Chapter 14 The New Cabinet Leadership

Chen Xun immediately said: "The minister thinks that after all, Shang Yuan is the first three yuan, and if Your Majesty wants to reuse it, you should let it enter the cabinet from Hanlin, and if Your Majesty is unwilling, it should be placed as soon as possible." ”

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said: "It's okay, there have been floods and droughts from time to time in the past few years, but the water conservancy in Hebei is acceptable, especially for Shandong, Qingyan and Fengyang Huai'an and other places have the most serious disasters, so let him go down to be a prefect." ”

At this moment, Shang Zhen is already one of the prince's teaching team, and the grade is not low, so naturally there is no need to start from the county, and the practice is to upgrade from the center to the locality, after all, it is an external release.

Chen Xun said: "For the cabinet scholars, there are two candidates, one is Li Xian and the other is Zou Laixue. Your Majesty, please. ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and now Li Xian is already a secretary of the ministry.

And Zou Laixue is also a scholar of the Ministry of Industry.

Li Xian became the secretary of the ministry, which was also the sequelae of Zhu Qizhen's dismissal of the three ministers in one go.

Why do you say that.

In the era of Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, and Cao Nai, the Ministry of Officials has always been in charge of the first assistant, and the Ministry of Officials Shangshu has always been the first assistant's confidant, even if not a confidant, but also an important ally.

After Zhou Chen took office, he carried out several actions against the officials.

Zhou Chen's method was to sort out the rule of officials, conduct a Beijing inspection in the sixteenth year of orthodoxy, make clear more than 600 officials in one go, and also remove the establishment of many local officials.

One thing I have to admit is that Zhou Chen's approach has a certain intention of tightening the finances.

When the imperial court had no money, it was natural to lay off employees.

It's just that layoffs need a reason.

There was a Jingcha.

It's just that Jingcha, which has such a strong strength, will naturally be counterattacked. was found to be wrong, Zhou Chen took down the official book, in order to calm the anger, the people above were taken down, and the people below naturally came out.

Li Xian, as a squire, has made a great contribution in Jingcha, and he can be called a torch with a torch and a unique eye. And there is nothing to be faulty about in character.

was arranged by Zhou Chen to the position of the secretary of the ministry.

As for Zou Laixue, he was also a first-class capable minister, and when he was in the 14th year of orthodoxy, he inspected the defense around Beijing on behalf of the Ministry of Industry, braved arrows himself, and even came to Bauhinia Pass to inspect it.

After the war, Zou Laixue single-handedly reinforced, and he was as honest as water, and he was also sympathetic to the people when doing things. In the time of servitude, the people did not feel tired.

In this way, he was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Works.

These two people have one thing in common, that is, they are not qualified.

Li Xian and Zou Laixue are the eight-year jinshi of Xuande. The name of the department is still before Liu Dingzhi.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it and said, "Just Li Xian." ”

The Ministry of Industry is different from the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry is not heavy among the six departments, but the Ministry of Officials is different

Officials have always been important ministers.

Li Xian can play the ministry, and naturally he can also play the cabinet.

In this way, the new cabinet team came out.

The rules formulated by the first assistant Chen Xun, the second assistant Meng Ying, and Zhu Qizhen, the prince can only be the position of the second assistant when he enters the cabinet. After that, Wang Ji, Wang Yonghe, Jiang Yuan, Li Xian, and Liu Dingzhi.

This team, in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, can only be regarded as a makeover, but the six Shangshu seem to be a little stronger by the cabinet.

The secretary is still in the book, and Zhu Qizhen is ready to let Wang Wen take over.

Wang Wen is also a veteran minister in his sixties, a scholar in the nineteenth year of Yongle, born in the history of supervision, long in the northwest, short-tempered, upright personality, but upright. And I've seen soldiers.

In the eighth year of Xuande, the White Lotus Sect in Zhangde Mansion was in turmoil, and Wang Wen single-handedly pacified it.

This is too in line with Zhu Qizhen's standards for employing people.

As for He Wenyuan, the head of the household department, he is also an old minister, a magistrate. There is also Zhou Chen's afterglow, needless to say, Zou Lai can't learn to enter the cabinet, so he is naturally still in the Ministry of Industry.

The military department is still a man with a temper.

Wang Yining of the Ministry of Rites is Hu Hui's old subordinate, and he has been in this position for a long time, so it stands to reason that he should be able to enter the cabinet, but Zhu Qizhen has never felt that the Ministry of Rites has any use in exercising people.

Therefore, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, the Ministry of Rites has always been Hu Hui's own place, although it is to give preferential treatment to the old ministers, but it is also Zhu Qizhen who has put these things on the shelf of the Ministry of Rites.

Geng Jiuchou of the Criminal Department is also the famous Qingtian below. Great Qing official.

In addition to clearing his name, he is on par with Su Laixue, and he does not avoid the powerful in law enforcement, so that when he was a local official, the court did not know how many twists and turns to impeach him.

Zhu Qizhen was a little strange at that time.

Why can a local official provoke such an impeachment by the center, and send Jinyiwei to secretly investigate, Geng Jiuchou claims that he has no other good in his life, either dealing with official business, or studying.

The people in the place couldn't get through Geng Jiuchou's joints, so they found a way to knock Geng Jiuchou down through the center.

Since Zhu Qizhen knew, he naturally wanted to maintain one or two, and he also determined Geng Jiuchou's cultivation direction, which was the Criminal Department. After all, Zhu Qizhen knows how important judicial justice is.

He can't do a lot of things that make a big move, after all, the emperor can't do things that are happy. But it is possible to arrange a clean official who is good at criminal names.

Look at how much Geng Jiuchou can do.

Geng Jiuchou is even more famous in the Criminal Department, from the younger brother of the prince of the domain, the son of the Qing noble, to the landlord Haoqiang, there is no case that Geng Jiuchou does not dare to handle.

For a while, the name of Qingtian was naturally praised loudly, and the cases he has handled over the years are listed separately, and he can almost write a Geng Gong case.

As for the Metropolitan Procuratorate or Liu Qiu, Liu Qiu is a little older and stronger. In many things, he dared to argue with Zhu Qizhen in court, so that Zhu Qizhen could not come to the stage.

However, Zhu Qi

The town can only endure it.

After 14 years of orthodoxy, although the Ming Dynasty was full of disasters and difficulties, except for Guangxi, Guizhou and Fujian, there was no civil unrest anywhere, which was because the politics of the Ming Dynasty remained clear in general.

Among them, there is the full cooperation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, and the Criminal Department.

Zhu Qizhen went through these ministers in his heart, and he asked: "After the matter of North Korea is discussed in the next ministry, what is the reaction below?" ”

Chen Xun said: "After reading the following recital, most of the ministers felt that they should send envoys to question the DPRK and let the DPRK explain the misunderstanding in order to set the record straight. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, smiled lightly in his heart, and said secretly: "It seems that everyone doesn't like to fight North Korea." ”

Most of the courtiers meant nothing more than to settle this matter within the realm of diplomacy.

Zhu Qizhen has already met it, even if he sends envoys, it will not be of much use. There is no other reason, Li Yao has come to this point, and if he takes a step back, he will die without a place to be buried.

Is there any difference between being killed by his nephew and being killed by Da Ming?

Li Yao must also want to limit things to the realm of diplomacy, but unless Zhu Qizhen nods, it is doomed to be impossible.

The reason is very simple, in the Confucian values, the rebellious ministers and thieves are unforgivable, even if there are ministers who think about the court, the best way is not to spread the news, the court does not know, and the matter is over.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty dealt with it in this way, as for whether it is true that I don't know, or whether I don't know, I have to ask the person concerned.

But the matter has become a big problem, and the minister who reads the books of sages and sages dares to admit Li Yao's throne will be criticized by countless scholars.

In this matter, after being discussed by Zhu Qizhen's subordinates, it was destined to have a friction between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea.

Whether this friction will turn into a war depends on the hearts of those in charge.

Zhu Qizhen smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "In this case, who does Shoufu think can envoy to North Korea?" ”

Chen Xun said: "The old minister thinks that Li Shi is suitable in the Ministry of Rites. ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and seemed to have some impression of this person, but he was not impressed, but he thought that it was from the Ministry of Etiquette, and he should be a professional counterpart, and said, "Okay." Let him go to North Korea as soon as possible. ”

Chen Xun immediately agreed.

So, in the midst of the heavy snowfall, Li Shi, an orthodox seven-year jinshi, Xie Yuan in Sichuan Province, left Beijing and went to the northeast.

Due to the heavy snowfall, the weather was cold, and the port of Tianjin was also frozen, and it was impossible to take the sea route, so it could only take the land route from Liaodong to North Korea.

It's just that this way is already difficult, not to mention that the heavy snow has never stopped.

Li Shi, a native of Sichuan, could bear the cold of the Northeast, and when he arrived in North Korea, he was already covered with chilblains. And eighteen years of orthodoxy have already passed.

This is already the first month of the nineteenth year of orthodoxy.