Wow!
A homing pigeon fluttered its wings in the heavy snow and flew into Feiyun Restaurant.
Not long after, Zhao Duan received a message from the Imperial City Division. After opening the note and reading it, Zhao Duan casually handed it to Zhao Jun who was sitting next to him drinking tea and said:
"Well, let's see, I've only been away for a few days, and there are already people in the court who can't sit still.
You see, someone immediately jumped out to give your brother eye drops. "
Zhao Jun looked at the note in confusion, then put it aside carelessly and said:
"Old man, you clearly know that the fourth and fifth sons are not dealing with the prince. If you put him in the position of supervising the country, they will definitely cause trouble for him. This is normal and not surprising."
"Then tell me, Prince, how will he deal with this situation?"
Zhao Duan suddenly became interested in competing and asked.
Zhao Jun shrugged and said relaxedly: "This is not easy!
Aren’t their Hanlin Academy unwilling to do such humiliating work?
That's just right. I directly ordered that in the future, Hanlin will not be allowed to participate in politics or read current affairs documents until he has stayed in the Hanlin Academy for a sufficient number of years. Anyone who violates this will be deprived of his official status.
The prince can find another group to do these things instead of the Hanlins.
The father-in-laws in the palace are very suitable. I remember that some of the father-in-laws in the palace have studied in the inner library. I asked them to classify these memorials for the prince and divide them into three categories according to the priority of the matter.
For those trivial matters, such as a chair in a certain department that is broken and needs to be repaired, which do not require a decision, just ask the father-in-law to approve or fail it on the paper.
For those documents of medium importance that require opinions, the father-in-law can also refer to past handlings to respond and approve.
Finally, those particularly important items that require the prince's approval can be sorted out and handed over to the prince.
In this way, things can be done and the prince's workload can be greatly reduced.
Let the prince focus on what matters most. "
"But what if someone deliberately puts important things into unimportant ones and approves them privately? Without giving them to the prince for approval, wouldn't this be easily taken advantage of?"
Zhao Duan asked with a smile.
Zhao Jun said indifferently: "You can restrict the rights of these father-in-laws, they can only stamp them.
However, all important matters must be signed by the prince before they can be conveyed, otherwise the executive department below has the right to reject the order.
And for those that are not important, you cannot relax your vigilance. You can ask the Imperial City Department to arrange for someone to go through these discounts and stamp them with a special seal for confirmation.
In this way, important documents must be signed by the prince, which means that the prince has read them.
Unimportant excerpts must have at least two chapters, one is the seal of the father-in-law who approved the excerpt, and the other is the seal of the Imperial City Department responsible for confirming the importance of the excerpt and whether there are no problems. There are two chapters in total, so that it can be circulated. Go down.
What needs special attention is that the auditors at the Imperial City Department and the reviewers must not be dealt with, and cannot be close people. Only in this way will they not collude. "
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, he saw Zhao Duan looking at him with a strange expression.
Zhao Jun subconsciously looked at himself. Is there any problem?
Then he asked: "Old man, why are you looking at me like this? Is there something wrong with me?"
Zhao Duan smiled and replied:
"No, I just suddenly discovered that you actually have the talent for that position. You can understand the balance of this hand.
Could it be that you have another purpose in letting the eunuchs review the excerpts, which is to support a group of eunuchs who are naturally at odds with the literati, and use it to compete with the literati?
The right to approve red seals was the first move of power extended by the eunuch group to the civil servant group, and they wrested some rights from the civil servants, thus putting the two in opposition from the beginning, right? "
Although Zhao Duan spoke in a questioning tone, the firmness in his words fully demonstrated his own certainty about this speculation.
He had already determined that Zhao Jun gave the eunuchs the right to review memorials for this reason.
"Ah this..."
Zhao Jun looked at his old man dumbfounded.
No! I really didn’t think so!
But looking at his old man's determined look, he understood that whatever he said was redundant, so he simply gave up explaining and pretended to lie down.
Okay, okay, whatever you say is fine.
Zhao Jun pretended to lie down, but Zhao Duan was even more convinced that he had guessed the truth, and a proud look appeared on his face.
Zhao Jun: "..."
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The news was delivered extremely quickly, and Zhao Ming was not brainless here.
After returning from the Hanlin Academy, he immediately asked Li Wen and others to recruit some literate young eunuchs to help him sort the memorials.
Divide things into priorities and categories.
As a result, the speed is much faster.
For some matters that needed to be discussed, he took the opportunity to find a few young officials he had promoted over the years and the mature and prudent Cui Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, to give him opinions, and then he selected the ones he thought were more appropriate based on his judgment. Comments are used for approval.
In this way, the speed of reviewing memorials will be much faster.
After receiving the letter from the old emperor, Zhao Ming thought carefully for a while and then decided to adopt the opinion of his sixth brother.
Support a group of eunuchs to compete with civil servants!
During this period of time, as these officials began to cause trouble for themselves, he felt more and more that he was weak and unable to do anything alone.
It is unrealistic for him to fight against the entire civil servant group by himself, and he is not a genius emperor with unparalleled talents.
The best way is to support another group of people to fight against the civilian clique.
As the emperor's retainers, the eunuch group who was born to stand in the royal family and whose lives were controlled by the royal family was undoubtedly the best choice.
If there is a problem, the royal family can kill and kill these eunuchs at any time. It has excellent control and will not be like the civil servants who have nowhere to start.
Adopting the advice of his sixth brother, Zhao Ming quickly issued an order in the name of supervising the country to prohibit Hanlin Academy bachelors from participating in politics and reading current political documents. Before they left the Hanlin Academy, they stayed in the Hanlin Academy to study the past. Experience in court governance, stop thinking about things.
Anyone who violates this will be deprived of their fame and official status.
As soon as this decree came out, it immediately caused an uproar.
The whole court was shocked, and all the officials objected one after another!
However, Zhao Ming is now the supervisor of the country, and he is also the prince of the supervisor. It will be useless even if hundreds of officials object to the execution.
Then he brought up the matter of eunuchs approving and stamping the red seal, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the officials even more, and there were more discounts.
The eunuch group was pleasantly surprised. They quickly selected a group of elites from within to form a memorial review team, and devoted their energy to assist the prince in reviewing the memorial.
In the face of protests from hundreds of officials, eunuchs were prohibited from participating in politics.
Zhao Ming directly blocked him with a "test run" sentence.
But everyone knows that if the trial run is done well, this thing will probably become a routine thing.
When they can't stop it, those who are smart are ready to add their own people.
Therefore, the Imperial City Department, who was originally responsible for supervising the approval of the red, was replaced by a special censor to form a supervision team. Zhao Ming had to agree under the strong request of the officials.
Therefore, the approval process for memorials became the eunuch, the prince, and then the censor, who would review and approve the memorial before it could be issued for execution.
The three parties checked and balanced each other.
When Zhao Duan and Zhao Jun, who were far away in Yunzhou County, received the news, Zhao Duan couldn't help but be a little stunned. Why did this thing look more and more like the prototype of the cabinet, but the order now was not right.
Adjust the positions of the supervisory censors and eunuchs, and replace the supervisory censors with respectable old people, and they will be the cabinet of the previous Ming Dynasty!
Good guy, the history is indeed similar, and even the cabinet has been messed up with such a hassle!
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(End of chapter)
