Chapter 148: Disputes over Cabinet Candidates

March of the twenty-eighth year of Orthodoxy.

In the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Qizhen looked at the very ink scroll in front of him, and was in a trance for a while.

This is a triennial talent ceremony.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen didn't take it to heart, but he got a message before, it was nothing else, it was Fan Guang who sent troops.

Zhu Qizhen has delegated the matter of deciding the power to send troops. But he didn't expect that Fan Guang would send troops when the spring was cold.

In his mind, at this moment, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it will only be colder.

However, the generals were subject to foreign military orders, and Zhu Qizhen could only trust Fan Guang. After all, Zhu Qizhen still trusts Fan Guang's own talent.

Zhu Qizhen came back to his senses. Look at this very curly.

Generally speaking, the top 10 scrolls were presented to the emperor and the emperor was asked to select the top three, which was called the Grace Top.

Zhu Qizhen just ordered three cinnabar spots in their order.

Zhu Qizhen said: "This time the imperial examination is in the past, and it is still in danger, Chen Wen did a good job, but I don't want to hear such good news again." ”

Chen Wen of the Hanlin Academy immediately came out and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

What Zhu Qizhen said was an incident that happened in this year's examination, that is, there was a fire in the examination room, but fortunately, Chen Wen, who was the chief examiner at the time, immediately decided to put out the fire himself, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know that he was actually very lucky.

After Zhu Qizhen changed the officials in Beijing, Shuntianfu was able to have a surplus of tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. And at the feet of the Son of Heaven, Shuntianfu didn't dare to swallow the money privately.

The best thing to do is to spend the money on the assault.

Otherwise, it is easy to be picked up by other yamen.

After all, although Shuntianfu is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it is precisely because it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven that there are too many officials. The examination room has also been renovated, and a lot of water dragons have been added, otherwise this imperial examination may have a human tragedy.

As for Chen Wen, he is Li Xian's person.

He has done things in the local area, and he has also made great achievements, and now he has been appointed to head the Hanlin Academy, and he has added the chief examiner, and the intention is too clear.

Although Zhu Qizhen has now intentionally or unintentionally severed the relationship between the cabinet scholars and the Hanlin Academy, although the "Daming Huidian" has not yet been completed.

However, the cabinet has decided to list it separately, not in the Hanlin Academy.

It's just that the status quo is the status quo, and habits are habits.

People still consciously or unconsciously regard whether or not to add Hanlin officials as a sign of whether they will enter the cabinet, and now among the seven members of the Ming cabinet, there is a lack of one person, and it has been several months.

Although the cabinet is still functioning. It's just that Zhu Qizhen won't easily give this position to Li Xian's people, he would rather be empty.

As for whether it will delay the official duties of the Cabinet.

But no.

You must know that before the Ming Cabinet was maintained at three people for a long time. That is, Sanyang, or later Zhu Qizhen added people to it little by little, and this is the constant seven people.

But if we say that if we don't have one, we can't function, but not necessarily.

It's just that the cabinet is a candidate, and Zhu Qizhen is still considering it. Li Xian is pushing Chen Wen, and on the other hand, Xu Youzhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is also eager to try, desperately brushing up on his sense of existence.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is now motionless than still. He wanted to be transferred from the foreign ministers to the cabinet. Zhu Qizhen deliberately let Yu Qian come back.

The future thunderstorm will require a person Zhu Qizhen trusted to control the cabinet. Zhu Qizhen thought about it, but the most trusted one was still Yu Qian.

It's just that Yu Qian is already old.

Although Zhu Qizhen was worried about this, he didn't feel that there was any difficulty that could not be overcome.

After all, the political life of civil officials has always been very long, for example, didn't Yang Shiqi just achieve it in his seventies.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's good to do it yourself. He sent Chen Wen out.

This sentence is extremely meaningful.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen didn't have any special hints, he was used to this kind of speaking style of leaving three points. It's just that after Chen Wen went out, he thought about it and said secretly: "What does Your Majesty mean by ordering me to do it myself?" ”

He vaguely guessed an answer, and said secretly in his heart: "Your Majesty has already had a gap with Li Gong now, even if there is no gap, Li Gong is afraid that he will not be in phase soon, and I am Li Gong's person, so no matter how good I do, it is just a good self-inflicted." ”

As soon as he thought about this clearly, Chen Wen shuddered in his heart, and for a while he felt like falling into an ice cellar.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know that he gave Chen Wen so many fantasies with a hint. It even caused a lot of things. His eyes were now focused on the map.

His gaze slowly swept over the Qinghai-Tibet Heavenly Road on the map, and he secretly said in his heart: "Where is Fan Guang at the moment?" ”

The map didn't tell him the answer.

If someone looks down on this road from the outside sky, they can see that the heavy snow-capped mountains are like snow-capped mountains that have stood for eternity, and no matter what kind of temperature changes, they cannot cause the slightest change on this road.

But above the wasteland, there is an army already in the midst of the arduous trek.

There were only 10,000 men, but they brought 30,000 horses, and in addition to the mounts, each horse carried a thick bag.

At this moment, Fan Guang and his people have not been gone for long, but there are still many people who can't bear it. I had to tie this to the horse and let the horse drag it away in a drowsy state.

This is still the Xining garrison army specially selected by Zhu Qizhen.

These troops stayed in Xining for at least half a year, but the altitude of Xining is only more than 2,000 meters, but the average altitude here is the same

Above 4 thousand meters.

Even before that, altitude sickness had taken the lives of soldiers one after another.

Fan Guang could only bury them one by one in the ice and snow. In order to prevent the body from being dragged out by wild beasts, it was necessary to dig very deep, and then a tombstone was placed on the tree.

In this way, these tombstones are like road signs, between heaven and earth, marking the footsteps of the Ming army, all the way to the south.

The reason why we did not wait for the ice and snow to melt before sending troops was also determined according to the specific environment of this road in Tibet.

Generally around April, the snow on the Qinghai-Tibet road melts.

Some people may think that it is a good thing that the snow and ice melt.

Not really.

Because after the ice and snow melted, the frozen soil on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau also began to melt. The roads will get muddy. There is even a risk that it will turn into a swamp at any time.

This phenomenon of melting permafrost every year is one of the biggest difficulties encountered even when building roads in later generations.

On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the freezing time is also very early, and it will freeze around October every year. Just after freezing, there can still be a period of passage.

But further back, there is heavy snow covering the mountain.

The easiest time of year to pass should be summer.

When the ground permafrost completely melts, it is better to walk, at least the kind of ground suddenly collapses while walking, but the underground permafrost melts, and the ground looks flat, but if you walk up, you will fall into the abyss. This is not the case.

Generally, Tibetan businessmen who come to Xining take advantage of the summer to go to Xining, or to Tibet, and wait for the next summer to return, that is.

It takes two years to go back and forth.

But Fan Guang was not willing to do this.

The reason is simple.

Time.

If he arrives in Tibet in the summer, there will not be much time left for him, and when the winter in Tibet comes, who will he go to war with? For these people who are not familiar with the place.

The biggest enemy has never been the enemy, but the weather and extreme environment in Tibet.

Therefore, Fan Guang had to give himself time to fight the enemy.

It can only be taken advantage of the fact that the ice and snow have just begun to melt, although the ice and snow have melted and the permafrost has not yet melted. During this period of time, I strive to be able to quickly pass through the 3,000-mile Heavenly Road.

Even if you take some risks, it's okay.

When the people in Tibet felt that even if the Ming army had just left Xining at the moment, in fact, the Ming army had already arrived in the city.

Soldiers are fast.

Along the way, almost all of them are no-man's land, and no one will report the news. Fan Guang can naturally go south boldly. It's just that the corpses along the way are the end of Fan Guang's daring to challenge nature.

Even Fan Guang looked up at the circle of black dots circling in the sky, these scavengers on the plateau, they had already regarded them as food.