Wang Xijue then sighed again and said to himself: "Your Majesty is the master of great talent and great strategy after all!"
Seeing that his grandfather had been in a daze, Wang Shimin, Wang Xijue's grandson, asked, "Father, what's wrong with you? Is it the content of the imperial edict that makes you unhappy?"
"Why are you unhappy?"
"Very happy!"
"When His Majesty is willing to put the destiny of the country in your hands for the next ten years and let you try to govern the country with a method that you really want to implement but the whole world does not agree with, and gives you such great trust, aren't you happy?"
After Wang Xijue answered, he smiled and asked about Wang Shimin.
Wang Shimin shook his head: "My grandson doesn't understand!"
Wang Xijue said: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. You just need to know that from now on, your great father and I will either be famous for eternity or be infamy for eternity."
"ah?"
"Isn't it interesting?"
Wang Xijue took the initiative to ask his grandson a question with a smile, and then said: "Go and ask Otsuka Master Yang Gong to come."
"yes!"
Wang Shimin agreed ignorantly.
But soon, Wang Shimin came back and said: "Father, Otsuka Zai said that he is busy now and cannot come to see you!"
Wang Xijue raised his thick eyebrows after hearing this: "Since Pan Gong resigned, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance has not been decided. After the prince passed away, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice has not been decided, and the Minister of the Ministry of War has also not been decided. Your Majesty has given the right to nominate the chief assistant, and other officials will not come. , how do I nominate? Is he trying to delay the imperial government's official policy?!"
After Wang Xijue said this, he said in a stern voice: "Counselor Ma Weibin!"
At this time, a young official immediately came from the duty room of the Chief Counselor: "Please give me Yuan Fu's instructions."
"I want my cabinet vote to be sent to the Liuke Gallery, so that the officials can impeach Otsuka Prime Minister Yang Shiqiao for being lazy in his administration, not handling urgent matters, sitting back and watching the lack of officials in the court without filling them, thereby misusing the common government!"
Wang Xijue hurriedly gave instructions at this time.
"yes!"
Ma Weibin agreed and left the chief minister's residence. However, he did not go directly to the Liu Ke Gallery. Instead, he went directly to the official residence of the Minister of Personnel.
at this time.
At the official residence of the Minister of Personnel, Yang Shiqiao, the Minister of Personnel, was wearing a square scarf and an indigo robe. He was sitting in front of Li Dai and Zhang Wenda and a group of scholar-bureaucrats. He was talking about the emperor's decree giving the chief minister the power to nominate important ministers of various ministries, etc. thing.
Zhang Wenda, who was in charge of all the affairs, said: "Not to mention that Wang Taicang is too optimistic about our prospects for the Ming Dynasty, but His Majesty is also like this, and he has given Wang Taicang the right to nominate him. This is undoubtedly a sign of the true success of the country." Well, the officials will really look up to the cabinet from now on."
"Yes, now, the cabinet secretary is really in charge."
Li Dai, the left servant of the Ministry of Personnel, also followed suit.
And Yang Shiqiao snorted: "It is the ancestral system of this dynasty for Jiuqing to report directly to the emperor! It is to prevent powerful ministers from harming the country. Even if the current situation has to change due to the actual situation, Wang Xijue, an aggressive and greedy person like him, will do this. Chief Minister, as long as I am still the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, I will not let him do as he pleases and waste national funds wantonly. The emperor gave him the right to nominate, but not the right to remove ministers!"
"In response to Otsuka Zai, Counselor Ma from Yuanfu's side has come to pay his respects."
At this time, a counselor beside Yang Shiqiao came up and reported.
After hearing this, Li Dai and Zhang Wenda both looked at Yang Shiqiao in surprise.
Yang Shiqiao smiled and said, "That's my nephew!"
After Yang Shiqiao said this, he asked the counselor who had just come to his side to pass Ma Weibin up.
Not long after, Ma Weibin came over and informed Yang Shiqiao himself that Wang Xijue wanted the Ministry of Civil Affairs to impeach Yang Shiqiao, the Minister of Civil Affairs.
Snapped!
"It's too much!"
Yang Shiqiao slapped the table on the spot, his face livid: "I just have something to do, and it's not like I didn't go to see him. How can I be considered lazy in my administration? How can I be regarded as disregarding the national government?"
"This Wang Taicang is really a villain. As soon as he has the new power of Tianxian, he is going to embarrass the minister!"
Li Dai couldn't help but say something at this time, and said to Yang Shiqiao:
"You can't let me be manipulated by him. It's better to go directly to the office and ask for resignation, saying that I can't be tolerated by Yuan Fu, so I have to resign. In this way, the emperor will definitely know his domineering attitude!"
Yang Shiqiao then looked at Zhang Wenda and asked, "Deyun, what do you think of this matter?"
Zhang Wenda smiled and said, "Wang Taicang has the power of being the chief assistant, and it is in line with the system to ask Otsuka to see him and discuss the government together. Otsuka can't shirk it because he has something to do. No matter how big the boss is, His affairs cannot be compared with those of my superior, Jun Ling."
"Unless you are seriously ill, you can't get sick. This is a rule! Yanguan has the responsibility to supervise whether bureaucrats at all levels are loyal to the country when performing their duties. Now that the cabinet votes have been given to the Li Ke, the Li Ke side is naturally You can’t accept it and you can’t follow the rules.”
"You are a civil servant, but now the civil servant is your civil servant, isn't it? You are dragging this matter for Otsuka Zai, why don't you just ignore the cabinet vote?"
Li Dai asked Zhang Wenda quite angrily.
Zhang Wenda said: "You can't say that to Shaozhong Zai. The official department is never the official department of the subordinates, but the official department of the imperial court."
Dai Li snorted and said: "I think you are afraid that when you pass the exam next year, the cabinet will take advantage of it and give you a job, so you are unwilling to help Otsuka Zai?"
"You would rather sit back and watch a loyal and loyal minister like Otsuka Zai be killed than give up a black hat that has all the officials involved!"
Zhang Wenda was busy trying to defend himself, but Yang Shiqiao said: "No need to say it! Although it is easy to resign, if I, Yang, go back to my hometown with the reputation of being a vegetarian, I will not be able to see my ancestors!"
Then, Yang Shiqiao took the cabinet ticket from Ma Weibin and said to Zhang Wenda, "I'm going to take the cabinet ticket to see Yuan Fu. I wonder if Zhang Gaijin intends to stop it?"
"How dare my subordinates!"
"Otsuka Zai endured humiliation and heavy burdens for the country, which will only make younger generations admire him."
Zhang Wenda hurriedly bowed and replied to Yang Shiqiao.
Yang Shiqiao just laughed and walked to the chief minister's official residence.
At this time, Li Daize shouted with disappointment: "Mr. Yang!"
Yang Shiqiao ignored it and just continued walking forward.
After Yang Shiqiao left, Zhang Wenda asked Li Dai with a smile: "When I persuaded Otsuka to leave, he didn't want to take over the position of Otsuka himself, right?"
Dai Li just laughed: "Do you think everyone is the same as you?"
After saying that, Li Dai also threw up his sleeves and left.
Zhang Wenda laughed.
"Do you really think you are the only smart person and everyone else is a fool?"
Then, Zhang Wenda cursed and went to Liu Ke Gallery.
Civil servants are like this. They always have conflicts over some things. Even if they could respect each other as gentlemen before, they will become like enemies because of this incident later.
This is the case with Yang Shiqiao. He was quite disdainful of Wang Xijue before, but now after seeing Wang Xijue, he became respectful to Wang Xijue again and said:
"Yuanfu, please calm down. I said that I had something to do before. It's not that I really have something to do. It's because the ignorant counselors below saw that I was busy and didn't dare to report it, so they made up such nonsense. As a result, Yuan was almost let down." Fu misunderstood!"
"It just so happened that the subordinates were coming to see Yuan Fu, so they met Counselor Ma on the way. Then they learned that Yuan Fu had voted for the cabinet and asked the officials to punish the subordinates for their laziness."
"But the subordinate is really unjust!"
Yang Shiqiao bowed and replied again.
Then, Yang Shiqiao said again: "I don't dare to be lazy in government. Isn't it right? As soon as I finish the government affairs in my hands, I take the initiative to come over and ask Yuan Fu to explain the government affairs?"
After saying that, Yang Shiqiao smiled flatteringly and said, "Please Yuan Fu be considerate!"
"So that's what happened."
"I misunderstood you."
"Please sit down, sir."
Wang Xijue said something, and then ordered: "Serve tea!"
"My subordinates don't dare!"
Yang Shiqiao rolled his eyes and replied deliberately.
Wang Xijue's face sank and he asked: "The emperor is still sitting in front of the emperor discussing politics, how dare I be disrespectful to Otsuka Zai?"
"yes!"
"My subordinates are really confused!"
Yang Shiqiao replied, then sat on his buttocks and looked at Wang Xijue.
At this time, Wang Xijue continued to ask Yang Shiqiao: "Several ministers are vacant. Have the officials decided on candidates?"
"It's already being discussed at the ministry."
Yang Shiqiao replied.
After hearing this, Wang Xijue asked: "When can we negotiate?"
"The day after tomorrow."
After Yang Shiqiao answered, he glanced at Wang Xijue.
But Wang Xijue frowned at this time.
Yang Shiqiao panicked and changed his words: "Tomorrow afternoon."
Wang Xijue still didn't answer.
Yang Shiqiao had to say again: "I'll go and hurry up. There will be no problem tomorrow morning."
"Then Mr. Lao and his colleagues in the Ministry of Civil Affairs have worked hard."
At this time, Wang Xijue smiled and said:
"We are all ministers. We can't just advise His Majesty to be diligent while being lazy ourselves. Besides, the salary and rewards given by the imperial court are quite a lot now, so we can't live up to the emperor's favor."
"You think so, Otsuka Zai?"
Wang Xijue also asked about Yang Shiqiao.
Yang Shiqiao nodded and said with a smile: "What Yuan Fu said is that the emperor's kindness cannot be ignored. What's more, if the capital government delays for one day, the province will dare to delay for a month, and the county will dare to delay for a year. If we who are officials in the capital don't Being positive is not a good idea to ask others to be positive.”
"That's exactly what it means!"
"If the positions of several ministers are not decided in time, if it is delayed for one day, a lot of general affairs will be delayed!"
"Especially those wrongfully convicted criminals who are awaiting trial in the Ministry of Punishments are waiting for their trials to be clear so that they can go home and reunite."
Wang Xijue nodded and replied.
After Yang Shiqiao returned to the Ministry of Personnel, he called Li Dai, the left servant of the Ministry of Personnel, back from home and ordered:
"Ask the Literary Selection Department and the Merit Examination Department to quickly submit a list of suitable candidates for the vacancies of ministers. Don't even go home tonight. The ministry will discuss suitable candidates overnight!"
"this."
"Everyone has gone home."
Dai Li replied in astonishment.
Yang Shiqiao said: "Don't talk about going home, even if you go to funerals, you have to come back first. Let's deal with this matter overnight. Are all of them just dawdling with so much salary from the court?! All these guys who have no consciousness are in vain. I received the emperor’s favor!”
"yes!"
soon.
The officials of the Ministry of Personnel had to rush to the ministry with lanterns, and they all complained: "This Otsuka Prime Minister is so crazy. It's already dark, and he still has people go back to work. After all, they are all scholar-bureaucrats with Jinshi background. Not an animal!"
(End of chapter)
