Wanli Xinming

Chapter 78 Killing the Star

Concubine Qi was killed in the collapse of the roof of Bailu Palace in Xiyuan, which caused an uproar in the court.Zhu Heng knelt outside the Bailu Palace that day and was not summoned by the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

After Zhang Ju was a saint, he asked Zhu Heng to return to the ministry on his own and asked for punishment.Zhu Heng has a tough personality and often competes with Zhang Juzheng, but is not pleased by Zhang Juzheng.In the first year of Wanli, Yang Bo resigned from the Minister of Officials, Ge Shouli and Zhu Heng were the master and the deputy, and they planned to win the title at the time of Tingtui, but they were defeated by Zhang Juzheng and Wang Han.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to take this opportunity to drive Zhu Heng out of the imperial court.Therefore, when he met Zhu Yijun, he did not say a single word to soften his cheeks.

Zhu Heng is good at water conservancy, but his views have long been at odds with Pan Jixun, an expert on river control.In the 45th year of Jiajing and the first year of Longqing, he was incompatible with Pan Jixun in the management of the Yellow River twice.

Pan Jixun's concept of river management is "squeeze the water and attack the sand" and "reserve the clear water and remove the muddy water". Water transport is the main.

The disagreement between the two on the idea of ​​river governance gradually evolved into mutual criticism, and they reported their own river governance plans to the court separately.Zhu Heng defeated Pan Jixun in the imperial court twice in a row and gained the dominance of the river. He was promoted to Minister of Industry for his achievements in managing the river and protecting the water. Pan Jixun, as Zhu Heng's deputy, was also promoted. Later, Ding You returned home.

In the fourth year of Longqing, the Yellow River was decided by Pizhou and Suining.The court has not yet rewarded the merits, but Luo Zun was impeached and dismissed from office due to the accident of the transport ship drifting.

In the early days of Longqing, Zhang Juzheng once supported Zhu Heng's idea of ​​river governance.However, the big breach of the Yellow River in the fourth year of Longqing greatly shook Zhang Juzheng.

In the following years, because Zhu Heng sang against him many times in the DPRK and China, Zhang Juzheng extended a helping hand to Pan Jixun again at the beginning of the first year of Wanli, and planned to restore the river channel of Prime Minister Pan Jixun.

After Zhu Yijun gradually assumed power, Zhang Juzheng recommended Pan Jixun to Zhu Yijun.History buffs in later generations, do you still know Pan Jixun's fame?Zhu Yijun originally planned to use Pan Jixun immediately, but changed his mind.

He instructed Zhang Juzheng to transfer Zhu Shitai [-] bribes, and ordered Pan Jixun to organize a team to conduct research in the entire watershed of the Yellow River, Huaihe River and the Canal, taking into account the five aspects of governance of the Yellow River, governance of the Huaihe River, protection of transportation, protection of the mausoleum of the ancestors, and protection of the people's livelihood. Comprehensive governance program.When the Ningcui Palace incident occurred, Pan Jixun was still investigating near Hongze Lake in Sizhou.

When the corruption case in Xiyuan happened, the DPRK and Zhongke Dao group attacked Zhu Heng. Zhang Juzheng also had no intention to protect Heng. He was uneasy about his position. Chiyi, immediately dismiss his office.

Zhu Heng packed his bags and left the capital in despair.

The Xiyuan corruption case caused the death of the concubine and shocked the capital.In order to calm public opinion, the imperial court exempted the minister and sentenced Yang Song, a member of the Ministry of Industry, to hang.More than 40 officials and servants involved in the case of the Ministry of Industry were interrogated by the three divisions, and all were sentenced to beheading and ransacked their homes, while the remaining 30 were ransacked and exiled.

Because of the bribery of Wang Li, the junior supervisor of the straight hall, he put the safety of the master at risk.On the third day after Dongchang obtained the confession, Zhu Yijun directly sentenced him to be cut without a joint trial by the three divisions, and ordered the divisions and prison leaders above the junior prison to observe the execution.

Yin Xiang, the leader of the Zhidian Supervisor, was not supervising well, and he took bribes.The rest of the supervisors of the Zhidian Palace related to the construction of the Xiyuan Palace were either killed or chased away.

A series of slashing and killing, the inside and outside of the palace were terrified.Zhu Yijun beheaded several Xungui during the first month parade, and some Xungui thought it was the emperor who hated the Xun family.

This time, I saw the fate of Wang Li, Yang Song, etc., not only the nobles, but also the courtiers and the common people know that this emperor is a killer.

Although there are no major cases like Taizu and Chengzu, but the spring of the second year of Wanli has not passed, it is enough to build a small Jingguan on the head of the killed people.

All of a sudden, all the horses in the world are in unison.The method of passing the examination, which was still stumbling last year, has been thoroughly implemented, and all ministries and divisions have raised their own five-year plans and this year's tasks for the second year of Wanli.

On the first day of April in the second year of Wanli, Ge Shouli was no longer ill, and the first thing he did at work was to file a petition to the Xingge Metropolitan Court.

Zhang Juzheng posted a yellow "please judge", Zhu Yijun criticized a red "OK", and ordered Ge Shouli to repeat the reformation plan in detail.Afterwards, the imperial decree, which made the censor and Kedao difficult to understand, came down, and made a great revolution in the capital court.

Ming Taizu was born in poverty, and he was unforgettable about the corruption at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.After the establishment of the pole, he ruled the world with strict codes and established the most rigorous inspection and supervision network in history.The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the core of this inspection and monitoring network.

The functions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are divided into internal office, external office, and local judicial office.

The inner post is in charge of the two Beijing scrolls, the inspection of the Beijing camp, the inspection of the capital storage, the imperial city, and the military and horse divisions of the five cities.

The foreign post is the censor on patrol, which is divided into two categories: special duty and patrol.

The Ministry of Justice is a fixed local supervisory organ. Except for Nanjing, there are thirteen offices of the Ministry of Justice.The magistrates, the chief magistrates, and the Dusi are the three giants of the province, and they are in charge of the criminal investigation of a province.

Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was to build a national anti-corruption and supervision system with the Metropolitan Procuratorate as the core, with the addition of local supervision and central inspection, so as to keep Daming free from corruption.However, things backfired. After the mid-Ming Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate had basically lost its ability to fight corruption and supervise due to the corruption of its system and the overall governance of officials. One of the important reasons was the ills of the system.

In the Ming system, although the Zuodu censor was the head of the censorship, he did not have the power to appoint or remove the censor, but only to assign tasks.

After inspecting the censor's inspection, his memorial was not heard by the censor of Zuodu.This method is the ethos of Yangtai admonishing the independent handling of cases, and strengthening its character.

In the early days of this system, there were indeed many Taiwanese remonstrances who forgot their families and their loyalty, but as time passed, the place of remonstrance has become a shortcut to promotion.The officials in Taiwan have their own benefactors, and the internal officials have become thugs supported by the ministers in the DPRK and the central government and a tool to fight for power and profit; The Yuan Tau.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" commented on the remonstrance of the station in the capital: "Those who speak their own way have their own masters. Therefore, at the time, they were not worried about their refusal to speak, but they were worried that their words were redundant and unreasonable, and their hearts could not be selfless. The more you speak. more, and state affairs are becoming more and more confusing.”

As for the special errands and inspections of foreign officials, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, when local officials accepted inspections, they provided their own "thank you and recommendation money", which became the norm.

The censor officials in charge of foreign posts used the amount of "Xie Jianjin" to write inspection reports and investigation reports - not only catalyzing corruption, but also causing chaos in the administration of officials.

In view of these drawbacks, although the reform of the Ducha Yuan still established the Zuodu censor, the Youdu censor, the deputy left and right censors, the Xuedu censor and the Thirteen Dao.But responsibilities and rights have changed dramatically.

One is to expand the number of censors, and change the old rule of having one or two dedicated censors in each department. Eight to ten people in each department are dedicated to censors, and each department has one chief censor and one deputy.The imperial censor's memorial must be signed by the imperial censor of the capital before it can be reported.

The second is to change the old rules of the censor's "rumours and events", and divide the Jinyiwei into thirteen inspection departments, with 30 people in each department.It is located under the thirteen censors.If the censor participates in the verification, the Jinyiwei Inspection Section must verify the evidence before reporting it.

The third is to change the old rules that the responsibilities of the censors are unclear, and each censor is responsible for correcting and inspecting their own affairs, and must not cross the line.If you receive clues or reports from other Taoists, you are allowed to send it to the censor of Zuodu, who will be assigned to the Taoist channel for verification and investigation.

Fourth, in addition to the left and right censors, a total of four deputy left and right censors are in charge of thirteen disciplines, and the content of the assignment is determined by the left censors.The censor's participation report must be signed by the deputy capital's censor to become a memorial; these people are also responsible for the correctness and authenticity of the memorial.

Fifth, the imperial censor of the Youdu leads the supervision road alone and supervises the interior of the imperial court.If the censors of each Dao found violations by other censors or their own censors, they could report to the censors of Youdu.Youdu Censor and Supervision Dao have no right to participate in other affairs of the Ducha Yuan.

Sixth, the censor of the left capital is in charge of the censorship of the capital. Except for the censor of the right capital, the censors of the deputy capital and below have the right to participate in impeachment.If the imperial envoys of the deputy capital and the following are impeached by the imperial censor of the left capital, they will be dismissed.

Seventh, change the old rule that censors must be recommended by senior officials of the third grade or above.Directly elected from jinshi and officials to be elected.The Metropolitan Procuratorate listed more than ten reference books such as "Daming Law", "Constitution General Regulations", "Regulations on Correcting Officials' Evil", "Supervisors' Compliance Clauses", etc. Candidates who are to be selected have passed the legal examination and passed the deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The above group interviews of the imperial envoys can be used as imperial censors.

The reform of the Supreme Court this time has brought both joy and worry to the existing officials of Taiwan's remonstrance.On the one hand, they have mastered the power of the Jinyiwei Inspectorate, which has always been under the jurisdiction, and their status in the imperial court surpassed all the ministries in one fell swoop, and their power has greatly increased.

On the other hand, the expansion of the censor team and the loss of the independent right to participate in impeachment have reduced the gold content of the "Qingliuhua election" of censors, and cut off their special status for personal gain.All in all, for the grass-roots censors of the Metropolitan Court, the addition of Jin Yiwei did not make them excited, but the loss of independence hit their soft underbelly.

Therefore, although Zhu Yijun's slashing and killing shocked the officials and people of the world, the censors, known as "hard bones", set off the first adverse current since Zhu Yijun came to power.

　Old Mo worked overtime last night, and after checking the information on Zhihe and the Supreme Court, he couldn't write anymore.I kicked out this chapter after get off work today, three hours late, sorry!Lao Mo will continue to read books and check information, hoping that the more he writes, the more reliable he is.Ask for recommendations, favorites, thank you!

　　


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