I was compiling the daily records during the Wanli reign

Chapter 83: A big fuss at the book-editing banquet! Hai Rui's die-hard fan, Yao Bin, the Imperial Censor of the Ministry of Personnel
June 25th, early in the morning.

The news that Shen Nian pulled a cart to the Six Departments' duty room to prove his innocence spread throughout the government offices in the capital.

He is the first person who can talk back to the officials in this way.

This also allowed many officials to discover a shortcut.

If any official hears rumors and makes comments in the future, he will impeach me.

If someone is accused of fraud, it is more convenient and easier to break into the Six Departments' duty room with evidence than to first file a petition to defend oneself and then have the Three Judicial Departments investigate.

The key is that it’s fun!
Some officials were also curious about how much official work Shen Nian had done this month and how he dared to be so arrogant.

He quietly went to find his colleague on duty in the Sixth Department and asked for the official list.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

After reading it, they had only one thought in their minds: it would be better for this person to go to the yamen and leave on time!
If he works overtime.

Every time officials are evaluated, they are often seen as incompetent and without any achievements.

now.

Those performing officials who always work until midnight, always burn out five or six candles, and always look tired all look resentful.

Performance evaluation method.

Although the assessment focuses on the official's political achievements, the impression of his superiors is also very important.

They worked hard but to no avail, just to get recognition from their superiors for being "diligent".

But after Shen Nian made such a fuss.

If you are only diligent but have no political achievements, you will only be called stupid and incompetent.

……

Near noon.

The Ministry of Personnel fined Shen Nian one month's salary for "improper conduct in the official office."

This charge made some officials very happy.

This shows that Shen Nian was allowed by the court to prove himself with evidence.

What was not allowed was: Shen Nian pulling the cart from the Hanlin Academy through Chengtian Gate, Duanmen Gate, and the six departments' duty room, which was inappropriate.

Also.

The officials of the six departments were also reprimanded by Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng said, "Are you street storytellers? You are so accustomed to making up stories that you are not really like them."

Recently, in order to improve their performance, these department officials have been believing everything they hear and thinking hard about weird angles, but they didn't expect to meet Shen Nian, a tough guy.

Although they have the right to speak out based on hearsay.

However, if they frequently make mistakes and are criticized, their credibility will decline, and they, who already have poor interpersonal relationships, will become the public enemy of all officials.

……

At night, in the western suburbs of the capital.

In a small, cheaply rented house in an alley near the City God Temple.

Yao Bin, a censor of the Ministry of Personnel, was sitting in the courtyard drinking.

He is not good at drinking.

At this moment, he was drinking cup after cup, coughing from time to time.

He used it to accompany his wine.

It was neither meat nor vegetables, but a handwritten copy of Hai Rui's "Memorial on Public Security".

As a censor, the person he admired most was Hai Rui.

He hoped every day to become famous with a memorial and change the Ming Dynasty through his advice.

Because of the impeachment of Shen Nian, he became the representative of stupid and incompetent censors in the minds of many officials.

Just today.

He was even forced to write a memorial of self-accusation and impeachment and submit it.

Yao Bin was unwilling and very depressed.

He was a second-class Jinshi and was also very talented.

He impeached Shen Nian for laziness and it was not that he did not find evidence, but he did not expect Shen Nian to be able to accomplish so many things in such a short time.

His impeachment almost means that his career is about to go downhill.

He was unwilling to leave Beijing and become a local official.

At this moment, Yao Bin did not resent Shen Nian.

The opponent was indeed better than him, and he accepted his defeat with a sincere heart.

But he wanted to prove to everyone: he just took a wrong step and was not as bad as everyone imagined.

"Cough...cough..."

Yao Bin was choked by the wine and started coughing again, accidentally spilling the wine on the "Public Security Memorial".

He quickly wiped it with his sleeve. He stared at the words, which shone like swords, then suddenly looked up at the distant night sky and muttered, "Good fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. Perhaps this is my chance. If I don't succeed, I'll die. I want all the officials in the capital to know me!"

Yao Bin suddenly became excited, then ran back to the desk in the room and started writing furiously.

……

June 29th.

A series of preparatory measures for the opening and reconstruction of the "Da Ming Hui Dian" have been finalized one after another.

The main office for compiling history was located in the Hanlin Academy.

In addition to ordering the compilation of a complete system for the supply of historians and a system for guarding the gates, Zhang Juzheng also incorporated the method of performance evaluation into the writing of history.

Zhang Juzheng proposed: "Every month, each library should compile a year's worth of work and send it to the Vice President for review. At the end of the month, the Vice President should revise the year's work and send it to the Cabinet for revision. In May of each year, the Cabinet will compile the manuscript and submit it to the Cabinet, and again in October. By the end of a month, a year's worth of work can be completed; by the end of a quarter, three years' worth of work can be completed. From this gradual accumulation, success can be expected."

To put it bluntly: the public is in a hurry, so all participants, don't get sick, don't take leave, and don't be lazy, otherwise you won't be able to complete the task as planned.

If the Prime Minister works so hard, what else can the editors below say?

Fortunately, Shen Nian also served as the daily lecturer and the note-teller for the emperor, so the editing task was easier for him.

Otherwise, you would enter the house at five o'clock in the morning and leave when the moon rises. Food and wine would be delivered to the house, and you would never see the sun every day.

at the same time.

Shen Nian received a notice from the Ministry of Rites that the court would hold a book-editing banquet on the third day of July to celebrate the completion of the compilation of the "Veritable Records" of the reigns of Emperor Shizong and Emperor Muzong, and to open the library for the revised "Da Ming Hui Dian".

……

The third day of July, near noon.

There were more than a hundred banquet tables set up inside and outside the Huangji Hall.

In addition to the court officials of the fifth rank and above, the editors of the Hanlin Academy, the Censorate, and the inspectors of the six departments were all in place.

Shen Nian, who was of the seventh rank, sat in a corner near the door in the hall, feeling very happy.

According to his grade.

In fact, you should sit on the Danchi (the open space on the steps in front of the hall) outside the hall.

But because he was an editor, he was arranged to stay in the palace, and a group of censors who were responsible for supervising the compilation of history sat on the steps.

The atmosphere at this book-editing banquet is very relaxed.

The main activities are eating, drinking and enjoying singing and dancing. The little Wanli above holds the wine, and everyone picks up the wine glass and drinks it all in one gulp according to the music and instructions.

Lean slightly.

After the young Wanli gave some words of encouragement to everyone to revise the book well, it was time for everyone to toast each other and talk and laugh.

Half an hour later.

Just as young Wanli was about to leave, a sound like thunder suddenly came from outside the hall.

"Your Majesty, Yao Bin, the Imperial Censor of the Ministry of Personnel, has a memorial to submit. Please personally address it!"

Shen Nian looked back and murmured: Is this Yao Bin still trying to impeach me?

But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he had no faults or handles recently.

Little Wanli frowned slightly.

It is obviously inappropriate not to go to the Tongzhengsi to report this time.

At this time.

Yao Bin walked into the hall, knelt on the ground and began to kowtow.

boom! boom! boom!
The forehead hit the stone floor with a loud sound, and it looked painful.

This is clearly the rhythm of a death-defying remonstration.

Little Wanli hurriedly said, "Yao Geishi, hurry...quickly stop kowtow and speak up!"

Yao Bin, with a red and swollen forehead, stood up, strode to the center of the hall, and then knelt down again.

this moment.

Zhang Juzheng suddenly became a little nervous. This desperate situation seemed to be an impeachment against him.

Zhang Siwei, who was standing aside, smiled faintly.

He liked to see Zhang Juzheng being impeached the most, because that meant he was getting closer and closer to the position of Prime Minister.

Yao Bin took out a thick memorial from his arms.

"Your Majesty, I impeach Cabinet Minister Zhang Siwei and Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu for manipulating their families, controlling border affairs, undermining the Hedong Salt Law, colluding with Shanxi merchants to disrupt the country, and embezzling the people's wealth. Without punishment, it will be insufficient to rectify the chaotic situation of corrupt officials on the border who use public resources for personal gain. Without punishment, it will be insufficient to punish the wealthy merchants in Shanxi and Shaanxi who use their power to withhold taxes..."

The moment he finished speaking, there was silence inside and outside the Huangji Palace.

Impeaching two high-ranking officials at the same time, and charging them with the crime of disrupting the country, was even more severe than impeaching Liu Tai.

What's more, Yao Bing had just been punished for wrongly accusing Shen Nian, so this impeachment must have been based on sufficient evidence.

At this moment, many officials thought that what he said was correct, and it all depended on whether the court would punish him.

Zhang Siwei's face suddenly turned dark.

Shen Nian slowly swallowed the piece of cake he had just stuffed into his mouth, his face showing excitement, and he murmured in his heart: "Good job! If some of Daming's illnesses can be treated in advance, perhaps the effect will be better!"

(End of this chapter)