In the capital, the noise of the examination gradually faded away, but the hearts of the ruling and opposition parties became increasingly impetuous, and many people were fearful and uneasy.
Mainly because the Ning Wang case is pending.
King Ning's rebellion has not yet died, and it is possible to kill anyone.
The court colluded with King Ning, and many people accepted his bribes. At that time, no one thought that King Ning had the courage to rebel. If they had known this, no one would have interacted with King Ning.
"...the appointment of officials has not been finalized for a long time. His Majesty is not in the capital, so the court push cannot be carried out, especially when Lu Shangshu is still in office. It is difficult to handle it!"
Su Xigui was very anxious.
He originally wanted to wait for Lu Wan to be unlucky and free up a position as minister, so that the people below could be evened out one by one, and maybe a hole could be made available for Huang Zan.
Who would have thought that now even Lu Wan has not concluded the matter.
Zhu Hao said: "We may have to wait until a thorough search of Prince Ning's Mansion in Jiangxi Province before making a decision."
Su Xigui looked around and thought that the place where he invited Zhu Hao to talk was his private residence. It was not a public place and no one would know about the secret meeting between the two. However, he still cautiously approached and asked: "There are rumors in the court that as the biggest counterattack against the rebellion,
The hero Wang Shouren was also involved in the case... Mr. Wang’s intention is that Wang Shouren’s search of Prince Ning’s Mansion in Nanchang was ignored and he had to wait until the court sent someone to go there?”
Zhu Hao shook his head: "I don't know."
In fact, Zhu Hao knew it.
Historically, all the ministers in the court who had traffic offenses with King Ning were punished. However, they had to wait until the emperor's troops returned to the court and arrived in Tongzhou before they were all arrested and imprisoned. Among them was Lu Wan.
The emperor also had his own considerations. He was not in the capital, so he casually captured a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Aren't he afraid that someone in the court would rebel? Then the capital would support King Xing, and King Qi would come out, and he would not be able to follow him in the south.
With a head like a fly, wouldn't it mean that he would be a prisoner?
If you want to punish the ministers, you have to wait until the emperor returns to Beijing.
Although everyone now knows that Lu Wan contributed the most to the restoration of Prince Ning's guard, and it is not a secret that Lu Wan has communicated with Prince Ning in the past few years, but to get real evidence, he still has to wait for Zhang Yong to go to Nanchang Prince Ning's Mansion in person.
Let's take a trip and get the evidence before we talk.
It is unclear whether there was any element of frame-up in this. Just the fact that Lu Wan helped Prince Ning regain the power of guarding was enough for him to be imprisoned.
You helped restore the armed forces of Prince Ning's palace, and then Prince Ning used these guards to rebel. You also accepted bribes from him. Do you dare to say that it had nothing to do with you?
"Dongzhu Su, if you believe me and ask Mr. Huang to be transferred to Nanjing as soon as possible, I believe there will be someone to help operate it without His Majesty's intervention..."
What Zhu Hao wanted to say was that if Huang Zan stayed in the capital, not only would the procedures be cumbersome, but there would also be people setting new barriers.
But if Huang Zan himself wanted to be transferred to Nanjing, Yang Tinghe and other civil servants would secretly help him. There would be no need to wait for Lu Wan to give in, or the emperor to return to the capital to push for the move, which would reduce a lot of resistance in operation.
Su Xigui sighed: "It seems that this is the only way! I hope this chaos in the Ming Dynasty will end soon."
Now even Su Xigui hopes that the emperor will burp his shit soon and the new emperor will ascend the throne. Perhaps only in this way will Huang Zan and his fate change.
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Huang Zan really accepted his fate.
If you are debating whether to stay in the capital or not, you might as well be transferred directly to Nanjing to join the ministry.
In particular, the Minister of the Ministry of Households in the South still has a certain appeal to the ministers who are about to retire in the court. He is in charge of the financial and grain management of many provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and has a lot of power at his disposal.
If Huang Zan insists on fighting for the position of Minister of Nanhube, his background is not strong, but as long as his activities are strong enough, he will be the most popular candidate.
Nowadays, Deng Zhang, the Minister of the Southern Household Department, is old and unsatisfactory in terms of ability. The emperor personally leads the army in the south. Deng Zhang is unable to raise money and food to feed the people. As a result, the emperor's troops plunder the surrounding prefectures and counties of Nanjing.
The granary and the wealthy family were in a state of commotion.
Deng Zhang knew that the position of Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing was a hot potato, so he submitted his resignation many times, but there were no good candidates to replace him in the emperor and the Ministry of Finance in the capital, so the matter was delayed.
At this moment, Huang Zan came up to ask for the tune.
Huang Zan had passed the examination in three years but had not yet moved to another official position. His request for accommodation was reasonable and reasonable, and it was an urgent matter for Deng Zhang and Yang Ting, a scholar of the First Academy of Sciences, to reconcile.
When the emperor was in the northwest, he relied on Huang Zan to raise military pay. The dispatch of troops and horses in the northwest basically did not use the money and food from the capital's treasury. Even though Huang Zan was not a member of the small circle of civil servants in the DPRK, his ability was still unanimously recognized by the court.
Based on Huang Zan's achievements in establishing the northwest, transferring Nanjing to be the Minister of Household Affairs was not considered an overstepping promotion. Therefore, within a few days, news came from the court that the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Chief Minister of the Cabinet had jointly recommended the recommendation to the court. But as for the transfer of Huang Zan,
Whether Zan went to Nanjing to be the Minister of the Southern Hubu, or to be appointed to other ministries, or even the right minister of the Southern Hubu, is another matter. After all, there was no official post of left minister of the Southern Sixth Ministry for Huang Zan.
Su Xigui stayed in the capital after the New Year because of his brother-in-law's transfer. He would always ask Zhu Hao for advice when encountering difficult matters.
In the blink of an eye, it is already the second day of April.
On this day, Su Xigui found Zhu Hao and heaved a long sigh of relief as he spoke: "...the memorial of Deng Shangshu's resignation from the Southern Household Department was sent to the cabinet again. When he heard that the cabinet voted to approve his resignation, the chief minister, Mr. Yang Ge, and
Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and others jointly recommended my family, Mr. Huang, to take over the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs."
The implication is that everything is ready now, all it needs is the emperor's approval.
Zhu Hao said: "I don't know if I should congratulate you, or...you just got into trouble?"
Su Xigui sighed: "Isn't that right? The Minister of Nanhubu used to be a noble position with no real power, but now His Majesty personally leads the army to conquer. Wherever the army goes, it consumes countless money and food. Just based on the inventory of Nanhubu in the past few years
...I'm afraid it will be difficult to cope with such a large expense. When the time comes...I'll have to tighten my purse strings. I don't know when the army will be reorganized..."
It's time again when Su Xigui feels worried about his pocket.
Zhu Hao shook his head: "Even if you wipe out all the money in Dongzhu Su's family, you won't be able to cope with the expenses of the army, right?"
"Then what can we do? Shouldn't we try our best to support it? If it weren't for the difficulty of doing this job, people in the court would have taken advantage of it in the past... But raising money and food for His Majesty is both a risk and an opportunity!"
Su Xigui was also straightforward.
Being an official for thousands of miles is just for money. Is Huang Zan the kind of upright official with clean sleeves?
joke!
Even if there was a breeze with two sleeves, one of the few great officials and businessmen in the world like Su Xigui would not be able to emerge.
Since ancient times, capable ministers have rarely had a clean mind. In the officialdom, it is as difficult to ask officials to be honest and self-responsible as to ask them not to eat or drink.
There are exceptions, but most of them are those who don't have much opportunity to get in touch with money. As long as they have power... a feudal dynasty that lacks supervision, what more can you ask for?
When people see an official, they have to kneel down and kowtow. When they go to the court, they beat dozens of people with intimidation sticks. It’s good that the official didn’t rob your family of food, wife and children. If you are a corrupt official, you have a little money and food in the government treasury and a little bribe. How dare you?
Is it okay to blow your beard and stare?
Power does not come from the hands of the people, so there is no need to be responsible to the people.
"I wonder when he will be transferred?"
Zhu Hao asked.
Su Xigui smiled bitterly and said: "In the past, the trip might not have been possible in a few months, but for the errands involving the Nanhu Department, you can watch...I am not in a hurry, there are people who are anxious for me...just as the young gentleman said
Well, there are a lot of people behind the scenes helping to run it! It’s so sad!”
Zhu Hao said: "Misfortune is where blessings depend, and blessings are where misfortune lies. If Huang Gong can make achievements in his tenure in Nanjing and then return to the court as minister, I am afraid no one will dare to make irresponsible remarks.
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Su Xigui had a bitter look on his face: "I'm afraid I'll lose everything in the end, but I can't get such a good reputation. Nanhube... is really a trap that can't be filled!"
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The news that Huang Zan transferred the Minister of Nanhubu quickly spread in the capital.
Even Tang Yin knew it.
The matter has not been finalized, but everyone seems to think this is the most reasonable arrangement.
"...His Majesty has spent extravagantly in the northwest in the past few years, relying entirely on Huang Shilang's control and operation. The money and food allocation is not chaotic at all, which is evident from Huang Shilang's ability. Now that Nanjing's treasury is empty, the imperial court is unwilling to allocate money and food to maintain the army, so Huang Shilang is sent
The waiter will go and save time and effort!"
After Tang Yin heard about this incident, he mercilessly criticized the court's inaction in front of Zhu Hao, Jiang Lun and others at the wine table.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the court should start solving problems when they encounter them, but the current situation is to just push Huang Zan over and let him solve it on his own.
While Jiang Lun was pouring wine for Tang Yin, he said, "I thought that Huang Shilang was promoted, but after hearing what you said, I realized that he was tricked."
"Um."
While Tang Yin nodded, his eyes turned to Zhu Hao who was holding a teacup and sipping tea.
Zhu Hao smiled, put down the cup in his hand, and said, "I said that Huang Shilang took the initiative to ask for transfer to Nanjing. Do you believe it?"
"No...it can't be right?"
Jiang Lun's eyes widened with disbelief on his face.
How can anyone deceive themselves?
Tang Yin frowned and asked: "You mean, Huang Shilang took the initiative to take on this thankless job? You must know that it costs hundreds of thousands of soldiers to supply the southern expedition. This is a huge sum of money. Now there is no war to fight in the south, and the soldiers have nowhere to go.
It consumes a lot of physical energy and is almost out of control... This... is a nuisance to local people's livelihood, and it is not easy to solve."
Zhu Haodao: "Whether the officers are under control or not is not the responsibility of the Hubu. The Hubu just raises money and food for the army. The Southern Hubu has southern salt, and the Tea Er triggers the exercise of power. In addition, Su Dongzhu operates behind the scenes. From the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River,
Why can’t the problem be solved by levying money and food?”
Jiang Lun's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said: "Oh, what does this mean? What seems to be difficult for others can be done by Huang Shilang alone? Isn't it... weird?"
Tang Yin was going to pour cold water on it, but since this was something Zhu Hao supported, he expected that singing the opposite tune would not bring good results, so he immediately said: "Based on the ability that Huang Shilang showed when he was in the northwest, if we look at all the officials in the court who understand money, food, and treasury, there is no one like him."
The one on the right, I’m afraid this job really belongs to him!”
Even Tang Yin felt that if Huang Zan could not solve the problem, then others would be even more helpless.
As for whether Su Xigui would go bankrupt, it was not within Tang Yin's consideration.
As an official and businessman, he has made a lot of money because of his official background. Now, if he wants to help his backers to reach the top, how can there be no reason not to spend a penny? As long as he can get the credit and increase his official position, it will be worth it even if he loses everything, and maybe he can make some money.