The disagreement between the Wanli Emperor and the civil officials stemmed from a deep sense of powerlessness, which was even worse than when he was silent. When you're silent, fearful, angry, the target is there, and no matter how much the other person tries to cover the sky, you always know who to target.

He originally thought that after Shen Mo went, this court would be his own world, and he thought that in the past two years, his skills could be regarded as clever, and by instigating the struggle between the Jin Party and the Shen Party, Lu Shusheng,

Wei Zeng, Tang Ruji, Sun Can and other Shen Party bigwigs dismounted. Although Jin Party bigwigs such as Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu also folded in the formation, a number of new forces such as Wang Jiaping, Yang Junmin, Liu Dongxing, and Yang Yikui have also grown up. Moreover, Wanli also paid special attention to supporting officials who were not from the southeast and Shanxi, which has reached the point where they only look at their origins regardless of their ability. However, the emperor developed a strong sense of powerlessness, and he found that no matter what he did, he could not achieve the desired result......

For example, this year, Lu Guangzu Ding was worried, and there was no book in the ministry, and Wanli planned to take the opportunity to replace him, and made it clear that he hoped that a northerner would take over.

However, the list of the two people pushed up by Ting is Sun Jar and Tao Dalin.

Wanli knew the relationship between these two people and Shen Mo, how could he put the position of Heavenly Official, one of them? The order was re-elected, but the list submitted did not change in the slightest.

Even if the matter is frozen at this point, Wanli is still full of hope for victory, because he still has the Zhongzhi in his hand - the so-called Zhongzhi, that is, the emperor directly orders the appointment and dismissal of personnel or promulgates decrees without cabinet discussion, which can be described as a shortcut. But the strange thing is that under normal circumstances, the emperor rarely uses the edict to promote the minister, and the reason for this can be described as a big surprise: the emperor is willing to give, but the minister is resolutely not.

On the surface, this is because the officials' ethics are too high, and they are not willing to take such a shortcut, but they must take root among the masses and gain broad support before they are willing to take office. But in fact, whoever doesn't want to take a shortcut is the grandson, but the unwritten rules of the civil official group - one of them is that promotion can only rely on the support of colleagues, and those who rely on the emperor's decree will be spurned by hundreds of officials.

This rule can have nothing to do with silence, but a kind of collective self-protection formed by the civil bureaucracy that has grown up under the oppression of an unprecedented monarch. Only in this way, the emperor is excluded from the appointment of officials, can the relative nature of the power of the subjects be maintained, so that the fate of all people will not be hung in the emperor's thoughts.

But the emperor didn't believe it, everyone was so self-conscious, he thought that people were greedy and self-conscious, especially those who had stood aside for a long time and were full of resentment. After looking around among the ministers, he selected Zhang Juzheng's fellow countryman Li Youzi, a Jinshi of Jiajing for 26 years, who has been in the Shilang position for more than ten years. In the emperor's opinion, it must be difficult to resist the great seal falling from the sky.

So he directly appointed Li Youzi as a heavenly official with the Central Decree, but who knew that Li Youzi did not dare to accept the decree in the face of turbulent public opinion. He said in his recital: "Tingtui is the example of the ancestors, and the wise men are expected to return. Today, the emperor ignored the public opinion and appointed the ministers with the central decree, which was actually angry with the ministers, not the saint's doing. , made it clear that I would not be able to take the official title granted by the Zhongzhi, and it was not very implicitly pointed out that Wanli's plot was to break this precedent, bypass the court push, and collect the personnel power.

Wanli is ashamed and angry, and my mouth is Chengxian, how can I push back and hinder it? So he made a sternly worded reprimand, if he didn't accept the order, he would resist the order, what should be the crime of resisting the order, and he should weigh it himself, right? Li Youzi is also on the bar, and the emperor will not send all the resignations a day. A month later, Li Youzi, who never got a reply, went straight away.

Wanli finally believed in the evil and had to order the court push to be held again, but the ministers did not buy it, they claimed that the court push was legal and valid, and the emperor should choose one of the two candidates, and both sides held one end, and they all bit their mouths. As a result, Lu Guangzu has been out of office for half a year, the position of heavenly official is still vacant, and the ministry affairs are in charge of Zuoshilang Wang Xijue.

Is it just a candidate for the secretary of the ministry? In July, Lü Tiaoyang died, and Wanli ordered the ministers to nominate candidates for the cabinet, and when he saw the list of ministers who had nominated him, he almost didn't lift the table.

Because the two names on the list are Tao Dalin and Sun Can.

These ministers who are full of loyalty, knowing that they are candidates for the official book, the emperor is already so angry that he still wants to recommend these two people, obviously he can't get along with himself. He put the appointment on hold again, and the same goes for the six people in the inner room anyway!

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The answer lies in the history that has not yet gone away, although he is familiar with the records of his ancestors, but he cannot recognize, or is unwilling to accept, the reality that he sits on the throne where his ancestors sit, but his power is different from that of his predecessors.

His ancestors, every word and deed was regarded as a golden rule, which was implemented by the courtiers to the letter, and even enshrined his words and deeds as absolute moral standards. And he grew up under the education of his ministers. The scope of his responsibility is determined by this group of civil servants, and any behavior beyond the scope of the determination will be regarded as unjustified and will be collectively contradicted by the civil officials.

This change, while implicit in form, is unambiguous in substance. The reason is that the founding emperor created the dynasty, and at the same time established the civil service system as an administrative tool, which is the core of power in the country. Today's civil officials have long since matured, they have long since taken over the actual power from the emperor, and they are the ones who have power in this country.

The production of every official has to go through more than 10 years of hardship, and then go through the harshest layers of selection ......, do not listen to the criticism of those frustrated in the scientific field on the imperial examination, it is because you can't eat grapes that the grapes are sour. This is just having the qualifications to be an official, after becoming an official, you still can't relax, in addition to regular inspections, usually a little careless, will also lead to the impeachment of the official, if you don't do well, the future will be ruined, just under such harsh conditions, you have to make achievements, in order to climb up the level. The speed of silent climbing was already the limit, and it took nearly twenty years to be qualified to stand in front of the emperor.

The vast majority of people can't make so many great contributions, and thirty years is considered very fast. is not a top social elite, and it will never be able to take this step, and it will have long been survived by the fittest. Fortunately, such a group of people have never been in harmony and spend most of their energy pinching each other. If they work together to get the emperor out of the dragon chair, it will not be difficult at all.

And the emperor became the supreme of the world just because he happened to be born in the emperor's family, and he happened to be the eldest son when his father died, and he was not determined by the survival of the fittest. Moreover, the teachers who set up the three views for them are those ministers who have become fine. Naturally, the ministers would shape the future emperor according to their own needs – all they needed was a plain monarch as the representative of the Mandate of Heaven, whose task was to exercise the legitimacy of power on their behalf, and to make impartial decisions when politics could not be resolved.

In white, it is better for the emperor to have no opinions, and never interfere in specific government affairs, and only need to practice various etiquette frequently to demonstrate the legitimacy of the dynasty's rule of the country, and he is the best emperor. Therefore, the emperors since Chengzu, whether it is Renzong, Xuanzong, Yingzong, Jingzong, Xianzong, or Renzong, are basically carved out of a mold, and can restrain their own desires, maintain modesty and gentleness, and be at the mercy of the ministers. The more they did this, the more the courtiers praised him as a wise man, and the more they were bound hand and foot until they were at the mercy of their courtiers.

Even Emperor Zhengde, who is famous for his immorality, has always pursued only personal freedom, and he only tried to escape the rules and regulations that bound him and hated the old man, but he never thought of destroying it. In the final analysis, he is also a student taught by old men, but his adolescence is too long and his rebellious heart is too strong......

The only exception was Emperor Jiajing, a wild child who was succeeded by a vassal king, who did not receive a day of royal education, and naturally did not be infused with the factor of modesty and moderation. In his eyes, the emperor is the supreme authority, without any self-repression obligations, and he wants to be able to control all power without any restrictions.

Coincidentally, it can be regarded as the emperor with the highest IQ in the Ming generation, and he has a political talent that is difficult for his predecessors to match. With his supreme intelligence and cunning, he believed that he could control everything without anyone's help, relying only on his talent and ability, and he thought he had done it.

But history can prove that he was wrong! No matter how strong a person's strength is, he cannot resist the laws of society, and all those who dare to challenge the rules will be punished by the rules, no exception.

The Yan family father and son had already quietly stolen his authority, and when he used them as marionettes, he also made their puppets. And in the late stage of his life, he had clearly felt the strong counterattack. His hopes have been suppressed, and his power has been taken away from him—

Xu Jie, and the civilian-bureaucratic group he represented, had risen above all the powers in the world, including the imperial power of Emperor Jiajing.

It was Emperor Jiajing's perverse behavior that made the ministers completely stop disillusioning the emperor and regard the game with the imperial power as a matter of survival. The pursuit of vassals by the civil official group has changed from unconscious to conscious, which directly indicates that the era of the emperor is coming to an end and the era of civil officials is coming. But Xu Jie is only the builder and pioneer of all this, and the road to truly achieve this is tortuous and long. However, with the joint efforts of his successors and Jiajing's successors, this process has been greatly shortened.

One by one, one by one, one by His son Wanli, who ascended the throne at the age of eight, was completely out of contact with state affairs before the eighth year of Wanli, which gave civil officials a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And the two first assistants after Xu Jie, Gao Gong and Silence, one is enterprising, boldly takes power, and the other is long-sleeved and good at dancing, which will win people's hearts the most. The two succeeded each other, and in a dozen years, they replaced the supreme emperor and became the true ruler of the empire.

More than ten years, a generation, such a long time, is enough to take many things for granted.

Therefore, when Shen Mo left office, the civilian clique still had to hold on to the power rather than return it to the emperor. Over the years, civil officials have developed a powerful force that forces the emperor on the throne to reject his personal will in the conduct of government affairs. The Wanli Emperor had no way to resist this force, because his authority was born from the prostrations of the hundred officials, and the power he actually controlled was very meager.

Nominally he is the Son of Heaven, but in reality he is subject to the courtiers, and there is nothing he can do about it......

But this does not mean that the emperor will accept his fate, at least the Wanli Emperor will not, he is aiming at Naizu, and he has defeated the young male lord who has defeated the most powerful minister in history, how can he be at the mercy of the minister? He had always wanted to use Zhang Siwei again. Zhang Siwei had already been looking at it, and after holding back in his hometown in Puzhou for more than a year, he felt that the limelight was over, so he wrote to the emperor, suggesting that he was full of fighting spirit again.

Wanli understood and issued a holy decree to restore him. Zhang Siwei was worried about the long nights and dreams, and as soon as he received the order, he hurried on the road, but halfway through, an obituary came from the house, and his father, who was still alive a few days ago, died inexplicably...... Zhang Siwei had no choice but to go home for the funeral.

Emperor Wanli shuddered, he felt that he was facing an unfathomable night, and in that darkness, there was a devastating force hidden enough to hurt himself. In order to protect himself, in addition to fighting against the ministers with all his might, he also spared no effort to cultivate the power of eunuchs, and really hoped that the eunuch army could grow and become a wall for himself to shelter from the wind and rain. That's why he is so partial to these unsuccessful guys, and even lest they are not arrogant and domineering enough to govern those ministers who have no king.

Therefore, there was an incident in Nanjing where the people rebelled against the eunuchs, and the emperor not only did not blame Zhang Qing, but took the opportunity to arrest Sun Can, who had long been unpleasant, to Beijing, and even wanted to force him to cut himself, just to kill the chicken and show the monkey. As a result, at this time, the emperor's eldest son was born, and the queen mother decreed an amnesty to the world, but let her grandson...

The canister escaped. However, the capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.

Never use it, the edict completely sealed the way for this person to make a comeback!

At that time, Wanli was very happy, but the consequences caused by this were something he couldn't have imagined... @