prosperous age

Chapter 460 459 Evaluation
"To be honest, the Xuan Mansion is the northwest gateway of the capital, and His Highness pays close attention to the Xuan Mansion."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde seemed to realize that he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly said: "Students are terrified, these are the official affairs that adults should care about."

"Does Your Highness have a candidate for the Deputy Commander of the Xuan Mansion?"

Yang Bo did ask with a slight frown.

In fact, after the Ministry of War pushed Ma Fang to the position, it decided to replace the deputy commander-in-chief after several rounds of deliberations by the Military Selection Department. Yang Bo was a little embarrassed.

He didn't know that the so-called people whom King Yu valued were actually the generals that Wei Guangde had his eyes on.

But obviously, King Yu should know about this, otherwise he would never have said this in the presence of a eunuch.

Wei Guangde was not worried that King Yu knew about it.

Feng Bao, if Yang Bo would have let him back when he was in the Supervisor of Rituals, now that Feng Bao commits a crime in the palace and is sent to Prince Yu's Mansion, naturally he doesn't pay much attention to him.

So, throughout the whole day, he talked to Wei Guangde and didn't pay much attention to Feng Bao.

"Dong Yikui, the general of the Xuanfu, has guarded the East Xuanfu Road for many years. A little bit of merit is not enough, but after all, there is hard work, let alone a hero."

Wei Guangde pointed out the name of the officer he was looking forward to, and Yang Bo naturally knew who he was talking about.

"Dong Yikui, this old man has had contact with him when he was in the Xuanfu, and he can be regarded as a person who can do things."

Yang Bowei nodded after hesitating and said, "However, there are many discussions within the Ministry of War for the position of the deputy general of the Xuanfu this time."

When Wei Guangde heard this, he knew that Dong Yikui's appointment was a bit late, and the Ministry of War already had a plan to forcibly promote him, not to mention him, even King Yu didn't have such a big face.

Although it was a pity, Wei Guangde didn't take it too seriously.

After working hard, it would be nice to write to Dong Yiyuan to explain the situation later.

Since Dong Yikui is willing to get closer, next time there is a vacancy in Bianzhen, I am afraid that he will not be promoted.

But following Yang Bo's narration, Wei Guangde was secretly startled.

It turned out that although the position of the deputy general of Xuanfu was adjusted this time, it was actually a part of the imperial court's control over the generals of the border towns.

Although many generals who have accumulated meritorious service cannot be promoted, they can be transferred from the next-level military town to the higher-level military town, and sometimes they will be promoted when they reach the scattered ranks, which can be regarded as promotion.

With Yang Bo's words, Wei Guangde naturally couldn't say anything more.

The Ministry of War already has a plan. Although it has not yet been formed from Yang Bo's mouth, the general direction has already been set, so it is naturally inconvenient to continue to intervene, because in the end Yang Bo will respectfully invite the royal audience in the form of a secret melody.

"In fact, Ma Fang's position was originally assigned to Diaoji Town as the deputy commander in chief."

After speaking, Yang Bo looked at Wei Guangde and said.

In the beginning, Wei Guangde handed over this matter to the Ministry of War, intending to transfer Ma Fang to Ji Town.

However, compared to Jizhen, the Xuan Mansion faces a greater threat from the Tartars, so the Ministry of War has not agreed, but it also plans to consider it when changing jobs.

"Because of"

Wei Guangde only said three words, but his fingers pointed upwards.

Yang Bo nodded slightly.

Wei Guangde understood that last time Ma Fang was promoted and did not reward him with property. It seems that Emperor Jiajing had already signaled this to the Ministry of War at that time.

"I will remember Dong Yikui's matter, and I will mention his name if I have the opportunity."

In the end, Yang Boru said.

I have already confided enough to Wei Guangde, it is not good to continue talking.

Wei Guangde also knew what he wanted to know, so naturally he couldn't stay longer, so he got up and said goodbye, and took Feng Bao out of the Yang residence.

"Eunuch Feng, please go back and tell me that Guangde will have to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate tomorrow before returning to the palace to serve as an servant."

Before Wei Guangde got into the carriage, he suddenly remembered something, turned around and walked to Feng Bao's side and said.

"Master Wei, go yourself, I will definitely bring the words with you."

Feng Bao hurriedly replied.

Wei Guangde cupped his hands at Feng Baogong, watched him get into the carriage, and then returned to his carriage.

Feng Bao went back to Prince Yu's Mansion, while Wei Guangde went straight home. Thinking of the news he received today, Wei Guangde smacked his lips, making up his mind that going to the Metropolitan Procuratorate tomorrow is just a formality, just to have a look, and he doesn't need to speak.

It was the end of the year, and the major yamen of the Beijing Normal University started the final summary work, sorting out the affairs of the year, and finally sent it to the palace in the form of memorials for the emperor to preview.

The Ministry of Household Affairs, of course, summed up all the tax revenue and fiscal expenditures in the entire 40 years of Jiajing, but without thinking about it, it must be a deficit. The previous deficit could not be made up, and it continued to expand.

The Ministry of Industry summarizes large-scale national projects such as the Three Great Halls, gives an approximate completion time, and also provides data on the income and expenditure of the Ministry of Industry.

Ministry of Defense
Courtesy
In the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the left and right censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also discussing a list in their hands, and there was a thick list on the desk next to it.

This is the record of the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate investigating the officials of various departments in the world, and evaluating the work achievements of the officials.

Tomorrow, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will first take out this official document and hand it over to the censor in Beijing for viewing. After confirming that it is correct, it will be used as the inscription of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the official department for the final docking. Carry out promotion rewards and punishments.

"Master Pan, I think it's almost the same. I have communicated with various censors before, and everyone thinks it is credible."

Youdu Yushi said to Pan En.

"Since that's the case, let's do it this way. Tomorrow's court will ask all the censors to look again, and after confirming that it is correct, send a copy to the official department, so that we can play this matter with them in the next year."

Paine nodded with a smile. In fact, the annual inspection is just a formality in the eyes of these veterans in the officialdom.

As long as there is no trouble under the rule after one year, the worst evaluation will be medium. Although it will not be promoted, it is still no problem to retain the official position.

As for those officials who are going to be eliminated, they are either too old to continue to hold official positions, or they have offended the people above and intend to dismiss them.

"It should be said that the inspections in other places are quite suitable, but Zhejiang and Fujian are a little rushed."

Youdu Yushi still reminded Pan En at this time.

"In the official circles of Zhejiang and Fujian, many times what the officials say doesn't count, and it has to be decided by that person."

Pan En shook his head and said, "In any case, it is the evaluation given by the inspector censor sent by Nanjing. The censor in the capital is not willing to go there, and they can't say anything about these evaluations."

On the second day, Wei Guangde appeared in front of the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate on time, wrote his name on the register, and walked into the Metropolitan Procuratorate together with several censors.

Along the way, Wei Guangde has a general understanding of today's events, which is to announce the results of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's evaluation of officials from all over the world this year. If anyone wants to be impeached, he can communicate with the court in advance, so as not to show up and give an excellent evaluation to a certain official. There is a case of impeachment by the imperial censor.

"This year, more than [-] people were evaluated according to the purpose, and there are nearly a hundred people who will be dismissed?"

Hearing the discussion of several people, Wei Guangde felt that the sky was thundering.

In the past two years, Wei Guangde also participated in such a meeting. In his impression, he only dismissed a few dozen people and it was over. Why are there so many this year?
"Shan Loan, there aren't many rosters on your Fujian Road, and now most of them are newly appointed officials from the Ministry of Officials, and they haven't been evaluated so quickly."

Someone saw Wei Guangde's surprised face and laughed.

Wei Guangde smiled embarrassingly. He naturally knew that if they were the censors of the Fujian Province, if the courtyard sent people to inspect the state capitals around the capital, they would rush to go there one by one. According to Yushi's words, one by one pushed three times and blocked four times, and in the end he could only push the errand to the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate to send someone.

Wei Guangde is not bad, no matter what, he is only a name in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is too late for him to make a fuss about Qiandi. Who would be sent to Fujian to be an official, but the others in Fujian are too outrageous.

Wei Guangde followed the crowd into the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. At this time, there were already countless censors who arrived early in the huge hall, and they gathered together to talk about today's court meeting.

Wei Guangde searched among the crowd for a while, and found several places where Fujian Yushi was, and he squeezed past them.

Similar to the news I heard on the road, this evaluation really has little to do with Fujian Dao, which means that he only needs to sit down for the rest of the time, and he can leave until the end of the academy meeting, and take it away by the way. An annual gift prepared by the Metropolitan Procuratorate for all colleagues.

"What will be given to the courtyard this year? Is it the same as last year?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously, he doesn't appear here often, so the news is naturally not well informed.

Last year's regular meeting, Wei Guangde did not arrive when he was on business in the south, but the Metropolitan Procuratorate still sent someone to deliver the things to his home.

After Wei Guangde returned to the capital, he found out from his family that the gift was some food and meat, as well as cloth and a red envelope, but one of the cloth and the red envelope was a New Year's gift, and the red envelope contained two taels of silver and some precious banknotes.

Precious banknotes are of course a gift from Emperor Jiajing every year, and the only things that can be distributed in the palace are the cloth sent by Jiangnan Weaving and the precious banknotes printed by the inner court.

"It's like this every year. I heard that there may be more treasures, haha"

Some colleagues laughed at Wei Guangde.

Everyone knows that precious banknotes are useless, but it is this useless thing, with a large number of uncontrolled printing and distribution without a recycling mechanism, which has led to the fact that precious banknotes are no longer in circulation on the market, but the printing of precious banknotes has never stopped.

"This year, Yunnan donated copper materials and made a batch of copper coins. It is estimated that they will be placed in red envelopes as New Year's gifts."

Someone else said happily.

Wei Guangde knew what it was at the first moment, Jiajing Tongbao, carrying Xiaoping money in bare hands, read directly from the real book, but it contained official meaning.

Jiajing Tongbao coins are made of brass. At the same time, in order to prevent private casting, the coin casting process has also been improved, including wax paint, turning edges, and gold backs.

When Wei Guangde arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he had a lot of copper coins in and out of his hands, but the one that really made him feel "copper coins" was Jiajing Tongbao.

In any case, Jiajing Tongbao is yellow and clear in his hand, unlike other Tongbaos, which are either black or green.

When Pan En entered the lobby, all the censors who were talking stopped consciously, stood up and paid attention to the left and right censors who entered the door.

The Yushi group is still very disciplined. At this time, there is no buzzing in the lobby that is often heard in the conference. Although it is exaggerated to hear the needle drop, no one speaks.

Pan En is not a talkative person, but after briefly summarizing the achievements of the Metropolitan Procuratorate over the past year, he tried his best and everyone started talking about today's events.

However, the achievements of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are how many people have been impeached this year, how many people have been successfully impeached, and then let everyone make persistent efforts, and then impeach, and increase the success rate of impeachment, which is called supervising all officials.

Wei Guangde thought it was funny, but like everyone else, he listened to Paine's admonition with a serious face, and then began to read "Investigating the Official Documents of the World's Officials".

"Old disease: eight people including Gu Chong, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate, dismissed six people including Pu Zhihao, the deputy envoy, and 54 people including Wang Guozhen, the political envoy, and 26 people including Wang Weishu, who is not as talented as the deputy envoy Li Jingcui, etc. four people"

Most of the inspectors were officials from the chief envoys and inspectors of various places, and Wei Guangde felt a little different from usual when he kept reading out the names of people.

In the 40th year of Jiajing, the ministers and ministers in the court have changed a lot. This is the embodiment of the emperor's will. Now, at today's meeting of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wei Guangde feels that this trend has blown from the central to the local.

Behind every personal name, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has set the reasons for dismissal, such as old age and disease, greed for coolness, or indiscretion.

After reading the list of dismissals, the next step is to evaluate the officials who are recommended for promotion.
It was already afternoon after the court meeting, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate organized a dinner at noon. It was still early when Wei Guangde left the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he also went back to Prince Yu's Mansion first.

The relationship between Prince Yu’s Mansion in the capital and the localities is a total of more than a hundred people, most of whom are either in the capital or in Nanjing, so the promotion of officials in the court meeting has little to do with Prince Yu’s Mansion, but Wei Guangde was still the first to return to Prince Yu’s Mansion. I found Li Fang and asked for the list from him to have a look.

After reading it carefully, Wei Guangde returned the directory to Li Fang.

"Has the Metropolitan Procuratorate made a decision?"

Li Fang asked after receiving the directory.

"It's settled, and many people will be replaced."

Wei Guangde replied.

"It shouldn't have much to do with this place. If someone really got caught, they would have contacted the palace for help a long time ago."

Li Fang said to Wei Guangde with a light smile.

As long as the deposed person's name does not appear in the brochure, it has little to do with Wei Guangde.

In fact, Wei Guangde still knew this in his heart, but he still wanted to do it, this was an attitude.

Not long after, Wei Guangde saw King Yu, talked to King Yu about the conversation at Yang Bo's mansion yesterday, and briefly mentioned the content of today's meeting in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"At Da Sima's place, Feng Bao came back yesterday and told me that it will depend on the situation. After all, the Ministry of War has its own considerations."

King Yu said after listening to Wei Guangde's words.

"As it should be."

Wei Guangde nodded and said, "I plan to write back to Dong Yiyuan in two days, can His Highness give them a pair of calligraphy to make them happy."

Wei Guangde picked up some of the gifts from Dong Yiyuan the second time and sent them to King Yu's mansion, saying that they were the filial piety of the Dong brothers. King Yu didn't care about those things, but he should return something from the point of view of etiquette.

"Send the adverb?"

Yu Wang nodded slightly after hesitating, it's not a waste of money.

(End of this chapter)