Chapter 66: Cutting through the mess with a quick knife

The ministers discussed each other for a while, and then they made a list of recommended candidates.

Liang Jia asked Xiao Chunzi to write down the recommended candidates one by one, and finally wrote down more than 30 people, all of whom were officials with a certain reputation or qualifications.

After more than 30 people recommended it, it took almost two hours, and the hands and feet of the ministers stood numb, and their chests were even more hungry.

Next, Liang Jia began to make a selection among the more than 30 people, first kicking out the officials who were not qualified or had shortcomings. In this link, there is also an unexpected joy, several recommended officials were directly exposed by competitors on the spot The facts of corruption and corruption were directly exposed, and as a result, they were directly taken down and ransacked.

It was discussed until noon, and there were still ten people left, and all ten of them were no big problem, but four more people needed to be kicked out. But at this moment, Liang Jia announced his retirement from the court, and the reason was very simple, everyone was hungry, and the discussion would continue tomorrow.

Liang Jia was also really hungry, but he was not so hungry that he couldn't discuss it, and the reason why he stopped was mainly to give this a chance for the elected person to express his position.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, all the ten recommended candidates asked to see outside the palace gate.

These ten people, three in the Hanlin Academy, one in the Dali Temple, one in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then one each in the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households, and the last one is more special, it is a former minister of the Administration Department who has returned to his hometown.

Although the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department also entered the palace to see Liang Jia and expressed their allegiance to Liang Jia from now on, they were directly crossed out of the list by Liang Jia.

One of these two people has been with Liu Zhongzhi for so many years, and the other has been with Ge Mingxuan for several years, Liang Jia doesn't believe that they will suddenly change their position. Even if it does change, it is only a temporary stopgap measure.

In the end, Liang Jia crossed out the Niu Shangshu Shangshu in the Criminal Department, that guy was very annoying, and Liang Jia didn't have a good impression of him now.

Seven people are not enough, and one must be kicked out, Liang Jia is ready to let Zheng Yechuan be the first assistant.

Zheng Yechuan disappointed Liang Jia very much last time, but Zheng Yechuan is an excellent candidate to block the knife, after all, he is still the only minister in Beijing who is now in the Administration Office.

Second, Japan was not the day of the Great Dynasty Meeting, but Liang Jia still held the Great Dynasty Meeting.

At the beginning of the court meeting here, Liang Jia immediately changed and released the candidate he had set.

The ministers who entered the administration office were extremely excited, and those who did not enter were disappointed. In the end, when Liang Jia announced that he would accept Zheng Yechuan as the first assistant, Zheng Yechuan himself was stunned, and the courtiers really didn't expect it.

In their opinion, Zheng Yechuan will definitely be out of the game this time, and it is very likely that he will be demoted out of Beijing.

However, the emperor always does things unexpectedly, and Zheng Yechuan, who is bound to be out, has become the first assistant, which is also incredible.

Zheng Yechuan glanced up at the emperor who was high above, and after being surprised in his heart, he quickly sorted out Liang Jia's thoughts. He is an old fox who has been immersed in officialdom for many years, how could he not guess Liang Jia's way of operating.

He had the intention of resisting with the old man, but he thought of embarrassing the emperor in public, and estimated that the consequences would be worrying, so he gave up this plan and reluctantly knelt down to accept the emperor's appointment.

"Good. Now that all the candidates for the Office have been selected, I will tell you how the next Office is different from the previous ones. In the past, each Minister of the Registry was responsible for specific matters, but from now on, the Minister of the Registry is no longer in charge of the work of other departments, and everyone has the right to express his or her opinion on each matter.

The first assistant finally made a decision, if there is a disagreement, a show of hands to vote, and the minority obeys the majority. In other words, seven people, four people agreed, and the matter was settled.

Seven people can handle the daily recitals, but they must be annotated by the first assistant with a blue pen before they can be issued nationwide. Major matters must be approved by the Emperor, such as the appointment of military personnel, the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials of more than five grades in various localities and in Beijing, the withdrawal and collection of financial money and grain exceeding 20,000 taels, the reform of taxes and the setting of tax rates, etc. Details will be sent to the Administration Office in due course. ”

Liang Jia imitated the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, but he would not use some measures of the Ming Dynasty cabinet to restrict imperial power, that was his stupidity. The Governor's Office is there for him, to address his shortcomings in handling political affairs, not to limit his power.

Because someone entered the administration office to deal with the government affairs, there were vacancies in many yamen, and Liang Jia did not personally participate in the drafting of this candidate, leaving it to the new administration office to deal with, and he just checked it in the end.

The reform of the Governor's Office is here for the time being, and Liang Jia then issued three holy decrees.

One is for Ge Mingxuan, who named Ge Mingxuan as Yi Nanbo, temporarily not in the administrative office, temporarily acting as the governor of Shandong, and making every effort to provide disaster relief, but the former governor of Shandong was not effective in disaster relief and was escorted to Beijing pending trial.

The second holy decree was issued to Ping Nambo, Xu Yinghyuk and several other generals who were commanding the army, and asked Xu Yinghyuk to go to Beijing with them to report on their work.

The content of the third holy decree is more, rewarding meritorious heroes and compensating the sacrificed soldiers. For example, this time, thousands of the personnel in the yamen of various ministries in the capital were rewarded with silver taels, and more than a dozen were rewarded with promotions. These people, who would have been yamen officials all their lives, suddenly turned over and became officials.

According to the usual practice, this kind of major event requires the approval of the blue pen of the Administrator's Office. But today, Liang Jia's three holy decrees, none of the new ministers of the Administration Office said that they were illegal.

Some time ago, the holy decree issued by Liang Jia would beep every time they met in the court, but today they were collectively silent.

Liang Jia nodded with satisfaction, and then announced his retreat from the court.

The six new ministers of the Administration Office, including the new first assistant Zheng Yechuan, came to the office together. The emperor said that if you are not specifically in charge of affairs, then the office can only be centralized, and it is possible to express your opinions to each other, and then integrate them into a final decision.

The seven Ministers of Justice, the number of clerks in the Governor's Office still needs to be increased, these are also key positions, and they need to be carefully selected. The bereavement of the officials who died in this rebellion, the condolences of the families, and the change of positions in various departments need to be solved one by one, and some of them are busy next.

The matter of the rebellion in the capital was written as a newspaper and distributed throughout the country, and the disposition of King Min, the King of Fuzhou, the King of Mingzhou and others also came out.

The kings of Fuzhou and Mingzhou had been killed in battle, their titles were abolished, and their families were exiled. Although King Min did not die, he was also demoted to a concubine, and all his family members were exiled. The other princes who followed the rebellion of the three princes ended up the same.

As for the ordinary soldiers who participated in the rebellion, those who were willing to continue to serve in the army were charged to the border army for their crimes and meritorious service. Those who are disabled are directly exiled to the border areas as coolies. The leading officials and officers in the palace, as well as the officials of the court and the central government who had colluded with the rebellious prince, were all beheaded.

vigorously cut off the head for three days in a row, killing the people in the capital in horror.