Shortly after Lin Yanchao visited Shen Mansion, a major earthquake occurred in the officialdom.

That is, the Minister of Rites Chen Li requested to retire.

Although Chen Li, the Minister of Rites, had been sick before, he returned to the scene later. This time, he took the initiative to retire and retired, which was beyond people's expectations. Of course, the cause was not because of his illness, but because Chen Li was involved in the crime of the imperial examination.

This matter starts with the Yingtian provincial examination in the year of Renwu, Wanli.

The examiner who was in charge of the Yingtian Township exam at that time was Chen Li, and the deputy examiner was Chen Maoxiao, who was currently the Nanjing Imperial College Supervisory Officer and was the Hanlin editor at that time.

Chen Maoxiao and Chen Li are kind to each other and are also members of the Qingliu Party.

At that time, a censor revealed that Chen Maoxiao accepted bribes of 1,000 taels of silver for each of the five juren in the Nanjing provincial examination and then took it for personal gain. After receiving the money, he returned to his hometown to buy land.

In addition to accepting bribes, he also supported the powerful ministers. At that time, there was Wang Zhiding, the son of Wang Zhuan, the former Minister of Personnel and Zhang Juzheng's ally Wang Zhuan. This person was also a high school scholar, which is really intriguing.

Everyone knows that this is also the usual routine of censors. They criticized Chen Maoxiao on the surface, but in fact they accuse the examiner Chen Li. However, because Chen Li was the emperor's teacher, he dared not speak out, so he indirectly put the charges of Chen Maoxiao, and Chen Li could not refuse to blame him.

After the emperor found out, he took the five juren to Beijing and asked the five to re-examination in front of the Minister of Rites, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and the commander of the Jinyiwei.

After the re-examination, four of these five juren were well-versed in literature and science, and they did have real talents and real knowledge. Only Danyang He Xueqing Lectures was full of nonsense and did not have the qualifications to be Chinese.

However, Chen Li wrote a memorial and did not choose him. However, he was a student of the Imperial College in Nanjing. At that time, Chen Li and Chen Maoxiao could not be hindered by the local officials in Nanjing, so he was the last one.

However, from the results of the incident, it can be seen that the censor's lawsuit was actually accusation, and Chen Maoxiao did not accept bribes. Four of the five juren were all talented and knowledgeable. He Xueli was taken by the Nanjing officials.

But in the end, the emperor demoted Chen Maoxiao to one level and was appointed as the judge of Lianghuai Yanyun.

Later, the case was found out that Lin Yingxun, the censor of the provincial examination at that time, was found, and Zhang Yikun posted a number on the paper as a mark for Wang Zhuan's son.

At that time, Lin Shiyingxun had been promoted to Shang Baoqing in Nanjing, and Zhang Yikun had already asked for illness at home, but he was ordered to be removed from his official position by the emperor.

However, because Wang Zhuan's son actually took it for him, Chen Li immediately submitted a memorial to ask for a leave of absence and asked to revise the original investigation to prove his innocence.

However, Shen Shixing was waiting for the emperor to keep Chen Li, but he refused to transfer the original investigation. Chen Li was immediately angry when he heard this, so he resigned and went home.

In this way, Shen Shixing was about to rush Chen Li back home, which surprised Lin Yanchao. After the Nine Ministers discussed, Lin Yanchao thought that the relationship between Shen Shixing and Chen Li had eased.

Unexpectedly, Shen Shixing still did not let Shen Li go. Of course, his methods were not too excessive, leaving room for others.

Although Chen Li left, there was also a minister of the Ministry of Revenue Song Li in the court. He would not make the emperor feel that Shen Shixing monopolizes the power. At the same time, Song Li, who had no support from Chen Li, was alone and could not fight against Shen Shixing as before.

After reaching this point of balance, Lin Yanchao also felt that Shen Shixing had done well enough, so he brought back the disadvantages caused by Song Xuan's appointment as Minister of the Ministry of Revenue last year.

After Chen Li left, who was the new Minister of Rites?

The Minister of Rites is one of the nine ministers.

If the three cabinets are the most core decision-making circle, then expanding out one circle is the nine ministers, and adding up to twelve officials.

The decision-making circle that expands further out is officials above the third rank in Beijing.

This includes Zhan Shishi's Office, the Prince's Guest, Shuntian Prefecture, the Minister of Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taipu Temple, and the twelve ministers of the six ministries in Beijing. All of them are added together. Including the absent officials, there are usually less than 30 people.

According to the rules, one of the nine ministers of the Ministry of Rites will be vacant, and the officials above the third rank in Beijing will be elected by the officials who are elected by one vote.

Since Lin Yanchao was appointed Minister of Rites, he has the right to vote.

However, I still listened to Shen Shixing.

Finally, after the big guys secretly exchanged power, the result of the promotion was that the Minister of Rites was promoted to Zhu Geng, the Left Minister of Personnel.

This result is not unexpected.

As for Zhu Geng's position as the Left Minister of Personnel was vacant after Zhu Geng left.

The officialdom was about to be adjusted again, and Zhao Huan, the former Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, replaced Zhu Geng as the Left Assistant Minister.

The Right Minister of the Ministry of Personnel has been vacant again. According to previous practice, it is very likely that the current Left Minister of the Ministry of Rites will be replaced.

Although it was transferred from the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Personnel, everyone knew that it was like being promoted to two levels.

However, Yu Shenxing, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, was not promoted, which led to Lin Yanchao's inability to be promoted from the right assistant minister to the left assistant minister. The person who came out and stabbed was Chen Yiguan, who was so angry that he returned home by Chen Li.

Now that Shen Li has returned home, Shen Shixing personally wrote a letter to Chen Yiguan to ask him to come out.

Without saying a word, Chen Yiguan rushed from his hometown in Zhejiang to the capital to serve as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Seeing this, Lin Yanchao lamented that Chen Yiguan and Zhu Geng were Shen Shixing's first successor.

To put it simply, Zhao Zhigao was also promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing.

For Lin Yanchao, the most important thing is that his boss will be replaced.

Zhu Geng returned to the Ministry of Rites to serve as Minister of Rites.

Zhu Geng is an old acquaintance of Lin Yanchao. The two have a good relationship. His son-in-law Zhang Rulin is also Lin Yanchao's disciple.

After appointing the appointment on the same day, Lin Yanchao took Zhang Rulin and Xu Huobo, two disciples, to Zhu Geng's house to congratulate him.

As soon as Lin Yanchao arrived at Zhu Geng's house, he found that he was a step late. It turned out that Zhu Geng's house had already been full of guests, and many of them were Zhejiang officials.

Lin Yanchao was relieved when he thought about it. Zhu Geng was a family of officials. His father Zhu Gongjie was once the governor of Taizhou. Zhu Geng's father-in-law Chen He and Xu Wen had a name for him. They were known as the top ten outstanding people in Yue. Zhu Geng must have had a wide range of friendship in Zhejiang.

Zhu Geng was studying at Yanghe Academy, Zhejiang, with Luo Wanhua, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, and Zhang Rulin's father Zhang Yuanqi. He was studying at Yanghe Academy in Zhejiang. He was not sure how many classmates and in-laws were.

Originally, many of these officials were not in Beijing, but now they are in the three-year plan of foreign officials, so they all happened to arrive.

For a moment, many officials with Zhejiang accents were talking loudly and laughing in the living room.

Lin Yanchao just went to the living room and looked at it without entering the door. Instead, he stood outside the hall for a while. Xu Huobo was surprised why Lin Yanchao did not enter the hall.

At this time, Zhu Geng came late and said apologetically: "Ignorance, Ignorance, Brother Yu neglected to let Zonghai wait too long."

Lin Yanchao didn't mind but smiled and said, "It was Lin who came one step later and never came to visit the Lord of the Hall first. I blame me, blame me."

Zhu Geng laughed and said, "Where is, Brother Yu has not received the official seal yet. Even if Brother Yu Ren Zhengtang, it is still in business. You and I will still call you privately as before."

Lin Yanchao knew that Zhu Geng was so polite that he did not make much courtesy to him. He immediately presented a gift and asked the two disciples to pay homage to Zhu Geng.

When Zhu Geng saw his son-in-law, he just nodded, and then said to Lin Yanchao: "I'll talk about other things later. I'll recommend a few friends to you."

Lin Yanchao immediately left with Zhu Geng.

There are three large rooms next to the living room. When Lin Yanchao walked here with Zhu Geng, he saw a table sitting here.

If Xu Huobo were here, he would understand why Lin Yanchao didn't enter the living room just now. Because the ordinary officials were waiting in the living room, Lin Yanchao walked in and was not in line with his identity.

But those who can be welcomed by Zhu Geng in Yakuri must be the status of a senior official.

Lin Yanchao walked to Yakuri when he saw that the officials present also stood up. They didn't have to look at it, and they knew that Zhu Geng could greet him in person was definitely not a humble official.

Lin Yanchao glanced at him, but saw that there were Lu Guangzu, the Minister of Personnel of Nanjing, Chen Sixiao, the Governor of Shaanxi, Chen Younian, the Minister of Jiangxi, Sun Yan, the Minister of Dali Temple (formerly the Minister of Dali Temple, Sun Piyang, the Minister of Revenue), and the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Chen and Jiao were appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

No wonder this small circle is there, Zhu Geng shrouded the officials in the room outside.

When Lin Yanchao saw these people, he thought of Luo Wanhua, the Minister of the Southern Literature Department, and Chen Yiguan, the Return of the Right Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Lin Yanchao immediately thought of a famous word in history, that is, the Zhejiang Party!

The leader of the Zhejiang Party is Zhu Geng, Chen Yiguan.

Although Chen Yiguan has not arrived, the people in the room are all backbones of the Zhejiang Party. Of course, there is also a Fang Congzhe who has to be added to the leader.

However, Fang Congzhe is not at the moment's "status" and is not qualified to sit on this seat.

Historically, the Zhejiang Party was called a regional party by the Donglin Party for no reason.

When the Zhejiang Party was the most powerful in history, the three ministries of the Ministry of Personnel were all from Zhejiang. The Minister of Personnel was Sun Jian, a native of Pingyao, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang, Luo Wanhua, a native of Kuaiji, Shaoxing Prefecture, Chen Younian, a native of Pingyao, Shaoxing Prefecture.

It is equivalent to saying that the Zhejiang Party controls the entire Ministry of Personnel, which is inseparable from the officialdom's emphasis on rural friendship at that time.

Lin Yanchao was invited by Zhu Geng to take the seat here, and he regarded him as his own person. He was all the senior officials here, but Chen and Jiao had a lower official position, but they were all officials and leaders of the officials.

Lin Yanchao immediately greeted the officials. Everyone had known each other before, but they didn't deal with it because no one expected that Lin Yanchao had climbed so quickly in recent years, and suddenly became equal to them, or even higher than the top.

In the officialdom, bully the elderly and not the young.

Everyone dared not regard themselves as seniors in the imperial examination, and they met with fair manners.

As soon as he took the seat, Jiangxi Governor Chen Younian smiled and said, "I heard from Brother Jin Ting that Zong Hai would say a few Shaoxing words?"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "The two case leaders in the lower class have served as the governor of Fuzhou Prefecture, Duke Chen and Supervisor Tao, both of whom are from Shaoxing. Therefore, they can also speak a few Shaoxing words without a teacher."

Everyone laughed, and Lu Guangzu immediately said in Shaoxing dialect: "Zonghai must be humble when he says a few words. With Zonghai's ability to remember everything, he might speak better than those who are here."

Zhu Geng smiled and said, "Hey, Mr. Lu was wrong. He should be remembered without forgetting, not remembering without forgetting after seeing."

Everyone laughed, and Lu Guangzu smiled and said, "What's the difference? You'll never forget it."

As the Minister of Personnel in Nanjing, Lu Guangzu went to Beijing to report his duties this time. Lin Yanchao had dates with Lu Guangzu, so he was very familiar with it.

Lin Yanchao smiled and said in Shaoxing words: "How dare I show my ugly appearance in front of Duke Lu and all the great masters?"

Everyone chatted with each other in Shaoxing dialect, and it turned out that Lin Yanchao automatically substituted it, without any barriers.
Chapter completed!