Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 521
Hong Chengchou looked into the mirror and looked at his newly changed Daming official robe.

The emperor sent someone to reward the new official robe, the purple robe and jade belt, the symbol of the relatives and noble ministers above the third rank.

"Our Majesty Shaotian seems to like to be unconventional. Daming's robes have not been changed for nearly 300 years, but he insists on returning to the style of Tang and Song Dynasties." An aide helped Hong Chengchou arrange the belt on his purple robe, and put half a goldfish charm in it. The goldfish bag is fastened.

Hong Chengchou looked at himself in the purple official robe in the mirror, and he was not used to it.

Once and for all.

Just like in the Tang and Song Dynasties, purple was served for ranks three and above, and scarlet was served for ranks four and five.In the Ming Dynasty, purple was abolished in official uniforms, and the first to fourth ranks were all red.

However, when Huang Taiji established the Qing Dynasty, he wanted to use water to extinguish fires, so he stipulated that all officials should wear stone blue, that is, regardless of grade, they should be blue official robes, even the concubines in the harem are like this, and only use mending to wear and other distinctions.

Hong Chengchou hadn't worn the red robes of the Ming Dynasty for several years, and had worn blue robes for several years, but now he has changed into purple robes again.

He flicked his clothes a few times, and found that the big purple robe looked very heroic.

Another staff member was very happy to congratulate Hong Chengchou for being favored and reused by the emperor, "The remonstrance court will be re-opened, and my lord will confer the title of Zuo Jianyi doctor. From a first-rank position, this is an important position with real power."

Hong Chengchou flicked his sleeves, thinking that this set of official robes fit him well, but he was not so optimistic about the new official position conferred on him by the emperor, after all, he is a newcomer now.

It is not unusual for Emperor Shaotian to reopen the Jianyuan.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the system of the Yuan Dynasty was followed, and there was also an admonishment court, with admonishing doctors, picking up relics and making up for the gaps, providing middle-level positions, full-time attendants, admonishing, and refuting.

Later, Zhu Hongwu abolished the prime minister, promoted the power of the six departments, and changed the remonstrance court to six departments.

Although this remonstrance court has been abolished, in fact the following six subjects still bear the same responsibilities.

It's just that in the early Ming Dynasty, the left and right admonishment officials of the remonstrance court were the fourth-rank officials, but in the later six departments, there were only eight-rank officials. This was also Zhu Hongwu's political tactics at that time. The emperor also used some fifth-rank civil servants as cabinet scholars to assist in handling government affairs, and even appointed a group of eighth-rank officials as admonishers to stare at the six ministers.

The idea of ​​controlling the big with the small is reflected everywhere.

Since then, the Sixth Division and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have been called Kedao officials. The censors and the officials have great power, but their ranks are very low, and they are not affiliated with the Sixth Division of the Cabinet. They are directly responsible to the emperor, so it is beneficial for the emperor to control the court .

Even in major meetings such as Ting Yi and Ting Tui, the six divisions and the thirteen chief censors are also qualified to participate in the highest decision-making.

Even in the time of Chongzhen, the group of the Sixth Division was a group of officials who were very difficult to deal with. They were young and powerful, and even the emperor dared to be tough. Become the vanguard of the party struggle.

It is said that now in the Shaotian Dynasty, the power of the six divisions seems to be not as great as before. Like the cabinet, the power has dropped a lot.

Now that the emperor suddenly restored the Admonition Court and asked him to serve as the doctor of Zuo Admonition, Hong Chengchou couldn't think of the specific intention for a while.

He only knows that the emperor has reformed a lot of Ming systems, for example, the official system is also the same. It used to be that the grade of the bachelor was low, but now it is directly the first rank, and the six ministers have also been upgraded to the first rank. History is also Cong Yipin now.

In this newly established admonishment court, the executives are left and right admonishment doctors, and they all work from the first rank.

Under it, there are about two divisions for the second grade, Zhengyan for the third grade, and then six subjects for the fourth grade for Shizhong.

The official position of the remonstrance court is almost comparable to that of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is from the first-rank imperial gate, and from the first-rank left and right imperial censors.

There are censors of the deputy capital of the second rank, the censors of the capital of the third rank, the censors of the thirteen Taoists of the fourth rank, the supervisors of the censors of the coordinators of the fourth rank, and the censors of the thirteen ranks of the fifth rank.

Compared with the original Metropolitan Procuratorate, not only the grade has been improved, but also the grading has been increased in the thirteen supervisory censors. In each department, there is a supervisory censor in charge, that is, the palm seal, and then there are two assistant supervisors. In addition, there are several supervisory censors in the history of India, and one of them will be selected in turn to serve as the patrolling supervisory censor, as well as the censors such as patrolling salt, patrolling rivers, patrolling seas, and patrolling water.

Now the lowest supervisory censor is Zhengwu, who can wear scarlet robes.

The head of the supervisory censor is even Zhengsi.

According to the power comparison between the Sixth Division and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the past, the power of the Sixth Division is far greater than that of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The censors of the thirteen departments have all been promoted, and the six departments have also been promoted naturally, and the fifth rank has risen.

And Hong Chengchou was awarded as the Zuo Jianyi doctor of Cong Yipin. This is the benchmark of the Zuodu Yushi. He is the leader of the Jianyuan. the first.

If we only talk about the original six subjects, this admonition court has great power, and he Hong Chengchou is even the head of the admonition officials. prime minister.

He felt something was wrong for a while, judging from the emperor's neglect of him after he came, the emperor hated him, but why did he give him such a high position?
After thinking about it, he thinks that there is only one possibility, that is, although Zuo Jianyi is a first-rank official, it is possible that those who have real power in the Court of Admonitions are those who have real power, so Zuo Jianyi, Zuo Jian, Zuo Zhengyan The six senior admonishers may really be just admonishers.

The emperor gave a jade belt in purple clothes, but in fact he could not directly manage the affairs of the six subjects. He only had the power to admonish and serve, but not the power to seal and refute subjects and copy the six subjects.

If this is the case, then the so-called admonishing the doctor from the left of the first grade, the head of the admonition court is meaningless.

But he also felt that if the emperor really wanted to leave him idle, he could just arrange for an official position, why bother to re-establish the remonstrance court?

Hong Chengchou couldn't figure out the young emperor.

In the past, during the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, he was basically able to completely grasp the emperor's mind, but now he can't figure it out, not at all.

This made him very uneasy.

Even when he faced Huang Taiji at the beginning, he could guess Huang Taiji's thoughts seven or eight times.

The Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministers are collectively called the Qiqing, and the Caneng Tongzhengshi and Dali Temple Minister are the Dajiuqing.

Its greatest power is to correct and impeach all officials. In terms of power, it should actually be higher than the six ministers. After all, this is a special official position. It is specially for the eyes and ears of the emperor and supervises all officials. Man-marking officials, so they must be officials trusted by the emperor.

This remonstrance court comes from the six divisions. The six divisions used to have more power than the procuratorate, but their low rank restricted them. Now they suddenly have a first-rank dean. What does the emperor intend to do?

Use him, Hong Chengchou, to persuade the emperor?Seal and refute the imperial edict?
He thought it was impossible.

Of course, in many cases, the six departments of the Ming Dynasty were actually used by the emperor to restrict the cabinet, and they were also used to supervise the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The supervisory power of the Six Divisions and Thirteen Departments is extremely strong, which made Hong Chengchou a little excited. He felt that maybe it was his fame and talent that made the Emperor Shaotian, who led the Northern Expedition with the intention of rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty, want to reuse himself. Rely on your own talents.

If this is the case, then Hong Chengchou feels that he can repay Emperor Shaotian well and fulfill his duties as the dean of the admonition court. It is said that the Shaotian Dynasty Metropolitan Procuratorate under the leadership of Liu Zongzhou has done a good job, and everyone praises him. The official administration of the Celestial Dynasty has been rectified.

He Hong Chengchou is in charge of the remonstrance court, and he believes that he will not be able to lag behind Liu Zongzhou.

He knew Liu Zongzhou very well. He used to run academies to give lectures and so on. His writing was really good, but if he was really doing things, he was by no means as good as himself.

Even when it comes to the supervision of Ke Dao, Hong Chengchou is confident that he can do a better job than Liu Zongzhou.

The emperor's decree has to be reviewed by the six divisions. He dare not say that he can refute the emperor's decree, but the six divisions are responsible for the right to cancel the case file, and he will definitely be able to insist on it.

The so-called cancellation of case files means that the six departments will check the relevant case files and documents for the affairs handled by the various ministries according to the purpose, to check whether they have completed the work according to the deadline.

If there is a delay in the inspection, you have the right to participate in the investigation.

In short, the Sixth Division has the right to refute the decision-making of the cabinet and let it be reconsidered if it feels wrong.They also have the right to supervise the affairs that are executed by issuing the decision-making to the various ministries. If they are not completed by the due date, they can participate in the governance.

This is like a supervisor. The sixth department waits for the yamen to work, and they supervise the work behind them. If they don't finish their work, they have to whip.

Hong Chengchou is confident that if he leads the six divisions of the remonstrance court to supervise the work, he will definitely be able to cure those problems that the department likes to procrastinate and pass the buck.

As for the power of admonishing the emperor and impeaching ministers, he believes that it can be used well.

Of course, the Sixth Division also has the power to advise on political affairs, which is the core decision-making power to participate in court discussions and court pushes.

In the past, a member of the seventh rank was able to participate in the court selection of great scholars, six ministers, governors and governors, etc., and could directly express opinions on military and state affairs of the court. Now he is advising the doctor from the left of the first rank. Isn't that the eighth minister?
That is definitely a real important minister.

At this moment, Hong Chengchou was really moved. No wonder it is said that Emperor Shaotian established himself as the supervisor of the country with a distant clan, but he was able to achieve great things in such a short period of time. It is really amazing.

It's just that Emperor Shaotian reused himself eclecticly, which showed his true qualities of a sage emperor who appeared once in a thousand years.

Compared with the narrow-minded Emperor Chongzhen, he really is tens of thousands of times stronger.

He even made up his mind in his heart that he would definitely bow to Emperor Shaotian until he died, in order to repay the sovereign's kindness.

A wild chief like Huang Taiji would only take off his sable fur and put it on for him. It was very pretentious, but he easily refused to give him real power.

How could it be like the Emperor Shaotian, who directly gave him the important position of the dean of the Admonishment Academy, the eighth secretary.

I haven't seen him face to face. To him, a traitor who has surrendered to the enemy, he is still a prisoner. He can be so unsuspecting and generous. What else can he say.

"The decree has arrived!"

Qian Niuwei escorted an internal official to announce the decree.

"Specially bestowed on Hong Chengchou, the Marquis of Nan'an, Zuo Admonishment Doctor of Fengjian Yuan, added Prince Taibao, awarded the Cabinet Co-organizer Bachelor, and entered the Prime Minister's Office to assist in military affairs. This is my honor!"

The emperor gave Hong Chengchou another official promotion, and the Qing court newly awarded him the Marquis of Nan'an, which the emperor reserved for him.

He also added the title of Gong Bao, and was awarded the title of cabinet bachelor, and also entered the prime minister's office.

Hong Chengchou's face was flushed with excitement, and he could no longer calm down. He knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed to the north, and shouted loudly and tremblingly to thank my emperor Hong En, long live long live long live.

His appearance surprised several staff members.

However, Hong Chengchou already felt that he was deeply relied on by the emperor, and that he was relied on by the emperor as his confidant.

Although he also knew that the emperor had also changed the cabinet. Now there are three palaces and three pavilions, each with a grand scholar, and then there are co-organizers who do not add the name of the palace, and there are cabinet bachelors and cabinet attendant bachelors. Although these indefinite co-organizers, bachelors, and attendant bachelors are not as honorable as the imperial bachelors, they still have a lot of real power and can enter the cabinet to help with maintenance.

And it's even more amazing to be able to enter the Prime Minister's Office, where the real emperor is near, the real decision-making center.

With the addition of these titles, he, Hong Chengchou, is now very sure that the emperor already wants to rely on him as a confidant, and even as an emperor's teacher!

Hong Chengchou's face was flushed with excitement, and when he accidentally kowtowed too hard, some blood came out from his forehead.

After getting up, he asked to go to thank His Majesty the Emperor immediately.

"Your Majesty is also waiting to see you, please come with Hong Xianggong."

Hong Chengchou was very excited, just like when he was selected as a Jinshi 30 years ago.

(End of this chapter)