Chapter 926: This thing is so tiring

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, all political affairs are handled by the Gong Dynasty, and in order to "not waste affairs", even if the weather is bad, it is rarely exempted from the court. In the third year of Hongwu, "hundreds of officials are allowed to wear raincoats when they encounter rain and snow from now on." Even the "death of the temples" continued to go to the court as usual, but they changed to light and light-colored clothes and did not ring bells and drums. In case of a great funeral, the emperor "looked at the West Corner Gate".

In the 28th year of Hongwu, there were 184 paragraphs of the "ensemble notices" of the yamen of various prefectures and departments, and in addition to such major events as elections, grain inventory, suggestions, execution of prisoners, and opening of yamen, as well as such matters as disasters, rain, and the number of prisoners, there were also many miscellaneous matters such as "buying cattle and supporting farm tools" and "recovering stolen goods from insufficient family members." When it comes to "confidential matters in the army, guarding access control, customs defense, and other matters," Xu Guanqi's soldiers "play it"; civil lawsuits are often "sealed and heard." Even the officials and soldiers guarding the imperial city who searched and found the stolen property of the inner government had to be led to the court gate and sent by the emperor himself. It can be described as "annoying" to the extreme. Like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he sat at the door of the court in person, and he was in charge of everything, regardless of the importance or the small, which was unprecedented. But Tai Zu is not allowed to change, which has actually buried the hidden opportunity that the future dynasty will go to the story of the void, and the "name" exists but the "real" dies. Especially after Xuande, the content of the early dynasty's political decisions continued to shrink, and the upper dynasty only tended to worship and salute, and its nature was not much different from that of the great dynasty and the Shuowang dynasty.

Yang Zheng is only the official position of a four-grade military general, in the military generals, it is not big, and the position occupied is not conspicuous, seeing that the six departments and nine secretaries of the Jinluan Palace are talking about everything one by one, the emperor answered one by one, and saw him shaking his head again and again, the world said that it was cool to be the emperor, but what he saw was that the emperor was in power, the harem was three thousand, and he had no worries about food and clothing, but he didn't know that the emperor was also tired, especially the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, the monarch set the power of the prime minister and the monarch in one, reaching the unprecedented peak of monarchical centralization, this situation seems to be good, but in fact, he is very tired, even if it is Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and other eloquent emperors, also had to set up a cabinet after the abolition of the prime minister, it can be seen that being an emperor is not comfortable, but so many people want to do it, I really don't know if Zhu Gaochu is successful in his rebellion, he really becomes an emperor, will he regret not being an idle prince back then.

I thought about it for a while, and I don't know how long it took, but I only heard Zhu Zhanji say: "Lord Yang's court push to start, right?"

"Finally got to the point?" Yang Zheng muttered, for fear that others would see his lazy appearance, and immediately made a look of serious listening.

The so-called push, whenever the court encounters serious political affairs, or encounters a vacancy in the minister of civil and military affairs, the emperor will order the courtiers to meet the meeting, to discuss with each other, weigh the appropriate, and then report to the emperor to take the decree, and the pros and cons of the pros and cons of the political affairs are called the court discussion, and the proposal for the promotion and appointment of personnel is called the court push. Although it is said that the ministers recommend officials, but the emperor in the early Ming Dynasty still has the right to decide, the most powerful can also use the decree to appoint senior officials, the cabinet has the right to vote, that is, after the cabinet members receive the chapter or the draft edict to be issued, paste a piece of paper on the face, write their opinions and submit them to the emperor, and the emperor approves the red and officially takes effect, in fact, it is very similar to the Tang and Song Dynasty Zhongshu Sheren (several middle-level cadres in Zhongshu Province) "Five Flower Judgment". When each department receives a letter from the Cabinet, it will take effect on the basis of the approval on the proposed ticket. It is said that this is not a legal work procedure, but because the Ming Dynasty did not have a clear legal work procedure, people naturally had to look for it, and they found the procedure of the ticket to be approved. One day, whoever received an edict, there was no vote, and the emperor directly approved it. I'm sorry, this can only be regarded as your personal letter from the emperor, not an official government document. In fact, this also has a scientific name: Zhongzhi. Then the crux of the matter is, what should the functional department do if it receives the order?

In fact, there are ready-made examples of the Ming Dynasty. In the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, Song Taizong bypassed the prime minister and directly formulated a battle plan with the Privy Council and directly commanded the front-line generals, which was a taboo of issuing a central decree without permission, and was almost unable to step down. In the Northern Expedition of Shaoxing, Prime Minister Qin Hui issued an edict to withdraw the army in the name of the imperial court, but Song Gaozong issued an edict asking Zhu to continue the attack. All the generals were ordered to withdraw their troops, and only Yue Fei continued to attack on the orders of the central government. As a result, everyone knows that Yue Fei was exempted from prison and even died in prison. Although it is well known that this matter is a traitor of Qin Dahan, from the perspective of legal procedures, he is really the reasonable party. This incident has taught future generations a bloody lesson - if you do not obey the edict, the emperor will lose face at most, and even if the person who obeys the order is a national hero, he will not escape the fate of losing his official position or even losing his life, and the emperor will not be able to protect you. But the emperor of the early Ming Dynasty generally did not use this power, because it was meaningful to the emperor, but it was meaningless to the officials who were ordered by the emperor, and even a little embarrassing.

To explain the literati of the dynasty, it is definitely backbone, but if a big official does not go through the court push, there are really few will accept it, in their opinion, this is the emperor's insult to their ability, so looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Xu Youzhen in the orthodox year, no one accepted the emperor's decree, so that in the end the emperor also felt that this decree was quite a bit of a taste of food, over time, the decree is like a deaf ear, purely ornamental, as long as it involves high-ranking officials in the court, the emperor will most likely follow the rules of the court.

Today, the first thing to push the court is to push the appointment of fifteen people such as Huang Zongzai, the official of the Ministry of Officials, to clean up the appointment of the world's army, this matter has long been sent to the cabinet, because Emperor Renzong is unwell, has been pressed and has not moved, now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, this matter is the top priority, because of the lack of military at that time, and the states and counties are more deceitful, Xingzhou sergeant Fan Ji entered Beijing to speak, so that the imperial court sent officials to investigate early, Zhu Zhanji sorted out this matter from many twists and turns, and decided to take advantage of today to solve it together.

After a round of court pushing, the result was that Huang Zongzai and others went to various places to clean up. Later, the "Qing Army Regulations 24 Articles" were established, and it was set as a routine to send Jingqing to clean up the world's military ranks in the imperial history. Huang Zongzai went to Zhejiang; Hao Peng, the head of the household department, went to Huguang; Fan Jing, the head of the criminal department, went to Yangzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang, Luzhou, Chuzhou, and Xuzhou; Yu Shiji went to Yingtian, Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Anqing, Guangde, and Hezhou; Wu Tingyong went to Jiangxi; Jin Zhen, the head of the Beijing department, went to Beizhili; Li Su, deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, went to Shanxi; Tang Zong, the secretary of Dali Temple, went to Shandong; and Yan Sheng, Shaoqing, went to Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Huizhou; Li Qian went to Guangdong; Shi Li went to Henan; Sicheng Zhang Zonglian went to Fujian; Ai Liang went to Sichuan; He Huaihui, the right senator of the General Political Envoy, went to Guangxi; and Zhang Renshi, the Cheng of Honglu Temple, went to Shaanxi. Zhu Zhanji was somewhat dissatisfied with this result, but it was none other than Huang Zongzai, the servant of the ministry.

To say that Huang Zongzai, the servant of the ministry, is also quite legendary, this person is more impatient and can do things, but he always lacks courage at critical times.

In the early years of Yongle, he was recommended to serve as the judge of Huguang. The giant traitors and cunning criminals were mostly relegated to the bronze drum and the five opens, secretly controlling the power of life and death of officials. Huang Zongzai recounted their crimes and said, "If you don't change it, you must be punished according to law." The crowd did not dare to disobey. Wuling has many military statuses, and the families of the common people are worried that if they marry them, the conscription tax will be transferred to them, so men and women do not marry until they are forty years old. Huang Zongzai persuaded them with reason, and they all realized that there were more than 300 families who got married at one time. Neighboring counties followed suit, and customs changed. Emperor Zhu Di enlisted him to Wenyuan Pavilion to repair the "Yongle Canon". After the book was completed, Huang Zongzai was rewarded and returned to office. Later, he was in charge of the construction of dozens of giant ships, and the matter was done without the people being harassed. When the emperor drove to the north, he recruited troops from Huguang, and the envoy missed the deadline due to greed and ferocity. Huang Zongzai was demoted to the post man of Yangqing because he was not impeached. After that, I didn't use it for many years, until Zhu Di wanted to use an imperial history, and suddenly remembered Huang Zongzai who was reprimanded by himself. At that time, Jiaozhi had just been pacified, and the state and county officials mostly used people from Liangguang and Yunnan, as well as Sui Gongsheng who were willing to serve as officials in distant places, and they were not good at appeasing. Huang Zongzai then said: "The officials concerned are incompetent. If we wait for nine years to be deposed, I am afraid that the government will be even more abolished. It is requested that those who have served for more than two years shall be investigated, verified and reported according to the Imperial History and the Second Division. Zhu Di agreed with him. When he returned, his luggage was sluggish, and he didn't take anything with him. Shangshu Huang Fu said to people: "I have lived here for so long, and I have received a lot of imperial history, only Huang Zong knows the general situation. After Huang Zongzai's grandmother died, he was recalled to Ren Shi and changed to Zhan Shifucheng, so he stayed in the capital, Zhu Zhanji followed Zhu Di for the longest time in the early years, and he knew a lot about the temperament of the court officials, he was afraid that Huang Zongzai would be confused in the inventory and cleaning up the world's army, and he was a little worried, Da Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi strongly recommended this person, and Zhu Zhanji would not doubt the vision of these two ministers, so he agreed.

After dealing with this matter, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere in the court was much warmer, and then they began to push the officials who inspected Jiangnan.

After all, inspecting Jiangnan is not a trivial matter, and it is also a third-grade officer, and the relationship between the DPRK and China is complicated, so everyone has been pushing back and forth for a long time, and there has been no conclusion. And most of the officials who said their names were not talented enough, and they were vetoed by everyone, and they were not lively for a while.

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