Daming Military Empire

Chapter 25 Promotion
In mid-November, there was a sudden heavy rain in the capital, and the entire Forbidden City was washed clean without leaving a trace of dust.The arrest of the eunuchs was basically over, and the entire court was cleaned, with less than [-]% of the officials remaining.

After the eunuchs had been cleaned up, a very serious problem followed. All the yamen in the capital were seriously short of staff, especially the six ministries.This clean-up, not to mention the operation of the state machinery, even the interrogation eunuchs can't find anyone!

Zhu Cijiong hurriedly recruited Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian to discuss the promotion of officials.It is said that it is a discussion, but it is actually asking Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian to nominate candidates, and they think that there is no problem.

Zhu Cijiong didn't have too many requirements. The only department he wanted to control was the Ministry of Industry, mainly for the convenience of establishing a military industry system in the future.

The Ministry of Industry happened to be a den of thieves. Wu Chunfu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Yushi Youdu, was the chief culprit of the eunuch party, and there were a lot of members of the eunuch party below. In this purge, almost all the main officials of the Ministry of Industry were purged.Bi Maokang took over as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Zheng was also promoted to be the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. The eunuch party directly became the imperial party.

For the rest, Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian basically had the final say, and the cabinet members were first determined.

It goes without saying that Sun Chengzong was the Taifu appointed by the first emperor, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, a minister of the Ministry of War and the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Emperor Xu Guangqi had already joined the cabinet, and Gu Bingqian, the Minister of Rites, happened to be an eunuch again, and was dragged out and chopped down, so Xu Guangqi became the Minister of Rites, and then became a scholar of the Jianji Temple.

The other two cabinet members are Han Kuang and Lai Daozong.

This Han Kuang is terrible. He is the elder among the elders of Donglin Party. Escaped the cleansing of the Donglin Party by the Eunuch Party.This time, he was invited by Sun Chengzong to come out of the mountain, mainly to come to the imperial court to decide against the eunuch party and rectify the administration of officials.

This is not a small background of Daozong. He was a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli. He returned to his hometown because he didn't want to participate in the party struggle between the Eun Party and the Donglin Party. This time, he was invited to go out of the mountain to enter the Wenyuan Pavilion as the Minister of the Household Department.

These are the four members of the cabinet. With the addition of Bi Maokang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, five of the six ministers have been confirmed. Who is the last one?

Sun Chengzong recommended Qiao Yunsheng as the candidate for Minister of Criminal Affairs. This Qiao Yunsheng is also the backbone of the Donglin Party. He was Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice during the Tianqi period.

The six ministers are established, and the next is the left and right ministers. There is nothing to say about the other ministries. Zhu Cijiong doesn't care much at all, but he pays attention to the Ministry of War. Why?

Because he still has a confidant, Sun Yuanhua, who is serving as a Lang in the Ministry of War. It is reasonable to go one step further and become a servant. This is a step forward, but it is not the left servant, but the right servant.The candidate for Zuo Shilang, Sun Chengzong, had already been booked, and that was Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong still valued Yuan Chonghuan very much. He not only named him Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, but also gave him the title of Yudu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Class.As for Yuan Chonghuan, he still has a small temper and is unwilling to take up the post. Why?

This was all caused by Wei Zhongxian. As mentioned earlier, Yuan Chonghuan defended Ningyuan in the sixth year of Tianqi, blasted Nurhachi to the west, and achieved a great victory in Ningyuan. I will not go into details about the latter.

In fact, after the great victory of Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan also achieved an even more brilliant victory of Ningjin. In May of the seventh year of the apocalypse, he beat the ass of the intruder Huang Taiji, scaring Huang Taiji for a long time. , and ran to the Mongolian grasslands to develop forces.

It stands to reason that such a great contribution should be promoted no matter what, but Wei Zhongxian was in power at that time, and all the credit was falsely claimed by Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian assigned all the credit for this Ningjin victory to his nephew Wei Liangdong and his grandson Wei Pengyi, so Wei Liangdong, who was a farmer just a moment ago, was granted the title of Marquis of Dong'an for his meritorious service, and added the crown prince and Taibao; Wei Pengyi, who was still drinking milk, was granted the title of Anping for his merit Uncle, add young master!

And the real great hero Yuan Chonghuan only raised a level, from the fourth rank to the third rank, and then there was no more.Yuan Chonghuan was naturally spurting blood with anger, and when the picker was put down, the master quit, resigned and went home to farm.

After suffering such a big grievance, he naturally needed comfort. Sun Chengzong thought that it was enough to mention the second grade to him, but as mentioned in the previous article, this Yuan Chonghuan has a bad problem, that is, taking credit for himself.He thinks that it is not enough to be of the second grade for his great contribution, it must be of the first grade, otherwise the master will not serve him.

In history, Emperor Chongzhen really gave him a super official, that is, the Minister of War and the governor of Jiliao, who is in charge of the military affairs of Liaodong, Denglai, and Tianjin. The governor is usually a cabinet scholar. Shang Fang's sword, supervises the military affairs of various places, no matter how big the local officials are, they can kill them first and then play them. It can be said that the supervisor is bigger than the first grade, and he is the emperor of one side!
Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Cijiong to learn from Emperor Chongzhen to accommodate him. It is not that the Ningjin defense line cannot be defended without Yuan Chonghuan. All the generals can hold the Ning Jin line of defense.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many generals who were not afraid of death. Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Shi Kefa were all fierce generals who would rather die than surrender, and they could hold the Ningjin line of defense by picking any one.You, Yuan Chonghuan, love to come or not, it’s better if you don’t come, you will cause trouble if you come, don’t think that the earth will stop turning if you leave it, the earth will turn better if I am here.

Therefore, the matter of Yuan Chonghuan was put on hold for the time being, and the officials of the six ministries were almost arranged, and the rest was to arrange military positions.

Speaking of this military position, the first person to be promoted is naturally Luo Yangxing. This guy is the first to jump out and sing against Wei Zhongxian, and he will never come down once he takes the stage. first success.

I have to say that although Luo Yangxing is a second-generation official, he still has a little bit of ability. Although he is not a good general, at least he will not stab Lou Zi. It is not necessary to expect him to go to the front line to charge into the battle, but managing the security of the capital is such a trivial matter. Still doable.So Luo Yangxing got what he wanted, and he was appointed as the commander of Jinyiwei, and as usual, he entered the Zuodudu of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

What the hell is this Left Commander of the Five Armies?In fact, this Zuodudu is not a real job, and the Dudufu of the Five Armies is not one department, but five.The Five Army Dudu’s Mansion is the general name of the former Army Dudu’s Mansion, the Rear Army Dudu’s Mansion, the Central Army’s Dudu’s Mansion, the Left Army’s Dudu’s Mansion, and the Right Army’s Dudu’s Mansion. In charge of all the troops of Ming Dynasty except the imperial guards.The Commander of Jin Yiwei and Zuo Dudu of the Dudufu of the Five Armies is just a fake title of the first rank, not the actual Dudu of any Dudufu.

In addition to Luo Yangxing, Yuan Keli and Qin Liangyu also contributed a lot, but the admiral of the Beijing camp is already a first-rank official, and there is no way to get promoted.If you can't add officials, you can only give them nobles. Yuan Keli was named Zhongyonghou, and Qin Liangyu was also named Zhongzhenhou.Don't say that a female general cannot be a marquis. In history, Qin Liangyu was really a loyal marquis, but it was conferred by the Nanming Emperor Zhu Yousong, and now she was conferred a marquis more than ten years earlier.

As for Qin Gongming and Qin Yi, who will already be in the third rank at a young age next year, it would be absurd to be promoted any further, so Zhu Cijiong had no choice but to give up.

Finally, there are the eunuchs in the palace. Cao Huachun, the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, made great contributions, and took over the East Factory as a matter of course, becoming the most powerful eunuch in the palace.The other outstanding eunuchs Gao Youqian, Wang Chengen, Wang Dehua, Fang Zhenghua, etc. all received awards, so I won’t go into details here.

In short, the eunuch party has been wiped out, Zhu Cijiong's cronies and the backbone of the Donglin Party have also been promoted, and Huang Taiji is not interested in attacking the Ningjin defense line for the time being, and what's even more rare is that the treasury has some money.It seems that the situation is very good, and the great Ming ZTE is expected, is this really the case?
At the end of this volume, please see the breakdown of the next volume for how the situation is.

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