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Text 507 The Long October

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    For the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, October 1645 was destined to be a long month.  On the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, a piece of news like a bombshell was carried in Di Bao and spread rapidly from Nanjing to all directions.

    Ma Shiying, the chief minister of the cabinet, proposed a quota for fire consumption during the court meeting, and the fire consumption should be returned to the public, and then proposed a substantial increase in the salaries of officials at all levels.  The local officials at all levels who received the Di newspaper all gasped after reading it.  This is to cut off their financial opportunities!  Fortunately, there were a lot of disputes during the court discussion. The old man Wang Duo insisted on being worthy of the world and was widely discussed.  Otherwise, if it is passed, these local officials will be dragged from heaven to hell in one fell swoop.

    So these local officials wrote letters expressing their opposition.  Of course, there are those who are against it and those who are in favor.  When you hold a local office, it also depends on what you do.  Some yamen have oil and water, while others naturally only have clean water.  Who wouldn¡¯t be willing to increase their income openly?

    Over here, the local officials were busy writing the memorial, but before they could finish the wording, another thunderbolt exploded from the blue.

    Two days later, Ma Shiying, the chief minister of the government, felt the disadvantages of donations and proposed to strengthen the supervision and management of officials at all levels.  Among the specific measures, it is enough to send the imperial censor of the capital procuratorate to conduct inspections in various places. The most important thing is to randomly select a number of students from every village or shop to examine the sufferings of the people. When the official completes his term, he will  Assessment.  They will be evaluated together with the superior officer and considered together.  If the summary is lower, the salary will be downgraded and the official department will record a demerit.  If the evaluation is negative twice in a row, he will be dismissed from office.

    ???????? Cruel, cruel!  Good guy, it will be hard to be a local official in the future.  Not only does it have to be flattering, it also has to be caressed.  Since we can't exploit our hometown, we still have to feed our superiors.  This, this, this how embarrassing it is!  Those local officials who had sent the memorial wrote furiously in anger and started writing the memorial again; those who were still speaking did two things at the same time and expressed their opinions at the same time.

    But the nightmare of the local officials was not over yet. Two days later, a new newspaper came.  Ma Shiying didn't scare anyone this time, he just said that now that the court had settled down, it was time to resume the imperial examination.  Nowadays, it is the time for the imperial court to employ people, and it selects talented people to serve as officials in the imperial court.  This is a good thing.

    Then the local officials fully realized Ma Shiying's ability to turn good things into bad things.  Within two days, the Pegasus newspaper brought Ma Shiying's theology!

    During the court discussion, the chief minister lamented the shortcomings of the imperial examination.  Everyone knows what the Eight-Parted Essay is. Unless it serves as an edict, anyone who has passed the imperial examination will never want to touch the Eight-parted Essay again in this life.  But this thing has become a routine, and it cannot be changed overnight.

    Scholars all over the world have been practicing eight-legged essays for many years.  You said that the Eight-part Part Essay has shortcomings, and you changed it as soon as you said it would be corrected. What should you do with these scholars who have worked hard to practice the Eight-part Part Essay?

    Unexpectedly, Lord Chief Assistant changed the topic and talked about the shortcomings of the administrative agencies at all levels in the Ming Dynasty.  According to the Chief Assistant, the problem of redundant officials should not exist in the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, there were too few officials.  After this theory was put forward, the First Assistant righteously proposed to expand the number of imperial examinations, and also to reform the imperial examination.  To strive for the next subject is not to select 300 people, but to select 3,000 people or even 30,000 people.

    For this reason, the First Assistant proposed to change the imperial examination to the civil service examination.  At the same time, it is proposed to reorganize administrative agencies at all levels.  According to the wishes of the Chief Assistant, after the reorganization, the county magistrate will no longer be the parent official of the same place.  Not to mention a few more seventh-rank deputy county magistrates around him, there are also eighth-rank officials in finance, taxation and other messy matters.  That's all. What's more, the chief minister also wants to reorganize the officials and restore the old system of the Tang Dynasty, with officials and officials integrated.  This means that civil servants can legitimately become officials from now on.

    Decentralization of powers, constraints All kinds of unfavorable prospects make all local officials' scalps explode.

    crazy!  Ma Shiying must be crazy!

    But it has to be said that Ma Shiying¡¯s crazy suggestions were very popular among scholars and even petty officials.  What a good thing!  The imperial examination is like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. There are only so many people in one subject. Even if the big guys squeeze their heads, they still can't squeeze in.  The chief minister is far-sighted and expands the establishment.  In the future, the number of candidates for each subject will increase greatly, which is a great opportunity for everyone.

    Of course, those with high talents will definitely be dissatisfied.  One is that there is no distinction between number one scholar and Jinshi, which is equivalent to lowering the gold content; another is that from now on, there will be no division of officials. Even if you have passed the imperial examination, no matter what your ranking is, you have to work as an official with your tail between your legs.  rise.  This, this, this, this, how can this be so embarrassing?

    Talented people from all over the country wrote letters to refute it, and were soon overwhelmed by those classmates who were not very talented.  Good guy, you are very talented, so you don¡¯t want to change the system, but I have been taking the exam for twenty years and am still a student member. What do you want me to do?  Blocking people's future is irreconcilable!

    According to incomplete statistics, the public security situation in the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty dropped sharply in October, and large-scale fights broke out in various places.  andAnd for the first time, the number of fights involving intellectuals exceeded that of non-intellectuals

    Policies to suppress local governments have been issued one after another, without exception, triggering a violent backlash from local governments.  The memorial flew to Nanjing like snowflakes. At first, the cabinet officials carried the memorial in their arms, but later they simply carried the sacks and ran away.

    The backlash from the governor of the state government was just that. Later, the feudal officials from various places also wrote letters questioning the correctness of the court's measures.  of course there are exceptions.  For example, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, wrote a letter to express limited support.

    Governor Sun supports the reform of the imperial examination and the reform of the government structure.  Strongly support the return of Huo Huo to the public!  Mild support for improving pay - the old man thinks the increase is too big.  Cutting off two-thirds is not bad.  In addition, he expressed wait-and-see on the new supervision system.

    Noisy, noisy all day long!  They quarreled in the court, they quarreled in the local area, the local government quarreled with the court, the talented people quarreled with the failed scholars, and the chief officials quarreled with the petty officials.  Since the founding of the Hongguang Dynasty, there has been an unprecedented quarrel among almost all the people.  The scale of this quarrel was far greater than that of King Fu's ascension to the throne.

    And when everyone rolled up their arms and sleeves and prepared to have a big quarrel, Ma Shiying put forward a new suggestion.  Lao Ma felt that the circulation of silver among the people was inconvenient, so he decided to mint silver coins to facilitate the people.  Of course, the right to mint coins can only belong to the central government, and local governments have no power to mint silver coins.  And a new policy was introduced. From now on, any government at all levels will not be allowed to charge fire money from merchants or private households who use silver coins to pay taxes.

    When Lao Ma¡¯s proposal was passed to officials at all levels, everyone was stunned.  There's no reason. Mr. Shouxiao has been so hot lately, why do you propose such a lukewarm solution?

    Although everyone has seen silver coins, they can associate silver coins with fire consumption, and conclude that Ma Shiying wants to abolish the disadvantages of fire consumption It is not that there are no such people, but there are really too few.  And most of the people who can come to this conclusion are familiar with the inside story.  At present, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are quarreling over the previous few overly exciting proposals. How can they care about coinage?

    Then, except for a few foresighted guys, everyone automatically ignored this one and continued to spar with their colleagues over the previous ones.  As a result, the policy of not charging fire for minting coins and the associated silver coins was passed in the court without the vast majority of Ming Dynasty bureaucrats paying any attention to it.

    On the second day after the policy was established, Ma Shiying announced that the year-end salaries of officials at all levels would be distributed uniformly.  There were no folded items or moldy rice noodles. This time, they were all newly minted silver coins.

    Within a few days, after arduous negotiations and consultations, the Ming Dynasty finally reached a consensus.  Lao Ma's proposal to change the imperial examination to the civil service examination was initially approved.  When the news came, most scholars in the world burst into joy.  We all praise Mr. Shofu as a role model for scholars.

    A few days later, a compromise policy was introduced.  Starting from the next year, the fire consumption collected by local governments at all levels shall not exceed three qian.  The broken pieces of silver collected from taxation were transported to Nanjing to be re-melted into silver coins.  Fifty percent of the income from fire consumption goes to the public, and the rest is retained by local governments at all levels.

    At the same time, the dispute over donations has finally come to an end.  In fact, neither the old man Wang Duo nor the new socialist party members had ever thought that Ma Shiying could turn one trouble into countless troubles.  After several compromises, a new supervision system was introduced.  As Ma Shiying wished, his proposals were passed one by one.  Then regarding the evaluation of donated officials, it became no matter what happened before, as long as there is one mistake, they will pack up and leave immediately, and it will be recorded in the record, and they will never be hired.

    The debate on expanding the number of civil servants continues, and it is certain that it will continue for a long time.  This has been the case in prefectures, counties, and yamen at all levels for thousands of years. How can it be changed overnight?  On this point, local officials were extremely resistant.  On the contrary, this matter is the most vocal in public opinion.  Who controls the public opinion of the Ming Dynasty these days?  Scholars!

    So it is only a matter of time before this matter is passed.  If it does not pass the expansion, it will be impossible to change the imperial examination into a civil service examination.  Officials are all carrots and holes, so where would there be so many vacancies without reorganization?

    Old man Wang Duo fought for a month, but the result was that he was retreating and losing repeatedly.  After calming down and thinking about it carefully, Ma Shiying, this old boy, obviously had a premeditated plan!

    Donations were made to bribe wealthy businessmen, followed by the introduction of a strict supervision system.  This is like giving a sweet date a blow to his head.  Those wealthy businessmen will definitely be grateful to Ma Shiying.

    Huo Liu Gui Gong slapped the local official hard, then raised his salary and gave a big sweet date to all officials in the world.

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