Wang Yangming behaved calmly and said with a smile: "It's settled."
Wang Yuan asked again: "When will you leave Beijing?"
Wang Yangming said: "After the Lantern Festival."
Yang Tinghe moves so fast!
Although Li Dongyang had already retired from office, due to the cold weather, he planned to leave Beijing after spring. In just one or two months, Yang Tinghe could not wait any longer and immediately made a series of personnel adjustments.
The first person to bear the brunt was Wang Yangming, whose position was too important. Since he did not want to rely on Yang Tinghe, he had no choice but to leave and be thrown to Nanjing Taipu Temple for free.
However, because of Wang Yuan's relationship, Wang Yangming was more valued by the emperor, so his official position was larger. Historically, Wang Yangming was sent to Nanjing to be the Shaoqing of Taipusi Temple, but this time he was directly appointed as the Minister of Taipusi Temple.
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Before Wang Yangming could pack his baggage, Li Liang, the minister of Guanglu Temple, was forced to resign again.
The reason this time was very good. There was something wrong with the censor's impeachment of Li Liang's morality. This person was a student of Liu Jian, the former chief assistant, and betrothed his daughter to Liu Jian's grandson. But after Liu Jian lost power, he immediately said that his daughter was ill.
He returned all the betrothal gifts given by the Liu family and looked like a villain.
After breaking off the engagement, he is still a villain, so he is indeed not suitable to be the minister of Guanglu Temple again.
Since there are those who are unlucky, there are naturally those who will be promoted.
Not to mention the seats vacated by Wang Yangming and Li Liang for the moment, Li Sui, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was awarded the title of Prince Shaofu, and Zhang Zilin, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments, was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Punishments.
Zhang Zilin was the one who investigated the case of 300 human lives and helped the son of the cabinet minister Liang Chu to escape guilt. Now he finally got his wish and was promoted to an official position for his meritorious service (it was written as Shangshu by mistake before, but he was actually Zuo Shilang, and he was promoted to Shangshu now).
There is also Wang Hongru, the wine worshiper of the Imperial Academy, who was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue; Huang E's father was promoted again and was directly promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments; Zhang Lun, who had an unpleasant quarrel with Yang Tinghe in the past, is now completely in the arms of Yang Tinghe and is promoted to a more important position.
Appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of Justice.
Liu Yong, the minister of Taipusi, was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry; Yang Tingyi, the young minister of Taichang Temple (the brother of Yang Tinghe, who once served Liu Jin as an eunuch), was promoted to the minister of Taipusi; Shen Dongkui, the minister of Taipusi, was promoted to minister of Taipusi.
Promoted to the minister of Guanglu Temple.
In addition, various provinces have also made corresponding adjustments, and several provincial bosses have been replaced.
Why did Zhu Houzhao not agree to Li Dongyang's resignation?
Just look at this situation and you will know.
It had only been half a month since Li Dongyang became an official, and everyone was still in the capital. Yang Tinghe took complete control of the Ministry of Husbandry, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of War. He also continued to add sand to the Ministry of Personnel. Yang Yiqing, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was now the official
That’s frustrating!
Moreover, Yang Tinghe's actions are not over yet. For example, Huang Heqing, a doctor in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, will soon be sent to Taichang Temple as a young minister, and he will have a nonsense job like admiral of the Siyi Palace.
Not to mention that Wang Yuan couldn't stop him, even the emperor couldn't stop him, unless Zhu Houzhao wanted to break up with Yang Tinghe!
Currently, among the six departments of the Ming Dynasty, only Yang Yiqing, the Minister of Personnel, and Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, can barely withstand the pressure of Yang Tinghe. But they can only barely support it. They are almost being eclipsed, and they must maintain their cooperative relationship with Yang Tinghe - Yang Tinghe gives orders.
, they cooperated honestly.
Doesn't it sound like a powerful minister?
no!
Yang Tinghe's faction is just a loose alliance of civil servants. They rely on promotion, promises, wooing, profit sharing, exclusion and other means to collectively rule the central court of the Ming Dynasty. Although Yang Tinghe is the leader of the civil servants, he does not always keep his word. He does everything.
The thoughts of allies must be considered.
Things that are in everyone's interest will naturally be responded to.
Once Yang Tinghe wants to carry out reforms and touches the interests of too many people, this faction will immediately collapse from within.
During this period of time, Zhu Houzhao was busy transferring border troops to Beijing. He ignored the government affairs and left all political affairs to the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Zhang Yong, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, obviously had a deal with Yang Tinghe and turned a blind eye to the frequent transfers of officials. Anyway, whoever was transferred was promoted.
It's up to Yang Tinghe to make the decision.
When Zhu Houzhao reacted, he was immediately shocked. But he didn't say anything. He just asked when Bian Zhen would enter Beijing? When would the military pay be arranged?
Yang Tinghe replied that it was ready and the border town would be allowed to enter Beijing after the beginning of spring.
The monarch and his ministers, tacitly understanding each other, quietly reached a political deal.
Wang Yuan obeyed Li Dongyang's instructions and watched the whole process without saying a word, just to survive. It was useless for him to jump out to object. As long as he expressed his dissatisfaction, he would definitely attract the collective hostility of the emperor and officials!
Jin Gui, a solitary minister, had a very frustrating job. He was only responsible for writing imperial edicts. The Chief of Ceremonies worked closely with the cabinet, and the emperor did not care about things, so the imperial office could only obey orders.
However, after confirming that the border town could be transferred to Beijing in the spring, Zhu Houzhao summoned several ministers in succession.
One is Wang Yuan, one is Jin Gui, one is Wang Qiong, and the other is Yan Zhong.
Because of Wang Yuan's meritorious service in making the wax printing machine, he was awarded the rank of fourth-grade imperial court official. His rank in the San class has exceeded his own rank. This is okay, and when receiving wages, the higher the rank in the San class, the higher the rank in the San class. In the past, the rank was increased.
The salary can be calculated separately.
In addition to being in charge of the imperial office, Jin Gui also had two nominal part-time jobs, one was a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and the other was a minister of the Ministry of Rites. It was not suitable for him to be promoted to an official position, and he would have to join the cabinet if he was promoted further, so the emperor gave Jin Gui's mother
He and his wife will increase their imperial life level.
Not long after Wang Qiong was promoted to the position of Left Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, like Wang Yuan, he was promoted to the rank of San.
Yan Zhong was also promoted to the rank of San, but this honest official refused to accept his resignation, saying that the murder case of Liang Chu's son was not yet settled, and he would settle the case first. This man was a workaholic, had become sick from overwork, and would not survive.
How long has it been?
Anyway, through these rewards, Zhu Houzhao clearly told Yang Tinghe: These four are my people, you'd better take your time in doing things.
Wang Yuan went to see Li Dongyang that day and happened to see Jin Gui leaving.
It is possible that Jin Gui, like Wang Yuan, was entrusted by Li Dongyang. The specific content is unknown, but Li Dongyang must have asked him to live in peace. Therefore, although Jin Gui was a lone minister, he acted as if he was attached to Yang Tinghe and remained silent all day long without saying any nonsense.
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Now, the focus of attention from all parties is that there is still a vacancy for a cabinet minister!
Jin Gui, who had sufficient qualifications and was trusted by the emperor, was the first choice to join the cabinet. However, the emperor refused to let him go, that is, he would not let Jin Gui enter the cabinet, and pinned Jin Gui to the imperial edict room to write the imperial edict.
Yang Tinghe recommended several ministers to the cabinet, but all of them were rejected by Zhu Houzhao.
There was an imperial censor named Meng Jinyang who probably wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to be promoted to a full-time official, or he was really not afraid of power and actually impeached Jin Gui and Liang Chu at the same time. He said that Jin Gui was ruthless, treacherous and engaged in malpractice for personal gain, and he must not let him be allowed to do so.
He was a cabinet minister. He also said that the cabinet minister Liang Chu was impeached many times. His son killed 300 people and he dared to protect him. It is unreasonable for such a person to be an official.
As a result, the censor Meng Jinyang was sentenced to prison, and the censor was actually convicted for his words - Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu were really capable of doing this!
On the contrary, Jin Gui, who was slandered, resigned because of the impeachment and requested the release of the censor Meng Jinyang.
The emperor did not agree with Jin Gui's resignation.
As for Meng Yushi, he had offended Yang Tinghe, how could Liang Chu be okay? He was beaten half to death in the imperial edict, deprived of his position as imperial censor, and thrown out to work as a minor official in another place.
Wang Yuan is a bachelor's degree student at the Hanlin Academy. He has a noble position and does not need to pay attention to the troubles. He can just spread physics with peace of mind.
Just before the Spring Festival, good news came from Yanshen Town, Shandong Province. Craftsmen there finally developed transparent glass and sent some samples according to Wang Yuan's drawings.
After receiving the sample, Wang Yuan was happy and disappointed at the same time.
The disappointment is that the transparency is too poor, and it is completely unqualified for use as telescopes and microscopes. But it is enough for use as thermometers and beakers. We have to wait for the transparent glass technology to improve a little bit.