In the late Ming Dynasty, officials managed corruption, especially in the appointment of officials. There are a series of scandals and almost unbelievable anecdotes. For example, some dismissed officials in charge of the prison research office have to pay bribes to enter the cell and go to prison, that is, when they appear. In the early years of Chongzhen, the vacancies of Beijing officials or local officials in the DPRK were not only routinely selected by new scholars, but also by state and county officials who had served for a certain period of time. This opened the door for some courtiers to get rich. The selection criteria are not merit, but flexibility. Lu Mai, the doctor of Lu Bu, for example, because Zhou Zhengyi, the younger brother of Zhou Tingru, a university student, is his son and daughter-in-law, relying on this relationship, he actually engaged in 7,000 words, 5,000 subjects and 3,000 payments, openly bribing and becoming an official. If you are not sure, how dare Rumai do this openly? It is not difficult to see the inside story of collusion and graft between the DPRK and China. In order to seize the advantages and disadvantages, all the officials who took the exam in Beijing scrambled to pay bribes to the authorities. The official department holds the power to grant officials. In order to distribute fertilizer, factories often report fraud in this department. So every year, officials in the official department are very nervous. Later, the two sides agreed that for each official, the official department would send twenty-two thousand pieces of silver to the factory supervisor, and the official department would look for someone to find a vacancy. After that, nothing happened. 10 years ago, Chongzhen became a field of official ministers in March, giving gifts to eunuchs in the palace and asking for information exchange. The next year, an unfair election was disintegrated by this proposal; Illegally, he soon knew the content, so the feeling be nasty under, black boy confessed. Who knows that the admonition officer thought that the imperial edict was sent to the imperial palace, but it was never made public. Why did Tian know the reason and put forward corrections? Angry at the loopholes in the palace, the emperor issued an order to the office of the Royal Guard, in which four family cronies were first arrested. Tian was afraid and had to give most of the proceeds of bribery to the mayor, but he was later removed from office. After the story spread, the people once ridiculed: the official department is empty and the security is heavy! As one of the competent law enforcement agencies, the discipline inspection department is also a muddy water yamen with many shady affairs. In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Shu Zhen was promoted to be the American envoy, which was hypocritical on the surface. But he allowed his son to accept bribes, perverted the law and made many unjust cases. The next year, he went to prison for some reason. As soon as the victims in prison saw him, they swarmed and beat him up. Ye Guohua, a prison guard, was afraid of being killed, so he had to stay in prison so that the victims could not get close. There are also problems in appointing officials. The emperor often decides the candidates for ministers and assistant ministers according to his own impressions. When these people were at home and abroad, they were often accused by the emperor and imprisoned by the court. Fu, who was promoted to the Ministry of War in May of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, took the drama as a blockade at the end of the year and went directly to prison from his room. Fu walked into the prison, which had many doors. Every door, jailer, jailer wants money. When I have no money, I can't disobey my orders, but I was rejected by the prison. I didn't go to jail until my family sent me the money and met the jailer's requirements! Xie, assistant minister of the Ministry of War, was penniless when he went to prison. The prison owner can't ask for bribes, but he is full of fists on the spot. The experiences of gaoyu, Qin Shun and Zhang Yang are even more bizarre. They went to Huaibei for salt inspection and returned with a full load. The matter was discovered by the factory guards, and the two were inseparable and were impeached. Because of the emperor's anger, all bribery methods failed, and finally both of them were beheaded at the same time. Gao Qinshun can't stand Zhang Yangxian.
They took the initiative to visit the candidates in Beijing and bargain for the positions. If the money is too little, the two will come to you again that night and threaten. According to the literature, it is not enough for a person to send out the money he carries with him with a bribe. In August of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Xinjia, the minister of the Ministry of War, was arrested and imprisoned for revealing the secrets of domestic servants. Liao and Yang repeatedly went up and down, demanding capital punishment. When they accepted the huge bribes from the Chen family, they came to the home of Shangshang, the minister of punishments, to intercede for them and ask for freedom from death. Right and wrong are reversed, as for this. As an emperor, I am not ignorant of North Korea's bribery. Once he chose a new scholar, he once said to the officials around him: the new scholar chose a pavilion, and the city won gold! Even so, there is no way to eliminate the accumulated disadvantages. Because of the disadvantages of examination selection, the emperor no longer believed that this method could select real talents to reverse Gan Kun, so he proposed to adopt it. The recommended way. As soon as the news came out, many people started activities, bribing courtiers and begging for recommendations. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the peasant uprising swept half of China. In the past, people who tried to become officials were rarely willing to work in areas that had experienced wars. Even if you are appointed, you are still making excuses and there is no way to get around it. The emperor had no choice but to personally preside over the knighthood ceremony and dedicate the throne of Ming Taizu in the temple, so that the elected officials could file in. Bow down before the throne first, and the last one is the first draw, and the draw results are written in counties. Everyone should be on duty at once and must not run away. All successful candidates are very sad, and it is a rare miracle that the initiative to bribe is shaken.