Jiang Xinghuo's report on behalf of the president's law change affairs yamen not only deeply touched the senior officials of the Ming Empire, but also announced from the factual level that this huge empire has taken on a new look after Jiang Xinghuo's one-year change so far.

Obviously, the next stage of change means entering the deep water area in every way.

Needless to say, in agriculture, now relatively few people, more land and the Xiaoice period is not yet deadly, in the next few decades, the production of the agricultural sector in Daming can meet the needs of the change, but without enough food to support a part of the population into the industrial, commercial and other sectors, the industrial revolution will not succeed.

In other words, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, you couldn't change the law even if you wanted to, and anyone would be in vain if the basic conditions didn't work, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were problems such as excessive population pressure and rigid bureaucratic system, and the difficulty coefficient of changing the law was even higher.

Therefore, from the perspective of agriculture and population, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was actually the easiest to change.

And what about industry?

In the industry, the handicraft workshop area represented by the cotton textile industry has been initially established, and the most critical coal and iron sector in the heavy industry has made key technological breakthroughs.

But objectively speaking, these are far from enough for the complete development of the industrial revolution.

At present, these sporadic fires are not enough to ignite the technological change of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, key technologies such as steam engines, machine tools, and parts have not yet completed technical research, and they are far away from mass production.

Therefore, although the road of the industrial revolution has made a good start, there is still a long way to go.

And there are even more major things that have not been done in the economic system, or tests that will be endured in the future.

Among other things, it is a very, very challenging task to complete the restoration of the value and credibility of the treasure banknote before the cross-sea expedition.

In addition, the establishment of a commercial transportation network consisting of "point-to-point trade routes" for domestic trade in the core area, as well as the warehouse and post office system envisaged in the future, will require a lot of manpower, material resources and energy.

Of course, the most difficult, and the most significant, is to go to the countryside with tax collectors.

"The road is long, and we will seek it up and down."

Jiang Xinghuo ended the entire work report with a sentence from Qu Yuan's "Lisao".

Applause is not popular in this era, and there is no continuous applause in the room, but everyone's complicated eyes are the best footnote to Jiang Xinghuo's work since the change of law for a year.

There is no one who is not in awe of someone who can really turn every word they say into reality.

No matter how ridiculous these words were in the eyes of everyone, who can not pay attention to these boasted "bulls" when they become reality?

After Jiang Xinghuo, who was temporarily in power, finished his work report, he began to take out another document and read out the most important content.

——The results of the first year of Yongle's examination.

This result, among the people present, except for the official secretary Shangshu Jianyi, no one knew about it.

Everyone stared nervously at Jiang Xinghuo, who was reading.

"Those who have passed the examination with excellent or excellent results should be promoted as follows."

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Not many people care about the promotion of petty officials, according to the examination method, in fact, according to the usual results, everyone can guess one or two.

After all, it may be difficult to see who did it, but who did it very well, and everyone is not blind, and those who can rise to the top can be seen at a glance.

When they reached the level of Shaoqing of each temple, everyone's attention began to focus.

"The king is really the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple."

This appointment is somewhat surprising, but if you think about Wang Zhen's background, it is not so surprising.

The former Shaoqing of Honglu Temple is Xun Zhan, since Chen Zuyi's pirate gang disguised itself as the mission of the Zhancheng State and had a case of wounding, Xun Zhan was first demoted to the Guozijian as a secretary, and then exiled to Yungui, and this position was so empty for more than half a year, but there are many people who are eyeing this position, and finally Chen Zhen got it.

But Chen Zhen's performance in the examination is more outstanding, and he must be promoted, so he is vacant again.

Now, after fierce competition, it can be regarded as an open and convincing procedure for the examination method, and this position has been given.

Wang Zhen is the classic meal of the former Yan Palace, in other words, Zhu Di's chef.

And Wang Zhen is not an ordinary worker, he carried the marching pot on his back and went to the battlefield with Zhu Di, after the success of Jingnan, the former King Yan became an emperor, and Wang Zhen also entered the Honglu Temple.

However, at the beginning, his level was still a little worse, so although Zhu Di had the heart to give him the position of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, it was not good to be too unusual, so he delayed it for more than half a year, and promoted him by half a level, so that it was barely reasonable.

"Li Wei, deputy director of the Department of Promotion, is the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and Gao Zhi, the official of Tingzhou Mansion, is the temple of Guanglu Temple."

Hearing this appointment, even though these officials were all high-ranking officials, they inevitably whispered.

For no other reason, Li Wei's promotion in this group is outrageous than the previous chef.

If the promotion of the chef is still a favor, and he is really hard-working, Li Wei really belongs to the sky.

What I want to explain here is what the pedestrian division is.

Pedestrian Division, Ming Hongwu 13 years place, the chief for the pedestrian (is the ninth product) deputy for the left, right pedestrian (from the nine products), after the pedestrian for the division, the left and right pedestrian for the left, right deputy division, the following management of 345 pedestrians, Hongwu 27 years after the whole organization was upgraded, are filled by the Jinshi, mainly responsible for the work of the decree.

And this work of proclamation is different from that of the eunuchs, and it is a proclamation of the whole country and even the whole world.

The emperor issued an order, issued edicts, canonized the clan, appeased the Quartet, recruited talents, and rewards, condolences, relief, military affairs, sacrifices, and other matters.

After Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he carried out a new deal and abolished the pedestrian division, and Zhu Di came to power and returned to the state of the middle and late Hongwu period.

But Rao is like this, and the deputy director of the pedestrian division after the promotion is still only from the seventh grade, which is also an out-and-out sesame official.

Although the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple is from the fifth grade, it is a powerful official position, and usually according to the rules of the temple, he can be specially given to wear a scarlet robe.

This is equivalent to jumping four levels in a row, which can be said to be very exaggerated.

And this one belongs to the best of the excellent in the test method, and Jiang Xinghuo used it to make "a thousand gold to buy bones".

As for the Tingzhou Mansion Pusher Gaozhi, Honglu Temple Cheng is from the sixth grade, and the pusher is the second official of each prefecture, and the responsibility of the criminal name, except for the Shuntianfu and Yingtianfu, the pusher is from the sixth grade, and the pushers of other prefectures are all positive seventh, in terms of grade, it is a normal promotion, of course, from the place where the Fujian Buzheng envoy Sitingzhou Mansion is directly transferred to the center, in fact, it is a special promotion, otherwise there are so many mansions in the country, how many people have the opportunity to be transferred to the capital?

However, there are well-informed people who have heard rumors that Gao Zhi has a deep understanding of Xunzi's learning, and this transfer to the Beijing Division is of great use.

After reading Shaoqing and Sicheng, it was the turn of "Little Jiuqing".

The so-called "Little Jiuqing", naturally relative to the "Big Jiuqing" of the six main officials, in the Hongwu Dynasty there are usually no particularly strict regulations, some people think that it should be Taichang Temple, Jingzhaoyin, Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple, Zhan Shifu, Guozijian, Hanlin Academy, plus the left and right Chunfang; But some people also think that Zhan Shifu and the left and right Chunfang are the official offices of the East Palace and should not be included in them, but should be added Shang Baosi, Honglu Temple, and Qin Tianjian, but some people also think that the current Honglu Temple is too low, far from the Han Dynasty Dahonglu, and it is the bottom of the temples, and Qin Tianjian is also far from the Han Dynasty Taishi Ling, so it can't be counted like this.

Although each has its own opinions, there has been no official definition, so much so that once Lao Zhu made a joke at a meeting.

The pedestrian division went to pass the decree, and there was an edict of "the big and small Jiuqing together", but for a while, I didn't know what it was, and as a last resort, I called everyone here, and the angry old Zhu was angry.

But anger is anger, Lao Zhu is still reasonable in this kind of thing, and after listening to the feedback, he knew that there was indeed no clear definition, so he personally issued an order and set the so-called "Xiao Jiuqing", Lao Zhu set the Taichang Temple, Zhan Shifu, Jingzhaoyin, Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple, Honglu Temple, Guozijian, Hanlin Academy, Shangbaosi, the nine departments of the chief officials, all of which were designated as Xiao Jiuqing.

"Promote Huang Ziwei to Guanglu Temple."

Huang Ziwei, the former prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, is the person used by Jiang Xinghuo, who has made great contributions to the pacification of chaos and water control in the south of the Yangtze River.

And with the gradual announcement of the list, the last person to be promoted in "Xiao Jiuqing" can be regarded as a stone.

It's not someone else, it's a scholar of Xie University.

"Promoted to Honglu Temple."

Honglu Siqing is the fourth grade, although it is also the third grade of the temple Qing, Dali Siqing, Taichang Siqing, from the three products Guanglu Siqing, Taifu Siqing can not be compared from the level, but in any case, Xie Jin was stabbed twice, and now he finally got what he wanted and put on a scarlet robe.

And the gold content of this scarlet robe is very high.

The previous Shaoqing of Honglu Temple could also wear a scarlet robe, but the scarlet robe was a special gift, because the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple was responsible for receiving foreign envoys, and the practice was to wear a scarlet robe, which represented the decency of the Ming Dynasty, which was not the same as the serious scarlet robe.

In this way, the personnel appointments of each temple are considered to be completed, and the next thing is the personnel appointment of the six central departments, which everyone is most concerned about.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the list in his hand, did not hesitate, and continued to read.

"Promote Lu Xiang to the right attendant of the Criminal Department."

Lu Xiang, the former political envoy of Beiping, did a good job this year under Guo Zi, the secretary of the Beijing Executive Department, and it is not surprising that he has now been transferred to the center of Nanjing.

It's just that in this way, Zhu Gaochi's strength has become stronger, but it has really made many people guess.

It's different from Kyocha.

Jingcha is carried out by the cabinet, the ministry, and the president's law change affairs yamen.

The examination method is the responsibility of the officials, and the emperor is the final review.

In other words, this list must have been nodded by Zhu Di, and the righteousness of the officials was handed over to Jiang Xinghuo to read out.

So what does the emperor mean when he let the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi think about it behind closed doors, but on the other hand, he acquiesced in the enhancement of his power?

Not to mention that the list cannot be changed, not to mention that the emperor will forget this stubble.

Obviously, this is done on purpose.

Thinking of this, their attention was on the paper in Jiang Xinghuo's hand.

There are currently two vacancies in the six departments, both of which are right waiters, one is the vacancy left by Li Qing, the right waiter of the original Criminal Department after the fall of Ma Jing, and now it has been filled by Lu Xiang, and the other is the vacancy left by Song Li, the right waiter of the original Ministry of Rites after the fall of Wang Jing, which has also been empty, it depends on who can fill it.

And who makes up for it also means that the wind direction in a certain temple is located.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't have the habit of selling guanzi, and he quickly announced it.

"Promote Molin to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites."

Mo Lin, the word Shizhen, Shaanxi Gaoling people, Hongwu twenty-five years to the son of the country to supervise the imperial history, advocating harsh and harsh, was promoted by Lao Zhu in his later years to be the deputy envoy of Beiping, the battle of Jingyan, the city patrol are meritorious, responsible for the punishment of Beiping Mansion, Beiping City was surrounded by Li Jinglong's hundreds of thousands of large legions, when the food was seriously insufficient, there was a grain chief in order not to let his family starve to death, stole two buckets of rice, after being convicted, it stands to reason that he should not be sentenced to punishment (cutting off his toes), Mo Lin in order to put an end to this trend from the root, insisted on punishment. Zhu Di traveled thousands of miles to attack Daning, and after returning from the army of the Daning system and the three guards of Duoyan, the siege of Beiping was lifted.

As a left-behind official, after the victory of the Yan army in the Battle of Jingyan, Mo Lin did not go south, but like Lu Xiang, he continued to serve under Guo Zi. Although no one was killed, everyone already knows the fact that this person is a ruthless person.

Originally, the most mainstream speculation was that Mo Lin would take over Li Qing's position as the right attendant of the Criminal Department, after all, he was a professional counterpart, but he didn't expect that it was Lu Xiang who took over the right attendant of the Criminal Department, and Mo Lin was stuffed into the Ministry of Rites.

You must know that since Wang Jing was taken away, the Ministry of Rites has directly become the base camp of the Fa-changing faction.

What exactly the emperor meant by this move is quite worth pondering.

In fact, if you calculate it this way, Mo Lin of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Siwen of the Ministry of Officials, Sun Yu of the Household Department, Lu Xiang of the Criminal Department, Chen Shou of the Ministry of Industry, and Qiao Wen of the Ministry of War, are at the level of Shilang in the six departments, and Zhu Gaochi's lineage, who was born in the Beiping department, has occupied a full half of the position, and all six departments are complete, and none of them will fall.

If Zhu Gaochi is a courtier and a minister, then this is already a very dangerous signal, because "killing" is usually the penultimate step for the emperor to kill the minister.

But if Zhu Gaochi is the most powerful contender for the crown prince, then the logic is reversed.

Zhu Yuanzhang has a stalk, that is, if Zhu Biao wants to rebel, Lao Zhu personally helps him put on a yellow robe.

For Daming, this is actually not a joke, the importance of the heir, from Zhu Biao, Zhu Yunwen, and Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, it can be seen that it is extremely important, and once it is determined, it will start paving the way very early.

Therefore, many ministers regarded this appointment at the end of the first year of Yongle as a signal that Zhu Gaochi was valued and cultivated by the emperor.

Of course, some people feel that the officials of the Beiping system are actually the emperor's use of "his own people", which cannot be directly regarded as an affirmation of Zhu Gaochi.

But no matter what they thought in their hearts at this time, in short, Zhu Gaochi's power was in full swing, and it was an indisputable fact that the power of Hongwu-Jianwen, that is, the so-called conservatives, began to be infiltrated and disintegrated, and began to lose the unshakable dominance of a year ago at the top of the temple.

More than a year ago, when the Yan army had just crossed the river, although the entire court was full of vassals, in fact, it was the Hongwu-Jianwen group that held the absolute dominance.

It's a pity that time has changed now, and unconsciously, the pattern of the court has changed.

With the rise of the reformers, the line of the great prince gradually grew, the emperor held key positions, and the power space of the former ministers of Hongwu and Jianwen was squeezed more and more narrow.

If the results of the examination are not good, theoretically in accordance with the provisions of the examination law, there is also a so-called "buffer period", at most, it is a parallel transfer to other positions, so no one will be directly demoted.

As for demotion and dismissal, that's a matter for Kyocha.

But even so, everyone listened and analyzed intently.

The list of promotions in the central examination method has been read, and there are still places.

The petty officials still can't arouse everyone's interest, except for more important places, such as the former prefect of Shanghai County, and now Songjiang Prefecture Tongzhi Zhang Shouyue was directly promoted to the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture.

However, when it comes to the middle and high-level levels of the local prosecutorial and political envoys, everyone is very interested.

"Promoted Zhang Ben to Huang Huaibu's political envoy Si Zuo to participate in politics."

Huang Huaibu's political envoy Si Zuo's participation in politics was originally Wang Yuanshan's position, and Wang Yuanshan was stripped of his official position and imprisoned because he was involved in the first assassination of Qincha.

And Zhang Ben is the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture before Wang Shijie (Zheng Sipin), who was previously promoted to Huang Huaibu's political envoy to participate in politics (from Sanpin), after Wang Yuanshan stepped down, he will definitely take over as the left to participate in politics, this is a sure thing.

"Promote Huang Huai to Huang Huai's political envoy to participate in politics."

This news can only make people smack, sure enough, it is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and after he came out, he was promoted very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he was the third-in-command of the local political envoy.

After Huang Huai came out of the cabinet, he was transferred to the political envoy of Huang Huaibu, who had the same name as him, and was appointed to the council, and now he has been promoted to a level, but he has surpassed Xie Jin, who was born and died, and has become the highest official in the cabinet.

Now the people who have been transferred from the cabinet, in order of official positions, have become Huang Huai's political envoy Huang Huai (from the third product), Honglu Temple Qing Xie Jin (from the fourth product), Guozi Priest Jiu Hu Yan (from the fourth product), and Jin Youzi (from the fifth product) of the Shaoqing of the Law Temple.

However, although the trial temple is a newly built temple, from the perspective of administrative establishment, it is a temple of normal specifications, and the vacant trial temple is at the same level as Guanglu Temple Qing and Taifu Temple, all of which are from the three grades; And the top temple is Dali Temple, Taichang Temple, this kind of three products.

Now the work of the trial temple is doing well, and the revision of laws and legislation are in progress, so if nothing else, it is likely that Jin Youzi will come from behind next year, and after turning positive, he will come directly to Congsanpin and catch up with Huang Huai, and Xie Jin will definitely not be able to move in a short time.

"Promoted Fang Ji to the right of Sichuan's political envoy to participate in politics."

"Promote Xin Yanbo to be the envoy of Zhejiang."

Xin Yanbo is the former Zhejiang political secretary Zuo participated in politics, and he helped to make great efforts in the work of quelling chaos and controlling water in Jiangnan, and the implementation of the new policy this year is not bad, and he is relatively close to the reform faction, so he was promoted by Jiang Xinghuo.

And there are many people like Xin Yanbo in Jiangnan, such as Wang Shijie, the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, Zhang Yulin, the governor of Changzhou Prefecture, and Zhang Shouyue, the governor of Songjiang

Although Zhu Gaochi seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the test in the first year of Yongle, Jiang Xinghuo and his law changers have also made a lot of progress and won many positions.

In the center, Guanglu Siqing and Honglu Siqing, the two "Little Jiuqing" level temple chiefs, have been taken down, in short, Jiang Xinghuo and his Fa Changing Sect, although the power in the center is not very strong, but it has grown significantly.

Locally, especially in the Jiangnan region, where the economy is the most developed, the power of the Fa-reform faction in Zhufu is very strong, and even shows an overwhelming advantage, which is the advantage of taking advantage of the previous military to purge the opposition forces.

All that remains is the announcement of the promotions of some temporarily vacant officials.

"Promote Chen Zhen (former Honglu Temple Shaoqing) to participate in politics as the political envoy of Henan."

"Sheng Yiying (former Ministry of Industry Langzhong) is the left senator of the political envoy of Henan."

"Promoted Liu Congzheng (former Zhejiang Provincial Supervision Imperial History) as the right senator of Henan's political envoy."

“.”

Jiang Xinghuo's first day of administration was spent in the work report and the reading of the results of the examination method.

And the shock that these two documents brought to the entire center is far from stopping with his announcement.

After everyone dispersed with their own concerns, Hu Guang knew that he was not trusted, and he consciously slipped away, Sanyang looked at Fang Cai extremely crowded, and the empty cabinet room at the moment was very complicated.

Yang Shiqi's face was gloomy, and he said, "Both, what do you think of today's problem?" ”

He is the most shrewd of the three, and his perception of the direction of the temple is more acute than others.

"Where?"

"Naturally, it's the test method."

Other things, whether it is agriculture, industry, or the economy, are actually important to Sanyang, but they are not that important.

Sanyang put all his political future on the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi.

For them, the biggest problem affecting the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi has never been the specific administrative direction or policy choice, but their own forces.

Yang Shiqi knew very well that the results of the test law looked wonderful, and all the officials of Zhu Gaochi's descendants in the six departments occupied positions, but it was not good, this was a pit, a pit to bury himself!

"If you want me to say, this is a poisonous ploy!"

Yang Rong said: "Once it is implemented, it will be roasted on the fire." ”

Yang Pu said sullenly: "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan." ”

The so-called Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan is actually an article written by the historian Zuo Qiu Ming in the Spring and Autumn Period, the article mainly tells about the political struggle between Zheng Zhuang Gong and his younger brother Gongshu Duan in the first year of Lu Yin in order to seize the throne of the monarch, Zheng Zhuang Gong designed and deliberately connived at his brother Gongshu Duan and his mother Wu Jiang, and then waited until the crowd was excited, Zhuang Gong used it to crusade against Gongshu Duan.

This is also a famous temple trick in history to capture the old and indulge.

As for the so-called Zhuang Gong complained about his mother's partiality and moved his mother to Yingdi, and later regretted it, and dug a tunnel under the persuasion of Uncle Yingkao, it was pure show.

And now Yang Pu summed it up with "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan", but in the eyes of the three cabinet members, it couldn't be more exquisite.

Yang Rong said: "This kind of thing is possible, but I think that if someone attacks it, His Majesty will not adopt it." ”

Yang Shiqi frowned and said, "Who can say this kind of thing?" ”

What else did Yang Rong say, Yang Shiqi snorted coldly, and said: "Don't be too optimistic, this squire position is a position that many people dream of, now the eldest prince seems to be powerful, but in fact, it has also aroused the jealousy of many people, don't forget, if you don't count the military ministers, the power of the second prince in the temple is very weak, and once the appointment of the prince is really established, then there is a problem with the development of the middle of the north and the south, we ourselves have exposed our flaws, and we have been attacked by the crowd. ”

"Not bad."

Yang Pu stroked the short beard under his chin at this time and said: "The existence of some people is like a poisonous snake, which has been lurking in the dark, as long as there are enough benefits, they may bite us to death at any time!" ”

"Be careful!" Yang Rong scolded angrily.

Nowadays, Sanyang is still the so-called "juvenile", politically not fully mature, to put it bluntly, they are all young people, and the angle of looking at many things and the way of dealing with things is definitely different from the mature state when he was sixty or seventy years old.

Yang Shiqi snorted lightly and stopped talking, obviously acquiescing to his remarks.

The embarrassing atmosphere in the room lasted for a long time, and Yang Rong said: "It's not that there is no good way, we can reveal some news to some people and let them make their own choices, so that even if they want to improve, they have to support the eldest prince." ”

"You said Jingcha?"

Yang Pu said: "That's not appropriate, how long has it been since the matter of the monk last time?" If anyone thinks that we are playing tricks, they will hate the prince even more. ”

Yang Shiqi smiled and said, "No, no." ”

Yang Pu said: "So, do you have a good plan?"

Yang Shiqi was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "I did think of a way." ”

Yang Pu asked, "Oh? What's the solution? ”

Yang Shiqi looked at the two of them and whispered a few words slowly.

"How to incite?"

At this time, Yang Rong said: "People in the world are not fools. ”

"Let's make things easier."

Yang Shiqi said a few more words, and when Yang Pu heard this, he groaned and kept nodding in admiration.

Yang Pu said: "This idea is very good, I don't know what to call it?" Draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle? Or do you want to drive the tiger and the wolf?"

Yang Shiqi laughed twice and said, "The left and right are just setting a benchmark." ”

(End of chapter)