Volume II, Chapter 3 The Struggle for Power

Zhu Cijiong has been very excited during this time, especially today, the planning of the military factory has finally been completed, and it will be ready to start immediately, according to the planned schedule, it will be completed before the system issues flintlock rewards.

When the flintlock pistol comes out, the combat power of the Ming army will increase rapidly, although it cannot be said that it is invincible in the world, there is no problem in self-preservation.

He didn't expect that as soon as the will to allocate silver taels was sent to the household, Sun Chengzong immediately poured a basin of cold water on him.

On this day, after the morning dynasty, Zhu Cijiong came to the imperial study as usual to accompany Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen to review and review the folds.

The cabinet ticket had not yet been opened, but Sun Chengzong took out a large handful of the fold from his arms and asked solemnly: "Your Majesty, are you planning to allocate one million taels of silver to build a military factory?" ”

Oops, I was so excited, I forgot to talk to Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen, such a big thing Minister Gu Ming and the Auxiliary Prince didn't know, it was indeed a bit too much. He smiled awkwardly: "Hehe, this, this is indeed the case, I was overjoyed for a while, and I forgot to tell you." ”

Sun Chengzong didn't bother with this problem, he handed the fold in his hand to Cao Huachun, and said lightly: "This is the excerpt of Xiong Zezhen, the supervisor of Henan Province, and the Ministry of Rites to impeach Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, for the emperor." ”

Cao Huachun took the recital, and when he saw that Zhu Cijiong did not object, he read it aloud.

Good guy, sure enough, it was all about impeaching Xu Guangqi, these pieces were written, and it was called a poison.

What Xu Guangqi does not think about the learning of saints, prefers strange and obscene skills, is a shame for scholars, and is not worthy of being an official in the court;

What Xu Guangqi is called the emperor's teacher, but he is actually a poisoner, and he uses the study of barbarians to poison the emperor, and his crime should be punished;

What Xu Guangqi was greedy for ink and silver, and instigated the emperor to spend two million silver to build a useless military factory, which is an unforgivable crime;

......

According to their meaning, this Xu Guangqi is simply a big traitor, and it is not enough to be angry if he is not removed from his post and investigated!

What kind of official is this supervising the imperial history and giving affairs, who dares to impeach the dignified cabinet chief and secretary of the Ministry of Rites?

In fact, there are not many big officials in supervising the imperial history and giving things, on the contrary, they are of very low rank, they are all 'seven-grade sesame officials', but they have a lot of power, so big that the emperor dares to scold!

Why is this so? Here I have to introduce the Ming Dynasty's science and road system.

The so-called "science and technology" refers to the three supervision and imperial history of the six departments of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. In the Ming Dynasty, the six branches were called section officials, and the thirteen provinces were called Taoist officials, and they were collectively called "branch officials", mainly responsible for correcting impeachment and preventing officials from perfunctory and violating laws and disciplines.

These six sections are dedicated to supervising the officials of the six departments, which are equivalent to the current discipline inspection departments.

These thirteen supervision of the imperial history are specifically responsible for supervising officials throughout the country, which is equivalent to the current prosecutor, and the supervision of the imperial history is subordinate to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is equivalent to the current procuratorate.

But the discipline inspection officials and prosecutors of the Ming Dynasty are different from modern times, because Ming Taizu stipulated that they could "hear about things" and directly advise the emperor, and it doesn't matter if they are wrong, officials at all levels are strictly forbidden to take revenge for personal gain!

That is to say, who they want to investigate and impeach, they don't need a report letter at all, as long as they "hear" it, they can "say things"!

Zhu Yuanzhang's starting point is good, he wants to use these people to supervise officials and prevent corruption, but these duties he set are infinitely magnified by some ministers behind him, even to the extent that they can directly dissuade the emperor! This also laid the root of the struggle between the bureaucracy and the emperor for control of the country, and made all kinds of party disputes more and more intense, often leading to hundreds of officials taking quarreling as their main business, and no one took care of the government and politics!

As a master of fighting for power and profit, Qian Qianyi naturally knows the role of these supervision of the imperial history and giving things, so his daily routine is to win over such 'speech officials' in the Donglin Party, and is ready to use these 'speech officials' as his own promotion rank. This has been prepared for several years, and today it finally came in handy, Qian Qianyi waved his hand, and the impeachment of Xu Guangqi flew to the palace like snowflakes and smashed at Zhu Cijiong.

Zhu Cijiong has heard of the power of these officials, and their ability to "hear and hear" is not blown, and they also like to be crazy, like to make trouble, and they will go to the palace at every turn to force the emperor to accept their suggestions. If you don't accept them, you will make trouble, the so-called 'one cry', 'two troubles', 'three ......', uh, these three, three are not hanging, but hunger strikes, and they are kneeling in the palace on a hunger strike.

If you don't listen, right, if you don't listen, we will die on a hunger strike, go underground to find Emperor Taizu to complain, and see how you unscrupulous descendants face the ancestors and ancestors!

This trick is ruthless, this unfilial piety is a big taboo in the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor does not dare to be unfilial, so Emperor Wanli and Emperor Tianqi are annoyed by these officials and dare not go to the court!

Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong is hiding in the harem to cultivate himself, and Emperor Tianqi of Mingxizong simply plays carpenter's work, I can't afford to provoke it, I can always hide, right?

When you go to Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, will it be the same?

After Zhu Cijiong listened to Cao Hua Chunnian's recital, his head suddenly became as big as a fight, what a force, are these people going crazy or how to build a military factory to close their bird business!

This is a big trouble, he is not very afraid of these crazy people, but he is not afraid of others! It is impossible for him to build a military factory by himself, he still has to rely on Xu Guangqi and others to do it, and now that these crazy people are blocking the front, who would dare to go!

For a while, Zhu Cijiong couldn't think of any way, so he had to say perfunctorily: "Well, this matter of building a military factory is not the teacher's idea, it is my intention, why don't you explain it, let them stop making trouble." ”

Sun Chengzong looked at Zhu Cijiong helplessly, his eyes were full of disbelief, you said that you want to build a military factory within a radius of three or four miles, who believes it? But he is not the kind of person who likes to fight, otherwise he would not have retired when the fight between the eunuch party and the Donglin party was in full swing.

He also wanted to calm things down, so he reluctantly accepted Zhu Cijiong's 'excuse', and replied with a little hesitation: "Then Weichen will try it, I don't know if they will listen, if you can, the emperor should stop this matter." ”

Just kidding, how can this thing be stopped, just point to this military factory to produce weapons, and stop producing a fart!

Zhu Cijiong also knew that this was not Sun Chengzong's intention, so he didn't refuse him face-to-face, but just asked him to try his best to persuade these officials. He thought that with Sun Chengzong's prestige, this matter should be settled soon, but he didn't expect that this matter was not so simple at all.

Qian Qianyi did not come for the military factory, he went to the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. He wasn't so bored that he cared about how the emperor spent money, his purpose was to pull Xu Guangqi off the horse, even if Zhu Cijiong ordered the construction of the military factory to be stopped, he would not give up!