Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 131 Inner Court Officials
They agreed on the person in charge of affairs in the Southwest, Northwest, and Liaodong, and also adjusted the civil and military Dingyou system, the rank of civil and military officials, the authority of Shangfang Sword, the martial law system in the war zone, the establishment of Zongzheng Temple, the town governor and the army guard system, and even dealt with the northwest Due to arrears of pay and some rebel members of the eunuch party, the Minister of Household Affairs and the local governor were replaced...

The ministers felt that there were too many things confirmed today and were a little exhausted mentally and physically. They did not want to continue the discussion and requested to end the meeting.

Although Zhu Youjian felt that there were still affairs in southern Liaoning that needed to be discussed, matters in Governor Denglai, Dongjiang Town, North Korea and other places had not yet been settled. But considering that Mao Wenlong is about to come to Beijing, it will not be too late to discuss it then. At the request of the ministers, the meeting ended.

The ministers were angry and felt that it was not a good thing for the emperor to be too diligent in his work. There were too many different things.

Some people even miss the Wanli period, when the emperor didn't care at all and officials were really relaxed.

When Zhu Youjian returned to Qianqing Palace, he also breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his body.

Although the relationship between the emperor and his ministers is not like "a hundred battles a day" as Han Feizi said, we must always be careful to avoid falling into a trap——

The power of the Ming Emperor was lost bit by bit in the game with the civil servants.

Zhu Youjian is now adjusting the distribution of power and must be more careful with every proposal made by civil servants.

Only when you return to the harem can you relax.

Especially now that there is no Wei Zhongxian in the harem, Zhu Youjian does not have to be as cautious as before and always has to worry about Wei Zhongxian's reaction.

This made him feel relaxed for a long time, and he even almost fell asleep.

However, a piece of news from the Queen made his nerves tense again, knowing that the harem was not yet safe:

"The wife of Marquis Wu Qing went to the palace to cry to the queen and the emperor's sister-in-law."

"It is said that Marquis Wu Qing was not rebellious and his family property should not be confiscated."

"Why did the news about Chang Shen's meeting spread so quickly?"

The news that had just been decided spread outside the palace so quickly that even Marquis Wu Qing reacted and sent his family members into the palace to cry.

This made Zhu Youjian feel that the palace was like a big sieve, and the news spread too fast.

"It seems that this palace needs to be reorganized."

"Those unreliable personnel must be cleared out."

At present, his control over the palace is limited to Qianqing Palace and Yangxin Palace. He has not freed up other places and has not replaced personnel.

The fact that Wu Qinghou sent people into the palace made him feel that it was urgent to clean up the harem. Otherwise, he would still not be safe enough in the palace.

"The nobles have been in business for hundreds of years, and many of them have spies in the palace."

"Wang An also has many collusions with the Donglin Party. Cao Huachun and others under his name cannot be reassured."

"The palace needs to be reorganized and these connections must be cut off."

I am really afraid of the various inexplicable deaths of the Ming Emperor, plus he has changed so many systems since he succeeded to the throne. Maybe he violated someone's interests and tried to harm himself.

For example, Wu Qinghou was placed in the fifth class and his property was confiscated, which violated his interests. If I reiterate the old Jiajing rule and don't let his nephew's title be passed on, I don't know what will happen.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian made up his mind to completely reorganize the harem. The Li family of Marquis Wuqing also wanted to drive away to prevent them from causing trouble in the capital.

Before the rectification, the most important thing was to get the bottom of things. Zhu Youjian called Liu Ruoyu and asked this eunuch who was familiar with the regulations to introduce him to various departments in the palace.

Liu Ruoyu introduced the yamen in the palace. Zhu Youjian was very satisfied and had a deeper understanding of the responsibilities of each yamen in the palace.

Then he asked again:

"How many officials are there in the palace?"

"How much is the annual salary?"

Liu Ruoyu couldn't answer for a while, so he could only say:
"There are twelve eunuchs, four divisions and eight bureaus in the palace. According to the old Hongwu system, each eunuch has one eunuch, who is of the fourth rank. There is one eunuch on the left and right, who is of the fourth rank. There is one eunuch on the left and right, who is of the fifth rank. Dian Book One member is the sixth rank. There is no fixed number of members for the long-term attendants and imperial ministers, who are the sixth rank." "Each department has one chief, the fifth rank; there is one deputy on the left and right, the fifth rank."

"Each bureau has one ambassador, who is of the fifth rank; there is one deputy envoy on the left and right, who is of the fifth rank."

"But in fact, each yamen appoints palm seals, supervisors, supervising eunuchs, as well as management, book-writing, writing, chief directors, stewards, etc. There is no fixed number of personnel."

"Customized according to Taizu, every month is equivalent to rice and stone."

Salaries are not distributed according to grade, but only one stone of grain is given every month. Taizu's idea was very good, but it was completely unrealistic.

Thinking about the property stolen from those eunuchs' homes, Zhu Youjian knew how greedy these eunuchs were. There are definitely not two places of corruption in the palace.

Thinking again that the titles "Shao Jian" and "Jian Cheng" were rarely heard, Zhu Youjian asked:
"Why don't each government appoint officials according to the ancestral system, but instead appoint admirals and secretaries?"

Liu Ruoyu glanced at the emperor and said cautiously:

"According to the ancestral system, there is only one eunuch among the twelve eunuchs, and there are twelve eunuchs in the palace."

"If Your Majesty wants to promote people, he can only promote them from Fengyu to Dianbo, then from Dianbo to Jiancheng, from Jiancheng to Shaojian, and then to eunuch."

"So after Hongwu, he gradually no longer followed the ancestral system. His Majesty directly appointed eunuchs such as palm eunuchs and admiral eunuchs to take charge of various yamen."

Zhu Youjian now understood that it was the emperor who took the lead in violating the ancestral system.

After Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the eunuchs in the palace gradually came to be more important. In particular, the eunuch Si Li, the head of the twelve eunuchs, was able to compete with the cabinet.

In order to promote those around him as quickly as possible and gain control of the palace, the emperor often skipped the ranks of eunuchs and young eunuchs and appointed them as eunuchs.

Therefore, the ancestral system established by Taizu still exists on the surface, and the twelve supervisors, four divisions, and eight bureaus are still the same yamen, but the official system has completely changed.

For example, Liu Ruoyu served as Fengyu and Jiancheng, but actually did not do anything as Fengyu or Jiancheng. These two official positions were more like additional titles, representing his status in the palace.

Even the positions of palm eunuch and admiral eunuch have a trend of increasing their titles. For example, Liu Yingkun, the eunuch of Liaodong who was the censor of the imperial horse supervisor, was ordered to go out to supervise the masters as the censor of the imperial horse supervisor.

"How come the position can be regarded as an additional title just like the ministers, ministers, chief ministers, and young ministers of the outer court?" 』

"Is it necessary to set up special titles at all levels just like the outer court? 』

When this thought came up, Zhu Youjian shook his head and was too lazy to set up various levels of titles for the inner court.

He needed to respect the ministers of the outer court, so he specially set up titles at all levels and replaced those ministers' ministers, Zhengqing and Shaoqing.

The inner court didn't need them at all, even if Zhu Youjian got rid of all their official positions, no one dared to say anything.

Zhu Youjian did not need to worry about their feelings at all and set various levels of promotions for them.

However, it is necessary to determine the grade of the eunuchs in the inner court and give them room to upgrade:
Civil servants of the foreign court have positions, additional titles, casual officials, and honorary ranks.

The positions of eunuchs in the inner court can be written in the form of palm seal, admiral, associate secretary, or 佥书, and the names can be slightly changed.

Eunuchs, young eunuchs, and eunuchs are not mentioned here. After all, all eunuchs are now called eunuchs.

The honorary rank is given to the eunuch's brothers and nephews, who have hundreds of families and thousands of families. These people have no heirs, so they value this even more.

In the end, the remaining officials were the casual officials. Zhu Youjian remembered that there were internal officials and scattered officials, which could be used to determine the quality.

Like the previous emperors, Zhu Youjian also believed that the appointment of imperial officials established by Zu was inconvenient, and planned to make them empty and use casual officials to determine grades. So I asked Liu Ruoyu:

"How to award casual officials to internal officials?"

"Which yamen is responsible?"

(End of this chapter)