Chapter 24 The Party

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With 70,000 solid military power in hand, Zhao Zhe's confidence is also much more sufficient. Walk, with your hands on your back, step by step, unhurriedly. Passing through the group of ministers, he put on a dragon robe and sat on the dragon chair in the imperial study. And they had to follow Zhao Zhe's pace, constantly adjusting their kneeling and worshipping directions. No one dares to aim their butts at the emperor, which is a big disrespectful crime. This is the power accumulated by imperial power over thousands of years, and it is also where Zhao Zhe's advantage lies.

"Let's be even." Zhao Zhe waited until he took a sip of tea before he said in a calm tone.

"Emperor Xie." After the ministers made a promise, they got up. They are arranged according to their different grades and status.

In fact, the only front-line minds in these civil and official systems that Zhao Zhe completely recognizes is Shen Yijun, the head of the household department.

In the first place, judging by appearances. He is about fifty or sixty years old, with a long body, neither fat nor thin. Beard half-white. A pair of eyes, slightly lowered, could not see his eyes. But that face is extremely majestic. In the process of communicating with Shen Yijun before, and adding the understanding of the recent time. Although they didn't know him, they also knew that this person was the most powerful person today besides the emperor. The first assistant of the cabinet of the Great Zhao Dynasty, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Yan Yu of the Ministry of Rites.

In order to seize the imperial power, Taizu withdrew the three provinces, abolished the prime minister system, and personally ruled the six ministries. However, one person always had limited energy, so he formed a cabinet, and the members were all bachelors with both character and learning. The original intention was just to get a group of staff and secretaries to assist the emperor in governing the government. At first, the effect was also excellent, and the cabinet sorted out and classified all kinds of twists and turns, and formulated treatment opinions for the emperor to review with a red pen, which really saved the emperor too much energy.

However, after several generations of emperors, not every emperor Yanjing is willing to do it himself and do his best to deal with the government. Gradually, the Cabinet began to have not only the power to formulate opinions, but also the power to review them with a red pen. In this way, the political power that should have belonged to the emperor was gradually transferred to the head of the cabinet.

Later, there were emperors who had a desire for power, or did not want the cabinet to be dominant. Then he brought out the eunuch and the eunuch, and secretly supported him to go to the cabinet to compete for power, so as to hinder each other. After generations of incessant dumping, fighting, compromise, bloody or bloodless wars. Today, the country's political system is almost divided up by the celebrant and the cabinet.

Today's cabinet and celebrant supervisors have formed a political tacit understanding. If I allow you to pass a decree, then in turn you must support me in passing a decree. If you want to promote someone on your side, then there must be someone of the corresponding status on my side.

This is a kind of political balance, but for the country, for the emperor, in addition to the benefits of making him feel comfortable and not having to deal with the government, there are almost countless drawbacks.

The purpose of the various decrees they have made is by no means for the sake of the prosperity and strength of the whole country. The purpose of all this is nothing more than to maintain, consolidate, and increase one's own power. The cabinet members are slightly better, after all, they are scholars, bachelors with extensive knowledge. Since childhood, I have known etiquette, righteousness and shame. Even if he is greedy for glory and wealth, greedy for power, there are some ideals of scholars in his heart. In the Great Zhao Empire, many scholars like to call themselves clear streams. It preaches the concept of making the country rich and the country strong, and running for the lives of the world.

As for the eunuchs in the inner court, Zhao Zhe has also had some contact with them recently, but he has not had deep contact with the powerful people of the eunuchs. But I also know a little bit that the gang of celebrants and supervisors are almost unscrupulous in their struggle for power and profit. If you value someone, spare no effort to win them over. So much so that many people who wanted to be promoted, but whose character was not very strong, threw themselves into the arms of the eunuch system and became a force and puppet in their political system.

Of course, this is only the most superficial phenomenon. In fact, in private, there is even more undercurrent, discord, undercover, suppression, and short-term handovers between political forces. As a result, the entire political system, officialdom, is like a bottomless whirlpool. It can drag people into the abyss at every turn.

Zhao Zhe did not have a good impression of the political faction of the inner court headed by the celebrant supervisor, and he was also unhappy with the outer court headed by the cabinet. At least, I've been here for so long. I didn't see the heads of the two sides running over to report to him and ask for a plan for the punishment of a certain political matter. It can be said that the eunuch party is certainly not a good thing, but the clear stream is by no means his own sustenance.

Zhao Zhe analyzes the chaotic and complex political system in his head. Now he should be in a political position. I'm in the palace within my own range, and it's okay to flutter a few times. If you want to intervene in the governance system of the whole country, you will definitely be counterattacked by the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor.

Quite simply, the cabinet and the six divisions have the power to return the emperor's will, as long as they think it is unreasonable. But what is the clear concept of the so-called unreasonable? Second, even if his decree goes smoothly, most of the entire imperial court political system belongs to those two factions, and it is a trivial matter to disobey the yang and yin, deliberately in the name of the emperor's will, distort and distort the content of the will, and in the end, if something goes wrong, the responsibility is the emperor.

In this way, the officials will unite and put on a show. The emperor who cried and shouted retracted his fate. The emperor doesn't accept it, right? Okay, then you are a dumb tyrant who insists on going his own way and acting against the sky. They can even use their prestige among the people to distort the momentum. Discrediting the imperial power. Fight each other, huh? Okay, okay, just do it, the country is becoming more and more turbulent, and foreign enemies are about to invade if they can't say it. If you fight well, that's the credit of the ministers, if you don't fight well, it's the emperor's mistake.

Zhao Zhe vaguely remembered that in his time and space, the Ming Dynasty was bent on trying to make great efforts to govern and take the power into his hands, but in the end it was Emperor Chongzhen who committed miserably suicide. It seems that he has suffered this kind of big loss. Not only did the entire country lose to foreigners, but it also bore countless infamy.

Of course, Zhao Zhe didn't want to end up as Emperor Chongzhen, his ideal was just to be a *. However, if it is a person who does not speak loudly and has no power, it is also what he is unwilling to do. The only way to do this now is to break the situation in which the eunuch party and the cabinet jointly control the government, and gradually extend their tentacles into this center of power. The most advantageous place for himself is his identity as emperor.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has something important to do." Just as the thoughts flew in Zhao Zhe's mind, a minister bent down and took two steps forward and knelt on the ground.

Look at his square face, a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance. Even if Zhao Zhe had never seen him, he knew through his description that this person should be Wei Minghua, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Here it comes. Although Zhao Zhe had expected it for a long time. His heart was still tight, but his face was still casual and indifferent, and he said kindly: "Wei Aiqing, get up and speak." ”

"Playing the emperor, Weichen recently said that at the emperor's order, he investigated the case of the former commander of the imperial guard and the two guards who conspired against him." Wei Minghua had a straight face, handed over the fold and said: "It has been completely done, please ask the emperor to see the results." ”

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