Zhu Jinglun explained his worries to Hurd. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Hurd said he would definitely consider these disadvantages, especially his status as a foreigner.

But opposition still rose.

The first to be dissatisfied was the military department Shangshu Luo Xuanyan, who was dissatisfied with the emperor because of his opposition to the war, and he immediately resigned after Chen Zhiting.

Zhu Jinglun sighed, how many years have passed, and the way these ministers express their dissatisfaction is still like this, except for irresponsible picking, there seems to be no other way.

If a politician in the Spring and Autumn Period, such as Meng Weijun, was dissatisfied with his own monarch, he would even prompt the enemy to attack his country. But the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty only had one way to resign. On the other hand, this is also the sequelae of the servitude of scholars during the Qing Dynasty.

Because of the master-slave relationship with the emperor, the country belongs to the emperor, not to the scholars, so it is the emperor's business to spoil what the emperor wants, and he can't get used to it, at most he turns a blind eye. Instead of having a strong enthusiasm for participation, using all means, even extreme means, to reverse the attitude of the monarch.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Jinglun sighed at the same time, but he was less worried. This means that the process of Hurd organizing the new government, the resistance will not be too great, Zhu Jinglun was able to easily seize Guangdong, a big reason is that most of the civil officials who were dissatisfied with him hung seals and sealed gold, instead of hiding and secretly fighting, so that he easily appointed a large number of new officials, although the new officials were not experienced enough, and even many people were not qualified, but there is one thing, these people are loyal, so that Zhu Jinglun can easily control the political situation in Guangdong.

If a bureaucrat like Rodney had resigned from office instead of staying to hinder Hurd, then Hurd's rule would have been easier.

After the resignation of Luo Xuanyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Hurd asked for the appointment of Mei Qizhao, then a squire of the Ministry of War, as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Jinglun was allowed to play.

Mei Qizhao was originally a Qing official, and he was a jinshi in the second year of Xianfeng (1852). When Hua Shana negotiated with the British and French forces in Tianjin, he accompanied him, and was an early Manchu official who came into contact with foreigners.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Mei Qizhao followed Hua Shana to negotiate foreign affairs in Suzhou and Shanghai, and returned to his hometown Jiangxi to hold a group training, leading the Jiangxi group training in the process of fighting against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Later, Daming got Jiangxi, and in order to avoid suspicion, he resigned and returned to his hometown.

Because the Ming Dynasty occupied half of South China, there were many Ming officials who served in the Qing Dynasty, although some continued to stay in office and showed a strong anti-Ming attitude to show loyalty to the Manchu masters, and some of the Qing self-purifying bureaucrats such as Mei Qizhao chose to avoid suspicion and resign.

Because Mei Qizhao had contact with foreigners in his early years, this kind of origin made him more familiar with foreigners than others, and he was more open-minded, able to accept Western affairs, and began to study foreigner affairs before resigning, proficient in arithmetic and equipment, and paid special attention to Western methods of building roads, ships, and machinery.

His thoughts are consistent with those of the Manchu Westernists, and he was a member of the Westernists in history, and expressed his support for Li Hongzhang to build the Beiyang Naval Division and prepare for the establishment of the China Merchants Bureau.

Mei Qizhao this kind of thinking, so that he is very much in line with the increasingly accepting atmosphere of the Western Ming officialdom, after being good at recommending talents, he has recommended Lin Zexu, Luo Bingzhang, Zhou Tianjue, Zeng Guofan, Wu Ren, Zheng Dunjin, Yuan Jiasan, Wu Tingdong, Yao Yingshi, Wu Changshou and other famous ministers Luo Xuanyan recommended, entered the Ming Dynasty Military Department, and then was promoted many times to become a squire in the Ministry of War, responsible for naval affairs.

Mei Qizhao attaches great importance to coastal defense, and can be regarded as echoing Zhu Jinglun's proposal to expand the navy, but he didn't expect Hurd to recommend this person.

Because Mei Qizhao was promoted by Luo Xuanyan, and Luo Xuanyan had just resigned because he was dissatisfied with Hurd, but Hurd reused Luo Danyan's old people, which had to make Zhu Jinglun impressed, and sighed that Hurd had won the three flavors of Chinese politics.

The appointment of an old person like Mei Qizhao can greatly stabilize the hearts of the people, especially the crucial situation of the military department.

Then, although no one in the Ministry of Rites resigned, Hurd took the initiative to talk to Long Yuanxi and persuaded Long Yuanxi to resign and reappoint Wu Chongyao, a political magnate in the Ming officialdom, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xu Rongcun, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, took over as the director of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Although Wu Chongyao is a businessman, he single-handedly organized the Ming Foreign Affairs Division, and was the first to set up a professional school in the Foreign Affairs Department to train diplomatic officials, and later after training, and then went to foreign countries to train officials, after returning to China, many were transferred to other departments, so Wu Chongyao can be said to have a group of protégés in the officialdom, and Wu Chongyao himself is an old man in Guangzhou, an official from Guangzhou, and has an absolute advantage among the middle and senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Hurd's promotion of Wu Chongyao can stabilize the popularity of middle and senior officials to a greater extent.

Hurd also proposed that Zhang Jingxiu, the secretary of the household department, be promoted to his subordinate and take over his former position. Zhang Jingxiu was born in a wealthy family in Dongguan, and he is also a representative of the local literati. The relationship with Hurd is also good, it can be regarded as a close friend, and they often chant poetry together.

But the purpose of promoting Zhang Jingxiu was not to take care of his acquaintances, but to let Zhang Jingxiu vacate his position in the household department. The Hubu Shilang was succeeded by Zhang Ziliang, a native of Kowloon, and Zhang Ziliang, who was born in the four major families of Kowloon, was obviously able to balance the forces of Chen Zhiting's Xin'an faction, and at least split the Kowloon faction bureaucrats from the Xin'an faction.

Because Zhu Jinglun started from Xin'an, a large part of the earliest batch of officials came from Xin'an County, and Kowloon also belonged to Xin'an County, but with the development of the Kowloon Port District, it gradually became its own family, and the Xin'an faction headed by the Chen family in Shajing was divided into two factions, the old and the new, and the Kowloon faction obviously belonged to the new faction.

The reason why the Kowloon faction is new is that the development of Kowloon Port has brought them closer to Western affairs and more open-minded. Another reason is that Kowloon Port was established by Hurd, so the Kowloon faction bureaucrats obviously recognized Hurd more, because quite a few Kowloon faction bureaucrats moved from the tax department presided over by Hurd to other positions. Zhang Ziliang is one of them, he entered the household department from the position of the Kowloon Tax Department, and it can even be said that Zhang Ziliang is Hurd's descendant.

In the Ministry of War, the main thing is to stabilize the overall situation, in the Ministry of Rites, the officialdom giants are appointed, and in the Ministry of Households, they use their own henchmen. Pulling the Ministry of Rites, which presides over diplomacy, and the Ministry of Households, which is in charge of finance, to his chariot, it is obvious that Hurd has been able to do a lot of things, and once the war starts, the role of diplomacy and finance will be infinitely magnified, and Hurd will do things twice the result with half the effort.

As for the other departments, it was basically unchanged, and it was clear that Hurd's cabinet was designed in the direction of the wartime cabinet.

As for whether the civilian officials of the military department will hinder him, there is no need to worry about this, because once the war breaks out, whether it is Chinese or Western practice, the emperor will have enough reasons to take charge of the military himself!