Manchu traitor, how can you let me be the emperor of the ages

Chapter 299

In fact, the ministers guessed right, Li Gan really planned to put aside the matter of Cai Dang first.

After all, now Cai Jing is sick in bed, and the Cai party has no leader. As long as Gao Xun and Deng Xunwu are well monitored, and their communication channels with Jizhou are well monitored, Li Gan doesn't have to worry about the bad things of these Cai party members.

He felt that his current focus should be on Jizhou, and the most important thing was to resist the first wave of Jinren's offensive, which was also the most ferocious offensive.

But the communication between Beijing and Jizhou is also a problem. The two places are thousands of miles apart. Even if it is eight hundred miles to rush the military newspaper, it will take several days, and communication is very problematic.

It took a long time for Li Gan to send an edict to the other side, and it would take several days to send it back to the capital to see what the result would be after doing so.

After going back and forth like this, no important information can be conveyed at all, only how the overall situation can be conveyed.

This made Li Gan absolutely want to be a master of micromanipulation. He originally wanted to experience the operation of "moving the cavalry position to the left by five meters"...

Under such circumstances, the affairs of Jizhou can only be put aside for a while, and it is also a way to take advantage of this opportunity to straighten out the affairs of the court.

Since the day Cai Jing submitted his resignation letter, it has become more and more lively day by day, and this atmosphere has reached a climax in the past two days.

Most of the adults were staring at the position of the Cai party officials, but there were more people looking at the top.

As the minister of the court and the minister of the Ministry of punishment, Cai Jing left two heavyweight positions directly vacant.

There are not many people who are qualified to take this position, but there are indeed many people who covet it.

Even if I am not qualified to look at such an important position, it must be a great thing to let my boss go up. The higher the people above stand, the faster the people below can climb.

For some days, there has been a lot of turmoil around this minister, and officials from Hedang, Yandang, and Zhongshu Province are all eager to try.

The servant of Shangshu shot out, and the successors who bear the brunt of the brunt are the six ministers in office.

But there is also a question of who can succeed.

Although Yu Wenkai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, is highly respected, he is old after all and has reached the verge of retirement.However, such an important official position as Shangshu Pushe must not be changed casually, so for the stability of the court, it will definitely not be this old man.

Then there were only two strong contenders, Wang Mang, Minister of Rites, and Li Jing, Minister of War.

Unfortunately, Li Jing just fell ill a while ago.

Although I heard that his condition has improved recently, this kind of serious illness is like a thread, and I am afraid that he will not be able to get out of bed without a few months of recuperation.

And it is obviously impossible for the court to wait for him for a few more months, so Wang Mang has become the biggest beneficiary!
Of course, it is possible that he is not the only minister to succeed Shangshu Pushe, otherwise what are you doing for so many days?
In addition to the six ministers, the servants of each department also have the opportunity to directly surpass the ministers and become servants of the ministers, but there are prerequisites for this.

In the six parts, it is possible to skip the post of Shangshu and directly take the post of servant of Shangshu only if there is no assistant in charge of Shangshu.

For example, Wang Mang is the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Rites. As long as he is there, it is impossible for Sima Guang and Cai Bian to pass him and directly become the minister.

And for example, Heshen's Minister of the Ministry of Officials and Yan Song's Minister of the Household Department are all part-time ministers, and the servants under them are eligible to compete for this minister...but the priority is far less than that of the minister.

In addition to the six departments, there are also four servants from Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province who can also participate in the competition. The priority of the servants of the inner court is higher than that of the outer court, but it is also lower than that of Shangshu.

There are also a few specific positions such as Dali Temple Minister, Taichang Temple Minister, Tongzheng Envoy, Jing Zhaoyi, etc. You can also try, but the success rate... is almost none.

Therefore, although Wang Mang is popular today, he is not without competitors. He should also have a sense of crisis.

But what surprised all the ministers was that Uncle Da Zong neither communicated with the officials below to get closer, nor walked around with the people above to ask for support. Instead, he stayed behind closed doors and actively reduced his communication with outsiders.

It seems like you have no interest in such a position at all.

But who would believe it?

Wang Mang is not a person with a pure heart and few desires, otherwise he would not be able to become the current Minister of Rites.

But it is such a person who has shown an extraordinary indifference in the process of competing for the official position, which makes the adults very puzzled.

In the eyes of some people, Wang Mang must have obtained some inside information.

He is usually closer to His Majesty the Emperor, so it seems that it is not difficult to guess who he got the news from...

This speculation made the ministers suddenly nervous.

Everyone actually knows that no matter how fiercely they fight, the final candidate still has to be approved by His Majesty the Emperor.

This is the particularity of ministers of Zaifu, or first-rank courtiers.

No one could remove them from office without the emperor's permission.Similarly, without the emperor's permission, it is impossible for anyone to assume such an important position... Even if it is only a name recognition, it must be there, otherwise it will not be justified.

Such a policy seems to be very beneficial to His Majesty the Emperor, allowing him to choose whoever he wants, but the civil servants are not without countermeasures.

As long as they unite and recommend one candidate over and over again to exclude everyone else, they will not be afraid of the emperor's refusal.

But the current situation is special after all, the civil servants are not so united, and the reigning emperor also has some whimsical ideas, everyone still feels a little scared when they think of going against him.

Besides, some things can be resolved amicably through negotiation, so there is no need to make too much noise...

In the end, it was Yan Song and He Shen who decided to take a trip to inquire about His Majesty's thoughts and see if he had any favorite candidates.

Today's Ziwei Hall is extremely hot and stuffy. When Yan Song and He Shen came here, they saw His Majesty the Emperor wearing a cool summer dress, and there were palace ladies holding round fans on both sides, constantly fanning the cool breeze.

"The two gentlemen are here?"

Li Gan raised his eyelids and saw them, he was not surprised, he simply pointed to the table in front of him: "I won't get up to entertain you, just sit down as you please."

There are mung bean soup and sour plum soup on the table to relieve the heat. The finely broken transparent ice cubes are floating in the amber and yellow-brown soup bottom.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After the two saluted, they sat down at the table one after the other.

Li Gan looked at the two of them sitting upright, and thoughtfully said: "The two Qing family came here for the candidate of Shang Shupu?"

(End of this chapter)