March 11, the sixth year of Wanli.

The sky was gloomy and the morning breeze was slightly cool.

Soon after Zhu Yijun finished his lecture in the Wenhua Palace, Zhang Juzheng formally submitted his resignation to him, and instructed: "From now on, I hope that all yamen chapters will be played, and I hope that Your Majesty will examine them one by one and make a ruling in person." Those who have a relationship should summon the ministers of the cabinet and discuss with them. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded his head: "I know." The gentleman should return quickly. ”

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "The ministers have repeatedly been merciful to the Queen Mother of the two palaces, but it is inconvenient because of the clothes. I didn't dare to go to the palace gate to thank you, and I looked forward to His Majesty playing for the ministers. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Sir, don't worry." ”

Zhang Juzheng thanked him for this, and only then did he take out a secret in his sleeve and revealed: "Your Majesty ordered the ministers to choose the cabinet ministers, and the ministers did not dare to wait slowly, after thinking about it all night, they tentatively planned to recommend the ministers of the Ministry of Shangshu Wang Dazai to enter the cabinet, together with Lu and Zhang Erge, and recommended the great uncle Ma Gong and Shaozuka Zai Shen Gong to enter the cabinet to pre-emptively, and first inspect the results of the new policy in the world for a year, so that you can act cheaply, and you can first break it and then report it when you need to make a decision." ”

Zhang Juzheng said: "Another minister has been ordered by His Majesty to prepare a proposal for the cultivation and selection of cabinet ministers, and I hope that Your Majesty will issue an edict ordering Hanlin Cichen to be elected as a foreign minister three years after being admitted to the hospital, and after the completion of the examination in nine years, he can be promoted to Beijing and return to the hospital, and then go through six departments." Your Majesty, please take a look. ”

Zhu Yijun also watched Zhang Juzheng's secret revelation and recital, and said: "All are acceptable!" Hard work sir. ”

Zhang Juzheng heard Zhu Yijun say the word "hard", and for a while, his whole body trembled as if he had been shocked, and then he actually prostrated in front of Zhu Yijun, and cried bitterly: "The minister is back to his hometown!" ”

Zhu Yijun got up, and after being silent for a long time, he comforted: "Sir, be less sad." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng only choked and kowtowed.

Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng's heavy steps, only took a deep breath, and said to Zhang Hongyan: "I still have something to say, but seeing Mr. so sad, it can't be said, he failed to worry, maybe for himself, it is also an unacceptable ending, but I don't want him to worry, it is Daming who needs him to be robbed of affection, and Mr. must understand it himself." ”

"What the emperor said is that if Mr. Yuanfu Zhang really ignores the society and wants to worry about the system, how can the emperor stop it."

Zhang Hongyan said.

Soon after Zhang Juzheng left Beijing, Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing also left Beijing.

Among them, Ma Ziqiang went south, and Shen Shixing went west.

Zhang Juzheng did not let the two enter the cabinet because Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing were sympathetic to the opponents.

After all, he is recommending talents for the country, and he does not intend to let the emperor only use his own private because of his own reasons.

Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing are also grateful for Zhang Juzheng's magnanimity.

After all, Zhang Juzheng did not take the opportunity to prevent them from entering the cabinet again because he wanted to change the system of cabinet ministers.

The two also knew that they should not live up to Zhang Juzheng's recommendation, and seriously went to the local area to inspect.

There is no need for Wang Guoguang to go out to Beijing to inspect.

He was able to enter the cabinet because Zhu Yijun required that the new cabinet ministers must have experience in local governance before they have the opportunity to join the cabinet.

And Wang Guoguang himself did enter the official career from Ren Zhi County, and he also served as two Zhi County.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng's recommendation of him to the cabinet was intended to follow Zhu Yijun's request, so that he could better handle all kinds of government affairs reported by the local government in the cabinet because of his experience in local governance.

After Wang Guoguang entered the cabinet, the new secretary of the Ministry of Justice was succeeded by Liu Yingjie, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

The new secretary of the criminal department was succeeded by Wu Baipeng.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu was replaced by Pan Sheng.

The ministers and ministers of the entire six years of Wanli have changed again.

Soon after he entered the cabinet, Zhao Zhenji, an old minister who could have replaced Zhang Juzheng and could handle various government affairs for Zhu Yijun, passed away suddenly.

Then, Lu Tiaoyang, who has been Zhang Juzheng's deputy for many years, also because Zhu Yijun gave him an edict after Zhao Zhenji's sudden death, saying that when major events are more likely to send people to ask Yuanfu Zhang Juzheng, and small matters to ask Wang Guoguang, he felt depressed, feeling that he was just a decoration after all, and it was really difficult to play a role, so he insisted on returning to recuperate.

Zhu Yijun knew Lu Tiaoyang's embarrassing situation, but he really didn't worry about letting Lu Tiaoyang, who has always been known as a good man, preside over government affairs, but also agreed to his departure.

What makes Zhu Yijun have to admit is that Zhang Siwei can still sit still, even if anyone with a discerning eye knows that the emperor and Zhang Juzheng both believe in Wang Guoguang's ability to preside over the cabinet, especially after Zhao Zhenji also passed away, but he was not the same as Lu Tiaoyang, because he felt embarrassed, so he resigned, and still worked conscientiously with Wang Guoguang in the cabinet.

Zhu Yijun deplored Zhao Zhenji's departure, just as he deplored Tan Lun's departure.

But it's also unavoidable.

If it weren't for the fact that he gave Zhao Zhenji to recover again and make his mood better and live for a longer period of time, according to the original history, in the fourth year of Wanli, Zhao Zhenji would have passed away.

After all, many of the famous ministers left by Jiajing to him and Longqing are indeed old, and after the fifth year of Wanli, there will indeed be a situation of leaving one by one.

Jiajing in history is not only good at playing with Wenchen, but also has a good hand at discovering capable Wenchen, and because of this, he has left a lot of talents for Longqing and Wanli.

But Zhu Yijun has to admit that Jiajing's shade is indeed gradually drying up.

And this sense of exhaustion, the most obvious manifestation at present, is that there are fewer and fewer excellent assistants.

Everything needs to be rediscovered.

Because if it is allowed to develop, it doesn't matter anything, and when Zhang Juzheng leaves, Shoufu will only be inferior to one generation after another.

According to Zhu Yijun's knowledge, in history, after Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, who served as the first assistant, could still take care of yin and yang, be a pastemaker, and avoid the intensification of party disputes.

But after Wang Xijue, he went to Fang Congzhe, Ye Xianggao, Han Yi and others.

These first assistants have begun to develop from not being able to control the infighting of civil officials, to actively participating in infighting, and even finally when it comes to Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, they are not even fighting to do things, but only to make better money.

The last first assistant, Wei Zaode, could only be silent when he encountered an incident, and then waited to become an official in the new dynasty, which was equivalent to directly putting it in trouble.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun felt that he had to consciously re-cultivate his bureaucratic system, first of all, by cultivating future auxiliary ministers.

"How is the high arch now?"

"After arriving in Beijing, I haven't seen him take a few books!"

"Is it because I can't let him return to the position of first assistant because I want to use Mr., and I am still disheartened and unwilling to give advice?"

After Zhu Yijun issued an order to Zhao Zhenji to also have a posthumous title and add an additional official title, he thought of Gao Gong because he thought of the rarity of auxiliary ministers, and asked Zhang Whale about Gao Gong.

Zhang Whale replied: "Back to the emperor, Mr. Gao just scolded Yin Shaobao, who went to the cabinet with him, in the cabinet this morning, saying that after betraying him and switching to Mr. Yuanfu Zhang, he only knew how to flatter him, and he didn't even do the right thing, and not only did not do the right thing, but also the bad thing. Yin Shaobao was therefore going to return to his hometown, saying that he couldn't stay in the cabinet, and he would rather be dismissed as a citizen and return to his hometown to be a farmer than to be scolded here. ”

Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this: "Interesting, go and see!" ”

(End of chapter)