Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1707 Post-war Waves ([-]) "Like"

As the capital enters summer, the lotus blossoms on the east side of the Shichahai Sea are in full bloom, and on the east bank is the Shangshu Gaofu, which has finally become a little cleaner recently.

There are two women sitting in the gazebo near the water in Gaofu.One person in Jinshui is wearing a small bun in the style of an unmarried girl, wearing a light blue long-sleeved gown, looking at Bibo Xinhe with a cold expression; Sihe Ruyi shirt, wearing a beige Yunlan pleated skirt, is concentrating on making tea.Judging from the proficiency of his movements, his tea art is almost a master.

These two people are Liu Xin and Narita Kai - the one with the little bun is Liu Xin, and the one with the golden bow is Narita Kai.

"Sister Liu, master defeated the main force of the Mongolian army with two victories in one day. ?”

Hearing Narita Kai's teasing smile from behind, Liu Xin turned her head slowly, looked at her and sighed softly: "I would have imagined being as happy as you, but it's a pity...you and I have different identities, you only want him It would be good to come back earlier, but I still have to think about what he will face when he comes back—after all, he can’t let his salary of thousands of taels of silver for that year be wasted, right?”

Narita Jiafei laughed dumbfounded, thought for a while and said: "Sister Liu has a lot of shares in Jinghua Pharmaceutical, I think you can get a lot of shares in a year, and the salary of thousands of taels of silver is not good for Liu's sister. In other words, it doesn’t seem like a big deal.”

"That's two different things." Liu Xin shook her head and said, "Besides, the shares in Jinghua Pharmaceutical are not actually mine, I just hold them for the Liu family."

"So that's the case, but even if it's only a few thousand taels of salary, it's much more than my little sister's regular money." Narita Kai sighed half-truthfully, and said, "It's a pity that the salary of the secretariat is so high. You have no talent, otherwise you should find a way to get in."

Liu Xin couldn't help laughing and said: "Why, isn't your husband worth a few thousand taels of silver?"

Narita Jiafei was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Hey, big sister of the Liu family, you can't say that nonsense, my little sister doesn't mean that."

"Okay, okay, I know that your husband is very valuable." Liu Xin rolled her eyes and put on a sullen look, and said, "But just because he is very valuable, there will be more troubles."

Narita Kai asked curiously: "Sister Liu said just now that Master will face... what?"

"What? Naturally, it's all kinds of troubles." Liu Xin said with a troubled look on her face, "I knew it was a troublesome job for him to cut Yuan this time.

You see, some time ago, the officers and soldiers could not find the main force of the Mongolian army. They spent almost two months wandering around in Monan, following the horseshoes to eat ashes. As a result, there were all kinds of weird words in the court, all kinds of yin and yang, They even used Li Guang to insinuate him..."

"Li Guang?" Narita Jiafei asked in surprise, "Isn't the parachutist Li Guang a famous general in Han Dynasty? Why is it strange to compare Li Guang to your husband?"

"You have read a lot of Chinese books, but the depth is almost meaningless." Liu Xin smiled innocently and said, "There are two reasons why comparing Li Guang to your husband is yin and yang. : Firstly, Li Guang is a general and not a civil servant; secondly, a big reason why Li Guang is difficult to seal is that he lost his way inexplicably on several expeditions, which is really outrageous compared with Wei and Huo. That's why it's 'difficult to seal'."

That's true, Wei Qing will not talk about it, but Huo Qubing, who seems to have a satellite navigation, has achieved a magical record of destroying five countries in six days with one hit on the grassland.In this comparison, although Li Guang's personal ability is very strong, he is naturally not good from the perspective of leading troops.

It is also because of this that when Gao Yushi failed to catch up with Tumen's main force for two months, it was obviously a sarcasm to say that he was Li Guang. Otherwise, could it be said that his personal force is comparable to Li Guang?Laughing to death, Li Guang had to give him a reward when he came over with an arrow.

After hearing the explanation, Narita Jiafei said displeasedly: "These people are too mean, the master is handsome and not a general, why should he be compared with the generals!"

Liu Xin curled her lips and said, "That was before, when the news of the Lightning Lake victory and the naturalization victory came yesterday, the wind direction in the capital immediately changed. From this morning onwards, the whole court seemed to be celebrating the new year, no matter which faction officials They all began to praise his martial arts, and your husband suddenly changed from Li Guang to Han Xin."

Narita Jiafei also knew that Han Signal called Bingxian, and he immediately smiled and nodded repeatedly: "It's more or less the same."

However, Liu Xin couldn't help but rolled her eyes and said, "Is this 'almost'? This is a big problem!"

"Ah? Why?" Narita Kai was stunned, hesitantly said: "Isn't this a very high compliment?"

"Praise? Hmph..." Liu Xin shook her head helplessly, and said, "Don't just look at the surface, there are many tricks here. Let me ask you, is Han Xin a civil servant or a general?"

"Uh, it should be a general." Hearing her question, Narita Kai immediately realized that something was wrong. Why did he still use the general as a comparison?
"Then let me ask you again, how did Han Xin die?" When Liu Xin asked this question, a cold light flashed in her eyes.

It was at this moment that Narita Kai remembered that although the secretary-general of the Jinghua Secretariat was doing clerical affairs now, she was also a general who had easily pacified a country in southern Xinjiang.In comparison, her combat achievements are much more dazzling than her own in Ninja City.

"Han Xin, Han Xin was killed by Empress Lu, the current empress... probably won't, won't she do that?" Narita Kai replied stammeringly.

Liu Xin just couldn't laugh or cry.Queen Wang certainly wouldn't kill Gao Yushi, she didn't have that power, she didn't have that courage, and of course the most important thing was that she didn't have that motivation.

All dynasties have said that the harem must not interfere in politics, but the Daming harem has done more thoroughly than previous dynasties.Unless the emperor is not in charge, the empress dowager can be involved in politics to some extent, but she will also be constrained by the cabinet, and even the entire court is supervised from top to bottom.

Under Ming's system and habits, if the cabinet does not cooperate with the Queen Mother, then in fact the Queen Mother's regent will have no room to play, it is just a name.

As for the queen, let alone, except for Zhu Yuanzhang's Empress Ma who had some influence on the government when the country was founded, the rest of the empresses are basically decorations in politics, even Zhu Di's Empress Xu is no exception.

The empress of Ming Dynasty ordered to kill a Shangshu, which probably only exists in women's novels.To put it bluntly, even if this Shangshu appeared in the harem, and the empress personally ordered him to be killed, no one would dare to obey the order, because only the emperor has this power in Ming Dynasty, and most emperors would probably not do this ——Even if you really want to kill, you have to change the method.

Liu Xin said helplessly: "I'm not talking about the queen... Han Xin's death is ultimately because his existence threatened the imperial power. Do you understand that?"

"Oh...understood." Narita Kai suddenly realized: "Is this the master of great achievements?"

I thought I must be right this time, but Liu Xin still shook her head and said firmly: "No, it is never the meritorious deeds that overwhelm the master, but the power."

"It's not about merit, but about power?" Narita Kai muttered to himself.

"Does Guo Ziyi have high merits? But once he handed over the military power and went to work in Beijing, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty didn't see much fear of him, let alone that he had to kill him!" Liu Xin spread her hands and said, "It can be seen that no matter how great the merit is, it is not a threat. The emperor's capital, only the real threat is the power - your husband's biggest trouble now is also here, he is not only high in merit, but more importantly, in power.

You see, regardless of personal financial resources or court contacts, he is now the only one in the court.What's more, he has ruled all sides many times, and now almost all the generals of the nine sides worship under him except Tieling Li's family.

In addition, he is still a local official (Shangshu of the Ministry of Households), and he controls the wealth and power of the world. It can be said that he has soldiers and food.Except for the lack of the other half of the Tiger Talisman in the hands of the emperor, he probably controls [-]% of the soldiers and horses in the world. If you are the emperor, don't you worry? "

Narita Kai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly asked cautiously in a low voice: "Sister Liu, can master really... that?"

Seeing her strange attitude, Liu Xin couldn't help being a little wary: "What kind?"

"Threat to the imperial power!" Narita Kai looked around and stamped his feet vigorously.

Liu Xin frowned and said, "Why do you ask this? Your husband is devoted to serving the country with all his heart—don't you know that he and the emperor are young?"

"Hey, I know all this, but what I'm asking is not what he wants, but what he can do." Narita Jiafei tugged at Liu Xin's left sleeve and begged, "Good sister, just tell me, it's the master. Told you to teach me!"

Liu Xin said helplessly, "How do you understand the word 'threat'?"

"Ah?" Narita Kai was taken aback for a moment, and hesitated, "Threats...do you have other understandings?"

"Actually, I asked him a similar question around the corner. How about I tell you the general idea of ​​his answer at that time?" Liu Xin said.

"Okay, okay, sister, tell me quickly, my little sister is all ears." Narita Kai was really interested.

Liu Xin thought for a while and said, "First of all, in the Ming Dynasty, there was never a problem of civil servants threatening the imperial power, and there was not even a problem of eunuchs threatening the imperial power. You must first know, what is threat? Using power to force the emperor to do things, even Putting the emperor in danger is considered a threat.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao coerced the emperor to make the princes count as a threat, the rebellion of the eight kings in the Western Jin Dynasty could be counted as a threat, and the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty abolished the emperor without authorization.The emperors in these periods either had no decision-making power, were just puppets, or encountered personal danger.For example, Tang Xianzong and Tang Jingzong were killed by eunuchs.

And throughout the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether it is civil servants or eunuchs, they have never been able to pose such a threat to the emperor.During the Great Ceremony during the Jiajing period of the Shimiao, a large group of civil servants stood up to oppose Jiajing, and it lasted for so many years. More than 200 courtiers participated in the Zuoshunmen crying and remonstrance incident, but what is the use?When Jiajing was unhappy, it didn't mean that he ended up with "130 four people were killed by the court staff and 16 people were beaten to death", and even Yang Tinghe, the chief assistant of the cabinet, lost power because of this.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty did have some famous powerful ministers and eunuchs, but they were all just the emperor's spokespersons. The power in their hands was bestowed by the emperor.

The great eunuch Liu Jin was once powerful in the world, but once Wu Zong wanted to move him, he easily got rid of Liu Jin.During the Jiajing period, Yan Song was also in power, but once he fell out of favor, Shimiao could easily ruin his family.

I know you want to ask why the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty could not threaten the imperial power, right?Because the system has already guarded you against it.In the 13th year of Hongwu, Taizu abolished the prime minister and divided the power into six departments. He repeatedly emphasized in the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" that future generations are not allowed to set up a prime minister. This is a legislative precaution against civil servants.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has entered an era without a prime minister.Later, the highest status of civil servants was the chief minister of the cabinet, but the chief minister of the cabinet was still restricted by all parties.The supervisor of ceremonies can restrict your power of discussion, and the power of execution belongs to the six ministers. The officials can impeach you, and the factory guard can investigate and supervise you.

Even within the cabinet, you may face challenges from other cabinet elders, who can replace you at any time.What's more, there are checks and balances between civil servants and generals.

Speaking of which, before today's son came into power, when Gao Wenzheng was the chief assistant of the cabinet, it was considered the pinnacle of civil power, but the premise also had to be the acquiescence of the emperor and the empress dowager, and the support of the chief inspector. The relationship between.

To sum up, no matter from which point of view, on the political soil of Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to produce the so-called "under one person, above ten thousand people" or even to threaten the imperial power. "

Narita Kai was fascinated by what she heard, and after Liu Xin had finished speaking for a while, she couldn't help questioning: "Sister Liu, I understand all the reasons you said, but the current situation is different!"

Liu Xin's heart tightened, but her expression remained the same, she just frowned slightly, and asked, "What's the difference?"

"The civil officials you mentioned are really just civil officials. All their power comes from the emperor. They have little influence on nobles, ordinary generals, and eunuchs, and their own strength is almost none. In this way, Naturally, they can't threaten the emperor, but... the master is different!

You said it yourself just now, besides being the Secretary of the Household Department, besides having many like-minded civil servants in the court, he also has financial resources that can rival the country, and he has armed servants scattered all over the world, and he is also in various places in the nine borders. He has a high prestige among the generals of the town, and even has considerable influence on the supervisor of ceremonies and the factory guard... Isn't this very different from the previous power ministers? "

Liu Xin didn't expect her words to be used by Narita Kai. She originally wanted to emphasize that Gao Yushi was in trouble but she had no objection. Now Narita Jiafei didn't care what Gao Yushi's original intentions were. He just wanted to know whether he really had such strength. Not on a channel.

However, Liu Xin felt that Narita Kai's asking this question was very problematic, so she couldn't help asking: "Why are you asking this?" Judging from her expression, there was a serious doubt in these words.

Narita Kai quickly waved his hand, and said: "I don't mean anything else, I just think that the current situation of the master is like the situation in Japan before he was going to conquer the barbarians."
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