In March, the capital city started a battle for the Minister of Personnel.

Officials and scholars in the capital, and even ordinary people, are concerned about this matter. The new Minister of Personnel has become the most concerned issue for everyone after dinner.

There are also speculations about the new candidates for the Minister of Personnel, and there are many different opinions, but the most popular candidates are Dong Fen, the Left Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Yan Ne, the Minister of Rites.

"The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel will not be selected, this is a practice for going to court!"

Faced with rumors that Dong Fen, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was to take over as Minister of Personnel, but there were strong opposition in the officialdom.

Since Taizu abolished the prime minister, the Ming Dynasty has always focused on checks and balances of power in its system, and the Ministry of Personnel, which was in charge of the promotion of all officials, has become the top priority of "checks and balances".

Since the reign of Taizu, it has become a common practice for the Minister of Personnel to be the Prime Minister and the Minister of Personnel to be promoted to Minister of Personnel. This is also a feature of the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty.

"The court's customary system cannot be abolished!"

"The court is full of talents, so we should choose other talents!"

"The candidates for the Minister of Personnel should be selected from the Minister of the Six Ministers!"

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He has always been a gun-shooter. Facing the most popular candidate, various forces have pointed their finger at Dong Fen, all trying to prevent Dong Fen from becoming the Minister of Personnel.

The Minister of Personnel is dominating the promotion of officials and is undoubtedly the most attractive throne for each share of power, especially in the environment where the chief minister Xu Jie returns government affairs to the various departments.

According to previous regulations, the candidates for the Minister of Personnel need to be postponed.

However, in the Jiajing Dynasty, many things didn't work. For example, Xia Yan, who was the Minister of Personnel at the time, became the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty. Li Mo broke the convention that the Minister of Personnel did not serve as the Minister of Personnel, and Guo Pu also followed.

The Left Minister of Personnel was promoted directly to the Minister of Personnel.

There was not a delay in the past, but as long as it did not conform to Jiajing's intention, it would be abandoned directly. Therefore, the delay in this dynasty had long been in name only, and everything was selected based on Jiajing's will.

The current Minister of Personnel is no exception. The final outcome of the family depends on Jiajing's will.

Although it is impossible to vote to decide the candidate for the Minister of Personnel, many officials have continued to question and attack the "legality" of Dong Fen, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, in order to prevent Dong Fen from being elected through this point.

This is the chaos in the Ming Dynasty, and mutual criticism has long become the norm.

"Yan Ne cannot be appointed as the Minister of Personnel!"

"Yan, Xu Tong came out of Nanzhili, the imperial court's surname is Xu?"

"Whether he is the chief minister and the heavenly official, should he be the prime minister?"

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When there was a voice that the court was replaced by Yan Ne, the Minister of Rites, as the Minister of Personnel, there were also strong opposition in the officialdom, directly accusing Xu Jie and Yan Ne of becoming a village party.

The intimate relationship between Xu Jie and Yan Ne is no longer a secret. Once Yan Ne takes over as the Minister of Personnel and Xu Jie stays in the position of chief minister, the power of the Xu Party will undoubtedly reach its peak.

Not only Dong Fen's cliques, but other forces also came forward to stop him, and they were unwilling to see Yan Ne as the Minister of Personnel. If Yan Ne was really elected as the Minister of Personnel, no one in the court would have the strength to do so.

The Xu Party confronted each other.

Officials in the capital seemed very busy. After stopping Dong Fen, they continued to oppose Yan Ne.

Not only that, when it was rumored that Yang Bo, Minister of War and Wu Shan, Minister of Revenue, were also strongly opposed by them, which made the court full of curses.

Just as all forces were about to compete for the throne of the Minister of Personnel, their voices suddenly came to an abrupt end because a military situation suddenly came from the south.

There were 100,000 urgent military newspapers in Fujian. Without the deterrence of Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian, the Japanese pirates in Fujian became even more arrogant. On February 26, the Japanese pirates captured Pinghai Acropolis.

It was different from the fact that they left after the robbery before. However, this time the Japanese pirates chose to entrench in Pinghai Acropolis, captured Zhenghe and Shouning, and each guarded the sea route as a retreat.

It is obvious that the situation of the Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty deteriorated again, and the Japanese pirates actually occupied Pinghai Acropolis as their nest.

Pinghaiwei was built during the Hongwu period and had 5,600 quotas, which was an important part of Fujian's coastal defense system. However, after Xinghua City, this acropolis was also captured.

The news came, forcing the imperial officials to re-examine the stubborn disease of Japanese pirates.

Previously, many officials in the capital did not take Hu Zongxian's achievements in suppressing Japanese Japanese in the southeast seriously, but seeing Fujian losing two cities in a row, they finally realized the amazing strength of the Japanese pirates and understood the importance of Hu Zongxian.

But because of the impeachment of Chen Fengyi, the Nanjing Hukeshi, a greedy hat was put on Hu Zongxian's head on the grounds of "occupying 33,000 taels of national treasury".

But after he left his post, Xinghua City and Pinghai City were captured one after another, and the losses were unmeasurable.

If things continue to worsen like this, not to mention the wars surrounding the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, there may be some thieves taking the opportunity to cause trouble and attack cities and villages in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the court had many Hu Zongxian who called for the resumption of idle taxes at home, the court had no such plan at all, and the cabinet and the Ministry of War quickly came up with a response plan.

The court immediately ordered Zhejiang Deputy General Qi Jiguang to lead the "Qi Family Army" to Fujian to suppress the Japanese, while Guangdong and Guangxi Governor Zhang Nie was appointed as the Governor of Guangxi Governor of Guangxi, the military affairs of Guangdong and Fujian.

At the end of last year, due to the loss of Xinghua City, Fujian Governor You Zhen was dismissed from office and returned home. Now the position of Fujian Governor is still empty. Originally, the Beijing Inspection Commission was looking for candidates, but the plan was already unable to keep up with the changes.

It was undoubtedly too long to send officials from the capital, so some people proposed to use Tan Lun, who was mourning in his hometown in Jiangxi.

Tan Lun, a native of Tanfang, Jiangxi Province, has been well-read in poetry and books since childhood, has a sharp mind and is extremely intelligent. He passed the Jinshi in the 23rd year of Jiajing. He was only 24 years old at the time and was first appointed as the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites.

He served as a deputy chief of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and later transferred to Zhejiang as the governor of Taizhou. Tan Lun trained 1,000 famous township soldiers, with clear distribution and uniform advancement, and soon became an elite force.

The Japanese pirates besieged Taizhou, but they had to leave without conquering them. The Japanese pirates turned to invade Xianju, Linhai, and Tan Lun captured and killed them all, and was promoted to deputy envoy of Zhejiang's patrol and sea route.

The Japanese pirates attacked Taizhou from Xiangshan, Tan Lun was in Magang, He Jiashilan defeated them one after another, and together with Qi Jiguang, defeated the Japanese pirates in Gebu, Nanwan, and were appointed as the Right Consul of Zhejiang Provincial Administration.

However, the bad news of his father's death came, and Tan Lun had to leave and return to Jiangxi.

However, when he was mourning, he encountered the court sending troops to attack Zhang Lian. The court used Tan Lun to lead Zhejiang troops to attack Raoping's rebellious thief Lin Chaoxi, who later asked the court to resign and return home to mourn.

If Tan Lun is appointed as the governor of Fujian, it will not only shorten the vacant time of the governor of Fujian, but also effectively give Fujian a leader with military talents. It can be said that it will kill two birds with one stone.

However, no matter which force wants to arrange his own people, in the face of this major issue, everyone has no objection to the use of Tan Lun. What's more, the Fujian Governor seems to have become a hot potato.

Of course, Tan Lun is now mourning at home. If the court wants to enable him to serve as the governor of Fujian, it must obtain Jiajing's consent.

What is helpless is that before the tone of Tan Lun’s affairs was set, someone’s finger was impatient to point at Wushan. After Xu Jie received the tax documents for Guangdong salt from the Ministry of Revenue, he went directly to Wanshou Palace.
Chapter completed!