Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1293 The First Grade Official Residence!
In the last few days in late May of the 15th year of Wanli, there was one news a day in the official circles of the capital, which was comparable to the three waves of Longmen.

First, Zhao Jin's stepmother died of illness. Zhao Jin requested Ding You for three consecutive days. The first two letters were rejected. When the third letter of resignation was finally accepted by the emperor, he agreed to Zhao Jin's Ding You and returned to his hometown to observe the system.

Without a word, Zhao Jin returned to his hometown on the afternoon of the day he received the holy will, and did not stop in Beijing for a moment.The end is Gao Fengliang Festival, filial piety is moving.

However, in this way, there is a shortage of the censors of the left capital of the dignified capital and the court, and naturally it cannot be suspended for a long time.So on the second day, the Holy Will came down again: Shen Li, the Minister of Rites, was appointed as the Censor of the Left Capital of the Ducha Yuan, and took office immediately.

Since it was a change of office, of course there was a shortage of the Minister of the Household, so all the officials in the capital were waiting for the appointment of the Minister of Household, and many people had already guessed that this position was likely to be given to Gao Pragmatism.

Of course, there are also many who think it is impossible.The Minister of the Ministry of Household has a great responsibility. Although Gao pragmatic has a good reputation, he is too young after all. He was already a high-ranking official when he was in the Ministry of War. At any rate, there is Liang Menglong, a senior Sima with sufficient qualifications above him. Shi Xing, another left servant before, was also a person with sufficient qualifications.

Liang Menglong is the 32-year Jiajing Gold List, and Shi Xing is the 38-year Jiajing Gold List. These qualifications are enough to even join the cabinet.Only high pragmatism is a wonderful flower: he is the gold list in the eighth year of Wanli.

There is a 27-year difference between Gao Yushi and Liang Menglong's Chinese style, and a 21-year difference between Shi Xing's Chinese style-this is the gap between generations!But they are all officials of the Ministry of War, serious colleagues.

People are high and pragmatic, and they are the best in the world in terms of family background, background, achievements, achievements, and even financial resources.In this case, with Liang Menglong and Shi Xing, especially Liang Menglong, and let Gao Wushi be the left servant of the Ministry of War, everyone can understand. After all, even if there is something unreliable in him, Liang Menglong will correct him. .

However, if he was asked to directly take the job of Dasinong, many people would not understand it - Dasinong is not an ordinary position, he is in charge of the foundation of the world!
The Minister of the Household Department holds great power and is in charge of the country's finance and economy (don't think that there was no such thing as finance in the feudal era).In terms of the Ming Dynasty, there were 91 Ministers of the Household Department, and 89 of them officially served.Among the six ministries of Li, Hu, Li, Bing, Xing, and Gong in the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of the Ministry of Li was honored as the official of heaven, and the minister of the Ministry of Hu was honored as the official of the earth.

The other four Shangguans, including the mighty Minister of War, have no honorific titles such as "Heaven and Earth".Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Household ranks among the officials in charge of "organizing personnel cadres and civil servants", which shows how important the Ministry of Household is.

why?

Since the establishment of the six departments, among the six central departments, the basic situation is as follows: the personnel department is the most respected, and the household department is the largest; the personnel department is the first, and the household department is the most important.

What does it mean?It means that in the ranking of the six central ministries, namely, the Ministry of Officials, Households, Rites, Soldiers, Penalties, and Works, the Ministry of Personnel ranks first in terms of personnel power in charge of national officials' performance evaluation, promotion, dismissal, and deployment.This is because of all things in the world, people are the most valuable.The Ministry of Personnel ranked first, of course.

The Ministry of Household is the largest, which means that the Ministry of Household has the largest internal organization and the largest number of personnel.

What?Did the ancient officials also have a system?
Of course, there are, and the number of staff and posts are generally relatively strict.Due to the large number of institutions and personnel, the Ministry of Accounts ranks first among the six departments, so it is called "the largest Ministry of Households".

It has its own rules and order when it is sung, ranking, or standing in the court of ministers. Generally, the method of "Wendong Wuxi" is followed, with civil servants on the side and military generals on the side.In the ranks of civil servants, the Ministry of Personnel should be ranked in front of the Ministry of Household, which is one of the elements of "the Ministry of Personnel comes first".

Then why do you say "the household is the most important"?This is why the "household is the largest".

The Ministry of Accounts is the largest because it has the heaviest responsibilities among the six departments.The Ministry of Personnel manages officials, while the Ministry of Household actually manages the people.

What's the matter?event!A major event of national economy and people's livelihood.

There were thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty, and the name was originally "Xingzhongshu Province".In the ninth year of Hongwu, the "Xingzhongshu Province" was abolished and changed to "According to the Minister of Government and Envoys", that is, the province was changed to the Secretary.

In the Ministry of Household, there are thirteen bureaus of clear officials named after the provinces, called Thirteen Divisions, which are responsible for the relevant business of each province.

In addition to the corresponding thirteen divisions, there are many institutions within the Ministry of Households.In modern language, there is also the national treasury granary, that is, the reserve of national civilian materials such as grain and cotton; there is a mint, that is, a banknote printing factory; there is a currency issuing center, which is equivalent to the current People's Bank of China and other institutions.

Each of the functions and powers undertaken by the Ministry of Household basically involves the national economy and people's livelihood, so it is said that the Ministry of Households has the heaviest weight among the six ministries.

The Ministry of Household, since the Three Kingdoms period, was set up as the "Secretary of the Branch", in charge of finance, and replaced the position and power of the Han Dynasty Dasinong.In the Sui Dynasty, "Duzhi Shangshu" was changed to "Minbu Shangshu".In the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of Tang Taizong Li Shimin's name, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was changed to the Ministry of Households, and the name of the Ministry of Households began from this.In the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Household was one of the six ministries and was in charge of matters such as land, household registration, taxation, and fiscal revenue and expenditure.

The evolution of the past dynasties, the system remains unchanged, including the Ming Dynasty, until the Qing Dynasty, there will be changes.

The Minister of the Household, the second of the six masters, is in charge of the power of the Ministry of Households and is the highest officer of the Ministry of Households.In the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Households not only had thirteen departments of Qing officials corresponding to the business of thirteen provinces, but also had four internal divisions, namely, the Ministry of Households, the Division of Duzhi, the Division of Jinbu, and the Division of Cangbu. top tax authorities.

The Minister of Household, as the Minister of Household, is in charge of the Ministry of Household, in charge of the country's land, population, finance, civil affairs, taxation, agriculture, industry and commerce, etc., and is also responsible for the printing and issuance of Daming treasure banknotes.

Because of this, among the six ministers of household affairs in the Ming Dynasty, it is the most difficult to do, and there are not a few people with tragic endings, and their terms of office are often short. Those who can serve for more than five years are not easy. The above are purely rare.

In a word, this position is the person who is specifically responsible for the national economy, national economy and people's livelihood.

Both the real power and the great responsibility.

Of course, you wondered what kind of monster this household would be if it was placed in later generations?
It is the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Audit Office, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Taxation, the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Energy Administration, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, the National The complex of the Grain and Material Reserve Bureau even manages the household registration in the world.

This is almost a small G State Council!

Handing over such a department to a young man who is only 25 years old, it will be amazing to change to any dynasty-not everyone can be Li Shimin, let alone everyone has a father like Li Yuan.

The officials in the capital waited on the left and the right, but they did not wait for Gao Wushi to become the secretary of the Ministry of Households, but waited for Shen Shixing's request to supplement the cabinet and ministers, as well as the emperor's first rejection, but the second time he agreed.

This is strange. It is probably the most common state for the Ming Dynasty cabinet to maintain five cabinet ministers. Now there are five cabinet ministers. Why do you have to add one more?

Could it be that... the position of this cabinet minister was exchanged by the Xin School for the Censor of Zuodu?

In fact, it's no wonder that those officials who don't know the inside story think so. In fact, the emperor played a trick here, just messing up the order, and the impression it gave people was very different.

What's the difference?The focus is different.

If the appointment of Gao pragmatism is placed in front, others will think that the emperor wants to move this position for Gao pragmatism, and several other appointments and removals are for this purpose, so the focus of public opinion falls on Gao pragmatism.

This is different now. The focus of everyone has become "Xin School wants a position as a patriarch" - the rest of the things are for this matter.Then the center of public opinion will become "Why does the Heart School have to have one more patriarch?"

Thus, all associations will be expanded accordingly.For example, some people think that Shen Yuanfu is "hard to support" in the cabinet, and urgently needs to find a helper to share the pressure; some people think that the Xin School is dissatisfied with the Shi School's control of the cabinet for too long, and now they would rather give up the post of Zuodu censor and get it back in the cabinet. In this situation, after all, it has been some years since the "prefecture-level authority" suppressed the "ministerial authority", and it is reasonable for the Xin School to focus on the cabinet.

The advantage of the emperor's actions is obvious, it is to "decompress" Gao pragmatism - since the focus is attracted by the "controversy between the two factions" of officials, the appointment of a "merely" minister of households is not so much. It is important, and the pressure of public opinion will of course be lighter.

I have to say that Zhu Yijun's care for Gao pragmatism is really in place.

Although the Minister of Accounts was vacant for a few days, it didn't really mean that it would break things right away.The reason is very simple. There is an elder in the cabinet who is mainly in charge of the household department, and this person is none other than Zhang Xueyan.

Zhang Xueyan himself is a minister of the Ministry of Household, and has been in the Ministry of Household for many years. How difficult is it to come to the Ministry of Household temporarily to manage the affairs of the Ministry for a few days?Not to mention that the Ministry of Household is the basic board of the Shi School, and important departments within the Ministry are controlled by officials of the Shi School. Even if there is no Shang Shu in office, Zhang Xueyan can at least ensure that the affairs of the Ministry of Household will not be a big problem.

As a result, except for the vacancy of the Ministry of Housing Minister, the rest of the nine ministers were quickly summoned and began to push the court.

Ting Tui's progress is not very clear, and he honestly stayed in Jianxinzhai to "study".Reading is naturally a fake. In fact, in addition to approving the reports from various places in Beijing that were delayed in the previous expedition, and discussing some future plans and arrangements with Liu Xin, Gao pragmatically spends most of his energy on how to arrange for the queen to go out to the palace to see a doctor. .

The queen's going out of the palace is no more than that of Princess Yongning. If it is exaggerated, it can even be said to be a hundred times more serious in nature, so this time there are many objects to be dealt with.

Not only can it be done by just managing, but also the rotation of the palace guards, the arrangement of the Jinyiwei, the cover along the way, the preparations for seeing the Xinzhai Courtyard, etc., all must be carefully planned.

Although this matter must be approved by the emperor, the problem is that the emperor can't approve the queen to see Xinzhai casually - seeing that the Xinzhai courtyard is the residence of this minister Gao Wushi, you are an emperor, and sending the queen there is a fool. What's the meaning?People in this world are not allowed to stare out their eyeballs?
It's not even reliable for the emperor to take the queen in person. The civil servants in Daming can definitely find out a hundred people who are wrong in this matter, not to mention that Gao pragmatism will die without a problem, and even the emperor himself will be scolded. Showering - Zhu Yijun has been scolded for many times in history, but now is it different because Gao pragmatic has won a few battles?

Thinking too much, the civil servants have their own perseverance.Unless Zhu Yijun intends to imitate his grandfather, he only cares about being comfortable in front of him and regardless of the reputation behind him, otherwise don't even think about it.

This time, the court promotion went very smoothly. Shen Shixing proposed that Wang Xijue, who had long expired to restore the system, be a cabinet minister, which was miraculously unanimously recognized in the public promotion of the Dajiuqing, and the emperor later agreed in the palace.In the afternoon of the same day, the imperial edict and official documents of Wang Xijue were revived and they went directly south along the post road.

The outside world learned that everyone felt that they really had a good plan. This incident made it clear that the Xin School and the Shi School had made a top-level deal, and the Zuodu censor changed the pavilion.

What?The Ministry of Accounts?

Hey, isn't this an insignificant thing, it's just an added bonus in this incident - the Ministry of Household was originally controlled by the Shi School, but now it's still under the control of the Shi School, isn't it?As for whether it is high and pragmatic, it doesn't seem to matter that much.

People are very capable of self-persuasion. After everyone's focus has changed, self-persuasion has become "Anyway, there is Mr. Zhang Ge's care over there at the Ministry of Household, so there will be no major incident."Even more people think: In fact, being high and pragmatic is not bad. People can pull out a behemoth like Jinghua in just over ten years. How can the financial management be worse?I just hope that he will not be the same as mastering Jinghua when he masters the Ministry of Household, always "struggling for profit with the people"...

In this way, the foreshadowing has been completed, and after listening to the report from Jin Yiwei and Dongchang that night, Zhu Yijun fell asleep peacefully.

The next day, the court push was held again. This time, the court push was not aimed at the patriarch, but the minister of the household.

As mentioned above, sometimes the emperor will directly cut off the important positions of the court, and most of the promotions will be held by the court to show that the appointment is in line with public opinion, fair and impeccable.

Of course, it is not impossible for the emperor to insist on direct appointment, but in that case, the official's reputation will not be so clean.

With yesterday's "unanimous vote" as the bottom line, of course, today's Tingxin School has to reciprocate, so the result is also unanimous - Gao pragmatism was promoted to the Minister of Household.

The news spread from Wenyuan Pavilion to Qianqing Palace, and in less than a cup of tea time, the approval of the Sili Jian came down, and Zhu approved it, so that the cabinet could draft a decree and send it to the six divisions.

Just after noon, Gao Wushi received the imperial decree and various writings from the Cabinet, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Sixth Division.

The Prince Shaobao, the left servant of the Ministry of War, was the assistant manager of the Jingying Rongzheng Gao and pragmatic.Wen Sanjie is from the second rank of the doctor, and Jin from the first rank of the doctor of honor.His first wife, Huang Zhiting, was promoted from the second-rank wife to the first-rank wife.

The Ministry of Accounts is only the second grade, but the prince and the master are from the first grade. Although this is only a title, Gao Wucheng can now be called "the first grade of official residence"!

25 years old, first-class official residence! ——
Thanks to the book friends "Single Riding Zhao Bixin" and "Cao Mianzi" for their support, thank you!
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