Most things today are fictitious. Only this new candidate for the post of Minister of Rites is the most real and the most concerning!
Everyone originally thought that 80% of the candidates for the new Minister of Rites would already be Yan Song's own.
Yan Song took advantage of the grand ceremony and casually mentioned someone, and the emperor gave his tacit approval, so the matter was settled.
Even Qin Dewei is "forced by the general trend" to support Yan Song, who can stop him?
But it was really unexpected. Today, Yan Song suddenly lost his temper and self-destructed, losing the right to be nominated, which was incomprehensible to everyone.
Looking back on this process, it was weird from beginning to end.
But when the word "weird" is mentioned, many people invariably think of Qin Dewei.
Look at Bachelor Qin’s performance during this period, it’s also very strange!
Let's not think about it for now. Now that Yan Song has given up on nominating candidates for the Minister of Rites, it will be a situation where "Qin loses its deer and the whole world chases it"!
Huo Tao, the censor of Zuodu, who had been keeping a low profile for a long time, felt that this was an excellent opportunity, and immediately went out to report to Emperor Jiajing: "It is not advisable to delay the selection of minister for a long time. We can recommend it according to the usual practice!"
An astute person will immediately understand what Huo Tao's intention is.
In the selection system of high-level officials in the Ming Dynasty, there was a process of court recommendation. For example, Wang Yiqi, the Minister of Household Affairs, was promoted to the position through court recommendation.
According to regulations, Tingtui is a meeting of foreign officials to recommend candidates, and the participants are ministers of third rank or above. The head of the department is given to Shi Zhong and the censor in charge.
The bachelors of the cabinet should avoid suspicion and not participate in the personnel affairs of the foreign court. Similarly, the Hanyuan Ci ministers are also the servants of the inner court and do not participate in the promotion of foreign courts.
In other words, if the court nomination was to be held now, people like Xia Yan, the bachelor, and Qin Dewei, the bachelor's student, would immediately avoid it. They are not officials from foreign dynasties and are not qualified to participate in the court election!
Huo Tao judged that Yan Song unexpectedly gave up his nomination rights today, and his archrival Xia Yan was probably unprepared for this.
Without advance arrangements, it would be difficult for Xia Shoufu to influence foreign affairs.
Because the party members in the outer court currently don’t know Xia Shoufu’s intentions, and they don’t have time to communicate with each other! This is an opportunity!
Indeed, as Huo Tao expected, Chief Assistant Xia Yan felt extremely passive.
Nowadays, there is a vacancy in the Ministry of Rites of the outer dynasty. There are actually only six ministers among the core seven ministers. Among these six ministers, Xia Yan's spokesperson is only Wang Tingxiang, the minister of punishment!
Moreover, Wang Tingxiang is not complete now, half of it may still belong to Qin Dewei!
It can be said that since Yan Song and Qin Dewei "abandoned" one after another, and Mao Bowen is still "unemployed", Xia Shoufu's support in the outer court is now at its weakest.
Huo Tao and Zhang Zan, the Minister of War, have always stayed together to keep warm. In this special situation, these two people account for one-third of the six ministers. This is a huge advantage!
Xia Yan would never allow Huo Tao, his long-time rival, to take down the Ministry of Rites, but he had no countermeasures for the time being.
The chief assistant couldn't help but cursed Yan Song and Qin Dewei, these two bastards. If these two people hadn't caused trouble, why would Huo Tao have taken advantage of it?
But Xia Shoufu also has a very contradictory desire for Qin Dewei to come back and support him!
As long as Qin Dewei is willing to stand on his side, then there will be two heavyweight spokesmen in the outer dynasty, Wang Yiqi, the Minister of Hubu, and Wang Tingxiang, the Minister of Punishment, who are enough to continue to suppress Huo Tao!
While others were waiting to see Xia Shoufu's reaction, Qin Dewei, who seemed to have nothing to do with the matter, stepped forward to steal the show and said to Emperor Jiajing:
"What Huo Tao said is not acceptable! The literary affairs in charge of the Minister of Rites should be taken from the literary scholars of Hanyuan, so just let the Ci officials recommend them, and Huo Tao doesn't need to worry about it!
What's more, the ritual affairs are complicated, so Your Majesty still needs to use familiar and trustworthy people to avoid any mistakes!"
Emperor Jiajing was very surprised. He thought that Qin Dewei would directly recommend candidates and ask him to make his own decision! In the end, he so thoughtfully proposed a more secure plan?
The first paragraph is nonsense, but the last paragraph is the key.
Emperor Jiajing has been keen on etiquette affairs since he came to the throne. From heaven and earth to parents, various etiquette systems have been changed.
Therefore, Qin Dewei's hint is that the emperor likes to revise the etiquette system so much, especially since you have made such a big move recently. If you don't find someone familiar and trustworthy to cooperate with you, can you rest assured?
And who were the people that Emperor Jiajing was familiar with? Of course they were a group of Hanyuan literary attendants who met every other day. This was the greatest advantage of Ci Chen.
Feeling that what Qin Dewei said made sense, Emperor Jiajing issued an edict: "This time, the officials of the Ci Lin of Xu Hanyuanfang Bureau will nominate candidates for the position of Minister of Rites."
If officials from other dynasties are asked to make a few random recommendations, they may recommend a renegade Minister of Rites, so it would be better to choose one from among the close ministers!
So everyone was still thinking about the proposal proposed by Huo Tao, but suddenly they heard about the new plan.
They could only sigh in their hearts, Qin Dewei's reaction was so fast, he figured out how to deceive the emperor in such a short time!
But that’s not right. This is not just a quick response, but a premeditated plan! In other words, Qin Dewei had long foreseen that this would happen today!
In other words, Qin Dewei had already foreseen the situation where Yan Song would lose his temper and Qin would lose his deer!
Then that lingering weird feeling came to everyone's mind again, and they couldn't understand what Qin Dewei had done!
At the same time, I don’t understand what Qin Dewei’s intention is when he proposes such a plan!
Even if you, Qin Dewei, want to push Teacher Zhang to the top, will a large group of Hanlin Ci officials listen to you?
Compared with officials from foreign dynasties, Hanlin officials were not only more noble in temperament, but also had their own affairs and were in chaos.
Everyone regards themselves as the "preserver prime minister", and no one is convinced by anyone. It is not so easy for you, Qin Dewei, to smooth everything over, so why should we collectively support Zhang Chao's rise to power?
The selection of candidates is a matter for the ministers themselves. According to the rules, the emperor will generally not be present.
So after Emperor Jiajing designated the plan, he left and let the dog eat dog! Anyway, in the end, the emperor had to be satisfied before he could approve it.
After everyone saw off Emperor Jiajing, they immediately entered a state of war.
In fact, according to the new plan proposed by Qin Dewei, it is an internal (selection) battle (emotion) among the ministers. Most of the courtiers can only watch indifferently, or exert pressure through eyes and other methods.
But who doesn’t have the heart to “pick up the slack”? In case of a situation where everyone loses, maybe there will be new opportunities?
At first, this opportunity belonged to Xia Yan, but later this opportunity fell into the hands of Yan Song, but Yan Song gave up the opportunity inexplicably.
Then Qin Dewei snatched the opportunity back to Hanyuan, so who dares to say that he will not be the next one to get the opportunity?