However, the court meeting has been fruitless, because although the courtiers do not want the chief ministers and privy envoys to be military ministers, they do not want the power of the cabinet chief assistant to be reduced again, not to mention the power to decide part of military affairs by the privy envoys, but also to be divided between the power of supervision and trial, and the power to propose the formulation of corresponding laws and policies.

This will undoubtedly mean that even if Wenchen becomes the first assistant again in the future, he will no longer be the same as the previous first assistant, and he can be no different from a vice emperor when he is trusted by the emperor.

Compared with the further decentralization of power, which only benefits the imperial power and is not conducive to the person who will become the head of the hundred officials in the future, it is nothing that the two consuls are military ministers.

After all, although the two consuls are both military ministers, the scope of power is different, and it is impossible to really mess up the government, so to say this, it is just a deliberate attempt to scare and scare the emperor.

"Compared with the separation of powers, let their own people check and balance each other, they would rather accept the military ministers as the prime minister."

"Sure enough, they would rather believe in your military ministers than me!"

Zhu Yijun complained to Huang Xun after hearing that the court had not been able to reach a result.

Huang Xun replied with a smile: "In the humble opinion of the old slaves, they don't believe in the military ministers or Your Majesty, but they are actually more afraid of the emperor than the military ministers!" ”

"The emperor is wise and wise, and he has the people of Kyushu in his heart, so that evil cannot be revealed, evil cannot be hidden, and good cannot be hidden."

"Therefore, if you really want to divide power, even if there are courtiers who only serve as the first assistant from the world, you will not be able to bring hundreds of officials to control Your Majesty, once the emperor really wants to benefit the people and soldiers first, they will really be helpless."

"To put it bluntly, Your Majesty loves the people too much and has the image of a holy monarch, so that all the bureaucrats in the world who have selfish intentions will not think that the emperor is too dictatorial."

After Huang Xun said this, Zhu Yijun pretended not to understand and asked:

"According to you, they don't want me to be too sage?"

"This is the old slave's foolish opinion, the emperor will listen to it."

Huang Xun replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "What you said still makes sense, but this person, sometimes it's rare to pretend to be confused." ”

Huang Xun said yes and smiled awkwardly.

Zhu Yijun went to the Imperial Division next, and also asked Qi Jiguang: "Why hasn't the result been achieved yet?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the courtiers are very divided."

Qi Jiguang replied.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun asked: "Why are there big differences?" ”

"It's all because the Japanese Tokugawa clan established their own shogunate and recognized the Japanese puppet emperor as the main one, and it was chaotic!"

Qi Jiguang replied.

Zhu Yijun asked: "What does this have to do with the Japanese people?" ”

Huang Xun and Wang Xijue also looked at Qi Jiguang at this time, and they were all suspicious.

Qi Jiguang replied: "Back to Your Majesty, internal affairs are often sluggish, all because foreign affairs are not clear, the Tokugawa clan has not yet solved the chaos of the program, and many courtiers advocate centralizing power first to straighten out external troubles and then sort out internal affairs, so it leads to great differences." ”

"That's exactly what Qing said."

"Then put this matter aside for the time being, and continue to deal with the Tokugawa clan."

Zhu Yijun nodded first.

Qi Jiguang said yes.

As a result, Daming continued to maintain the status quo, with Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang in charge of the cabinet and the Privy Council.

"Your Majesty is clever!"

And because of this.

Six science corridors.

After the matter of the establishment of the ruling party was suspended, the status quo was still maintained, and Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were in charge of the cabinet and the Privy Council respectively.

And.

Zhang Zhenguan expounded after admiring:

"Your Majesty has come up with such a good plan to increase the number of rulers! Obviously, His Majesty has already dealt with the affairs of the ruling ministers, and has already come up with a good way to avoid the powerful ministers from harming the country. ”

"Yes! In this way, it seems that the contemptible people have asked His Majesty to guard against the rebellion of the military ministers in power, and there is a sense of contempt for His Majesty, and it also seems quite self-righteous. ”

Xu Ziwei echoed at this time, and looked very depressed.

Boom!

Hou Qingyuan suddenly slapped the table in the middle of the matter, and opened his eyes and said: "It's hateful, there are many treacherous and selfish people in the DPRK and China, so that this matter has not been successful, but can only be suspended!" ”

Zhang Zhenguan smiled bitterly and said: "Shilin is not united, it has always been a thing, but in any case, I think that in the future, it is better not to easily appear in front of the emperor, His Majesty is a holy monarch like Yao Shun, and he must be cautious about admonishing such a holy monarch!" Don't make your majesty laugh. ”

"That's right, at least I'll make Your Majesty laugh this time, I can only take the initiative to apply for an external transfer and make some achievements when the official is in the ministry, without letting Your Majesty feel that I am really a person who sells my reputation and has no ink."

Xu Ziwei echoed at this time.

Hou Qingyuan nodded "um", and said: "To accept the holy will, comprehend the holy will, and understand the holy will, no matter what, he Ning Yuan Hou became the prime minister, and he was not a mediocre leader." ”

Because a cadre of science and Taoism accepted the reality, he did not hand over the chapter to re-attack Li Chengliang and was named as a privy envoy.

There are even officials who want to make progress and began to take the initiative to follow Li Chengliang's door, threw an olive branch to the Li family, and took the initiative to ask for rewards for Li Chengliang's family or recommend people from the Li family to take important positions in the name of holding public opinions, and even some were willing to be Li Chengliang's lackeys or even his domestic slaves.

As the saying goes, a person who has attained the Tao of the chicken and dog ascends to heaven.

This is a common thing in officialdom.

Officials and military attachés without law are incompatible mortal enemies when they need to fight with each other, but when they need to please each other, they can also be good honey.

Many civilian officials often put aside their personal cultivation and take the initiative to flatter powerful military attachés.

In many cases, the integrity of bureaucrats is not directly related to civil and military affairs, but only to personal choice.

Although the military ministers have a group of desperate old troops because they have led soldiers, their methods are not as good as those of civil officials.

Although most of the civil officials are masters of scheming and enduring humiliation and humiliation who have passed the imperial examination and officialdom all the way through the imperial examination and officialdom, most of them dare not work hard.

Therefore, according to history, there are dynasties that perished due to the lawlessness of military ministers, and there are dynasties that perished due to lawlessness of civil ministers.

The conversation turned back.

Anyway, according to what he learned in later generations, Zhu Yijun understands that the key to whether this society can be prosperous and harmonious is to see whether the wealth of the society has been increasing, not to mention the quality of the bureaucracy, that is, the quality of the emperor, which is not the decisive factor for whether the society is good and orderly.

At the beginning of a dynasty, even if the emperor was captured or the child became the emperor, even if he had the right to eunuch the ministers, it could not affect the accumulation of wealth and the reproduction of the population of the people below.

Therefore, he knew that as an emperor, his most important responsibility was actually to increase the wealth of society, followed by the distribution of wealth and the balance of all forces.

And no matter how popular Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang are now, as long as these two people are still making the cake bigger according to his will, he will allow them to grow.

Unless the cake can't be made and can only be distributed internally, he will choose to go too far with one, but at the same time, he will also support another one.

This kind of how to obtain wealth through external expansion in the dynasty, but only carry out internal reforms, is often performed in Chinese history, and there is no shortage of classic cases for reference, Zhu Yijun is not difficult to learn, and naturally he will not worry that there will be not enough tools in the emperor's toolbox at that time.

Of course.

Zhu Yijun doesn't know if he will use all kinds of infighting methods in his life.

Because the situation in front of him is that as long as his Ming Empire has been on the road of scientific and technological development, there are still many places in the world that can be explored, and there are still many resources waiting to be developed in the nearby Indian Plain, Australia further south, and the Americas thousands of miles away.

Zhu Yijun felt that it was very likely that after reversing the inertia of the Ming ruling class only wanting to eat its own people in the country, in his lifetime, the Ming Dynasty really no longer needed to engage in large-scale internal purges.

However, this may be Zhu Yijun's wishful thinking.

In any case, Li Chengliang is now a privy envoy.

He himself was in a very happy mood, and after receiving the holy decree from Zhu Yijun, he worked hard in the Privy Council with a hard face, as if he had rejuvenated his second youth.

Strictly speaking, Li Chengliang is now a civilian-bureaucratic system.

Because he no longer directly leads troops, but can only be the center of the town and dispatch troops.

With the passage of so many years, many middle- and lower-level official schools are not very familiar with him as an old marshal, and he is actually not much different from the historical Ming Military Department Shangshu, at most, only some senior generals above the general army still recognize him as an old marshal.

Qi Jiguang is the same.

Both of them are in and out of the picture.

Now, Qi Jiguang is mainly responsible for military reform, and Li Chengliang, as a privy envoy, has to directly carry out the matter of dealing with Tokugawa Ieyasu's unauthorized establishment of the shogunate.

Li Chengliang did this very seriously, and even pasted a map of Japan in his bedroom.

At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not know that the Daming Center was already going to dispose of him.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi was captured by the Ming army and executed by Ling Chi, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the other daimyo in Honshu, Japan, and became the new overlord of Honshu, Japan, and established himself as the new shogun.

However, in order to monopolize trade revenues and increase his strength, Tokugawa Ieyasu imposed trade restrictions on the areas under his control, and only his shogunate monopolized trade.

Now, because the main demand of the Ming market has become slaves in addition to gold and silver and other mines, the export of the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty has been dominated by slaves.

This is related to the fact that the Japanese have been fighting for many years and a large number of people are living hard, especially because the war has led to a decrease in a large number of men, and there are many Japanese women left, so this makes the Japanese nobles very willing to sell many Japanese women directly into slavery, rather than matching them with ordinary farmers as wives.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was also worried that the establishment of the shogunate would displease the Ming Dynasty, so he specially instructed Masuda Nagamori, the daimyo who had joined him, at the end of the twentieth year of Wanli:

"I personally escorted the ship to the Ming Kingdom, brought a lot of money, asked for tribute in the name of the tribute envoy, and tried to buy off their monarchs and ministers, so that they agreed to let us be the shogunate, and gave up the Li family as the shogunate."

Masuda Nagamori agreed, and set off a month later to Ningbo, Daming.

(End of chapter)