Chapter 137: The Five Elders Enter the Cabinet
"If there is something to start, there is no capital to retreat."
"The minister has something to do." Yang Tinghe was very simply listed.
"What is Lord Yang participating in?" Zhu Houwei responded, and he was also a little nervous, because Yang Tinghe rarely acted as a court minister in the early dynasty, and since he came up, it was mostly to persuade him!
It's not just Zhu Houwei who thinks so, in fact, all the courtiers think so in their hearts.
"The affairs of the cabinet are huge and complex, and the government affairs are complicated, and it is difficult for the ministers and Lord Liang to cover all aspects, so I ask King Yong to appoint cabinet assistants to share the ministers' worries."
Zhu Houwei was suddenly a little strange, you must know that the cabinet is a place where the world is in charge of major affairs, even if the auxiliary ministers are not as powerful as the prime minister, they are not much smaller, so the fewer people in this cabinet, the better, Yang Tinghe actually wants someone to enter the cabinet, wouldn't it be to let others share his power?
What the hell......
You must know that Yang Tinghe is not the super bull Zhang Juzheng behind, when Zhang Juzheng was in the country, Emperor Wanli was controlled, and the six ministries, including the ministers and ministers who were on an equal footing with the head of the cabinet, bowed their heads together, and they were really the first people in power to lean towards the government and the opposition, and the old man Yang was not small in history, but it was a reputation made by Emperor Jiajing, and the ruling ability was a few streets behind Zhang Juzheng.
"Does Yang Shoufu have any candidates to recommend?"
Yang Tinghe said: "The minister recommended Jiang Mian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Yiqing, the secretary of the household department, Lu Wan, the imperial history of the left capital, Zhai Luan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Jin Gui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to enter the cabinet."
Recommend five at once! Zhu Houwei was directly stunned.
The number of people in the Ming cabinet is generally one to seven, and now there are only two cabinet ministers in the cabinet, Yang Ting and Prince Liang, if these five people all enter the cabinet, the cabinet is basically saturated.
Of course, a recommendation is a recommendation, and the appointment is a service, the emperor has the right to appoint all of them, and he also has the right to kick out a few, of course, the more convenient way is to kick out the court and then draw circles by himself.
However, the appointment of personnel in the cabinet is one of the emperor's greatest powers, if it is Zhu Houzhao, it must be more than one thing, but Zhu Houwei is different, he must firmly grasp some authority in his hands, so that he can have the maximum sense of existence in the eyes of the ministers.
Among these five people, Zhu Houwei is more familiar with Yang Yiqing and Jiang Mian, one of these two people has been in the cabinet for ten years, and the other has been in the cabinet for eleven years, if Zhu Houwei now approves the two to enter the cabinet, then the trajectory of history will completely change.
Of course, history has already changed, and there is no need to delve into this.
Zhu Houwei is thinking that these five people can be recommended by Yang Tinghe, and there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the qualifications are enough!
"The Yang Pavilion Department recommended five ministers to join the cabinet, do you have any objections?"
As soon as these words came out, all the courtiers understood what Zhu Houwei meant, that is, the cabinet candidates recommended by Yang Tinghe this time did not need to be recommended by the court, and they were directly decided at this court meeting.
So the ministers seconded the proposal, this is tantamount to nonsense, who will oppose it at this juncture, if it is against whom, then this Liang Zike will be deep, and there is no conflict of interest to make enemies, which is not in line with the golden mean in the officialdom.
Of course, there will definitely be dissatisfaction among the courtiers, and the reason for the dissatisfaction is the number of ministers, there are so many cabinet elders, and this time five are recommended at one time, if three or four are appointed, then the cabinet may not have any new people elected to the cabinet for a long time, which is not so happy for those ministers who feel that they are qualified or work hard to survive for a few more years.
"Since you have no objections, then the king will specially allow Yang Yiqing, Jiang Mian, Lu Wan, Zhai Luan, and Jin Gui to enter the cabinet!"
The court was in an uproar, Yang Ting and himself were extremely surprised, he recommended five people, and all five people entered the cabinet? According to his original intention, it would be good to be selected for three, and recommending five people was nothing more than a chance for Zhu Houwei to choose, who would have known that King Yong would give face like this......
It's just that the cabinet is directly overcrowded, and Yang Tinghe is a little speechless and depressed at the moment......
Zhu Houwei even named the names of the five people, in fact, he also arranged the seats for the cabinet, Yang Ting and the first assistant, Liang Chu and the second assistant, Yang Yiqing and the third assistant, and so on, the last Jin Gui, if nothing else, according to the conventional progression, this life is basically insulated from the first assistant.
The five elders of the new pavilion thanked him, and Yang Tinghe came out again and said: "The ministers ask for reinstatement of the original household department Shangshu Wang Wei......"
Zhu Houwei still has an impression of Wang Wei, who is still a scholar, a scholar of the Hubu Shangshu, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, a prince and a prince, and Zhengde entered the cabinet in the first year.
This guy is a cow man, the first place Xie Yuan in the township test, and the first place in the Hui Yuan, it's a pity that he mixed up a tanhua during the palace test, otherwise it is a legend of the three yuan and the first, and the famous Tang Yin Tang Xie Yuan in the later generations is not enough in front of him.
There is no doubt that Wang Wei can definitely be regarded as a minister, and he has rescued Shang Baoqing Cui Xuan, who was persecuted by Liu Jin, Han Wen, the official of Zhishi, Liu Jian, Xie Qian and Yang Yiqing, who still want Liu Jin to kill, and other important ministers, but because of Wang Wei's desperate mediation, they have escaped.
What does this mean? It shows that with Wang Wei's qualifications, even if he is as domineering as Liu Jin, he has to give him three points of thin noodles!
In the fourth year of Zhengde, Wang Wei was dissatisfied with the miasma of the imperial court by Liu Jin, and was disheartened and resigned several times, and was finally allowed to return to his hometown.
After Liu Jin fell, the court pushed Wang Wei to come back several times, but Wang Wei only thought about books and speeches, and finally lived for 16 years, until his death and never came out again.
It can be said responsibly that if Wang Wei is still in the court, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet will definitely not be Yang Tinghe's turn.
Zhu Houwei didn't know why Yang Tinghe put forward a proposal to let Wang Wei come back in the early dynasty, and people didn't even give the emperor face, so they would give him face as a prisoner? He doesn't seem to have such a big face.
"This king remembers that in the sixth year of Zhengde, Jiuqing would push Wang Wei to reinstate the head of the household, but he insisted on resigning on the grounds of physical illness, which shows that Wang Shangshu has no intention of pursuing a career.
Yang Tinghe said loudly: "Lord Wang is the pillar of the country, and it is a pity to live in the countryside, so the minister asked Lord Wang to return to the court, because he wanted to have one more capable minister in the Ming Dynasty!"
"In this way, in the name of His Majesty, give cattle and sheep and fine wine to show his favor, and invite him to Beijing, just say that this king has a lot of incomprehension about "Zhenze Collection", and ask Wang Lao to enter Beijing to solve his doubts for this king."
High! It's really high!
This technique made Yang Tinghe admire Zhu Houwei's methods!
If it was Emperor Zhengde, then at most he would send someone to invite Wang Wei to go out of the mountain and enter the office, but now Wang Wei only wants to do learning, and has no intention of being an official at all.
But King Yong did not say anything about being an official, but gave him grace with wine and food, and then summoned Wang Wei to talk about learning, what you are proud of is learning, and now King Yong humbly asks for advice, are you embarrassed not to come?
Do you want to leave after entering Beijing? How can it be so easy!
Terrible!