King Yu naturally refused to leave the foreshadowing in Chapter 361. He immediately said: "I rule the world with filial piety. My father is still in Guanzhong. How can I ascend the throne? Please stop trying to persuade me!"
Although King Yu said this, the Ministry of War Yang Bo, the minister, immediately kowtowed again and said: "The emperor is far away on a hunt, the capital is in turmoil, and the country cannot be without a master for a day. Please put the people first and ascend the throne!" King Yu refused again, and the Xuanfu and Datong soldiers also kowtowed and persuaded:
" Your Majesty is filial, but the nine sides cannot be without masters!"
King Yu walked away directly, but everyone present saw four words in his eyes - "the merit of supporting the establishment"!
The next day, the Qingliu officials from Hanlin and Liuke, who were not qualified to attend the meeting yesterday, knelt in front of Prince Yu's Mansion to persuade them to proceed.
King Yu came out of the palace and recounted yesterday's set of filial piety, refusing to accept the persuasion to become emperor.
The ministers continued to persuade him, but King Yu still refused.
On the third day, the supervisors of the Imperial Academy of the Capital, the distinguished scholars who had stayed in the Capital, and the elderly people over eighty years old in the Capital who had been forcibly "invited" also knelt in front of the gate of Prince Yu's Mansion to persuade them to enter.
King Yu could only open the door of his palace, accepted the advice and said:
"The safety of the capital depends on Gu. Now for the sake of the emperor's overall situation, Gu can only ascend the throne as emperor." "
But the emperor still needs an envoy to explain the interests carefully. , don’t you want to alienate the relationship between our father and son?"
At this time, Zhang Siwei, the former head of the Ministry of Personnel, immediately stood up and said: "I am willing to go to Guanzhong and state my interests to the emperor." King Yu immediately said with great joy: "Then I will be
promoted to Zhang As the minister of the Ministry of Rites, you went to Guanzhong to explain the situation to your father. I had no choice but to do it for the emperor's sake!"
Everyone looked at Zhang Siwei with envy.
This job is very difficult, but if it is done, it will be a huge achievement!
When Suzong of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, it was minister Fang Guan who persuaded Li Longji to abdicate. Fang Guan was immediately worshiped as prime minister by Suzong.
However, there are not many people who are qualified to handle this matter. Zhang Siwei is a Hanlin official and once served in the Ministry of Rites, so he can reluctantly take up the position.
Others either lacked qualifications or lacked academic qualifications. Zhang Siwei was promoted to the rank of Minister in one fell swoop. As expected, Conglong's merit was the greatest contribution.
Supporting the first meritorious service is a high priority. If Zhang Siwei can persuade Jiajing to abdicate, it will be the first meritorious service from Longshou. All the young officials present are gearing up to strive for wealth in the new dynasty.
All the ministers and scholars were delighted.
There are a lot of vacancies in the capital now, and it is exactly when scholars like them are needed. With this effort in persuading people to join, they will definitely be able to get an official position.
The people in front of Prince Yu's palace were filled with joy, and everyone shouted long live, and surrounded Prince Yu as he headed towards the Forbidden City.
I only felt pity for those who were over eighty years old. Many of them were carried directly from their homes and died on the way.
Others lost half their lives after just kneeling down and doing the hard work.
Now those officials and scholars are heading towards the Forbidden City, and they don't care about these old people at all. Some of them can't stand up and can only sit on the ground and cry.
Seeing such a scene, the people watching in front of Prince Yu's Mansion hated the Ming court even more.
Fortunately, Su Ze did not destroy the palace, and the enthronement ceremony went smoothly under Gao Gong's control.
The enthronement ceremony was originally supposed to be held in the Fengtian Hall (today's Taihe Hall) of the three main halls. However, because the restoration project of Fengtian Hall was the slowest, it could only be held in the Huagai Hall, which was almost restored.
Gao Gong asked the Ministry of Industry to simply renovate the main hall, moved the dragon chair to the Huagai Hall without Su Ze, and recruited a group of ceremony officials from the capital to finally hold a throne enthronement ceremony.
The dragon chairs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not actually made of gold, but were made of golden nanmu coated with gold powder and gold foil.
Su Ze was not interested in such things and did not destroy anything in the Forbidden City.
However, Jiajing fled and took away all the jade seals. Gao Gong had no choice but to find a seal carving craftsman, carve a jade seal out of wood, and then wrap it with gold foil to hold the ceremony.
Zhu Zaijing finally ascended the throne as emperor in the 42nd year of Jiajing. He changed his reign to Longqing, and this year it was changed to the first year of Longqing.
Emperor Longqing granted a general amnesty to the world and immediately rewarded Conglong's meritorious officials.
Yang Bo, the former Minister of War, joined the cabinet and served as the chief assistant of the cabinet.
Gao Gong, the former Imperial College minister, was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and joined the cabinet as the second assistant to the cabinet.
Zhang Juzheng, who was in Xuzhou, was the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, joined the cabinet, served as a cabinet minister, and presided over the military affairs of the Jianghuai River.
In addition, if there should be vacancies for ministers and ministers in other ministries, they will be temporarily replaced by the highest-ranking officials left in the ministry, and they will be promoted based on merit.
In addition, the generals who supported Longqing this time also received huge rewards.
Mao Mu, the commander-in-chief of the Yanping Right Guards, whose ancestor Mao Xiang was once the first commander of the Jinyi Guards, was later involved in Hu Weiyong's rebellion and died.
Emperor Longqing personally rehabilitated his ancestors, and named the Mao family a loyal uncle for his contribution during the founding of the People's Republic of China. He appointed Mao Mu as the governor of the Fifth Army Commandery in the capital and took charge of the troops brought from Jiubian.
Lu Yuanlong, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, was granted a civilian position as an exception and became counselor of the military aircraft as minister of the Ministry of War.
Jiang Yingxiong, the commander-in-chief of Datong, was also promoted to the governor of Datong, managing the military and political affairs of Xuanda.
After the defeat, Li Chengliang was promoted to governor of Jiliao, in charge of the military affairs of Jizhou and Liaoyang. At the same time, Emperor Longqing let him return to Liaoyang to recruit cavalry again, and provided him with all the war horses from Datong border trade.
Originally, Yang Bo wanted to resign and go home, but when he saw that the new southeastern army in Dagu had really retreated, he missed his position as the chief minister of the cabinet.
Now that the Soviet thieves have retired, it would be nice to be the chief minister of the cabinet for a while!
Yang Bo happily took over the cabinet, and Gao Gong, who had no military power, had no choice but to succumb.
In addition, the emperor's father-in-law, Empress Li's father Li Wei, who officially became the father-in-law of the country, was also canonized as Qingyuan Bo, and Li Wei's son also received an honorary title.
Because of the hasty flight of the capital's dignitaries, many people died in the Taiyuan Mutiny. For example, the unlucky Duke Cheng Guo and his family were all killed by angry soldiers.
The emperor simply used the residence of Duke Cheng Guo to reward his loyal uncle Mao Mu, and awarded several good ducal residences in the capital to military generals. Even Li Chengliang, who was about to leave the capital, also received a count's residence.
There were still people left behind in the mansion, so they were naturally driven out by these new nobles. These new nobles had soldiers, so they were naturally rude to the old nobles.
Many people even went to Shuntian Mansion to file a lawsuit, but naturally no one dared to accept the case.
Yang Bo was rewarded with Yan Song's mansion. After Xu Jie became the chief minister, he did not move into Yan Song's mansion and it has been empty these days. Gao Gong declined these rewards and just asked for a small house near the palace to live in.
As the second assistant to the cabinet, Gao Gong was in charge of the staff department and also had to serve as an errand for the household department. He almost fainted from anger as soon as he took office.
When Su Ze left the capital, he moved all the official reports, official resumes, official documents and files stored in the official department.
Gao Gong encountered an extremely difficult problem as soon as he took office. None of the officials in the new dynasty had personnel files!
These officials’ past service experiences, evaluation results, and comments from superiors are all missing!
Some people who were demoted due to crimes, or were punished for their poor abilities, all these records are gone!
What's even more exaggerated is that it is completely impossible to verify whether these people have the official status they claim to have!
Not only did I have a headache, but I also broke out in cold sweat.
After Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, he summoned the officials who stayed in the capital, and many people suddenly came to report.
But now that all the files of the Ministry of Personnel have been taken away by Su Ze, the Ministry of Personnel has no way to verify the identities of these people.
Are there any spies left by Su Ze among them?
there must be! What Su Ze is best at is using time, but now it is impossible to check the identities of these people!
Gao Gong only felt a headache. He could only summon the officials of the Ministry of Personnel and said to them:
"The matter of the missing files of the Ministry of Personnel must not be spread. In addition, according to the order of the Ministry of Personnel, all officials should write their own resumes and tell them when If you are a Jinshi in the imperial examination, you should write down all the official positions in which year you hold them, and then find three people to sign and sign as proof before you can be an official again." The
officials in the Ministry of Personnel looked at each other and said: "Gaobu Tang, if you continue to give this order, everyone is sure Everyone knows that the official records of the Ministry of Personnel have been lost."
Gao Gong also said with a headache: "This matter cannot be hidden, especially for important positions in the court, they must be written clearly and need someone to prove it before they can be reinstated!"
Those high-ranking officials in the capital were reinstated. , an official at the first level of the Sixth Department, Gao Gong could barely remember some of them.
After all, there are only so many Jinshis in one year, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty paid special attention to family background. As long as they were in the same year as Jinshi, they would basically know each other.
But there is no way to distinguish the officials from the remote yamen in the capital, as well as the petty officials working in various yamen.
Sure enough, the Ministry of Civil Affairs quickly uncovered several fake officials who couldn't even write. These guys were basically scoundrels on the streets of the capital. As the new emperor ascended the throne, he didn't know where he got the official clothes from, and wanted to Fish in troubled waters and become an official.
And just as Gao Gong expected, Lu Tianshou, the head of the Capital Intelligence Station, had used various methods to arrange for many people to enter the various yamen of the Ming Dynasty.
All the files of the Ministry of Personnel are in the hands of the Southeast New Army. He arranged for officials from some remote departments, and then found some people to act as guarantees for each other, and easily blended into the chaotic Ming court.
These officials are not high-level, but they often have access to important information, and they can get an extra salary by arranging them to work in Ming Ting Yamen, which is naturally very cost-effective.
If the official department is just a big trouble, then the household department is a disaster.
All the land records, house deeds, and accounts in the treasury of the capital were all taken away by Su Ze!
The current situation is that people are filing lawsuits in Shuntian Mansion all day long, claiming that others have encroached on their property and land.
However, no matter whether it is the Ministry of Revenue, Shuntian Prefecture, or the yamen of the counties in the capital, they all have no records, and it is impossible to determine the ownership of these lands and properties!
In particular, Su Ze had allocated fields once in the capital. Potatoes had already been planted on these lands, and the people in the capital were simply unwilling to give them up.
Naturally, there are also cunning people who have forged various land and house deeds, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy other people's land.
What's even more troublesome is that among the officials who returned to the capital with Long Qing, many of them had their houses occupied and their land divided, and they were all waiting to get their properties and land back.
There were also some powerful children who fled back to the capital after the Taiyuan mutiny. They also came to ask for land with the land deeds they had brought with them before fleeing.
Huang Tao, the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture, was blocked for three days and immediately reported illness and fell down. Now these people rushed to the Household Department with various materials and blocked the door of the Household Department.
There are many land issues involved, and the people who were allocated the land would definitely not agree to give it up, and several conflicts even broke out.
The only thing that made Gao Gong happy was that many dignitaries died in the Taiyuan mutiny, and many more followed the emperor in Shu. Otherwise, the Hubu and Shuntian Mansion would have been overthrown by them.
Land is a big problem, and the loss of the account books of the Ministry of Revenue is also a big problem. The annual tax books of each province, prefecture, and county, and the historical data in these account books are an important reference for the court to collect money and grain.
For example, if the grain that a county turns in for the whole year is one thousand dan, then if this year is a disaster year, it can collect less, and if it is a good year, it can collect more.
If it can keep up with last year's indicators, it will be rated as average. If it can make up for the accumulated debt from previous years, it will be rated as above average.
The Ministry of Revenue relies on this system to extract taxes from the whole country through the baton of passing the examination.
But now that the account books of the Ministry of Household Affairs have been lost, it is impossible to say how much grain a county can hand over!
This also means that the court's civil tax collection system is close to paralysis!
Of course, it can be clarified by taking time. Government offices in various places keep their own tax records.
But the local government naturally wants to pay as little as possible. If they know that the account books of the Ministry of Accounts are lost, they will definitely falsely report that they pay less.
When he thought of this, Gao Gong wanted to vomit three liters of blood.
When Su Ze was in the capital, he didn't search for gold, silver, or jewelry, and he didn't even take away any royal utensils from the palace.
But the documents and files he took away were worth tens of millions of dollars!
The officials from the Ministry of Revenue also looked at Gao Gong, who gritted his teeth and said, "First send people to the counties in Gyeonggi to retrieve the county government's land account books!" "
Then he issued an order to the chief envoys of each province, asking them to compare last year's The amount of the autumn and winter taxes should be turned over to this year's taxes!"
After Gao Gong finished handling it, Long Qing's trusted eunuch Feng Bao approached him again.
"Your Majesty summoned me to the palace?"
Gao Gong was very worried, but when the emperor summoned him, he could only put down what he was doing and followed Feng Bao into the palace.
Naturally, Long Qing would no longer live in Yuxi Palace. He changed his office location to Wenhua Palace.
The Wenhua Hall was the place where the emperor held sutra banquets and where the emperor attended classes and studies. Naturally, Long Qing chose to work here to show his diligence and studiousness.
Opposite the Wenhua Hall is the Wuying Hall, to the north is the Wenyuan Pavilion where the royal family collects books, and not far away is the Wenhua Gate where ministers pay homage to the emperor. Long Qing's move was indeed much better than that of Emperor Jiajing, who lived deep in the palace.
As soon as Gao Gong entered the Wenhua Hall, he saw Yang Bo, the chief minister of the cabinet, also there. If the emperor convened the cabinet, he must be in big trouble.
(End of chapter)