Chapter 631 When Will You Leave?

Time entered September of the 19th year of Wanli, and the fourth day of the lunar month was the Wanshou Festival. As expected, the emperor issued an order to exempt the emperor from court.

The ministers could only gather outside the Huangji Gate and give symbolic congratulations. They had no chance to talk to the emperor face to face about establishing the crown prince.

Then the new Minister of Rites, Luo Wanhua, and the new Minister of Dali Temple, Zhou, came to Beijing from the south to take office one after another, and the court was calm.

However, Wang Yi'ou, the chief minister of the Ministry of War, became seriously ill again and was bedridden at home. He submitted several memorials to resign.

The court seemed to be calm, which made Lin Tailai feel that it shouldn't be.

In the Host and Guest Department of the Ministry of Rites, while Lin Tailai was busy extorting maps from the North Korean mission, he also mentioned to Shen Jue, who was in charge of the same year, that the court seemed too calm recently.

Shen Jue replied: "You have already said that you would take leave before October to go back to your hometown to visit relatives. You are probably waiting for you to leave Beijing before doing anything else."

Lin Tailai snorted coldly, "Then increase the spread of those rumors about me!"

The next day Lin Tailai went to inspect the construction site of the Communications Department, which was the eastern half of the original Honglu Temple.

Shi Ce, the young minister of Honglu Temple, was pestering Lin Tailai. He kept nagging and wanted to get back the occupied area.

"Without the approval of the imperial court, your construction is illegal and prohibited."

Lin Tailai responded impatiently: "I looked at the floor plan given by the Ministry of Works, and the original area of ​​your Honglu Temple is almost the same as that of the nearby Ministry of Rites!

Is this good? Is this reasonable? This is very bad and very unreasonable!

So I took half of the land from your Honglu Temple to help you correct the problem.

Not only are you not grateful to me, you are always obstructing the construction, and you have not yet completed the land rights transfer procedures. Why? "

Lin Tailai's words were so reasonable that Shi Shaoqing was almost speechless. After being stunned, he said with great indignation:

"It has been a month since He Siqing resigned, and the court has not appointed a new official!

The formalities cannot be completed without the signature of the chief minister. Can we blame Honglu Temple for this? "

Lin Tailai raised his eyelids and said calmly: "Then I will nominate you to be the chief minister of Honglu Temple today."

Shi Shaoqing nodded without changing his expression and said, "Okay, whatever orders Jiuyuan Lord has, we at Honglu Temple will do our best to cooperate."

Lin Tailai patted Shi Shaoqing on the shoulder and said encouragingly: "I heard that you are from Wuxi? Twenty years ago, you were ranked second or second, which is the legendary fifth place?

But you are still only the young minister of Honglu Temple in the fifth rank, which shows that your life is really untainted, and you will continue to do so in the future! "

In the past few years, the middle-level officials were controlled by Chen Younian, Zhao Nanxing, and Gu Xiancheng.

If Gu Xiancheng, a junior from the same village, had been given this policy, he would not still be holding the position of Shaoqing of Honglu Temple twenty years later.

In a few words, the Nine-Yuan True Immortal bought people's hearts to increase by one.

At this time, Shen Yongmao suddenly ran over and said to Lin Tailai hurriedly: "Our Ministry of War, Wang Dasima, is seriously ill and can no longer take care of his duties. The emperor has approved Wang Dasima's resignation letter!"

Lin Tailai sighed and commented: "Wang Da Sima's character is still acceptable. What a pity."

So Lin Tailai stopped inspecting the Communications Department's construction site and told his left and right: "Hurry back to the staff department as quickly as possible!"

In fact, the construction site of the Communications Department is located behind the Household Department, and the Staff Department is next to the Household Department, just a few steps away.

This is the biggest advantage of working in the Southern District of Huangcheng. The major yamen are close to each other and can respond quickly when encountering problems. This is suitable for officials like Lin Tailai who have high requirements for mobility.

Shen Yongmao stopped Lin Tai again and said, "My father wants to meet you first."

Lin Tailai said seriously: "As a minister, you should put public affairs first before private affairs. I will go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to finish the official affairs first, and then I will go to your mansion to visit your father in the evening."

Application: "."

Does putting public before private mean being the first to pick the peaches? Learned learned learned.

Immediately, Lin Tailai quickly returned to the official department, went directly to Wang Tianguan and said:

"The Ministry of War is different from other ministries. There are many situations involving military aircraft that need to be dealt with urgently, so the Minister of War is indispensable for a long time. It is recommended that a ministry meeting be held immediately to nominate a new Minister of War!"

Wang Tianguan had nothing to do, so he asked his servants to call people.

After all the officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs arrived, Lin Tai looked at the sun outside, and then he took the time to say: "As for the Secretary of the Army, there are roughly six qualified candidates."

As we all know, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many official positions with the title of Minister of War. The governor of each border town and the governor of Jingying could all hold the title of Minister of War.

"Benbing" is a special term in the officialdom of the capital, which refers to the minister who sits in charge of the Ministry of War headquarters and is different from a bunch of other ministers of the Ministry of War.

Lin Tailai added: "These six people are - Zheng Luo, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, Zhang Guoyan, the minister of Rongzheng, Jianda, the governor of Jiliao, Xiao Daheng, the governor of Xuanda, Shi Xing, the left minister of the Ministry of War, and Ye Mengxiong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry. "

Hearing the words "Minister of Industry Ye Mengxiong", everyone suddenly felt that Ye Mengxiong was really lucky!

Not long after Ye Mengxiong came to Beijing with his military exploits and became the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Yi'e, the Minister of the Ministry of War, became seriously ill and resigned. Is this destiny?

Lin Tailai didn't care what others thought, and continued to explain his opinions: "If Zheng Luo can't do it, we can't do without him in the northwest. The bandits in Gansu and the West China Sea have not subsided, so he still needs to be in charge!

The governor of Jiliao, Jianda, is not good at it. He only came out to control Jiliao last year as the right minister, so his qualifications are slightly junior!

Neither can the Governor of Xuanda, Xiao Daheng. His merits and demerits are too controversial, his reputation is mixed, and his prestige is not suitable for our army!

Shi Xing, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, is even more nonsense. He has never been to a border town or experienced military affairs. Does he know anything about military affairs? I don’t know who selected him to the Ministry of War. "

Left assistant minister Liu Yukui couldn’t stand Lin Tailai’s style of not wanting others to speak, so he interrupted and asked:

"What about Zhang Guoyan, the military minister who was transferred back to Beijing from the Governor of Ji Liao last year? He has no shortage of qualifications, prestige, and experience."

The military minister is the governor of the Beijing camp with the title of Minister of War, which can be said to be the most important military position besides the original soldiers.

Lin Tailai answered without thinking: "In the past two years, a series of ministers have become old or died, which has caused some confusion in the court.

The root cause is that the ministers of the ministry are relatively old, and our Ministry of Personnel should start to correct this problem.

So this time, the selection of officials should not only look at qualifications and experience, but also age and physical condition, so as to maintain the stability of the court!

Although Minister Zhang Guoyan has all the qualifications, experience and prestige, he is old, already sixty-seven or eight years old, and in poor health!

Ye Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is relatively young, only in his early sixties, which is not considered old for ministers of ministries and agencies.

The key is that Ye Shangshu is in good health, has no illnesses, and can serve the court more stably! "

Everyone: "."

Who said that the cabinet was too young and should be supplemented with "newcomers" who are mature and steady, preferably over 65 years old?

Now you, Lin Tailai, say that the court needs to be "younger" and that old officials in their sixties and seventies should not join in the fun?

Lin Tailai didn't care about other people's strange looks, and said with one final word: "It's more about selecting people than numbers. I think it's enough to recommend Ye Mengxiong, and there's no need to recommend anyone else! Okay, let's do it!"

Everyone: "..."

You, Lin Tailai, originally asked: "Who agrees? Who opposes?"

Now, you don't even ask this question? Just "let's do it"?

What about courtesy and respect between people?

Wang Tianguan asked again: "If Ye Mengxiong is recommended, who will replace the Minister of Industry? "

After careful consideration, Lin Tailai said to Wang Tianguan: "Old Prime Minister, can you recommend one?"

Wang Tianguan said in surprise: "This is OK?"

Lin Tailai encouraged: "This is OK."

Wang Tianguan also thought about it carefully and proposed: "The principle of this selection is to be as young as possible to maintain the stability of the court.

According to this principle, among those who are qualified to serve as the Minister of Works, Chen Yubi, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the President of the Hanlin Academy, is the most suitable.

Chen Yubi is 47 years old and can be said to be in his prime. He is the youngest vice minister-level official in the court today and can balance the problem of the high age of ministers in the ministries and courts. "

Everyone was speechless. What did you think about carefully, old Tianguan? What exactly did Lin Tailai think after careful consideration?

Lin Tailai took the lead in expressing his opinion: "Old Prime Minister, great idea! I agree! ”

Left Vice Minister Liu Yukui could not help but say: "Left Vice Minister of Works Zeng Tongheng has worked hard for many years."

Lin Tailai interrupted and said: "Since the death of former Minister of Works Song Xun, Zeng Tongheng has been nominated twice, and both times were nominated by you, and both failed in the end!

So you nominated Zeng Tongheng as Minister of Works for the third time in two months. What is your mentality?

Do you want to prove to the court that you and Zeng Tongheng are really forming a clique by repeatedly failing and nominating? ”

Faced with Lin Tailai, who was versatile in both literary and military defense, the Left Assistant Minister Liu Yukui was so angry that he walked out of the meeting.

After the meeting at the Ministry of Personnel, Lin Tailai went home and instructed his retainer Gu Bingqian to prepare to set off south within a few days.

In the evening, Lin Tailai went to Shen's house as agreed to visit Prime Minister Shen, who had not been seen for many days.

Sitting in the study of Shen's house, Lin Tailai chatted awkwardly while carefully observing the Prime Minister's words and expressions, and found that Prime Minister Shen was in a bad mood.

So Lin Tailai joked: "If the old senior doesn't want to see me, I will leave now?"

Prince Shen sighed, "It has nothing to do with you, I just feel sorry for Wang Yi'e. "

These two years have been really unlucky for him. Among his loyal followers, Yang Wei, the Minister of Personnel who was over 70 years old, retired and ran away, and Wu Shilai, the Left Censor-in-Chief, died of old age and illness.

Wang Yi'e, the Minister of War, also stood on his side most of the time, but now he is no longer able to do so.

Anyone with a little political experience knows that if the Prime Minister has less control over the court, especially the outer court ministries and agencies, then it will be more difficult for the Prime Minister to do his job.

Prime Minister Shen clearly felt that in the past two years, his power has been declining from the peak.

What's more terrifying is that this downward trend shows no signs of stopping.

I should definitely talk to Lin Tailai, but I don't know where to start.

In the end, all the words converged into one sentence: "When will you take leave and return home?"

Lin Tailai answered truthfully: "Probably in the next few days. The recommended Minister of War and Minister of Works will leave after passing the imperial recommendation."

Prime Minister Shen immediately reacted, "Your Ministry of Personnel recommended Ye Mengxiong to the Ministry of War? ”

Lin Tailai replied: “Yes, and at the same time, Chen Xueshi was recommended to the Ministry of Works.

Then, regarding the candidate for the president of the Hanlin Academy, the old senior must want to talk to me? Oh, and there is also the tutor of the Shujishi, which can’t be delayed any longer. ”

Shen Shoufu: “.”

The poets form their own system, and internal promotion does not go through the Ministry of Personnel. The highest-ranking cabinet minister among the poets can do it.

So who will be the president of the academy or the tutor of the Shujishi, the cabinet can decide with one word, and it has nothing to do with you, Lin Tailai!

How dare you say that the chief minister wants to talk to you about who will be the president of the academy?

You, Lin Tailai, are used to being a little bully in the Ministry of Personnel, and you still want to interfere in the promotion of poets?