Chapter 78 Audit storm

When Wang Shouren fled in a panic in Wuyi Mountain, in Beijing, the great eunuch Liu Jin had fully taken over the government and introduced two scientific management methods pioneered by him. One is called the big auditing storm, and the other is called the benefit assessment method. Let me talk about the big audit storm first.The old-fashioned saying in the history books is the interrogation method. The first person to be knifed was Hanwen, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs. Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of the account review, found counterfeit and shoddy silver in the inner treasury. Let me give you an explanation.However, Han Wen, the party involved in the case, was immediately dismissed from public office and left Beijing in a hurry, which led to this matter becoming an unsolved historical case that no one can explain clearly.

At that time, the imperial court stipulated that officials serving in other places should be assessed in Beijing every three years, and Beijing officials would be assessed every six years.The assessment method is to be assessed by the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The basic norm is that those who are too old or sick will be dismissed first.Those who fail the assessment will be reviewed temporarily.Corrupt officials and criminals found fleeing will be dismissed.Liu Jin modified this system, changing the regular assessment to a random inspection, maybe someone will be caught suddenly, and Jin Yiwei will immediately audit you with the abacus in one hand and the account book in the other.The audit results found that many officials have a strange problem with unclear accounts.

What should I do if something goes wrong? So Liu Jin introduced his efficiency assessment method, which was called the rice penalty method in history.In other words, if it is found that there is a problem with the accounts, in addition to the officials having to make up for the holes in the public house, an additional fine will be added.At the beginning, the amount of fines was not high, which could not achieve the purpose of educating officials, so Liu Jin raised the amount of fines, from one or two hundred shi to five or six hundred shi, and even to one or two thousand degree of stone. As a result, a large number of leading cadres went bankrupt.

Angry officials discussed and condemned in unison: Will the leader be allowed to live, ah, will he be allowed to live? This terrifying audit storm quickly covered the past from ordinary leading cadres to famous figures in history.Liu Daxia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was relatively well-known in history, and unfortunately he was involved in this audit storm. When it comes to Liu Daxia's case, the native official Cen Meng of Tianzhou is all to blame.It is said that Cen Meng is a leading cadre from a minority ethnic group in the frontier, and he is a local aborigine, so he is called a native official.However, the native official system is too primitive and is hereditary. This will lead to the local people's erroneous ideology, thinking that the native official is the biggest leader, and they do not realize the importance of the emperor.Therefore, the imperial court considered whether to change the native land to return to the local people, abolish the native official system, establish a floating official system, transfer the native officials from the primitive tribes in the border areas to other places, and then send Beijing officials into the local area to educate the masses to love the emperor.

The reform of the official appointment system sounds like an official job, but the ethnic minorities in the border areas are more aggressive, and if they are not careful, they will swing their knives to kill people.Therefore, the work of reforming the land and returning it to the natives was the responsibility of the Ministry of War, which had mastered the military power at that time.So Liu Daxia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, issued an order: Cen Meng, a native official in Tianzhou, was transferred to Pinghai, Fujian Province as a thousand households. But Cen Meng is not stupid, his family has lived in Tianzhou for generations, and if he is transferred to Fujian at this time, wouldn't that mean breaking his old roots?So Cen Meng flatly rejected the transfer order.

Cen Meng refused to take up the post, and the court ordered him not to do so, so things were a bit troublesome.So the Ministry of War reconsidered, but unexpectedly something happened during the reconsideration. Liu Jin and the officials quarreled. legal responsibility.The officials protested: Cen Meng did not rebel, it is too early to say such a thing.Liu Jin replied: When Cen Meng really rebelled, it would be too late to say this. The decree: Cen Meng does not need to be transferred, he will serve as the Tongzhi of Tianzhou.Liu Daxia's work was ineffective, and he was in danger of stirring up civil uprisings, so he was exiled to Suzhou to serve as an army.

This year, Liu Daxia was already seventy-three years old, with a gray beard, hunched waist, and commoner clothes walking to the gate of Daming. The people in the capital were crying, helping the old and the young to see Liu Daxia off, saying: This Liu Jin is too outrageous, seven You still exile a thirteen-year-old old man... But then again, old man Liu is seventy-three years old, why doesn't he retire and go home to take care of his grandson?This is miserable. Liu Daxia's exile is only the beginning of the story, and the wisdom thinking about human nature really unfolds later.