Chapter 203 My attitude and appointment methods towards Cao Fu and Qin Hui are different
Chapter 204 My attitude and appointment methods towards Cao Fu and Qin Hui are different
Chapter 203, My attitude and appointment methods towards Cao Fu and Qin Hui are different
When Cao Fu heard that Zhao Guanji was actually at the court meeting, he opened his mouth in front of hundreds of civil and military officials and praised him for being "loyal, upright, courageous in admonishing, recognizing talents, appointing talents, and having unique discernment", which not only moved him, but also made him deeply moved.
Tears filled my eyes.
However, Cao Fu, who was a Jinshi during the Yuanfu period more than 20 years ago, was too upright. He did not want to curry favor with the powerful. During his more than 20 years as an official, he was only among the minor officials of the sixth and seventh grades.
He hesitated for a long time, and his ambition to serve the court and the country and the people that he set when he was young was difficult to realize.
Now, Cao Fu heard Zhao Guanjia's words in disbelief:
"If I ask Cao Aiqing to recommend yourself, what position does Cao Aiqing think you can be promoted to?"
With a "plop", Cao Fu, who was moved to tears, knelt down in the main hall.
At this time, all the civil and military officials at the court looked at the new favorite Cao Fu with envy.
The civil servants of the Song Dynasty were deeply influenced by Confucianism's benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust, as well as its self-effacing ideas. When Cao Fu heard that Zhao Guan's family asked him to recommend himself to a high position, how could he have the nerve to ask Zhao Guan's family for an official position?
Cao Fu kowtowed and played back:
"The humble minister Cao Fu bows to express his gratitude,
However, how could a humble minister be so virtuous and capable as to dare to recommend himself?
No matter what position I hold, I dare not forget to be loyal to His Majesty, care about the country and the people, and serve the imperial court!"
At this time, the Duke of Yan, Zheng Zheng, was in charge of the Privy Council. Listening to the conversation between the Zhao Guan family and Cao Fu, he could already see that the Zhao Guan family wanted to promote Cao Fu!
Zheng Juzhong greatly admired his admonishing minister Cao Fu who once dared to go to the house of Zhao Guan, the emperor's brother-in-law, to admonish him.
Now, facing the overwhelming situation that Zhao Guan's family wants to promote you, Cao Fu, you, Cao Fu, actually act so indifferent and indifferent?!
Zheng Ju sighed secretly: Cao Fu, you are indeed a gentleman! Zhao Guan's family gave you a good opportunity to choose your own officials, but you didn't seize it, and you are still so humble?!
Zheng Juzhong, who always stood in line with Zhao Guan's family, came out of the queue and kowtowed:
“Your Majesty is wise and wise, and the supervisory censor, Cao Fu, is true as your Majesty said: ‘He is loyal and straightforward, dares to advise, recognizes people and talents, appoints talents and appoints them, and has a unique discernment’.
Today, Yushitai has three jurisdictions: Taiyuan, Dianyuan and Chagyuan.
Cao Fu, who served as the supervisory censor in the Procuratorate, supervised all officials, was loyal and upright, dared to admonish, and promoted talents. He was indeed a rare and good minister in the Song Dynasty.
There should have been two Yushi Zhongcheng in the Yushitai, but now there is only one Yushi Zhongcheng.
Therefore, the humble minister Zheng Juzhong recommended Cao Fu to be promoted to the post of Yushi Taichung Cheng."
As soon as this statement came out, the officials were shocked!
All the civil and military officials present at this court meeting knew that the official system of the Song Dynasty basically followed the Tang system.
After Yuanfeng's restructuring, the Yushitai official office was restored and established. The responsibilities were the same as those of the Tang Dynasty, but there was no Liutai, and foreign officials did not bear the title of Yushitai.
Under normal circumstances, the Censor's Office should have: one Censor of the third rank, and two Censors of the fifth rank or above.
In the Song Dynasty, the emperor was afraid that the chief officials of some important departments would have too much power, so most of the time chief officials were not actually delegated. For example, privy envoys were not often delegated, and instead the chief ministers or deputy privy envoys performed the duties of full envoys.
Similarly, the chief official of the Yushitai, the Yushi Dafu, does not often actually grant the title. Instead, the deputy Yushi Zhongcheng actually exercises the power of the chief official.
Now, Zheng Juzhong recommends Cao Fu, who has just been the supervisory censor for more than a month, to be the censor Zhongcheng. If the Zhao family agrees, then Cao Fu will be promoted the fastest in the official promotion history of the censor.
One person.
All the civil and military officials attending this court meeting were all excellent people. When they saw the Privy Councilor Zheng Juzhong, the Duke of Yan, who had always been in line with the Holy Will, he stood up and recommended Cao Fu, who had recently been favored and entrusted with important tasks.
They also came out and agreed with Zheng Juzhong's recommendation...
"Wei Chen agrees with Yan Guo's words..."
"Wei ministers also want to recommend Censor Cao to be promoted to Censor Taichung..."
The accompanying sounds of civil and military officials came one after another.
However, some of these ministers have different opinions.
They had no choice but to agree with Zheng Juzhong's recommendation, but in their hearts they were complaining:
If Cao Fu, who is loyal and upright and dares to remonstrate, is really promoted to the high position of Yushi Taichung Cheng, then he must be very careful when acting as an official in the future.
Zhao Ji smiled and looked at the ministers.
He knew that the ministers were able to recommend Cao Fu together in this way, which was related to my uncle Zheng Juzhong who was the first to recommend Cao Fu.
Zheng Juzhong is the elder brother (cousin) of Empress Zheng in my current harem.
In the past, when Zheng Juzhong first entered the official career after winning the imperial examination, he liked to use Concubine Zheng, who had not yet become queen, to gain my favor. Zheng Juzhong was willing to show to the court that he was a relative of the emperor.
"After (Zheng) was promoted to Jinshi in the middle, he boasted that he was a noble concubine and obeyed his brother, so he was deeply favored...";
Later, Zheng Juzhong was promoted to a high position by our original owner Song Huizong.
Although Zheng Juzhong did not have particularly great achievements, he did quite well. He could recommend talents, especially Zheng Juzhong. In the future, Zheng Juzhong will still be able to serve the Song Dynasty in terms of whether he will unite with the Jin Kingdom to destroy the Liao Dynasty.
Consider the fate of the country and stick to your guns correctly...
At this time, Zhao Ji, the time traveler and top student in the history department who was sitting on the throne, still remembered some of the original texts recorded by Zheng Juzhong that he had memorized when he was studying history before traveling through time:
"The imperial court sent envoys to attack Khitan with Jin Yue, (prepare to) recover Yanyun, Cai Jing, and Tong Guanzhu.
(Zheng) Zhongzhong was unable to make a strong statement, and said to Jing: "The Duke is a minister. The elders of the country cannot abide by the covenant between the two countries (Song and Liao) and cause trouble at every turn. It is not a good plan."
Jing said: "I'm tired of the annual coin of five hundred thousand, so you."
(Zheng) Juzhong said: "Don't you think about the cost of using troops during the Han Dynasty and the Rong Dynasty? It will cause millions of lives to be devastated, but you really do it."
So it was decided to take a rest for a while. Afterwards, the Jin people attacked, the Khitan sun frowned, Wang Fu and Tong Guan reconsidered and raised their troops, and said in the middle:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! 'It is not advisable to take pleasure in disasters, you can just wait for them to die.'
(Song Huizong) refused to listen...
Yan Shanping was promoted to Taibao, and (Zheng Juzhong) said that he had no merit and refused to worship him."
Zhao Ji knew that Zheng Juzhong was opposed to the maritime alliance between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, and also opposed the Song and Jin Dynasty's alliance to destroy the Liao Dynasty.
However, in the fifth year of Xuanhe, (Zheng Juzhong) died suddenly at the age of sixty-four. He was posthumously named Prince of Huayuan County and given the posthumous title of Wenzheng.
Zheng Juzhong passed away two years before the humiliating Jingkang Incident. He did not see the consequences of the Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty that he opposed after destroying the Liao Dynasty: the Jin Dynasty betrayed its alliance, sent its troops south, captured Kaifeng, the capital, sacked Bianjing, and plundered the Liao Dynasty.
Take the Second Saint to the bitter cold land in the north...
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At this time, Zhao Ji nodded with a smile and looked at Zheng Juzhong who was leading the ministers to recommend Cao Fu.
Zhao Ji said:
"The capable minister Cao Fu recommended by the Duke of Yan is very satisfactory to me. However, the Duke of Yan is too small."
In charge of the affairs of the Privy Council, Duke Zheng of the State of Yan was in the middle, and he was astonished.
Zhao Ji smiled and said: "Since the post of the chief official of the Yushitai, Yushi Dafu, is vacant and no one can take it, I think that the supervisory censor Cao Fu is mature and prudent, loyal and courageous to give advice, and he can also recognize talents, appoint talents, and be independent.
discerning;
I would like to worship Cao Fu as Yushi Dafu, dear friends, what do you think?"
The civil and military officials above the court were shocked again!!!
The chief official of the Yushitai of the Song Dynasty, the Yushi doctor, usually does not give actual teachings. Now the Zhao Guan family wants to elevate Cao Fu, a small supervisory censor from the sixth rank, to a censor from the third rank.
High position!!!
Moreover, the power of the imperial censor is very great!
The imperial censor holds the penal code in his hands and corrects the sins of hundreds of officials. He can hear the reports and report them directly to the saints...
When Zheng Juzhong saw Zhao Guan's statement, he realized that he had made a big effort. He thought that Cao Fu had promoted him from the sixth rank to the fifth rank by Censor Zhongcheng, which was a huge promotion.
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However, who would have expected that the Zhao Guan family was so fond of Cao Fu that they actually wanted to promote Cao Fu, a minor official from the sixth rank, to a censor doctor from the third rank.
Zheng Juzhong deeply felt that his situation was too small.
He bowed again and said:
"Your Majesty is wise and humble, and I agree with the holy will!"
The other civil and military officials are not stupid. They know that the Zhao family, who are sitting high on the throne, already want to reuse Cao Fu. How can I disagree?
All civil and military officials expressed their opinions one after another and agreed to appoint Cao Fu as the imperial censor.
However, Cao Fu took the initiative to be polite, saying that he had low qualifications and low talents, and he was afraid of letting the emperor down after becoming the imperial censor...
Zhao Ji said, "Cao Aiqing must not be humble. I have made up my mind. I hope that Cao Aiqing will continue to be diligent in his work as the imperial censor, dare to advise and relieve the country's worries, and will be unyielding in the big festival!"
Cao Fu was so moved that he kowtowed again and said in a trembling voice:
"The humble minister Cao Fu, I thank you for your grace. The humble minister Cao Fu must work hard, supervise all officials, and be diligent in government affairs and give direct advice!"
Zhao Ji nodded with satisfaction, seeing that Cao Fu, a loyal and upright man who had been ostracized by treacherous ministers throughout history and never became a high official, was finally promoted by me, the time traveler, to become a minister similar to that of later generations.
The head of an important department like the Discipline Inspection Commission.
Zhao Ji felt that he was changing the original history of the late Northern Song Dynasty bit by bit...
At this time, Dazai Yu Shen saw that Cao Fu, the man recommended by Duke Zheng Juzhong of the State of Yan, who was in charge of the Privy Council, had been reused by Zhao Guan's family, and he felt that he could not lag behind.
Yu Shen came out of the queue, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty is a wise and wise minister, and I am a humble minister. I am happy to see your Majesty selecting talents.
Therefore, I would also like to recommend to Your Majesty a virtuous person with good conduct, good at seal script, and able to create his own calligraphy..."
Before the seventy-year-old Dazai Yu Shen finished speaking, Zhao Ji felt something was wrong from his few words. He frowned slightly and asked:
"Who are the virtuous talents recommended by Dazai? Come to me quickly!"
Yu Shen smiled proudly and glanced at Zheng Juzhong, who had just been praised by Zhao Guan's family for recommending Cao Fu. Then, he cupped his hands and replied to Zhao Guan's family who was sitting high on the dragon chair:
"The virtuous and talented man recommended by the humble minister Yu Shen is Qin Hui, who was awarded the title of Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhenghe!
Hui, the current Imperial College [Xue Zheng].
As far as I know, Qin Hui is very good at poetry and prose, has impeccable conduct, is quite good at penmanship, and is not only good at seal script calligraphy;
Hinoki can also create his own unique style of fonts. His characters are neat and steady, unique in ancient and modern times!
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Zhao Ji:……
There are thousands of alpacas galloping in his heart!