In the memory of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the first thing most new emperors did after succeeding to the throne was to quickly control the situation inside and outside the imperial court.

There are generally two directions to control the situation. The first is to arrange the person you trust the most to the most important position.

The second is to reach a compromise with the main forces inside and outside the imperial court, so that as many people as possible are willing to accept their orders.

Therefore, when the new emperor ascended the throne in ancient times, he often had to give amnesty to the world, and at the same time he added a hundred officials, and there was a saying that the son of heaven and a courtier.

The emperor who succeeds to the throne normally has less difficulty controlling the situation. Because the vast majority of neutrals who do not have much ambition will accept the orthodox heir as the new emperor as a matter of course.

Anyway, there must be an emperor, who will be succeeded by an orthodox heir, who will have the least impact on the situation. With the overwhelming majority of neutrals not objecting, the new emperor was able to complete his layout relatively smoothly.

Even if some of those who held certain important positions and had ambitions to improve their status, the emperor would usually be able to stabilize them if he gave them the right appeasement and reward.

In the face of the orthodox heirs, it is too difficult to rebel and make trouble, and they usually accept it when they see it.

For an emperor who does not succeed to the throne normally, it will be more difficult to control the situation. He first had to reassure the neutrals that they were convinced or accepted that he was the right fit.

And then there's a deal with restless molecules. Most importantly, it is necessary to suppress its competitors and quickly complete a substantive coup d'état.

However, whether it is a normal succession or not, some power or interests must be ceded to some extent, and all groups must be appeased.

Let conservative people believe that they will not change the situation, and let radical people accept their direction.

Zhu Jingyuan should be doing now, in fact, these are still the things. The difference is that he doesn't need to be as urgent as the emperors in his previous life.

I don't need to write a holy decree immediately, I don't need to immediately recruit some special subordinates to Beijing to support him, and I don't need to immediately let some people take over certain positions.

Under normal circumstances, he does not need to compromise with any forces inside and outside the court. Because he did not ascend the throne after the death of his father.

His father is still there, and even his grandfather is still there. Now the forces inside and outside the court are still under the control of his father.

And the father will gradually transfer these forces to himself. I can operate as safely as possible, summon the people I need into Beijing step by step, and gradually take over the important duties left by my father's people.

His father's health is still quite healthy, and it is not impossible for him to live to be in his eighties like his grandfather.

In such a situation, there is no need to specifically cede power and interests. However, monetary and honorary rewards still have to be given, and Zhu Jingyuan has always been kind in this regard.

After becoming emperor himself, there are only a very limited number of orders that must be made immediately.

Zhu Jingyuan was a little surprised by the immediate succession today, but he had already prepared for the succession itself. He had already made a draft in his heart, and after watching the civil and military officials below sit down, Zhu Jingyuan spoke directly.

First of all, Pan Shien, who was also the political envoy of Dongmozhou, was recruited to enter Beijing and took over the official position of the secretary of the ministry left by himself.

Then he canonized Lin Zexu and Niu Jian, the two heads of the royal staff, as cabinet scholars, to take over the daily affairs of the Wenhua Hall and the cabinet, the de facto office of the Ming Emperor, as well as the channels responsible for uploading and issuing information and orders.

At the same time, the two were asked to draw up a formal appointment plan for all their staff. The official book is the most important amount that must be filled immediately, and he must also be taken over by his real descendants.

It's not just because it's important, it's important to be in the hands of someone who trusts it absolutely. Look at it the other way around, as a leader

If you are "promoted", you should also bring your own descendants

"Progress together". Otherwise, most of the ordinary courtiers who can be regarded as bystanders at the moment may think that they are mean and unkind in their hearts.

Although he has always had a reputation for kindness, for those who don't want to do it, hearing is false, and seeing is believing.

Zhu Jingyuan's earliest absolute descendants are Lin Zexu, Niu Jian, and Guan Tianpei. Lin Zexu and Niu Jian are staff members, so they directly entered the cabinet as scholars.

Guan Tianpei is a military attaché, and now he is the naval governor of the Great Food Country, and Zhu Jingyuan is ready to transfer him to the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion as the deputy governor in charge of the navy.

After the three of them, there are Liu Zhixin, the first governor of the Great Food Country, Xu Minghui, the first judge, and Pan Shien, who was transferred to the past in the first year of Ankang.

There was also a Wang Yinzhi who went with Pan Shien, but Wang Yinzhi was actually the prefect of Crete, who was an official of the imperial court at that time, but he also served as the right long history of the Great Food Country.

Pan Shien is a full-time official of the Great Food Country. Strictly in terms of seniority, Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui are slightly earlier than Pan Shien, but there is not much difference.

Because although Pan Shien was later transferred from the Ming Dynasty. However, Liu Zhixin and Xu Minghui did not follow Zhu Jingyuan directly after entering politics, both of them were officials of the original vassal states in the Persian Gulf.

Plus Liu Xu is both of them

"Honest man", his personality is more stubborn and rigid, and it is difficult to do a good job of the secretary's book. Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan gave Pan Shien the book of the ministry, and then after a few days to vacate the place in the court, he arranged Liu Xu and the others to go to the criminal department and Dali Temple.

Theoretically speaking, during his tenure as the secretary of the ministry, the two servants who served as his deputies were also his own people.

It's just that the identities of the two of them in their own system are too marginal, and they are the last to join.

If he let one of the two of them be the secretary of the ministry, and didn't let real veterans like Pan Shien and Liu Zhixin come, the two of them would feel uneasy, and they might even be scared to resign.

Even if it is among its own people, it must be divided into first-come, first-served, and if the gap is too big, you can't grab the position, otherwise it may provoke the anger of the same kind in the entire system.

To some extent, this can be regarded as the officialdom rules of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, there is also a large mound Zai Wang Tingzhen on the official book.

Wang Tingzhen is 63 years old and can now arrange retirement at any time. But he won't let him retire right away, and he will have to continue to coach Pan Shien for two to three years.

Pan Shien served as the secretary of the ministry for a while, and was familiar with the affairs of the ministry with his boss Wang Tingzhen and his subordinates. When the time comes, Wang Tingzhen will be arranged to retire, and Pan Shien will be promoted to Tsukasa.

At this time, the original left waiter of the ministry can be promoted to the secretary of the ministry normally. In this way, Pan Shien cut in line to buffer, which is very in line with the tradition of officialdom.

Pan Shien is fifty years old this year, and his promotion to Shangshu can be regarded as relatively fast, but it is still within a relatively reasonable range.

Moreover, Pan Shien is still in East Mozhou, and there is no way to come out directly to thank him now. However, Lin Zexu and Niu Jian were both at the scene.

Both of them have just turned thirty-five years old this year, and now they are directly in the position of extremely human ministers. The university scholar is the apex of the staff system, and there will be no substantive promotions in the future, but it will continue to improve the rank.

The default scholar is the second grade, and if the emperor feels that a certain scholar is too young, he may especially press the grade.

Let the other party enter that with the rank of the third or even the fourth grade. But Zhu Jingyuan won't do this, since Lin Zexu and Niu Jian have the ability, they will directly give Zheng Erpin.

Even if the two of them don't have any obvious achievements in the future, even if they have to stay up for three or nine years to be promoted to the next level, they should be promoted to Zhengyipin when they are fifty-three years old.

When you retire, you will definitely have to add a title, at least one viscount is indispensable, and it is even possible to get an earl.

Unless the two of them are directly ready to jump from the staff to the outer court to start over, their careers have already reached the top.

The two have been looking forward to this for a long time. When I was in the Great Food Country, I seriously considered whether I wanted to take this path.

The two were worried that if they chose this way, it would make Zhu Jingyuan feel that they had no ambitions...... I still got a direct invitation from Zhu Jingyuan before I decided to stay.

Now that Zhu Jingyuan's order came out, both of them came out with emotion and excitement and bowed down to thank him.

The rest of the staff were also jubilant. Zhu Jingyuan did not directly appoint them, but he also specifically mentioned it.

Let Lin Zexu and Niu Jian discuss and come up with a plan. It is to give a group of Hanlin Bachelors, Attendant Bachelors, Attendant Bachelors and other official positions of the Hanlin Academy.

Although the current official positions of the Hanlin Yuan are similar to honorary titles, they are actually the emperor's staff and secretaries.

It has long been no longer the title of the most noble civil official before the Chongzhen Dynasty. But these honors, which have been passed down for hundreds of years, should not be liked by any staff member who does not like the title of Hanlin.

Aside from the university scholars, this is the apex of the staff. If nothing else, the emperor should be able to do it directly.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at his staff with a smile, and after bowing slightly, he announced the holiday: "The matter of moving the capital is complicated, and the secretaries must adapt to the new environment as soon as possible and restore the original work efficiency."

"From tomorrow, after three days, there will be no morning court, and the secretaries will concentrate on the work at hand.

"If you have something particularly important, you can go to the Mandarin Hall alone to ask for a meeting.

"Alright, that's all for today's court." The officials at the scene also immediately got up and bowed down to Zhu Jingyuan together: "Congratulations to Your Majesty." After Zhu Jingyuan got up and left the hall, the officials at the scene began to get up and leave the hall one after another.

Lu Yinpu looked at Wang Tingzhen beside him, and said in a strange manner: "Otsuka Zai, hurry up and go back to write a resignation, you should have retired a long time ago......" Wang Tingzhen is sixty-three years old this year, and he has indeed passed the theoretical retirement age.

However, the previous emperor Zhu Jianyan was retained, because Zhu Jingyuan was familiar with the work of the Ministry of Officials at that time.

Now that the new emperor has succeeded to the throne, he has also specifically announced the suspension of the early dynasty for three days, which are not entirely for the officials to adapt to the environment.

It is also a note to give the ministers time and take the initiative to write their resignations. According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, all officials above the age of 60 years old must ask the emperor for their resignation and obtain the emperor's permission to retire when they should retire according to the regulations.

Officials below the third grade do not need it, and they can go through the formalities normally when they reach the age. Especially in the first two years of the new emperor's succession, the old emperor usually did not allow these old ministers to resign.

When each new emperor succeeds to the throne, it is the time when the most retired ministers in the court should be retired. After the new emperor succeeded to the throne, these old ministers asked the new emperor to resign.

The new emperor had to arrange for his own handy men to take over certain important posts in the past. will approve the resignation of the minister in the corresponding position, but basically the minister will be promoted to another level and retired.

Wang Tingzhen's large mound is the most important position in the imperial court, so Lu Yinpu will come out to mock. Now Wang Tingzhen was not angry at all, but stroked his beard and smiled and replied: "Of course, the old man will write a resignation, but the old man estimates that he will have to work hard for a few more years." ”

"The old decay has to bring another official to Your Majesty." Lu Yinpu is also a human spirit, and when he heard Wang Tingzhen say this, he immediately understood the current situation.

Pan Shien has been serving in Dongmozhou, and he came directly to be the secretary of the ministry, and no one above was really troublesome.

Zhu Jingyuan, who has already become the emperor, estimates that he will not have much time to personally hand over to Pan Shien. The natural choice is to let Wang Tingzhen, an old thing, work for a few more years.

Lu Yinpu couldn't help frowning for a while, and then quickly had a new idea: "If even you can keep it, most of the officials will have to work hard for a few more years......" Wang Tingzhen blew his beard, and he was not in a very happy mood.

Indeed, the sixty-year-old Situ Lu Yinpu is to some extent Zhu Jingyuan's person. When Zhu Jingyuan was the governor of the North Mozhou and the Great Qinhai region, Lu Yinpu happened to be sent over to be the political envoy of the North Mobu.

At the same time, Lu Yinpu is still Wang Tingzhen's recognized enemy of the court, and the two have quarreled in the court for several years.

In order not to treat his own people harshly, the new emperor had to leave Lu Yinpu while leaving Wang Tingzhen.

Anyway, Lu Yinpu is the emperor's own person, and he has done a good job in charge of financial work over the years. The point is that he just turned 60 this year, and there is really no need for him to retire immediately.

The two of them blew their beards and glared at each other, and the big uncle next to them passed by Shen Fuzhong, smiling and arching his hand towards the two.

The two also subconsciously returned the salute, and they couldn't quarrel anymore, so they followed Shen Fu and went out together.

If you want to talk about the Jiuqing monks and important ministers in the court, whose position is the most stable, it is most likely to be calm.

He is the most peculiar of the two generations of emperors in Jiuqing. Shen Fu was born in Honglu Temple, and before the end of the World War, the position of Honglu Temple was not very important.

When Shen Fu was forty years old, he became the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, whose grade was equivalent to that of a squire. At that time, Honglu Siqing was the former emperor Zhu Jianyan.

During the armistice negotiations of the World War, Zhu Jianyan was transferred to the Zongren Academy. Zhu Jingyuan came out to act as the agent of Honglu Siqing, and he became Shen Fu's boss.

At that time, Shen Fu accompanied Zhu Jingyuan to preside over the negotiation of the armistice agreement. The main negotiation strategy was done by Zhu Jingyuan, and the management of the entire mission and the completion of the actual agreement, all these daily tasks were done in a heavy and heavy manner.

After the negotiations, Zhu Jianyan succeeded to the throne as emperor, and Shen Fu was naturally promoted to Honglu Siqing.

At that time, Shen Fu was only forty-two years old and had already become a Shangshu-level official. Later, the various ministries of the imperial court reformed and established Jiuqing, and Huang Yue, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, retired after becoming a Zongbo, and Shen Fu followed him as a Zongbo.

From a less important diplomatic official, he became an important minister in charge of all culture and education. In the end, he was promoted to the great uncle of Zhengyipin according to his qualifications.

The key is that he is only 57 years old this year, and he is not yet retired at all, and his career is extremely smooth.

Of course, Lu Yinpu and Wang Tingzhen are definitely not bumpy. In fact, the resumes of all the important ministers of Jiuqing can be described as glamorous.

After all, the limit of retirement at sixty is stuck on it. If the previous career is not smooth, if there are too many obstacles and mistakes, you should miss the opportunity when you should be promoted.

Then you may not have a chance to reach this level in retirement. The high-ranking bureaucrats of the imperial court returned to their departments and took on official duties or wrote resignations in various moods.

Lin Zexu and the new emperor's staff led by Niu Jian went to the Wenhua Hall to familiarize themselves with the new office.