The royal front played the right match, so that Shen Shixing still felt very happy when he left.

The problem of a large number of landlords in Buddhist temples is indeed the biggest hidden danger he faces during his current tenure as the first assistant.

He didn't expect that one day he would actually have the motivation to deal with it.

Shen Shixing knew that this was the motivation given to him by the Son of Heaven, if it weren't for the Son of Heaven's insistence on reform, he might have been with the light and dust a long time ago, and he would not still be thinking about doing these things that offend those with vested interests.

Of course, the Son of Heaven is willing to share the benefits of foreign minerals to the world, so that he, the first assistant, can also be reconciled with relatives and friends, and will not affect his own interests and the interests of relatives and friends because of the reform, and it also makes Shen Shixing willing to continue to hold high the banner of restructuring and take the initiative in Buddhist temples.

And after returning to the cabinet and seeing the portrait of Zhang Juzheng and the portrait of the famous assistant in the Wenyuan Pavilion, Shen Shixing was even more spontaneous, and like Zhang Juzheng, he also had the expectation of leaving a name in history because of the reform.

"Motosuke, what is the result of Tingtui?"

Wang Xijue asked Shen Shixing when he looked intently at Zhang Juzheng and other portraits of the pavilion assistants.

Shen Shixing gave the list to Wang Xijue: "It's out." ”

After Wang Xijue saw it, he twisted his eyebrows and asked, "The heavenly official is actually Hai Rui!" ”

"This is Your Majesty's wisdom, I know that the next step in rectifying the Buddhist temple is to see if the officials below can be honest and daring."

"If anyone else is the secretary of the ministry, it is not as reassuring as Haigang Peak."

Shen Shixing said with a smile.

Wang Xijue bowed his head and gave the list to Liu Yingjie.

Liu Yingjie said with a smile: "Let Hai Rui be the son of the mound, it is indeed possible to see the Son of Heaven!" ”

Wang Xijue glanced at Liu Yingjie, and said with a smile for a while: "Yes, I didn't figure it out just now, but now I can figure it out!" ”

Shen Shixing just smiled slightly: "It's good to understand, then follow the system, first ask the cabinet ministers to come to the cabinet for questioning, so that it is good to set up the matter of rectifying the Buddhist temple." ”

It turned out that since the matter of the draft decree was carried out by the Imperial Chamberlain, the Cabinet has completely changed from a secretarial body to an administrative body.

Although the Cabinet is no longer responsible for the direct drafting of decrees, like the Privy Council, it can talk with the newly appointed civil servants and ministers of the Interior before the Emperor makes a formal decree, exchange ideas, and then review and seal the Emperor's edict based on the results of the exchange, so that the Emperor can re-appoint it.

This is done in order to facilitate the work.

After all, the appointment of officials appointed by the emperor is not necessarily suitable for the cabinet to implement policies, for example, some civil officials in history will deliberately hinder the cabinet after becoming the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the military department, so that the reform cannot be carried out.

Historically, the most serious internal ill in the middle and late Wanli period was the struggle for power between the officials and the cabinet.

Moreover, this struggle for power was so serious that in order to prove that it was fairer than the cabinet in selecting people, the officials did not hesitate to use the method of drawing lots to recommend the candidates for the ministers of the court to force the cabinet to give up interfering in the court push!

This way is undoubtedly self-destructive.

Although it does eliminate the possibility of officials selling their official positions, it also destroys the screening mechanism, and the ministers who are drawn by lot are often no better than those who are artificially selected, and even because of the high uncertainty of the lottery, the infighting is more serious.

This is because among the officials drawn by lot, there are often both those who support and those who oppose a certain policy.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not intend to pursue absolute justice in the Ming Dynasty, so he was willing to give the cabinet the power to interfere in the selection of candidates, just as in the Tang and Song dynasties in history, the prime minister vetoed a personnel appointment, so as to achieve the goal of unanimously supporting certain reforms.

However, Zhu Yijun only gave the cabinet the power to dismiss his ideas before the official decree was issued, not to a certain person, and it was also to prevent the treacherous and loyal and too high rank of the powerful ministers from appearing alone, and he could not control the emperor.

The political system is so contradictory, it is necessary to decentralize power and prevent it, but in the era of monarchy, in the final analysis, it depends on what the emperor wants to do.

is also a dictatorship, but Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youzhen can make the dynasty have two different endings.

But in any case, Zhu Yijun didn't want to be as tired as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Youzhen, so he simply made the cabinet work harder.

"I don't know what the princes think of the monks and nuns of the Buddhist temple?"

After Shen Shixing met Zhang Xueyan, Xu Guo, Hai Rui, Wang Xuan, Yu Shenxing, Shu Hua, and Shen Li, the seven newly appointed ministers, he only asked this one sentence.

All seven civil servants began to criticize the temple for taking up too much space.

Whether it is sincere criticism or hypocrisy, they all know that they must have this attitude now, otherwise they are likely to be promoted and will not be promoted.

They all know that reaching this point means that they may be determined to occupy a certain important position.

Historically, during his tenure as the head of the household department, Wang Xuan, who advocated the destruction of private nunnery, even gushed endlessly.

As a result, the cabinet did not ask Zhu Yijun to change the list of the Emperor, but asked the Son of Heaven to issue an order quickly.

Zhu Yijun ordered the imperial secretary to make an order.

After the decree of the appointment of a cadre was issued, Shen Shixing also divided the work of the cabinet, saying: "The examination and policy are still voted by the servant himself, and the current rectification of the Buddhist temple is also done by the servant himself; Among the rest of the things, Ziyu is responsible for internal affairs (Zhang Xueyan); Jing Shi is in charge of foreign affairs; The post road traffic and the grain and straw of soldiers and horses are still in charge of Zihe (Liu Yingjie). ”

Wang Xijue and Liu Yingjie both bowed their heads and had no objections.

Subsequently, Shen Shixing invited Shen Li, a cabinet scholar, Hai Rui, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Xun, a scholar of the Ministry of Households, Lu Kun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Households, and Jin Xuezeng, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to the residence of the first assistant, and said to Wang Xun first:

"Da Si Nong, the servant is because you advocate the rectification of the Buddhist temple, so you can force Chen Ziyu (Zhang Xueyan) to make the public included in the court push, but the public can not just talk about it."

"Yuanfu rest assured, Shingo (Lu Kun) and I have been waiting for this day for a long time, as well as Otsuka Zai, and Wenxuan Wang Bulang."

Wang Xun said.

Hai Rui smiled: "Exactly! ”

"The servant is also worried that the guild wants to resign because the courtiers are selfish, but now that I think about it, it will not happen, it turns out that the guild has long intended to remove a big disadvantage for the country and the people!"

Shen Shixing said to Hai Rui with a smile, and asked: "But the rectification of the Buddhist temple seems to be the rectification of the Buddhist temple on the surface, but behind this is all the powerful officials and gentry, including the emperor's relatives, honorable generals, official eunuchs, rich businessmen, etc., can you really think about it?" ”

"You've figured it out!"

"Taking advantage of the benevolence and virtue of today, we are willing to develop foreign benefits and benefit the people, not only thinking about the wealth of our own family and surname, but also dare to do it once, in order to live up to the ambition of life!"

"When the time comes, it's just a ruin."

Wang Xun said.

Lu Kun also followed: "That's right, the benefits brought by this subscription coupon are obvious, the monarch and the minister can take care of both public and private interests because of external development, the country is rich and the people are beneficial, and the monarch can also be in harmony with relatives and friends, in order to continue like this, so that the world will kill less, then the Buddhist monks and nuns who have been the tools of the powerful and wealthy gentry to cut their own children should be rectified!" Let the interests of the people really be consistent with the long-term stability of the society. ”

(End of chapter)