Huang Liji panicked in his heart, he didn't expect Chongzhen to name himself at this time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Huang Liji can be like a fish in water in officialdom and rise to prominence, relying on two points, one is loyalty, and the other is a firm position. Loyalty is loyal to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, there is no rebellion, although he is not absolutely honest, and he has not done less to usher in the officialdom, but he has never been ambiguous in the major rights and wrongs. He was able to start from the humble beginning, only to the position of the first assistant, never did anything wrong to the country and the people, promoted the backwards, dared to speak out, and took a firm stand.

Huang Liji was very dissatisfied with the governance philosophy of the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party would only exclude dissidents in the court for their own selfish interests, arrange for the Donglin Party, and trap the people in dire straits. The Donglin Party was even more serious in influencing the imperial power, increasing the taxes of the northern peasants of the Ming Dynasty, and not increasing the taxes on the industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River at all, resulting in a serious deficit of silver and silver needed for the Ming Dynasty's foreign wars. Therefore, Huang Liji and Wei Zhongxian coincided and came together because of the same political ideals.

In the year of the Apocalypse, he was able to be reused by the Ming Xi Sect and promoted to the first assistant, thinking that he could reverse the Ming Dynasty in a crisis through reform. However, the will of heaven made people, Ming Xizong died young, and all the layouts came to an abrupt end in an instant. Immediately after Chongzhen's coming to power, although Huang Liji was the first assistant, he had never been summoned by Chongzhen alone, I thought that the political ideals of this life would also end with the departure of Ming Xizong, and he had quietly written his resignation to return to his hometown. At the beginning of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, what he needed was power, and these powers were held by important ministers like himself, as an emperor, the quickest way was to let these old ministers automatically dedicate the power in their hands, otherwise they would take power from the important ministers of the court by degrading or killing.

Although Huang Liji thought a lot in his heart in a short period of time, in the eyes of Chongzhen and the ministers, this was just a momentary matter. And Huang Liji's answer did not disappoint Chongzhen.

Huang Liji, who was a very popular minister, did not get carried away because of his high position, and said to Chongzhen: "The minister thinks that the officials are mainly composed of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six departments, and most of them are not of high grade, but their political status is extremely prominent. This is because since Emperor Hongwu, the speech officials have been given a wide range of important powers, such as admonishing the emperor, leaving and right the way of speech, impeaching hundreds of officials, and inspecting the localities. As a result, the yamen at all levels, from the central to the local, from the emperor to the hundred officials, from the major state affairs to social life, are all within the scope of the supervision and speech of the officials.

Therefore, the quality of speech officials has always been relatively strict, and there are three major principles: first, forgetting one's home for the sake of the country, being loyal and forgetting oneself, second, being upright and upright, and being straightforward and daring to speak, and third, having outstanding knowledge, not only being familiar with all aspects of the court's government affairs, but also being able to be knowledgeable about the past and the present. However, the minister believes that these three articles seem to be very strict on the moral character and self-quality of the speech officer, but in fact they are relatively empty.

It is the duty of a courtier to be loyal to the country, but it is undeniable that a large number of officials in the court are officials for glory and wealth, and are admired by thousands of people. ”

After Huang Liji said this, he paused slightly, and his gaze slowly swept over the ministers behind him, many of whom couldn't help but look at them so sharply, and lowered their heads unnaturally. Chongzhen saw all this in his eyes, and also showed an approving look at Huang Liji, and Huang Liji also accepted all this well. Huang Liji understood that his words had been recognized by Chongzhen, and the courage in his heart was even greater.

And there is a group in the court, but there is not shame on their faces, but real anger. This angry crowd is the Yanguan. They were very dissatisfied with Huang Liji's words, this group of speech officials has always been above the top, even if they are flies, they can't help others to say it. But even so, no one dared to stand up and compete with Huang Liji, the head of the dynasty. The iron bones of the speech officials have long been dissipated invisibly in the wine-colored wealth, and the speech and official system carefully laid out by Emperor Hongwu has fallen to such a field after several generations of emperors.

Chongzhen was very happy to see the Yanguan being so aggrieved, but he was faintly worried about whether he could completely change the overall situation of the Yanguan and inject new blood into Daming. Chongzhen's sometimes comfortable and sometimes frowning expression was seen by every minister, but no one in this full hall of civil and military could understand Chongzhen's loneliness.

After a short pause, Huang Liji continued: "The minister thinks that speech officials cannot be restrained only by morality, but also by the system. In other words, it is to limit the power of the speaker. ”

Huang Liji's words suddenly made the entire court explode. It's not that no one has ever thought of restricting speech officials, and in fact many ministers hate speech officials very much, just imagine, who wants to have someone around them to watch them at all times. But since the Hongwu Emperor system, the official system has not changed. So-called, habit becomes nature. Therefore, even though the ministers hate the officials, they are really afraid of the officials.

Now Huang Liji proposed to limit the power of the speech officials, and this time, the speech officials can no longer hold their breath, the power of the speech officials is restricted, and the interests of all the speech officials will be harmed.

All of a sudden, all the speakers were extremely angry at Huang Liji, and even some of them were insulting when they saw it. At this time, Chongzhen finally saw the power of the official. The fear that Qianfu refers to is not something that everyone can bear. Fortunately, Huang Li was extremely calm enough and did not lose his mind by the abuse of the official. Huang Liji has stood tall for so many years, and his quality is still excellent. He always responded with a smile, because he understood that Chongzhen would stand up, and Huang Liji had developed a pair of discerning eyes over the years. Therefore, Huang Liji's confidence is very strong, isn't the official standing at the highest point of morality, now that the officials are angry and lose their minds, they will become passive, and the corresponding image of Huang Liji has become tall invisibly.

Chongzhen looked at those shrew-like officials, and his heart was furious, and the dignified court was as noisy as a vegetable market at the moment.

Chongzhen once again slammed the Longjing tea in his hand to the ground. With the crisp sound of the teacup hitting the ground, everyone fell silent for a moment, and unlike last time, this time there was no minister kneeling, but all of them trembled, like children who had made a mistake, and lowered their heads one by one.

Chongzhen saw that the court was quiet, and said angrily: "All the ministers are the pillars of the country, look at what you have become now, one Zeng Yingxuan has made me quite sad." The ministers are also people who have read poetry and books, how can they be so noisy in the court like the people of the market. The court is a place to discuss national affairs, and there are different political opinions, and everyone expresses their opinions and seeks common ground while reserving differences. I hope that this scene in the court today will not happen again. If you have any opinions, you can speak out boldly, discuss with your colleagues, and do not insult or even take action, and if you commit another offense, you will be dismissed on the spot. ”

Chongzhen needs to see a court with a contentious atmosphere, but it is by no means as chaotic and disorderly as a vegetable field, Chongzhen understands that these need to be guided by himself. If Chongzhen wants to reform, he will inevitably be resisted, and if there is resistance, someone will inevitably stand up and oppose it, these Chongzhen will not be afraid, and the reform will inevitably shed blood and sacrifice, but this blood will never be his Zhu Youzhen. Chongzhen looked at the ministers' slightly calmed expressions, and continued to speak: "I very much agree with Lord Huang's words, judging from the performance of the official just now, it is too free and lacks the constraints of the system. Therefore, I will reorganize the system of speech officials. The biggest problem of the official is to listen to the wind and do things, which has great drawbacks and is easy to be used by people with intentions. Therefore, I decided to set up a new department, the Internal Procuratorate, which is directly responsible to me, and its main function is to verify whether the matters played by the speech official are true, and when the speech official impeaches an official, there must be real evidence, which can be human or physical evidence, if there is no evidence, the speech official needs to be examined by the Internal Inspection Yuan, and the internal inspection court can be impeached by the internal inspection court if there is no solid evidence, and those who are in the same boat as local officials, and those who are corrupt and pervert the law can all be impeached by the internal inspection court.

In addition, the Internal Procuratorate has no right to meddle in local affairs, but in the performance of official duties, all officials, regardless of their positions, must cooperate, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of resisting the will. ”