On the occasion of the New Year's court holiday, Wang Yan finally took time out to admit Xu Yanyan to get started, and then spent a rare relaxing time with his family, but with the fifteenth year, there were more affairs piled up in the court.

After surviving the second year of Longwu and entering the third year of Longwu, the challenges faced by the Southern Ming Dynasty are still not optimistic.

Early in the morning, Xu Yanyan put on court clothes for Wang Yan, and Wang Yan rushed to the palace to participate in the first dynasty of Ding Hainian, and after the court meeting, he came to Wenyuan Pavilion again.

The Ming Dynasty has four halls and two pavilions, the four halls are the middle pole, the Jianji, Wenhua, Wuying, the two pavilions are Wenyuan Pavilion and the East Pavilion respectively, and the cabinet scholars generally work in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

After the tax reform implemented by the imperial court at the end of the second year of Longwu, the imperial court's finances gradually improved, and some important office places were moved out of the crowded yamen.

The matter is urgent, severe, and the place where the scholars work must naturally be arranged first, but the Wenyuan Pavilion in Guangzhou City, although it is still called Wenyuan Pavilion, is far from being compared with the palaces in Beijing and Nanjing.

The current Wenyuan Pavilion is actually a small hall rebuilt from a small restaurant, and Wang Yan is also the first time to come.

This small hall has a total of three floors, the lower floor is divided into more than ten rooms with a screen, which is the office of the scholars and the practitioners, and the middle is the council hall, with a large table, which can accommodate more than 30 people to discuss military and political affairs here.

The second floor is the office of the scholars, because there are more cabinet scholars in the Longwu Imperial Court, so it is also divided into more than ten compartments, in addition to the second floor there is also a meeting hall, but it is smaller, mainly used for the scholars to discuss major matters.

On the third floor, there are a large number of volumes, and there are several rooms where you can rest, which are usually unoccupied.

Wang Yan entered the Wenyuan Pavilion, and the staff and housekeepers on the first floor immediately stopped their work and saluted Wang Yan, most of them were Jinshi who were taken by Enke in the imperial court last year, because the court lacked people, and it was too late to put them in the Hanlin Academy, so they were all promoted and directly awarded the big task.

Wang Yan waved his hand slightly, signaling that they didn't need to be polite, and after a few words of encouragement, he went upstairs directly and came to his office.

The official who led the way took him to the room, and saw that the layout was very simple, with a row of bookshelves against the wall, full of all kinds of books, drawings, and Daqing flowers in the Jingtai period, and only a large desk in the center, on which were placed pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

At this time, Wang Yan immediately sat down at the desk, picked up the files piled up on the desk and looked through them, he was a scholar of the university and the military department, and most of the papers sent were related to military affairs.

These folds and dossiers were divided by the Lang Zhong on the first floor of the office, marked differently according to the priority, and the general content was also simplified, and the paper slip was sandwiched in it, so that Wang Yan could deal with it quickly, which relieved him of a lot of burden.

At this time, the official who led the way lit a stove of sandalwood in the room, so that the whole room was filled with a faint fragrance, and then withdrew, and Wang Yan began to read the recital carefully.

Since Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor began to reuse eunuchs, and used the celebrant to contain the power of the cabinet, and the eunuchs held the power to approve red and use seals.

Now the system of the imperial court has not changed, but now the cabinet ministers are strong, coupled with the diligence of the military force, so the celebrant is suppressed, although there is still the right to approve red and use seals, but for the cabinet's draft votes, they are basically directly approved.

At this time, Wang Yan read more than 20 books in one go, wrote his review suggestions on paper, and pasted them on the back of each book for the emperor to review.

At this time, Zuo Maodi and Su Guansheng came to his house together, Wang Yan saw this and hurriedly put down the notebook, got up to greet him, and said with a smile: "There are too many things, I didn't stop as soon as I came, I should have gone to the two pavilion elders to string strings first, but let the two of them come to see me first, it's really rude." ”

Zuo Maodi saw that Wang Yan's table was full of folds, and said apologetically: "At present, the imperial court, the most urgent ones, military affairs, financial affairs, Shiheng and Yulin

, one is also in the military department, and the other is in charge of the household department, so I, the first assistant, want to be more leisurely, I really don't want to go! ”

"What is this talk of Ge Lao, could it be that the affairs of the ministry are not busy enough, and they want to share some for Yan."

Everyone laughed, and then went to the small council hall and sat down, an official immediately prepared tea and pastries for them, and after a few people sat down, Zuo Maodi said: "I am looking for Shiheng today, but there is a matter to discuss. After the imperial court opened the department to take scholars, although more than 200 Jinshi were admitted, and the officials below the sixth rank received some supplements, but among the six departments, the squire and Langzhong, and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, these senior members above the fifth grade, could not be filled, so I wanted to ask Shiheng what he thought. ”

Wang Yan frowned and groaned for a moment, and asked, "What do the two pavilion elders mean?" ”

Su Guansheng said: "Elder He Ge recommended some talents to the imperial court, but what Elder Zuo Ge and I mean is to promote a group of hard-working and experienced officials from the locality. ”

"Oh?" Wang Yan was slightly puzzled, and Zuo Maodi immediately took out a fold from his sleeve and handed it to Wang Yan, and the two of them drank tea while waiting for Wang Yan to finish reading.

The fold is the excerpt of the university scholar He Wusu, which roughly means to recommend a few talents to be officials in the six departments, Wang Yan glanced at the list, Wanli Jinshi Huang Gongfu, Mai Erxuan, Mo Tinglan, He Shixiong, etc., all Guangnan people.

Zuo Maodi saw that Wang Yan was silent after reading the excerpt, so he immediately said: "Go to Enke, take more than 200 Jinshi, Guangnan accounts for half, Huguangjiang Jiangxi accounts for forty percent, Jiangnan and Beidi only less than one percent, now in the imperial court, Guangnan people also occupy a high position, if it is allowed to develop, it may not be conducive to the imperial court to recover the land of the river." ”

Zuo Maodi's meaning, Wang Yan has already understood, now there are a total of seven scholars in Guangzhou, the first assistant Zuo Maodi is from Shandong, Wang Yan is from Huguang, Gu Yuanjing is from Nanzhili, and the rest Su Guansheng, He Wusu, and Chen Zizhuang are all from Guangnan.

Except for He Tengjiao, Jiang Yueguang, and Wan Yuanji, who were local governors with the rank of university scholars, the official structure of the Longwu Imperial Court in Guangzhou had begun to become abnormal.

As the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, although the Longwu court retreated to Guangnan, it was also a regime representing the entire Han nationality, and if most of the officials became people from a province, then how could they represent the entire Han nationality, and it could only be reduced to a local secession regime.

Even Su Guansheng, a native of Guangnan, came out to deny He Wuyu's opinion, and Wang Yan, as one of the people at the helm of the Longwu Imperial Court, naturally needed to consider the local balance, so he agreed with the opinions of the two.

Wang Yan pondered and said: "The next national policy of the imperial court is to seek to recover the southern capital and divide the river to rule. If there are no Jiangnan people in the court, it is really not good, and it is not conducive to the imperial court to win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. I agree with the two of them and select a group of officials from the localities and try to recruit as many officials from the south and north as possible to join the DPRK. ”

Zuo Maodi nodded and added: "In addition, during the imperial examination, the scholars in the places occupied by the Qing court should also be taken care of. ”

Although the imperial examination is a fair selection of scholars, in fact, many things are difficult to level the table, the small one, the number of places in each province is different, the big one, there is also the southern list and the northern list, and now the central government is dominated by Guangnan people, and the imperial examination will naturally be affected.

The three of them glanced at each other, nodded in approval, and Su Guansheng asked again: "Guogong is much more familiar with the situation in Huguang and Jiangxi than we are, and I and the Zuo Cabinet Department are ready to suggest that Your Majesty transfer capable officials from the land of Chu and Jiangxi to the court, so that the imperial court can strengthen its control over Chu and Jiangxi, what advice does Guogong have?" ”

Wang Yan has been in the officialdom for less than four years, although he has become an important minister of the imperial court, but most of the civil servants under him are still young and lack prestige.

For thousands of years, a tacit understanding has long been formed in the officialdom, all of them are officials, in terms of talent, they are all killed from the imperial examination, and no one is much worse than the other, if you want to be promoted, you must let people see the ability if you want to be convinced.

How to judge an official's ability is naturally to look at his qualifications, what he has done, and what places he has governed, which is the qualifications and the rules recognized in officialdom.

Of course, there are examples of exceptional promotions, but this is limited to special cases, you can't promote all the officials under you, that will break the rules and make people chilling.

What Wang Yan's faction lacks is qualifications, and what is lacking is time, which is also the reason why most of the civil officials under him are only below the fourth grade, and only a handful of people can rank third.

This situation actually made Wang Yan lack help in the imperial court, and many things could only be combined with Zuo Maodi and Su Guansheng, and he also intended to change this situation.

After pondering for a moment, Wang Yan said: "Shanyin Yan Qiheng, Wujiang Wu Jinxi, both of whom are Chongzhen Nian Jinshi, have served as governors and pushers in Chudi, and are capable officials. These two people are Jiangbiao people, and they have prestige in Chu, so they can be recruited into the court and appointed as a waiter, which will kill two birds with one stone. ”

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