In the afternoon, Guo Song temporarily convened the five ministers of the political hall to discuss major matters.

Everyone hurried to the official residence of King Jin, and Pan Liao walked out of the courtyard and happened to meet Zhang Qianyi.

"Lao Pan, what did you say His Royal Highness the King of Jin temporarily summoned us for?" Zhang Beiyi asked with a smile.

Pan Liao smiled slightly: "I guess it's to determine the matter of the new appearance, Your Highness wants to hear our opinions." ”

"It's finally decided!"

Zhang Qianyi sighed with emotion, and said with a smile: "Who does Lao Pan think will win?" ”

Pan Liao smiled and said, "It's hard to say, His Highness hasn't communicated with us before, I think he probably has a decision, but he still wants to hear our opinions." ”

"Indeed, these two phases affect the hearts of many people!"

According to the practice of the Tang Dynasty, officials above the third rank were appointed by the Son of Heaven, and after the accession of Daizong Li Yu, the appointment power of the Son of Heaven was expanded to the fourth rank and above.

Guo Song made adjustments, clarifying the right to recommend and veto, the appointment power of Xiangguo is in his hands, and each prime minister has the right to recommend, except for Xiangguo, the rest of the officials above the fourth grade are decided by the ministers through consultation, but Guo Song has the right of veto.

This appointment is limited to civilian officials, and titles and honorary officials above the third rank are still conferred by Guo Song, and the appointment and dismissal of the military is a separate system, which is not within this scope.

After a while, the five Xiangguo gathered in the official room of the King of Jin, which was an informal discussion, and the number of people was not large, Guo Song arranged for his subordinates to move a few soft chairs, so that everyone could sit in their official room.

"I invite you to come today, mainly to discuss the vacancy of the two prime ministers, if the time drags on for too long, it will be detrimental to the operation of the imperial court, if possible, I hope it will be settled today."

Everyone understands that His Royal Highness the King of Jin must have considered it almost, so he invited everyone to discuss, of course, if everyone opposes strongly, the King of Jin will also consider it carefully.

Guo Song took out five recommendation forms, and continued: "This is the five candidates recommended by you, Cui Yuanfeng recommended by Pan Xiangguo, Xue Xun recommended by Du Xiangguo, Wei Yingwu recommended by Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, Du Isolated Qiu recommended by Cao Shu's envoy, and Lu Zhen recommended by Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of War, plus Pei Yanling recommended by Senior Minister Li Yu before he became seriously ill, and Cui Yuan recommended by Senior Minister Xue Xun, and Lu Mai recommended by Senior Minister Du Qiu, there are actually a total of eight candidates.

Then remove Xue Xun recommended by Du Xiangguo, because of his health, he is not qualified for the important task of Xiangguo, Du Xiangguo can consider recommending another person. ”

Du You shook his head and smiled: "No need, the seven Xiangguo candidates are all pillars, so I don't need to recommend them anymore." ”

Guo Song had asked Du You before, and Du You said that he, as a secretary of the ministry, respected the opinions of other ministers, and here Guo Song asked Du You again, which also made him publicly express his position in front of everyone.

"Alright! Since Du Xiangguo gave up the recommendation, we will consider the new Xiangguo from the seven people, in fact, these seven people basically represent my employment standards, with both ability and political integrity, strong qualifications, may be slightly inferior to individual qualifications, but can also be considered as an exceptional promotion. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Song stopped and glanced at everyone, seeing that everyone didn't interrupt him, he smiled and continued: "Then let me talk about my considerations, first of all, I don't want Xiangguo to be the representative of the interests of a certain party, you represent the imperial court, represent the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the world, and must not be the spokesperson of a certain force, that is what the Southern Tang Eunuch Party did, this will definitely not work here, but I will also consider the feelings of the scholars in various places, in order to appease them, it is also necessary to consider the region, So this time, I consider one person from Hebei and one person from Guanzhong. ”

As soon as Guo Song's words came out, first Pei Yanling and Lu Zhen were excluded, leaving Cui Yuanfeng, Cui Wei and Lu Mai from Hebei, who were from Qinghe Cui's family, Boling Cui's family and Fanyang Lu's family, as well as Dugu Qiu and Wei Yingwu, who were from Guanzhong.

Guo Song smiled at Pan Liao again: "Pan Xiangguo recommended Cui Yuanfeng, can you please tell Pan Xiangguo the reason for recommending him?" ”

Pan Liao got up and said: "Thank you for the trust of His Royal Highness, I gave the humble post a chance to recommend Xiangguo, let's first talk about qualifications, Cui Yuanfeng is a Jinshi background, long-term local officials, from the main book has been to assassinate the history, twice was retained by the people and lost the opportunity to be promoted, he has been evaluated by the officials for fifteen consecutive years, after entering the court, he was the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple and the household servant, Jingyuan soldiers changed and migrated he was named with the Zhongshu Men under the Ping Zhangshi, obtained the qualifications to enter the phase, after the Jingyuan mutiny, he was dismissed for opposing the appointment of the traitor Lu Qi, and has been idle at home, And resolutely not used by Tian Chenghe's uncle and nephew, I think his qualifications and moral integrity are enough, so I recommend him to be a prime minister. ”

Guo Song smiled again: "In fact, Cui Yan and Lu Mai's qualifications and moral integrity are not inferior to Cui Yuanfeng, why doesn't Pan Xiangguo recommend these two?" ”

Pan Liao sighed and said: "Although Cui Yi and Lu Mai are also good, they are not inferior to Cui Yuanfeng in all aspects, but when we consider Xiangguo, we need to refer to some other factors." ”

"Like what?" Guo Song asked quietly.

"Such as the contribution to the Jin Kingdom, the influence of the family, and their physical condition."

Hearing the three influences that Pan Liao said, everyone realized that this Cui Yuanfeng was probably set by Guo Song himself, and handed it over to Pan Liao to recommend, because Pan Liao's power was weakened before, everyone speculated whether there was a gap between the King of Jin and Pan Liao, or the King of Jin was dissatisfied with Pan Liao, now it seems that they are thinking too much, the most trusted person of the King of Jin is probably Pan Liao, he only restricts the power of the right minister, and has nothing to do with Pan Liao.

The influence of the family, the Boling Cui clan produced a Cui Zao who was attached to the eunuch party, which affected the entire family, and the contribution to the Jin State, the Qinghe Cui clan dedicated to the state of Zhaozhou, giving the Jin army a springboard to enter Hebei, and the Fanyang Lu clan helped the Jin army seize Youzhou, both of them have made great contributions, the third point is health reasons, Lu Mai is old, his health is worse than Xue Xun, even Xue Xun has withdrawn, what is the point of re-electing him?

Ruled out in this way, only Cui Yuanfeng was suitable, and everyone was silent for a while.

Guo Song didn't explain, and said with a smile: "Cui Yuanfeng will let it go first, and then talk about another place, I plan to choose one of the two between Dugu Qiu and Wei Yingwu, but it is not confirmed, I want to hear your opinions, I hope you can speak freely." ”

It was Pan Liao who spoke first, "Your Highness, Dugu Qiu has rich experience and very old qualifications, but he has a fatal weakness, that is, he has no experience as a local official, just by virtue of this, the lowly position is not very favorable for him to enter the prime minister, and the lowly position is more inclined to Wei Yingwu." ”

Cao Wannian shook his head and said: "Pan Xiangguo used no experience as a magistrate as an excuse to oppose Dugu Senior Zhengqiu, it is too rigid, if you must have experience as a magistrate, Li Linfu has not been a magistrate for a day back then, why did he become the right minister?" Being a magistrate is just to have an in-depth understanding of the people's sufferings and understand how the court and the local government get along, not an absolute condition for entering the prime minister. ”

Zhang Qiu'an said: "Cao Xiangguo doesn't know, it is precisely because we have all served in the local area for too short a time and do not have a deep understanding of the local people's feelings, so we need a Xiangguo who is well versed in the local people's feelings. ”

Zhang Beiyi also said: "Speaking of understanding the people's feelings, you don't necessarily have to be an official, with Dugu's decades of life experience, his understanding of the people's sufferings is probably much deeper than ours, and I feel that Dugu's senior government should be appropriate." ”

The four Xiangguo formed a two-to-two, Guo Song glanced at Du You, who had not expressed his position, and said with a smile: "What about Du Xiangguo's attitude?" ”

Everyone's eyes are looking at Du You, if you vote, Du You's vote will be very important.

Du You was silent for a moment and smiled: "Yesterday, I was looking at the zengguang Xianwen compiled by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and there is a sentence in which I am very emotional, called 'The family has thousands of treasures, It's better to have an old man in the family', the old man's virtue and respect can unite the strength of the family, unite the children of the family, his life experience, can help his children and grandchildren tide over the difficulties, I think of our court, our court has just been built, we really need an old qualified minister to sit in charge, let the senior minister serve as the prime minister, is a good way, in fact, I prefer Li Yu to serve as the prime minister, but Li Yu is seriously ill, so alone as a veteran of the four dynasties, I think he is more suitable than Wei Yingwu to serve as the prime minister. ”

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In the afternoon of the same day, Guo Song promulgated the regent decree, and named Cui Yuanfeng, the former household servant, as the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

At the same time, Pei Yanling was named the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and served as the secretary of the criminal department, and the Pingzhang of the same Zhongshu Men, Lu Zhen was named the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and the Pingzhangshi of the same Zhongshu Menxia, and served as the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Cui Yan and Lu Mai were both named the doctors of Jin Ziguanglu, Cui Yan was appointed as Taichangqing, and Lu Fa was appointed as a scholar of Jixiandian.