Saint of the Confucian way

According to the rules, even if the Empress Dowager listens to politics behind the curtain, she must let Jingjun aside when dealing with government affairs.

It was better at first, but as Fang Yun's draft became more and more professional, many things needed to be explained by Zuo Xiangge officials before the Empress Dowager could understand. After all, even the officials of Zuo Xiangge need Fang Yun's explanation to understand.

This explanation will take more time. Jingjun is young and can't last long. He often gets more and more impatient and even falls asleep when he listens.

Finally, to this end, Zuo Xiangge also proposed that if Jingjun was in poor health, he could not be accompanied.

So the Empress Dowager began to deal with the draft and government affairs alone with officials.

The monarch has too many things to do. He usually has to deal with all kinds of government affairs. Now there are intensive drafts. A strong man may not be able to hold on, let alone the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager's mind has been tight. She should guard against Fang Yun and all officials. She should avoid suspicion and avoid falling into the reputation of disorderly politics. She should also take into account government affairs, and understand those policies and decrees that are difficult for ordinary readers. In addition, she should review the draft memorials for a long time, which is tantamount to a double overload of body and mind.

So, a month later, the Empress Dowager finally fell ill because of overwork.

Even if there is a doctor and a bachelor in person, it can't be solved. Only divine objects can restore her health.

However, it is impossible for the royal family to allow the Empress Dowager to take sacred objects.

Gods are rare and can only be left to the monarch.

The Empress Dowager fell ill and memorials were piled up in the imperial study like a hill, and they were still increasing.

Therefore, the royal family began to lobby around, hoping that the Empress Dowager would appoint a regent to handle government affairs on her behalf.

As a result, the Empress Dowager was suddenly in high spirits and forced to deal with government affairs with her sick body.

Everyone knows that once the Regent is established, the Empress Dowager will no longer have real power, and Jingjun is likely to be elevated by the Regent in the future. The Empress Dowager would rather see Fang Yun in power than set up a regent.

A few days later, the Empress Dowager asked the cabinet and hoped that the cabinet would send several officials to help her deal with government affairs. As a result, she encountered opposition from all officials.

When the Empress Dowager lived in the palace, only a few eunuchs who had read books could really use it. However, the bureaucrats of Jingguo had always been strict with eunuchs. They would rather watch the Empress Dowager die of fatigue than agree to the eunuch's intervention in politics.

If empress dowager calls the new official to help her, it is almost equivalent to the establishment of a small cabinet and the original cabinet. Therefore, not only cabinet officials oppose it, but also officials from ministries and states can not agree.

The Empress Dowager had to continue to hold on, so that the hospital arranged two doctors Hanlin to accompany her for a long time, which ensured that the Empress Dowager would not deteriorate, but if it continued, she would not want to recover.

The bureaucracy of Jingguo is too large, and the government affairs are extremely complicated. It is difficult for the Empress Dowager to handle all the government affairs when she is healthy, not to mention when she is ill.

As a result, government affairs accumulated more and more, official memorials were not approved for a long time, and official grievances became more and more. Many officials everywhere began to openly criticize the Empress Dowager because their failure to obtain approval affected their political achievements and even promotion.

Some officials even wrote directly to the Empress Dowager to hand over the power, but Fang Yun pressed down the memorial and did not deal with it.

At first, everyone was still concealing the discontent of all officials, but in the end, the Empress Dowager was so angry that she vomited blood and fainted.

The news of the Empress Dowager's coma immediately attracted national attention, and there were even rumors that Fang Yun poisoned the Empress Dowager.

Finally, the holy hospital had to send a doctor and a great Confucian to diagnose. The final diagnosis was just overwork. If you don't take a good rest, you may worry about your life.

Although the rumor that Fang Yun poisoned the Empress Dowager was refuted, many opponents of Fang Yun on the list began to make waves, believing that this was Fang Yun's conspiracy. They first tired the empress dowager, and then took sole power as Zuo Xiang.

Some officials of Jingguo were angry. They scolded those people on the list and said that now the officials in the capital are crazy. Fang Yun has not returned to the spring garden for a month and has been living in Zuo Xiangge. Moreover, Fang Yun's own injury is more serious than that of the Empress Dowager. If he really wants to kill the empress dowager, it is equivalent to killing thousands of enemies and losing 800. The gain is not worth the loss.

Fang Yun was not affected by any remarks. After leading his ministers to visit the empress dowager, he still carried out intensive innovation.

At first, Fang Yun just made a draft, but later, he began to make proposals one after another, which was equivalent to ordinary officials writing a letter to put forward their opinions on the government. Most of the contents of these proposals are not directly managed by the Zuo Xiangge, but mainly managed by the right Xiang, the auxiliary Xiang and the Wen Xiang.

After the Empress Dowager was unconscious, she was in a coma most of the time, and occasionally woke up with blurred consciousness.

Three days later, the Empress Dowager finally woke up, sat in bed and successively summoned many pro royal officials.

On this day, the Empress Dowager approved the memorial personally submitted by right Minister Cao De'an half a month ago. That memorial was a proposal. She hoped that some government affairs would be self-determined by the cabinet and did not need to be approved by the monarch.

The proposal also lists specific cabinet self-determination matters, such as the appointment and removal of officials at or below the fifth grade, some laws and regulations with less impact, the innovation of government offices at the county level, the promulgation of regional policies, and so on.

Cabinet officials were overjoyed.

This means that bureaucrats have won another game in the struggle with imperial power.

However, everyone understood that the Queen Mother's royal family agreed not because she was seriously ill, but because the memorial was supported by officials all over the country.

Subsequently, the cabinet began to clarify its functions and powers, which must be played to the Empress Dowager and which can be handled by the cabinet itself. This is a great project. It needs to sort out complete items and seal them before they can take effect.

After days of efforts, cabinet officials finally formulated a perfect decree to clearly stipulate the scope of cabinet self-determination.

After the new memorial was sent to the empress dowager, it took three days for the Empress Dowager to officially approve it.

Subsequently, most of the documents and memorials accumulated in the imperial study were removed, and then the memorials sent to the Empress Dowager were significantly reduced, even allowing the eunuchs of the imperial palace to relax.

The news of the decentralization of Jingguo's cabinet spread to the discussion list, and officials from many countries scolded Jingguo's officials as crazy and disorderly officials.

However, those real senior officials are rarely involved in this topic.

Because the monarch is also a person, in history, except for a few really capable and energetic monarchs, most monarchs have very general talents. Instead of leaving government affairs to the monarch, it is better to give them to capable officials who climb up from the bottom to the top step by step.

In the wave of opposition from officials from all over the world, Wu Jun rarely began to imitate Jing Guo and began to divide power to Wu's cabinet and ministries.

Many officials were surprised, but some people with lofty ideals came forward to support this policy.

In fact, the appointment and removal of many low-level officials were originally decided by the cabinet of the Ministry of officials. After they were sent to the memorial, the monarch basically approved the red immediately and rarely opposed it. However, the practice is not a law, and the real power of appointment and removal is still in the hands of the monarch.

Therefore, the self-determination of the cabinet and ministries is the general trend, and Fang Yun just determines the established facts as strict laws.

Fang Yun never felt that this decree would be obstructed from beginning to end, because it was nothing more than the imperial push and ministerial push in the Ming Dynasty of the ancient Chinese country, a trend that no one, including himself, could stop.

Fang Yun only gave a slight push and accelerated this trend.

In fact, Fang Yun's innovation today, to a large extent, is to turn the potential rules of Jingguo into a clear legal system, and there is no real earth shaking change.

But these are the foundations of great change.