After the resignation of the two cabinet members, the official secretary and the official Zuo Shilang, Emperor Hongguang, who has always been not very fond of managing affairs, seems to have understood that his imperial power has been challenged by Donglin.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially after Chengzu, the court politics already had some flavor of separation of powers. The separation of powers here is not the separation of legislative, judicial, and administrative powers in modern Western politics, but the power of the monarch, the prime minister, and the eunuch.

The so-called monarchy, without asking, is the emperor's right.

In addition to referring to the cabinet ministers, the prime minister also refers to the civil service system. In the eyes of the civil service system and even scholars, the world is the world of the world, and the scholars should rule the world with the Son of Heaven.

As for the eunuchs, they are the eunuchs who control the approval of red, and the powerful departments such as Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Among the three powers, the relative power restricts the monarch's power, the monarch's power restricts the eunuch power, and the eunuch power restricts the relative power, and the three forces have reached a delicate balance after more than 200 years of running-in in the Ming Dynasty, so that the state machinery of the Ming Dynasty Empire runs very smoothly. Even in the Jiajing Dynasty, Wanli and Tianqi dynasties, when the emperor was not in court for a long time, the country was still prosperous.

But when the Chongzhen Dynasty came, Emperor Chongzhen was fooled by the civil officials, abolished the factory guards, and made the ceremonial supervisor completely become an ornament, and the state machinery completely collapsed, so the Ming Dynasty also came to the brink of destruction.

No matter how confused Hongguang is, at this time he will find that although the emperor is the son of heaven, he is not omnipotent. Any normal person would be very unhappy to be restrained by others, and after this incident, he realized that in fact, the civil officials did not respect him, and even regarded him as a fool.

In this way, he looked at the officials of the pro-blessing faction more and more pleasing to the eye.

It was in this situation that Ma Shiying recommended his benefactor Ruan Dacheng to Emperor Hongguang in a timely manner.

On 6 November, some people asked for the reinstatement of Ruan Dacheng, but this time it was none other than Shangshu.

"Dongge University Scholar and Military Department Shangshu Right Capital Imperial History, Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying took the offense of Ruan Dacheng, who knew the soldiers, and should be pardoned for his past crimes, that is, the right servant of the Ministry of Ministers."

According to the system of the imperial court, this kind of excerpt needs to be drafted by the cabinet, and then transferred to the celebrant of ceremonies.

The problem is that the vote of the cabinet is now in Ma Shiying's hands.

After being transferred to the celebrant supervisor, the emperor approved the red: "Quasi! ”

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, after the emperor's reply or holy decree was issued, it had to be sent to the cabinet first. After the cabinet reviewed it, it felt that there was no problem in allowing this decree to be issued. If it is found inappropriate, it will be sent back to the emperor, which is called a refutation. This is precisely the principle of separation of powers and mutual checks and balances in the politics of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, if the emperor's decree is hard topped by the cabinet and he really wants to send it out, he can also directly let the eunuch take him out of the palace without a reply from the cabinet, which is the central decree.

The problem is that this kind of decree has no legal effect, and the person who receives the decree can completely ignore it.

This time, the cabinet replied: "Give the crown and bring your majesty to see you." ”

This time, Ruan Dacheng actually returned to the political arena so easily, without being hindered at all, because Gao Hongtu, who could restrain Ma Shiying in the cabinet, was not there, and he had just left Nanjing to inspect the affairs of Cao Yun.

As soon as the news came out, the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

After Gao Hongtu received the news, he regretted it and hurried back to Nanjing, and went directly to the cabinet to reason with Ma Shiying.

Gao Hongtu knew that Ruan Dacheng's comeback emperor had agreed, the cabinet had also passed, and strict legal procedures had been met, so it was impossible to repent, but this person could not be appointed.

Ruan Dacheng is a cunning villain like Ma Shiying, and he is more or less different from Ma Shiying, there is no lower limit to doing things, and his action is amazing, and he is a terrible opponent.

If you want to drive Ruan Yuanhai out of the imperial court, you have to think of some special methods. So, he said: "Dacheng is available, and it must be a meeting of Jiuqing." ”

The vast majority of Jiuqing of the Hongguang Dynasty are from Donglin, and if there is a meeting, Ruan Dacheng will definitely lose.

How could Ma Shiying fall into this trap, he only said lightly: "It's okay to hold a meeting, but Ruan Dacheng must use /." ”

Gao Hongtu saw that Master Ma had preset the premise, but he refused, and continued: "I'm not stopping Ruan Dacheng from reincarnating, I'm just doing things according to the rules, and after the meeting, it seems that the reinstatement procedure is brighter. ”

Ma Shiying was furious: "I haven't been bribed by him, what's not bright?" ”

Gao Hongtu said the last sentence of this conversation: "Why take bribes; Once it is handed over to the court, everyone says that it is really good, and then it can be used. With that, he walked away.

In the next few days, the court began to be lively again, first after returning home, Lord Gao immediately wrote a letter of resignation asking to go home for retirement, and then another minister of the cabinet, Jiang Yueguang, also waved a big "resignation" to ask to go home and mocked Ma Shiying's shameless behavior. This time, the second elder of the Donglin cabinet began to play the game of resignation again to threaten the emperor.

Then it was Ma Shiying who defended Ruan Dacheng and incidentally exposed Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and others who formed a party for personal gain.

The bigwigs of the two factions went into battle in person, and now, the superficial perfunctory appearance of the cabinet has completely disappeared, and various characters from the two factions have appeared one after another.

Donglin sent Luo Wanxiang, Yushi Zhan Zhaoheng, Guo Weijing, and Yin Minxing of the military department to oppose the use of Ruan Dacheng and denounce Ma Shiying.

Yushi Zuo Guangxian, the younger brother of the former famous scholar Zuo Guangdou, even pointed at Ma Shiying in the court and scolded: "Ruan Dacheng attached himself to Fu Yingxing, the son of the anti-party thief, and killed his brother Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, and Yang Lian; Shiying took a special offense, knowing that he should not get back to the guilty. The emperor does not change the policy of the first emperor, and the ministers can't bear to forget the hatred of the uncommon? ”

This time, he turned out Ruan Dacheng's old account of attaching himself to Wei Zhongxian, anyway, you Ma Shiying actually recommended Ruan Yuanhai, then you are a eunuch, read books (http://)

This remark stunned Ma Shiying, after all, Ruan Dacheng was involved in the old case of Chongzhen's eunuch party, and recommended him, but he lacked confidence, seeing that Ruan Dacheng's comeback was no longer possible.

But at this time, Hongguang asked Yushi Zhan Zhaoheng to take the original record of the King James Rebellion case.

It didn't matter if Zuo Guang scolded Ma Shiying first, but he didn't expect to deviate from the topic all of a sudden, and the focus of the discussion changed from whether to use Ruan Dacheng to whether to partially overturn the reverse case approved by Comrade Chongzhen.

Ma Shiying realized: The opportunity has come!

The reputation of the eunuch party is too stinky, especially when people now mention the reason why the world is in chaos in the year of Chongzhen, the reason why Beijing fell, and the reason why Emperor Chongzhen was martyred, all the responsibilities should be borne by Gonggong Wei.

It was he who disturbed the dynasty and framed Zhongliang, which made the country a mess.

But anyone with a little brain knows that this is actually a that doesn't stand up to scrutiny at all.

If you like "Guoshi", please send the URL to your friends through QQ and YY, or post the URL to Tieba, Weibo, and forums.

To bookmark this page, please press Ctrl + D, for the convenience of the next reading, you can also put this book, add the desktop, please slam.

When there is a new chapter, an email will be sent to your mailbox.