Chapter 1074 Yijing Court!

After the Ministry of Personnel, the head of the Six Ministries, determined the positions of Shangshu and Shilang, the next one is the Ministry of Revenue, the God of Wealth...

Although the Ministry of Revenue is not as important as the Ministry of Personnel, as an institution in charge of the country's territory, fields, household registration, taxes, and salaries, it is also a very powerful department among the six ministries!

The position of Shangshu undoubtedly belongs to Cui Shao. Whether in terms of qualifications or ability, Cui Shao is the only choice for this position. Ye Mingsheng also needs him to help him promote reforms.

Secondly, for the position of Left Vice Minister, Zhang Juning is the best choice. This man has always been in charge of the purse of the Fengwu Army and has always calculated all the accounts of the Fengwu Army very clearly. Ye Mingsheng also trusts him very much, and he deserves the position of Vice Minister!

However, when it comes to the position of Right Vice Minister, Ye Mingsheng was a little hesitant, but in the end he chose Hu Ming, the former Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Luoan court!

Like Zhang Xiong, Hu Ming was one of the first officials to surrender to the Fengwu Army after the fall of the Luoan court. Moreover, as one of the first high-ranking officials to come to Yijing from Luoan, he supported Ye Mingsheng's decision to move the capital with his actions. He is currently in Yijing waiting for Ye Mingsheng's appointment!

Hu Ming himself was from Jiangnan, his family was very wealthy in Jiangnan, and Ruifengchang, which was spread all over the south and Southeast Asia, was their family’s business. However, the fact that Hu Ming was able to become the left vice minister of the Ministry of Rites and a high-ranking official in the court had a lot to do with his marriage to the daughter of Wang’s family in Guanzhong...
Although Hu Ming was the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites itself was responsible for managing culture, education, etiquette, and some foreign affairs. After the Luoan Incident, the rituals and music of the Great Zhou Dynasty completely collapsed, which led to the Ministry of Rites being completely marginalized in the court!
Against this backdrop, Hu Ming, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, was a high-ranking official in the Luoan court, but he had no real power and was considered a marginalized figure!

The reason why Ye Mingsheng wanted to appoint Hu Ming as the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue was not because he valued his ability, but because he valued his background!
Ruifengchang was a large trading company in Jiangnan. It sold Zhou's porcelain, silk and tea overseas, and then brought back silver and gold from overseas. It was said that the annual turnover of the entire company was close to one million silver!
Moreover, Ruifengchang has a lot of say in the Jiangnan business community, and Ye Mingsheng has always hoped to use Jiangnan’s funds to promote the development of other relatively backward areas in Da Zhou!
To be honest, Ye Mingsheng can use administrative means, or simpler and more direct means, to achieve his goals!
But Ye Mingsheng hopes that this will be market-oriented, sustainable, healthy and benign, so Ye Mingsheng is willing to show some goodwill, and letting Hu Ming serve as the right vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue is Ye Mingsheng's sincerity!
Ye Mingsheng needs him to use his own and his family’s connections to use the money from Jiangnan to promote the economic development of various parts of Dazhou and improve the living standards of the people in Dazhou·······················

The Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for judicial affairs among the six ministries, is also a department that Ye Mingsheng values ​​very much. Ye Mingsheng also plans to let Li Jian take up the position of Shangshu!
Li Jian's low-key, pragmatic and non-partisan style won Ye Mingsheng's admiration, and this also won him the position of Minister of Justice!
As for the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Ye Mingsheng plans to let the current Qi and Lu Censor Gongsun Hao take the position, as Ye Mingsheng still trusts Gongsun Hao's character!
Ye Mingsheng plans to give the position of Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice to Cui Zibo!

Cui Zibo is a man of average ability. He can’t be said to be good, but he is not bad either. Although he may not do the tasks very well, he basically won’t make any mistakes!

However, in terms of ability and qualifications, Cui Zibo is definitely not qualified to be the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, but what can he do? He has a good father!
Cui Shao was already a leading figure among the civil servants of the Fengwu Army, and Ye Mingsheng was unwilling to give him too much power, so Cui Shao's achievements were attributed to Cui Zibo. This was a tacit understanding between Ye Mingsheng and Cui Shao, and also an open secret among the top leaders of the Fengwu Army.

Excluding the Ministry of War which has become the General Staff Department, the remaining six ministries are the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Rites!

Ye Mingsheng plans to merge the First Manufacturing Bureau and the Second Manufacturing Bureau of Fengwu Army into it. However, unlike the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of Punishment, Ye Mingsheng does not plan to let people originally from Fengwu Army serve as the Minister of Works this time...
This time, Ye Mingsheng plans to let Chen Fu, the 63-year-old former right vice minister of the Ministry of Works, take the position. Although this person is also a scholar who has come to power through the imperial examination, his promotion path is very different from that of traditional bureaucrats. Compared with traditional bureaucrats, this person is more like a technocrat!
Many of the former Ministers of Works and Left Vice Ministers of the Luoan court were defeated in power struggles and were forced to work in the Ministry of Works. Their work in the Ministry of Works was also split-second. They were more interested in making money through projects than their own jobs!
Since the early years of Anhe, the daily work of the Ministry of Works has basically been presided over by Chen Fu, the right vice minister. Work like repairing palaces, city walls, building canals, and dams are all done by Chen Fu!
The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Ye Mingsheng, plans to hand over the position to Chen Changgui, the former Director of the First Manufacturing Bureau, and the Right Vice Minister to Su Junjie, the Director of the Second Manufacturing Bureau. Both of them are veterans of the Fengwu Army and their work abilities have always been reassuring!

The last one left is the Ministry of Rites among the Six Ministries. Compared with other departments among the Six Ministries, the Ministry of Rites, which is responsible for culture, education and etiquette, has relatively smaller power!

However, Ye Mingsheng attached great importance to the Ministry of Rites. In Ye Mingsheng's view, education is the foundation of a country and a nation!

Although Ye Mingsheng has tried his best to change social concepts and cultivate talents in science and engineering in the past few years, and has made some progress and achieved some results, the traditional Confucian concepts are deeply rooted.
At present, the education in Da Zhou mainly teaches Confucian classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics. Cultivating science and engineering talents is not the mainstream. In fact, many science and engineering talents are still regarded as strange and tricky skills that are not worthy of great use.
Therefore, Ye Mingsheng plans to personally serve as the Minister of Rites, and try his best to change this concept during his lifetime, so that traditional culture and scientific genus can complement each other and make progress together, so that the nation will always stand at the top of the world!
As for the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Ye Mingsheng planned to let the great Confucian scholar Su Wei take the position. Su Wei is already sixty-three years old this year and is one of the leading figures of the existing Confucian school in the Great Zhou Dynasty. He had been in the Luoan court before, holding some relatively lofty but powerless positions.

Ye Mingsheng let Su Wei serve as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, but he did not intend to use him. Ye Mingsheng would still keep him on the shelf and use his status as a great scholar and his influence in the Confucian school to endorse his own reforms!

As for the position of Right Vice Minister, Ye Mingsheng planned to give it to Su Yi. After all, the Ministry of Rites also has diplomatic responsibilities. Although Ye Mingsheng was a little disappointed with Su Yi on some things before, overall, Ye Mingsheng still believed in his abilities!
The officials of the six ministries have been arranged, and the only ones left are the Dali Temple and the Censorate, which have relatively great powers!
The Dali Temple is mainly responsible for the trial and review of criminal cases. Ye Mingsheng plans to let Zhu Xiaowen from the Liaoyang Censorate serve as the Dali Temple Minister. Although Zhu Xiaowen is Cui Shao's student and a close confidant of Cui Shao, he has made some mistakes before.

But Ye Mingsheng really admired him, both for his character and his ability, so after thinking it over, Ye Mingsheng decided to give him the position of Dali Temple Minister...

The last one left was the Censorate, which was the only power department that Ye Mingsheng had not made up his mind about! The Censorate was a supervisory agency, mainly responsible for impeachment, admonition, and inspection of officials!

In the past, under the Central Council system of the Fengwu Army, the power of the Censorate was divided among the Personnel Bureau and the Coordination Office!

The Personnel Bureau is responsible for examining officials, while the main power of impeachment and remonstrance of the Censorate is taken away by the Coordination Office!

Since the day the Coordination Office was founded, Ye Mingsheng granted the Office great powers for the sake of convenience. It allows the Office to monitor officials, arrest criminals, and interrogate prisoners internally, and to be responsible for collecting military intelligence externally. He is directly responsible for all his actions!

There are many benefits to doing this. It makes the Coordination Office a powerful department, and has made great contributions to the external expansion of the Fengwu Army in recent years and Ye Mingsheng's control of the Fengwu Army!
But at the same time, this also turned the Coordination Office into a power monster that is difficult to restrain. Ye Mingsheng noticed this problem very early and created the Internal Security Bureau to restrain the power of the Coordination Office!
The establishment of the Internal Security Bureau has played a role in restraining the Coordination Office, but it has not yet restrained the Coordination Office from the root!
Although the Coordination Office is still very obedient to Ye Mingsheng and allows Ye Mingsheng to order it around at will, Ye Mingsheng has always had an idea, which is to split the Coordination Office and divide the power of the current Coordination Office into two departments····························

One department is specifically responsible for external intelligence searches, national security, counter-espionage and anti-infiltration; one department is specifically responsible for internal monitoring of officials and civilians!
Although Ye Mingsheng had such an idea before, the situation at that time was that the Fengwu Army still had several powerful enemies. Ye Mingsheng still needed to coordinate this powerful and loyal hound to bite the enemies for him!
But now Jiangnan has basically fallen into the control of the Fengwu Army. Sichuan is the only part of the Great Zhou that has not been taken over. But everyone knows that this is only a matter of time. Sichuan alone cannot contend with the entire Great Zhou!

Although there are some problems and contradictions in domestic affairs, Ye Mingsheng believes that they are just some minor problems and contradictions, and everything is still under his control!

Therefore, under such circumstances, the value and role of the Coordination Office to Ye Mingsheng, the Fengwu Army, and even to the Yijing court led by Ye Mingsheng in the future were reduced!
So during this period of time, Ye Mingsheng has been considering whether or not to take advantage of this opportunity to immediately split up the Coordination Office!
But the problem is that in Ye Mingsheng’s vision, the unification of the Great Zhou was not the end, but a brand new beginning···························

Ye Mingsheng has been preparing for the attack on East Island and the layout of Nanyang, and the Coordination Office has played a very crucial role in these layouts.

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng hesitated whether splitting up the Coordination Office would have an adverse impact on his layout in Dongdao and Nanyang, making the Coordination Office less efficient and sharp!
Moreover, a series of current situations indicate that corruption within the Fengwu Army is on the rise, and the case of Liu Zhengyue, the governor of Youyan, may not be an isolated case!
Ye Mingsheng is preparing to extend the Youyan Provincial Government's clean and upright actions to other areas in order to eliminate some hidden cancers and abscesses in the Fengwu Army.

During this process, the Coordination Office still has to undertake many tasks. Therefore, if the Coordination Office is split up now, will it have a negative impact on this large-scale anti-corruption campaign?

As the ruler of the Fengwu Army, Ye Mingsheng knew how heavy the responsibility was on his shoulders. Every decision he made would affect, or even determine, the fate of millions or even tens of millions of people. Therefore, when making decisions, Ye Mingsheng tried to think carefully rather than making decisions on a whim.

And because of this, Ye Mingsheng was hesitant about this matter, so Ye Mingsheng never decided to make a final decision!

Now Cui Shao’s memorial made Ye Mingsheng realize that this matter could not be delayed any longer, and he had to make a decision as soon as possible······························

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng made a compromise decision. He can still control the Coordination Office 100%, and the power of the Coordination Office has not been out of control. Therefore, although splitting up the Coordination Office must be done, this is not a top priority!
Therefore, I can establish the Censorate first, and then make long-term plans to split the Coordination Office!
Thinking of this, two candidates emerged in Ye Mingsheng's mind!
One candidate is Xiao Lingyu, the deputy governor of Youyan Provincial Government. As Liu Zhengyue's deputy, he did not go along with Liu Zhengyue's corrupt practices. He is a rare clean figure in Youyan Provincial Government. He has always had a good reputation in Youyan Provincial Government. He is also an old man who has been with the Fengwu Army since its inception, so he is very trustworthy!

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng planned to let Xiao Lingyu serve as the Left Inspector Censor, and as for the Right Inspector Censor, Ye Mingsheng planned to let Wang Huaiyi serve!

Wang Huaiyi is a very unfamiliar name among the officials in Yijing. He has been working in the internal security department and is Ye Mingsheng's shadow. Although he is unknown, he has done a lot of things for Ye Mingsheng quietly!
Ye Mingsheng trusted him very much, so this time he let him step out from behind the scenes like Ji Xian and be exposed to everyone's sight!

At the same time, the appearance of Wang Huaiyi also means that the Censorate will officially begin operations in the Yijing court headed by Ye Mingsheng...
(End of this chapter)