After listening to the emperor's words, several ministers looked at each other and knew what each other was thinking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The young and old emperor in front of him has always been thoughtful, and they, who have been on the career for many years, often feel that sometimes they can't keep up with the emperor's train of thought.

However, they heard the emperor's words very clearly.

It has always been the old and the new, and the most feared thing is to like the new and hate the old, and wipe out the old rules that have been imperceptibly formed in the past thousands of years.

Not only is it dangerous, it's also wrong.

Since many practices and many outdated conventions in the imperial court have existed for hundreds of years, they must have a reason for their existence, and they cannot be abolished without considering the consequences under the banner of reforming the old and making the new.

Emperor Chongzhen quietly waited for several important ministers to express their opinions, and these important ministers also chewed on what the emperor had just said in their hearts.

After more than a year of contact, observation and understanding, from Li Guohao, the first assistant of the cabinet, to Bi Ziyan, the head of the cabinet, these important ministers of the imperial court have figured out the general idea of the current emperor's governance of the country.

Although the emperor himself has never played the banner of reforming the old and making the new, implementing new laws, and implementing new policies, every step is actually implementing a new policy.

It's just that although the emperor in front of him is young, he understands the world very well, knows the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and when you are not sure, you never challenge the existing ancestral system and rules of the imperial court.

Sometimes, they can even use the ancestral teachings of the Emperor Ming, fill the old bottle with new wine, and walk a new road in old shoes.

For this point, Li Guowei, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chengzong and others all see it very clearly, but many of the emperor's practices are what they are happy to see, so sometimes they pretend to be confused, what the emperor says to do, then what to do, there is no need to expose it.

After all, these actions of the emperor are indeed on the right path of enriching the country and strengthening the army.

This time the same is true for the establishment of the North and South Envoys, the new Household Envoys will inevitably divide the power of the Household Department, but the emperor put the newly established Household Envoy Division in the Household Department, and the Household Department has no reason to disagree.

There is no reason for the Officials Division, including those who are in charge of the financial affairs of the provinces, to come out and hinder or create obstacles, after all, the new Envoy Department has not divided any of their powers.

As for the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department, not to mention, the financial problems of the imperial court have been alleviated to a certain extent, which is definitely what they like to see.

At this moment, seeing that the emperor was waiting for the statements of his ministers, Sun Chengzong first said: "The former Song Dynasty system is too long ago, and Your Majesty said that the ministers should think about it seriously after they go back." It's just that His Majesty said that the political envoys of the north and south are related to the success or failure of the opening of the sea, and the financial resources of the imperial court, and the power is very important. ”

After Sun Chengzong said this, several other ministers also looked at the emperor.

After all, these newly established yamen, in the final analysis, are still up to these ministers in the court.

There is no room for discussion about whether or not to do this, and all that remains is the question of who will do it.

For today's ministers in the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department, this question is more important than whether or not to do so.

The authority of the emperor in front of him is getting heavier and heavier, and he is no longer the young son of heaven who had to consult everything and consult with important ministers in everything at the beginning of his ascension to the throne.

After listening to Sun Chengzong's question, Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and said: "The issue of Su Maoxiang concurrently serving as the political envoy of Nanyu is a last resort. After all, Nanjing is far away from the court, and Su Maoxiang sits in Nanjing to strictly open the sea, and there is not enough authority, so there will be various constraints on the implementation of this matter.

"As for the Jingshi, right under the noses of me and all of you, there is no need for the current important ministers of the court to take the lead. In my opinion, the question of this candidate is naturally still made by the household department, and it is best to be a minister at the level of a squire. ”

At this time, when these people sitting in the Wenhua Hall heard this, they naturally had a number in their hearts.

Because there are only a few officials above the head of the household.

After Nan Juyi was promoted to the governor of Zhili, Bi Maoliang concurrently served as the governor of the household department as a household servant, and Liu Yiding was promoted to the household department and supervised the household department Baoyuan General Bureau and the Jingshi Mint General Factory, and there was only one candidate left.

This person is Wang Jiazhen.

At the beginning of the year, Su Maoxiang was sent to Nanjing by the emperor to serve as the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, specializing in the opening of the sea, the establishment of ports, and trade in the four places of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

Historically, Su Maoxiang was impeached by the Donglin Party at the beginning of Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne, and was soon dismissed.

Immediately after the first year of Chongzhen, in July, Ningyuan mutinied, Bi Zisu, who was the governor of Liaodong at the time, was humiliated and committed suicide, and his brother Bi Ziyan was implicated in the dismissal, and Wang Jiazhen was immediately promoted to the head of the household department.

In this life, Su Maoxiang was still repeatedly impeached by the Donglin Party, saying that he was a eunuch, but now Emperor Chongzhen, who knows the direction of history, did not depose Su Maoxiang because of this.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen killed the eunuchs, many important positions in the court were vacant, but there was no shortage of households, so Wang Jiazhen still squatted in the position of the waiter and did not move.

Later, the Ningyuan Mutiny also happened, but Bi Zisu was transferred out of Liaodong a few months earlier, so Bi Zisu did not die, and Bi Ziyan was still in the position of the head of the household.

Wang Jiazhen, a jinshi in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, and the governor of Gansu who was dismissed during the Apocalypse, had to squat in the position of the household servant all the time after he recovered.

But this time, Su Maoxiang was entrusted with a heavy task by the emperor and finally left the Beijing Division, and he also waited for the opportunity that had already arrived in history.

Sure enough, not long after the emperor's words fell, Li Guohao, who had been in charge of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, as the first assistant of the cabinet, said: "Your Majesty said this, and the minister thought of a suitable candidate. This person is Wang Jiazhen, who succeeded Su Maoxiang as the left attendant of the household department. ”

In today's Ming Dynasty, officials from the south account for the largest proportion, but in the cabinet, they are half and half, that is, half in the south and half in the north.

The first assistant Li Guowei is a native of Baoding Mansion in Beizhili, and Sun Chengzong, a cabinet minister, is also a native of Baoding Mansion in Beizhili.

The remaining Xu Guangqi is a native of Songjiang Prefecture in Nanzhili, and Li Banghua is a native of Jishui, Jiangxi.

This is also the result of the deliberate actions of Emperor Chongzhen today.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan, especially the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was the most important financial source area of the imperial court, and a considerable proportion of taxes, silver and grain came from this region.

Since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a rule that Jinshi in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, especially Susong and Song, are not allowed to serve in the household department.

An important reason is that since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because this place once supported Zhang Shicheng, the opponent of Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Taizu, it was heavily taxed and punished by the Ming Taizu.

In order to continue this policy and not be changed by officials from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Susong regions, such a rule has been formed since the Ming Dynasty that Jinshi in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Susong are not allowed to serve as official households.

This policy continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty, knowing that the Chongzhen Emperor in history, after killing one after another Hubu Shangshu, found that there was really no one available, so he broke this rule and enabled Ni Yuanlu, who was from Zhejiang, to serve as Hubu Shangshu.

However, even so, it is to beware of the Jinshi official household department from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Susong, and the Ming court during the Chongzhen period still failed to stop the Donglin party people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Susong and other places.

Of course, the most important thing is that the cabinet during the Chongzhen period was also full of ministers from the Donglin Party.

Under the circumstance that the imperial court's financial revenue was declining year after year, the income could not make ends meet, the military salaries and official services could not be paid, and the state finances were already facing collapse, these cabinet ministers from Donglin, in addition to persuading the emperor to reduce institutions and save expenses, were trying to persuade the emperor to reduce or reduce the money and grain taxes in the southeast.

When the four seas were peaceful, this could show the emperor's kindness, but in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this was purely to bring Emperor Chongzhen to the pit and lead him to death.