A month later, the candidate for the Minister of Education was finally confirmed. Cai Shiyuan, the left-hand governor of Fujian, was transferred from the left-hand governor of Fujian to the Minister of Education. This result was not surprising to the Ming Dynasty. Cai Shiyuan was the most suitable person in any aspect. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng had this intention before and was recognized by the Military Affairs Office.

But what is surprising is that in addition to Cai Shiyuan as the Minister of State, Zhu Yicheng directly appointed a left minister, who was actually the unknown Tian Wenjing.

Many people are not familiar with Tian Wenjing. Except for a very small number of people, they knew that Tian Wenjing was a Qing minister. Not long ago, they had just ran from the Qing Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. Most people had never heard of this name.

Zhu Yicheng's appointment was surprising because everyone did not understand why Zhu Yicheng suddenly appointed a surrendered Qing minister who had no official position in the Ming Dynasty to hold such a position.

You should know that the position of Zuo Shilang is already a third-rank senior official in the Ming Dynasty. The Left Assistant Minister of Education is equal to the second-in-command of the Ministry of Education. Why is such an important position given to a nameless Tian Wenjing?

However, everyone was puzzled, but Zhu Yicheng still appointed Tian Wenjing as the post of the imperial edict and summoned Tian Wenjing alone in the side hall.

On the day when Tian Wenjing was summoned, it was said that Tian Wenjing stayed in the side hall for more than an hour and chatted with Zhu Yicheng very much. Later, Zhu Yicheng was left with food in the palace to show his favor. Except for a few important officials, it was difficult for ordinary ministers to enjoy such high treatment, but Tian Wenjing, who was almost a common man, got it, which surprised many people.

In the court, most people thought that Tian Wenjing was lucky enough to be favored and became the sky. For a moment, they were full of jealousy and envy of Tian Wenjing. Many people discussed in private that Tian Wenjing must have done something or used what methods to make Zhu Yicheng treat him so kindly. This guy is simply a lucky person who has stepped on the shit.

Zhu Yicheng naturally heard about these things, but he did not explain them at all. Instead, he took special care of Tian Wenjing.

Under such circumstances, the Ministry of Education's shelf began to gradually build up. When the Minister of Shangshu Cai Shiyuan was not yet officially taking office on the road, the left assistant minister Tian Wenjing temporarily carried out the preparations for the Ministry of Education.

Zhu Yicheng was very concerned about the establishment of the Ministry of Education. Since announcing the candidates for the Minister of Education and the Left Minister of the Ministry of Education, Zhu Yicheng has been concerned about the progress of the preparations and construction work of the Ministry of Education almost every day.

What satisfied Zhu Yicheng was that although Tian Wenjing had never served as the chief officer in the Sixth Ministry, after he was appointed as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Education, Tian Wenjing did a great job.

Even if there was some criticism of Tian Wenjing's appointment as the Left Minister, and even officials who thought he was a lucky minister had to admit that Tian Wenjing was extremely capable, and Tian Wenjing was also extremely energetic. He worked for eight or nine hours a day, was decisive in his work, and he was extremely strict in his control. In just a few days, the framework of the Ministry of Education was gradually completed in his hands. By more than half a month later, when the Minister of Shangshu Cai Shiyuan arrived in Beijing and officially took office, the entire Ministry of Education had already completed the split from the Ministry of Rites and could be initially operated.

Zhu Yicheng was extremely satisfied with this result. More importantly, Tian Wenjing had no faction in the court, and he could not get close to others in the court. From this point of view, Tian Wenjing was not only a capable minister, but also an isolated minister.

In fact, this result is exactly what Zhu Yicheng wants. He has long considered how Tian Wenjing uses it. Moreover, the importance and treatment of Tian Wenjing made by Zhu Yicheng was fundamentally deliberately for everyone to see. The purpose is to make the ministers have one or another illusion about Tian Wenjing.

The Ministry of Education is extremely important, otherwise Zhu Yicheng would not have split it from the Ministry of Rites to establish a separate Ministry of Education. Shangshu Cai Shiyuan is the right candidate in charge of the Ministry of Education, but is not the most suitable candidate. Compared with Zhu Yicheng's ideas of the Ministry of Education and the implementation of later policies, Shangshu Cai Shiyuan may be difficult to implement it in place.

To this end, Zhu Yicheng had to equip Shangshu Cai Shiyuan with a strong executive deputy. It was precisely for this reason that he finally chose Tian Wenjing.

Tian Wenjing has many shortcomings, especially his personality, who is very noble on the surface and is actually very passionate about power, is the most suitable candidate to become the deputy position.

In history, Tian Wenjing was a capable minister, but he also criticized his moral character a lot. To put it bluntly, Tian Wenjing is actually somewhat similar to Guo Dingtang, a famous rogue talent in later generations. He has extremely strong abilities, but at the same time he has personality flaws.

Others may not dare to use such people, but Zhu Yicheng thinks it is better to master them. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng is not worried that Tian Wenjing will form a party and do anything in the future, because Tian Wenjing is destined to be an isolated minister in terms of identity, status, personality, etc. Apart from Zhu Yicheng, he has no support in the Ming Dynasty.

As long as Tian Wenjing has a desire for power and status, then Tian Wenjing can only follow the will of Zhu Yicheng and be loyal to him. Moreover, Zhu Yicheng also needs a lonely minister like Tian Wenjing, who is extremely capable, to reform the Ming Dynasty's education system.

In other words, Tian Wenjing is a gun in Zhu Yicheng's hand, which will charge for the reform of the new education system of the Ming Dynasty.

It will be better if Tian Wenjing is done well. Zhu Yicheng will definitely give him what he wants, whether it is wealth, official position, or even title.

Once Tian Wenjing is not done well, it doesn’t matter if he even causes trouble. When he can throw Tian Wenjing out, he can also be regarded as a due contribution to the reform of the Ming Dynasty’s education system.

Not many people can really understand this. Many officials only saw Zhu Yicheng's favor with Tian Wenjing, but did not understand Zhu Yicheng's real intention.

On the contrary, in the Military Affairs Office, these cunning military ministers all had sharp eyes. They knew Zhu Yicheng much deeper than ordinary officials, so they quickly realized Zhu Yicheng's real purpose in this matter. Therefore, they not only did not be jealous of Tian Wenjing, but instead felt the sadness hidden under the glory of this person.

Of course, even if these military ministers understand, they will not say it out loud. They only know it well. And they also want to see what achievements such as Tian Wenjing can achieve in the Ministry of Education, and they are very excited about it.

"Zhongtang, an urgent matter from the northwest." A man broke into Jiang Jin's office in the Military Affairs Office without even knocking on the door. Jiang Jin looked up and saw that the person was Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan personally sent an urgent report to him, there must be something big. Jiang Jin did not dare to neglect him. He quickly took the urgent article and looked at the cover first. When he saw clearly that there was the mark of the Jinyiwei and representative Yue Zhongqi on the cover, he looked a little solemn and quickly opened it to look at the content.

After a few glances, Jiang Jin's eyelids jumped and he closed the thing directly.

"This matter is serious. Please come over immediately by Ma Shuai and Pan Shuai. We will enter the palace to meet the emperor together."

"I have asked someone to call you before I come. They should arrive soon."
Chapter completed!