The cabinet is about to elect the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shangshu has been a hot topic of discussion in the Beijing in recent days, that is Shangshu, is the second grade of the big man, and, after the year, once the "Ming Chongzheng Law" officially begins to be implemented, it will become the super member of the first product, a very popular minister.

Such a super member is not appointed by the emperor, nor is he nominated by the cabinet scholars, let alone a few of the emperor's cronies, but nominated by the ministers and scholars, and then collectively elected by the quasi-cabinet members, that is to say, as long as you have the ability, you will have a chance!

This selection method has completely subverted the previous conventions, making everyone seem to see hope, and the official residence is a high-quality person, and the extremely popular minister is no longer so unattainable.

Of course, if you want to be elected as a scholar, you must at least be a member of the third grade or above, and don't be delusional for the time being, and the books are not fools, and it is one thing to not be selected among the people you propose, at least you have to be qualified, if the grade of the person you recommend is too low, it will attract jokes.

After 10 days of preparation, almost all the ministers found the right candidates they thought were suitable, and after this morning, Prime Minister Zhu Youzhen finally gathered everyone and began to elect the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This time, Zhu Cijiong did not participate in the cabinet meeting, saying that let them decide, let them decide, he has never been the kind of villain who goes back on his word, but in order to cheer up his fifth uncle, Wang Zhu Youzhen, he specially sent Li Banghua, the left governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Wang Zhengnan, the commander of Jinyiwei, to attend the meeting.

In doing so, he also wanted to warn all the participants that although I don't care about the process of your election, the people you nominate must be reliable, don't mention any stupid and corrupt officials, two fiery eyes are staring here!

Since the cabinet is going to become an independent administrative center, the prime minister of the cabinet can no longer stay in the imperial study of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Cijiong simply vacated the entire Wenhua Palace to Zhu Youzhen, in order to show the world that he really wants to delegate power.

In fact, the original office location of the cabinet is in the Wenyuan Pavilion behind the Wenhua Palace, but the Wenyuan Pavilion is just an attic, which can accommodate four or five cabinet scholars, and it is far from enough to gather more than ten cabinet members for a meeting, or gather a group of elites to assist the prime minister and vice prime minister in handling all administrative affairs of the entire Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Cijiong vacated the entire Wenhua Hall as the new office space of the cabinet.

In order to enrich the strength of the cabinet, Zhu Cijiong also prepared to merge the Hanlin Academy into the cabinet, the Hanlin Academy was originally a secretarial institution, and the permanent Hanlin Academy, the attendant bachelor, and the attendant bachelor were actually secretaries who assisted the emperor in handling government affairs and studying scriptures and history.

Since the Jingtai year of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy has actually become a place for the imperial court to store materials, that is, a group of imperial examination elites to continue their studies, these elites are reading and studying all day long, at most they are giving lectures to the emperor, and there is nothing serious at all.

In this way, it has caused a serious waste of talents, and such a large group of elites are idle there, Zhu Cijiong has long been a little overwhelmed, and it just so happens that he took the opportunity of this cabinet reshuffle to directly stuff them into the cabinet as secretaries.

With the current territory area and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the daily affairs of the imperial court are not a little bit, there are at least thousands of affairs to be dealt with every day, after the cabinet reshuffle, the university scholar is equal to returning to the position of the various ministries, that is, the processing of official documents in the future will depend on the prime minister and the two vice prime ministers to preside, if they have to do everything, they have to be tired to death a day, just these Hanlin are idle and idle, let them help deal with government affairs and accumulate some governance experience, kill two birds with one stone, Why not.

It's a bit far, and we go back to the meeting to elect the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Now, the main hall of the Wenhua Hall has been converted into a special office space, and the first room is a huge conference room, at this time, all the participants have been seated, waiting for the election to begin.

The main seat at the conference table is the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, King Zhu Youzhen;

The first on the left is the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites;

Next is Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry;

Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the military department;

Ministry of Education Shangshu Huang Daozhou;

Zhang Cai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce;

Wu Jianye, the secretary of the Ministry of Communications.

The first on the right is Li Banghua, the left governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate;

Next is the Zuo Governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Jinyi Guard commands Wang Zhengnan;

Yang Sichang, the secretary of the ministry;

Cheng Guoxiang, the head of the household department;

Cai Guoyong, the secretary of the Criminal Department;

Zhang Pu, the secretary of the Ministry of Transport.

Zhu Youzhen has made a lot of preparations for this election meeting, he even asked the emperor for advice, and made a trial charter for the election, after everyone sat down, he learned from Zhu Cijiong's appearance, slowly glanced around, and then, coughed, and said loudly: "This time everyone is called to the meeting, in order to elect the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the emperor's will, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be responsible for receiving envoys from various countries, developing foreign relations, handling foreign affairs, protecting the Ming people abroad, etc., what are the suitable candidates?" You can put it forward, I won't be verbose, now I will start to read out the candidate's resume from the Ministry of Rites, Lord Xu, please. “

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he was not ambiguous, he took out a piece of official paper directly from his arms, and read aloud: "I nominate Nan Juyi to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, candidate Nan Juyi, a native of Weinan, Shaanxi, is sixty-two years old, Wanli 29 years of Jinshi, successively served as the director of the Criminal Department, the right deputy of the Imperial History, Shanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Left and Right Political Envoy, the right servant of the Ministry of Households, and then resigned and retired because of the eunuch party, Chongzheng came back in eight years, and served as the governor of the southeast so far. Ju Yi is less vigorous, both civil and military, the second year of the Apocalypse has been the right deputy to the imperial history of the governor of Fujian, defeated the Dutch invaders in Penghu, since the governor of the southeast has adhered to the southeast defense line, training sailors, manufacturing fortune boats, the development of the economy have done a good job, has been praised by the emperor many times, now the Ming sea area to expand to the South Asian Persian line, the southeast sea no longer has the threat of invasion, the emperor intends to recall the southeast governor, stealing that Ju Yi has clashed with the foreigners, and won the battle, in the foreigners quite prestigious, It is suitable to take up the post of secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demonstrate the national prestige of our Ming Dynasty. “

He introduced this one, and all the ministers present here are a little drummed in their hearts, Nan Juyi's reputation is indeed high enough, and it is not an exaggeration to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Who is the book of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and look at the next decomposition.