Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 1131
The duty of the cabinet, apart from sharing the emperor's huge government affairs pressure, is more important to reconcile internal and external issues, such as the impeachment of the prince, especially in today's relationship between the Tian family, it is most likely to cause internal and external conflicts.

Although it is said that the last time the emperor ordered new cabinet ministers to be added, among these people, only Luo Qi is in Beijing. It will take at least a few months for them to go to Beijing for an errand, and even if they go to Beijing, it will take some time to get familiar with them in the cabinet.

So in a short period of time, Yu Shiyue and Zhang Min are actually the core of the cabinet. If something happens, they will still be on top.

Just now in the palace, Wang Wen suddenly said, why Wen Yuan said, this may represent some kind of signal, if it is not clear, if something really happens in the future, the cabinet will be very passive in court.

Therefore, after leaving the Hall of Martial Heroes, Yu Shiyue and Zhang Min both agreed that the former went to appease the officials of the East Palace, while the latter went to Wang Wen to inquire about the news.

The two walked forward side by side, Zhang Min nodded lightly and said.

"I've talked about it, Lord Tianguan, I don't mean to favor He Wenyuan."

Every cabinet minister has his own style. For Zhang Min, his style is low-key and pragmatic.

Therefore, facing Yu Shiyue's question, he opened his mouth and came to a conclusion.

However, there is a disadvantage of doing this, that is, it is easy to make people confused. Hearing this, Yu Shiyue first breathed a sigh of relief, and then frowned and asked.

"In that case, why were you in the palace just now?"

Zhang Min naturally knew what Yu Shiyue wanted to ask, pondered for a moment, and then said.

"This, I also asked, but the lord Tianguan only said one sentence... the imperial court has always had an example of not accusing someone of sinning, even if someone in the court complained that His Majesty's behavior was inappropriate and violated the rules of etiquette, he would not add any crime. , why can’t His Royal Highness be impeached?”

This……

Yu Shiyue was stunned for a moment, and immediately fell silent.

This reason, to be honest, is a bit far-fetched!

Indeed, in order to ensure the smooth flow of speech, the imperial court has always had the practice of not using words to offend people, but one must know that this is the privilege of officials of the science and Taoism. For He Wenyuan, a servant of the official department, it is somewhat inappropriate to apply this rule. What's more, what he was talking about was the major event of the abolition of the Eastern Palace.

It is true that the court ministers participated in the emperor's mishandling of a certain matter, but who would dare to speak bluntly about the ownership of the throne?
If this is the case, let alone the practice of not offending the officials, if it is not directly pushed to the vegetable market and chopped, it will be regarded as a kindness.

Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Yu Shiyue asked in a low voice.

"Master Shoufu thinks it's just for this reason?"

Wang Wen's reason was really not sufficient. Hearing this kind of reason, Yu Shiyue naturally had to be worried as a matter of Zhan in the Prince's Mansion.

A He Wenyuan is already so difficult to deal with, if Wang Wen really ends up, then things may be difficult to deal with.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Min also frowned, as if he was thinking about what to say, after pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth and said.

"That's what Lord Tianguan said. I know what you are worried about. However, the matter of He Wenyuan has caused such an uproar after all. Therefore, although His Majesty did not deal with it on the spot, he will definitely not not deal with it."

"I just made a side note and asked the Lord Tianguan what he meant. He seemed to want to transfer He Wenyuan to the Metropolitan Procuratorate..."

"The Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

Yu Shiyue repeated it, as if thinking of something, asked.

"In that case..."

"Next, it depends on what official position He Wenyuan will use to go to Beijing to provide disaster relief!"

Zhang Min took it calmly, and there was a trace of worry faintly between his brows.

Seeing this situation, Yu Shiyue couldn't ask any more questions, but his intuition told him that Zhang Min didn't tell all the information he got.

Wang Wen...

Yu Shiyue looked at the dazzling light in the sky, and sighed softly in her heart, what is the emperor's confidant in the court, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who is the head of all officials, what is he planning?
……

Because of the chaos in the Wenhua Palace, even though the courtiers had dispersed, they paid more attention to this matter than anything else.

Especially after the duet in the Hall of Martial Heroes ended, within half a day, all kinds of discussions sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

The emperor has always been quick and decisive in dealing with such a major matter of concern to the court. After noon, two imperial edicts were sent to the cabinet.

The first one is for the East Palace, its content is mainly about praise, praise the prince for studying hard recently, encourage the prince to continue to work hard, and at the same time, give a lot of gold and silver, the officials of the East Palace, basically everyone have a share.

Obviously, this purpose is mainly to appease.

And then the second question is about He Wenyuan's will.

"Holy decree, He Wenyuan, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was imprudent in his words and deeds in the Wenhua Palace. He was degraded by one rank. He was ordered to be the censor of Youqian Capital of the Fourth Rank Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is the governor of Jiangxi and responsible for disaster relief. Thank you!"

After seeing off Huai En who came to deliver the imperial edict, Yu Shiyue returned to the public house with a complicated expression.

For him, this decree can only be regarded as a mixed blessing.

On the surface, He Wenyuan was downgraded from being a third-rank servant to being a fourth-rank Youqian Capital Censor, and he was also transferred from the capital. According to official practice, it can be regarded as being demoted three ranks in a row, which is already very serious. punished.

But the problem is, as long as anyone who is familiar with the officialdom knows that this is just a heavy punishment.

One must know that He Wenyuan was originally selected as the candidate to go to Beijing for disaster relief. The only difference is in what capacity he is going to rescue the disaster.

If there hadn't been this accident, He Wenyuan should have been responsible for disaster relief as an imperial envoy as a minister of the third-rank official department. Now that this incident happened, his rank was indeed downgraded, but the real power was not. Weakened too much.

Yu Shiyue has worked in the cabinet all year round, so he is naturally very sensitive to the words in the imperial decree. In the imperial decree just now, the emperor said that he is the governor of Jiangxi!

In other words, although in name, He Wenyuan was demoted to be the censor of Youqian capital, but in fact, he was transferred to be the governor of Jiangxi.

Jiangxi has always been a treasure land of Wenhua, and many ministers in the court are from Jiangxi. Therefore, the job of governor of Jiangxi is naturally a fat job.

According to the past practice, the governor of Jiangxi is generally served by the right deputy censor of the third rank, and even, sometimes, the second rank of the right capital censor, but now, the emperor entrusts this task to He Wenyuan, the intention of this has to be thought-provoking.

Of course, even the governor of Jiangxi is a foreign official after all. Compared with the minister of the Ministry of officials, his gold content is still lower, not to mention that He Wenyuan's grade has indeed been lowered.

From this point of view, it can be regarded as barely having an explanation, but what worries Yu Shiyue is.

The matter of He Wenyuan made such a big fuss, but in the end he got such a serious punishment on the surface, but in fact it was punished with little thunder and rain. Then, from now on, the court...

As if to confirm Yu Shiyue's expectation, in the next few days, as expected, the cabinet received a sudden increase in memorials.

Sitting in the public room, looking at the two diametrically opposed memorials, Yu Shiyue couldn't help feeling a headache.

Since the last reform of Ke Dao, the secret performance system has become popular in the court. Although this system is mainly aimed at officials of Ke Dao, when the ministers of the court found that the secret performance can be more "speaking freely" , have also chosen this way.

However, secret performance and secret performance are still different.

In today’s court hall, according to the degree of secrecy of the memorandum, it can be roughly divided into four levels. The one with the highest level of secrecy is like that of He Wenyuan, who is directly presented to the imperial court and opened by the emperor himself. You can know the content, at most you know that there is such a secret melody.

In addition, there is another thing that is easily overlooked, that is, the secret performances of Dongchang and Jinyiwei. However, these two departments are special and can directly face the saints. Therefore, their secret performances, in terms of confidentiality, are even connected. The political secretary will not pass by, that is to say, the ministers in the court will not even know whether there is a secret concert.

However, both of these are outside the court, so they are not within the scope of discussion for the time being.

As far as the court is concerned, He Wenyuan's level of confidentiality is the highest. However, because it is directly sent to the imperial court, there are not many people who can obtain this privilege, and they must start with senior members of the third rank or above. , mainly the ministers, ministers, capital censors, and deputy capital censors. Locally, only the governor has this right.

Further down, it is the largest, ordinary secret concert, and there are more people who have this right. Basically, all officials of the science and Taoism can play in this form. In recent days, there have even been non-scientific and Ordinary Taoist officials also began to follow the trend. For this matter, Yu Shiyue and his former chief assistant Wang Ao went to the palace to report, but the emperor didn't say much, but let them deal with it as usual. Finally, for the sake of safety For the sake of sake, Yu Shiyue and others also dealt with it according to the ordinary secret music.

The number of this kind of secret performance is larger than that of the first one. Therefore, the level of secrecy is not high, and the cabinet still has the right to predict, but only the corresponding cabinet ministers can unseal it. The ministers of the cabinet are not allowed to disclose the content of the secret melodies they have proposed to each other, and they are not allowed to take it to the court for discussion without the emperor's oracle.

However, compared to the first one, the secrecy is always worse. After all, with an extra hand, no matter how secret it is, some news will still be spread out.

These two types are composed of the basic secret memorial system, and further down, there are ordinary memorials and routine official documents, which are also the largest part of the cabinet's daily processing, so there is nothing to say.

During this period of time, the sudden surge in the workload of the cabinet basically came from the second type of secret performance and the third type of explicit performance.

Among these memorials, there were two trends. One was the evaluation that Yu Shiyue was worried about, which had a negative impact on His Highness the Crown Prince.

Of course, they are not as radical as He Wenyuan, and most of them are fault-finding memoirs, for example, I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dozed off during the banquet today, and he was half a cup of tea late when he greeted you tomorrow... and so on.

It is a trivial matter, but it is related to the prince of the East Palace, so there is no such thing as a trivial matter!
Jing Yan dozed off, at a high level, it means slack in schoolwork, when it is too late to say hello, at a high level, it means disrespecting your father... This kind of thing just depends on whether someone makes an excuse.

Nowadays, no one has exaggerated like this, but it is obvious that the influence of He Wenyuan's incident has gradually begun to appear.

Thinking of this, Yu Shiyue couldn't help laughing bitterly, don't these people have any brains?

Don't they know that with their identities, even if it is a secret report, the ministers of the cabinet will have the opportunity to see it, and it is very likely that the person who is in charge of drafting the vote will be himself, the second assistant who is also the Zhan Shi of the Prince's Mansion!
After writing the ticket plan on the small ticket, Yu Shiyue sealed it up again, thinking in his heart, maybe, they are not not worried, but... what he saw was only a small part, I am afraid that other cabinet ministers, such There will be no shortage of memorials.

However, due to the emperor's ban, Yu Shiyue can't inquire with them...

After writing this eloquently for nearly two thousand words, accusing His Highness the Crown Prince of having no manners during the meal the day before yesterday, and putting aside the whole plate of clean dishes, Yu Shiyue shifted his eyes to another person next to him. This memorial.

This one is not a secret performance, but a clear performance!

However, the degree of trouble is no less than those secret performances just now.

There is nothing else, because most of the submitters of these memorials are officials from the Eastern Palace.

Unexpectedly, the emperor's edict of grace and appeasement did not have the desired effect. At least, after learning of He Wenyuan's final disposition, many officials in the Eastern Palace felt very dissatisfied.

Many of these people were from the Hanlin Academy and had extensive contacts in the court. Therefore, it didn't take long for them to hand over a lot of memorials to impeach He Wenyuan.

Of course, Yu Shiyue's previous advice was not completely ineffective. This time, these people were smarter and did not directly refute the emperor's statement in the edict, nor did they continue to label He Wenyuan. The crime of disrespect in front of the palace is used to make a fuss, and the focus is on the fact that such a "big crime" is too lightly dealt with by the emperor.

For example, in the memorandum of the most radical Ni Qian, it is straightforward to point out that the transfer of the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the governor of Jiangxi can only be regarded as mediocre. Although the rank has been demoted, it cannot be punished. Effect.

In addition, there is this one in front of you, from Xu Youzhen, a scholar of Youchunfang University!

After reading this memorial, Yu Shiyue had to say that this Xu Youzhen was really cruel.

The content of his memorial is very simple, and, uncharacteristically, it is not impeachment of He Wenyuan, but a statement of self-crime.

In the memorandum, Xu Youzhen admitted that Wenhua Palace and He Wenyuan had been arguing endlessly, her words and deeds were imprudent, and she was disrespectful in front of the palace, so she asked to be deposed as the county magistrate of Qipin, as an example to others!
I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but this memorandum ended up in Yu Shiyue's hands...

(End of this chapter)