The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

The next day, Wang Tianguan continued to go to the Ministry of Personnel to work, setting a personal record of continuous work in the past ten years.

When he was still the old leader of the Wang family, he had been an official in Nanjing. Hai Rui’s rectification of work style in Nanjing did not make the old leader of the Wang family go to the government for two consecutive days.

Yesterday, after the new official reported for duty, there was a meeting, and today he had individual talks with officials of the Ministry of Personnel.

The order of conversation was of course to start with the Langzhong of the Second Department of Examination and Merit, and then the left and right assistant ministers, the Wenxuan Department, the Seal Inspection Department, and the Honor Inspection Department.

"What? The Langzhong of Examination and Merit is not in the department again?" Wang Tianguan may not be used to Lin Tailai's working style, "Where did he go this time?"

The steward replied: "He usually goes to the Hanlin Academy to give a lecture in the morning, and then appears in the Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Rites as he pleases."

Wang Tianguan ordered: "Send someone to invite him back. This department must talk to him first."

Although he, Wang Yanzhou, is an old official, it does not mean that he does not know how to be an official.

If you don't know this technique, how can you stay as the leader of the literary world for thirty years? It's just that the previous position was not good enough, and there was no room for you to play.

The first person a new official chooses to talk to after taking office is mainly for others to see.

The person to talk to must be Lin Tailai, and only Lin Tailai. Even if Lin Tailai is not there, he must be invited back.

So the steward just sent two more people to go to the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Rites to find someone.

At this time, Lin Tailai was in the Ministry of Rites's Guest Department, furious and scolding his subordinates.

Recently, the Korean envoys came again. This is the third time that the Guest Department has received the Korean envoys in the past year since Lin Tailai took office.

Because of Lin Tailai's insensitive "generosity", the Korean envoys took the opportunity of hospitality and took away hundreds of watermelons from the Guanglu Temple.

The Guanglu Temple directly charged the Ministry of Rites with the bill of dozens of taels of silver, and the stretched Ministry of Rites's small treasury was unexpectedly reduced again.

This made Lin Tailai very embarrassed, and he took his anger out on other officials in the Guest Department.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Personnel called Lin Tailai away, so that everyone in the Ministry of Hosts and Guests was relieved.

Lin Tailai still had to give the face of "first talk", otherwise Lin Tailai would definitely "not listen to the call or the announcement".

If there was really something important in the Ministry of Personnel, Lin Tailai would come back automatically even if he was not summoned.

Although the conversation was a form for others to see, it was not without something to say.

Wang Tianguan asked Lin Tailai: "Regarding the doctor of the Ministry of Literature, do you have a candidate in mind?"

This may be the biggest event in the next stage of the Ministry of Personnel.

Lin Tailai shook his head and said: "No."

Wang Tianguan was extremely surprised by this answer. Did you, Lin Tailai, change overnight? You don't care about such an important matter?

"Don't fight anymore?" Wang Tianguan asked again.

Lin Tailai added: "Of course I have to fight for it! But I guess it's hard for the court to let me do what I want.

So fighting for the position of Wenxuanlang is just a means, not an end, to exchange for other benefits."

The minister of the Ministry of Personnel still needs to be briefed, so as not to make the minister misjudge and affect cooperation.

Wang Tianguan asked curiously: "How to fight? If you can't generate enough pressure, you can't force others to exchange interests."

Lin Tailai replied: "According to general rules, there are two main sources of Wenxuansi, one is the transfer of Langzhong of Kaogongsi, and the other is the promotion of Yuanwailang of Wenxuansi.

If others want to bypass this rule, they have to pay a price, right?"

Lin Tailai, Langzhong of Kaogongsi; Wang Xiangmeng, Yuanwailang of Wenxuansi, Lin Tailai's nephew.

This personnel arrangement is simply a moat around Wenxuanlang.

Wang Tianguan is a little suspicious. When Lin Tailai took over Kaogongsi in a strong way before, did he have planned for today?

As the two were talking, a Jinyiwei officer suddenly rushed out of the door and shouted:

"The sea invaders invaded Tao and He in Gansu! The emperor issued an order to come to Wenhua Palace today! Summon civil officials above the third rank, military officials above the governor, officials in charge of science and technology, Hanlin scholars, and military officials to come to court urgently!"

Hearing the sudden order, Wang Tianguan and Lin Kaogong stood up suddenly, shocked!

The emperor who was playing rotten actually left the inner palace and came to court urgently. How angry was he? The emperor's anger, millions of corpses?

Wang Tianguan, who had just been the "head of the outer court" for one day, was a little excited. He could go to court to see the emperor as soon as he took office. Could he be the "chosen one"?

At this time, Lin Tailai frowned and muttered: "How come the fifth rank and above poets became Hanlin Academy scholars?"

Lin Tailai was very angry about this. Who was so shameless to plug this loophole?

Although he was a "fifth-rank or above poet", he was not a "Hanlin Academy Scholar"!

The situation was urgent, Wang Tianguan simply tidied up his clothes and hurried out.

As he walked, he said to Lin Tailai: "Let's stop talking. I'm going to the court. You go back first!"

But the tall and young Lin Tailai had a more agile pace and rushed ahead. Without looking back, he said to Wang Tianguan: "I'm going to the court too!"

It was not that Lin Tailai was worried about state affairs, but he wanted to see with his own eyes what the Wanli Emperor looked like when he was so angry that he went out of the palace to attend the court.

The old Wang Tianguan looked at Lin Tailai's back and was stunned.

What does this court meeting have to do with you, Lin Tailai? Are you qualified to go to the palace?

When Wang Tianguan rushed out, Lin Tailai was not the only official on the street.

A group of red-robed bosses appeared on Qinglong Street and the Imperial Road, and then gathered at the left gate of Chang'an.

Immediately, the nobles poured into the imperial city from the left gate of Chang'an and rushed into the inner court.

After passing Chengtian Gate, Duanmen Gate, Wumen Gate, and Huiji Gate, they stood in front of Wenhua Hall, waiting to enter the hall.

The cabinet ministers were much more relaxed. Wenyuan Pavilion was just opposite Wenhua Hall. They walked out of the door and walked a few steps to get there.

Among the middle-aged and elderly civil officials, the young, tall, and majestic Lin Tailai, the editor and examiner of the Hanlin Academy and the doctor of the host and guest, was very eye-catching, standing like a mountain in the crowd.

Originally, in an occasion like a court meeting, as long as they were not the key figures in the first three rows, it was not a big deal if there was one more or one less person in the back.

Most emperors turned a blind eye, and few of them were really serious. Could they be furious because of the absence of two censors or an extra doctor who came to listen?

The last emperor who was serious was Jiajing, specifically Jiajing who had not yet cultivated immortality in the previous seventeen years. He would have a tantrum if there were too many officials absent from the formalistic court meeting of thousands of people.

So under normal circumstances, when there is a thick-skinned doctor who is mixed in with the big guys, others generally don't take it too seriously, at most they complain a few words in their hearts.

It's not a secret meeting, they are ministers in the same court, there is really no need to tear each other apart for such a small matter.

But again, the popularity of Lin Tailai, the Nine Yuan True Lord of the current dynasty, is really good.

After all, he has helped too many people mentally and physically, and has received too many people's gratitude from the bottom of their hearts.

After the four university scholars came out, the chief minister Shen Shixing frowned, thinking all the time, and didn't pay too much attention to the outside world.

After all, he is the chief minister, the first person in the eyes of the emperor, and he must have a report.

And the second minister Wang Xijue kept looking around, and no one knew what he was thinking.

As for the fourth minister Zhao Zhigao, he was still a young junior in the cabinet, standing quietly at the bottom of the steps.

Only the third minister Wang Jiaping stared at the fake boss Lin standing in the crowd of big guys at a glance.

"Lin Tailai! Why are you here?" The Minister of Justice Lu Guangzu asked loudly across a dozen assistant ministers and officials.

Lin Tailai asked back: "What advice does the Grand Minister of Justice have?"

Lu Guangzu shouted bluntly: "What qualifications do you have to go to the palace? Wenhua Palace has rules for court meetings, and it does not tolerate unruly people who hope to get in!"

Last time, Lu Guangzu, as a candidate, could not speak in order to avoid suspicion.

So he could only watch Lin Tailai jump up and down, not to mention how uncomfortable he felt.

Today, I took the opportunity to criticize Lin Tailai a few times, which made me clear my mind.

The dozen officials between Lu Guangzu and Lin Tailai quietly dispersed.

Lin Tailai retorted: "I am a doctor of the Ministry of Guests, why can't I go to the palace?"

The Jinyiwei officers on duty in the palace breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that between literary and martial arts, Lin Tailai chose literary.

Otherwise, if martial arts really came up, the officers on duty in the palace would be the most troublesome.

Lu Guangzu sneered a few times and said sarcastically: "The Ministry of Hosts and Guests is only responsible for tribute, foreign affairs etiquette, and reception affairs! What does the border police war of the sea invasion have to do with you?"

Just when everyone thought that Lin Tailai was going to argue to the end, he saw Lin Tailai pointing at Lu Guangzu and said:

"This is the judgment made by you, the Grand Secretary, and it has nothing to do with me!"

Then Lin Tailai shouted to the university scholars: "The elders also bear witness! Today in Wenhua Hall, there is me but no Lu Guangzu, and there is Lu Guangzu but no me!"

The elder Wang San, who has always been paying attention to the movements here, rebuked: "Then go! What are you still talking about?"

In the eyes of neutral officials, this matter cannot be said to be right or wrong.

In theory, it cannot be said that it is wrong for the elder Wang San and Lu Guangzu to expel the idlers.

However, it is a bit humiliating to drive people away in public. After all, adding a plug in the court meeting is not a matter of principle in the eyes of most people.

There were a lot of scumbags in the military officer team, and it wouldn't hurt to have one or two more scumbags in the civil officer team.

Lin Tailai, who seemed to have suffered a great humiliation, asked Wang Tianguan for leave in anger: "I'm going home to recuperate!"

People who knew him always felt that Lin Tailai's performance today was very wrong, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

But after Lin Tailai left, the officials waiting for the court became inexplicably quiet.

After a while, the Wanli Emperor went to the palace and the ministers came to the palace to meet him.

After the shouts of "Long live the emperor", the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department read aloud the urgent report, and the ministers who were urgently summoned learned more about the situation.

The northern barbarian tribes were mainly distributed north of the border wall, but due to historical reasons, some tribes were grazing in the West Sea (that is, Qinghai Lake) on the western plateau, and were called sea barbarians.

Altan, the old barbarian king of the right wing of the northern barbarian, had conquered the sea barbarians several times in the past, and left his second son Bintu to graze in the West Sea.

In the past few decades, the Western Yellow Sect was introduced to the northern barbarians and flourished in the northern barbarians.

After the Longqing Peace Agreement, the northern barbarians often passed through the Hexi Corridor in Gansu to go to Xihai to welcome the Buddha or make pilgrimages.

However, after the death of the barbarian kings Altan and Xinai Huang Taiji, the control of the Shunyi royal family over the Hailu tribe was loosened.

The ethnic situation on the border of Gansu was extremely complicated. The contradictions between the Hailu and the tribes that had submitted to the Ming Dynasty were very deep, and the Ming Dynasty generally favored the tribes when dealing with them.

In recent years, the Hailu had an uneasy chieftain Huo Luochi, who often plundered the tribes on the border of Gansu.

And this year, after the Northern Barbarian Zhongshun's wife Sanniangzi and the barbarian king Bu Shitu completed the spring tribute ceremony, they led a group of 100,000 people to escort the ashes of the third Buddha of the Yellow Sect back to the west and entered the Xihai, making the situation in the Xihai more complicated.

The chieftain of the Hailu Huo Luochi saw a large number of his fellow tribesmen coming to the Xihai, and thought that his power was great and it was time to start an uprising.

Therefore, Huo Luochi recently led more than 4,000 cavalry to besiege Taozhou, Hezhou and other places in Gansu Province, killing and plundering the surrounding Panyi tribes.

Lintao Chief Military Officer Liu Chengsi and Deputy Chief Military Officer Li Lianfang successively led their armies into battle, but suffered successive defeats due to various reasons.

A large number of generals including deputy military officer Li Lianfang, staff general Li Ruyu, guerrilla Meng Xiaochen, Li Fang, and general Wei Chengxun were killed in the battle, and the army lost thousands of people.

When the ministers heard the details of the military report from the three governors, they were all shocked. No wonder Emperor Wanli was furious!

This is the most disastrous defeat in side affairs since I took the throne today!

Although I am currently living in the palace and cannot come out, I still have a shameless temper.

Emperor Wanli on the throne cursed angrily: "Trash! The governors of the border towns are all trash! They only blame petty officials when things happen, which led to the failure of the border guards!

Maybe I am too kind! I want you to think more about it: during the Sejong Dynasty, how did you deal with governors and ministers who missed opportunities? "

The peak period of military use in the Jiajing Dynasty was only thirty or forty years ago. Naturally, the ministers all remembered that Emperor Jiajing would really kill ministers to vent his anger when he suffered a defeat. He even killed the minister of the Ministry of War.

Chief Assistant Shen Shixing had no choice but to think of ways to persuade the emperor to calm down. Otherwise, how could the emperor discuss matters if he kept swearing like this?

Then he went forward and said: "The people outside the Tao River are all of the Fan tribe. In the past years, the captives could not ride. The border army was only on guard against the Fan rebels, so the weapons were weak and they could not stop them hastily.

Nowadays, Huo Luochi invades the bandits, mostly to rob the Fan tribe, and he is afraid that China will save the Fan tribe, so he claims to be a bluff. "

This means that Your Majesty, please calm down. The people being robbed by the pirates over there are also barbarians, so don't be so angry and anxious.

Emperor Wanli said angrily: "The Fan people are also my pure sons, and the Fan people's land is also a feudal territory developed by our ancestors!

The governor has an edict and is entrusted by the court to guard the area. If he is unable to defend himself against the invaders in times of emergency, what does he do on a daily basis? "

Shen Shixing could only follow the emperor's instructions first: "The emperor scolded the governor for not being able to improve the border affairs. Seeing the sage and wise judgment, the border ministers should also be convinced. Now we must immediately instruct them to select generals and train troops, and organize the border affairs in a timely manner."

Emperor Wanli was very disappointed and said with great dissatisfaction: "In ancient times, civil servants like Du Yu could not cross the saddle, could not shoot through Zha, and Zhuge Lun, wearing a feather fan, could make great achievements with his troops!"

Shen Shixing said helplessly: "Both of these two are famous ministers. They have been rare since ancient times. Talents are naturally rare."

Suddenly someone came out and said: "If there are talents who can study both literature and martial arts, we also have Lin Tailai in this dynasty."

Emperor Wanli looked up and didn't recognize the old man who was speaking, so he asked, "Who are you?"

The man replied: "Wang Shizhen of the Ministry of Officials."

All the officials in the palace were speechless, but you, Old Leader Wang, dared to speak. The emperor was still in a state of rage!

But that’s normal, newcomers are generally very willing to perform actively!