The next day Jiajing sent everyone out early and studied Liu Jin's files in the monastery alone.
It took me a whole morning, and I really couldn’t laugh or cry after reading it. A eunuch can actually point out so many shortcomings of the country, and at the same time many reform strategies are obviously good.
For example, the re-implementation of military cantons was a policy that offended the generals and civil servants of the dynasty. How many people occupied the fields of military households? Everyone knew it but didn't say it, but Liu Jin found out. Jiajing originally believed in the wisdom of future generations and wanted to leave this matter to future generations to solve. But now I find that I may not have many descendants left to look forward to, and I may even have to become this descendant.
Another example is the implementation of the examination method. To be honest, it means to strengthen the assessment of political performance by subdivided indicators, rather than just one sentence, top, middle and bottom. There are two specific directions: one is to assign points, and the other is to refine various indicators and then add up the scores. Moreover, unscheduled assessments are also implemented on this basis, and regular assessments are combined with irregular assessments.
If future generations knew about it, he would be an old scroller at first glance. On one side, the civil servants and military generals were offended by his tricks again and again.
That's not all. Liu Jin also paid special attention to checking and balancing the ceremonial supervisor and preventing eunuchs from interfering in politics.
Well, you read that right, to prevent eunuchs from interfering in politics.
On the one hand, it is to establish an internal factory to strengthen the independence from the East Factory and the West Factory. On the other hand, it is to emphasize the independence of the Si Lijian and the Jinyiwei. At the same time, it also introduces foreign ministers to the Si Lijian to improve the decision-making of the eunuchs.
It is difficult to say that Liu Jin is a strong-willed person who wants to establish a reputation in the inner court. Because I have never seen eunuchs rely on offending colleagues to contact foreign ministers to make a fuss. Isn’t this a waste of martial arts?
But Liu Jin is an idealist. This guy also accepts bribes and sells his official position in various ways. Dry.
There is a lot written in the case file, but in the end, it was only equivalent to 50,000 taels of gold and 80,000 taels of silver.
This made Jiajing incredible. It stands to reason that such a huge greed would not lead to such a small amount of money. Because Jiajing himself acquiesced in his subordinates' kickbacks, as long as they were measured.
Accountant Zhu, after a little calculation, this little gold and silver is a liar
On the other hand, the property of Liu Jin’s party members has been inspected even less, with a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver. This is even more of a lie.
No, it is a naked deception.
My cousin was deceived. Jiajing felt as if he had been defrauded of money, and his heart was pounding with pain.
That’s not all.
When Liu Jin was overthrown, Yang Yiqing, the censor of the capital, and Zhang Yongqu, the chief eunuch, used the opportunity of offering prisoners to expose Liu Jin's crimes to their cousins after mobilizing troops to quell the rebellion.
What is this? Isn’t this a naked collusion between the inner court and the outer court?
Thinking of this, Jiajing student instantly recalled that when he came into contact with Western learning, he initially investigated the relationship between his cousins. His exposure to Western learning, especially his fall into the water when he went south, and his subsequent serious illness and death.
PreviouslyI had never thought about it. In the past two months, the more I thought about it, the more confused I became. Now comparing it to the Liu Jin case, the answer to the mystery suddenly became clear.
Fortunately, in the early years after he came to the throne, he had gone through many twists and turns to get rid of all the old ministers of Zhengde. However, there must have been some fish that slipped through the net. Otherwise, how could the reforms he and old friend Zhang Cong failed in the early years of taking office? end.
It turned out to be this group of black sheep.
In addition, the purge of Liu Jin was mainly centered on reform, not corruption, and a large number of donations to officials were retained afterwards. But anyone who supported the reform, regardless of whether he donated his official position or not, was implicated in being dismissed and even killed.
Unexpectedly, although my Ming Dynasty is great, it is already in crisis.
With these understandings, Jiajing let out a long sigh. He asked someone to send a copy of the file to King Yu.
This is obviously far beyond what Jiajing can solve in his own life span, and it will take decades of hard work by the kings before and after him.
Lv Fang had just sent him away, and Jiajing was feeling lonely again. Because he didn't issue any principles this time. It depends on whether your child understands it or not.
In the afternoon, a secret memorial from the governor of Jiangsu on the front line was received at a window on one side of the Forbidden City. This is the privilege given by Jiajing to the two ministers in charge of the Southeast Anti-Japanese War. The little eunuch hurriedly took this large pile of memorials and ran to the monastery. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft