Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 653
Penglai Palace, Xiaohai.

Pang Tianshou, deputy eunuch of the Internal Affairs Department, was wearing a brocade fur coat and holding a stove in his hand. Standing on the huge boat in the ice, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous when he saw the majestic purple-robed ministers coming.

Several eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace stood behind him, looking at the famous ministers.

University scholars Zhang Guowei and Qi Biaojia headed, followed by Xu Shiqi, Shen Chenquan, Fang Fengnian, Chen Meng, Zhang Shenyan, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Huang Daozhou, Zheng Sanjun, Wu Shen, Feng Yuanbiao, Feng Yuanyang, Ni Yuangong, He Tengjiao, Jiang Dejing , Huang Jingfang, Lin Yuji, Chen Hongmi and other cabinets co-organized the bachelors and bachelors.

Wen Anzhi also led Qu Shiqi, Lu Daqi, Shen Tingyang, Shen Youlong, Wanji, Yang Tinglin, Zhang Kentang, Lu Zhenfei, Yu Ying, Zhang Youyu, Xie Xuelong, Lian Guoshi, Zuo Guangxian, Yao Sixiao, Li Qing, Wu Yi , Zhang Dai, Chen Longzheng, Chen Yujie and other governors.

This group of ministers in purple robes and jade belts are not only cabinet scholars, cabinet co-organizers, cabinet bachelors, ministers and governors, but even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, many of them joined the cabinet or took charge of a department. Shangshu.

For example, Zheng Sanjun and others can even be regarded as the elders of the four dynasties. If Hong Guang is added, they can be counted as having experienced the five dynasties.

This group of important ministers, at the very least, also received the title of cabinet bachelor.

The elders are in their 80s with white beard and hair, and there are several in their 70s.

Most of these people are from Donglin.

Some are students of Gu Xiancheng, some are students of Gao Panlong, some are students of Yuan Keli, and some are students of Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong.

With such a big snowstorm, it’s the first month of the lunar year. If you don’t have a good rest at home, you have to come to face the wind and snow to join in the fun.

Wang Sangyu was maintaining the flintlock in the poop of the big ship, looked up at the row of long dragons, smiled and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty seems to have stabbed a hornet's nest this time."

When she said this, her expression was indifferent, she was still the very free and easy woman with a brilliant temperament, and she cleaned up a pair of flintlock pistols.

Zhu Yihai held the new binoculars from Zhizhoushan Telescope Factory in his hand, and was scanning the faces of the bachelors. The new binoculars are good, and they are separated by a long distance. I can see everything clearly.

"It's true that I poked a hornet's nest, but I can't see the hornet's nest under the eaves, so I just turn a blind eye? Now that the hornet's nest is just starting to build, it's right to poke it out in time."

Wang's father-in-law, Liu Hongxun, was also a scholar of Chongzhen University, and was once the chief assistant.She was not too afraid of this group of purple-robed officials.In fact, just like when her father-in-law became the first assistant, it was not because of her outstanding talents and fame.

Chongzhen asked the imperial court to select cabinet ministers, and the ministers elected ten people.

As usual, Chongzhen only needs to delineate the first three or four in order, but Chongzhen was afraid that courtiers would form cliques for personal gain, so he held the so-called divination in imitation of ancient times.

In the Qianqing Palace, he convened the ministers of the cabinet, the six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, including the nine ministers of all sizes, and the officials of the six departments and thirteen departments to attend the ceremony.

Burn incense and pray to the sky, then put the ten recommended names written in advance in the gold bottle, and use lottery to determine the new cabinet ministers.

Finally, I used ivory chopsticks to pick out four paper sticks one by one, namely Qian Longxi, Li Biao, Lai Zongdao, and Yang Jingchen. Later, Chongzhen thought that the world was troubled, so he should choose more.

So two more were caught, one was Zhou Daodeng and the other was Liu Hongxun.

On the same day, Chongzhen conferred the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Bachelor of Dongge University on all six of them, and participated in the maintenance of the cabinet. This is the famous Prime Minister of the Golden Chopsticks.

However, Liu Hongxun and other six people were originally one of the ten candidates recommended by the court council, so they still had some real skills, but later Liu Hen's subordinates lamented that the Lord was young after all, but they were hated by Chongzhen, and finally exiled. State.

In the eyes of others, it would be great to be a servant or a minister. If one were to become a university scholar, he would already be an extremely human minister, let alone the one-in-a-million chief assistant.

In Dan Wang's eyes, it is not like ordinary people think that the empress of the East Palace bakes big cakes and the empress of the West Palace rolls green onions. She knows very well that there is actually a world of difference in authority between a scholar and a minister in front of the emperor.

It's like Chongzhen can use golden chopsticks to sign a prime minister, and he can also exile the first minister directly to the border.

"Your Majesty is not afraid that if they really make trouble, it will be difficult to deal with."

Zhu Yihai smiled, and continued to look at the facial expressions of those great scholars from a distance with the binoculars.

Since the establishment of the Shao Dynasty, the center has also had a relatively stable team.

Compared with the beginning of his uprising, Song Zhipu, the first assistant, only served as the left servant of the household department, and the rest of the bachelors, ministers, etc. were even doctors, members, and principals.

In the past few years, the emperor's Northern Expedition has greatly shaken the reputation, and more and more courtiers from the Ming Dynasty have gathered here. Many former scholars, ministers, ministers, and governors have basically gathered here.

However, Zhu Yihai did not confer titles indiscriminately.

His cabinet halls are relatively stable, each of the three halls and three cabinets has only one bachelor, and the cabinet without a post co-organizes the bachelor and the cabinet bachelor, but many of them are awarded successively.However, compared with the six official bachelors, these co-organized bachelors and cabinet bachelors have very different powers.

The first assistant, Song Zhifu, leads the cabinet, and the six palace scholars draw up votes separately, and are still in charge of the daily affairs of the court.

Important military and political affairs were handled in the Prime Minister's Yamen, and the emperor personally handled them. In addition, several prime ministers and assistant ministers with unofficial positions were appointed to participate in the military aircraft.Generally, there are two cabinets, one for the Metropolitan Procuratorate and one for the Remonstrance Court, one for the Governor of the Imperial Battalion, and one for the Governor of the Beijing Camp.

In addition, there are Hanlin Bachelors, Attendant Readers, and Attendant Speakers of the Hanlin Academy, and the cabinet also has attendant graduates and attendant lecturers who work part-time.

This year, Chongwen and Hongwen are newly established, and there are also two museums for bachelors, bachelors of servants, and bachelors of servants.

Among these bachelors, naturally the six Diange Grand Bachelors are the most honorable and top-ranked.The cabinet co-organizes the bachelor, from Yipin.

The cabinet bachelor is the second grade, and the Hanlin bachelor is the third grade.

The cabinet ministers and lecturers are from the third rank to the fourth rank, the two halls are from the fourth rank, and the two halls are from the fifth rank.

There are also direct bachelors of the sixth grade in the two halls, as well as doctors of lectures, school book masters, school managers, orthographic officials.

The Shaotian Dynasty's bachelor degree system is obviously more complicated than that of the Chongzhen Dynasty and before. Only the cabinet bachelors used to be fifth-rank, but now they are first-rank.

In the past, the cabinet masters relied on holding six ministers, and even added the title of Gongbao to establish their rank promotion status.

And now it's straight up.

The cabinet bachelors, co-organizing bachelors, and cabinet bachelors are all full-time, while the ministers and bachelors of the Imperial Academy, the two halls, and the prime minister's office are mostly part-time.

"Your Majesty is not afraid that these old gentlemen will get angry and come to a small sea to stand in the ice?"

Zhu Yihai put away the binoculars, "See you off."

Wang accepted it with a smile.

"I never fight unprepared battles. Now that I have done it this time, I am ready. I deliberately chose the new year when the imperial envoy is still in Beijing, just to prepare once and for all.

What's more, they came here today, and they were invited by me personally. "

The people invited today, the three halls and three cabinets, the cabinet co-organizers, the prime minister, the assistant ministers, and even the six ministers of the two houses and the six ministries Dali, the nine ministers, and some ministers, governors, and governors, of course. , and not all of them.

For example, Song Zhifu, the first assistant, Chen Hanhui and Ke Xiaqing, the assistant ministers, were not summoned.

Then Zheng Zhilong, Ruan Dacheng, Ma Shiying, Liu Kongzhao, Yang Wencong, Hong Chengchou, Qian Qianyi and others were not called.

Those who were not summoned were all supporting the emperor to clean up Donglin.

Those who were summoned were mostly Donglin, who either supported Donglin or opposed the emperor's sudden exodus of thousands of people.

Whether it is the old Donglin, the Shaodonglin, or Fushe, the country was in peril two years ago, and under the leadership of Zhu Yihai, they reluctantly abandoned sectarianism, but now that ZTE is in sight, the court has begun to become more complicated.

Especially those young officials from Donglin Fushe who were too active.

Last time in the case of Ruan Ma, Zhu Yihai treated Gu Xianshou and the others very lightly, but this time the case of Wang Zhiren was so fierce that even Pijiang and others started to use public opinion to create momentum, and when they wanted to kidnap public opinion, Zhu Yihai couldn't bear it. up.

They not only attacked Wang Zhiren, but also wanted to expand, attack the imperial camp, attack the warrior group, and even want to take away the command of the imperial camp from the emperor.

They thought it was their credit that the emperor dismissed the eunuchs before, but now they want the emperor to hand over the imperial camp, and even continue to use literature to rule the military.

After these increasingly excessive behaviors, after the warnings were invalid, he had to fight back severely.

However, he didn't intend to raise any major Donglin case at this time, so he made it very clear in his special speech at the Guozijian that Donglin was good, but later some people in Donglin went the wrong way and turned their backs on the founding Donglin. The original intention of the Eight Gentlemen.

It even mixed with bad people and used their flags falsely.

Some inexperienced, younger meritorious and righteous officials were deceived by them, so now it is necessary to crack down on this little villain and traitor, and to strengthen the experience of these young heroes.

That's why there's this big move.

In addition to the Guozijian speech, Zhu Yihai had already summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs, especially the generals of the imperial camp, to talk with them years ago, and even awarded generals such as Waizhentunzhen and other generals, stabilizing the Wuxun Group and the military.

After all these were done, he started to make a move.

Today, I specially summoned this group of famous and prestigious bachelors who even hold important positions, in order to make a final decision on this matter.

What should come must be faced.

"Your Majesty is really not afraid of them admonishing them with death? In such a cold and snowy day, at such an old age, if one or two people die today, whether it is from freezing to death, falling to death, or crashing to death, I am afraid that the situation will get out of control," Wang said. Shi persuaded the emperor to be careful.

"I don't fight unprepared battles. In fact, the court is a market, a place for trading. If you take back a piece of power, you have to trade out some compensation.

I think they should be able to accept the compensation I have prepared! "

(End of this chapter)