Chapter 138: Supervising the War or Warning
Jinyi Wei personnel can not go out of Beijing unless they are ordered, so as long as Jinyi Wei goes out of Beijing to do business, he must have a holy decree on his body, and he is complimented as an angel or a messenger wherever he goes, in fact, it is not wrong, no matter who he is, as long as he carries the holy decree himself, it is indeed a messenger. Of course, this is not the same thing as the minister, nor is it a rank.
Jin Yiwei is generally a local official who has committed a crime when he goes out of Beijing, the former is similar to a messenger, and the latter is a law enforcement officer, and there has never been a precedent for handling government affairs or military affairs, which shows the strictness of the law.
It is also for this reason that the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were the first to stand up against the idea of leading troops out of Beijing to fight, and from the institutional point of view, their views are very correct, but from another aspect, the military power is the exclusive property of the emperor, and in the military and political affairs, the emperor does have the right to make any decision.
Therefore, what the household servant said is also reasonable, of course, the candidate for the minister is determined by the emperor, and only those appointed by the emperor are the ministers, otherwise they are officials sent by various ministries or the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
These are only understood according to the code system, but the actual situation is not the case, and the right to choose the Qin Cha has already fallen to the six ministries of the cabinet, so those people say that the household servant has broken the rules.
All of these are public statements that are justified, and mother-in-law says that mother-in-law is reasonable, and neither side is wrong, but only the people of the household department secretly applauded the words of the household servant, and the rest of the ministers are itchy and itchy one by one, eager to bite him a few times.
Many people are looking at the front row of several cabinet scholars, I don't know which of the instructions of this Tobe Shilang jumped out, although the Tobe Shilang is already a member, but compared with Shangshu and University Scholars, there is still a level behind, of course, there are also bachelors who are the six squires, but not Shangshu, this situation is not uncommon, but this kind of Shilang-level bachelor is destined to be only a short-term excess, and will soon be promoted to Shangshu.
Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng were silent, they didn't instruct this squire, because they didn't get the emperor's notice in advance, they didn't know about it, today's play was completely the emperor's whim, or deliberately hit a few of them by surprise, so they couldn't talk about the people who instructed them to oppose or echo it.
Several scholars slowly understood the emperor's intentions, and today was just a rehearsal, to take precautions for what would happen in a few months, so as not to send the sixth guard to the coast and cause a shock to the government and the public.
If he didn't understand this, a few scholars would not be able to help but scold that Lu Shilang, no matter whether the minister is selected by the ministry or the court, in the end, the approval of the cabinet is still required, this is the right of the cabinet, how can this Lu Shilang return the right to the emperor with a simple word?
The people from the military department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate began to attack Lu Shilang fiercely, and the people from the household department naturally refused to give in and began to fight back, and the three departments quarreled like a storm in the main hall. Western parliaments often make trouble throwing shoes, they are not invented by themselves, they are completely copycats.
Although the people in the other departments are dissatisfied with the household department, they are also happy to watch from the wall, and only wait for the final or the household tribe to go down, or when the military department and the metropolitan procuratorate fall into the downwind, and then come forward to help, anyway, the household department cannot be allowed to succeed, after all, the delegated power belongs to the civil ministers, and people from other departments may not be transferred to the military department and the metropolitan procuratorate, of course, it is possible to go to the household department.
There are two rows of imperial histories standing on both sides of the main hall, they are to maintain the order of the court, if there are ministers who are noisy or unceremonious, they will come up to interfere, or even pull out directly, behind the imperial history are the guards, they are just shocking, and they have never suppressed anyone.
These people all smiled at this rare lively scene, and it was normal for ministers to argue about state affairs, and they could often be seen at court meetings, and they did not belong to the noise and noise for no reason.
Emperor Longqing sat on the dragon chair and squinted his eyes down, he admired the household servant very much, and immediately guessed his thoughts, and stepped forward to support him.
Emperor Longqing also didn't want to take back the right of the ministry to elect the ministers of the ministry and the court, and send the troops out of Beijing, this is indeed the emperor's own business, when did Jinyiwei come under the jurisdiction of the ministry? Since its establishment, it has never changed its nature, and it has always been only under the orders of the emperor.
As for saying that the people of Jinyiwei have never gone out to fight alone, it is indeed a fact, Jinyiwei has not been a combat unit since its formation, but only a law enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the emperor, but who stipulates that Jinyiwei cannot fight? As one of the Royal Forest Army, Jinyiwei is also one of the tasks, and it has not been used, which does not mean that there is no combat mission.
The Sixth Guard of Jinyi is not simply a law enforcement agency, it was established in accordance with the combat unit at the beginning of its formation, and these are known to everyone, especially the Ministry of War.
The emperor sent the performance to the ministers to discuss, just to create a kind of precedent first, there will be people who oppose it, all kinds of reasons, all kinds of arguments will come out, it doesn't matter, just ignore it, anyway, slowly, these voices will be automatically eliminated, and no one will pay attention to them after that.
Even if someone writes to impeach and oppose it at that time, it will be difficult to speak alone, and the emperor will not pay attention to it, and directly hand it over to the cabinet to impeach and suppress the matter.
Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng looked at Emperor Longqing in the hall, and they confirmed the speculation in their hearts more and more, as for Xu Jie, he didn't care about this matter at all, what he was thinking about now was something that gave him a headache.
Hai Rui patrolled Jiangnan, mainly to verify the land in the name of all the rich households, and it was found out that Xu Jie, who occupied the most land property.
Xu Jie has a life-saving grace for Hai Rui, when Hai Rui wrote to scold Emperor Jiajing, if it weren't for Xu Jie's mediation in every possible way and tried his best to delay, Hai Rui would have died a long time ago.
However, Hai Rui is grateful, but he showed no mercy to the land under his name, verified them one by one and reported them truthfully to the imperial court, and impeached Xu Jie, mercilessly.
Xu Jie was not surprised, and he did not hate Hai Rui, if Hai Rui did not do this, he would look down on him. His headache was not that he was found out, but that he himself was not very clear about this matter, and it was not until Hai Jui impeached him that he understood how much land and land he had in his name.
Strictly speaking, these lands and properties are not all his, but are "consecrated" to him by those who have fields in various places.
Contribution was a way to avoid taxation at that time, that is, tax evasion in later generations, and "donating" one's land and property to high-ranking officials could be exempted from paying taxes, and these taxes would be divided between the donors and those who received them, and the treasury would naturally have a lot less income.
At that time, the main source of revenue for the state treasury was taxes, not tea and salt.
During the Jiajing period, in order to increase the revenue of the national treasury, a reform was carried out, which is a famous whip law in history, and the result was that because officials and tycoons generally really had too much land, they finally failed.
Zhang Juzheng is most enthusiastic about a whip method, feeling that this is the only way to increase the revenue of the treasury, as for Emperor Longqing's enthusiasm for opening up overseas trade channels, but to increase the inflow of silver, in Zhang Juzheng's view, it is not as good as a whip method, the most important thing is that it is too difficult to do.
After Xu Jie saw Hai Rui's impeachment recital, he understood that his career was over, the emperor did not issue a decree to blame, and the impeachment recitals of the ministers were basically left behind, which was regarded as giving him a face for the former dynasty veteran, but how big this storm will be, and whether he will be glorious or go home in disgrace in the end, it is still impossible to know.
He also hates those self-assertive family members in his heart, and he doesn't let him know about this kind of major event, he is busy with government affairs all day long, and he basically doesn't take care of housework, but he is indeed negligent in governing the family.
Zhang Juzheng glanced at Xu Jie, but he was secretly happy in his heart, Hai Rui was not his idea to rectify Xu Jie, and he couldn't instruct Hai Rui, but he understood that as long as Hai Rui went to Jiangnan to rectify those high-ranking officials and rich people, Xu Jie was a hurdle that could not be avoided, and he believed that Hai Rui would never let Xu Jie go because of personal feelings. Sure enough.
Hai Rui's bullet seal arrived soon, and Zhang Juzheng's guess was verified, which not only allowed Xu Jie to get out of the house early, but also set an example for those wealthy families in Jiangnan, paving the way for the strict implementation of a whip law in the future.
Gao Gong didn't think about this, he listened to the noise of the three departments getting louder and louder, and the anger was about to jump on the roof, the emperor didn't care, he couldn't care about the cabinet scholar, although he was not a palm seal scholar, but he still regarded himself as the first person in the cabinet.
"What the adults said is not unreasonable, but they are all on one side." Gao Gong said loudly.
As soon as he said this, everyone's voices stopped, waiting for him to continue.
There are also many people who are a little stunned when they hear his words, is this still Gao Xiangye? Why do you have to play fifty boards each?
Gao Gong never disagrees with the mud, and as long as it is not to his liking, he will refute it mercilessly, and even often rise to the point of personal attack.
"The sixth guard of Jinyi is under the jurisdiction of His Majesty, and His Majesty wants to send the sixth guard out of Beijing to carry out the mission, and there is no need to consult the ministry. Gao Gong continued.
Zhang Juzheng also spoke: "Exactly, the border passes have been tight recently, the Tatars are ready to move, and the Japanese pirates have come ashore to attack and harass this time, which is nothing more than that the imperial court has focused on the border passes, and the coastal forces are empty, and they want to take advantage of the fire to rob, and Your Majesty wants to send the sixth guard to the coast, which is nothing more than to urge all localities to unite and exterminate the Japanese pirates." ”
As soon as he said this, he transferred the contradiction again, it turned out that everyone thought that since the sixth guard of Jinyi was a Jinyi guard, the combat mission in Beijing was not in line with the convention, and now Zhang Juzheng explained what the emperor meant, just let him bring people to supervise the war, not to fight.
According to this explanation, it is clear that Gao Gong's words urging all localities to unite are not to say that all provinces and localities are trying to preserve their own strength, and they are not doing their best to deal with the pirates.
This kind of thing can't be said clearly, it can only be metaphorized like this, and everyone knows the meaning of it.
Sure enough, after hearing the words of the two scholars, many people began to beat drums in their hearts, should they say hello to the forces that have something to do with them, and they can't let the pirates make too much trouble, otherwise Jinyiwei will go to the coast to take over the military and civil power, which is a big deal.