After finding out the information he wanted to know from Mr. Zuo, Li You did not stay long and asked Mr. Zuo for a list of candidates before leaving.
As a former celebrity in the capital's official circles, he is very busy and has many people to visit. In fact, he should visit Xu Cifu next. However, the cabinet is located in the palace. It is very troublesome for him to enter with his current status, so he will put it aside for now.
later.
Among the six yamen, except for the Criminal Department, the other five departments were gathered between Chengtianmen and Damingmen. After leaving the Officials Department, Li You went to the Military Department to see Lu Shangshu.
I haven't seen him for a year and a half. The old minister has not changed much. He is still tough. It seems that it will not be a big problem to work until he is seventy years old. When he saw Li You, he sighed: "I really don't know what your fate is. The two times you came to Beijing were all turbulent.
During the test, do you have to rush for this time?"
Li You smiled nonchalantly and said, "Who doesn't want to be a justice of the peace? This is not something that juniors must join in the fun. If it weren't for this time, juniors wouldn't have the chance to go to Beijing."
Lu Shangshu changed his subject and said, "Speaking of which, I want you."
Li You suddenly stood up, bowed and said, "This is a shame for this junior. As long as the boss has given you orders, I will just do it."
It turns out that the third son of the Lu family, the cheap nanny of Li You's first wife, Mrs. Liu, won the Jinshi in last year's competition. Unfortunately, his ranking was not good, and he was only among the top 200.
According to the rules, a new Jinshi has a half-year political observation period, which is an internship period. After the internship period, he can be officially selected as an official. As a rule, those with a ranking like Mr. Lu have to be sent out to serve as county magistrates or officials, and cannot stay in the capital.
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However, Mr. Lu San was very upright and straightforward in his studies, and Li You also knew this. However, the officialdom was in turmoil, so the old minister was worried about letting him go alone. Until now, the whereabouts of his son have not been determined.
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However, when he heard that Li You was leaving office, the old minister thought that it would be a good idea to send his son to Jiangdu County to take over as the magistrate. This idea was exactly the same as Xu Cifu's decision to send Chen Yingzhen to Yangzhou Prefecture as the magistrate.
Mr. Li secretly sighed. The foundation he has laid is so good. The big bosses want their children to ride on the coattails of their political achievements...
This is also a good thing. At least it means that he has truly begun to integrate into the network. After thinking about it, Li You responded: "Brother Shi, you can go and get it, and you won't let him suffer. If not, there is still Magistrate Chen in Yangzhou Prefecture to take care of you!"
After talking about his own affairs, the old minister sighed again: "Although you are good at using force, I still feel that the timing of your visit to the capital is not good. Now there are undercurrents in the capital, and you may hit the rocks somewhere."
Li You's heart was moved. He followed the words and asked: "Hasn't it been finalized yet to re-establish the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Distinguished Minister of Discipline Affairs? I learned about this from the Di Bao at the end of April. It has been making a fuss for three or four months. Hasn't it been announced yet?
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"Cisheng Palace is also waiting there..." The old minister spoke to Li You naturally, and he was very talkative. He also gave some thoughtful advice and asked: "How do you think this change should end?"
Li You expressed his thoughts and said: "In the past few decades, the imperial concubines have had little power, and the Queen Mother is about to hand over the great power. She will retire only after the emperor tours south to Beijing. So how can we win over the courtiers? It's like an egg hitting a stone."
Lu Shangshu said sternly: "You are so arrogant that you underestimate your relatives. Although they have no power, they are powerful. There are several centuries-old families in the capital, with lush branches and leaves, and they are married to each other. They all started talking in the same breath,
Isn’t it easy to get along with?”
"Do you think the Queen Mother just stood still after letting the news out? What are you waiting for? It's nothing more than giving time and asking the Xunqi to join forces to build momentum. On the one hand, the momentum is aroused, and on the other hand, she actively tries to win over the ministers. In this matter, the Xunqi seems to have
They are more united than civil servants. From my point of view, this is the scariest thing about them."
Li You silently savored the words of the old minister, which are worth pondering. They are very reasonable. Faced with this situation, it will be difficult for the courtiers who have never been united since the Jinghe Dynasty to work together.
He himself could not imagine what it would be like for Xu Cifu and Peng Gelao to join forces to fight against the enemy. At most, they would just express the same attitude at court meetings. If they want to join forces and move in step in daily life, it would be difficult to establish this kind of
sense of trust.
Moreover, there is no shortage of careerists among civil servants. Maybe some people want to be ministers, maybe some people want to be bachelors, maybe some people want to be chief ministers. For such people, they secretly collude with their relatives to remove their own obstacles.
Not surprising.
For some reason, I remembered the Great Ceremony Incident two hundred years ago. At that time, the emperor was just a teenager who had just entered the capital. The power of civil servants seemed so powerful. Wasn't the final winner still Emperor Sejong?
At this point, I heard from the old minister that the nobles and ministers are more united than the civil servants. I am afraid that the Queen Mother is also interested in passing the exam. If these nobles and ministers cannot even exert the corresponding energy, then the mud will not stick to the wall.
There is really no need to waste energy on helping.
Thinking of this, Li You said truthfully: "It is the princes who have the final say on the important affairs of the temple, and it is not for the juniors to comment. To be honest, sir, what the juniors want is actually the fifth-grade Fengxian admiral to supervise the Army and Horses Division."
When the old minister saw this, he expressed all his speculations, "Do you think that the competition for this official position has nothing to do with the government? Most people didn't see it before, but I can tell you now that it is actually very related.
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"At first, the court officials petitioned for the establishment of this official position. Of course, it was because of the frequent serious cases in the capital, but was it not because they wanted to use it to suppress their relatives?
It should be noted that those honorable relatives have lived in the capital for generations. They have many relatives and family members, and they rely on familiarity with the local environment. There are many people who take advantage of their power to violate laws and regulations, but they have never been able to effectively rectify them. After all, the Bingma Division in the capital is just a sixth-grade yamen.
If a powerful official position can be set up and a minister who has the courage to take charge of the matter can be responsible for the matter, the situation will be different. In other words, this is also a kind of restraint and warning to the nobles and relatives, indicating that civil servants have the ability to take measures to attack the nobles at any time.
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Presumably those honorary relatives also realized this and wanted to fight for positions. As far as I know, two of the five candidates to be selected are related to honorary relatives. Normally, the official selection is a major matter, and honorary relatives are not a concern at all. But
This time Cisheng Palace wanted to win over Xun Qi to plan a big thing, so it took Xun Qi's ideas into consideration and nominated these two people for selection.
So it seems to be a mere appointment to a fifth-grade official position, but in fact it is not. You are not well-informed in other places and do not know the inside story of Beijing. You only thought it was an ordinary official selection. However, in the past two months, it has become the outcome of a struggle between the two parties.
This point can be said to be the direction of the general situation. The situation has evolved to such a situation and to get involved rashly is to be involved in the turmoil without knowing it."
After listening to what Lu Shangshu said, Mr. Li suddenly shed a few drops of cold sweat. Li You had been at home for a long time in the past year and had limited knowledge of the situation in the capital. He had never thought of this level.
I really didn’t expect that competition for this official position would be so hot. It was not just a matter of the official position itself, but it was also implicated in the imperial bureaucracy.
Li You was never afraid of doing stupid things, he was just afraid of being a stupid person. If he rushed in stupidly, he might not be able to get a good deal.
No wonder Princess Guide was hesitant at the beginning and repeatedly advised herself to be cautious. At that time, she probably had a premonition of the current situation. It is not easy for me to be the king of the throne. (To be continued)
