Chapter 6: The Sacred Heart is Like an Abyss

Yang Puping retreated left and right and opened the door. Straight to the Wenyuan Pavilion hall.

The duty room of the cabinet is a small room separated from the Wenyuan Pavilion. Zhu Qizhen's treatment of cabinet ministers is still very good.

Although the duty room of each cabinet minister, that is, the office, is actually not large, but it is also divided into inside and outside, the outside is the office to meet guests, and the inside can put down a bed, if there is a major event, such as the death of the emperor, the border war, when the cabinet minister needs to be on call, you can rest here.

Zhu Qizhen is connected to the fire road in this room, and Zhu Qizhen is treated like a warm pavilion in the Qianqing Palace. The food and clothing enshrined are all first-class and good, and even the cabinet has a small kitchen here.

Some of these things were added before Zhu Qizhen, and some were added after Zhu Qizhen.

After all, it doesn't cost much money to add a little treatment. Zhu Qizhen even made it a habit to buy people's hearts.

But even so, in winter, when Yang Pu opened the door, there was still a cold wind rushing in, after all, it was much worse than the Snow Viewing Pavilion carefully built by Wang Zhen.

But it is Yang Pu's political philosophy, that is, it is above board. Not in private affairs.

Of course, even if Yang Pu put on this posture, few people dared to eavesdrop on the conversation between the first assistant of the cabinet and the future secretary of the military department.

Yang Pu said: "Meng Xi, what does Your Majesty mean?" "Meng Xi is Xu Xi's character.

Xu Xi smiled bitterly and said: "Pavilion Elder, the sacred heart is like an abyss, how can the courtiers speculate." ”

Yang Pu sighed and said, "Yes." ”

But he thought in his heart that it was Zhu Qizhen's performance after the death of the Empress Dowager. He had a private idea that the emperor was becoming more and more like the Empress Dowager.

How did the Empress Dowager control the imperial court in the early years of orthodoxy.

That is to control military power, financial power, suppress the scale of government affairs, and then delegate power to the cabinet. Yang Shiqi seems to be in power, but he is under the control of the Empress Dowager.

After the Empress Dowager went, Zhu Qizhen reduced his interference in court politics, and in many decisions, he did not directly refute the opinions of the cabinet, or rarely disagreed with the opinions of the cabinet.

It looks like the cabinet has risen dramatically.

But Yang Pu felt more and more that he couldn't guess Zhu Qizhen's opinion.

Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu could see that the emperor was actually in a hurry, and he didn't know where to get an urgency in doing things.

is bent on doing this and that, it seems that being an emperor is to do things.

But the emperor himself does not seem to understand that the emperor himself does not do things. This in itself is a misalignment of identity. It's just that there are some imperial tricks, even the first assistant minister is not easy to talk to His Majesty in detail.

As the scholars said, ruling the world by hanging the arch, although there are some meanings that want to limit the power of the monarch. But it doesn't have to be right.

It has always been the emperor who accepts the opinion of a certain minister and makes such and such a decision, and few emperors have such and such ideas, but they have to persuade the ministers below to carry it out.

In terms of political ecology, this in itself is not too healthy.

After all, whenever the emperor proposes something, the people below will never oppose it, and even if there is opposition, there are even villains who cater to it. The emperor is in a hurry, and there is naturally a group of ministers below who are in a hurry, and the emperor is sluggish, so naturally another group of courtiers caters to him.

Therefore, the emperor should not easily express his opinions, act in the middle of the road, maintain the normal operation of the entire Ming system, and the specific work is to be placed at the next level, which is the matter of the six cabinet departments.

This misalignment. is the reason why the emperor is not at ease.

Why Taoism is the art of the king's south, this statement can actually be summed up by doing nothing and doing nothing. But there aren't many of them that can really figure it out.

After the Empress Dowager went, Zhu Qizhen seemed to have aligned his position after deep introspection.

But for Yang Pu, while reassuring him, he felt difficult to do.

The reason is very simple, Zhu Qizhen's opinions were simply undisguised before, at least in Yang Pu's opinion, they were undisguised, but now Yang Pu knows that Zhu Qizhen still values Hebei water conservancy, salt law, shipping, and other affairs.

But what Zhu Qizhen thinks, there are few mistakes.

He just kept paying attention, and even sometimes he was not very satisfied, and he would not show it easily, but there was a group of officials who said that this matter was such and such a problem.

Yang Pu didn't understand it when he saw it for the first time, but Yang Pu is such an old and spicy person, although he has no evidence, he is also sure that there are people behind these officials.

Whether it's the emperor or not, I don't know.

Yang Pu didn't dare to know.

It seems that Zhu Qizhen's opinions on the cabinet have never been refuted, but before the cabinet's conclusion was formed, some of Zhu Qizhen's ideas had already penetrated into it.

Even Yang Pu still doesn't know who His Majesty's people are.

This feeling gave Yang Pu a feeling of being under Emperor Taizong.

Therefore, the sacred heart is like an abyss, these four words are not Yang Pu's sycophants, but the real feeling in Yang Pu's heart. Zhu Qizhen became difficult to serve.

For example, this one.

When the news of the westward expansion of the Wattle spurs came, there were already several rounds of discussion at the cabinet meeting. Abandoning Hami is the opinion of the Cabinet.

But Zhu Qizhen did not disagree. Just stay in the middle. And issued an edict to let the Hanlin Academy compile a "History of the Western Regions", and the edict specifically indicated that it was necessary to find "the traces of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the Western Regions." "It's almost explicit, I'm not satisfied with your plan.

Yang Pu has advised him several times.

Zhu Qizhen always said: "What face will I see Emperor Taizong underground?" ”

All right. That's a powerful reason

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Emperor Xuanzong gave up on Annan, and did not say that he could not see Emperor Taizong underground.

Yang Pu has already come to his senses, what should he do about it? In the end, the guilt of giving up Hami must be pressed on his head. But Yang Pu is a social minister after all.

Knowing that you can't fight the battle of Hami, you just can't fight it.

Not to mention the long grain road from Shaanxi to the west, and the local grain in the northwest is simply not enough to support the army, just to say, the first section of the tile spur entered the Hetao area and threatened Yan'an, and the defensive pressure of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division increased greatly, and the meeting between the military department and the governor's office of the five armies had already made a decision to increase troops for Yan'an.

After the troops were dispersed, relying on the local army in the northwest alone was not enough to win a decisive victory with the tile spurs in Hami, and you can see from the rebellion in the northwest that there were only 10,000 cavalry, which made the northwest chaotic for a while.

If troops are transferred from Beijing, it is even more nonsense.

By the time the army arrived in Hami, it was estimated that Hami had already been taken down by the tile spurs.

What does Yang Pu think, the imperial court can't lose its heart for the sake of face, so even if he is nailed to the crime of abandoning Hami in the future, he can only admonish again and again, and if he can't persuade himself, he must let others advise, and Hami can't fight this battle.

Yang Pu pondered for a moment and said: "Meng Xi, your appointment is better, Your Majesty's intention You also understand, since the orthodoxy, the border generals have asked to repair the side walls along the line, Your Majesty uses you, that is, you want to use your understanding of the nine sides, after you arrive at the military department, don't say anything else, first make a plan to repair the nine sides." Focus on Xuanda, remember to do it strictly, the imperial court has been tossing for several years, and it is easy for Hebei Water Conservancy to be almost over, and there is a little money in hand, but you can't let those people in Jiubian eat empty salaries. ”

Zhu Qizhen paid so much attention to the nine sides, how could Yang Pu not figure out what Zhu Qizhen meant. Zhu Qizhen would rather let the military department hang for half a year, but also use Xu Xi, who is familiar with the nine sides, which is already very clear.

Xu Xi said: "Pavilion Elder, the lower officials understand. ”

"This is the first big thing in office, and it must be done well." Yang Pu said: "Don't disappoint Your Majesty. ”

Xu Xi remembered Zhu Qizhen's courtesy to him, and said: "I don't dare to say that the nine sides are solid, but I will use every penny to the truth." He paused slightly, and said, "It's just a matter of Hami, how should it be over?" ”

Yang Pu said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty is not a stubborn person. There is always someone who can convince His Majesty. He actually estimated that Zhu Qizhen had already made up his mind at the moment. It's just that being admonished is actually a political capital. It depends on who the emperor wants to give it to.

Xu Xi seemed to understand and said, "British duke? ”

Yang Pu sighed and said, "Yes." Who else but the British Princess? ”

Xu Xi felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, because he was the secretary of the military department, but he was a soldier, but now the emperor's military affairs should be decided by the British public.

Where is the power of his military department secretary embodied?