Zhang Huangyan was very excited, and he could barely accept the establishment of local advisory bodies and chambers for the people to manage officials.

After all, this is indeed a way to curb the excessive and arbitrary exploitation of the people by the local government, and at most it will affect the gray income of the entire official.

And he Zhang Huangyan can be regarded as a clean official, and he will not care too much about the reduction of gray income.

But now that Wang Jiaqin and other officials in the imperial court have proposed to set up a consultative house and a house of representatives in the central government, he can no longer agree, after all, this is tantamount to making him a cabinet chief assistant in addition to obeying the emperor's orders, but also obeying two houses, which is even more aggrieved than the previous cabinet chief assistant who could not govern the six ministries.

Zhu Youzhen is now in charge of affairs, the chief and auxiliary cabinets are in charge of the executive power, and he is even a prime minister worthy of the name, and he has the power to recommend and dismiss hundreds of officials, especially senior administrative officials, and even the power to set taxes and levies, and the power to enact administrative laws and regulations.

Since the Sixth Section Corridor was under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet, and the disagreement between the Master of Ceremonies and the Cabinet and Zhu Youzhen was unwilling to do more, allowing the Cabinet to have the final decision, the first assistant of the Cabinet has been the second master of the empire.

But now that Wang Jiaqin, an official of the imperial court, and others proposed to set up a council and a house of representatives, he was naturally the first to disagree, even extremely disagreeable.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan can't directly say that it is because this will limit the power of his cabinet chief, and find another reason:

"Your Majesty, war, disaster relief, construction, and medical security and old-age security for first-class citizens of the empire are all large expenditures, although we have just occupied Dongying, but there is no guarantee that the empire will not have no wars in the future, nor can we guarantee that there will be no natural disasters in the future, these must be supported by money, grain, and national taxes;

The Cabinet has to formulate tax policies according to the needs of the country, if the court also sets up a council and a House of Representatives, then there will be chaos, the Council is unwilling to raise taxes or even ask for tax cuts, the House of Representatives requires an increase in welfare and a reduction in spending, and when they are done quarrelling, the cabinet will come up with a decree, but I am afraid that it will be three or five years later, and the world will already be in chaos! ”

"But I don't know if Shoufu has thought about it, if the central government wantonly raises taxes and wantonly uses the central administrative regulations to blackmail the people, since the local people have the right to restrict the local officials, why can't all the people of the Ming Dynasty restrict the central officials, the first assistant is just afraid that his power will be restricted, but your power is only given by His Majesty, but since Your Majesty can give power to one person, why can't you give power to all the people, so isn't it that there is no one between the government and the opposition!"

Song Mingquan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, stood up at this time and directly exchanged views with Zhang Huangyan, who recommended him as the head of the cabinet of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhu Youzhen just smiled slightly, he naturally understood that the officials in the court also began to have differences because of the different political interests represented behind them and different perspectives of thinking, some people wanted the first auxiliary to centralize power, and some people did not want the first auxiliary to centralize power.

"Song Shangshu said, this official does not dare to agree, back then, His Majesty centralized power in the first assistant, with the first assistant to make decisions on administrative affairs on behalf of His Majesty, centralized power in one person to facilitate the handling of big things, but not so that the king is tired of the case! If it is thus to all nations, how can great things be done? Even if there is a beetle above the court, there are still the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dongchang Supervision, and your suggestions are nothing more than wanting businessmen to participate in politics!

However, once the businessmen participated in the politics and controlled the government, Zhang wanted to ask, if the agricultural taxes in the north and outside the customs were really exempted, if the businessmen formulated a tax reduction bill through the two houses, requiring the court tax to be reduced to the seventeenth year before Chongzhen, how to maintain the support of millions of troops, civil and military officials, and tens of thousands of students, as well as education and scientific research funds amounting to millions of silver dollars every year, how can our cabinet uphold the tax reduction will of your two houses and accomplish these major things at the same time? ”

Zhang Huangyan asked such a question, and Wang Jiaqin, director of the Imperial Economic Reform Commission, replied: "You are the first assistant, naturally you think of a way, how to move, how to turn, how to come up with a plan to accumulate money, your cabinet naturally has a way." ”

"Director Wang! Do you stand and talk without a backache, two courts have been established, and the power to legislate laws and taxes is in your hands, how can you make me the first assistant to find a way to collect money, and I have no soldiers, can I still force you with a gun. ”

Zhang Huangyan scolded loudly.

"What other ministers have any opinions", Zhu Youzhen asked at this time.

As the emperor, he actually likes to watch the ministers quarrel, in his opinion, this may be one of the most worthy of his own appreciation of the Ming Dynasty, not because he is the emperor standing here, and the ministers are like a group of puppets who only know how to nod their heads and say some painless Taiping words.

Through the quarrels of the officials, Zhu Youzhen was able to discover many problems, and he could also discover what the representatives of the bureaucracy and the capital group really wanted.

Since the three Yangs of the Ming Dynasty, it is the cabinet that has waged a struggle with hundreds of officials, and it has been the most prosperous since Wanli.

The emperor basically does not care about things or balances, and the celebrant is the inner court institution except for a few eunuchs, most of whom are not interested in politics, and are basically the shadow of the emperor, so the struggle between the cabinet and the hundred officials in the Ming Dynasty is more of the most direct manifestation of the struggle between centralization and democracy.

In addition to those who entered the cabinet, many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty were very reluctant to be controlled by the cabinet, because once they were under the control of the cabinet, they would be under the control of the emperor, and they would not be free.

At least they can't freely use their own power to protect their own interests, not only because they don't like to be controlled by the cabinet, but also because they don't like to be controlled by the cabinet.

Without the control of the cabinet, they are the top decision-makers in a certain industry, and they can come as they want.

With one more cabinet, they have one more decision-making body, and they have to listen to the baton of the cabinet.

Therefore, the officials essentially do not want the cabinet to be in power, especially those with bourgeois backgrounds.

Rao is Zhu Youzhen did not expect that they would take the initiative to control the cabinet in a bicameral way.

But Zhu Youzhen also wanted to see the opinions of other officials, the views of officials of the bureaucracy on the cabinet.

At this time, Shang Shuwen of the Organization Department stood up again at the beginning:

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that what the first assistant said is that the businessmen are profitable, and the people are scattered and not together, if there is no power to dominate the national government, the national government will be chaotic, and even cause a party dispute, the dispute between the Donglin Party and the eunuch party will arise because of this, Yin Jian is not far away, the emperor!"

"Your Majesty, Weichen is not in favor of setting up two houses to control the cabinet, in case of war, the cabinet cannot coordinate money and food, then the country is in danger!

Nowadays, although the wisdom of the people has been opened, the people's hearts are also more scattered and difficult to unify, and with the increase of the number of wealthy people, the heart of selfishness is also heavier.

If there is an incident about oneself, you must jump up and down and not overturn the government, and you must listen to any explanation, and if you set up two houses to control the cabinet, it will be noisy and endless, and the country will have no peace, and the order will change every day. ”

Xu Chuanjie, the secretary of the military department, stood up and said at this time.

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