prosperous age

Chapter 106

As the Japanese pirates retreated back to the sea, the Japanese pirates looting various provinces in Zhejiang Province have temporarily subsided since April of the 31st year of Jiajing.

And in the city of Beijing, after the supreme being was furious because of this incident, the efficiency of the Ming court finally improved a bit.

"Think about it again, if there are no mistakes, then we will report it like this."

Located in the Wenyuan Pavilion on the east side of Beijing's Bauhinia City, Yan Song, Lu Ben and Xu Jie, the new cabinet ministers, sat at the head, and the six ministers were discussing government affairs at the bottom.

The Ming Dynasty initially followed the system of the Yuan Dynasty and established Zhongshu Sheng, with left and right prime ministers. However, after the Hu Weiyong case, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed Zhongshu Sheng and the prime minister, and the power returned to the Six Departments.

Afterwards, a scholar from the Wenhua Palace was appointed as his advisor, and this was the prototype of the cabinet.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he thought hard at the beginning, but the repeated northern expeditions made him feel that it was difficult to take charge of political affairs, so the cabinet system came into being.

The preparatory work of the cabinet ministers began from this point on, but at that time, those who entered the cabinet were all editors, inspectors, and lecturers.The various divisions played a role, and they must not be related to each other.

At this time, the cabinet only acted as Zhu Di's secretary.

After several emperors, the power of the cabinet gradually increased.

The cabinet minister's suggestion is written on a piece of paper and pasted on the memorial, which is called "ticket drawing", while the emperor uses red letters to make instructions, which is called "pihong".

However, during Xuanzong's time, the emperor's approval of red became a symbol, and he directly transferred his power to the Supervisor of Rituals, and thus there was a saying that the inner court and the outer court were divided.

The structures of the inner court and the outer court of the Ming Dynasty are completely symmetrical. There are cabinets outside, officials and supervisors inside, three judges outside, Dongchang and Jinyiwei inside. Eunuchs, guard eunuchs, etc.

In this way, the inner court and the outer court restricted each other to ensure the emperor's decision-making position.

However, this has also resulted in a struggle for power between the two major political forces inside and outside.

"Remove the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province to participate in the post of Cao Bian, and return to his hometown to listen to the investigation; stop participating in the consultation of Li Chong and Li Tingsong's salary for the procuratorate, and there is no problem with the arrest and questioning of the ministers.

However, Lin Yingji, the imperial censor of Zhejiang Province, reported the Japanese pirates in April. Li Wenjin, deputy envoy of Shenhaidao, and Gu Qiao, deputy envoy of Fenguan, and other officials had a vegetarian meal. inverse.

But for this piece of Chen, Ding Zhan stopped serving the people and replaced him with Li Wenjin, Zhang Tiege returned to Yuanwei, and Zhou Yingzhen replaced him. All these are a complete reversal of April's handling, which is out of style. "

Xu Jie said.

"Lin Yingji said that their corpses are vegetarian meals, but the person he recommended mishandled the Zhejiang Japanese disaster. Shouldn't it be corrected?"

As soon as Xu Jie's voice fell, an official below questioned him.

Xu Jie just glanced at the person who spoke, then bowed his head and stopped talking.

In fact, what he said was just to give an explanation to others. Who doesn't know that Li, Zhou and others are members of the Yan family, and that Lin Yingji's fate was also on the decline. His Majesty was furious when he encountered the once-in-a-century Japanese plague, so what can he do.

"Because Lin Yingji was good at being an expert, ordering him to leave his post is already a respect, and taking his salary for three months is no more than a small punishment."

Second assistant Lu Ben also nodded and said.

Xu Jie glanced at the others, no one wanted to speak out, so he knew that was the only way to go, so he nodded slightly.

What can be said?
It is an indisputable fact that Zhejiang was turned upside down by Japanese pirates. It should be done, and it should be awarded, but it is just that it was avoided by the imperial censor. It feels wrong no matter how you think.

"In addition, the Ministry of Officials promoted the governor of the Shandong Metropolitan Procuratorate, Youqin Capital Censor Wang Yan, to supervise military affairs, inspect Zhejiang and manage Fuxing Quanzhang.

The opinion of the Ministry of War on the establishment of one member of the Zhejiang Provincial General Staff is based on Yu Dayou, the commander of the Qiongya General Administration, and Tang Kekuan, the commander of the left-behind division of the Central Capital.

Yu Dayou was stationed at Wentai, Ningshao and other places, and Tang Kekuan was stationed at Fuxing, Quanzhang and other places, and they all obeyed restraint."

As the cabinet discussed and finalized the charter, the memorial was sent to Xiyuan soon.

As for the memorials related to Zhejiang, the supervisor of ceremonies immediately handed them over to Emperor Jiajing of the Longevity Palace.

"Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan"

Emperor Jiajing took the memorial from Huang Jin and quickly read the content of the memorial, muttering in his mouth.

"Huang Jin, what do you think of these two people?"

Hearing Emperor Jiajing's question, Huang Jin hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, this slave doesn't know how these two are doing."

Regarding military and state affairs, Huang Jin would not be so stupid as to express his opinion casually. He was too clear about the character of his master, after all, he had been with him for countless years.

It's okay if you say it right, but if you say it wrong, you may not remember it anytime soon.

"Hum."

Emperor Jiajing was not surprised to hear Huang Jin's answer, since he just asked casually just now.

"They are cunning, and the list of rewards was handed over to me exactly as reported by the Nanjing Ministry of War."

Emperor Jiajing stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his brows slightly. After a while, he opened his eyes and looked at the memorial on the case table again. He seemed to make up his mind and said, "Forget it, I finally won the battle and didn't lose face. Let the guards in Jinyi check this matter." A few commanders, let's see how capable they are."

The report of the Ministry of War in Nanjing on the details of the Zhejiang War has already been delivered to the capital a few days ago. The great turmoil in Zhejiang is certain, but it is secretive about the rewards. holy break.

For the only time to face the Japanese pirates head-on and win, the Sanwei of Nanzhili and Jiujiangwei of Jiangxi naturally entered the eyes of Emperor Jiajing.

"Disobeying the military order. The merits and demerits are equal."

"Brother Zeng, brother Zeng, get up quickly, the Gong Yuan has announced the list."

Wei Guangde went upstairs and knocked on the door a few times, maybe Zeng Yuanshu hadn't woken up yet, it took him a long time to hear a voice coming from inside, and immediately shouted impatiently into the door.

"What? Released the ranking?"

Zeng Yuanshu screamed all over the room, and heard a "boom", as if a heavy object fell to the ground.

When Wei Guangde and the others walked out of the inn, many people on the street were going to the Nanchang Gongyuan, most of them were dressed as scholars, naturally they were there to see the list.

There are also some who are not dressed as scholars and look like people in the market at first glance, but they all run faster than them. Obviously they should also go to see the list, but what they care about is not whether they are on the list, but the final case. Who is the leader, and whether the betting ticket in his hand is gold or waste paper.

Wei Guangde and the others finally arrived at Gongyuan Street. At this time, the place was also crowded with people, and Gongyuan Street was completely blocked. But even so, the people who came later continued to squeeze in, completely losing the restraint they had before.

"It's still too late, with so many people, when will we be able to get in."

Seeing such a scene, Zeng Yuanshu was a little disappointed, regretting that he should have drunk too much yesterday and missed the hour.

"I'll open the way ahead, Brother Zeng will protect Guangde and Yuan Rui from behind to keep up."

Wu Dong hastily said that he has been working hard for more than a year, and he is no longer the same as before.

According to Wu Dong's instructions, Wei Guangde and others rushed to the gate of the Gongyuan as Wu Dong struggled to push through the crowd.

(End of this chapter)