Qiming 1158

Chapter 629 Then there is only one choice left
During the entire meeting, Kong Zheng glanced at Huo Jianbai, who frowned, from time to time, and his heart was full of desire to get revenge on him.

To be honest, Kong Zheng asked himself that he was well-cultivated, and his efforts to cultivate his self-cultivation from childhood to adulthood have not fallen off.

But it is impossible to say that Kong Zheng does not hate Huo Jianbai.

Targeted everywhere, set up obstacles everywhere, made small reports at every turn, and even made special appearances to confront him, with a momentum of vowing to eradicate Kong Zheng and the forces of the Shandong faction.

How can you not hate?
But he can't do anything now, at least until the limelight passes, he can't blatantly oppose Huo Jianbai, otherwise it won't look very good, and it's easy to gossip, saying that he has a small temperament because he abandoned the public for personal reasons.

So he hoped that Huo Jianbai would be stupid and do something wrong, so that Su Yonglin would punish Huo Jianbai.

Then create an opportunity for their Shandong department to enter the high-level of Shangshu Province.

Kong Zheng still has some ideas about the fact that there is no leading person in the Shandong department who can enter the decision-making level of Shangshu Province.

After this failure, Kong Zheng not only realized his inadequacy in political struggle, but also realized that the Shandong department had no relationship with the high-level officials of Shangshu Province, which was a big weakness.

There is no high-level relationship and information channels in Shangshu Province, so that he did not seize the opportunity to explain to Su Yonglin in time.

In the end, Zhao Zuoliang took the initiative to plead guilty, and he just learned the news.

Kong Zheng, who had lost the first opportunity and was left behind, had had enough. If he had known Zhao Zuoliang's movements earlier and communicated with Su Yonglin, he might have been able to restore the situation and reduce the losses. a position of authority.

He now especially hopes to draw some relationships within the decision-making level of Shangshu Province, and even push some people into middle and high-level positions in Shangshu Province, and strive to never repeat the previous mistakes.

However, the top officials of Shangshu Province were filled with people from Su Yonglin's Yuan Cong Clan, Yanyun Clan, and Foreign Clan Clan. These three factions were more or less resistant to the Shandong Clan.

Of course, it has to be said that in the central government of the Ming Empire, although the number of senior officials in the Shandong department is slightly insufficient, in terms of middle-level officials, the Shandong department is not inferior to the other three departments at all.

The advantages of the Shandong department in terms of numbers and quality make it impossible for the officials of the Yanyun department and foreign tribes to add up to the number of the Shandong department at the level of middle-level administrative officials.

However, the quantitative advantage of Su Yonglin's Yuan Cong Department is mainly reflected in the level of grass-roots errands, petty officials and small officials, and at the level of middle-level officials, he cannot compete with the Shandong Department.

Kong Zheng believed that Su Yonglin knew the advantages of the Shandong department in numbers and quality, so he deliberately suppressed the Shandong department at the high level, but had to rely on the Shandong department officials in the middle-level officials.

Therefore, Kong Zheng believes that what the Shandong faction needs to do now is not to compete with other groups of forces at the high-level with insufficient strength, and show the political background of the Shandong faction forcefully, but to consolidate the foundation, give full play to the advantages of softness, win over high-level relations, and wait for opportunities. Move to the top.

Especially in Shangshu Province, the office directly under Su Yonglin often knows a lot of things right away.

It is such a period of time, enough to determine the occurrence of many things.

Political movements can be divided into two forms, one is to please, the other is to frame.

Kong Zheng can't do things like framing for the time being, so the only thing left is to please.

Who to please?

Not to mention Huo Jianbai, the enemy, and Kong Zheng belong to the category of wanting to kill each other, unless the sky collapses, it is impossible to reconcile.

Not to mention Yelu Chenghui, Shandong officials have never had a good impression of foreign clans, and their relationship is second only to Yanyun clan. It is better to commit suicide to cooperate with them.

Then there is only one choice left.

The Pingzhang political affairs who also looked at the nose and nose and the heart, and seemed to not care about it at all - Zhao Zuoliang.

With a very special status, Zhao Zuoliang could not even be considered a senior official in the Yuan Cong Department.

When Su Yonglin and Liu Yongzhen were discussing things, Zhao Zuoliang was silent.

When Lin Jingchun stood up to report to Su Yonglin on the current Ming Empire's financial expenditures, Zhao Zuoliang was also silent and secretly yawned.

At the beginning, when I just learned that Zhao Zuoliang was going to do Pingzhang political affairs, people around Kong Zheng were spreading the story that Zhao Zuoliang was an old Taishan leaning on the real Taishan, not only envy, but also mocking Zhao Zuoliang's fox and fake tiger power, relying on Su Yonglin to ascend to the throne.

But Zhao Zuoliang pleaded guilty to the emperor before his movement, and by convicting himself and then directly defining the rebellion of the Shandong faction as a crime, Kong Zheng was deeply concerned.

Whether it was instructed by Su Yonglin or by Zhao Zuoliang, it was enough to show that Zhao Zuoliang had considerable influence on the situation.

And if this is the method that Zhao Zuoliang came up with himself, it will explain the problem even more - Zhao Zuoliang is deeply thoughtful, not Su Yonglin's marionette and King Tota as rumored by the outside world.

People have real skills and can well control the power that belongs to Pingzhang's political affairs.

As for how true it is, it's hard to say.

But no matter what, Kong Zheng felt that it was necessary for him to have a relationship with Zhao Zuoliang.

Although it is more utilitarian to do so, who doesn't like the feeling of being flattered by someone?

Before, Kong Zheng heard that many middle-level and lower-level officials were trying to build relationships with high-level officials, and Zhao Zuoliang was the top priority.

At first, Kong Zheng was quite disdainful of this and felt that he was also a high-level official worth fawning over, but after this round of blows, he realized that he was nothing in the high-level political struggle.

If Su Yonglin didn't want to take him down, he would have been gone long ago.

There must be a backer, and at critical moments, there must be someone who can help and talk.

Kong Zheng began to think silently about how to approach Zhao Zuoliang and win his favor.

And the State Council has come to an end.

Su Yonglin set the work content for the courtiers.

Education reform, the reform of the imperial examination, the central government's policy and the full implementation of the local government, start from the first year of Hongwu, strive to basically complete the work before the second year of Hongwu, and strive to see the reform of the imperial examination and education in the fifth year of Hongwu. results of the reform.

With all this work, Kong Zheng felt that including the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Finance would not have a happy birthday. The sheer number of problems would make them fall into endless work hell.

Get promoted and get rich?

Political struggle?

Then get things done first.

With heavy melancholy, Kong Zheng left the conference hall with the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

But this is not the end at all, or at all.

Su Yonglin was very diligent in administration. After the education meeting was settled here, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel were taken away, leaving the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry was brought in to continue the state affairs meeting.

The content of this state affairs meeting has become the topic of governance of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River has greatly destroyed the agricultural productivity of Hebei since it hit the Sanyi Huihe River in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yellow River has become a sharp blade hanging over the heads of the Hebei people, and it has also opened the prelude to the great change of the century in which the economy in the north was stagnant and the economy in the south was prosperous.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Du Chong, a god-level figure who stayed behind in Tokyo, destroyed the Yellow River embankment and tried to stop the Jinbing, resulting in a tragedy.

Jinbing was not drowned by the Yellow River, but the people in the lower Yellow River and Huaihe River Basin suffered—more than [-] direct deaths, several times the indirect deaths, more than one million deaths comprehensively, and tens of millions of homeless people due to floods people.

And this traitor later surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, and even became the right prime minister of Yanjing, leaving descendants in the Jin Kingdom.

So after Su Yonglin conquered the Central Capital, he sent someone to look for Du Chong's tomb, dug up Du Chong's body, whipped the body, and crushed his bones into ashes.

Then he arrested all the descendants of his family who stayed in the Kingdom of Jin, took them to the bank of the Yellow River, beheaded them all, pushed their bodies into the Yellow River, and then set up an altar to worship the more than 100 million people who died directly and indirectly because of Du Chong's digging of the Yellow River. .

Finally, Su Yonglin used pig iron to cast a kneeling statue of Du Chong on the edge of the Yellow River in Kaifeng City, and set up the "Traitor Du Chong Digging the Yellow River Embankment Monument", which recorded in detail the deeds of Du Chong before and after the excavation of the Yellow River embankment, and expressed it to the more than one million people who died because of it. We mourn and express our guilt to the tens of millions of Lianghuai residents who suffered because of this.

Of course, Su Yonglin didn't forget to apply eye drops to the Southern Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)