Historically, Beijing inspections and grand plans are the times when the power of the Ministry of Personnel is best demonstrated, but at the same time, the prestige and strength of a Minister of the Ministry of Personnel are most tested.

As a large-scale assessment conducted by the imperial court once every few years, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court.

And almost every time there is a Jingcha and a big plan, in addition to the official department, the protagonist also has another yamen, which is the Metropolitan Procuratorate!

Although the Ministry of Personnel has the power of selection, such large-scale promotions and transfers cannot really be made by the Ministry of Personnel.

Therefore, in fact, the Beijing Inspectorate is jointly presided over by the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Inspectorate, with the Ministry of Personnel as the main body and the Metropolitan Inspectorate as the auxiliary.

Unlike the joint trial of the three departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate only plays a supervisory role.

Among the Beijing Procuratorate, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is truly involved in the assessment of officials.

The process of Beijing inspection is that the Lang Guan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Examination Department conducts a preliminary examination, and under the supervision of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, a preliminary conclusion is given.

The conclusions of the preliminary examination are divided into three types: competent, ordinary, and incompetent. Each conclusion is divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.

After the conclusion of the preliminary examination is reached, it will be submitted to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a secondary examination.

During the secondary examination, if the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate believe that the preliminary examination conclusion is inaccurate and the grading is inappropriate, they have the right to overturn the preliminary examination conclusion and call the Ministry of Civil Affairs to conduct the preliminary examination again.

If there are any doubts in the two preliminary examinations, the official examination will be jointly conducted by the Minister of Civil Affairs and the censor of Zuodu.

If the secondary examination is successfully passed, those who are rated as normal will be submitted to the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and enter the normal selection process. They will be regarded as upper, middle and lower grades. According to the vacancies in each local government, they will be ranked in the same grade.

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Those who are rated as competent or incompetent in both the primary and secondary exams will be promoted or demoted as a rule.

However, officials rated at these two levels need to go one step further and undergo three examinations by the Minister of Personnel and the Yushi of Zuodu.

Those who pass the three examinations correctly will be transferred to the Department of Literature Selection and promoted or dismissed according to the order.

During the entire process, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will dispatch the Imperial Censor, the Deputy Imperial Censor, and the Imperial Censor to participate in the entire assessment process.

In addition, after the three examinations are completed, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the right to question the final results, impeach the indiscreet behavior during the process of the Beijing Procuratorate, and the omission of the inspection objects, which is called "gleaning".

This is also the core reason why Zuodu Yushi can be called the three giants of the outer dynasty together with the Libu Shangshu and the Hubu Shangshu.

It should be said that every Beijing inspection is a collective battle between the officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But this time, it's different from before.

This time during the Beijing Procuratorate, Wang Wen aimed his knife at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which will inevitably further aggravate the relationship between the two parties, which was already temporarily in a state of struggle.

So in fact, Wang Wen, the official minister, was not as relaxed as imagined.

You must know that in this level of struggle, even the emperor Zhu Qiyu would not be able to end it personally, otherwise it would disrupt the normal order of the court.

After all, it is the duty of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise and impeach the process of Beijing Procuratorate.

Looking at Wang Wen who was prostrate to the ground, Zhu Qiyu pondered for a moment and said.

"In addition to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you also need to be careful with the cabinet."

"cabinet?"

Wang Wen was slightly confused and looked at the emperor with a puzzled look.

Although the current cabinet is fully staffed, the usual court meetings are not high-profile.

Beijing inspection itself is a matter of the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. How can the cabinet get involved?

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said thoughtfully.

"The cabinet has indeed kept a low profile during this period, but Wang Ao is not simple. Once the cabinet has a stable footing, the next step must be to compete with the six ministries for power."

"This Beijing inspection, if nothing else, is an opportunity for the cabinet to show its strength to the courtiers."

No one would think that they have greater power. The struggle between the government and the government is like this.

The cabinet is different from other yamen. Both the six ministries and the supervisors of each temple have their own powers. This is a kind of real power to govern.

However, the voting power possessed by the cabinet is a right to make suggestions to the superiors rather than to the subordinates.

In other words, the cabinet essentially has no control over any yamen because it cannot issue orders to any yamen.

Therefore, if you want to expand the influence of the cabinet, you can only do it by usurping the power of the six ministries.

In fact, the bones of the civil service department are not easy to chew. If Wang Zhilai is in charge of the Beijing inspection this time, the cabinet will not make any decisions anyway.

But if it were Wang Wen, that wouldn't necessarily be the case.

What's more, from Wang Ao's point of view, his next step must be to work towards the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Yushi of Zuodu of the Ducha Yuan or Minister of the Ministry of Hubu.

However, at their level, one thing is often not enough to shake their status.

Only by constantly undermining the opponent's prestige will you have a chance to successfully ascend to the top at some point in the future.

With such a good opportunity in front of him, Wang Ao would never miss it.

Wang Wen nodded slowly and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for reminding me. I understand."

Although he said this, it was obvious from Wang Wen's expression that he did not treat his opponents in the cabinet on the same level as the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Qiyu had a headache.

He had seen the overwhelming power of the cabinet in the later period, so from the beginning, he treated the cabinet with a very heavy weight.

But for Wang Wen, the cabinet so far has been nothing more than a department that mediates between the inner court and the outer court.

Although the power of voting held by the cabinet can restrain the six ministries to a certain extent, it has no way to have a substantial impact on the six ministries.

All major affairs in the court were decided through direct discussions between the emperor and the six ministries during the early court.

Without the power in hand, the role that the cabinet can play is indeed limited, so for Wang Wen.

The cabinet is far from holding the power of supervision, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which can directly intervene in the Beijing inspection, is a great threat.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Qiyu said.

"Recently, Wang Ao initiated a cabinet meeting in the cabinet. Does Sir know about this?"

Wang Wen nodded hesitantly.

This matter is not a secret. Originally, there were only two people in the cabinet, and they were too busy, let alone any cabinet discussions.

But now, the cabinet personnel are basically complete, and there is a basis for cabinet discussions.

The so-called cabinet meeting is actually a small court meeting.

Theoretically speaking, each of the ministers in the cabinet is responsible for the division of labor and cooperation. A memorial only needs one minister's vote to draft it before it is submitted to the emperor.

However, in actual operation, many things do not belong to one yamen alone, but involve many yamen and some court affairs. The relationship is so important that a cabinet minister cannot make up his mind and needs to find someone to discuss.

So on this basis, Wang Ao, the chief minister of the cabinet, established the cabinet discussion system.

Whenever a single cabinet minister cannot make a decision, or when multiple departments are involved, the cabinet minister who is assigned a vote will go to him as the chief minister.

Then Wang Ao would summon all the ministers to have a small discussion, and after forming a common opinion, they would submit it to the emperor.

This is not a rare thing. Ministries also do this when discussing government affairs. Therefore, Wang Wen did not understand why the emperor suddenly mentioned this matter.

Seeing Wang Wen's confused look, Zhu Qiyu didn't explain, and just said calmly.

"If I remember correctly, there will be a cabinet meeting tomorrow in the cabinet, which is about the selection of the Ministry of Rites. Sir, you can go and listen to it."

Although his tone was light and breezy, Wang Wen heard a hint of command from it. Although he was doubtful, he still cupped his hand and said.
Chapter completed!