"Whether the cabinet chief assistant is qualified or not is up to me!

If I say he's qualified, he's qualified!

As for the issue of the Cabinet losing its supervision, don't you still have the supervision to watch with you?

Even if, as you want, you are to oversee the cabinet, who will make the decisions?

If there is a major war, such as the disaster of the construction of the Wanli Dynasty, and the tax has to be raised and the tax has to be raised, and once the business tax is not raised, the empire will be destroyed by the foreign race, and the two houses of you do not agree?

Seventeen years ago, the treasury had no money to pay military salaries, and the local squires and wealthy businessmen were so rich that they were so rich, you haven't experienced it! ”

Zhu Youzhen took a big sip of tea after speaking, he knew that if he didn't convince Yang Mingshen, he would not be able to convince these rising wealthy businessmen, and Yang Mingshen was cultivated by himself, if even Yang Mingshen did not put the interests of the Ming Dynasty first, he would not mind using blood and heads to force the rich businessmen to accept their decisions.

"Since Your Majesty said so, why don't Your Majesty make your own decisions, and why let the cabinet take charge."

Yang Mingshen doesn't like the cabinet, just like the previous Donglin Party didn't like the cabinet and the celebrant eunuchs, in his opinion, these cabinet ministers and eunuchs are all obstacles to their communication with the emperor, so that they can't communicate directly with the emperor so that the emperor can not understand himself, to put it bluntly, they can't directly use the emperor and can't directly manipulate the imperial power.

"Is there a difference between a cabinet ruling and a ruling of mine, Yang Mingshen?"

Zhu Youzhen asked.

"There is a difference, if it is the cabinet in charge, we can't directly make a statement to Your Majesty, and we can't convey the situation, Your Majesty!" Yang Mingshen replied.

"Then if there is no cabinet in charge, everything will be decided by me, the emperor, and I will have to spend more than five hours a day listening to your nonsense and making decisions, tired and not talking;

If there is a tyrannical king in the Ming Dynasty in the future, what will be the consequences if there is no cabinet limit;

What will be the consequences if the emperor who appeared in the Ming Dynasty is lazy and allows the internal officials to take power;

Now fortunately, the first assistant of the cabinet is the emperor's followers selected from the governors of various places and the officials of the central ministries; 、

And these governors have been tested by your local advisory bodies and the chambers of representatives, and the unqualified governors have been impeached by you, so tell me whether it is better to be the head and auxiliary of the cabinet who have experience in local administration and are good at coordinating the interests of all strata, or is it better to be in charge of the emperor or internal officials who are longer than the deep palace? “

Zhu Youzhen asked.

Yang Mingshen hesitated and said: "Naturally, it is better to be the head of the cabinet, but Your Majesty, won't the king also be restricted by the cabinet?" ”

"If I am not satisfied, I can replace the head of the cabinet at any time;

If the emperor in the future wants to do a career, he can choose a cabinet chief assistant who is satisfactory to him;

If the later emperor didn't want to do a career and wanted to be a lyricist like Li Yu, he could only choose a qualified cabinet chief assistant with administrative experience from among the local officials;

Even if there was a dim-witted king like Song Huizong who refused to admit his incompetence, he could only choose the head of the cabinet from among the local officials;

If the king is incompetent, at least the head of the cabinet is competent, and the dynasty will not be too bad, at least the local governor will be supervised by two houses, and it will not be too chaotic. ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Yang Mingshen had to give up: "Your Majesty is far-sighted, and Weichen can't do it, but Weichen always feels that this seems to be a repetition of the politics of the previous dynasty, and the power of the prime minister has reappeared." ”

"Taizu is shrewd and capable, he is the emperor who has no ancients before and no one after him, he can naturally monopolize the government and gather imperial power, but the descendants of later generations are naturally inferior, and I am not as good as him, so he derived the cabinet to make up for the shortcomings, and the coexistence of the king and Zaifu is inevitable, which can be regarded as setting things right."

After Zhu Youzhen said, Yang Mingshen didn't want to say anything, but said: "Your Majesty, Weichen still has a discussion, now that this is the case, what is the difference between the establishment of the two houses and the former officials?" ”

"There is still a difference, the officials are all bureaucrats, they are all the products of the protection of officials and officials, and they are full of righteousness but actually harbor evil intentions, and most of them are very hypocritical, even just to invite fame, regardless of good or bad;

Today, there are merchants, workers, peasants, craftsmen, and squires in the two houses, each of whom speaks for their own class, and does not speak for the sake of inviting fame and promotion. ”

"That's why, in the past, when the official staff was killed, there was nothing in the world but it was quieter, but now if these members of the two houses are killed, it means that they have offended the entire class of people or the two classes have become enemies of each other, and there will definitely be war in the world."

When Zhu Youzhen said this, Yang Mingshen couldn't help laughing, and instantly felt that he was actually quite important, and couldn't help but say again: "Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to ask for an order, can you let the cabinet not detain and punish our councilors, no matter how much trouble we make and how ugly our words are, as long as we don't violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty, we can't punish them." ”

"I have always advocated freedom of speech, you parliamentarians have the right to speak, I have given it, their cabinet has no right to stop you from speaking, nor has it the right to detain you and punish your crimes, even if you break the law, it is the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the local prosecutor to file a case, the Criminal Department detains and decides, and the Dali Temple deliberates."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Yang Mingshen only prostrated in front of Zhu Youzhen at this time: "Thanks to Your Majesty's training today, Weichen understands Your Majesty's wisdom, and Weichen is really ignorant." ”

"Calm down, the members of the two houses still have to go and explain it one by one, don't force me to make you even have the qualifications to speak in the end!"

After Zhu Youzhen said this, he brushed his sleeves and left the Wenhua Palace.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

And Yang Mingshen waited for Zhu Youzhen to leave before he glanced at Wang Jiaqin meaningfully, and Wang Jiaqin also patted him on the shoulder:

"Take your time, the Ming Dynasty is not an ordinary small country, and it is unrealistic to completely realize the so-called so-called people of the world and their country in the holy school;

It is estimated that it will only be realized after the crisis around the country is resolved, and the people in all parts of the country are mainly urban people;

At the beginning, Song Ge Lao and I also fought and failed to fight, there are many conservative officials in the court, many of them are in real power, it is rare to be able to achieve democratic local autonomy, if the cabinet is controlled by us, those officials in the world will not agree. ”

"Thank you for your hard work, the cabinet is fortunate to have you, and it will not let the Conservatives cover the sky with one hand, I only hope that the next cabinet chief assistant will be you and not Zhang Huangyan."

"Then it depends on the king's will, you can go, the cabinet is not for you to stay here for a long time, otherwise there will be people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to impeach you, but they can directly take you on the grounds of disturbing the administrative order."

Yang Mingshen had no choice but to leave the Wenhua Palace.

And Yang Mingshen did personally communicate with the members of the two houses, and the dispute between the two houses of the empire and the cabinet stopped, and the capital group accepted the control of the cabinet, and the bureaucracy needless to say, they supported the cabinet in charge.

As a result, the internal political order of the Ming Dynasty was stabilized, and the internal contradictions had the opportunity to be slowly resolved, and the empire could still ensure a long-term state of peace.

(End of chapter)