After all, in the past, there were actions to investigate corruption, and even actions across the country, and the top also paid attention to it, but it still didn't come to the point of paying so much attention.

Zhou Lide's case, so that the entire officialdom is panicked, even the high-level is also turbulent because of this, the officials who promoted Zhou Lide at the beginning, one is counted as one after another, all of them have been investigated one after another, and even the officials who have more dealings with Zhou Lide will inevitably be investigated, and how many people will be implicated in the end, that is an uncertain thing, after all, this official, no one's ass is clean, and if you have to investigate, you can find out the evidence of the crime.

And in addition to the turmoil, there is a more troublesome matter, that is, the successor of the county order of Shanghai County!

The violent turmoil in such an important place will naturally attract the attention of the high-level, and this high-level is not just talking about Songjiang Mansion, not to mention Gangnam Province, but to Gyeonggi, and more precisely, the ministers on duty in the Imperial Study and even the Holy Son of Heaven!

Faced with a place that can contribute eight million taels of silver in taxes every year, no one dares to take it lightly!

Zhou Lide, the former county magistrate of Shanghai County, was punished by Ling Chi and the three clans, and even the other officials of Shanghai County and even the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture were also arrested, which almost brought the county yamen of Shanghai County to the brink of collapse.

No matter what problems have arisen before, life still has to be passed, and Shanghai has to return to normal, otherwise it will affect the economic development of Shanghai County, and then it will not only be troublesome, but will affect the overall situation of the empire.

However, the question arises again, who and what kind of person should be appointed as the new county magistrate of Shanghai County, and ensure that there will be no problems with the new county magistrate!

You know, what was not reported in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, and what was not made public is that in fact, because of the Zhou Lide case, the Inspectorate also investigated the first few county orders in Shanghai County and the main officials of Songjiang Mansion, without exception, the Shanghai County Orders of the previous people and the prefect of Songjiang Mansion, Tongzhi and others have problems, and now these former officials are in prison, and the end is without exception, all of them are death sentences!

That is to say, after the Tang Empire took over Songjiang Mansion, he successively served as the prefect of Songjiang Mansion and the county magistrate of Shanghai County, and none of the corrupt officials were clean.

Now, the officials in charge of the appointment of middle and low-level officials on the side of the Ministry of Officials have no courage to arrange the appointment and dismissal of the Songjiang Mansion, and the ghost knows that the new officials are sent to Songjiang and Shanghai, and they will not become corrupt officials again in a few months.

So, these officials began to report upwards and ask their bosses to show who the new Shanghai county magistrate should go?

This report was handed over layer by layer, and even Ma Wei, the secretary of the ministry, didn't have the courage to decide on his own, and no one wanted to be implicated in this matter in the future!

So in the end, this report appeared in the Imperial Study, and became the content of the discussion of the Ministers on Duty in the Imperial Study.

The dignified Imperial Study Duty Minister's Meeting was only to discuss the candidates for the county order of the six products and one county, which was absolutely impossible if it was replaced by others, but it was possible to replace it with Shanghai after the turmoil.

In the imperial study, the ministers on duty were also very helpless, they looked at the list in their hands, and looked at the hundreds of files piled up in a corner, these files are official resume files, and the officials who were selected and sent up were all officials who were more suitable for serving as the Shanghai county order in terms of qualifications.

The officials of the Ministry of Officials are not stupid, even if they select candidates, they will not only select so many people or a dozen people, in order to avoid implicating themselves in the future, those slippery heads directly sent a long list of candidates, with a total of more than 300 people!

When I saw this list and looked at the mountains of candidate files, Liu Bagou almost scolded her mother!

Putting down the list of more than 300 names in his hand, Liu Bagou glanced at Ma Wei, the secretary of the ministry, and then said: "Lord Ma, this list is a bit long, can't you reduce the list and select a few suitable people?" ”

The secretary of the ministry has always been Liu Bagou concurrently served before, but since this year, Liu Bagou has not concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry again, but has been reappointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The new secretary of the ministry has become Ma Wei!

Ma Wei is also an old courtier of the empire, an old man in the Huangzhushan era, he has been serving in the center for a long time, when he was in Huangzhushan in his early years, he also served as a squire in the military department, but the resume of the squire in the early years was not valuable, the important thing is that he later served as the prefect of Liuzhou, the governor of Guangxi, and then transferred to the governor of Jiangxi, but it didn't take long for him to return to the center and serve as a squire of the War Department.

Later, he was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of War, and also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and this year he was transferred to the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, which was the successful entry into the imperial study and became the minister on duty.

Ma Wei and Liu Bagou are both old acquaintances, so they naturally know that Liu Bagou has a little complaint in his words, which is nothing more than that, don't push everything to the imperial study, otherwise what do you want your officials to do!

In the face of Liu Bagou's complaints, Ma Wei naturally won't, and he doesn't dare to complain!

Don't look at Liu Bagou was just a Taoist priest in his early years, not even a showman, but he was an old minister of the two dynasties, the real founding hero, it was him and Chen Butcher back then, Bai Yunqi escaped from Lijia Village with the Son of Heaven, and then supported the Son of Heaven to ascend the throne and inherit the unification in the mountains.

Not only is the credit great, but this person's actual ability is not bad, for so many years, he has been in charge of the cabinet, and there has never been any chaos.

Otherwise, even if his credit is great, it is estimated that he will have to be a pensioner, or he has an empty title but is not in charge of practical matters, just like Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and others before, their merits are also great, but now, Wang Wenhua has no other actual official position except for the title of a minister of the imperial study, and Qian Mengjiu is even more simply Zhishi and went to Datang Western Company.

Although Ma Wei is also an old man in the Huangzhushan era, he still belongs to the latecomer in the face of Liu Bagou, so in the face of Liu Bago's complaints, he can only smile embarrassedly, and then said: "There are really a lot of candidates for the sixth grade, just these more than 300 people, it is still the result of compression and compression, otherwise, those people below can come up with two or three thousand candidates!" ”

Ma Wei's embarrassed smile actually revealed a meaning, this is a troublesome matter, and the people below don't have the courage to touch it, although he Ma Wei is a secretary of the Ministry of Officials and a minister on duty in the imperial study, but there is no need to ask for trouble!

At this time, he has never been very concerned with cabinet affairs, and it is only because of his identity as the minister on duty in the imperial study that Admiral Lei Wan, who appeared in today's meeting, said: "I said, there are so many files, you can't read them all, and then choose slowly, I still have a lot of things on the Privy Council, but I don't have time to talk nonsense here with you!" ”

The naval representative on the side, Admiral Bao Yifen, also said: "That's it, your cabinet can handle these matters by yourself, and I will make a report in the afternoon!" ”

Lei Wan and Bao Yifen, who represent the army and navy respectively, have never been very concerned with cabinet affairs, and while they don't want to take care of it, they actually can't manage it.

This relationship is not harmonious, even at the meeting of the ministers on duty in the imperial study, the tone of their speech between the two of them and Liu Bagou is not very polite!

Liu Bagou has long been accustomed to the attitude of these two people, and he has been like this for so many years, so he immediately waved his hand: "Since the two of you are busy with military affairs, then go back first!" ”

Immediately, Lei Wan and Bao Yifen were not polite, they just got up and went out, after going out, Lei Wan said to Bao Yifen while walking: "This time they made a lot of trouble, I guess, it is estimated that it will not take a few months, and I am afraid that there will be changes in this imperial study again!" ”

Bao Yifen said: "You don't care what they do, a group of second-class goods, short-sighted, staring at that trivial matter every day, but the real military affairs don't care at all!" ”

Lei Wan said: "Come on, let them toss it themselves, it's noon, how about it, do you want to eat together, by the way, talk about the problem of heavy artillery, I heard that the thirty-two-kilogram heavy artillery over there in Shanghai Artillery Factory has begun mass production?" ”

"Hmm" After Bao Yifen heard this, he habitually replied, but he quickly reacted: "Could it be that you want these thirty-two pound naval guns?" I'm telling you, don't even think about it.

That is the main gun prepared by our Navy for battleships, for which our Navy has spent countless R&D funds, which is finally mass-produced, and your army wants to come and pick peaches, which is impossible.

We have signed a research and development contract and a preferential procurement contract with the Shanghai Arsenal, and your army wants to equip this artillery, wait, maybe our priority contract will be completed in three or five years, and you can purchase it at that time!

And what do you want these heavy artillery to do, these are all long-barreled cannons, weighing several tons, if you move it to land, plus a gun carriage or something, it will be even heavier, just the inferior horse of your army, you can pull it!! ”

Lei Wan smiled and said: "This hasn't been talked about yet, why is it impossible, besides, isn't our army just trying to help your navy reduce the burden, your military spending is not much, and you should feel overwhelmed by spending so much military spending on heavy artillery, just as our army is preparing to strengthen the construction of heavy artillery, it just happens to help you bear part of the military expenditure!" ”

Bao Yifen snorted coldly, and he didn't bother to answer!

Lei Wan looked at Bao Yifen's expression, he had fought so many times with each other, and he didn't know what this expression meant, so he immediately said: "We don't want too much, we just want to equip a dozen or so doors to decorate the façade, and move to the north to scare and scare those Tatars, of course, our army will not let your navy suffer, it's a big deal that our army will give your navy some compensation!" ”

"Compensation?" After Bao Yifen listened, he became a little interested: "What compensation?" ”

While Lei Wan and Bao Yifen were walking and bargaining over the heavy artillery, the civil officials in the imperial study continued to worry about the list of more than 300 people!

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