Daming talker

Chapter 581 Either me or him!

The next day, Wang Tianguan continued to go to the Ministry of Personnel, setting a personal record of going to the Ministry of Personnel for consecutive days in the past ten years.

Previously, when he was still the old leader of the alliance, Wang, he had always been an official in Nanjing. Although Hai Rui had been rectifying the work style in Nanjing, he was unable to make the old leader of the alliance go to the government office for two consecutive days.

Yesterday, after the new officials reported for duty, a meeting was held, and today I had individual conversations with officials from the Ministry of Personnel.

The order of conversation, of course, starts with the Langzhong of the Second Ministry, the Ministry of Examination, followed by the left and right vice ministers, the Ministry of Selection, the Ministry of Verification of Seals, and the Ministry of Inspection of Honors.

"What? The examiner is not in the department again?" Wang Tianguan may not be used to Lin Tailai's working style. "Where is he going now?"

The steward replied, "He usually goes to the Hanlin Academy to give a speech in the morning, and then appears in the Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Rites as the occasion demands."

Wang Tianguan then ordered: "Send someone to invite him back. We must talk to him first."

Although Wang Yanzhou is an old hand in officialdom, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know how to be an official.

If I didn't know the technology, how could I have remained the leader of the literary world for thirty years? It's just that my previous position was not good enough and there was no room for me to display my talents.

The first person a new official chooses to talk to after taking office is mainly for others to see.

The person to be talked to must be Lin Tailai, and only Lin Tailai. Even if Lin Tailai is not here, he must be invited back.

Therefore, the secretary just sent two groups of soldiers to go to the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Rites to look for someone.

At this time, Lin Tailai was in the Ministry of Rites' Chief Guest Department, furious and scolding his subordinates.

Recently, the North Korean delegation has come again. This is the third time that the Ministry of Hosts and Guests has received the North Korean delegation in the one year since Lin Tailai took office.

Because of Lin Tailai's insensitive "generosity", the Korean delegation took the opportunity of hospitality to take away hundreds of watermelons from the Guanglu Temple.

The Guanglu Temple directly charged the Ministry of Rites for the bill of several dozen taels of silver, and the already stretched Ministry of Rites' small treasury suffered another unexpected loss.

This made Lin Tailai very embarrassed, and he took his anger out on other officials in the Ministry of Guests and Guests.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Personnel called Lin Tailai away, and everyone in the Ministry of Guests was relieved.

Lin Tailai still had to give the face of “the first conversation”, otherwise Lin Tailai would definitely “not listen to orders or instructions”.

If there was something big happening in the Ministry of Personnel, Lin Tailai would come back automatically even without being summoned.

Although conversation is a form of expression for others to see, it does not mean that there is nothing to say.

Wang Tianguan asked Lin Tailai, "Regarding the position of Doctor of the Ministry of Literature, do you have a candidate in mind?"

This may be the biggest event in the next stage of the Ministry of Personnel.

Lin Tailai shook his head and said, "No."

Wang Tianguan was extremely surprised by this answer. Lin Tailai, have you changed overnight? You don't even care about such an important matter?
"Not fighting anymore?" Wang Tianguan asked again.

Lin Tailai added: "Of course I will fight for it! But I guess it will be difficult for the court to let me achieve my wish.

Therefore, competing for the position of Wenxuanlang is just a means, not an end, to exchange for other benefits. "

The matter still needs to be briefed to the Minister of Personnel, so as to avoid any misjudgment by him which would affect cooperation.

Wang Tianguan asked curiously, "How can we fight for it? If we can't generate enough pressure, we can't force others to exchange their interests."

Lin Tailai replied: "According to the general rules, there are two main sources of appointments to the Wenxuan Division: one is the transfer of Langzhong from the Kaogong Division, and the other is the promotion of Yuanwailang from the Wenxuan Division.

If someone wants to circumvent this rule, there must be some price to pay, right? "

The Langzhong of the Ministry of Examination was Lin Tailai; the Yuwenlang of the Ministry of Literature was Wang Xiangmeng, the nephew of Lin Tailai’s wife.

This personnel arrangement is simply a moat surrounding Wenxuanlang.

Wang Tianguan was a little suspicious. Did Lin Tailai have already planned for this day when he took over the Ministry of Examination?
As the two were talking, a Jinyiwei officer suddenly rushed out of the door and shouted:
"The pirates from the sea have invaded Tao and He in Gansu! The emperor has issued an order to come to the Wenhua Palace today! Summon civil officials above the third rank, military officials above the governor rank, officials in charge of science and technology, Hanlin academicians, and officials related to military affairs to come to the court immediately!"

Upon hearing the sudden decree, Wang Tianguan and Lin Kaogong stood up suddenly, shocked!
The emperor who was playing rotten actually left the inner palace and went to court urgently. How angry must he be? The emperor's wrath left millions of people dead?

Wang Tianguan, who had just been the "Head of the Outer Court" for one day, was a little excited. He was able to go to court and meet the Emperor as soon as he took office. Could it be that he was also the "chosen one"?
At this time, Lin Tailai frowned and muttered, "How come the fifth-rank and above poets became Hanlin Academy scholars?"

Lin Tailai was very angry about this. Who on earth was so shameless to plug this loophole?

Although I am a "poet of the fifth rank or above", I am not a "Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy"!

The situation was urgent, so Wang Tianguan simply tidied up his clothes and hurried out.

As they walked, he said to Lin Tai: "Let's stop talking. I'm going to court. You go back first!"

But the tall and young Lin Tailai was more agile and rushed to the front. Without turning his head, he said to Wang Tianguan: "I am going to court too!"

It was not that Lin Tailai was concerned about state affairs, but he wanted to see with his own eyes what the Wanli Emperor looked like when he was so angry that he left the palace to attend court.

The elderly Wang Tianguan looked at Lin Tailai's back in shock.

What does this court meeting have to do with you, Lin Tailai? Are you qualified to go to the palace?

When Wang Tianguan rushed outside, Lin Tailai was no longer the only official taking to the street.

A group of red-robed gangsters appeared on Qinglong Street and the Imperial Road, and then gathered at the left gate of Chang'an.

Immediately, the nobles poured into the imperial city from the left gate of Chang'an and rushed into the inner court.

He passed Chengtian Gate, Duanmen Gate, Wumen Gate, Huiji Gate, and stood in front of Wenhua Hall, waiting to enter the hall.

The cabinet ministers were much more relaxed. Wenyuan Pavilion was just opposite Wenhua Hall and they could reach it by just a few steps out of the door.

Among the middle-aged and elderly civil officials, the young, tall and majestic Lin Tailai, the editor and examiner of the Hanlin Academy and the doctor of state affairs, was extremely eye-catching, standing like a mountain in the crowd.

In an occasion like a court meeting, as long as the people in the first three rows are not important, the presence or absence of one person in the back is not a big deal.

The emperor usually turned a blind eye and rarely took things too seriously. Could he really get furious over the absence of two censors or the presence of an extra doctor as auditor?
The last emperor who was very particular about this was Jiajing. To be specific, he was Jiajing in the first seventeen years before he began to practice Taoism. He would get angry if too many officials were absent from the formalistic court meetings of several thousand people.

So under normal circumstances, if there is a doctor who is thick-skinned enough to pass himself off as a real person and mixes in with a group of bigwigs, others generally will not take it too seriously and will at most complain a few words in their hearts.

It's not a secret meeting. We are officials in the same court. There's no need to fall out over such a small matter.

But as I said before, the current Nine Yuan True Lord Lin Tailai is really very popular.

After all, he has helped so many people spiritually and physically, and has received so many people's heartfelt gratitude.

After the four grand secretaries came out, the chief minister Shen Shixing frowned and kept thinking, not paying too much attention to the outside world. After all, he was the chief minister, the first responsible person in the eyes of the emperor, and he must have made a report.

The second assistant, Wang Xijue, kept looking left and right, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

As for the Fourth Assistant Zhao Zhigao, he was still a young member of the cabinet and stood quietly at the bottom of the stairs.

Only Wang Jiaping from Sanfu immediately spotted the fake boss named Lin standing among the crowd of bosses.

"Lin Tailai! Why are you here?" The Minister of Justice Lu Guangzu asked loudly across a dozen assistant ministers and officials.

Lin Tailai asked in return: "What advice do you have, Grand Minister of Justice?"

Lu Guangzu shouted bluntly: "What qualifications do you have to enter the palace? Wenhua Palace is a place with rules and regulations, and it will not tolerate unruly people who hope to get in!"

During the last court nomination, Lu Guangzu, as a candidate, could not speak in order to avoid suspicion.

So he could only watch Lin Tailai jumping up and down, and he felt so sad.

Today I took the opportunity to criticize Lin Tailai a few times, which helped me to make my thoughts clear.

The dozen or so officials between Lu Guangzu and Lin Tailai dispersed silently.

Lin Tailai retorted: "I am a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, why can't I go to the palace?"

The Jinyiwei officers on duty in the palace breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that between fighting with words and fighting with fists, Lin Tailai chose fighting with words.

Otherwise, if a real fight breaks out, the officers on duty in the palace will be the ones who have the biggest headache.

Lu Guangzu sneered a few times and said sarcastically: "The Ministry of Hosts and Guests is only responsible for tribute, foreign affairs etiquette, and reception affairs! What does this border war against the sea invaders have to do with you?"

Just when everyone thought that Lin Tailai was going to argue to the end, they saw Lin Tailai pointing at Lu Guangzu and saying:

"This is the judgment made by you, the Grand Secretary. It has nothing to do with me!"

Then Lin Tailai shouted to the Grand Secretaries: "The elders, please bear witness! Today in Wenhua Hall, if Lu Guangzu is there, I won't be there! If Lu Guangzu is there, I won't be there!"

Wang Sange, who had been paying attention to the situation here, said, "Then go away! Why are you still talking so much?"

In the eyes of neutral officials, it is impossible to say whether this matter is right or wrong.

Logically speaking, it cannot be said that it was wrong for Lord Wang San and Lu Guangzu to expel the outsiders.

However, publicly expelling people like this is a bit humiliating. After all, in the eyes of most people, adding a plug to the court meeting is not a matter of principle.

There are a lot of scoundrels in the military officer team, so it doesn't matter if there are one or two more scoundrels in the civil officer team.

Lin Tailai, who seemed to have suffered a great humiliation, angrily asked Wang Tianguan for leave, "I'm going home to recuperate!"

People who knew him always felt that something was wrong with Lin Tailai's performance today, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

But after Lin Tailai left, the officials waiting for the throne became inexplicably quiet.

After a while, Emperor Wanli went to the palace and the ministers came up to meet him.

After the cheers of "Long live the emperor", the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department held the urgent report and read it aloud. Only then did the ministers who were urgently summoned learn more about the situation.

The Northern Lu tribes were mainly distributed north of the border wall, but due to historical reasons, some tribes lived and grazed in the West Sea (also known as Qinghai Lake) on the western plateau and were called Hai Lu.

Altan, the old king of the right wing of the Northern Tartars, had made several expeditions to the west and conquered the sea Tartars. He also left his second son Bintu to graze in the West Sea.

Over the past few decades, the Yellow Sect of Western Barbarians was introduced to the Northern Barbarians and flourished in the Northern Barbarians.

After the Longqing Peace Agreement, the northern barbarians often passed through the Hexi Corridor in Gansu to go to the West Sea to welcome the Buddha or make pilgrimages.

However, after the successive deaths of the Lu King Altan and Xin'ai Huang Taiji, the Shunyi royal family's control over the Hailu tribe loosened.

The ethnic situation on the border of Gansu was extremely complicated. There were deep conflicts between the sea barbarians and the ethnic minorities who had submitted to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty generally favored the ethnic minorities when dealing with them.

In recent years, a restless chieftain named Huo Luochi has emerged among the pirates and has frequently plundered the foreign tribes on the Gansu border.

This year, after completing the spring tribute ceremony, Lady Sanniangzi, the loyal and shunning wife of the Northern Tartars, and King Bushitu, the Tartar, led a tribe of one hundred thousand to escort the ashes of the Third Holy Buddha of the Yellow Sect back to the west and entered the West Sea, making the situation in the Western Regions complicated again.

When the chieftain of the sea barbarians, Huo Luochi, saw a large number of his fellow tribesmen coming to the West Sea, he thought that his power had grown and it was time to start an uprising.

Therefore, Huo Luochi recently led more than 4,000 cavalry to besiege Taozhou, Hezhou and other places in Gansu, and killed and looted the surrendered Fanyi tribes.

Lintao General Liu Chengsi and Deputy General Li Lianfang successively led their troops to fight, but suffered successive defeats due to various reasons.

A large number of generals, including Deputy General Li Lianfang, Lieutenant General Li Ruyu, guerrilla Meng Xiaochen, Li Fang, and Captain Wei Chengxun, were killed in the battle, and the army lost thousands of people.

When the ministers heard the details of the military report from the governors of the three borders, they were all shocked. No wonder Emperor Wanli was so furious!
This is the most devastating border defeat since the Emperor ascended the throne!
Although the emperor lives in seclusion in the palace, he is still very proud.
The Wanli Emperor on the throne was furious and cursed: "Useless! The governors and governors-general of the border towns are all useless! When something goes wrong, they only know how to pass the buck to the petty officials, which leads to the slackness and failure of the border defense!
Perhaps I am too merciful! I want you to think more about how the governors and ministers who failed to get the chance were dealt with during the reign of Emperor Sejong. "

The peak period of the Jiajing Dynasty's military operations was only thirty or forty years ago. The ministers naturally remembered that when the Jiajing Emperor suffered a defeat, he would kill ministers to vent his anger, and he even killed the Minister of War.

Prime Minister Shen Shixing was helpless and could only try to persuade the emperor to calm down. Otherwise, how could they hold meetings if the emperor kept cursing like this?

He stepped forward and said, "There are all foreign tribes outside the Tao River. In previous years, the barbarian cavalry could not reach there, and the border troops only guarded against the foreign bandits, so their military preparations were weak and they were unable to stop them in a hurry.

Now Huoluochi invaded, mostly to rob the tribes, and was afraid that China would rescue the tribes, so he claimed to be an internal aggressor to bluff. "

What this means is that Your Majesty should calm down. Those who are being robbed by the pirates are also barbarians, so don't be so angry and anxious.

Emperor Wanli said angrily: "The barbarians are also my children, and the places where they live are also the territories opened up by our ancestors!

The governors and governors received imperial edicts and were entrusted by the court to guard the country. If they cannot defend against invaders in times of emergency, what do they do on weekdays? "

Shen Shixing could only follow the emperor's advice and said, "Your Majesty has severely criticized the governors and governors for failing to improve border affairs. I see your wise and wise decision, and the border officials should also be convinced. Now you must immediately order them to select generals and train troops to sort out border affairs in a timely manner."

Emperor Wanli was very disappointed and said with great dissatisfaction: "In ancient times, civil officials like Du Yu could not even ride on a saddle and could not shoot through a spear, while Zhuge Liang could lead troops and make great achievements even with his feathered hat and fan!"

Shen Shixing replied helplessly: "These two are famous officials, very rare in ancient times, so talents are hard to come by."

Suddenly, someone stepped forward and said, "If we are talking about talents who are good at both civil and military affairs, we also have Lin Tailai in our dynasty."

Emperor Wanli looked up and didn't recognize the old man who was speaking. He asked, "Who are you?"

The man replied, "I am Wang Shizhen, the Minister of Personnel."

All the officials in the hall were speechless. Only you, old leader Wang, dared to speak. The emperor is still in a state of rage!
But it’s normal, generally newcomers are very willing to show their enthusiasm!

(End of this chapter)