jdhmnovel Chapter 585 Your Highness, have you heard of Miss Liu 4?
Chapter 585 Your Highness, have you heard of Miss Liu 4?
As it turns out, the smile never disappeared; it simply shifted from the faces of Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen to that of the Zhu Emperor.
Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen were just happy that the re-employment had a touch of humanity, but after hearing Emperor Zhu bring up the reform again, their smiles vanished.
Emperor Zhu tapped the table in front of him with his finger and said with a smile, "Don't worry, it's not a reform of the Secretariat and the Six Ministries."
“Mr. Shanchang just said that it should be piloted in Shandong first, and we agree with that.”
"What we're talking about is the reform of the performance evaluation system for officials."
Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen were no longer able to laugh.
Instead, he even contemplated suicide.
Performance evaluation reform.
Without a doubt, this is something Zhu Chongba could never have come up with.
As for who told him, there's no need to think about it either.
It must be some crazy Yang who colluded with Zhu Chongba!
Emperor Zhu smiled and picked up a memorial from the table, instructing Chen Zhong to give it to Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, and others.
"This was written by that bastard, who said he wanted to use the Four Grids and Eight Methods plus some kind of Key Performance Indicator to evaluate the officials."
"The so-called four qualities refer to: guarding, governance, talent, and age."
"The so-called eight vices refer to greed, cruelty, carelessness, weakness, impetuosity, lack of ability, old age, and illness."
"These contents are similar to the assessment methods used in previous dynasties."
"But this key performance indicator is really beyond our expectations."
"..."
As Emperor Zhu continued speaking, Li Shanchang handed the memorial he had flipped through to Liu Bowen, while also giving Yang Siyi and the others a pitying look.
Pitiful.
It's so pitiful.
The memorial was not long, and the section on the four-section eight-method was only briefly mentioned.
The main thing is still the so-called key performance indicators.
This document required joint efforts from the Six Ministries, various temples, and other government offices to formulate, and the assessment was not limited to local officials; officials in the imperial court were also subject to the same examination.
For example, the Ministry of Revenue might propose a population growth rate, which would involve population growth data under the jurisdiction of local officials, and would also be used to assess the Ministry of Revenue's population growth data.
For example, the Ministry of Works proposed road construction mileage, which involved the increase in local road mileage and could also serve as a performance indicator for the Ministry of Works.
Almost every government department has one or more corresponding key performance indicators.
For example, the Ministry of Revenue's population growth rate and female infant mortality rate; the Ministry of Works' road growth and repair mileage; the Ministry of Rites' bridge growth and repair mileage; and the Ministry of Rites' school enrollment rate and community school growth rate.
Anyway, nobody's going to escape, and nobody's going to have an easy time.
What's even more infuriating is that these so-called key performance indicators have to be personally formulated by the heads of various government departments.
This is basically making the heads of various government departments dig their own pits, jump in, and then bury them properly and erect monuments.
It's simply too much!
Just as Li Shanchang was secretly grumbling to himself, Liu Bowen had already handed the memorial to Hu Weiyong.
Hu Weiyong opened the memorial with a bitter face, then handed it to Yang Siyi with a big smile.
When the memorial returned to Emperor Zhu, Yang Siyi and other officials such as ministers, supervisors, and court officials were so angry that their hands and feet were cold and their bodies were trembling.
Yang Dianfeng, that madman!
If you're responsible for a particular part, you need to pick out the key points from that part and set performance indicators. Is that something a human can do?
What benefit would he gain from doing this?
Emperor Zhu glanced around at the assembled civil and military officials and smiled, "What do you all think of this key performance indicator (KPI) assessment method?"
Xu Da immediately jumped out, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "Your Excellency, this key performance indicator is quite good."
Liu Bowen glared at Xu Da and snorted coldly, "Does the Duke of Wei think that just because the Grand Commander's Office isn't involved in this key performance indicator, he can talk nonsense without any sense of responsibility?"
Xu Da stroked his beard smugly, but Liu Bowen snorted again, "How could the affairs of the post stations possibly be without your involvement, Grand Commander? Can't the number of warhorses be one of the performance indicators?"
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"Remember, the ducks must be from the canal. These ducks swim a lot behind the grain transport ships and eat a lot, so their meat is firm and succulent."
"If it were a regular duck, you wouldn't get this kind of taste."
"And this white vinegar and honey water is also essential."
"Without white vinegar and honey water, the skin of the roasted duck won't have a crispy texture."
"When slicing the duck, you also have to be careful to leave some skin on each piece of meat."
"After slicing the duck, the remaining duck carcass can be used to make soup. Just stir-fry it a little, add water, then add cabbage, tofu, white pepper powder, and finally season with salt. That's how you make duck carcass soup."
"By the way, have someone set up a shop for us and put up a sign for authentic Ningyang roast duck."
"And those beef balls, they also have a sign that says 'Authentic Ningyang Beef Balls'."
"..."
Having a rare two days of leisure, Yang Shaofeng simply spent his time at the Prince Consort's residence researching Ningyang roast duck.
Zhu Biao, who had been in meetings for several days, came to the Prince Consort's residence again.
"Go and bring the Lonely Teapot to Xiaolongtuan."
Zhu Biao first asked someone to brew him a pot of Xiaolongtuan tea without any hesitation, and then, imitating Yang Shaofeng, he threw himself heavily onto the recliner.
"The issue of rehiring has been resolved, and the restructuring of the government office has also been planned."
"This time we can finally have a good New Year."
Zhu Biao gave a satisfied "Ah," then changed the subject: "But there's a lot to do after the New Year."
"First came the special imperial examination in the fifth year of Hongwu's reign, and then the Duke of Wei went to Beiping to handle border defense matters."
"We might have to fight Hu Yuan again."
"Brother-in-law, you have to be careful in Dengzhou, especially those Koreans."
Yang Shaofeng was slightly taken aback and asked, "Korean?"
Zhu Biao nodded and said, "The Koreans always take things too seriously. If Hu Yuan acts too forcefully, things might get messy on the Korean side."
Upon hearing Zhu Biao's explanation, Yang Shaofeng immediately understood what was going on.
Koreans have always been like this.
Calling them fickle is an understatement.
The more accurate saying should be: the weak submit and humble themselves, while the strong inevitably become bandits and thieves.
You won't learn to behave until you get slapped a couple of times, and even if you do get slapped, you won't behave for more than a few days.
This is a classic case of forgetting the pain of past wounds.
Now, after two years of recuperation, Hu Yuan's strength has been enhanced once again.
Given the South Koreans' consistent tendency to "serve the greater good," it's quite possible they might actually side with Hu Yuan again.
But what does the Korean have to do with me?
Yang Shaofeng shook his head slightly, clearing these chaotic thoughts from his mind, and then looked at Zhu Biao with a smile and asked, "Your Highness, have you heard of Miss Liu Si?"