There is no impermeable wall in the world.
Zhu Pingan, the governor of Jingnan, fought against more than 3,000 Japanese invaders with less than a hundred magistrates and soldiers, and not only defended the Jingnan county town, but also beheaded 824 Japanese heads in battle, and restored the neighbouring Taiping County, which had been invaded by Japanese invaders.
This news spread in Wuyi Palace, first to the official circle, and then to the people.
A civil official who was not yet at the age of a weak crown was relegated from the capital in the first place, but in the second place, he made remarkable achievements that many military generals could hardly make. ……
This news is very topical, for a time, the streets and alleys of the capital city from time to time can hear people talk about this matter. Of course, although it is not as hot as the topic of so-and-so high-ranking official’s concubine fornicating with the butler, so-and-so family’s cow giving birth to a calf with two heads, and the hot topic of the selection of the top ten flower queens of the capital, it is also considered to be one of the more popular topics.
Although Zhu Pingan was not yet a popular figure in the capital, he was not a nobody either.
Of course, in Jingnan, and even in Taiping, Zhu Pingan was the complete man of the hour, not one of them.
This was the third day after the Japanese invasion had completely subsided, and on this day, Zhu Pingan did another thing that shook the entire Jingnan.
Zhu Ping’an dismissed all the county magistrates from their posts, leaving behind only the magistrates who had worked together to defend the city during the Japanese invasion and kept records of their service.
After the post-disaster reconstruction was on track, Zhu Pingan finally freed up his hands, and with the might of the Japanese pacification, boldly reorganised the county government offices.
“Your Excellency, on what grounds are you dismissing all of us? You are joking, right?!”
“That’s right, the dismissal of all six officials has never been so absurd since ancient times.”
“Your Excellency, your Excellency, think twice. Even if you are a wise and powerful man, without our assistance, how can you manage the huge Jingnan County on your own, even if you have three heads and six arms, you still can’t.”
“My grandfather was a tax clerk, my father was a tax clerk, and in my generation, I’m already the third generation of tax clerks, so my legacy can’t be broken here. My family three generations for the county government, dedicated, decades as one day, adults you come to Jingnan only a few months, how can you say dismissal on the dismissal of us ah.”
“A good man has three helpers and a fence has three stakes. Without us, how can the county office function? Your Honour, you can’t be bent on having your way ……”
After receiving Zhu Pingan’s dismissal order, a group of officials in the county government office were all furious, boiling over the sky, and surrounded Zhu Pingan to demand for an explanation, using both hard and soft tactics to ask Zhu Pingan to take back his dismissal order.
“On what grounds are you dismissed?”
At the centre, Zhu Pingan swept a glance at the Six Houses, pulled the corner of his mouth, pulling out an arc.
“That’s right, on what grounds to dismiss us! County Minister Zhang, Chief Minister Yao, and Chief Secretary Li have yet to arrive at the court, so if you want to dismiss us, you should at least ask them for their opinions, right?!”The Six Houses were furious.
“Based on the fact that I am the Governor of Jingnan.”Zhu Pingan swept his gaze slowly over the crowd and spoke indifferently.
In the ancient county offices, only the governor, the county minister, the chief minister, and the chief historian belonged to the imperial court, and were selected by the Ministry of Appointments, and appointed and dismissed by the central government. The rest of the six houses are not court officials, are appointed and dismissed by the county. Ancient county magistracy implementation of the governor’s system of responsibility, the governor’s power, can directly decide the appointment of the six houses of Xu, Zhu Pingan as the Jingnan governor, naturally have the power, no matter whether the dismissal of a dismissal or dismissal of all, are a word.
If you want to get rid of Zhang, Yao, and Li, Zhu Pingan will have to go through a bit of trouble, and will need to be impeached by the Ministry of Appeals for appointment and dismissal. However, Zhu Ping’an could just say one word to clean up the six officials. Time was precious, and Zhu Pingan was too lazy to bother with the effort.
“Yes, you are the governor, it’s not true that you have this power, but you can’t abuse your power like this!”
“My lord, we are not convinced! You dismissed all six houses of Xuyun officials such as us for no reason, what kind of reasoning is that?!”
“We’re going to go to the Prefectural City to argue our case ……”
With their personal interests at stake, the group of Xu Xu officials yelled endlessly. As six-roomed Suxu officials, although they had no rank, were not officials, had no salary, and could only receive meagre subsidies from the county office for expenses such as paper and pencil fees, copying fees, and meal fees, they held real power, and with the power in their hands, they could eat, drink, take, and ask for and accept bribes ……They have a hundred and a thousand ways to enrich themselves.
“For no reason?!”Zhu Pingan sniffed and pulled down his face, “At the loss of you all being able to say this word.”
The faces of the six roomed Suxian officials were slightly unnatural, but they quickly stretched their necks one by one again.
“You are guilty of the first offence, being absent from work for thirty-eight consecutive days without any reason. The Daming Law stipulates that an official who is absent from work for one day shall be flogged with 20 small plates, and for every further three days, he shall be given an additional grade, and for 20 days, he shall be caned with 100 large plates. Hongwu years, the Ministry of an official absence of 30 days, they were dismissed. Officials absenteeism is still punished as such, not to mention you and other minor officials! And you are absent without cause for thirty-eight days, the offence is even worse! What is wrong with this official dismissing you.”Zhu Pingan expressionlessly scanned the crowd, pulled the corner of his mouth, and said coldly.
Ugh!
Ah!
The crowd of Six Houses of Suxu looked at each other in disbelief, at that time, it was in order to hug the thighs of County Minister Zhang and the others, they had united behind their backs to give Zhu Pingan a hard time, wanting to drive Zhu Pingan out of Jingnan County, and were intentionally late for the meeting. Thinking about it, what a stupid move at that time, it was equivalent to actively sending the handle to Zhu Pingan’s hands.
However, even so, they did not recognise it.
“Absenteeism? No, my lord, I didn’t miss work, every day, I was on time to answer the call of duty and leave the office ah.”
“No.”
“Nonsense ……”
The xuxu officials shook their heads and denied the trifecta of denials.
Anticipating this, Zhu Pingan disdainfully pulled the corner of his mouth, pulled out the signature book from his pocket and casually slammed it on the table, “Your daily dawning situation is recorded in the book, and each day is signed by your handwriting.”
“Liu Mu, Big Sword, you watch the signature book. Any of you who are not convinced can come forward and check with Liu Mu.”
Zhu Pingan swept his eyes over the crowd of Suxian officials.
The crowd of Xu Clerks all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Zhu Pingan’s eyes. Only now did they understand why every day Zhu Pingan stared at them at the door to sign in for the dawning of the year…….It turns out that he was waiting for them here, this little thief, it turns out that since then he has been harbouring evil intentions, hateful, at that time, he thought that he had embarrassed this little thief, now that I think about it, at that time, that little thief didn’t know how to steal a smile in his heart.
“My lord, we’re just late, we didn’t miss work and absenteeism.”
“Yeah, that’s right, we didn’t miss work and absenteeism, we were just a little late.”
A few of the Suxian officials were there biting their tongue and sticking their necks out in sophistry, saying that they were only late, not absent from work.
“Now it seems that you guys are not only ‘lazy’ but also ‘mediocre’. What is ‘diligence’, on time to answer the dawning, release the Yamen is ‘diligence’ the minimum requirements, you ‘diligence’, ‘absenteeism’ is notYou are ‘diligent’ and ‘absentee’! Not only are they lazy officials, they are even more mediocre officials, all the more reason for this official to dismiss you.”
Zhu Pingan swept a glance at them and pulled the corner of his mouth disdainfully, you guys are biting the words with me, aren’t you doing something to die!
Those few people immediately blushed, their heads almost lowered into their trousers.
