However, before going home, Zhang Juzheng still has one important thing to do, that is, to do a good job in the personnel work of the cabinet. During his absence for three months, there is no guarantee that someone will seize the opportunity to seize power. Therefore, it is necessary to remove hidden dangers before leaving.
In the past three months, as a rule, one person should be invited to temporarily take the post of records, and Zhang Juzheng carefully analyzed all the cabinet ministers who were in opposition to the DPRK.
There are still three cabinet ministers who lived in Qin Long. They are Xu Jie, Gao Gong and Yin Shizhan. If you want to choose temporary records, you must first look for them from these three people. Zhang Juzheng weighed again and again, and felt that all three of them were inappropriate.
both Xu and Gao have served as records, and Gao Gong and he are political enemies. Once they sit in this position, is there any reason to give up again? Xu Jie, his predecessor, returned to the position of slaughter slap. He returned to Beijing three months later, so how dare he return to the mountain? As for Yin Shizhan, this man is anxious and willful, but many people in the middle officials like him. Once he is recommended to Beijing, it is tantamount to inviting wolves into the room.
As for the two current cabinet ministers, Lu Tiaoyang and Zhang Siwei, although he is the only one who follows the lead, there is no guarantee that they will not have second thoughts after a long time. Zhang Juzheng decided not only not to temporarily give up the position of records, but also to add two more cabinet ministers before leaving Beijing, so as to contain the two old cabinet ministers, Lu Tiaoyang and Zhang Siwei.
Zhang Juzheng found an opportunity to propose to the emperor the addition of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Ma Ziqiang, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Zuo Assistant Minister of the Official Department and Shen Fushi, a scholar of Dongge Pavilion, as cabinet ministers. This performance was quickly approved by the emperor. After this personnel arrangement, Zhang Juzheng solved the worries that the butcher was not coveted, and he went home to bury his father with confidence.
On March 11th, the sixth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng officially set off for his hometown. On that day, the emperor ordered hundreds of officials to go to the vacuum temple in the suburbs to see him off, and ordered Zhang Hong, the eunuch of Sili, to hold a suburban banquet for Zhang Juzheng on behalf of the royal family. The Empress Dowager of the two palaces also sent eunuchs to give gifts of gold coins.
not only that, the imperial court also arranged for thousands of forbidden soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Royal Guards to accompany Zhang Juzheng to the south, escorting them along the way. Qi Jiguang, an old subordinate of Zhang Juzheng, heard the news, and even sent one hundred of the most advanced birdmen in the world at that time as a leader to gain prestige.
for a time, horses' hooves and colorful flags fluttered on the official road, and the crowns were like clouds and cars. A large team of 1 people, in a long snake array, is coming this way. This style and posture are just like emperors.
On the way home, Zhang Juzheng, who was sitting in a big sedan chair with 16 people, was in a very comfortable mood. Since the Spring Festival, since the Spring Festival in Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng has been filled with happy events.
First of all, before the Spring Festival, more than one million mangoku grains from grain depots all over the south of the Yangtze River were delivered to Tongzhou warehouse in full, without a grain difference. Since Emperor Yongle moved the capital to Beijing, the tax grain in the south has been shipped twice in the Spring and Autumn Period. The river is abundant at this time, which can accommodate the navigation of thousands of ships.
But fortunes depend on each other. In a year, spring floods and autumn floods are also the most worrying. When a boat is sailing in the river, if it is repeatedly rained and flooded, and the tragedy of shipwreck and death occurs every time, the food loss ranges from hundreds of thousands of stones to more than 2, to 3, stones, which has never been fully collected. For a century or two, this contradiction has never been solved.
After Zhang Juzheng took office, Wu Guifang, a water conservancy expert, was appointed as the governor of Caohe River. In three years, the regulation of Caohe River in Jianghuai has achieved great results. Through dredging and the construction of sluice stations, the regulation function of the water system has been enhanced. At the turn of summer and autumn last year, Wu Guifang boldly went up and down and suggested changing the spring and autumn transportation to winter transportation. Winter is originally a dry season, and some riverbeds are shallow with only ankles. Not to mention big tankers, even shallow boats can't get through.
However, after Wu Guifang's three-year management, many flood storage lakes can open floodgates to ensure the necessary water level for grain transportation in Caohe River. This move changed the ancestral system of the imperial court for 2 years. If it is mishandled and slightly wrong, it will inevitably lead to a new round of attacks by the opposition. Zhang Juzheng, though cautious, still urged people to adopt Wu Guifang's suggestion. Now that the winter transportation has been successful, more than one million mangoku grains have been safely delivered to the capital without sinking a ship and killing one person. This is simply a miracle!
Zhang Juzheng's hanging heart finally fell, and he quickly heard about the Emperor. As soon as Emperor Wanli was happy, he decreed that the Spring and Autumn Festival should be abolished forever and the Winter Festival should be a permanent example.
The success of the Winter Games, all the officials involved were rewarded, or promoted or married. This group of people were so happy that they didn't wake up, and the second big happy event followed. During the Lantern Festival in the first month, when the emperor enjoyed himself with all the people and watched the Aoshan Lantern in front of the meridian gate, there was a good news from Liaodong in 6 times.
Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, and Li Chengliang, the company commander, got information that the Mongolian Tatar tribe wanted to take advantage of the border town of Guancheng to celebrate the Spring Festival and raid and rob cattle and sheep for a long time. The two men played along, luring the enemy to outflank him in depth. In the battle of Tuanshanbao, the invading enemy was encircled and killed, and they won a great victory. Below the chief, they won more than 8 Lu-class songs. This is a great victory that has never been seen for many years. It is not only a great national prestige, but also beneficial to improving the morale of the soldiers on the Nine Sides.
With these two happy events as the foundation, Zhang Juzheng was in a good mood on his way home, but Zhang Juzheng, beaming, didn't expect that there were more surprises waiting for him in Zhending House ahead.
Just after the Spring Festival, which lasted for six years in Wanli, Qianpu, the magistrate of Zhending Prefecture in Beizhili, was very busy. He is not busy for the national economy and people's livelihood, but to meet the transit of Zaifu Zhang Juzheng.
Although Sipin Magistrate is a great man in the local area, it is even more difficult to see a record. Even if you go to Beijing for an audience, it's business. Put your hands on your knees and finish a few dry mandarin words. You have to pat your ass and leave. From beginning to end, Zaifu doesn't take a look at you, and he can't find a chance to curry favor with you.
Champ thinks that he and Zhang Juzheng have neither the feelings of the hard-working townships nor the friendship between teachers and students, and he can't find a thread to connect with Zaifu from the inside out. This time, Zhang Juzheng's coming home to bury his father just gave him a chance to bridge the gap, so he decided to take the reception by surprise and make great efforts.
He has prepared a sedan chair for Zhang Juzheng, a unique sedan chair that has never been seen before. What kind of sedan chair is this?
This big sedan chair is several times bigger than the ordinary sedan chair. Even the sixteen people he is sitting in now carry the big sedan chair, which is a drop in the bucket compared with it.
This sedan chair is about 5 square meters. There is not only a bedroom, but also a study. There is a book case in the study, with paper, ink and inkstone on it. If you are bored, you can practice calligraphy and draw a few strokes. Moreover, the foot is covered with a thick scarlet carpet, and it is soft and soft without any sound.
If you stay in the sedan chair for a long time and it's too boring, you can also take a walk in the corridor around the sedan chair to see the scenery outside.
The corridor is carved with patterns of hundreds of birds and flowers, with a beak, a feather and a leaf, all of which are colorful and lifelike. The top of the sedan chair is densely woven with fine silk that can be seen as golden thread, and the outside is covered with waterproof bright butter silk. The top of the sedan chair flies like a curved roof, and the four corners of the eaves are steep, and there is a golden phoenix flying on each side.
under the eaves is a hanging curtain about one foot high, also made of gorgeous yellow satin. Under the gentle wind, the scarlet silk tapestry decorated on the curtain swings slightly, like a delicate jade hand fluttering on a silk string, which makes people think wildly. Beneath the veil, there are four open windows with white silk lightly applied on each side. The amazing window grilles are paper-cut by well-known local artists.
not only that, the intimate Qian Zhifu also provided two young girls of fifteen or sixteen with company.
so how many people do you need to carry such a big sedan chair? The answer is 32 people! And these 32 people are all strong and strong men. When Zhang Juzheng rode the giant sedan chair specially made by Champ for him, along the way, the local guards all led their subordinates to kneel down to meet him, caressing and pressing the provinces to cross the border to see him off. And Zhang Juzheng sometimes sedan chair, just open the curtain a little face, waved and went away, make those government official dumbfounded.
Moreover, he had a big appetite because he ate a Huaiyang dish carefully prepared by Qian Pu in Zhending House, which led local governments to hire chefs who are good at cooking Jiangnan dishes with huge sums of money. "At one time, experts in southern cuisine called for a few copies."
Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that all officials of civil and military affairs who entered the country to meet local vassal kings all knelt down to pay homage to them, even if they were first-rate officials.
However, when Zhang Juzheng's giant sedan chair passed by Nanyang Mansion, Zhang Juzheng did not kneel down to the Tang King who was sealed here. Instead, the Tang King went out of the city to meet him and hosted a beautiful banquet. In this regard, Zhang Juzheng is just bowing his hand. When he arrived in Xiangyang, Xiang Wang, who lived in the city, took the bus three miles out of the city, and his courtesy was even worse than that of Tang Wang.
These days, Huang's nobles not only refused to accept Zhang Juzheng's worship, but condescended to run out of the city to meet this unsmiling Zaifu. They only thought it would be a great honor to walk with him.
Zhang Juzheng left Beijing on March 11th and arrived in his hometown on April 9th. It took only 28 days to travel more than 2, miles. As soon as he entered Jingzhou, Zhang Juzheng took off his official robes and put on his mourning clothes. Although hundreds of officials gathered outside the city to meet him on their knees, his big sedan chair didn't even stop. He even lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and refused to wave with the officials, so he went straight to see the official residence in the east gate of the city.
twenty years have passed since Zhang Juzheng was ill in Jiajing's thirty-third year and returned to Beijing for three years. After 2 years' ups and downs, Zhang Juzheng has changed from a six-product academician courtyard to a one-product butcher with the palm of his hand and the body of his country.
Zhang Juzheng's return to his hometown this time is also the most beautiful time in his life. This ostentation and extravagance, even no one can match it through the ages.