Even the city wall nested in Qinzhou, and he didn't know that he had been appointed by the Tang King as the second assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Xiaoqi didn't know that he had become the head of Xiao Jiuqing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhou Shixiang ordered people to send a letter to Qinzhou, asking Lian Chengbi and Zhang Xiaoqi to come to Guangzhou to participate in the Tang Dynasty's state ceremony, and at the same time take up a new position. Accompanying this letter to Qinzhou was a brigade of soldiers from the First Town, and this move made it clear to the two governors that you had better be more sensible.

After Song Xianggong entered the cabinet, his post of governor of Guangdong was taken over by Liao Ruixiang, and Wang Zhangjun, the prefect of Guangzhou, was promoted to the political envoy of Guangdong, and the rest of the officials were promoted in turn.

The cabinet and the six ministries, the general political envoys and other major nine secretaries of the yamen are all located in the governor's yamen, and the internal structure has changed slightly, and everything is simple. Xiao Jiuqing Yamen is in the governor's yamen around some of the original official offices, this yamen pattern is naturally not comparable to the Chongzhen Dynasty, but also not compared to the Hongguang Dynasty, after all, the southern capital is the Ming Dynasty and the two capitals, the yamen of each ministry is readily available, more than two hundred years down, not to mention the inside, the façade must be good-looking, is incomparable to Guangzhou. But compared with the Yongli court, Guangzhou's freshly baked Tang court is much better, at least the yamen looks small, the office space is limited, and the staffing is also small, but at least it is stable, not like the Yongli Dynasty to move east and west. When the Yongli Imperial Court was in Anlong, many yamen were directly located in thatched houses, not to mention the six ministries and nine secretaries, and even the cabinet was a muddy yamen.

Zhou Shixiang has tried his best to set up the imperial court according to the wishes of the Tang King, and the Tang King has no way to ask him to do much, after all, most of the world's land is still in the hands of the Tatar Qing, Guangdong has been through more than ten years of military disasters, and the territory is also full of devastation, which is about to be upgraded to Guangzhou City, which is the capital, and the number of people has just recovered to 200,000. The conditions are limited, and King Tang knows that Zhou Shixiang has done a good job.

On the third day when Xiao Jiuqing's list was sent, Guo Zhiqi came twice on behalf of King Tang, in order to negotiate with Zhou Shixiang on the selection of the six servants.

In his words, Lord Shoufu apologized for Xiao Jiuqing for not having Zhou Shixiang's bag, but said that Xiao Jiuqing had nothing to do with the matter, and Tang Wang ordered those people to serve as Xiao Jiuqing, just to show that he was still a Yongli courtier, and he had no suspicion and vigilance against Zhou Shixiang. I don't know if the Tang King had an explanation, or Guo Zhiqi's own decision, he told Zhou Shixiang with certainty that after the Tang King was in charge of the country, the military and political affairs were still based on Zhou Shixiang's opinions, and the court and the Tang King would not interfere. In this regard, Zhou Shixiang was sincerely afraid, saying that since His Royal Highness has supervised the country, the affairs of the court should be handled by His Royal Highness with full authority, as a courtier, how dare he arbitrarily exercise his power.

What Zhou Shixiang said was true or false, he had a number, and Lord Shoufu also had a number, and the two of them tacitly did not mention anything about Xiao Jiuqing's candidate.

Regarding his transformation from a scholar of the Yongli court to the head of the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Zhiqi did not have much guilt for the Yongli Emperor. If it is said that the scholars were silent before the Tang Dynasty was imprisoned, they are active now. I have to say that Guo Zhiqi is indeed a capable person, and in just a few days after arriving in Guangzhou, he got out all the big and small regulations of the imperial court, and in some respects it is even better than the people in the Marshal Zhou Shixiang's mansion.

Guo Zhiqi mentioned some names, all of which were officials appointed by the Yongli court in the past, which meant that the Tang king thought that these talents were available, and now the court was the time to employ people, so he might as well appoint them with important tasks.

Zhou Shixiang smiled without saying a word, and asked Shoufu what he thought. Guo Zhiqi nodded at the two of them, casually talked about their deeds back then, and praised them in his words.

Zhou Shixiang listened quietly, and when Guo Zhiqi thought that he also recognized these people, Zhou Shixiang took out a list with someone's name written on it and handed it to him.

After Guo Zhiqi took it, his face was a little ugly. Because the names of these six people on the paper correspond to each department, it is obvious that this is the candidate for the six departments approved by Zhou Shixiang.

The list was determined by Zhou Shixiang after thinking about it for a long time, there is a saying that there is less hatred when the book is used, but he will hate less when he uses it, and there are so few credible civil official candidates in the pocket that he can't find many available people for a while.

In the end, he settled on six. Among the six people, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites was actually Hong Shiming, the son of Hong Chengchou; The squire of the military department was served by Dong Changqing, Zhou Shixiang's six-officer officer; Guo Shao served as the head of the household department, Xu Yingyuan was the head of the criminal department, Cheng Hanbin, the head of the Ministry of Industry was Cheng Hanbin, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, and Gui Yongzhi was the head of the Ministry of Officials.

Among the six, Xu Yingyuan and Guo Shao are both from high backgrounds, and they are both detained in Annan at present. Needless to say, Hong Shiming's background is self-explanatory, Dong Changqing is a member of Huizhou, and he has made meritorious contributions in the Chaohui War. Cheng Hanbin is a like-minded person from the north, and he has great insights and great use in ordnance, and it is suitable for him to be in charge of ordnance manufacturing as a waiter in the Ministry of Works. And that Gui Yongzhi was originally the staff master of Li Shutai, the governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Liangguang, and he was half a staff officer, he was originally an official among the six officials, and he was quite familiar with the information of the civil and military officials of the Taiping Army, and he was also a servant of the Ministry of Officials.

Below the names of the six people is the word "left", which is clear at a glance, Zhou Shixiang wants all six people to serve as the left attendants of each department. In addition to the official Shangshu of the six departments, there are two waiters in each department, and the Ming system is respected by the left, and this left waiter is naturally the boss in the ministry second only to Shangshu. And now the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty regime is also the official of the six ministries, in other words, these six left servants are the real principals of the six ministries.

Zhou Shi's face changed relative to Guo Zhiqi, and he asked with a smile: "Elder Ge thinks these six people can be used?" ”

"I'm afraid it's a little shallow."

Guo Zhiqi knew that he couldn't object to this, who asked King Tang to handpick all Xiao Jiuqing, and didn't give any of them to Zhou Shixiang, and now Zhou Shixiang got six left waiters to come out by himself, looking a bit-for-tat. There was no way to directly object, so Shoufu euphemistically put forward the biggest flaw in this list, that is, these six people are too young and too shallow, and the eldest Gui Yongzhi is only forty years old, and he is still demoted, how can he be the six servants of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Shixiang chuckled: "What the elder said is that my prince is also very young and has no qualifications, so should I resign from the imperial court?" ”

"Yue Guogong's words woke up the person in the dream, yes, after careful calculation, what qualifications does the old man have to serve as the first assistant."

Guo Zhiqi knew that Zhou Shixiang was determined to let these six people serve as Zuo Shilang, so he didn't do useless work, got up with a smile and said goodbye to Zhou Shixiang, and went to show the list to His Royal Highness King Tang.

After Guo Zhiqi left, four people came out of the back hall, but it was Song Xianggong, who had just become a scholar of Wuyuandian University, Yuan Kuoyu, a scholar of Dongge University, and Gui Yongzhi and Dong Changqing.

Yuan Kuoyu stepped forward with a sneer: "Great handsome, His Royal Highness the Tang King has put a lot of thought into it in the past few days. ”

Zhou Shixiang glanced at Yuan Kuoyu, smiled and shook his head: "Actually, His Highness's move is nothing to blame, compare your heart with your heart." Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and he will see the hearts of the people for a long time. ”

Song Xianggong suddenly said: "The Northern Expedition is imminent, if the King of Tang has been suspicious of the marshal, how can this matter be resolved?" ”

These words made Yuan Kuoyu and the others all feel a pang in their hearts, and they all looked at Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang smiled and did not answer Song Xianggong's words, but asked them: "Look at it now, am I still like a showman?" (To be continued.) )