Chapter 299: Party Strife?
The era of the Great Song Dynasty is really strange, obviously the military is weak, and in the face of a small party, he can fight three battles and lose three times, but the ministers in the court are all hot-tempered, and they will fight directly in the court at every turn, if it is an ordinary low-level official, it is just that, but even the prime minister is like this.
Wang Qinruo died, Wang Zeng finally took over his position as he wished, as the so-called new official took office with three fires, but no one expected that his fire would be so big, not only burned on the heads of others, but also burned on his own heads.
Wang Zeng is more than ten years younger than Cao Utilization, and it is said that he should have the upper hand, but Cao Utilization was born as a palace guard, and he has been a military general for many years.
Originally, the other officials in the court wanted to fight, but they didn't know what was going on, and in the end, they even fought, and they were divided into two factions with the Zhongshu Province behind Wang Zeng and the Privy Council behind Cao Yong, and they directly started a group fight in front of other officials.
"Just got into a fight because of the queue?" In the Jingfu Palace, Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen with an incredulous expression, after he heard that Wang Zeng and Cao Yu were fighting, he immediately ran to Zhao Zhen to inquire about the news, but when he heard the cause of the fight, he couldn't believe it for a while, the two prime ministers would fight because of such a trivial matter as queuing?
"This matter seems not big, but in fact it has its own profound meaning, which is not only related to the ranking of the prime ministers, but also related to the status of the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council...... The fact that the king did not care about these things during his reign does not mean that the king did not care about them. Zhao Zhen also smiled bitterly at this time.
The prime minister system of the Great Song Dynasty is different from the previous dynasty, the three provinces and six departments have almost disappeared, and the power of the prime minister is divided by the Zhongshu, the Privy Council and the three divisions, the Zhongshu is in charge of the government, the privy is in charge of the army, and the three divisions are in charge of finance, and the Zhongshu Provincial Yamen is also known as the political affairs hall, which is in charge of the Pingzhangshi under the same Zhongshu Gate, and the Pingzhangshi is actually the official position of the prime minister, that is, the prime minister in the narrow sense, there are generally two people, but these two people are also divided into primary and secondary, so they are called the positive phase and the secondary phase respectively.
The Privy Council is in charge of the Privy Council, and there is generally a deputy for the Privy Council, as for the three divisions, which are in charge of the three divisions, responsible for finance, and are also known as the prime ministers.
Generally speaking, the prime minister is the head of a hundred officials, after all, he holds the administrative power, so according to the regulations, the prime minister must be at the forefront when he is in the court.
However, during the period from Zhao Heng's later years to Liu E's curtain to listen to the government, the candidates for the prime minister have been changing back and forth, Wang Qinruo, Kou Zhun, Ding Wei, Li Di, Wang Zeng, Feng Zheng, etc., these people took turns to get on the horse, resulting in the fact that there was no fixed leader when the dynasty was in power.
In contrast, the Privy Council has always been in charge of Cao Yong, plus Liu E had just listened to the government and needed support, so in order to buy Cao Yong, she ordered Cao Yong to temporarily rank first among the hundred officials, Cao Yong not only has a high official position, but also has very old qualifications.
But Wang Qinruo can ignore this matter, but Wang Zeng is unwilling to compromise, so after he became the prime minister, he saw that Cao Yong walked in front of him every time he went to the court, and he was very annoyed in his heart, because he thought that this was not just a matter of order, but a matter of the status of the political hall and the Privy Council, so when he went to the court today, he saw Cao Yong walking in front of him again, and as a result, Wang Zeng actually pushed Cao Yong away, and Cao Yong refused to give in, which led to this group fight.
"These people are really ......" Regarding Wang Zeng and Cao Yi's performance in this matter, Li Zhang didn't know what to say for a while, but he always felt that it was really insulting for the two prime ministers to fight in the court, especially Wang Zeng, who usually looked very kind, but he didn't expect to have such a hot side.
"If you want me to say that the eldest lady is still powerful, after such a big thing happened, the eldest lady acted as if it had never happened, and still let the ministers go to the court normally, and they didn't mention this matter at all in the early dynasty, but after the dynasty was dispersed, let the privy deputy envoy Zhang Shixun tell Cao Utilization, and let him follow the original rules when he goes to court next time, I estimate that Cao Utilization must be very unconvinced." Zhao Zhen spoke again at this time.
"Not only is he not convinced, how can Cao use such an arrogant person, how can he stand this kind of idleness, I estimate that this matter will definitely not be over, and it may bring them a big disaster in the future!" After listening to this, Li Zhang pondered for a moment and replied.
Cao Yu is not a soft persimmon, this old man has made great contributions in the Lanyuan Alliance since that year, and once quelled the Lingnan rebellion, so that he was promoted all the way to the privy envoy, and no matter how the wind in the court has changed over the years, he has served as a privy envoy as if he was sitting firmly on Mount Tai, which also made him slowly become arrogant and domineering, and looked down on others, and from time to time mentioned his contributions in the Lanyuan Alliance, quite a little arrogant.
"Cao Shumi's temperament is indeed a little arrogant, but cousin, isn't it too much for you to say that this may cause them a big disaster?" Zhao Zhen was also a little surprised when he heard Li Zhang's words, and asked rhetorically.
"Hehe, this is not my alarmist, think about it after this group fight, the political hall and the Privy Council have already formed a relationship, and the differences between the two governments will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, plus Wang Zeng and Cao take advantage of the discord, they will definitely win over the ministers and accumulate power in order to give each other a fatal blow, but what do you think this will lead to?" Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen with a smile at this time.
"Woo ministers and accumulate power? This...... Isn't this a partisan struggle? Zhao Zhen was also shocked when he heard this, and said with a little surprise at the moment, as the emperor, he naturally knew that if the ministers below formed a gang, it would only cause great disasters to the country, and the "Niu Li Party Dispute" in the Tang Dynasty was a lesson from the past.