After hearing this, Guo Zhengyu waved his hand and said, "No need! ”

Then, Guo Zhengyu bowed to Xie Jie: "But thank you to the public for speaking out, the public deserves to be a contemptible friend!" ”

"Why does Gong insist on going?!"

"Your Majesty's appointment to the Imperial Division today may be just a momentary anger, but I'm afraid that now, Your Majesty has already regretted saying such things to the public today!"

Xie Jie said at this time.

Guo Zhengyu glanced at him, and then said, "And Your Majesty is not angry!" ”

Speaking of this, he looked at the moonlight outside, and continued: "Let's say, if the government is not in line with the original intention, what is the point of staying in the center, it is better to travel under the forest!" ”

Xie Jie hurriedly said: "But if the public goes, it may be difficult to return to the temple, for the country and the people, the loss is not shallow!" ”

Xie Jie wiped the corners of his eyes as he spoke, as if he was really crying for Guo Zhengyu.

Guo Zhengyu comforted Xie Jie instead: "Why should the public cry for the contemptible people!" The country has a holy monarch, and you are afraid that the temple will not be assisted by virtuous ministers? What's more, Your Majesty is right, if I stay in the court, I'm afraid it will be difficult to see Rong Shoufu. ”

Xie Jie nodded and said, "I know, I'm just sorry for the public." ”

Guo Zhengyu was silent after hearing this.

After a while.

Guo Zhengyu sighed: "Actually, my personal career is nothing, I'm just worried, if Wang Taicang really lets Daming Qian Fa Xingyin eat the grain policy, will the consequences really be serious?" ”

"After all, throughout the ages, no virtuous monarch has ever advocated this."

"Rao is Zhang Taiyue's back then, and he also advocated the use of national funds! The place where he worked hard is also to solve the deficit and make the country have extensive savings, but he Wang Taicang wants to do the opposite, I really don't know whether it is a curse or a blessing! ”

"I hope he's right."

It's just that there is no precedent for him to do this! So it's always unsettling. ”

Guo Zhengyu glanced back at Xie Jie after speaking.

Xie Jie said with a smile: "Contemptible people are not talented people, and in the way of governing the country and the country, their understanding is not high, so it is not good to say much." ”

Guo Zhengyu didn't want to say anything, but next, he went to the Shoufu Mansion and met Wang Xijue.

Wang Xijue asked, "What happened when the prince came to visit late at night?" ”

Guo Zhengyu said: "The contemptible people have decided to submit their resignation, and I also ask that the Yuan auxiliary ticket is not necessary to keep it when it is prepared." ”

Wang Xijue took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "The contemptible people don't plan to keep the prince for the country. ”

Guo Zhengyu was stunned for a moment, his face slightly red.

But at this time, Wang Xijue opened his mouth again: "The duke shouldn't be here just for this, right?" ”

Guo Zhengyu nodded and replied: "That's right! Today, in front of the emperor, the contemptible people have not yet gotten an answer to Yuanfu's speculation about Yuanfu, so the contemptible people have come to ask Yuanfu for an answer, otherwise, if there is no answer, the contemptible people will not be able to return to their hometown with peace of mind. ”

"You might as well make it clear."

Wang Xijue replied at this time.

Guo Zhengyu really sat down and said: "Yuan Fu advocates that the debts owed by the imperial court should be more than the silver revenue, is it really for the long-term of the country, or is it just for the sake of personal merits that can far exceed Zhang and Shen?" ”

Bang!

Wang Xijue put the teacup on the table: "Gong has always regarded himself as a gentleman, why do you look at people so much?!" ”

Guo Zhengyu was speechless, and after a long while, he nodded, and then got up and said:

"I shouldn't have come today, farewell!"

Wang Xijue's head.

At this time, Yang Junmin, the imperial history of the left capital, walked out from behind the screen.

He had been talking to Wang Xijue here before Guo Zhengyu came, but because Guo Zhengyu suddenly came to the Shoufu Mansion, Wang Xijue also chose to meet Guo Zhengyu first, so Yang Junmin took the initiative to temporarily go to the screen to hide for a while, and expressed his reluctance to see Guo Zhengyu again.

It wasn't until he saw Guo Zhengyu leave that he stood up and said to Wang Xijue: "He Guo Minglong is still a scholar!" ”

"But scholars are all responsible for serving the country, and he is no exception."

Wang Xijue also replied with a smile at this time.

Yang Junmin looked at Wang Xijue and said with a smile: "Fortunately, Your Majesty trusts Yuanfu, and next, Yuanfu can make great progress." ”

"I'm also a scholar!"

Wang Xijue replied, and then said: "I am also walking on thin ice and uneasy about presiding over the restructuring, and I don't dare to really do something that has never been done before, after all, if this is a mistake, it will be infamous for the ages!" ”

"Yuan Fu Gong is loyal to the country, and there are some things that have to be done."

Yang Junmin replied with a smile.

"I don't have to."

"Today, the people from all over the world have returned to their hearts, the people have no worries about hunger, the country's wealth and people's interests have been increasing, and there are still many foreign benefits that have not been tapped like mountains of gold."

"Therefore, it can be said that even if we really take one step at a time now, seek stability and peace, it will not be a problem for the prosperous era to last for a hundred years, and it is very promising for the dynasty to cross the shackles of three hundred years."

Wang Xijue said: "I personally don't need to compete with Gao Zhang Shen for the name behind me, I have to do something unprecedented and get the name of a good face with Xiao Gui Cao, which is also a cautious and wise move, I am afraid that people in the world only respect me and respect me, and do not destroy me and belittle me." ”

Yang Junmin smiled: "That's right, it's just." ”

"It's just this person, as the saying goes, if you are less than 100 years old, you often have a thousand years of worries."

"There are some truths that you don't know or don't understand, you can be a fool, and you can live a life with smugness, and enjoy the admiration of the people of the world with peace of mind."

"But as long as you understand something, then you can't rest assured."

Wang Xijue took Yang Junmin's words, and then said: "If the contemptible people don't tell Your Majesty what I think of and see, I will be uneasy. ”

Wang Xijue then got up again and said, "But whether you choose to implement my financial philosophy or not is up to Your Majesty!" ”

"However, if Your Majesty doesn't support me, supports Guo Minglong and others, I will feel at ease! After all, the strategy advocated by Guo Minglong and others is cautious, and it is also respected by the first Taishi, so it can't be said that it is not good, it can only be said that it is not new enough, and the key is that it is in line with the hearts of the people in the world. ”

"Even if there are praises and disapprovals, because they are in line with the hearts of the people in the world in advance, it will only become that the people of the world will bear this responsibility together, and there is no need for the first assistant to bear this responsibility."

"But now, Your Majesty supports my idea, which makes me feel uneasy!"

Wang Xijue looked up to the sky and sighed as he spoke.

"The hardest thing for people to seek is peace of mind!"

"If Motosuke asks for peace of mind, it is better not to come to this world!"

Yang Junmin replied bluntly at this time.

After hearing this, Wang Xijue was like an enlightenment, and said: "What the public said is very true, it is better to do your best and obey the destiny of heaven!" ”

"That's right, if Your Majesty wants to do so, then so!"

Yang Junmin nodded and said with a smile.

Wang Xijue bowed his head, and then said: "It's just that this thing may not be possible, I put forward such a point of view, it is just a stone throwing to ask for directions, the most fundamental thing is that it depends on whether Your Majesty dares to take a big step forward in the change of the ancestral system!" ”

After hearing this, Yang Junmin thought for a while and asked: "What Yuanfu means is that this financial turn is just a trivial matter, and what he really wants to see if His Majesty is willing to let Yuanfu do such an unprecedented thing?" ”

"That's right!"

"Yin eats grain, it's not just Guo Minglong who is uneasy, people all over the world are afraid of being uneasy, after all, for thousands of years, my Han people have been used to eating as much food as they want."

"And when Zhang Taiyue was in power, he was named Fu Bishi as the regent, and when Shenwu County was in power, he took advantage of Zhang's worries and changed the etiquette system according to his affairs, and Qi Penglai was supported by people who also had a military membership in your army;"

"Therefore, they are against the hearts of the people in the world, and they are supported by others, so they are not afraid!"

"I don't have a natural colleague to use, if I want to do what makes the people of the world uneasy, I must have the power of the world to be assisted by the power of the Emperor of the Heavenly Constitution, otherwise who would dare to disobey the hearts of the people in the world?"

After Wang Xijue nodded and said, he glanced at the place where Ziwei Star was.

……

"Wang Xijue, this is to let the head of the Ming Dynasty have the real and legal right to divide the nine qing."

Zhu Yijun quickly received the content of the conversation between Wang Xijue and Guo Zhengyu and Yang Junmin from Jinyiwei, so he said it meaningfully.

"Emperor, the ministers don't think that Yuanfu should have such a rebellious mind!"

The eunuch Huang Xun couldn't help but say a sentence at this time.

Zhu Yijun therefore asked: "Why is it a big rebellion?" ”

Huang Xun replied: "This dynasty can not have a Chinese book prime minister, it is the ancestral system and do not mention, and in the national dynasty, the ministries and institutes are directly under the control of the Son of Heaven, which has been implemented for a long time, and therefore this system, there is no real power to harm the country, even if there are occasional eunuchs and traitors, it can also let the Son of Heaven be destroyed in the middle of the hand, and if there is really the name of the power, then there must be the respect of the country, so whether the emperor is not to say that he must be cautious in killing the prime minister, he must also be cautious when he strikes the prime minister, because once the name of the prime minister is in power, it must represent the face of heaven and the dignity of the country." ”

Zhu Yijun said: "But there is only the reality of the power, not the name of the power, after all, it is to govern the country by art, and it is difficult to convince the hearts of the people in the world." ”

"That's what the emperor said."

Huang Xun replied at this time.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, there has always been a problem in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the power of the prime minister is not named, that is, there is no supreme administrator under the king.

Institutionally, the chief assistant of the cabinet was only the emperor's secretary, and did not belong to the superiors of the six ministries and the imperial court, let alone have the right to appoint them.

In this way, if the head of the cabinet wants to do things, once a scholar of the six ministries does not approve, he can only use conspiracy to get him to leave or get rid of him, and in the name of the emperor.

And conspiracies have always been shady and easily misunderstood.

Therefore, if a chief assistant in the Ming Dynasty wants to do things, if he gets rid of a Shangshu, he will be labeled as a traitor who uses conspiracy to exclude dissidents.

And if a chief assistant wants to do things and appoints a scholar, he will be detained as a person who cites a private party and uses power for personal gain.

This is because the procedure for the removal and appointment of ministers is not lawful in itself.

Therefore, ministers and people in the world who oppose the ruling program of the first assistant can arbitrarily use this illegal procedure to deny the character of the first assistant, and then deny his ruling authority, and even his henchmen.

This is the biggest headache for the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to do things, but there is no corresponding system to ensure that you use your power above board, and to convince the people of the world, you can only use power tricks or even conspiracies, what to make friends with eunuchs, use the tricks in the house to flatter the king to fix his favor, and even make friends in the name of his fellow villagers or fellow subjects.

In short, no means can be put on the table, and it is not possible to start from the beginning with righteousness, but to do things from the perspective of selfishness.

And in this way, it leads to the congenital injustice of the first assistant's administration, the traitorous minister is not like the traitorous minister, the loyal minister is not like the loyal minister, and the congenital injustice is difficult to convince people, and it is easy to misunderstand.

Historically, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu learned from the pain, and when analyzing the major ills of the Ming Dynasty, he listed the infatuation of Xiangquan as an important reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Because after the middle of Wanli in history, the entire struggle of the Ming Dynasty revolved around finding the first assistant to seek personal gain and then impeaching the first assistant, and then the first assistant was forced to take the initiative to resign, and then the new first assistant was elected, and then the new first assistant was found to seek personal gain and impeach the new first assistant, forcing the new first assistant to resign again.

In the eyes of the bureaucrats, the rise of the post-Jin and the peasant uprising were not as important as this.

Other than that.

Zhu Yijun has to admit that although the Ming Dynasty does not have the name of power, after a strongman like Zhu Yuanzhang, the entire empire still needs to have the role of minister as a role between the monarch and the bureaucracy, otherwise it will not let the cabinet ministers have the actual power, and even the more obvious the power of the minister is later.

Good at exercising power and unwilling to easily delegate power, such as Jiajing, had to increase the power of his ministers, and even the first emperor in the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to set up subordinate officials and exclusive officials for cabinet ministers.

This is naturally not that Jiajing is willing to elevate the status of Wenchen, but to make it easier for him, the emperor, to exercise power.

After all, the Ming Dynasty developed to the back, and it was no longer a simple agricultural empire, and the scholar group was not as simple as the beginning of the country, so in the back, it was really not possible to have a Xiangguo that played the role of a buffer and bridge.

If Zhu Yijun wants to be comfortable as an emperor and have a public weapon that follows his will to control the bureaucracy, he needs to make this public instrument have the name of the center, and he doesn't want to face the battle of the bureaucracy alone.

If the bureaucracy of the entire empire is a computer, then Zhu Yijun needs a dedicated space to store the central processing unit, that is, he needs a person who really undertakes the function of the public instrument.

And Huang Xun objected because he was naturally worried that this would lead to a further weakening of his position as a celebrant supervisor.

Zhu Yijun did not debunk it, but said at this time: "The Son of Heaven is chosen by Heaven, and in the previous dynasties, the prime minister was appointed by the Son of Heaven, so the prime minister is also chosen by Heaven, but in this dynasty, the first assistant is first selected by the court and then appointed by the Son of Heaven." ”

"Therefore, in this dynasty, Shoufu is the minister of prime minister's affairs jointly decided by the Son of Heaven and the people of the world, so now if we really want to realize Yuanfu's thoughts, it is not to let Shoufu have the name of prime minister's power, not to set up ministers, but to let him have the name of prime minister's affairs, so that it is in line with the constitution of heaven, and it is the administration of the people, which is different from the Xiangguo!"

"Once the first assistant is derelict in his duties, his responsibility is not only with the Son of Heaven, but also with the people of the world, and conversely, if the first assistant is determined, then its power not only comes from the Son of Heaven, but also from the people of the world, so since the first assistant was elected by the Son of Heaven and the people of the world, it should also be nominated for the people of the world and the Son of Heaven to nominate the choice of each book."

After Zhu Yijun said, he said: "Let the undertaker draft the decree according to this." ”

The two eunuchs, Huang Xun and Tian Yi, couldn't help but glance at each other.

Zhu Yijun saw that the two of them did not move, so he asked in a deep voice: "What, you still have something to say?" ”

(End of chapter)