The emperor is in the court, hundreds of officials attend, such a court meeting is divided into three kinds, the New Year's Day, the winter solstice and the three-day court meeting of the Longevity Holy Day, hundreds of officials, nobles and qualified courtiers must participate, in the main hall to worship the emperor, called the dynasty; On the first and fifteenth days of each month, hundreds of officials wear ceremonial clothes to pay homage to the emperor in the main hall, which is called the official dynasty.

The above two assemblies are ceremonial surnames, and do not participate in the discussion of political affairs, and there is also a kind of court meeting called the court, that is, the emperor's routine meeting to deal with government affairs.

The people who participated in this court meeting were generally cabinet scholars, six ministries and nine secretaries, eunuchs with celebrant supervisors on duty, and other officials of the rank announced according to the requirements.

In the time of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, there were early and late dynasties in each dynasty, and later it was gradually simplified to the procedures of the early dynasty.

With the maturity of the celebrant and cabinet system, the entire political system of the Ming Dynasty actually did not require too much emperor participation to function automatically.

That's why Emperor Zhengde liked martial arts and traveled, so Emperor Jiajing did not go to court for more than 20 years, and in fact, it did not have any negative impact on national politics.

However, the emperor is the head of the world, and in the standard of Confucian evaluation, whether the Son of Heaven is directly involved in political affairs often represents whether he is a virtuous monarch or a faint monarch.

The emperor's mediocrity also directly affects the world's evaluation of the cabinet scholars and the six ministries and nine secretaries, and determines whether they can do a stable job in this position, otherwise those who like to drill the horns of the imperial historians will participate in the performance, and then be used by people with intentions, it will be really troublesome.

The Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of Wanli decided the world's plans, and there was actually only one person who ran the national policy, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, the so-called national politics, it didn't matter whether there was the participation of the Wanli Emperor, and Zhang Juzheng, who formed an alliance with Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of the seal, had enough strength to decide and implement.

But even so, Zhang Juzheng still has to urge Emperor Wanli to go to the court every time, and anything decided by the court must be decided after Wanli has seen it.

Emperor Wanli will not object to his opinion, as early as when Emperor Wanli's father, Emperor Longqing, was still King Yu, Zhang Juzheng was already Wanli's teacher, Emperor Longqing's confidant, the Empress Dowager Li and the Empress Dowager Chen in the palace had to tell Emperor Wanli to listen to Zhang Ge Lao's advice from time to time.

Zhang Juzheng knows that his power is too big, his position is too high, and he doesn't know how many people covet and hate, and if he makes a slight mistake, he is afraid that he will be labeled as a "destroyer" and a "son of heaven", and then everything he has worked hard to build will be wiped out, so he is cautious and will never let people catch the truth.

Every time he said to Emperor Wanli, and urged Emperor Wanli to do it, he was asking Emperor Wanli to conquer in person, or to prepare for Emperor Wanli to govern himself.

At least on the surface, everyone in the world knows that it is he Zhang Juzheng who is in charge, and Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet.

The cabinet is located in the west of the imperial city, and there is a special sandwich road outside the palace, through which officials walk to the cabinet on duty, but Zhang Juzheng has the privilege of sitting in a sedan chair, which is also a symbol of his respected status.

Approaching May, the person sitting in the sedan chair is still a little depressed, but Zhang Juzheng did not notice this at all, yesterday Huguang's hometown sent him an urgent letter with the official's fast horse, saying that his father's unstable condition has worsened, his parents are sick, and his children are worried.

But now that there are so many things, Zhang Juzheng didn't dare to leave, so he had to reply to his family, asking his relatives to do their best to diagnose and treat them, and let the governor of Huguang solve whatever he needed.

Father's illness is on the one hand, now the world has been cleared of acres of land has been expanded, the Ming Dynasty has been established for almost two hundred years, the local gentry and wealthy families, large households and people have the number of hidden fields, and the situation of paying less taxes, this inventory measurement is to find out those fields that are not in the household statistics.

If there are more acres, there will be more fields, and there will be more silver, and the embarrassing financial situation of the Ming Dynasty will be alleviated, and having a clear grasp of the number of acres in the world will also be of great benefit to the implementation of its next policy.

While speaking, the sedan chair fell to the ground, and the cabinet had arrived.

When I walked into the room, the senior scholar who had arrived early and the ministers such as the six scholars all stood together, and the two sides bowed their hands and saluted each other, and then sat down.

The Ministry of Ministers Shangshu Wang Guoguang is the first in the ranking of non-cabinet ministers, and he has always been self-conscious, and he usually said that he came to this cabinet a little earlier than Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, so that his own identity is precious and different.

When Wang Tong and the hundred households were lit up early in the morning, Liu Xinyong, the general banner, always arrived when the hundred households came out, which was similar to the practice of this official department.

However, now it is said that this official is the first one to come, although he is still so arrogant, but every later high-ranking official has to carefully observe his face.

Later, the bachelor monk and others saw that Wang Guoguang was so early, and there was a look of surprise on their faces, and then, as usual, they stepped forward to greet politely, although Wang Guoguang claimed to be the leader of the clear stream, but the things in the officialdom were already perfect.

There was nothing abnormal on everyone's faces, although everyone was also intrigued and contradictory, but Wang Guoguang could see that they should have nothing to do with yesterday's events.

Could it be that his son and someone in Dongchang fought for a woman, and as a result, those rough goods in Dongchang started to kill people, and then after the matter got bigger, he forced his family to write a confession and get a handle?

After Feng Bao concurrently served as the owner and governor of the East Factory, the fans of the East Factory have always been cautious and low-key in their actions among the Beijing Divisions, and it is rare for such a situation to occur, Wang Guoguang has always been a little hesitant about the conclusions he has reached, and he does not dare to make a decision.

Seeing the worried Shoufu Zhang Juzheng come in, Wang Guoguang hurriedly got up and saluted with the others, Zhang Juzheng returned the salute casually as usual, and then asked everyone to sit down, without even looking at Wang Guoguang, after sitting down, Zhang Juzheng said directly to the Hubu Shangshu:

"How's the matter of Qingzhang Tianmu doing? These around the Jingshi and the prefectures of Beizhili should have been reported! ”

Tobe Shangshu hurriedly nodded and replied:

"There are still two counties in Beizhili and Hejian Province that are still being counted, and the household department has sent a director to urge, and the results will be sent to the cabinet in seven days."

"All provinces in the world must write to urge and send people to keep an eye on it, the matter of clearing the land is related to the country's plan, and it must not be neglected!!"

Hubu Shangshu hurriedly nodded and agreed, and Wang Guoguang, who had been carefully observing, had also been a minister in the same hall with Zhang Juzheng for a long time, and he knew a lot about the habits of this bearded man, and he finally understood at this time that Zhang Juzheng really didn't know about yesterday's incident, and he didn't really mean to target himself.

Wang Guoguang, the secretary of the ministry, suddenly thought of a direction, if he participated in the impeachment and attack Dongchang lawlessly and acted recklessly, then Feng Bao, who was an important supporter of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, would also be disgraced, this matter may not move Zhang Juzheng, but it can change the situation of Zhang Juzheng's self-authoritarianism.

Since the beginning of the Xuande period, the status of the Ministry of Officials in the court has been extremely high, and those bigwigs who have entered the cabinet as the first assistant do not say, after the Jiajing year, almost as the Ministry of Ministers will inevitably enter the cabinet.

But Zhang Juzheng wants to monopolize the power, a bachelor in charge of the ministry in the cabinet, the right to speak is bound to be very large, will inevitably threaten his authority, he can never allow such a person to enter the cabinet, so the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites and other status are not qualified to enter the cabinet, but the criminal department of the Ministry of Justice, the second level of the cabinet in advance.

Since Wan Shihe and Wang Guoguang are the leaders of Qingliu, they have always been indifferent to fame and fortune on the surface, and they don't care about this powerful position, but in private, they don't know how much they want to enter the cabinet.

Power makes it easy for people to lose their judgment, and Wang Guoguang feels more and more that his inference is the truth of the matter, and he has to seize this opportunity.

"Your Majesty has arrived!!"

The ministers who were whispering in the cabinet immediately got up together, knelt down in unison when the door opened, and praised in their mouths, and Emperor Wanli walked in.

Emperor Wanli was followed by Feng Bao, Zhang Cheng and other eunuchs who were the chief eunuchs, and the cabinet voted to draft and the celebrant approved the red, and many national policies and policies were decided in this cabinet.

The cabinet scholars here, the six ministries and the nine secretaries are all important ministers of the state, and they can't be allowed to kneel there, Emperor Wanli smiled and said please, and then did it on the dragon chair.

Wang Guoguang looked at Feng Bao and Zhang Cheng who were standing behind the emperor, the expressions of these two powerful eunuchs did not change, and they did not pay much attention to themselves, which made him more and more confident in his thoughts, and looked at the old gods on the side, Wang Guoguang stood up respectfully and said in a loud voice:

"Long live, the minister has this Chen Song."

In the court, everything is decided by Zhang Ge, Emperor Wanli has to listen to those old men talk about boring state affairs every time he comes, and they are intrigued with each other.

However, today Emperor Wanli has some expectations and excitement for coming to this cabinet, and when he saw Wang Guoguang taking the initiative to come out to Chen Song, he almost laughed out loud, and quickly stiffened his face, and replied solemnly:

"What's the matter with Wang Aiqing, let's hear it."

"The minister's family said yesterday that they were working on the street, and they met with the fans of the East Detective Factory, and they quarreled with each other, which is also the minister's inability to restrain his family, and he should ask for punishment, but the people of the East Factory were actually angry and killed people on the street, this is ......"

Emperor Wanli suddenly interrupted Wang Guoguang's words, and said indifferently:

"What a coincidence, I also received a report from Dongchang yesterday, and I also said this incident."

(To be continued)