Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 229 Cabinet Conflict
In the cabinet office.

Wang Ao's calm voice echoed faintly.

Gao Gu and Chen Xun looked at each other, both a little surprised.

After a while, Gao Gu asked in a deep voice.

"His Majesty Zhu Pi is here, and the edict is passed on by the father-in-law, and the words are still in your ears. Could it be false?"

"Is it fake?"

Wang Ao was almost laughed out of anger, snorted coldly, and his face suddenly sank.

"The old man sees that the two cabinet elders have been in the cabinet for too long. It has been so long that I can't tell what things can be done and what things can't be done!"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became depressing, Chen Xun had a dark face, squinted his eyes and did not speak.

Gao Gu's face turned a little suspicious, and he asked.

"What's the meaning of this, Chief Assistant?"

Wang Ao snorted coldly and asked back.

"You only blame the old man for cooperating with the Ministry of Officials to suppress the cabinet this time, but the old man would like to ask, before today, did you not recommend cabinet ministers to His Majesty? Are you ready?"

After the words fell, the two people opposite him were taken aback for a moment, and immediately fell into deep thought.

Seeing this situation, Wang Ao's face softened a little, and said.

"Although the old man has only been in the cabinet for ten months, but at the court meeting, His Majesty believed in the intention of promoting the cabinet, but the old man also knew."

"The two of you said that the cabinet is busy with important affairs, and you need to add cabinet ministers. Doesn't your Majesty not understand this point?"

"Previously, the cabinet was only served by the two of you, and it was even busier than it is now. Why did His Majesty refuse to allow the two of you to add to the cabinet ministers' memorials? Do you need to say more about the reasons?"

A series of rhetorical questions made Chen Xun and Gao Gu break out in cold sweat.

Especially Chen Xun, his two eyebrows were tightly knit together, obviously, his mood was very restless.

As a result, the two no longer had the confidence they had just now, pondered for a moment, and Gao Gu tentatively said.

"What does the chief assistant mean, that His Majesty is afraid of the cabinet?"

After finishing speaking, Gao Gu shook his head again and said.

"I'm afraid this is unlikely. The right to vote for the cabinet and the customization of the cabinet ministers are all set up by His Majesty for promotion. Our proposal to add cabinet ministers is also based on the number of posts set by His Majesty. How could it be..."

Before he finished speaking, Gao Gu raised his head, but saw that Wang Ao did not answer, but turned his eyes to Chen Xun whose expression changed.

So, he had a vague understanding in his heart.

At this time, Wang Ao said.

"The cabinet was originally set up outside the six ministries of the imperial court. His Majesty gave the cabinet the right to vote and draft, so that the government affairs of the imperial court can run more smoothly, and it can further restrain the ministries of the outer court."

"Adding cabinet ministers is naturally needed by His Majesty, but it is not up to us to say who to add."

"The power of the cabinet is the most important place for communication between the inner court and the outer court. If all the cabinet members come from the same line, then the cabinet will lose the original intention of His Majesty's promotion. At that time, it will matter whether the cabinet is present or not. How can we talk about authority?"

Gao Gu pondered, and soon understood the meaning of Wang Ao's words.

After realizing it, he couldn't help feeling a surge of fear.

Looking back, during these days, they were indeed a bit too ostentatious.

Ever since His Majesty clearly expressed his reliance on the cabinet at the court meeting, they lost their original sense of normalcy.

But they forgot one thing.

Cooking oil in a raging fire, under the blooming brocade, often hides an undercurrent that can destroy people.

Emperor Taizu abolished Zhongshu, dismissed the prime minister, and let the emperor directly control the six departments. The biggest drawback is the extreme contradiction between imperial power and ministerial power.

The emperor is the decision maker, and the six departments are the executors.

All the agencies between the two were abolished, leaving only a Secretary of General Administration responsible for delivering memorials.

In this way, once there is a conflict between the two, it is very easy to evolve into a violent conflict.

Before His Majesty ascended the throne today, the Zuoshunmen incident was a typical example.

As Wang Ao said, His Majesty must have seen the disadvantages in it, so he increased the power of the cabinet.

In other words, the most important role of the cabinet is to communicate with the inside and outside, to reconcile the contradiction between the imperial power and the ministerial power, and to serve as a buffer between the two.

This is the reason why the cabinet is a group of assistants, unlike the six ministries, which are divided into Zhengyin officials and Zuoer officials.

Once the cabinet becomes a certain person's pocket, it will inevitably become his capital to grab power.

This is not alarmist talk, but what is happening!
Gao Gu took a deep breath and looked at Chen Xun with complicated eyes.

He finally understood why the emperor had been unwilling to let Chen Xunlai be the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Not for anything else, it is precisely because of what Chen Xun has done these days that the emperor has already become vigilant.

No wonder, the two of them repeatedly went to the book to ask for more cabinet ministers, but the emperor refused.

Wang Ao sneered and said in a deep voice.

"Do you understand?"

"You say that the old man is uniting with the bureaucracy to suppress the cabinet, but you don't know that it is you who are really harming the cabinet!"

Staring at the silent Chen Xun, Wang Ao said coldly.

"Brother De Zun, Elder Gao Ge, not only do you two have no position to blame the old man for today's matter, but you also want to thank the old man for entering the palace early. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will not be a matter of dismissing the two of you as mere academicians. Already!"

Unlike Chen Xun, Gao Gu and others, Wang Ao had just been transferred back to the capital from Liaodong.

Although he doesn't have so many intertwined relationships and contacts in the capital, thanks to this, he can also detach from them and look at the situation in the court from the perspective of a bystander.

From his first day in the cabinet, he has sensed it.

Chen Xun, the second assistant, is too keen on improving the status of the cabinet in the court!
As a result, this kind of enthusiasm has reached the point where even Wang Ao feels a little restless.

So at the banquet that day, he rejected Chen Xun's proposal to play jointly with almost no hesitation.

But he didn't expect that Chen Xun's obsession with the cabinet's rising status in the court has completely blinded his eyes these days.

They even put aside him as the chief assistant, and wanted to perform alone, even at the sutra feast, so blatantly humiliating him.

Wang Ao did not tell lies.

He has been in Liaodong for many years, and he has never seen any scenes.

It's just a mere snub, why did he make such a fierce counterattack?

What's more, he couldn't even wait for half a day. After the sutra feast, he immediately went to the officials' department, and then entered the palace immediately, without delay.

It was really because, from this incident, he smelled a hint of danger.

Not so long ago.

The emperor was furious just now, and reprimanded the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for taking private revenge on the Ministry of Households for the matter of paying off the salary of pepper and sapphire.

Now, the salaries of those people have not been fined yet, and the Hanlin Academy has actually united together to openly exclude him as the chief assistant.

It would be fine if Wang Ao did something that aroused the criticism of Shilin, but he just didn't accompany Chen Xun and Gao Gu's memorabilia.

Isn't it obvious that the two of them are taking private revenge and using public equipment for private use?
Wang Ao didn't care about the life or death of the two of them.

However, if the emperor loses trust in the cabinet because of this, then that is the real trouble!

After all, the cabinet is not a serious yamen, its power comes from drafting on behalf of the emperor.

Since it is a generation, the emperor can take it back at any time.

Having lost the trust of the emperor, it is not known how long it will take for the newly formed cabinet to regain its vitality.

After trying to understand the joints, Gao Gu also became anxious and said.

"Lord Chief Assistant, now, His Majesty..."

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