This time Zhang Dai did not win either.

In the end, it was Yang Tinglin who became the second first assistant.

Under the instruction of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Meisheng, Gong Yonggu, Bi Maoshi and other royal capital agents chose to vote for Yang Tinglin, making Yang Tinglin defeat Zhang Dai by a narrow margin and become the new cabinet leader.

At this time, the entire upper-level political circle of the Ming Dynasty suddenly realized that it was His Majesty the Emperor who had been deciding the election results.

But they can only secretly complain that His Majesty is too dark-bellied, and he clearly does not interfere in the election of the first assistant of the cabinet, and even hides directly in a place where everyone is nowhere to be found, but he did not expect that the final decision on the first assistant of the cabinet is a group of housekeepers trained by himself.

However, what is even more surprising is that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, took the initiative to publish a congratulatory message to Yang Tinglin in the "Daming Daily".

In the congratulatory message, he spoke highly of Yang Tinglin's contribution to the Ming Dynasty before becoming the first assistant, and explained his previous career experience, and believed that Yang Tinglin can be qualified for the position of the first assistant, and will also be able to cooperate well with himself as an emperor, and has the ability to make the Ming Dynasty stronger.

Everyone can see that His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao is clearly congratulating Yang Tinglin, but he is actually telling the world why he chose Yang Tinglin.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, Yang Tinglin has served in the army, has also been in charge of a ministry in the central government, has also entered the cabinet, and even served as a governor in the newly occupied areas, and has also served as a governor in Liangguang, the most economically and trade-developed area.

Zhu Youxiao's reasons are sufficient, and he is indeed richer than Zhang Dai in terms of resume, but it still makes many people sigh helplessly while being excited, after all, the final decision is still in the hands of His Majesty.

However, now that Yang Tinglin has become the de facto first assistant, no one can deny it.

Yang Tinglin became the second cabinet chief elected by the people after Yang Sichang, because he had the same surname as Yang Sichang, so later history books called this period of time "Big and Small Yang Era", Da Yang naturally refers to Yang Sichang, and Xiao Yang refers to Yang Tinglin.

The era of Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang was the period when the Ming Dynasty conquered the whole of Eurasia and built it for several years, while the era of Xiao Yang was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty's continued expansion into the Americas.

According to the new rules, Yang Tinglin succeeded to the new Ming Dynasty, and needed to re-recommend to His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao the officials and cabinet members of the ministries, that is, the so-called formation of the cabinet, which was the power of the new Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Daming generally would not reject the recommended candidates for the new first assistant, after all, this is conducive to the implementation of the policy of the new first assistant.

Therefore, after Yang Tinglin became the first assistant of the cabinet, the visit to Yang Tinglin can be said to be like a city, and the phenomenon of Yang Tinglin becoming the first minister of the imperial court has been vividly interpreted.

However, Yang Tinglin will also do things, directly take measures to avoid these people, and the first thing after taking office is to express his respect and gratitude to His Majesty Zhu Youxiao through the "Daming Daily", and said that he will try his best to be loyal to His Majesty Daming, and do his best for Daming, and even put forward a series of goals, and the development of the Americas is even more mentioned at the forefront, and he also sold Guanzi to further increase investment in the medical care and pension benefits of imperial citizens.

For a while, the people were overjoyed when they heard it, and Zhu Youxiao was quite satisfied with it, but after a closer look, he found that what the new chief assistant said was just a general word, and it was still unknown how many people's interests and needs could be met in fact.

When Yang Tinglin was running for the first assistant of the cabinet, he had already begun to secretly plan whether he should let those senior officials of the ministry continue to stay in office and which should be replaced, so when he became the new first assistant and needed to form a cabinet, he did not delay for long, handed over the list within about ten years, and began to bury himself in the urgent tasks accumulated by overtime.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with seeing that the people on his recommendation list were relatively reliable, so he passed directly, but he still said with a smile: "My Min'er, if you want to be a cabinet member, you can't count on Zhang Dai, you have to count on your husband and me, understand, no, Yang Tinglin won't let you enter his cabinet because you are my woman." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao glanced at the name of the crown prince Zhu Cirong a few more times.

After Yang Sichang became the first cabinet assistant, he directly recommended Zhu Cirong to serve as the secretary of the household department and let the crown prince serve as the chief official of the ministry, which caused an uproar at the time, but Zhu Youxiao was very supportive, thinking that Yang Sichang was an old man who planned the country, and it was a move to let the prince experience more government affairs.

In Yang Tinglin's view, investment in economic construction and education will be the great plan of the Ming Dynasty, and as a prince, he should pay more attention to these things, so that he can pay more attention to this aspect after he ascends the throne.

This is also a privilege of the first assistant to the cabinet, which can influence the political aspirations of the future prince in this way.

In his second year as the first assistant, Yang began to prepare funds and manpower to start the plan to reclaim the Americas.

Now that the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the Eurasian continent has stabilized, there is basically no need to worry about any rebellions in various places, so the time is ripe to develop the Americas.

For a time, the shipbuilding industry of the entire Ming Dynasty once again entered an era of prosperity, and according to Yang Tinglin's initial plan, it was to build a larger navy to meet the purpose of establishing military bases in the Americas in advance.

Originally, Yang Tinglin's purpose was only to develop North America, but after being told by His Majesty that South America also needed to be taken care of, he changed his plan and prepared to build the Panama Canal.

According to Yang Tinglin's plan, the first stage of the development of the Americas was to send naval and army troops to the Americas to expand the control area, and then the second stage was to move some ordinary people, mainly first- and second-class citizens, in batches to reclaim wasteland and build farms and other workshops, and then the third stage was to move a large number of scholars to the past, especially the former Donglin and Fushe members who are still exiled in the southwest region to the Americas to continue to burn their passion.

According to the plan submitted by Yang Tinglin to Zhu Youxiao, it is envisaged that the whole of America will become the second industrial raw material collection site and commercial grain base of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youxiao basically agreed directly, but Zhu Youxiao did not agree to Yang Tinglin's establishment of a wood processing base in the Amazon Plain of South America, and he even issued a strict decree ordering future generations that no matter who they are, they cannot mine the trees of the Amazon forest, after all, this is the lungs of the earth, and there are many places where the Ming Dynasty can establish an industrial base, so there is no need to destroy this oxygen-producing land.