In the Imperial Palace of Shengjing, the original Golden Dragon Hall has now become the Taiping Temple where Feng Yunshan met with his ministers and discussed matters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On this day, it is the day of the imperial court. Feng Yunshan got up early in the morning and sat on the throne of the golden dragon, and under the hall, the civil and military officials of the Chinese Empire, except for the generals who went out on the expedition, were all present in the holy capital and paid their respects.

Feng Yunshan didn't want to be like the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, he had to bow down to everything, he was a modern person, but he didn't want to tie himself up in a palace compound. That kind of emperor is not his ideal, but it is not that he wants to be like the five-day work week of later generations, at least he can't go to court every day, so he can't die of exhaustion?

Therefore, he stipulated that the Taiping Temple usually held every ten days during the May Day Dynasty, which was regarded as his "imperial gate to listen to the government", and only the imperial officials at the level of provincial governors and political envoys, and imperial cabinet vice-ministers and above could participate in the court meeting. The rest of the local officials, Beijing officials, and prefects and above, could participate in the cabinet meeting composed of the Imperial Cabinet, which met once a week to collect and summarize various information in the cabinet, and then the cabinet presented it at the court meeting every ten days. In this way, at least most of the government affairs can be solved, and in the end, the real old and difficult problems are left, and then he will be handed over to solve them at the Dao Dynasty meeting. Moreover, those who really went to the court meeting had already been processed and approved by the cabinet for the basic solution, and in the end it was just handed over to the emperor of the empire for a ruling.

This is actually a company system that is applied to later generations.

Feng Yunshan thought that he would be the emperor of the Chinese Empire, equivalent to the chairman of the company in later generations, and from among the people under him, select a few people who are both loyal to him and talented to be the general manager, that is, the prime minister and vice premier of the imperial cabinet established today, and the rest, the cabinet ministers and the like, that is, the department manager of the headquarters of the group company in the future, and the provincial governors and local prefects, that is, the managers of the company and the grandson, in general, this management idea is like this.

For Feng Yunshan, don't say anything, he doesn't have a system on how to manage a country well. His advantage is only one hundred and sixty years more than the people of this era and more future development trends, and the rest, IQ, strategy, and management ability, he knows very well that he is not much better than anyone, and even inferior to the cattle of this era. Therefore, from the very beginning, he did not want to be a diligent emperor who must do everything himself, but wanted to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

He can only run a country as a big company, because he was originally just a small employee of the company, and everything else can only be imitated in history. Simply leave it to the Imperial Cabinet and let others worry about these things. In the final analysis, on the one hand, he is lazy, and on the other hand, he wants to emulate a monarch like Liu Bang, know how to make good use of people, and let his subordinates do it, maybe it can have a better effect.

The position of the prime minister, which is equivalent to the previous prime minister, is the most critical. Therefore, this position must be trusted by Feng Yunshan, and the person in this position must also be able to be outstanding, he is a cadre, and now, to be honest, only Zuo Zongtang can barely be competent. But now that the General Staff is still inseparable from him, Feng Yunshan doesn't want to hand over government affairs to him, and then he has to worry about military affairs by himself. Therefore, except for Zuo Zongtang, no one really has the ability to pick up this heavy burden, so Feng Yunshan can only settle and temporarily appoint the loyal Zeng Guanlan as the vice premier of the cabinet to preside over the affairs of the empire.

But Feng Yunshan knew in his heart that Zeng Guanlan's ability was not very sufficient. With his knowledge and his own training and training later, he can only achieve the level of a provincial governor at most, and after a few years of training, Feng Yunshan believes that he can become a vice premier of the cabinet, not now. But Feng Yunshan really has no one on hand, and now that the empire has just been established, everything is not on the right track, so he can only let Zeng Guanlan serve as the deputy prime minister of the cabinet and preside over the overall political affairs of the empire.

In the past few months, although many things have begun to move forward slowly, Feng Yunshan still feels that it is too slow and unorganized. He understood that Zeng Guanlan couldn't be blamed for this, he didn't have that experience and innate ability. He began to think of the famous late Qing Dynasty ministers in later generations.

It's time to find out the seedlings of those important ministers, and then focus on cultivating an effective cabinet team.

Just as Feng Yunshan was thinking, Zeng Guanlan reported: "Your Majesty, more than a month ago, the Fourth Division A led by Liang Litai and the Sixth Division led by Luo Qiongshu entered the land of Sichuan and Shu in the north after occupying the Lingqing Mansion. Chengdu General Le Bin led the people to surrender, Sichuan Governor Yurui was captured and beheaded, and the whole of Sichuan has been under the rule of the empire! Commander Liang and Commander Luo asked the empire to quickly send local garrisons and local officials to Sichuan to govern the state capitals. Before the officials sent by the empire arrived in Sichuan, the two of them temporarily promoted the former Chengdu general Le Bin as the governor of Sichuan, and temporarily led the original Manchu officials to govern Sichuan. ”

"I already knew about Sichuan. Shu is the land of fish and rice, the people are fierce, to ensure the stability of the place, since there is no one to govern for the time being, according to the two division commanders, by the Qing demon officials to continue to govern temporarily. The Ministry of the Interior sent people to the Ministry of Internal Affairs earlier, and if there were not enough personnel, the cabinet came up with a way to select some local officials, but it could not be all the original Manchu officials. Even if the Manchu officials wanted to stay in office, they had to be reassessed, and after the unified training and lectures carried out by the empire, they would be appointed as officials in another place! Feng Yunshan replied.

Zeng Guanlan said again: "Your Majesty, half a month ago, after the persuasion of Zhang Qi, the prefect of Xingyi Prefecture in Guizhou, and others, Jiang Weiyuan, the governor of Guizhou, announced that he would return to the empire. A few days ago, the Cabinet had reported this to His Majesty. Now, the meritorious person Zhang Qiang and others, as well as the subordinate Jiang Weiyuan and others, have all rushed to Shengjing and waited for His Majesty's summons. ”

"Oh, they're all here already?" Feng Yunshan was overjoyed when he heard it.

Two months ago, when he learned that the prefect of Xingyi Mansion named Zhang Qiang actually had a son named Zhang Zhidong, he was overjoyed. Hurriedly said that he wanted to summon Zhang Qi, the hero of Guizhou's return to Shun, in person, and asked him to bring all the old and young families to Shengjing, as if to keep him as an official in Shengjing and reuse it.

In fact, he just wanted to meet Zhang Zhidong, a famous foreign minister in the late Qing Dynasty.

He immediately ordered that all the Manchu officials who had newly returned to the Holy Kingdom be sent to the Holy Capital for a unified training by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Why is this arrangement, first, Feng Yunshan applied the training and brainwashing methods of the organizational department of later generations, and prepared to set up a training school for senior officials similar to the Central Party School, all imperial officials, as long as they reached a certain level, must undergo this training, and open a training course before the appointment and dismissal of officials, and he, Feng Yunshan, the emperor, personally served as the principal, so that all the imperial officials became his nominal students, and naturally they were extremely loyal to him. Second, after systematic training, these people who read dead books or only know how to be pedantic officials can be trained into capable and efficient qualified officials, and can also communicate with other officials, which is beneficial to the empire. Thirdly, this is Feng Yunshan's most important purpose, which is to gather them all together, select in advance the talented people he knows will become important ministers or famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty in the future, and deliberately pretend to cultivate them as reserves for imperial officials.

"Yes, Your Majesty! Those Qing Demon officials who took refuge, as well as talented people recommended by some places, had already rushed to Shengjing and settled down in the post house. Zeng Guanlan gestured, and Vice Minister of the Interior Xie Xiangcai took a few pieces of paper to him, "Your Majesty, this is a list with detailed information such as their names and places of origin. ”

I have to say that Zeng Guanlan is very careful in doing things. Feng Yunshan took the list, and he didn't have much heart to go to court, anyway, what he said was just some trivial things, but a few big things that he had arranged by himself, but it had been difficult to carry out.

Talent must be discovered as soon as possible.

Although the disaster of the diversion of the Yellow River has been successfully dealt with, Feng Yunshan is really worried about whether the foreigners after the Crimean War will come to invade China as they did in history. Perhaps, through Guo Songtao in Europe, he negotiated more with foreigners and opened more treaty ports, perhaps, for a while, he could ease the relationship with foreigners, but in the end it was still difficult to satisfy the appetite of foreigners.

In the final analysis, it is a relationship of interest. If you want your empire to be strong, you must make a surplus in trade with foreigners, and you must make a profit from trading with them, and you can't grab the wealth created by your own country through trade. In this way, as in history, it will eventually cause the dissatisfaction of these powers, so that they will forcibly change the pattern of trade through war, such as the dumping of opium chips and industrial cloth into China, becoming their colonial market, and robbing the wealth created by the Chinese people.

Therefore, when Feng Yunshan heard that Zeng Guofan's subordinates had surrendered, and Luo Zenan's disciples had returned to their hometowns, he immediately ordered people to invite them all to Shengjing, and if they couldn't come, they would be tied up directly. This time, these celebrities themselves are going to wipe them out.

"That's it. If you have something to discuss today, let's retreat first if you have nothing to do. Feng Yunshan was anxious to disperse the court meeting, and went to look at the list, which well-known ministers took refuge in him and came to Shengjing?

"Your Majesty. British Minister Bowling, French Minister Bourblon, and U.S. Commissioner to China Mailine jointly presented their credentials to the Empire, requesting that the scope of trade with the Holy Kingdom be expanded and cooperation strengthened, and their first request was to set up embassies and consulates in Shengjing and the other four capitals. Wu Chongyao, vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been separated into two ministries, but because Wu Ruxiao, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led a large group of people to the United States and has not yet returned, he is still in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the time being.

"Wu Aiqing, you are solely responsible for this matter." Feng Yunshan responded, for these foreigners, now he is rarely able to pay attention to it, Wu Chongyao has been dealing with foreigners for a long time, so he naturally knows how to deal with them, and the establishment of embassies and consulates is normal, he agrees, and the matter of not establishing a concession has already been explained, so he doesn't have to worry about it, it is better to delegate power.

After retiring from the dynasty, Feng Yunshan didn't wait for everyone to disperse, so he took out the list of Shengjing and looked at it.

Liu Shengbang and Fu Shanxiang were waiting on the side, while Feng Yunshan's cronies, such as Yiwang Shi Dakai, Vice Premier Zeng Guanlan, Vice Minister of the Interior Xie Xiangcai, and Vice Minister of General Affairs Wang Minyun, were also waiting on the sidelines and did not leave like everyone else.

"How many brothers are Li Hongzhang, and they have also returned to the empire?" Feng Yunshan saw the name at the top at a glance, and remembered that he seemed to have mentioned Li Hongzhang, no wonder Xie Xiang put his name at the top. For this world-famous Manchu Qing minister, in addition to Zeng Guofan, it can be said that he is the most well-known, known as the 'Oriental Bismarck', equivalent to a prime minister-like figure, Feng Yunshan has been famous for a long time. Needless to say, this talent must be outstanding in the first class, and he is also well versed in foreign affairs in history, and even foreigners have evaluated him as the greatest figure in China at the end of the 19th century.

"Wang Wenshao, this person seems to have some impressions, and now he is just a small head of the household in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, well, I think of it, it turned out to be him! In the future, the Manchu Qing Dynasty minister, the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, however, this person compromised with foreigners in history, supported the Wuxu change on the surface, and secretly destroyed more, he was a two-faced guy, this person can climb to a high position step by step, it can be seen that he is a talented and capable guy, but he can be used, but not reused. Feng Yunshan began to quickly glance at the Manchu ministers who had arrived in Shengjing.

"Zhang Zhidong, well, he really came, Shengjing who came with his father Zhang Qi? Well, he is only eighteen years old, and he is indeed a little too young, and he has not yet been admitted to the Jinshi, so he is directly made an official, which seems to be a bit of a seedling. It's better to cultivate it, and it seems a little inappropriate to directly order him as an official. You can't be too anxious. Hey, this is Ding Baozhen, and he can be regarded as a character. It turned out that he was also in Guizhou, serving as a staff member for Jiang Weiyuan, the governor of Guizhou. Well, this person is available. Feng Yunshan looked at it and thought silently in his heart.

Hey, there are so many more! Yuan Jiasan, this person is a usable person. Ma Xinyi, well, I seem to have heard of it, it should be a character. Zhang Shusheng, Dong Fenggao, Pan Dingxin, Wu Changqing, well, these people turned out to be the leaders of the Anman regiment, no wonder they became the people of the Huai Army in the future, and now they are all in the Shun Empire, they are considered interesting, but, why didn't they see Liu Mingchuan?

Feng Yunshan remembered that the most well-known general of the Huai Army should be Liu Mingchuan, by the way, and the one named Ding Ruchang was gone, so he had to ask carefully.

It's a pity that although I am more familiar with the history of the late Qing Dynasty, I can't remember so many names, and many of the generals of the Huai Army headed by Li Hongzhang have forgotten.

It's not that Feng Yunshan necessarily likes to use these celebrities, it's really that the entire Chinese Empire is now too lacking in officials and talents who can govern the localities. These Manchu vassals, speaking of which, Feng Yunshan used them to be complained about by those soldiers who captured the army. But this is also a matter of no choice, after all, those soldiers, not even literate many, although in the past year in the army to carry out night school literacy, but after all, there are not these subordinates have knowledge, and there is also local governance experience.

Governing the place is not only done by loyalty, and moreover, although these officials who were born as scholars are a little greedy for ink and faulty, but in this era, they are not as unprincipled and bottom-line as later generations, and their minds are at least thinking about the people, even if it is for the reputation behind him, they also want to be officials and benefit the people. With this mind, it is enough.

These future ministers of the world, at that time, will all return to me and the empire, and there will be no one to help them govern the world. Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan had a feeling that it was like the original Tang Taizong holding the imperial examination, "the heroes of the world enter the world".