Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 264 Senior Officials Gather in Nanjing City

A landscape garden with white walls and black tiles, stacked stones and jade, and scattered black eaves is today's Daming School of Administration.

This was originally the residence of Zhang Shenyan, a scholar of Dongge University and Minister of Rites. Since Zhang Shenyan colluded with Zuo Liangyu in an attempt to rebel, it was copied into the imperial court.

However, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was too lazy to build large-scale construction projects on the grounds of saving people's resources and financial resources, so he used this Shenyan mansion as the seat of the Daming School of Administration. This is also a disguised protection for private garden buildings. its rundown.

The establishment of the Daming School of Administration is Zhu Youjian's first reform measure to change the civil service system of officials in the Ming Dynasty. The appointment and removal of responsible persons shall be redefined.

The previous set of civil service rules since the Zhengtong period, the so-called civil service rules that non-jinshi cannot enter the Hanlin, and non-hanlin cannot enter the cabinet, obviously do not meet the conditions for a reasonable appointment of an official to take charge of the central power of the court.

That will only result in many cabinet ministers who have no experience in local government or practical experience in the ministry, and spend most of their time in the Imperial Academy. Most of them are just mediocre ministers who follow the rules.

Not everyone has the ambition of the world like Zhang Juzheng. It is more appropriate for officials who are determined to innovate and vigorous to be promoted from the local area.

Especially those officials who can run the army on horseback, run the country when they are off the horse, can be civilized and military, and can be appointed as generals and prime ministers were rejected by the Qingliu in the previous dynasties of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian believes that the central power of the Ming Dynasty will be the peak in the future. People must come from the governor, have experience in central agencies, grassroots experience, experience in leading troops, and experience in politics.

Moreover, before assuming power, one must undergo certain training, and the Daming School of Administration is designed for this purpose.

In the future, important officials above the third rank must have the experience of studying at the School of Administration before being promoted.

Neither the cabinet nor the officials know Zhu Youjian's intention to establish the Daming School of Administration, or they don't understand what administration is at all, so they can only understand it literally. , It is His Majesty's act of cherishing talents.

Because of this, neither Fan Jingwen, the chief assistant of the cabinet, nor Hua Yuncheng, the minister of the official department who presided over the executive affairs of the official department, did not prevent Zhu Youjian from establishing the Daming School of Administration.

By the way, Gao Hongtu, the second assistant to the cabinet and minister of the Ministry of officials, is still on vacation.

Therefore, Hua Yuncheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, presided over the executive affairs of the Ministry of Officials.

Hua Yuncheng is an official appointed directly by Zhu Youjian. Ma Shiying did not agree to the call before, but now he is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and he is dedicated to opposing the cabinet. Zhu Youjian is quite acceptable. As far as the Ming emperor is concerned, it is naturally better to issue the imperial edict.

Today's Daming School of Administration no longer has the laughing and chatting of the famous prostitutes in the Liyuan when it was the old garden of the Zhang Mansion. In addition to the rustling of green leaves and the soft sound of dragons singing, there are also noisy voices of debate and the sound of slapping tables.

Li Banghua, Governor of Fengyang

Lu Zhenfei, a bachelor of Dongge University, governor of Henan and commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army of Henan and Guards
Li Mingrui, Director of the General Logistics Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Huaiyang and Governor of Shandong

Sun Yuanlun, the governor of Zhejiang and the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army of the Zhejiang and Guards
Du Yinxi, governor of Huguang

Governor of Jiangxi Shaobao Yuan Jixian

Shen Jiayun, Governor of Fujian

Commander-in-Chief of the Shandong Huaiyang War Zone, First Army of the Guards Ning Wuhou Zhou Yuji, Chief of the Army Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion
Undersecretary of the Army Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Yuma Supervisor, Admiral, Superintendent, Eunuch, General Officer of the Second Army of the Guards, Yingtian War Zone, Dongxiang Bo Hexin
Director of the General Training Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion Jianningbo Liu Fangliang, Chief Officer of the Fengyang Theater of the Third Army of the Guards

Yasukuni Gong Huang Degong, Commander-in-Chief of the Jiangxi Theater of the Fourth Guards Army

Gao Jie, Commander-in-Chief of the Susong Theater of the Fifth Army of the Guards and Hangzhou Commander-in-Chief

Zheng Zhilong, Commander-in-Chief of the Fujian Theater Command
Gao Yigong, General of the Huguang Army and General of Huguang

Generalissimo Ma Shiying, Chief of the Nanjing Staff Headquarters, Minister of War

Admiral Cao Jiang, Chief of the Navy Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, Admiral Liu Kongzhao, Sincere Bo
Director of the General Finance Department of the Grand Marshal’s Mansion Han Shoujing, Director of the Central Bank of Daming, Si Lijian, Bingbi Eunuch
Jin Xuan, Director of the General Political Department of the Grand Marshal's Office

Shi Kefa, Director of the General Armament Department of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Bingbi Eunuch
This is the military system, from the local to the central, the governors and general officers of the third rank and above, as well as the officials of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, have all gathered at the Daming School of Administration.

Not only these people, but also the governors of Yingtian Qu Shiqi, Susong Governor Xu Bang, Fengyang Governor Chen Zizhuang, Huguang Governor Li Yan, Jiangxi Governor Tang Xiangtai, the governors who are in urgent need of promotion, the ministers of the six ministries, and other cabinet scholars.

There are Fan Jingwen, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Jianji Palace University, Wu Lu, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites of the University of Wenyuange, He Tengjiao, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites of the University of Dongge, Chen Chunde, the censor of Zuodu, Liu Zongzhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Jiang Yueguang, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Xu Shiqian, Zuo Tongzheng Ma Sili, Hua Yuncheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, Huang Daozhou, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, Song Yingxing, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, Wei Botong, Zhengqing of Dali Temple, Zhao Mingduo, Qing of Taichang Temple, Li Eryu, Qing of Taipu Temple, Zhang Zhang, Qing of Guanglu Temple Shi Chang, Qing Wang Zhijin of Honglu Temple, Yin Chengde of Yingtianfu and others.

In the Ming Empire, there were more than forty officials of the third rank and above, five temple ministers, and Ying Tian Fu Yin who controlled the real power from the local to the central. People say good things, some people who are not good at talking sit in the garden and look at the flowers, birds and water, and there are four or five people or three or four people hiding in places where no one is around and whispering.

The northern officials who followed Zhu Youjian to the south in the past gathered in a group to talk about the current situation in the world and discuss what His Majesty will do next; while the southern officials also gathered together to talk, and looked at the northern bureaucrats on the other side from time to time; Several internal officials and eunuchs also gathered together to talk about the difference between inside and outside the palace; Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong and other military officers also kept their distance from the civil officials, talking about how to fight the next time they fight against the Tartar cavalry; Several governors of the guard system also spoke in groups.Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, and Gao Jie had no other bureaucrats who were willing to talk to them, who were from the peasant army, so they could only talk and laugh together beside Li Yan. Fortunately, there was Du Yinxi who would talk to them and tell them what kind of wood it was The furniture I made was porcelain made in that official kiln.

Zhu Youjian led Xia Wanchun to hide in a high-rise building and looked at everything in front of him. He couldn't help laughing. These people are the foundation of his management of this empire, but it is obvious that there are already many factions, each forming a team, and those who rely on the railing alone The people in the room don't know whether they intend to be a lone minister in front of the emperor, or because they are really eccentric and unreasonable.

"Next, I'm going to start formally mobilizing their interests, Xia Wanchun, how many of them do you think are willing to let me mobilize their interests?"

Zhu Youjian questioned Xia Wanchun who was on the side.

"Return to Your Majesty, I don't know, but I believe that they have to listen to His Majesty no matter what, otherwise the people in the world will not agree, and neither will my guards." When Xia Wanchun said this, Zhu Youjian could only Smiling slightly, straightening his clothes, he went downstairs and walked out in search of a path.

(End of this chapter)