Volume VIII Chapter 306
The day Zhang Bin returned to the capital was not a special day, but this day was very important for the Ming Dynasty, because the Yongxing Emperor Zhu Cihong adopted the suggestion of Zhang Bin, the Taishi Weiguo Gong, and decided to carry out the most important restructuring in the history of the Ming Dynasty and delegate part of the power to the cabinet!
Formally, this restructuring did not make much changes to the previous system of the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Cabinet has been in place since the Hongwu Dynasty, and it is not an institution set up by Emperor Yongxing temporarily, and the cabinet assists the emperor in dealing with the twists and turns It is also a function from the beginning, not a system that Zhang Bin arbitrarily set out in order to seize power, strictly speaking, this restructuring has changed a sentence, that is, the power to approve the red is delegated to the cabinet.
Of course, this batch of red power is not an inconsequential power, in a substantive sense, the approval of red power represents the final decision-making power, and the final decision-making power is decentralized, which is a problem that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty will never think about, even if a fool like the Apocalypse only acquiesces to Wei Zhongxian to handle government affairs on his behalf, and he has not said that he will give Wei Zhongxian this batch of red power.
The reason why Zhu Cihong agreed to delegate the power of approving red to the cabinet was mainly forced by the situation, because through Zhang Bin's reminder, he had realized that he really had no way to deal with more and more government affairs, could he exhaust himself to death, this was naturally impossible.
He had to find a way to be flexible, and after Zhang Bin put forward the proposal to decentralize the red right, he relieved almost all the concerns in his heart through various methods, so he reluctantly nodded and agreed to this suggestion.
That night, Zhang Bin did not rest, because the next restructuring is too important for Daming, he must think about it thoroughly, and at the same time, he must also write out the charter as soon as possible, so as not to cause extraneous complications.
It is definitely better for the cabinet to be in charge than for the emperor to have the final say on everything, he knows this very well, because the people who can enter the cabinet are officialdom veterans who have been in the officialdom for decades, and in terms of governing the country, they are definitely much more powerful than an emperor who is completely out of touch with the outside world in the Forbidden City.
However, just because they are so powerful, there is one thing that they have to guard against, that is, they form a party for personal gain, deceive the Holy Hearing, and act recklessly.
This kind of thing has happened too much in the history of the Ming Dynasty, especially since the Wanli Dynasty, the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Donglin Party, the Eunuch Party and other friends who seek personal interests in power emerge in endlessly, and the Ming Dynasty was almost destroyed in their hands.
How to prevent this problem?
Zhang Bin thought about it all night and finally came up with a more secure way.
This method, to put it simply, is to use force to control the text, or to use the elected nobles to supervise the civil ministers.
I don't know how many nobles have been divided since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, just the Hongwu Xungui, Yongle Xungui and Yongxing Xungui, the three relatively large groups add up to no less than 100 people, and these nobles enjoy the noble status and glory given by the royal family, but they have no effect on the Ming Dynasty, or in other words, they have almost no say in everything in the Ming Dynasty.
It is obviously extremely unreasonable to waste so many resources and raise so many nobles and nobles, which does not play a role.
Of course, it is not possible to let these nobles participate in the management of the court, because most of them have a strong background in the military, and almost all the guards of the Ming Dynasty are under their jurisdiction.
However, it is different to let them supervise the Wenchen, they do not have any ruling power, but the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty has a direct relationship with them, once the Ming Dynasty is finished, their respected status and glory and wealth will inevitably be gone, and their end will even be worse than that of the common people.
Therefore, they are definitely the people who don't want the Ming Dynasty to be finished except for the royal family, and it should be the most ideal to let these people supervise the civil officials, no matter how treacherous the traitors are, no matter how powerful the ministers are, they are all a fart to them, they all have a strong military background, can they be afraid of the powerless civil ministers.
This biggest hidden danger was solved, and the remaining problems were easy to handle, and the next morning before the court, Zhang Bin wrote a detailed charter.
According to his ideas, this restructuring is mainly divided into two aspects.
First, expand the cabinet and delegate the power to approve red flags to the cabinet.
In the future, the number of Cabinet Scholars will increase to nine, and the six Cabinet Scholars will directly serve as Cabinet Scholars, and there will be one Cabinet First Auxiliary and two Cabinet Second Assistants.
In the future, the recitals submitted by the various yamen of the imperial court and the local yamen at all levels must indicate which part of the six ministries are submitted, so as to save the link of the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet to distribute the folds, and also avoid a lot of greasy production.
The approval of the red is in charge of the first assistant of the cabinet and two deputy assistants of the cabinet, these three people, one is responsible for the two yamen, once the performance of which yamen has a problem, not only the secretary of the yamen will be punished, but also the first assistant of the cabinet and the second assistant of the cabinet with the approval of the red will be punished accordingly.
Second, it strengthened supervision, separated the Imperial Procuratorate from the governance system, and at the same time elected nine of the most authoritative nobles by all the nobles to assist the emperor in his political affairs on a regular basis.
In the future, the Metropolitan Procuratorate only has the power to supervise, but not to govern, that is, they can supervise hundreds of officials, but they can no longer directly participate in governance.
The nine nobles who were elected usually did not ask about the government, and every three years, they would assist the emperor to inspect the achievements of the officials' administration.
The content of this restructuring charter is not very much, but it took Zhang Bin a whole night, so that he was dizzy and dizzy the next morning, and his two eyelids were fighting.
After all, he is a little old, and he has just returned from Europe tens of thousands of miles away, and he has stayed up all night, and his energy is low, which is purely normal.
Yongxing Emperor Zhu Cihong also looked very tired, although he was young, but he couldn't stand it after staying up for two nights, at this time, he really hoped that he could quickly hand over the matter of the review to the cabinet to deal with it with full power, so if he continued, he was really afraid that he would die young.
This day's early dynasty ended in a dull atmosphere, Zhang Bin, the first assistant to the cabinet of the Taishi Weiguo Gong who had just returned from Europe, did not say a word throughout the early dynasty, and the emperor was also absent-minded, he didn't even bother to talk to the courtiers about many things, and he just said a word again, not even how to discuss it or when to discuss it.
Their behavior was really a bit strange, and the Manchu civil and military even began to secretly worry.
What the hell is going on, Taishi Weiguo covered tens of thousands of miles of sea to envoy to Europe, and after he came back, he didn't say a word.
And the emperor's performance is even more strange, the queen has just given birth to a prince, and the prince has just returned, the emperor is listless, is it that the emperor and the prince Wei Guogong have a conflict?
If these two people have a contradiction, it will be terrible, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely set off a monstrous wave!