Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1571
Chen Yubi, Chen Jingbang, and Xu Xuemo, as candidates for the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, held a court push. This approach is completely in line with "procedural correctness."However, there are some problems with the ordering of these three candidates.

At this moment, Chen Yubi's job is to be in charge of the academic affairs of the Imperial Academy, Chen Jingbang is the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Xu Xuemo is the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

As soon as these three positions are listed, it is obvious that the problem can be seen: Chen Yubi, as a scholar of the Imperial Academy, has a special status in charge of the academy, let alone for the time being; It seems that there are problems no matter how you look at it, and it is completely inconsistent with the Ming Dynasty officialdom that has always placed emphasis on seniority rankings.

In fact, things are not that simple. The fact is that Chen Jingbang served as Minister of Rites once in the 11th year of Wanli, but the time was very short. He resigned and returned to his hometown because of Ding Mu's worries in just over two months.However, after Ding You, he couldn't recover in time, because he himself fell ill again, so he delayed his recovery until last year and finally returned to Beijing.

However, at this time, there is a radish and a pit in the middle of Beijing. I really can't find a place to arrange him. I originally planned to let him go to the Nanjing Sixth Department to find a transitional position as a hall official. this lack.

But fill in the vacancies, his titles, grades, essay officials, etc. are all in accordance with his previous grades of the Minister of Rites, and because his qualifications for the first minister of the Ministry of Rites are older than Xu Xuemo, so this time the ranking is out of the question. In front of Xu Xuemo.

However, although seniority is important, when it comes to important ministerial positions that need to be recommended by the court, the recommenders themselves in the primary election of the Ministry of Officials do not need to look at seniority, and this huge power is completely in the hands of Lang Zhong, the Secretary of Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials.

Hmm... that's pretty obvious.

Of course, power is sometimes dangerous.For example, in the 21st year of Wanli in the original history, Gu Xiancheng served as the doctor of the Department of Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials, and was in charge of the promotion and transfer of officials.In the 22nd year of Wanli, the imperial court jointly recommended the appointment of a cabinet bachelor.The people Gu Xiancheng nominated this time, because they were all hated by Zhu Yijun, offended the emperor (Gu Xiancheng had already offended him not long ago), so they were directly stripped of their official status and dismissed from their posts to go home.

But this time, the emperor seemed to have no objection to the candidate selected by the Department of Literature and Selection of the Ministry of Officials, and directly issued an order to push it away.

Gao Yushi was well aware of the court situation, so of course he knew why the emperor had no opinion.The reason is: both Chen Yubi and Chen Jingbang should be acceptable candidates for the emperor. As for Xu Xuemo, who is at the bottom of the three recommended positions, the emperor probably only regards him as an extra.

However, from a high-practical point of view, the emperor would probably approve Chen Yubi more. The reason is that although Chen Yubi is theoretically a neutral faction, in fact during the Yunnan-Myanmar War, Chen Yubi’s father, Chen Yiqin, was a cabinet minister. The "Chen Party" formed in the past was greatly favored by Gao Pragmatism, and retained the core of the Chen Party at that time, Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan.

The Ministry of Officials has always been the private land of the Real School since it was restored at the end of the third year of Longqing, and the Ministry of Officials itself is the yamen that the School of Reality must control in its reforms. The emperor knew this well.Therefore, unless the emperor does not intend to continue reforming, the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials will definitely be handed over to the Practical School, or at least a neutral school that will not hinder the Practical School-Chen Yubi obviously meets this condition very well.

Of course, Chen Jingbang is actually eligible. Although he was born in Nanbang, because he was a Jinshi in 44, he also worshiped Gao Gong as his teacher, but he is not a core member of the Gao Party. When the imperial court was at its best, it was also on the fringes of the Real School.

But he still has an advantage, that is, when Zhu Yijun was still the prince, he was the prince's daily lecturer, and he can be regarded as the common teacher of Zhu Yijun and Gao Yushi.Of course, Zhu Yijun has a lot of teachers, and Guo Pu is the only teacher who is highly pragmatic and serious. However, these are traditional issues, so there is no need to expand them.

All in all, Chen Jingbang is someone the emperor is very familiar with, and his qualifications are completely sufficient. It is very reasonable for the Ministry of Officials to put him in the second place in the recommendation.

As for Xu Xuemo, his Minister of Rites was originally the product of the struggle and compromise between the School of Reality and the School of Mind at that time. It is hard to say whether the emperor had a bad feeling for him, but it must not be a good opinion.In the current situation, to put it bluntly, even if Ting Tui finally recommended him, the emperor would probably "veto it with one vote" and ask the cabinet to Ting Tui again.

As soon as the incident of Ting Tui came out, it also caused another impact, that is, both Zhang Xueyan and Gao Yushi immediately accepted the emperor's "consolation" and immediately "come out to see things".

Uh, I can't blame the two of them for being unreserved. For such an important matter as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, if the Real School loses a senior official and a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, if something happens... Although there is the emperor's "" One-vote veto" is the bottom line, but if it really gets to that point, the real school will lose face too much.

Profit is always more important than face, not to mention such a crucial core interest, the two of them had no choice but to admit it.And this made everyone see the emperor's methods again: Aren't you two unable to persuade them?what now?

I have plenty of ways!

Three days later, the court push began.However, the process and results of this court push were all expected, so there is no need to elaborate.Generally speaking, not only people from the Practical School voted for Chen Yubi, but also quite a few from the Neutral School. The rest of the Neutral School voted for Chen Jingbang. vote for him.

There were quite a lot of people participating in the court push of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. In addition to the six cabinet ministers, there were Da Jiuqing and Xiao Jiuqing. Xu Xuemo only got three votes in total. Excluding Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, there was only one person Vote for him, obviously everyone knows that the emperor will not pick him.

That being the case, everyone should simply avoid disgusting the emperor and causing trouble for themselves.As for the one other than Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue...they are about to reach their age, and they are fearless anyway, so I won't mention it.

As soon as the results came out, the emperor was really satisfied. The court push results were released in the morning, and in the afternoon the emperor issued an order to replace Yang Wei, who had resigned and returned home, with Chen Yubi as the new Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Of course, according to the tradition, Chen Yubi hurriedly went to Chen Yu, saying that he was ignorant and unworthy of virtue, so he declined. Naturally, the emperor "not allowed to resign", and after going through the process, Chen Yubi took office immediately.

However, the changes in the imperial court were not over yet. A few days after Chen Yubi took office as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Zhang Xueyan invited Wu Dui and Gao Wushi to his residence, solemnly expressing his intention to resign and return home.

This matter was actually expected by Gao Yushi, but he didn't expect Zhang Xueyan to be in such a hurry.He and Wu Dui persuaded him for a while, but Zhang Xueyan should have made up his mind to go this time, and he refused to stay in office no matter what.The two had no choice but to discuss the successor with Zhang Xueyan.

In fact, judging from the current internal qualifications of the Pragmatic School, except for the freak Gao Pragmatism, Shen Li should be the most suitable to become a cabinet minister.However, ever since Shen Li was replaced by Gao Yushi as Minister of the Household Department and changed to Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Gaodang branch of the factual school showed a serious tendency to be centrifugal, and instead got closer to Xu Guo.

Under such circumstances, considering the great significance of Zhang Xueyan's position as a cabinet minister to the High Pragmatic School of Practicality, all three of them believed that Shen Li could not be recommended as a senior cabinet elder at this time.

But this will cause trouble. If they don't recommend Shen Li, then there is a high probability that Xu Guo and Shen Li will not support the candidates they put forward, and the practical school will obviously split in this court push. It is a typical act of relatives and enemies.

In this regard, Gao Pragmatism proposed an idea, that is, to resolve the crisis by actively recommending Shen carp.He thought that if he did this, Shen Li might be able to "change his mind" and realize that it was the emperor's holy decision to be replaced by Gao Yushi last time, and it wasn't that Gao Yushi insisted on stealing his limelight or embarrassing him.

There is obviously another advantage to doing this, that is, once Shen Li really "figures it out", then Xu Guozai will become isolated and helpless, and is likely to "resign his fate" to recognize the leadership of the high-level pragmatic and pragmatic school, thus It also completed the "unification" of the real school.

But Zhang Xueyan and Wu Dui both thought it was too unsafe for this highly pragmatic proposal.The last time Gao Yushi replaced Shen Li as the Minister of the Household Department, everyone with a discerning eye knew that the reason was that Gao Yushi knew better about finances, and that was the time when the emperor needed a super-capable local official to help him.

Shen Li is not a child, so it is impossible to understand this truth. The reason why he still can't let go of this matter is because he thinks that he has lost face, which is equivalent to being named by the emperor for lack of ability.

Of course Zhang Xueyan can recommend Shen Li when he leaves office, and Wu Dui and Gao Yushi can also fully support him, but no one can predict whether Shen Li will think that this is enough to save face.If he still can't let go of this matter, if he gets the position of cabinet minister, he will become a cocoon of the high party, and he will be in big trouble.

Zhang Xueyan's own consideration is to recommend Liang Menglong to join the cabinet.Although Liang Menglong started his official career as a student of Zhang Juzheng at the earliest time, it has been almost 20 years since Zhang Juzheng fell from power. When Gao Wu was serving in the Ministry of War, Liang Menglong also cooperated with him very well, and the relationship can be called close.

As for Liang Menglong's ability, there is no need to doubt it. If he hadn't been strong enough, why didn't Gao Gong suppress him after Zhang Juzheng's downfall?Gao Gong's characteristics are obvious, even if he is from the "enemy" camp, unless he is a diehard, he will treat everyone equally and use them according to his ability.He can keep Liang Menglong and promote him all the way, which in itself shows that Liang Menglong is very capable.

As for what to do with the Ministry of War after Liang Menglong resigns, Zhang Xueyan also has his own considerations.He thought that Zhou Yong, Governor of Jiliao, could be transferred back to the Ministry of War to serve as Minister of the Ministry of War.In this way, according to the usual practice, it is very likely that Li Song, governor of the Liao Dynasty, will be promoted to the governor of Jiliao. At this time, the Real School will recommend Gu Yangqian as governor of the Liao Dynasty...

This idea is somewhat of a chain plan.Li Song, the governor of Liao Dynasty, has obviously not been the favorite candidate of the Practical School. In Liaodong, he has always suppressed the high-practical general Xuan, and with his help, Li Rusong, who succeeded his father in Liao, has greatly restored the Li family army. The trend of the heyday also affected Gao Wu's arrangement in Liaodong.

Although Li Rusong is also a famous general, and has always been highly regarded and even protected by Gao Yushi, that does not mean that the Practical School as a whole is satisfied with him. On the whole, Li Rusong is more inclined to suppress.

As for Li Song, he has served in Liaodong for a very long time. Once he left Liaodong and went to Jizhen, considering that Jizhen was originally Qi Jiguang's residence, and almost all the generals were under the command of the Real School, Li Song would definitely not be able to do what he wanted. It would be difficult to cause too much practical trouble to the Practical School.

Gu Yangqian was also a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing. He was one of the first batch of "senior brothers" Gao Yushi met when he came to Beijing with Gao Gong. According to the rules, we will definitely try our best to take care of the Xuanda descendants who Gao Wushi transferred to Liaodong.As for future incidents in Liaodong or sending troops to Chahar, it should be enough to listen to high-level pragmatic "greetings".

The only problem is Zhou Yong's ability.The current governor of Jiliao has always been underestimated by the Pragmatic School in terms of ability, and Gao Wushi's evaluation of him is basically "mediocre" from the bottom of his heart.To say that the level is poor doesn't seem to be the case, but to say that the level is high is obviously nonsense.Generally speaking, his main advantage is the word obedience.

However, for the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, Gao Yushi felt that obedience might not be enough, not to mention that the emperor had been worried about Zhou Yong's ability before - the emperor was worried about Zhou Yong before he became governor of Jiliao, so let him be the soldier now. The emperor should be more worried?
However, Zhang Xueyan was probably not afraid of playing big games before leaving, and he suggested that Han Ji be appointed as the Minister of Military Affairs of the Ministry of War as a supplement to Zhou Yong's own soldier.

Han Ji was also one of the first batch of "senior brothers" Gao Yushi met as a Jinshi in 44 in Jiajing.

The governor of Ming Dynasty has an individual name, called Fujun, so Han Ji actually has military experience-although he has never fought a war, it does not affect this.

Of course, Gao Yushi is not dissatisfied with Han Ji, and his qualifications are indeed sufficient.It's just that Gao Wushi thinks that in this way, the Minister of the Ministry of War is of average ability, and the Minister of Military Affairs of the Ministry of War has no real experience in leading troops. If there is a big war, will these two have the ability to deal with it?
At this time Wu Dui stood up and said: "If Lord Xinzhai becomes an official, I expect the emperor will let me take over the supervision of the household department. Now that the household department has Rixin here, in fact, I don't need to be troublesome, but Mingquan As I did before, I entered the cabinet with my own soldiers, and it is estimated that I should supervise the Ministry of War... In this way, even if the Ministry of War is about to face any major events, Mingquan can always steer them. I don't think there will be any problems. "

Now that we have come to this point, it is difficult for Gao Pragmatic to persist, so he has no choice but to agree.

A few days later, Zhang Xueyan went to Sanshu to beg for the bones, and finally got permission.Before leaving, he recommended Liang Menglong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, to join the cabinet. The emperor expressed his approval and asked for a court promotion.

This time things went smoothly, and the Mind School didn't even express their objection to Li Song's transfer from Liaodong—maybe they thought it would be a good deal for Li Song to be promoted to governor of Jiliao.

In short, within a short period of time, the blood exchange plan negotiated by Zhang Xueyan, Wu Dui and Gao Yushi was completed: Wu Dui was promoted from a bachelor of Wuyingdian to a bachelor of Wenhuadian, followed by Wang Jiaping and Wang Xijue respectively; Liang Menglong joined the cabinet Zhou Yong was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War; Han Ji was transferred to Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War to assist in Rongzheng; Li Song was promoted to governor of Jiliao; Gu Yangqian was promoted to governor of Liaodong...
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