Chapter 966: Weak Strength

It's not that Zhu Zhanji didn't think about these two things together, it's just that he has too much daily government affairs and is busy forgetting about it, at this time, after Chen Wu reminded him, his heart immediately jumped, and he thought of this person: "It seems that there are a lot of eyes and ears of the King of Han in this palace!"

Chen Wu said: "Ears and eyes are secondary, these officials are what makes people suspicious? The two major events, His Majesty Xià kept it secret, and they knew it, but they came to the noon gate again and again to make trouble, making everyone in the world know, and the servants felt that these officials did it on purpose!"

"Do this on purpose?" Zhu Zhanji said, "Why is this?"

Chen Wu thought for a while and said, "This minion doesn't know?"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes flashed, and suddenly his eyes turned face, and the anger on his face increased a little, and he said angrily: "I know, these officials are ruining my reputation, making the world think that I am the king of Shang and the emperor of Sui Yang, okay, okay^" Zhu Zhanji said a few good words in a row, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Your Majesty, what should I do?" Chen Wu panicked when he heard this, he was loyal to Zhu Zhanji, where could these ministers be allowed to slander his emperor.

Zhu Zhanji said: "This is easy, let Jinyi Wei check it, I want to see if it is that courtier who is ruining my reputation here!"

Chen Wu nodded: "If Jinyiwei's methods really want to investigate one thing, it is indeed not troublesome. ”

"Someone!" Zhu Zhanji shouted.

"Your Majesty, ......?" Xu Mian walked in quickly with a hunched body.

Zhu Zhanji said coldly: "Check it out! See who is so bold?"

"Yes!" Xu Mian immediately responded.

Looking at Xu Mian's distant back, Zhu Zhanji glanced up at the sky outside and said, "Gonggong Chen should be the time for me to paint, right?"

Chen Wu looked at those folds with a somewhat ugly face, since Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, all important documents of the imperial court, the cabinet drafted the text of the reply, wrote it on the ticket with an ink pen, and sent it to the emperor for approval. This is actually the manuscript of the "imperial approval" prepared on behalf of the emperor for adoption. "The decree of the various yamen chapters is reserved for your vote, and where the power of the matter lies, it has to be heavy. However, the cabinet's "vote" was only a preliminary opinion for the emperor's reference, and the final decision was still determined by the emperor's imperial approval (then called "Zhu Zhu"). The existence and size of the power of the cabinet, and the actual status of the cabinet, are also mainly expressed in the process of the proposed "vote" being adopted.

The so-called draft of votes is to draft various documents on behalf of the emperor, and a large number of them are about the approval of various government affairs documents of the six ministries and hundreds of departments. It can be discussed with the emperor first, and then drafted into a written text after making a decision, or more often the cabinet first prepares the reply text and sends it to the emperor for approval together with the original request document. Because the draft of the vote is more detailed and thoughtful than the system of assisting the monarch in handling government affairs in the past, especially in the past (such as the Tang and Song dynasties) to draft the edict and review the upward recital, there are Zhongshu, there are men, there are Hanlin Yuan, relatively scattered, the Ming Dynasty is all under the cabinet, which provides great convenience for most of the central lords to simply rely on the cabinet votes, and they can not care much about political affairs. The result is: on the surface, the prime minister was abolished, and the emperor directly commanded the six ministries and the government affairs of the hundred divisions actually mostly relied on "votes" Decision, the emperor's will and power are limited by the cabinet ministers, it is not bad, the emperor and the cabinet have their own division of labor, but it is a pity that it is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, except for Hong Wuye is hands-on, there are few people who can afford this kind of heavy government affairs, with Yongle Ye and other eloquent emperors, also set up the cabinet, let go of the cabinet, the back of Renzong is weak and sick, the dependence on the cabinet is becoming more and more strict, the fold is basically sent to the cabinet, Rao is so the emperor spends a lot of energy, Zhu Zhanji can deal with government affairs, but in this way, without Danqing's pen and ink work, he is really reluctant, so on weekdays, there is no less let Chen Wu on behalf of the review of the folds, but the important things to do it yourself, so that the emperor has a lot of free time, you can enjoy the Danqing painting, but in this way, but bitter Chen Wu, although he can know the pen and ink, can also understand these cookie-cutter twists and turns, but his calligraphy on the way is still a little bit of fire, according to the rules, the approval of the red must comply with the cabinet ticket to draft the words, but the handwriting has occasional mistakes, before it can be corrected, this is going to be his old life, each batch of reading a fold, is not to imitate the font of most of the day, partial birth of these cabinet scholars, the penmanship is elegant and changeable, imitated several times, still nondescript, can be regarded as suffering a lot, so when I saw this thick twist, I showed a sense of fear.

Zhu Zhanji didn't realize it, he only gave an order, and then ordered someone to set up the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and pick up the pen.

In the cabinet, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, and Chen Shan sat in their respective positions, and there was no one else in the huge cabinet, even the guards who were on duty outside the door on weekdays could not be seen.

Of the four, only Yang Shiqi was working hard to write, and the other three were drinking tea and reading books, leisurely. This is not bullying Yang Shiqi, among the four Yang Shiqi is known for his literary talents, on weekdays, the cabinet's approval of the construction is written on paper and pasted on the opposite side of each note, this work is handed over to him to do, the remaining three cabinet ministers Yang Rong is responsible for the government affairs of the Ministry of War, Yang Pu is mostly employed, and Chen Shan is to provide Jianyi, the four have a clear division of labor and tacit understanding, so the atmosphere of the cabinet is also harmonious.

After about two cups of tea, Yang Shiqi exhaled lightly and finished writing the last piece of Jianyi, then he looked up at the three colleagues and said in a low voice: "What do you think of the emperor's move?"

The three of them each looked up, and finally Yang Pu and Chen Shan's eyes fell on Yang Rong, Yang Rong was silent for a moment, and said, "The emperor is only afraid that it was intentional?"

Yang Shiqi frowned and said, "How do you say this?"

The other two were not a little curious by this thoughtless sentence, and each looked at Yang Rong.

Yang Rong sighed lightly and said: "Although the emperor is young, but the means are extremely mature, after this abolition, the Yanguan is so disregarding the nonsense, the emperor is forced to fail to abolish the Hu Hou, but the appearance of the Yanguan with his teeth and claws, I am afraid that it will fall into the eyes of the emperor! After the abolition of the prime minister, the reason for the matter is six parts, the emperor has supreme power, but the emperor is a person after all, there are so many things in the world, the emperor can't deal with it, Hong Wuye had to set up the imitation Song system in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, set up the Huagai Palace, Wuying Palace, Wenyuan Palace, the East Pavilion scholars, and the Wenhua Palace scholars to tutor the prince. All rank is genuine. …… When the time comes, the officials of the Hanlin Academy will be selected to serve in the Wenyuan Pavilion and participate in the decision-making of confidential affairs, and the cabinet system will be formally established......

Yang Shiqi and others were old ministers who had experienced the three dynasties of Hongwu, Jianwen, and Yongle, although they had not been able to experience these things personally, they also knew about them, but at this time they still listened to Yang Rong silently, and no one made a sound, but everyone knew that Yang Rong would never talk nonsense.

Yang Rong continued: "After Renzong ascended the throne, he was promoted to Shiqi as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the Huagai Palace, and I was a Taichangqing and a scholar of the Jinshen Palace. After the current saint ascended the throne, he granted the cabinet scholars the right to approve the minister's chapter for the emperor, so that although my cabinet does not have the name of the prime minister, it does have the power of the prime minister, and according to the wisdom and wisdom of the emperor today, how can this trend continue to develop, so I think the emperor's move, I am afraid that it is an ulterior motive?"

Yang Shiqi nodded slightly, the cabinet has indeed become a lot more powerful in the past two years, and gradually formed the minister's "chapter", the cabinet minister's "vote", the emperor's "approval red", the three-legged situation, and the ministers in the court are all scholars, and the cabinet ministers are mostly old and protégés, so the three-legged situation has long been broken, the cabinet can be said to account for the majority, and the emperor is lonely and weak, in order to balance the situation of the court, he has to win over the eunuchs?

Chen Shan said: "I have heard in the past few days that the emperor has intended to train the eunuchs in the palace to approve the recitals, and Chen Wu has not been a young generation of His Majesty to approve the recitals!"

"It seems that the emperor's intention to let the eunuch study is not simple, but now that the official is making such a fuss, the emperor's heart to reuse the eunuch is getting heavier and heavier?" Yang Pu frowned.

Yang Shiqi sighed and said: " These officials also feel a headache for the cabinet, two days ago Liu Guan came to the cabinet to say that the emperor let the eunuch read poetry and books, although Liu Guan flickered, but the purpose is obvious, let the cabinet support the Imperial Procuratorate against the emperor tampering with the rules of the ancestors, not eunuchs to read and write, Yang Shiqi felt that this matter is a matter of importance, and it needs to be discussed well, who knew that Liu Guan actually brushed his sleeves away, and the news that the emperor let the eunuch read poetry and books was spread early the next morning, I have to worry about the other three ministers to discuss how to solve this matter, what do the three think, whether the cabinet supports the emperor or the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

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