After Song Yingxing left the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen convened a meeting of cabinet members.

The main content of the meeting was the appointment of Song Yingxing.

Unless there are extremely special circumstances, he will not appoint officials directly bypassing the cabinet.

Doing so not only complies with the rules of the court, but also helps Song Yingxing avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Why do you say that?

Just imagine this.

Suppose the Ming Dynasty was a very large group company.

Chongzhen was the chairman of the company, the six ministries were six branches, and the six ministers were the heads of each branch.

What did Chongzhen do by directly appointing Song Yingxing as the department manager of the branch company?

To others this was an airborne act.

In real life.

Employees in the branch office will be skeptical about the department manager who is parachuted in from the head office, and doubt whether he is capable enough.

more than this.

People who are airdropped into a department and are expected to be promoted will hate the airdropped leader, believing that the airdropped leader has replaced his position.

In revenge, he will do something bad in the next work process.

This is the resistance and trouble that airborne operations will encounter.

But... a different approach would produce different results.

When the head of the branch introduced the new department manager, he said: This is the person I poached from the head office.

What will other employees think?

Employees will think that the head of the branch is awesome and can poach people from the headquarters.

At the same time, they will also feel that the person being poached must be capable, otherwise the boss would not poach him!

The two events are similar, but the results are very different.

The situation in modern companies is already so complicated, so one can imagine how complicated the ancient courts were.

After Chongzhen traveled through time, he gradually discovered that many things could not be done just because he wanted to, and he needed to look at the ministers' faces.

If you use the right ministers, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If you use the wrong ministers, you will get half the result with twice the effort.

In order to allow Song Yingxing to take office smoothly, Chongzhen decided to make a deal with the cabinet members.

"Lord Li is currently providing disaster relief and collecting unpaid taxes in Huguang. Dozens of officials, both large and small, have been dismissed from their posts in Huguang. Do you have any suitable candidates?" Chongzhen asked.

Fan Jingwen was the first to say, "I recommend a few people."

"I would also like to recommend several tribute students with outstanding academic performance!" Fang Yuegong and Qiu Yu followed suit.

Chongzhen agreed to everything without any investigation.

He was not afraid that there might be treacherous officials among these people. Local treacherous officials could only cause trouble to one side at most and could not affect the overall situation.

The only thing I am afraid of is that there are treacherous ministers in the court who can affect the overall situation.

Different people have different standards of loyalty and treachery.

The people think that those who are greedy for money are treacherous, and those who are not greedy are loyal.

Officials believe that those who form cliques are treacherous, and those who do not are loyal.

The emperor believed that those who could make the policy go smoothly were loyal, and those who hindered the policy were treacherous. As for the others, they were not important.

After they finished recommending, Chongzhen said, "Have you ever heard of Song Yingxing? I have read his book The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, which is a rare masterpiece."

The two old foxes and one young fox in the cabinet understood it immediately, and said that they had read the book and thought it could be reused.

"I remember that the Manufacturing Bureau and the Research Institute do not have a responsible official yet. What do you think of him?"

"Song Yingxing can take on this task!"

At the next morning court session, the emperor and his ministers performed a play in perfect harmony.

After the court meeting, Song Yingxing successfully took up the post.

A new official starts with three things.

Song Yingxing's first fire burned inwards.

At the internal meeting of the Beijing Research Institute, Song Yingxing sat in the middle and said, "Everyone, when I was an official in the local area, I found that in addition to natural disasters, there were also human factors in the reduction of grain production."

"May I ask what the factor is, Lord Song?"

"Many people don't know how to farm!" Song Yingxing said with a serious expression.

"How is it possible...? The people of the Central Plains have been farmers for generations. Why do you say that they don't know how to farm? Even if there are some, they are probably only a minority!" someone objected.

"A minority?" Song Yingxing laughed, "On the contrary, many people don't know how to farm."

Amid the laughter of the officials, Song Yingxing said in a deep voice: "Many people don't know how to read the solar terms. They just follow others in sowing seeds and fertilizing and watering them when they see others do so."

“And most of them farm based on experience rather than theoretical knowledge.”

Seeing that everyone was still smiling, Song Yingxing stood up and said, "Take rice planting as an example. From soaking seeds to germination to harvesting, there are eight kinds of disasters. Being careful can reduce losses."

"Mr. Song, can you tell me what the eight disasters are?"

"Of course, the first is the harm of solar terms. The earliest time for wet planting is before the Spring Equinox, which is called community planting. If it is earlier, it will be frozen to death in cold weather. The latest time is after Qingming Festival. If it is too late, it will be late to mature, and the heading and flowering will be affected, resulting in a reduction in yield."

"It is still cold during the Spring Equinox, so local areas can postpone planting for about ten days to half a month based on actual conditions."

"The second is wind damage during sowing..."

In the following time, Song Yingxing will explain the steps of planting rice and the disasters that may be encountered in each link.

At first, the officials of the Beijing Research Institute did not believe it. They looked sarcastic and interrupted from time to time.

As the topic deepened, the expressions on their faces became increasingly serious.

Because they found that Song Yingxing's words were not fabricated, but were supported by systematic theories.

The new leader's performance impressed them.

However, these people were not completely impressed, but continued to seek knowledge in other areas.

They asked about many aspects, ranging from porcelain firing, papermaking, mining, textiles, iron and steel smelting, and even weapons manufacturing.

This process lasted a whole day.

Before leaving work, everyone at the Imperial Research Institute, from the officials in charge to the gatekeepers, were impressed by Song Yingxing's vast reserves of knowledge.

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