Chapter 108, Separation of Powers, Struggle for Power

Yang Tinghe was silent for a moment, and after a few turns in his mind, he asked the core question seriously: "Your Majesty, the minister also wants to ask, since there is a national policy meeting, and the cabinet ministers will participate in the aircraft affairs from now on, how will the power and responsibility of this vote be determined?" ”

He is the head of the cabinet, and this can only be asked by him.

Zhu Houxi had already made a plan: "At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, the participation in the affairs of the aircraft was to share the worries of the Son of Heaven, and the first vote was to draft opinions on the disposal of various matters for the Son of Heaven. I have been observing the government for more than a month, and the powers between the cabinet and the six ministries have gradually become more and more unclear. Thereafter, if the matter only involves one or a certain internal yamen, the strategy must be clearly stated, and the cabinet will give a vote opinion, and I will approve it in principle. The matter involves all ministries, and if the dispute is unresolved, a decision is made at the national policy meeting. ”

Jiuqing's heart was shocked: In principle, it is accurate, which means that in the future, the cabinet will really have the right to govern the internal affairs of specific departments. Although the strategy is taken by each department, and the cabinet can only agree or reject the two types of voting opinions in theory, this is the jurisdiction of the process.

If more than two departments are involved, they can report to the national policy meeting. Although the Cabinet still has the power to make recommendations, everyone can participate in the decision-making process. As a result, the Cabinet has lost the power to propose solutions to major issues that are complex and for which many people do not want to be responsible.

Whether this is a reduction or an increase in the power of the cabinet, it is difficult for everyone to figure out for a while.

Yang Tinghe immediately left his seat and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Wang Qiong couldn't help but look at him, because Yang Tinghe must have figured it out. Wang Qiong immediately thought in a clear direction from his reaction: This system is still beneficial to the cabinet.

Then, it must be because the Cabinet has the power to clearly review the internal affairs of each department, which can influence the officials of each ministry.

In this way, those things that need to be decided at the national policy meeting, under the influence of the cabinet's review power, each department must also be able to reconcile the strategy by the cabinet in the center, so that in the national policy meeting, it is equivalent to only going through the process.

Once the decision has been made to move on to the implementation phase, the Cabinet has reinstated its authority to review and approve the various ordinary matters of the ministries regarding the implementation process.

Everything depends on whether the cabinet's mediation can be effectively completed, and the cabinet's review of the affairs of various departments can convince the public.

Wang Qiong immediately saluted: "Your Majesty, the cabinet is essentially clamping down on all ministries, and the ministers are afraid that the momentum of the cabinet is getting bigger and bigger!" Although Jiuqing attended the national policy meeting, he actually lost his authority over the yamen in charge. ”

The yamen is not the only one who has the right to do things, and some small things are directly presented by the bureaucrats at the bottom, so won't the heads of the yamen be set aside?

Zhu Houxi stretched out three fingers: "There are three passes for the implementation of the national policy meeting without going through the national policy meeting: the signature of the head officials of each yamen to approve the strategy, the seal to be signed by the cabinet leader and cabinet ministers, and the seal to approve the red approval of the celebrant supervisor." Each of the six ministers is responsible for the advice he gives him. If the sponsoring cabinet is temporarily absent, it will be directly presented to Zhu before the case. ”

Yang Tinghe's eyes condensed slightly: I was in a hurry, I shouted Shengming early, and I only saw the effect of this big principle on the six parts.

Strictly speaking, except for the suppression of the first time the imperial court, the authority of the cabinet was constantly recognized by the emperor in the daily affairs that followed.

The specific performance is that almost all the affairs that did not give an attitude on the spot at the court meeting were presented by the relevant yamen and approved by Zhu for implementation.

Therefore, Yang Tinghe recognized this new monarch more and more in his heart.

If it weren't for the signal that the emperor wanted to change the law, it would not have been possible to have such a timely incident in which the cases of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin affected Liang Chu, Wang Qiong and others.

But now, the cabinet ministers take care of affairs?

Because this is another separation of powers, each cabinet minister will have a clear responsibility for affairs in the future. Of course, Shousuke can express his opinion on everything, but the ministers who want to sign and be responsible can choose not to listen.

You're irresponsible, you can beep, but don't beep all the time!

This is not only Fei Hong, who has returned to the cabinet, but also the current Jiang Mian Mao Ji will be more happy to see.

And Jiuqing breathed a sigh of relief, he wanted to do his own things well in the future, it seemed that he only needed to greet a good minister?

Then even at the national policy meeting, the cabinet ministers will not be monolithic and fight with Jiuqing together.

Everyone looked at the emperor with complicated eyes.

It is a good thing that the division of authority is clear, and Yang Tinghe is not good at opposing it for a while.

Jiang Mian already had the intention of taking the lead - although Yang Tinghe was persuaded to stay disappointed him.

Although Mao Ji is consistent with Yang Tinghe in many aspects, doesn't he have his own expectations?

As for Fei Hong...... After leaving the court for many years, if you can have your own specific affairs after returning to the cabinet, you don't have to slowly compete with the current ministers.

Yang Tinghe's rise made these three people dissatisfied.

Now it seems that this knife only slashed Yang Tinghe the hardest, but Yang Tinghe could neither offend other ministers, nor oppose the establishment of the imperial study room to accompany the bachelors.

Further, he could not oppose the establishment of the National Policy Council.

Because this means that Wenchen is no longer the only way to become a cabinet minister when he enters the core of power. By the time Jiuqing or Turn's became the companion of the imperial study, it was already preliminarily at the top: all the real major events could not bypass the national policy meeting.

Everyone has already figured it out: the emperor's purpose is to expand the decision-making circle at the top level and stuff in the team that he trusts and cultivates.

It doesn't matter, he could have achieved this goal by adjusting the cabinet and the selection of Jiuqing. What's more, the decision on all matters will still be with the emperor.

The high-ranking emperor was able to see more people fighting with him by virtue of his approval of the red and the ruling power of the national policy meeting.

There are so many more people in the core power circle, and there are more ascending channels, and the people below will be active.

Yang Tinghe opposed the establishment of the National Policy Council, which was not only to oppose the other three cabinet ministers and all the Jiuqing, but also to block a new way for all the officials below.

To put it bluntly, to make such a national policy meeting is to shuffle the cards in a more obvious way, so that the minds of the cabinet ministers and those under Jiuqing are all alive, and there are more ways to enter the core power circle.

If you want to walk in, you naturally have to fall to the emperor and get his approval.

In addition to the competition, the cabinet should not be allowed to become bigger and the other cabinet ministers should be given clearer powers, which can also allow the cabinet to play a full role and improve the efficiency of the internal affairs of various departments.

The three checkpoints of ordinary affairs must have signatures and seals, and the heads of departments and the ministers in charge of the cabinets must be responsible for specific matters; although it is pressure, it is also a clear credit that cannot be snatched away by others when it is done well.

Now Wang Qiong is also satisfied: as long as all the music under his hands must pass his own pass, the power of this first pass is of course greater than the second and third passes!

It seems that the emperor is going to choose to save worry and effort in small things, and in the future, his home field will only be here, only in the national policy meeting!

And Jiuqing is qualified to sit here!

Wang Qiong also knelt down and said sincerely: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Yang Tinghe, who had shouted Shengming early, asked at this time as if he did not object, but only understood the details after getting up: "Your Majesty, is the affairs of this cabinet minister determined by the matter or will there be regulations?" ”

Zhu Houxi smiled: "It depends on the matter, and it is up to me to decide." ”

Everyone understands which cabinet minister is in charge of what affairs, and this is like an official being sent temporarily.

When it comes to the attendees of the National Policy Council, who will hardly change much in three years, how can the emperor tolerate which cabinet minister will be in charge of the affairs of a certain field?

As long as it takes three or five years, it will be a deep-rooted relationship of interest.

Now it makes sense, the emperor has always only expanded the number of people in the inner circle of power in order to better control something.

But...... These nimble-minded top scholars all thought of a possibility of evolution: the current emperor has shown strong energy and enough wisdom and determination, but what about him in the future? What about his descendants?

Can this national focus meeting always exist? If it has always existed, what will change in the future?

But at least Yang Tinghe and his ministers, who had just experienced the incident in the lobby of the Criminal Department and the incident of Wang Shouren's lecture, could not oppose it face-to-face in the face of the situation that the emperor took out the imperial study to accompany the bachelor to share the authority of some celebrants, the cabinet ministers each had the right to clearly lead affairs, and the entire collective of civil officials had two more paths to enter the core circle of power.

The emperor's move was to weaken the eunuch power and take the initiative to retract part of the imperial power, in exchange for the national policy council and the establishment of the imperial study companion bachelor, which is difficult to be opposed by anyone.

Whoever stands up against it is almost a thief of Wenchen.

There was no time for everyone to think about the reaction that would be aroused when the news of the establishment of the National Council was spread today, because since so many important ministers had no objection in principle, the deliberations began.

The first thing is the specific strategy for abolishing the abuses and re-establishing the three battalions.

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The establishment of the imperial study room to accompany the bachelor is to help Wenchen make the cake bigger.

The establishment of the national policy meeting is to help the important ministers among the ministers to make the cake bigger.

Setting goals and preparing guarantees for the resetting of the three major battalions is to help Wuchen make the cake bigger.

The only ones who were injured were the celebrant and the chief assistant of the cabinet.

At this moment, the celebrant is not qualified to speak up, Yang Tinghe at this moment cannot be the enemy of the entire Wenchen group, and preventing the military ministers from getting a bigger stage also has the threshold of "insecurity" of the emperor himself who cannot be bypassed.

Yan Song's eyes looked at the young Son of Heaven with admiration, and Huang Jin, the imperial eunuch and head of the Inner Archives Division beside him, was also low-key and silent, not in any way because of the cutting of the authority of the celebrant supervisor.

For Huang Jin, the palm print of the celebrant is definitely something in his pocket in the future.

Yan Song couldn't help but speculate, what does His Majesty think about the future power structure of the court?

How will this imperial study evolve in the future?

No one thinks that the future national policy meeting will always be in this pattern, and the imperial study will always be just an imperial study.

If you don't see through it, the emperor is just shuffling the cards first, but it's not yet time to win.

No one could guess what the emperor thought, after all, today's decision broke through the ceiling that Wenchen had imagined in the past, so there was a smooth change in the separation of powers between the national policy meeting and the cabinet.

Now, the emperor who has achieved his goal has returned to the state he was in when he was in the previous dynasty.

His main focus was still on listening to their words, paying attention to their "quarreling skills", and at the same time understanding more intuitively the doorways between the various yamen today.

Guo Xun felt that he was a clown.

The first thing to discuss now was directly related to the military ministers, but he was not able to participate in the deliberations between Wang Xian, the secretary of the military department, and other important ministers.

The emperor didn't say a word, but Guo Xun, who had experienced the emperor's first visit to the court and many subsequent events, knew that the emperor actually had expectations for his ministers and generals.

On that day, Guo Xun painstakingly persuaded the other lords and generals: You guys who are getting fatter and fatter must consider whether this is ......

But now, Guo Xun is the only one among the military generals here!

At this first national policy meeting, the first thing to discuss was the abolition of the three battalions and the re-establishment of the three battalions, and the representatives of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the representatives of the military generals of the Lords and Commanders, can they really not say a word?

The emperor didn't look at him, but Guo Xun couldn't wait for the emperor to look at him and hint at something.

Your Majesty is also difficult! If he came here and couldn't let out a fart, what was it?

Guo Xun had the audacity to interject: "The minister thinks! ”

(End of chapter)