703. Niu Mingli's knighthood
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On December 20, 22 years of Wu Cheng, a report on the promotion of knighthood for the year was sent to the Huaxia Cabinet.
However, in the nineteenth year of China's central institutional restructuring, the Ministry of Rites was only responsible for the ceremonies, rituals and related professional training of the imperial court after being demoted to the ceremonial court, so the nomination task for the promotion of civil and military officials to the title was decomposed into specific government offices, and then summarized by the cabinet and reported to the cabinet for preliminary review, and finally the cabinet ministers jointly reported to Zheng Kezhang himself.
Like other government affairs, Zheng Kezhang has the final ruling power on the promotion of the title, he may add or delete the number of recipients on the list, change the titles obtained by the recipients, or even deny the entire list, but generally speaking, in most cases, Zheng Kezhang will still grant the title of the year according to the preliminary review list reported by the cabinet, so the preliminary review of the cabinet determines whether the recipients can enter Zheng Kezang's sight.
Compared with the future, the cabinet members of Wucheng's twenty-two years have not yet been able to enjoy the feast of power alone, but the cabinet ministers who are not bothered by too much tax exemption in order to ensure that the imperial court's income is not bothered by too many tax lords are still quite rigorously reviewed.
"Gu Shun, from the sixth grade ordnance Cao Division, the founding uncle, nominated the county man." After putting down the piece of paper in his hand, Prime Minister Chen Ke asked Pang Xi, the cabinet minister and minister of military affairs, who was sitting next to him. "Huge people, Gu Shun is a person, he actually crossed the founding county marquis, the founding marquis, and directly nominated the county man, isn't it a bit too much."
Xuan, the judge of the court who attended the meeting, echoed: "From the sixth grade, the Jin County man, is it a little too much." ”
Although Xuan Ke is also a member of the third grade, because he is not a cabinet minister, Pang Xi does not like him at all, but simply explains to Chen Ke: "This person has great merit, and he should be directly promoted to a county man." ”
"Great merit? What kind of great achievement can be promoted three levels in a row. Chen Ke looked carefully at Gu Shun's nomination text, and asked with some confusion. Why is it not clear in Gu Shun's resume submitted by the Ministry of Military Affairs. ”
Pang Xi replied succinctly: "It is a matter of military aircraft, and it cannot be passed on, so please forgive me." ”
"It's about military aircraft?" Chen Ke shook his head and took another piece of paper casually. "Then this Wan Jun is also a great achievement."
"Wan Jun, from the sixth grade ordnance Cao Division, the former founding uncle, nominated county male. Hehe, except for the different names, with Gu Shun, there is nothing else. Cai Tong, the cabinet minister and provincial servant of Duzhi, also laughed after reading the text. Huge people, the credit of this million adults is none other than the failure of military aircraft. ”
"I'm afraid, it's not just Wan and Gu." Yao Zepei, the cabinet minister and secretary of the Dushui Yamen, who had turned a few more pages, said with a solemn face. "Zhang Yun, Chen Jien, Yuan Rongshan, Qiu Kejing, Ni Yaning, Wei Tao, Qian Xiping, obediently, just one ordnance Cao, the Ministry of Military Affairs has nominated nine county men, huge people, are these all great achievements?"
Since the titles of the Huaxia Dynasty are hereditary, and the fields attached to the titles are tax-free, there are extremely strict requirements for the awarding of titles, and there are certain restrictions on the total number of nobles awarded each year.
"Ordnance Cao?" Cabinet Minister and Minister of Justice Zhuo Wenyuan thought about it carefully. "No, there were six Jinfeng founding uncles, eight Jinfeng founding county marquis, and four Jinfeng founding marquis." In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Ministry of Military Affairs' nomination this time was too outrageous, Zhuo Wenyuan would not have remembered the previous list of lords. "Huge people, are these operators also nominated for promotion because of their great merit?"
Pang Xi replied dryly: "Exactly, they were also nominated for Jin Feng because of their great merits, and in addition, the Ministry of Military Affairs also nominated a county son this time, which is the same military merit." ”
Now a few cabinet ministers quit: "Huge people, this doesn't make sense, no matter how great the merit is, it shouldn't nominate so many recipients, could it be that the adults are ready to report more and get more, this can't be done." ”
Everyone present thought that Pang Xi was preparing to report two out of ten and win with the cardinal number, but they were ready to follow suit next time, but they got a shocking answer from Pang Xi's mouth: "What? These ten lords must all pass the first trial? Huge man, you're not kidding, how is this possible. ”
The plate of the annual Jin Jue is so big, and the Ministry of Military Affairs is about to take away the ten Shijue shortlists, so what about the other government offices, so the opposition suddenly rose.
"Huge people," looking at Pang Xi, who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, Chen Ke asked with a little headache. "The old man knows that it must be reasonable for the Ministry of Military Affairs to nominate like this, but there are too many of them, and it is really difficult to handle it." Speaking of this, Chen Ke changed his words. "Although it is a matter of military aircraft, but such a great achievement, it is better for the huge person to explain it, otherwise, the cabinet can only fight back."
Pang Xi thought for a while and said slowly: "It stands to reason that this great achievement is related to the military aircraft, and it is not easy to make it public, but you are all important ministers of this dynasty, and you will not spread it if you think about it." ”
The most powerful people in the Huaxia Dynasty listened as carefully as if listening to gossip, and listened to Pang Xi say: "The above-mentioned nominees are all members of the Ordnance Cao Gunpowder Division, specifically to develop new gunpowder, as for the explosive power of new gunpowder, it can only be said that it is several times that of the old gunpowder, and the saint has also personally come to accept it." ”
The so-called new gunpowder is actually two separate research parts of nitroglycerin and mercury fire cap arranged by Zheng Kezang himself, of which the research on nitroglycerin includes the production of sulfuric acid by contact method, sulfuric acid purification, preparation of nitric acid, nitric acid purification, nitroglycerin, diatomaceous earth adsorption nitroglycerin and other entire series of projects, which are almost the last part of the memory of Zheng Kezang's previous life can be directly copied in the present, for which it almost cost the Ministry of Military Affairs nearly 5 million yuan. Even the production of manganese steel in Dongguan can be said to be for the whole army to change its equipment after the use of new gunpowder.
"It can be said that once the new gunpowder is put into use, the combat power of our army will increase by more than ten times." Pang Xi can only talk about it here, as for the specific range, shooting and the improvement of the explosive effectiveness, he is not good to reveal. "Therefore, this great merit was personally awarded by the Holy Lord to the Ordnance Cao Gunpowder Division."
Hearing that it was a great achievement personally awarded by Zheng Kezang, the ministers looked at each other, so the nomination of the Ministry of Military Affairs was smooth.
It's just that there are too many nominations from the Ministry of Military Affairs, so that the next application forms of the various government offices have been greatly affected, and what should have been passed without any problems has been forced to delay until the next year.
"The Privy Council nominated Niu Mingli to be promoted to county male. Niu Mingli? This person, the official seems to have heard of this person somewhere. "Cabinet Counselor and Minister Qian Wenzhao used to be a waiter in the Ministry of Officials, so he still has some residual impressions of the once sensational Lingyamen trespass case." Master Xuan, a huge person, can you let the Court of Judges and the Ministry of Military Affairs check it. ”
"Don't bother the two adults." Li Jing, the head of the Supervision Yuan, who attended the meeting as an observer, suddenly spoke. "This person, the official still remembers." Immediately, Li Jing said to someone sitting behind him. "Lord Wan, you should tell all the adults to know."
"Yes." At that time, Wan Fengyun, who had gone to Lingyamen as a special envoy of the Supervision Yuan to verify the case, stood up. "Ladies and gentlemen, Xia Guan has just looked through the file of Lord Niu Mingli Niu, and it is true that this Lord Niu is one of the key criminals in the Lingyamen trespass case back then, but he has already been robbed of his official body at that time, and I don't know why he appeared in the nomination of the Southern Privy Council now."
Chen Ke's face changed suddenly, he immediately lowered his head and flipped through Niu Mingli's nomination text, and only looked up at Wan Fengyun after a long time: "Lord Wan, you shouldn't be mistaken, the nomination said that this Lord Niu has been serving in the Privy Council, and there is no vacancy, it should just be the same name and surname." ”
"Xiang Mingjian, Xia Guan clearly remembers the origin of Niu Mingli Niu, which is exactly the same as recorded in the nomination, and it is not necessarily the same Ningbo Ninghai that has two Niu Mingli Niu with the same name and surname." Wan Fengyun's response made the people present feel creepy. "So, either the Southern Privy Council is bullying the king, or"
Wan Fengyun's words were only half spoken, but the ministers still made up for it. Yes, if it weren't for the Privy Council's efforts to nominate Wen Jiàn, then the only possibility is that there was another mystery in the Lingyamen transgression case back then. However, whether there is another mystery or the Southern Privy Council's manipulation of the nomination of Wen Jiàn, this is a shocking case -- the former is deliberately provoking a border provocation and leading a big war, and is suspected of exceeding his authority to interfere in politics, and the latter is a serious crime of bullying the monarch, which is also unforgivable-and its severity is even very likely to affect the entire court situation, so that the faces of the cabinet members who have come over to understand it are a little unnatural.
"Master Lee." The sad Prime Minister said to Li Jing in a consultative tone. "The New Year is coming soon, and in the coming year, the saint is going to canonize the prince again, this troublesome matter, is it temporarily put aside, of course, the Supervision Yuan is here to investigate, just don't make a storm in the city, let the saint worry."
Li Jing was a little silent, based on the interests of the Supervision Yuan, he must handle this big case, but Chen Ke was right, Zheng Kezhang finally relented and said that he would be crowned the crown prince next year, this is the most important event in the Huaxia Dynasty at this stage, and it must not be because of this case that has been impacted, so after thinking about it, Li nodded and said: "Later, the lower officials should report this matter to the saint together with the prime minister." ”
Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the cabinet members: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to continue?"