"It's already decided?" Wang Yuan asked.

Wang Yangming behaved lightly and said with a smile: "It's decided." ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "When will you leave Beijing?" ”

Wang Yangming said: "After the Lantern Festival. ”

Yang Tinghe's movements are so fast!

Although Li Dongyang has already paid tribute, due to the cold weather, he plans to leave Beijing after the beginning of spring. It's only been a month or two, and Yang Tinghe can't wait anymore, and immediately makes a series of personnel adjustments.

The first to bear the brunt is Wang Yangming, his position is too important. Since he didn't want to rely on Yang Tinghe, he could only choose to leave and was thrown to Nanjing Taifu Temple for a leisurely meal.

However, because of Wang Yuan's relationship, Wang Yangming is more valued by the emperor, so he is a bigger official. Historically, Wang Yangming was thrown to Nanjing as the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and this time he was directly appointed as the Secretary of the Taifu Temple!

Wang Yangming has not packed up his baggage, and Li Liang, the secretary of Guanglu Temple, was forced to resign again.

This time, the reason is very sufficient, and there is a moral problem with Yushi's impeachment of Li Liang. This person was a student of the former first assistant Liu Jian, and he also married his daughter to Liu Jian's grandson. But after Liu Jian lost power, he immediately said that his daughter was sick, and returned all the dowry gifts given by the Liu family, and he got out of his villain appearance.

Divorce flow, or a villain, is indeed not suitable to be Guanglu Siqing anymore.

Since there are unlucky ones, there are naturally those who are promoted.

The seats vacated by Wang Yangming and Li Liang were not mentioned for the time being, and Li Sui, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was awarded the title of young master of the prince, and Zhang Zilin, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, was promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Zhang Zilin is the one who pressed the 300 lives case and helped the son of the cabinet minister Liang Chu get rid of the crime, and now he finally got his wish and was promoted to the official position with meritorious service (he was written as a Shangshu by mistake before, but he was actually Zuo Shilang, and now he has been promoted to a Shangshu).

There is also the prince of the country, the priest of the wine king, Hongru, who was promoted to the right attendant of the household; Huang E's father was promoted again and was directly promoted to the left servant of the Criminal Department; Zhang Lun, who had an unpleasant quarrel with Yang Tinghe before, is now completely in the arms of Yang Tinghe, and has been appointed as the right attendant of the Criminal Department.

Liu Yong, the Taifu Temple, was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Works; Yang Tingyi, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple (Yang Tinghe's own brother, once dressed Liu Jin as a eunuch), was promoted to Taifu Siqing; Shen Dongkui, the secretary of the Taifu Temple, was promoted to the secretary of the Guanglu Temple.

In addition, the provinces have also been transferred accordingly, and several provincial bigwigs have been replaced.

Why does Zhu Houzhao not agree to Li Dongyang's resignation?

Just look at the situation.

Li Dongyang has only been in office for half a month, and everyone is still in the capital and has not left, so Yang Tinghe has completely controlled the household department, the industrial department, the criminal department, and the military department. and continue to mix sand with the ministry, Yang Yiqing, the secretary of the ministry, now deserves to be called a grievance!

And Yang Tinghe's actions are not over yet, such as Huang Heqing, who is in the Ministry of Langzhong, will soon be thrown to Taichang Temple as a Shaoqing, and it is a nonsense job like Admiral Siyi Pavilion.

Don't say that Wang Yuan can't stop it, the emperor can't stop it, unless Zhu Houzhao wants to tear his face with Yang Tinghe!

Now in the six departments of the Ming Dynasty, only Yang Yiqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Fu Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, can barely withstand the pressure of Yang Tinghe. But it's just barely supporting, they are already about to be hollowed out, and they must maintain a cooperative relationship with Yang Tinghe - Yang Tinghe gives orders, and they cooperate honestly.

Isn't it a bit of a power minister?

No!

Yang Tinghe faction was just a loose civilian-official alliance, relying on promotion, promise, co-optation, profit distribution, exclusion and other means to exercise collective rule over the central court of the Ming Dynasty. Although Yang Tinghe is the head of the civilian government, he is not a man of his word, and he must consider the ideas of his allies in everything he does.

What is in everyone's interest will naturally be echoed.

As soon as Yang Tinghe wants to carry out reforms and touch the interests of too many people, this faction will immediately collapse from within.

Zhu Houzhao was busy transferring border troops into Beijing during this time, and he always ignored the government and threw all the political affairs to the celebrant supervisor. The celebrant Zhang Yong obviously had a deal with Yang Tinghe, and turned a blind eye to the frequent official transfers, and Yang Tinghe was up to him to decide who was promoted anyway.

When Zhu Houzhao reacted, he was immediately taken aback. But he didn't say anything, just asked when the border town would enter Beijing? When will the military pay be arranged?

Yang Tinghe replied that he was ready, and he would be able to let the border towns enter Beijing after the beginning of spring.

The two monarchs and ministers, tacitly, quietly reached a political deal.

Wang Yuan strictly followed Li Dongyang's instructions, watched the whole process, and did not say a word, just to survive. It is useless for him to jump out and oppose it, as long as he expresses his dissatisfaction, it will inevitably attract the collective hostility of the emperor and hundreds of officials!

Jin Gui, a lonely minister, was very aggrieved, he was only responsible for writing the holy decree. The celebrant and the cabinet worked closely together, and the emperor didn't care about anything, so he could only be obedient.

However, after determining that Kaichun could transfer the border town to Beijing, Zhu Houzhao summoned several ministers in succession.

One is Wang Yuan, one is Jin Gui, one is Wang Qiong, and the other is Yan Zhong.

Wang Yuan was awarded a doctor from the Sipin Dynasty because of his meritorious work in making wax printing machines, and the bulk grade has exceeded his own position. This is okay, and when receiving wages, the higher the loose rank will be received according to the loose grade, and the previous increase can also be calculated separately.

In addition to Jin Gui in charge of controlling the house, he also has two nominal part-time jobs, one is a bachelor of Hanlin and the other is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites. It is not suitable to be promoted and dispersed, and if you are promoted again, you will enter the cabinet, so the emperor gave Jin Gui's mother and wife a promotion level.

Not long after Wang Qiong was promoted to the left servant of the household department, this time, like Wang Yuan, he was promoted to a random rank.

Yan Zhong was also promoted, but the Qing official insisted on not accepting it, saying that the murder case of Prince Liang's son was not yet over, and he would finish the case first. This man is a workaholic, and he has accumulated a lot of work and has not lived long.

Anyway, Zhu Houzhao told Yang Tinghe unmistakably through these rewards: These four are all my people, and you had better take it easy.

Wang Yuan went to see Li Dongyang that day, and happened to meet Jin Gui leaving.

Jin Gui is likely to be the same as Wang Yuan, and he was entrusted by Li Dongyang. I don't know the specific content, but Li Dongyang definitely let him hold on. Therefore, although Jin Gui was a lonely minister, he acted as if he was attached to Yang Tinghe, and he was silent all day long and did not say any nonsense.

Now, the focus of attention of all parties is that there is still a vacancy in the position of a cabinet minister!

Jin Gui, who has sufficient qualifications and is trusted by the emperor, is the number one choice to enter the cabinet. However, the emperor did not let people go, that is, he did not let Jin Gui enter the cabinet, and nailed Jin Gui to the imperial room to write the holy decree.

Yang Tinghe recommended several ministers to join the cabinet, but all of them were denied by Zhu Houzhao.

There is a trial superintendent named Meng Jinyang, who probably wants to take the opportunity to invite his name to become a regular, and he may really not be afraid of power, and he actually impeached Jin Gui and Liang Chu at the same time. He said that Jin Guiyin was ruthless, treacherous, favoritism, and could never be allowed to be a cabinet minister. He also said that the cabinet minister Liang Chu was repeatedly impeached, and his son killed 300 people and dared to protect him, it is really unreasonable for this kind of person to be an official.

As a result, Yushi Meng Jinyang was sent to prison, and Yushi was convicted for his words - Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu really did it!

On the contrary, Jin Gui, who was splashed with dirty water, took the initiative to resign because of impeachment, and asked for the release of Yushi Meng Jinyang.

The emperor did not agree to Jin Gui's resignation.

As for that Meng Yushi, can he be better if he offends Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu? was beaten half to death in the imperial prison, deprived of his position as a trial of imperial history, and thrown to other places as a small official.

Wang Yuan is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and his position is noble, so he doesn't need to pay attention to disturbances, and he can spread physics with peace of mind.

Just before the Spring Festival, there was good news from Yanshen Town, Shandong, that the craftsmen there had finally developed transparent glass, and some samples were sent according to Wang Yuan's drawings.

After receiving the sample, Wang Yuan was both happy and disappointed.

The disappointment lies in the poor transparency, and the telescopes and microscopes are completely unqualified. But it is enough to make thermometers and beakers, only to wait for the transparent glass technology to improve little by little.