"Shen Gongbao, you really have the leisure to consider whether Yang Zhongtang is praised, and the officials and officials of the DPRK and the Central Government are already angry, clamoring for how to depose you as the head of the cabinet."

Shang Chen responded with a wry smile, there were colleagues present in the duty room, and he did not call "Xiangbei" this time, but used the honorific title of officialdom.

"Heh, the number of applications for expatriate assignment of the household department has proved that the Yanguan Qingliu is just a group of sanctimonious rabble. Now that they have taken the initiative to provoke incidents, the palace guards can take this opportunity to catch them all! ”

Xu Youzhen responded very disdainfully, in fact, in this impeachment incident, in addition to Shen Yichen, his impeachment chapter was ranked second.

After all, after a closer look, Xu Youzhen really had a lot of black spots in officialdom in his early years, and during the period of foreign faction to control the water, his temperament was destined to use a lot of overstepping the rules.

In the past, Shen Yichen was covered by Shen Yichen in the court, and with the folk reputation brought by water control, many people could only endure their dissatisfaction. Now even Shen Yichen is difficult to protect himself, so Xu Youzhen will inevitably be dug up old accounts, under normal circumstances, it is no longer a question of whether he can keep the black yarn hat, but whether he will be asked to go to prison!

It's just that Xu Youzhen doesn't care about these impeachments, and if she wants to dig up black history and play yin, who is cleaner than anyone in the officialdom?

Before he came to Wenyuan Pavilion this time, he had already gathered a group of backbones of the "Shen Party", and he only needed to wait for Shen Yichen's order, including He Wenyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Hongze, the cabinet minister, Yu Shiyue, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and other important ministers, all of whom would receive a snowflake-like impeachment note as soon as possible.

The prototype of the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty was like this, when the officialdom was burning, then right and wrong no longer mattered, and the pure ass decided to see which camp they were in.

Listening to Xu Youzhen's strong response, a surging smile appeared on Shen Yichen's face, and he shook his head lightly and said: "People are not saints and sages, in fact, Yang Zhongtang has some impeachment content, from his point of view, it is not unreasonable, this cabinet department does intend to let the cabinet override the six ministries." ”

The arrival of Xu Youzhen and Li Xian confirmed Shen Yichen's position as the ruler of the government, and at the same time, he also confirmed the accusation that the cabinet controlled the six ministries.

The full name of the feudal dynasty's six-ministry system is "three provinces and six ministries", and the six ministries should have become a thorough executive department, and the decision-making power lies with the emperor and the chief officials of the three provinces, so as to ensure that power is centralized and decision-making at the same time, but also does not affect the efficiency of governance.

However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial power was unprecedentedly strengthened, and the three provinces and the prime minister were abolished, and the six ministers directly had both decision-making and executive powers. But the problem is that the chiefs of the six ministries are nominally equal, and the parties do not have any subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates, and if there is a disagreement, they will either discuss it in the court or wait for the emperor to break it off.

It was not until the rise of the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty that Shoufu had a bit of a taste of slaughter, so that Zhang Juzheng's reform greatly improved the efficiency of governance and helped the Ming Dynasty continue its national fortunes for decades.

It's a pity that the first assistant does not have the legal power to govern after all, once a certain chief assistant is not capable, and then the emperor is too mediocre and ignores the government, the entire administrative efficiency will be in an extremely low state.

The most direct embodiment of this point in the Ming Dynasty is that in the collection of taxes, tax evasion and tax evasion were almost common in the middle and late periods, and there was no way to only send a large number of expatriate eunuchs to let them be corrupt in order to squeeze a little bit of people's fat and ointment from the locality.

Shen Yichen's future direction of court reform is to let the Son of Heaven rule vertically, the cabinet has legal decision-making power, and the cabinet chief assistant serves as the de facto head of government. In the end, through decades of hard work, we will see if we can use the form of law to restrain the expansion of monarchy before I retire, and stage a "constitutional monarchy" in advance.

Even if you can't complete such an advanced political system in your own hands, you must at least change the equal relationship between the cabinet and the six ministries to a subordinate relationship, so as to avoid many meaningless internal losses and mutual blame in the court.

For the feudal dynasty, the concentration of power is not necessarily a good thing, after all, there may be mediocre officials and ministers, but the decentralization of the central government must be a bad thing, which is fundamentally different from modern society, the efficiency brought about by the mutual attack of hundreds of officials, the consequences will only make it more difficult for the people to survive, and make the local powerful and powerful exploit more unscrupulous.

In the face of Shen Yicheng's unabashed words of overriding the six departments, the three people in the room on duty could be said to have different expressions, and Li Xian, the secretary of the ministry, had a somewhat complicated face. Although he assists Shen Yichen and considers himself a protégé of Shen Xue, as the official of the Ministry of Officials, Otsuka Zai, he can theoretically be on an equal footing with Shen Yichen.

No one likes to be subservient, especially when they taste the taste of power, and they are in a state of entanglement and struggle for a while.

Shang Chen had a completely indifferent attitude, he had already vaguely realized Shen Yichen's political ideas, and he was just waiting to pierce that layer of window paper. Now that it has reached the stage of officialdom earthquake, then it is simply not broken and not standing, and if Daming wants ZTE, it can't waste resources and strength in the internal struggle of officialdom.

Only Xu Youzhen's face showed a look of joy, Shen Yichen finally gave up his forbearance and balance, and showed the fangs of power!

The first assistant of the Ming Dynasty should have the power to dominate the world, and Shen Yichen himself also has the ability to dominate the court, why should he blindly tolerate the group of mediocre officials in the court who do nothing and only know empty talk about righteousness?

The times create heroes, Shen Yichen is the one who was selected by the situation to revive the Ming Dynasty, and he will definitely be able to create a peaceful and prosperous era with him, leaving a strong mark in the history books!

If life is not profitable in the world, then it is likely to be famous. Xu Youzhen's officialdom career in the first half of his life has encountered too many ups and downs and cold ridicule, and he wants to change all this more than anyone else, and respond to the humiliation with his posthumous name.

If he could, he even wanted to succeed Shen Yichen in ruling the government, reform the law more thoroughly, and establish a more perfect new world.

The subtle changes in the expressions on the faces of the people present, Shen Yichen can be said to be in full view, there is nothing to say about selfishness, it is nothing more than to see if you can control the desires and thoughts in your heart.

Obviously, Xu Youzhen asked a little impatiently: "The cabinet controls the six ministries, and even the first assistant finally dominates the world, this is the general trend, when does Shen Gongbao plan to carry out the cabinet reform?" ”

"Yang Zhongtang has just impeached the autocratic power of the Cabinet Department, and the restructuring of the Cabinet at this time will not add fuel to the fire."

"Da Sikong, many things can't be done quickly, you are just too anxious."

Shen Yichen reminded Xu Youzhen, in fact, his words have a double meaning.

On the one hand, it warns him that his personality is too hasty, and many times his ideas are too radical, which will cause backlash. On the other hand, it is to remind the Ministry of Works' squire Zhao Rong about the impeachment.

Xu Youzhen really has nothing to say in terms of professional ability, crushing old science bureaucrats like Zhao Rong. But you directly reprimanded others for "not learning and not knowing", which is the same as Yu Qian who caused a misunderstanding back then, making Emperor Jingtai mistakenly think that he said that Xu Youzhen was "not right", so as to form a personal vendetta.

Xu Youzhen's character is too easy to offend people, Shen Yichen himself has the capacity to tolerate people, it does not mean that everyone in the court can appreciate his talent, if he does not change, he will suffer one day.

In other words, he has already suffered a loss in the matter of moving south.

In other words, Xu Youzhen's arrogance would definitely be disdainful, and maybe he would contempt and refute it. But Shen Yichen has the grace of knowing and supporting him, even if he doesn't fully agree with him in his heart, he still honestly arches his hand and says: "The lower official respectfully obeys the words of Shen Gongbao." ”

On the surface, he was "obedient", but in fact, Xu Youzhen immediately changed to the title of "Xia Guan", which means that he thinks that from this moment on, the six Shangshu will officially succumb to the head of the cabinet!

Regarding Xu Youzhen's stubborn character, Shen Yichen was speechless for a while, and when Shang Chen saw this, he took the opportunity to open the topic and said: "Shen Gongbao, now is not the time to agree with Yang Zhongtang's impeachment, but how to calm down this turmoil." ”

"The civilian clique will not withdraw its troops because of your generosity."

Shen Yichen has always treated Yang Hongze's impeachment with a relaxed attitude, but the problem is that this does not solve the fundamental problem, and the civilian official group is ready to be deposed, and it is definitely not possible to rely on calming things alone.

Now Shen Yichen must come up with a solution, otherwise if he continues to make trouble, I am afraid that the next step is to go to the cabinet of the Great Nine Qing Court for discussion, and then submit it to the emperor to be decided.

At that moment, the Son of Heaven is too young to govern, and he will inevitably invite the queen mother in the harem. After the grievances and grievances of the three emperors over the years, Shang Shi is extremely clear as a person who has experienced it, and he, like Cao Jixiang, does not believe that the Empress Dowager Sun will let go of his hatred and jealousy towards Shen Yichen.

When the Empress Dowager is in power, there will definitely be an unfavorable situation for Shen Yichen!

"That's right, He Wenyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has the ambition to lead the court, he will not give up, Yang Zhongtang is just a chess piece he uses."

Li Xian, the secretary of the ministry, echoed a sentence, although the emotions in his heart were complicated, but in the end, reason still prevailed over the desire for power.

Yang Hongze may be impeached in the righteousness of the public, but He Wenyuan and others definitely want to provoke party disputes, and if Shen Yichen does not go all out to face the battle, the situation will develop in the worst direction.

In the face of everyone's admonition and urging again, Shen Yichen's face was still the same cloudy and breezy look, and he nodded with a smile and said, "I know this matter in my heart, you don't have to worry too much, go back first." ”

After that, Shen Yichen looked at Xu Youzhen and specially instructed: "Da Sikong, Shen Dang is a group of like-minded people who use what they have learned all their lives to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family and the country, rather than the same party and different parties to attack each other in the court." ”

"I don't want to see the scene of party struggle caused by the impeachment of Shangshu, and I don't want to see the Qingyunti of the sinking party reduced to officialdom, what is the difference between that and the civil officials who despise it in their hearts and only know empty talk and righteousness?"

Shen Yichen actually wanted to tell Xu Youzhen for a long time that the Shen Party should not be reduced to anyone's political tool, including himself. If history really evolved into the direction of the Ming Dynasty's party struggle, then Shen Yichen would rather end this organization that followed his own philosophy with his own hands!

Shen Yichen's tone was very calm, but Xu Youzhen heard undoubted resoluteness, and he could only say yes: "The lower officials obey the order." ”

With everyone's worried departure, Shen Yichen calmly spread out a piece of rice paper, then lifted the wolf on the pen stand, and wrote the three big characters of "Public Servant Shu" with a pen and snake.

Thinking back many years ago, Shen Yichen became famous in the literary world with his poems, but he embarked on the road of examination-oriented education such as the imperial examination, and basically never wrote much more. The last article that can avoid being related to the article is still about the "Theory of the Disadvantages of the Clans" about cutting the domain.

However, the "Theory of the Evils of the Sect and the Domain" is a letter submitted to the emperor, and this time Shen Yichen plans to write an article on the disadvantages of the times to respond to Yang Hongze's impeachment of the "Seven Deadly Sins".

Although in the conversation with Shang Chen, Xu Youzhen and others just now, Shen Yichen recognized some of the content of Yang Hongze's impeachment recital, but this does not mean that what the other party said is all right.

On the contrary, Shen Yichen admitted that he had done the things described in the "Seven Deadly Sins", but he thought that he had done nothing wrong!

What kind of things such as forming a party for personal gain and dictatorship are clichés, and Shen Yichen still has no need to continue to explain. In addition, the cabinet overrides the six ministries in order to better improve administrative efficiency, which is more like a "retro" operation in a sense, and there is no need to talk about it.

What Shen Yichen really wants the literati and the people of the world to understand is the two crimes of "violating the law of etiquette" and "competing with the people" in Yang Hongze's recital!

Since Shen Yichen entered the office, it can be said that he has always challenged the law of his ancestors, or he wants to subvert the feudal etiquette system, want to reduce the world's awe of imperial power, and want to cultivate the true equality of civil and military affairs, then one of the most basic prerequisites is to abolish the kneeling ceremony.

At the beginning, with Shen Yichen's official rank and ability, he could only guarantee that the warriors and soldiers were given enough dignity, and used the reason that the people who were mindful of the stomach did not worship as a breakthrough, and gradually promoted it to the point that the whole army did not need to bow down when they saw themselves at any time.

After Shen Yichen served as the first assistant of the cabinet, this regulation spread from the army to the court, and whether the meeting between colleagues was in the public court or not, there was no need to follow the constraints on kneeling etiquette in the "Daming Huidian".

In the end, it evolved step by step, unless it was a national ceremony, Shen Yichen used his status as an imperial teacher, even in the face of the emperor, he just bowed and did not bow. In a sense, this kind of behavior is enough of the exclusive privilege of "entering the court" of the ministers, and even surpassing it.

That's why Yang Hongze wants to emphasize this point in particular, because if this trend continues to evolve, the treatment of "praising and worshipping the nameless and going to the palace with a sword" will soon be used by Shen Yichen.

It's just that the problem that Yang Hongze is worried about is what Shen Yichen wants to do, and the two sides are no longer on the same level at all.

Yang Hongze is only worried about the birth of the minister, worried that Shen Yichen is above the emperor, but what Shen Yichen wants to do is to pursue a kind of equality in personality, and use this way to change the concept of the emperor and the courtiers step by step, so as to finally abolish the kneeling ceremony!