For some officials who did not know what was going on, Jiang Ge Lao lived up to his expectations, and the result of the court meeting is now the best result that can be achieved.
But for many middle- and high-level officials, the stern looks on their faces fully indicate that they are not satisfied with this.
On the way out of the palace after the court meeting, Sun Jiao, as a bystander to the farce, went directly to Yang Tinghe and explained his views on the matter on behalf of the Ministry of Revenue.
"... Jiefu, I don't understand. If His Majesty hands over the official land... that is, the former Imperial Village and the Imperial Store, to the Ministry of Household Affairs, who should be responsible for managing and running the Ministry of Household Affairs? Manpower and establishment
On the other hand, is it necessary to add a new head of the household department to take charge of this matter? "
Sun Jiao seemed to be asking Yang Tinghe for instructions, but in fact he was questioning him.
Was Jiang Mian's matter the result of your instruction?
Since this is your intention, if you now win over the management rights of Huangzhuang and Huangdian, the emperor will definitely get rid of all the people who were originally in charge of it when he is angry. I would like to ask you, how can the household department continue to operate now? Just by doing this,
As for the handover, it won't be possible to figure it out in a year and a half, right?
In the past, when the new emperor ascended the throne, there was a household department to take care of the business of the official land. However, since after Tang Yin, the head of the household department was all taken by the emperor's people, the official department dismissed it early on the grounds that it was not in compliance with the rules.
Huangzhuang has now just been renamed Guandi, and will continue to be managed by the emperor's people.
It's just different from the past. Nowadays, official land is no longer expanding externally. In the past two years, the number of official fields has been reduced by nearly one-third compared to its heyday. Although most of it is still given to people in the Xingwangfu system for farming, at least in the past
Development in a positive direction.
Now if we want to take back all the official land and the imperial shop at once, we will only get the management rights, and the property rights still belong to the emperor.
This is equivalent to asking the Ministry of Revenue to send people to help the emperor take care of it. The products produced will be accounted for in the Ministry of Revenue and handed over directly to the inner government... Let me ask you Yang Zhongtang, do you think it is fun to transfer so many hands in the middle?
Can't we just let the emperor's people take care of it themselves? Just to get nominal power, do we have to torment our household department?
Yang Tinghe said: "Comrade, this is supposed to be an errand of the Ministry of Revenue. Just because it has been controlled by the inner government for a long time, you don't fight. Now that you have finally won the fight, you still have to complain here, right? Which yamen up and down the imperial court?
Aren’t you overcoming difficulties? "
Yang Tinghe was not polite to Sun Jiao at all.
Let your grandson come to me to complain when you have nothing to do. If you were like that in the past, you would just be a wallflower. Now you don't play neutral and stand on your own, and you still want me to spoil you?
"hehe."
Sun Jiao was not surprised by this. He had already known that coming to Yang Tinghe would not end well. He said with a smile: "Then please think about it again and see who will take charge of this matter. In fact, I think,
Bohu is idle at home, so it would be a good idea to let him take on this job. I'm afraid he won't be willing."
After saying that, Sun Jiao ignored Yang Tinghe's reaction and went straight to the palace gate.
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"What does he mean?"
After Sun Jiao left, Jiang Mian and Mao Ji approached Yang Tinghe from the left to the right.
Yang Tinghe said coldly: "It's not obvious. Doesn't he want to wade into this muddy water?"
Mao Jidao: "I think it's not that he doesn't want to wade into muddy water, it's that he knows it's clear water, but insists on making it muddy, which makes people think it's muddy water... Complaining to others makes people think it's not easy for him. This way
These people are not practical at all.”
Several people in the previous cabinet still had a lot of respect for Sun Jiao, a veteran minister who was re-activated.
But since Sun Jiao established a new position in the court, it was difficult to gain good looks from Yang Tinghe's faction. Mao Ji evaluated Sun Jiao in front of Yang Tinghe, so naturally he would not give him any more face.
Jiang Mian somewhat blamed himself, because he felt that he was the one who brought trouble back now.
With a seemingly successful game, he won the useless official land and the management rights of the imperial village, but it could not stop the emperor from mining and building trains.
Jiang Mian seemed more pragmatic at this time. He must solve the problem as soon as possible and asked: "As Zhitong said, who should be found to take charge of this matter? Jiefu, what do you think of using it?"
Jiang Mian immediately thought of someone.
It was Yang Ting and his son Yang Dun who had just been admitted to the imperial examination.
In the past, the person who managed the imperial village was the head of the household department. Now that the management of the imperial village is handed over to the court, the person he uses is naturally the head of the household department. However, the job of the head of the household department must be done by someone who has not been an official for three years.
After passing the examination, they usually jump out of the position of head of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Of course, there are also officials from the middle and lower levels who are assigned to local governments who can be transferred back to take charge.
But those people have been transferred from outside since the beginning of their official career, so naturally they will not be the core force of Yang Tinghe's faction.
Therefore, Yang Dun, a new scholar who has just entered the officialdom, is the most suitable.
"He can't."
Yang Tinghe directly rejected the proposal, "With his prestige and ability, he is not qualified for the job."
Mao Ji also said: "That's right. Nowadays, most of the official land and imperial stores are managed by the old people of Prince Xing's Mansion. Those people are arrogant and domineering. How can they be easily governed? It's better to think about it carefully. If it doesn't work, just find another job.
, may not be the head of the user department. Furthermore, the head of the household department is always in the household department..."
The implication.
Even if the emperor handed over the management rights of Huangzhuang and Huangdian, it would be to Sun Jiao, not to Yang Tinghe.
Yang Tinghe now wants to control the economic lifeline of the little emperor, so he must firmly control the management rights of Huangzhuang and Huangdian. It is best to get rid of the constraints under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Of course, Mao Ji also considered that Yang Tinghe did not agree to let his son Yang Dun be the head of the household department because he was afraid that Yang Dun would not understand the dangers of officialdom when he first entered the official career, so this candidate needed to be carefully considered.
But Yang Tinghe seemed to have already made up his mind. He stopped telling Jiang Mian and Mao Jidou and had made a comprehensive plan.
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At noon that day, Yang Tinghe went to the yard where he usually rested in Jinyu Hutong and called his son Yang Shen.
"...Father wants Jingdou to leave the library and become the head of the Household Department? Isn't this...a bit difficult?"
Only when he met his father did he realize that his father planned to sacrifice Zhu Hao's interests and let Zhu Hao do this thankless job as head of the household department.
Yang Tinghe was reluctant to use Yang Dun, thinking that it would harm Yang Dun's career, but he did not care that Zhu Hao had been an official for more than two years. Logically speaking, the external transfer should not start from the head of the household department, but he wanted Zhu Hao to be a manager.
People who do odd jobs.
Yang Tinghe said coldly: "We are all serving the imperial court, why not?"
Yang Shen sighed: "Father, have you forgotten that you also wanted to transfer Zhu Hao out of the library before, but Sun Zhitong, Liu Renzhong and others jointly blocked it? It's been more than a year now, I'm afraid they still won't agree."
This is not the first time that Zhu Hao has been transferred out of the Hanlin Academy.
Last time, Sun Jiao and Liu Chun, who was a Hanlin scholar at the time, came forward to pave the way for Zhu Hao to continue to stay in the academy. Now that the old matter is being brought up again, aren't we afraid that Sun Jiao, Liu Chun and others will come out to oppose it again?
"Today is different from the past," Tiao Jingdao said. My father will ask the officials to come forward, and there will be no obstruction from the Hanlin bachelor's side. As for Sun Zhitong... he wants to obstruct it, so let him go. You can't listen to him in this court...
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Yang Tinghe's words made Yang Shen see the crux of the problem.
The so-called "today is different from the past" means that the status and status of Sun Jiao and Liu Chun in the court are different from those before.
Sun Jiao has established his own business, Yang Tinghe no longer needs to give him too much face, and Liu Chun is no longer a Hanlin bachelor. Even if Liu Chun objects... What qualifications do you, a cabinet bachelor, have to object to personnel transfers in the Hanlin Academy?
Zhu Hao is not your direct subordinate.
And now Zhu Hao's immediate superiors, Hanlin bachelor Shi Yuan and associate bachelor Feng Xi, are my people, and they will not come forward to object.
Who else can stop this?
Yang Shen understood that now the Hanlin Academy has become Yang Tinghe's back garden. He really just wants to decide something without consulting with outsiders.
Yang Shen felt sorry for Zhu Hao and said, "Jingdao has been an official for two years and has experienced a lot. His hard work can be regarded as a contribution to the court and his father. Why must it be difficult for him?"
It is difficult for anyone to accept that a good Hanlin editor suddenly became the head of the household department.
When Yang Dafu was ranked second in the exam, he was transferred to be the head of the household department, and he was full of complaints. As a result, Zhu Hao worked with us for two years and was transferred to be the head of the household department. Even if Zhu Hao didn't say anything, the court
What would other people, especially those new to the field, think?
Wouldn't they think that their father was killing the donkey?
Yang Tinghe said: "Only he is familiar with the old people of Prince Xing's Mansion and is also familiar with Tang Yin and others. Without him, how can we maintain a smooth transition? Go and tell him that as long as he can successfully complete the handover, no later than six months later
, he can continue to be promoted, or be transferred to the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, which is better than staying in the capital. Didn't you also say that this is his life wish?"
Yang Shen nodded.
Zhu Hao mentioned in front of him more than once that he wanted to be transferred out as soon as possible.
Now it is just before the external transfer, let Zhu Hao be the head of the household department...
Doesn’t that mean that Zhu Hao won the first prize in the imperial examination and spent more than two years in the Hanlin Academy, but the officials he released were on the same level as a top-three Jinshi in the new department? Do you want people to accept it with peace of mind? It’s just like drawing a cake to plan an externally transferred official.
The pie that makes Si an official...
Even if you go to the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, what can you do? No matter you start from participating in politics or being a counselor, you might as well transfer a magistrate from outside.
But is it really a shameful thing for the number one scholar to be transferred to the prefect?
You must know that Zhang Cong, who is in the same class as Zhu Hao, has already become the prefect of Yongping Prefecture. This is the prefect of Beizhili Prefecture. No matter how hard Zhu Hao works, he is actually not as good as Zhang Cong?
Yang Shen felt sorry for Zhu Hao.
"Yongxiu, are you not worthy of Jingdao?"
Yang Tinghe couldn't help but ask when he saw his son's face was gloomy and uncertain.
Yang Shen not only felt disrespectful for Zhu Hao, but also felt that his father was unkind. He even thought further that his father felt that he was not doing things well, so he did not punish him, but punished the people around him as a lesson to him.
Who says a son has no temper?
"Remember, everything is for the sake of the stability of the court. Anyone's interests can be sacrificed, including my father's and yours. What's more, it's just Jingdao now. From the beginning, he was just a young and successful military son.
, how can you entrust such a person with a heavy responsibility? It is his honor to serve the imperial court now!"