The air pressure in the Wenhua Hall dropped a bit again. The slightly better atmosphere that a certain chief assistant had just exchanged for his fine was suddenly completely destroyed by Zhu Jian's two words.
The ministers quietly raised their heads, and visible to the naked eye, they saw that the emperor's face had turned ugly again. However, facing this situation, Zhu Jian remained calm, as if nothing had happened, standing as tall as a green pine, with a firm gaze.
From a theoretical point of view, there is actually nothing wrong with what Zhu Jian said.
As perhaps the most special yamen in the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet has the power to vote, but it only has the power to vote. Moreover, this power of voting can be exercised independently by ministers in the cabinet.
Again, in a sense, the chief minister of the cabinet is not the main official like the chief officials of other yamen, but just the first-ranked one among the many cabinet ministers.
This design was originally designed to limit the power of the cabinet and prevent the cabinet chief and assistant from becoming too powerful and overpowering the prime minister. However, in the current situation, it resulted in Zhu Jian's behavior. From a process perspective, it is completely blameless. place.
Because the essence of the vote is a right to make suggestions to assist the emperor in handling memorials, any cabinet minister can make suggestions and then submit them to the emperor.
Of course, the emperor can veto it as a matter of course!
This is a common thing in the cabinet, especially since the current emperor is an emperor who is extremely familiar with government affairs and is relatively diligent.
In the daily handling of government affairs, the cabinet's votes were rejected or simply put aside. There were many examples of the emperor's personal approval, and it was not a rare thing.
However, the situation in this memorial is obviously different from the past.
In the final analysis, as Zhu Jian said, the decision to leave the imperial palace in the East Palace has long been decided, so strictly speaking, it is unreasonable for the emperor to delay leaving the imperial palace to study.
If Zhu Yi's memorial was handed over to the cabinet and then handed over to Wang Ao or Yu Shiyue, the votes they gave would probably be because the court was busy, or they found some other reason, and suggested that it be postponed and then sent to the palace. The emperor made it right, and the matter was over.
However, when Zhu Jian made such a fuss, things got into trouble.
First of all, Zhu Yi's memorial is not a secret memorial. It is archived by the General Affairs Department. In other words, if other ministers want to check it, they can find out the contents.
Secondly, although no copy of the cabinet's vote will be left, files must be kept to reject the cabinet's vote, whether it is an oral decree or a decree.
In this way, the pressure of this matter will be transferred to the emperor, and he will not be able to cover it up even if he wants to.
Of course the emperor could reject the draft of this memorial, or even directly reject the memorial, but in this case, he would face all kinds of pressure from the court.
Because what the ministers of the outer dynasty saw were the loyal ministers of the dynasty, who strongly urged the emperor to decide on the throne as early as possible. The cabinet also tried to persuade the emperor, but the emperor insisted on going his own way and deliberately blocked the East Palace from leaving the cabinet.
With such a commotion, it would be strange if the censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate would explode!
You must know that, in a big way, the position of the emperor in the East Palace was one of the conditions for the emperor to successfully ascend the throne. In a small way, whether the East Palace will leave the cabinet to study was a matter that was decided at the court meeting years ago. Such obstruction would be a breach of trust not only to the Heavenly Family, but also to the courtiers.
Although this has been the status quo before, it was only a tacit understanding among everyone, and to be honest, various major events have been happening in the court recently, and many Yamen officials have been busy running around, and they have indeed not paid attention to this matter.
However, once it is brought to the table and a commotion is made, and everyone's eyes are focused on one point, then the ensuing public opinion and advice will be, needless to say, one-sided.
All the cabinet ministers present had been in the cabinet for some time and were very familiar with government affairs. Therefore, including Wang Ao, when they learned the ins and outs of the matter, they immediately understood the difficulty.
In other words, they all saw Zhu Jian’s intentions clearly!
The reason why Mr. Zhu Ge did this is actually very simple. He just wanted to make things bigger. The bigger the trouble, the better.
From the moment he sent someone to get Zhu Yi's memorial, he had already planned to offend everyone.
He is responsible for this matter, so the more people he offends, the more clearly the government and the public can see what kind of person he, Zhu Jian, is.
Seeing Zhu Jian's current aggressive attitude in front of the imperial court, Wang Ao even wondered whether this guy was ready to be demoted from the capital or even dismissed from office and returned to his hometown for "offending and speaking out".
This is not an impossible thing. In the court, a good reputation often means many things. There are many examples of people who offended the emperor and were expelled and returned home, and then waited a few years to make a comeback.
In fact, if Zhu Jian is really dismissed because of this matter, it will truly clear his name. In the next few years, even if the emperor is unwilling to re-appoint him, as long as something happens or a vacancy arises in the court, he will definitely be dismissed. There was a steady stream of censors recommending him again.
Maybe the emperor can ignore it once or twice, but if it happens too many times, he will inevitably end up with a reputation of being intolerant of advice and narrow-minded.
Of course, if the emperor really hates this person, there is nothing he can do about it. However, in most cases, as the emperor, he will not let himself be chatted in his ears by a group of ministers every day because of a mere person.
So in fact, this is the reason why many ministers in the DPRK have been pursuing Shilin Qingming.
Many times, this kind of good reputation among scholars is often a talisman in the official career.
Obviously, Zhu Jian's attitude at this time made the emperor very unhappy. However, because there was nothing wrong with what Zhu Jian said, even if the emperor wanted to reprimand him, it would be difficult to find a reason.
Then, everyone saw that the emperor was unusually aggrieved for a long time, then he snorted, looked away from Zhu Jian, and said in a deep voice.
"What about the other gentlemen? Do you think so too?"
this……
Everyone present looked at each other silently. Zhang Min and Jiang Yuan both silently took a small step back. The sky was falling and the big boss was holding it back. At this time, it was best for the two of them to continue to be transparent.
However, the two of them were able to escape for a while, but the other two were not so lucky.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Ao can be said to be the one the emperor asked.
As for Yu Shiyue, although he is only the second assistant, he holds another key official position, Prince's Mansion Zhan Shi, so he cannot remain silent no matter what matters involving the East Palace.
So, feeling the intimidating gaze from the emperor, the two elders looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.
It can be said that Zhu Jian's behavior not only set up the Emperor, but also set up the two of them...
