Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 273 Observing Government by Order ([-])
For several days in a row, the political arena in the capital was busy, and all kinds of officials kept talking about the Hannaji incident one after another.There are those who are in favor of taking in, and there are those who are against taking in. What's more, some even suggest that Han Naji be killed directly to sacrifice the flag.

But for three days in a row, the emperor did not issue an order or reply, and the cabinet did not report the final decision on this issue to the six ministries and the yamen. It seemed to people that neither the emperor nor the cabinet had made up their minds.

It was Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi and Wu Dui who actually sent letters one after another and insisted on asking Han Naji to take him in.

Among these three, Wang Chonggu is the governor of Xuanda, Fang Fengshi is the governor of Datong, and Wu Dui, a high arch student, is the newly appointed governor of Xuanfu.

That is to say, the three main border ministers in charge of Xuanda Second Township have all turned to accept the surrender of Hannaji, and the "battle faction" forces in Beijing are heartbroken because of this. However, due to the particularity of the border ministers, it is generally not easy He was impeached, so everyone had to go to the shuffle one after another, begging the emperor to make up his mind quickly and issue an imperial edict to calm people's hearts.

On the fourth day, the emperor chose to follow the remonstrance, and formally issued an imperial edict through the cabinet: accept the surrender of Hannaji.

However, the cabinet made some explanations for this seemingly too simple edict, expressing through various channels: Accepting the surrender of Hanaji does not mean that the imperial court is afraid of Ida, on the contrary, it means that Ida has no fear His performance - after all, accepting the surrender of Hannaji may directly anger Alda, and now Alda's army has not only returned to Toyosugawa, but also issued a big khan gold order from Toyosugawa Khan Court, and is gathering further The strength of the troops seems to be a situation where a big fight is about to take place.Under such circumstances, I, Da Ming, still insisted on accepting the casting of Hanaji. What is it if it is not fearless?

This statement, the main fighters can barely accept it, but at the same time, they have complained one after another, saying that they should order the local frontier ministers to reorganize their armies and prepare their armed forces, so as to prevent them from sticking to their defenses, and give me some color.

Normally, the emperor's response to this kind of slack is usually only three words: Got it.

But this time was different. The emperor solemnly told the ministers through Zhu Zhu, the supervisor of ceremonies, that he had asked the frontier troops to strengthen their defenses, and was still negotiating with the cabinet to send people to inspect Xuanda Second Town in person.

When all the officials in the capital heard about it, they all celebrated with their crowns. Judging by their proud looks, it seemed that they had won a great victory and captured I Da and offered them to the Taimiao.

However, in the early morning of the fifth day, the atmosphere of celebration suddenly turned into collective astonishment.

Because on this day, the emperor made another decree: Cheng Wen Daitian inspected the defense and armament matters of Xuanda and other departments in the middle of the engineering department;

Cheng Wen is a student of Gao Gong in the matter of engineering, and Gao Gong supports the acceptance of Hannaji. It is understandable for all officials to inspect the Xuanda on behalf of the heavens. Generally speaking, inspections should be done by the censors of the Thirteen Departments of Supervision, but it is not impossible for the section chief to step in, after all, Ke Dao's family.

But, shouldn't the matter of inspection and defense be handed over to the military department?Why are all the engineering departments dispatched to Shizhong?Is it just a matter of inspecting the fortifications and fortresses in various places?
Doubts are doubts, but this problem is still not too big, and everyone hesitated for a while before admitting it.

What I really don't understand lies in the second article: the prince accompanied Gao Yushi to observe politics and publicize major defense and armament matters on behalf of the prince.

The prince accompanied the reading on behalf of the prince to observe politics. There is no problem with the first half of the sentence, but... Let him go to observe politics and publicize defense and armaments?
Your Majesty, are you joking?How old is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and it is necessary to watch politics and publicize defense and armaments?How old is he, so pragmatic, that he has the ability to watch the government on behalf of the crown prince?But don't just arrive at Xuanda, I said that the army will fight over, scaring this little "scholar" who is acting for the crown prince to pee his pants, right?Although everyone didn't take him seriously as a "fake bachelor's servant", but anyway, he is also a "scholar" master specially ordered by the imperial court. If he is frightened by the Beilu, all the officials in the world will follow him My face is dull!

But fortunately, this edict still has the following: The prince accompanied the reading to observe politics on behalf of the prince, and must insist on only watching but not speaking, only listening but not speaking, and only investigating and not investigating the three items. After returning to Beijing, report to me and the prince in detail.

Seeing this supplementary statement, the big guy finally didn't feel as "difficult to appease" as before. He guessed in his heart that this was probably another temporary decision made by His Majesty the Emperor on a whim, and it was Cheng Wen's responsibility to actually patrol the sky.This high-practical "Xiaoge old man" is actually just going on a public trip, and when he comes back, he will submit a travel note to His Royal Highness as a business trip.

Come on, anyway, our Ming emperors have all kinds of wonderful things, especially in the recent generations of emperors, some like to be generals, some like to be Taoists, and they are not bad for such a pet madman like today—after all, today It's hard for the boss to breathe, everyone bear with it, it's okay to be considerate, anyway, this master is better to serve than the first two, isn't he?
As a result, another decree of the prince, which was obscured by the imperial decree, was basically ignored by everyone.

Of course, as we all know, the relationship between the crown prince and the emperor is very delicate. As a crown prince, he generally would not issue another decree on the matter that the emperor has already issued or an edict, so as to avoid misunderstandings between the monarch and his ministers, father and son. Now the prince is not even an adult, and the prince is not under the special premise of "supervising the country by decree". Generally speaking, the orders he issued are not even called teaching orders.

But this time His Royal Highness really issued a decree, even directly attached to the emperor's decree, which is very interesting, but this decree is only noticed by a very small number of officials who are really politically sensitive , such as Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao and others.

The language of this decree of the prince is straightforward—it’s not surprising that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty always used straightforward language when they issued orders. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di issued countless imperial edicts in vernacular Chinese. , this situation gradually disappeared.

However, although the subordinate officials of the Eastern Palace are always present, they are not really in charge of the affairs of the Eastern Palace. Therefore, there is no one to help write this decree of His Highness the Crown Prince. It is probably the original words of the Crown Prince, and the Supervisor of Rituals just copied it:

"Order Gao Shidu Dai Gu to carefully investigate the defense and military preparations of the second town of Xuanda, and go to various places. No one is allowed to stop, and no one is allowed to evade the questions raised by Gao Shidu. Gao Shidu observes politics After returning to Beijing, no one is allowed to inquire about government affairs, and they must come here to report on their duties immediately, this order."

(End of this chapter)