Lin Jinyuan kept paying attention to the movements in the study. When he saw Lin Junran leading Sun Jixiang to the tea table outside, he immediately sent tea to the two of them, and then quietly retreated.

Lin Qingran likes to drink tea here while looking at the moonlight in the yard outside the window. Tonight's window is just opposite to the bright moonlight on the roof. The whole world is like daytime, which makes people feel refreshed.

Lin Qingran picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea slowly. Naturally, he hoped that Dong Fen could take on the job peacefully, so he continued to ask seriously: "Mr. Sun, do you think the matters in the South China Mission can be promoted now?"

"Since the emperor has been farming and borrowing rituals, he has not participated in any important rituals, and even the Qingming Festival has not appeared. Now the emperor is already focusing on cultivating Xuan, and he is afraid that it will not be possible to meet these unworthy envoys of the South China Sea in person!" Sun Jixiang was holding a teacup, and his main energy was to ponder Jiajing. At this time, he seemed to give the answer seriously.

Lin Qingran gently put down the teacup, but looked at Sun Jixiang and said, "I know that the emperor is now concentrating on cultivating Xuan, so he will definitely not meet the Nanyang delegation in person!"

"Dong Weng actually has other intentions?" Sun Jixiang was about to have tea when he heard this, he unexpectedly looked up at Lin Xuran and asked.

Lin Weiran did not respond, but stretched out his finger and dipped it in tea, and immediately wrote a word on the desktop.

It was nearly fifteenth, and the moon was very round tonight, with the bright moonlight and the light yellow candlelight shining together. The word written in tea on the table seemed particularly clear.

It's just a simple word, as if it's all the secrets in the world.

Sun Jixiang's eyes were no longer as young as when he was young. He stretched his neck and squinted his eyes to look at the word on the table. His face was solemn, and then he looked at Lin Shiran in shock and said, "Dong Weng is always able to take overall charge of the situation like this, which makes me feel ashamed!"

He is no longer Lin Shiran's master, but Lin Shiran's adviser. He thought that with his nearly thirty years of training in the Hanlin Academy and his study of history books, he could already be competent for the position of Lin Shiran's adviser.

However, while getting along with Lin Weiran, he always found that this Dongweng was always able to keep in mind and repeatedly give people a new idea. His wisdom is really rare in the world.

"Mr. I'm too proud of it. Many things will always be wrong. Fortunately, Mr. reminded me not to make a big mistake!" Lin Junran knew Sun Jixiang's careful planning of things, so he bowed his hand and responded.

The two of them discussed some things in a low voice. Just as they finished speaking, Lin Jinyuan came in to report to Zhang Wei's visit.

Unlike the prefect of Shuntian in the north of the city, he is now the dignified left minister of the Ministry of Rites and is already in the whirlpool of the court. Every night, officials always come to visit him.

Lin Junran seemed to have known that Zhang Wei would visit, so he even asked Lin Jinyuan to bring people over.

Sun Jixiang's heart moved slightly, and he immediately asked seriously: "Dongweng, do you want to elect Zhang Hongtu as the governor of Ningxia?"

"If there is little resistance, I really want to push Zhang Hongtu to the position of governor of Ningxia!" Lin Qingran reached out and picked up the teacup, nodding without hiding it.

In the struggle in the officialdom, the struggle is actually to make an official position, and to arrange one's own people in important positions.

When he proposed the strategy of "transferring the South to the North", he knew that if he wanted to truly implement it, he had to break the control of the north by the civil servants headed by Yang Bo, and he needed to arrange his own people to serve as governors.

However, the major governors in the north are very important people, and his men are far from comparable to those governors in terms of their military achievements and qualifications, so they can only start with the governor.

Of course, these are all private areas of Yang Bo, the Minister of War. It is difficult to get Yu Dayou to the general of Liaodong, and it is also difficult to arrange Zhang Wei to be the governor of Ningxia.

Sun Jixiang frowned slightly and persuaded Lin Qiran seriously: "Although Zhang Wei published two military strategies in "Talking about the Ancient and the Current", he did not have a military resume and had never served in the Ministry of War, so it would be difficult to do so!"

"I know, but how can I know if I don't try it?" Lin Qingran took a sip of tea, but said with a firm attitude.

Since Zhang Cong received the imperial edict to the cabinet, the Ming Dynasty's court promotion system has gradually become in name only. When Yan Song was in power, all the appointments of ministers were no longer subject to court promotion, but were appointed through an imperial edict.

For example, Wu Peng, the former Minister of Personnel, was impeached and dismissed from office. Yan Song immediately begged the emperor to appoint his brother-in-law Ouyang Bijin to take over. However, not long after, Jiajing issued an imperial edict to change Guo Pu, a good writer of Qing Ci, to serve as the Minister of Personnel.

It can be seen from this that the power of appointing cabinet ministers and the six ministers is no longer the court recommendation of important officials of the court, but is instead appointed by the emperor's imperial decree.

As the saying goes, when Yan Song was in power, the appointment of some important local governors was no longer recommended by the court, but Yan Song listed the candidates and asked the emperor for advice. Therefore, the chief minister and the emperor shared the appointment power.

After Xu Jie came to power, he changed Yan Song's ruling attitude of being a "unique prime minister" and put on a "virtuous prime minister".

Although he would not propose to the emperor to join the cabinet or to hold a court promotion to the six ministers, he is still willing to take it out and postpone it with everyone, the governor's right to appoint the governor, which is not valued by the emperor.

According to the practice of going to the DPRK, the governor was jointly postponed by officials of the six ministries, the Censorate, the Tongzheng Department and the third rank or above in Dali Temple.

There are 18 officials with third rank or above in the six ministries and yamen; there are one seal officers in Tongzhengsi and Dali Temple; there are many right censors in the capital court with third rank titles, but usually only the left censor and the left deputy censor are on the headquarters, so there are two in total.

If the support of most of these important officials and the emperor has no objection, then the official will be able to successfully serve as local governor.

Zhang Wei is now the right senator of the Tongzhengsi Department of the fifth rank, and is already qualified to be the right senator of the fourth rank, the right senator of the Censorate of the Censorate, who is appointed as the local governor, so he is qualified to compete for the position of governor of Ningxia.

Although Zhang Wei has relatively low qualifications, he has an advantage in his age, and a governor in his forties is not eye-catching.

Shiran always felt that officials should pay more attention to their talents. If they really endured more than ten years and then became governor, they would have already been well versed in the officialdom of being in harmony, and they were far less sharp than when they first entered the officialdom.

That's why he would rather push Zhang Wei to the governor as soon as possible than keeping up with those vague and ethereal qualifications in the capital.

"Dongweng, I'm going to say goodbye first!" Sun Jixiang looked at Lin Junran and was about to meet Zhang Wei, and the matter was almost over, so he stood up and said with his own initiative.
Chapter completed!