"The current agenda is that the governors of Xi'an Prefecture, Jiangning Prefecture, and the five counties of Hubei, Bashu, Huaixi, Dingxiang, and Hexi are vacant. After several discussions, the officials drafted five candidates for each. Everyone discussed
After a discussion, each group will come up with three suitable candidates and submit them to His Majesty for His Majesty’s Holy Judgment.”
After Cai Bian finished speaking, he glanced at everyone. He finally returned to a stage where he could take the lead, and the familiar feeling made him feel comfortable and relaxed.
The government authorizes the cabinet to discuss the appointment of officials at the county and ministerial deputy level or above, and the ministers foolishly discuss the appointment of one, and then report it to the government for approval?
This is not the way to be a minister.
The current process for the cabinet to discuss the selection of senior officials is as follows - the Ministry of Civil Affairs communicates with relevant departments and localities to select five first. In fact, it is to select the top five who meet the requirements and have sufficient qualifications, and then conduct an inspection. At the same time,
Report it to the Central Supervision Office of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and see if there is any record of being reported for violating the law or opening an investigation.
After the inspection and notification process is completed, the list of five people is submitted to Dazai.
Dazai first communicated with the three giants, Situ and Siko, and then the five bachelors made a preliminary discussion. Then Dazai discussed with the bachelors, listened to the opinions of all parties, and screened and adjusted the list of five people.
After this trip, the top three candidates can almost be determined. After everything is settled, a cabinet meeting will be held to discuss. If nothing unexpected happens, the cabinet elders will agree on three candidates for each vacant official position, and then appoint them.
Submit it to the emperor and ask for a holy judgment.
The ranking of the three candidates is also very particular - they are ranked according to the number of votes they received during the cabinet decision.
The official will usually approve the candidate at the top of the list - his opinion has been conveyed to Dazai and other cabinet elders through the minister. Everyone will fully consider the official's opinion and also consider the opinions of all parties.
Feedback - the monarch and his ministers communicated and negotiated, and finally reached an agreement.
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The candidates that can now be put on the table for discussion are all arrived at after pre-negotiation and communication, and after fully considering the opinions of all parties. Generally, there will be no disputes.
Ministers who can become bachelors or bachelors are not foolhardy, and they will not make sudden moves in cabinet meetings. The consequences of doing so are very serious and will ruin their career. Everyone knows it.
Therefore, it is under Cai Bian's control.
"Xi'an Mansion and Jiangning Mansion? Zhang Chi and Qian Gai, it's really a pity." Fan Chunchuan murmured.
Qian Gai said no more. There was such a big mess in Huaidong. As one of the envoys stationed in the southeast by the imperial court, he failed to report the report without a piece of paper. This was a dereliction of duty. The officials moved him to Jiangning University as a memorial service.
, which saved him some face.
It's really a pity that Zhang Mochi.
He was the son of the former Dazai Zhang Dun. In the fourth year of Shaosheng's reign, he came first in the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites. At that time, Zhang Dun was the Prime Minister, and some people were angry and wrote a poem to satirize him.
"A talented man is like Du Mu, but a powerless one is like Zhang Zhi. If you don't want to recruit the people who know the classics, you should first recruit the rulers."
This poem was widely circulated at that time, and public opinion was fierce.
Later, in the palace examination, the late Emperor Zhemiao Dianzhangchi ranked tenth among the Jinshi, which is not unrelated to this.
From then on, Zhang Chi felt deeply ashamed. While serving as an official, he studied the classics assiduously.
However, as Zhang Dun became Dazai and vigorously implemented the New Deal, many scholars and scholars hated him deeply, so they severely lashed Zhang Chi, saying that the words he had painstakingly studied and carefully written were completely incomprehensible and worthless.
The old humiliation and the new humiliation made Zhang Chi a little obsessed, and he became more and more conservative in his thinking.
After more than two years in Xi'an Prefecture, Xi'an Prefecture turned out to be a stronghold for conservative literati. Various tabloids and magazines emerged one after another, arbitrarily criticizing the New Deal and new trends of thought. At the same time, the preparations for the Western Expedition, which were originally proceeding in an orderly manner, were interrupted because Zhang held
Inadvertently or unintentionally neglected, was greatly delayed.
This made the officials very dissatisfied. So the governor of Xi'an was on the list of vacancies this time.
"The candidates for Xi'an Prefecture, Huo Anguo and Li Sixian...the resumes of these five people are all in front of you. Let's discuss them."
As soon as Cai Bian finished speaking, Liu Kai took the lead and said: "Huo Anguo is my old official. When I was the envoy to Hebei Province, I recommended him as the right deputy envoy. Therefore, I follow the law to avoid suspicion and will not comment or recommend him.
Hand vote."
Su Mai said: "Huo Anguo is capable in managing affairs, but the scholars have a lot of criticism against him."
Scholars in the scholarly community were quite critical. Doesn't it refer to the fact that when Huo Anguo was the deputy envoy to the left of the Chief Secretary of Qilu County, he investigated and severely punished the illegal activities of the Confucius Mansion in Xianyuan (Qufu).
The officials also took advantage of the situation and reduced the title of Duke of Saints conferred by the late Emperor Zhemiao to the descendants of Confucius to the title of Jin Ziguanglu. At the same time, most of the land was confiscated, leaving only 3,000 acres of land and a hereditary, dedicated
The fifth-level official position of "Fengxian Sacrifice Envoy" concerning Confucius' sacrifice matters.
This was like poking a hornet's nest, and many Confucian scholars jumped up and wrote letters one after another.
The official replied unceremoniously: "I have some virtues in literature, administration and martial arts, but I don't dare to call him a saint. And Confucius has a virtue of humility, so I don't dare to call him a saint."
This sentence left the Confucian scholars speechless - I have made so many achievements, but I dare not call him a saint. How dare I call a tablet that was written a thousand years ago a saint?
Besides, among the many books left by Confucius, did any of them boast that he was a saint? It was all you, the unworthy disciples, who pushed him up, making him violate the virtues of a humble gentleman.
Moreover, the respect for Confucius at this time was not as abnormal as it was during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, this also involved the dispute between the old and new ideological trends in the Song Dynasty.
The new trend of thought believes that the country of the Song Dynasty is composed of hundreds of millions of people of the Song Dynasty and the land where they live, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty is the concrete embodiment of the country of the Song Dynasty. Being loyal to the emperor and the people means loving the Song Dynasty, which is what the new trend of thought advocates
"Patriotism" in the Song Dynasty.
Since you love the Song Dynasty, are loyal to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and are close to the people, why do you still worship Confucius and respect him as a saint? When there is a conflict, do you listen to the emperor, or do you listen to the words of the sage Confucius or the teachers who represent the sage Confucius?
The Lord of Heaven and Earth is a teacher, and the teacher is the last. Of course, I must listen to the emperor's words. In a practical sense, my teacher taught me literacy and knowledge, and my kindness is as great as a mountain. However, the emperor can give me official positions, power, wealth, and loyalty, so loyalty and filial piety cannot be both.
After a debate, the new trend of thought defeated the old trend of thought. Behind the new trend of thought was the group of upstarts that Zhao Si had trained over the past ten years. They were distributed in official circles, business circles and academia, and controlled more and more people.
Rights gradually became the mainstream in the Song Dynasty. Then, they must have a matching ideological system to make their rise justifiable.
After the decline of the old ideological trend, the old-school Confucian scholars had no choice but to vent their grievances on Huo Anguo. In the market, there were many illegally published chapters that described Huo Anguo as a debauched, treacherous and despicable villain.
people.
Now Su Mai implicitly criticized Huo Anguo, which made everyone present feel regretful.
You are the eldest son of Da Su Gong, and you are quite talented. According to the official's respect for Da Su Gong, as long as you do not commit suicide, you will most likely become a bachelor before you become an official, and you may even become one of the three masters: Sikyong, Situ, and Sikou.
However, you have too much entanglement with the old school of scholars and Confucian scholars. Being a bachelor of Chui Gong Palace is probably your peak.
Fan Chun also implicitly expressed different opinions.
Cai Bian disagreed. In the cabinet meeting, everyone present represented one faction. How could they have completely unanimous opinions?
"Well, Su Youzhen and Fan Jigong raised objections to Huo Anguo. Does anyone else have any objections?"
No one said anything. Cai Bian quickly cut through the mess and said: "Let's vote one by one. Those who agree that Huo Anguo will be the governor of Xi'an please raise your hands. Well, eight votes."
"If you agree with Li Sixian, please raise your hands, um, three votes..."
"Now let's discuss the candidates for Jiangning Prefecture, Su Chi, Ding Guochang..."
Su Chi was the son of the former Situ Su Che. Contrary to his cousin Su Mai, he actually accepted the new trend of thought. He had a family background and was talented himself, and he quickly became a leader of the new trend of thought.
As expected, Su Chi was the one with the most votes among the candidates for Jiangning Prefecture, receiving twelve votes - Su Mai did not vote to avoid suspicion.
After voting on these two vacancies, everyone invariably remembered that Cai Bian had mentioned before that the government intended to expand the number of bachelor's degrees, and specifically designated that the expanded number of places should be awarded to local governments.
The mystery is here.
After discussing the candidates for the chief envoy of Bashu and the candidates for the chief envoy of Huaixi, Su Mai couldn't help but asked: "Uncle Fan Qian has done a good job in Huaixi, why do you want to move his place again?"
Fan Zhixu belongs to the neutral faction and has a good relationship with the old faction - he was originally a Jinshi during the Yuanyou period and did a doctorate in Taixue. For the old faction, he has a good foundation. However, he often uses new faction methods and new ideological trends in political affairs.
Match.
Although the old school didn't like him for his arrogance and inconsistent words and deeds, after ten years of turmoil, there were not many people in the old school who could take the lead, so they could only admit it by pinching their noses.
Su Mai expressed great surprise at his resignation, and seemed to want to redeem himself - the old-school forces finally had such a local official, so how could they just move him away?
At this time Liu Zhengfu spoke up. This chapter has been completed!
