Chapter 210: Two Things (Part II)

The cabinet vacates the position of a cabinet minister, who will fill it?

After this matter was thrown out by Zhu Yunwen, the people in the entire Fengtian Hall were in no mood to worry about whether they could pay taxes just now.

Paying taxes is a crime for all the people in the world, and whether you agree or oppose it will have to be added together, but whether you can fill the seat and enter the cabinet is a matter of only one seat.

"Shiqi, you are the first assistant of the cabinet, you can speak first."

The first right to recommend cabinet ministers, Zhu Yunwen still named Yang Shiqi's name.

Everyone's eyes looked at Yang Shiqi in unison, and at the same time, their minds were alive, and Xie Jin subconsciously thought of Qi Tai, the secretary of the military department.

The latter listened to Yang Shiqi's words in the matter of recommending the first assistant of the cabinet at the beginning, and with this friendship here, plus Qi Tai himself is Zhu Yunwen's minister, he should recommend it.

Yang Shiqi didn't hesitate too much and opened his mouth: "The minister recommended Yan Zhenzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Quiet.

Zhu Yunwen laughed.

Turning his head to look at Yu Xin: "What about Yu Ge's opinion?" ”

This is my hardcore, what can I say?

Yu Xin now feels that he is confused in his head, and he can't figure out Yang Shiqi's routines and ideas.

Everyone in the court knows that this Yan Zhenzhi was introduced by him Yu Xin as an official, since Zhu Yunwen set up the cabinet, he has been based on his protégé of Yu Dunben in the past few years, Yang Shiqi is famous for his ugly appearance, will he be so kind?

With his mind spinning, in just a few breaths, Yu Xin grasped Yang Shiqi's thoughts, and said decisively: "The minister has no opinion. ”

"What about Xie Qing's opinion?"

Xie Dashen is still in a state of confusion now, and after hearing this, he hurriedly stood up and answered after two voices.

"The minister has no opinion."

Although he didn't understand Yang Shiqi's mind for the time being, the habit he had developed for a long time still made him choose to continue to believe, anyway, he was sure that Yang Shiqi was not a loser.

The three members of the cabinet agreed, and when Zhu Yunwen moved his gaze to the hundred officials in the court, where did these people still have any different opinions, even if there were a few officials who did not deal with Yan Zhenzhi, they would not stand up at this time, and most of them still expressed their support.

"Then it's decided, Yan Zhenzhi will increase his bachelor's title, and he will not serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry."

Zhu Yunwen Chrysostom agreed, this matter is confirmed.

Yan Zhenzhi excitedly ran out of the train and thanked him, but he didn't look at Yang Shiqi from beginning to end.

Yang Shiqi's recommendation of him has nothing to do with showing goodwill.

There are now four people in the cabinet, except for Zhu Di, who is not asked about anything, only he Yu Xin, Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin are three people, Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin are fellow villagers and the same party, it can be said that the big and small affairs in the cabinet are now handled by the Jiangxi Yang Party, in order to balance the political situation, the people who are added can no longer be Jiangxi nationals, let alone Yang Shiqi's people.

Yan Zhenzhi is his new person and a native of Zhejiang, which can be regarded as meeting the basic conditions for balance, so it can be regarded as Yang Shiqi's self-preservation.

In addition, refer to Yan Zhenzhi's background, Yan Zhenzhi is the grain chief of Zhejiang, belonging to the representative of the landlord and gentry class, the emperor has just ordered to check the number of acres of land in the world, which is not only the grave of the digging class, but also infringes on the interests of the world's grain chiefs, because the more acres of land, the more tax grain, and the more tax grain, the greater the loss, and their grain chief will subsidize more.

Let Yan Zhen go straight into the cabinet, you can stabilize the hearts of the grain growers in the provinces, so that they will not listen to the wind and rain and panic, as long as the court introduces a few measures in the future, these powerful landlords will not be noisy to turn the sky.

Yang Shiqi's proposal solved these two troubles.

Of course, in addition to these two official troubles, Yang Shiqi is also selfish.

recommended Yan Zhenzhi, how could he add a little image points to him, and show the outside world that he is broad-minded, after all, he is also the first assistant of the cabinet.

In the past, he used to use means and scheming for promotion, and made himself infamous, but now that he has climbed to the pinnacle of power for his courtiers, it is time to find a way to whitewash himself.

No matter how the big guy behind him criticizes, on the surface, he Yang Shiqi also has the grace of recommending Yan Zhenzhi, and the latter can't say anything bad about Yang Shiqi in public.

A happy ending for all.

Zhu Yunwen looked at Yang Shiqi, gave the latter a vague approval, and then continued to speak.

"The Ministry of Industry is empty, this person should be selected by your cabinet to make an idea."

Everyone understood that this was the emperor's decision to give up the position of the Ministry of Industry to Yang Shiqi.

Yang Shiqi recommended Yan Zhenzhi on the front foot and gave Yu Xin a big gift, who he recommended to take over, Yu Xin and Yan Zhenzhi could not oppose it when their brains were not sick.

Thinking of this, the eyes of these Beijing officials looking at Yang Shiqi became even hotter.

Hurry up and get closer to Yang Shiqi, this is a golden thigh.

The dragon of the saint, even the emperor of a book can be generously handed over to him, climb this ladder to the sky, maybe his position can be a few steps forward when the next court meeting.

"I've finished talking about the two things, do you have a good story?"

Seeing that everything he planned to do had been satisfactorily resolved, Zhu Yunwen was still in a very good mood, and he found that after the automatic labor parade, he was really going smoothly now.

Some of the well-known malpractices of the Ming Dynasty have been basically eliminated, and the basic market will only be thriving in the future, and the rest of the road is just some small details, that is, all aspects of the society can be regulated and controlled.

Only then did the big guys come back to their senses from the mess of thoughts, and began to take out the important matters that had been pending in the last month of their respective offices step by step.

Here, the really tricky thing is a copy of Zhu Gaochi, the new secretary of the ministry.

There is a huge shortage of magistrates.

First of all, the government was reformed, and after the red line of Zhishi was set, one or two percent of the officials were eliminated, and then they caught up with the scholar movement that affected most of the country, and hundreds of people died alone, not to mention the number of people who were injured and resigned due to incidents, and the provincial government level was better, and the management of the local counties was completely chaotic, quite a bit of charm of the empty seal case in those years.

"The Hanlin Academy will send a group of students as soon as possible to fill the shortage of county government offices."

After frowning and thinking about it, Zhu Yunwen decisively ordered: "All provinces must hold the provincial examination before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and select the first batch of Xu officials selected by the provincial examination, including those who show talents and raise people, and tell them that I have canceled their tax-free fields, and if they want to study steadily in the future, they must find their own way, and this provincial examination is a clear way for them to choose." ”

Will the abolition of tax-free fields make it difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son? As a result, the imperial court will become a stage for the descendants of those families and powerful families in the future.

After all, it costs money to devote yourself to studying.

Taizu's purpose in engaging in tax-free fields is to give a guarantee to those talented people who fail an exam, so that they can study with peace of mind without worrying about starvation.

This point was changed by Zhu Yunwen.

What's the point of concentrating on reading those collected Bagu texts and sage books, if you have this kung fu, you should go to the errand first, no matter how much you looked down on the identity of this Xu official before, if you don't want to starve to death, if you want to continue to take the exam and go up, you can only do this.

Looking down on the identity of Xu officials (grassroots civil servants), he always wants to be promoted to the county magistrate in one fell swoop, so he will be hungry.

Without tax-free fields, there will naturally be no more anchor fields, and there is no need for your neighbors to continue farming to support you.

Either you farm your own land to support yourself, or you just go out and do small jobs to earn money.

If you don't want to, then you will die of starvation.

What is the point of such a high-minded reader?

Zhu Yunwen himself is a civil servant, and he only believes in one thing.

Only by stepping up step by step from the grassroots level can cadres truly know how to govern the country.

Governing the country is to govern the people in its bones.

"By the way, the newspaper will publicize in advance, next year, in addition to the students admitted to the autumn of this year's Xiangxiang examination, all the provincial examination will give three places, that is, the top three in the provincial examination will automatically obtain the qualification for the imperial examination."

In Zhu Yunwen's vision, in the future, the big imperial examination, which takes place every three years, will be changed to once a year.

What township and government tests will be gradually canceled.

Like Huang Guan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, the six champions of the Hongwu Year will not appear.

In the late autumn of each year, the provincial examination is held to recruit grassroots public officials, and the top 10 in the provincial examination will automatically participate in the big examination in March of the following year to select them to enter the Hanlin, that is, the so-called central reserve cadre training echelon.

The old Confucianism has been overthrown, and there is no point in re-examining empty contents such as etiquette and defense, the Four Books and Five Classics, and filial piety and virtue, and the provincial examination will only test the problems that need to be solved urgently in the local area, while the national examination will only select talents who understand the national game of chess.

That is, the provincial government attaches importance to the ability of practical governance, and the national level attaches importance to the breadth of vision.

Zhu Yunwen said.

"The imperial court's selection of materials for the world is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, this matter must be implemented by the Ministry of Officials as soon as possible, the provincial examination of the provinces and the Southern Zhili must be held for me this year, and the reference age line is set in the range of 16 to 40 years old, and next year's imperial examination, the Ministry of Officials must also seize the time to select the examination questions."

Zhu Gaochi bowed slightly and took it down.