Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 933
In the final analysis, although the current emperor has only been on the throne for more than two years, he is no longer the King Tan who had no foundational prestige in the court.

Such things, the emperor's mind is determined, and it is quite difficult for these ministers to stop them.

Although the emperor said that what should be tried should be tried, but this is just a way of saving face, if you continue to entangle, you will lose face to yourself.

But fortunately, although the ministers have all kinds of worries about the secret music system, as the emperor said, the court is still struggling for the time being.

The only dissatisfaction is probably that the cabinet has seized the qualification to open the secret concert.

However, this is impossible. The special nature of the cabinet determines that only it can undertake this function.

Moreover, if it is not handed over to the cabinet, then it can only be sent directly to the palace. In that case, the secrecy will be the best, but the harm will not be small.

So for now, this should be the best way.

Of course, if you change to another yamen, Chen Yi, as the chief, will definitely try his best to fight for it.

However, the Kedao Yamen is a very special Yamen in the Outer Dynasty.

The imperial court has a smooth way of speaking, so the officials of Kedao are extremely independent.

For Ke Dao officials, there has never been any concept of leapfrogging to play. Therefore, even if there is no secret memorial system, it is impossible for Chen Yi to interfere with the content of these Ke Dao officials' melodies.

In fact, the restrictions imposed by the Mingzuo system have strengthened the control of officials above the imperial censor of the capital, which is considered a good thing.

However, having said that, the ministers present were still a little jealous that the cabinet was the first to hear the content of these secret reports. Although they didn't say anything on the surface, they had already started to think about what to do in secret. At least, the cabinet cannot be allowed to take advantage of this opportunity.

Therefore, although following Wang Wen's words, the topic has turned to how to increase the number of officials in science and technology, but the thoughts of the ministers at the bottom have not yet come out.

Sitting on the throne, Zhu Qiyu naturally had a panoramic view of the expressions of the ministers below.

It should be said that he is very clear about the concerns of these ministers, but, again, there is no better way right now.

Some of what he said just now were to silence the ministers, but most of them were also true.

Although there were precedents for the secret performance system before, it was only used in Jinyiwei and Dongchang. It was not used on a large scale in the Ming Dynasty. It was only in the late Ming Dynasty. Children, used to control the court.

After the ceremony, in order to further control the court, Jiajing picked up the "silver seal density" system that had been used by the Renzong Dynasty.

This kind of system, in the Renzong Dynasty, was specially granted by the Emperor Renzong in order to thank the old officials of the Prince's Mansion who helped him ascend the throne. It was more to show his status and show his favor, but not many people actually used it.

However, Jiajing reused this set and further improved it, purely to strengthen the control over courtiers.

At that time, Jiajing first bestowed all the cabinet ministers and some trusted ministers with specially cast silver seals, allowing them to report secretly with this seal, and specially instructed all the ministers holding the seal that this is a secret decree and must not be leaked. The format of a set of close notes is specially stipulated as a standard.

In this way, Jiajing firmly controlled the cabinet and then the entire court in the following decades. Even the cabinet ministers were afraid of each other because of the system of dense and sparse silver seals. Send a flattery to the king.

However, that’s all there is to it. In the Ming Dynasty, apart from the extensive use of the dense system in Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the largest use of the system in the court was during the Jiajing period to check and balance the forces of all parties.

So for Zhu Qiyu, he is actually crossing the river by feeling the stones.

There has never been such a large-scale system of granting the right to censor secret performances before. Therefore, although Zhu Qiyu had expected what kind of effect it would achieve, he did not dare to be completely sure.

This is also one of the reasons why he will delegate the power of opening secrets to the cabinet.

Although the secrecy is a little bit worse, after all, what Chen Yi and others are thinking about is also reasonable.

What he has to do now is to establish the framework first, and the days to come will be long, and when he encounters problems, he will gradually improve it.

Of course, this kind of system will inevitably enable the cabinet to obtain a lot of information that other courtiers cannot, and the hidden power will be further expanded, which is contrary to Zhu Qiyu's original intention of putting the cabinet in the second place.

However, for one thing, the secret book is different from the ordinary Ming Zou. Although the cabinet has the power to open the secret book, the secret book is unsealed by the cabinet ministers, and the bills are sent directly to the palace. The cabinet ministers are not allowed to disclose the contents. What's more, it must not be brought to the cabinet meeting for discussion, so it also has the effect of checks and balances within the cabinet.

Second, the reason why Zhu Qiyu has inconsistent attitudes towards the cabinet is because he is worried that there will be party disputes after the cabinet becomes powerful. For this reason, he cut off the connection between the cabinet and the Imperial Academy, and further suppressed Qingliu. Now it seems that Wang Ao, the first assistant, has also figured out the key to it, so he has his performance today.

If the cabinet can stick to its duty and stop reaching out to Qingliu indiscriminately, then this power can still be handed over to the cabinet for the time being.

As for hidden dangers... Maybe there will be cabinet ministers who will take this opportunity to win over Ke Dao.

However, if they really do this, then Zhu Qiyu has the opportunity to take back this power from the cabinet and make further improvements to the secret music system.

The most important thing is that under the circumstances that the Ming Dynasty has a clear distinction between the secret and the Wei, Ke Dao's power of remonstrance is restricted. Even if he is wooed, it is impossible to coerce the court at every turn as before.

As for the secret performance, the most beneficial form of this form is actually Zhu Qiyu, the emperor.

The Ming Zuo was handed over, and passed through the Secretary of General Administration, the Cabinet, the Supervisor of Rituals and many other institutions, and some of them would be reported in the morning court, so it was basically impossible to keep it secret.

In fact, this is also a constraint for Zhu Qiyu.

Since everyone in the government and the public knew the existence of this memorial and the general content, if Zhu Qiyu refused to approve it, or if the reply was not in line with the wishes of some ministers, it would easily cause controversy in the court.

But the form of the secret memorial, at most, only a certain cabinet minister knows the content. Even if someone has bad intentions and wants to "remonstrate" as usual, Zhu Qiyu can just throw it aside. When it does not exist at all, under the secret memorial system, as long as Zhu Qiyu If you don't want to, then the content in this memorial actually doesn't exist.

Therefore, the current situation is definitely not the final result, but for a long period of time, at least a period of balance will be maintained.

If this problem is solved, then the rest is actually simple. Wang Wen, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, has always been very effective in his duties. For example, the last time he handled such a big event as the Jingchao, it is naturally impossible. Stumped by this little thing right now.

The reason why he asked for instructions in front of so many people, to put it bluntly, was to pass the steps to Zhu Qiyu.

The relationship between the monarch and his ministers for so long is not only the tacit understanding between Yu Qian and Zhu Qiyu. On the issue of the election, Mr. Wang's spiritual understanding of the emperor will only be better.

The emperor spent such a long time before to put shackles on Ke Dao, so he must have already thought about how to show favor.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for Lord Wang to steal the limelight.

So, after pondering for a moment, Zhu Qiyu said.

"It is true that Ke Dao is short of manpower now, but this is because half of the Ke Dao officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate have been dispatched to various places to be responsible for the rectification of military settlements."

"After this group of people came back, the number of staff in the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be oversubscribed. According to the report given to me by Yu Shaobao and Jin Shangshu, the matter of the military settlement could probably be settled a few years ago. In this way, this group of people Will return to the court."

"However, since it is necessary to clarify the style of the officialdom, it does not matter if there are occasional oversupply in the department. In this way, the Ministry of Officials can quickly draw up the regulations for the examination, and the newly transferred censor will be assessed. Those who qualify will be dismissed according to their merits, regardless of the number of posts."

Well, it really is a big deal!
As the emperor said, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is indeed short of people, but only temporarily.

There are six subjects and thirteen courses. In the case of not counting all of them will be given to Shizhong and Left, and Right will be given to Shizhong. The quota for six subjects is 40 people, and the quota for thirteen courses is 110 people.

Today, there are about 30 officials in the six departments and 60 officials in the thirteen censors.

Especially the censor, who is less than half, is naturally a serious shortage of people.

However, last time, taking advantage of the east wind of rectifying the military settlements, Chen Zongxian plucked a handful of wool and snatched a total of fifty censors from the officials, plus the original 32 officers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Taoist officials were sent to various places to assist in the Qingzhang Tianmu.

However, the emperor made it clear at the time that these fifty censors were a stopgap measure. After the rectification of the military settlements, the quota should be restored.

In other words, among the 50 people, only 28 people can stay in office.

Seeing that the process of rectifying the military settlement was pushed forward more and more, Chen Zongxian was both happy and reluctant.

Happily, after this year's training, this group of censors has gradually matured, but when he thought that [-]% of this group of people would be wiped out, he felt distressed for a while.

Now it's all right, the emperor Jinkou Yuyan, regardless of the number of personnel, which means that after the rectification of the army is over, the team of Kedao will grow further.

Overjoyed in his heart, Chen Yi was about to thank him, but saw the emperor raised his hand to stop him, and continued.

"Besides, the grades of Kodao officials have been slightly adjusted!"

"In my court system, all six subjects are given to Shizhong, which is the seventh rank, left and right are given to Shizhong and given to Shizhong, from the seventh rank, and the thirteen censors are also the seventh rank."

"The original intention was to make the officials of the Kodao independent of each other, and suppress the big with the small. However, times have changed. Now that the responsibilities of the Kodao have been adjusted, the grades should also be adjusted."

"From now on, all the six subjects will be designated as the sixth rank, the left and right will be assigned the sixth rank, and the middle class will be the seventh rank. There will be thirteen censors, and each will have one censor in charge, ranking the sixth rank. grade, and the grades of other censors remain unchanged."

"He is in charge of the censor, assists the censor of the capital, and assists in various affairs."

After saying these words, all the ministers present were also a little surprised.

Originally they thought that the emperor allowed the original 50 people to stay regardless of the number of posts, which was generous enough, but they didn't expect that there would be more in the future, and the kindness was even greater.

If the move to stay in office just now was an expansion of Ke Dao's overall power, then the adjustment of rank has benefited at least one-third of Ke Dao officials.

Prior to this, the system of Ke Dao was relatively simple, with six subjects and thirteen dao, whether it was from the seventh rank or the regular seventh rank, it was always the seventh rank.

And on top of this is directly the imperial censor of the capital, ranked fourth.

From the seventh rank to the fourth rank, there is a difference of six steps in between, which means that if the officials of the science and Taoism want to be promoted, it is impossible to stay in the monitoring system. It is possible to transfer back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate only at the highest level.

However, the emperor made such a change, and all six subjects were given to Shizhong and Zhang Dao Yushi, and they all became the sixth grade. Although they are still four steps behind the Qiandu Yushi, the difficulty has been reduced after all, and it can be greatly improved. Speed ​​up the turnover of officials in science and technology.

Chen Yi couldn't hide the joy on his face, he took a step forward and was about to say thank you.

However, what was unexpected was that the Son of Heaven raised his hand again to signal him to swallow the words that were on his lips.

Under everyone's gaze, the Son of Heaven pondered for a moment, then spoke again, saying.

"This is an adjustment to Ke Dao. In addition to these, I have another idea. I want you to consult it in detail and see if it is feasible."

Ah this...

The elders looked at each other and pricked up their ears.

They really couldn't think of anything else, let the emperor say such a thing, listen, it's not a trivial matter.

Sure enough, the emperor continued to speak.

"According to the usual practice, after the previous imperial examinations in my dynasty, the top three in the first class and those with excellent grades will be admitted to the Imperial Academy as Shujishi. The original intention of this move is to enable this generation of literary and romantic people to fully display their talents."

"However, in recent years, I have often found that people in the Imperial Academy study poetry and books hard, and are better at articles, but their understanding of court affairs is often inferior to that of the new scholars who observe politics in the six departments."

"The Hanlin Academy has always been regarded as a Qingliu Huaxuan. If things go on like this, it is a waste of talent!"

"So, I've been thinking about how to make the officials of the Imperial Academy not only bury their heads in poetry and prose, but only know how to talk on paper, but can participate in the government."

"Nowadays, since the Metropolitan Procuratorate is short of manpower, I think it might be a good idea to let the Shuji who have observed politics for more than three years in the Imperial Academy go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a half-year trial to be a censor. For the evaluation, if you are competent, you will be awarded the censor, and if you are not competent, you will be transferred to another way."

"Trying to be a censor, mainly inspecting officials' conduct and corruption. In this way, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not worry about the shortage of manpower."

"Do you think this move is appropriate?"

This……

After hearing the emperor's words, all the ministers present couldn't help but look at each other. Immediately afterwards, they all frowned tightly and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)