The cabinet now has five cabinet ministers. After this period of time, the division of powers and responsibilities has gradually become clearer.
Although the sources of these submitted memorials are mixed, generally speaking, they are from the imperial censors of the Duchayuan, the ministers of various temples, and the relatives of the military officials.
The memorial to the Metropolitan Procuratorate has always been drafted by Wang Ao. The old man was obviously very cautious and only gave a few words. This matter is of great importance. Please ask the Holy Judge!
On the side of the temple supervisors, the main ones are Honglu Temple and Taichang Temple. Takatani Takatani is responsible for this part. His attitude is relatively clear. The mission can be sent, but Ola is cunning and must be careful not to pretend to return it to the emperor. Disturb the border again.
In other words, Gao Gu supports peace talks with Wala, but feels that he needs to be cautious during negotiations.
In addition, for the military ministers and relatives, Yu Shiyue came to vote.
His position is also very clear. The situation on the border is still tense. Although the Wala have retreated, there are still small groups of bandits who have repeatedly invaded the border. Border affairs should be the main focus, and the matter of welcoming them back should be considered in the long term.
From the votes of the three people, it is obvious that Gao Gu is cautiously supportive, while Yu Shiyue is opposed.
As for Wang Ao, I still can’t figure out what he’s thinking, but judging from his current attitude, I’m afraid he prefers to wait and see.
Gao Gu's attitude is not surprising. He was born in Qingliu, a scholar, and Xue Xuan, a Confucian scholar, is a good friend of him. Since Xue Xuan is on Yang Shan's side, it is normal for him to help lobby Gao Gu.
However, Yu Shiyue's attitude surprised him.
You know, at this time, it is clearly stated that the return of the Emperor should be postponed, but it is risky.
Not to mention catering to the emperor, even the emperor Zhu Qiyu could not directly veto the proposal to welcome back the emperor.
What's more, as a civil servant, his reputation among scholars is sometimes more important than his favor.
After pondering for a moment, Zhu Qiyu turned to Shu Liang and asked.
"Has Yu Shiyue in the cabinet done anything unusual these days?"
A very important function of Shu Liang's manpower in various places is to collect the whereabouts of important officials of various families and investigate their contacts.
Zhu Qiyu usually doesn't have time to remember these one by one, but Shu Liang, as the admiral of Dongchang, must remember them clearly.
After thinking for a while, Shu Liang said: "Returning to the emperor, there is nothing special. Mr. Yu Ge is of a pure nature. He didn't go out much during the festival. Most of them only sent greeting cards and New Year gifts. However, in recent days, He actually went to Lord Tianguan’s house several times.”
Zhu Qiyu frowned, a little surprised.
"Wang Wen?"
In his impression, except for some official contacts, Yu Shiyue and Wang Wen had never had any personal friendship.
With a slight movement in his heart, Zhu Qiyu asked.
"Has he visited Wang Wen before?"
Shu Liang shook his head and said.
"Previously, when Lord Tianguan succeeded him as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Mr. Yu Ge and the Minister of the Ministry of War, Yu Shangshu, went together to say congratulations. However, they only had a cup of tea before leaving."
Yu Qian...
Zhu Qiyu seemed to have thought of something and asked quickly: "What about this period of time?"
Seeing that the emperor was so concerned about this matter, Shu Liang also cheered up and answered carefully.
"During this period, Yuge Laotong went to Lord Tianguan's Mansion three times. They were on the evening of New Year's Eve, before the court opened the seal on the third day of the lunar month, and again today after the trial of King Zhennan's case was concluded. "
"These three times, except for New Year's Eve, I stayed for about one stick of incense. The other two times, I stayed for about half an hour to an hour."
New Year's Eve?
In this way, the relationship between Yu Shiyue and Wang Wen began after he left the Yu Mansion that day.
Zhu Qiyu's expression was a little complicated.
Is it Yu Qian?
It seemed that apart from him, no one in the court could make Yu Shiyue trust him so much.
But why would he do this?
Yu Qian should know Wang Wen's attitude on this matter best.
Although the matter of welcoming back the Supreme Emperor has never been discussed in a formal court meeting.
But in private meetings, this matter will always be mentioned.
As one of Zhu Qiyu's most trusted ministers, Wang Wen and Yu Qian always had different opinions.
Wang Wen insisted that he should wait for the court to regroup and send out troops to snatch the emperor back, rather than compromise and exchange silk, gold and silver for him first.
However, Yu Qian felt that now that Wala's vitality was severely damaged and there would be no threat to the Ming Dynasty in the short term, he could consider appropriately agreeing to his conditions and welcome back the Emperor in a peaceful way.
Because it was a private duet, I could only say a few words each time before being tempered by Zhu Qiyu.
But both of them should be well aware of each other's attitudes.
Why did he ask Yu Shiyue to find Wang Wen at this time?
Shaking his head, Zhu Qiyu put the matter aside for the time being and turned to Cheng Jing and asked.
"Did Duke Feng and the others submit their memorial?"
Cheng Jing nodded, stepped forward and flipped through a pile of memorials, pulled out a few books, placed them in front of the emperor, and said.
"These are memorials jointly written by Li Xian, Duke of Feng, Zhao Rong, Prince of Xincheng, and several other relatives. They impeached Prince Jingyuan and Wang Ji was too timid to move forward. The people in Miao land were suffering from hunger and cold, and many of them starved to death. "
As he spoke, Cheng Jing secretly glanced at the emperor's face and continued cautiously.
"In this memorial, in addition to impeaching Wang Ji, it also impeaches Yu Qian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, for not knowing people well, being arrogant and self-respecting, deliberately protecting Wang Ji, offending Tianyan, inviting Zhizhi to buy his name, and threatening the emperor."
Zhu Qiyu didn't have any special reaction. He had originally instructed Li Xian to do this.
Now that the newly promoted old man has completely stepped onto his big ship, there is no room for retreat, so he can only do his best to do things well.
If this were changed before, a general like Wang Ji with military power and an important minister like Yu Qian who was famous both in the government and in the public would have to hide from each other, let alone impeach two at once?
Nodding, Zhu Qiyu asked again: "What was the reaction from the civil servants?"
Cheng Jing thought for a while, took out a few more books from the pile of memorials, and said.
"Grandpa Li has been running around various governments these days and has not deliberately kept this matter secret. Therefore, as soon as this memorial was published, many censors immediately submitted impeachment memorials."
With that said, Cheng Jing divided the memorials he took out into two piles and continued.
"These censors are divided into two groups. One group is directly targeting Mr. Li and others, saying that they interfered in the affairs of the Ministry of War without authorization, criticized Zhongliang, disturbed the army, and some directly violated your imperial edict of changing the general military officer. Regarding Mr. Li and Mr. Zhao, it is said that they have slandered the emperor, so you insist on going your own way, calling them traitors and slanderers."
"The other faction is to impeach the officials of the Fifth Military Governor's Office. The main impeachers are Cheng'an Marquis Guo Sheng, Prince Consort Xue Heng, Commander-in-Chief Liu Ju, Commander-in-Chief Sun Bin and others who neglected their duties, neglected to drill, and deducted from the capital camp. Military pay, etc.”
Zhu Qiyu turned over the page, with a smile on his face.
As expected, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the civil servants, were most wary of the expansion of the power of the Xun Qi.
As soon as Li Xian and the others started to move, there was an immediate reaction.
After reading these memorials one by one, Zhu Qiyu didn't approve any of them, but directly pushed them to Cheng Jing and said calmly.
"Go and inform the cabinet that these bullets, as well as the matter of welcoming back the Supreme Emperor, will be discussed at court tomorrow morning!"
