In the last few days of May in the fifteenth year of Wanli, there was one piece of news a day in the officialdom of the capital, comparable to the Longmen Trilogy.
First, the stepmother of Zhao Jin, the censor of Zuodu, died of illness. Zhao Jin appealed to Ding You for three consecutive days, but the first two letters were rejected. When the third letter of resignation was finally accepted by the emperor, Zhao Jin and Ding You were allowed to return to their hometown to guard the system.
Without saying a word, Zhao Jin took the emperor's specially approved carriage and horse back to his hometown in the afternoon of the day he received the holy message. He did not stay in Beijing for a moment. He was full of integrity and filial piety.
However, in this case, the vacancy of the Zuodu Censor of the Duchayuan naturally could not be left open for a long time. So on the next day, the Holy Will came down again: Shen Li, the Minister of Rites, was appointed as the Zuodu Censor of the Duchayuan and took office immediately.
Since it was a re-appointment, of course the Minister of Hubu would also be vacant, so all the officials in the capital were waiting for the appointment of the Minister of Hubu. Many people had already guessed that this position was likely to be given to Gao Pragmatic.
Of course, many people think it is impossible. The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue has a great responsibility. Although Gao Pragmatic is civilized and military, he is still too young after all. Although he was already a high official when he was in the Ministry of War, at least there is Liang Menglong, a senior official above him. Da Sima was in charge, and Shi Xing, another minister from the left who was ranked ahead of Gao Pragmatic in the Ministry of War, was also a person with sufficient qualifications.
Liang Menglong was a gold medalist in the 32nd year of Jiajing, and Shi Xing was a gold medalist in the 38th year of Jiajing. These qualifications were enough to even join the cabinet. Only Gao Pragmatic was a strange flower: he was a gold medalist in the eighth year of Wanli.
There is a twenty-seven-year difference between Gao Pragmatic and Liang Menglong's Chinese style, and there is a twenty-one year difference between Gao Pragmatic and Liang Menglong's Chinese style - this is a generational gap! But they are both military officials and serious colleagues.
They are very pragmatic and get what they want. In terms of family background, background, achievements, achievements, and even financial resources, they are the best in the world. In this case, with Liang Menglong and Shi Xing around, especially with Liang Menglong around, let Everyone can understand why Gao Pragmatic is the left minister of the Ministry of War. After all, even if there is anything unreliable about him, Liang Menglong will be there to correct him.
However, if he were asked to directly become the Great Sinong, many people would not be able to understand it - the Great Sinong is an unusual position, he is in charge of the foundation of the world!
The Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue holds great power and is in charge of the country's finance and economy (don't think that there was no such thing as finance in the feudal era). According to the Ming Dynasty, there were 91 Ministers of the Ministry of Revenue, and 89 of them officially took office. In the Ming Dynasty, among the six departments of official, household, ritual, military, punishment, and work, the official of the official department was honored as the heavenly official, and the official of the household department was honored as the local official.
The officials of the remaining four departments, including the powerful Minister of the Ministry of War, are not given honorific titles such as "Heaven, Earth and People". Among the six departments, the Ministry of Husbandry is closely behind the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who is in charge of "organization, personnel, cadres and civil servants", which shows how important the Ministry of Husbandry is.
why?
Since the creation of the Six Ministries, among the six central ministries, the situation has basically been this: the Personnel Department is the most respected, and the Household Department is the largest; the Personnel Department is first, and the Household Department is the most important.
What does this mean? It means that in the ranking of the six central ministries, namely the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the performance evaluation, promotion, dismissal, and deployment of national officials and other personnel powers. This is because Of all things in the world, human beings are the most valuable. Officials are ranked first, so it is natural.
The household department is the largest, which means that the household department has the largest internal organization and the largest number of personnel.
What? In ancient times, officials also had establishments?
Of course there is, and the set number, staffing, and posts are generally quite strict. The Household Department ranks first among the six departments because of its organizational structure and large number of personnel, so it is called "the Household Department is the largest."
There is a regular order when writing memorials, rankings, or standing in the court of ministers. Generally, the method of "writing east and west" is followed, with civil servants on one side and generals on the other. In the ranks of civil servants, the official minister should be ranked first in the household.
In front of the Ministry of Finance, this is one of the elements of "the Ministry of Officials comes first".
Then why is it said that "the household department is the most important"? This is why "the household department is the largest".
The Household Department is the largest because it has the heaviest responsibilities among the six departments. The Personnel Department manages officials, while the Household Department actually manages the people. If the Personnel Department mainly manages people (officials), the Household Department is responsible for managing affairs.
What do you care about? Big things! Big things about the national economy and people's livelihood.
There were thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty, and they were initially named "Xing Zhongshu Province". In the ninth year of Hongwu, "Xing Zhongshu Province" was abolished and changed to "Xingzhongshu Province", that is, the province was renamed as "Si".
The Ministry of Household Affairs has thirteen administrative divisions named after each province, called the Thirteen Divisions, which are responsible for the relevant business of each province.
In addition to the corresponding thirteen departments, there are many institutions within the Ministry of Household Affairs. In modern terms, there is also the treasury granary, which is the reserve storehouse of grain and cotton and other national and civilian supplies; there is the Mint, which is the banknote printing plant; and there is the currency issuance bureau.
The center is equivalent to institutions such as the People's Bank of China today.
Each of the duties and responsibilities held by the Ministry of Household Affairs is basically related to the national economy and people's livelihood, so the Ministry of Household Affairs has the heaviest weight among the six departments.
Since the Three Kingdoms, the Ministry of Household Affairs has been in charge of finance, replacing the position and authority of the Chief Secretary of Agriculture in the Han Dynasty. In the Sui Dynasty, the name "Duzhi Shangshu" was changed to "Minbu Shangshu". In the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to "Minbu Shangshu".
To avoid the name taboo of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was changed to the Ministry of Husbandry, and the name of the Ministry of Husbandry came from this. The Ministry of Husbandry in the Tang Dynasty was one of the six ministries and was in charge of the country's land, household registration, taxation, financial revenue and expenditure and other matters. Its chief was called Hu.
Ministry of Finance.
The system remained unchanged through the ages, including the Ming Dynasty, and did not change until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
The Shangshu of the Ministry of Hubu is the second Shangshu of the six ministers. He is in charge of the power of the Ministry of Hubu and is the highest official of the Ministry of Hubu. In the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the thirteen official departments responsible for the affairs of the thirteen provinces, the Ministry of Hubu also had four major departments, namely, the household department.
The Ministry of Finance, the Department of Finance, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Cang are directors respectively. They are actually the highest government agencies for national finance and taxation.
As the minister of household affairs, the Minister of Hubu is in charge of the Ministry of Hubu, responsible for the country's land, population, finance, civil affairs, taxation, agriculture, industry and commerce, etc., and is also responsible for the printing and issuance of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes.
Because of this, the Ming dynasty's Hubu ministers were the most difficult to get a job among the six ministers, and many had tragic endings. Their terms of office were often short. Those who could serve for more than five years were considered quite extraordinary; those who could serve for ten years or even
The above are purely rare.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In a word, this position is the person who is specifically responsible for the national economy, national economy and people's livelihood.
It holds both real power and great responsibility.
Of course, you are thinking about what kind of monster this household would be if it were placed in future generations?
It is the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Audit Office, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Taxation, the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Energy Administration, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the State
The complex of the Grain and Material Reserve Bureau even manages household registration all over the world.
This is almost a small Ministry of State!
To hand over such a department to a young man who is only 25 years old would be astonishing in any dynasty - not everyone can be Li Shimin, and not everyone has a father like Li Yuan.
The officials in the capital waited and waited, but they did not wait for Gao Pingshi's appointment as the Minister of Household Affairs. Instead, they first waited for Shen Shixing's memorial requesting for additional cabinet ministers, and the emperor's reply that he refused once but agreed the second time.
This is strange. It is probably the most common situation for the Ming Dynasty cabinet to maintain five cabinet ministers. Now there are five cabinet ministers. Why does it have to add one more minister?
Could it be that... the position of this cabinet minister was obtained by the Xin School in exchange for Zuo Du Yushi?
In fact, it's no wonder that those officials who didn't know the inside story thought so. In fact, the emperor played a trick here. He just messed up the order, which gave people a very different mental impression.
What's the difference? The focus is different.
If Gao Jingshi's appointment is placed first, others will think that the emperor wants to move Gao Jingshi's position, and several other appointments and removals are for this purpose, then the focus of public opinion will fall on Gao Jingshi.
It's different now. The focus of the public has become "The Xin School wants a position as the Pavilion Elder" - everything else is in service of this matter. Then the center of public opinion will become "Why does the Xin School want a senior position?"
Do we have to have one more Pavilion Elder?"
Therefore, all associations will start. For example, some people think that Shen Yuanfu is "unable to support himself" in the cabinet and urgently needs to find a helper to share the pressure; some people think that the Xin School is dissatisfied with the Real School's control of the cabinet for too long, and now would rather give up Zuo Duyu
Shi Yizhi also needs to restore the situation in the cabinet. After all, the "power of the prime minister" has been suppressing the "power of the ministry" for some years now. It makes sense for the Xin School to focus on the cabinet.
The advantage of the emperor's doing this is obvious, which is to "reduce the pressure" on Gao Pragmatic. Since the focus is attracted by the "controversy" between the two factions of officials, the appointment of a "merely" minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs does not seem so important.
If it is important, the pressure of public opinion will of course be lighter.
I have to say that Zhu Yijun's care for Gao Pragmatic is really in place.
Although the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue has been vacant for a few days, it does not really cause serious problems immediately. The reason is very simple. There is a cabinet boss in the cabinet who is mainly responsible for the Ministry of Revenue, and this person is none other than Zhang Xueyan.
Zhang Xueyan himself was appointed to the Cabinet as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He had served in the Ministry of Revenue for many years. How difficult would it be to temporarily come to the Ministry of Revenue to manage the affairs of the Ministry for a few days? Not to mention that the Ministry of Revenue is the basis of the Real School, and all important departments within the Ministry have been
Under the control of officials from the Practical School, Zhang Xueyan can ensure that at least there will be no major problems in the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue, even if there is no minister in office.
As a result, except for the vacancy of the Minister of Household Affairs, the rest of the Dajiu Qing were quickly summoned and began to carry out the court nomination.
It is not very clear how Ting Tui was carried out. He stayed in the Jianxinzhai Courtyard to "study" honestly. Studying was naturally a fake. In fact, in addition to approving the reports from various places in Beijing that he had been delayed in the previous expedition, he discussed it with Liu Xin.
For future planning and arrangements, Gao Pragmatism mainly focused on how to arrange for the Queen to leave the palace for medical treatment.
The empress leaving the palace is no different than Princess Yongning leaving the palace. If it is exaggerated, it can even be said to be a hundred times more serious in nature, so there are many targets to deal with this time.
It can even be done not only with a few things, but also with the rotation arrangements of the palace guards, the layout of the royal guards, the cover along the way, the preparations for the Shinsaibetsu Courtyard, etc., all of which need to be carefully planned.
Although this matter must be approved by the emperor, the problem is that the emperor cannot arbitrarily approve the queen to visit Xinzhai - the palace where Xinzhai is located is the residence of Gao Pragmatic. As an emperor, sending the queen there is not a good idea.
What do you mean? People in this world are not allowed to stare out their eyes?
Even the emperor personally taking the queen is unreliable. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty will definitely find a hundred faults in this matter. Not to mention that being pragmatic will lead to nothing, even the emperor himself will be scolded.
Stupid - Zhu Yijun has been scolded many times in history. Is it different now that he has won several battles because of his high pragmatism?
If you think too much, civil servants have their own persistence. Unless Zhu Yijun plans to imitate his grandfather, who only cares about being comfortable in front of him and not caring about his reputation behind him, don't even think about it.
This time the court recommendation went extremely smoothly. Shen Shixing proposed that Wang Xijue, who had long expired as a cabinet minister, miraculously received unanimous approval in the public recommendation of Dajiu Qing. The emperor subsequently agreed in the palace. In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Xijue was reinstated.
The imperial edict and official documents took the post road directly to the south.
When the outside world heard about it, everyone felt that they had indeed had a clever plan. This incident made it clear that the Xin School and the Practical School had made a top-level deal, and that the Zuodu Censor would be replaced by a pavilion elder.
What? Minister of the Ministry of Finance?
Hey, isn't this a trivial matter? It's just an additional cue in this incident - the Ministry of Revenue was originally controlled by the Practical School, but is it still controlled by the Practical School now? As for whether it is highly pragmatic, it doesn't seem to matter that much.
People are very capable of self-persuasion. After everyone changed their focus, self-persuasion became "Anyway, Mr. Zhang Ge is taking care of me at the Ministry of Household Affairs, so nothing big will happen." Even more people think: In fact, they are highly pragmatic.
Not bad. He has managed to create a behemoth like Jinghua in just over ten years. How bad can his financial management skills be? I just hope that his control of the household department will not be the same as his control of Jinghua, and he will always "work with the people"
"Strive for profit"...
In this way, the preparations were completed. After listening to the reports from Jin Yiwei and Dongchang that night, Zhu Yijun fell asleep peacefully.
The next day, another court recommendation was held. This time, the target of the court recommendation was not the cabinet elder, but the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
As mentioned above, the emperor would sometimes directly terminate the appointment of important imperial positions, while most promotions would be promoted by the court to show that the appointment was in line with public opinion, fair and impeccable.
Of course, it is not impossible for the emperor to insist on direct appointment, but in that case, the official's reputation will not be so clean.
With yesterday's "unanimous vote" as the basis, today's Ting Tuixin School of course had to reciprocate the favor, so the result was also unanimously approved - Gao Pragmatic was promoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The news spread from Wenyuan Pavilion to Qianqing Palace. In less than a cup of tea, the approval of the Director of Ceremonies came down. Zhu approved and ordered the cabinet to draft the edict and send it to the Sixth Section.
Just after noon, Gao Pragmatic received the imperial edict and various documents from the Cabinet, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Sixth Section.
The Prince's Shaobao Military Department, Zuo Shilang, was a pragmatic and pragmatic assistant in charge of the military affairs of the capital. He was promoted to Minister of Household Affairs, Governor of Cangchang, and became the Prince's Grand Master. His literary and prose ranks were promoted from the second rank, Feng Dafu, to the first rank, Ronglu Dafu. His wife, Huang Zhiting, was promoted from the second rank to the second rank. Mrs. Pin enters Mrs. Pin.
The Minister of Hubu is only a second-rank official, but the Crown Prince and Grand Master is a first-rank official. Although this is just an additional title, Gao Wuzhen can now be called a "first-rank official official"!
Twenty-five years old, first-class official residence!
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