: The Censor’s Out

After discussion, Deng Sheng decided that the new supervisory agency would be called the Censorate, which would have a chief official, Censor, and the minister of the same six ministries. He would have several members, all of whom were censors, who were directly under the rule of the king and would not be under the jurisdiction of anyone.

But there is still another problem now, that is, who should take the position of the Censor.

The Censorate is directly under Deng Sheng, and the Censorate supervises all officials. The first thing is that the people who sit in this position do not belong to any camp and are selfless. Now, although many things are not on the surface in the court, many camps are also divided secretly.

As the saying goes, there are rivers and lakes where there are rivers and lakes where there are fights. System summoning can guarantee loyalty. The summoned talents will never betray Deng Sheng. However, they are not robots. They all have feelings, personalities, likes and dislikes. For example, Zhang Bin and Kou Zhun are now a bit unhappy with each other because of Shangyong. However, these conflicts are not too fierce now. They are healthy competition and are also beneficial to Deng Sheng's balance of the court, so Deng Sheng just let it go.

No one can give Deng Sheng the candidate for the Censor, so Deng Sheng can only choose it himself.

After Cui Hao and Jiang Wan left, Deng Sheng was considering who could serve as an important position as a censor.

"Maybe Bao Zheng can be appointed as the Censor." As he thought about it, Deng Sheng remembered Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng was summoned with Kou Zhun, Hu Weiyong and others. Now Hu Weiyong and Kou Zhun are already a minister, and Bao Zheng is still the prefect of Nanjun, and it has been more than ten years since he was the first to mention it.

In the past, because of insufficient position in the court, he could not be transferred back. There was no reason to let him come back to be a minister. Although a minister was half a level higher than the prefect, he was able to take action on his former friends. No matter how he looked at it, he now had an extra censor who was the same as the minister of the six ministries, so that Bao Zheng would be the one.

Soon, Deng Sheng issued an edict to the Secretariat, proposing to establish a censorate to supervise all officials, and to report the news, appointing Bao Zheng, the prefect of Nanjun, as the first censor, and mobilized a group of talents from various departments to enrich the censorate.

As soon as the order was issued, everyone in the court was in danger, especially those officials who were more or less unclean, were even more panicked. After all, Deng State has been vigorously supporting business for so many years, and merchants are pursuing profits. Sometimes, for convenience, they inevitably have to give some officials some small gifts.

Now that the Censorate is released, the news is reported. Who knows if it will be so unlucky and they are really targeted by the Censors. So everyone has begun to become very cautious, which has changed the atmosphere in the officialdom all of a sudden.

Deng Sheng was also very happy about the change in the official atmosphere. Although Deng Sheng knew that such changes were only temporary, they were enough to prove the deterrent power of the Censorate.

In December of the 13th year of Qianyuan, Bao Zheng entered Beijing and officially took charge of the Censorate. However, there is another problem in front of Deng Sheng, that is, Bao Zheng resigned from the prefect of Nanjun, and someone would have to take over.

Deng Sheng thought hard that no one could be the prefect of Nanjun. He was planning to summon one from the system, but at this time, Su Hong proposed that one of them be the son of the old prime minister Cai Feng, Cai Jie.

Cai Jie is Cai Feng's eldest son and queen Cai Yan's eldest brother. He is now a doctor in the Ministry of War. It is said that he has done a good job.

When Su Hong proposed it, Deng Sheng was also a little moved. After all, Cai Feng has retired and the Cai family has no one to carry the tripod. Although he has a daughter to be the queen, Cai Yan, as the queen, also needs the support of his mother's family. However, the Cai family is gradually declining, and it is time to support it appropriately.

So Deng Sheng asked Cai Jie to come.

"I am Cai Jie, paying homage to the king!" Cai Jie learned that Deng Sheng had summoned him, and quickly put down his work and rushed over.

"Cai Qing, please get up quickly!" Deng Sheng waved his hand.

"Thank you!" After Cai Jie got up, Deng Sheng began to look at Cai Jie. To be honest, although Cai Jie is Deng Sheng's brother-in-law, Deng Sheng really doesn't know much about him. Cai Yan mentioned it several times, but Deng Sheng didn't remember it in his heart.

"System, let me test Cai Jie's four-dimensionality."

"Cai Jie, force: 61, commander: 72, intelligence: 89, politics: 92."

He has a good ability, and he is more than enough to be a prefect, so Deng Sheng smiled and said, "Cai Qing, I often hear the queen talk about you, but I have never had a chance to have a good chat with you. I wonder if Cai Xiang is in good health?"

Cai Jie nodded and said, "Thank you for your concern. My father is in good health. He enjoys his grandchildren at home every day."

"That's good, Cai Qing, I have a heavy responsibility to hand it over to you today." Deng Sheng said.

"I don't know what?" Cai Jie asked.

Deng Sheng smiled and said, "That's the case. You also know that Bao Zheng, the prefect of Nanjun, has now entered the court as the censor. The position of Nanjun is vacant. I want you to take office. I wonder if Cai Qing is willing?"

"This..." Cai Jie hesitated a little.

"What's wrong? Is Cai Qing unwilling?" Deng Sheng was a little surprised. The prefect of Nanjun was a fat man. There were countless people in the court who were staring at this position, but Cai Jie was not willing.

"No, the king misunderstood, I am not unwilling to do so!" Cai Jie explained: "I am very grateful to the king for being so important to the ministers. But my father is old and the king also knows that I only have one son in my family. If I go to Nanjun, I am afraid I will not be able to take care of my father, so can I ask me to consider it?"

"Well, it turns out that this is the case. Cai Qing is filial and filial. I can't force others too much. Well, there is no rush to do this. Cai Qing can go back and think carefully. It's not too late to tell me if I have a decision." That is, Cai Jie is Deng Sheng's brother-in-law. If it were someone else, Deng Sheng would probably not even give him the chance to consider it. He would be the one who loves it.

Cai Jie returned home and was absent-minded when he was having dinner at night. Cai Feng, as his father, also saw that, so after dinner, Cai Feng found Cai Jie in the study.

"Jie'er, I'm so worried about my father who is depressed and absent-minded all night, are you worried?" Cai Feng said straight to the point.

Cai Jie nodded and said, "I can't hide anything from my father. Today, the king summoned Chiaer and planned to let Chiaer be the prefect of Nanjun."

"Really!" Cai Feng said happily after hearing this: "When will you go to the post?"

Cai Jie shook his head and said, "The boy hasn't made a decision yet. The king said he would let him think about it."

"Why? Don't you want to be the prefect?" Cai Feng was a little puzzled. The prefect of Nanjun, there were countless people staring at this location now. Now that it was delivered to you, Cai Jie still had to consider it.

Cai Jie shook his head and said, "No, it's just that my father is old. If my child goes to Nanjun, I'm afraid he won't be able to come back to Wancheng in a few years. My child is worried about his father."

Cai Feng heard this and said with a smirk: "What do you think is a father? Why is there no one to take care of your father? Your sister is the queen now. If there is anything to do for your father, can your sister ignore her father? Don't worry."

Cai Feng was also very happy that Cai Jie was so filial, but he could not delay Cai Jie's future because of himself. Especially now, he has retired. Cai Jie is still a small doctor in the Ministry of War and has no help in living in the harem.

You should know that in addition to Cai Yan, there are three wives in the harem. Zhang and Mi are all daughters of large clans and their family is strong, so there is no need to mention Li Shishi. The daughter of Li Tianhu is born in many talented people in the Li family. And I heard that Xue Rengui's mother, Princess Sui'an, had a niece Xue Baochai, who planned to recommend him to the palace. From this perspective, Cai Yan's family has the worst family background.

If Cai Jie could become the prefect of Nanjun, he would be able to operate it himself after a few years, and with the status of a foreign relative, it would be a minister after returning to the court, and he would not be a big problem, and he would be a minister at the very least.

Through Cai Feng's enlightenment, Cai Jie also felt relieved and entered the palace the next day to ask for his appointment as the prefect of Nanjun.

After everything was resolved, Deng Sheng finally got better, and the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and all departments were busy handling various affairs.
Chapter completed!