It's really dark under the lights.

Thousands of calculations, how did you miss this?

Because the official department of the sixth department of Nanjing has just become vacant.

And the officials not only lack books, but also lack waiters.

The left attendant of the ministry and the right attendant of the ministry were also absent.

Now if you want to promote the cabinet to assist, you need the secretary of the ministry to come forward to preside, but the secretary of the ministry is missing, and the left and right servants of the ministry are also missing, what should I do?

Gao Hongtu said: "Otherwise, the great uncle will preside over it?" ”

Wang Duo suddenly lifted his spirits, let me preside over the court push? OK.

"No." Chen Liangyu immediately objected, "The great uncle presiding over the court is suspected of encroaching on the power of the ministry. ”

Gao Hongtu was speechless, the six-ministry system of the Ming Dynasty has been in operation for nearly three hundred years, and the division of power between the six ministries has been extremely clear.

Shi Kefa sighed and came out of the class to play: "Please Holy Saint Tejian Otsuka." ”

The secretary has the highest authority among the six ministries, and is also the pillar of the cabinet's power to speak.

If a cabinet chief assistant is not able to control the secretary of the ministry, it can basically only be reduced to an ornament.

But now the Donglin Party bosses led by Shi Kefa have let the Ming Dynasty's court push system be blocked, and they can only obediently cede the power of the special secretary department Shangshu or Zuo Shilang to the emperor.

"As I just said, I won't encroach on the power of the cabinet."

Chongzhen pretended to say: "It's better for Shi Aiqing to nominate a candidate for Otsuka Zai first, and then I will make a special brief." ”

Shi Kefa and other Nanjing officials couldn't help but roll their eyes, sure enough, the saint is still consistently hypocritical, obviously you want to do something, but you have to ask the courtiers to say it for you.

Isn't it just to prevent mistakes in the future and not be held accountable to you?

Shi Kefa did not follow Chongzhen to break the siege from Beijing, nor did they follow to fight for more than 5,000 miles, so they still stuck in the original stereotype of Chongzhen.

But in fact, this Chongzhen has long been no longer Chongzhen.

At that moment, Shi Kefa said helplessly: "In this way, the minister recommended the right Sikou Meng Zhaoxiang to move to the left and the left mound. ”

has been in the officialdom for many years, how could Shi Kefa and other Donglin Party members not see Chongzhen's intentions? It is nothing more than wanting to let the Beijing officials who went south with him control the ministry.

Therefore, it is definitely not possible to recommend other candidates.

However, Shi Kefa and others were still unwilling to give Shi Bu Shangshu directly.

I still want to let the emperor briefly pull out a left servant of the history department for the time being, and when the opportunity is ripe in the future, he will call a big man of the Donglin Party such as Qian Qianyi or Liu Zongzhou to be the secretary of the history department.

The Cabinet will still have the power to appoint and dismiss officials.

Chongzhen asked Gao Hongtu and the others again: "What do you think?" ”

Gao Hongtu and the others brushed together and said, "The ministers seconded the proposal." ”

Chongzhen smiled and said to Meng Zhaoxiang, "Congratulations to Zuozukazai." ”

Meng Zhaoxiang hurriedly shook his head to the ground and said, "Holy Lord, the minister is afraid. ”

"You don't have to panic." Chongzhen's face was straight, and he said solemnly, "Qingzhi is loyal to the country, I saw it with my own eyes on the way to Yangzhou in the south, you are well-deserved to be the leader of Zuozuka, I only hope that after you take charge of the ministry, you will select more useful talents for the country, and don't let those corpses and vegetarians mix in the officialdom." ”

The implication is that I am optimistic about the ministry.

Don't let the Donglin Party encroach on the power of your ministry.

"The ministers obey the holy commandment." Meng Zhaoxiang said solemnly.

Meng Zhaoxiang's subtext is, Holy God, you can relax.

Meng Zhaoxiang was Chongzhen's first wedge into Jiangnan officialdom.

After the Ming Dynasty retreated to the south half of the Yangtze River, it was inevitable that the Donglin Party would become big.

Because Jiangnan is the nest of the Donglin Party, the Donglin Party has incomparable influence in Jiangnan.

If the world is peaceful and there is still a strong military force in his hands, Chongzhen can naturally learn from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to eradicate the Donglin Party and rectify the Jiangnan officialdom by iron-fisted means, but it is a pity that now it is not only in troubled times, but also he lacks a strong armed force in his hands, and there is a danger of losing the country, so the Jiangnan officialdom has to rely on the Donglin Party for the time being.

Otherwise, a large-scale strike broke out in Jiangnan officialdom, how would it be played?

Historically, there have been two official strikes in the small court of Hongguang.

The final result was to directly wipe out the Hongguang small court.

But even so, it cannot be dominated by the Donglin Party.

That's why Chongzhen will make a decisive move and seize the right to elect officials.

Meng Zhaoxiang is a native of Shanxi, and he is not deeply involved with the Donglin Party, so he is the best thug.

Shi Kefa coughed lightly, and said: "Then now, I invite Zuozuka Zai to preside over the court push." ”

"Yes." Meng Zhaoxiang immediately walked to the center of the line and said loudly, "The country cannot be without a king for a day, and the cabinet cannot be without assistance for a day. ”

Hearing this, the Nanjing officials present immediately cheered up.

After waiting for this half a day, I finally got to the point and chose the first assistant!

It's quite exciting to think about it, before the fall of the Jingshi, this was the power that only the officials of the Jingshi have, but now it is their turn to exercise the power of the court push by the officials of Nanjing.

It's really a feng shui cycle.

Tingtui was extremely sacred in the minds of Ming officials.

This is the supreme power of the civil service group in exercising the Ming Dynasty.

I only heard Meng Zhaoxiang continue: "The servant has been in Beijing for a long time, and he is somewhat familiar with his colleagues in the capital, and some are not very familiar with it, so in order to ensure fairness, justice and openness, the servant decided to expand the scope of the court promotion cabinet members to all officials above the third rank, but according to the rules, the servant will not participate in the court push." ”

"However, because there are many candidates to participate in the court push,"

"I don't do the positive push and the deputy push, only choose one person."

"Directly take the person with the most votes as the positive push."

"The second is the deputy push, and the second two are the second vice push."

"A total of four people will be elected, and then handed over to the saint to be selected on the spot."

After Meng Zhaoxiang finished speaking, there was a buzz in the line and it exploded.

Zuotsuka Jae actually expanded the scope of the promotion to all three products?

Oh no, except for himself, because according to the rule, officials are not allowed to enter the cabinet.

Let's not say what the final result of this court push will be, but Meng Zhaoxiang's move instantly won the favor of most people, except for Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and other Donglin Party bigwigs who are sure to enter the candidate list, other Sanpin officials who originally had no chance to enter the list instantly doubled their favor for Meng Zhaoxiang, and Zuo Tsukasa was righteous!

Even the Kedao officials who were not qualified to enter the list were reaped by Meng Zhaoxiang with a wave of favor, and Zuo Tsukasa was very fair.

Chongzhen also smiled when he saw this, sure enough, there is no one who can mix with the officialdom of the Beijing Division, they are all old foxes who have become elites, and they originally thought that Meng Zhaoxiang would have a difficult period after taking charge of the ministry, and it was not even ruled out that he would be overlooked below, but now it seems that his worries are completely superfluous, and Meng Zhaoxiang only used one move to gain a firm foothold.

The process is simple, Wang Chengen has already taken a few eunuchs to send paper and pencils.

The officials present wrote down the names of the officials on the pieces of paper.

After all the officials had finished writing, Wang Chengen collected all the pieces of paper.

and then handed over to Meng Zhaoxiang for roll call, next to a royal historian and a superintendent in the matter.

Wang Chengen is in charge of counting, and there is also an imperial historian next to him to supervise the matter.

The results came out quickly, Shi Kefa received the largest number of recommendations, thirty votes, and nearly half of the officials in the capital elected him, which can be said to be expected.

Next are Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang.

Then there is Xie Xuelong, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Criminal Department.

Without exception, they are all the bigwigs of the Donglin Party.

In fact, the top ten are all Donglin Party members.

Chongzhen's face is a little not very good-looking, it seems that the influence of the Donglin Party in Jiangnan officialdom is really not ordinary, it can be seen from this court push.

"Holy Judge, please." Meng Zhaoxiang handed over the list.

Wang Chengen on the other side also handed over the red pen.

Chongzhen thought about the list for a while and made a decision.

Since it is impossible to avoid the Donglin Party entering the cabinet, it is simply to push the boat to fulfill them.

In this way, it can more or less win the favor of the Donglin Party, and then make the Jiangnan officialdom run at full speed.

After all, the top priority now is to concentrate all forces to operate the Huanghuai defense line, which is the main contradiction at the moment.

This is how the Hongguang small court plays itself to death, and Chongzhen will not be stupid as a traverser.

At that moment, Chongzhen picked up the red pen and drew four circles on the list, all of which were checked: "In my opinion, there is no need to waste time and then push the rest of the cabinet assistants, so Shi Aiqing, who has the highest number of votes, is the leader, Gao Aiqing, who has the second most votes, is the second assistant, and Jiang Aiqing reconciles Aiqing as the third and fourth assistants again, what do you think?" ”

The vast majority of officials had no opinion, and said in unison: "The ministers seconded the proposal." ”

"Then it's decided." Chongzhen said to Wang Duo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, "Uncle Zong, you have to work with the Ministry of Rites to draft the holy decree and announce it to the world, and promote Shi Kefa to be a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and Xie Xuelong are scholars of Dongge University, and they are scheduled to be served. ”

"Commandment." Wang Duo's expression was a little lost, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he should have been the first candidate for the first assistant of the cabinet, but he didn't even squeeze into the top ten of the court push.

Speaking from the heart, Wang Duo was dissatisfied with Shi Kefa and others.

Although Shilin all respected Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, and Jiang Yueguang as national scholars,

But Wang Duo thought it was because they were members of the Donglin Party, not because the three of them really had the talent of a national warrior, and why did Xie Xuelong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, rank above him?

But the situation is stronger than people, who made this Jiangnan.

Chongzhen smiled and said to Shi Kefa: "Shi Aiqing, congratulations." ”

"On the saint, the old minister was terrified and did not dare to accept the order." Shi Kefa also wants to learn from the ancients.

Chongzhen felt a little tired, and said unhappily: "Shi Kefa, when the country is in danger, don't engage in the form of three resignations and three concessions, when you enter the cabinet at this time, no one will say that you love power, but only say that you are for the country and have the style of a countryman, so you still think about how to reorganize the army and the people, and assist the country." ”

Chongzhen's words made Shi Kefa Khan cry.

Yes, it takes time to engage in formality, but when is it?

At that moment, Shi Kefa quickly entered the role and asked: "The old minister is stupid, I don't know what instructions the Holy Lord has?" ”

Chongzhen nodded happily, this is like a first assistant, and then said: "Jiannu is about to move south, and the top priority is to operate the Huanghuai defense line, so all government affairs are based on this." ”