Chapter 31 Section 31

The project of rebuilding Qingyi Garden started soon.On the one hand, Lishan advanced money, selected auspicious days, and quietly started to clean up the muck, and on the other hand, Lei Tingchang ironed the samples and drew pictures, and submitted them one after another. The matter was done very secretly, but it could be hidden from the eyes and ears of the officials of the foreign court, but it could not be hidden from the all-hands-on King Chun.This was what Li Shan was most worried about. He let King Chun know about it, and when he asked him face to face, he had nothing to answer.So I have been urging Li Lianying to try to persuade Empress Dowager Cixi to explain to King Chun early so as not to embarrass him.

There was no need to play tricks, Li Lianying only asked the Empress Dowager Cixi when she was happy, and told the truth: it was almost the end of the year, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to ask for money in order to meet the advances of various places.No matter whether it is a loan from the Navy Yamen or a loan from the Ministry of Households, it has to be checked by the king of alcohol. If the king of alcohol does not understand the intention of his superiors, he will definitely refute it. Empress Dowager Cixi naturally obeyed.In fact, she had already planned it out. It didn’t take much brains to explain the matter to King Jin. The troublesome thing is Yan Jingming, Minister of the Household Department. Funding must also be very difficult.

After careful consideration, she came up with a way to send a message to the military aircraft to draw up a list of candidates for promotion to the University.Under the regulations of the cabinet, the bachelor has always been four-terminal and two-cooperation.The first assistant is Li Hongzhang, who was conferred as a Bachelor of Wenhuadian University as usual, and Zuo Zongtang, the second assistant according to his seniority in the cabinet, should have been awarded a Bachelor of Wuyingdian University, but because he was born in Juren, he was awarded Dongge University Scholars, the same history has not been changed, and then come Linggui, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and Erlehebu, a scholar of Tirenge University.The two co-organizers are Encheng, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Yan Jingming, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

During August and September of this year, Zuo Zongtang and Linggui died of illness one after another, leaving two phases vacant, which were naturally replaced by co-organizers.The co-organizer can also receive the minister, and when he becomes a bachelor, he has the function of "management department", and he is relieved of the minister as usual.In this way, Yan Jingming was invited out of the yamen of the household department logically. However, the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't have a deep dislike for Yan Jingming at this time, so she asked him to fill in the vacancy left by Zuo Zongtang's Dongge University Bachelor, and still manage the household department.As for the vacancy of the Minister of the Household Department, the Empress Dowager Cixi decided to find an obedient person to be the minister.

There is still a person in the yamen of the Ministry of Households, who is Manque Shangshu Chongqi, who is stubborn and unresolved, which is quite a headache for King Chun.Empress Dowager Cixi was also extremely indifferent to him because of Empress Jiashun, so King Chun proposed to transfer him away, and Empress Dowager Cixi agreed without hesitation.However, Chongqi was not at a disadvantage, she made up for the lack of Encheng, and was transferred to be the head of the six departments, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, who happened to go to lecture on "Taoism" with Xu Tong.

This time, there were many transfers. First of all, the two co-organizing bachelors, one full and one Han, were to be selected in the Shangshu.According to the usual regulations, most of these are promoted by the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but Xu Tong's qualifications are still low, and the most qualified Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Bi Daoyuan, has always been silent and innocuous. This vacancy went to Li Hongzhang's number one pick, Zhang Zhiwan, Minister of Military Affairs and Criminal Affairs. The co-organizers who are full of vacancies, in terms of qualifications, Minister of Rites Yanxu, Minister of War Wula Xichong'a are both Hanlin of the Bingchen Division in the sixth year of Xianfeng, and Ula Xichong's promotion to the first rank was earlier than Yanxu, and even more Qualification upgrade co-organizer.Unexpectedly, both of them were empty, and there was a shortage of co-organizers. Zhu Bi personally wrote that Fu Kun, who was born as a Jinshi in the ninth year of Xianfeng, was promoted to fill, and was transferred from the Ministry of Industry to the Ministry of Households.Weng Tonghe, another Minister of the Ministry of Industry, was also transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs. This is because in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Weng Tonghe is peaceful and accessible, and the "master" has always been able to discuss the royal family's "household affairs" like the Minister of Internal Affairs and Nanshufang Hanlin. "Yes, the garden needs to use the Ministry's funds, so you might as well instruct the emperor to explain the difficulties to the "master", and the matter will be easier to handle.

At this time, the two ministers of the Ministry of Industry are naturally missing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi decided to replace Linshu and Pan Zuyin.Linshu belongs to the clan, but has Han blood, because he is the grandson of Tiebao, a famous minister of Qianjia. Linshu was a Jinshi in the third year of Xianfeng. He was neither a scholar in the Imperial Academy, nor had he ever been a minister. Two months ago, he was suddenly appointed by the Empress Dowager Cixi as a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy. It's really a prosperous official career, comparable to Fu Kun's grandeur.Both husbands are more expensive than their wives, and Mrs. Fukun and Mrs. Linshu were both in the favor of the Empress Dowager Cixi, so they brushed their husband's official fortune from their skirts.