jinghe Gate is the East Sixth Palace.

Passing through the Jiaotai Hall to the south of the East Sixth Palace is the Renshou Palace.

Ding Yi wants to go to Renshou Palace to see the female officials in advance.

But I don't know why, as soon as I entered the East Sixth Palace, I thought of Concubine Xu Hui in the Jingyang Palace in Lenggong.

Uh, how about going to see Concubine Xu Hui?Think about yourself, I haven't seen her for a long time.

Considering that Lu Chao would come in later, Ding Yi finally gave up the idea of ​​going to Jingyang Palace, and Concubine Xu Hui often went to see Aimee Zhu, and it would be embarrassing if she ran away.

After a while, he entered the Renshou Palace. The eunuch had already seen the gate of the palace, and some people ran in. At the same time as Ding Yi entered, a bunch of people ran out of it.

Wang Xiangyao and his godson Wang Qide knelt down one after another.

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live."

"Everyone get up." Ding Yi said with a chuckle: "I'm free to take a look, you are busy, you are busy."

Wang Xiangyao ran to Ding Yi's side carefully, disturbed his head, and stopped talking.

"Is it according to the regulations that the emperor can't come and see it in advance?"

Wang Xiangyao hurriedly said: "That is the rule of the Ming Dynasty, we have no such rule."

Ding Yi gave an expression of 'you are interested', and led him into the Renshou Palace first, and did not go to the Luan Palace.

He dismissed the others, only Su Yue, Zhong Xian and Wang Xiangyao were in the palace.

Moreover, the distance between Su Yue and Zhong Xian is still relatively far.

"Has anyone been chosen?" Ding Yi asked in a low voice.

Wang Xiangyao said flatteringly in a low voice: "It was decided a few days ago, but if the emperor likes it, he can change it at any time."

Said with a smile on his face.

"Report it to me."

"Six female officials are selected, Chen Xiaocha, Xia Suxue, Zheng Shihua, Xu Ying, An Ping, Fang Kou."

Generally speaking, the rankings are based on appearance. After Wang Xiangyao finished speaking, Ding Yi thought to himself, Xu Ying is really there, but isn't she the most beautiful?

Mrs. Xu is actually quite beautiful, if she is not too old, she can be compared with Shen Chuying.

Unexpectedly, Xu Ying only ranked fourth.

He felt itchy in his heart, and wanted to take a look at these beauties, after all, they all belonged to him.

"Your Highness can move to the Palace of the Phoenix, and you can see them changing clothes in the Palace of the Phoenix." Wang Xiangyao whispered.

Damn, tell me to peek at them changing clothes?How can I do such a dirty thing?

A few minutes later, Wang Xiangyao took Ding Yi to the Jiefeng Hall opposite the Xiaoluan Hall.

Wang Xiangyao still has a good location. After entering, the window to the south is wide open. Standing on a stool, the window of Xiaoluan Hall opposite is also open, but it is a bit far away.

Ding Yi is a little unhappy, it depends on Mao.

Suddenly, in a flash from the corner of the eye, Wang Xiangyao took out a telescope from the cabinet next to him.

"..." Ding Yi stared at him. This is a military telescope, and it is not sold in the market yet.

Wang Xiangyao smiled coquettishly, but didn't speak.

This dog, Ding Yi cursed, took the binoculars, and slowly lifted it up.

Not far behind, Su Yue and Zhong Xian looked at each other and turned around quickly.

The dog eunuch Wang Xiangyao has pretty good eyesight, so he reminded Ding Yi from the side.

"The one on the west by the second window is Chen Xiaocha."

Ding Yi has been paying attention to her for a long time. Not only is she the tallest, she has the best figure, and she also has the most beautiful face.

"How old?"

"fifteen."

"It's not like." Ding Yi couldn't help blurting out: "The development is so good."

Wang Xiangyao didn't know how to answer it, nor did he know what Ding Yi meant, so he could only laugh along with him.

(End of this chapter)