Chapter 12 The Cabinet and the Celebrant of Ceremonies

The military department of the Ming Dynasty carried a small hoe from the shadow of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, digging the corners of the wall little by little, and from the late Hongwu period to the Renxuan period, the emperor Dì Dū was acquiescing.

During the Hongwu period, Taizu believed in the old brother who started with him. At that time, the lords were heavily involved in local government.

And most of the lords are vulgar and unliterate, do things without rules, meddle in the locality, and interfere with the division. Grass cares about human life. Emperor Taizu warned many times, but to no avail. Naturally deal with it harshly.

In the end, it led to the Blue Jade case.

Since the Lanyu case, Emperor Taizu has actually begun to turn to support Wenzhi, and the military department began to divide the power of the five military governors, but at that time, there were many generals, even after the Lanyu case, the military also had Sheng Yong, Ping'an, Xu Huizu and other generals.

Even if the emperor hinted at it, the military department did not dare to make a big show.

Taizong ascended the throne, and Jing Nanxun was full of people for a while.

The military department is naturally cautious.

But when he arrived at Taizong's Northern Expedition and Renzong's supervision, he became close to Wenchen, and Wenchen's strength rose little by little. Taizong himself also realized that the suppression of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was also carried out intentionally or unintentionally.

After Renzong ascended the throne. The Renxuan Auxiliary Political Group was formed.

Xia Yuanji, Jian Yi, Huang Huai, and Sanyang are all among them, and with their efforts, the Ming Dynasty has advanced rapidly towards Wenzhi.

If the ministers' management department is restored now, it will be simply a betrayal of the efforts of most of the civil servants since Hongwu, and the discarding of the political achievements of Yang Shiqi's efforts for half a lifetime.

Yang Shiqi would rather return to his hometown than accept it.

Anyway, he is an old man in his seventies, and he can live for a few more years. The emperor should also respect the elderly. Even if it doesn't suit the emperor's mind, what can the emperor do?

Zhu Qizhen saw Yang Shiqi for the first time, and his beard was all open, and his words were righteous. didn't give an inch, almost spit sprayed on Zhu Qizhen's face, and said, "Your Majesty, this matter must not be allowed." ”

Zhu Qizhen knew that Yang Shiqi was dying and couldn't do anything, but under Yang Shiqi's situation, he actually felt a little scared in his heart.

Sure enough, a tiger is also a tiger when it is old.

Zhu Qizhen can only compromise. said: "Since Mr. said so, then the Ministry of War will assign Mr. to be responsible." The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is the same as before. ”

Zhu Qizhen also gave Zhang Fu a step. In the past, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies also assigned the music to the General Administration Department, and then to the Cabinet, but now it is the same, but it has no name.

Immediately, Yang Pu led the officials.

The ministry is very important, and Wang Zhi was also a secretary of the ministry before, if Wang Zhi is allowed to manage the ministry, Wang Zhi's strength will increase greatly, which is what Yang Pu's ministry wants to see.

Yang Pu is old, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Zhu Qizhen did not disagree.

Wang Zhi, Cao Nai, and Ma Yu are still left, the household department, the engineering department, and the criminal department.

Zhu Qizhen personally ordered: "Then Wang Zhi will serve as the household department, Cao Nai will serve as the Ministry of Industry, and Ma Yu will serve as the criminal department." ”

Yang Shiqi said: "Your Majesty is wise. ”

Yang Shiqi's sentence is not all sycophancy.

Because Zhu Qizhen's disposal is also appropriate.

The household department controls the financial power of the world, and it is the most powerful of the remaining three ministries, Wang Zhi is old, and Yang Pu took the ministry before, and he also suffered a little loss, so he naturally has to compensate.

As for the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Works in ordinary times is the least powerful of the six.

But when was this time, construction was going on in the city of Beijing, and the entire Beizhili was working hard. Hundreds of thousands of people have been conquered.

At this time, the power of the Ministry of Industry was so great that it was almost impossible to reduce the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households.

And Cao Nai is also from Hebei.

This is building his hometown, and Cao Nai will only be more attentive than ordinary people.

As for Ma Yu, he has no experience, but listening to Yang Shiqi's description, he is also a gentleman, he is above the criminal department, and he thinks that many wrongful convictions can be reduced.

This is also considered to be used for soul-winning.

Zhu Qizhen also made some changes on the folding process.

In the past, the handling process of the cabinet was actually that all the folds in the world were sent to the General Administration Department, and the General Administration Department was sent to the Chief Celebrant Supervisor, and the Chief Celebrant forwarded it to the emperor, and after the emperor read it, it was sent to the Cabinet, and the Cabinet formed a specific document of the emperor's will, or the Emperor's no will was reviewed, and the yellow was attached to the fold, and then transferred to the emperor for approval.

After the emperor's approval, the document was formed again, and the seal was used, which was the issuance of the holy decree.

But it is impossible for the emperor to deal with so many twists and turns, so the emperor has not seen many twists and turns from the master of ceremonies to the cabinet. It's just a hand in the celebrant priest. came to the cabinet, and after the cabinet was yellowed, it was returned to the celebrant for the emperor to see.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the latter many times.

Only the cabinet has the power to play alone, and does not go through the general affairs department, but directly to the emperor.

Zhu Qizhen directly ordered the celebrant to divide the recitals, divide the recitals into priorities, and directly transfer the critical and important recitals to the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Qizhen personally reviewed it, and at the same time, there was an excerpt of the catalogue and a copy of the fold.

In this way, Zhu Qizhen's workload has been greatly reduced. After he has dealt with the critical and important recitals, he can look through the table of contents and the content of the excerpts.

If you think those are too important, you can directly find the original and review it carefully.

As for copies, they have to be forwarded to the Cabinet. After making the cabinet yellow. After being reviewed by the celebrant and sent it out.

Of course, if Zhu Qizhen has a handling opinion, the cabinet must follow Zhu Qizhen's opinion. If Zhu Qizhen doesn't know how to deal with it for a while, he will either go to the six cabinets to discuss, or convene the imperial front

Meetings, group discussions.

The cabinet will not be able to control the decision-making of these major matters for a while.

This is what Zhu Qizhen thinks, instead of grabbing his eyebrows and hair, it is better to carry out the program and only deal with the main affairs, as long as the world is in his hands, even if there are mistakes in some small things, it doesn't matter.

Da Ming has a good foundation, and there is room for modification.

In this case, the powers of the Cabinet and the Celebrant have greatly increased, especially the three important powers of the Celebrant of Celebrants, the power to distribute and grade the folds, the power to write abridgements, and the power to review the Cabinet's disposition.

Wang Zhen's power increased dramatically.

As soon as Yang Shiqi heard Zhu Qizhen's statement, he knew that there would be such consequences. But on the good news of this cabinet, it is difficult for Yang Shiqi to say anything against it.

After all, in this way, the first assistant of the cabinet really has the status of a prime minister.

Many documents did not need to be reviewed by the emperor at all, and they were disposed of by the cabinet. Yang Shiqi was silent in the end and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Zhu Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief.

This significant imperial meeting is over.

Zhu Qizhen walked out of Wenyuan Pavilion, only felt a little tired, and didn't want to leave, so he called a step, sat down, and said to Wang Zhen on the side: "Wang Daban, you don't have to serve by my side in the future." ”

When Wang Zhen heard this, he was taken aback and said, "The emperor doesn't want slaves anymore." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How come? It's just that the celebrant is so important, and I don't feel at ease when it is placed in the hands of others, so I have to go and guard the celebrant for me. ”

"As for serving these little things around, who can't do it?"

Wang Zhen's political wisdom is not as good as that of the cabinet, for those people, Zhu Qizhen doesn't need to say much, as long as he makes a start, the following things are immediately guessed.

But Wang Zhen is different, he only vaguely realized at this moment that the power of the celebrant will be very great, but what kind of Dafa it is, he has not figured it out for a while.

Wang Zhen was both excited and worried about such power, and asked, "What should the slave do?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "This is also easy to do, you only need to have one heart, and it is enough to have no selfish intentions." ”

For example, the grading and distribution of the folds, the writing of the abridgement, and the review of the cabinet stickers, among which there are a lot of cats, which are very simple, this is related to whether some things can be known to the emperor.

This directly affected Zhu Qizhen's control of the news through the formal channels of the imperial court.

Even if Zhu Qi Town has Dongchang Jinyiwei, the biggest source of Daming is still Daming officialdom, and Ming officials are all over the world.

When Wang Zhen heard this, he immediately said: "Hearing Your Majesty say this, the slave and maid will be relieved, the slave and maid have no other ability, that is, they are loyal to Your Majesty, and they have no selfishness at all." ”

Wang Zhen thought that this requirement was very simple at the moment, but later learned that the simpler the request, the more difficult it was to achieve.