Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2117 General Baikui ([-]) The first fire: Li Chu

Now that the general situation is clear, it is necessary to consider how to proceed in an orderly manner with specific affairs.Just like if you want to win a war, you must first determine the strategy, and then determine the tactics.

What is certain at the moment is that Gao Yu will be an uncompromising minister of the imperial court for a period of time, and the only person who has the power to restrict him is the emperor, but the emperor will not restrict him unless it is absolutely necessary.After all, the emperor had just once again demonstrated his friendship with Gao Yushi, so he couldn't slap himself immediately.

From this point of view, Gao Yushi, as the new chief assistant, is now the best time to burn the three fires of the new officials.

As for crises, of course there are.

First of all, because the emperor refused to add cabinet members, the cabinet was downsized from the original six to four.Although Gao Yushi became the chief assistant because of this, in fact, the two elders who resigned belonged to the neutral school and the other belonged to the practical school-each was from the heart school.

In other words, the proportion of elders in the cabinet of the mind school increased, while the proportion of elders of the practical school decreased.Now that there are four people in the cabinet, if the votes are counted according to the number of people, the reality school and the heart school will actually be 2:2.

Of course, as Gao Yushi is a strong chief minister, this kind of vote counting cannot be effective-he will never initiate the call for "everyone shows their hands to vote".

In addition, although Zhao Zhigao is the elder of the Xin School, but because he had to lose his sincerity to Gao Yushi in order to keep his son, he already had a black record of "surrendering to the enemy and rebelling" within the Xin School, and now he may have to follow him more often High pragmatism, at least it is unlikely to oppose high pragmatism.In this way, the superiority of high pragmatism becomes more obvious.

This is not over yet, Shen Yiguan was overwhelmed by the medicinal diet case, and had to give in to Gao Yushi for the time being, and then "self-assigned" to visit Mount Tai, visit Nanjing, and make preparations for the emperor to enshrine Mount Tai and visit Xiaoling.

As a result, Gao Yu in the cabinet and in the entire court center completely lost the constraints of hierarchy for a while, and it can be said that he "only holds the power of the prime minister".This has both positive and negative effects:

He has great power and can implement almost any policy he wants at this time; he is extremely dangerous, and he is fully responsible for the implementation of any policy and bears all consequences for it.

At the same time, there is another potential risk, which is the "Shenhou" problem just mentioned.

Today's high pragmatism has been deeply bound with the queen, the emperor's son, mother and son, forming a community of interests like "Shenhou-Shenhou-Yijiu" during King Zhou You's period.At this moment, the attitude of "King Zhou You" is the most critical.

If King You thinks there is no problem with this arrangement, the more powerful the Marquis of Shen is, the more powerful it will not affect my status as the Son of Zhou, then everything will continue as usual, the world will be safe and peaceful, and the world will be peaceful.

If King You thinks this structure is very problematic, the power of Marquis Shen is too great to be restrained. Not only will I have to accommodate him in everything this week, but it will also affect the structure of my court a hundred years later. Hou Zhuo, then whether it is necessary for me, the King of Zhou, to live depends on what Shen Hou thinks... If so, it will be a big trouble.

The biggest threat of the "Shenhou-Shenhou-Yijiu" model to Zhou Wang himself is that it is a strong alliance, and they are even strong enough to erase Zhou Wang himself at any time without worrying about any political backlash.

Think about it, Marquis Shen is powerful, not to mention his deep roots in the court, he still has military power, can mobilize the army to march into the capital at any time, and ensure that the center of the court cannot escape his control;

Empress Shen is the woman with the highest status in the harem and the enemy of King Zhou. Once King Zhou dies suddenly, Empress Shen has the legitimacy to act as the emperor, and the edict is equivalent to the imperial edict for a while;

As the eldest son of Empress Shen, Yijiu has no real power as the crown prince, but he has the most orthodox name and the most noble status, and can play the most critical role at certain moments—for example, the sudden death of King Zhou, as long as Yijiu Declare that everything is the same, and others have little right to make irresponsible remarks.Then Yijiu succeeded to the throne, and the Shen Group completely controlled the Zhou Dynasty government.

In the history of China, it was an unspoken rule, or even an explicit rule, that important ministers should not befriend the prince. The reason is here: you are already a powerful minister, if you can still control the prince, you will directly kill the emperor , Pushing the crown prince to succeed, won't there be no constraints in the future?

Not only the prince, theoretically all princes who have the right to inherit—even the princes who have the right of succession, should not be friends with the important officials of the court, because once the real power in the hands of you, an important minister, is combined with the inheritance rights of the prince, the emperor himself will immediately be in a precarious situation. A dangerous position that can be replaced.

If you were the emperor, you wouldn't agree either!

However, the current situation is not so bad. Daming has its own political inertia, and there are also various systems in Ming Dynasty that restrict each other. The swaddled baby takes the throne.

The point is, there is no serious conflict between the emperor and Gao Yushi at present, and Gao Yushi seems to have no need to push himself to this dead end, and he has even made it clear what he wants in the future——Southern Xinjiang .

Southern Xinjiang?For the emperor, this was not Daming's solid land in the first place, and it didn't hurt to promise to go out.Even if Southern Xinjiang is in the hands of a Han official in the future, that would be a good thing, not to mention that in this way, Southern Xinjiang will become the territory of Ming Dynasty in name, isn't this also a kind of expansion of territory?

The map of the world produced by Jinghua has long been familiar to the emperor. Although Southern Xinjiang and Nanyang are not small in the emperor's eyes, they are somewhat fragmented geographically.

Therefore, there is now a tacit understanding and a new psychological balance between the emperor and Gao Yushi.

You should be my Yuanfu well. In the future, I will give you a package of Nanjiang and Nanyang as a reward, so that your Gao family can have the largest and most fertile foundation among the courtiers with foreign surnames since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

At least so far, both parties are satisfied with this tacit agreement.

Although there are hidden worries, the balance and tacit understanding have been reached after all, and it is time for high-level pragmatism to do business.

Early the next morning, the first assistant Gao Wushi went to the eunuch in person, asking the emperor to appoint the crown prince early, and made it clear that the emperor's son Chang Hao was the best and only candidate for the crown prince, and asked the emperor to make a decision early.

On the morning of the same day, together with Gao Yushi, there were also a large number of important officials above the third rank, as well as academic officials of the Hanlin Academy and officials of Ke Dao who were not of high rank but had special identities.

In the afternoon, Da Zongzheng (Zongrenling) of the clan's mansion and Hou Gongchen, the son-in-law of the eldest princess of Shouyang, invited Zhu Changhao to be the crown prince in the capacity of "civilian first". Gong, Hou, Bo, etc. joined hands to go to Shu, and also asked Chang Hao, the emperor's son, to be the crown prince.

The inspector of ceremonies quickly sent a message: the emperor's son has a destiny, and he is indeed the best candidate for the crown prince, but because he is still young, it is better to observe for a while before making a canon.

This is actually true. After all, the child mortality rate in this era is indeed relatively high. Even the children of the Tian family may not be better than the children of ordinary families. Those who should die young often die young.As the crown prince of the country, if he died at a young age, it would be a great funeral for the country, and it was best not to have bad things happen.

However, this time, Gao Yushi obviously did not intend to follow common sense.In the early morning of the next day, Gao Wushi and his group of officials once again went to the shuffle together, and with yesterday's foreshadowing, this time there were no multiple times to go to the shuffle, but all the people who went to the shuffle yesterday submitted their essays in the morning.

Not only that, some people who hesitated and did not act yesterday, especially the officials of the non-distraction school, also joined the ranks of Shangshu this time.Among these people, Zhao Zhigao, a scholar of Jianji Temple, is undoubtedly the one with the highest status.

The Grand Master of Jianji Temple is not a group assistant, but a second assistant of Zheng'er Bajing.When Zhao Zhigao went to the court like this, the whole court was shocked.Officials of the Real School celebrated each other, thinking that this was an admission by the Mind School that they had completely failed in the country-base dispute; some of the Mind School officials were confused, not knowing what their own attitude was towards the country-base dispute.

Of course, more Xin School officials still looked on coldly, disdaining Zhao Zhigao's "surrender to the enemy and mutiny" while being disheartened, feeling that the situation was indeed irreversible.

The whole court was raging, and the emperor could not remain indifferent.What's more, in fact, Zhu Yijun had already made psychological preparations for canonizing Zhu Changhao as the crown prince, and what he said yesterday was just out of a mentality that he couldn't explain clearly.

This is like a person who has persisted for a certain belief for 20 years. When it finally comes to the end, he will fall into a kind of confusion, and even think for a while, "Should I continue to maintain it?"

This is actually a certain instinct of human beings, which almost means "path dependence".When something that has been done for a long time is suddenly finished, I don't know what to do next.It might even lead to a certain cringe.

But obviously, Gao Yushi didn't intend to give the emperor a chance to shrink back, and he didn't want him to focus on this kind of path dependence.

Although Daming seems to be rejuvenating, there are still many problems that have not been resolved. Some of these problems existed in the first place, and the roots can be traced back to Zhu Yuanzhang.However, there are also some problems that have emerged after his highly pragmatic reforms.This is not surprising, reforms can never be perfect at once, it is nothing more than discovering problems when they arise, finding problems and solving them, that's all.

In short, Zhu Yijun may feel that the world is in good shape now, but Gao Yushi doesn't think so at all. He still has a lot to do, and he doesn't want the emperor to neglect his administration there.

It's okay if you want me to do a good job as the chief assistant, but don't be idle yourself, everyone is a king and minister, and we have to be busy together.

Perhaps it was because the courtiers had a big enough meeting this time, or because they felt the firm determination of high pragmatism, Zhu Yijun finally conveyed the decree through the supervisor of ceremonies in the afternoon: the cabinet, the Ministry of rites and other departments should immediately prepare for the canonization ceremony of the crown prince. , When the preparations are ready, I will set the time for the canonization.
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PS: This chapter is from yesterday.Uh, although I have regained time, the plot in my mind is a bit out of touch, let me be coherent.

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