Chapter 1495 Persuasion
Among all the gentlemen present, who does His Majesty Li Er trust the most?
There is no doubt that Jingzhao Yin Mazhou must be His Majesty Li Er's most trusted confidant, and even Fang Jun can only come second.
Without him, Ma Zhou is the one with the most innocent wealth...
Being born into a well-established family can certainly provide you with more help in your career. Starting from a high point, if you are physically capable and you put in a little effort, you will be able to rise all the way to the top with the help of your family. However, being a member of an aristocratic family is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Since you are protected by the family, safeguarding the interests of the family is an unshirkable responsibility.
When the interests of the country and the country conflict, it is natural to imagine how to choose...
Therefore, there are many capable ministers in aristocratic families, but few loyal ministers. If even half of them appear by chance, they will be written down by historians as a sign of publicity.
Compared with ministers who came from aristocratic families, officials like Ma Zhou who were promoted from poor families had a clean background and had fewer worries. Instead, they were able to work diligently and be loyal to the emperor and patriotism wholeheartedly.
What's more, Ma Zhou has been a guest of a poor boy from a poor family and a guest of Zhonglang General Chang He. He was favored by His Majesty Li Er and became the supervisory censor, Ge Shizhong, Zhongshu Sheren, Jing Zhaoyin... The road to Qingyun is unobstructed. , His Majesty Li Er vigorously promoted him and relied on him as his confidant.
In contrast, Fang Jun had two bonuses due to his status as Fang Xuanling's son and his status as consort.
Ma Zhou is the real Jian Zai Emperor...
Now that I heard that Ma Zhou recommended Yang Shidao, who wouldn't know that this is the person of His Majesty Li Er's liking?
Yu Wenshiji said in deep thought: "Jing You is a pure and kind person, and he has never made any mistakes. However, he is really cowardly and has nothing to do. He can't do anything in a hurry. I'm afraid he can't take on such an important position in the Ministry of Personnel. Your Majesty should be more cautious.”
Yang Shidao, courtesy name Jingyou.
What does this mean?
Yang Shidao is a good man, but he has a cowardly temperament, limited talents, and is unable to handle big tasks...
His Majesty Li Er was expressionless and silent.
Ma Zhou, who proposed this candidate, glanced at Yu Wenshiji and said slowly: "I beg your pardon for not agreeing with this. The duty of the Ministry of Personnel is to select virtuous people to share the worries of the king, and at the same time be in charge of the promotion and promotion of officials in the world. Compared with other deployments, stability is more important than anything else. If you are greedy for success and rush forward in a hurry, it will lead to instability in the officialdom and will be unhelpful to the overall situation. ”
The implication is that Yang Shidao's character may be a shortcoming elsewhere, but in the official department where stability trumps everything, it is actually an advantage.
Not only that, but he also vaguely criticized Gao Jifu.
Since Gao Jifu has attached himself to the Guanlong Group to seek the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, once he gets his wish and takes office, the first thing he should do is to repay the support and help of the Guanlong Group. Some official positions must be adjusted to benefit the Guanlong Group.
However, once this happens, it will cause turmoil in the officialdom and undermine the overall situation at hand.
What is the “big picture” at hand?
Eastern Expedition!
Almost all the deployment and preparations of the imperial court are in preparation for the Eastern Expedition. Letting Gao Jifu take office at this time will break the existing balance in the officialdom, lead to confusion among people, and greatly hinder the preparation process of the Eastern Expedition...
Changsun Wuji raised his eyelids to the gloomy-looking Gao Jifu and sighed helplessly in his heart.
As expected of His Majesty's simple help, Ma Zhouzhi's words hit the nail on the head and hit Gao Jifu's most fatal weakness.
The position of Minister of Civil Affairs has gone away...
Seeing that the ministers had no objections, His Majesty Li Er glanced at Gao Jifu and said, "In this case, we will ask the ministers and ministers of the Political Affairs Hall to discuss it again later, and then issue a document to appoint the new Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs."< br>
The process of the imperial court is that the emperor and ministers propose candidates for official positions, and then they are reviewed and discussed by the political hall, and finally the candidates are announced.
Therefore, the power to appoint and remove officials lies in the hands of the ministers and assistants in the political affairs hall.
Of course, the rules are like this, but now that His Majesty Li Er has identified the candidate, who has the courage to refute...
What may appear to be some democratic rules are in fact false. This is the current situation in a society where "monarchy is supreme". No matter how strict and advanced the laws are, it is impossible to violate the will of the supreme emperor...
The court meeting came to an end. Gao Jifu, despite all his calculations, failed to get the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the end. Moreover, because of his betrayal of Gao Shilian and his behavior of being teased by Fang Jun many times in front of the emperor today, he had already aroused the emperor's dissatisfaction. , presumably it will be difficult to preserve even the position of Minister of Civil Affairs in the near future.
Gao Jifu walked out of Liangyi Hall in despair. The bright sunshine outside the door made him dazzling. He felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
He thought that his brother Gao Shilian was getting older, that the Guanlong Group had a profound foundation despite being suppressed, and that Changsun Wuji was still very influential even if he was gradually ignored by the emperor. In the end, he found that everything he thought was false.
The special Guanlong Group is actually a paper tiger...
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Major matters have been discussed in Liangyi Hall, but it does not mean that today's political affairs have ended here.
The ministers left the Liangyi Hall and went directly to the Political Affairs Hall to discuss some trivial matters. If the discussions were fruitless and the differences were too great, or the matters were too important to decide, they would be sent to His Majesty Li Er again to respectfully invite the Holy Spirit. Cut...
The political hall meetings are now very large.
The ministers of the Ministry of Education, including the left and right ministers, the ministers of the Ministry of Secretariat and the Ministry of Menxia, the assistant officials of the six ministries, and many officials who were not qualified to go to the Liangyi Palace to discuss matters were gathered together.
Fang Jun entered the room, took a seat, looked around everyone, and thought that maybe in the near future, everyone here would add a suffix to their official positions - to participate in political affairs...
The current composition of the political hall is somewhat awkward.
The Shangshu Province is the head of the three provinces. Because His Majesty Li Er personally served as the Shangshu Ling, this position was postponed by the previous chief officials of the Shangshu Province and did not dare to accept it. Therefore, the assistant officials of the Shangshu Ling were respected. Fang Xuanling was He was the minister Zuopushe, so he was actually the head of the prime ministers and assistants.
However, Fang Xuanling was ill at home and had not gone to court for many days. His right servant, Gao Shilian, repeatedly requested to be appointed to the official position. His Majesty was about to issue the imperial edict, and all the chief officials of the Shangshu Province were absent...
Wei Zheng has been lingering on his sick bed since last autumn and has not come to the political hall to discuss matters for more than half a year.
Originally, Changsun Wuji had been staying at home recently. Just after coming out of Liangyi Palace, Changsun Wuji returned home alone. As a result, the only prime minister in the political hall now is Cen Wenwen...
Cen Wenwen, who has been "at the bottom of the millennium", can also experience the taste of being the first assistant...
Sitting alone at the head of the chair, Cen Wenwen looked at a pile of memorials placed on his desk, took out one from the top, unfolded it, glanced at it, and said: "The Ministry of War has applied for reorganization and establishment of a foundry bureau... let's discuss this first. Let’s do it.”
There was a buzzing sound of discussion in the hall.
Cen Wenwen knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "Quiet! Mr. Fang, as far as I know, the Ministry of War does not have the right to manufacture weapons, right? Then what is the foundry bureau you proposed to set up to cast?" < br>
Fang Jun sat up straight and talked eloquently: "The empire is becoming more and more prosperous and its territory is expanding day by day. Correspondingly, the number of standing armies must be increased. In addition, the Eastern Expedition is imminent, and the required weapons and armor must be doubled. , this will definitely put huge pressure on the weapons supervisor..."
Before he finished speaking, the Ordnance Supervisor Zheng He Ruoming said calmly: "The Ordnance Supervisor has its own regulations, so there is no need for the Chamberlain to worry about it."
Originally, the Ordnance Supervisor was not qualified to attend the meeting of the Political Affairs Hall, but all matters discussed in the Political Affairs Hall must be sent to the Political Affairs Hall by each deployment office the day before for registration. The Government Affairs Hall would then notify the government offices involved in the matter and inform them before Come and attend.
Although He Ruoming agreed that Liu Shi would not object to the reorganization of the Ministry of War and the establishment of the Foundry Bureau, it did not mean that he was not disgusted with Fang Jun's "coercion and inducement" of Liu Shi's order to rely on his relatives to come and plead with him, so he faced Fang Jun. Junzhi naturally has a bad face...
Everyone in the hall was shocked and said to themselves, He Ruoming, you are going to humiliate yourself. You still don’t know how the mallet made Changsun Wuji and Gao Jifu unable to come to the stage in Liangyi Hall just now...
But how could Fang Jun play hard with He Ruoming?
Not to mention that He Ruoming protects the interests of the weapons supervisor as a matter of course. If he just said that he wanted to share some rights in the hands of the weapons supervisor, he had to be humble...
Fang Jun chuckled, with a clear face and a kind expression, and said warmly: "It's not that I want to interfere with the weapons supervision. It's just that the situation is urgent, so I came up with a way to make cooperation and benefit both sides, so that all of us can benefit from it." I can easily complete the errands assigned by His Majesty..."
He didn't think there was anything wrong with him bending down. The person "shaking the sky and the ground and the air" was not a human being, but Teddy... (End of Chapter)