The unveiling post written by Shen Yichen was sent to Gao Gu, who was the last ranked among the ministers, and he submitted it to the emperor after drafting, and then continued to approve it with a red pen.

The so-called "ticket draft", which is simply and crudely understood, can also be regarded as a small note pasted on the top of the concerto.

But this ticket is a small note, which is completely different from the small note written by Shen Yichen. The unveiling post only condenses and condenses the narrative of the cantata, and does not make any subjective judgment or approval of the original content of the cantata.

In a sense, the ticket is to reply as the emperor, and then hand it over to the emperor to see and go through the motions. Finally, he replaced it with a red pen, copied the contents of the ticket, and returned it to the courtiers.

Therefore, most of the emperor's replies seen by civil and military officials were actually written by cabinet ministers, and their will and ideas were fused with the imperial power.

This is the reason why the cabinet can replace the position of prime minister, encroach on the functions and powers of the six ministries, and become the center of power in the Ming Dynasty.

When it comes to the right to "vote", we have to mention the right to "approve red".

The last step of the ticket drafting procedure is transcribed by the emperor Zhu pen, which is called "approval of red", which can also be called "approval of Zhu".

Why can the eunuch in charge of the celebrant seal have the power to invade the government and the opposition, and is called the "internal minister"?

The reason is that this last step should have been approved by the emperor himself, and he delegated this power to the celebrant supervisor.

Think about it, the implementation and issuance of the policies of the Ming Dynasty are all controlled in the hands of the eunuchs who are in charge of the celebrant and the eunuch, can they not be in a high position?

Although the law stipulates that the eunuch's approval of the red must follow the content of the cabinet draft, the most important thing is to correct the typos. But the problem is that when the power is really tilted towards the government and the opposition, who will abide by the provisions of the law, and what if it is changed?

Wang Zhen can be a eunuch to interfere in politics, relying on deception and concealment, false transmission or distortion and tampering with the edict!

The system of "voting to approve red" is equivalent to the cabinet and eunuchs, dividing up the power to formulate and implement state policies.

If the emperor works hard and is eloquent, he can still control the basic direction of politics, so that he will not be fooled by the people below at will.

If this emperor is incompetent and ignorant of the government, then he will really become a rubber stamp of human flesh, and he will not know what the imperial policy is and how it is implemented.

And the cabinet also has a very awesome skill, that is, the emperor does not issue a decree according to the content of the vote, or bypasses the cabinet and directly issues the decree.

This kind of decree is called the "middle decree", and they have the right to seal it and not carry it out!

Later generations have understood that power is from the bottom up, and once no one listens to anyone below and no one does anything, even if he is high as an emperor, he is just a loner.

At the same time, this situation also explains why the Ming Dynasty civil official group would fight with the emperor so happily, in essence, they were fighting for control of the country, and no one wanted to share this supreme power.

Cabinet Minister Gao Gu looked at the unveiling post submitted by Shen Yichen and nodded with great satisfaction.

Because Shen Yichen's writing is excellent, the content is concise and to the point, the text is clean and square, and the volume is clean and tidy.

It can be said that this is the standard template for the East Pavilion unveiling post, if you don't look at the name of the writer, you can't expect it to be from the hand of the "intern".

Sure enough, the talent of Sanyuan and the first is different from ordinary people, and this son is extremely talented!

But looking at it, Gao Gu's face changed.

In this obituary of Yunnan Prefecture, Shen Yichen actually mixed his personal thoughts and explained in the post that there will be great changes in the western borderlands, and it is necessary to prepare in advance for the comeback of the Luchuan regime.

Overstepping one's authority is a taboo for officials, what does this son think he does, is it Zhongyun in the right spring fang of Zhan Shifu, or is it a scholar of Dongge University?

Such a military event is also Shen Yichen's deem to interfere?

Gao Gu is an honest official, upright, and fair, and he seems to be perfect on the surface.

But his entire career can only be described in four words - lackluster.

If you don't do something, you won't do anything wrong.

The cabinet has been in power for more than ten years, and he also briefly served as the first assistant for more than a month. Neither the introduction of policy reform and revitalization on the difficulties of people's livelihood, nor the turn of the tide when the country is in crisis.

Anyway, he has been in the company for more than 40 years and has a good reputation, but he has no impression of how much he has done for the country and the people. In the end, after experiencing the change of the civil fort and the change of seizing the door, he was able to protect himself and retreat bravely, and he cleared the knowledge of being an official.

The most intolerable thing for an official like Gao Gu is to exceed the rules. Shen Yichen just needs to follow the rules and do what he does, and it is not his turn to worry about the extraneous things, let alone use Wenchen to take charge of martial arts!

On that day, when he was in the court to watch the government, he made a lot of nonsense about the Northwest Tartars, and now even the southwest barbarians, have you pointed fingers?

The more Gao Gu thought about it, the more angry he became, so he directly tore off Shen Yichen's unveiling post, crumpled it into a ball and threw it out of the door.

It just so happened that Ma Yu walked in at this time, and he was about to discuss something with Gao Yu, and the paper ball fell on him.

Ma Yu picked up the paper ball on the ground and said with a smile: "I don't know why Shiyong (Gao Gu Zi) is so angry, is it because the new officials who entered the East Pavilion to study are stupid?" ”

Seeing that it was Ma Yu coming, Gao Gu immediately got up and arched his hand and said: "It turned out that sex (Ma Yuzi) is coming, and it is rude, please forgive me." ”

"It's okay, but I'm curious about who can make the world lose his temper."

Ma Yu said, and spread out the paper ball and looked at it.

The previous content is unremarkable, and it is a condensed obituary post. However, seeing the elaboration concept at the back, Ma Yu instantly understood the reason for Gao Yu's anger, and when he saw the final signature, he was a little uneasy.

This unveiling post was actually written by Shen Yichen!

"No wonder you will be angry in the world, Shen Yichen didn't grasp the balance of this move."

Ma Yu said lightly, he understood Gao Yu's character, and Shen Yichen's actions were simply asking for trouble.

"It's indeed a bit overstepping, but this son is still inexperienced, and it can be understood that there are mistakes, so it's harmless."

Gao Qian's attitude immediately changed, and even helped Shen Yichen ease up.

The reason is that Ma Yu is Shen Yichen's nominal teacher, and it is not good for you to accuse students in front of other teachers.

Ma Yu also knows the reason why Gao Gu will soften his attitude. It's just that there are a lot of things behind it, but I can't tell outsiders that Shen Yichen, the so-called protégé, may not be the same as himself.

"How about this piece of music for the world, or leave it to me to deal with?"

Hearing this, Gao Yu thought that Ma Yu was going to use his identity as a teacher to teach Shen Yichen, but he agreed without much thought.

But what he didn't know was that Ma Yu planned to do nothing and submit this piece and the unveiling post as they were.

Because of Shen Yichen's views on the war in the northwest that day, Ma Yu was keenly aware of Zhu Qizhen's emotional fluctuations. If this remark is read by the emperor again, it will inevitably affect Shen Yichen's impression in his heart.

The embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, and the most ruthless was the emperor's house.

Once there is no emperor's grace, how high Shen Yichen climbs today, how badly he will fall in the future.

Thinking of this, Ma Yu actually looked a little lonely.

If it weren't for the difference from Shen Yichen's position, Ma Yu would really appreciate this junior, and he would also be willing to stage a teacher-student story in the officialdom.

It can only be said that many things will be doomed before the test, and the Tao is not the same!

On the other hand, after the end of duty, Shen Yichen returned to the mansion and went directly to Chengguo Gong, wanting to ask for help for Xu Fengyuan's appointment.

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After all, Shen Yichen has been in the office for a short time, and there are not many people in the officialdom. Moreover, those contacts in the past were all accumulated from the imperial examination line, and the Ministry of Rites and the officials of the Hanlin Academy were the mainstays, so they could not catch the line of the Ministry of Officials.

If you want to play the parachute of officials, you must have a high position of authority to do it. Among the people Shen Yichen knows so far, there are only two people who have reached this standard.

They are Wang Zhen, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the seal, and Zhu Yong, the prince of Chengguo.

Although Shen Yichen can no longer take off the hat of the eunuch party, he has always been unwilling to have too many interests entangled with Wang Zhen.

After all, it is one thing to be forced to "join" the eunuch party, and quite another to take the initiative to join. The civil official group is not a thing, nor does it mean that the eunuch group is a good thing.

So I had no choice but to turn to Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

Seeing Shen Yichen coming, Zhu Yong didn't even wait for him to salute politely, so he asked directly: "Say, what's the matter." ”

Straight to the point, good......

To be honest, if you put aside the relationship between father and son, Zhu Yong's behavior style of many military generals is more than that of civil officials.

But then again, if there was no father-son relationship, Zhu Yong would not have this attitude.

"Grandpa."

Shen Yichen still saluted Zhu Yong, and then said: "The younger generation has a friend who is listening to the election in the Ministry of Officials, and hopes to take up the post of Fuzhou Governor Lezhi County, the political envoy of Fujian, and hopes that the grandfather will help." ”

"Friend expectations? I'm afraid that's what you expected. ”

Zhu Yong replied lightly, last time Shen Yichen came to ask himself to help once, and transferred Li Da and others from the Jingwei Command Envoy to the three major battalions through the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Just as the cabinet and the six ministries had a dispute between the cabinet and the six ministries in the early Ming Dynasty, in fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, there was still a dispute between the government and the ministry in the early Ming Dynasty. That is, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces and the Ministry of War, there is overlapping competition for power.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces had a higher status than the Ministry of War, and had the authority to manage military households in various places, train troops stationed in various provinces, and promote and transfer generals in various places. At the beginning, the Ministry of War only had the right to transfer troops stationed in various places.

To put it simply, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has the right to command troops, and the Ministry of War has the right to transfer troops.

On the surface, it is a struggle for the rights of the two institutions, but in fact it is a game between the military generals and the civilian clique.

It's just that in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, the prestige was great, and the civilian group was at a disadvantage. With the Tumubao Incident, the Xunqi group collapsed instantly, and the military department completely emptied the authority of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the status of military generals was reduced to the point that they were inferior to dogs in front of civil officials.

The transfer to the positions of Li Da and others can be called a gesture for Cheng Guogong. Now arranging people to go to Renzhi County, Changle County, Fuzhou Prefecture, has to go through the Ministry of Officials to confer officials, which is relatively much more troublesome.

But what Zhu Yong cares about is not trouble, but what Shen Yichen wants to do, the target official position is so clear, there is definitely a plan behind it.

"It's really arranged by the juniors."

Shen Yichen didn't hide it, or in front of a high-ranking official of Cheng Guogong's level, there was no way to explain it with a lame excuse.

"Plus the previous transfer to Li Da and others to take charge of the troops, what do you want to do?"

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong had a faint premonition that Shen Yichen's plans were very big, and he even felt that it would be beyond his imagination.

"What the younger generation thinks is nothing more than to help the world if you are good, and if you are poor, you will be good to yourself."

"If you want to use the commander to help the world, you really plan to be a marquis three thousand miles away!"

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong's tone was extremely shocked, he had already guessed Shen Yichen's intentions in his mind.

even thought of when he asked Shen Yichen where his ambition stopped at the Ying Tiancheng Mansion, he saw a scorching flame in his eyes, as well as undisguised arrogant ambition.

At that time, Shen Yichen gave the answer, "Who has written history in 10,000 years, and wants to be a marquis 3,000 miles away!" ”

It's just that Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, didn't take it seriously, and just regarded it as a young man's rhetoric.

Now it seems that Shen Yichen really wants to become a knight with martial arts, and that day's rhetoric is not a lie, this kid is achieving his goal step by step!

Shen Yichen did not refute Zhu Yong's words, which was indeed one of his goals.

But Shen Yichen's ideals and pursuits do not stop there.

"Good, good, good!"

Zhu Yong said three "good" words in a row.

Shen Yichen dared to set such lofty ambitions when he was not a child. What's even more unbelievable is that this kid really uses his deeds and words to strategize the layout!

Zhu Yong always thought that he did not underestimate Shen Yichen, and discovered the potential of this son early.

Now it seems that it is still underestimated.

"I will coordinate with the officials to arrange positions, but you also want me to see if I can be like Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, with one family and two princes!"

This sentence was Zhu Yong's answer to Shen Yichen at the beginning, and now he said it again.

That time it was encouragement, and this time it was anticipation!

Shen Yichen smiled when he heard it, and then arched his hand back: "Grandpa Xie, the junior is leaving." ”

When he was about to walk out of the yard, he silently added: "I will do it." ”

It's just that this promise is still not said to Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

After a few days on duty in the East Pavilion, the time came to the beginning of July. At the end of the three-month observation period, the new members of the Yicho Department will participate in the hall selection examination of the Hanlin Academy.

Those who pass will become the members of the Hanlin Academy, and those who do not pass will be awarded official positions based on their performance in the government.

Compared with the tacit rules of the palace examination, the selection examination of the Hanlin Academy can be called a real "palace examination".

This exam is a real showdown, without the favoritism of the marking officers to "agree with the protégés", it can be regarded as leaving a way for poor students who have no power and no power to climb up.

Xiao Yi's township examination was in the ranks of the five classics, and the palace examination was also ranked second, and he was unsurprisingly admitted to the Shu Jishi, and joined the Hanlin Academy with Shang Yuan.

For Shen Yichen, it means that in the future, there will be a good helper with like-minded people in the power center of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to this joy, Shen Yichen also had a happy arrival, that is, he received a notice from the Hanlin Academy that he was appointed as the exhibition officer of the feast by Ni Qian, a bachelor of waiting.

Shen Yichen is naturally very clear about the responsibilities and benefits of the exhibition officer. The only thing that puzzled him was, why did Ni Qian arrange such a good thing on himself?

You must know that at the beginning of the Hanlin Academy, Shen Yichen and Ni Qian did not get along very happily, and even the other party regarded himself as a member of the eunuch party, and specially gave him a sinkhole to repair "Huanyu Tongzhi".

Theoretically speaking, if it weren't for the coincidence that he entered the East Pavilion to enter the academic training, Ni Qian would have wished that he would sit in the prison of the Hanlin Academy. Now he has arranged himself to be the exhibition officer of the feast, which is really illogical.

Just when Shen Yichen felt uncertain, an official from Honglu Temple suddenly came to the East Pavilion Corridor.

"Xia Guan is Xu Jiang of the Left Temple of Honglu Temple, and I have seen Shen Xiu."

Shen Yichen returned the salute and asked, "Xu Sicheng is polite, I don't know what happened to visit the office today?" ”

"The lower official is here to inform Shen Xiu that His Majesty will attend the sutra banquet on the 12th, and I hope Shen Xiu will be ready."

Zhu Qizhen is going to have a feast?

Hearing this news, Shen Yichen was a little surprised. You must know that three months have passed since the last feast, and Zhu Qizhen's disgust with the system of the feast day is simply overflowing.

Many officials predicted that in order to avoid the scorching heat, the feast would definitely not be held again in the short term. As a result, he didn't expect that he had only been a bookkeeper for a few days, and Zhu Qizhen decided to participate in the feast, which was really lucky.

"The younger brother is participating in the sutra banquet for the first time, and he dares to ask Xu Xiu, what should I pay attention to?"

Although Shen Yichen's current official title is Zhengliupin Youchunfang Zhongyun, it is higher than that of Honglu Temple from Liupin. But if you have a request, you naturally have to lower your posture, and look at the other party's age to be an uncle, so you use the self-title of the younger brother.

"Shen Xiushu has been tortured by the lower officials, he doesn't dare to be, he doesn't dare to be."

Xu Jiang hurriedly humbly didn't dare to respond to this little brother, you must know that Shen Yichen is the champion of the three yuan and the first, and he has entered the East Pavilion for further study in a short period of time, which is not the same as the prospect of a petty official like himself.

Maybe if we meet again in the future, Shen Yichen will become the minister of the palace, and he dares to be his eldest brother?

"If Shen Xiushu really wants the lower official to give some advice, what the lower official can give is to be cautious and not make mistakes at the feast, and the other is to go to the Imperial Palace to see His Majesty's "Actual Record" and "Sermon".

The Imperial Palace is the place in the Forbidden City where the imperial archives are stored, and the "Actual Records" and "Sermons" are the archives that record the emperor's life and speeches.

The meaning of Xu Jiang's words is obvious, that is, "know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles".

If you want to get the emperor's attention and trust, you must understand the emperor in all aspects in order to do what he likes.

A sentence that woke up the dreamer, Shen Yichen's understanding of Zhu Qizhen in the past came more from the one-sided impression of later generations. After a few contacts, I felt a little that the other party was just a teenager, not a cold text in the history books.

Even in his mind, the picture of Zhu Qizhen entering the palace after Guozijian gave a lecture and was reluctant to turn back while sitting on the Luan car.

At that moment, Zhu Qizhen had no shadow of being an emperor.

"Thank you Xu Sicheng, my little brother has been taught!"

Shen Yichen bowed, in order to succeed in the imperial examination, he had an in-depth understanding of the examiners and did what he liked.

Now they have forgotten to do this to the emperor.

"The lower official is embarrassed, and he is ashamed."

Xu Jiang really didn't expect that the dignified champion would be so low-key and humble, he thought that he would be a domineering young man as rumored by the outside world.

After sending Xu Jiang away, Shen Yichen did not hesitate, and went directly to the Imperial Palace to inquire about Zhu Qizhen's "Actual Record" and "Sermon".

In the past, Shen Yichen looked at Zhu Qizhen from the perspective of examining the emperor, and the same was true for the evaluations he made.

But in "Record", Shen Yichen also saw another side of Zhu Qizhen, or the more humane side of the emperor's identity.

He would skip school to play with the little eunuchs in the palace, and in order to protect his childhood companions, he would deceive Sanyang and the Empress Dowager Zhang.

will be like an ordinary teenager, who will talk back, rebel, and disobey the Empress Dowager Sun, and will care about the soldiers who are far away on the frontier, and will be homesick for too long.

I saw the arrogance of his words and ideals, and also saw the ambition in his heart. From this moment on, Zhu Qizhen really became a living person in Shen Yichen's eyes.

But it is precisely because you know too much that many times your judgment will be affected by your feelings, and you will not be able to make the most cold-blooded and rational decisions. Shen Yichen experienced this feeling once in Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

And this future faint king, what kind of courtier should he face as a courtier.

Loyalists? Traitor?

Time flies, a few days pass in a hurry, and we come to the feast on the 12th day of the seventh month of the 10th year of orthodoxy.

Shen Yichen changed into court clothes and participated in the banquet for the first time in the name of the exhibition officer, and it was also the beginning of his look at Zhu Qizhen with another eye.