Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 145 Helpless Coping ([-])
Zhang Juzheng has always been good at burning cold stoves. When Yan Song was in power, Xu Jie was obsequious in front of Yan Song, and even married Yan Song. The outside world is not optimistic about him, and even thinks that this person has no backbone.

Only Zhang Juzheng could see Xu Jie's forbearance, like a crocodile (alligator) lurking in the water, not moving until the last moment, once he opens his bloody mouth, it is time to kill someone.

Sure enough, when Yan Song was getting old and his family was declining, Xu Jie launched a seemingly inconspicuous but actually thrilling killing blow, which led to the downfall of Yan Song, the first official of the Jiajing Dynasty who had dominated the world for decades!

Xu Jie then succeeded him as Chief Assistant, and Zhang Juzheng gained Xu Jie's trust because he had stood by Xu Jie's side unwaveringly for many years, and was soon recommended by Xu Jie. Miles"!
If it is said that Gao Gong’s cold stove for burning King Yu was somewhat due to luck—he was “assigned” to Prince Yu’s mansion, and it was only because of his hard work that he gained King Yu’s trust; then Zhang Juzheng was himself The chosen path is to follow Xu Jie and follow Xu Jie's arrangement to be a lecturer of King Yu.

From this point of view, Zhang Juzheng was convinced that his eyes were higher than Gao Gong's, and he thought Gao Gong was just luck.Of course, Zhang Juzheng still has a little bit of admiration for Gao Gong's ability to manage the world and his ambition, otherwise he would not have become friends with him back then, and expected each other with respect to each other.

It's just that when both of them really entered the cabinet and became "Sister-in-law" in the actual sense, Zhang Juzheng's mentality was a little out of balance.

What Gao Gong wants to do is so similar to what he wants to do, but he is the real "Emperor Master" in the emperor's mind, but if he is there one day, how can he show his grand plans?Is it possible that I have to learn from the teacher in the past, who has been struggling with youth until Gao Gong is old and loses his holy family, so that he can stand out from the light of others?

Zhang Juzheng hesitated and struggled.

Gao Gong probably still trusts him, judging from the current situation, he will probably be willing to recommend himself as the chief assistant before he takes office in the future, but... Gao Gong is only 57 years old this year, even if he doesn't delay even a day For example, there are still 13 years to go before becoming an official at seventy!
Yes, I am only 45 years old this year, and even 13 years later, I will only be 58 years old. The first assistant at that age is not considered old. If everything goes well, I can still work for more than ten years.However, if Gao Gong has been working for more than ten years, if he has done everything he should and can do, what will he do in the future?

Xiao Gui Cao Sui?joke!Xiao He or Cao Can, who is more admired by future generations?
How can I, Zhang Taiyue, be willing to be inferior to others!

What I want is the book to criticize the world, the universe to be broken by me, the revival of the Ming Dynasty... all in my hands!
Since Sheng Yu, He Shengliang?Mr. Zhongxuan, brother Suqing, I, Zhang Juzheng, must compete with you!
What's more, you already have the unparalleled holy family, but now you want to plant a foreshadowing beside the prince. Could it be that you still want to work to that age like Yan Song did in the past, and then directly hand over the power to your nephew?
absurd!As long as I, Zhang Juzheng, are still here, I will absolutely not allow this to happen!
It's just that it's easy to make up your mind, but it's hard to get things done.The news that You Qi sent back this afternoon said that the head of the state, Li Weiwei, had a banquet with guests, and privately sent out a message that he had paid homage to Jingdi’s mausoleum and returned to Beijing to face the saint’s return. Among the third-rank civil servants, the prince is selected to accompany him to read, and some of the scope is too wide.

This statement cannot be said to be unreasonable. After all, the previous batch of Xunchen children were all from the top Xunchen families of the Jingnan Department. The scope of the third-rank civil servants in Beijing is indeed a bit too large.

But the question is, if the scope is reduced, to what extent?Six parts and nine ministers?Or just pick and choose from a few old houses in the pavilion?
However, it is okay to say that it is limited to the six ministries and nine ministers. If it is limited to the cabinet, what is the reason?You must know that the cabinet system has been developed to the present. Although the actual operation is based on "recommendation of civil servants above the third rank", the rank of the cabinet bachelor's itself is very low, but the authority has become more and more important as time goes by.

In the Ming Dynasty, the scope of the cabinet’s responsibilities was said. Specifically, there are the following types: "Whether it is possible to make a replacement, follow the rules and regulations, check the questions and play, and plan to comment on the votes, so as to allow the general government to be fair."

"Substitution" is the main way for the cabinet to help the monarch reduce government affairs.Cabinet ministers express their opinions according to the emperor's inquiries, which is called "offering".The monarch expresses his approval and instructs that it can be carried out, which is called "offering".If the cabinet ministers have different views on the emperor's plan, it is called "may or not".Simply will be the right to refute.

"According to Chen's regulations", "Chen" refers to the Confucian classics of the Four Books and Five Classics, the achievements of the Ming Lord of the previous dynasty and the legacy of the ancestors of the emperor, and the "regulations" are the rules and methods used to educate and train the emperor.According to Chen Guijiao, the cabinet scholars use the classroom form to teach the emperor the Four Books and Five Classics and the art of Anbang and Ningguo.

"Checking and inscribing", although everyone wrote to the emperor and often collectively referred to as "excuse", but strictly speaking, it is called "problem" for official matters, and "Zou" for private matters.Checking the memorials means that the cabinet has the right to preview the various memorials of the various divisions.

"Tickets to criticize and answer" began in the Yingzong Dynasty, and it was also the main form of the cabinet helping the emperor to regulate government affairs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. It is usually said that the cabinet leaders and ministers, how did they lead?Isn't it because all officials have to go through the cabinet first, and the cabinet will attach the handling opinions to the emperor in the form of drafts?In fact, the emperor was not so familiar with many government affairs. Most of them were nothing more than how to write the proposal.Even the emperor himself probably didn't even bother to write the word "ke", and handed it over to the supervisor of ceremonies to write it-this is a red flag.

In addition to the above-mentioned functions and powers, the cabinet also has the right to draft imperial edicts, participate in the discussion of state affairs, and write and edit the emperor's memoirs.But in any case, the cabinet ministers are just because they are in the center of power, so "although they have no name, they actually have power".

The actual rank of the cabinet ministers actually comes from the addition of titles.

For example, Gao Gong, he is the young Fu and the crown prince Taifu. From a first-rank civil servant, he also uniquely served as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

But the trouble is, if counting the title, there are also a group of people who are free and old.

Zhang Juzheng frowned, and cursed inwardly: This Li Wei is really incompetent, since you are passing the message on behalf of the emperor, you have accurately expressed the emperor's meaning. How can the officials respond to such unclear words?If you recommend your nephew, you may be flattered; if you don't recommend it, you may say that you "contempt the Holy Spirit".

But after much deliberation, Zhang Juzheng still decided to let his fourth son, Zhang Jianxiu, go with him tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)