During the third purge operation, both Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong were saved by Su Yonglin's decisive actions.
Without Su Yonglin's decisive action, these two people would not have known how far they would have been played by Qiao Feng, Lu Dian and others.
Therefore, after the incident, Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong strengthened their sense of struggle and began to be more vigilant and even hostile to those around them and under them who were from Su Yonglin's old Jiangnan tribe.
However, because of Su Yonglin's decisive actions, the Jiangnan Old Man Group suffered heavy losses in the third purge. A large number of people were purged for committing crimes, and the rest were all clean hands and feet, so there have been no problems.
Originally, both Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong thought that this matter should come to an end, but they found that things were contrary to their expectations, and this matter seemed not to be over yet.
According to Su Yin's secret investigation, it was learned that the farce of establishing the crown prince originated from a dispute in the Ministry of Personnel. A dispute between two officials in the Ministry of Personnel attracted widespread attention, which triggered a more extensive discussion.
Those who support the establishment of the crown prince and those who oppose the establishment of the crown prince have become two groups, expounding their different ideas to each other, and there is a faint tendency of opposition.
Su Yin further investigated and finally learned that Li Le, the official who first publicly expressed his support for the crown prince, had a lot of contacts with his boss, Pan Yongjian, the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Pan Yongjian even invited him to dinner alone and admired him very much.
After the first wave of arguments between the two, Pan Yongjian once stood up to stop the argument between the two from developing into a fight.
However, according to people who witnessed the incident at the time, Pan Yongjian did not talk about whether to establish a prince, but only used ambiguous words to ask the two not to use violence.
What did not surprise Su Yonglin at all was that Pan Yongjian's identity was that of Su Yonglin's old Jiangnan tribe. He was the first old man who followed him north to fight in Shandong and was a worker in a salt factory.
According to Su Yin's further digging, Su Yonglin soon learned that Pan Yongjian was not as peaceful as he appeared on the surface.
Someone once heard Pan Yongjian express his dissatisfaction with the status quo, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the Organization Department of the Renaissance Society for usurping the authority of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Pan Yongjian was also heard to privately tease Zhou Chong, who was the acting head of the Organization Department at the time, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Di Liao, Minister of the Ministry.
Pan Yongjian believed that Di Liao was a servant of the Organization Department, and that the entire staff department had become a servant of the organization department. He also said that the staff department should simply be reorganized into the archives room of the organization department.
In fact, to be fair, Su Yonglin did not feel that what Pan Yongjian said was not true.
As the number of Renaissance members in the Central Dynasty increased, the size and power of the Renaissance Association inevitably expanded, and to a considerable extent affected and even usurped the responsibilities and authority of the original imperial departments.
Take the Organization Department and the Personnel Department as an example. The original design was that the two sides should be in harmony with each other. The Organization Department was in charge of the Renaissance Society, and the Personnel Department was in charge of the court officials. There was a clear distinction between them.
However, in actual operation, because many officials in the Ministry of Personnel are themselves members of the Renaissance and are also managed by the Organization Department, the promotion of new people and the selection of new officials are inevitably affected by the Organization Department.
And as time goes by, the influence of the Organization Department on the Staff Department is growing.
From the second to the third purge, due to the actual needs at the time, the Organization Department and the Staff Department held many joint meetings to arrange for the replacement of the positions of the officials and revival members who had been removed.
Because the situation at that time was very serious, the number of officials and revival members who had been captured was large, and the number that needed to be replenished was also large, so such meetings were held many times, so that the original expedient became a problem in the subsequent operation. established the practice.
To this day, the Ministry of Personnel really feels like a rubber stamp. Decisions are often made at a joint meeting, and then the two parties go back to register and make records.
At the joint meeting, the Organization Department had an absolute advantage. Zhou Chong's reputation for fairness and impartiality was so great that everyone was convinced. The Ministry of Personnel had almost no say, and even the joint meeting had the final say regarding official positions in the imperial court.
It is not that there was no opposition from the officials.
Pan Yongjian's statement that Di Liao is a servant of the Organization Department is definitely slandering Di Liao. Di Liao is the head of the department after all, so how could he be willing to have his authority usurped by other departments?
He raised objections many times, protested to Zhou Chong, even fought for it in person, and reported the matter to Su Yonglin.
However, from Su Yonglin's point of view, this matter may not be what he hoped for.
As soon as the Renaissance Society was established, Su Yonglin thought about replacing the official department with the organization department. However, the old forces still had a certain scale at that time, so Su Yonglin retained the official department.
At that time, the Organization Department was his own people, and the Personnel Department was reserved to win over the forces that confused the old bureaucrats and gentry. Su Yonglin's plan was to use the Organization Department to continue the plan and gradually control the real power of the Personnel Department.
After the second and third rounds of purges, the old forces have been eradicated, and some internal enemies have also been eradicated. In Su Yonglin's view, this is just an opportunity to carry out a series of political reforms, so he gave Di Liao Fengfeng.
Di Liao said that he would obey the interests of the collective, but hoped that Su Yonglin would consider the mood of the officials in the Ministry of Personnel and not make him unable to explain to his colleagues and subordinates after he returns.
Therefore, in order to take into account the mood and interests of the officials of the Personnel Department, Su Yonglin promised that although the Personnel Department would eventually be merged into the Organization Department, the expanded Organization Department would still retain the original functions of the Personnel Department, and the content of what they did would not change. Just change the name.
In short, Ministry of Personnel officials do not need to worry about being "graduated."
Di Liao then stopped and stopped arguing with Zhou Chong.
Although they are revolutionary comrades, they are not so free and easy when it comes to political interests. They will pay attention to the fate of their country and their country, but they will not ignore their own interests.
Although Su Yonglin has supreme prestige, he will also face certain resistance in reforms involving political interests.
This made Su Yonglin quite worried.
Even he will encounter such resistance, so after him, reformers will only encounter more resistance. The old saying that judging a person's wealth is like killing his parents is true.
Once each system has been running for a period of time, an interest group will inevitably emerge that is attached to it, which means that if you want to reform the system, you will inevitably encounter resistance from this group.
That’s why reform is so difficult.
It happened that Zhou Chong was present, so Su Yonglin mentioned this matter to him.
"The earliest establishment of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Organization at the same time was in itself a temporary measure. Now the obstacles that need to be cleared have been almost cleared, so in my opinion, it is time for us to start a series of political reforms.
I thought that if we directly merge the Organization Department and the Personnel Department, it is a matter of promotion of managers, so we should not separate the two departments, so as to avoid mutual blame and unclear powers and responsibilities. Di Liao is a good comrade. Why have you been opposing this situation?
He told me that if something goes wrong and the rights and responsibilities are not clear, your organization department will directly throw the problem to the staff department. When the time comes, it is obviously not the staff department’s fault, but the result will be shouldered by the staff department. This will Let the officials be very dissatisfied with your organization department. "
Zhou Chong has indeed been negotiated by Di Liao many times because of this matter, and he also consciously restrained the organization department's actions. However, in the joint meeting, this kind of thing is actually more difficult to avoid. If he insists on avoiding it, the efficiency of work will be greatly reduced.
So Zhou Chong also put forward his own opinion.
"Of course I have no objection to this. Now I also feel that the time is ripe. The Organization Department already has enough experience and scale to be able to take the lead. It is better to integrate all the staff into the Organization Department than to let the staff complain about the Organization Department's expropriation all day long. Their authority is only over Di Liao..."
"Di Liao understands my decision very well and decided to cooperate with the reform of the imperial court. This is an important step for the Renaissance Society to move to a new level. After controlling the personnel power of the entire imperial court, if there are any reactionary forces that want to come back, it will not be so Easy.
But it’s hard to say. The Organization Department has such great authority, so you must set political standards. You can’t just let anyone in. All audits must be done well. None of the audit terms we discussed before can be used. Few, everything must be implemented. "
