"Tricking him?" Wang Xijue chuckled and waved his hand: "Yuanfu, please don't blame me casually. Why did I trick him? Now, if he takes over the factory guard that Gao Rixin will definitely release, The emperor would only praise him for being considerate of the Holy Will, look at him with special regard, and would not blame him for anything. How could I have lied to him?"
Shen Shixing pretended to glare at him and said: "It's been like this and brother Yuan Yu is still joking! Gao Rixin will not fall this time. All he has to do is retreat in order to advance. In the eyes of the emperor, he As long as he makes such a move, I expect that not only will the emperor's suspicions disappear, but his favor towards Gao Rixin will also grow to a higher level in the future.
Although under this situation, if we are wiser and seize this opportunity that cannot be missed and will never come again, we can indeed get some benefits from it, but as Brother Yuanyu 'pointed' to Zhang Cheng, what? "You can just let go and do whatever you want." Doesn't that teach him to seek death? It's just that he died a little later, so that he wouldn't die suddenly on the spot. "
Wang Xijue spread his hands with an innocent face and raised his eyebrows slightly: "So what? These eunuchs are all short-sighted people who will ignore orders once they have power... Yuan Fu, you didn't see it just now Does he look like that?"
When he said this, he smiled proudly: "The affairs of the world must be managed by gentlemen of my generation for a long time. These eunuchs can only do bad things. To put it bluntly, although Gao Rixin is radical, although he sometimes stands Too cunning, but he is capable of getting things done, and even if he has some selfish motives, it is still reasonable.
However, for people like Zhang Cheng who are eunuchs, they have no justice in their hearts and are only thinking about personal gain. If he is really allowed to take over the power of the inner court and the emperor has more trust in him, he will definitely become one of the gentlemen of our generation in the future. The great enemy - the disaster of eunuchs is worse than any party struggle. "
When Wang Xijue said this, Shen Shixing understood what he was thinking. It is true that Gao Pingshi is now too powerful and powerful, and is the current enemy of the Xin School. However, even if we take a step back, the Practical School is still a civil servant faction. In the eyes of Wang Xijue, who is also a civil servant, no matter how bad it is, it is still worse than The eunuch is strong.
The former is still an internal contradiction, but the latter has almost risen to the level of class conflict - what is an eunuch? The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were actually the imperial party!
The imperial power and the prime minister's power representing the civil servants have been fighting for so many years, and only in recent years have they gradually reached a delicate balance. Especially during the teenage years when Gao Gong and Guo Pu were still in power today, the prime minister's power truly had the meaning of prime minister's power. .
However, with the wisdom of Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, they certainly knew that this kind of power was not stable. It was actually obtained by the emperor's youth, rather than the power itself reaching that level.
The cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty were known as cabinet ministers and prime ministers, but how could they be called "prime ministers"?
In terms of political power, the status of the prime minister under the prime minister system is so lofty. For the prime ministers in the Han and Tang Dynasties, even the emperor had to respect him. Before the Song Dynasty, when the prime minister met the emperor to discuss matters, the emperor had to give him a seat. This is what is called "the prime minister sits and discusses the doctrine".
Emperors Zhao Kuangyin and his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi took measures to weaken the power of the prime minister. First, they removed the "seat" where they "sit and discuss the truth". After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne, he spared no effort to suppress the power of the prime minister through the case of Hu Weiyong.
Before the Hu Weiyong case broke out, the Prime Minister's Office in the early Ming Dynasty was not only a first-level official office of the imperial court, but also had many statutory political powers. It directly governed the six administrative departments of the imperial court and issued orders to them; and the six ministries directly reported to the prime minister anything they had to do. Reports and requests for instructions, there are even some things that even the emperor may not know.
However, because of this, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this kind of prime minister's power was an infringement of the monarch's power and was completely intolerable. Therefore, in the 13th year of Hongwu after the Hu Weiyong case, the position of prime minister and its affiliated yamen were abolished.
Compared with the power of the prime minister, the ministers simply dare not compare with it. The prime minister under the prime ministerial system has decision-making, deliberation and administrative powers. Since the Yongle period, the emperor has already firmly grasped the decision-making power originally possessed by the prime minister, handed over the administrative execution power to the six ministries, and assigned the power of deliberation to the cabinet.
The cabinet's participation in court meetings or discussions on national affairs only affects the court's decision-making to a certain extent. Therefore, in a legal sense, it is nothing more than the emperor's top staff and a consultative body.
Not only is the political power of the cabinet seriously inferior to that of the prime minister, but it is also far behind in terms of administrative level. In the past, the prime ministers often ranked below one person and above ten thousand people. Most of them were from the first rank. Occasionally, they were from the first rank, and they were serious top officials.
The administrative rank of cabinet ministers is not on the table at all. For example, among the seven cabinet ministers appointed by Zhu Di in the early days of his rule, the highest ranking was the talented scholar Xie Jin. Before he joined the cabinet, he was in the sixth rank. Only fifth grade. In other words, if it were placed outside, it would be roughly equivalent to the administrative level of a prefect.
The last among these seven people is Hu Yan. Before joining the cabinet, he was only from the seventh rank and was not even as good as a county magistrate. They work directly for the emperor, between the emperor and the six ministers, but their administrative level is not as good as the six ministers - of course there is no doubt that ministers and ministers are generally the second rank, second rank, or at least the third rank.
Regarding this, the evaluation in "History of the Ming Dynasty" is quite accurate: "Although he is in the cabinet, the official must be respected by the minister." So later on, because the actual status of the cabinet ministers had been greatly improved, in order to improve the rank of the cabinet ministers without destroying the tradition, the emperor had to let the cabinet ministers work part-time.
The most common method is to first appoint a minister who is about to join the cabinet as the Minister of Rites or the Minister of Civil Affairs, or the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and then give him the title of "Grand Scholar of a certain palace and a certain pavilion". In this way, the administrative level of the cabinet minister will be the same. Greatly improved.
However, it must be noted that this is just a flexible method with Chinese characteristics. It is not a fixed regulation. It can be regarded as a "hidden rule" at most. Until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the administrative levels of cabinet ministers were extremely inconsistent. Stablize. What's more, once you don't look at the workaround, the "Grand Bachelor of a certain palace and a certain pavilion" itself will always be of a very low level.
But in addition, there is another more critical difference between the prime minister and the cabinet ministers, that is, from the perspective of their supporting administrative offices, the prime minister often has his own official office and an institution for issuing orders: the Prime Minister's Office or the Prime Minister's Office.
In the past, such as the Tang Dynasty, the highest official rank of civil officials was called "Kaifu Yitong Sansi". In most cases, this was a title reserved for prime ministers. And this is exactly one point where the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty were far inferior to those of the previous generation - they did not have the power and status to "open a government office" and "act with the three divisions".
What is Kaifu? This person has his own official office as his office, and Yitong Sansi clearly stipulates that the official office he opens has the same status as the third division.
What is Sansi? The three gongs and three divisions are the so-called "three divisions". Taiwei, Situ and Sikong are called the three masters; Taishi, Taifu and Taibao are called the three divisions.
Therefore, "Kai Fu Yi Tong San Si" means that this person's status is at the level of "San Si", and the Ming Dynasty did not have this term. Therefore, whether it is the Three Lords and Three Divisions, including the Three Gus and Three Young Masters, etc., all of them can become emperors. The title granted by me - I didn't grant it to you, so you can just get along slowly and rise slowly. Don't expect me to give you the "Three Divisions of Yitong" all at once.
When a prime minister opens a government office, not only are the status of the "Three Divisions of Yi and Tong" very important, but more importantly, there are many subordinates in the prime minister's office - Zuo Cheng, You Cheng, and those who participate in political affairs. Cabinet ministers do not have this treatment. Generally, they work in a certain palace or a certain cabinet, and they only have a few people to manage files and copy documents. Compared with the prime minister, they are extremely shabby.
What's more, the prime minister has a greater direct power to open the government. Some of them have been mentioned above: the prime minister directly holds administrative power. In some dynasties, such as Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, etc., he can even appoint and dismiss the government on his own initiative. The vast majority of officials.
This is because the prime minister himself is only responsible to the emperor, while the officials do not need to be directly responsible to the emperor, but are responsible to the prime minister.
Many people in later generations do not understand why the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty had such a big, fierce, and irreconcilable conflict with the imperial power. In fact, this is the reason.
As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. The imperial power suppressed the power of the prime minister too hard. Therefore, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty became more and more obsessed with restoring the real power of the prime minister. The civil servant group persisted in this for a long time, and conflicts naturally arose. It’s simply unavoidable.
Of course, officials from the Xin School are also civil servants, and they pay more attention to this somewhat "retro" tradition than officials from the Practical School. Therefore, in the eyes of Wang Xijue, although the real school is a great enemy, at any rate, it is still a comrade-in-arms in a large scope. In his eyes, the eunuchs, who are the extension of imperial power, are the real enemies of life and death. Either you die or I die. The kind that cannot be reconciled at all, and there is no reason for reconciliation.
The reason why the Xin School and eunuchs like Zhang Cheng are actually mixed up now is, in Wang Xijue's eyes, just a typical "change of economic power" - I just have no choice but to cooperate with you and other eunuchs. It doesn't mean that you are What a thing in my eyes.
He became furious when he heard about Zhang Cheng's "my generation". If Shen Shixing hadn't winked at him quickly, he would have almost exploded on the spot, and that's exactly why.
I, a dignified scholar and gentleman, will be called "my generation" like you? Are you, a mutilated, animal-like thing, worthy of being compared with me, a scholar and doctor full of knowledge?
This is what Wang Xijue thinks, and it is also what Shen Shixing thinks in his heart. It's just that Wang Xijue has a more upright temper, while Shen Shixing is more feminine. There is essentially no difference.
Therefore, when Wang Xijue said this, Shen Shixing had no choice but to sigh and said: "It is not enough to erect an eunuch, but the current academic momentum is so great that we have no choice but to endure humiliation and tolerate each other for the sake of the country. But Yuan Yu Brother, if Gao Rixin hasn't truly said, "The flying eagle breaks its wings and the tiger loses its teeth," but Zhang Cheng falls in front of him, wouldn't that be a big deal?"
"What Yuan Fu said is naturally a mature way of planning for the country, and Xi Jue naturally knows it well. However, precisely because of this, we especially need to seize this opportunity firmly and seize the opportunity of Gao Rixin being forced to delegate power to quietly grasp the general trend. , to bring back the previous decline, otherwise the junior disciples below will continue to be depressed, and it will be even more difficult to recover in the future.
It was with this in mind that Xi Jue deliberately let Zhang Cheng, the eunuch, charge at the front, while we could just hide behind him and quietly take back these powers. If Gao Rixin becomes angry because of Zhang Cheng, and after the situation stabilizes, he first targets Zhang Cheng, it will be a happy event that our generation can only dream of. "
In fact, Shen Shixing had already understood what he meant, which was to use Zhang Cheng as cannon fodder to attract Gao Pragmatic's hatred and firepower. Gao Pragmatic will certainly not be able to fight back for a while, so this is a good opportunity for the Xin School to quietly "turn back the trend."
And when he can fight back, once the muzzle is pointed at Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng will definitely not sit back and wait for death. Even if he cannot defeat Gao Pragmatic in the end - this is almost certain in Shen Shixing's eyes - but how to say It can still struggle for a while, and this period of time is also an opportunity that the Heart School can take advantage of.
Although Wang Xijue's actions were indeed a bit unscrupulous according to the general view of right and wrong, Shen Shixing also felt that "eunuch and eunuchs were not enough and cunning" after all, and Zhang Cheng was not the same as them at all, so it didn't matter.
To endure humiliation and tolerate each other for the sake of the country is not a derogatory term.
He sighed softly, but nodded solemnly and said: "It's also difficult for Brother Yuanyu... That's it."
Wang Xijue knew that he would agree. He was not surprised when he heard this. He just nodded and said: "No matter how Zhang Cheng charges into battle, at the moment he can only take care of the factory guard. As for the civil service, with his current status and power , must still be unable to intervene. This is our opportunity, can Yuan Fu make any case against this?"
Shen Shixing is not a high-ranking official and is not known for his good judgment, but he has always been good at listening to opinions. Therefore, when Wang Xijue said this, he naturally replied: "I was just going to ask Brother Yuan Yu for his advice."
"Well..." Wang Xijue pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I think the most important thing right now is how Gao Rixin will devolve power and officials. He himself is not a heavenly official. As a puppet, although Yang Wudi is afraid of his power and prestige, But after all, he is not a serious official of the Practical School, let alone a protégé of Gao and Guo, so he does not necessarily have to be completely at the mercy of Gao Rixin, even in matters such as abdication and resignation."
Shen Shixing asked: "Brother Yuan Yu means that if Gao Rixin forcibly orders Yang Wudi to resign, Yang Wudi may not only disobey the order, but may even conflict with Gao Rixin?"
"It is possible to disobey orders, but if we talk about conflicts, I'm afraid it won't be a serious matter." Wang Xijue frowned and said, "I don't think Yang Wudi is so courageous... Although many of the former disciples of Gao and Guo Ergong have been assigned to one side, there are still others. Many are still in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even in the same year as Gao Rixin, there were some who were serving as censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Since Yang Wudi took charge, everything has been decided by Gao Rixin, so his hopes have been greatly damaged. If there is a conflict with Gao Rixin over his resignation, he will be attacked by officials from the Real School, saying that he is in love with power, which will be even more embarrassing. Therefore, I foolishly thought that he might disgust Gao Rixin in recommending his successor. "
Shen Shixing was moved in his heart and asked, "Brother Yuan Yu is saying that he might recommend someone from my Xinxue disciple to succeed him as Heavenly Official?"
Wang Xijue pondered: "This possibility is difficult to rule out, but in the final analysis, it still depends on Gao Rixin's handling methods."
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