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After all, the more important yamen such as the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry cannot do without officials.

Therefore, after Shi Feng came to praise the emperor's sage, he immediately asked the emperor who should take over these vacant positions.

The emperor asked them who they were, and Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu really wanted to recommend their own people, but before the court meeting, they didn't think that the emperor would dismiss all of them with just a few bullet stamps, so they didn't have any preparations.

Zhu Daming saw him hesitating, but he was also happy to pass him directly, looked at Li Guowei and Sun Chengzong and asked, "Li Aiqing, Sun Aiqing, do you have a suitable candidate?" ”

Li Guowei was also a little hesitant and did not speak immediately.

At this time, Sun Chengzong said: "Xu Guangqi, the former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the first emperor repeatedly called him virtuous, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, he was dismissed because of Wei Zhongxian's slander. Your Majesty, please be aware of it. ”

Xu Guangqi was a well-known scientist in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and of course Zhu Daming knew this.

After returning from the Apocalypse, Xu Guangqi did not return to his hometown Songjiang to retire, but promoted agricultural experiments in the cultivation and planting of new crops in several places in Tianjin.

Historically, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Xu Guangqi was soon reinstated, but it was not until the third year of Chongzhen that Zhu Youzhen promoted him to become the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and then died of illness in the sixth year of Chongzhen.

When he met Sun Chengzong a few days ago, Zhu Daming also told him about Xu Guangqi, and now Sun Chengzong recommended Xu Guangqi, Zhu Daming was of course very happy in his heart.

For Zhu Daming, Xu Guangqi was the second plane tree he had to plant, and the restoration of Xu Guangqi would soon attract a large number of military and scientific and technological talents who understood Western studies, including a group of Western missionaries who came to China from Europe during this period, such as John Tang and others.

Therefore, Zhu Daming did not hesitate at all, and immediately agreed to Sun Chengzong's recommendation, and immediately ordered the cabinet scholars on duty in the Wenhua Hall to draw up the decree, send the celebrant to use the seal, and at the same time announce it to the world, send people to Tianjin to spread the decree and summon Xu Guangqi to enter Beijing immediately.

After doing this, Zhu Daming asked the candidate for the Ministry of Industry Shangshu again, several cabinet ministers did not prepare in advance, Shi Fenglai proposed the candidate of Yan Mingtai, and Zhang Ruitu also seconded it, but Zhu Daming was not satisfied with Yan Mingtai and did not want to use him.

Li Guowei saw that the emperor was silent, obviously dissatisfied with the candidate recommended by Shi Fenglai, and Sun Chengzong did not second, that is, he did not agree, so he stood up and asked the emperor to make an arbitrary decision.

Zhu Daming was not polite, and directly appointed Li Banghua to take over as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

As for Li Banghua's current governor of Tianjin, Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu successively mentioned several candidates, but when Zhu Daming heard it, he was either a eunuch or a mediocre minister, and he did not accept any of them. In the end, he followed Sun Chengzong's advice and used Liang Tingdong, who was the left attendant of the military department at the time.

Liang Tingdong is a person, he still has the ability, but he is a little narrow-minded, in history, Sun Chengzong became the secretary of the military department again in the second year of Chongzhen, and robbed him of his position, so this person has always restrained Sun Chengzong, and after Sun Chengzong returned again, he made all kinds of difficulties to Sun Chengzong's right-hand man Sun Yuanhua and Mao Yuanyi, Mao Yuanyi was framed and taken away by him, and finally died of illness.

Moreover, in history, Sun Yuanhua was executed when he was the governor of Denglai, and he was inseparable from Liang Tingdong.

Now that Sun Chengzong has launched this candidate, it is estimated that Liang Tingdong is not conducive to his implementation of the new military policy in the Ministry of War.

As for Dali Siqing, there is a relatively satisfactory candidate for Zhu Daming, that is, Liu Zongzhou, who is now at the foot of the Son of Heaven in front of Shuntianfu Yin.

Liu Zongzhou was also very famous in later generations, and now he can be regarded as a master of Confucianism, and he is very prestigious among scholars.

The most important point is that he is not in the same group as the Donglin Party, not all the way in terms of academics, not all the way in politics, and he is extremely upright, even a little rigid, and has the same requirements for himself and others, he is relatively strict, and he can be regarded as a relatively rare Confucian gentleman-type figure who can achieve the unity of words and deeds.

This candidate was proposed by Li Guowei, but Sun Chengzong immediately seconded it, and Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu were not easy to object, after all, Sun Chengzong is now a celebrity in the eyes of the emperor, and they know that although they are ranked high, in the emperor's heart, Sun Chengzong's status is much higher than them.

As for the deputy capital imperial history, after removing Li Kuilong, who was one of the Five Tigers, the emperor did not solicit opinions, and directly appointed Jia Jichun, who had made meritorious contributions to the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian.

Although Sun Chengzong and Li Guoyi were a little surprised by this, they didn't understand what the emperor meant, so they didn't object, while Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu were obviously relieved.

This was a signal from Zhu Daming to other peripheral members of the eunuch party who were not deeply guilty that the emperor could abandon the secret and defect to the Ming and impeach the Wei party officials in a timely manner, and the emperor could completely ignore the past and continue to appoint them.

After discussing several more urgent personnel arrangements, the emperor said to the four ministers: "Punishing the evil party of the DPRK and China Party attached to Wei Zhongxian is an urgent task at present.

"I will, led by Li Aiqing, together with the Criminal Department, the Inspectorate, Dali Temple, and Jinyiwei and other yamen, according to the courtiers' written revelations, joint trial and screening, for those who are verified, will be severely punished, and those who have no evidence will be exposed."

Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu looked back at Li Guowei in unison, and Li Guowei got up and knelt down to thank him.

Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu knew that although Li Guowei was also repeatedly attacked as a eunuch, in fact, Li Guowei was far from the real eunuch, and he was just a fellow villager with Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian deliberately wooed Li Guoyi, and although Li Guowei accepted the imperial court's overpromotion again and again, and behind these overpromotions, Wei Zhongxian was instructed, but Li Guowei himself did not explicitly join the eunuch party, nor did he do anything for Wei Zhongxian and others to be angry with, so strictly speaking, it is actually not a real eunuch.

Of course, it would certainly be much better to hand over the investigation and handling of the eunuch party in the DPRK to such a neutral person than to hand it over to the Donglin party.

After Li Guowei received the decree and got up and sat down, Zhu Daming continued: "For the ministers who sat in the office during Wei Zhongxian's abuse of power, or are still in prison now, Li Aiqing will also be screened with Dali Temple. Li Guowei bowed down again to receive the order.