The chief architect once said that we should explore reform methods that suit China's national conditions in practice.
Reform cannot be achieved overnight, but it cannot be done haphazardly either. It must conform to national conditions and the optimal solution must be found.
Therefore, although the performance evaluation method is only the first step and initial implementation, it must be continuously improved and accumulated experience during the exploration process in order to be better improved.
The commotion at the Constitutional Court was finally resolved. The solution Zhao Jun proposed was just to severely punish Lu Gongchuo. Finally, after discussing with Li Di, he sentenced him to three years in prison, removed him from the scholar list, and ordered him to reflect and repent during these three years.
This punishment is similar to the later crime of accepting bribes by using influence. If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
Lu Yijian objected and the two sides had a heated argument.
It was Zhao Zhen who stepped in and changed the three years of imprisonment to three years of confinement. Although he was still in prison, his living conditions were much better than in the Kaifeng prison, and he could also study.
In fact, Zhao Jun originally wanted to let Lu Gongchuo go to the countryside as an educated youth, or simply teach in the countryside to change the fate of the poor village. This would be a way to make full use of his resources and not waste the knowledge he had accumulated through so many years of hard study.
But when Lu Yijian heard this, he almost went crazy and firmly disagreed. In the end, he had no choice but to compromise and be imprisoned, which was the result of compromise among all parties.
After all, going to the countryside to teach in this era is different from going to the countryside to work as an educated youth in later generations. In later generations, there were trains and cars to go to the countryside, and our party was also adept at grassroots governance. Village heads and party secretaries in various places were ideologically aware, so there would be no problems.
These days, going to the countryside is a life-or-death situation.
As the Lu Party died down, Zhao Jun took action against Cheng Lin, Lu Gongchuo and others, and finally suppressed all the dissatisfaction. Fan Zhongyan also announced that performance evaluation would be included in the performance appraisal system. Those who passed the monthly assessment would accumulate performance, and the more they worked, the more they would get when their salary was paid.
Under the original punishment measures of the Performance Evaluation Law, a set of stick-and-carrot tactics successfully mobilized the emotions of officials and brought this farce to an end. The Performance Evaluation Law was firmly implemented.
And in the midst of this hustle and bustle, at the end of October, just after the evening shift, in the residence of the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance, Xia Song was in the pavilion in the backyard, quietly watching the carp swimming in the pond.
Compared to Zhao Jun's small gate and courtyard, which senior official from the third or fourth rank onwards in Bianliang doesn't have a mansion or villa?
Fan Zhongyan's mansion with three entrances and three exits was considered the most ordinary. The rest of Lu Yijian's family had mansions with rows of buildings and magnificent buildings, which were even better than the imperial palace.
Yan Shu's house has a deep courtyard, is magnificent and has carved beams and painted rafters.
Xia Song's family was not bad either. The entire courtyard covered several acres, with pavilions and towers everywhere, just like a manor.
The only difference is that these senior officials basically live in the outer city.
Firstly, there is not enough space in the inner city, and secondly, the prices are too expensive.
In the outer city, spending 50,000 strings of cash can buy a large mansion covering an area of more than 30 acres.
In the inner city, Zhao Jun's small courtyard of less than 2,000 square meters cost more than 10,000 strings of cash, and 50,000 strings of cash couldn't even build the backyard of a mansion.
This was still considered good. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the value of Zhao Jun's house had risen to 70,000 or 80,000 strings of cash. A mansion in the outer city would be worth hundreds of thousands of strings of cash, and in the inner city it would be worth more than one million strings of cash.
Ouyang Xiu still doesn't have a house of his own and can only rent one in the suburbs, not even in the outer city. This shows how expensive housing prices are.
At this moment, Xia Song looked at his lotus pond which was nearly one acre in size, and threw out a handful of fish food in his hand.
He had just seen off Jiang Ji, the lecturer of Baowen Pavilion. Although Jiang Ji was only a seventh-rank official, Xia Song still received him with great pleasure and had dinner with him.
The reason was that Jiang Ji was the son of Jiang Zun, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council during the Tiansheng period. When Jiang Zun served as the inspector in his early years, Xia Song was the governor of Xiangzhou.
It happened that a great famine occurred in Xiangzhou at that time. Xia Song opened the public granary and dispatched grain from all over to provide relief to 460,000 victims. Jiang Zun reported this achievement to his superiors, and Song Zhenzong gave him a letter of praise and also carved a stone tablet in Xiangzhou to commemorate him forever.
It can be said that Xia Song’s journey was inseparable from the help of various noble people.
Therefore, although all his former benefactors had left one by one, he still took good care of their descendants, and no one was left out after they left.
This time Jiang Ji came over to open champagne in advance to celebrate Xia Song's promotion.
Because Xia Song's boss Cheng Lin was in trouble and had been arrested by the Imperial City Bureau, he would be tried by three courts, namely the Censorate, the Dali Temple, and the Court of Criminal Justice, which would deal with him.
At present, the assistant ministers of each ministry are divided into left and right. In the Song Dynasty, the left was respected, so Xia Song was actually the second-in-command of the Ministry of Finance. Everyone thought that he would take over after Cheng Lin's downfall.
Only Xia Song himself knew that as long as Lu Yijian and Zhao Jun were still in the Constitutional Council, the possibility of his promotion would be very small.
So at this moment, Xia Song sat by the pond with a gloomy face, not saying a word.
Even when his favored concubine came over and wanted to sit with him, he drove her away and did not allow anyone to disturb her.
Xia Song was thinking about a problem.
How can I get promoted, enter the Constitutional Council, and become a senior official?
The easiest way is naturally to gain the appreciation of the government and be appointed directly.
But is it really that easy?
Now the emperor favors Zhao Jun and has handed over power to the Political System Council to govern both internal and external affairs. Except for the military power, the Political System Council now holds all the power.
Therefore, to see the essence through the phenomenon, if you want to enter the Constitutional Court, you need the approval of Zhao Jun and Lu Yijian.
Even Lu Yijian is not needed, Zhao Jun is enough.
After all, everyone in the court now knows that Li Di and Lu Yijian are sworn enemies, but because he defected to Zhao Jun, he has now been promoted to prime minister.
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