(Emperor Yongzheng)
On the issue of cadres, the chess pieces moved by Yongzheng often make people feel unbelievable. He considered the whole chess game.
Assess the county grandpa
The evaluation of officials every three years is a routine official business in the Qing Dynasty, and generally there will be no news. 1724 was another assessment year. The new emperor Yongzheng, who had been on the throne for less than two years, treated a county magistrate differently, which surprised cadres at all levels.
His name was Chang Sanle, the county magistrate of Wuqiao in Zhili, and Li Weijun, the governor of Zhili, was in charge of assessing him.
After carefully listening to the opinions of his subordinates, consulting documents and files, and visiting local gentry, Li Weijun wrote two comments to Chang Sanle. One is "integrity" and he is a clean official; Based on this, he suggested that Ping Tiao Chang Sanle be in charge of education, because teaching and educating people has high requirements on integrity, but the workload is not heavy, which is more suitable for him.
The Ministry of Officials read the assessment report and asked Li Weijun a question: You said that Lao Chang was incompetent in his job, what specific performance did he have, and what serious losses did he cause to Wuqiao County?
Although Chang Sanle worked hard, but the money and food should have been collected, the social security was reasonable, and there were no mass incidents, so I really couldn't find any major problems.
The Ministry of Officials said that since no substantive problems were found, the reason for transferring someone from an important position was not sufficient and it was not in line with the usual practice.
Li Weijun insisted on his point of view. The official said confidently, let's stop arguing, let's ask the leader for instructions.
After Yongzheng read the report, he swiped his ink pen: dismissed! The reason is simple, the county is the cornerstone of the country, the county magistrate has a heavy responsibility, Chang Sanle has no sense of responsibility, he is dereliction of duty, should we wait for something big to happen?
In fact, Chang Sanle should really be happy secretly. Thieves are rampant in Caoxian County, Shandong Province, and social security is a problem, and the common people are complaining. The county magistrate Wang Xijie dared not arrest or control him, so he was stripped of his black yarn and sentenced to 5 years in prison. Qiu Yuanzheng, the general soldier of Yunnan Kaihua, who is the second rank, is honest and responsible, but his style is procrastinated, and his work has not improved for a long time. Yongzheng ordered him to retire immediately and go home.
Looking back on those years in the late Kangxi Dynasty, the officials were really happy. As Li Hongzhang in the late Qing Dynasty said, if a person can't even be an official, he is really stupid! At that time, the emperor's cerebral thrombosis was relatively serious, and he "turned a blind eye" to people and things, and often said that "one thing more is worse than one thing less". Less serious. I really can't stand it anymore, and often the fines are fined, the officials suffer a little financially, and their political future is not affected at all.
Seeing that Emperor Yongzheng's new policy of governing officials was so strict, officials at all levels were shocked, and finally came to their senses: It seems that it is not easy to be an official! Not only do you have to clean your hands, but you also have to work with them.
However, some people can't change their minds for a while. Acting Huguang Admiral Yue Chaolongbiao made up his mind and said: In order to repay the emperor's love, I must be honest and self-disciplined, and have a clean sleeve. Yongzheng didn't take it seriously, and commented: "The requirements are too low!" Being an official should not be corrupt. What kind of high standard is this? If you are only satisfied with the good reputation of "honest and honest officials", but don't help them, isn't it just an embroidered pillow?
Integrity is the minimum condition for an official, otherwise nothing will be discussed. Greed can harm the country, laziness can also harm the country, and "honest officials" who do nothing are mediocre officials, just like corrupt officials who are greedy for profit, they are not good officials. Upright and honest in style, and courageous in work, both are indispensable. This is Yongzheng's concept of employing people.
Changing your mindset is easier said than done. No official and no corruption is the norm in China's feudal society, so there is an irrational evaluation standard for officials: as long as they are not corrupt, they are "good officials". As for the contribution of this "good official" to the country and the people, nobody cares. "One white covers all ugliness". In order to correct deviations, Yongzheng had to innovate working methods.
Promote employees
In 1728 (the sixth year of Yongzheng), on the night of Lantern Festival, Xiaolan, a cabinet worker, was on duty when a tall, middle-aged man came in suddenly, who should be an officer on duty in the inner court who was out for a walk. The two hit it off and chatted about the mountains while drinking tea.
The tall man asked, what kind of official are you? Xiao Lan said shyly that she was not an official, but a small employee, sending and receiving, and making tea for the leader. The tall man asked: What about the others? Xiaolan replied that they all went home to watch the lights. The tall man is curious: don't you like looking at lights? Xiaolan said, the current emperor is working hard, and I heard that he doesn't sleep at night. If there is an urgent matter, no one will run errands, and it will be a big delay!
The tall man nodded, and asked Xiaolan what plans he had for the future. Xiaolan said that if there was a pie in the sky, it would be great if she could work in the ship management office. My family has many children, so even if there is a famine, I will not die of starvation. The tall man laughed and said goodbye.
As soon as he went to work the next day, Yongzheng asked: Which ship manages all the vacancies? Let's talk about Guangzhou. Yongzheng said, let Xiaolan from the cabinet go. Everyone was surprised, and Yongzheng asked Xiaolan to tell Xiaolan that if he wanted to eat fish, he would go into the water and catch it by himself, and he should not take advantage of the fishermen.
As long as he is decent and capable, Yongzheng will reuse him, even if he has different opinions.
When Tian Wenjing was in charge of Henan and Shandong, he cooperated with Yongzheng's New Deal to severely crack down on corrupt officials and vigorously rectify the official style. Even when central officials went to the localities to accept gifts, he dared to report to the emperor, which offended many people. Yongzheng regarded him as a model governor and called on senior cadres to learn from him.
It is an open secret that the Ministry of Household Affairs asks the provinces for money to expand the small treasury, but no one dares to reveal it. Li Wei, a middle-level cadre in the household department, has repeatedly raised his opinions to the top leader, but he just ignored him. Li Wei got a cabinet, wrote the words "special cash cabinet for Shangshu", and put it at the gate of the yamen to humiliate the leaders. At that time, Yongzheng was still Prince Yong, and he remembered Li Wei's name. After becoming the emperor, Li Wei was promoted almost every year, and Li Wei was unambiguous, and he worked hard everywhere, with outstanding achievements.
However, Li Wei is rough and rude, such as calling the leader "Lao Zhang" and "Lao Li", and his working methods are simple and rough, so the reports against him have never stopped. Yongzheng did ideological work for everyone: this man is full of thorns, but they are all for work. If you are not convinced, recommend me a capable and gentle perfect person.
No matter what opinions you have about Yongzheng's team, it is recognized that most of them are innocent, hardworking and capable.
Punish corruption and punish laziness
There must be a king like his ministers, and Yongzheng himself is one of the most diligent and accomplished kings in Chinese history.
Yongzheng did not sleep more than 4 hours a day, and only gave himself a day off on his birthday. Existing archives show that he approved more than 10 million words in the memorial alone, which is more than three times the number of words in the entire "Zi Zhi Tong Jian".
Yongzheng's father, Kangxi, created a myth of a prosperous age, but in the end he left behind a lot of problems: corrupt officials, low efficiency, and an empty treasury. As early as when he was a vassal king, Yongzheng was deeply worried.
After Yongzheng took office, he neither tolerated "greed" nor "laziness", grasping with both hands and being hard with both hands. He first killed corrupt officials and maintained high pressure, making officials tremble when they heard the word "money". When the execution of corrupt officials is executed, officials are often organized to observe the scene. He believes that on-site warning education is more effective than letting officials learn "The Analects of Confucius".
At the same time, Yongzheng rewarded diligence and punished mediocrity, forcing officials to change their style of work and change people without changing their minds. Everyone wakes up like a dream and realizes that it is not that it is not easy to be an official now, but that it was too easy to be an official in the past; whoever messes around like before will just have trouble with himself.
As a result, officials at all levels quickly adapted to the new situation and took action one after another. The atmosphere in the officialdom was quickly reversed, and it was said that "in the Yongzheng Dynasty, there were no officials who were unclear." This is really a miracle in China's feudal society, and it also provides guarantees for advancing reforms in various fields. The establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, the centralization of power to promote reforms, the abolition of poll taxes, the alleviation of social conflicts, the reform of the land and the maintenance of national unity, etc., would be unthinkable without the foreshadowing of eradicating corruption and laziness.
Numbers tell the story best. In the last years of Kangxi, the national silver inventory was only more than 32 million taels. By the seventh year of Yongzheng, it had increased to more than 60 million taels, almost doubled. The mess left by Yongzheng's father Kangxi and the obstacles that his son Qianlong may encounter have basically been cleaned up in his hands. Chinese-Japanese scholar Yang Qiqiao sighed: "Kangxi was magnanimous, and Qianlong was magnanimous. If it weren't for Yongzheng's rectification, the Qing Dynasty might have declined early."
The prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong was the pinnacle of ancient Chinese civilization. Yongzheng was the key figure in the formation of the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong, so it is also called "the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong". However, Kangxi and Qianlong were in power for a total of 124 years, and the Yongzheng era in the middle was only a short period of 12 years and 8 months. Considering this fact, people appreciate Yongzheng's outstanding achievements and extraordinary wisdom, and the hard-working and enterprising style of his ruling team. , can't help but be in awe!
Time flows by. Let officials bid farewell to the image of "greedy" and "lazy", and put on the wings of "integrity" and "capability", soaring the world and making great achievements. This secret of Yongzheng's success is still shining in the new era of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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