Anyway, Yan Song is not sick in the brain, Jiajing asked him to recommend the candidate for the secretary of the ministry, he put a bunch of township parties under his command and did not recommend it, but he recommended a Wu Peng, the secretary of the ministry who seems to have nothing to do with him!

Of course, he is not sick in his brain, if he recommends his township party in front of Jiajing, then it is called a sick brain.

Jiajing doesn't want someone or a certain force to have the final say in the court, and his way of governing the country is just three words: "play balance".

At this time, Yan Song has been promoted to the head of the cabinet, if the position of the secretary is taken over by his township party, won't it destroy the balance?

In this regard, Jiajing has already learned a lesson in the appointment of Xia Yan and Yan Song.

At the beginning, Xia Yan served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yan Song was promoted to a cabinet scholar, so he should not hand over the ministry to Yan Song again, because one force controls the cabinet and the ministry at the same time, and the power is a bit desperate.

The result?

As a result, Yang Cong insisted on retiring, and the Yangming family also died down because of their inability to fight against it, Xia Yan was about to fly to the sky, what to remove the Nanjing Hubu Shangshu, and let Zeng Mian preside over the big plan to clean up the tartars, and make nonsense.

As a result, the Tartars didn't hurt a single hair, but Shanxi was almost in chaos.

After Jiajing learned this lesson, he naturally would not hand over all power to Yan Song again, so that Yan Song would also swell to the point of lawlessness.

Yan Song couldn't have imagined this.

If he recommends his own township party, Jiajing will definitely not want to say no, and when the time comes, Jiajing will definitely consider promoting someone from the Yangming line to take over the position of the secretary of the ministry.

If that were the case, he would have lost a lot.

Therefore, he mentioned Wu Peng, who seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Jiajing was really as he imagined, and after a little consideration, he agreed.

If you want to say that Wu Peng is not a party from another country, he is from Zhejiang, not Shanxi.

However, Wu Peng is one of his cronies who he secretly supports.

Otherwise, how could Wu Peng, a Jinshi who had been in Jiajing for two years, have repeatedly made meritorious deeds, made steady progress, and rose all the way from the head of the Ministry of Industry to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry?

Jiajing really didn't expect this.

The reason why he asked Yan Song's opinion was that he just wanted to go through the motions, after all, Yan Song was the outgoing secretary of the ministry, and it was a common practice to ask him about the successor before leaving.

He didn't want to give this position to Yan Song's party or people from the Yangming lineage, because this position was too important, and controlling it was equivalent to controlling the power of appointing and dismissing most officials, and it was not appropriate to hand it over to Yan Song's party or people from Yangming's lineage.

Originally, he thought that Yan Song would recommend his own township party to take over, he pretended to think about it a little, and then no, this could be regarded as giving Yan Song face, but he didn't expect that Yan Song actually proposed to be taken over by Wu Peng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wu Peng, a seemingly irrelevant person, was quite suitable, so he thought about it a little and agreed to Yan Song's recommendation.

How did he know that this Wu Peng was also Yan Song's cronies, he even thought that Yan Song had a view of the overall situation and knew that meritocracy was not cronyism, which was much better than Xia Yan!

As for the cabinet scholar and the governor of Xuanda, in his opinion, it doesn't matter, he has grabbed the two most critical positions, and he has to leave some leftovers for Yangming, otherwise, not to mention that Yangming will be emotional, it is estimated that Jiajing will think that he is insatiable.

Jiajing is playing the way of balance, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet has been handed over to Yan Song, who is his favorite, and the position of the secretary has also been decided, and the rest seems to be left to others, so next, he did not mention the appointment and dismissal of officials, but just talked to Yan Song about unrelated topics such as cultivating green words.

The pair chatted for a while and then dispersed.

Next, Yan Song happily went to be the head of his cabinet, but Jiajing had to continue to arrange the remaining positions.

Yan Song was promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, leaving a vacancy for a cabinet scholar, who will take over?

This, naturally, has to be left to Yang Ming, he will not ignore the lesson, and then hand over the cabinet to a force, although Yan Song is his most favored cronies, but he can't let it float, he must find someone to supervise it.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered someone to pass on the word of mouth and summoned Zhang Bangqi, the secretary of the ministry, to come to the audience.

Zhang Bangqi got Yang Cong's advice, but he also knew how to behave, although he didn't bring any green words to pat Jiajing's ass, but he also knew what to say and what not to say.

After the monarch and the minister saluted, he simply pretended to know nothing, didn't say anything, and stood there respectfully, waiting for Jiajing to ask.

Seeing his attitude, Jiajing couldn't help but nod secretly, it seems that there are unexpected gains from beheading Xia Yan and Zeng Miao, at least, these ministers know that they can't be as arrogant as Xia Yan, they don't know how to converge, and they don't even distinguish between respect and inferiority.

He pondered for a while, and then said gently: "Chang Fu, I have already decided to let Weizhong take over as the first assistant of the cabinet, there are a lot of things in this cabinet, and Weizhong alone is too busy, are you interested in entering the cabinet and helping him deal with daily affairs?" ”

Zhang Bangqi heard this, he was also excited and trembled, although after becoming the secretary of the Ministry of Rites as usual, it is equivalent to stepping into the cabinet with half a foot, but Jiajing is the kind of person who does not follow the rules.

At this time, Jiajing finally came as usual and promoted him, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to a cabinet scholar, can he not be excited?

The cabinet scholar is in charge of national affairs, and he is much better than him, who is a nosy scholar of the Ministry of Rites.

As for assisting Yan Song or something, just listen to it, if Jiajing really wanted to find someone to assist Yan Song, he would not have promoted him to a cabinet scholar.

He did not hesitate to bow his hand and said: "Thank you for the emperor's grace, Wei Chen will do his best to assist Lord Yan and handle the affairs of the cabinet well." ”

Jiajing nodded slightly, and then said solemnly: "This cabinet is complicated, you have to deal with it carefully, the Ministry of Rites, just leave it to others to take care of, do you have a suitable candidate?" ”

The right person?

Yes.

Zhang Bangqi still said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Lord Yang Cong Yang is the best candidate to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, regardless of his qualifications and ability. ”

What he said was not as good as Yan Song's, Yan Song knew how to avoid suspicion and bring up a seemingly irrelevant person, but he did not shy away from it, and directly lifted Yang Cong out.

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

However, fortunately, he didn't feel that the position of the Ministry of Rites was not to be held by someone from the Yangming lineage, after all, Yan Song was the first assistant of the cabinet, and his power was much greater than that of the cabinet scholars, and a cabinet scholar plus a Ministry of Rites scholar could barely compete with him, and Yang Cong was also a person he valued more, and he always wanted Yang Cong to come back and serve the imperial court.

Thinking of this, his face softened, and he asked with interest: "Oh, didn't Qingfeng say that he was busy building the railway and didn't have time, can he agree to take over the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites?" ”

This is just an excuse to provoke Yan Song and Xia Yan to fight, Xia Yan has been played to death by Yan Song at this time, Yang Cong naturally has time.

Zhang Bangqi thought for a moment, and then said cautiously: "A few days ago, Weichen heard that the railway from North Zhili to South Zhili has been almost built, and Lord Yang should be almost busy." ”

That's a good feeling, this time, that kid should come out to serve the court.

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help nodding slightly: "That's okay, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites will be taken over by Qingfeng." ”