Chapter 198: The Struggle Between the Cabinet and the Foreign Courts
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This concludes the first paragraph of today's deliberations, and all parties concerned have already shown their attitudes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The second stage will depend on how the Son of Heaven expresses his position and the opinions of other ministers. As for the third stage, it is probably that the parties involved bite each other again to win the victory.
Wanli Tianzi put down the badge, and Chrysostom Yuyin asked, "What do the gentlemen think?"
In the title of the imperial court, the Son of Heaven generally refers to the cabinet scholars as sir, and this question is obviously to ask the cabinet for its opinion.
Shen Shixing, the first assistant of the cabinet, is considered to be half of the parties, and it is difficult to speak at this time, so Xu Guo, the second assistant of the second bachelor, replied: "This is the official who is flat and turbulent, and there is nothing to do, and His Majesty can dismiss it." ”
Today's cabinet is still relatively united, and there are not many internal fights among cabinet scholars. The temple battles mainly focused on the struggle for power between the cabinet and the officials and the foreign courts.
As we all know, in the Daming temple system, the cabinet is nominally only a secretary team around the Son of Heaven. The Sixth Ministry is the highest administrative organ and is directly responsible to the Son of Heaven, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the supervisory organ and is also directly responsible to the Son of Heaven.
Therefore, in terms of institutional design, the cabinet does not have the leadership of the six ministries. However, in practice, especially in recent decades, the power of the cabinet has gradually expanded, overpowering the foreign courts, and becoming the de facto superior of the six ministries and local governors.
By the time of Zhang Juzheng's reign, the power of the cabinet had expanded to the peak of the entire Ming Dynasty. After the era of Zhang Juzheng, the power of the cabinet flourished and declined, and under the deliberate suppression of the emperor of Wanli, the power of the cabinet began to shrink.
However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and all the cabinet scholars are obviously unwilling to be "usurped" for power, and the contradictions and struggles will never cease.
Xu Guo and Shen Shixing's positions are completely identical, so he will unreservedly support Shen Shixing, and his statement is completely unexpected.
What everyone is most concerned about is actually the attitude of Wang Xijue, the third ranked bachelor, which is the elusive unknown factor. Wang Xijue and Shen Shixing were in the same year, Shen Shoufu was the champion of that year, and Wang Xijue was the Huiyuan of that year.
Wang Xijue also disagreed with Zhang Juzheng back then, and nine years ago he strongly persuaded Zhang Juzheng not to take away his love, forcing Zhang Juzheng to pretend to commit suicide with a knife. After Zhang Juzheng died, Wang Xijue had the opportunity to enter the cabinet, and it is said that it was because of the recommendation of his student Li Zhi and others.
Therefore, Wang Xijue and Shen Shixing are not only related in the same year, but they are both from Suzhou Mansion, so they don't look like fellow travelers, so everyone is more interested in his attitude.
Under the attention of all the monarchs in the palace, Wang Xijue came out and said to the Son of Heaven: "Wang Shizhen can be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and as for the impeachment of the Ministry of Officials, most of it is nonsense. ”
Then Wang Xijue was silent, and Shoufu Shen Shixing glanced at Wang Xijue meaningfully, he understood Wang Xijue's thoughts.
Wang Xijue and Wang Shizhen are both from Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, real fellow villagers, and their friendship is also very good. Therefore, Wang Xijue absolutely supports Wang Shizhen as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which is very beneficial to Wang Xijue.
Shen Shixing remembered again that the Guozi Priest Jiu Luo Wanhua was Wang Xijue's protégé, and Wang Shizhen entered the Guozijian after entering Beijing, which may have nothing to do with Wang Xijue.
But at the same time, it is also obvious that Wang Xijue does not intend to fight with his first assistant, so he also denied the impeachment of Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, as a gesture of goodwill.
But Shen Li, the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is about to be blown up, Wang Xijue agrees with Wang Shizhen as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but denies the impeachment of Yang Wei of the Ministry of Rites, so where will he be transferred to the current secretary of the Ministry of Rites? This is actually a kind of exclusion in disguise!
It is indeed a crowd out, and the cabinet has a collective sense of rejection of Lord Shen Li, for no other reason, or because of the dispute between the cabinet.
Lord Shen Lishen is a figure with a good moral reputation, and is deeply favored by the officials, and is the spiritual leader of the self-proclaimed Qingliu officials. This time, the official impeached Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, with the intention of promoting Shen Li as the most important secretary of the foreign dynasty.
All in all, in the eyes of the cabinet scholars, Shen Li is a bit equivalent to the feeling of "setting up a separate central government" in the foreign dynasty, and of course he will not like Shen Li.
I have to say that the eyes of several university scholars are still very vicious. It is this Lord Shen Li, who later became the leader of the famous Donglin Party, and was the leader of the party struggle in the middle of Wanli, and has been tossing in the Ming political arena for one or two decades.
Without mentioning it, he said that now the three giants of the cabinet have all expressed their positions, and Li Zhi, the leader behind the scenes, is very disappointed in Wang Xijue's attitude, he feels that Wang Xijue is too weak and lacks the courage to confront Shoufu.
So Li Zhi glanced at his hardcore ally Jiang Dongzhi, who was also one of the three celebrities in the dynasty, and his right to speak should not be underestimated.
Seeing that Li Zhi had hints, Jiang Dongzhi also came out and said to the Son of Heaven: "It is always a fact that Yang Wei has too close contacts with the ministers, and the ministers think that Yang Wei is indeed not suitable to be in charge of the ministry. However, after Yu Ge died of illness last year, the cabinet has not been supplemented, and with Yang Wei's qualifications, he can enter the cabinet for pre-service. ”
There were suddenly many whispers in the Wenhua Palace, and Jiang Shaoqing of Jiangdong actually recommended Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, to enter the cabinet. This proposal was very unexpected by everyone, but after thinking about it, it made sense.
Shen Shoufu once again felt caught off guard, the other party was so well prepared today, and he didn't have much power to fight back now.
It turned out that the previous impeachment of Yang Wei by the official was just a pretense, and the purpose was just to provoke the topic of the official book, and the real killing move was here!
For Shen Shoufu, Yang Wei, who has no ambition, is of course the most useful to sit in the key position of the secretary of the ministry. Originally, the cabinet was under the control of his Shen Shixing, and there would be no gain for one more Yang Wei to enter the cabinet, so it was better to let Yang Wei continue to serve as the secretary of the ministry.
After all, the official department is recognized as the first official position in the foreign dynasty, and he directly controls the personnel power, and the powerful official department can even compete with the cabinet scholars by virtue of his power. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was not uncommon for officials to compete for power with the cabinet.
If Shen Li is really appointed as the secretary of the ministry, it will be like a tiger with wings, and there will be one more figure in the court who can't be suppressed by the cabinet scholars!
Jiang Dongzhi looked at Shen Shixing and felt slightly proud, today they are calculating with or without intention, and they are in a specific occasion, the right time and place and people account for at least two, and they will definitely win a big victory in the end!
Jiang Dongzhi continued: "Wang Shizhen must not be replaced, and the cabinet should also add ministers, and only in this way can we have the best of all three worlds." ”
This is a perfect chain reaction, Wang Shizhen has the need to supplement the official, and can follow the call to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the original secretary of the Ministry of Rites Shen Li just went to replace the secretary of the ministry, and Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, can enter the cabinet to fill the vacant position.
Shen Shixing racked his brains, but he didn't think of how to solve the dilemma. Could he stand up and say that Yang Wei and Yang Shangshu are not qualified to enter the cabinet? If he really said this, even if he was an ally before, this rift would be formed immediately.
But if you can't oppose Yang Wei's entry into the cabinet, this matter can only develop according to the opponents' assumptions, and it is obviously another unacceptable ending.
In the eyes of neutrals, the unprepared Shen Shoufu has already lost this time, and no matter how entangled he is, he can only pinch his nose and accept the reality. After today, Shen Shoufu's power map will shrink by a large margin.