Your Majesty, please resign again

Chapter 230 Thirty Years in Hedong, Thirty Years in Hexi (Here we come!)

The forbidden tree once suppressed algae, and the Wutai used to be protected from dust.

During the Han Dynasty, there were many cypress trees growing in the Yushi Mansion. Thousands of crows often roosted on the trees. They would fly away in the morning and return at night. People called them "morning and evening crows".

Later, this was used as a reference, and "Wutai" was used to refer to the Yushi Mansion, also known as "Baitai".

The Yushitai of the Great Song Dynasty did not have acres of cypress trees or thousands of crows, but it was also called Wutai.

Later, the Wutai in the "Wutai Poetry Case" that made Su Shi embarrassed, refers to Yushitai.

He Zhengchen, the censor at the time, and others made a petition to impeach Su Shi. The above petition to thank Xie En after Su Shi moved to Huzhou and took office contained hidden language that ridiculed the government. Later, a large number of Su Shi's poems were implicated as evidence. The case was first reported by the censor.

He was later tried in Yushitai Prison.

The Censor's Platform is not in the forbidden area, but is located next to Kaifeng Mansion, that is, on the east side of Xijiaolou Street. It is probably to allow the Censor to go deep into the people and serve as the emperor's eyes and ears.

But this is a good thing for Zhang Heng, because it is close to home.

The houses of Zhang Heng and his two brothers were built on the west side of Xijiaolou Street. He didn't need to take a donkey to go to Dianmao every day. It was enough to take a stroll.

There are not many in number, but each transshipment envoy has great power, and they are all high-ranking officials of a certain territory, and these high-ranking officials of the frontiers are now subject to Zhang Heng's assessment.

Since the Song Dynasty, the Guanbai system has long been extinct, because it is not conducive to the imperial power. Think about it, the Yushi Zhongcheng can control the Yushitai, then the emperor can only hear the information that the Yushi Zhongcheng wants the emperor to hear. This is very important for broadening the way of speech.

is harmful.

Another way of interview is for transport envoys from various roads to come to Beijing and interview Zhang Heng face to face, telling him why the taxes on the road, the increase or decrease in household registration, the degree of desolation of the fields and the reclamation situation last year were not up to standard.

This is to find out the cause of the recession.

After all, the supervisory department is still under the jurisdiction of the Yushitai. Although this authority is not fully utilized in normal times, once the Yushitai is impeached, it will be very powerful. Not to mention the transfer envoys, even the prime minister will be overwhelmed.

But more importantly, what measures will you take this year to make the situation better? This is the key to the assessment. After all, the three companies made this request, and the core demand is for each party to pay more taxes.

The rest of the people were fine, no matter whether they were ranked high or low, they all knew what they were doing, but after seeing the rankings of Jingnan South Road and Jiangnan East Road, the rest of the transit agents all had very strange expressions on their faces.

So he ran to a place a few feet away and stopped. He glared at Zhang Heng and said: "Zhang Heng, you must give me an explanation, otherwise I will definitely impeach you to the officials. You are avenging a private vendetta, not what a censor should do."

What you are doing and your conduct, you should not be a censor at all, or even an official!"

However, Zhang Heng is not a villain who adds insult to injury. He always pays attention to fairness and justice in his work. Business is done in a business-like manner. There is no need to deliberately humiliate others because of previous conflicts. This is easy for others to blame. But as long as he is fair and just, others will not

Enough to say.

Gao Dengan quickly asked: "Zhongcheng, some censors are not in the stage now. Can you please invite all those who are in the stage now?"

This involves a quite famous term called [Guan Bai].

Ye Qingchen knew that this was a very sensitive time, and he had to find something to distract everyone's attention, so he suggested that the exam be transferred to the teacher.

Therefore, Zhang Heng does not make more efforts here, and he cannot make more efforts, because this is the emperor's red line.

Last year's assessment did not meet the standards. There may be various reasons, either due to natural disasters or other reasons. These are all objective reasons.

In early March, all transshipment envoys from all over the country arrived in Bianjing, and even Xiao Gu, the transshipment envoy from Guangnan West Road, which was the farthest away from Bianjing, also arrived.

Ding Du was also angry, and he rushed forward to fight Gao Yijian, but was stopped by other transporters. Gao Yijian also wanted to rush forward and continue fighting, but was also hugged by others.

Therefore, the examination method is to select the transfer envoys who are close to Zhang Heng, and this method must be resolutely implemented!

In addition, I suggested that the Yushi Zhongcheng Zhang Heng could be allowed to preside over this matter. After all, he is the most outstanding transport envoy. Only he knows what kind of transport envoy can make each road develop better!

Song Xiang immediately continued: "Yes, the South Jingxi Road that I am in charge of is not as good as Jiangnan East Road, but the tax revenue is also average. Why did you put South Jingxi Road at the back?"

In particular, Zhao Zhen approved Ye Qingchen's request and then ordered the trial court to implement it. However, the person in charge was not Zhang Kui, the chief officer of the trial court, but Zhang Heng.

When the 18th Route Envoy arrived at the Judge's Courtyard, he did not see Zhang Heng immediately. Instead, he received an exam ranking list.

The procuratorate has thirty-four planners, ten order historians, and twelve governors.

This may seem to have nothing to do with Yushitai, but in fact it has a lot to do with it.

Zhang Heng looked at Song Xiang indifferently, and then at Ding Du, whose official robes were messy and his hair was disheveled. Zhang Heng snorted and said: "It's an insult to gentlemen! If the imperial censor in the palace is here, he will definitely read your book!"

However, Zhang Heng wanted to live a leisurely life for a while, but he didn't want to do anything, but trouble came to him.

The so-called Guan Bai means that before impeaching an official, the censor first reports the official to be impeached and the specific circumstances to the chief of the censor station, and then impeaches the official after his permission.

When Zhang Yaozuo arranged the expenditures of various departments in the first month, he made massive cuts, which caused dissatisfaction among the hundreds of departments. In order to calm the public anger, Zhao Zhen took down Zhang Yaozuo and asked Ye Qingchen to take over.

The examination course under the leadership of Zhang Heng will be divided into two parts, one is a paper examination, and the other is a competition for positions through interviews.

The first-in-command of the imperial censor Taichung of the Song Dynasty was him, the censor Zhongcheng, while the second-in-command was He Tan, the censor who served as the censor and the miscellaneous affairs officer. The following were the three courtyards, which were called Taiyuan, Dianyuan and Chayuan.

Ding Du and Song Xiang were so angry that their lungs exploded.

Although Zhang Heng arrived early, there were still more early travelers.

The other part, which is more important, is for the transfer envoys to explain their plans for the future face to face.

The two people's quarreling and cursing merged with the other transfer envoys' attempts to persuade them, and the subordinate officials in the Judge's Court were dumbfounded.

After all, even if you are a Shangguan, would you be genuinely afraid of a Shangguan who can't control you?

This is the so-called Guanbai system.

The taxes on Jiangnan East Road are even higher than the five roads in the bottom five combined. Why do you want to rank Jiangnan East Road in the bottom three? How dare you say that this is not a revenge of your own?"

Song Xiang snorted and said, "It depends on what you have to say!"

Zhang Heng originally didn't know this, but when he got the information about the 18th Route Envoy, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Zhang Heng understood clearly after hearing this, that although the Chief Registrar of the Yushitai was a seventh-grade official, his authority was not small. He was in charge of the palm seals, receiving events, supervising the affairs of the station, mastering the lord's wife and household slaves, and performing the duties of an official.

——You want to control my eyes and ears, are you planning to rebel?

Moreover, Zhao Zhen also made it very clear that Zhang Heng's censor Zhongcheng was just an excessive dispatch and did not require too much trouble.

Zhang Heng looked at the environment and said, "Should we chat here, or should we sit and chat in the design hall?"

And this inspiration came from Zhang Heng.

Before the Haizhou case, both Song Xiang and Ding Du were involved in political affairs and were Zhang Heng's immediate superiors. However, two years later, they had to bow to Zhang Heng and explain their political opinions to Zhang Heng.

for the chance of re-election.

But precisely because of this, interesting things happened.

Although this matter is actually carried out by the Inquisitor's Office, the transfer envoy is subordinate to the Supervisor's Department, which is a subordinate organization of the Yushitai. The Inquisitor's Court has to conduct examinations on the subordinates of the Yushitai. How can the Yushitai escape from the incident?

The truth is, of course we need help together.

Ye Qingchen even declared to the outside world: If there was a transshipment envoy like Zhang Heng on every road, then it would not be impossible for the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty to reach tens of millions!

Song Xiang turned purple with anger.

Of course not.

Ding Du was stunned by Gao Yijian's scolding, but he immediately counterattacked: "So what if I scold you? I know, you Gao Yijian was recommended by Zeng Gongliang, so you, Gao Yijian, are just praising the Fujian man's bad feet, you are just a flatterer! I know.

I don’t bother to talk to you!”

Ding Du stared at Zhang Heng and said: "Since it is in front of everyone, it is naturally in front of everyone. Not only the princes have to see it, but also the officials of the Court of Judges. Let them see your ugly face!"

Within the Yushitai, although there are the Yushi Zhongcheng, the first and second-in-commands of the Yushi miscellaneous affairs to coordinate the affairs of the Yushitai, and the chief officials of the three courtyards, each Yushi and the Yushi Lixing also have considerable

High independence.

The establishment of the Yushitai is mainly to restrict power, so it is isolated from the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council and the Third Department. It is not affected very much. This is the independence of the procuratorial power.

Everyone looked at Zhang Heng.

Yushitai is different from other Caoshu Baisi. On the one hand, there is nothing wrong with it being a whole, but it has a very obvious feature, which is independence.

Ding Du snorted and said: "I just want to know why Guangnan West Road can be queued in front of Jiangnan East Road!"

"Zhang Heng is avenging his private revenge! I am not convinced! I want to face Guan Chen's family! Impeach Zhang Heng to avenge his private life!"

Zhang Heng said quite relaxedly: "You two, please take a look at the test standards, the five principles for this driving test:

That is, the increase or decrease in household registration, the degree of desolation of the fields and the status of reclamation, whether the tax on tea, salt, and wine has increased from the original amount, whether the offerings, transactions, and purchases are consistent with the previous years, and the completeness of the documents submitted to the court.

Bao Zheng and Gao Yijian glanced at each other, and both saw the worry in each other's eyes.

Ye Qingchen wrote to the court, believing that the Third Department is the most important financial agency in the country and is responsible for national funds and all other expenditures. However, the source of funds for the Third Department must rely on the joint supply of the 17th National Road, which requires capable officials to handle it in detail.

There are seventy-eight people in Taiyuan's court, including twenty-five people who write history books, six people who are chiefs of pavilions, and twelve people who are responsible for holding orders.

But Yushitai is different after all.

There are two other principals.

Ding Du glanced at Xiao Gu and said contemptuously: "Just because the tax on Guangnan West Road is hundreds of thousands of dollars, three melons and two dates? If you throw it on the ground, beggars won't even bother to pick it up, right?"

It can be said that he was responsible for all affairs within the Yushitai. Although he looked like a servant, he was actually similar to the director of later generations. He looked like a small official, but he had great power.

In February, Zhang Yaozuo stepped down, and Ye Qingchen took up the post of Third Secretary-General. The new official took up the post of Three Fires, and asked for official examinations as soon as he came up.

The chief of the Taiyuan is Shi Yushi, who is in charge of Li Dui.

The palace courtyard was in charge of the imperial censor Zhang Zexing.

Zhang Heng looked at the bright and clean windows inside the palace and praised: "Master Gao is diligent in his affairs, which is admirable."

Last year, taxes on all roads were reduced sharply. Only Guangnan East Road saw a rapid increase. Ye Qingchen studied for days and nights and found that the reason was still due to the importance of transshipment to all roads. Therefore, he immediately wrote a letter suggesting the implementation of the examination method.

, to select qualified transshippers from all walks of life to increase taxes.

When it comes to the Bai system, the Censor Zhongcheng can control the Censorship Station, because when the Censor wants to impeach an official, he needs to report to the Censor Zhongcheng. This allows the Censor Zhongcheng to grasp the movements of all the Censors under his command, and all the Censors.

You must obey his orders, otherwise even if you want to impeach an official, you will not be able to do so without the permission of the censor Zhongcheng.

Zhang Heng arrived at Yushitai early. Although it was past the Lantern Festival, the cold had not gone away and there was still snow everywhere on the platform.

Although an ordinary censor is also under the jurisdiction of the Yushitai, the relationship between the superior and the subordinate is not strong. It is relatively rare for someone below the 100th level of the Cao Department to commit such a crime.

This kind of thing happened from time to time, and there was even an incident where Yushi Lixing impeached Yushi Zhongcheng.

The imperial court will decide on the promotion or demotion of these officials based on the assessment results, and the trial court will implement the specific implementation.

Gao Yijian suddenly stood up, pointed at Ding Du and said: "Ding Pifu! If you have any opinion, just say it. It's like a shrew scolding the street. It can only show that you are narrow-minded and have no talent or virtue!"

If you have any objections to Zhang Heng, just wait until he comes and confront him face to face, why do you have to act like a foolish village woman! Shame on you!"

About twenty people gathered together, and the Yushitai, which had seemed a little deserted, suddenly became lively.

In recent years, due to the excessive debts of money, food and other materials provided to the court on various roads, if this shortcoming is not reformed in time, the national financial losses will become larger and larger.

Zhang Heng smiled: "Originally, I wanted to chat with you one by one in private to give you face, but since you don't want face, let's talk in person."

Zhang Heng didn't want to bother either.

And this also led to the fact that the Yushi Zhongcheng in the Song Dynasty did not have the ability to control the entire Yushitai. The censor could impeach anyone he wanted to impeach. His independence was very high, which also led to the censors in the Yushitai having no understanding of the Yushitai.

Face-to-face respect.

Zhang Heng heard the noise and when he came out to see it, he couldn't laugh or cry.

Zhang Heng didn't understand this, but Zhao Zhen said that the power and responsibilities of the Inquisitor's Court are too light, and it needs to be given more weight by the power of the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, Jiangnan East Road and South Jingnan Road each have their own problems.

Hearing this, Gao Dengan's face was filled with joy: "It's just a matter within the responsibilities of the lower official. The upper official praised me. Zhongcheng, you are here today. Do you want to familiarize yourself with the environment first, or do you want to report to the censors of various courts first?"

A lecture?"

The changes in the world make people unprepared and dumbfounded.

There are eight people in the palace and 18 people in the palace.

The chief official of the Procuratorate was Tang Jie, the supervisory censor at that time.

Zhang Heng: "..."

Gao Dengan hurried away and came over to report: "The lower officials have informed He Tan (pronounced tan, three times), the censor of the imperial censor, Li Dui, the censor of the censor, Tang Jie, the censor of supervision, and Zhang Zexing, the censor of the palace.

, they will be here in a moment."

The Taiyuan is responsible for the overall work of the Yushitai, the Palace Yuan is responsible for observing the etiquette and rules of officials, and the Procuratorate is responsible for supervising the conduct of officials in the six ministries of the DPRK and Central Government.

Zhang Heng nodded, these people are the leaders of Yushitai.

Zhang Heng nodded and said: "Yes, everyone who is on stage will be invited over. If you are not here, we will talk about it later."

Zhang Heng thought for a while and said: "Training is out of the question, but it is necessary to meet with many colleagues first. Please help me inform the chief officer of the Third Academy and Governor He, and invite them to come to the Zhongcheng Hall together."

In this case, Zhang Heng had nothing to refuse.

What is even more interesting is that the transfer envoy on Jingnan South Road is Song Xiang, and the transfer envoy on Jiangnan East Road is Ding Du.

Although Jiangnan East Road ranks third in terms of taxation among all roads, its taxation has dropped, while the household registration has not increased at all, the land has not changed at all, and the tax on tea, salt, and wine has also dropped significantly.

Judging from these aspects, it is certain that Jiangnan East Road declined last year. Ambassador Ding, do you recognize this?"

These words immediately angered Gao Yijian, who took a step forward and punched Ding Du, causing Ding Du to take two steps back.

Zhang Heng is quite satisfied with this. Compared with the many previous assignments, this position of censor Zhongcheng is really more money-rich, less busy, and close to home. With such a job, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?

After Zhang Heng heard about this, he was immediately speechless. What does this have to do with me? Ye Qingchen's words pushed me to the forefront. All the transshipment messengers in the world would blame me for being troublesome, but it has nothing to do with me.

What the hell!

Zhang Heng felt that this matter had nothing to do with him, but in the eyes of others, especially the transport envoys, it was Zhang Heng who was too pushy, to the point that he was in trouble.

Zhang Heng came to the Zhongcheng Hall and found that the Zhongcheng Hall had been dusted and filled with steaming tea. Zhang Heng was a little surprised, but when he turned around, he saw a green-robed official bowing to him.

: "I have met Zhongcheng. My next official is Gao Dengan, the chief registrar of Yushitai."

Others didn't care about this, but Gao Yijian immediately exploded.

Xiao Gu suddenly turned red with anger, took a step forward, and punched Ding Du so hard that he took two steps back.

With Zhao Zhen's urine, if Zhang Heng really got into trouble, he would have to stop it again, which might delay his own future, so why bother.

Ding Du's face was bruised and his eyes were red with anger. He gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Heng, do you dare to tell me in public what's going on with this exam ranking?"

Before Zhang Heng could speak, Xiao Gu, the transfer envoy of Guangnan West Road, was already angry: "Ding transfer envoy, what are you talking about? Why can't Guangnan West Road go in front of Jiangnan East Road?"

During the Song Dynasty, roads were abandoned and transformed into roads, and after decades of evolution, by the time of Dehuangyou, the Song Dynasty had a total of 18 roads, that is to say, a total of 18 transfer envoys.

There are a lot of people in total, but compared with other Cao's offices, this place is like other penal institutions. All the officials are deeply afraid of getting involved with it, and they avoid it if they see it on weekdays. Who would come here to visit?

, so it looks naturally deserted.

Ding Du snorted and said: "Last year's tax collection, Jiangnan East Road, which I was in charge of, was not as good as Liangzhe Road and Huainan West Road, but it still ranked third. Why do you rank Jiangnan East Road to the bottom three, or even even

Guangnan East Road is always ahead of Jiangnan East Road!

Ding Du beat his chest and stamped his feet, so angry that he burst into tears. He scolded with a ferocious face: "Fuck Zhang Heng! Despicable Fujian guy! Sure enough, Taizong was right not to let Fujianese people occupy high positions. Fujian guys are despicable! Such a public revenge for private revenge.

, only Fujian guys can do it!"

Therefore, Ye Qingchen suggested selecting some talented officials to serve as transfer envoys and deputy envoys to handle money for the court, and divide their political achievements into six grades, and evaluate these officials according to five principles.

Last year, due to various reasons, taxes paid by various sectors dropped sharply, resulting in frequent expenditure conflicts this year.

Zhang Heng understood what he said. The Inquisitor's Court was only responsible for the selection of middle and low-level Beijing officials, and the transfer envoys were all senior officials. Let the Inquisitor's Court take charge of this matter, which would not be able to suppress the various transfer envoys.

, he, the censor Zhongcheng, had to suppress it.

Zhang Heng laughed dumbly and said: "Okay, since you are shameless, then I won't give you any shame. Tell me, what's wrong with the ranking on the assessment list?"

When the censor Zhongcheng summoned him, He Tan and others did not dare to neglect, and not long after, they all came over with the censors from their respective courtyards.

Because Song Xiang ran halfway, he found that Zhang Heng was getting taller and taller in his eyes. Then he remembered that Zhang Heng was really tall and big. He, a scholar who couldn't even kill a chicken, fought with this barbarian.

That's asking for trouble!

That is, the increase or decrease in household registration, the degree of desolation of the fields and the status of reclamation, whether the tax on tea, salt, and wine has increased from the original amount, whether the offerings, transactions, and purchases are consistent with the previous years, the documents submitted to the court must be complete, etc.

The assessment on paper is actually relatively simple. It only needs to be assessed based on the taxes paid on each road last year, as well as the submitted documents on the increase or decrease in household registration, the degree of field waste and the status of reclamation. This is a summary of last year.

The weight in it is quite high.

Zhang Heng sat in the Judge's Court and met with the 18th Route Envoy.

The interesting part is exactly this interview.

In addition to these censors, there are two people who record affairs, from the ninth rank to the lower level.

When they met for the first time, there wasn't much to talk about. The main thing was to get to know their colleagues. Zhang Heng didn't say much. He just got to know each other and let everyone go about their business.

If during the tenure of the transfer envoy or deputy envoy, the household registration increases, the cultivated land area increases, the taxes on tea, salt and other taxes are not reduced, and the documents are complete, the performance will be high, and if three or more of the five principles are met, the performance will be average, etc.

In fact, there are quite a few people at Yushitai.

So Zhang Heng just met them and got to know each other, and then left it at that.

Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.

When Song Xiang saw the real master coming, he ran to Zhang Heng. The subordinate officials from the Court of Judges rushed over to stop Song Xiang, lest Song Xiang beat Zhang Heng, but halfway through, they stopped again.

, because Song Xiang was halfway through and did not dare to move forward until he was only a few feet away.

You said, it's quite a coincidence, isn't it?

Although Gao Yijian was not from Fujian, he had been in Fujian for many years and was a transit envoy to Fujian. If he didn't react after hearing this, I'm afraid the people of Fujian would criticize him when he returned to Fujian.

In addition, the matter of taking exams is closely related to Zhang Heng.

This is different from Zhang Heng's past behavior. In the past, Zhang Heng was usually the first to get things done as a new official, and then use his authority to control the entire organization.

"How dare you hit me?"

Ding Du was in pain and angry, and wanted to rush over and fight Xiao Gu, but was stopped again.

Zhang Heng: "..."

What a mean mouth.

(End of chapter)