This time the court will last for a long time, although sitting on the throne is a little more comfortable than the minister standing below, but the emperor's throne is not leaning on four or six, just sitting so straight, anyone who sits for a long time will feel tired. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Returning to the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, where he lived and rested every day, Zhu Daming felt a sense of relief, but it didn't last long, and the time for the deliberations of the Wenhua Palace came again.

Zhu Daming, under Wang Chengen's waiting, ate a little refreshment, rested for a while, and hurried to the Wenhua Hall to meet with the ministers.

When they arrived at the Wenhua Palace, Shi Fenglai and others were already waiting, and now in the cabinet, there were only three cabinet ministers left, namely Shi Fenglai, Li Guowei and Sun Chengzong.

At the beginning, the ministers of the Ming Cabinet did not have a fixed number of members, and their grades were not high, most of them were intermediate civil officials of five or six grades, and their main responsibility was also to serve as an attendant in the emperor's study, playing the role of a secretary and adviser.

As for the number of cabinet members, it can reach six at most, with six Shangshu or Shilang, plus the name of a scholar of the palace outside the Forbidden City, each in charge of one or one aspect of court affairs.

At the least, there is only one, and Fang Congzhe in the late Wanli period is like this, and he has been alone for many years.

But after the apocalypse, there are basically six people, and the vacancies are filled immediately, and they are all added by the method of court push.

Zhu Daming didn't want to do anything about court pushing, and he didn't want to hand over the power to select and appoint people to those ministers who were intriguing and mercenary all day long.

It is okay if the number of cabinet members is not increased, but the vacant books must be added.

Now that Zhang Ruitu is in prison, not only is there one less cabinet minister, but even the secretary of the criminal department is also vacant.

Today's Wenhua Hall deliberations seem to be mainly for the aftermath of the decisions made at the court meeting.

After Zhu Daming sat down, the three ministers saluted one after another, and then sat down in turn.

Shi Fenglai took the lead and said: "Your Majesty, today's court meeting, Your Majesty issued a decree to remove Cui Wensheng, the governor of Caoyun, from his position, Caoyun is related to the Jingshi and the nine-sided food salary, Caoyun is vacant, it must be filled, Your Majesty can have a preferred candidate?" In addition, Zhang Ruitu was imprisoned with Wei Wei as attached to the party, and the secretary of the criminal department who he also served as the secretary of the criminal department was also vacant to be filled...... "After speaking, he looked at the emperor, which meant that he also had to discuss the candidate.

Zhu Daming pondered for a while and said: "Now that there are many court discussions, I really didn't expect that there would be so many courtiers who were attached to Wei and rebelled by the party.

"If you let it go today, and sit tomorrow as a eunuch, wouldn't it seem that the court lacks the wisdom to know people? Qing and others are cabinet ministers, and they can recommend the current governors in various places, or those who are indeed not eunuchs among the officials in the southern capital, and the ministers who were dismissed for impeaching Wei during the Apocalypse period, and are now suitable to continue to serve as officials, the Qing and others can also recommend them. ”

Zhu Daming's scope is not large, after all, among the officials in the court now, except for those appointed after his accession to the throne, the rest are left by the Tianqi Dynasty, but those who can serve as Beijing officials after four years of the Apocalypse, especially those above Shilang, it is difficult to say that they have nothing to do with Wei Zhongxian.

Even if Zhu Daming didn't want to wipe out all the people who had taken refuge in Wei Zhongxian, the minister who held such an important position could not at least not be Wei Zhongxian's henchmen.

After all, Wei Zhongxian and others have been killed, and now if they reuse their party members, they really can't give enough trust.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Guowei said: "There is a candidate for the minister, and Your Majesty may use it at his discretion." Qiao Yunsheng, the former secretary of the criminal department, was a scholar in the 20th year of Wanli, and the third year of the Apocalypse was appointed by the secretary of the criminal department, and the court pushed it as the secretary of the ministry, and was afraid of Wei Zhongxian's party, and he returned before taking office, and now he lives in the township, he is a person without a party and no faction, and is fair and upright for the official, and the minister thinks that His Majesty may be able to make him enter Beijing to see, if he can do it, then His Majesty will have a virtuous minister. ”

Zhu Daming is not familiar with Qiao Yunsheng, but since he returned because he was jealous of Wei Zhongxian, it should not have much to do with the Wei Party.

Now is the time to screen and clean up the Wei Party in the DPRK, and such a minister is needed to sit in the Criminal Department, so he said: "Shi Aiqing, Sun Aiqing, do you have any opinions?" ”

Of course, Shi Fenglai knew about Qiao Yunsheng, but he couldn't object, after all, today's sworn friend Zhang Ruitu quit because the party attached Wei Zhongxian, and he, a suspected member of the eunuch party, really couldn't refute Qiao Yunsheng, a candidate who was once driven away by the eunuch party and now has a gap with the eunuch party, so he had to say: "The minister has no objection."

Sun Chengzong said: "The minister knew Qiao Yunsheng in his early years, he was in the official punishment department for many years, and he was very familiar with the law of the Ming Dynasty, so he should be the best choice. There is no objection from the minister. ”

Since this is the case, it is Qiao Yunsheng. As for the affairs of the Criminal Department, Zhu Daming has not taken care of it, and now the most important thing is the military, as for the others, as long as they are not nonsense, it is okay.

Therefore, the matter of resuming Qiao Yunsheng as the secretary of the criminal department can be regarded as decided.

Zhu Daming also has no fixed opinion on the selection of the governor of Caoyun, although he is familiar with the basic historical trend of the late Ming Dynasty in later generations, but he is not clear about the specific personnel arrangements, although the governor of Caoyun is important, but it is still not as important as the Jiliao governor.

Because Shi Fenglai is the first assistant, he naturally spoke first: "Your Majesty, as for the governor of Caoyun, the minister has a candidate, Caoyun matters are related to the price of the capital division and the livelihood of the people. ”

Cheng Jiming is a figure with a relatively high appearance rate at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and later after Shi Fenglai was beaten into a eunuch, it was he who took over Shi Fenglai's position as the secretary of the ministry, and now Shi Fenglai recommended him to be the governor of Caoyun, it is really hard to say what kind of heart An.

Sure enough, Sun Chengzong had a different opinion, and said: "Your Majesty, the authority of the governor of Caoyun includes military affairs, and there are tens of thousands of superintendents, Caobing, river workers, and servants, and they have always supervised Caoyun with military law.

"Yuan Keli is jealous and hateful, upright, during his tenure as the governor of Denglai, he trained the sailors, responded to Liaozuo, and made many meritorious deeds, and was dismissed for impeaching Wei Zhongxian in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and now His Majesty has refreshed the rule of officials and appointed such ministers, it is the right time."

Yuan Keli is a person, Zhu Daming has heard of it in later generations.

During the Apocalypse, Sun Chengzong supervised Ji Liao, Li Banghua guaranteed supplies in Tuntian, Tianjin, and Yuan Keli responded to it from afar in Denglai Dalian, and commanded Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town to attack and harass Jianzhou Jurchen from the direction of the Sino-North Korean border in later generations, ensuring that Liaodong was fine for several years, and later because he did not want to attach himself to Wei Zhongxian's party, he was transferred from Denglai and transferred to the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and then was removed from office because of the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian for forming a party and taking power.

The matter of appointing Yuan Keli to take over as the governor of Caoyun was thus decided.