Chapter 891: Peach Blossoms Still Smile in the Spring Breeze (Medium)
After nearly a month of busy work, the emperor finally completed the emperor's wedding celebration after marriage, no matter what aspect it is, he is considered an adult, and naturally there is no matter of the two dynasties in January, Honglu Temple will play, please change the emperor back to the five days.
In fact, according to the ancestral system, it should be early every day, rain or shine, all year round. It was Emperor Zhengde, the uncle of Wanli, who broke this tradition. Emperor Wuzong, who was famous for his absurdity and playfulness in history, was naturally not bound by stereotypes, and it was common for him not to go to court for ten days and half a month, and even left Beijing several times for several months, completely destroying the rules of the early dynasty. When he arrived at Emperor Jiajing, he had a period of cheering up, but after middle age, Jiajing lived in Xiyuan, concentrated on cultivating the altar and alchemy, and did not go to court for more than 20 years. Although relying on a strong wrist, the authority has not been lost, but the etiquette of the early dynasty has died in name.
Wanli's father, Longqing, was surprisingly lazy and slack, had no interest in state politics, and was like a puppet when he was in the court, often asking scholars to answer the presentations of other officials. In the early years, it was still five days a day,
In the later years, this was simply dispensed with by the early dynasties.
The early dynasty, which had been in existence for sixty or seventy consecutive years, was longer than the age of the vast majority of officials in the court, so even the Honglu Temple, which was in charge of the ceremonies of the early dynasty, believed that the five-day dynasty was already a great progress, and only a few defenders called for the resumption of the daily dynasty. But these voices are not the mainstream after all, no matter what aspect it is, the ministers must not accept it, and restore the ancestral system of starting every day three watches, rain or shine, reporting after the completion of the matter, and the Sacred Heart.
For this kind of placement, Wanli is relatively satisfied. It's no wonder that all those who become bridegrooms for the first time hate to get dark too late and light up too early in the first few days. Although Wanli is the Son of Heaven, there is nothing incompatible with ordinary men and women. Empress Dowager Li was afraid that he would fall into a woman too early and repeat his father's mistakes, so she disciplined him strictly before the wedding, and really let the emperor compare the marriage with a virgin.
But everything must be reversed, now once the ban is lifted, the Wanli Emperor is called a marrow to know the taste, infatuated, as long as he smells the fragrance of powder, touches the greasy skin, and even does not touch it, as long as he looks at the queen's bulging chest, he can't restrain it, regardless of the occasion. However, the queen is a quiet and stern woman chosen by thousands of people, how can she allow him to prostitute in the daytime?
It is only after the night that the reserve will be spread.
So in the days after the wedding, Emperor Wanli sang songs every night, and if he didn't make four or five tinkering that night, he would definitely not be able to sleep. But in this way, the habit of getting up early that has been cultivated for many years has become an unbearable torture, if he didn't think that the early dynasty was the beginning of the pro-government, he even felt that it was too much for five days.
This day was another day of the regular dynasty, and the emperor tossed for another night, hugging the queen, and sleeping soundly. There were three bangs outside, and then the shrill voice of the eunuch: "Respectfully invite the emperor to get up......" Wanli slept and heard it, but the queen had been listening attentively, after the wedding, the Empress Dowager Li could be said to have taught her earnestly, let her be a virtuous helper, and she would not drag the emperor back. So she woke up at once and pushed the emperor up. Then the lady of the Chuan Shang Dormitory came in and dressed herself and the emperor and washed her. After breakfast, the yawning emperor sat on the imperial chariot and went to the middle hall to go up.
…… One...... Mouth...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... One ......, mouth ...... One............ One...... One...... One...... One...... One...... With the sound of three whips, the hundred officials quickly finished the order, Wanli ascended to the throne in the Jintai Imperial Guard, and after the necessary ceremony was performed, the eunuch sang: "There is something to play in the morning, and there is nothing to roll up the curtain to retreat to the court............... so the officials of the Honglu Temple began to sing the names of the officials who retired and were sent to serve in the provinces, and the people who were sung entered the hall to salute and thank the emperor. The officials of the first rank and above entered the main hall, and the officials in charge of each yamen explained the government affairs to Wanli and asked for instructions, and the emperor asked questions or gave answers as needed. The program starts at sunrise and ends shortly after sunrise, every day, with rare exceptions.
Yes, it's very fast, it's as fast as a young man's affair, just after the formation has been put in place, the troops have already been withdrawn, and it can play a few practical roles, and it can be imagined. In fact, as early as the Chenghua period, the early dynasty was reduced to a ritual with more significance than practicality...... At the beginning of the early years of this dynasty,
In addition to the early dynasties, there were also the afternoon and evening dynasties, and it was stipulated that the emperor must make decisions on 185 kinds of events in various government ministries, and the emperor had to prepare thousands of pieces of recitals and narrations every day.
This kind of inhuman labor can only be borne by iron men like Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu, who immediately won the world, and when it comes to their descendants, they will be powerless. And there is another factor that cannot be ruled out, that is, although the emperors of later generations, although they sit on the throne where their ancestors sit, their duties and authority are already very different from those of their ancestors. Every word and deed of the founding emperor was complimented by his subordinates as an absolute heavenly constitution, and they were all followed. However, they grew up under the education of their ministers, and the scale of their responsibilities, that is, the standards of right and wrong placed by this group of ministers and even their measures in government affairs, must not violate the standards set by the ministers, and must not be mixed with personal emotions, otherwise they will be ruthlessly criticized and exhorted until the emperor corrects them.
This change of power, while implicit in its profile, is unambiguous in substance.
The reason for this is that the founding emperor established the dynasty, and at the same time, he also established a civil service system as an administrative tool. And after the centenary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the latest Jiazi of the emperor's successive neglect of government, the civil official group has long matured and can run the state apparatus on its own. Therefore, there is no suspense in the form of the Imperial Performance...... All the contents of the recitals have been handed down in writing beforehand, and in turn are decided collectively by the ministries, the cabinet, and even the court according to the importance of the matter, and only the matters that must be made known to all the officials are re-read in the early court, and even this item is not necessary, because the cabinet will send these documents in writing to the various yamen through the court.
And what Wanli has to do is to listen to the ministers' reports quietly, and then continue to play accurately......
Because according to the national policy set by Chen Wushi, he must not suppress the minister's recital, although he can also ban it and put forward his own opinion, but that means that he has denied the opinions of various ministries, cabinets, and even all ministers, and he must come up with sufficient reasons, lay out facts, and explain things reasonably, so as to convince the people who have been denied.
But reasoning is the minister's specialty, and the emperor will not be able to win a hundred debates. Because of his age, knowledge, experience, and even scheming, he is invincible to those shrewd and demonic ministers who have gone through three dynasties.
Wanli has always been very confused, the ministers obviously put the "Sacred Heart**," Qiangang is arbitrary, and hangs on his lips, why can't he, the emperor, do anything? Originally, he thought that it was because he was still not qualified to take on state affairs. But months after the wedding, nothing has changed...... The early dynasty was still a formality, and all the pairs were stylized.
As you grow older and more experienced. The sensitive Wanli Emperor could naturally feel that this terrible stylization had seriously weakened his authority. After that serious conflict, he gradually realized that all the ministers needed was an emperor with a plain personality, as the representative of the Mandate of Heaven, whose task was to practice all kinds of etiquette, as a legitimate symbol of the government, that is, to represent the Mandate of Heaven. In white, it is better for the emperor to have no opinions, in order to better represent the mandate of heaven, just like his great-uncle Emperor Hongzhi's father Emperor Longqing, the more humble and gentle he is, and the more he obeys the influence of the ministers, the more the ministers will reward him as a wise monarch, and hope that future emperors will take him as a model.
It turns out that the so-called "pro-government" is actually a "pro-fight", even if the emperor has to roll up his sleeves and fight with all his strength to fight for the back molars, the ministers have never taken the initiative to return power......
Wanli didn't want to be like his father, a clay statue of a golden platform, he thought it was a kidnapped emperor: he preferred to be like his grandfather, who he believed was the real emperor. In order to achieve this goal, he once used to force Zhang Juzheng to stay before the wedding, and he dared to veto the official with the court staff, showing his iron fist to the civil official...... I've grown up, and I'm a very different emperor from the previous emperors, so you'd better be smart!
Afterwards, Wanli reflected on the lesson of that time, and he began to regret that time after listening to Zhang Siwei's words and ending the dispute with his own edict, he felt that he should be tougher...... Like his grandfather, he took all the ministers who refused to obey, whether he was a hundred or two hundred, and drove them all out of the capital! Only then can the world be peaceful......
However, the uproar like the last time turned out to be unseen for many years, and most of the time, the court was still backwater...... Especially after Zhang Juzheng went, the biggest dissatisfaction and calm factors did not exist, and Shoufu Shen began to use gentle means to comfort the court and local officials who were killed by Zhang Juzheng, just like reducing the assessment standard of the examination method from 90% to 80%: for officials who did not complete the task, he also gave another year of observation period, and if he failed to complete it again, he would be punished.
All these things have made the reputation of Lord Shoufu Kuanren reach the extreme, and the hundred officials have also been relieved from Zhang Juzheng's high pressure, and it is too late to bow down to the first prize, so how can they make trouble for him?
Without a chance to raise the stick, Wanli would have too much trouble if he wanted to take back power. To be fair and fair, he was indeed a precocious monarch, and both his innate talent and acquired education surpassed his father's. Therefore, in order to win back his power, he can be said to have put a lot of hard work into order to impress his ministers with his noble appearance and make them realize the maturity of the monarch. Wanli deliberately learned how to speak from the theatrical actors, and required his own behavior in accordance with the etiquette established by Emperor Taizu. His sitting posture is solemn and solemn, his movements are elegant and calm, his expression is calm, and his voice is from the dantian, deep and powerful, and there is an aftermath of it, which really makes many ministers award him as a young hero.
In order to increase his authority, he had to personally review the recitals every day. There are two kinds of songs, one is that the contents of the "inscriptions" submitted by various ministries and institutes in the name of this yamen are mostly routine and rarely cause disputes. The other tenon is the matter presented by the Beijing official in his personal name, which is called the "playbook", and the ten are outside of their own duties. For example, in the seizure incident, Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian were Hanlin officials, Ai Mu and Shen Sixiao were judicial officials of the Criminal Department, and the Ministry Yuanbiao was the official of the General Administration Department.
In accordance with the rules, if the situation is considered urgent, or if the performance book will be withheld by the General Administration, the presenter can send it to the noon gate by himself, and the eunuch in charge of the gate will accept it, and then send it directly to the imperial front. Therefore, the contents of the book were unknown to the hundred officials until the emperor saw it and sent it to the cabinet for drafting. So the chapter that caused the shock often falls into this category.
Yang Jisheng's impeachment of Yan Song's ten major jiān, Shen Lian's impeachment of Yan Song, Hai Rui's public security sparseness, and even Wu Zhongxing's negligence and others' negligence all belong to this situation without exception.
Although the emperor was not allowed to directly give instructions on the recital, but had to approve the vote as appropriate after the cabinet issued the vote, Wanli still read this kind of recital very carefully. Because he firmly believes that in a great Ming Dynasty, there are so many things and so many people, and there will be no disobedience and disobedience, what he has to do is to find out these disobedience and disobedience. First, you can show that you are like a torch, you can see everything, and more importantly, you have to make trouble for the cabinet!
Exactly, it's the trouble of looking for silence.
The emperor's thinking is very clear, he knows that Shen Mo has been operating for 20 years, and his winged disciples are widely in two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there is a way that the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, so he doesn't believe that so many people in the Shen Party are so worry-free, and none of them provoke trouble for Shen Mo.
Emperor Wanli, who is familiar with the history of the twenty-first century, firmly believes that this move is invincible. Even the group of gentlemen who implemented the Qingli New Deal in the Northern Song Dynasty were not also broken in this way?
When the Qingli New Deal was implemented, the Junzi Party led by Fan Zhongyan completely controlled the government, which made the conservative veto faction very annoyed and wanted to drive them out of the capital. However, the reputation of Fan Zhongyan's group was so good that even Emperor Renzong couldn't touch them. But the veto faction still found an opportunity to have an opportunity in the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, Su Shunqing, who was in charge of the Jinju Academy, had a gathering with the subordinate officials of the government, and invited a group of celebrities such as Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen to join. The cost of the party came from two parts, one part was to sell the outdated paper of the yamen, and the shortfall was made up by Su Shunqing. But in the Song Dynasty, the money obtained from the sale of waste paper can only be confiscated, and if it is used to make tooth sacrifices, it is a violation of national law, but this is the case
No one cares, everyone is used to it.
However, the veto faction immediately played the matter to Song Renzong and asked for severe punishment. Emperor Renzong couldn't stand the veto faction playing frequently, and he was also dissatisfied with the gentleman's alliance and threat to the monarchy. So he ordered Su Shunqing to be demoted to Suzhou and never returned to the capital. Almost all of the dozen or so celebrities who joined the banquet were reformers, and all of them were demoted out of Beijing, and even Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi were also demoted and transferred. In the blink of an eye, the old school made a comeback, the reformers were wiped out, the famous people in the capital were empty for a while, and the emperor re-established his authority......
Just one thing can make Fan Wenzheng's group fall apart. I don't believe that the wings of silence can be higher than the morality of Fan Zhongyan's Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, and Mei Yaochen! @