Idle courtiers

Chapter 439 Cooperation reached
Yuan Wei gets annoyed when he thinks about it. He is a dignified cabinet minister who can't even get a student promoted. How will the team replace him in the future? Who will take him seriously as a teacher?
Zhou Nan did him a big favor today, so the feud between him and Xu Jie can be ignored.

Zhou Nan put down his glass, and said seriously: "I asked Xu Cifu about this matter last night, and suggested that Mr. Yuan Ge is a man of virtue, and his disciples are naturally upright and capable ministers. Such a person should be promoted to a suitable position. Position. How could Xu Xiang abandon it because of his personal grievances with Mr. Yuan Ge? If you do not avoid relatives if you raise it internally, you will not avoid hatred if you raise it externally. If so, others will only praise Xu Xiang’s virtue. Xu Cifu also sighed. He also had conflicts for a while, and now he thinks about it and regrets it. However, after thinking about it in depth, he was at fault, but there are also some problems in this system that need to be discussed.”

Yuan Wei was very surprised that this matter could also be related to the system: "I would like to hear the details."

Zhou Nan didn't continue talking, but walked to Yuan Wei's case.Pointing to the Four Treasures of the Study on the table: "George, can the lower officials use it?"

"Please."

Zhou Nan chose a Langhao brush, dipped it in the ink, swiped it, unfolded it, and said, "Mr. Ge, please have a look."

But I saw that line of words was dripping with ink, and the muscles and bones were straight, standing through the back of the paper.Yuan Wei is a person who knows the goods. His eyes lit up and he read: "'Repay the master with prestige, return the government affairs to the ministers, and return the opinions of the public with the reward of punishment. Huohuo, after another 30 to [-] years, it will become a generation of masters."

Zhou Nan wanted to be proud of his calligraphy, but it was a pity that he had never had the opportunity to show off after time travelling. Today, he was praised by Yuan Wei, and he was proud of it, "Ge Lao's absurd praise, I can't afford to be an official. This is what Xu Ge said, Instruct the boy to write a banner and stick it in the study as a warning. I also ask, what does Yuan Xiang think of this sentence?"

Yuan Wei knew there was something in Zhou Nan's words, so he just looked at him.

Zhou Nan said: "Mr. Xu Ge felt that when Yan Song was in charge of the cabinet, he had monopolized power and harmed the country. Now he is temporarily in charge of the cabinet. He intends to set things right, return authority and welfare to the emperor, return government affairs to various government departments, and return the appointment and dismissal of officials and rewards and punishments to public opinion. It cannot be decided by one person.”

Yuan Wei's heart moved: "Tell me."

Zhou Nan: "Old Xu Ge means that when the cabinet was in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers below handed over the papers, and the votes were divided according to the different departments and colleges that the auxiliary ministers were in charge of. All the cabinet elders have their own votes. Only when encountering difficult matters, the chief minister made the final decision. Later, the right to draft bills was transferred to the chief minister, and he planned to follow the previous system, where all ministers of the cabinet worked together to draft imperial bills for the emperor."

This is the condition Xu Jie offered.

This condition is so generous that Yuan Wei couldn't believe his ears: "Really?"

Seeing Zhou Nan nodding his head affirmatively, Yuan Wei said hesitantly: "I can't do without a respectful elder, this discussion is not appropriate."

Zhou Nan: "What's wrong? Mr. Xu Ge said that it is more fair for things to come out of everyone's collegiality, and justice is the foundation of all virtues; arbitrariness is selfishness, and selfishness will lead to all kinds of evils. Holds the power to draft votes, but everything is discussed by the cabinet and all the ministers, how can there be a strict party that will harm the country and chaos in the future? Power needs to be restricted, and only by restricting can we promote righteousness."

"Ge Lao, in the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet, the department, and the ceremonial supervisor were independent of each other and supervised each other. Why did one person act arbitrarily in the cabinet? If this is not a system problem, what else can it be?"

"Well said!" Yuan Wei jumped up at the case; "Xu Cifu is the pillar of the real country, and we, gentlemen, naturally cannot sit back and watch a gentleman be framed by a villain. The Kongming case is full of doubts, how can it be closed so hastily? There will definitely be ministers to report Imperial Court, please submit this case to the San Judicial Department, and the old man will draw up a ticket in the memorial to ask the emperor to make a holy judgment."

The officials he mentioned, needless to say, were old Yuan's protégés and old officials.

Zhou Nan was overjoyed when the transaction was concluded, and bowed to the ground: "Yuan Xiangguo's family style was advertised at that time as the wife of Xuanchen."

Hearing that Zhou Nan compared himself to Wei Zheng, Yuan Wei laughed and helped Zhou Nan up: "Actually, the censors can still fight for it."

Yes, at the beginning of the Kongming case, the judges were very noisy.But when Kong Ming started biting Xu Jie and Chen Zhu teamed up, they stopped talking, fearing that they would be involved.

Now that Yuan Wei, the elder of the pavilion, used all the human resources at hand to call for Xu Jie's grievances, the two elders of the pavilion cooperated, and the power began to balance. It was a good time for Qingliu to intervene.

After all, Xu Ge is always a civil servant and one of Qingliu's own people. If he doesn't help him, why should he still help the factory guard?

This matter is very promising, it depends on where the situation develops next.

But there is no need to worry, when the time comes, it will be up to you to see the trick.

Excitedly coming out of Yuan Wei's house, Zhou Nan couldn't help laughing, and murmured: "The bet is won, and Yuan Wei will come forward to carry the banner. This matter may be possible."

When he came to Yuan Wei's place, he already had a preliminary idea. When he reached the stage of a cabinet minister, it was meaningless for you to buy anything, and what he wanted could not be measured by money.

In the eyes of this kind of real big shot, all the people in the world can be roughly divided into two types: "Available" and "Unavailable."

All things in the world can be roughly divided into two types: "valuable" and "no value."

To negotiate with them, you have to give them the benefits they want in exchange.

What do they want, money, beautiful women, too vulgar, as prime ministers, they can't get any money or any woman.

All they want is power.

As far as the furnishings that Zhou Nan saw at Yuan Wei's house were all dilapidated, it could be seen that this old Yuan Ge didn't have any desire for material things.This kind of person wants success.

That's right, judging by Yuan Wei's age and physical condition, he will be retiring in a few years, so he is just a dawdler.

But how important is the power to draft votes. No one can resist the temptation to directly control the state affairs and affect hundreds of millions of people's desire for power and sense of mission.

Lao Yuan is not exempt!

What's the point, fame and wealth, the older you get, the more enthusiastic you become.Although my old Yuan is almost dusk, I also want to be brilliant again so that I can live up to this life.

After walking on the street for a long time, Zhou Nan found that his hair was soaked by the mist.Looking back, I saw that the two book offices who followed me were also full of tiredness, and felt sorry in my heart: "You two have worked hard, it's so cold, and you have to bear it carefully. Tomorrow, I will go to Shi Wenjiang's place to pay a few coins for food and wine to keep out the cold."

Zhou Nan used to have a high prestige in the Daolu Department, and everyone respected him and obeyed him.

The two saw Zhou Nan going to Xuge's old mansion for a while, and Yuange's old mansion for a while, and they were amazed in their hearts: what kind of person is our grand master, this man has so many faces!
They all said happily: "Thank you, Master, for your reward."

(End of this chapter)