As far as Kong Zheng knows, Kong Maojie’s position is deputy secretary-general of the Secretariat.
This secretariat is not juxtaposed with several other specific departments. It is not high-level, but it is very important.
Because Su Yonglin has the overall power, the General Affairs Bureau has a large number of government affairs that require Su Yonglin to make decisions and handle every day, resulting in Su Yonglin being busy with government affairs and lacking in skills.
So he set up a secretariat and selected smart and capable subordinates to join the secretariat to help him handle the increasingly heavy government affairs.
There were only a dozen people in the secretariat. Their positions were not high and their authority was not very important. However, because they were with Su Yonglin and were close to Su Yonglin, they were naturally valued by others.
As the deputy secretary-general, Kong Maojie, who has the same surname as him, is someone who is trusted by Su Yonglin at first sight. If he can establish a good relationship with him, and then he can put a few nice words in Su Yonglin's ear, the benefits will be endless.
Kong Zheng thought this way, so he even thought about using the fact that both of them were named Kong to build a relationship with him. At the worst, they could recognize their ancestors and return to their clan, which would be close to each other.
But the situation doesn't seem to be as simple as he thought.
Secretary-General Kong seems to really dislike what he is doing and is disgusted with these gold and silver.
"Secretary-General Kong, this... is just my thoughts..."
"I understand, but it's better not to do this kind of thing again. If Mr. Kong feels that the money is too much, he can donate the money to the General Affairs Bureau. The General Affairs Bureau is now worried that there is not enough money to appease the people."
After Kong Maojie said this in a strange tone, he gave a simple salute and left.
Kong Zheng was left angry and scared.
Of course Kong Maojie's attitude made him unhappy.
He was a duke and a respected figure in the previous dynasty. Even if the Jin Kingdom is over now, when the new country is established, won't he still have to use his name as Kong to win over the world's scholars?
How dare you, a little deputy secretary-general, talk to me like this?
And who doesn’t know that your Liberation Army squeezed millions of taels of gold and tens of millions of taels of silver from the Kingdom of Jin?
There are also all kinds of jewelry and antiques that may not fit in the entire palace. All kinds of cultural relics are probably piled up in mountains. With such a huge amount of wealth, you still don’t think it’s enough or too little?
Of course fear is real.
Kong Zheng was also afraid that Kong Maojie would be too close to Su Yonglin, and a few bad words would be enough to cast a shadow over his purpose and prevent him from achieving it.
He had heard that Su Yonglin was promoting a large number of his own people to be local and central officials, and was also selecting a large number of former Jin Dynasty bureaucrats to join the political system of the Liberation Army.
The current situation is that a large number of Yanyun Han people have joined the Liberation Military Government, and even some Khitans and Xi people have been accepted.
For example, Yelu Chenghui and Yelu Yuanyi, the former senior officials of the Jin Empire, were both included in the General Affairs Bureau, as a symbol of the high-ranking Khitan officials of the Jin Kingdom joining the military government of the Restoration.
As representatives of the Han people in Yanyun, Han Xianling, the former governor of Jizhou, and Hou Liangzhe, the former governor of Ruzhou, also joined the General Affairs Bureau and the Liberation Military Government, becoming symbols.
Not to mention the Khitans and Xi people, they are not part of my race, so they definitely can’t urinate in a pot.
Let’s not talk about Su Yonglin’s old subordinates. In the future, when Su Yonglin becomes emperor, these people will all be Yuan Cong, and we will not be able to get along with them.
Just talking about the Han people in Yanyun, they are not as easy to deal with as the Han people in the Central Plains.
As the first group of Han people to break away from the rule of the Central Plains Empire, when they were once again brought under the same ruling system by the Jin Kingdom, there were already great differences between the Yanyun Han people and the Central Plains Han people, and they also had great prejudices against each other.
Thanks to Song Huizong's tricks, the face and character of the Northern Song Dynasty were completely defeated, allowing the Yanyun Han people to see how cowardly and incompetent the Han people in the Central Plains were, and how ugly they were as conquered people.
Therefore, for some time, the Han people in Yanyun have looked down upon the Han people in the Central Plains.
The Han people in the Central Plains also disliked the Han people in Yanyun who had lived together with the barbarians for a long time. They smelled of barbarians and did not look like their compatriots at all.
Therefore, it is not a matter of two days for the two groups to despise each other and engage in regional blackmail.
Although the Su Yonglin regime, currently the representative of the Han people's regime in the Central Plains, used pure violence to crush the Jin Empire, destroy it, humiliate the Jin royal family, and publicly try the Jin dignitaries, this series of actions greatly shocked Yan Yunhan people.
This made the Han people in Yanyun discover that the Han people in the Central Plains were still full of martial virtue, so they also slightly changed their view of the Han people in the Central Plains. They felt that there were heroes in the Central Plains, and they were convinced.
But the differences caused by hundreds of years of different situations cannot be bridged casually.
Su Yonglin, a fierce man from the sky, can use his super force and prestige to subdue various ethnic groups at the same time and make them work for him, but the contradictions between them are definitely not small.
The Han people in the Central Plains will obviously not regard the Yanyun Han bureaucrats as one of their own.
As a result, Kong Zheng suddenly realized that there were not many opportunities left for the Shandong natives. If he continued to wait, he might only be able to get scraps that others did not want.
Before a new country was established and the imperial examination system was not decided to be restored, the local gentry could neither eat well nor sleep well.
The purpose of Kong Zheng's visit was not only to recommend himself to Su Yonglin, but also to give advice to Su Yonglin. It was also a test, asking him to restore the imperial examination system, and to test his attitude towards the Han officials in the Central Plains area, and whether he was ready and ready to proclaim himself emperor. Plans and the like.
The situation is so tense now, and many important central positions are occupied. How can Kong Zheng not be anxious?
In other words, Su Yonglin agreed to meet him, which meant that Su Yonglin was still thinking of them, otherwise Kong Zheng would have to consider whether he should move his family south to join the Nanzong.
After gathering himself a little and sorting out his thoughts, Kong Zheng regained his composure.
He knew very well what he needed and what price he could offer. As long as he could reach an agreement, the Kong family's status in the new dynasty would definitely be promoted, and maybe it could return to the way Kong Yingda led the Kong family during the Tang Taizong period. brilliant.
The time Su Yonglin agreed to meet Kong Zheng was in the afternoon. In the past, that was the time when Su Yonglin took a short nap after lunch.
But today, he decided to use this time to meet with Kong Zheng, who had been ignored by him for more than a month.
He knew that Kong Zheng's reason for coming was just a few things. He hadn't seen him before because some things hadn't been done and some positions hadn't been assigned. But now he was almost ready to put extreme pressure on Kong Zheng. Ask for greater benefits.
Su Yonglin has no plans to proclaim himself emperor now, but in the near future, he will do so. Now he is actually doing the things of the emperor. He has as much power as the emperor with his military exploits and prestige, but he does not. Just a name.
However, some preliminary preparations for establishing the country and political power must also be made. For example, the General Affairs Bureau, the prototype of the future imperial court, will be established at this time. When the time comes, it will be directly expanded into the imperial court, transformed on the spot, and completed changes.
At a time when he cannot rashly change the main contradictions and targets, he must admit these elite scholar-bureaucrats into his regime to help him share administrative pressure.
However, considering the uncontrollable harm caused by doing so, he felt that he must exert his subjective initiative to contain the impact of the harm to the greatest extent.
Han Chinese officials in the Central Plains cannot be allowed to become the mainstream in the future imperial court, even overpowering his Fuxing Association headquarters.
Therefore, other political groups must be introduced to check and balance each other and suppress the Han officials in the Central Plains to the maximum extent.
Although they could rely on the imperial examination to achieve numerical violence, it would take time. With that time, Su Yonglin himself could deal with them.
When the Renaissance Association headquarters was still in its infancy, it needed more helpers to help curb the expansion of the power of the Han people and officials in the Central Plains in the court.
It was at this time that Su Yonglin noticed the complex situation in the Yanyun area and the legacy left to him by the Jin Empire in another sense.
A margin for dividing political groups in visible divisions.
An operating method that relies on the contradictions between them to achieve a balanced situation of mutual checks and balances.
