Chapter 924: The Emperor's Heart is Unfathomable
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Li Chunfang returned to the auxiliary room and looked at it nostalgically, with a wry smile and helplessness in her expression, but there was also a sense of relief. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info is not a talent of Zaifu, and it is already considered lucky to be able to retreat with his whole body, and he can't expect anything more.
He resolutely returned home, locked himself in the study, took the notebook, and solemnly wrote "beggar bones", Tang Yi and Gao Gong played fake before, but Li Chunfang was real.
Lifting the pen, I was stunned for a while, thinking back to my life, I was promoted all the way from Hanlin, smooth sailing, entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister, and working until the auxiliary, in the highly competitive cabinet, it was a fluke to be able to preserve the honor and retire safely.
If you are someone else, if you can have Li Chunfang's experience, you can guarantee that you can wake up laughing when you dream and laugh alive when you die.
But Li Chunfang asked herself, not only could she not laugh, but she wanted to cry without tears.
Since he entered the government in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, he has met the eternal demon Yan Song, and he waited carefully, Yan Song fell, and he was replaced by Xu Jie, the strongest bureaucrat in two hundred years, and continued to serve carefully.
Finally, these two are finished, I thought that my daughter-in-law would become a mother-in-law for many years, but I didn't know that I met Tang Yi again and ate him to death, seeing that all the power of the cabinet fell into Tang Yi's hands, if I didn't know the fun, I was afraid that I would lose my temper.
Li Chunfang smiled sadly, her wrist trembled, and a drop of ink fell on her handbook.
Alas, even the pen and ink bullied the old man!
Sighing, he changed his notebook and was about to write, when suddenly someone whispered outside him.
"Xiangye, Zhang Ge asks to see you."
"Elder Zhang Ge? Which Zhang Ge is old? "At present, there are two people surnamed Zhang in the cabinet, and Li Chunfang has this question.
"It's Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Gelao."
"It's him!" Li Chunfang frowned, although the two of them are in the same department, their friendship is very weak, what is Zhang Juzheng doing at this time, do you have to force the palace?
Li Chunfang cleaned up and instructed the housekeeper, "Please ask Elder Zhang Ge to come in." ”
Not long after a while, Zhang Juzheng was dressed in a royal blue silk gown, tied with Hetian jade pendant, from top to bottom, clean, and a faint smell of perfume, very good, by no means ordinary.
Li Chunfang got up and said with a smile: "Uncle is dressed like this, do you have to go on a blind date?" ”
Zhang Juzheng clenched his fists and arched his hands, "Yuan Weng said with a smile, Zhang came to ask Yuan Weng for something." Zhang Juzheng looked at the study and said with a smile: "What, don't you invite the little brother to sit?" ”!” Li Chunfang hurriedly asked people to serve tea, and then waved his hand, and there were only two people left.
"Uncle, what's the matter, just go to the room and say, how can you come to the house?"
Zhang Juzheng looked very lonely, picked up the official kiln bowl, drank two sips of tea, much worse than the one at home, and Zhang Juzheng put it down casually.
"Yuan Weng, we have known each other for more than 20 years, and my younger brother doesn't go around in circles with you, so I went to see the cabinet meeting today, how do you feel?"
Li Chunfang couldn't figure out Zhang Juzheng's thoughts, so he could only laugh and say: "Okay, very good, several pavilion elders are rare talents in the world, and they are open and honest, planning for the country, courageous, and methodical, especially Tang Pavilion Lao, who has a broad heart, accepts all rivers, and has the style of ancient sages, the old man is very happy in his eyes, Your Majesty knows people, and the Ming Dynasty is promising!" ”
This Lala miscellaneous said a lot of good things, Zhang Juzheng didn't believe a word, Li Chunfang don't look honest, as long as he is a person, he will not be willing to be treated as a tablet by others, as if he is nothing, he said this, there is only one reason, that is, helpless.
Zhang Juzheng was full of disdain and pouted, "Yuan Weng, if you don't want to tell the truth, then let Zhang say." Tang Ge Lao's actions are basically to steal the lord's blessings, destroy the ancestors' laws, and let him do it, the Ming Kingdom will not be a country! ”
"Shut up!"
Li Chunfang's face changed color, she was so frightened that she immediately stood up, reached out to cover Zhang Juzheng's mouth, and said sharply: "Zhang Taiyue, what nonsense are you talking about, I haven't heard it at all, you should leave quickly!" ”
"Humph! Yuan Weng, is there still such a coward as you in the world? I don't believe you can't see it! Zhang Juzheng said categorically: "Grandpa Tai abolished Zhongshu Province back then, the power was divided into six departments, and Grandpa Cheng set up a cabinet for inquiries, and in the past hundred and fifty years, the auxiliary authority has become increasingly heavy, but even if it is strictly divided, it is just an adviser to the Son of Heaven." Let me ask, can you have Tang Yi, who is out of the cabinet minister's duty, commanding the world, and responding to the world, Li Ge Lao, as an auxiliary, do you watch the world in chaos? ”
Li Chunfang's face turned pale, and the more she listened, the more frightened she became, and she said angrily: "Do you know what you're talking about?" You are slandering the second assistant of the dynasty, a first-class master! If you're willing to die, I want to live a few more days! ”
"I didn't slander him!"
Zhang Juzheng still sneered, "Back then, the great grandfather set up a hundred officials, that is, to control the big with the small, and to divide the powers and checks and balances, but now Tang Yi has taken over all the power in the cabinet, breaking the six divisions, and the ancestral family law has been completely destroyed, Yuan Weng, do you still want to pretend to be confused?" ”
"I, I don't understand!" Li Chunfang kept shaking her head weakly.
Zhang Juzheng secretly observed his words and feelings, Li Chunfang is a top talent, he is just timid, not that his brain is not enough, and his words can be understood.
"Yuan Weng, simply put it bluntly, according to Tang Yi's design, the scholars are each responsible for one side and directly govern the various ministries, which has seriously exerted the power of the auxiliary ministers. Secondly, take the rectification of the rule of officials as an example, Gao Gong and Chen Yiqin directly commanded the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they were in power, and the boundaries of the six departments and departments were also broken, don't you see the danger? ”
is worthy of Zhang Juzheng, his vision is really keen.
When he was in the cabinet, he was full of surprise and admiration for Tang Yi's methods, but when he went back and thought about it carefully, there was only a bone-chilling cold left, it was summer, and there was a layer of white sweat on his body.
Zhang Juzheng thought about it carefully, and he suddenly woke up, Tang Yi's new law and new policy are not a military system, nor is it a whip law, what really matters is the new rules of the cabinet!
This is the core of Tang Yi's change!
The core of the official system in the past dynasties is to restrict the balance and maintain the natural status of the imperial power, even if it is the Han and Tang dynasties, which are the most powerful, there is still the imperial history platform to contain it.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, although the cabinet replaced the prime minister, and it was more than that. But after all, the name is not justified, it is as strong as Yan Song and Xu Jie, and the emperor can remove them with a will.
The secret lies in the fact that ministers share power and contain each other. Even if Xu Jie, who is so calculating and old in power, can't eradicate the Tang Party and the Jin Party, the ministers are not in harmony, and the king can pull one faction to fight another, the left hand is strong and beats twice, and the right hand is weak, pull a handful, all in all, maintain the balance of the court, and the emperor will be able to control everything forever.
But Tang Yi's arrangement just cracked the core code of imperial power for thousands of years.
His method is not complicated to say, it is to consult with each other.
Let's take the rectification of the rule of officials as an example.
According to the previous method, the main power was in the ministry, and Kedao supervised and corrected from the side.
Once there is a personnel dispute, it will have to go to the cabinet, or even to the emperor, and the emperor will make a decision, and the emperor can lean into different aspects according to his mind to achieve a balance in the court.
Now, Tang Yi has handed over the power of rectifying the rule of officials to the five senior officials led by Gao Gong.
When they encounter something, they first have to coordinate and come up with opinions. If they are uneven internally, or out of the basket, Zhao Zhenji, as the overseer, will bring the problem to the cabinet, and after consultation with the seven cabinet elders, Tang Yi, as the adjudicator, will come up with the final plan.
Note that this plan is completely different from the previous plan made by the officials alone.
For example, the last time in Jingcha, Yang Bo was treated impartially, but he was picked by Hu Yingjia's eggs, and he was attacked violently, which directly caused Gao Gong to get out.
Not this time, because in the investigation, the voice of Kedao has been included, and the final result will be endorsed by the bachelor in charge of supervision and all the members of the cabinet.
The result represents the will of the entire civil official group, and this is wonderful, as mentioned earlier, once the civil officials reach an agreement, the emperor is alone, and he cannot compete with all the civil officials.
Tang Yi nominally delegated power to other cabinet elders, but in fact he became the spokesman of the entire civil official group, and he made the power of civil officials bigger.
It seems that Tang Yi is the one who has the least power and the weakest strength among all the elders, but in fact, he is the one with the most influence, the strongest authority, and the one who can really do what he says!
According to the design of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, this person who says nothing can only be a king, but Tang Yi is an auxiliary minister, overthrowing the king and gathering great power.
For such a subtle calculation, Zhang Ju was amazed, and even threw himself on the ground. But as a disciple of Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng's heart was still thinking about Jun Yaoshun, and seeing his father's power fall, he couldn't accept it no matter what.
"Yuan Weng, you are the only one who can turn things around now, we are all apprentices of a master, we really can't sit back and watch Tang Yi and abolish the rules of the ancestors!" Zhang Juzheng poured out his heart and lungs.
Li Chunfang shook his head and smiled bitterly, he really regretted seeing Zhang Juzheng and listening to his words.
"Brother Taiyue, what's the use of talking about this now, even Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji are on Tang Yi's side, what can you and I do? Tang Yi is reforming the law, and there is also the three return oaths of the teacher, and there is no excuse for impeachment! ”
"The hundred officials have been abolished!" Zhang Juzheng gritted his teeth and said, "Don't expect them to go against Tang Yi. ”
"Who's that counting on?" Li Chunfang asked stupidly.
Zhang Juzheng didn't speak, but stood up and slapped everything viciously in front of him, all without saying anything!
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"It's ridiculous, what does Your Majesty think?"
Those who dare to say Longqing in this tone have no semicolon except for the tall beard. Several reforms discussed by the cabinet were sent to the Imperial Palace, and after they were ready to be approved, they were immediately enacted.
How do you know that Longqing actually violated the ancestral system in the name of staying in the middle.
"I'll wait for the country to be bent on, and the old man will go to His Majesty to reason, and see which treacherous villain is slandering in front of His Majesty!" The tall beard turned around and was about to leave.
"Slow!" Tang Yi suddenly stopped him, "Zhongxuan Gong, this matter should be left to the junior brother." (To be continued.) )8