Chapter 1385 The calculation behind speaking frankly!
Gu Sansi admitted that there were still problems with bloated and inefficient GL teams in the local area. A large number of T jobs occupied the poor local finances, making it difficult for the local government to make ends meet. Even if some provincial governors, prefects, and county magistrates wanted to do something, they were unable to change it because they had no money.

But Gu Sansi believes that the issue of layoffs is related to the foundation of the country. If we are not careful, it will cause unrest again in this country that has just recovered from the hardships. Therefore, when dealing with such a major issue, we should proceed steadily and step by step, and never rush for quick success!
Yes! In Gu Sansi's opinion, the "task" and "goal" proposed by Ye Mingsheng now is just a kind of quick success!

Ye Mingsheng had told Gu Sansi about the beautiful blueprint in his mind more than once. Gu Sansi also clearly understood that Ye Mingsheng was not satisfied with unifying the world and becoming a founding emperor. What Ye Mingsheng wanted to create was a great prosperous era and lay a foundation for eternity!

This beautiful blueprint also fascinated Gu Sansi, and made him willing to devote his entire life to helping Ye Mingsheng realize this dream!
However, Gu Sansi believes that realizing this dream should be a natural and inevitable process, and one should not realize this dream just for the sake of realizing it!

So even under Ye Mingsheng's intimidation, Gu Sansi did not dare to put forward his ideas or express his opinions openly for fear of being used as an example by Ye Mingsheng!
But for his own ideas, Gu Sansi also made a small move in private...
Zhang Xiong, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the Daqian court, was once a high-ranking official of the Luoan court. He was once punished by Ye Mingsheng for greed, but he took the initiative to donate most of his wealth and asked to meet Ye Mingsheng. Ye Mingsheng had no intention of meeting him, but Zhang Xiong moved Ye Mingsheng by kneeling in front of Ye Mingsheng's door for a day.

During the conversation with Ye Mingsheng, Zhang Xiong also told Ye Mingsheng that greed for money was not what he wanted, but he was coerced by the general environment of the Luoan court. He truly admired Ye Mingsheng and hoped that Ye Mingsheng could give him a chance to reform.

In view of Zhang Xiong's sincerity, Ye Mingsheng gave Zhang Xiong the task of persuading the powerful people in Luoan to hand over their property. Fortunately, Zhang Xiong completed the task well, which made Ye Mingsheng very satisfied.

Finally, when the Yijing court was established, Ye Mingsheng let Zhang Xiong squeeze out Chu Zhiyi's position and became the Minister of Personnel of the Yijing court.

Although Zhang Xiong became the Minister of Personnel, he was a surrendered official. Therefore, he was excluded and despised in the Yijing court dominated by the Liaoyang Gang. Even some senior officials in the Ministry of Personnel did not respect him very much and secretly called him "the surrendered official."

Zhang Xiong was also very clear about this, but he did not engage in verbal exchanges with these people. Instead, he worked diligently in the Yijing court to realize the value of his life.

And what he did also won him the praise of Gu Sansi. As the Shangshu, Gu Sansi also defended Zhang Xiong in the Ministry of Personnel, which undoubtedly changed the situation where Zhang Xiong was despised in the Ministry of Personnel...

Therefore, Zhang Xiong was very grateful to Gu Sansi. This time, facing the task arranged by Ye Mingsheng to cut 10,000 jobs before the end of the year, although no one objected at the cabinet meeting, there were still many people who objected to it after the task was issued.

This includes Zhang Xiong, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He believes that there are only more than four months left until the end of the year, and it is very difficult to complete the task of cutting 10,000 jobs in such a short time!

What's even more impossible is that Ye Mingsheng not only requires layoffs but also requires that the political stability should not be affected and that the efficiency of the government's operations be improved. Therefore, this is almost an impossible task!
Therefore, seeing that people everywhere in the court were complaining privately, but few dared to directly write a letter to persuade them, Zhang Xiong also had an idea in his mind, which was to write a letter to Ye Mingsheng to persuade him!

Although Zhang Xiong's situation in the Ministry of Personnel improved under Gu Sansi's protection, as a surrendered official he could not escape the situation of being despised and excluded in the entire court!

However, Zhang Xiong has his own ambitions in his official career. He wants to go further and take on more responsibilities and have greater power, so he must get rid of the ZZ label brought to him by his identity as a surrendered official, enter the core circle of the Yijing court, and be regarded as one of their own by his colleagues!

Therefore, Zhang Xiong wanted to win the respect and trust of his colleagues and get rid of the label of a surrendered official by writing a letter to Ye Mingsheng to persuade him, as everyone had complaints but did not dare to advise him.

Although Zhang Xiong had such an idea, he was not a truly loyal minister who could express his ideas and advise the king at all costs. Otherwise, he would not have become friends with those corrupt officials in the Luoan court.

Therefore, Zhang Xiong began to weigh the pros and cons in his mind, but in the end he still couldn't make up his mind, so he found Gu Sansi to ask the Minister of Personnel for his opinion...
Seeing that Zhang Xiong intended to write a letter of advice, Gu Sansi was very supportive in his heart. However, in order to avoid implicating himself in case Zhang Xiong was punished, he did not give any clear opinion on the surface and let Zhang Xiong decide for himself whether to accept the above advice.

However, during the conversation, Gu Sansi intentionally or unintentionally expressed to Zhang Xiong that Ye Mingsheng was a very open-minded emperor who admired ministers who dared to speak out and give advice. Even if the advice did not suit Ye Mingsheng's wishes, as long as the person was upright and clean in terms of money, Ye Mingsheng would not punish him too much and would only reprimand him at most.

The reason why Zhang Xiong went to find Gu Sansi was ostensibly to ask for Gu Sansi's thoughts and opinions, but in fact he wanted to ask Gu Sansi whether he would protect himself in case his letter of advice angered the emperor. He wanted a promise from Gu Sansi to serve as insurance for himself.

So when Zhang Xiong felt Gu Sansi's ambiguous attitude during the conversation, he was actually a little disappointed because he did not get the promise he wanted.

But after returning home and thinking about it carefully, Zhang Xiong felt that what Gu Sansi said made sense. Although Ye Mingsheng dealt with many court officials, all of them were criminals. If one carefully counted the entire Daqian Dynasty, there had not been anyone convicted for their words so far.

Even though Ye Mingsheng was dissatisfied with some people's advice, the founding emperor of Daqian did not do anything to them!
After figuring this out, Zhang Xiong felt relieved, and began to prepare to write a letter to persuade Ye Mingsheng. Although he had done a lot of wrong things when he was in the Luoan court, when Ye Mingsheng accepted him, he had made it clear that the past was over. As long as Zhang Xiong worked hard in the Yijing court, he would never pursue the matter...

After Zhang Xiong came to the court of Yijing, because of his status as a surrendered official, he was very cautious and did not dare to be greedy even in such a core position as the Minister of Personnel. On weekdays, his family relied on his salary and bonus to subsidize their lives. Fortunately, as a high-ranking official of the second rank, the Minister of Personnel was given a house, otherwise Zhang Xiong would have to rent a house in Yijing with his family.

With great expectations for the results of his advice, Zhang Xiong wrote directly to Ye Mingsheng. After knowing that Zhang Xiong had written the letter, Gu Sansi also paid close attention to the situation of Zhang Xiong's letter.

At that time, although Gu Sansi hoped that Zhang Xiong's persuasion would be successful and make Ye Mingsheng slow down the pace of layoffs, based on his understanding of Ye Mingsheng, he knew that this possibility was not great, so he was also prepared for Zhang Xiong to be punished, including the possibility of Zhang Xiong being dismissed by Ye Mingsheng.

Gu Sansi had even secretly drawn up a list of candidates to succeed the Minister of Personnel, waiting for Zhang Xiong to be dismissed so that he could hand it over to Ye Mingsheng for selection as soon as possible.

Originally, Gu Sansi felt that he had prepared sufficiently and was just waiting for the final result, but man proposes, God disposes!

Gu Sansi calculated that Ye Mingsheng might dismiss Zhang Xiong in order to intimidate the officials in the court and let them focus on cutting down on T’s jobs, but he never expected that Ye Mingsheng would let Cui Hang replace Zhang Xiong·················

Who is Cui Hang?

Just over a year ago, he was transferred from Liaoyang Provincial Government to the Ministry of Personnel as a doctor in the Inspection Office. A few months later, Cui Zibo fell ill, and Ye Mingsheng directly ordered Cui Hang to be transferred from the Inspection Office to the top-ranked Selection Office. Although his rank did not rise, the importance of his position rose to a higher level, and he was only one step away from becoming a high-ranking official like a minister.

Cui Hang's promotion speed can be said to be very fast, and most importantly, he does not have any outstanding political achievements to support it.
If this happened to someone else, it would definitely cause great criticism in the court, but it did not cause much controversy in Cui Hang's case.

This situation only occurred because Cui Hang had a good uncle and he was also lucky. After Cui Zibo, the Cui family did not have any particularly outstanding successors, which left Cui Shao with no other choice but to train Cui Hang with all his strength!
So under such circumstances, no one was surprised by Cui Hang's rapid promotion. Everyone was guessing how long it would take Cui Hang to become a minister, or be sent out to become a provincial governor or provincial judge, and join the ranks of Daqian's high-ranking officials.

Some people think it will take two to three years, but more people think it will take five to six years. After all, no matter how strong Cui Hang's background is, his promotion to G also requires political achievements as support. But now, although Cui Hang is doing a good job, he does not have outstanding political achievements. He needs to wait for some time before he can get promoted...
Cui Zibo also spent some time as the prefect of Yecheng before he was promoted to deputy director of the Judicial Bureau, and then became the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice after the establishment of the Yijing court. Compared with Cui Zibo back then, Cui Hang is still slightly inferior in qualifications.
But now Ye Mingsheng's promotion has made everyone wrong. Cui Hang, who just turned 30 and had been in the Ministry of Personnel for just over a year, has become the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Although it was only a temporary position in name, it was enough to surprise everyone.

Gu Sansi did not expect Ye Mingsheng to do this. He knew that Ye Mingsheng would promote Cui Hang for Cui Shao's sake. Therefore, he was very friendly to Cui Hang in the Ministry of Personnel on weekdays, and could even be said to be taking good care of him.

Gu Sansi also knew that Cui Hang would become a minister sooner or later, but he did not expect that this moment would come so soon, leaving him unprepared.

Gu Sansi didn't know why Ye Mingsheng made such an unexpected decision, but this decision made Gu Sansi's mind very confused. In the end, Gu Sansi chose to take sick leave so that he would have time to think about the matter clearly at home.

During these three days, Gu Sansi kept trying to figure out Ye Mingsheng's thoughts. He believed that Ye Mingsheng's dismissal of Zhang Xiong was undoubtedly a warning to others!
Among these monkeys who were being warned, he, the Minister of Personnel, was undoubtedly the biggest one!

And letting Cui Hang serve as the Minister of Personnel was also a warning from His Majesty to himself. When the Yijing court was first established, everyone believed that Cui Shao would become the Minister of Personnel, but in order to prevent Cui Shao's power from continuing to grow, His Majesty gave the position to himself!

But if what I have done cannot satisfy His Majesty, then my position as Minister of Personnel may be moved...
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August 31st Yijing

Although today is not an important holiday, countless palace maids, eunuchs and guards in the palace have been busy since early morning. Everyone has hung up lights and decorations to create a festive atmosphere. The reason everyone does this is because today is Queen An Miaoyi's 33rd birthday.

Because An Miaoyi is the queen and the mother of the country, and this is the first birthday after the founding of Daqian, it is still very symbolic. Therefore, Su Yi, who had just taken office as the Minister of Rites, had also submitted a memorial to Ye Mingsheng, wanting to hold a grand ceremony for this purpose, and called it "sharing happiness with the people"!
Ye Mingsheng originally had no objection to holding a birthday ceremony for An Miaoyi. In the past few years, he had celebrated every birthday of An Miaoyi without missing a single one, but they were all simple celebrations in the Ye Mansion.

Now that he has become the emperor and An Miaoyi has become the queen, birthdays should be taken more seriously!

However, after seeing that the plan for Su Yi's birthday celebration would cost 100,000 taels of silver, Ye Mingsheng decisively canceled the celebration after scolding Su Yi.

Although the celebration was cancelled, the birthday had to be celebrated anyway, so Ye Mingsheng handed the matter over to Ye Cheng to take care of it. In a word, the scale had to be grand and dignified, but the budget had to be as little as possible, and could not exceed 10,000 taels of silver...
(End of this chapter)