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However, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites wanted to express some of their own opinions - they thought that Lu Xiangsheng must not be honest and honest, as if this was the case, and the people of the friendly countries would be inexplicably surprised that the country would not be a country in the long run.

The ministers of the Ministry of Rites are all lacking in their ability to do practical things, but when it comes to this kind of air-to-air retreat topic, which is called a fluency.

If you let the great emperors of the past dynasties come to life, choose who you want to take with you to the west of the sky.

The Ministry of Rites bore the brunt, followed by the Imperial Historical Observatory, and then the Hanlin Academy.

These three places can be called the base camp of the clear stream, and the clear stream itself is above the top.

What's worse is that these three yamen are notoriously poor.

The clear flow into the Qingshui Yamen sounds excellent.

But it's not easy to live in the capital, and besides, it's hard to eat bran for ten years, just to eat chaff?

And it is convenient for Qingliu to make money, as long as he becomes famous, there will naturally be businessmen and other forces to work for him, and the more famous he is, the more money he has, and the money is not hot.

How did the fame come about?

Then pull out the Son of Heaven who has the right to appoint him and criticize him if he has something to do, and make a big news!

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty before Chongzhen was known as brutal, but there were not many people who really used the knife to kill the minister, and after a long time, the Qingliu people were extremely familiar with this routine, criticizing the emperor - making a big name - and others sending money to join the stream.

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Today, the Kedao Qingliu is a little ready to move again.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate." It was the military department who spoke to the light Shiheng in the matter, "Wenzheng's words are the best of the civil ministers, and it is also the name of the country, which cannot be lightly allowed." Lu Shangshu is brave and fierce, and the minister is also admired, and the minister thinks that he can be loyal or loyal. ”

"Time Heng?" The Son of Heaven said lightly

"The Ministers Are in ......"

"Li Chuang's vanguard has arrived in Zhangjiakou, and the generals will come to the city in a few days, and now the capital army is disheartened, and it urgently needs a ...... to supervise the army."

Guang Shiheng felt that the situation was not good, and was about to open his mouth.

"In the past, the prison army was used as eunuchs, which is really not good. This time, let your military department go to the middle of the matter...... You have been in the military department for so long, and you can be regarded as both civil and military."

Guang Shiheng is a general under Wei Zaode, and he has made many military exploits, not only on the front line of the party struggle.

And there is also a lot of credit in the matter of changing the owner, on February 28, the East Pavilion played right, Li Mingrui, the right concubine of Zhan Shifu, advocated moving the capital to Nanjing, Chen Yan and Wei Zaode of course were unwilling, but the two of them were not good at coming out, so Guang Shiheng jumped out and fiercely opposed.

And Chongzhen's strong and up-and-coming personality couldn't withstand the teasing, and directly released the bold words of the death of the monarch.

In desperation, Li Mingrui retreated and suggested that the prince should go to Nanjing, which could be regarded as paving a way back for Daming.

To be honest, this proposal Chongzhen was quite excited, and Fang Yuegong, Fan Jingwen and others thought it was also good.

Unexpectedly, when Guangshi Hengyin predicted, "I don't see the story of Tang Suzong's Lingwu", he clearly accused Li Mingrui of supporting the crown prince to ascend the throne and forcing Zhu Youzhen to retreat.

This is too damning, one sentence can top 10,000 sentences, and after that, no one dares to mention the matter of moving the capital and the prince to the south.

It can be counted as a great contribution to Chen Yan and Wei Zaode, as long as Chongzhen is in Beijing, the chips they have when they change owners are much richer.

But now that the new owner has not come, the generals under his command will be bad first, and Wei Zaode must make a move.

But he didn't dare to oppose it directly.

Who in the court is not afraid of this right now?

In the past, angering the Son of Heaven was nothing more than being spanked by the court staff, and if he had a good relationship with the eunuchs, he would be beaten up for a real time, and it would be nothing more than a matter of resting for a few days.

Today......

Ahem, Chen Ge Lao hasn't settled in the ground yet......

Chen Yan was not a good thing when he was alive, maybe he would like to bring a few more colleagues on Huangquan Road to be good companions at this time?

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Wei Zaode secretly scolded Guang Shiheng in his stomach for not knowing the depths of this fool, and he fooled the one on the dragon chair like before.

"Your Majesty...... "Wei Zaode trembled and knelt down, "this, this is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Seeing that the Son of Heaven was about to speak, Wei Zaode hurriedly quickened his speech: "Although Guang Shiheng is only in the middle of the seven-grade matter, if you want to be promoted and transferred, you should first go through the selection and grinding of the Ministry of Officials, and then after the cabinet vote, there will be a holy judge to approve the red ......."

Wei Zaode said this very levelly, not directly saying no, but taking a detour and starting from a procedural point of view.

In the 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has indeed been unique in the handling of the internal administrative system, while ensuring that the monarch feels autocratic, it has also undergone full decentralization and authorization to form a completed internal government affairs processing system and formulate a standardized operating process.

At the same time, when the Western monarchs were still coordinating the relationship between their lords and prime ministers and religions, the centralized system of the East Asian empire had developed to its peak, and the imperial center had formed a complete government system, and the mechanism had been achieved in terms of systematization, specialization, and standardization of government affairs.

In the West, it would take decades for Louis XIV to introduce China's civil service evaluation system (imperial examination) to form a centralized feudal system of "I am the state", and then relied on this system to punch Spain and kick Germany.

When it comes to procedures, all the people in this court are among the best.

How many evils are committed in the name of procedure.

Similarly, how much kindness is also stifled alive by the program.

Wei Zaode saw that the Son of Heaven was in a good mood today, and he was also a little nervous.

Such a strong son of heaven is not a blessing for all officials.

As long as the Son of Heaven nodded slightly and expressed his willingness to follow the procedure, then they would have enough ways to drag things out until they were old.

"If you say...... When Emperor Taizu conquered the world, there were not so many twists and turns. ”

Not to mention that Lu Zhishen is now more and more into the role, opening his mouth to block the other party's mouth with a big reason.

Wei Zaode was overjoyed, since this person was willing to be reasonable, then he was not afraid.

"Your Majesty, Taizu is the Son of Heaven immediately. However, Han Gaozu also immediately conquered the world back then, but he also understood that he could not rule the world immediately. ”

"Yes, so Taizu abolished the left and right prime ministers and changed the cabinet system, just for the monarchy to rule the world, ministers, ministers, ministers are also workers...... When the Son of Heaven speaks, you will do it. ”

"What's more!" Emperor Chongzhen stood up, "Li Chuang's vanguard is only a few dozen miles away from here, but he is arguing for a prison army, and after waiting for the ticket to be red, probably Li Chuang has already sat in this position." ”

As he spoke, the Son of Heaven stepped down from the throne and came to the crowd, "At that time, I don't know if you are standing here or waiting? ”

Heartbreaking!

The Son of Heaven can never speak too directly, because if he is too direct, he will be easily caught by Qingliu and hung up for criticism.

After a long time, the emperor spoke vaguely, so as to avoid being scolded by the officials.

But this is what these civil officials want, and the emperor's instructions are vague, so they have room to go up and down.

But now, everything has changed.

The questioning of the Son of Heaven was very bad, or it could be said that it tore through the false pulse warmth that the two sides had barely maintained before.

is directly doubting the loyalty of the civil official group to the imperial court, to the Ming Dynasty and even to the Son of Heaven himself!

This big hat is too heavy.

In private, everyone wants to consider changing owners, whether it is Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong or even Houjin......

Look at Hong Chengchou, who is a real person, but he was constrained by Chen Xinjia and others in Daming, and finally defeated Songshan.

Now that he has surrendered to Houjin, he is almost the first civil official in front of the emperor.

Huang Taiji obeyed him, and he was not very happy in the hearts of all of you, they were all from the two lists of Jinshi, and your surname Hong did it, so we can't do it?

Since ancient times, the son of heaven who has been flowing water, the minister who has beaten him with iron......

But now he was called out on the spot.

Especially if he was called by the Son of Heaven, then at least on the surface, the civil officials have no second sentence to say except kowtow.

If he is bargaining, he is afraid that it will not be Guang Shiheng who will be sent out to be the prison army.

Originally, this group of civil officials looked down on the emperor, and felt that they had a group to rely on, and they could slowly play the son of heaven to death.

Unexpectedly, the leading eldest brother Chen Ge is dead......

People are like this, bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

At this time, the mentality of the courtiers is the same - the dead friends do not die and the poor does.

Wei Zaode didn't dare to speak again, just kowtowed.

The fate of Guang Shiheng was thus decided.

"Do you still have any objections?"

Suddenly, everyone was silent.

After a while, all the ministers knelt down in unison and praised, saying, "My emperor is sage." ”

The next sentence of the Son of Heaven almost made the civil official faint.

"Wang Chengen, you are going to use the seal now!"

The courtiers gasped, and their eyes on the emperor became complicated.

Originally, I thought that I was just going to beat and torture when I was looking at the light, but now I see how far away the saint is planning!

Directly skipped the two stages of the court-cabinet vote drafting, and let the celebrant directly issue the decree, and then issue it.

After more than 100 years of development, the cabinet has become a monster group that can actually check and balance the imperial power......

In addition, the cabinet is a collective decision-making system, although there are more internal friction factors such as fighting each other than the prime minister system of the previous dynasty.

But everyone is a scholar, and they all pay attention to the outside must first be at ease, and everyone unites to pull out the monarchical power from the emperor's hands little by little, isn't it beautiful that everyone shares it equally?

Another advantage of collective decision-making is that the law does not hold the public accountable, which is even better.

The accelerated decline in the late Ming Dynasty was largely due to the fact that the civil official group (of course, there were countless small groups fighting with each other) dug the corner of the monarchy's power, and the emperor was powerless to resist and could only reuse the eunuchs, so the eunuchs and Donglin fought endlessly, leading to the erosion of the government, which led to the emergence of the heroes&......5 The result of a group of thieves.

Now Emperor Chongzhen directly asked the celebrant to issue a holy decree, which is tantamount to depriving the cabinet of the greatest power.

How could the Wezaods not be in a hurry?

Can you use it urgently?

Wei Ge Lao squinted at Li Jiantai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, the two of them are close to each other every day, and they can be regarded as important allies.

Li Shangshu can't look at his nose and nose.

Wei Ge went to see Feng Quan of the Criminal Department, and the latter simply looked at the sky with white eyes.

No one wants to come out......

If Ming Taizu was resurrected and saw this scene in the court, he probably couldn't help but pat Zhu Youzhen on the shoulder, "This is what the emperor looks like, wasn't it just to abolish the prime minister back then, and Chrysostom Yuyan is the only vegetable in the world!" The previous few rebel grandchildren are going back more and more! He actually gave up the emperor's power to civil officials! ”

It is estimated that Lu Zhishen patted Lao Zhu on the shoulder when he heard this: "In terms of age, should you call Grandpa Sprinkle, the imperial court, it is about the same as the number of seats in the grass, whoever listens to whoever has a big fist, and the one who is not satisfied is ......."

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After retiring from the dynasty, Wang Chengen asked: "Long live the lord, is it cheaper to do this surnamed Guang......

"You think it's a good errand?" The Son of Heaven asked rhetorically.

"Long live the lord, the slave and maid will not talk about it, the slave and maid have been in the palace for so many years, they have seen a lot of things, and they know a lot of fathers-in-law, many of whom are ...... who have been prison soldiers."

"Let's tell the truth, the ...... of supervising the army" Wang Chengen shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The generals below hate and fear, what they are afraid of is that the close ministers of the Son of Heaven say bad things about themselves in front of the emperor, and they hate that the civil servants do not understand martial arts, but they rely on the holy decree to do nonsense and command, if they are lucky to win, it is fine, but if they lose, they will put the responsibility on the generals." ”

"So, when the military general saw the prison army coming down, he didn't say a word and sent silver and jewels first. This light gives ...... in the matter"

"Poof" the Son of Heaven laughed loudly, "Wang Chengen, do you think the Sprinkle family is stupid?" ”

"Slaves don't dare, but ......"

"Well, you go find two monks' robes, let's get out of the palace! Let you see how the Sprinkle family concocted this person! ”

"Long live" Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down, "I can't do it, I can't do it, I don't want to, no, we mean, you can't wear monk's robes, it's broad daylight......"

The Son of Heaven pondered it, so he said: "It's better to shave this bird's hair!"

"Hooray! You promised our family! Wang Chengen screamed: "A gentleman is hard to chase after a word!" ”

"Do you believe that the Sprinkle family can pull all four horses alone?"

"Slave letter, slave letter" Wang Chengen was about to cry.

In the end, it is better to say that it is better to change the attire of ordinary pedestrians.

Wang Chengen is also very curious, how does this seemingly rough son of heaven plan to clean up Guang Shiheng?

If in the past, he felt that maybe this master began to be unable to distinguish between ideal and reality again, or he began to think that he was thinking about the "clever plan".

But now, the prince couldn't help but sneer, "Guang Shiheng, Guang Shiheng, our family wants to see how you jump out of the palm of the Son of Heaven!" ”

…… Emperor Chongzhen is in a good mood today, and all the silver for the "subsidy" has arrived!

A full 2 million taels.

2,000,000 taels!

You must know that the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only 3 million taels of silver, and if you count grain and grass and other food, there are about 23 million taels of silver.

Sounds like a lot.

But the three major expeditions of Wanli, coupled with the endless peasant uprisings and the Later Jin military, made the Ming Dynasty unable to make ends meet.

In the past few years of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the annual military expenses of various colors alone have been nearly 20 million taels, how can the imperial court get so much silver? And that's not even counting the various natural disasters that have been as punctual as my aunt every year for 17 years......

I had no choice but to owe military salaries.

So much so that there is often such a saying in the Jingshi Teahouse: "Pingliao, it is not easy to say that it is easy, but it is not difficult to say that it is difficult"

"There are two strategies: simple and difficult:"

"Let's talk about it simply, as long as Emperor Taizu is resurrected in the same place in the filial piety tomb, he doesn't need soldiers, horses, grain and grass, as long as he gives a bowl, then it will be easy to Pingliao for five years......"

"The second strategy is more troublesome, as long as the arrears of the nine sides are settled, then Liaodong can be leveled within twenty years......"

"In my opinion, everyone should think about how to bring Grandpa Tai back to life. If it's troublesome, then Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong, who are lying near Taizu, can make do with one of them. I don't dare to say Pingliao, but at least I can make Houjin dare not enter the Kou casually. ”

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