Zhang Jing smiled: "I can let you die without a burial place now. Don't mislead yourself anymore. My patience is very limited."

As he said that, Zhang Jingyi said lightly: "Help him sit down and talk."

The captain next to him obeyed the order and picked up Li Guo from the ground.

With the sound of shackles, Li Guo was placed on the iron chair.

Zhang Jingyi sat opposite him and said, "Mr. Li...I believe that when you were on the list of the gold medal, you were definitely not like this, at least not like this, you are engaging in people and flies and making plans. At that time, you might still be thinking that you really have to cultivate yourself, manage your family, govern the country and pacify the world as the book says. How could you become like this now?"

"Now that the lesson is not painful enough? If I were you, I would definitely choose to return to nature. I would say everything and what happened and what should be said. Those who sent you gold and silver are not your friends. You are using each other. In this case, you should seize the opportunity, use them, and relieve yourself of some guilt."

After Zhang Jing said that, he smiled and said, "You have slandered me these days, but have I ever complained about Mr. Li? Because I know that the past has passed. Today, you and I are here, and we are here to meet honestly, what's wrong?"

Li Guo's face thrust. He was glaring at Zhang Jingyi hatefully, but now his face was slightly loose.

He sighed in pain: "It's just my fault that I am not as good as humans."

After saying that, he said, "If I tell you, I don't know who the person who gave me a great gift, do you believe it?"

Zhang Jing smiled and said, "As long as you have a reasonable explanation, I will naturally believe it."

"Just like the man named Chen Rui, the person who gave me a gift is also a pseudonym, but I know that this person... is not, to be precise, these people are not simple."

"Um?"

"They send a large sum of silver for two seasons every year. On weekdays, they don't ask me to help me. They claim to be the Lu family in Nanzhili. I have secretly visited them. There is no such person in this world."

"Why did they give you a big gift without this person?"

"Because they asked me to do something?"

"What's up?"

"Every day, I would send a note or two, sometimes I would talk to some people in the court, and sometimes I would promote an official."

"Which officials are promoted?"

Li Guo looked up at Zhang Jingyi, was silent for a while, and then said: "Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong... From the governor to the prefect and the county, there are military officers..."

Zhang Jing took a breath and said, "So many people are there?"

Li Guodao: "More than a hundred people."

Seven million taels of silver... I bought so many officials.

And it is concentrated in several provinces.

Zhang Jing pondered, and then said, "Even if you want to buy an official... Then... I'll ask you, you are just a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. How can you determine the stay and departure of so many local officials?"

At this time, Zhang Jing thought of the original Donglin Party.

At that time, the Donglin Party controlled the Ministry of Personnel, and almost all the merit tests of officials were decided by the Ministry of Personnel. In addition, the Censorate Office controlled the political enemy at any time. As a result, the Chu Party, who was an official in the same dynasty, suffered heavy losses.

Either impeachment will be eliminated, or people who rely on Donglin will rise to prominence. Therefore, everyone calls themselves the Donglin Party, which is noisy for a while.

For example, at that time, the Donglin Party not only had the Grand Secretary Ye Xianggao in the cabinet, but also had Zhao Nanxing, the Minister of Personnel, and Wei Dazhong, the Minister of Personnel, controlled personnel appointments and dismissals. At the same time, dozens of people including the Left Censor Gao Panlong, the Left Censor Zuo Guangdou, the Censor Fang Kezhang and others controlled the Censorate and controlled public opinion.

In this way, almost all officials in the court can be impeached and disobedient, and even directly dismissed during the Beijing Prefecture.

Only the Donglin Party members received high officials and generous salaries one by one. Even the Donglin Party was prosperous for a while, and there were more than 100 backbone officials in the court.

But this time, Zhang Jingyi felt even more terrifying.

Because what Donglin controlled was only the Chaogang, but now... a group of people actually took this opportunity to organize the infiltration of the entire Ming Dynasty's local officials system.

These people began to become more hidden, and in the court, they were at most just party struggles, but in the local area, they all had to master military and civil affairs.

Once you rely on this method to form a clique, the consequences will be even more terrible.

Li Guo glanced at Zhang Jingyi and then said, "As a Grand Secretary, it is indeed difficult to ask about these matters in detail, but the court's appointment and removal has the court's regulations."

Zhang Jingyi asked: "What kind of constitutional law, what role do you play in it?"

Li Guodao: "If there is a vacant vacancy in the prefecture of Taiping Prefecture, the Ministry of Personnel often candidates for three people. This... only one official in charge of the Ministry of Personnel can decide. It is easy to buy one official."

The head of the matter is indeed not a serious official, Zhang Jing nodded.

Li Guo said again: "The candidates that have been planned early can easily enter the alternative. After the alternative, as long as someone speaks for him, such as my next note... Almost the Ministry of Personnel will not make things difficult for him, after all, it is just a mere prefect."

Zhang Jing frowned and said, "Every time, do you give me some money?"

Li Guo shook his head and said, "In fact, it may not be necessary. After all, some alternatives should not be underestimated. However... as long as you let a censor at this time... impeach this person, then whether he is guilty or not, the person will definitely have to be given a pretext."

"So... to do such a thing, in fact, only two middle and lower-level ministers can do it. Someone from the Ministry of Personnel responded, and the Censorate had a censor waiting for the appointment. At the critical moment, I came out to speak and everything would be done."

Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but sneer: "You go and say hello everywhere, how can the Minister of Personnel tolerate you?"

You should know that Zhou Yingqiu, the Minister of Rites, is a member of Wei Zhongxian.

Li Guo then said: "It's just that local officials are not harmful. There is no need for Zhou Butang to make a grudge with me for this. Don't forget that I am also a fellow villager of Eunuch Wei. Besides, the Minister of Personnel also asked me for me."

"What do you want?" Zhang Jing looked at Li Guo with a faint look.

Li Guodao: "The Ministry of Personnel can decide on its own for officials of the fifth rank, and the Ministry of Personnel above the fifth rank needs to be promoted by the court. Most of the people I recommend are local officials, and the Ministry of Personnel can be the master. But this Zhou Yingqiu's disciples and old officials, if they want to get a high position, if the court recommends it, it will never be possible. Therefore, everyone from the Ministry of Personnel is willing to sell me this favor."

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Chapter completed!