On March 15, 21st year of Tianwu, Yang Tinglin, the chief assistant of the cabinet, prayed to leave, but the emperor refused.

The next day, Yang Tinglin asked for resignation again, but the emperor still refused. He said three times, but he refused...

It was not until Yang Tinglin resigned for the fifth time that Zhu Cilang agreed "reluctantly" and went to the eastern suburbs to give him farewell, giving him enough face.

The emperor personally gave it to him and played the custom of breaking willows that he had been diligently trying to keep since the Han and Tang Dynasties, which made the officials who were originally planning to gather fire to impeach Yang Tinglin immediately silenced.

On March 20, an imperial edict was issued by the Ganqing Palace, appointing the second assistant Yang Shicong as the new cabinet chief, and the Minister of the Honglu Temple Fang Yizhi as the second assistant, and the direct management of the yamen remained unchanged.

Yang Shicong is still directly under the Ministry of Education and Culture, and Fang Yizhi is still responsible for diplomacy.

This made Yang Shicong feel a little unhappy. He originally thought of taking Yang Tinglin's position and being transferred to the Ministry of Personnel to be the Minister of the Secretariat, but the emperor remained unchanged and was promoted to Yu Chenglong, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, to be the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of national civil servant selection, examination classes, and the politics of titles and honors (military officers are included in the Ministry of War). The most important thing is that the Ministry of Personnel is responsible for the six-year Beijing inspection and examination of officials across the country. It has great energy and almost controls the path of civil servant promotion.

In short, since the formation of the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, the power of other departments except the Ministry of Personnel has been greatly reduced. Before the Tianwu Dynasty, without the consent of the cabinet, the dignified Minister of War could not even be able to mobilize troops.

Only the Ministry of Personnel is strong from beginning to end, and the actual power of the Minister of Personnel is far greater than that of the cabinet ministers.

Most ministers of the Ministry of Personnel are unwilling to enter the cabinet at all. Unless they serve on the part of the board, they will give up the position of minister and enter the cabinet, which is basically an open promotion and a secret relegation.

After the restructuring of the Tianwu Dynasty, all cabinet ministers directly took charge of one department, which led to the greater authority of the Minister of Personnel than before, and they were the first-class leader!

Yang Shicong was a big fat man with the Minister of Personnel for more than 20 years. Seeing that the original owner was driven away, he almost moved his butt and sat on it. Unexpectedly, he was taken the lead!

Yang Shicong became the chief minister of the cabinet. He did not give up his desire to take charge of the Ministry of Personnel. He also served as the Minister of Personnel and became another life goal after he became the chief minister.

Over the years, Yang Shicong had countless disciples in the dispute between the two Yangs, but Yang Tinglin took advantage of the opportunity of the Ministry of Personnel's Beijing Advisor to deal with it.

Therefore, Yang Shicong did not intend to let Yang Tinglin go back to his hometown. He wanted to crack down on the current Minister of Personnel Yu Chenglong by dealing with Yang Tinglin.

So, he instructed his younger brother Zhou Peigong to sue Yang Tinglin.

As a retired cadre, Yang Tinglin has lost his official position and has been turned over by the emperor. What else can he sue him?

Zhou Peigong thought hard for three days before he came up with a reason: There is something wrong with your ancestral home!

It's really a crime to be punished, and Yang Tinglin himself doesn't know what's wrong with his ancestral home in Qingjiang County, Linjiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province? Is it because he has hidden gold?

The problem Zhou Peigong said was even more serious than hiding gold!

What he said is also much more valuable than gold!

Yang Tinglin's crime is that Jiangxi's ancestral home occupied a piece of land with royal aura!

The thing about Wang Qi can only be understood but not described, and cannot be explained clearly. If you think there is, you will have it, if you think there is nothing, you will not have it. You can completely hone the meat.

However, the Ming Dynasty of the Tianwu Dynasty did not allow news and news. Zhou Peigong still understood this, so he mastered a series of evidence to prove that Yang Tinglin's hometown had a royal aura.

The first piece of evidence listed by Zhou Peigong is: There are three imperial palaces in Linjiang Prefecture!

The Three Imperial Palace was first built in the Song Dynasty, and it enshrines the three gods of Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi, and has a strong royal aura!

Secondly, the royal spirit of Linjiang Prefecture has turned it into a place of cultural heritage, producing humanities on behalf of others.

Since the Song Dynasty, for hundreds of years, famous scholars and masters of all dynasties such as Su Shi, Su Zhe, Fan Chengda, Zhu Xi, Wen Tianxiang, and Xie Jin have been inspired by the royal spirit to visit wise men in Linjiang Prefecture, read the glory, lecture on the study, and recite poems.

There are hundreds of poems and essays written about Linjiang, and these are all evidence!

Not to mention the distance, just to say the nearest one, Liu Zizhuang, the top scholar in the 15th year of Tianwu, was from Qingjiang County, Linjiang Prefecture. This was the urging of the kingly spirit!

The top scholar Wang Zizhuang was inexplicably caught in the shooting. He was an editor in the Hanlin Academy. After hearing this, he cursed in anger.

Fortunately, Yang Shicong and the others did not dare to say that Yang Tinglin was a crime, and cheated in the imperial examinations, making his fellow villagers the top scholar.

This is not a trivial matter. Without ironclad support, falsely accusing others of fraud in the imperial examination is tantamount to self-destruction, and you can blow your own body away!

As soon as Zhou Peigong's unrelenting impeachment memorial was released, it immediately attracted attention from both inside and outside the court and the public. Some supported them and some cursed them.

The officials who cursed not only cursed, but also wrote memorials to impeach Zhou Peigong, who was full of nonsense and deceived the emperor.

In particular, officials from the Zhili Suzhou Prefecture, under the example of the cabinet minister Mao Xiang, criticized them strongly.

Their theory is very simple. If Linjiang Prefecture has only one top scholar, it is said to be a kingly spirit and is so mysterious. What about my Suzhou Prefecture?

In the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, our Suzhou Prefecture produced nine top scholars. Isn’t it that the king’s aura is so strong that I can’t hold it down?

Because Donglin Academy was burned, the old officials in Jiangnan hated Yang Shicong from the bottom of their hearts. Because of this, they all jumped out to seize the opportunity and criticized him.

There are many talents in Suzhou Prefecture. All the officials in the court are full of knowledge and knowledgeable people. They scold people to quote scriptures. They have vicious intentions but beautiful words. They have marked them from certain dictionaries, for fear that you will not understand them and will be in vain.

Yang Shicong was also a Jinshi, and in the same year as Zhang Pu, the boss of the Fushe period, had already reached a certain level of cultural attainment, so he could naturally understand it.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, he had to check the memorials submitted to the imperial court in advance every day and give a vote. Looking at these beautiful mockery, Yang Shicong almost spit out an old mouthful of blood.

Therefore, the government and the country were quarreling, but Zhu Cilang was watching the show.

Also watching the show is the Crown Prince Zhu Hebi.

Yang Shicong took Yang Tinglin's position and began to form a sect. The court had to have a force to check and balance him.

Now, this force has gradually formed, and it is the Jiangnan officials led by Fang Yizhi and Mao Xiang.

For Zhu Cilang, this is a good thing.

For Crown Prince Zhu Hebi, this matter is even better.

Because Mao Xiang is his teacher and is also considered a "personal person". Both factions in the court are their own people, at least they will not hinder him, the prince. This is a great good thing!

How to regulate and balance these ministers must not only mobilize their loyalty and enthusiasm, but also provide appropriate restrictions and reasonable control, which tests the father's teachings of governing officials.

"The skill is to hide it in the heart, to protect the ministers by chance."

The prince believed that he had learned well and could apply what he had learned. In his eyes, there were no good people or bad people, loyal and treacherous officials, only those who could and those who could not.

Use it now, and throw it away if you can't use it in the future. You can't care whether this person is good or bad. This is the difference between an emperor and an ordinary person!
Chapter completed!