The cultivator in charge of this movement, Youqitian Yamen, and Yang Lian, the chief official of the Yamen, made Zhu Youxiao full of praise. He separated the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Water from the Ministry of Industry to form a new Ministry of Agriculture, which was responsible for the affairs of agriculture and water conservancy in the world. Yang Lian was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, with the former Ministry of Industry Langzhong Chen Suowen as the left attendant of the Ministry of Agriculture, managing agricultural affairs and agricultural affairs, and the former Ministry of Industry Langzhong Zuo Guangdou as the right attendant of the Ministry of Agriculture, managing the affairs of water conservancy in the world.

Six suddenly became seven, which naturally made many people complain. Before this matter was completed, Zhu Youxiao had already revealed the news to the cabinet ministers and the six ministries, and as a result, the General Administration Department received a large number of twists and turns, asking the emperor to abide by the ancestors' examples, and not to modify the original ministries at will.

At the court meeting, Zhu Youxiao said: "The six departments of the three provinces have existed in ancient times, and now the six departments are still there, what about the three provinces?" In the Tang Dynasty, there was still a political affairs hall, is there one now? The cabinet didn't have it before, right? I said in the edict that I want to get rid of the old and cloth the new, reform the old and make the new, and now I just change a small Ministry of Industry, and I will start to keep the old system, according to your meaning, that is, nothing can be moved, so what is the old and what is the new cloth? ”

In addition to the old and the new, reforming the old and making the new is a sentence that almost every emperor will have in his edict. It's just that the emperor has always said it, and the minister listens to it, and now that Zhu Youxiao is coming to the real thing, everyone thinks that if this is the case, then the country will not be a country. This made Zhu Youxiao extremely annoyed.

Fortunately, the ministers all supported the emperor's measures, in fact, everyone felt that the jurisdiction of each of the six ministries was too large, the authority of Shangshu was too much, and it was easy to have a phenomenon of internal strife, and the dismantling of the six parts was conducive to highlighting the position of the ministers. Therefore, the cabinet ministers and the emperor hit it off and agreed to split the Ministry of Works.

Yang Lian became a scholar, and Zuo Guangdou also became the right attendant, which made many Donglin people overjoyed, and felt that the emperor could not do without Donglin people. However, Yang Lian announced at this time that in the future, as long as all ministers visit as long as they do not regard themselves as colleagues, Lian welcomes them, but if they visit with party colleagues, they will be grateful for not being sensitive.

The meaning of this is obvious, if Donglin people want to contact their feelings in the name of their peers, then they should be exempted. This is actually the meaning of quitting the Donglin Party, which makes the Donglin Party very helpless, and some people ridicule Yang Lian for being ungrateful.

This made Yang Lian even more disdainful, and published a statement in the weekly newspaper: Donglin is a place for everyone to exchange academics, not a place for friends to help each other. If Wang Qia is a kingless and fatherless person, Lian is ashamed to have been with him. Yang Lian's official position is to study the scriptures by himself, pass the imperial examination, and do practical things, and the holy monarch sees thousands of miles, but he is given to do his best for the country, and I don't know where Lian forgets his roots? From now on, those who are called in the name of the party and comrades are all hated by Yang Lian, and everyone forgets about the best in the rivers and lakes.

The statement was that the newspaper took his money, but it was not as expensive as advertised. Wang Chengen discovered a new profit growth point, and deliberately advertised in the weekly newspaper: This newspaper undertakes to publish a statement, the price is some, and the rules are what. For a while, some people posted a statement to ask for friends, and some people posted a statement to cut off the seat, and everyone had a lot of fun.

Chen heard that he was a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and his qualifications were originally far weaker than Zuo Guangdou. But he was very interested in agronomy, and his sixteen-year-old son was in the agricultural department of the graduate school. He was originally in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and the focus of the Ministry of Agriculture was obviously on agricultural affairs, but in terms of water conservancy, Zhu Youxiao intended to become independent in the future and become a special Ministry of Water Resources. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao promoted him to the left waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Zuo Guangdou, who was good at water conservancy, had to succumb to the right waiter.

But Zuo Guangdou didn't think so, he felt that he had high qualifications, and he was also serious and responsible in doing things after serving as Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Works, but in the end, he was below what Chen heard (the grade is the same, the left is higher than the right), so he thought that he was burdened by Donglin's background. As soon as he gritted his teeth, he wanted to follow Yang Lian's statement and go out of Donglin. As a result, he was persuaded by his younger brother Zuo Guangming.

Zuo Guangming said: "Yang Lian has been at odds with Donglin because of Li Sancai's affairs, especially with Wang Qia's two brothers, and he has long had the intention of reversing Donglin, so it is logical to publish a statement at this time." And the third brother has been involved with Donglin people before, and he also had a different opinion with Yang Lian. At this time, if Yang Lian acts, people in the world will think that the third brother wants to be a sycophant emperor, but they are afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses. It's better to cut off from Donglin on weekdays, no longer mix with them, and slowly fade away, and the emperor will naturally look at it. ”

Zuo Guangdou waved at him and said: "Thank you for the reminder of the eighth brother, I care too much about my brother, but I don't see it clearly as the eighth brother." ”

Zuo Guangming replied with a salute: "Third brother, our agricultural department internship is over, the foolish brother has learned a lot from the third brother, when we came, the professor said, if you want to do water conservancy after the internship, you must be responsible for the governance of a river, and then the younger brother will be the general under the command of the third brother, and then you will have to give more advice, and if you make a mistake, you must point it out, don't take into account the face of the foolish brother." ”

Zuo Guangdou smiled: "Don't worry, your merits will not bury you, and your mistakes will not be covered up for you, by the way, Chen Zuo's son-in-law is also in your agricultural department, isn't it a first-class with you?" He didn't seem to be part of the internship. ”

Zuo Guangming said: "Chen Gongzi is still young, and the professor is not worried that he will come to the place for an internship, but let him and a few young classmates sort out Professor Xu, oh, it is the agricultural book of the Xu Gebu, saying that this book is very important, and it is the guiding book of the Ministry of Agriculture in the future." ”

Zuo Guangdou said: "Xu Gebu in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli Ding worried, began to try to plant a variety of crops, and in the forty-first year of Wanli, and in Tianjin reclamation for five years, wrote a lot of articles related to agriculture, he thought that the previous agricultural books were unknown, and he had long wanted to write an all-encompassing agricultural book, but since the emperor ascended the throne, it has been reused, and he has been transferred to the household department and the cabinet, so naturally there is not enough time to write books. Now that I have the help of students in the Department of Agriculture, I am afraid that the book will be completed soon, and then I will be able to read the masterpiece as a brother. ”

Zuo Guangming said: "The Xu Pavilion has always been reused by the emperor, and now it is still a cabinet minister and a heavenly official, such a heavy position, it is really rare in the Ming Dynasty." I heard that it was because I knew His Majesty when he was in the palace, so I had such an encounter. ”

Zuo Guangdou glanced at him and said, "Guangming, the emperor today is not an emperor who decides the degree of reuse by whether he is close or not. Brothers have been thinking about it for the past two years, His Majesty has a good and a bad one, a happy one, a person who is good at doing things and doing practical things, and an evil one, who talks empty and forms gangs. Before being a brother, he was fighting for the country, fighting for three cases, and focusing on Donglin, he committed the emperor's taboo, so he was kicked out of the court. However, as a brother, he was good at water conservancy and did practical things, so he was entrusted by the emperor with the matter of water conservancy in the north. ”