The head of the cabinet is to hand over power to civil officials, which many emperors of the Ming Dynasty are strongly opposed, they don't know whether they are afraid that civilian officials will seek to usurp the throne, or they are afraid that civilian officials will damage the public and private and make the country a mess, anyway, they just don't want to hand over power to civilian officials.

Although Zhu Cihong is inclined to be open-minded under Zhang Bin's teaching, he is not indifferent to these problems, Chongzhen has warned him more than once, asking him to be careful of these civil servants seizing power, especially Zhang Bin!

What to do?

It will definitely not work like this, as the territory of the Ming Dynasty continues to expand, even if he is exhausted, he will not be able to deal with more and more government affairs, but if the power of approving red is handed over to the cabinet, then Wenchen will not be able to govern!

He thought for a while, but he still couldn't make a decision, and finally, he simply mustered up the courage to ask: "Master, if the power to approve the red is handed over to the cabinet, then I don't have any power in my hands?" ”

Zhang Bin is afraid that he will suddenly turn his face, he is also afraid that Zhang Bin will suddenly turn his face, you must know that now almost all the yamen in the imperial court are in the hands of Zhang Bin, not to mention the army, almost all the leading generals have been under Zhang Bin, and there are almost no who do not listen to his command!

He asked this, in fact, it is equivalent to a polite refusal, a dynasty, all power is handed over to the cabinet, and the emperor has no power at all, this is obviously impossible.

Zhang Bin saw that the expression on his face did not change much, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, Weichen is bold, you should be wrong, this power is not only the power to deal with government affairs, but also military power, financial power, supervision power, etc., handling government affairs is actually the lowest power, and you can completely control the cabinet members who handle government affairs through other powers." ”

Is there a low-end and high-end of this power?

Zhu Cihong was puzzled: "This government affairs have been handed over to the cabinet, how can I control the cabinet members?" ”

Zhang Bin introduced: "There are many methods, for example, you can spot check, check every day a cabinet member to deal with the twists and turns, whether there is a problem, you can naturally see, so who dares to use power for personal gain?" In fact, this is equivalent to you personally reviewing the book, but the time to deal with government affairs will be much less. ”

Spot check?

Zhu Cihong really didn't think of this method, but he found that there were many loopholes in it.

He couldn't help but question: "There are also a lot of loopholes to exploit in this spot check, for example, they can use the excuse that they didn't have time to deal with it, hide their own twists and turns for personal gain, they can also find out the law of my spot check, once someone is going to be spot-checked one day, they will handle it in public service, and those who don't spot check will use their power for personal gain, so I will still be blinded." ”

Zhang Bin was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "This can also be prevented, you can follow the previous method, let the Secretary of General Affairs directly send all the folds to the celebrant supervisor, and then let the master of ceremonies number all the folds and make a book, and stipulate that when the cabinet distributes the folds, all the folds that are distributed must be written down, and no one is spot-checked, even if the folds that have not been processed must be handed over, so that they will not be able to show favoritism." As for the problem of them finding out the pattern of your spot checks, it is even simpler, you can just check the spot according to the rules, or simply draw lots, and check whoever you catch every day, so that they can't show favoritism? ”

Zhu Cihong heard this, and nodded slowly, so it seems that it is really nothing to hand over the right to approve the red to the cabinet, because they don't know who they will spot check one day, if they are spot-checked by themselves, they will be finished, who would dare to cheat for personal gain.

He thought for a while, and suddenly asked again: "Then what if they are perfunctory and deal with it at will, so that there are some problems in the local or imperial court that are not obvious but affect the common people, I can't control them." ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while and responded: "This is simple, you can make the Metropolitan Procuratorate independent, not under the control of the cabinet, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate still exercises the original only, supervise hundreds of officials, patrol the locality, and once there is a problem, it will be directly impeached, and this impeachment will not be sent to the cabinet, and you will directly approve it, so that they will not dare to neglect the government, right?" ”

This seems to be very reasonable, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was originally used to supervise hundreds of officials, with their supervision, officials at all levels should not dare to neglect their administration, but this is not absolute, Zhu Cihong then asked: "Then what if they join forces with the supervision of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to deceive me?" ”

This kid, there are really a lot of concerns, Zhang Bin thought about it, and then responded: "This is also simple, the emperor can take two sets of light and dark supervision systems, it turns out that Jinyiwei doesn't have the role of monitoring hundreds of officials, you can properly let them monitor, however, this monitoring can not be monitored indiscriminately, only if you feel that there is a problem or want to spot check where, and then order them to monitor a certain official or a certain local official They can go, otherwise they have too much authority, and it will be troublesome if they are above the hundred officials." ”

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he slowly showed a look of interest, it seems that it is really feasible to hand over the right to approve the red to the cabinet, as long as he seizes the right to supervise, no one will dare to make a moth.

Zhang Bin has been secretly paying attention to his expression, and he showed a look of interest, Zhang Bin immediately hit the railway while it was hot: "Actually, the emperor still has many ways to control the cabinet members, for example, financial power, you can separate the treasury from the household department and hand it over to a special person, and everything that wants to use the treasury and silver must be signed by you, so that they will not be greedy for money, and there is no benefit in this favoritism." For example, military power, you can also set the rules, all if you want to mobilize the army or garrison, you must also sign it yourself, as long as you firmly control the army, are you afraid that someone will dare to come nonsense? ”

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he thought for a while, and then nodded slowly: "Well, it seems that there is no big problem in handing over the red power to the cabinet, as long as you do a good job of supervision, okay, just do it." However, this cabinet scholar is writing votes and red, which seems to be a bit redundant, otherwise, let them directly approve the red in the future, no need to write a vote, master, what do you think? ”

The emperor finally nodded, Zhang Bin couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, now it's okay, even if there is an incompetent faint monarch in the future, at most, he is too lazy to check the twists and turns, at least he will not mess up the entire Ming Dynasty.

However, if there is a faint king, there is another problem that has to be guarded against, that is, there is a friend party, and everyone unites to deceive the Holy Hearing and do whatever they want.

How can this problem be prevented?

As for the issue of not writing a ticket to directly approve the bonus, it is not a key issue, but this process issue cannot be hastily carried out, and it remains to be discussed.

It seems that there are still a lot of issues to consider, and it's not too early at this time, if you delay the time again, I'm afraid the emperor won't be able to finish today's twists and turns if he doesn't sleep tonight, so let's go back and think about it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Bin simply got up and said: "Your Majesty, this issue Weichen will think about it again when he goes back, and Weichen will write a detailed charter for the emperor's reference, and Weichen will not disturb the emperor, and Weichen will retire." ”

Zhu Cihong didn't keep it, because there were too many folds to be reviewed, and if he delayed it any longer, he would really not be able to finish the review before tomorrow morning.