Zhu Qiyu did not keep everyone waiting for a long time and revealed the answer to the mystery: "He Wenyuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, also serves as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and joins the cabinet as a Hanlin bachelor to participate in government affairs."
Listening to people there, I felt both surprised and normal.
The poor civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were almost tortured to the point of schizophrenia by the new king's ridiculous behavior.
What surprised the ministers was that although He Wenyuan had previously served as the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment and was qualified in terms of qualifications, he had been dismissed from office and living at home for several years.
Well now, before he entered the capital, he was promoted one after another. First he was appointed Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel, and now he is also the Minister of Rites, and he joined the cabinet as a Hanlin bachelor to participate in politics.
What the ministers think is normal is that they have discovered the rules of employment for the new king: they like to pick people from those who are idle or unambitious, but have enough qualifications.
He Wenyuan just meets these conditions perfectly.
What Xinjun did was both absurd and unacceptable.
After the new king ascended the throne, he established one and two ministers. That was forgettable. Now with He Wenyuan's appointment, the Ministry of Rites already had three ministers.
What makes people reluctant to accept it is that the Minister of Rites has no real power, and one or two more would not be a particular hindrance.
Zhu Qiyu looked at everyone's expressions and smiled secretly in his heart. In fact, his appointment of three ministers of the Ministry of Etiquette was not completely without basis.
According to Zhu Qiyu's later experience, after taking the red pill and ascending to heaven in Taichang, two emperors died in the Ming Dynasty in one month. In the intensive transfer of power between the three emperors Wanli, Taichang and Tianqi, the phenomenon of multiple ministers of rites coexisting appeared.
According to Zhu Qiyu's hazy and incomplete statistics, at least four ministers of the Ministry of Rites existed at the same time. I have only obtained three ministers of the Ministry of Etiquette now, which is not enough.
As for why He Wenyuan had to be brought up, there is an explanation. In history, He Wenyuan strongly advocated abolishing Zhu Jianshen and making Zhu Jianji the crown prince.
Moreover, in the edict to abolish Prince Yi, Chen Xun wrote the first sentence: Heaven descends on the people and becomes the king.
He Wenyuan added his own famous saying in the second sentence: The father owns the world, and it is passed down to the son.
Not to mention others, even Zhu Qiyu himself felt that He Wenyuan was a bit too much.
But Zhu Qiyu had no choice. It was much more reliable to rely on Wang Wen, He Wenyuan and others than to rely on Hu Hui and Wang Zhi, the hardcore emperor, and Li Xian, Shang Ren, and Yu Qian, who were swinging around.
In the end, the Supreme Emperor seized power and was restored to power. Wang Wen was killed and He Wenyuan committed suicide. It can be regarded as sharing weal and woe with Jingtai and being a monarch and his subjects.
Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu looked around at everyone present and saw that no one raised any objection, so he felt a little embarrassed.
Zhu Qiyu patted the coffee table gently, "Okay, if you are all like this, then I will give you a hard time without doing anything." So he smiled very kindly and said:
"I previously asked for the list of orthodox Jinshi for the seventh, tenth, and thirteenth years, and looked through it carefully. Now that Huang Aiqing and He Aiqing have been sent out to serve as military counselors, I have fewer capable ministers around me, so I have to promote them again. One or two people are around to use it.
Let's start from the seventh year of Zhengtong. Let the military department appoint Xu Zheng, editor of the Hanlin Academy, and Huang Jian, concurrently as Zhongshusheren, to be on duty at the Xihua Hall to help me handle government affairs. "
The ministers were too lazy to care about this kind of thing, and still no one raised any opinions. Even Chen Xun, Wang Wen and others with good memories only knew that Xu Zheng was promoted to Jinshi at the age of twenty-five and Huang Jian was promoted to Jinshi at the age of twenty-nine. Your habits.
The ministers have finally figured out the rules. When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he liked to promote people with good looks and good temperament; the new emperor liked to promote people in their twenties who were Jinshi.
Only Zhu Qiyu knew in his heart that Xu Zheng and Huang Jian were not only Jinshi in the same ranking, but also fellow villagers. In history, after the emperor was imprisoned in the Nangong Palace, these two brothers made petitions to Jingtai one after another, suggesting that the walls be raised, the trees cut down, the gates of the Nangong Palace poured with iron juice, and the deposed prince and the king of Yi, Zhu Jianshen, was driven to the fiefdom of Yi. The country is extremely popular.
After the final restoration, Xu Zheng was Lingchi and Huang Jian was exterminated, so these two people can be regarded as the most clear-cut and firm Jingtai die-hards.
Since none of the ministers will come out to object, I will make adjustments for you all at once.
Next, Huang Pu came on the stage and began to tell the ministers present his demands.
After Huang Pu finished speaking, the ministers finally lost their composure. No matter how cowardly the ministers are, it is absolutely unacceptable to play with the women of the Ming Dynasty before giving them away.
Zhu Qiyu didn't wait for the ministers to speak, and chose his position in advance: "On this matter, if you want to continue to redeem the Supreme Emperor, you must give him a woman first; if he refuses to give, he must give a woman first, and the redemption of the Supreme Emperor will have to be abandoned halfway.
I'm also very confused and can't make a decision. So let's have a court discussion, everyone should express their opinions, and the minority should obey the majority. "
After saying that, Zhu Qiyu leaned on the soft couch and closed his eyes in a daze.
As expected, the ministers were noisy for half an hour. Zhu Qiyu almost fell asleep, but the ministers still could not give a result.
Although everyone knew that they could not give away their daughter, no one dared to stand up and say that they would reject it outright and let the cause of redeeming the Supreme Emperor fall by the wayside.
In the end, the ministers finally reached a consensus and shouted together: "Your Majesty is wise and powerful, please ask the Holy One to make the final decision."
Zhu Qiyu sighed and said to himself that I am indeed the one chosen by you to take the blame. When it comes time for someone to be the bad guy, you all know that the emperor is wise.
But today, the wise new monarch refused to take the blame, and only heard Zhu Qiyu reply with an embarrassed look on his face: "I can make the decision on other matters, but the matter of redeeming the Supreme Emperor involves the Queen Mother and the Empress in the harem.
You'd better send a representative to see the Queen Mother. What happens in the end is up to the Queen Mother and I have no opinion. "
In this way, the ministers were sent away. Only Xu Jue, Huang Pu, and He Yi were left, and everyone continued to talk about regulating the Yellow River.
Xu Jue spoke eloquently and eloquently, while Zhu Qiyu listened with his feet on the ground, confused and foggy.
In the end, he couldn't stand it anymore, so Zhu Qiyu forcibly interrupted Xu Jue: "Okay Xu Aiqing, I really can't bear it anymore. I really don't understand what you are saying.
There is no need for me to know this. In short, you can control the river with confidence. I will support you if you need anything.
I don’t care what you do specifically, as long as you can build the Yellow River and the canal into a solid state, I will promote you to the position of censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, right minister of the Ministry of Industry, governor of water transportation and admiral of military affairs, governor of Fengyang and other departments, and concurrently Pipe river. "
There was such a long list of official titles. Zhu Qiyu held his breath and finally read out the full official title of the Governor of Water Transport.
(End of chapter)
