Just when Zhu Cixiang finished interviewing Qi Yuanbi, Yan Yingyuan and Xu Ermo, Huang Xiaobao came in from the outside. When he saw Zhu Cixiang, he bowed and said: "Young master, several elders, as well as the number one scholar in the new department, the second person in the list, and the third flower, have all arrived. Let's have lunch."

The time has come." "Oh," Zhu Cixiang nodded and said with a smile, "Today's interview ends here. Now we are announcing the top picks, top picks, second picks, and third picks of the current department."

"Here."

Wei Zaode, Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, Chen Rui, Lin Zengzhi, six pavilion elders and ministers of Song Quan, Luo Dagong, the new champion, Huang Zongxi, and Zhang Huangyan, a total of nine people, followed Huang Xiaobao and filed into the Wenhua Hall.

, and together they saluted Zhu Cixiang, who was standing up to stretch his muscles: "I respectfully invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin'an!"

"Without courtesy, I'll give you a seat!" Zhu Cixiang smiled and waved his hand. Under Huang Xiaobao's command, the little Huangmen who was waiting on the side moved nine embroidered piers and asked the nine ministers to take their seats one by one. However, Zhu Cixiang himself was still in the main hall.

After wandering around, he explained with a smile: "I've been interviewing Gongshi all morning, it's really boring.

So I won’t go to court today, so I’ll ask you guys to come over, have a meal together, and discuss the new deal. We have to continue the interview in the afternoon!”

It turns out that being an interviewer is not easy! Especially when there are hundreds of tributes who have to interview one by one, it is really not easy.

Gongshi! Those are all powerful people who have passed the examination of the Ministry of Rites! After passing the interview, they will directly become the parents of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Couldn't Zhu Cixiang, the crown prince, be more serious about the interview? He was originally a group of nerds with little practical work experience, and now he wants them to be senior cadres at the county bureau level. It's nonsense just thinking about it. If he doesn't take it seriously, God knows how many people will be recruited.

Confused officer?

In addition to interview checks, the only trick Zhu Cixi could come up with was "elimination at the bottom" plus "high salary". This trick was familiar to him in later generations, but he was trained by others using these tricks at that time. Now,

Once you get through, you can use them to punish various officials of the Ming Dynasty.

After turning around a few times and stretching his muscles, Zhu Cihong passed the meal around again, and then sat down on the chair. He glanced at the nine officials in front of him with a smile. None of them were good people. After a while, they would be saved by Quan Daming.

The civil servants drew circles and curses!

"Duke Luo, you are the number one scholar, you speak first!"

The top pick eventually went to Grand Duke Luo of Songjiang! Because during the interview, this man volunteered to go to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture to be the county magistrate who had offended someone. In the past, it was not allowed for locals to become local officials, but Zhu Cixiang changed this rule.

When you want to be a local official, you must first understand the place! If you ask a foreign official who cannot be beaten by eight poles to be a parent official, he will leave after a short time. Is this a good job? If he is assigned to a prefecture or county with a larger area, he will probably wait until he retires.

At that time, this official still had not been to many villages and towns under his subordinates!

In addition, Mandarin is not promoted these days, and ordinary people all speak dialects. What kind of parents are they, can they understand the dialects spoken by "children"? They may not even be able to understand the words. How can such parents take care of their children?

Therefore, the first thing to do in the new officialdom policy led by Zhu Cihong was to allow, no, encourage local people to become local officials.

Prince Zhu is not afraid of collusion between the civil servants below and the local gentry (can you collude with local officials? Can you be an official without collusion?). If local civil servants are corrupt and pervert the law, they will have the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to raid their homes. Now the censor

We can get a commission for fighting corruption. We are very motivated! Even if the officials below are free from corruption, in the end 80% of them will belong to the imperial court.

If they want to rebel, the new army will not be a vegetarian! The martial arts families in Nanjing have all attacked, so the scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan should not think too much. Rebellion will also cost their lives.

Of course, Zhu Cihong's territory directly under the Central Government is not large, which is one of the reasons why he is not worried about local officials and local gentry colluding to separate the country. The distance from Nanjing to Shanghai is only 700 miles, and with the marching speed of the New Army, it can be completed in three or four days.

Arrive there. It will only take an early day to deliver the message 600 miles away. In this case, separatist rule and rebellion are impossible to succeed!

Therefore, Grand Duke Luo now releases the Shanghai County Magistrate and Tongzhi. The Shanghai Commercial Port is the "Yangtze River Estuary Port". The governor is concurrently served by the Shanghai Minister of Commerce and Foreign Affairs. The candidate of the minister has not yet been decided. The Tongzhi (deputy position) is from Shanghai.

The county magistrate Luo Dagong, a local snake, holds this position which is more important than the Shanghai magistrate himself! If we really do it well, it is completely possible for the cabinet to seal the territory in ten years!

Therefore, the county magistrate of Luo Da has made up his mind. He must be a good official for ten years. When he becomes a cabinet minister, he will engage in corruption. He must be careful not to let cruel officials like Ji Kun get the handle.

"Master Qiansui," the energetic Grand Duke Luo heard Zhu Cixiang's question and immediately began to offer suggestions, "I think the civil service positions in the Ming Dynasty should be divided into two types: court officials and court officials.

The so-called court official does not necessarily have to be an official in the court, but an official position that must be appointed by the court. For example, county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief registrar, etc.

The bureaucracy is an official position that can be recruited and appointed by the prefectures and counties on their own, including the original officials."

"Okay! This is a good suggestion!" Zhu Cixiang nodded repeatedly, "The local officials should be given some personnel rights, otherwise they will not be able to command. However, we cannot just change the local officials and remove all the subordinate officials. There must be someone

Amount.

In addition, court officials must also have a way to be promoted. If they do well, they can be promoted to court officials. You can discuss it carefully when you go back and come up with a practical solution."

"I will receive the order."

Zhu Cihong turned his attention to Huang Zongxi again, "Taichong, you are the second best, do you have any good suggestions?"

Huang Zongxi never thought that he would be depressed after being ranked second, but when he thought that a little guy like Luo Dagong took the lead in everything, even giving advice and suggestions, he felt uncomfortable in his heart!

However, he still cheered up and worked hard, otherwise he might not even be an official for a long time! Huang Zongxi stood up and replied: "Your Highness, I feel that the recruitment of ministerial officials cannot be left to the superior court officials.

There should also be a method for examination and recruitment. The imperial court has just abolished the title of Juren, and the local gentry must have a lot of dissatisfaction. If an examination method for court officials can be introduced in time, it will definitely gain a lot of support.

In addition, court officials are not court officials, they are officials who do things. Therefore, Confucianism is not the focus of the assessment, but should focus on unique skills, such as arithmetic, martial arts, construction, agricultural administration, medical skills, etc."

This Huang Zongxi had some knowledge. In later generations, his reputation suddenly became very bad, and he was labeled as a public intellectual. However, in Zhu Cihong's view, his knowledge was still better than 90% of Confucian officials of this era.

Just because he can propose using "unique skills" to recruit officials, he is better than those who only know how to study hard.

As for his bad deeds of bullying the fat King Fu, Zhu Cixiang was not worried at all. King Fu was a fat man who was easy to bully. He was far worse than Emperor Chongzhen, let alone compared with himself. He was so cruel and cunning, Huang Zongxi dared to offend him.

That's a fool.

Guys like this who can be great scholars are very clever and must be very knowledgeable. They know who can be bullied and who cannot be provoked.

So Zhu Cihong "recruited" Huang Zongxi and raised him as a second-ranked official. He was not only released, but sent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to be a villain.

The most hated official in the dynasty

"Okay," Zhu Cixiang nodded with a smile, "The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites will also discuss it and formulate a method for the examination for secretarial officials.

Zhang Cangshui, do you have any good suggestions for Tanhua? Tell me too!"

Zhang Huangyan is the top student in this department and has been awarded an official position. Like Luo Dagong, he was awarded the county magistrate. But instead of going to his wealthy hometown of Ningbo to be the county magistrate, he was released as the county magistrate of Penglai County, Shandong Province. Penglai is the first county in Dengzhou.

, which is where Dengzhou City is located!
Chapter completed!