Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1169 Cut You Into Three Sections
The impeachment of Pan Sheng was made by Gao Pragmatism in one go, so whoever is going to impeach must of course be arranged by him.

Gao Yushi himself will definitely not come forward for this kind of impeachment of cabinet ministers, at least not in person at the beginning. This is the basic rule.

It's like playing chess, if you don't hear about it, you can move your hand without hearing it, handsome.

Sitting in the central army and instigating the overall situation is the job of a "general". As for charging and galloping, it is natural to have the soldiers and even chariots and artillery under his hands to do it.

For things like impeachment, who should be arranged to do it first?Of course, it is the supervisory officer, that is, the science and Taoist officer.

The supervisory officials of the Ming Dynasty had great power, and the objects of impeachment were also very wide, not limited to their rank and status.All the relatives of the emperor, the senior officials, the grassroots officials, the young scholars, and even the officials of the same office, the supervisory officials can all be impeached.

Throughout the 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, there are many backgrounds and opportunities for impeachment incidents, and they have obvious characteristics of the times.There are impeachment in the context of major political events, impeachment in the context of certain systems, and impeachment of officials’ personal behavior.

Judging from the records of "Ming Shilu", the era of the most and most intensive impeachment cases in the Ming Dynasty was the Longqing Dynasty—you read that right, it was the Longqing period of the good old man and the little bee.

During the Longqing period, an average of 12.5 impeachment cases were recorded in the "Records" every year, which was the peak since the founding of the Ming Dynasty; followed by the Xuande period, with an average of 11.3 impeachment cases per year; and the Jingtai period, with an average of 10.375 case of impeachment.

The record of the "popular sage" Emperor Chongzhen is neither high nor low, with an average of 7 cases per year.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, which had a "big ceremony", the number of impeachment cases recorded in "Shizong Shilu" was only 4.67 per year.This may seem strange at first glance, but it is not.

First of all, the "Jiajing" period was very long, as long as 45 years, and the great ceremony was a matter in the early period of Jiajing. In the later period, due to the tactics of Emperor Jiajing, although the struggle was fierce, the court itself was relatively stable.Especially when Yan Song was in power and monopolized power, of course ordinary people would not dare to impeach indiscriminately.

In turn, this can explain why there were so many impeachment cases in the Longqing Dynasty: in the first year of Longqing, Xu Jie and Gao Gong fought each other. To help Longqing clean up the mess, he had to impeach some of those who did not cooperate with the work.

However, Emperor Longqing himself died young, so of course the impeachment cases seemed very intensive.

In fact, Wanli recorded the most impeachment cases in the "Records" in the original history. During his 48-year reign, a total of 240 impeachment cases were recorded in "Records of Shenzong"; followed by Wanli's grandfather Emperor Jiajing recorded a total of 210 times; and during the Zhengtong period, there were as many as 182 times.

The amazing thing is that during Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu period, during his 31-year reign, there were only 63 impeachments, an average of about two per year.

Statistics are not about being idle, but from this we can see that the performance of impeachment by officials in the Ming Dynasty has distinct phased characteristics.

During the reign of the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty, the overall political situation was stable, and the political struggle was not very fierce. The impeachment act generally operated within a relatively stable and orderly institutional framework.

After Xuande, the number of impeachments gradually increased, and reached the highest peak in the orthodox period.

In the Hongzhi Dynasty, there were signs of a decline again, which should be the result of the revival of Hongzhi and the improvement of the political climate.

From then until the end of the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, it can be said that impeachment activities became more and more widespread, and the situation remained high. This also shows the tragic political struggles in the late Ming Dynasty.

The early Ming and middle Ming are already in the past tense. Although Gao Yushi compiled the "Da Ming Hui Dian" and knew about it, he didn't care much about it. What he really cared about was the present.

In other words, it is the direction of the court after Jiajing.

In terms of the original history, the Ming Dynasty after Jiajing even entered the later stage.During this period, political events can be described as one after another, and did not show signs of decline until the end of the Ming Dynasty.Accompanying these major political events, impeachment has played an important role in them, and it has been consistent with almost every political event.

In addition to various major political events, impeachment can also be found during the operation of certain systems, such as the imperial examinations, the appointment and dismissal of officials, assessments, court promotions, and even when officials become official and win favors. trace.

In the operation of these systems, with the promotion of officials, the balance of political interests will tilt, and there will inevitably be struggles, and impeachment is born under such circumstances.

Judging from the records of "Records", the most common and most powerful impeachment is probably as follows: one is the impeachment of Jingcha; the other is the impeachment of the court; the third is the impeachment of seduction;

During the Double Ninth Festival, Zhang Yigui thought of going back to find Wang Xijue’s troubles because of the great impeachment power of the imperial examination. However, it does not mean that there is a problem with Zhang Yigui's thinking, what is problematic is that "the operability for specific objects is not strong".

The impeachment case that Gao Wushi wants to launch against Pan Sheng this time is exactly one of the four major impeachment cases, the "impeachment of court push".

The so-called Ting Tui refers to the system in which court officials nominate candidates for appointment by the emperor when important official positions in the court are vacant.

According to the Ming system, when ministers join the cabinet, they are either recommended by the court or given a special order. When it is implemented, "the cabinet...the court recommends two people"—that is, the cabinet provides two candidates for the emperor to choose one of them.

Of course, the emperor does not have to choose only from these two candidates. If he is really dissatisfied with these two candidates, he can also ask the cabinet to re-draft the candidates, or even bypass the cabinet and directly "join the cabinet". .

Due to the small number of places, disputes are inevitable; in addition, those who have the right to sponsor are all important ministers of the Nine Ministers, who have a certain degree of voice and supporters, thus deepening the complexity of the struggle. Focusing on the paradoxical political climate of the last days.

However, according to Gao Pragmatic's point of view, the most famous Tingtui impeachment case in the original history should have happened in the late Wanli period.

When the court promoted the cabinet ministers in the 35th year of Wanli, Li Tingji, who has now become a high-level pragmatic student, was among them. At that time, he was firmly opposed by Cao Yuxi and others who belonged to the Donglin Party.Later, although Li Tingji entered the cabinet with the support of Wanli and even served as the first assistant, he was always resisted and even attacked by "dozens of people". .

Coincidentally, Li Sancai, governor of Fengyang, was nominated to be in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate under the operation of the Donglin Party soon after, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Zhejiang Party.

So in the 37th year of Wanli, under the envoy of Shen Yiguan, Shao Fuzhong, the secretary of the Tuntian Division of the Ministry of Industry, impeached Li Sancai as "a traitor who seems loyal, a big fraud who seems straight, and a person who is greedy, dangerous and false", and tried his best to prevent him from taking the position. As a result, Li Sancai also resigned.

In fact, if we only talk about ability, then Li Tingji can be regarded as a man of integrity and prudence; and Li Sancai is also quite capable of politics, "the world regards three talents as virtuous".If these two people are in their positions, they may be beneficial to the government.

However, when parties fight, the first thing to look at is never ability, but faction.

It’s just that Gao Wushi is very optimistic about this point at the moment: Pan Sheng’s ability... is not bad, but it is indeed not irreplaceable. The best thing is that people can be on top.

After all, Pan Sheng is in charge of the Ministry of Rites.

The work of the Ministry of Rituals, to put it bluntly, who can't do this with a Jinshi background?If we really want to talk about the requirements for ability, no matter which one of the other five departments are, they all have higher requirements than the Ministry of Rites, especially the "professional ability".

Taking the Longqing Dynasty as an example, it would definitely be better for yamen such as the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War to have pragmatists like Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng in power than Li Chunfang, and there is no need to even explain.

After the Double Ninth Festival dinner was over, the guests gradually dispersed, but a few of them stayed behind after they were quietly notified by Gao Jiading.

The people who stayed were very interesting, two pairs of brothers.

Brothers Xiao Liangyou and Xiao Liangyu, and brothers Wang Tingzhuan and Wang Tingyu.

It is interesting to say that Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan, who joined Gao Yushi's "Three Tripods" together with Gao Yushi, have now become the "new backbone" that everyone in the Gao Party is optimistic about. Man's brother is also highly praised by the real school.

Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan are favored, which is relatively understandable, after all, they were originally the Three Tripod Armors, and they were "heavenly gods".Although the two of them entered the Imperial Academy in the past few years, they only made a fortune when they edited "Da Ming Hui Dian" with Gao Yushi, and both were promoted from editor to editor, and there was no promotion after that.

However, their resumes are here, and they are the same year of high pragmatism. Naturally, they will be regarded as the help of high pragmatism in the future. I can do it, but if you say something good, if you have nothing to do, give them an "excellent" in the evaluation. Isn't that easy?
However, Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu are favored, so it can only be said that Gao Pragmatism has too much face--Xiao Liangyu is in the second and sixth place, but he failed in the selection of Shujishiguan and stayed in Beijing as an official; Wang Tingyu's ranking is even in the top three No. 130 and fifth place, there is no way to choose a museum, but he also got an official in Beijing.

Staying in Beijing as an official has always been regarded as a good place to go, even if it is to go to Dangzhi County, "the party in charge", it is not as good as staying in Beijing.

Moreover, their official careers after staying in Beijing are also very smooth, to a certain extent, they are better than their elder brothers who have mixed qualifications in the Imperial Academy.

This point can be seen by looking at their current positions: Xiao Liangyu was the supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province (not an inspector), and Wang Tingyu was the official official at that time.

At this moment, Gao Wushi and the two brothers had already talked for a while in the water pavilion in the backyard garden of Baiyu Building.

"The situation is roughly like this. What do you think of the four younger brothers?" Gao Wushi talked about what happened at the Chongyang Conference, and then got to the point.

The four of Xiao and Wang glanced at each other, and they were very clear about Gao Yushi's intentions, which must have hinted that they were impeaching Pan Sheng.

Xiao Liangyu immediately spoke first, and said: "I am the supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province, and Mr. Pan Ge happens to be from Zhejiang. I am naturally obliged to do this."

In fact, this statement does not make sense. The supervisory censor of a certain place is not in charge of affairs according to the place of household registration. Whether Pan Sheng is from Zhejiang has nothing to do with this.

However, Gao Wushi wouldn't bother with this, he knew that Xiao Liangyu was just looking for a reason for himself to make a move, so he smiled and said: "Brother Nian's Xiongwen, I have read it many times in the past few years, so it must be a blow this time." Immediately."

Seeing that Xiao Liangyu took the lead, Wang Tingyu said not to be outdone, "Although Tingyu is incompetent, he deeply hates this kind of ungrateful people. Tomorrow, he will play a game to echo Brother Xiao."

Gao Wushi nodded in satisfaction, cupped his hands in thanks and said, "Thank you two young brothers for your kindness."

The two were too busy to dare.

Gao Wushi paused for a moment, and then said: "By the way, there is one thing about the matter of impeachment. Although the two young brothers must know it well, they still need to say something more pragmatically. I hope the two young brothers will not be too pragmatic."

The two were too busy to dare.

Gao Wushi paused word by word and said: "This impeachment must be based on facts and people--for things, it is only said that Pan Xinchang's entry into the cabinet has caused controversy in the court, and that he has never gone to the court. A plea; as far as people are concerned, that is to say, only Pan Xinchang is one person, remember not to mention others, and don't expand the scope of the attack."

Well, Gao Yushi said it politely before, but when he was arranging things in detail, his tone of voice clearly had a feeling of "explaining the main points of the task".

Of course, there is no way to do this, after all, he is the one talking about it, and this is an objective reality.

But when he said this, the two of them seemed to be a little confused.Xiao Liangyu was better, just slightly frowned, as if he was lost in thought, but Wang Tingyu asked in surprise, "Don't expand the scope of the attack? Gong Bao is saying that you don't want to bring a fortune to other people of the Xinxue school?"

Before Gao Wushi could speak, Wang Tingyu's elder brother, Wang Tingzhuan, spoke first, pointing to his younger brother, "Especially Shen Yuanfu...don't mention it."

Wang Tingyu was a little puzzled, frowned deeply, and asked with a puzzled expression, "But why is this? Wasn't Shen Yuanfu responsible for this? I always feel that this...doesn't need to be knocked on the mountain, right?"

Gao Wushi understood what he meant. He felt that "knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger" was meaningless, because if he moved Pan Sheng, Shen Shixing must have understood that the Real School was fighting back against him.

However, Wang Tingyu didn't understand that what he meant was not to shock the tiger, nor to startle the snake, it was indeed meaningless.My own meaning is actually very simple: it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers.

What's the use of carrying shishixing now?He just picked up a chief assistant, and now Zhang Siwei has just left. For the emperor, this is a time for stability. Unless Shen Shixing wants to rebel, it is impossible to do anything to Shen Shixing at this time .

That being the case, why is it necessary to move Shenshixing?It's better to concentrate on knocking down Pan Sheng. As long as Pan Sheng is impeached, other neutral factions will have to take a closer look and consider whether they are so strong when they want to join the Heart School in the future.

"If Pan Xinchang is impeached, if the school of mind wants to win over anyone in the future, they will have to think about Pan Xinchang's fate today. In this way, there will be a gap between the three types of people who are mind-learning, neutral, and vacillating."

Separating the Mind School from the Neutral School, and preventing some vacillating people from going to Shen Shixing, this is the highly pragmatic "cut you into three pieces"! ——
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