Chapter 16 The Team
After seeing off Xu Guangqi, Zhu Cijiu hurriedly returned to the imperial study room. Since he wanted to arrange his team to the Sixth Ministry of the Capital through exchanges, the appointment and removal memorials of officials who had already been approved for the award could not be distributed. He had to stay and bargain with the eunuch party!
Fortunately, Zhu Youjian and Sun Chengzong were still busy reviewing other memorials, and the reviewed memorials were placed aside and had not had time to send them to various departments.
The two of them were a little confused when they saw Zhu Cijiu leaving and returning. King Xin Zhu Youjian couldn't help but ask: "What are the emperor's instructions?"
Zhu Cijiu pretended to be bored and flipped around everywhere, then said naively: "I heard from my mentor Xu Guangqi that Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, Wang Zheng, and Song Yingxing are all pretty good. They have nothing to do now. It's a pity that I want to arrange a few errands for them in the Sixth Department."
Well, as soon as I became a master, I began to cultivate my own power. Who doesn’t know that these people are Xu Guangqi’s friends?
Xu Guangqi was so hurt when he was lying down. The key is that he didn't know that he had been shot yet!
Of course, Sun Chengzong would not think that this was what Zhu Cijiu meant. Can a five-year-old child have the idea of supporting his confidants? It was definitely the idea of Xu Guangqi!
He thought about it and asked tentatively: "I don't know what errands the emperor wants to arrange for them. Except for Song Yingxing, who is a juren, all of them are from Jinshi, and their original positions are not low."
Zhu Cijing replied indifferently: "Bi Maokang will arrange for him to be a minister of the Ministry of Works. Sun Yuanhua can be a doctor in the Ministry of War and manage weapons; Wang Zheng will let him be a doctor in the Ministry of Works and manage weapons; as for Song Yingxing, let him be a minister under Wang Zheng."
After hearing this, Sun Chengzong weighed it. Except for Bi Maokang who is a third rank, Sun Yuanhua and Wang Zheng were only a fifth rank, and Song Yingxing was only a ninth rank. This requirement was not an exaggeration, but it was up to the eunuch party to agree. Sun Yuanhua was okay. Sun Chengzong was the Minister of War and arranged him casually, but it was hard to say about the other three. The Ministry of Works is now the world of the eunuch party.
So he reminded: "It's better for the Ministry of War to make arrangements. The eunuch party on the Ministry of Works will probably not agree!"
Zhu Cijing pretended to be angry and said, "Aren't these memorials for appointment and removal still not being sent? If they dare to disagree, I will keep these memorials so that their people will not be officials."
Sun Chengzong only said that this was a child's angry words and didn't care much. He suggested: "Prince, why don't you come to discuss with Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu?"
Just discuss it, and they dare not disagree. If they tear their faces apart, it will be difficult for everyone to have a good time.
So, Zhu Cijing issued an order to discuss matters between Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu in the main palace of the Qing Palace.”
Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu felt really heartbroken when they received the order, for fear that Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youjian would take the opportunity to deal with them. But the emperor had to obey the will. It would be a death sentence to resist the order. If they dared to resist the order, they would not have to make excuses. They would just take it out and chop it in vain.
Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu came to the Ganqing Palace nervously, and soon found that they were completely wrong. The emperor asked them to come but was not trying to find fault with them. The emperor or Sun Chengzong actually asked them to discuss the appointment and removal of officials!
Zhu Cijiu’s meaning is very simple. I can pass all the memorials of your appointment and removal from officials. In return, you should not object to the few people I mentioned.
Everyone discussed the time in a friendly atmosphere. Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu tactfully agreed to the appointment and removal of Bi Maokang and four others. In exchange, Zhu Cijiu also agreed to criticize all the memorials of their appointment and removal of officials. In fact, they did not agree with them and also criticized all the memorials, but Zhou Yingqiu and Wu Chunfu didn't know.
In the end, Bi Maokang and four others arranged their positions according to Zhu Cijing's wishes:
Bi Maokang was appointed as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, the third rank;
Wang Zheng was appointed as the chief of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Works, the fifth rank;
Sun Yuanhua was appointed as the chief of the Qing Lisi Department of the Ministry of War, a fifth rank;
Song Yingxing was appointed as the Ministry of Works' Office of the Qing Office, and was the ninth rank.
After this discussion, the eunuchs gradually relaxed their vigilance. The core members no longer looked frowning. Even Wei Zhongxian entered the palace under the protection of Tian Ergeng to meet the young emperor. Luo Yangxing did not ambush him at the palace gate. Everything seemed to have returned to the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty.
Every morning court, the young emperor Zhu Cijing would sit there without saying a word, as if he was completely uninterested in the government. Sun Chengzong did not launch the Donglin Party to impeach the eunuch party, and he was not angry, as if he was a good man. King Zhu Youjian of the Xinwang stood there like a sculpture and never spoke.
There was no confrontation as imagined, nor was there the purge as imagined. The little emperor ignored the government affairs at all. Not to mention that he stopped talking in the morning court, it was even more exaggerated when he left the morning court. The review of the memorials was all handed over to Zhu Youjian and Sun Chengzong. He himself had been mingling with the emperor's teacher Xu Guangqi and close ministers such as Bi Maokang all day long. I don't know if he was studying or playing.
The eunuchs thought that things had just passed, and the little emperor had the same virtue as Emperor Xizong of Ming, so he didn't want to care about them at all. As long as he didn't take the initiative to provoke him, there would be no trouble.
Of course, this matter would not be forgotten. Sun Chengzong never thought of letting go of the eunuch party. He was secretly collecting information about eunuch party members. As long as Yuan Keli and Qin Liangyu were in place, he would let Wei Zhongxian understand why Huaer was so popular.
Zhu Cijing was not playing. After Bi Maokang and others were in office one after another, he summoned all his confidants to hold a small meeting and initially determined their responsibilities. At the same time, with the cooperation of Xu Guangqi, he performed a "miracle" and made several confidants dizzy. He really thought he was a god descending to earth.
At this point, his team has finally been initially in place, and everyone's responsibilities have been clarified:
Xu Guangqi, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, was responsible for "invention and creation", that is, transforming the military knowledge in Zhu Cijing's mind into textual things and drawings. The function is similar to the printer we use now, but in the process of "printing", he thoroughly understood the content of "printing".
Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, is temporarily responsible for collecting all firearm information from the Ming Dynasty. He does not need to design the flintlock rifle. As long as the time comes, the drawings will naturally appear in Zhu Cijiu's mind. It will be enough to teach him then. Zhu Cijiu mainly wants to guide him to make a series. After all, the army cannot only be equipped with ordinary long-barrel flintlock rifles, long and short, single and multiple shots, etc. Just like modern army, it is impossible to only have rifles, pistols, machine guns, and submachine guns. As long as the first flintlock rifle is made, it is not very complicated to convert it into other types according to its principle.
Wang Zheng, the doctor of the Ministry of Works, was mainly responsible for collecting information on various manual machine tools. Zhu Cijing wanted to find something similar to the original machine tools in his mind, and then guide him to do it.
Sun Yuanhua, the doctor of the Qing Lisi Department of the Ministry of War, was mainly responsible for firing artillery, that is, testing the performance of artillery. Zhu Cijing was preparing to slowly guide him to summarize the theories of artillery battles, and slowly apply modern artillery battle theories such as ballistics, coordinates, fixed-point clearance, and intensive attacks to practical combat.
Song Yingxing, the official of the Ministry of Industry's Construction and Repair, is mainly responsible for manufacturing, which is equivalent to the current factory director. He has a large group of craftsmen under him. Zhu Cijing, Xu Guangqi and others just need to find him if they want to do anything.
Chapter completed!