Wanli 1592

Chapter 662

On March 26, the 23th year of Wanli, two days before Xiao Ruxun led the army to Shahukou, the sun was shining brightly in Beijing.

To be honest, this is a rare sunny day for several months. The previous capital has been shivering in the shroud of cold and humidity. Even the life of the emperor is not very easy, let alone huddled in the low and dilapidated house The little people here.

Now there is finally a rare sunny day with a breath of spring, and the people all over the capital took out their cold and damp quilts and sheets, hung them in their yards to dry in the sun, and dried away the dampness and coldness of the whole winter. Musty.

Coincidentally, the people in the palace are also busy drying quilts, drying bed sheets, washing clothes and so on. The big sun makes people feel warm and comfortable, and the whole palace is full of enthusiasm for washing clothes and drying quilts. Great eunuch They directed the little eunuchs and maids below to dry and wash things. Under the gentle touch of the sun, everyone's faces were filled with smiles like Chinese New Year.

However, this kind of joy of ordinary people has never happened in the cabinet. The joy of ordinary people, such as ordinary people, has never been experienced by scholars and gentlemen who do not eat the fireworks of the world.

Speaking of which, the elders in the cabinet have been frowning for some time.

"Let's talk about it. Datong in Shanxi needs to be rebuilt right now. Let's talk about where the money will come from."

Sitting in the position of the second assistant, Shen Yiguan spoke up, setting the tone for today's cabinet meeting.

Speaking of which, the Shanxi Datong war broke out suddenly, and everyone was unprepared. As a result, it was very difficult for everyone to deal with it. Hundreds of thousands of northern captives went south, causing Datong and Shanxi to become a mess. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, cold and hungry. At this time, when there was still a shortage of food, the situation was made worse, and the situation that had been stabilized because of Myanmar's immigration policy became turbulent again.

Later, although Xiao Ruxun led the troops to fight there, Shanxi was pacified in a short time, and the dog thief La Like was on his way back to the capital, Xiao Ruxun also came to report that Datong would be pacified in a short time and the war would end.

They believe in Xiao Ruxun's military skills. There is no doubt about it. Xiao Ruxun has never lost a battle since he was born. He is the most reassuring and capable general in the empire. Let him command the army without any constraints. , he will be able to do what everyone expects, this is the emperor's warning.

The emperor acted as a guarantor for him, did not send a supervising army, and gave him real power. He not only became the first military governor of the country, but also became the first governor who went abroad to command more than [-] soldiers and horses but did not have a supervising army to monitor him. This trust Even the civil servants have not been obtained.

Special treatment in special times, everyone will regard him as an emergency governor, withdraw after the end of the matter, and return to Myanmar to be the Marquis of Zhennan, so they don't care anymore. What they care about is nothing more than the post-war reconstruction of Datong and Shanxi. The matter of adding cabinet members to the cabinet.

For these two matters, the six ministers and the three cabinet ministers gathered several times to discuss solutions, but they still failed to achieve anything.

It is the same today.

The first assistant Zhao Zhigao, the second assistant Shen Yiguan and the assistant minister Shen Li, Cai Guozhen, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Shi Xing, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Yu Jideng, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Song Yingchang, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Xu Zuo, Minister of the Ministry of Labor, constituted the top decision-maker of the Ming Dynasty. The circle gathered again to conduct further consultations on the post-war reconstruction of Datong in Shanxi and the work of adding cabinet members to the cabinet.

Well, Yang Junmin, Minister of the Household Department, did not come to participate, otherwise there should be nine people.

But it doesn't matter, it's the same whether he comes or not, no one cares what he thinks anymore, as long as he does as he does.

Everyone's decision cannot be violated by a minister of the Ministry of Finance, unless he wants to overturn the table and quit, that's just right, he will be smashed to the end, and the Jin party and the Shanxi merchants will be completely wiped out.

But as far as the current matter is concerned, there are two things that can be properly arranged separately, but when they are put together, the political animals cannot be kept from being excited.

It is the nature and instinct of political animals to exclude dissidents. There is no political animal in the world who does not like to exclude dissidents. Everyone who has entered the top decision-making circle of Ming Dynasty is a first-class political animal. They deal with the post-disaster reconstruction of Shanxi Datong and the addition of cabinet members. On the issue, a consensus has been reached long ago.

This is not an ordinary government affairs or an ordinary election, but a major political event.

Because these two things happened to collide with the third thing - Jingcha!
The cabinet has already submitted the papers, and only waiting for the emperor's approval, the Jingcha storm will officially begin to sweep through the city of Beijing.

After decades of evolution, the Jingcha has long been transformed from a purely investigation of the merits, abilities and conduct of officials in Beijing to a tool for political struggle against party dissidents. brutal political struggle.

Since then, under the intentional or unintentional promotion of Emperor Jiajing, Jingcha has become a means for the party to fight against dissidents, rather than a means of self-cleaning for the country to remove incompetent and dull officials. Weapons of struggle between factions.

Political struggle is as cruel as the battlefield. The battlefield is killing people, destroying a person physically, while political struggle is killing the heart, destroying a person spiritually and spiritually. There is no essential difference between the two.

In the gangster circle composed of nine people, everyone is used to such methods. Even the Beijing inspection six years ago, everyone has experienced it vividly. The scene of the fierce struggle at that time is still fresh in everyone's memory. .

Right now, several things are mixed together, each of which is intertwined, each of which can be related to other things, and each of which is impure.

For disaster relief in Datong, Shanxi, the emperor named Shen Yiguan to preside over it, and Shen Yiguan also confirmed that he would definitely preside over this work, as a stepping stone for him to become the chief assistant of the cabinet in the future.

However, as a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shen Yiguan is the general spokesperson for the interests of the Shanxi merchants' mortal enemy. Letting such a person preside over the disaster relief in Datong, Shanxi is like letting the big bad wolf carry out the rescue and poverty alleviation work for Little Red Riding Hood. It is even worse than the Grimm's fairy tale Andersen.

Yang Junmin said 666.

Letting Shen Yiguan preside over the disaster relief work in Shanxi Datong, wouldn't it mean that all the Shanxi merchants in Shanxi Datong disarmed and waited for Shen Yiguan to kill them?Isn't that man for the knife and I for the fish?

As the only boss-level spokesperson of Jin merchants in the court, Yang Junmin expressed that he could not accept it. He once wrote to the emperor, asking the emperor to allow him to be the general person in charge of the disaster relief work in Datong, Shanxi, because he was the minister of the household department. , Familiar with various businesses.

Then Yang Junmin was tragic.

(End of this chapter)