Wanli Xinming

Chapter 336 The Gap
As soon as Zhang Siwei took office, God gave him a big mouth in the face, and almost missed him.This guy is not in good health, but the emperor is not used to it. I don't mean to do more if you are not in good health. Zhang Siwei took over the political affairs hall for a few months and became a bit sharp-mouthed.

His uncle Wang Chonggu applied for early retirement and was approved by the emperor. At this time, he had probably arrived in Yunnan, and Zhang Siwei lost his important think tank.Although there were many people clinging to him during his tenure as deputy prime minister, Zhang Siwei did not dare to rely on his confidants. After all, these people were untested.

After he became the prime minister, the Jin party's power rose sharply for a while, but Zhang Siwei still lacked people in his pocket, especially a think tank with high-level vision and trusted confidants.Compared with the background, Zhang Siwei and Zhang Juzheng are not in the same order of magnitude, so they can't be in command, and many things need to be coordinated - they are especially tired.

Of course, Zhang Siwei's lack of Zhang Juzheng's political ability is the decisive factor.Zhang Juzheng was called a mess when he took over in the sixth year of Longqing. As the saying goes, "the ministers are at the bottom, the generals are playing on the side, and the scholars are clamoring. Keeping track of everything, the group is in ignorance. And the disaster of disintegration and landslides is concealed. There will be nothing wrong with Yan'an." If there were no examinations and reforms, Daming would be in chaos now.But even in this situation, Zhang Juzheng continued to thrive, creating a new Ming Dynasty in 13 years.

Taking the annual income as an example, in the first year of Wanli, the annual income was more than 1000 million taels.When Zhang Siwei took over in the 13th year of Wanli, the annual income was 500 million, which almost tripled.The money and food are sufficient enough to cope with the large-scale famine for three consecutive years-why the disaster in Shanxi is irritating is entirely due to the foolishness of Zhao.

Therefore, Zhang Siwei wants money and money, and he wants food and grain. Under these conditions, he is more tired than Zhang Juzheng. It is basically a matter of ability.It's not that Zhang Juzheng is better than Zhang Siwei, but Zhang Juzheng can pull his face down, bend his waist, and he has a tough temperament and a broad mind. These excellent qualities of top politicians, Zhang Siwei and Zhongxing County Wang ratio, all belong to The level of half a bottle of vinegar.

To be honest, in today's political affairs hall, when it comes to La's lower face, Xu Guo is above Zhang Siwei; when it comes to bending down, Wang Guoguang makes him stunned; in terms of toughness, Liang Menglong and Pan Sheng are on a par, but They are stronger than Zhang Siwei, and in this respect, Luo Wanhua, who has seen the world, throws him two streets.

In this case, there is only one way for Zhang Siwei to keep his power from being overthrown - he intends to hug the emperor's thigh tightly.Because he is the Prime Minister of the Political Office, it is very convenient to hold this thigh, at least when he faces the Holy Spirit the most.

Although Zhang Siwei wanted to hug the emperor's thighs, the central system underwent major changes after the reform. The political affairs hall had far greater powers and responsibilities than the cabinet in the Jiajing and Longqing eras, and after Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Yijun's running-in, there was also a clear distinction between imperial power and prime ministerial power. The boundaries of the government—all general government affairs that do not involve major political and military power, and the emperor has no intention of interfering, are all decided by the prime minister and ministers.

As a result, Zhang Siwei could not do the "Three Edicts" - so Wang Gui, the prime minister of Song Shenzong, was established by the political young man. "Song History" said, "It is submitted in the hall, and it is said to take the imperial edict; whether it can be completed, it is said that Those who receive the imperial decree; those who withdraw the decree and report the matter are said to have obtained the imperial decree." Therefore, it is called "Three Decrees Xianggong" - the system is there, and the emperor has no idea of ​​reaching out to help him.

From Zhu Yijun's point of view, Zhang Juzheng's passing made him clearly feel the stagnation of the operation of the government.The Prime Minister does not have the authority to make a single statement, and many things start to quarrel in the political affairs hall.The problems reported from the bottom up, and there is also a situation of shirk between various departments - it is not that Zhang Juzheng died and everyone lost their public heart, but the super co-ordination ability of the King of Zhongxing previously covered up a lot of things that should have been Expose institutional problems.

For example, the disaster relief in Shanxi - now the functions of the imperial court responsible for disaster prevention and mitigation are scattered among several ministries.The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for disaster relief, the Ministry of Construction and Communications is in charge of water conservancy construction, the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce also has some of these functions, and Pan Jixun, the Minister of Water Resources of Huanghuai, is also in charge of a part.

Going out of multiple departments will naturally lead to an increase in coordination time. Although there is a cabinet on the top, several deputy ministers cannot reach the specific departments and bureaus under each ministry, so the coordination efficiency of all through the ministers is naturally low.

As a result, Zhang Siwei is more tired than Zhang Juzheng, and his performance is not as high as Zhang Juzheng.When Zhang Juzheng was prime minister, the deputy prime ministers and ministers of various ministries followed their lead, fearing that they would not do their best to prevent Zhang Jiangling from scolding or even giving political blows.Now, when Zhang Siwei makes a decision, he is always worried that Pan Sheng and others will dig a hole for him.

The great reform that began in the fifth year of Wanli changed the six-department system that had lasted for hundreds of years since the Sui Dynasty into nine. It is to use the political affairs hall to centralize the power of the prime minister, to use the Privy Council to enhance the emperor's military power, and to use the internal affairs office to further standardize the emperor's industry.

This half-baked political reform works well in Zhang Juzheng's hands, because the old gentleman is amazing and talented, and he commands like an arm.After Zhang Siwei took over, he found that the operation was sluggish - he lacked the authority of Zhang Juzheng, and although he fulfilled his duty to adjust the yin and yang of the wok, the "premier minister" and the "cabinet chief assistant" were very different, and Zhang Siwei was still hugging. The idea of ​​the emperor's thigh, Zhu Yijun also felt that something was wrong a few months later.

The severe drought in the 13th year of Wanli opened the prelude to the continuous catastrophe in the Wanli period in the original time and space.Although Zhu Yijun has not studied the climate records of the Wanli period, he still remembers the words "Little Binghe" clearly.

Judging from the disaster relief process of the imperial court in Shanxi in the past few months, when the emperor was anxious and the prime ministers and ministers were red-eyed—the imperial court's disaster relief system was not functioning well, especially in the early days of the drought, when news from Shanxi was messy, and the imperial court's luck The lack of food means has exposed a lot of problems.

Not only in disaster relief, Zhu Yi also felt that many functions of the center needed to be further strengthened as the reform brought changes to Ming society.When Zhang Juzheng was in power, the method of temporarily dispatching an official to specialize in something needed to be changed. It was necessary to increase the number of departments and further refine the responsibilities, so that the command of the center to the locality was more powerful.

After months of deliberation, Zhu Yijun felt that it was necessary to make further adjustments to the central structure—to further reform some institutional and mechanism issues accumulated over the past eight years of reform, so that the superstructure would always match social development.

Therefore, after the situation in Shanxi stabilized, Zhu Yijun convened a military and political meeting in Wenhuadian, put forward the idea of ​​deepening the central reform, and made this the primary political task of Zhang Siwei, the prime minister.

At the meeting, Zhang Siwei took over the task - his brain was buzzing.

　How can the difference between Prime Minister Zhang Siwei and Zhang Juzheng be too great?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)