March 11th, the sixth year of Wanli.
The sky is dark and the morning breeze is cool.
Shortly after Zhu Yijun finished his lecture at the Wenhua Hall, Zhang Juzheng formally bid farewell to him and told him: "From now on, I hope that your majesty will read the chapters of each government office one by one and make a personal decision. If you are interested, call the cabinet." My ministers, please discuss this with me."
Zhu Yijun nodded with concentration: "I understand. Sir, please come back immediately."
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said: "I have always been grateful to the empress dowagers of the two palaces for their kindness, but due to the inconvenience of serving, I dare not go to the palace gate to kowtow thanks, and I hope that your majesty will play for me."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Don't worry, sir."
Zhang Juzheng bowed to express his gratitude, and then took out a secret secret from his sleeve: "Your Majesty ordered his ministers to recommend ministers to the cabinet, but I did not dare to wait any longer. After thinking about it all night, I tentatively planned to recommend Wang Dazai, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, to join the cabinet. Together with Lu , Zhang Er Ge Lao is in power, and he also recommends Grand Duke Bo Magong and Shaozhong Zai Shen Gong to join the cabinet to prepare for the machine affairs, and first inspect the effectiveness of the new policies in the world for one year, so that he can act expediently, and when things need to be resolved, he can make decisions first and then report them."
Zhang Juzheng added: "Another minister has been ordered by His Majesty to prepare a proposal for the training and selection of cabinet ministers. I hope that Your Majesty will issue an edict to order Hanlin Ci ministers to be elected to foreign posts three years after being admitted to the hospital. After completing the nine-year examination, they can After ascending to the capital and returning to the hospital, I will go through the six chapters again. Your Majesty, please take a look at it."
Zhu Yijun also read Zhang Juzheng's secret revelations and memorials, and said: "They are all accurate! Thank you for your hard work, sir."
When Zhang Juzheng heard Zhu Yijun say the word "hard work", his whole body trembled as if he was being shocked by electricity. Then he knelt down in front of Zhu Yijun, fell to the ground and cried bitterly: "I have returned home!"
Zhu Yijun stood up, and after a long silence, he comforted him: "Sir, please be less sad."
Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng just choked and kowtowed and retreated.
Seeing Zhang Juzheng's heavy steps away, Zhu Yijun took a deep breath and said to Zhang Hongyan: "I still have something to say, but seeing that Mr. is so sad, it's hard to explain. His failure to Ding You may have a negative impact on himself." It's an unacceptable ending for me, but I don't want him to worry about it, it's Ming Dynasty that needs him to be deprived of his love, and I think you understand that too."
"What your Majesty is saying is that if Mr. Yuanfu Zhang really doesn't care about the country and wants Ding You to abide by the system, how can your Majesty stop him?"
Zhang Hong said.
Shortly after Zhang Juzheng left Beijing, Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing also left Beijing.
Among them, Ma Ziqiang went south and Shen Shi went west.
Zhang Juzheng did not allow Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing to join the cabinet because they both sympathized with those who opposed the love grabbers.
After all, he was recommending talents for the country, and he had no intention of letting the emperor use his personal property just for his own reasons.
Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing were also very grateful to Zhang Juzheng for his magnanimity.
After all, Zhang Juzheng did not take the opportunity to prevent them from entering the cabinet just because he wanted to change the system of cabinet officials.
The two of them also knew that they should not live up to Zhang Juzheng's recommendation, so they went to inspect the local area seriously.
There is no need for Wang Guoguang to go out to Beijing for inspection.
He was able to join the cabinet because Zhu Yijun required that new cabinet ministers must have local governance experience before he could have the opportunity to join the cabinet.
It is true that Wang Guoguang himself began his career as magistrate of the county and served as magistrate for two terms.
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng recommended him to the cabinet because he intended to comply with Zhu Yijun's requirements so that he could better handle various government affairs reported to the local government because of his experience in local governance.
After Wang Guoguang entered the cabinet, the new Minister of Personnel was succeeded by Liu Yingjie, Minister of Punishment.
The new Minister of Justice was replaced by Wu Baipeng.
The Minister of Rites was replaced by Pan Sheng.
In the entire six years of Wanli, the ministers and ministers had changed again.
Wang Guoguang's entry into the cabinet was also considered timely. Not long after he entered the cabinet, Zhao Zhenji, a veteran who could have replaced Zhang Juzheng and handled various government affairs for Zhu Yijun, passed away suddenly.
Then, Lu Tiaoyang, who had been Zhang Juzheng's deputy for many years, also felt depressed because Zhu Yijun gave him instructions after Zhao Zhenji's sudden death, sending people to ask Yuanfu Zhang Juzheng more often when it comes to big things, and asking Wang Guoguang more about small things. After all, it was just a decoration, and it was really difficult to function, so I insisted on going back to recuperate.
Zhu Yijun knew that Lu Tiaoyang was in an embarrassing situation, but he was really worried about letting Lu Tiaoyang, who was always known as a good man, take charge of government affairs. He agreed to his departure, and when he became an official, he was given the title of Young Master and Crown Prince Taishi. The official title can be regarded as a reward for his hard work for so many years as a assistant between Zhang Juzheng and Zhao Zhenji.
What Zhu Yijun had to admit was that Zhang Siwei could still sit still. Even discerning people knew that both the emperor and Zhang Juzheng believed more in Wang Guoguang's ability to preside over the cabinet, especially after Zhao Zhenji also passed away, but he did not do the same as Lu Tiaoyang. Feeling that he was in an embarrassing situation, he resigned from Shangshu and still worked conscientiously with Wang Guoguang in the cabinet.
Zhu Yijun deplored Zhao Zhenji's departure as much as he deplored Tan Lun's departure.
But this is inevitable.
If he hadn't given Zhao Zhenji another chance to improve his mood and live longer, according to original history, Zhao Zhenji would have passed away in the fourth year of Wanli.
After all, many of the famous ministers left to him and Long Qing by Jiajing are indeed old, and after five years of Wanli, one by one will indeed leave.
Jiajing in history was not only good at toying with civil servants, but also very good at discovering capable civil servants, and because of this, he left a lot of talents to Longqing and Wanli.
But what Zhu Yijun has to admit is that Jiajing's shadow is indeed gradually drying up.
The most obvious manifestation of this sense of depletion is that there are fewer and fewer outstanding ministers.
Everything needs to be rediscovered by him.
Because if it is allowed to develop and no one cares about anything, after Zhang Juzheng leaves, the chief minister will only be worse than the previous generation.
As far as Zhu Yijun knows, in history, after Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, who served as the chief assistant, could also sort out the yin and yang and be a paper framer to avoid intensifying party disputes.
But after Wang Xijue, then Fang Congzhe, Ye Xianggao, Han Xu and others.
These chief ministers have begun to develop from being unable to control the internal fighting among civil servants to actively participating in internal fighting. Finally, when people like Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, the struggle is not to do things, but only to how to make better profits. Money.
The last chief minister, Wei Zaode, could only remain silent when encountering problems, and then waited to become an official in the new dynasty, which was equivalent to being directly ruined.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun felt that he had to consciously re-train his own bureaucracy, starting with training future ministers.
"How is Gao Gong doing now?"
"After arriving in Beijing, I haven't seen him take a few courses!"
"Is it because I cannot let him return as the first assistant because I want to use my husband, that I am still discouraged and unwilling to make suggestions?"
After Zhu Yijun issued an order to Zhao Zhenji to give him the posthumous title and additional official title, he thought of Gao Gong because he thought that it was rare to have an assistant minister, so he asked Zhang Jing about Gao Gong.
Zhang Jing replied: "Back to your lord, Mr. Gao just scolded Yin Shaobao, who was also going to the cabinet this morning, saying that after he betrayed him and joined Mr. Zhang, Yuan Fu, he only knew how to exercise power and flattery, and even did not do business. He did not do anything, and not only did he not do good things, but also bad things. Therefore, Yin Shaobao went to his hometown to go back to his hometown. He said that he could not stay in the cabinet and would rather be dismissed from his post as a citizen and go back to his hometown to be a farmer than to be scolded here. powerful."
Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this: "It's interesting, go and have a look!"
(End of chapter)
