Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Chapter 778 The Carpenter Emperor 33

The recovery officials who were rushing to the capital were still enjoying the wind and dust during the journey. The most famous "Donglin Party" in later generations, one of the leaders of the three parties, Huang Xing, had already held an official position for some time.

Because ** Xing's family lives in Gaoyi, which is very close to the capital, he packed up and came to the capital after learning that Guangzong agreed with the suggestion of the chief assistant Fang Congzhe to recover officials.He can be regarded as the first batch of officials from other places who arrived in the capital to seek recovery. Of course, compared with those officials who took root in the capital to seek recovery, he was not a few days behind.

Zhou Jiamo, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, considered that ** Xing was the same age as Huang Kezuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, but he was a Jinshi in the second year of Wanli, six years earlier than Huang Kezuan, and ** Xing had great prestige among scholars, so he arranged for ** Xing first. Went to Taichang Temple and became Shaoqing.However, there are too many officials in the six departments, and the official department especially needs experienced and capable people. On the first day after the new king ascended the throne, Huang Xing was transferred to the official department as a fourth-rank meritorious doctor.

The official career of this important person has changed here.In history, Huang Xing was transferred from Taichang Shaoqing to Zuodu Yushi, and then set foot on the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the third year of Tianqi.

Because after Zhu Youxiao suddenly transferred the six subjects to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the number of censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was basically filled, and he easily won the position of the four-rank Lang Zhong, the **** star, who does not need the emperor's nod to take office. .

This is a very important position.

The appointment and transfer of low-level officials of the sixth and seventh ranks, and even lower ranks, can basically be decided by officials sitting in this position.The attention of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of the Ministry is basically above that of the fifth-rank officials.

After Zhou Jiamo got the idea of ​​someone who the new king didn't want to hire and who was lecturing when he was idle at home, he bumped into the star head-on when he returned to the Ministry of Officials. ** Xing has sent out many letters of reply from low-level officials.

Zhou Jiamo knew about this and allowed it.

However, the new monarch obviously does not want to let officials from the "partisan faction" fill the court, so he will have to deal with the problem and situation of how to deal with the "collude" of his "Donglin Party" students into the court.

Zhou Jiamo stopped ** Xing and asked him to follow him to Shangshu's public room.

"Mengbai, these few days suspend supplementary officials' writing."

** Xing was taken aback when he heard this, but he is also 70 years old, because his qualifications are old enough, he is different from those 50-[-]-year-old doctors in front of Zhou Shangshu.

"Zhou Shangshu, may I ask why?"

"The number of supplementary officials in the past month is too large, and the assessment by the Ministry of Officials cannot be very detailed. If there are omissions and negligence, our Ministry of Officials will bear the blame."

The reasons given by Zhou Jiamo were normal and powerful, and ** Xing had no choice but to accept them.

"The lower officials have sent out quite a few."

"Hurry up and get it back. Get back as much as you can."

Zhou Jiamo knew that what he said was probably for nothing, but he had to have the attitude he should have.

"Later, you will send back the written documents that have been sent out these days."

** Xing responded calmly, and then saw that Zhou Jiamo had nothing else to do, so he took his leave and left the office of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and went back to his narrow doctor's office.

** Xing is a very talented person with a straightforward personality, compassion for the orphans and the poor, and hatred for evil.In his passion to help the world, there is also a kind of obsession that if you don't agree with his thoughts, you are all evil.This made him, who started his official career early in his youth, encounter ups and downs and hardships.He returned to the capital in the ninth year of Wanli and became an official in the capital. He watched the dictatorship of Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, forcefully implemented the new taxation law of the "one whip" law; Express your opinion.He repeatedly wrote letters to expose the contradictions and drawbacks covered up by the "Wanli New Deal", and was finally impeached and sent back to his hometown.

In his 30 years of long living in the countryside, he taught many students and wrote a lot of poems and essays.Most of his works in "Fangru Garden Yuefu" were basically written during the 30 years when he was dismissed from office and stayed at home. His poems and essays are full of injustice.

And because of his advantage of being near the capital, people from the government and the public and celebrities frequently visited him to sing poems with him and criticize the government. With his reputation rising, more and more students joined him.Because of his Jinshi Wei Chun, courtesy name Ganzhong, a native of Baixiang in the Ming Dynasty, a Jinshi in Wanli, due to his outstanding political achievements, he has been promoted to the supervisory censor of Shanxi Road.There are also Jinshi such as Zhao Danhan.

The grades and official positions of Jinshi students like ** are now above him.

He is Zhou Jiamo's first candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Zhou Jiamo was caught in a dilemma. Those who returned to their hometowns to give lectures must be removed from the list of candidate officials.But where will the gap be filled?

Lack of people is worrying, and many layoffs are also worrying.

Wang An finally got up after lying down for a few days. There are many things waiting for him to do in the inner court.

Wang An led people to see the tax supervisors who came back one after another from Dongchang to check one by one.The gold, silver and other items confiscated were not sent to the treasury of the inner court after registration, but were put into the West Sixth Palace according to the new king's instructions.

"My lord, put it in the warehouse directly, otherwise I will have to move it again when I use the Sixth West Palace in the future."

Zhu Youxiao shook his head, "You ask Gao Shiming to lead someone to take an inventory of all the warehouses in the inner court. If he doesn't understand what is missing, he is the only one to ask."

Both the master and the servant were stunned when they saw the silver boxes that were almost piled up in the side hall of Yongshou Palace.

"Wang An, look at the internal eunuchs who have been released to supervise the mine tax in the name of the royal family. In the end, it all went into their own pockets. Not only did the reputation of Shenzong be ruined, but the court could not properly collect business. Tax. You bring these moths to the East Factory, one will be skinned and the other will be skinned, and I will see who dares to reach out in the future."

The matter was ordered one by one, Wang An Wang An grasped the list while merging the twelve prisons and laying off people.When he merged the twelve prisons into five prisons according to the order of the emperor, the 24th division of the six bureaus of the palace women also reported the list of layoffs.

"My lord, after repeated calculations, until the end, there are still more than 2000 people on the inner prison side, and more than three thousand people on the court lady's side."

"Why do we need so many people? How many princes and princesses are there in the palace?"

Wang An grinned, "Dozens of manpower have been added to each of the East Six Palaces. The same is true for Renshou Palace."

"Wang An, what about the palace rules? There is a fixed number of people that the concubine should employ. For the extra people, whoever employs more than the quota will support them. I have no money for them to squander. There is also Goro, the servants and palace maids add There should be no more than ten people. The same rules apply to the royal sisters."

Wang An said in a low voice: "There are 32 people in the imperial concubine's office."

"The rules of which year? The year of Hongwu? According to the new rules of the year of Tianqi, the two servants and eight maids will be taken away when they leave the palace."

Wang An Nuonuo withdrew.

Zhu Youxiao once again had the idea of ​​changing the chief executive of the inner court.

Wei Chao came to the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation with two dozen boxes containing memorials in his arms, and placed the boxes on the imperial case.

"My lord, this was sent by the cabinet today. I will read it to you now?"

"Is there anything urgent?"

Wei Chao hurriedly shook his head, "There is no urgent matter today. The Ministry of Households issued a notice to adjust the salary; the Ministry of Rites issued a notice to ask the emperor about going out to study in the pavilion. Qin Tianjian selected three auspicious days, please tick the emperor's box; The governor’s paper said it was a drought, and asked the emperor to reduce or exempt this year’s autumn tax; Henan also had a poor harvest. Furthermore, several vassal kings wrote in the papers to ask the old emperor when he would be buried.”

"If you have money, you will be buried immediately. You reply to them and urge them to guard the imperial tomb."

Wei Chao immediately bent down and replied, "I understand."

Liu Shimin waved to Wei Chao, Wei Chao saw that the emperor had no more orders, bowed and followed Liu Shimin back out.

"Is the emperor unhappy?" Wei Chao hurriedly asked Liu Shimin after leaving the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"Well, for layoffs. It has nothing to do with you."

"When will those papers be answered? The two papers from Shaanxi and Henan are said to be not urgent, and the cabinet is also urging them to reply."

"Don't worry, come back in half an hour."

Wei Chao looked at Liu Shimin suspiciously, but he couldn't see anything from Liu Shimin's face, so he just nodded and went back to the side hall that served as the supervisor's office.

Liu Shimin stood in the courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation for half an hour, reckoning that the emperor in the main hall should have finished reading the memorial that was sent in, so he returned to serve the emperor with a changed pot of hot tea.

"My lord, do you use the seal now?" Liu Shimin asked in a low voice, looking at the jade seal on the imperial case.

"use."

Liu Shimin felt that he was either an eunuch holding a pen or a eunuch with a palm seal, or a little eunuch who stamped his seal.The eunuch Wang An, the palm print eunuch of the inner servant, was sent by the emperor to copy the other eleven eunuchs who were waiting for the outer house and lay off staff, and he, the eunuch who held the pen, was supposed to do the responsibility of approving the red, and became the emperor's companion.

It's hard to say whether that's good or not.

He only knows that he is a person who is trusted by the emperor now, and he also knows that he is more useful than Wang An.

"Shi Min, do you think there will be a drought in Shaanxi this year?"

Look, the emperor came to ask.

"I can only know a little bit from the memorial. Whether Shaanxi is drought, the emperor wants to send someone to see?"