I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 986 Is it good or bad?

Yang Shiqi and others left happily.

The last news can be said to be the most pleasing to them among all kinds of news.

Even happier than Zhu Zhanji and others who seized 800 million taels of silver from Ma Dazhong and cleared up the major incidents of Jiangnan thieves.

Because, according to Li Tian's idea in the plan.

Although it is said to be expanding the cabinet in name, it is more like giving them the right to open a government and build a government.

What kind of honor is it to open a government and build a government office?

Under normal circumstances, only when the prince is an adult and has been able to get in touch with government affairs a little bit, is he eligible to open a mansion alone and establish his own team.

Then there is a special period, when the generals on the expedition outside the Great Wall, there are very few characters who can have this right.

What's more, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, when the princes and kings were still very powerful, they were allowed to open houses and build government offices because of the need to manage the country.

After all, except for the crown prince who may be justifiably founding the mansion.

In Daming, very few people would get this honor.

Earlier, Yang Shiqi and others didn't even dare to think that such a thing would fall on their heads.

You know, apart from the Hongwu period, the Ming Dynasty was one of the most stringent guards against the power in the hands of the princes in all dynasties.

Although, those princes can be regarded as opening a mansion and building a government office.

But apart from the fiefdom, they have no rights at all.

Even if it can only be regarded as letting them dominate in a small county.

But Yang Shiqi and others' opening of the mansion this time is completely different from that of the princes.

Once the cabinet is expanded, even though they don't have any real power in their hands, no matter who is released from this group of promoted people and assigned real power positions in the future, they can all be regarded as their own disciples.

This played an important role in consolidating several of their powers.

Before, they kept it secret, for fear of being said that they formed a clique for personal gain.

It's all good now, they can cultivate their own team in an open and aboveboard manner, which is a great joy.

It was only half an hour from the time they got the news until they hurriedly left the Imperial Study Room.

They almost already have a complete record in their minds, and they have even thought about where to find talents and expand their team.

Some people may think that this is not the same as deliberately letting them take over the cabinet ministers to become bigger. If they have bad intentions in the future, wouldn't it be another troublesome matter.

But Li Tian has already thought clearly, he has the confidence to control everything in his own hands, so that they can't play any tricks.

On the surface, the number of cabinet members has expanded, and the power of each of them has risen.

But it's not.

First, the number of core cabinet members is unchanged.

Except for a few of them, other cabinet members hardly saw Li Tian.

It can be said that the structure of the cabinet has not changed much from before.

The second is that when they have more people under their command, the power in their hands will naturally be dispersed.

Although they are still in charge, the last ones to pay attention, the era when they want to do their own way and do everything according to their own ideas, is completely over.

If they do something wrong, or have obvious omissions, the people under them will naturally remind them.

On the surface, they are still high-ranking and powerful cabinet ministers, but invisibly, their personal thoughts have become less important.

And they don't realize it.

What's more important is that the core members of the cabinet will definitely increase in the future. In Li Tian's idea, at least seven or eight are needed to barely enough.

Everyone has a bunch of younger brothers, and the core rights will be very scattered. Even if they want to plot evil, they will not be able to slap them.

Nowadays, there are only a few of them in the cabinet, and their words can affect many of Li Tian's decisions to a large extent.

But if the core members become seven or eight, and the secondary members are one or two hundred, then it will not be so easy for them to influence Li Tian by themselves.

They didn't realize this for the time being, but Li Tian had already considered it.

Therefore, he is not worried that in the future, because of the expansion of the cabinet team, he will become constrained.

On the contrary, they may be the ones who have really become constrained.

The expansion of the cabinet is inevitable. Even if Li Tian doesn't do it now, there will be emperors who will do it in the future.

Take Chongzhen as an example, his cabinet is almost the most in the Ming Dynasty, reaching as many as seven or eight.

At the beginning, the cabinet members were just the emperor's policy advisors.

It wasn't until the Ming Renzong Xuanzong era that the rise of Sanyang made the power of cabinet ministers more stable.

Then began the era of cabinet rule.

In other words, the rise of the cabinet administration stems from Sanyang, which is the era that Li Tian is currently in.

From the perspective of later generations, there are advantages and disadvantages to the cabinet assisting the government.

But in Li Tian's view, generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

After all, no matter how powerful the cabinet ministers are, even if the emperor has not been in court for decades, the cabinet ministers cannot monopolize the government.

I thought there was always a layer of Zhu Zhu in the middle.

Without Zhu's approval, the cabinet's proposals are always in vain.

As long as Li Tian firmly grasps Zhu Pi's power, no matter how much the power of the cabinet becomes in the future, he will have the confidence to control everything in his own hands.

Even if one day, he may go to the West or other places to play, and ignore the government for a year or two, the cabinet will not be able to turn the sky.

But no matter what, even if Yang Shiqi and others later understood that their rights had not only not increased, but had become weaker.

They would not refuse the opportunity to open a government office and organize their own team this time.

Because, whether they have rights or not is only temporary, maybe one day the emperor will be unhappy, or they did something wrong and annoyed the emperor.

After an edict came down, they became a commoner.

The positions of cabinet ministers may be gone, but the influence they left behind will not disappear so easily.

Especially those cabinet members who came out of their hands.

Even if one or two of them were nostalgic and could pull him back, it wouldn't make their lives too miserable.

These are actually invisible capitals, and aboveboard capitals, capitals that no one can ignore.

(End of this chapter)