Daming talker

Chapter 629: Untitled (Part )

After the imperial recommendation, the ministers of the ministries and agencies had mixed feelings. When the results of the imperial recommendation were reported to the Ministry of Personnel, the cabinet ministers also had mixed feelings.

This is a large-scale nomination that is completely out of the control of the cabinet, and it may even be the first in recent decades.

It is hard to imagine that a young man who has been in the court for two years and is only a fourth-rank official could accomplish such an operation.

In the political tradition of the Ming Dynasty, the final decision on the recommendation of outer court ministers could only be made by the emperor. The selection of officials belonged to the emperor, and even the Ministry of Personnel was only acting on his behalf in theory.

The cabinet can use off-field factors to interfere with and influence the court recommendation, but it generally cannot veto the results of the court recommendation in terms of procedure, otherwise it will become a major political event.

So with the end of the court recommendation, this period of turmoil was over and the court could finally have a few days of peace.

Mr. Shen Yongmao, the head of the Shen family, walked out of the house without recognizing his relatives, mounted his horse and went to work at the Ministry of War.

More than half a month of torment passed. Because of his special identity, he was caught in the middle and finally got some relief.

Now all he had to think about was how to bring Lin Jiuyuan together with his father.

When passing by the right gate of Chang'an, Shen Yongmao saw from afar that there were a dozen people standing under the wall watching something.

Any experienced official in the capital could guess that someone must have posted another poster. In recent years, there have been more and more cases of posting large posters on the streets criticizing current events and discussing politics.

After Lin Jiuyuan entered the court two years ago, he gave this kind of large-character posters posted on the streets a name "big-character posters", which is quite descriptive.

Uncle Shen thought, since he was passing by, he might as well take a look, and turned his horse around.

When the others saw Shen Yongmao, for some reason, they took the initiative to make way for him.

As a result, Mr. Shen didn't even need to dismount, but just went closer to take a look, and saw the following written in sharp strokes:
"Before Yiyou (the 13th year of the Wanli reign), the Prime Minister was like a rat in prison, and he was still restrained and did not dare to act;

After Yiyou, the current situation is like a tiger at the edge of a corner, it is violent and cannot be offended!

Why is this so? Because Lin Tailai, the ninth emperor, is a member of his party.

How could anyone not do something that deceives the emperor and his superiors? After Lin Tailai, the ninth emperor, who dares to challenge him? "

Application: "."

The other people around stopped reading the "big-character poster" and all looked at Uncle Shen.

After Mr. Shen came to his senses, he roared, "Is this the end?"

The same trick, again!
Shen Yongmao then turned his horse around, galloped all the way home, and successfully stopped his father at the gate.

"Calm down! Please stay calm!" Uncle Shen tried his best to persuade him, but his eloquence was not good enough and he kept repeating the word "calm down" over and over again.

Prime Minister Shen's face turned pale. What a bunch of rubbish that dared not face Lin Tailai and only dared to provoke the honest Prime Minister! Should honest people be insulted wantonly?
After a thousand twists and turns in his mind, Prime Minister Shen finally claimed that he was ill and could not go out.

Lin Tailai didn't care about the Prime Minister's mood. His biggest headache at the moment was the site selection for the Ministry of War's Communications Department.

The current members of the preparatory group for the Communications Department of the Ministry of War are team leader Lin Tailai, deputy team leader Ke Ting, team member A Wang Shiqi, team member B, and team member C.

After several inspections, the team members unanimously agreed that the area near Jiaofangsi Hutong in Dongcheng was not suitable as an office address.

The Southern District of the Imperial City is still the best. Everyone wants to work here, but it is too difficult for latecomers to carve out a space in this golden government district.

Group members B and C were both former imperial students. They participated in a literary conference and were promoted through Lin Tailai's inspection.

That day, team member Yi Zhishu privately reported to Lin Tailai: "Mr. Jiuyuan! I have a plan that will definitely help our company gain more space, but it will take some time to be effective."

Lin Tailai was very surprised. Even Ben Zhenxian couldn't think of a solution for a while, so what ideas could you, a student, have?
Yi Zhishu vowed: "As long as you lend me ten servants, I will see results in a few days at the earliest and half a month at the latest!"

After that, every night, Yi Zhishu brought ten strong men to the door of the Honglu Temple Minister He Laotou's house and cursed them as "traitors" and "the Prime Minister's flatterers" until midnight. After ten days, He Laotou was exhausted and retired to his hometown.

Without waiting for the court to retain him, Old Man He abandoned his official position and left, leaving the Honglu Temple leaderless in an instant.

Yi Zhishu then immediately reported back, saying, "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission and succeeded! Now I can go to the Honglu Temple to enclose the land."

Lin Tailai: "."

This person from a humble background is really shameless. Even people around him like Zhou Yingqiu and Gu Bingqian would not do such a thing as blocking the door and swearing in the street.

Yi Zhishu also offered a suggestion: "Mr. Jiuyuan is in the Ministry of Personnel. In the near future, please make sure that the Ministry of Personnel does not nominate anyone for the position of Minister of the Honglu Temple. Let the position of Minister of the Honglu Temple remain vacant for a while."

Lin Tailai sighed secretly, there were indeed many talented people among the "grassroots", they just lacked opportunities.

During this period of time, Lin Tailai led his servants to quickly seize half of the Honglu Temple as the office address of the Communications Department of the Ministry of War.

He also urgently borrowed a group of military craftsmen from Li Rusong to first build the isolation wall, and then began to build the main hall.

Lin Tailai had only one request: to build the main hall of the Ministry of War’s Communications Department before he left Beijing!
At the end of August, Ye Mengxiong, a Jinshi in the Jiajing Dynasty who was promoted from Governor of Shaanxi and Governor-General of Ningxia to Minister of Works, came to Beijing at the age of 61.

Although Minister Ye was born in a remote place and had always been an official in the local area, and his connections in the court were not strong enough, who in life does not have a few relationships with people of the same age and hometown?

Moreover, in the officialdom, the Shangshu, who sits in the Ministry of Justice, is ranked among the Seven Ministers, which is higher than the governor-general, so there will definitely be no shortage of people who like to please him.

So at the reception pavilion outside the city, Minister Ye was exchanging greetings with a group of officials who came to greet him.

Looking at the smiling faces filled with compliments, Minister Ye was filled with emotion.

He had never imagined that with his vague connections with the upper echelons, he could be promoted to the Minister of Works and be ranked among the Seven Ministers of the Imperial Court.

There are more than twenty governors and six or seven governors-general in the country. Why should I get this good thing?

I originally thought that after finishing the aftermath work thoroughly, it would be enough to be promoted to the Governor-General of the Three Borders, and I never thought about the matter of the Shangshu.

Fortunately, he had a good temper and did not quarrel with Lin Jiuyuan, who was trying to seize his power, when he was suppressing the rebellion in the first half of the year.

It is true that if you take a step back, everything will be calm, and if you endure for a while, the sky will be wide open.

Otherwise, if the court lacks a minister, Zheng Luobi, the governor-general in the northwest, would be more suitable.

Under normal circumstances, Zheng Luo should return to the capital to serve as the Minister, and he would take over Zheng Luo's position as the Governor-General.

As a result, Zheng Luo, who had a disagreement with Lin Tailai, continued to stay in the northwest, while he himself was promoted and returned to the court.

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves was heard. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of knights riding tall horses galloping from the direction of the city gate.

When they were not far away, the tall and majestic knight in front shouted loudly: "Mr. Ye, how are you?"

When the officials at the reception pavilion recognized the man, they were all shocked!

This is Lin Tailai and Lin Jiuyuan! Lin Jiuyuan actually came to greet Ye Mengxiong in person! This courtesy is simply unbelievable!
You know, even when Wang Tianguan came to Beijing last year, Lin Tailai did not come out to greet him in person!

Could it be that in Lin Jiuyuan's mind, the Minister of Works is more important than the Minister of Personnel?
Ye Mengxiong was also confused. After working together for several months in the first half of the year, he understood Lin Jiuyuan's habits very well.

At that time, Lin Jiuyuan treated his nominal leader in a very rude manner.

But now that Lin Tailai had done him a favor, he treated him with great courtesy, which was really weird.

(End of this chapter)