Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 205: The Industrial Department Opens Up
November 30th, Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Youjian held a standing meeting to handle the affairs of the Ministry of Industry.

He originally wanted to arrange the affairs of Shaofu Temple, but after the meeting started, his attention was distracted by something.

This matter started last year. In May of the sixth year of Tianqi, Xue Fengxiang was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry by recommendation. After securing his position, he began to establish his authority in the Ministry of Industry.

The door of Chief Yu Heng of the Ministry of Industry opened and hit the muzzle of his gun. In leap six months, Xue Fengxiang was ordered to stay idle by the court on the grounds that he was trying to compete for jobs and yelling and bullying his colleagues in class.

Of course Menkong Kai was dissatisfied and had been waiting for an opportunity to retaliate. After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne and overthrew the eunuch party, he felt he saw an opportunity and sent his son Men Gongji to submit a letter to the General Affairs Department on the 21st to impeach Xue Fengxiang, the Minister of Industry.

Shen Zizhang, a fellow from Beizhili who had a good relationship with him and the chief minister of Guanglu Temple, knew about it and wrote a letter asking him to stop this matter.

Lu Tunan, the general envoy, did not seal the memorial until the 26th.

Zhu Youjian had no time to pay attention to the memorial that opened the door, but Xue Fengxiang was startled, thinking that the emperor was waiting for an opportunity to attack.

Therefore, in the daily meeting yesterday, he strongly agreed with the emperor's proposal to establish the Shaofu Temple, and even served as the Minister of the Shaofu Temple himself, and established a research institute in the Wensi Academy according to the emperor's wishes. He successfully gained Zhu Youjian's acceptance and remained in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

The impeachment got this result, and the door opened was simply mad. So he began to launch map cannons, impeaching Lu Tunan, Shen Zizhang, Zhang Wenyu, Xu Siyue, Fan Zhen and other officials from the Ministry of Industry, and placed the memorial in front of Zhu Youjian.

With so many people being impeached, Zhu Youjian must pay attention to it.

In view of the seriousness of the matter, Zhu Youjian allowed the door to be opened and went to the hall to confront officials from the Ministry of Industry.

When he opened the door and arrived at the Wenhua Hall, his vigor remained unabated. He sprayed almost all the Ministry of Works officials present, which made Zhu Youjian feel happy:

It is not necessarily true that these officials from the Ministry of Industry are all guilty. But if you catch one every other one, there must be someone who slips through the net.

Zhu Youjian never had any hope in the integrity of these people.

Of course Zhu Youjian would be happy if the door was opened to help him spray them.

If the door opening can open the door of the engineering department, that would be great!
However, he wanted to see a joke, but the ministers thought it was inappropriate. Huang Liji, the chief minister of the cabinet, said:
"Your Majesty, if the door is open and he is cursing wantonly and being disrespectful in front of the emperor, he should be kicked out."

Only then did Zhu Youjian give up the idea of ​​watching the joke and let the person who had been impeached defend himself.

Lu Tunan, the general envoy, first defended:
"The memorials are sealed one by one. The door is open and now there are officials staying idle. Of course, his memorials will be placed at the back."

"Except for Guo Cunqian, the left-hand political advisor, the officials your Majesty has added to the General Affairs Department have not yet taken up their posts."

The General Affairs Department had only two rank officials at the last meeting. After being supplemented by Zhu Youjian, there are only three current ones, and the others have not yet had time to take office.

Therefore, it is normal for them to deal with the memorandum of this idle official in front of the door.

Zhu Youjian did not criticize harshly and let Lu Tunan pass.

Then there was Shen Zizhang, the chief minister of Guanglu Temple. He thought it was a good thing to persuade the door to stop opening, but he didn't expect that it didn't work. Instead, he made himself look embarrassed and felt unlucky.

He defended himself, saying that writing the letter was a private idea, for the purpose of opening the door, and had nothing to do with other people.

This person had a good temper and did not quarrel with the door opener. Moreover, he has a clear grasp of Zhu Youjian's thoughts and feels that Xue Fengxiang is unlikely to leave office in the near future.

The development of the matter also proved his judgment that Xue Fengxiang had done a good job as Minister of Industry, and he had been accepted by the emperor and would continue to be so.

What Shen Zizhang didn't understand was why the emperor let the door open and made such nonsense. Was he going to clean up the officials of the Ministry of Works?

Zhu Youjian really wanted to clean up the officials of the Ministry of Works. After Xue Fengxiang stayed in office, the Ministry of Works was chaired by him, and it was possible to change the staff.

Those officials he disliked could naturally be replaced.

The door opened and sprayed the Ministry of Works official, which just gave him an excuse.

Xue Fengxiang didn't know what the emperor was thinking, so he tremblingly defended himself and attributed the matter of impeachment to personal grudges.

In order to save face for Mendong, Zhu Youjian fined him three months' salary, which was considered a small punishment but a big warning.

Then, Zhu Youjian saw that the door was open and wanted to spray Xue Fengxiang, so he changed the subject and said: "Which official from the Ministry of Industry do you think should be removed the most?"

When the door opened, he saw that the emperor had punished Xue Fengxiang, and his anger subsided a lot. After thinking for a moment he said:
"The one who should be withdrawn most is naturally Zhang Lingyun."

"He was appointed by Wei Ni and is colluding with Chen Datong and others. He should be removed most of all."

Guo Xingzhi from the engineering department heard about the incident and also said:
"Zhang Lingyun, Chen Datong, Zhao Ruizi, the secretary of the Dagong University, and Guo Shouren, the head craftsman, invaded and defrauded Duo Jin."

"I have been searching for their crimes for a long time. Please ask Your Majesty to interrogate them and recover the stolen goods."

This is something he has been investigating for a long time and has long wanted to bring it out.

After Zhu Youjian heard this, he was immediately shocked. With his involvement in the matter, he had even more reasons to capture these people.

Let me ask again, Zhang Lingyun and Chen Datong were also impeached by Qian Yuancai, the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, and they can be said to be eunuchs.

So he immediately ordered:
"Zhang Lingyun and Chen Datong will be classified as the fifth class and their property will be confiscated."

"Others were also handed over to the custody of Jin Yiwei, and their property was seized for interrogation."

"Find out the crime as soon as possible and hand it over to Dali Temple for trial."

This is the heaviest sentence imposed by the Ministry of Industry, followed by other rebellious officials.

Starting from the capture of Zhang Lingyun, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Youjian began to examine the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

He had long been dissatisfied with the large number of ministers and ministers in the Ministry of Industry, but now he has taken them all down:

"Sun Jie and Yang Menggun, ministers of the Ministry of Industry, as well as Li Yangde, who returned to his hometown to guard the system, and Wu Chunfu, who was taken for questioning, are all related to Wei Ni."

"Confiscate their property and convict them based on the circumstances of their crimes."

"Zhang Wenyu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry..."

After a pause, before Zhu Youjian could say anything, Zhang Wenyu knelt down and apologized:
"I was deceived by Wei Ni, please donate your family property to atone for your sins!"

Assuming that he was quick to see the opportunity, Zhu Youjian considered that this person had some abilities and was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. He thought about it and said:
"I know your merits, but it's a bit too fast to be promoted to minister by Wei Ni five years after being admitted as a Jinshi, and to be given the title of censor of Youdu."

"Since you once flattered Wei Zhongxian, you will be designated as the sixth class, and you will be demoted one level. From the minister to the Shaofu Temple Shaoqing, you will be appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and continue to be responsible for your original duties."

He was open to Zhang Wenyu and decided to continue his appointment.

Zhang Wenyu escaped the disaster and did not care about his family property. It's a blessing to be able to keep your official position, and you will naturally have to give back what you have earned over the years.

Everyone knows that the emperor is now crazy about poverty and wants to confiscate his family property if he catches a rebellious official. How could he let these well-off officials from the Ministry of Industry go?

If not for Zhang Wenyu, he knew that he would not be able to continue to be promoted. He also knew that he was hated by people outside the eunuch party and did not want to be the first. He had already surrendered to the emperor based on his background in the second year of Tianqi. How could it be Xue Fengxiang's turn to become the first person from the Ministry of Industry to defect to the emperor?
Now this result is not bad for him. He was a fourth-grade Shaoqing official and was appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of Industry. Among the Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi, he was second only to Kong Zhenyun, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who was specially promoted by the emperor, and far better than others in the same year.

In this way, after being cleaned up by Zhu Youjian, among the ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Industry, only Xue Fengxiang and Zhang Wenyu remained. The others were all captured and their property was confiscated.

　"Records of Ming Xi Zong" Leap Sixth Month of the Sixth Year of Tianqi:

　　The head of the Ministry of Industry was forced to live in the open door, and Xue Fengxiang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, accused him of competing with others, shouting in court, and cheating on his fellow officials.

　　"Chongzhen Changbian" December of the seventh year of Apocalypse:

　　Xin Chou cut down the door of the Ministry of Housing and Industry and opened a registration for the people.

　　First, Xue Fengxiang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was opened to the public and sent his son Men Gongji to join the political affairs department on November 21. Shen Zizhang, the minister of Taipu Temple, opened the village in the same year and wrote a letter to stop it. On the 26th, Lu Tunan, the general envoy of general affairs, entrusted him with the title of seal.

　　It is suspected that Fengxiang was entrusted to Zizhang when opening the cave, so Tunan was sealed late by Ni Zhi, and then Tunan and Zizhang were sparsely corrected, so they were merged with Zhang Wenyu, Xu Siyue, Fan Xuan, etc. Therefore, Tunan Shubian followed the example of seal seals, and Fengxiang, Wenyu, Siyue and Zizhang all had Shubian.

　　The emperor's order continued to serve as usual, and he was held hostage by opening the door, indecent and deprived of his status.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)