Chapter 197: Daily Life in the Palace

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The Great Son of Heaven has an exclusive class called the Sutra Feast, and the ministers who have read the Four Books and the Five Classics and are highly knowledgeable serve as lecturers to give lectures to the Son of Heaven. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

When the prime minister of Jiangling lived in the country, he strictly disciplined the young Wanli Emperor and further fixed the system of sutra and feasts. Every year from February 2 to May, it is called the Sutra Feast Spring Lecture.

Therefore, except for every 369th as the day of the pilgrimage, the rest of the time is theoretically the time for the Son of Heaven to study in class. However, after the end of the first month of this year, the Son of Heaven was too lazy to study, and the sutra feast was never opened.

It was not until the court meeting on February 23 that the ministers gave bitter advice to the matter of the sutra feast, and the Son of Heaven issued an edict to open the sutra feast on the 24th. In fact, this day is also the day of the Guozijian ceremony, of course, the Son of Heaven banquet and the Guozijian ceremony are incompatible.

There were those who listened to the lectures, that is, the Son of Heaven alone, and there were those who gave lectures, which were two lecturers from the Hanlin Academy, and there were also onlookers, and this group was relatively large, such as cabinet scholars, ministers of ministries and academies, heads of departments and thirteen provinces, and representatives of princes and horses.

The process of the feast is just like that, the speaker talks endlessly, the Son of Heaven does not say a word, the speaker's eyebrows are flying, and the Son of Heaven is as stunned as a wooden chicken. As for the dozens of ministers standing on both sides, they naturally have their own agendas.

After the lecture, Wanli Tianzi, who was in his twenties, was about to give the usual order to "give Mr. wine and food", and then he could end the feast and slip away. 【ㄨ】

At this time, a minister suddenly came out and said: "Wang Shizhen, the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department, has entered Beijing to report on his work, and this person is famous, so it is advisable to stay as soon as possible." ā€

The Ming Dynasty implemented the two-capital system, the Beijing division Shuntianfu, and the Nanjing Yingtianfu. There is also a set of six teams in Nanjing, and there are also six books, of course, most of them are decorations and backups, and the actual power cannot be compared with the six departments of the Beijing Division.

However, Nanjing Shangshu is also a second-grade department in terms of grade, and it is also very common for Nanjing Shangshu to be transferred to Beijing, so the issue of appointment is also an important and sensitive topic.

Shoufu Shen Shixing was a little surprised when he heard someone mention Wang Shizhen, but he didn't expect someone to raise this question on this occasion. Without knowing his motives, Shen Shoufu could only wait and see what happened.

Wanli Tianzi was absent-minded, and asked casually: "What do you think?"

Most of the courtiers present had an idea with Shen Shoufu, and only Li Zhi and Li Shaoqing, the favored ministers of the Son of Heaven, came out and said to the Son of Heaven: "Wang Shizhen is famous for his literature, and all the scholars from all over the world admire him. ā€

This suggestion is very reasonable, with Wang Shizhen's seniority, literary prestige, and scholarly status, it is indeed very suitable for him to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and there are not many people who are more qualified than Wang Shizhen.

When the Son of Heaven heard Li Zhi's recommendation, he also nodded and said: "Wang Shizhen's reputation, I also know, Li Shaoqing is reasonable, but what about Shen Shangshu?"

Seeing Li Zhi standing out and expressing his position clearly, Shen Shoufu frowned slightly. The contradictions between him and Li Zhi's forces are irreconcilable.

Therefore, it can be determined that everything that Li Zhi supports should be what he opposes. However, Shen Shoufu still doesn't need to worry, because the current Ministry of Rites Shangshu Shen Li also does not deal with him, and the Shen Shangshu in the mouth of the Son of Heaven is Shen Li.

Li Zhi strongly recommended that Wang Shizhen be transferred to the Ministry of Rites, so what should be done about Shen Li, the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites? How could Shen Li easily give up his official post as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites? You must know that although the Ministry of Rites has little real power among the six departments, its status is very high, and it is often only one step away from joining the cabinet.

If Li Zhi and Shen Li, the two rivals, tear each other apart, Shen Shoufu will be happy to see it happen. But another imperial historian stood up: "Minister, this Lu, impeached Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry!"

Immediately, six or seven more imperial historians and ministers stood up and said together: "The ministers are willing to be impeached jointly!"

Shen Shoufu was taken aback, the official secretary is the first secretary of the six departments, and he directly controls the personnel power, while the current official secretary Yang Wei is older, has no ambition, and has a soft personality, and has always obeyed his first assistant, and can be regarded as an ally and henchman.

Ding Jinlu and several other science and technology officials jointly impeached Yang Wei, which was simply to cut off his right-hand man of Shen Shixing. Therefore, Shen Shoufu did not have time to think about it, and he had to quickly express his attitude.

He also stepped forward and said to the Son of Heaven: "The official mound is the first important official position in the imperial court, and Yang Wei, the scholar, has been at home and abroad for a long time, is old and heavy, has high morality, and upholds the integrity of the government without fault, and cannot be moved lightly!"

Yu Shi Ding replied: "The person we impeached is Yang Wei, who has no opinion, and only knows how to welcome the cabinet and encourage the cabinet to arbitrarily dictate power!

At this moment, Li Zhi suddenly interjected: "Your Majesty Shengming has seen it, and the minister thinks that the elder of the Shen Pavilion must avoid suspicion and cannot participate in the discussion!"

Then several imperial historians said: "The impeachment of Yang Wei by my generation involves many of the cabinets, and the cabinet ministers do not avoid suspicion, how can they prove their innocence!"

Shen Shixing was choked and had nothing to say, and he was caught off guard and fell behind, and finally realized in his heart that this was a sneak attack!

There are many kinds of important personnel decision-making procedures in the Ming Dynasty, and ministers and ministers often adopt the mode of public recommendation, and the specific forms include court meeting, court recommendation, assembly, etc., and the scope of participants is different.

And there are dozens of ministers here at the banquet scene, and it is said that it is a court discussion, not to mention that it is still in front of the Son of Heaven, and the legitimacy is probably no problem.

However, one thing that made Shen Shoufu very passive was that among the ministers present at the feast, more than half of the thirteen masters and six divisions from the supervision system accounted for more than half of the people.

As we all know, Shen Shoufu has average influence among Kedao officials, and Li Zhi and other popular trios are all from Kedao, and Kedao is their nest.

Therefore, the current situation is very unfavorable to Shen Shoufu, and he finally realized that his opponents are deliberately doing today's matter! The opponents are going to choose such an occasion where the number of scientific and Taoist officials accounts for more than half of them, and carry out a surprise attack on him!

Li Zhi said to the Son of Heaven again: "Wang Shizhen can move to the Ministry of Rites, and His Majesty asked Shen Shangshu what to do." Shen Shangshu is Fang Gengjie, which is suitable for the relocation of the Ministry of Shangshu. ā€

Such a transfer plan sounded perfect, and Shen Shixing was immediately sure that Li Zhi's forces and Shen Li would definitely have an exchange.

One pushed Wang Shizhen to enter the six main departments of the Ministry of Rites, and the other gave up his position and went further to become the secretary of the ministry. Both of them can get what they want, but only he, Shen Shixing, suffers a huge loss.

The Son of Wanli Tianzi took the recital of Yang Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of Impeachment, and read them one by one. It's a real troublesome thing, or it's not difficult to see the inside story, but it's a lot of trouble to deal with it.

He is the son of heaven, the supreme monarch of the rich and the four seas, and he has the power of life and death in his hands! But who should be allowed to live and who should be killed? To whom should benefits be given, and from whom should the rewards be withdrawn?

It's all insatiable rotten things! The annoyed Wanli Tianzi couldn't help but think indignantly, this kind of is just going to happen twice in three days!