Volume 8 Chapter 189 Zhang Bin takes power
In the afternoon of this day, all the officials in Beijing received a notice from Jinyiwei that the emperor was seriously ill and could not manage the government, and tomorrow's morning court was canceled!
In fact, many officials understand that the emperor is not sick, and the emperor was still high-spirited in the early dynasty and wanted to clean up Zhang Bin, how could he be sick in the afternoon and unable to take care of the government.
They saw it in the early dynasty, and this time, the emperor and the crown prince Zhang Bin are afraid that they will not die.
They all speculated that the emperor was very likely to be placed under house arrest by this Lord Zhang, or even killed!
Originally, every time like this, there was a righteous person who jumped out to save the emperor, just like when Tianqi succeeded to the throne, he was also pinched in the hands of Zheng Guifei and Li Xuanzhi, and he couldn't get out of the Qianqing Palace, so Yang Lian and Gao Panlong, members of the Donglin Party, jumped out.
They organized civil and military ministers to rush into the palace and rescued Tianqi from Zheng Guifei and Li Xuanzhi, so that Tianqi was able to succeed to the throne.
It's a pity that the fool of Tianqi gave all the power to Li Jinzhong, the head of the eunuch who put him under house arrest, that is, Wei Zhongxian, and the result can be imagined.
Whether Wei Zhongxian is to avenge the humiliation of the palace transfer case, or to control the court, he will inevitably clean up the Donglin Party, and the moment the apocalypse hands over power to Wei Zhongxian, it means that the Donglin Party is finished!
Wei Zhongxian is indeed a ruthless master, almost all the hard bones of the Donglin Party who dare to be strong have been killed by Wei Zhongxian, and there are only a dozen or so relatively weak so-called moderates left, if they want to save Chongzhen vigorously, it is impossible, when Chongzhen asked them to clean up Zhang Bin, they were "sick", and they must be even more sick at this time!
This may be retribution, if there is no cause planted by the apocalypse in a daze, how can there be the result of Chongzhen's no one to rescue today, if Chongzhen doesn't listen to slander, mess around, and chill everyone's hearts, how can it end up like this today.
In fact, it is similar in history, when the capital of the Ming Dynasty fell, Chongzhen Chongqian Hall rang the bell to summon hundreds of officials, but no one came, this faint monarch is really unpopular, who is willing to save him regardless of his life!
The so-called country can't be without a king for a day, especially a super empire like the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many political affairs need to be dealt with in a day, and if there is no emperor who makes a decision, then the whole world will be in chaos in a few days.
Chongzhen was under house arrest, this day still has to live, this court still has to operate, at this time Zhang Bin spoke, since the emperor is seriously ill and can't manage the government, then ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come out to manage the government, anyway, His Royal Highness the Prince is already an adult and can govern in person.
Of course, everyone knows what is going on, Zhang Bin's slogan at the beginning was to ask Chongzhen to abdicate and let Xian, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince succeed to the throne, and now that Zhang Bin has won the victory in this struggle, he will naturally push His Royal Highness the Crown Prince out.
As for whether Zhang Bin really let the prince pro-government or manipulate the prince behind the scenes and let the prince be a puppet, it will take time to prove.
At this time, Zhang Bin's role in building propaganda at that time was reflected, most of the court officials were extremely disappointed in Chongzhen, Zhang Bin's behavior equivalent to rebellion, no one cared about it, otherwise, even if Zhang Bin held the Jinyi Guard and the Beijing camp, even if the entire capital was under Zhang Bin's control, there would be loyal people who were not afraid of death who jumped out and pointed at Zhang Bin's nose and scolded, and even secretly organized everyone to confront Zhang Bin, but at this time, no one jumped out to speak.
Everyone thinks that Chongzhen has come to an end, and the next thing is to look at His Royal Highness the Prince.
If Zhang Bin really let the prince pro-government and help the prince succeed to the throne, then no one would jump out boringly to find death.
If Zhang Bin ostensibly let the prince pro-government, but in fact he pinched the prince in his hands as a puppet, then it is difficult to say what the result will be, these days, there are many people who are afraid of death, but there are also many people who are not afraid of death, those loyal and righteous people really want to see that Zhang Bin has signs of plotting to usurp the throne, even if they know that they will die, they will jump out and fight Zhang Bin to the death!
The next day, under the organization of Zhang Bin, all the cabinet scholars and the six scholars, as well as the chief officials of the Yamen such as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, came to Ciqing Palace collectively and asked the prince to come out to preside over the government affairs.
The crown prince Zhu Cihong was naturally prepared, he pretended to shirk and sat in the Wenhua Hall as usual, and began to deal with government affairs, and at the same time he also announced that the morning court on the third day would be carried out as usual.
The crown prince finally came to power, and this imperial power struggle came to an end, however, Zhang Bin was not in a hurry to let the prince ascend the throne, the emperor just got sick and the prince ascended the throne is really a bit too ugly, so it also made Chongzhen "sick" for a period of time, and it is not too late to let the prince ascend the throne if it is not improving.
Moreover, he also wanted the crown prince Zhu Cihong to show his talent well, so that the courtiers could see the ability of this new Ming monarch.
On the third day of the early dynasty, the prince's performance really amazed the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military, he was completely different from Chongzhen's, rigid and self-serving, arbitrary, no matter what he did, he came according to the rules, no matter what decisions he made, he could move out of the relevant provisions of the Ming laws such as "Ming Law" and "Ming Huidian" as a basis, which made people happy and convinced, even if he couldn't deal with it temporarily, he would not make a decision, but organized the cabinet scholars and even the six ministries and nine Qing court discussions, everyone discussed together, how to deal with this matter.
Is such an emperor called an emperor, like Chongzhen, you can fix it as you want, and if you are blind, you will be a faint king!
It seems that it is only a matter of time before the crown prince Zhu Cihong succeeds to the throne, and the next time is for Zhang Bin, a great hero, to take power.
Because the former cabinet chief assistant Zhou Yanru colluded with his relatives and plotted against him, he had been sent to prison, and the position of the cabinet chief assistant and the secretary of the ministry was vacant again.
The court push he organized was not brought by the early dynasty, but according to the system, the six departments and nine secretaries and the important ministers of the court above the third grade were specially selected to take time to the court push.
At this time, Zhou Yanru has been taken down, the "Chongzhen Emperor Party" is equal to the dragons without a leader, the bigwigs in Donglin also eat rhubarb excessively, are cultivating, and have not yet gone to the court, and the Fushe is not a court member above the third grade, this court push is equivalent to becoming Zhang Bin's world, and at this time, the entire capital, the entire imperial city is under his control, and who else dares to jump out and sing the opposite!
This time, there were no accidents, Zhang Bin was of course elected to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, Sun Chuanting also deserved his name, advanced to the secretary of the ministry, and filled the vacancy left by Zhou Yanru, promoted to the cabinet, became the chief assistant, everyone was harmonious, and no one came out to fight with them at all.
This time, Zhang Bin is the real power leaning towards the government and the opposition, and he is in charge alone, and the lineup under him is simply scared to death.
Cabinet Scholar, Ministry of Rites Shangshu Cai Shanji;
Cabinet University Scholar, Secretary of the Ministry of Ministers Sun Chuanting;
Cabinet University Scholar, Metropolitan Procuratorate Left Capital Imperial History Huang Chenghao;
Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Zou Weilian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, etc., are all his cronies, and Cao Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, is also equal to half of his cronies.
Of course, he will not cover the sky with one hand like Wei Zhongxian, and most of the officials above the court are not his cronies.
At this time, he just controlled the power of the court, and if he wanted to do the ban and let everyone listen to him, everyone worked together to prosper the Ming Dynasty, and there was also a big purge to clean up the garbage in the court!
PS: I recommend the old author Fengxi Huangyue's new book "Three Kingdoms Zhao is the Emperor", which tells the story of crossing over to become Zhao Yun and fighting for hegemony in the Three Kingdoms, interested readers and friends should not miss it.