The capital city would not feel the fierceness thousands of miles away in the northwest. The Forbidden City was still as thick as usual. Twenty-seven days later, the emperor took off his filial piety, and Emperor Xiaozong's sacred tablet was placed in the ancestral temple for descendants to worship.
The compilation of "Records of Xiaozong" has also become one of the most important government affairs at present. In addition, the imperial examination will be held on March 16. This is Zhu Houzhao's first imperial examination after he ascended the throne. He himself still attaches great importance to it. .
In the Ming Dynasty, compiling the records of the previous dynasty was a very solemn and serious task. "Records of the Ming Dynasty" is also an absolute secret of the royal family and cannot be told outside.
Generally speaking, this work requires a supervisor, led by a bachelor from the Ministry of Cabinet, and compiled with the Hanlin Academy as the main body of compilation.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the emperor chose the British Duke Zhang Mao as the supervisor. Because these things involved some royal family affairs, the subsequent rules were for honorable officials to be the supervisors. The British Duke Zhang Mao is still alive, so this thing is Nothing to start with.
The CEO needs a bachelor, and Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Wang Hao are probably these people. The vice-president is a minister, a minister of Hanlin, a minister of bachelors, etc.
However, the specific compilation work was done by the Hanlin Academy of the Hanlin Academy. For these young officials, it is not easy to add such a stroke to their resumes.
This is all for the ministers. For Zhu Houzhao, he usually does not make many changes to this kind of routine work with relatively mature experience, unless there is a complex political struggle involved... If it is just some small thoughts, He wouldn't care too much about arranging some of his own people. No matter how good the records were, they couldn't produce 20,000 cavalry for him.
But if it had something to do with an important minister in the DPRK, he would have to ask.
Before that, today the Qianqing Palace will discuss the candidate for Sichuan Chief Envoy.
The former chief envoy He Jian was transferred to Yingtian as governor, leaving the Sichuan chief envoy free.
Zhu Houzhao paid special attention to the selection and appointment of local officials since he became the prince. He emphasized more than once the importance of a good chief envoy.
In particular, Sichuan is still a land of abundance, with ethnic minorities and chieftains surrounding it. If things go wrong, chieftains will cause chaos. To put it bluntly, he could tolerate someone like Zhang Fuhua being the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he couldn't tolerate someone like him becoming the chief envoy.
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No matter how good the people in the capital are, if they are close to him, even if there are mistakes or things he thinks are not good, they can be corrected with a few words.
In that place in Sichuan, what can even the emperor do? You can only trust the chief minister.
The cabinet ministers and chief officials of various ministries gave the emperor two names in the Qianqing Palace. The emperor shook his head until Liu Jian said one person, "Your Majesty, how is Fei Zichong?"
Fei Zichong?
That is Fei Hong, who was Zuo Zanshan of Zhan Shifu back then.
"Where are they now?"
"Participating in politics while serving in Huguang."
Zhu Houzhao tapped his fingers regularly, and finally nodded, "Before taking office, let him come to Beijing as usual."
Fei Hong followed the same political trajectory as Yang Tinghe. He first served as a subordinate official of Zhan Shifu, and then was transferred to a local government as a prefect. Due to his excellent performance, he was promoted to participate in politics, and this time he was promoted to chief envoy. ….
The next step is to go to Beijing, right?
If there are many such things, everyone will understand. It seems that the emperor likes this type of officials very much.
"Most of the ministers who perform well in the imperial court should be in the local areas, such as governors, chief envoys, and inspectors... These are the positions I care about most. No matter how well we people do it, if the chief envoys cause trouble in the local area, then there will be no It makes sense. Lin Shangshu,"
Lin Han came out and said, "The humble minister is here."
"In my opinion, the imperial court should conduct regular training for provincial officials. It can be divided into three years instead of once for the whole country. The main officials in charge of the two capitals and thirteen provinces must go to Beijing to receive training. The Ministry of Civil Affairs should also strengthen this training. Performance appraisal of similar officials.”
The emperor has new ideas.
However, this does not affect anyone's interests, so there is no reason to obstruct it.
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For Zhu Houzhao, in addition to ability training, there is also political training. He has just ascended the throne, and he will replace these local officials in a rhythmic manner.
In the current Ming Dynasty, the transmission of power relies on people. In a narrow sense, it is its own people. With people like Wang Hua and Yang Tinghe in place, Zhu Houzhao's will will be carried out much more smoothly.
Governor Yingtian like Ding Zuping would have other thoughts.
If Ding Zuping is everywhere, then the three-year plan or the five-year plan will be written in a lavish way, but once it is implemented, it will be found that the chief minister cannot pass this test, and it is still a fool.
"...I know that in the officialdom, the ultimate goal is to reach the capital, six ministries, and the cabinet. However, the official system must be like a pool of living water, with entry and exit. It does not mean that once you reach the capital, you will not go back to the place. ..."
Liu Jian and others were all thinking, what did the emperor mean by suddenly saying such words? Are you continuing to express your dissatisfaction with the cabinet?
The emperor also repeatedly emphasized the resume issue of local officials. If these words are combined with the official careers of the three cabinet ministers, it will be different, because all three of them were awarded Jinshi and then went to the Hanlin Academy to study hard. Lectures on officials, compiles records... It seems that he became a cabinet minister step by step.
In the first month of this year, in order to decide whether to send troops, the three cabinet members united and refused to support the emperor. The emperor is still holding on to this matter, because after this incident, he discovered that the cabinet cannot be monolithic.
It's not that the three of them are bad, or that Zhu Houzhao can't stand them. In fact, the three of them are good officials and they cooperate well.
But the problem is that starting from this year, many of the decisions Zhu Houzhao will make must break through some traditional concepts to a certain extent.
He didn't have time to make arrangements in advance for dispatching troops. When it came time to open the sea, could he let the three of them oppose him together?
He would not be so stupid if he fell into a pit twice.
To take a step back, a good official does not necessarily have to be a cabinet minister to benefit the country and the people. There are many other important positions.
So this month, he has been releasing this kind of signal.
This put more and more pressure on Liu Jian. Others felt the emperor's meaning, but they themselves knew it better.
Li Dongyang and Xie Qian both felt that this was because of the dispatch of troops to the northwest.
In Nuange, after Zhu Houzhao said that officials from the capital could also go to the place,
Min Gui, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, had a donkey temper. He petitioned: "Your Majesty, I would like to serve as an envoy to the place and serve as a pastor for the emperor."…
"The position of chief envoy is too low for Minister Min. He has to oversee one place anyway. Just wait until the time is right. If there is any gap, I will not be polite to you."
The emperor's own people are so upright and upright, which makes other ministers uncomfortable. So they all stood up and spoke.
Li Dongyang even stepped forward to resign, "Since I entered the court as an official, I have served as editor, lecturer, and lecturer in the East Palace. I have never guarded a city or a pond. I know that my talents are limited and my experience is not good, so I dare not If you seize the position of a cabinet minister in vain, please allow your Majesty to allow the minister to take up the position and reserve it for the minister who can be useful."
Zhu Houzhao pursed his thin lips,
Bad experience?
Li Dongyang became famous at a young age. He served as a scholar, a Hanlin editor, a Hanlin compiler, and a lecturer in the East Palace. Later, he became the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor at the Zhiwenyuan Pavilion, where he started to do machine maintenance. What's wrong with this experience? In the current concept, this is simply the chosen one.
I said this deliberately, but it actually meant I was secretly contradicting the emperor.
The qualifications of these ministers in the cabinet are too rich. You are like Liu Jian. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Yingzong Tianshun.
Zhu Houzhao didn't feel it before he sat in this position, but when he really got up, he felt that this kind of reasoning didn't make sense. The veteran was really constrained by too many constraints.
But now Emperor Daxing has just passed away and has reached out to these veterans of the former dynasty. The key is that they have an excellent reputation, but they also have a reputation of being mean and unkind.
Liu, Li, and Xie were fine before, but since he became emperor, something has changed.
In fact, it is inevitable because the pattern has changed.
In the past, the cabinet was the middle ground between those who opposed the crown prince and those who supported the crown prince.
Now that Zhu Houzhao has become the emperor, he has to implement a lot of government affairs, and decisions such as sending troops are actually very big. This has caused the cabinet to lose the space it had before to have both sides and was pushed to the front.
Although they had a certain degree of affection for each other, even if the dispute over sending troops reached that level... Zhu Houzhao didn't argue too much with them, and Liu Jian didn't regard the new emperor as a coward.
But once the evolution of the power structure starts to change, it has nothing to do with whether people are good or bad.
Out of self-interest considerations, the cabinet can no longer support Zhu Houzhao as before, let alone hide it. In the past, there was Xiaozong and the prince, but now besides the emperor, it is the cabinet. Where can they hide?
"Mr. Li Ge, please don't mention your resignation again. You know, I especially don't like my ministers to mention this to me."
When the emperor said this, he made a special case for the veteran, and it was more or less a show of affection.
"The humble minister made a mistake, please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao ignored him and didn't want to accept the words. The main reason was that this was not Governor Yingtian who just took it. There must be a legitimate reason for choosing a cabinet minister.
"For the compilation of the late emperor's true records, the supervisor is still the British Duke Zhang Mao. Who will serve as the president and vice president respectively?"
Wang Hao replied: "Your Majesty, the chief executive officer is usually held by a grand master of the palace."
In this case, it stands to reason that it would be Liu Jian, the great scholar of Huagaidian, Li Dongyang, the great scholar of Wenyuange, Xie Qian, the great scholar of Dongge, and others.
Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said, "Mr. Liu Ge and Lao Xie Ge will be the presidents, and Liang Chu, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Gu Zuo, the minister of the household affairs department, will be the vice presidents. Let the cabinet draw up a note for the rest of the staff."
In this way, Li Dongyang was missed again.
"Your Majesty..." Lin Hanjin, the Minister of Rites, said: "It is an extremely important move for the new monarch to compile the "Records" for Emperor Daxing. It seems that the court should not abandon one person."
The emperor narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean? Do you want to say that I am unfilial to the late emperor?"
Lin Han looked shocked and immediately knelt down, "I don't dare!"
Zhu Houzhao has been in power for a long time. Now he has become more and more skilled in his tone and expression, and his momentum has become stronger. Even some important officials in the court will sweat their palms in front of the emperor.
"You must pay close attention to the training of *** officials. After returning home, it must be carried out immediately. The objects, content, time and place of the training must be considered in advance and reported to me for review. In this process, no one is allowed to seek personal gain with power. .”
Lin Han was even more surprised. The emperor's understanding of officialdom and power far exceeded that of the late emperor.
This kind of training is indeed prone to corruption. Because the emperor cares about it, this training quota is particularly critical. At least these people can get close to the emperor. This opportunity is not available to everyone!
So who will have this opportunity?
In the end, it fell on the wise saying: There are people in the court who are easy to be officials.
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This is a chapter from yesterday. Was reviewed last night
I still can’t write about war, hahaha
I even went to study for a while, but it still didn't work. I even fell asleep when I read the war scenes. But if the plot requires it, you should write more or less. This book will not focus on the plot of the army killing people, which is also the original intention of starting the book.
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