Chapter 1116 All Parties
The Ministry of Works is not very anxious, the Ministry of Revenue is a little anxious, and the Ministry of Personnel is very anxious.
They were the ones who had assessed the person, and if he didn't pass the emperor's assessment, then they would be held responsible first.
A Vice Minister is the highest-ranking official after the Minister, so the position is very important. The Minister of Personnel personally reviewed the assessment information at that time.
He took it out again and read it carefully from beginning to end. Then he handed it to his two assistant ministers and asked, "Any questions?"
They both shook their heads, "I don't see any problem."
"Yes, I don't see any problem with that," Minister Li knocked on the table and said, "Chen Fulin has made minor contributions in the Ministry of Revenue over the years, but he has sufficient experience. Even if Your Majesty wants to appoint a more capable Minister of Works, he can just call me into the palace to discuss it. Why bother sending the memorial directly through the Ministry of Personnel?"
"Did Doctor Chen offend His Majesty?"
Minister Li: "He is not even qualified to attend the daily small court meetings. Have you ever heard him speak at the big court meetings?"
"Go check his character and what troubles he has gotten into recently. We selected him and we also assessed him. If the Censorate finds out first, then not only His Majesty and the Censorate, but also the Secretariat, the Ministry of Personnel, and the other five ministries will have to report us. Also,"
Minister Li nodded gently and said, "At the same time, prepare a comprehensive letter of recommendation. If no problems can be found, submit it the day after tomorrow at the latest. As long as he doesn't have any major problems, I will recommend him for the position of Minister of Works."
The two ministers understood that if this was just the emperor's personal likes and dislikes, they would not be able to give in, so they responded in unison, bowed immediately and left.
Of course they couldn't investigate such a matter themselves, so they asked their subordinates to investigate. However, they had to go to talk to Chen Fulin.
After all, the other party is a doctor. We can't send another doctor, right?
The Left Vice Minister of Personnel looked at the Right Vice Minister and asked, "Are you going alone?"
"Let's go together," the Right Assistant Minister said, throwing his sleeves and holding his hands behind his back, "Let's take a look at who this guy is. I remember we drank together a few days ago, and I didn't see anything different about him."
How did you offend the emperor?
As soon as Minister Yu walked out of their old Shangshu's door, he passed by Doctor Liu and motioned him to come in to talk.
Doctor Liu looked up and glanced around, then slowly tidied up the things on his desk, picked up a document from the desk and went to find Minister Yu.
Minister Yu had just strongly recommended Doctor Liu, so naturally he had to tell him the good news so that he could accept his favor.
Doctor Liu was no fool. He happily thanked Minister Yu and then found an excuse to go for a stroll outside. He called his attendant who was waiting outside the ministry and said, "Go home immediately and ask the second master to check on Chen Fulin from the Ministry of Revenue to see what he has been doing recently. Has he offended anyone or made enemies with anyone?"
"Then, sir..."
"After leaving the government office, I'm going to go drinking with some colleagues. I can just take their car. You don't need to come pick me up."
The long-servant understood and immediately obeyed the order and rushed home to find the second master.
Doctor Liu looked at his receding back and thought, if they were to choose someone from the department, they could only choose from among the four doctors.
His qualifications are not the highest, but he is indeed the most capable one in the past two years, so he accounts for 30%. With the recommendation of Minister Yu, that adds up to another 20%.
But if he had to choose from the six departments, he wouldn't even have a 20% chance.
Especially compared with Chen Fulin, he has been a doctor for nine years. In terms of seniority, he should be the first one to be ranked.
Therefore, his biggest rival was not the other three in the same department, but Chen Fulin.
When Manbao found out about this, it was already noon. She was on her way out of the palace. Aunt Shang told her about this "inadvertently" while accompanying her out.
"Your Majesty dislikes a certain Mr. Chen from the Ministry of Revenue. Your Majesty only found out about this two days ago. Coincidentally, a memorial was submitted yesterday to promote Mr. Chen, but it was rejected by Your Majesty today."
Manbao was so surprised that he couldn't help but stop and said, "If we continue to fight, does that mean we can't advance anymore?"
Aunt Shang smiled and said, "If His Majesty doesn't agree, then naturally there will be no promotion."
Manbao tried hard to keep a straight face, but he couldn't help but smile, so he could only lower his head and try hard to hold back his laughter.
Aunt Shang saw her face twitching, as if she wanted to laugh but was trying hard to hold it back. Her whole face was distorted, and she couldn't help but burst out laughing.
As soon as they left the palace, Manbao was so happy that he flew away and ran towards Daji's carriage. The shopkeeper Zheng, who was carrying the medicine box, could only chase after him, "Doctor Zhou, don't you want your medicine box anymore?"
Daji went to take the medicine box. Manbao had already climbed onto the carriage with his hands and feet. He opened the curtain and waved to the shopkeeper Xiao Zheng. "I'm leaving first. See you tomorrow."
Shopkeeper Zheng waved his hand tiredly. He originally wanted to ask who the Mr. Chen that Aunt Shang mentioned was and why she specifically told her about it. He also wanted to remind her, but seeing her like this, he thought forget it. He would go to the pharmacy to talk about it tomorrow morning.
Manbao already excitedly asked Daji, "Where are Baishan and the others?"
"The young masters have a lot of classes today and need to stay in the Imperial College to do their homework and read, so I've asked you to come and pick up Miss Man first."
"Then hurry up and let's go pick them up."
Daji couldn't help but smile and asked, "Miss Man, is there any good news?"
"Yes, great news!"
But when they arrived at the gate of the Imperial College, they couldn't get in. The management here was much stricter than that of the Yizhou Prefecture Academy, and the guards at the gate were unwilling to help them pass on the message.
Manbao was so excited that she wanted to talk to someone. After waiting for a long time and seeing Bai Shan and the others still not coming out, she couldn't help but feel itchy, "Daji, where is the wall of their Imperial College?"
Daji said, "Miss Man, this is not good, right?"
"What's wrong with that? If the gatekeeper doesn't want to pass on the message for me, I won't go in. I just want someone to pass on a message for us."
"Why don't we wait a little longer? Maybe some gentleman will come out."
"It's been a long time since school was over. Those who are still in school are either reading or doing homework, or playing inside. How could they come out now? Quick, tell me, which side of their wall is it? Which side is more secluded and easier to climb?"
Daji: “…I don’t know.”
"Impossible. Don't think I don't know that you love to scout places. Even when you were in the prefectural school, you touched all the walls of our prefectural school."
Daji: ...Really? What on earth is it that you don't know about? He was clearly doing it very secretly, so when did they find out?
Manbao wouldn't tell him that it was Koko's credit, and just stared at him.
Daji had no choice but to drive the carriage away, and then ran around the perimeter of the Imperial College. After a long time, he stopped the carriage.
The next update will be around 8pm
(End of this chapter)
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