marquis of jingan

Chapter 627 The Powerful Emperor

To be honest, this feeling of deciding the fate of the two local officials and even the fate of the officials of the two provinces at the dinner table is very good.

It even gave Shen Yi the feeling that he was already the prime minister, and that the prime minister ruled the world.

To put it bluntly, it is "floating".

However, this kind of "floating" did not last long, and was suppressed by Shen Yi's rationality. His rationality told him that the reason for this effect was not because he, Shen Yi, had this meal with the emperor here. .

It was the emperor who ate this meal with him, Shen Yi.

In the final analysis, it is His Majesty the Emperor in front of him who decides everything.

Although he was the same age as himself...

But the reincarnation technique of others is obviously better.

After the meal was finished, the emperor waved his hand to ask the palace staff to remove the two dining tables, and then he led Shen Yi back to his office. Rubbing his forehead, he sighed helplessly: "Today, I guess it will take another midnight to finish it."

Shen Yi stood with his hands down, and said, "Then I won't disturb His Majesty's handling of political affairs..."

"My minister retire."

"These are not really important things."

The emperor sat down and smiled at Shen Yi: "In comparison, what you said to Shen Qing is more important."

Shen Yi was a little surprised.

He looked at the memorial on the table and asked, "Your Majesty, since it's not an important memorial, it's just a matter of handing it over to the ministers in Zhongshu. Why do you have to do it yourself?"

The emperor lowered his eyebrows, opened a book in his hand, and hummed: "Because those gentlemen in Zhongshu are not at ease, and some of them still think that I can be bullied when I am young."

He looked up at Shen Yi, and said with a smile: "Originally, this kind of thing should not be said to the courtiers, but you and my monarchs are the same age, and are not the same as those old guys, so I will just complain to you casually. , don't think too much about it."

Hearing this, Shen Yi already understood.

To put it bluntly, it is the struggle between the power of the monarch and the power of the prime minister.

Although the monarchy is supreme, the emperor is not a god and cannot be omniscient, so he needs the assistance of the prime minister to handle political affairs.

The monarchy is exclusive, so the dispute between the monarchy and the power of the prime minister has existed since ancient times.

Take the historical process of another world as an example. In the early Han Dynasty, the prime minister could be said to be the head of hundreds of officials in a country.

In the Tang Dynasty, it evolved into a system of group prime ministers, with a group of prime ministers dividing the functions of prime ministers.

In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu was also afraid of the power of the prime minister, so he abolished the prime minister system, but because the emperor could not do all the things alone, the function of prime minister existed naturally in the dynasty, so in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it naturally derived Out of the cabinet this disguised prime minister system.

The same is true for Da Chen.

From the emperor's ascension to Hongde's six years, during the entire six years, the court was basically dominated by Yang Jingzong, the prime minister of Zhongshu, and Yang Xiang. During these six years, the power of the prime minister far surpassed the power of the monarch.

So much so that at the end of the ninth year of Hongde, the emperor has been in charge for four years, and even when the prime ministers of Zhongshu have changed twice, those prime ministers still have the idea of ​​​​dividing the world with the emperor, both openly and secretly.

It depends on whether the emperor is strong or not.

If the emperor is not strong enough, he will transfer most of the political power to the prime minister and courtiers, and he will only assume the role of a "referee" and use the so-called balancing method of the emperor's mind to balance the court situation.

A more powerful emperor may not necessarily do it himself, but he must want to be arbitrary and make all the prime ministers bow to him.

Obviously, the current young Emperor His Majesty belongs to the latter.

However, the struggle between monarchy and phase power is a long process.

Even if the power of the monarch completely overwhelmed the power of the prime minister, during the emperor's long career, as long as he slackened a little, those treacherous scholars would try every means to stealthily seize the power in their hands.

And the emperor may need to remain vigilant throughout his decades of career.

It's hard.

Therefore, except for the founding king, most of the later emperors divided and ruled the world with the prime ministers or scholar-bureaucrats.

But now, His Majesty the Emperor of Chen Guo already wanted to overshadow the Prime Minister as much as possible.

But even so, it cannot be considered that this emperor is a wise king with great ambitions. In fact, many emperors would fight for it when they were young.

After flipping through a few memorials, the little emperor casually commented on a few sentences, then put them aside, and said slowly: "I have worked hard for several years, and those old fellows in Zhongshu dare not slack off in doing things. After a few years..."

Now the emperor is working so hard because he wants to let the prime ministers in Zhongshu know that he will personally read every document.

After a few more years, the Mesozoic generation of the Hongde dynasty grew up, and the veterans of the former emperor's dynasty gradually retreated, so the emperor would no longer have to do everything himself.

But after hearing this, Shen Yi didn't want to hear it anymore.

Because it's weird.

He is also a civil servant.

Moreover, he is a Jinshi from two rankings, a civil servant who is so pure that he can't be more pure, one day, he may also enter Zhongshu and become a serious "Shen Xiang"!
But what does the emperor mean by telling him these things now?
Do you want to get closer to him, or do you want Shen Yi to become a lonely minister of Hong Dechao?

Although the emperor told him not to think too much, but facing this situation, he couldn't help but not think too much.

Just as Shen Yi was thinking wildly, the emperor finished approving another memorial. He looked at Shen Yi and said with a smile: "There are too many memorials, Shen Qing, help me take a look?"

Any civil servant may have jumped up excitedly upon hearing this sentence.

Because of assisting the emperor in handling political affairs!

He is already the de facto prime minister!
But Shen Yi was very sober, he took half a step back, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I absolutely dare not..."

The emperor squinted his eyes and looked at Shen Yi, and said with a smile: "Do you know what I like most about Shen Qing?"

Shen Yi bowed his head and didn't answer.

The emperor said indifferently: "He is capable and understands the rules."

Speaking of this, the emperor seemed tired of writing, put down the brush and rubbed his wrist, he seemed to think of something, smiled at Shen Yi: "By the way, there is an interesting thing, I want to tell Shen Qing."

Shen Yi quickly lowered his head: "I am all ears."

"In the past six months when you went to the south to work, the Huaihe Navy has already won two battles."

The emperor said meaningfully: "August and November respectively."

"According to General Zhao's report, they wiped out nearly 500 Northern Qi scouts twice, and almost wiped out the entire Northern Qi scout battalion."

It has been a long time since Chen Guo and Bei Qi had ceased fighting head-on.

However, the local conflicts on the border have never stopped. It is very common for the two sides to fight, but in the absence of a large-scale war, it is indeed very remarkable to kill 500 people from the other side.

Master Shen cupped his hands and said, "The Huai River Navy defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty twice. This is a blessing for this dynasty. Your Majesty...Congratulations."

The emperor sneered, stood up from the chair, and stretched his muscles and bones: "Your errands in the south can be done more beautifully. Maybe the Huaihe Navy can win a few more battles to make me happy."

Having said that, the emperor paused for a moment, the smile on his face faded and became serious.

He looked at Shen Yi, and said lightly: "Shen Qing, next year I must build the commander of the coastal capital, do you have a candidate for the commander of the capital?"

The young emperor, His Majesty, seemed to feel that what he said was a bit cryptic, so before Shen Yi could answer, he asked directly: "The two military officers under your command, are there any people who are competent?"

The emperor was talking about Ling Su and Xue Wei.

Shen Yi was silent for a while, then shook his head silently.

"Your Majesty, the two of them...their qualifications are far from enough, but the five guards under the jurisdiction of the coastal capital can allow them to go to various places to prepare for the construction. As for the position of the commander of the capital..."

Shen Yi said truthfully: "Your Majesty, please choose another candidate."

The emperor nodded silently when he heard the words.

"It's rare that you have such a public heart."

"But this is a military general in the court."

The emperor frowned, lowered his eyebrows and said: "It will be a while, I really can't choose a suitable person..."

(End of this chapter)