Wanli Youming

Chapter 99
March [-]th in the sixth year of Wanli.

The sky is gloomy and the morning breeze is cool.

Not long after Zhu Yijun had just received a lecture in the Wenhua Palace, Zhang Juzheng formally bid farewell to him, and asked: "From now on, the chapters of each yamen, I hope that His Majesty will review them one by one and make a ruling in person. Anyone who is related, call the cabinet All ministers, discuss it with him."

Zhu Yijun nodded emphatically: "I understand. Sir, return immediately."

Zhang Juzheng nodded, and said: "I have repeated the kindness of the Empress Dowagers of the He Palace, but it is inconvenient because of the clothes. I dare not go to the gate of the palace to thank you. I hope that Your Majesty will play for the minister."

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Don't worry, sir."

Zhang Juzheng bowed to thank him for this, and at this time he took out a secret in his sleeve and revealed: "Your Majesty ordered the ministers to choose the cabinet ministers, but the ministers did not dare to treat them slowly. After thinking about it for a night, they tentatively planned to recommend Wang Dazai, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, to join the cabinet, and together with Lu , Zhang Erge was in power, and he also recommended Dazong Bo Magong and Shaozuka Zaishen Gong to join the cabinet to pre-arrange the maintenance, and first inspected the results of the new policy in the world for a year, so that he can act cheaply, and when something needs to be resolved, he can make a decision before reporting."

Zhang Juzheng said again: "The other minister has been ordered by His Majesty to prepare a memorial for the selection and training of cabinet ministers, and I hope that His Majesty will issue an edict to order the Hanlin Ci ministers to be elected as foreign officials after three years of admission. He was promoted to Beijing and returned to the court, and there will be another six chapters. Please read it, Your Majesty."

Zhu Yijun also read Zhang Juzheng's secret revelations and memorials, and said: "All are correct! Sir, you have worked hard."

When Zhang Juzheng heard Zhu Yijun say the word "hard work", his whole body trembled for a moment as if he had been shocked by an electric shock, and then he prostrated himself in front of Zhu Yijun, prostrated himself on the ground and cried bitterly: "I am returning home!"

Zhu Yijun got up, and after a long silence, he comforted him, "Sir, you should be less sad."

Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng kowtowed and retreated.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng's heavy walking pace, Zhu Yijun only took a deep breath, and said to Zhang Hong: "I still have something to say, but seeing how sad your husband is, it's nothing to say, he failed Ding You, maybe for himself It’s an unacceptable ending, but it’s not that I don’t want Ding You, it’s Daming who needs him to be taken away more, and the husband must understand it himself.”

"What the emperor said is that if Mr. Yuanfu Zhang really disregarded the community and wanted Ding You to keep the rules, how could the emperor resist."

Zhang Hong said.

Not long after Zhang Juzheng left Beijing, Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing also left Beijing.

Among them, Ma Ziqiang went south, and Shen Shixing went west.

Zhang Juzheng didn't let Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing join the cabinet because they both sympathized with those who opposed the love-robbers.

After all, he was recommending talents for the country, and he didn't intend to let the emperor use his own private money because of his own reasons.

Ma Ziqiang and Shen Shixing were also very grateful to Zhang Juzheng for his generosity.

After all, Zhang Juzheng didn't take the opportunity to prevent them from re-entering the cabinet just because he wanted to change the system of civil service for cabinet ministers.

The two also knew that they should not live up to Zhang Juzheng's kindness in recommendation, so they seriously went to inspect the local area.

There is no need for Wang Guoguang to go out of Beijing for inspection.

He was able to join the cabinet because Zhu Yijun required that new cabinet ministers must have local governance experience to have a chance to join the cabinet.

And Wang Guoguang himself did start his official career from Renzhi county, and he also served as magistrate twice.

Therefore, when Zhang Juzheng recommended him to join the cabinet, he intended to follow Zhu Yijun's request, so that he could better handle all kinds of government affairs reported by the local government in the cabinet because of his experience in local governance.

After Wang Guoguang entered the cabinet, Liu Yingjie, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, took over as the new Minister of Officials.

Wu Baipeng took over as the new Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice.

The Minister of Rites was replaced by Pan Sheng.

Throughout the six years of Wanli, the cabinet ministers and ministers have changed again.

Wang Guoguang's entry into the cabinet was also considered timely. Not long after he entered the cabinet, Zhao Zhenji, a veteran who could have replaced Zhang Juzheng and handled various government affairs for Zhu Yijun, passed away suddenly.

Then, Lv Tiaoyang, who had been Zhang Juzheng's deputy for many years, also felt depressed because Zhu Yijun told him after Zhao Zhenji's sudden death that he would send people to ask Yuanfu Zhang Juzheng more about big things, and Wang Guoguang about small things. After all, it was just a decoration, and it was really difficult to play a role, so I insisted on going back to recuperate.

Zhu Yijun was aware of Lu Tiaoyang's embarrassing situation, but he was really worried about letting Lu Tiaoyang, who has always been known as a good man, preside over government affairs, so he agreed to his departure. The official title can be regarded as a compliment to Zhang Juzheng and Zhao Zhenji for so many years of hard work.

What Zhu Yijun had to admit was that Zhang Siwei was still able to sit still. Even though people with discerning eyes knew that both the emperor and Zhang Juzheng believed in Wang Guoguang's ability to preside over the cabinet, especially after Zhao Zhenji also passed away, he was not the same as Lu Tiaoyang. Because he felt awkward, he resigned, and he continued to work conscientiously with Wang Guoguang in the cabinet.

Zhu Yijun regretted Zhao Zhenji's departure, just as he regretted Tan Lun's departure.

But this is also unavoidable.

If it weren't for the fact that he gave Zhao Zhenji a new recovery to improve his mood and he could live for a while longer, according to the original history, in the fourth year of Wanli, Zhao Zhenji would have passed away.

After all, many of the famous ministers left by Jiajing to him and Longqing were old, and after five years in Wanli, they would indeed leave one by one.

Jiajing in history was not only good at playing with civil servants, but also good at discovering capable civil servants, and because of this, he left a lot of talents for Longqing and Wanli.

But what Zhu Yijun has to admit is that Jiajing's shadow is indeed gradually drying up.

And this sense of exhaustion is currently manifested most obviously in the fact that there are fewer and fewer outstanding ministers.

Everything needs to be rediscovered by him.

Because if we let it continue to develop and don't care about anything, after Zhang Juzheng leaves, the chief assistant will only be worse than the next generation.

As far as Zhu Yijun knows, in history, after Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, who served as the first assistant, could sort out yin and yang, be a paper poster, and avoid the intensification of party struggles.

But after Wang Xijue, Fang Congzhe, Ye Xianggao, Han Yu and others.

These chief assistants have begun to develop from being unable to control the internal strife among civil servants to actively participating in the internal strife, and finally to Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, who are not even fighting for doing things, but only for how to make better money. money.

The last chief assistant, Wei Zaode, had no choice but to be silent when encountering problems, and then waited to become an official in the new dynasty, which was equivalent to directly putting himself out of order.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun felt that he had to consciously re-cultivate his own bureaucratic system, starting with cultivating future ministers.

"How is Gao Gong now?"

"After arriving in Beijing, I haven't seen him write a few books!"

"Could it be that because I want to use Mr. and can't let him serve as the chief assistant again, is it still disheartened and unwilling to make suggestions?"

After Zhu Yijun ordered Zhao Zhenji to give Zhao Zhenji the posthumous title he pursued and the addition of official titles, he thought of Gao Gong because of the rareness of his assistant ministers, so he asked Zhang Jing about Gao Gong.

Zhang Jing replied: "Go back to the emperor, Mr. Gao just scolded Yin Shaobao who was going to the council this morning, saying that after he betrayed him and turned to Yuanfu Mr. Zhang, he only knew how to use power and flattery, and he didn't even care about business. He didn't do anything, and not only did he not do good things, but he also did bad things. Because of this, Yin Shaobao wanted to go back to his hometown, saying that he couldn't stay in the Yige, and would rather be dismissed as a citizen and return to his hometown as a farmer than being scolded here. powerful."

Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this: "Interesting, go and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)