In fact, Yang Tinghe's resolute refusal to accept the position of Hubu Shangshu is also understandable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, at this time, the cabinet was in a turbulent period, and several old cabinet ministers were begging for bones, and the remaining Li Dongyang and Xie Qian also faintly had the intention of taking a back seat.

In this way, the cabinet will definitely have to enter new people.

If he accepts the position of Tobe Shangshu, it means that it will be difficult to re-enter the cabinet in the short term.

After all, the household department is not like the idle yamen like the Ministry of Rites, it is a department with real power. Among the six departments, the official department is the most important, and the household department is firmly in second place.

Yang Tinghe thinks very highly of himself, but as a result, the new monarch ascended the throne but was not in the list of the first batch of members to enter the cabinet, and he inevitably felt unhappy. It's also normal to lose your temper and make a fuss.

He can't fight Xie Shen, can't he survive Li Dongyang and Xie Qian?

In the Ming officialdom, one of the most important qualities is to be able to survive. Stay up until your competitors are all seventy or eighty, and you have to resign, then you can be considered to be out of the ordinary.

If Emperor Zhengde had wanted Yang Tinghe to be the secretary of the ministry, he might have agreed. After all, the official department is a heavenly official and a Dazai, and he can almost be on an equal footing with the cabinet scholars. But if it is the second household department Shangshu, then the pomp and status will plummet.

Sure enough, when Emperor Zhengde heard Yang Tinghe's name, his face was a little strange.

"Why did Mr. recommend Yang Qing?"

Xie Shen sighed in his heart. It seems that Zhengde is still angry with Yang Tinghe's refusal to serve as the head of the household.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Lord Yang has lived in the household department for a long time and is very good at raising money and food. The responsibilities of the governors of Yansui, Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Datong are not to charge tactically, but to make strategic arrangements and grasp the overall situation. Moreover, Lord Yang's age is very suitable for this position. ”

said that Yang Tinghe was born in the third year of Tianshun, and he is exactly forty-seven years old this year.

For an official, this is the golden age.

Those who often mix in officialdom have heard a saying called grass three, silver four, and gold five.

What it means is that thirty years old is the most worthless age, and officials at this age can only beat soy sauce at most.

At the age of 40, some politically gifted officials began to emerge, and after more than ten or twenty years of polishing, they became more and more proficient in dealing with people, and gradually could serve as the squire of the six ministries and governors.

At the age of fifty, life and officialdom have been basically seen through, all kinds of things are handled easily, and he is in the prime of life, and he can bear a thousand heavy burdens. This period was also the golden age of becoming a high-ranking official in the ministry.

As for those in their sixties, there is no hard work and contention, unless there is a chance to enter the cabinet, not many people will want to work hard, but it is not easy to be promoted.

Zhengde smiled bitterly: "Yang Tinghe doesn't care, what does Mr. think should let Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi, serve as the governor of the four sides?" ”

Xie Shen was slightly stunned.

Yang Yiqing? This is also a generation of famous ministers.

Xie Shen knew that Yang Yiqing's main political achievement was during the period of supervising Ma Zheng in Shaanxi, and it stands to reason that if he served as the governor of the four sides, he should get started quickly.

"This letter, sir, take a look."

After speaking, he actually motioned to Zhang Yong to hand a note to Xie Shen.

Xie Shen took it and unfolded it respectfully.

"On all sides of Shaanxi, Yansui is in danger, and Ningxia and Gansu are choking rivers and mountains. However, Huamachi to Lingzhou, the area is wide, the castle is sparse, and the wall is destroyed, then Guyuan, Qingyang, Pingliang, and Gongchang all suffer. Xu Tingzhang, the governor of Ningxia at the beginning of Chenghua, built a side wall, which stretched for more than 200 miles; In Yansui, Yu Zijun repaired the side wall and built it strongly, so he did not enter the Hetao area for more than 20 years. The back side is prepared for the sun, the wall is slackened, and in the last years of Hongzhi, Koulian invaded, so that today. Qin Hong only had four or five small forts and 700 miles from Jinglu to Huanqingzhi, which was not enough to defend the enemy. The minister has been in Shaanxi for a long time, and he is quite familiar with the situation. Kou Dong said tens of thousands, back and forth, not to the conscription more disturbances, even when the call for reinforcements, if you want to fight, they will not come, and if you hold it for a long time, our division will sit old. The minister thought that the strategy of defending the border should have four: repair the beach wall to strengthen the border defense, increase the guard to strengthen the border soldiers, the manager Lingxia to be attached to the interior, and decorate Weizhou to curb foreign invasion. Today, the river is surrounded by dangers on three sides, and it should be sheltered for thousands of miles. At the beginning of the country, he gave up the Hetao and Wei Dongsheng and lost a risk; Later, he dropped out of Dongsheng to extend Sui, and covered the rush of thousands of miles with one side; So the river loop is fertile, it is the nest of the Kou, the deep mountains and rivers, and the potential is there. And Ningxia external risk, and Nanbei River, this side of the trouble is so difficult to solve. Chengyi should hold the east sheng, because the river is solid, the east is connected to Datong, and belongs to Ningxia, so that the river loop is thousands of miles away, classified as farming and animal husbandry, millions of acres of tuntian, and the province is transferred to the mainland, which is the best policy; If it is not possible, and now we will build more defensive borders, and the enemy will come to defend it, and it will be more and more helpless. Wu Zong allowed Yiqing to discuss and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a wall. Soon, due to the collapse of Liu Jin, the side wall built by Yiqing only ended up in a land of forty miles. ”

The song is written for a long time, and its central idea is to build border walls in Shaanxi and other places.

Since he became the governor of Shaanxi, Yang Yiqing has made great achievements and made the border defense horse politics impressive. Now he sent another letter to Emperor Zhengde, asking the emperor to decree the construction of the border wall.

The Ming Dynasty has no shortage of clear streams, and there is a shortage of officials who are willing to do things. Yang Yiqing is such an official.

No wonder Zhengde mentioned Yang Yiqing, it turned out that he put forward constructive suggestions.

"Your Majesty, Lord Yang's letter is very reasonable."

Xie Shen also had to admire Yang Yiqing, this sparse writing was so penetrating that people couldn't find any mistakes.

However, he still insisted on his opinion, believing that Yang Tinghe was more suitable to serve as the governor.

However, the minister thought that in terms of overall planning, Governor Yang might not be as good as Yang Shilang. This is not contradictory, it is better for Your Majesty to set up another governor of Ganshan and Shaanxi, and let this Yang Yiqing go to the four towns of Ningxia, Guyuan, Gansu, and Yansui. Reduce the burden on Yang Ting and Yang Shilang, and let him concentrate on managing Datong, Xuanfu, and Liaodong. ”

"Let Yang Tinghe go to manage Xuanfu, Datong, and Liaodong, and let Yang Yiqing go to manage Shaanxi and Gansu? There is some truth to this. ”

Emperor Zhengde's eyes flashed with a gleam.

"Your Majesty is wise."

Xie Shen slapped a sycophant.

I have to say that it is more appropriate to assign Yansui to Yang Yiqing to manage. After all, Shaanxi and Gansu are integrated, and it is more convenient to manage. In addition, Yang Yiqing is very familiar with the situation in Shaanxi, and he does not need to adapt to the time to control Yansui.

Datong, Xuanfu, and Liaodong are also large war zones, and it is more appropriate to send another person.

In this way, seven of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty were controlled by the two governors, which basically solved the embarrassing situation that the towns were not subordinate to each other.

Zhengde pondered for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "What do Xie Ge Lao and Li Ge Lao think? ”

"The old minister thinks that what Siming said is reasonable."

"The old minister seconded the proposal."

The two old fritters said with a stitch.

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