Chapter 89 Official Rhyme (Additional update for the helmsman)
The official family rarely intervenes in the appointment of officials below the third rank, so I don’t have a deep impression, but the promotion of officials above the third rank is decided by him, and I have a deep impression.
The third rank is already considered a high-ranking official, and the changes every year are very small, so he naturally remembers them very clearly.
Last year, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice retired from office because of his old age. Among the two people reported by the Ministry of Personnel, the official family originally preferred the other one. As a result, the one whom the official family liked was impeached by the Yushitai, and the official family could only appoint The other one was promoted and took over.
According to the information sent by the Imperial City Division, the person who was promoted last had been to Feng Deguang's house many times before that, and every time he visited, he brought a wooden box with him.
The wooden box was not large in size, but it was quite difficult for the entourage to hold it. The Imperial City Secretary speculated that it should contain gold and silver.
The official recalled the promotion of officials in recent years and found that every time the people he valued were eventually impeached.
The reason why the officials had no suspicion before was because many people’s final investigation results were true. Although some of them turned out to be false, they were normal.
After all, Yushitai is reporting on rumors and does not need evidence.
"Let the Imperial City Division continue the investigation, I want to prove it." The official said in a cold tone.
To say that the official had murderous intentions before, it was just because of anger. After the anger dissipated, he would not actually kill anyone.
But at this time the officials were really murderous.
Manipulation of official promotions has existed since ancient times, but Feng Deguang dared to manipulate the promotion of officials above third rank, completely treating him as a fool. This is something that no emperor can tolerate.
"Yes!" This was the first time that Eunuch Liu saw such a big fire in the official family. He responded and hurriedly went down to inform.
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After Yin Hanzhang learned the news, he clenched his fist vigorously.
When he sent the information, he was still a little unsure. After all, there was insufficient evidence for many of the things in it.
However, after thinking carefully, he still chose to report it.
The final result satisfied him. The officials asked him to collect evidence, which proved that the officials believed the content of the intelligence.
As long as things are done beautifully next, the officials will definitely pay attention to the Imperial City Division.
However, after several days of investigation, the results were not good.
Feng Deguang is cautious. Although many people come to give him gifts, the gifts are all packed in boxes and the specific value is not known.
It is an unspoken rule that officials give gifts to each other.
Every time someone gave a gift, Feng Deguang always met him alone, with no one else around at all.
Even if there is, he is still a close and loyal servant of the Feng family. He can't be caught back for questioning.
Last year, he just went through the three-year exam and officials were transferred. Now it is the off-season for Feng Deguang to receive gifts.
There has been no progress. Yin Hanzhang was so anxious that he even thought about fishing for law enforcement.
However, if you think about it carefully, it doesn't work at all. A low-level official is not even qualified to see Feng Deguang.
Those with high grades are not something he can talk about.
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Xianggong Yu secretly sent people to Shezhou to find the surviving government servants and collect evidence.
However, the people he sent came to Shezhou and did not find the yamen servant at the address provided by Li Daoquan. After some inquiries, they learned that the yamen servant had moved with his family.
The official knew that the matter was in trouble. It would be better if the yamen officer just moved, but it would be troublesome if he was silenced.
So he sent people to trace the whereabouts of the Yamen servant according to the clues he asked, and at the same time sent people back to Bianjing to report to Xianggong Yu.
I stayed in Shezhou to look for clues.
However, so many years have passed, Zhou Weimin has now been transferred to other states to serve as general magistrates, and the rest of the officials have either been promoted or transferred to other places to serve as officials.
The granaries that were burned back then have now been rebuilt.
However, after careful investigation, he still found some clues.
Before the drought that year, 60% of the fields in Shezhou were in the hands of the people.
Now it is less than 30%, and they are all fields with poor land and low value.
Almost all of these fields were sold by the common people to the landlords at very low prices during the drought.
He also inquired about the official reputations of Li Daoquan and Zhou Weimin, and found that Li Daoquan's official reputation was very good.
It stands to reason that when the disaster food was burned, the government announced that it was due to Li Daoquan's negligence, and the people should hate Li Daoquan.
However, the people praised Li Daoquan highly, but Zhou Weimin's official reputation was very poor.
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Zhao Xing did not know that Li Daoquan had been secretly brought to the capital, and his father was investigating the matter.
He practices martial arts every day, reads books, looks at Zazi, and develops a relationship with Gale. It's been a month since Sheng Wei returned to Youyang, and he still hasn't come back.
The emperor said that Wang Anshi would be transferred to the East Palace to serve as the prince's horse washer, but Wang Anshi also delayed coming.
This made Zhao Xing a little impatient. After entering the palace to greet Empress Cao that day, he ran to Longtuge to meet his father and wanted to ask about Wang Anshi's situation.
However, when he saw his father, he found that his face was ugly.
"Father, what's wrong with you? Who made you angry?" Zhao Xing asked doubtfully.
As long as he can remember, he has rarely seen his father angry.
"Fu'er, look at this."
The official saw his son's face softening a bit. Hearing this, he became angry again and picked up a piece of paper on the desk and handed it to Got Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing stepped forward to take it and read it. When he saw the content on it, his expression was very strange.
What is written here is actually a record of the conversation between Feng Mingsong and several young masters.
What surprised him the most was what Feng Mingsong said.
Don’t run, don’t send, stay where you are. Just run, don't send, transfer at the same level. Run and send again, promoted and reused.
Isn’t this a jingle in the official circles of later generations? Could it be that it existed in ancient times?
But if you think about it carefully, it seems that officialdom has not been much different since ancient times.
This Feng Mingsong is a bit cheating. He also told everyone that this is what his father said. As long as he can understand it, he can become famous in the officialdom.
Don’t this fool know that Fan Tower is the property of the Imperial City Division, so he dares to speak nonsense? Now, seeing how angry his father is, the Feng family will be in disaster soon.
In fact, it was Zhao Xing who wronged Feng Mingsong. Although those officials were not afraid of the Imperial City Division, they were still a little wary.
I have told you that the heirs in the family can play in Fanlou, but they are not allowed to talk nonsense.
In addition, many officials' children did not know some things at home. Even if they told some things, it would not be harmful, so they were not prohibited from going to Fanlou.
No matter how stupid Feng Mingsong is, he doesn’t dare to go to Fan Tower to talk nonsense. He didn’t say it in Fan Tower at all.
Yin Hanzhang stared at Feng Deguang and saw that it had little effect, so he found another way and focused on Feng Mingsong.
Unexpectedly, the effect of monitoring Feng Mingsong was surprisingly good.
These words are enough to prove that Feng Deguang is usually corrupt.
However, Zhao Xing didn't know this and thought he was reported to the Imperial City Department for his nonsense in Fan Tower.
"Father, are you angry because of this?" Zhao Xing asked.
"Shouldn't I be angry? Is this the world of the Song Dynasty? The promotion of officials depends entirely on giving gifts. Who am I, an official?" the official said angrily.
"Father, I have heard another statement. Do you want to listen to it?" Zhao Xing said.
He thought this was a good opportunity. Now his father was very angry at Feng Mingsong's remarks. He might be angry and his father would kill the Feng family and his son in a rage.
The reason why he wanted his father to kill the civil servants was because he was worried that the civil servants would use this to restrict him in the future.
The Analects of Confucius says: If you do not change your father's ways for three years, you can be called filial piety.
This sentence means that even if the ideas taught by the father are wrong, it is filial piety to not change them three years after the death of the father.
On the contrary, it is unfilial.
The ancients emphasized obedience to the father, which means that when the father is alive, one must obey his father. Failure to do so would be unfilial.
Even if the ideology and morals taught by my father are wrong, I still have to follow them.
Even if it is wrong, it cannot be changed in three years.
In ancient times, great emphasis was placed on filial piety, and ministers often used ancestral rules to restrict the emperor.
If my father has never killed a civil servant in his life, and if he wants to kill a civil servant after he ascends the throne, someone will come out and accuse him of being unfilial.
Although Zhao Xing doesn't care about this, if his father can kill civil servants, even just one, those civil servants will not be able to use this to restrict him in the future.
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