Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 670
"Whether the chief minister of the cabinet is qualified or not is up to me!
If I say he is qualified, he is qualified!

As for the loss of supervision of the cabinet you mentioned, there are still my supervisors and you watching.

Even if according to your intention, let you supervise the cabinet, who will make the decision?
If there is a major war, such as the calamity of Jianlu since Wanli, the tax has to be increased and the tax has to be increased. If the business tax is not increased, the empire will be destroyed and it will be destroyed by foreigners, and your two houses disagree. manage?
Chongzhen 17 years ago, the treasury had no money to pay the military, and the local gentry and rich merchants were very rich. You have experienced it! "

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he took a big sip of tea. He knew that he would not be able to convince these rising wealthy businessmen without convincing Yang Mingshen, and Yang Mingshen was cultivated by himself. I don't mind using blood and human heads to force rich businessmen to accept their decisions.

"Since your majesty said so, why don't your majesty be arbitrary and let the cabinet take charge."

Yang Mingshen didn't like the cabinet, just like the former Donglin Party didn't like the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies. In his opinion, these cabinet ministers and eunuchs of the supervisor of rites were obstacles to their communication with the emperor, making it impossible for them to communicate with the emperor. Direct communication cannot achieve the emperor's understanding of himself. To put it bluntly, the emperor cannot directly use the emperor and directly manipulate the imperial power.

"Is there any difference between the cabinet ruling and my ruling, Yang Mingshen?"

Zhu Youjian asked.

"There is a difference. If the cabinet is in charge, we can't directly address His Majesty, and we can't express our feelings, Your Majesty!" Yang Mingshen replied.

"Then if there is no cabinet in charge, everything will be decided by the emperor, and I will have to spend more than five hours out of twelve hours a day listening to you wrangling and making decisions, not to mention being exhausted;

If there is a king who extorts and extorts money in the Ming Dynasty in the future, what will be the consequences if there is no cabinet restriction;
What would happen if the emperor in Ming Dynasty was lazy and let the officials take power?
Fortunately, the chief assistant of the cabinet is a follower selected by the emperor from the governors of various places and the officials of the central ministries;

And these governors have been tested by your local advisory body and the assembly body, and the unqualified governors have been impeached by you. Tell me, after all, it is a cabinet that has experience in local real governance and is good at coordinating the interests of various classes. Is it better for the first assistant to be in charge, or is it better for the emperor or internal officials who are older than the deep palace to be in charge? "

Zhu Youjian asked.

Yang Mingshen faltered and said: "Then it is better to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, but your majesty, wouldn't the king be restricted by the cabinet?"

"If I am not satisfied, I can replace the chief minister of the cabinet at any time;

If the emperor in the future wants to do a career, he can choose a cabinet chief assistant who he likes;

If the later emperor does not want to do a career and wants to be a poet like Li Yu, he can only choose a qualified cabinet minister with administrative experience from the local officials;

Even if there was a king who was dizzy and refused to admit his incompetence like Song Huizong, he could only choose the chief assistant of the cabinet from the local officials;
If the king is incompetent, at least the chief minister of the cabinet is competent, the dynasty will not be too bad, at least the local governor will be supervised by two houses, and it will not be too chaotic. "

When Zhu Youjian said this, Yang Mingshen had no choice but to bow his hands: "Your Majesty is far-sighted and far-sighted, and my ministers are not as good as they are, but my ministers always feel that it seems that Ming has repeated the previous regime, and the power of prime minister has reappeared."

"Taizu is shrewd and capable. He is an emperor who has never been seen before or since. He can naturally monopolize the government and gather imperial power and power in one person, but the descendants of later generations are naturally inferior, and I am not as good as him. Therefore, a cabinet was created to make up for the lack. It is inevitable that Zaifu will coexist, and this can be regarded as setting things right."

After Zhu Youjian said, Yang Mingshen didn't want to say anything more, he just said: "Your Majesty, I still have a discussion. Now that this is the case, what is the difference between the establishment of two courts and the former speech officer?"

"There is still a difference. The officials are all bureaucrats, and they are all the products of officials protecting each other. They talk about righteousness but hide evil intentions, and most of them are very hypocritical. They are even just for invitation, regardless of good or bad;

Today, there are businessmen, workers, farmers, craftsmen, and squires in the two houses of parliament. They speak for their own class, not for promotion. Even if they form cliques, they are not for their own promotion and wealth. Forming a faction is just making a louder voice for a class. "

"That's why, when the officials and staff were killed before, the world would be quieter if nothing happened, but now if these members of the two houses are killed, it means that the whole class has been offended or the two classes have become enemies with each other, and the world is bound to happen. Chaos."

When Zhu Youjian said this, Yang Mingshen couldn't help laughing, and instantly felt that he was actually quite important, and couldn't help but said again: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask for an order, can the cabinet not detain and punish our members, even if we make trouble No matter how powerful you are, or how ugly your words are, as long as you don’t violate the law of the Ming Dynasty, you will not be punished.”

"I have always advocated freedom of speech. You MPs have the right to speak, which is bestowed by me. Their cabinet has no right to stop you from speaking, and they have no right to detain you or punish you. The case will be filed by the procuratorate, detained and judged by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and reviewed by Dali Temple."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Yang Mingshen prostrated himself in front of Zhu Youjian at this time: "Thanks to your majesty's training today, I understand your majesty's wisdom. I am really stupid."

"Calm down, the members of the two houses have to go and explain clearly one by one, don't force me to make you not even have the right to speak!"

After Zhu Youjian said that, he left the Wenhua Palace with a flick of his sleeves.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

And Yang Mingshen took a meaningful look at Wang Jiaqin after Zhu Youjian left, and Wang Jiaqin also patted him on the shoulder:

"Take your time, Ming Dynasty is not an ordinary small country, and it is unrealistic to completely realize the so-called people in the world who rule the country according to the sacred doctrine;

It is estimated that it will be realized after the four-week crisis is resolved, and the people in the four quarters of the country will be dominated by the people in the cities and towns;
At the beginning, Song Ge and I fought for it but failed. There are many conservative officials in the court, and many of them hold real power. It is rare to be able to achieve local democracy and local autonomy. Under our control, those officials in the world will not agree. "

"Thank you for your hard work. Fortunately, there are you in the cabinet. The Conservative Party will not be able to cover the sky with one hand. I only hope that the next chief minister of the cabinet will be you instead of Zhang Huangyan."

"It depends on the king's will. You can go now. You can't stay in the cabinet for a long time. Otherwise, people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate will come to impeach you. They can directly arrest you for disturbing the administrative order. "

Yang Mingshen had no choice but to leave Wenhua Hall.

And then Yang Mingshen did personally communicate with the members of the two chambers, and the dispute between the two chambers of the empire and the cabinet ceased. The capital group accepted the control of the cabinet. Needless to say, the bureaucracy group supported the cabinet in governing.

As a result, the internal political order of the Ming Dynasty stabilized, internal conflicts were also given a chance to be slowly resolved, and the empire could still maintain a long-term state of peace.

(End of this chapter)