Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 348

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Gao Hongtu, Hua Yuncheng, Liu Wanchun, and Ruan Dayue were all standing in front of Zhu Youjian in round collar uniforms.

Zhu Youjian walked forward with a calm face, looked at the four officials who were much older than him, and no longer mistakenly thought that they were really ministers who could give orders at will, even if he was inconsistent, he could give orders at will. killing and depriving them of their right to life.

But since the last time he was threatened by the six important ministers of the cabinet, Zhu Youjian began to realize that even those who obey him and are loyal to him will have their own independent thinking. People obey him and be loyal to him not only because of the same interests and needs Their political opinions do not conflict with themselves and are just the beliefs of the monarch and ministers. Once their ideology conflicts, they will still be against themselves.

After all, people are not ordinary tools, and managers are not management tools after all. People have their own thoughts and consciousness, but what the emperor manages is the elite group of the entire Ming Dynasty. These people are more independent in thinking than ordinary people.

Zhu Youjian didn't know when he became more mature than before.

At this moment, there was no trace of joy or anger on his face, there was less enthusiasm and aggression of the young emperor, and more maturity and elusiveness of the elder emperor.

Zhu Youjian didn't dare to underestimate the officials in front of him who also seemed to have no emotional changes on their faces. They looked depressed, but they could become beasts to intimidate their masters at any time. The cloudy eyes covered by thick wrinkles couldn't be seen at all. take the look.

As the emperor, Zhu Youjian didn't bother to talk nonsense anymore. Although his tone was more polite, he was no longer as enthusiastic as before: "Now you also know that the Jian slaves in the north are going south again, and Zhang Xianzhong is big again. In the southeast, the country of the Ming Dynasty is on the verge of survival, and in order to stabilize the interior, I have to balance the forces of all parties;
But the power of the government is still in the hands of the four of you. You have just taken charge of the power of the government. I don’t expect you to make great achievements in a short period of time, but you must stabilize the situation, and you must take care of money, food and disaster relief. First of all, follow the state affairs of the former Chief Assistant, which cannot be easily changed or used by others. No matter how some scheming people steal power and mess up the government, you must stabilize the court for me, understand? "

When Zhu Youjian said this, the four officials present all nodded, expressing their understanding.

They have their own industries in Songjiang Mansion, Ningbo Mansion and other places along the coast. They are the new commercial capitalists of Ming Dynasty. I don't want to see eunuchs taking power and dividing the power of their own cabinet civil servants.

The court situation was stabilized in this way, and Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, insisted on personally intervening in the expenditure and income of the Ministry of Finance, and never refused Ruan Dayue's request from the Ministry of War.

And Hua Yuncheng did not easily change the order of promotion of officials, he still followed the old ways, no matter how impeached by the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the officials of the six divisions, they did not care.

Gao Hongtu also directly set the tone for the six ministries of the cabinet and local governments at all levels. Chongzhen's 20-year state affairs were all about seeking stability and concentrating all efforts to prepare for the upcoming national war.

In this way, Huo Da, Chen Shiding, Ouyang Da and others who attempted to control the government had no chance to speculate for their own political interests.

The Ministry of War has been Ma Shiying's party member since Ma Shiying's time, and now that Ruan Dayue has directly taken over, Ye Huizhen, the right servant of the Ministry of War, has been emptied directly, unable to make any small moves in the distribution of money and food for half soldiers and horses.

And Huo Da was having a hard time in the household department, almost any expenditure plan would be rejected by Liu Wanchun, and Liu Wanchun refused to let him get involved in the Daming Central Bank, and the entire financial power of Daming was still controlled by Liu Wanchun.

Chen Shiding could only drink tea and chat in the Ministry of Officials, because Hua Yuncheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, directly suspends the grand plan and Jingcha on the grounds that the war will not be a major event, and blatantly arranges his students to the Secretary of Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials The position in the central government made the Ministry of Officials become Hua Yuncheng's independent kingdom, and others could not pour water into it or burn it.

Zhu Youjian basically didn't bother to read the memorials on the impeachment of these four officials, and asked Chen Yuanyuan to sort them out and put them in the internal treasury.

The critique of red was handed over to Lu Jiude, the new inspector of ceremonies, Bingbi, Wang Chengen, who succeeded the inspector of ceremonies and was still in charge of Dongchang, and the inspector of ceremonies, Bingbi Han Shoujing (whose real name was Han Zan and Zhou Zhu who was renamed after he moved to the south) still presided over the affairs of the inner court.

However, Lu Jiude has now basically passed almost all the resolutions of the six cabinet ministries, and these are naturally Zhu Youjian's intentions.

He is too lazy to make troubles in the court again, and Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is only preparing for the future salt tax reform, and has not interfered in the affairs of the various ministries, making the six ministries an independent kingdom of the ministers.

The power of the six ministers has reached unprecedented levels, which angered Guan Shaoning and other officials who tried to steal the government.

"I thought that if I entered the Six Departments of the Cabinet, if I could manage it properly, I would be able to control the power of the government at every step, but I didn't expect that the three of them, Ruan Dayue, Hua Yuncheng, and Liu Wanchun, would form a clique for personal gain. If this continues, the government will always be in their hands!"

When Chen Shiding said this, Guan Shaoning could only sigh:

"Then what can I do, I told you a long time ago that you should not be in a hurry and build a good relationship with them first;

But you guys are fine. You were anxious to seize power when you came here. Now these three people are obviously wary of you. I'm afraid we still have His Majesty's order. The only thing we can do is wait. If it doesn't work, let the Duan Literature Society Use all means, let these people die, let's see if they dare to be so arrogant! "

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"What did they really say? They still want to use assassination methods. They are really daring. From now on, continue to expand the power of Dongchang. I asked Han Shoujing to allocate special funds from my internal funds for the expansion of Dongchang! These top literary clubs You and the White Clothes Sect and these courtiers with ulterior motives have to keep an eye on them!"

After Zhu Youjian said, Wang Chengen took the order and left.

And Zhu Youjian rushed to the main camp of the Second Guards Army in Nanjing Gyeonggi. The war was about to start, and he had to look at his army.

Being oppressed by civil officials in the capital these days, Zhu Youjian can be said to be very aggrieved. He hates this feeling. If the conflicts had not intensified before the war, he would have mobilized the army to kill these disobedient civil officials first.

But now he seems not as decisive as before. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, he had the mentality of breaking the boat and thinking that the big deal would be the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Now he hopes to reduce the number of internal affairs as much as possible before the second battle against the Qing Dynasty. The intensification of contradictions, so as to avoid greater risks.

But Zhu Youjian was unwilling to make such a compromise in his heart. He had been suppressed all the time, and now he didn't want to see this group of civil servants who were not of the same mind as him. He would rather let Ruan Dayue and others form cliques to boycott other civil servants.

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