On the first day after the Lantern Festival, the imperial court officially issued a decree ordering officials who had reached the age of 70 or above to be appointed to the rank of the second rank of the court, and also commended each retired official with an increase in official rank, and at the same time appointed a new candidate for the nine secretaries of the six ministries. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info promulgated more than 20 holy decrees in a row, which is unique since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but it is busy with everyone in the Ministry of Rites. Fortunately, the book of the Ministry of Rites does not need to be replaced, which saves a lot of trouble.

After all, this matter has been brewing for more than half a year, and a few years ago, the emperor ordered the candidates of the six ministries and nine secretaries to sit in each yamen and be familiar with the affairs of their respective yamen. Now it's just a matter of making up the formalities, so naturally there won't be any big shocks or anything like that.

However, although Zheng De did not go to court, he still met with this group of newly appointed officials in the Wenhua Hall early the next morning.

When Wang Yue led Li Dongyang and other important ministers of the court to the Benren Palace, the latter looked at the huge oval-shaped conference table in the hall, but thoughtful.

Your Majesty wants to convene a royal council again?

For this imperial meeting, Li Dongyang did not reject it. And now that the emperor is too lazy to go to court, it is better to discuss things with the emperor with this imperial meeting. However, he was also surprised by this current son's approach, this great tomorrow seems to prefer to sit down and discuss things with the ministers of the DPRK and China, which is also enough to be polite and virtuous, and I don't know what this person thinks?

In terms of respecting the ministers of the DPRK and China, at least this great emperor of today has done a better job than the previous emperors. However, he had just ascended the throne and used the high-sounding reason of "retirement" to purge most of the ministers of the DPRK and China, but he was much more impatient and ruthless than the previous emperors. This mess is really a bit confusing to this person's mind, but he doesn't think it's a bad thing.

Except for Li Dongyang and the other four, the other nine people participated in this kind of meeting for the first time, and they felt a little novel. However, they are all old ministers of the court, so naturally they will not look around after coming in like young people, but just glance at them casually.

Wang Yue easily opened the first Taishi chair on the left, and Li Dongyang, who was now a scholar of the Huagai Palace, sat down generously. After all, after Liu Jian's retirement, there is no one who can compare with him in terms of seniority. It is not unfortunate that there will be an embarrassing scene like the last time when Ma Wensheng was in the court, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian were in front of Ma Wensheng, the head of the six Shangshu.

But then there was an accident.

I thought that the second chair should be sitting on the second chair by Xie Qian, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, but I didn't expect Wang Yue to invite an unexpected person over.

"Lord Tu, please be seated."

This Lord Tu is naturally not the newly appointed Shangshu Tu Xun of the Criminal Department, but Tu Tu of Dali Temple.

Tu Huang, the word Chaozong, the second year of Chenghua Jinshi, a native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang. Although he served as only a third-grade Dali temple secretary, but after being reinstated to the court, he was promoted by Zheng Dejia as a doctor from the first grade of Guanglu, and served as the secretary of the ministry before Ma Wensheng, and his seniority in the court is not much better than Li Dongyang. Although everyone was a little surprised, they didn't feel much surprise.

Tu Yun himself was a little surprised, after receiving the holy decree of the imperial court's recovery, he also thought twice before he did. However, he didn't expect that in the end, he would be a third-grade Dali Temple, although the emperor had awarded him the title of Guanglu doctor, which still made him feel a little disappointed. I also feel worried about whether it is worth it to travel thousands of miles from Jiangnan to Beijing.

But now the emperor actually let him be under Li Dongyang, which was beyond his expectations. After all, in the DPRK, it is not enough to just judge the grade. Otherwise, before Zheng De ascended the throne, why did the three pavilion elders who had been added to the first rank rank rank in the court ranks, why would they be below the six departments?

He looked at Xie Qian on the side, quite scruples. The latter seemed to understand his thoughts, and said with a smile, "With Lord Tu's prestige in the court, how dare Qian live above you, but it doesn't hurt to sit down." ”

Although Xie Qian is sometimes very good at things, he is not a person of intrigue. For this kind of false name, he naturally does not take it to heart.

"Lord Xie is overrated."

With Xie Qian's words, Tu Tu also sat down.

After that, there was not much surprise, and the three pavilion elders, Xie Qian, Wang Jing, and Wang Wei, sat down in turn. When it was the turn of Han Wen, the secretary of the ministry, to sit down, he couldn't help but show a wry smile.

As the head of the hundred officials, he actually sat in the sixth position, one place behind the seat in the last row. And this time, I was transferred to the Ministry of Officials, and compared with the Ministry of Households, it can be regarded as a place forward, but I didn't expect to go back more and more.

"It is estimated that I am the most sloppy one since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty." Hanwen thought with some self-deprecation.

But obviously he is not the worst, after Sun Jiao, Xiong Xiu, Tu Xun, Li Qi, and Zhang Fuhua sat down in turn, Zhang Sheng sat down in the embarrassed eyes of everyone. Falling from sixth place to penultimate place is also unique. If it weren't for Zheng De's special approval, it is estimated that there would be no place for him here. However, his face was calm, without any dissatisfaction, and his temperament was good.

The last position is the new political envoy Fei Hong, who is also the youngest one present.

Fei Hong, the word is full, Chenghua twenty-three years of Jinshi, Jiangxi lead mountain people. At the age of twenty, he was the youngest champion of the Ming Dynasty. It was appreciated by Emperor Xianzong at that time, and his career was naturally smooth sailing. When the candidates of the six departments and nine Qings were finally circled and circulated in the court, the name Fei Hong was naturally extremely eye-catching.

You must know that this person is only thirty-nine years old, and he is too young compared to everyone present, even if he is a general political envoy in terms of qualifications, it is still a little worse. However, with Wang Jing and Sun Jiao's exaggerated promotion experience in front, this one seems much more reasonable, and he is also from the Hanlin Academy, which is one of the reasons why the ministers of the DPRK and China are not too opposed.

However, I haven't seen a real person before, and everyone doesn't think there's anything. But now at first sight, this champion Lang, who looks no more than in his early thirties, looks extremely dazzling among this group of old men.

Are we getting old?

The first thought that everyone had when they saw this person immediately shook their heads, and at the same time there was a question, why did the emperor let this serve as the secretary of general affairs?

Speaking of which, this is also Zheng De's whim, who wants to set up this general administration department as an institution to train young officials. After all, this yamen is in charge of the internal and external chapters and the subjects seal the complaints, which is conducive to the training of officials, and it is a good choice.

When the envoy was about to leave office, Zheng De asked Wang Tingxiang if there were about 40 officials in the court who were suitable to serve as envoys. Wang Tingxiang recommended Fei Hong, but Zheng De was not very satisfied with this person's ability, but he was a little fond of Zhang Shu, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites. However, the latter persuaded him with the matter of 'King Yan Zhao's daughter buying horse bones', so that he finally chose Fei Hong.

When Zheng De finally came here with the royal court, all the ministers stood up and saluted.

"Sit down!"

Zheng De waved his hand, and after sitting down, he looked at most of the new faces in front of him. Suddenly gave birth to infinite emotion: this is the first set of teams selected by myself, I hope I will not let myself down!

This can be regarded as a set of very strong team selected by Zheng De based on comprehensive consideration of all aspects, but sometimes strong paper may not be the most reasonable, after all, it is a human being, not a machine, and there are many variables and the like.

"The first imperial meeting of the first year of Zhengde has officially begun!"

Zheng De simply made an opening remark and glanced at the ministers present, "Since I have appointed you to take charge of various yamen in the court, I obviously believe in your ability, and I hope you will not let me down in the future." ”

After a pause, he said, "Now let's start the first topic, tomorrow I will issue an edict to order the officials of the third rank who have reached the age of the court to give office, so what do you think about the existing vacancies?" ”

Li Dongyang frowned slightly, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, will this be too impatient?" ”

"What I want is to cut through the mess with a quick knife!" It seems that without the fetters of the old ministers in the court, Zheng De is a little more confident when he speaks, and he said bluntly.

"If it continues to drag on, there will inevitably be other unnecessary troubles. It is also necessary to first determine the distance above the third rank in the court, so that the political situation of the court can be stabilized as soon as possible, and then slowly deal with the matter of officials below the third rank. ”

Li Dongyang thought about it, but felt that what the emperor said was not unreasonable.

"Any other comments?" Zheng De glanced at the ministers, and then looked at the official department Shangshu who was sitting a little far away, "What do you have to say about the candidates for the vacancies of the six ministers of the central government and other yamen officials?" ”

Seeing that the emperor looked at him, Han Wen stood up and said, "Your Majesty, since there are too many shortages in the court, the minister suggests that it is better to replace them, which can also save a lot of trouble." ”

Substitution?

Zheng De nodded, in fact, he also had this idea. After all, there are too many vacancies, and it is impossible to carefully select them one by one, and only the replacement is the most suitable.

"In that case, it is up to you to sort out the retirement list of the three officials of the DPRK and the list of replacement officials and hand it over to the imperial court secretaries for discussion, and finally leave it to me for decision." 、

Zheng De simply decided to leave this matter to Han Wen to do, and no one in the ministers present said anything more. After all, most of the people present here are not old ministers of the court, and their confidence is really not enough to refute the emperor's views. Especially if there is no big mistake, they will not come out.