Volume 7 Chapter 86 Entering the Cabinet as a Minister
Wen Tiren was seriously thinking too much at this time, he also thought that Chongzhen was just cleaning up the Qi Party this time, and he was also trying in vain to occupy all the vacancies left by the Qi Party, so that the family could dominate and control the entire court.
As everyone knows, Chongzhen wants to clean up with them this time!
Chongzhen looked at these people coldly, without saying a word, he was already extremely disgusted with these eunuch remnants, if he wasn't afraid of the turmoil in the court, he would have cleaned up all these guys.
At this time, Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Cabinet University, walked out of the train tremblingly, lay on the royal road, and said loudly: "Weichen recommended the prince and the prince, the Zhan Shi Zhang Bin Zhang and the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Huang Chenghao Huang entered the cabinet to assist the government, both of them are important ministers of the imperial court, and loyal to the monarch for the country, diligent and diligent, selfless, and meritorious, and they are the most suitable candidates for the cabinet ministers." ”
As soon as his words fell, several ministers came out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Zhan Shifu train, knelt in the middle of the royal road and said loudly: "The minister seconds", "the minister seconds", "the minister seconds".
This momentum naturally does not need to be compared, there are more than 100 people on the Zhejiang Party's side, and there are only about a dozen people in total who support Xu Guangqi.
However, Xu Guangqi didn't have any embarrassment at all, but knelt there calmly, as if he was confident.
Of course he was confident, because Zhang Bin and Huang Chenghao were recommended by Chongzhen!
Chongzhen has always thought that Xu Guangqi is a nerd who only knows how to do academics and never interferes in political affairs, so every time he has a suitable candidate in his mind, he will greet Xu Guangqi and ask Xu Guangqi to come forward to nominate him, how did he know that Xu Guangqi had already joined Zhang Bin's lineup, but Zhang Bin has been suppressed and he has no chance to perform.
This time, Chongzhen asked him to promote Zhang Bin and Huang Chenghao, which can be said to be in the right place.
Chongzhen naturally didn't know this, he just wanted to clean up the remnants of the eunuch party and revitalize the Daming rivers and mountains, so he didn't look at the remnants of the eunuch party lying on the ground at all, and nodded directly: "Well, since everyone is trying their best to promote, then promote the prince and the prince, Zhang Bin of the Zhan Shifu and Huang Chenghao, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, to join the cabinet as an auxiliary minister." ”
Opened his eyes and said nonsense, a group of Zhejiang party officials and eunuch remnants were stunned when they heard the words, and we strongly recommended Xue Guoguan, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War!
Wen Tiren was also stunned at this time, there was not much surprise in his eyes, but a faint look of panic, the emperor should know everything, that is to say, the emperor is very likely to do it to him next, to the Zhejiang Party, he is completely wrong, at this time he should not think about how to control the court, but how to keep the official position!
On the other hand, Zhang Bin's side, although he was not shocked on the surface, he was already excited in his heart, and finally entered the cabinet as a minister, it seems that Chongzhen's simple words, but he doesn't know how much effort he has put in behind him, this game of chess, the overall situation has been decided, and the next step is the closing stage.
He glanced at Wen Tiren lightly, and said with disdain in his heart: "Hmph, you don't know it when you die, and you are still trying to control the court, do you really think Chongzhen is a fool, do you really think that you are the only one in this world who is smart!" ”
Wen Tiren seemed to have sensed, slowly turned his head to look at Zhang Bin, the eyes of the two finally collided together, there was no imaginary thunder and fire, and there was no imaginary lightning and thunder, the two just glanced at each other lightly, and then as if nothing had happened, they looked at their noses and noses, and pretended to be bodhisattvas.
The next court push confirmed Wen Tiren's thoughts, and he ordered people to recommend the candidates of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works, and the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, but Chongzhen did not adopt any of them, but the officials recommended by Huang Chenghao and others, Chongzhen did not hesitate to promote them, and these are Zhang Bin's "henchmen".
This time, Zhang Bin was promoted by the court and won a big victory, not only did he and Xinna's cadre Huang Chenghao successfully enter the cabinet as prime minister, but all other positions were also seized by him.
Cai Shanji, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and Chen Zizhuang, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, were all officials he promoted during his tenure as governor of Fuguang.
There are five scholars in the cabinet, and openly and secretly, he has already accounted for three;
Six Shangshu, including Cao Juan, he has already occupied four seats openly and secretly;
There is also the most important yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also under the control of his "sworn friend" Huang Chenghao, and the situation is very good, it seems that it is only a matter of time before he cleans up the remnants of the Zhejiang Party and other eunuch parties and controls the entire court.
Is it really that simple? Of course not!
How could Wen Tiren obediently put down the power in his hands, he still wanted to keep his position, and even regain Chongzhen's trust, turn the tables, and control the court again!
Therefore, during this time, the Zhejiang Party and other eunuch officials were extremely honest and diligent, as if they were transgendered, Chongzhen even had an illusion that these people were honest and honest, diligent officials, let them stay in the court, it seems that there is no problem!
Now, it's Huang Chenghao's turn to lie down again, his arrest of corruption is actually just an introduction, except for Wang Yingxiong who unscrupulously sent his younger brother to collect money in his hometown, it is actually difficult for others to catch the real evidence of corruption, many times, he actually has no real evidence, he can only rely on fooling Chongzhen, Chongzhen nodded, he can clean up people, there is no need for real evidence at all.
And at this time, as soon as Chongzhen hesitated, he had nothing to do with people, he impeached several Zhejiang party officials for corruption, Chongzhen also talked to Wen Tiren and Qian Xiangkun, the problem Wen Tiren and Qian Xiangkun shamelessly pretended to be selfless, they were not partial to their subordinates, and even encouraged Chongzhen to investigate, as long as they found out the real evidence, they would be dismissed and cut down, no need to be polite.
However, they repeatedly hinted to Chongzhen that now the situation in the court is very good, everyone is working hard and diligently, if people are dismissed and investigated because of a little rumor, the whole people are panicked, and the court will be in chaos again.
This is also the reason for Chongzhen's hesitation, isn't it necessary to unite to deceive him, now people have a clear attitude, do not favor anyone, no matter how he checks, as long as he finds out the real evidence, he will not tolerate it, this is not like a party for personal gain at all.
Therefore, Chongzhen hesitated, now that the situation in the court is very good, is it necessary to toss so blindly?
Wen Tiren is playing delaying tactics, he has no good way to turn the tables now, he can only endure and wait, if his subordinates are really found to be true, he really will not be tolerated, just masturbation, it is better to die some little minions than to wipe out the whole army, as long as he is still here, there is hope for the Zhejiang Party, and the remnants of the Eunuch Party have a chance to make a comeback!
At this time, Zhang Bin did not go all out to attack Wen Tiren, because he still had a lot of things to do.
His entry into the cabinet is a good thing, proof that he is beginning to return to power, but it also comes at a cost, and he will have to say goodbye to the leisurely life of the past from now on.
In the past, he only had to teach the prince to read, learn calligraphy, and even take the prince to play, and the day passed; Now, he had to go to the cabinet to sit on duty and write a vote.
Writing a ticket is not a simple thing, more than 100 state capitals and more than 1,000 counties in the Ming Dynasty, 13 provinces in Beijing, a lot of things a day, there are more than 400 copies of the folds presented every day, and each fold is not a simple thing, if the matter is simple, the local or the yamen will do it themselves, and what kind of folds, it is because they can't deal with it themselves, they will be folded, please make a decision.
After the formation of the cabinet mechanism, what the emperor decided was not actually the content of the fold, but the content of the vote attached to the fold, that is, the proposal drawn up by the cabinet scholars, that is, most of the time, Chongzhen only needs to write an accurate or inaccurate on the fold, of course, he may also put forward his own plan, but this time is generally rare, because the votes written by the cabinet scholars are based on the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the actual situation, and the suggestions given are comprehensive, under normal circumstances, Chongzhen only needs to come according to the suggestions.
This is a relatively high requirement for the cabinet scholars, you want to vote to write well, then there is no need to say anything, hurry up and roll up the cover and get out, the most important function of the cabinet at this time is to write votes, you can't write votes, what are you doing in the cabinet, isn't it occupying the pit and not shit!
The reason why Wen Tiren has been in power for so long is not only because he can fool Chongzhen with his mouth, but also because he writes well.
Of course, he doesn't write his own votes for any twists and turns, he generally picks out those things that are easier to deal with to write, and the troublesome ones are all thrown to other scholars, so there is basically no problem with the tickets he writes, Chongzhen only needs to be accurate, all the way down, which is one of the reasons why Chongzhen values him.
The other cabinet scholars are more miserable, generally, what is assigned to them is some trouble, just look at the size of the trouble, no way, who calls someone the first assistant of the cabinet, he has the right to pick first.
Zhang Bin was made big by these twists and turns at this time, Wen Tiren didn't deliberately target him, the problem, the normal division, there are about 100 twists and turns a day, he has to read each one carefully, and then think about it, and then carefully write the vote, which will cost a lot of time.
According to the calculation of the time of the later generations, he has to watch a recital for at least one to two minutes, and then he has to think about one to two minutes, and then he has to think about one to two minutes, and then it is planned to write a ticket quickly, but no matter how fast it is, it will take about a minute or so, that is, it will take him at least three to five minutes to deal with a recital, and one hundred recitals will be three hundred to five hundred minutes, that is, about six hours to eight and a half hours.
In this way, he has little time to think about other issues in the day, but there are problems that he still has to consider.
For example, the question of the prince's teaching, the little prince Zhu Cihong didn't let his master go, because following him, the master, had fun and delicious food, and the little brother accompanied him to study and teach him some superficial kung fu, not to mention how moisturizing his little life was, if the master left, he couldn't imagine how to live in the future!
Therefore, the little prince Zhu Cihong is crying and making trouble, and Chongzhen's head is too big, there is no way, this Zhan Mansion Zhan has to be taken care of by Zhang Bin, and Zhang Bin is responsible for the prince's teaching, but the one who taught the prince has been replaced by Chen Zilong, the right middle of the Zhan Mansion.
This Chen Zilong is from a first-class Tanhua, and it is not a problem to teach the prince the four books and five classics, but Zhang Bin must come to supervise from time to time, check the prince's studies, and even accompany the prince to eat lunch, so that the little prince will study hard, otherwise, he will make trouble!
Fortunately, the Wenhua Hall is only a few dozen steps away from the cabinet duty room, and Zhang Bin needs to come out for a walk when he is tired of dealing with the twists and turns, and it will not cost much to come to the Wenhua Hall to supervise the prince.
However, during this time, he not only dealt with the twists and turns, supervised the prince to learn this matter, but also the problem of the Qi Party that he had to deal with.
At this time, although the bigwigs of the Qi Party are honestly getting out, but few of the officials they promoted when they were in power are honestly getting out, and these people are also unwilling to let go of the power in their hands, maybe it is Xie Sheng, Zhang Zhifa and others who confess, or maybe it is their own ideas, in short, they just rely on it.
How can Zhang Bin give them a chance to make a comeback, the so-called cutting grass does not eradicate the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows, since the Qi party bosses have all fallen, they must clean up their little minions, if you let it go, and wait for them to develop slowly, then they will face a life-and-death struggle.
He had to arrange for people to investigate and secretly visit, find out all the officials promoted by the Qi Party, and verify their crimes one by one, so that Chongzhen would have an excuse to dismiss them or directly dismiss them.
Of course, he can also choose to ask Chongzhen to be punished, and he will not investigate any crimes, as long as he confirms that he is an official of the Qi Party department, find one, and kill one, but in this way, the court will also be panicked, and he will be punished without guilt, one or two or even a dozen or so are okay, and there are not only a few Qi Party officials, but dozens, inexplicably people are masturbated, and there are dozens of them, and it is strange that the court is not panicked.
Chongzhen is very supportive of cleaning up the Qi Party officials, he really hates the Qi Party, not to mention anything else, just talking about that Zhang Sizhi, that is simply a scum without a little humanity, this kind of official Qi Party is still vigorously promoted, hard to maintain, what kind of good goods can the Qi Party be!
It can be said that Zhang Sizhi's rat feces broke all the soup of Qi Dang, if it weren't for this guy, Chongzhen's impression of Qi Dang would not be so bad.
Zhang Bin will naturally consider the problem of Zhejiang party officials while cleaning up all the party officials, but the Zhejiang party is pretending to be a good person at this time, and it is really difficult to find out rat like Zhang Sizhi.
Is there such a rat in the Zhejiang Party, there must be, like Wang Yingxiong in the past, but unfortunately Zhang Bin did not start from the overall situation at that time, and used Wang Yingxiong's case to drag the entire Zhejiang Party into the water, he just targeted Wang Yingxiong and his gang separately and worked hard there, and everyone was cut down at this time, and it was too late to say anything.
Where did the behemoth of the Zhejiang Party start, and how to pick out rat feces from it to make Chongzhen hate them and kill them?
Just when Zhang Bin racked his brains and thought hard, the rat in the Zhejiang Party actually rolled out by himself, but the way he got out was more special, because as soon as he rolled out, the entire government and the opposition moved!
Who could this person be, how did he get out, why did the whole government and the opposition shake as soon as he rolled out, and look at the next decomposition.