"Old minister, see your Majesty!"
"Excuse me, Mr. Xu Ge! Come, please give Mr. Xu Ge a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zhu Zaijing looked at Xu Jie's behavior and couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.
Damn it!
Do you dare to be so calm in front of Jiajing? Now he is so calm and calm in front of me.
Look down on me!
Indeed, Long Qing in history was just an ordinary person.
When Jiajing was fighting with his ministers and gods, this man could only stand aside blankly.
But it's not his fault. These ministers were all passed the imperial examination and have been in the officialdom for decades.
Those are some of the smartest people in the country!
Zhu Zaijing himself did not have the ability to fight with them. He would only be simple, rough and direct.
"Your Majesty, the cabinet has drafted several imperial edicts for tomorrow. Your Majesty will take a look at it. If there are no problems, you can seal it!"
"Okay, let me take a look!"
The first imperial edict is to follow a procedure.
To put it simply, why did the late emperor leave? I can’t bear this world alone. I was so frightened that I only ascended the throne as a last resort...
Note, this is not an edict to ascend the throne, not an edict to ascend the throne!
The edict of enthronement was issued at the enthronement ceremony.
Zhu Zaijing skipped directly and looked at the next one.
This article corrects some of the mistakes of the previous dynasty.
For example, officials who were imprisoned for unjust, false or wrongful convictions should be released and reinstated. In addition, all the Taoist priests in the palace were arrested, some projects in the palace were stopped, half of the national tax exemption was exempted, and tax arrears before Jiajing 43 years were not pursued, etc.
This works too, no problem.
The third one is the imperial decree canonizing the queen and the prince.
Emperor Longqing had several sons, but like Jiajing, the first few died in infancy, and now the third son Zhu Yijun and the fourth son Zhu Yiliu are still alive.
The former is the future Wanli, who, like Long Qing, has changed from the third child to the boss.
The next chapter is about the appointment and removal of officials.
"Longqing, Longqing!" Zhu Zaijing cursed in his heart, "Has personnel power been delegated to the cabinet? Doesn't the chief minister of the damn cabinet become the actual emperor?"
Personnel power, financial power, military power.
This is a power that an emperor must never lose no matter what.
If these three rights are gone, you will be left alone.
With these rights, even if you, like Jiajing, don't go to court for half your life, you can still firmly control the country.
I want to interrupt here. Many people blame Jiajing for not going to court for twenty years. In fact, this is really nothing.
First of all, going to court is just a formality. There are hundreds of people in one court meeting. How many problems can be solved in half a day? It would be more efficient than discussing with several cabinet ministers.
The second is that Jiajing just did not go to court, but not a single thing that others should take care of was left behind, and the memorials were all seen by himself.
Later, Wanli was different, it was really messed up!
There are no vacancies for lower-level officials below, and they don't care. Memorials pile up, and they don't even read them.
The most terrible thing is that this child is the longest reigning emperor in the Ming Dynasty...
A whole 48 years!
Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli.
The three men, grandfather and grandson, ruled the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years. Their neglect and laziness accelerated the further decline of the Ming Empire.
Zhu Zaijing secretly made up his mind that Wanli would not be lazy again in this life.
Although his laziness has the element of being forced into helplessness by civil servants, you are lazy just because you are lazy, and you cannot refuse him no matter how hard you try.
If he dares to be lazy in this life, Zhu Zaijing will let him taste the care from his father!
He is now four years old. He has been given lessons since he was five years old, following the rules of Braided Dynasty.
High-pressure study arrangements!
One thing to say, there is really nothing to say about the education of the princes from the Braided Dynasty.
It's a bit far-fetched.
According to the imperial edict, this is the arrangement:
Li Chunfang was the second assistant in the cabinet, and Gao Gong and Guo Pu were group assistants.
Zhang Juzheng's left minister and Dongge bachelor recommended him to the cabinet, and Chen Yijin recommended him to the cabinet.
Zhu Zaijing saw through Xu Jie's layout at a glance.
Li Chunfang is neutral, Zhang Juzheng is a student of Xu Jie, and Chen Yijin is a classmate of Zhang Juzheng.
As a result, there are six people in the cabinet, two of whom are from Xu Jie.
Gao Gong and Guo Pu were in the same group, and they were opposite Xu Jie.
It can be seen that Xu Jie's arrangement is not too excessive.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, it is understandable for him to arrange more people of his own, and he is also paying attention to the balance of the cabinet.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older and want to maintain balance like this and land safely before going into seclusion.
Xu Jie in history was also like this.
Try to get along peacefully with Gao Gong in everything and try not to have any disputes.
Instead, it was Gao Gong who kept causing trouble for Xu Jie.
This is because he wants to take advantage of his experience as the emperor's lecturer to gain power as soon as possible.
So why is he so impatient?
The same goes for Zhang Juzheng later. After taking power, he became very domineering. He was dismissed from office and imprisoned at every turn.
They all became very irritable.
Because they know they don’t have time.
Gao Gong is over 50 this year.
Later, Zhang Juzheng was almost 50 years old when he really came to power.
They were too late.
Maybe they also know that it's not just them who are too late, but the entire Ming Dynasty.
Today's Daming is just like an old man, with a lot of problems all over his body.
Wanli Zhongxing, Daming took some medicine, and his condition improved a lot.
In the late Wanli Dynasty, Ming Dynasty was bedridden.
Apocalypse directly paralyzed the Ming Dynasty.
Chongzhen Dynasty failed to rescue him and declared his death.
Therefore, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng carried out such drastic reforms because they knew that when they were old, Ming Dynasty was also old.
And Zhu Zaijing, who traveled through time in later generations, knew these truths more deeply.
So what he has to do is for Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng to come up as soon as possible, and Xu Jie to get out of here!
But because Zhang Juzheng was Xu Jie's student, he could not have any conflict with Gao Gong.
How can this be done if the two leading reformists are incompatible with each other?
Therefore, Xu Jie cannot be deposed by the high arch in history.
You have to be the emperor!
"The first three imperial edicts are all fine, but I want to change this last one!"
Xu Jie was slightly startled.
The emperor said he would change it himself!
"Your Majesty, these are all ministers..."
"Mr. Xu Ge!" Zhu Zaijing interrupted him unceremoniously, "Don't tell me that this imperial edict is high-arching. Li Chunfang and the others are satisfied with it!"
"Do they all know about this?"
Historically, Xu Jie, Gao Gong and others did make this proposal to the emperor privately without any discussion.
This caused Gao Gong's dissatisfaction, which further intensified the struggle between them.
"Your Majesty, I thought..."
"I don't want you to think so!" Zhu Zaijing said, "I want you to think so!"
"These three imperial edicts can be issued tomorrow, but this one," Zhu Zaijing put away the open edict, "I want to change it myself!"
"Does Mr. Xu Ge understand?"
Xu Jie looked at this very strange emperor in disbelief.
He wasn't so strong before.
Basically, he will adopt whatever the people below say. Why is it different now?
Could it be that his previous appearance of being harmless to humans and animals and being easy to talk to was just an act?
Suddenly, Xu Jie seemed to recall the fear of being dominated by Jiajing...
