After the morning court is over, according to the custom, it is time to read the scriptures at the banquet.
However, due to the current special period, everyone in the imperial court was very busy, so Zhu Qiyu ordered that the scripture banquet lectures and readings be suspended.
On the contrary, Mr. Hu Hui, the Minister of Rites, who had just received the banquet to learn the scriptures, felt a sense of relief.
However, Zhu Qiyu was not idle either. Seeing that it was almost noon, he had lunch and then returned to the Wenhua Hall to continue processing the memorial.
With the experience of his previous life, Zhu Qiyu actually read quickly. After a while, the thick pile of memorials became thinner.
Of course, this is also thanks to the cabinet.
Tickets are a good thing.
Although there are still only two people in the cabinet, Chen Xun and Gao Gu, they are both veterans of government affairs. Under normal circumstances, their voting opinions are accurate and appropriate.
In this way, Zhu Qiyu basically does not need to worry too much about most court affairs that have precedents.
Under normal circumstances, he would take one look at it and feel that there is no big problem, and that would be fine.
If you think something is inappropriate, put it aside and wait for discussion in the morning the next day.
At least until now, except for the memorials that impeached Wang Zhen last time, Zhu Qiyu has not left out any of them.
However, at this moment, Zhu Qiyu was holding a memorial in his hand, but he was silent, showing a rare hesitation.
Cheng Jing happened to come over with a new pile of memorials. Seeing this, he asked.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with this memorial?"
Now Cheng Jing is no longer a mere eunuch in charge of Prince Tan's Mansion.
Because the enthronement ceremony was held in a hurry, in fact, many things had not been done in time. For example, the status and honorary position in the harem had not yet been determined.
But these are major matters that need to be discussed by the court.
Relatively speaking, although the three key departments of Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Si Lijian are equally important, they are matters that the emperor can decide on his own without consulting the foreign court.
Therefore, after Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to choose a reliable person to take charge of Jinyiwei.
As for the Secretary of Ceremony, since Wu said that Jin Ying was available, Zhu Qiyu simply promoted him to the position of eunuch of the palm seal, and at the same time made Cheng Jing the eunuch of the pen.
In this way, another advantage is that Jin Ying can be sent away.
Officials at the bottom often believe that the greatest influence of the Si Li Jian on foreign dynasties comes from the power of criticizing the red.
But in fact, as long as you spend some time in the Central Six Departments, you will know that this is not the case.
The power of criticizing the red is indeed a sharp weapon.
But at least at this time, its scope of application is too narrow. Basically, it will only appear when the emperor is tired of government, and the ceremonial supervisor will approve it on his behalf.
But the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, except for Emperor Xuanzong who was a little playful, were all relatively diligent.
Even the Emperor, who is currently in captivity, was under the control of the Empress Dowager Zhang before taking office. After taking office, he was very ambitious. In fact, he did not leave the government affairs to the Secretary of Ceremonies to approve the red affairs on his behalf.
So in fact, the greatest influence of the Si Li Supervisor on foreign dynasties comes from participating in political affairs.
The imperial court's major policies, measures, and policies seemed to be presented in the form of memorials, but in fact, they were discussed many times before being submitted by various ministries.
This form is called a ministry meeting, and the number of participants varies. Sometimes it is one yamen, sometimes it is several yamen, depending on the specific situation.
To put it bluntly, it is intra-department and cross-department meetings.
When the Superintendent of Ceremonies holds the eunuch's seal, he is eligible to participate in ministerial and cabinet meetings in foreign dynasties.
Under normal circumstances, as long as it is a major military and state matter involving the imperial government, the ministerial meeting must be attended by the eunuch holding the seal or the eunuch holding the pen.
Even some special affairs, under the emperor's edict, need to be attended by the ceremonial supervisor.
Generally speaking, if there are enough ceremonial supervisors, participation in ministry meetings will have to take turns.
However, considering that there are currently only two people as the Supervisor of Ceremonies, Jin Ying and Cheng Jing, Zhu Qiyu simply asked Jin Ying to be responsible for participating in ministry meetings, while Cheng Jing was responsible for staying as the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
Anyway, the ministers in the outer court actually trusted Jin Ying more than Cheng Jing, who had just been promoted.
It just so happened that Jin Ying and Cheng Jing were on the same page in terms of political affairs, so he felt more at ease in using them.
After hearing Cheng Jing's question, Zhu Qiyu handed him the memorial in his hand, his face a little unpredictable and said.
"Look."
Cheng Jing took it, glanced at it, and then asked with a frown.
"Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with this Cao Jixiang?"
Zhu Qiyu touched his chin and said nothing.
The content of this memorial is actually very simple.
To sum up, it is to impeach Cao Jixiang for failing to supervise the army and wasting the court's material resources, and to request punishment.
The writing is quite good.
But the person who submitted the memorial was Li Ying, the censor of Shanxi Province.
Zhu Qiyu has seen this name before.
Not long ago, this person was included in the list that Wu had sewn into the sachet and given to him...
He is from the Queen Mother Sun!
At this time, Li Ying impeached Cao Jixiang...
Zhu Qiyu frowned and thought for a while.
"Cheng Jing, among the pile of memorials in your hand, are there any related to the eunuchs in the palace?"
Cheng Jing lowered his head and turned over each one.
Because there is a cabinet vote, we can only take a rough look at what the matter is. If we don't deal with it, it will be very quick.
After a short meeting, Cheng Jing flipped through it, picked out thirteen or four volumes from a pile of memorials, and handed them to Zhu Qiyu's desk.
"Your Majesty, according to your instructions, these are all related to the eunuchs in the palace."
"There are seven books in it about the impeachment of Cao Jixiang, one about the impeachment of Jin Ying, and there are five or six books about impeachment of eunuchs who are domineering and disturbing the people, and there are also impeachments of eunuchs who spend too much money in the palace and secretly amass money."
It is actually common for courtiers to impeach ministers.
There are not seven or eight books every month, which is strange.
So Cheng Jing couldn't figure out why Zhu Qiyu asked him to jump out of these alone...
Zhu Qiyu read the memorials picked out by Cheng Jing one by one.
After watching for half an hour, a look of understanding slowly appeared on his face.
As expected, Queen Mother Sun still refused to settle down.
But he was smart this time. If he hadn't had the list in advance, he might not have been able to react immediately.
Half of these dozen memorials were from the list given to him by Wu.
But only three or four of them were about impeaching Cao Jixiang, and the rest were about impeaching other eunuchs.
Among the seven censors impeaching Cao Jixiang, about half have no direct relationship with the Queen Mother Sun.
But basically, they are the same year as the censor under Empress Dowager Sun.
It is common practice for courtiers to impeach internal officials. Nowadays, so many memorials have been issued at once, and the content and direction of impeachment are different.
If Zhu Qiyu hadn't had the list of these people in advance, he probably wouldn't have felt that someone was secretly instigating this.
After thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu turned to Cheng Jing and asked.
"In these memorials, some impeach Cao Jixiang for failing to supervise the army and wasting money on the court's affairs; some impeach him for being arrogant and domineering, allowing his officers and soldiers to oppress the people; and even worse, there are also impeaching him for cooperating with generals and raising false funds. Son, what do you think of those who have evil intentions?"
General Cheng Jing also read the memorials one by one. His face was a little embarrassed, and he hesitated for a moment about what to say...
