dognovel Chapter 659 I'm still used to your unruly and undisciplined manner.
Chapter 659 I'm still used to your unruly and undisciplined manner.
Li Shanchang slowly calculated the manpower he could currently mobilize.
"After this year's special imperial examination, the Six Ministries should be able to free up some clerks."
"And some of the students who passed the imperial examination last year and are now interning in the Six Ministries can also be sent out."
"There are at least two or three hundred of these people in total."
"Moreover, it is impossible for local governments to have no officials left—as long as there are still people, they can be temporarily promoted, and their future can be decided based on their performance later."
"In this way, the manpower shortage in Jiangnan will not be so severe."
As for the manpower shortage in the Shandong Provincial Administration Commission?
Wasn't that old scoundrel Xu Da secretly kidnapping people in Ningyang County?
He doesn't care whether I live or die, so why should I care if he dies?
Seeing that Li Shanchang was also starting to go crazy, Zhu Biao couldn't help but rub his forehead. Then he picked up a letter from the table and had someone hand it to Li Shanchang.
“This was sent back by someone sent by my father.”
"The Shandong Provincial Administration Commission will be split into four provincial administration commissions: Shandong, Hebei, Liaodong, and Mobei South."
"However, we are indeed short-handed right now, so we'll just set aside the Liaodong Provincial Administration Commission for now."
“My father asked the Duke of Han and the Earl of Chengyi to preside over the court selection to choose the candidate for the Provincial Administration Commissioner of Liaodong.”
Li Shanchang read through Emperor Zhu's letter and then handed it to Liu Bowen.
The Provincial Governor was a proper second-rank official, and the imperial recommendation was a normal procedure.
But did Zhu Chongba actually request the court to appoint a provincial governor?
No!
According to the official system of the Ming Dynasty, a complete Provincial Administration Commissioner's Office would have two Provincial Administration Commissioners, one on the left and one on the right. Depending on the specific circumstances of the Provincial Administration Commissioner's Office, there would be Left and Right Assistant Commissioners and Left and Right Councilors. In addition, there would be a large number of assistant officials such as Clerk, Clerk, Advisor, Inquisitor, Deputy Inquisitor, Prisoner, Treasury Commissioner, and Granary Commissioner.
Moreover, if there is a Provincial Administration Commission, there must be corresponding Provincial Judicial Commission and Provincial Military Commission.
The Provincial Judicial Commissioner's Office, from the Provincial Judicial Commissioner to the Deputy Commissioner, and then to the Assistant Commissioner, Registrar, Magistrate, and Clerk, requires a total of about ten people.
The headquarters of the Regional Military Commission had a staff of thirteen.
The combined vacancies in the three government offices amount to nearly a hundred people.
Good heavens, we still don't know how to fill the one or two thousand vacancies caused by the ironware outflow case and the child abduction case, and Zhu Chongba has immediately created nearly a hundred more vacancies.
Li Shanchang could already picture the Minister of Personnel, Hong Yi, cursing wildly in the street.
But upon further reflection, Li Shanchang felt that this was already a stroke of good luck amidst misfortune.
After all, Emperor Zhu has only requested the separation of the Liaodong Regional Military Commission, not the immediate division of the Shandong Provincial Administration Commission into four.
If that were the case, Minister of Personnel Hong Yi might as well hang himself in the Ministry of Personnel's main hall.
While pondering this haphazardly, Li Shanchang looked at Zhu Biao and asked, "Does Your Highness have any thoughts on the selection of the Liaodong Provincial Governor?"
Zhu Biao said without hesitation, "I have no particular thoughts, but my brother-in-law must be excluded from the selection of candidates for the court."
Li Shanchang was slightly taken aback, and then almost went crazy on the spot.
Why!
Why should we exclude Yang, who is mentally unstable?
He's been the prefect of Dengzhou for two years now, you bastard!
Let him go to Liaodong as the provincial governor. This will make it easier for him to bully the Koreans, and at the same time, it will keep him far away. This will also reduce the trouble he causes us old folks in the future. Isn't that a good thing?
Damn it, if I had known that you, Zhu Tangyuan, wouldn't let Ting promote that madman Yang, I would have been better off not asking at all!
wrong.
I should have gotten sick sooner!
Li Shanchang grew angrier the more he thought about it, but Liu Bowen suddenly spoke up, saying, "The Imperial Son-in-Law has only served as the Prefect of Dengzhou for a little over a year, so he is indeed not suitable to be transferred to Liaodong as the Provincial Administration Commissioner."
Ok?
Even Liu Bowen, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, chickened out?
Just as Li Shanchang was internally ranting, Liu Bowen continued, "In my opinion, the first person to be appointed as the Provincial Governor of Liaodong should be Hu Weiyong."
Li Shanchang's eyes lit up, and he immediately echoed, "Your subject seconds this proposal."
Zhu Biao nodded and replied, "Then let's follow the advice of the Duke of Han and the Earl of Chengyi, and make the decision in court tomorrow."
……
Yang Shaofeng never expected that he would meet Hu Weiyong in Jinan Prefecture.
What surprised Yang Shaofeng even more was that Hu Weiyong had learned to play the victim.
"The Duke of Han and the Earl of Chengyi are both despicable."
"I am now over forty years old and almost fifty, but they pushed me to Liaodong, the godforsaken place, to be the provincial governor."
"Hey."
Hu Weiyong sighed heavily and said, "I don't know when I will die of illness in Liaodong."
Ok?
No.
Don't you feel awkward hearing these words coming from your mouth, Hu Weiyong?
You should be arrogant, domineering, and self-serving. Even when you were tied up by Deng Xiaoping's men, you still dared to call Zhu Chongba by his name. If we don't consider right or wrong, then Hu Weiyong should be a tough guy with a strong backbone.
And here you are, trying to gain sympathy?
I'm still used to your unruly demeanor.
Could you please restore it?
Just as Yang Shaofeng was internally complaining in bewilderment, Hu Weiyong continued, "I know that being sent to Liaodong as the Provincial Governor has nothing to do with the Prince Consort, and it cannot be blamed on him in any way."
"But... I didn't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me. The reason I went to Liaodong was twofold: first, because of the proposal by the Prince Consort to split up the Shandong Provincial Administration Commission; and second, because I was taking the blame for Wang Guangyang. If I were to die of illness in Liaodong, the Prince Consort and Wang Guangyang would surely feel some sadness, wouldn't they?"
Ok?
Yang Shaofeng was even more bewildered.
No.
Whether you live or die, why should I be sad?
Are we very familiar with each other?
Furthermore, it is true that I suggested splitting up the Shandong Provincial Administration Commission, but the final decision was made by that old scoundrel Zhu Chongba, and the matter of the imperial recommendation was done by those two old scoundrels, Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen.
Don't try to pin all the blame on me!
Yang Shaofeng was cursing inwardly, but Wang Guangyang, who was accompanying him, was getting anxious: "Hu Weiyong, you old bastard, if you don't want to go to Liaodong, then you write a memorial to the emperor. I will go to Liaodong, and you can become the Shandong Provincial Governor!"
Hu Weiyong glanced at Wang Guangyang.
Are you going to Liaodong?
Do you think I'm stupid?
The Shandong Provincial Administration Commission is about two or three times the size of the Liaodong Provincial Administration Commission. Only a fool would trade with you!
Hu Weiyong snorted coldly, then looked intently at Yang Shaofeng and sighed, "To be honest, Your Highness, before I came to Jinan Prefecture, I had already visited the Empress and Her Majesty in Ningyang County. The Empress and Her Majesty understood the difficulty of my journey to Liaodong and specially granted my request to come and borrow a few men from Your Highness."
Yang Shaofeng finally understood that none of the members of Zhu Chongba's bandit gang were good at using maps; they could often reveal their true intentions with just a few words.
Of course, whether Hu Weiyong was good at using maps is not important.
The important thing is that old man, Zhu Chongba.
You actually used the cattle and horses under my command to do me a favor?