If Xu Yan remembered correctly, Zhao Wenhua's official position at that time should be the Left Minister of the Ministry of Public Security.
This official position is of the fourth rank and is the adjutant of the Tongzhengshi.
Moreover, within a few years, Zhao Wenhua will replace the current Minister of Public Administration and successfully join the ranks of the Nine Ministers.
Yan Song is a man of meticulous mind.
The reason why he placed Zhao Wenhua in the Ministry of Public Security was because he was worried that someone would impeach him.
The function of the Tongzhengshisi was to sort memorials.
All memorials from the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty had to go through the Tongzheng Shisi. Yan Song asked Zhao Wenhua to be in charge here to guard the first line of defense and ensure that he could see the impeachment memorials before the emperor.
With preparation, you can respond in a targeted manner and remain invincible.
Zhao Wenhua is a vengeful person, biting anyone he catches like a mad dog.
It is really irrational to mess with Zhao Wenhua.
If it were someone else, they would probably really endure it.
But Xu Yan won’t.
Because as a time traveler who specializes in the history of Jiajing, he holds a fatal handle on Zhao Wenhua.
Moreover, judging from the historical trend, Yan Song and his party were going to take over Zhejiang.
Zhu Wan was not a member of Yan's party, so Yan Song naturally wanted to replace the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang with his own man.
In other words, Zhu Wan will also face the same problems that Zhang Jing faced in history, it is just a matter of time.
Zhu Wan is Xu Yan's backer, and Xu Yan must protect her.
In other words, Xu Yan and Zhao Wenhua will sooner or later stand on opposite sides and conflict will arise.
Now it's just a matter of bringing the conflict forward a little.
Xu Yan already had a plan in mind. He said to He Changli, "Manager He, don't panic. Just go about your business as usual. The next time the Zhao family's evil servants cause trouble again, just report it to the authorities."
He Changli shook his head and said, "Mr. Xu, are you joking? People don't fight officials. The reason the Zhao family is so fearless is because a high-ranking official has emerged from their family. As the saying goes, officials protect each other. Even if I report this to the authorities, they will definitely side with the Zhao family."
Xu Yan said calmly, "Only the Zhao family is allowed to have a background?"
He Changli felt hopeful again after hearing what Xu Yan said. He quickly asked, "Master Xu, do you mean to make this a bigger deal?"
Xu Yan nodded: "The bigger the commotion, the better."
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The capital, Tongzhengshisi.
Zhao Wenhua was bored as he flipped through the memorials sent from Zhejiang.
Japanese pirates, Japanese pirates, and more Japanese pirates.
As long as this problem is not solved, the emperor will not be able to practice Taoism with peace of mind.
The current emperor admires Taoism and feels uncomfortable living in the Forbidden City, so he simply moves to the Yuxi Palace in the Western Garden.
It would be convenient to build a Taoist temple there, and there would be no need to endure the pain of getting up early every day to attend court.
But the more this happened, the more the emperor valued the memorials sent from all over the country.
Because there were no court meetings, memorials to the emperor were his only way to access information from the outside world.
As the saying goes, "he who listens to both sides will be enlightened", the emperor naturally did not want to listen to only a few people.
Therefore, Zhao Wenhua's role was reflected.
Some memorials could be submitted directly to the palace. Others had to be reviewed by the godfather first. Some had to be suppressed. Some were inexplicably lost...
There is a lot of knowledge involved here.
Now he was the left minister of the Tongzhengshisi, and the adjutant of Minister Sun Tongzhengshi. With a superior under pressure, Zhao Wenhua had to take a few things into consideration when doing things.
However, his godfather has already told him that the position of Minister of Public Security will be his in a few years.
Zhao Wenhua was naturally very excited.
He is only forty-five years old this year. If he can become one of the Nine Ministers within five years, he still has hope of entering the cabinet.
Now that Xia Yan has been stripped of his official rank, his godfather has the final say in the cabinet.
Although the appointment and dismissal of cabinet ministers had to go through the process of court recommendation and the final decision was made by the emperor, any discerning person could see that as long as Yan Song had decided on a candidate, the emperor would usually not object.
After defeating the great enemy Xia Yan, the spring of the Yan Party has arrived!
The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue are in charge of people and money respectively, so we must use our own people in these two places.
The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War are in charge of criminal justice and military affairs respectively, so naturally they can feel more at ease using their own people.
As for the Ministry of Rites, a leisurely and idle government office, it was better to let Xu Jie take charge of it.
From the current perspective, Xu Jie is still behaving relatively docilely, at least he won't be a troublemaker.
In this case, it doesn't matter if he doesn't join the Yan Party.
Zhao Wenhua was planning for the Yan Party while calculating his own future.
But time flies, and before I knew it, it was time to get off duty.
Zhao Wenhua yawned lazily, stood up and walked out.
When he arrived outside the Tongzhengshi Yamen, Zhao Wenhua went straight to his own sedan chair.
After getting into the sedan chair, Zhao Wenhua did not order to return home, but chose to go to Yan's house first.
Godfather is now in the cabinet taking care of state affairs, so he definitely won't come home so early.
The person Zhao Wenhua was going to find was Yan Shifan.
Yan Shifan is the son of Yan Song, and now serves as Shangbaoqing.
This official was mainly in charge of imperial seals, talismans, and stamps. To put it bluntly, it was an extremely leisurely position.
Yan Shifan would take a stroll around the yamen every morning, have a quick meal and take a nap at noon, and go home in the afternoon if there was nothing to do.
Yan Shifan did not take the imperial examination, but became an official directly after studying at the Imperial College.
Although his roots are not right, he can do anything with the support of his father who is the Prime Minister.
Yan Shifan is ten years younger than Zhao Wenhua and is only 35 years old now.
Although he was very young, Yan Shifan had a habit of lust. Over the years, he had been drained of his body by alcohol and sex.
After arriving at Yan's house, Zhao Wenhua went straight to Yan Shifan's courtyard. As expected, when he walked outside the house, he heard the sound of playful laughter.
"Ahem, young Lord is really in a refined mood."
In fact, Yan Shifan is now just a Shangbaoqing, and has nothing to do with the cabinet.
But since Yan Shifan's father was the prime minister of the cabinet, there was nothing wrong with saying this.
When Yan Shifan heard Zhao Wenhua's voice, he stopped playing and started to put on his clothes.
After he was almost dressed, he called Zhao Wenhua in.
Zhao Wenhua then pushed the door open and walked in.
He walked around the screen and into the inner room, where he saw Yan Shifan sitting cross-legged on an ivory bed surrounded by a gold-thread curtain, with a beautiful concubine on each side of him.
Both Yan Shifan and his two beautiful concubines were only wearing thin clothes, but Zhao Wenhua did not shy away from it. It was obvious that he had seen this kind of situation so many times that he was no longer surprised.
"Brother Meicun, why did you come to see me?"
Yan Shifan was naturally not very happy as he was interrupted while making love with the beauty, and his tone when speaking to Zhao Wenhua was a little blaming.
Zhao Wenhua couldn't help but understand, so he smiled flatteringly and said, "I got a treasure, I dare not hide it, so I hurried to send it to the young minister."
When Yan Shifan heard that Zhao Wenhua was here to give him a gift, he immediately became excited.
In addition to being lustful, he is also very greedy for money. He never refuses any gifts given by others.
"Brother Meicun, please bring it here for me to see!"
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