Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 386

Nanjing.

Forbidden Palace, on the left side of Fengtian Temple Square, Wuying Hall.

Since Zhu Yihai officially settled in the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, he has carried out simple repairs to the palace city.Among the three main halls in the palace, the Fengtian Hall is the place where grand ceremonies are held and officials are worshipped, which is also known as the Golden Luan Hall.

Behind it is the Huagai Hall, which is five rooms wide and five rooms deep. Before the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, Zhu Yihai first received the visits of cabinet ministers and court deacons here, and then went to Fengtian Hall to accept the congratulations of all officials.

Behind it is Jinshen Hall, where Zhu Yihai changed his court clothes.

There are Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall on both sides of the square in front of Fengtian Hall. Wenhua Hall was originally Zhu Yuanzhang's daily office, and later became the daily office of the Crown Prince. The examination papers were also held in Wenhua Hall.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang moved to Wuyingdian for daily work.

To the north of the three main halls, after passing through the Qianqing Gate is the Inner Palace.

Qianqing Palace is Zhu Yihai's bedroom, with nine rooms wide and five rooms deep, which is the number of ninety-five supreme beings.Behind the Kunning Palace is the bedroom of Queen Zhang.

Then there are East Sixth Palace, West Sixth Palace, Rouyi Palace, etc. This is where the five concubines and four concubines live, and the princess is also here. In the future, the princes and princesses will live here when they are born again.

There are also library pavilions in the back.

However, Zhu Yihai usually does not live in the Qianqing Palace. He is mainly in the former dynasty, working in the Wuying Hall on a daily basis, and sometimes summoning cabinet ministers and others to hold court meetings in the Wenhua Hall.

Sometimes he listens to politics at the imperial gate of Qianqingmen Square.

The cabinet is located on the side of Wenyuan Pavilion in front of Wenhua Hall.

Generally speaking, Nanjing in Ming Dynasty and Miyagi in Beijing are both called the Forbidden Purple City, and the Forbidden City in Beijing is basically a replica of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, with a basically similar layout.

After reviewing the memorials in the Hall of Martial Arts until noon, Zhu Yihai went to the Hall of Wenhua again, where he summoned the great scholars and eunuchs from the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies. The difference is that the emperor is in charge, and everything cannot be bypassed by the emperor.

This summoning from the Wenhua Palace was nothing more than a routine briefing from the cabinet supervisor, to report some important affairs, and then Zhu Yihai also informed them of some important affairs he had handled, and asked them to handle them according to the order.

After giving some snacks to the ministers, Zhu Yihai went back to Qianqing Palace.

Song Zhipu was sent all the way to Qianqingmen Square, not because Yuan Cong had a particularly good relationship with the emperor and insisted on sending him to the gate of the harem, but because Zhu Yihai also set up a prime minister's office in the square outside Qianqing Palace.

The Prime Minister’s Office is actually the previous imperial meeting. It was called the General Affairs Office earlier, and now it is called the Prime Minister’s Office or the Prime Minister’s Office. the highest decision-making body.

Of course, this decision-making power actually assists the emperor in making decisions, which is equivalent to the emperor's secretariat, but it is not an ordinary secretariat.

Because the official title of the officials in the Prime Minister's Office is the duty of the Prime Minister's Office or walking in the Royal Study Room.

Nominally, the cabinet is still the highest government agency of the Ming Dynasty, and the supervisor of ceremonies is still an important inner court, the emperor's secretarial team.Before Zhu Yihai was away during the Northern Expedition, neither the cabinet nor the ceremonial supervisor could accompany them all, so important decisions were made through discussions between the emperor and the accompanying ministers, and the participants were members of the Imperial Council.

Now that Nanjing is in power, Zhu Yihai has not given up on this idea, and has not returned power to the cabinet and supervisor of ceremonies, restoring the power structure formed over the years in the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the Prime Minister's Office is actually a cabinet similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's.

Just like when Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister and set up a cabinet, the imperial power invaded the power of the prime minister and invaded the power of foreign courts. The same is true for Zhu Yihai today. After many years in Ming Dynasty, the cabinet has also formed a brand new center of foreign courts. Later, the supervisor of ceremonies approved the red, which became the emperor's powerful assistant and became the system of internal and external courts.

But Zhu Yihai was not satisfied with this. He set up the Prime Minister's Office outside the Qianqing Gate, which was closer to the cabinet than the cabinet. If there is something to do at night, it may be too late to report to the emperor, and it is impossible to discuss and make a decision in time.

Therefore, the emperor set up such a prime minister's office outside the gate of Qianqing, and arranged ministers to be on duty here day and night, so that they could discuss things in time.

In fact, it is still through this method that the monarchy further weakens and invades the power of the foreign court, especially the power of the cabinet ministers who are now the first rank.

Throughout the dynasties, the central power organization has always been in such a constant alternation, but its essence is actually unchanged, and it is still the competition for the highest central power.

The Han Dynasty had the Outer Dynasty and the Inner Dynasty, the Outer Dynasty had the Prime Minister Sangong, and the Inner Dynasty also had Shangshu Sheng. There are new internal dynasties such as the Imperial Academy and the Privy Council to check and balance the external dynasties.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were prime ministers, but later the system of prime ministers was abolished, and the outer dynasty consisted of six departments. Later, the emperor was too busy and set up a cabinet to assist.

The cabinet gradually re-evolved into the center of the outer dynasty, so the sons of the Great Ming set up a supervisor of ceremonies to approve reds on behalf of the emperor, and became a new inner dynasty.

But although the cabinet supervisor has achieved a balance, some powers are out of control.

Zhu Yihai didn't like that set.

It is imperative that the Prime Minister's Office is not only retained, but also strengthened again.

Although there is no prime minister in the prime minister's office, they are only on duty in the prime minister's office or in the name of walking in the imperial study, but the members are personally appointed by the emperor. Today's several ministers in charge of the prime minister's office are the chief assistant Song Zhipu and the academician Zhang Guowei , Wang Zhiren, governor of the Beijing camp, Yu Dafu, minister of the household department, Da Zongling, Deng Wang Zhu Yujian, Liu Chao, the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu.

The cabinet, Zhongshu, Hanlin, Liubu, etc. selected officials of the fifth and sixth grades to walk around the Qingmen. They were divided into two shifts, day and night.

Walking is a fifth- and sixth-rank official, the foreman, and the gang leader is a third- and fourth-rank official. They are also part-time Beijing officials just like the prime minister's office. They work in shifts at the prime minister's office. The specific job is to assist the prime ministers who are on duty at the prime minister's office. They handle the daily work when they are on duty, deal with the documents of the Prime Minister's Office, record the files, write drafts, etc.

When not on duty, you still do your job well.

In the final analysis, the whole process of handling affairs in such an informal government office as the Prime Minister's Office is very simple, that is, to handle errands according to orders.Assist Zhu Yihai in making decisions, and then the emperor has an order, and they are responsible for delivering the order and supervising the errands.

Unlike the cabinet, as the official highest government agency of the imperial court, there is a complete set of standard procedures, such as the submission of memorials, the draft ticket affixed with yellow, submitted to the emperor and then approved by the ceremonial supervisor, and then transferred back to the cabinet. Dispose of according to the approval.

But the Prime Minister's Office was different, Zhu Yihai had the final say.

At this stage, the Prime Minister's Office seems to be just the emperor's personal adviser, but it is obvious that Zhu Yihai has plans to develop him beyond the cabinet.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Song Zhipu is also on duty at the prime minister's office. The cabinet and Zhang Guowei are also on duty at the prime minister's office. He has always been completely obeying the emperor's orders. It was the same before and now.

The two monarchs and ministers came all the way to the gate of Qianqing, chatting while walking.

"When does Your Majesty plan to take Jiangning City?"

At the door, Song Zhipu couldn't help asking.

It was almost February in a blink of an eye, and now in the south of the Yangtze River, the Tartar soldiers and green camps of the Qing court were basically destroyed, but only half of Jiangning City was left with a green flag.

This makes people feel uncomfortable.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, although he is no longer monopolized by the powerful ministers like Yan Song and Zhang Juzheng, he is the chief assistant after all, especially now that the academicians are the first-rank officials, the real heads of the hundred officials in name.

Zhu Yihai stopped in his tracks.

"Plans always fail to keep up with changes." Jiangnan's series of victories went smoother and faster than expected. The six thousand and eight Tartars were all wiped out. Li Yuchun, Zheng Jiwu, Pan Yinglou, Zhu Dagang, Zhu Guofan and others, the Tu National Treasure of Suzhou, and Mr. Yan of Songjiang raised their flags one after another.

Brothers Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu from Anqing, Bu Congshan from Taiping and others were also in any case, and this was a red flag that lit up the entire Jiangnan for a while.

This unexpected joy came too suddenly, which is a good thing, but it made some of Zhu Yihai's original plans not work.

Especially Yan Wogong.

Originally, he planned to wait for the Qing army to come thousands of miles away for reinforcements, and then he would ask Yan Wogong to find a way to "break out" and continue to lurk in the depths of the enemy camp to be used by me and play more roles.

But now Li Yuchun, Zheng Jiwu, Tu Guobao and others from Yan Wogong, even his sons, brothers, nephews, etc., have all turned their backs.

No matter how stupid the tartar is, he will not still believe him.

"The matter has come to this, and we can only accept it as soon as it is good." Zhu Yihai still regretted that Yan Wogong was exposed like this.

Song Zhipu felt that Yan Wogong had already exerted such great value, which was enough.

"Let's have a more lively surrender ceremony, I want to give Yan Wogong a big reward in front of all Nanjing soldiers and civilians.

I want to formally confer him the Duke of Ji, the Young Fu and the Crown Prince Taifu, and then confer on him the Assistant Manager of the Beijing Camp, Rongzheng Shangshu, and a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and he will be on duty at the Prime Minister's Office. You will personally prepare an imperial edict for me. Use words to reward his achievements. "

Song Zhipu asked directly, "Do you want to write about the fact that Lord Yan sneaked into the captive camp under the order?"

"Hahaha, write it, of course you have to write it, why not write it, you have to write this paragraph well, how he bravely recommended himself to the enemy camp alone, now Li Yuchun, Boluo, Zhang Cunren, Duoduo, Dorgon, etc. People are all in the palm of their hands, and how to deceive them to circulate these wonderful things are all written.

It can also be said that Wu Kai and other generals, civil and military, etc., who Yan Wogong recruited for the Qing court, are actually my subjects, and it is also a good show to deceive the Tartars.

I have to be angry with them. "

Now that Mr. Yan has been exposed and Jiangnan has been recovered, there is nothing to hide. Finally, the public edict is to humiliate the Tartars and inspire the hearts of the people.

It would be a surprise if he could make the tartar angry.

Of course, Zhu Yihai revealed the secret so completely openly, saying that Yan Wogong was actually a lurker who faked surrender, and that Wu Kai, Li Yuchun, Tu Guobao, these people had actually already secretly turned their backs.

As soon as this matter is announced, Dorgon will probably become suspicious. He may think, is it just Yan Wogong who is the lurker?
As for Li Yuchun, Tu Guobao, and Zheng Jiwu, they surrendered in secret a long time ago, and Wu Kai surrendered in a fake manner?
Will the other Han people be demoted to be the same as Yan Wogong, Zheng Jiwu, Tu Guobao, and Wu Kai?
Who else in this world can be trusted by Han people?
Who else is really loyal to the Qing Dynasty?
As long as this seed of doubt is planted once, it will never stop taking root and sprouting!
Siege is the bottom, attack the mind is the top.

(End of this chapter)