Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 111 Emperor Longqing’s plan
After Emperor Longqing returned to Daming Palace, he quickly figured out the intention of the Supreme Emperor.

Finding a good home for Qin Keqing was only one aspect. In doing so, the Supreme Emperor was also preventing him from interfering in military power.

If Qin Keqing is really the daughter of the deposed prince and Jia Qiong marries her, he will no longer be able to trust Jia Qiong, and naturally he will not be able to use him to win over the capital.

The Emperor's move was a conspiracy, and it was indeed very clever. Unfortunately, he did not know Qin Keqing's true identity.

The capital officials of Dachu have seven days of holiday during the Chinese New Year. Except for attending the imperial court on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they can rest at home for the rest of the days.

In the past few days, Daming Palace and Chonghua Palace issued decrees respectively.

Emperor Longqing ordered Xu Shan, the general of Zuolingwei Zhonglang, to be transferred to Yulin General to take charge of the Yulin Army. The former Yulin General Pei Yubin was transferred to Ningxia Town to lead the army.

There was nothing special about this decree, except that Xu Shan had just been promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief of Zuo Lingwei for one year, and immediately became the commander of the third-grade imperial army.

General Yulin was definitely considered a close minister of the emperor, and he was on the same level as the commander of the Imperial Guard.

You must know that the hurdle from fourth grade to third grade is very difficult, but Xu Shan crossed it in one year.

This is definitely a sign that Jian is in the emperor's heart, and her future is limitless, and it will definitely make many people feel envious, jealous, and hateful.

The Supreme Emperor's decree to confer Chonghua Palace Maid Shi Qin Keqing as the head of Yongning County is a bit puzzling.

Two years ago, Qin Keqing was suddenly recruited into the palace as a female historian, and now she was suddenly canonized as the head of the county. This thing is weird no matter how you look at it.

The general meaning of the edict is that Qin Keqing took good care of the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother liked it, so she was given the title of county head.

Only a few people knew the inside story, but these people pretended to be confused.

After all, this matter is a private matter of the royal family, and the Supreme Emperor only conferred the title of County Lord Qin Keqing, and did not lavishly reward property or mansions.

Therefore, this incident did not attract much attention and was quickly forgotten by everyone.

After the New Year, the Spring Examination of 19 Longqing is coming soon, and the candidates for the examinations need to be determined as soon as possible.

These days, Emperor Longqing has been considering the issue of candidates.

Candidates for the chief examiner and deputy examiner of the general examination have always been selected from civil servants with imperial backgrounds above the third rank of the imperial court, and there are only so many candidates.

Zhang Chunyang and Li Shirui, as the first and second assistants, had too high prestige, and they were first eliminated by him before they were too late.

Xiao Mo, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was also excluded for this reason.

The Minister of Etiquette, Sheng Guinan, is old and will retire at the end of this year, so it is not suitable for him.

The remaining ones include Luo Jin, the bachelor of Wenhua Palace and the Minister of Household Affairs.

Yang Sicheng, a bachelor of Wuyingdian University and minister of the Ministry of War.

Xie Qian, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Zuo Yimin, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Jiang Yungong, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Ji Lianhai, the imperial censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Zhao Junze, the imperial censor of the right capital.

And the six ministers, the left and right deputy censors, general political envoys, ministers of Taichang Temple, ministers of Dali Temple, and Zhan Shifu of Zhan Shizhong had several Hanlin backgrounds.

Nowadays, the power of the Fujian Party in the upper dynasty is too great. Emperor Longqing has been thinking of ways to suppress it, but he cannot do it openly.

If he wants to secure his throne, he must get the full support of the civil service group.

Therefore, even if you want to suppress a certain party, you can only use checks and balances.

They should not launch attacks for no reason, lest they become disloyal and even turn to the Supreme Emperor.

Emperor Longqing felt that this meeting might be a good opportunity to weaken the Fujian Party.

Among the high-ranking officials of the third rank or above today, the Fujian Party or those who wear the same pants as the Fujian Party include Luo Jin, the Minister of Hubu, Zuo Yimin, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhao Junze, the censor of the Right Capital.

He Zhongdao, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wan Zheng, the left minister of the Ministry of Husbandry, Li Ruping, the right minister of the Criminal Ministry, Xun Lan, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, Guo Feng, the general affairs envoy, and Li Jixiang, the Zhan minister of the Zhanshifu, almost occupied half of the court.

This was because Emperor Longqing saw that Wang Mu's prestige was too high, and most of the ministers in the DPRK looked up to him.Therefore, he was concerned about this, so the Fujian Party forces who strongly supported Zhang Chunyang thought of checks and balances, which led to today's situation.

But he did not expect that the Fujian Party would be more difficult to control than the Royal Party.

Since Wang Mu became official, people in the Fujian Party formed cliques for personal gain and suppressed dissidents. Recently, Emperor Longqing felt that the Fujian Party was already in serious trouble.

The royal party has a loose structure to begin with. Now Wang Mu has been in office for several years, and Sheng Jingbin is about to take office.

Last year, Sima Xian was transferred as governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, leaving Li Shirui alone in the cabinet.

The power of the royal party has been greatly reduced, and now it is completely unable to suppress the Fujian party, and the government has begun to lose balance.

Emperor Longqing originally hoped that after Xiao Mo, the Minister of Civil Affairs, came to power, he could join forces with Li Shirui to curb the Fujian Party.

But so far, there are no such signs.

Emperor Longqing was a little anxious and eager to find an opportunity to weaken the Fujian Party.

He knew very well that Zhang Chunyang was very afraid of Jia Qiong.

Even though Jia Qiong is still taking the imperial examination, with his reputation, he is likely to quickly become another banner of the royal party after entering the court.

The higher Jia Qiong's reputation is and the faster he grows, the greater the threat to the Fujian Party.

If he asked someone from the Fujian Party to take charge of the examination, Jia Qiong would definitely be suppressed.

If the Fujian Party goes too far, with Jia Qiong's reputation, it will inevitably cause heated discussions.

At that time, not only the royal party will attack in groups, but also the noble group and neutral officials may come together to launch an attack.

When the public sentiment is high, he can just go with the flow and take the opportunity to weaken the power of the Fujian Party. This will not cause a strong backlash from the Fujian Party.

Emperor Longqing's wishful thinking came to fruition, and he wrote down on paper the names of several senior officials from the Fujian Party and Hanlin.

After weighing and weighing for a long time, I finally drew a circle on the names of Zhao Junze and Guo Feng.

Zhao Junze is the censor of Youdu, in charge of the constitution, and corrects all officials. He is one of the important core members of the Fujian Party.

Moreover, Zhao Junze is headstrong, greedy for money and arrogant. He is the one most likely to get things done.

Others may still have scruples and just try to suppress Jia Qiong's ranking.

Zhao Junze might just rank him at the bottom, or even depose him.

Emperor Longqing just wanted to find someone who could make things big, so he chose him as the chief examiner.

Guo Feng was in charge of the important department of the General Affairs Department, but he always followed Zhang Chunyang's orders. Emperor Longqing had long been dissatisfied.

Moreover, this person has a relatively soft temper. If he is asked to be the deputy examiner, he will definitely obey Zhao Junze's words.

With this arrangement, he could make the Supreme Emperor mistakenly think that he had given up on Jia Qiong, so he used the Fujian Party to suppress him.

There is also an opportunity to weaken the power of the Fujian Party, which can be called a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone.

On the morning of the first day of February, Emperor Longqing appointed Zhao Junze as the chief examiner of the joint examination, and General Secretary Guo Feng as the deputy examiner.

At the same time, 18 fellow examiners were appointed, and the examination ceremony is scheduled to be held on the eighth day of February.

Everyone in the Fujian Party was overjoyed when they heard that both the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner were occupied by them.

These days, the two parties have been arguing over the position of examiner, because everyone knows it well.

In the end, both the chief and deputy chief examiners fell on the Fujian Party. This was interpreted by many as that Emperor Longqing still supported the Fujian Party and tacitly allowed them to suppress Jia Qiong.

(End of this chapter)