After all, in the past, there were actions to investigate corruption, even across the country. The superiors also paid attention to it, but they still did not take it so seriously. Now, the Holy Emperor is personally watching it. Once caught at such a critical moment,
He'll be dead in minutes.
Zhou Lide's case has made the entire officialdom panic. Even the top officials are in turmoil because of it. All the officials who promoted Zhou Lide are being investigated one after another. Even officials who have more contacts with Zhou Lide will inevitably be investigated.
, there’s no telling how many people will be implicated in the end. After all, this official has a dirty ass, and if you insist on investigating, you can always find evidence of the crime.
In addition to the turmoil, there is an even more troublesome matter, and that is the successor candidate for the county magistrate of Shanghai County!
If a violent turmoil occurs in such an important place, it will naturally attract the attention of high-level officials. These high-level officials are not just talking about Songjiang Prefecture, let alone Jiangnan Province, but referring to Gyeonggi Province, and to be more precise, they are on duty at the Royal Study Room.
Ministers and even the Holy Emperor!
Facing a place that can contribute 8 million taels of silver in tax revenue every year, no one dares to have any contempt!
Zhou Lide, the former magistrate of Shanghai County, was executed by Ling Chi, and most of the other officials from Shanghai County and even Songjiang Prefecture's Yamen were arrested, which almost brought the Shanghai County Yamen to the brink of collapse. Now Jiangnan
The Taoist priests personally took over the daily work of Shanghai County, but this situation cannot continue.
Regardless of what problems have occurred before, life has to go on, and Shanghai has to return to normal. Otherwise, it will affect the economic development of Shanghai County. By then, it will not only be a trouble, but will also affect the overall situation of the empire.
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However, the question arises again, who and what kind of person should be appointed as the new county magistrate of Shanghai County, and ensure that there will be no problems with the new county magistrate!
You must know that what was not reported in the Tang Dynasty newspapers, and what was not disclosed to the outside world, was that because of the Zhou Lide case, the Supervisory Office also investigated several former county magistrates of Shanghai County and key officials of Songjiang Prefecture.
With one exception, the Shanghai County Magistrate and the Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate, Tongzhi and others all have problems. Now these former officials are all in prison, and the fate without exception is the death penalty!
In other words, after the Tang Empire took over Songjiang Prefecture, all the officials who successively served as Songjiang Prefecture magistrate and Shanghai County magistrate were corrupt, and none of them was clean.
Nowadays, the officials responsible for the appointment of middle and low-level officials in the Ministry of Personnel have no courage to arrange the appointment and removal of Songjiang Prefecture. Who knows if new officials are sent to Songjiang and Shanghai, they will not become corrupt officials again in a few months.
Ah, when the time comes, it doesn't matter if the corrupt official dies, but it will definitely affect the lives of the officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
As a result, these officials began to report to their superiors, asking their superiors to tell them who should be sent to the newly appointed Shanghai County Magistrate?
This report was handed out one after another, and even Ma Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, did not have the guts to make his own decision. No one wanted to be implicated in this matter in the future!
So in the end, this report appeared in the imperial study room and became the discussion content of the meeting of ministers on duty in the imperial study room.
The meeting of ministers on duty in the imperial study room was just to discuss the candidate for the county magistrate of the sixth grade. This would have been absolutely impossible in other circumstances, but in Shanghai after the turmoil, it became possible.
In the imperial study room, the ministers on duty were helpless. They looked at the list in their hands and the hundreds of files piled in a corner. These files were all official resume files, and they were all selected from the Ministry of Personnel.
In terms of qualifications, he is a senior official of the sixth grade who is more suitable to serve as the county magistrate of Shanghai.
The officials in the Ministry of Human Resources are not stupid. Even if they select candidates, they will not select only a few people or a dozen people. In order to avoid implicating themselves in the future, those slickers directly sent a long list of candidates.
, the total number of people exceeds more than 300 people!
When he saw this list and looked at the piles of candidate files, Liu Bagou almost cursed!
Putting down the list of more than 300 names in his hand, Liu Bagou glanced at Ma Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and then said, "Master Ma, this list is a bit long. Can't you compress the list?
How many suitable people should be selected?”
Liu Bagou had always been the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel in the past, but starting from this year, Liu Bagou no longer served as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Instead, he was appointed the Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The newly appointed Minister of Civil Affairs has become Ma Wei!
Ma Wei is also an old official of the empire, an old man from the Huangzhushan era. He has been serving in the central government for a long time. In his early years in Huangzhushan, he also served as a minister of the Ministry of War. However, his resume as a minister in the early years is not valuable. What is important is that he later served as a minister.
He served as prefect of Liuzhou, governor of Guangxi, and later transferred to governor of Jiangxi. But not long after, he returned to the central government and served as minister of the Army Ministry.
Later, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, and also served as Minister of Rites. This year, he was transferred to Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Only then did he successfully enter the imperial study and become the minister on duty.
Ma Wei and Liu Bagou were old acquaintances, so naturally they knew that Liu Bagou's words contained a bit of complaint. It was nothing more than, don't push everything to the imperial study room, otherwise why would you want to be a bureaucracy!
Faced with Liu Bagou's complaints, Ma Wei naturally would not and would not dare to complain!
Even though Liu Bagou was just a Taoist priest in his early years, not even a scholar, he was a veteran of two dynasties and the real founding hero. It was him and Chen Tufu, Bai Yunqi and the Holy Emperor who escaped from Lijia Village and then supported him in the mountains.
The Holy Emperor has ascended the throne and inherited the throne.
Not only does he have great merit, but this person is actually very capable. He has been in charge of the cabinet for so many years and has never had any trouble.
Otherwise, no matter how great his contribution is, he will probably have to retire to an official position, or he will have an empty title but not be in charge of actual affairs. Just like Wang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and others before him, their contributions are also great, but
Now, Wang Wenhua has no other actual official position except the title of Minister of the Imperial Study Room. Qian Mengjiu simply quit his job and went to the Datang Western Company.
Although Ma Wei was also an old man from the Huang Zhushan era, he was still a latecomer when it came to Liu Bagou, so when faced with Liu Bagou's complaints, he could only smile awkwardly, and then said, "The candidates for the sixth grade are really...
There are quite a few, just these 300-odd people are the result of compression and compression, otherwise, the people below could come up with two to three thousand candidates!"
Ma Wei's awkward smile actually revealed another meaning. This is a troublesome thing, and the people below have no courage to touch it. Although he, Ma Wei, is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the minister on duty in the imperial study room, there is no need to ask for trouble.
ah!
At this time, General Lei Wan, who had never been involved in cabinet affairs, appeared in today's meeting just because of his status as the minister on duty in the Royal Study Room.
Take your time in choosing, I have a lot of things to do at the Privy Council, and I don’t have time to talk nonsense with you here!"
The navy representative on the side, Admiral Bao Yifen, also said, "That's right, your cabinet can handle these messy matters by itself. I have to make a report to the emperor in the afternoon!"
Lei Wan and Bao Yifen, who represent the army and navy respectively, have never cared much about cabinet affairs. Although they don't want to, they actually can't. The conflict between the military and the cabinet has always been very big.
Yes, they said it, but Liu Bagou and the others didn't listen.
This relationship is not harmonious. Even at the meeting of the ministers on duty in the Royal Study Room, the tone of the two of them and Liu Bagou's speech was not very polite!
Liu Bagou was already used to the attitude of these two people. He had always been like this for so many years. He immediately waved his hand, "Since you two are busy with military affairs, let's go back first!"
Immediately, Lei Wan and Bao Yifen were not polite and just got up and left. After going out, Lei Wan walked and said to Bao Yifen, "They made quite a big fuss this time, I guess.
, it is estimated that within a few months, there will probably be changes in the imperial study room again!"
Bao Yifen said, "You don't care what they do. They are a bunch of idiots with short-sightedness. They focus on trivial matters every day, but they don't care at all about the real military and national affairs!"
Lei Wan said, "Come on, let them fiddle with themselves. It's already noon. What do you think? Do you want to eat together? Let's talk about the problem of heavy artillery. I heard that the 32-pound heavy artillery at the Shanghai Artillery Factory has begun to increase in size."
Is it mass-produced?”
"Yeah." After Bao Yifen heard this, he habitually answered "Yes," but he quickly reacted, "Do you want these 32-pound naval guns? Let me tell you, your Army wants to
Don't think about it.
That is the main gun prepared by our navy for battleships. For this purpose, our navy spent countless research and development funds. It was finally mass-produced. Your army wants to pick peaches. This is impossible.
We have signed a research and development contract and a priority procurement contract with the Shanghai Ordnance Factory. If your army wants to equip this artillery, just wait. Maybe our priority contract will be completed in three to five years. Then you can purchase it as you wish!
And what do you want these heavy artillery for? These are long-barreled cannons, weighing several tons. If they are moved to land, they will be even heavier with the addition of gun mounts. With your army’s weak horses, they can’t pull them.
You!!"
Lei Wan chuckled and said, "We haven't discussed this yet, why is it impossible? Besides, isn't our army just trying to help your navy reduce the burden? Your military expenditures are not much to begin with, so you spend so much on heavy artillery."
You must be feeling overwhelmed by the high military expenditures. It just so happens that our army is preparing to strengthen the construction of heavy artillery, and we can help you bear part of the military expenditures!"
Bao Yifen snorted coldly, not even bothering to answer!
When Lei Wan saw Bao Yifen's expression, he had been fighting with each other for so many times. He didn't know what this expression meant, so he immediately said, "We don't want too many, we just want to equip a dozen or so to decorate the facade."
, just move to the north to scare those Tatars. Of course, our army will not let your navy suffer. At worst, our army will give your navy some compensation!"
"Compensation?" After hearing this, Bao Yifen became a little interested. "What kind of compensation?"
While Lei Wan and Bao Yifen were walking and haggling over the price of heavy artillery, the civil servants in the imperial study continued to worry about the list of more than 300 people!