During the third major purge, Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong were both saved by Su Yonglin's decisive actions.

If it weren't for Su Yonglin's decisive actions, these two people would have been played with by Qiao Feng, Ludian and others.

Therefore, afterwards, Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong strengthened their sense of struggle and began to be vigilant and even hostile to those who were around him and from Su Yonglin's old subordinates in Jiangnan.

However, because of Su Yonglin's decisive actions, the Jiangnan Elderly Group suffered heavy losses in the third major purge. A large number of people were washed away due to crimes, and the rest were clean, so there was no problem.

Originally, Kong Maojie and Zhou Chong thought that this matter should come to an end, but found that things went against their wishes, and this matter seemed to be not over yet.

According to Su Yin's secret investigation, it was learned that the farce of the crown prince was first caused by a dispute between the Ministry of Personnel. A dispute between two officials of the Ministry of Personnel attracted widespread attention, which triggered more extensive discussions.

Those who support the establishment of the prince and those who oppose the establishment of the prince become two groups, explaining their different ideas to each other, and there is a vague tendency to oppose each other.

Su Yin further investigated and finally learned that Li Le, the official who initially publicly expressed his support for the establishment of the crown prince, and his superiors, Pan Yongjian, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, had a lot of contact with him. Pan Yongjian even invited him to dinner alone and admired him very much.

After the first wave of arguments between the two, Pan Yongjian once stood up to stop the arguments between the two from the way of struggle.

However, according to those who witnessed the incident at that time, Pan Yongjian did not talk about whether to establish a prince or not, but only used ambiguous words to prevent the two from being rude.

What was not beyond Su Yonglin's expectations was that Pan Yongjian's identity was Su Yonglin's old subordinate in Jiangnan. The first old man who followed him north to Shandong to fight, and was once a worker in a salt factory.

Based on Su Yin's further digging, Su Yonglin soon learned that Pan Yongjian was not as peaceful as he seemed on the surface.

Someone once heard Pan Yongjian express his dissatisfaction with the status quo, and once expressed his dissatisfaction with the Organization Department of the Revival Association's invasion of the power of the Ministry of Personnel. Someone also heard Pan Yongjian privately tease Zhou Chong, who was also the acting minister of the Organization Department at that time, and Di Liao, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

Pan Yongjian believed that Di Liao was a servant of the Organization Department, and even the entire Ministry of Personnel became a servant who helped the Organization Department. He also said that the Ministry of Personnel had simply been transformed into the Archives and Information Office of the Organization Department.

In fact, to be fair, Su Yonglin did not think what Pan Yongjian said was not the truth.

As the number of members of the Fuxing Society increased in the court, the scale and power of the Fuxing Society inevitably expanded, and to a considerable extent, it could even be said to have infringed on the responsibilities and authority of the original imperial department.

Take the Organization Department and the Ministry of Personnel for example. The original design was that both sides did not violate the rivers, the Organization Department was in charge of the Revival Association, and the Ministry of Personnel was in charge of the official positions of the court, which was clearly divided.

But in actual operation, because many officials of the Ministry of Personnel are members of the revival and are also managed by the Organization Department, they are inevitably affected by the Organization Department in terms of the promotion of new people and the election of new officials.

Moreover, as time goes by, the Organization Department has become increasingly influential on the Ministry of Personnel.

During the Second Purge to the Third Purge, due to actual needs at that time, the Organization Department and the Ministry of Personnel held several joint meetings to arrange for the positions of the captured officials and Revival members to supplement them.

Because the situation was very serious at that time, the number of officials and Revival members was large, and the number of those who needed to be supplemented was also large, such meetings were held many times, so that the original expedient measures became a routine in the subsequent operation.

To this day, the Ministry of Personnel still feels like a rubber stamp. It is often the joint meeting makes a decision, and then go back to register and make a book on both sides.

At the joint meeting, the Organization Department had an absolute advantage. Zhou Chong's reputation for fairness and justice was too great, and everyone was convinced. The Ministry of Personnel had almost no say, and even the joint meeting had the final say in the court's official position.

The Ministry of Personnel has opposed it.

Pan Yongjian said that Di Liao was a servant of the Organization Department, which was definitely a slander of Di Liao. Di Liao was at least the leader of a department. How could he be willing to be invaded by other departments?

He has raised objections many times, protested to Zhou Chong, and even fought in person, and reported this matter to Su Yonglin.

However, in Su Yonglin's opinion, this matter may not be what he hoped.

As soon as the Revival Society was established, Su Yonglin thought of using the Organization Department to replace the Ministry of Personnel, but the old forces still had a certain scale at that time, so Su Yonglin retained the Ministry of Personnel.

At that time, the Organization Department was his own person, and the Ministry of Personnel was retained to win over the power of the old bureaucrats and gentry. Su Yonglin's plan was to use the Organization Department to continue to plan and gradually control the actual power of the Ministry of Personnel.

After the second and third rounds of major purges, the old forces have been eliminated and some of the internal enemies have been eliminated. In Su Yonglin's view, this happened to be an opportunity to carry out a series of political reforms, so he let the wind on Di Liao in advance.

Di Liao said he would obey the collective interests, but hoped that Su Yonglin would take into account the feelings of the officials of the Ministry of Personnel and not let him not be unable to explain to his colleagues and subordinates after he went back.

So in order to take into account the mood and interests of the officials of the Ministry of Personnel, Su Yonglin may have promised that although the Ministry of Personnel will eventually merge into the Organization Department, the expanded Organization Department will still retain the original functions of the Ministry of Personnel. The content of what they do will not change, but will only change the name.

In short, officials of the Ministry of Personnel do not need to worry about being "graduated".

Di Liao then stopped and did not continue to be as strong as Zhou Chong.

Although they are revolutionary comrades-in-arms, they are not so free and easy when it comes to political interests. They will pay attention to the fate of their home and country, but they will not ignore their own interests.

Although Su Yonglin has supreme prestige, he will also face certain obstacles in reforms involving political interests.

This made Su Yonglin quite worried.

Even he will encounter such resistance, so after him, the reformers will only encounter more resistance. The old saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, which is true.

Once each system is in operation for a period of time, an interest group will inevitably be formed that will be dependent on it. It explains that if you want to reform this system, you will inevitably be boycotted by this group.

That's why reform is so difficult.

Just now that Zhou Chong was present, Su Yonglin mentioned this matter to him.

"The establishment of the Ministry of Personnel and Organization Department at the beginning was a temporary solution. Now the obstacles that should be cleared have been almost wiped out, so in my opinion, it is time for us to start a series of political reforms.

I thought that directly combining the Organization Department and the Ministry of Personnel was all about the promotion of management personnel. Don’t divide them into two departments to avoid quarrels and shirking responsibility when things happened, and the rights and responsibilities were unclear. Di Liao is a good comrade. Why has he always opposed this situation?

He told me that if something happens and the power and responsibility are not clear, your Organization Department will directly pass the problem to the Ministry of Personnel. At that time, it is obviously not the mistake of the Ministry of Personnel, but it will take responsibility for it. This will make the Ministry of Personnel very dissatisfied with your Organization Department."

Zhou Chong was indeed subjected to many negotiations by Di Liao because of this matter, and he also consciously restricted the organization department's actions. However, at the joint meeting, such things were actually more difficult to avoid. If it was to be avoided, the efficiency of work would be greatly reduced.

So Zhou Chong also put forward his own views.

"I certainly have no objection if I can do this. Now I feel that the time is ripe. The Organization Department has enough experience and scale to take the lead. It is better to assign all the personnel of the Ministry of Personnel to the Organization Department than to make the Ministry of Personnel complain about the Organization Department's infringement of their power all day long, but Di Liao..."

"Diliao understood my decision very well and decided to cooperate with the court's reform. This is an important step in the revival to a new level. After controlling the personnel power of the entire court, it would not be so easy if there were any reactionary forces to make a comeback.

But it’s hard to say. With such a great authority from the Organization Department, you must keep the political checkpoints well and not put everyone in casually. All reviews must be done well. The review terms we discussed before must not be missing, and all must be implemented."
Chapter completed!