Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1713 Post-war Waves ([-]) Imperial Meeting
As all the forces have made judgments on Gao Yushi's triumphant return, the situation of the capital's previous dark clouds overwhelming the city has immediately improved, especially this morning the emperor summoned all the ministers of the cabinet to meet with His Majesty in the Wenhua Palace After that, it can be said that the sky is clear and the sky is clear.

Early in the morning, the Supervisor of Rituals sent someone to notify the elders to go to Wenhua Hall to hold an imperial meeting.At this moment, Shen Shixing, a scholar of Zhongji Hall, Xu Guo, a scholar of Jianji Hall, Wu Dui, a scholar of Wenhua Hall, Wang Jiaping, a scholar of Wuying Hall, Wang Xijue, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Liang Menglong, a scholar of Dongge Hall, came to Wenzhou together. Huadian sees you, and the eunuch Chen Ju, the eunuch who is in charge of the official seal, summons the cabinet ministers to see him.

Not long ago, Zhu Yijun, who had just got a daughter, looked very good, and even arrived in the palace ahead of time. When he saw the elders coming in, he said with a smile on his face: "You don't need to be too polite, gentlemen, please sit down."

All the elders in the pavilions are human beings. One look at the emperor's complexion, demeanor, and tone, and he knew that the empress empress gave birth to a princess for him this time, which made him extremely happy. Even though today he was going to discuss important issues, he was also smiling. Yingying.

The empress had been infertile for many years before, and the outside world had always suspected that she had lost her vitality during her first childbirth, and it would be difficult for her to conceive again in the future, so there was a dispute over the country.At that time, the reason why the emperor refused to agree was that the empress was still young, and there was still a chance to give birth to a son in the future. If the prince was named first, it would be too difficult if the son was born.

Apparently, the mainstream views in the imperial court at that time did not agree with this rhetoric. Only Gao Yushi and his family stood firmly on the emperor's side, and had to wait for the empress's son-in-law if they confessed their death.Later, through various methods, the matter of fighting for the foundation of the country was suppressed temporarily, but everyone knew that as long as the empress's son was not born for a day, this matter would never end.

However, this time the queen gave birth to a princess, which brought a major turning point to the whole incident.The princess is certainly not a prince, and her actual status in the Ming Dynasty depends entirely on the emperor's attitude towards her, but the empress's rebirth is the key to this matter. The "facts" have been overturned.

Since she can give birth to a princess, what's so strange about giving birth to a prince in the future?Because of this incident, many people who participated in Wang Xijue's fight for the country had some regrets.

Although Emperor Taizu had strict rules, and the harem of the Ming Dynasty basically had no political influence, but if the queen gave birth to a prince in the future, the prince would grow up and become the throne, remembering that someone in the palace almost caused him to lose his status as a prince before he was born , what kind of mood should that be?
Of course, the elders in Wenhua Palace are basically not worried about this. After all, their age is placed here. Judging from their energetic appearance today, it is estimated that they will not survive that day—— Presumably, even if the new king decades later is really the empress's unborn son, he shouldn't hold grudges so deeply, and take their children and grandchildren seriously, right?
In any case, it is certain that the emperor is very happy now, but the elders in the pavilion will not really "excuse the ceremony", and still bow to see His Majesty as a gift, and then sit down separately after thanking him.

Today, the Wenhua call was requested by the emperor on his own initiative, so Zhu Yijun also had to take the initiative to speak, and he was very direct: "You must have read the essay written by Da Situ when he arrived in Beijing yesterday, so I won't go into details, just want to ask Gentlemen, how should the court respond?"

One more thing to add to this matter is that after the high-level pragmatic resignation was sent to the cabinet yesterday, the cabinet did not reach a unified opinion, so it did not post a draft proposal, but put it directly on the grounds that "this matter should be the dictatorship of the Sacred Heart". Sent to the chief inspector.The emperor's question now is a bit like repeating an old matter. The implication is that I am not satisfied with your attitude yesterday, and you must give a clear statement.

However, it was no longer yesterday. Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue had already drawn up a new plan. They no longer planned to fight Gao Yushi to the death, but changed their way of thinking and thoroughly carried out the flattery.

Shen Shixing was the chief assistant, and he should have been the first to speak at this time, so he didn't hold back, so he immediately got up and bowed slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, I objected to Da Situ's request to resign from Mengyuan Jinglue yesterday. Because at that time, the officials thought that although Tumen and Abadai Saiyin had fled west after two great victories in the war against Yuan, it was not over yet, so how could Da Situ, as a minister of classics, resign prematurely?"

He deliberately paused at this point, and Zhu Yijun asked back, "Oh? According to Mr. Shen, you have a new opinion today?"

This sentence seems to be asked casually, but if you touch it carefully, it seems to be a bit mocking.It's just that Zhu Yijun has long been an experienced "old emperor", and his face is really calm at the moment, and he can't see any other meanings.

The emperor has rich experience, let alone Shen Shixing, who is completely at the top level of self-satisfaction, not to mention that the emperor's words are only vaguely mocking, I am afraid it is really mocking, Shen Yuanfu can also do it He changed his color and didn't jump in his heart, and had a completely "humble" attitude.

"Yes." Shen Shixing really looked serious and said solemnly: "I am not good at military affairs. After I returned to the mansion last night after careful study, I found out that at this time, Da Situ has properly arranged the whole battle. When he personally returns to Beijing, it will not affect the victory. the result of.

Weichen guessed that Da Situ should be worried that he would leave the household department for a long time, fearing that there would be a backlog of affairs, so he refused to delay a day and wanted to return to Beijing as soon as possible, so now the minister also agrees with Da Situ to resign from the Mongolian Yuan Jinglue. "

Shen Shixing's sudden turn of attitude not only surprised the emperor, but also the rest of the elders - except for Wang Xijue, of course.

Wu Dui was a little puzzled and said: "Yuanfu, that's not what you said yesterday..."

"Hey, Mr. Huanzhou, didn't Shi Xing just say that, yesterday he didn't think clearly about it for a while." Shen Shixing turned around and said to Wu Dui with a smile: "Fortunately, it's not too late, don't you think so?"

Wu Dui lost his temper by his attitude. Although he was suspicious, he could only nod his head and said, "Yuan Fu's words are serious."

Seeing that Wu Dui was forced to shut up, Shen Shixing looked around at the elders and asked, "Is there any other cabinet member who disagrees?"

Everyone subconsciously glanced at the emperor, seeing that the emperor's smiling round face was extremely kind, and they all knew that objecting at this time was purely for nothing, so naturally they all remained silent.

Zhu Yijun was really satisfied, especially with Shen Shixing and Shen Yuanfu who suddenly changed course, he nodded at him repeatedly, and then said: "Okay, okay, okay, since the cabinet thinks it's a triumphant return to be pragmatic, Then there should be a triumphant ceremony for such a great achievement...Mr. Shen, shouldn't the cabinet also make arrangements for this?"

Shen Shixing reacted quickly, and immediately replied: "Since it is a triumphant return, it stands to reason that we can welcome him..." He paused here, obviously waiting for something.

Zhu Yijun understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "Of course I will go in person."

Shen Shixing was not surprised by this attitude, and said frankly: "Then there is only another problem: usually a triumphant army returns from victory, magnificent and intimidating. But now, Gao Situ only brought five hundred members of his family back to Beijing, It's not easy to handle the suburban welcome with such a small number of people."

Zhu Yijun was taken aback for a moment, and said to himself: I forgot about this, but it is practical to only bring the family back to Beijing for a purpose, but this matter is not easy to handle.

Gao Wushi asked himself to resign from Meng Yuan Jinglue and only brought five hundred family members back to Beijing. The outside world thought that he deliberately gave up military power as soon as possible to prove that he had no other intentions and to show his attitude to the emperor.

actually not.Gao pragmatically judged that Zhu Yijun would not doubt him because he was in control of an army of 60, which was completely inconsistent with Zhu Yijun's traditional thinking.The characteristic of this Wanli emperor is that he is not suspicious of people, and he is not suspicious of his employers. Since he dared to hand over 60 troops to himself before, it means that he has no worries in this regard.

Originally, even though the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty had such and other problems, none of them played rebellion, and the emperor never worried about this.Why?Because of the system.

From the perspective of the system established by the Taizu, civil officials themselves have no power to lead the army. Even though the real power of the Ministry of War has been greatly enhanced after Yu Qian, and then gradually made civil officials override military generals, and gradually began to gain military power, but one thing must be clear : In the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants in charge of the army were "temporary measures" from beginning to end, and their legitimacy depended heavily on the emperor's imperial decree.

Basically, it can be understood as follows: The generals of the Ming Dynasty have always been directly under the Dudufu of the Five Armies in terms of system, and the Dudufu of the Five Armies is theoretically only responsible to the emperor, so the emperor himself is the supreme military commander of the Ming Dynasty.

However, after the civil engineering change, the Ming court was extremely cautious about the emperor's personal conquest. Excluding Emperor Zhengde who didn't care about his posthumous name, the rest of the emperors could not really directly rule the country's generals, and the nobles had long been unable to fight. Let the civil servants represent the emperor to govern the war in a larger area.

Not only the strategy, but even the governor is essentially set up for this reason.Therefore, although the power of Gao Yushi, the Mongolian and Yuan economic strategist, is huge, and the military force under his jurisdiction probably accounts for more than half of the entire Ming Dynasty and two-thirds of the Nine Sides, as long as the emperor makes an imperial decree, this military power will be withdrawn as soon as it is said.Unless...all the generals on the front line followed Gao Pragmatism to rebel.

Zhu Yijun has already determined through various signs that Gao Yushi has no intention of rebelling, and he does not think that the frontline generals are crazy-the family members and children of this group of people are all in the pass, and most of them are even in the capital. What are they rebelling against?Although Dongchang and Jinyiwei are not as good as in the early days of the founding of the country, they are not so large that no clues can be found for such a large-scale conspiracy.

In fact, the purpose of Gao Yushi's doing this was not for the emperor, but for the courtiers.More precisely, it is to stop some people's foul mouths.

It was precisely because Zhu Yijun understood the meaning of high pragmatism that he felt embarrassed when Shen Shixing said this.But after thinking about it for a while, he felt that there was no way out of things, but it was best not to say it himself.

"Mm...Mr. Shen is right." Zhu Yijun nodded, frowned, looked around at the cabinet ministers, and asked, "Do you guys have any good ideas to teach me?"

Wu Dui and Liang Menglong looked at each other, and tacitly chose to wait and see first.Both of them feel that the atmosphere today is not right, especially Shen Shixing's performance is completely different from yesterday's when he was in the cabinet. It cannot be ruled out that he and Wang Xijue have some new plans, so it is best not to act rashly for the time being, let's see what the other party does Let's talk about it.

However, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue hadn't "made a move", and Wang Jiaping suddenly said, "This matter is easy."

He jumped out suddenly. Although Zhu Yijun was a little surprised, he still said politely, "I would like to ask Mr. Wang for advice."

Wang Jiaping was born as No. 2 Jinshi in the second year of Longqing. He was selected as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, taught editing, and participated in the compilation of national history.After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, Wang Jiaping was promoted to Xiuzhuan again, serving as a daily lecturer, responsible for explaining scriptures and governance to Zhu Yijun, so it was completely reasonable for Zhu Yijun to call him "Mr."

Wang Jiaping is a serious neutral of the old Neo-Confucianism. In essence, he does not want to participate in the party struggle between practical learning and spiritual learning, so he has always behaved in a more matter-of-fact manner.Of course, since high pragmatism is a practical person, Wang Jiaping is usually on the side of high pragmatism, which is also true.

So when Wang Jiaping wanted to speak, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong were very calm, and they were basically not worried about him making it clear that the horse and the horse would sing the wrong tune.Xu Guo on the side seemed to be in poor spirits, with drooping eyelids and even looked a little half asleep.But the strange thing was that Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue were quite indifferent, and there was no worry in their expressions.

However, Wang Jiaping didn't care about these details at all. Instead, he cupped his hands at Zhu Yijun and said, "Your Majesty, when Gao Situ set off with the imperial guards, it happened to be during this battle against the Yuan Dynasty." The imperial guards have also made great contributions, I thought that Situ, who is in charge, should not return to Beijing in a hurry, and should deploy troops outside the pass to deploy defenses, liberate the imperial guards earlier, and return to Beijing with him to receive the reward."

Zhu Yijun pondered and said: "Mr. Wang's words are reasonable, but the imperial court has not yet come up with specific opinions on how to deal with the outside of the customs after this battle. My guess is that the reason why he has not made a clear arrangement is because he is worried about his handling and the final outcome of the imperial court. The conclusion is different, so it can only be postponed.

Even, he is eager to return to Beijing, maybe he also hopes to directly participate in the discussion of this matter - after all, he has been thinking about the land of Mengyuan for more than [-] years, and he always has some opinions. "

Wang Jiaping replied: "Don't worry about it. Da Situ has already arrived in Yanqing Prefecture. Judging from what he said in the letter, at least he will not return to Beijing overnight. In this case, as long as the court discusses the results as soon as possible, it will be announced to Da Situ." Situ, that's still in time. And if Da Situ has a different opinion, because of the limited distance in Yanqing Prefecture, he can quickly negotiate with the imperial court, and it won't take long."

The reasoning is the same, but now the focus of the discussion has changed, from how to deal with high pragmatism abstaining from returning to Beijing, to how to deal with places outside the customs.
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