Lin Jinyuan had been paying attention to the movement in the study, and saw Lin Haoran leading Sun Jixiang to the tea table outside, and immediately sent tea to the two, and then quietly withdrew.

Lin Haoran likes to drink tea here while looking at the moonlight in the courtyard outside the window. Tonight, the window is just opposite the bright moonlight on the roof, and the whole world is like day, which makes people feel refreshed.

Lin Haoran picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea slowly, naturally hoping that Dong Fen would be able to take over this errand in peace, so he continued to ask with a straight face: "Mr. Sun, do you think the matter of the Nanyang Mission can be promoted now?" ”

"The emperor has not participated in any important festivals since the cultivation ceremony, and even the Qingming Festival has not appeared. Now that the emperor is already concentrating on cultivating the mysteries, I am afraid that it is impossible to meet these unworthy Nanyang envoys in person! Sun Jixiang was holding the teacup, and his main focus on figuring out Jiajing on weekdays was to give a serious answer.

Lin Haoran put down the teacup gently, but looked at Sun Jixiang and said, "I know that the emperor is now concentrating on cultivating the Xuan, so he will definitely not meet the Nanyang Mission in person!" ”

"Dong Weng actually has other plans?" Sun Jixiang was about to drink tea, and when he heard this, he unexpectedly looked up at Lin Haoran and asked.

Lin Haoran did not respond, but stretched out his finger to dip the tea and immediately wrote a word on the table.

It was nearly fifteen, and the moon seemed very round tonight, and the bright moonlight and the pale yellow candlelight shone together, and the word written on the table with tea was particularly clear.

It's just a simple word, as if it has exhausted the secrets of the world.

Sun Jixiang's eyes were no better than when he was younger, he stretched his neck and squinted at the word on the table, his face was solemn for a while, and then he looked at Lin Haoran in shock and said: "Dong Weng is always able to control the overall situation like this, which makes the old man feel deeply ashamed!" ”

He is no longer Lin Haoran's master now, but Lin Haoran's strategist. I thought that with my nearly 30 years of training in the Hanlin Academy, coupled with the study of history books, I would be able to take on the position of Lin Haoran's strategist.

It's just that in the process of getting along with Lin Haoran, he always found that this Dong Weng can always be free from one mud, and repeatedly gives people a new way of thinking, and his wisdom is really rare in the world.

"Mr. has an overreputation, there will always be mistakes in many things, and it is fortunate that Mr. reminded Fang not to make a big mistake!" Lin Haoran knew that Sun Jixiang planned things carefully, so he responded.

The two discussed some things in a low voice, and just after the words ended, Lin Jinyuan came in to report Zhang Wei's visit.

Unlike when he was the Yin of Shuntianfu in the north of the city, now he is the left attendant of the dignified Ministry of Rites, and he is already in the whirlpool of the court, and there will always be officials who come to visit him every night.

Lin Haoran seemed to have known that Zhang Wei would visit, so he asked Lin Jinyuan to bring people over.

Sun Jixiang's heart moved slightly, and he asked seriously: "Dong Weng, do you want to promote Zhang Hongtu as the governor of Ningxia?" ”

"If there is not much resistance, I really want to push Zhang Hongtu to the position of governor of Ningxia!" Lin Haoran stretched out his hand to pick up the teacup, and nodded without concealment.

In the struggle of officialdom, in fact, it is still about official positions, and it is about arranging one's own people to important posts.

When he put forward the strategy of "transferring the south to the north", he knew that if he wanted to really implement it, he had to break the control of the civil officials headed by Yang Bo on the north, and he needed to arrange his own people to serve as governors.

However, the governors of the north were all very important men, and his people were far from being compared with those governors in terms of combat performance and seniority, so they had to start with the governors first.

Of course, these are the personal places of Yang Bo, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and it is not easy to get Yu Dayou to the general army of Liaodong, and it is also difficult to arrange Zhang Wei to be the governor of Ningxia.

Sun Jixiang's brows furrowed slightly, and he persuaded Lin Haoran seriously: "Although Zhang Wei published two military policies in "Talking about the Past and the Present", he has no military experience, and he has never served in the military department, I am afraid it will be very difficult!" ”

"I know, but how do you know you can't do it if you don't try!" Lin Haoran took a sip of tea, but his attitude was firm and authentic.

Since Zhang Xuan received the holy decree and entered the cabinet, the court push system that has been in the Ming Dynasty has gradually existed in name only. By the time Yan Song was in power, the appointment of all ministers was no longer carried out by court, but through a holy decree.

Like Wu Peng, the former secretary of the ministry, was impeached and dismissed, Yan Song immediately begged the emperor to appoint his brother-in-law Ouyang Bijin to take over, but it didn't take long for Jiajing to issue a holy decree to change Guo Pu, who had written well in Qingci, to serve as the secretary of the ministry.

It can be seen from this that the power to appoint cabinet ministers and the six ministers is no longer the recommendation of important ministers of the imperial court, but is appointed by the emperor's holy decree.

When Yan Song was in power, the appointment of some important local governors was no longer recommended by the court, but Yan Song listed the candidates and asked the emperor's opinion, so the first assistant and the emperor shared the right to appoint.

After Xu Jie's coming to power, he changed Yan Song's "solitary" ruling posture and put on a "virtuous appearance".

Although he will not propose to the emperor to join the cabinet or hold a court promotion of the six Shangshu, he is still willing to take out the appointment power of the governor, which is not valued by the emperor, to postpone it with everyone.

According to the practice of the previous dynasties, the governor was jointly extended by the officials of the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department and the Dali Temple.

There are a total of 18 officials of the six ministries and yamen with three grades or above; a seal officer of the General Administration Department and Dali Temple; There are many right imperial histories in the capital that hold the title of three ranks, but usually only the left capital imperial history and the left deputy imperial history sit in the headquarters, so there are two in total.

If he could win the support of most of these important ministers, and if there was no dissent from the emperor, then the official would have been able to become the governor of the region in victory.

Zhang Wei is now the right senator of the general administration department of the fifth grade, and he is already qualified to serve as the local governor of the right side of the Imperial Court of the Fourth Grade, so he is qualified to compete for the post of governor of Ningxia.

Although Zhang Wei's qualifications are relatively shallow, he has the advantage of age, and a governor in his forties will not be dazzling.

If he really stayed up for more than ten years and then became governor, he would already be well versed in the way of officialdom with light and dust, and he was far less sharp than when he first entered the officialdom.

It is precisely because of this that he would prefer to push Zhang Wei to the post of governor earlier, rather than keep boiling those ethereal qualifications here in the capital.

"Dong Weng, the old man has taken his leave first!" Sun Jixiang saw that Lin Haoran was about to meet Zhang Wei, and the matter was almost discussed, so he stood up and took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.