In the capital in March, the battle for the official book began.

The officials and scholars in the capital, and even the ordinary people are concerned about this matter, and the new official department has become the most concerned issue after dinner.

Speculation about the candidates for the new secretary of the ministry is also endless, and there are different opinions, but the most popular candidates are Dong Fen, the left servant of the ministry, and Yan Ne, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

"The servants of the ministry are not selected, this is the practice of the previous dynasty!"

In the face of rumors in the capital that Dong Fen, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, would take over as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, there was strong opposition in the officialdom.

Since Taizu abolished the prime minister, the Ming Dynasty has always paid attention to the checks and balances of power in the system, and the officials who are in charge of the promotion of hundreds of officials have become the top priority of "checks and balances".

Since the Taizu period, it has become a common practice for officials to not enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister and for the officials to be promoted to officials, which is also a feature of the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty.

"The imperial court system cannot be abolished!"

"The court is full of talents, so you should choose another talent!"

"The candidates for the official books should be selected from the six books!"

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has always been a shot at the head, and in the face of the first popular candidate, all forces have pointed the finger at Dong Fen, and they are all trying to prevent Dong Fen from serving as the secretary of the ministry.

The official department is in charge of the promotion of officials, and it is undoubtedly the most attractive throne for each force, especially in the context of the first assistant Xu Jie's return of government affairs to the ministers.

According to the previous regulations, the selection of the secretary of the ministry is actually to be postponed.

It's just that in the Jiajing Dynasty, many things don't work. Like Xia Yan, who was the secretary of the ministry at the time, became the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Li Mo broke the convention that the servant of the ministry did not serve as the secretary of the ministry, and Guo Pu was also directly promoted from the left servant of the ministry to the secretary of the ministry.

In the past, it was not without delay, but as long as it did not conform to Jiajing's intentions, it was directly abandoned. Therefore, the delay has long existed in name only in this dynasty, and everything is based on Jiajing's will to elect officials.

The current official department is naturally no exception, and who will end up with it still depends on Jiajing's will.

Although it was not possible to decide the candidate for the secretary of the ministry by voting, many officials continued to question the "legitimacy" of Dong Fen, the left servant of the ministry, in the hope of preventing Dong Fen from being elected.

This is where the chaos in the Ming Dynasty lies in, and mutual rivalry has long been the norm.

"Yan Ne can't be the secretary of the ministry!"

"Yan and Xu are both out of Nanzhili, and the imperial court surname is Xu Hu?"

"He is both the first assistant and the heavenly official, and he wants to be the prime minister?"

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When there was a voice that the imperial court was replaced by Yan Ne, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, there was also strong opposition in the officialdom, directly accusing Yu Xu Jie and Yan Ne of forming a township party.

The intimate relationship between Xu Jie and Yan Ne is no secret for a long time. Once Ren Yanne takes over the position of the secretary of the ministry, and Xu Jie stays in the position of the first assistant, the power of the Xu Party will undoubtedly climb to the top.

Not only the friends on Dong Fen's side, but other forces also came forward to stop it, all of them did not want to see Yan Ne as the secretary of the ministry. If Yan Ne is really elected as the secretary of the ministry, no one in the entire court will have the strength to compete with the Xu Party.

The officials in the capital seemed to be very busy, and after stopping Dong Fen, they continued to oppose Yan Ne.

Not only that, but when it was rumored that Yang Bo, the secretary of the military department, and Wu Shan, the secretary of the household department, would take over, they were also strongly opposed, which made this court scolded.

Just as the forces of all parties were gearing up to compete for the throne of the official department, their voices suddenly stopped abruptly, because a military information suddenly came from the south.

There were 100,000 urgent military reports in Fujian, and without the deterrence of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, the arrogance of the Japanese in Fujian became even more arrogant, and on February 26, the Japanese invaders captured the Pinghai Acropolis.

Unlike the previous looting and leaving, this time the Japanese chose to entrench themselves in the Pinghai Acropolis, captured Zhenghe and Shouning, and each held the sea road as a way out.

Obviously, the situation of the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese invaders deteriorated again, and the Japanese invaders actually occupied the Pinghai Acropolis as a nest.

Pinghaiwei was built during the Hongwu period, with an establishment quota of 5,600 people, and is an important part of Fujian's coastal defense system. It's just that after Xinghua City, this acropolis also fell.

When this news came, the court officials had to re-examine the stubborn disease of the Japanese invaders.

Previously, many officials in the capital did not take Hu Zongxian's exploits in suppressing the Japanese in the southeast seriously, but watching Fujian lose two cities in a row, they finally realized the amazing strength of the Japanese and understood the importance of Hu Zongxian.

It's just that due to the impeachment of Chen Fengyi in the Nanjing Huke incident, a hat of greed for ink was buckled on Hu Zongxian's head on the grounds of "embezzling 33,000 taels of national funds".

But after he left office, Xinghua City and Pinghai City were captured successively, but the loss was immeasurable.

If things continue to deteriorate like this, not to mention the smoke in the coastal areas of Daming, I am afraid that some thieves will take the opportunity to make trouble and attack the city and plunder the city in the hinterland of Daming.

Although there were many calls in the imperial court for the resumption of Hu Zongxian, who was idle at home, the imperial court had no such intention at all, and the cabinet and the military department quickly came up with a response plan.

The imperial court immediately ordered Qi Jiguang, deputy commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, to lead the "Qi Army" into Fujian to suppress the Japanese, while Zhang Zhen, the governor of Liangguang, was reappointed as the governor of Guangzhou-Fujian, and the governor of military affairs in Guangdong and Fujian.

At the end of last year, due to the loss of Xinghua City, the governor of Fujian, You Zhen, was dismissed and returned home, and now the position of the governor of Fujian is still vacant. Originally, Jingcha was looking for candidates this time, but the plan could not catch up with the changes.

It was undoubtedly too long to send officials from the capital, so it was proposed to use Tan Lun, who was guarding filial piety in his hometown in Jiangxi.

Tan Lun, a native of Tanfang, Jiangxi, has read poetry and books since childhood, has a keen mind and excellent intelligence. Jiajing was only 24 years old at the age of 23, and was first appointed as the director of the Nanjing Rite Department.

After being transferred to Zhejiang as the prefect of Taizhou, Tan Lun trained 1,000 township soldiers, with a clear distribution and uniform progress, and soon became an elite unit.

The Japanese besieged Taizhou, but they had to leave without conquering it. The Japanese invaded Xianju and Linhai instead, and Tan Lun captured and killed them all, and was promoted to deputy envoy of Zhejiang Patrol Coast.

The Japanese invaded Taizhou from Xiangshan, Tan Lun defeated them one after another in Magang and Hejia Shilan, and defeated the Japanese in Gebu and Nanwan together with Qi Jiguang, and was crowned as the right political secretary of Zhejiang.

It's just that the bad news of his father's death came, and Tan Lun had to leave his job and return to Jiangxi.

However, at the time of the funeral, he encountered the imperial court sending troops to crusade against Zhang Lian, and the imperial court used Tan Lun to lead the Zhejiang soldiers to crusade against Raoping's thief Lin Chaoxi, and afterwards asked the court to resign and return home to guard filial piety.

If Tan Lun is appointed as the governor of Fujian, it can not only shorten the vacant time of the governor of Fujian, but also effectively give Fujian a leader with military talents, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

But no matter which force wants to arrange their own people, but in the face of this major event, everyone has no objection to using Tan Lun. What's more, the governor of Fujian seems to have become a hot potato.

Of course, Tan Lun is now at home, and if the imperial court wants to appoint him as the governor of Fujian, it must obtain Jiajing's consent.

What is helpless is that Tan Lun's matter has not yet set the tone, and someone's spearhead is impatiently pointed at Wu Shan. After Xu Jie got the tax documents of Yueyan from the household department, he went directly to Wanshou Palace.