Jingming

Chapter 110 Separation of Powers and Struggle for Power
Yang Tinghe was silent for a moment, and after turning his mind a few times, he asked the core question seriously: "Your Majesty, I still want to ask, since there is a national policy meeting, and the cabinet ministers will participate in the maintenance, how will the power and responsibility of this proposal be determined?"

He is the chief assistant of the cabinet, and this question can only be asked by him.

Zhu Houcong had already made a plan: "At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, participating in the maintenance was to share the worries of the emperor, and first drafted opinions on how to deal with various matters for the emperor. I have observed the government for more than a month, and the powers and powers between the cabinet and the six ministries have gradually become more and more unclear. Afterwards, if the matter only involves one department or the internal affairs of a certain government office, the memorials must state the strategy, and the cabinet will give a draft opinion, and I will approve it in principle. If the matter involves various ministries and the dispute is not resolved, it will be decided at the national policy meeting make a decision."

Jiuqing was shocked: in principle, this means that the cabinet will really have jurisdiction over the internal affairs of specific departments in the future.Although the strategy is determined by various departments, the cabinet’s theoretical opinions on drafting can only be approved or rejected, but this is the jurisdiction of the process.

Those involved in more than two departments can report to the national policy meeting.Although the cabinet still has the right to make recommendations, everyone can participate in the decision-making process.In this way, the cabinet lost the power to formulate plans for those complicated and major issues that many people did not want to take responsibility for.

It was difficult for everyone to think clearly whether this was to reduce or increase the power of the cabinet.

Yang Tinghe immediately left his seat, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Wang Qiong couldn't help looking at him, because Yang Tinghe must have figured it out.Wang Qiong immediately thought in a clear direction from his reaction: this system is still beneficial to the cabinet.

Then, it must be because the power of the cabinet to clearly review the internal affairs of each department can influence the officials of each department.

In this way, for those matters that need to be decided at the national policy meeting, under the influence of the review power of the cabinet, the various departments can also be coordinated by the cabinet first, so that the national policy meeting is equivalent to only going through a process.

Once it is decided to enter the implementation stage, the cabinet resumes the right to review the various ordinary matters related to the implementation process of various ministries.

Everything depends on whether the central coordination of the cabinet can be effectively completed, and whether the cabinet's review of the affairs of various departments can convince the public.

Wang Qiong immediately saluted: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has effectively suppressed all ministries, and I fear that the cabinet will become more and more powerful! Although Jiuqing attended the national policy meeting, he actually lost his authority over the government."

It's not that only the top leaders of each yamen have the right to act. For some trivial matters, the bureaucrats below directly report them. Wouldn't the head officials of each yamen be emptied?

Zhu Houcong stretched out three fingers: "Without going through the National Policy Conference, there must be three steps for the approval of the implementation: the chief officials of each yamen approve the signature and seal of the plan, the cabinet leads the cabinet ministers to sign the signature and seal, and the supervisor approves the red seal. Six cabinets Everyone is responsible for the opinions given by the ministers. If the chief cabinet minister is temporarily vacant, he will directly submit it to Zhu for approval before the case."

Yang Tinghe's eyes narrowed slightly: I'm in a hurry, it's too early to call Shengming, I only saw the clamping effect of this great principle on Liubu.

Strictly speaking, apart from being suppressed for the first time, the authority of the cabinet was continuously recognized by the emperor in subsequent daily affairs.

The specific performance is: almost all matters in the court meeting that did not give an attitude on the spot were submitted by the relevant yamen to the top, and Zhu Shixing was approved after being drafted by the cabinet.

So Yang Tinghe recognized the new monarch more and more from the bottom of his heart.

If it weren't for the signal that the emperor wanted to reform the law, it would have been impossible for the Qian Ning and Jiang Bin cases to spread to Liang Chu, Wang Qiong and others in such a timely manner.

But now, cabinet ministers lead affairs?

Because this is the separation of powers, each cabinet minister will have clear business responsibilities in the future.Of course, the Chief Assistant can express his opinions on everything, but the leading cabinet minister who needs to sign and be responsible can choose not to listen.

You're irresponsible, you can beep, but don't keep beeping!
Not only Fei Hong, who has returned to the cabinet, but also Jiang Mian and Mao Ji will be more happy to see this point.

And Jiuqing let out a long sigh of relief. In order to do his own affairs well in the future, it seems that he only needs to greet a leading cabinet minister?
Then even in the national policy meeting, the cabinet ministers will not be monolithic and fight with Jiuqing together.

Everyone looked at the emperor with complicated eyes.

It is a good thing to have clear powers, and Yang Tinghe can't object for a while.

Jiang Mian already wanted to take the lead - although Yang Tinghe was persuaded to stay, which made him very disappointed.

Although Mao Ji is consistent with Yang Tinghe in many aspects, doesn't he have his own expectations?
As for Fei Hong...he has been away from the court for many years, and if he can have his own specific affairs just after returning to the cabinet, then there is no need to slowly compete with the current cabinet ministers.

Yang Tinghe's appearance made all three of them dissatisfied.

Now it seems that this knife only cut Yang Tinghe the hardest, but Yang Tinghe could neither offend other cabinet ministers, nor object to the establishment of the imperial study companion.

Furthermore, he could not object to the establishment of the National Policy Council.

Because this means that civil servants no longer have to become cabinet ministers to enter the core of power.By the time Jiuqing or Tern became the accompanying bachelor of the imperial study, it had already reached its peak: all real major events cannot avoid the national policy meeting.

Everyone has already figured it out: the emperor's purpose is to expand the top-level decision-making circle and include his trusted and trained team.

It doesn't matter, he could have achieved this goal by adjusting the cabinet and Jiuqing candidates.What's more, the decision-making power in all matters will still rest with the emperor.

However, the high-ranking emperor was able to see more people fighting by virtue of his power of approval and ruling at the national policy meeting.

With so many more people in the core power circle, and more ascending channels, the people below will be active.

Yang Tinghe's opposition to the establishment of the National Policy Conference is not just as simple as opposing the other three cabinet ministers and all the nine ministers, but also a new way to block all officials below.

To put it bluntly, to create such a national policy conference is to reshuffle the cards in another more obvious way, so that the minds of the cabinet ministers and those under the Jiuqing will all be alive, and there will be more paths to enter the core power circle.

If you want to walk in, you have to turn to the emperor and get his approval.

In addition to the competition, among the cabinets, the chief assistant should not be allowed to grow bigger, and other cabinet ministers should be given clearer powers, so that the cabinet can fully play its role and improve the efficiency of the internal affairs of various departments.

The three checkpoints of ordinary affairs must have signatures and seals, and the heads of departments and leading cabinet ministers must be responsible for specific matters. Although it is pressure, it is clear that it is done well, and others cannot take away the credit.

Now Wang Qiong is also satisfied: as long as all the memorials under his hands must pass his own level, the power of the first level is of course greater than the second and third levels!

It seems that the emperor wants to choose to save worry and effort on trivial matters. In the future, his home court will only be here, only at the national policy meeting!
And Jiuqing is qualified to sit here!

Wang Qiong also knelt down and said sincerely: "Your Majesty is holy!"

Yang Tinghe, who had called Shengming early, asked at this time as if he had no objection, but only got up to understand the details: "Your Majesty, the cabinet ministers are in charge of their own affairs. Is it determined by the case or will there be a rule?"

Zhu Houcong smiled: "It depends on the matter, and I will decide."

Everyone understands: Which cabinet minister is in charge of specific affairs, this is like a temporary dispatch of an official.

When it comes to the attendees of the national policy meeting that will hardly change in three years, how can the emperor tolerate which cabinet minister will be in charge of affairs in a certain field?

As long as three to five years, it is a deep-rooted interest relationship.

This is only reasonable now, the emperor has always only expanded the number of people in the core power circle in order to better control some things from a high position.

But... these top civil servants with flexible minds all thought of a possibility of evolution: the current emperor has shown great energy and sufficient wisdom and determination, what about the future him?What about his descendants?
Can this national policy meeting continue to exist?If it has always existed, what will change in the future?
But at least Yang Tinghe and his cabinet ministers, who had just experienced the incident in the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Wang Shouren's lecture, faced the emperor's imperial study with the bachelor's share of the authority of the Ministry of Rites and Supervisors. The entire collective of civil servants has two more paths into the core power circle, and it is impossible to oppose it face to face.

The emperor's move was to actively withdraw part of the imperial power by weakening the eunuch's power, in exchange for the establishment of the national policy meeting and the imperial study companion bachelor's degree, which is difficult to be opposed by anyone.

Whoever stands up to oppose is almost a thief of civil servants.

Everyone has no time to think about the reaction that will be caused by the news of the establishment of the National Policy Conference today, because since so many ministers have no objections in principle, the discussion will begin.

The first thing is to abolish fraud and reset the specific strategy of the three camps.

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The establishment of the imperial study room to accompany the bachelors is to help civil servants make the cake bigger.

The establishment of the national policy conference is to help the important ministers among the civil servants to make the cake bigger.

Setting goals and preparing guarantees for the reset of the three major battalions is to help Wuchen make the cake bigger.

The only ones who were injured were the chief inspector of ceremonies and the chief assistant of the cabinet.

At this moment, the supervisor of ceremonies is not qualified to speak out, and Yang Tinghe at this moment cannot be an enemy of the entire group of civil servants, and the emperor's own "insecurity" cannot be bypassed to prevent military officials from getting a bigger stage.

Yan Song looked at the young emperor with admiration. Huang Jin, the imperial eunuch beside him and the head of the internal department, was also low-key and silent, and there was no difference in the tailoring of the authority of the chief of ceremonies.

For Huang Jin, the palm seal of the supervisor of ceremonies is definitely something he will have in his pocket in the future.

Yan Song couldn't help but speculate, what does His Majesty think about the future power structure of the court?

How will this royal study evolve in the future?

No one thinks that the future national policy meeting will always be in this pattern, and the Royal Study Room will always be just a Royal Study Room.

Don't tell the truth, the emperor is just shuffling the cards first, but it's not time to win the cards.

No one could guess what the emperor was thinking. After all, today's decision broke through the ceiling imagined by civil servants in the past, so there was a smooth change in the national policy meeting and the cabinet's decentralization.

Now, the emperor who has achieved his goal has returned to the state he had when he was in court.

His main energy is still listening to their words, paying attention to their "quarrel skills", and at the same time more intuitively understanding the doorways between various yamen.

Guo Xun felt like a clown.

The first thing to be discussed now is directly related to the military minister, but he is not able to participate in the discussions between the Minister of War, Wang Xian, and other important ministers.

The emperor didn't say a word, but Guo Xun, who had experienced the emperor's first visit to the court and many things after that, knew that the emperor actually had expectations for his ministers and generals.

That day, Guo Xun earnestly persuaded the other officers and generals: You guys who are getting fatter and fatter must consider whether this is...

But now, Guo Xun is the only one among the military generals here!
In this first national policy meeting, the first thing to discuss is the abolition of the abolition and re-establishment of the three major battalions. Can the representatives of the five armies' governor's mansions, the representatives of the honored officials and generals really not say a word?

The emperor didn't glance at him, but Guo Xun couldn't wait for the emperor to look over and hint at something.

Your Majesty is also very difficult!If he has seen it, but he can't let out a fart, what is it?
Guo Xun boldly interjected: "I think!"

(End of this chapter)