Recently, inside and outside Jinchuan Gate, a large number of troops travel north every day, and the ranks of vehicles and personnel extend to Longjiang Port.
The soldiers carried a large number of Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles, which were used by the Central Plains dynasty since the Han Dynasty; but now if the Ming army only fought in China, they would not use such ordnance that would drag down the speed of the march.
Only by attacking Mongolia in the north will the soldiers carry such vehicles!
The Ming army not only used Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles to transport supplies, but also used Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles to set up camps in the desert grassland without any barriers, and to prevent the raids of nomadic cavalry.
The court expected to enter the Tatars' activity area in the autumn, but it was well known to everyone in the early summer when the mobilization of the capital.There is really no way to keep it a secret, assembling an army of 200,000 to 300,000 is a huge thing in itself...
Zhu Gaoxu did not personally lead the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, and he had to wait about two months before setting off.
He has been busy summoning ministers in Wuying Hall these days to reform the court's decision-making center.The words that monarchs and ministers often mention are: stickers, treasures, and cabinets.
During the period when Zhu Gaoxu left the court and the emperor personally fought, everything in the court needed to make decisions and a temporary decision-making mechanism was required.
During the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Di sometimes did not handle the memorials, and the Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi was responsible for this matter; but the eldest son of Zhu Gaoxu of this dynasty, Zhanhe, was only a few years old, and obviously could not take on the matter, so he could only rely on the ministers.
The mechanism is a decision-making process mainly based on Dianbao Office and the cabinet.
The court memorials were almost all from Tongzhengsi. After the Tongzhengsi collected the memorials, they were sent to the cabinet first.
The cabinet is located in the Wuying Hall inside the Xihua Gate of the Imperial Palace, with the main hall, the Ningdao Hall on the east and west sides and the Huanzhang Hall as the office areas.
It turns out that the cabinet of the Hanlin Academy has been cut off.
There were nine people, including the Six Ministry, Dali Temple, Shouyusi, and Hanlin Academy. One of the officials (leaders) of the hall went to the palace to discuss politics.
The nine people first posted yellowing on all the memorials of the day.
The ministers of the Song Dynasty still had an unfulfilled intention when writing memorials, and often posted yellow paper to write supplementary clauses on the back; but at this time, Zhu Gaoxu brought out the old stories of the Song Dynasty not to supplement them, but to summarize the content of each memorial... so that the ministers could understand more intuitively what was happening.
Then everyone picked out important memorials with objections, and the officials of the cabinet voted on the handling of these memorials.The solution with the largest number of people will be initially adopted.
The memorial was processed and continued to go north to the Jingsi Hall Dianbao place in the backyard of Wuying Hall.
There were six people in Dianbao's office, and the eunuch Wang Gui, the eunuch of the Silijian, was in charge of the treasure seal. The other five were sent out temporarily, including Veda, Qiu Fu, He Fu, Pei Youzhen, and Lu Zhen.
The NeiDianbao Department cannot make new decisions, but it has the right to veto.As long as one of the six of them has a slight objection to the party, the matter will be detained and suspended.
Those who deny the strategy must write a detailed reason; then the memorial will be delivered to the north and handed directly to the emperor's palace, which will be decided by the emperor.Therefore, the decision cannot be decided at will.
And urgent matters that must be responded immediately cannot be rejected by the Dianbao Office.
Whether it is urgent or not is the final decision. If Dianbao Office has objections, then six people from Dianbao Office argue that as long as three people think it is urgent, they will be treated as an emergency and expedient.
All decision-making memorials, yellowed content summary and handling strategies must be recorded in the file.Delivered to the palace every month and checked by the emperor...
After the entire Dianbao Office and the Cabinet were roughly set up, almost all the ministers understood that the power of the Cabinet had completely changed!
The cabinet in the past was just an institution for the emperor to check for omissions and consultants; but now, the cabinet has become the decision-making body of the dynasty.
What happened to the six people in Dianbao place? People with discerning eyes also feel clear in their hearts.
Qiu Fu was a hero in Jingnan, Wei Da was a hero in the attack, He Fu was a hero in the founding country, Pei Youzhen was a civil servant in the Han Dynasty, Lu Zhen was a civil servant in the deposed crown prince regime, and Wang Gui was a lackey in the palace.
The Emperor Zhu Gaoxu set up a member of the Dianbao Department like this, and the meaning is very obvious: during the period when he could not be in power, the court would be able to maintain its operation; decisions should not affect the interests of either party too much, otherwise it would not be possible!
Although Zhu Gaoxu was still in the capital recently, he has issued an order: From now on, the memorial will be handled by the Dianbao Office and the cabinet, and the Zhu Criticism will be changed to the Lan Criticism.
He wants to test the decision-making body.
...The officials who came out of Wuying Palace walked out of the palace by Xihuamen.
Because the place where the emperor summoned ministers recently was in the Rouyi Hall in the west from time to time, and the central organization was also set up in the Wuying Hall in the west; so the customary rules that the military generals had just left the Xihua Gate were gone at this time.
Among the ministers, the person who was most surprised was Lu Zhen, the Minister of Rites.His face was a little red, of course because of the unconcealed excitement.
Since the Yongle Dynasty, the place where Lu Zhen stood has been wrong so much that it cannot be wrong anymore!
When Emperor Taizong was still in power, he was a person who was inclined to depose the prince and was also blamed and imprisoned by Taizong.
Within one or two years of Hong Xi Dynasty, he was even a trusted minister in the court!
But even a person like him can participate in the decision-making of national policies!Although this treasure house is not considered to have monopoly power, it has great power, and a person can deny national affairs, which is extraordinary.
Everyone walked out of Xi'an Gate one after another. Ru Hui, Minister of Works, Minister of Rites, Hu Yi, and Mr. Hanlin Academy, all came up and said goodbye to Lu Zhen with great politeness.
When Hu Guang, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, saw Zhang He coming, he joked: What Mr. Lu is most enviable is that he has a good Sn in law, a young and handsome man, and is also very filial.
Haha, Mr. Hu is too proud of him.Lu Zhen smiled happily.
Zhang He also said modestly: Don’t dare to take it or not.
Hu Guang clasped his fists again and said: Goodbye, see you in the temple tomorrow.
Lu Zhenyue's son-in-law also bowed and returned the greeting, watching Hu Guang for a while, then turned around and walked towards their carriage.
When the two got on the carriage, Zhang He immediately said in a deep voice: In the past, people like Hu Yiru and Hu Guang ignored their father-in-law, as if they were afraid of getting involved with us.Today is really polite, and then Mr. Hu seems to be his father-in-law’s friend.
Lu Zhen smiled and said: If something happens to the cabinet and is not good for them, they will rely on my strategy of rejecting it!
After he said that, he looked at each other and smiled.
Zhang He laughed and said: Today's emperor is really different. All dynasties are wary of ministers forming cliques. Isn't the emperor's emperor accusing everyone of the separation?
Lu Zhen thought for a while and whispered: The Lord has nothing to do. After two civil wars in the past ten years of the Ming Dynasty, the battle was a mess; now there are all people in the court, and even grudges are hard to tell! The emperor was busy with the northern expedition again. When the emperor left, no one had to reconcile the civil and military officials in the capital, so I was afraid that many things would happen!
My father-in-law said it right.Zhang He nodded, so the emperor can only use the method of checks and balances?
Lu Zhen looked at Zhang He a little and praised: You have made progress.After saying that, he immediately pondered, but this is a great thing for us.
Zhang He thought carefully.
Lu Zhen then said clearly: The candidate for Dianbao Office was confirmed, confirming one thing: The emperor really decided not to cleanse the courtiers!Otherwise, why should I let someone like me enter the cabinet?This is a reassurance!Those civil and military officials who took the wrong path can all feel at ease at this time; the days when the court in the officialdom will no longer exist from now on!
When he said this, he also let out a long sigh: Not only did the ministers feel safe, but they all have people in the palace who can speak. Why should people be panicked again from now on?
Zhang He seemed to remember some past events, and then suddenly came to his senses and clasped his fists and said: Congratulations to my father-in-law, return to Fengchi!
Lu Zhen changed his previous low and worried look, put his hand on his beard with confidence, and said earnestly: A gentleman who is in charge of national weapons must first seek benefits for the people, rather than just thinking about the selfishness of the party!
Zhang He hurriedly bowed with admiration and said, "Son-in-law, remember the teachings of his father-in-law."
Lu Zhen asked with a smile: What was the son-in-law thinking just now?
Zhang He immediately bowed: When he returned to his father-in-law, the son-in-law suddenly remembered the incident of being sent to the Han Palace during the "Suppression Campaign". At that time, the son-in-law met the eldest daughter of Duke Qian, Mu. He thought that the emperor might have deliberately made it for the son-in-law to see it.
Lu Zhen refused to comment.
Zhang He also said: The emperor often does not follow the rules, but seems to have a long thought.
Lu Zhen pondered: This matter is not harmful to us, but it is still unpredictable to the long-term plan of the court...
Lu Zhen, Minister of Rites and Minister of the Dianbao Department, seemed to be indeed fulfilling his remarks that were not for the private interests of the party.The next day, something happened.
Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue, found Lu Zhen and asked him to reject a memorial.
The memorial was written by Qian Xun, the Nan Office of the Guardian. In addition to paying official salaries, the Nan Office also allocated 10,000 yuan of money and expenses every year. Qian Xun wrote a letter and asked to increase the Nan Office's budget by twenty times!
Among them, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs each paid half of it.
There are also many reasons for building dams, setting up heavy reward rules, etc., which are a lot of reasons for benefiting the country and the people.
Xia Yuanji was furious when he saw this. A newly established inexplicable yamen branch office would cost 200,000 yuan per place?!
The most amazing thing is that such an unreasonable request was approved in the cabinet!
Xia Yuanji had no choice but to order Lu Zhen, who had a lower official position, to draw a big blue cross on the memorial immediately.
Lu Zhen belonged to the Ministry of Rites and ignored Xia Yuanji's orders at all. He quickly politely rejected Xia Yuanji's request; the reason was that the Southern Administration was doing a serious matter, and Lu Zhen could not ignore the overall situation because of his friendship (there was nothing but his identities were all demoted to officials).
In fact, Lu Zhen knew very well: I believe that most civil and military officials are complaining about such a memorial, so why can it be approved in the cabinet?It’s not because the emperor supports the Guardian Sesnan Office.
The yamen of the Guardian Department was originally set up by the emperor himself.At this time, civil and military officials did not want to fight against the emperor at all.
Since that's the case, why did Lu Zhen touch that bad head?!
The most important thing is: the emperor is still in the capital, is it his turn to jump out?After all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also had to allocate up to 100,000 trump cards every year. If the emperor had not agreed to it, the eunuch Wang Gui would have vetoed the memorial!
The soldiers carried a large number of Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles, which were used by the Central Plains dynasty since the Han Dynasty; but now if the Ming army only fought in China, they would not use such ordnance that would drag down the speed of the march.
Only by attacking Mongolia in the north will the soldiers carry such vehicles!
The Ming army not only used Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles to transport supplies, but also used Wuhan Iron and Steel Vehicles to set up camps in the desert grassland without any barriers, and to prevent the raids of nomadic cavalry.
The court expected to enter the Tatars' activity area in the autumn, but it was well known to everyone in the early summer when the mobilization of the capital.There is really no way to keep it a secret, assembling an army of 200,000 to 300,000 is a huge thing in itself...
Zhu Gaoxu did not personally lead the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, and he had to wait about two months before setting off.
He has been busy summoning ministers in Wuying Hall these days to reform the court's decision-making center.The words that monarchs and ministers often mention are: stickers, treasures, and cabinets.
During the period when Zhu Gaoxu left the court and the emperor personally fought, everything in the court needed to make decisions and a temporary decision-making mechanism was required.
During the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Di sometimes did not handle the memorials, and the Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi was responsible for this matter; but the eldest son of Zhu Gaoxu of this dynasty, Zhanhe, was only a few years old, and obviously could not take on the matter, so he could only rely on the ministers.
The mechanism is a decision-making process mainly based on Dianbao Office and the cabinet.
The court memorials were almost all from Tongzhengsi. After the Tongzhengsi collected the memorials, they were sent to the cabinet first.
The cabinet is located in the Wuying Hall inside the Xihua Gate of the Imperial Palace, with the main hall, the Ningdao Hall on the east and west sides and the Huanzhang Hall as the office areas.
It turns out that the cabinet of the Hanlin Academy has been cut off.
There were nine people, including the Six Ministry, Dali Temple, Shouyusi, and Hanlin Academy. One of the officials (leaders) of the hall went to the palace to discuss politics.
The nine people first posted yellowing on all the memorials of the day.
The ministers of the Song Dynasty still had an unfulfilled intention when writing memorials, and often posted yellow paper to write supplementary clauses on the back; but at this time, Zhu Gaoxu brought out the old stories of the Song Dynasty not to supplement them, but to summarize the content of each memorial... so that the ministers could understand more intuitively what was happening.
Then everyone picked out important memorials with objections, and the officials of the cabinet voted on the handling of these memorials.The solution with the largest number of people will be initially adopted.
The memorial was processed and continued to go north to the Jingsi Hall Dianbao place in the backyard of Wuying Hall.
There were six people in Dianbao's office, and the eunuch Wang Gui, the eunuch of the Silijian, was in charge of the treasure seal. The other five were sent out temporarily, including Veda, Qiu Fu, He Fu, Pei Youzhen, and Lu Zhen.
The NeiDianbao Department cannot make new decisions, but it has the right to veto.As long as one of the six of them has a slight objection to the party, the matter will be detained and suspended.
Those who deny the strategy must write a detailed reason; then the memorial will be delivered to the north and handed directly to the emperor's palace, which will be decided by the emperor.Therefore, the decision cannot be decided at will.
And urgent matters that must be responded immediately cannot be rejected by the Dianbao Office.
Whether it is urgent or not is the final decision. If Dianbao Office has objections, then six people from Dianbao Office argue that as long as three people think it is urgent, they will be treated as an emergency and expedient.
All decision-making memorials, yellowed content summary and handling strategies must be recorded in the file.Delivered to the palace every month and checked by the emperor...
After the entire Dianbao Office and the Cabinet were roughly set up, almost all the ministers understood that the power of the Cabinet had completely changed!
The cabinet in the past was just an institution for the emperor to check for omissions and consultants; but now, the cabinet has become the decision-making body of the dynasty.
What happened to the six people in Dianbao place? People with discerning eyes also feel clear in their hearts.
Qiu Fu was a hero in Jingnan, Wei Da was a hero in the attack, He Fu was a hero in the founding country, Pei Youzhen was a civil servant in the Han Dynasty, Lu Zhen was a civil servant in the deposed crown prince regime, and Wang Gui was a lackey in the palace.
The Emperor Zhu Gaoxu set up a member of the Dianbao Department like this, and the meaning is very obvious: during the period when he could not be in power, the court would be able to maintain its operation; decisions should not affect the interests of either party too much, otherwise it would not be possible!
Although Zhu Gaoxu was still in the capital recently, he has issued an order: From now on, the memorial will be handled by the Dianbao Office and the cabinet, and the Zhu Criticism will be changed to the Lan Criticism.
He wants to test the decision-making body.
...The officials who came out of Wuying Palace walked out of the palace by Xihuamen.
Because the place where the emperor summoned ministers recently was in the Rouyi Hall in the west from time to time, and the central organization was also set up in the Wuying Hall in the west; so the customary rules that the military generals had just left the Xihua Gate were gone at this time.
Among the ministers, the person who was most surprised was Lu Zhen, the Minister of Rites.His face was a little red, of course because of the unconcealed excitement.
Since the Yongle Dynasty, the place where Lu Zhen stood has been wrong so much that it cannot be wrong anymore!
When Emperor Taizong was still in power, he was a person who was inclined to depose the prince and was also blamed and imprisoned by Taizong.
Within one or two years of Hong Xi Dynasty, he was even a trusted minister in the court!
But even a person like him can participate in the decision-making of national policies!Although this treasure house is not considered to have monopoly power, it has great power, and a person can deny national affairs, which is extraordinary.
Everyone walked out of Xi'an Gate one after another. Ru Hui, Minister of Works, Minister of Rites, Hu Yi, and Mr. Hanlin Academy, all came up and said goodbye to Lu Zhen with great politeness.
When Hu Guang, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, saw Zhang He coming, he joked: What Mr. Lu is most enviable is that he has a good Sn in law, a young and handsome man, and is also very filial.
Haha, Mr. Hu is too proud of him.Lu Zhen smiled happily.
Zhang He also said modestly: Don’t dare to take it or not.
Hu Guang clasped his fists again and said: Goodbye, see you in the temple tomorrow.
Lu Zhenyue's son-in-law also bowed and returned the greeting, watching Hu Guang for a while, then turned around and walked towards their carriage.
When the two got on the carriage, Zhang He immediately said in a deep voice: In the past, people like Hu Yiru and Hu Guang ignored their father-in-law, as if they were afraid of getting involved with us.Today is really polite, and then Mr. Hu seems to be his father-in-law’s friend.
Lu Zhen smiled and said: If something happens to the cabinet and is not good for them, they will rely on my strategy of rejecting it!
After he said that, he looked at each other and smiled.
Zhang He laughed and said: Today's emperor is really different. All dynasties are wary of ministers forming cliques. Isn't the emperor's emperor accusing everyone of the separation?
Lu Zhen thought for a while and whispered: The Lord has nothing to do. After two civil wars in the past ten years of the Ming Dynasty, the battle was a mess; now there are all people in the court, and even grudges are hard to tell! The emperor was busy with the northern expedition again. When the emperor left, no one had to reconcile the civil and military officials in the capital, so I was afraid that many things would happen!
My father-in-law said it right.Zhang He nodded, so the emperor can only use the method of checks and balances?
Lu Zhen looked at Zhang He a little and praised: You have made progress.After saying that, he immediately pondered, but this is a great thing for us.
Zhang He thought carefully.
Lu Zhen then said clearly: The candidate for Dianbao Office was confirmed, confirming one thing: The emperor really decided not to cleanse the courtiers!Otherwise, why should I let someone like me enter the cabinet?This is a reassurance!Those civil and military officials who took the wrong path can all feel at ease at this time; the days when the court in the officialdom will no longer exist from now on!
When he said this, he also let out a long sigh: Not only did the ministers feel safe, but they all have people in the palace who can speak. Why should people be panicked again from now on?
Zhang He seemed to remember some past events, and then suddenly came to his senses and clasped his fists and said: Congratulations to my father-in-law, return to Fengchi!
Lu Zhen changed his previous low and worried look, put his hand on his beard with confidence, and said earnestly: A gentleman who is in charge of national weapons must first seek benefits for the people, rather than just thinking about the selfishness of the party!
Zhang He hurriedly bowed with admiration and said, "Son-in-law, remember the teachings of his father-in-law."
Lu Zhen asked with a smile: What was the son-in-law thinking just now?
Zhang He immediately bowed: When he returned to his father-in-law, the son-in-law suddenly remembered the incident of being sent to the Han Palace during the "Suppression Campaign". At that time, the son-in-law met the eldest daughter of Duke Qian, Mu. He thought that the emperor might have deliberately made it for the son-in-law to see it.
Lu Zhen refused to comment.
Zhang He also said: The emperor often does not follow the rules, but seems to have a long thought.
Lu Zhen pondered: This matter is not harmful to us, but it is still unpredictable to the long-term plan of the court...
Lu Zhen, Minister of Rites and Minister of the Dianbao Department, seemed to be indeed fulfilling his remarks that were not for the private interests of the party.The next day, something happened.
Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue, found Lu Zhen and asked him to reject a memorial.
The memorial was written by Qian Xun, the Nan Office of the Guardian. In addition to paying official salaries, the Nan Office also allocated 10,000 yuan of money and expenses every year. Qian Xun wrote a letter and asked to increase the Nan Office's budget by twenty times!
Among them, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs each paid half of it.
There are also many reasons for building dams, setting up heavy reward rules, etc., which are a lot of reasons for benefiting the country and the people.
Xia Yuanji was furious when he saw this. A newly established inexplicable yamen branch office would cost 200,000 yuan per place?!
The most amazing thing is that such an unreasonable request was approved in the cabinet!
Xia Yuanji had no choice but to order Lu Zhen, who had a lower official position, to draw a big blue cross on the memorial immediately.
Lu Zhen belonged to the Ministry of Rites and ignored Xia Yuanji's orders at all. He quickly politely rejected Xia Yuanji's request; the reason was that the Southern Administration was doing a serious matter, and Lu Zhen could not ignore the overall situation because of his friendship (there was nothing but his identities were all demoted to officials).
In fact, Lu Zhen knew very well: I believe that most civil and military officials are complaining about such a memorial, so why can it be approved in the cabinet?It’s not because the emperor supports the Guardian Sesnan Office.
The yamen of the Guardian Department was originally set up by the emperor himself.At this time, civil and military officials did not want to fight against the emperor at all.
Since that's the case, why did Lu Zhen touch that bad head?!
The most important thing is: the emperor is still in the capital, is it his turn to jump out?After all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also had to allocate up to 100,000 trump cards every year. If the emperor had not agreed to it, the eunuch Wang Gui would have vetoed the memorial!
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