"Your Majesty uses ministers, and he should be admonished by ministers, this chapter is not approved, the big officials are not supplemented, the abandoned officials cannot be used, the ministers are useless in the cabinet, everything is useless, what is the benefit of staying?"

In the capital, the cabinet was on duty, and Shoufu Ye submitted a resignation to the emperor under the grief and indignation. After the ink dried, he sighed lightly, put the resignation letter into the cabinet courier, and ordered the people on duty to hand it into the palace.

Due to the lack of rain for several days, the temperature in central Beijing is high, although the ice cubes have been prepared in the duty room, the heat is still scorching. Ye Xianggao couldn't sit still, and came to the small garden next to the duty room. This small garden is the first assistant Xia Yan in the Jiajing period to ask the royal permission to repair, the place is not big, but it is cool enough, it is the best place for the ministers to enjoy the cool in summer.

Sitting in the shade of the tree, Ye Xianggao was in a bad mood, and in recent days, he has often fallen into helplessness and depression. But these are not the reasons for his resignation today, what caused him to be discouraged and want to leave was the resignation of Sun Piyang, a colleague in the party and a secretary of the ministry.

Ye Xianggao knew that Sun Piyang's resignation was undoubtedly related to the inability of Jingcha to make a difference, but this matter had a lot to do with it. What's more, the one in the palace is deliberately balanced, and the bullet is left in the middle, and the holy will is like this, how can it be done by Donglin's wishful thinking.

Donglin Gu and the traitorous party are incompatible, but the struggle always has to talk about means, knowing that it will not work, and how can it be achieved if it hurts the enemy by 1,000 and loses 800.

Zhao Nanxing and Zou Yuanbiao were the second dukes, Ye Xianggao made it clear to them, and the second duke also knew that it was difficult to do, but he no longer commanded indiscriminately, which made it difficult for Ye Xianggao to clean up.

Although Ye Xianggao regretted Sun Piyang's resignation, he actually wanted Sun Laoshangshu to return to his hometown, so as not to die of exhaustion in office. More importantly, Sun Piyang is a "hardliner" in the party who has been in Beijing this time, and if he goes to his old man's house, the situation will be completely calmed down, which will help stabilize the government and government.

Ye Xianggaozong is a member of the Donglin Party, but as the first assistant of the cabinet, he knows that stability is paramount. There is always an opportunity to deal with the traitorous party, and we cannot rush it.

However, thinking of what Sun Piyang said in his resignation, Ye Xianggao couldn't help but have a headache.

The reason for his resignation in Lao Shangshu's resignation letter to the emperor was that he was a heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, but the court did not make up for the lack of officials, so he resigned.

The lack of officials has been the biggest malpractice that has plagued the court in the past 20 years, and there is a shortage of 15 scholars and waiters in the north and south capitals; The Supreme Supervision and Impeachment Body, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, lacks four people, including the Imperial History of the Metropolitan and the Deputy Imperial History; There are six governors and governors of other provinces. These are all high-quality officials, the mainstay of the court, and there are countless local vacancies.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty is now short of more than half of the officials. On the one hand, there is a vacancy in the official position, and on the other hand, there is a long queue of candidates in the ranks of the officials, how many people have worked hard to read the title of the gold list of scholars, but they are not allowed to appoint, or they have served for many years, and they have not been promoted or transferred, and they have wasted the years, which is really regrettable.

However, what is intolerable is that His Majesty is actually talking to the internal supervisor in private What Haiyu Shengping, there is nothing to do in the world, what do so many officials want the court to do? What do you say about how many people do you want to support an official, and now there are many fewer officials, and you need a lot of money from the people, so that the court saves expenses and the people get benefits, and they are all happy.

"What do you want so many officials to do? With so much less, isn't the court still there, and the unseen ones have fallen. His Majesty the Emperor said something like this.

This is really a foolish gentleman, a stingy gentleman, and a slamming gentleman!

Ye Xianggao was angry every time he thought of such foolish things that His Majesty said.

It must be known that the imperial examination is the foundation of the country, but today's emperor ignores the imperial examination and does not serve as an official, which is really breaking the foundation of the country!

Fuqing Xianggong really hates His Majesty.

Not long ago, in order to supplement the provincial officials, the Ministry of Officials had conducted several examinations and selected a total of 70 people, but they did not get the emperor's approval.

Ye Xianggao had been urged dozens of times for this reason, but there was no follow-up.

Li Sancai can't enter the cabinet, but the cabinet ministers still have to make up for it!

Therefore, Ye Xianggao continued to ask for additional ministers, but there was no news in the palace.

This made Ye Xianggao very disappointed, knowing that after Sun Laoshangshu wrote to resign, he was busy asking His Majesty the Emperor to issue an order to keep Sun Shangshu, but the emperor did not answer like a deaf man.

Sun Piyang can't go, his suggestions have been repeatedly rejected by the emperor, and the matter of Jingcha cannot be progressed, as a heavenly official, there is no action, what is the point of staying in this ministry.

What made Lao Shangshu most angry was that when he took office a year ago, he recommended to the emperor Gu Xiancheng, Zhao Nanxing, Zou Yuanbiao, Gao Panlong and other officials who had been cut down by 138 people, but the emperor was not sure of any of them.

Just yesterday, Sun Piyang hung up the seal and left.

In the palace, there was no movement at all, and even a lieutenant sent a lieutenant to return it.

But I don't know if the old man's resignation has been submitted to His Majesty, and His Majesty is also indifferent.

Ye Xianggao smiled bitterly, shook his head and got up.

After that, the cabinet sent news to the palace, saying that the Fuqing Xianggong was ill and could no longer serve as a councilor.

Wanli, who was accompanying the concubine Niangniang to fish and play, heard the news, was stunned, and hurriedly asked someone to bring the resignation of the previous Fuqing Xianggong, read it several times, summoned Zhang Cheng, and asked him to go to Ye Xianggao's mansion immediately to spread the message, saying that no matter what, Fuqing Xianggong would be appointed to the cabinet council. He also sent the imperial doctor to hurry to see Lord Shousuke.

Wanli really can't sit still, he can't be an official, he can be empty, but the cabinet can't be empty. The foundation of the country and the ancestors, there must always be a steward to take the helm for him.

Otherwise, it's really a mess.

The palace sent three groups of people to the Fuqing Prime Minister's Mansion before and after, Zhang Cheng received two groups, and the third group was sent by Sun Xian, the eunuch of the Si Li's palm seal. After this time, Ye Xianggao finally agreed to return to the cabinet, but before returning to the cabinet, he asked Sun Xian to bring a piece of music to the emperor.

The content of the note is to remind the emperor that he should prepare a guard of honor for King Fu.

After the music was in Wanli's hands, Wanli threw it away angrily on the spot.

Why?

Because Wanli knew that it was Ye Xianggao reminding him that it was time for King Fu to return to the domain.

Indeed, Ye Xianggao was reminding the emperor that he should let King Fu return to the domain, and he just wanted to do this now. If he can let King Fu return to the domain during his tenure as the first assistant, his achievement is no less than fighting for the crown prince back then.

Ye Xianggao was not in a hurry, he was waiting for the emperor's approval.

The emperor's reply was less than a day, and he did not return to the cabinet for a day.

Until, an 800-mile expedited from the Changzhou government made his old man unable to sit still.

"Quick, prepare the car and enter the palace!"

Fuqing was so anxious that he didn't even have time to change his clothes.

At the same time, the palace also received a report from Jiangnan.

"What? He burned down Donglin Academy? ”

Wanli looked at Zhang Cheng dumbfounded, and next to Zhang Cheng was Tian Ergeng, the signing of Jinyi Weibei Town, and the news was sent to the palace by Tian Ergeng himself.

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The National Day holiday is two days, and today it will be a chapter, and it will return to normal tomorrow.