Yang Tinghe was silent for a moment and after a few turns in his mind, he asked the core question seriously: "Your Majesty, I would also like to ask, since there is a national policy meeting, and cabinet ministers will participate in aircraft maintenance in the future, how will the power and responsibilities of this draft be determined?"
He is the chief minister of the cabinet, so this question can only be asked by him.
Zhu Houcong had already made a plan: "At the beginning of the establishment of the cabinet, participating in the affairs of the government was to share the emperor's worries, and draft opinions on how to deal with all matters in advance to prepare for the emperor. I have been observing the government for the past month, and the responsibilities between the cabinet and the six ministries have gradually become less and less clear. . From now on, if the matter only involves one department or a certain yamen, the memorial must state the general strategy, and the cabinet will give its opinions on voting, and I will approve it in principle. If the matter involves various departments, and the dispute is unresolved, it will be decided at the national policy meeting Make a decision.”
Jiu Qing's heart was shocked: In principle, it means that the cabinet will really have jurisdiction over the internal affairs of each specific department in the future. Although the strategy is obtained by each department, the cabinet's theoretical voting opinions can only be approved or rejected before proceeding, but this is a procedural jurisdiction.
If more than two departments are involved, they can report to the national policy meeting. Although the cabinet still has the power to make suggestions, everyone can participate in the decision-making process. As a result, the cabinet in the past has lost the power to make plans for complex matters that many people did not want to take responsibility for.
Whether this is to reduce the power of the cabinet or to increase it, it is difficult for everyone to think clearly.
Yang Tinghe immediately left his seat, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Wang Qiong couldn't help but look at him, because Yang Tinghe must have figured it out. Wang Qiong immediately thought in a clear direction from his reaction: This system is still beneficial to the cabinet.
Then, it must be because the cabinet has the power to clearly review the internal affairs of each department and can influence the officials of each department.
In this way, for matters that need to be decided at the national policy meeting, each department, under the influence of the cabinet's review power, will be able to first coordinate the strategy with the cabinet, which is equivalent to just going through a process at the national policy meeting.
Once the decision has been made and entered into the implementation stage, the cabinet resumes its authority to review various ordinary matters related to the implementation process of various ministries.
Everything depends on whether the cabinet's coordination can be effectively accomplished, and whether the cabinet's review of the affairs of various departments can convince the public.
Wang Qiong immediately saluted: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has effectively suppressed all ministries. I am afraid that the power of the cabinet is getting stronger and stronger! Although the nine ministers attended the national policy meeting, they have actually lost their authority over the yamen in charge."
Not only the top leaders of each yamen have the authority to take action. For some small matters, the bureaucrats below directly report them. Then wouldn't the top officials of each yamen be sidelined?
Zhu Houcong stretched out three fingers: "For matters that do not go through the national policy meeting, there are three requirements for the execution of the memorial: the chief official of each yamen approves the signature seal of the strategy, the cabinet leader handles the signature seal of the cabinet ministers' votes, and the secretary of etiquette approves the red seal." Six cabinet ministers Everyone is responsible for the opinions given by the ministers in charge of the affairs they handle. If the minister in charge of the cabinet is temporarily absent, he will directly report it to me for approval."
Yang Tinghe's eyes narrowed slightly: he was anxious and it was too early to call Shengming. He only saw the clamping effect of this general principle on the six departments.
Strictly speaking, except for the first suppression of the imperial court, in subsequent daily affairs, the authority of the cabinet was constantly recognized by the emperor.
The specific performance is as follows: almost all matters that did not give an attitude on the spot at the court meeting were submitted to the above by the relevant yamen, and were approved by Zhu for implementation after being voted by the cabinet.
Therefore, Yang Tinghe recognized this new king more and more from the bottom of his heart.
If it weren't for the signal that the emperor wanted to reform, it would have been impossible for the Qian Ning and Jiang Bin cases to affect Liang Chu, Wang Qiong and others in such a timely manner.
But now, cabinet ministers are in charge?
Because this is decentralization of power, each cabinet minister will have clear business responsibilities in the future. Of course, the chief minister can express his opinion on everything, but the leading cabinet minister who has to sign and take responsibility can choose not to listen.
You are irresponsible, you can beep, but don’t beep all the time!
This is something that not only Fei Hong, who has returned to the cabinet, but also Jiang Mian and Mao Ji will be more happy to see.
Jiu Qing, on the other hand, breathed a sigh of relief. In order to handle his own affairs well in the future, it seems that he only needs to greet one minister in charge?
So even in national policy meetings, cabinet ministers will not be monolithic and fight with Jiu Qing together.
Everyone looked at the emperor with complicated eyes.
Having clear powers is a good thing after all, and Yang Tinghe couldn't object to it for a while.
Jiang Mian already had the intention of taking the lead - although he was disappointed that Yang Tinghe was persuaded to stay.
Although Mao Ji agrees with Yang Tinghe in many aspects, doesn't he have his own expectations?
As for Fei Hong...if he has been away from the court for many years and can take charge of specific affairs as soon as he returns to the cabinet, there is no need to slowly compete with the current cabinet ministers.
Yang Tinghe took the lead just to make these three people dissatisfied.
Now it seems that this blow only hit Yang Tinghe the hardest, but Yang Tinghe could not offend other ministers, nor could he object to the establishment of the accompanying bachelor in the Imperial Study Room.
Furthermore, he cannot object to the establishment of the National Policy Council.
Because this means that the only way for civil servants to enter the core of power is to become cabinet ministers. When Jiu Qing or Ten En become the accompanying bachelor in the imperial study, it has already reached its peak: all real major events cannot bypass the national policy meeting.
Everyone has figured it out: the emperor's purpose is to expand the top-level decision-making circle and bring in the team he trusts and has trained.
It doesn't matter, he could have achieved this goal by adjusting the cabinet and the selection of the Nine Ministers. What's more, the decision-making power on all matters will still lie with the emperor.
The emperor, who was aloof, could see more people fighting with each other by relying on his power of approval and decision-making at the national policy meeting.
With so many people in the core power circle, there are more ways to rise, and people below will become more active.
Yang Tinghe's opposition to the establishment of the National Policy Council was not just as simple as opposing the other three cabinet ministers and all the nine ministers, but also blocking a new path for all the officials below.
To hold such a national policy meeting is to put it bluntly, to reshuffle the cards in another more obvious way, so that the minds of those under the cabinet ministers and the Nine Ministers can be fully alive, and there will be more paths to enter the core power circle.
If you want to get in, you naturally have to lean towards the emperor and get his approval.
In addition to competition, the cabinet should not allow the chief minister to become more powerful and give other cabinet ministers clearer powers. This can also allow the cabinet to fully play its role and improve the efficiency of internal affairs of each department.
The three checkpoints of ordinary affairs must have signatures and seals, and the heads of each department and leading cabinet ministers must be responsible for specific matters. Although it is pressure, if it is done well, it is clear and the credit cannot be taken away by others.
Now Wang Qiong was also satisfied: as long as all the memorials under his hands must pass his own level, the power of this first level is certainly greater than that of the second and third levels!
It seems that the emperor will choose to save worry and effort on small things. In the future, his home court will only be here, only in national policy meetings!
And Jiu Qing is qualified to sit here!
Wang Qiong also knelt down and said sincerely: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Yang Tinghe, who had called Sheng Ming earlier, asked as if he had no objection and just understood the details after getting up: "Your Majesty, the ministers are responsible for their own affairs. Is it determined by circumstances or is there a rule?"
Zhu Houcong smiled: "It depends on the situation, it's up to me."
Everyone understood clearly: which cabinet minister was responsible for the specific affairs, it was like a temporary assignment of officials.
When it comes to the people attending the national policy meeting, which will hardly change in three years, how can the emperor tolerate which cabinet minister is responsible for the specific affairs in a certain field?
As long as three to five years, it is a deep-rooted interest relationship.
This makes sense now. The emperor has always just expanded the number of people in the core power circle in order to better control something from a high position.
But... these top civil servants with flexible minds all thought of a possible evolution: the current emperor has shown strong energy and sufficient wisdom and determination, but what about him in the future? What about his descendants?
Can this national policy conference always exist? If it has always existed, what will change in the future?
But at least Yang Tinghe and his cabinet ministers, who had just experienced the incident in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice and the incident of Wang Shouren's lecture, faced the emperor's imperial study room companion bachelor's degree and divided the authority of the ceremonial supervisor. Each cabinet minister had clear powers to handle affairs. The entire collective of civil servants now has two more ways to enter the core power circle, and they cannot oppose it face to face.
The emperor's move was to actively withdraw part of the imperial power by weakening the eunuch's power, in exchange for the establishment of the National Policy Conference and the Imperial Study Room's accompanying bachelor's degree, which would hardly be opposed by anyone.
Anyone who stands up to oppose is almost a thief of civil servants.
Everyone has no time to think about what reaction will be caused after the news of the establishment of the National Policy Council spreads out today, because since so many important ministers have no objections in principle, the discussion will begin.
The first thing is the specific strategy for abolishing the three major battalions and re-establishing them.
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The establishment of the imperial study room to accompany bachelors is to help civil servants make the cake bigger.
The establishment of the National Policy Council is to help important civil servants make the cake bigger.
Setting goals and preparing guarantees for the resettlement of the three major battalions is to help military officials make the cake bigger.
The only injured were the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Chief Minister of the Cabinet.
At this moment, the Supervisor of Ceremonies has no right to say anything. At this moment, Yang Tinghe cannot be an enemy of the entire group of civil servants, and preventing military ministers from getting a bigger stage has the unavoidable threshold of the emperor's own "insecurity".
Yan Song looked at the young emperor with admiration. Huang Jin, the eunuch next to him and the head of the Internal Affairs Department, was also low-key and silent. There was no difference in the power of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
For Huang Jin, the Chief of Ceremony's Palm Seal is definitely something he will have in his pocket in the future.
Yan Song couldn't help but speculate, what exactly does His Majesty think about the future power structure of the court?
How will this royal study evolve in the future?
No one thinks that future national policy meetings will always have this pattern, and the imperial study room will always be just an imperial study room.
Seeing through but not telling the truth, the emperor is just shuffling the cards first, but it is not yet time to make a fool of himself.
No one can guess what the emperor was thinking. After all, today's decision has broken through the ceiling imagined by civil servants in the past, which is why the national policy conference and cabinet decentralization have been smoothly changed.
Now, having achieved his goal, the emperor returned to the same state as before when he went to court.
His main focus is still on listening to their words, paying attention to their "quarrel skills", and at the same time, he has a more intuitive understanding of the ways between the various yamen today.
Guo Xun felt like a clown.
The first thing to be discussed now is directly related to Wu Chen, but he is not able to participate in the discussions between Wang Xian, the Minister of War, and other important ministers.
The emperor said nothing, but Guo Xun, who had experienced the emperor's first visit to the court and many subsequent events, knew that the emperor actually had expectations for his ministers and generals.
That day, Guo Xun earnestly persuaded other ministers and generals: You guys who are getting fatter and fatter must consider whether this is...
But now, only Guo Xun is here among the generals!
In this first national policy meeting, the first thing to be discussed was the abolition of the three major battalions and the re-establishment of the three major battalions. Can the representatives of the Fifth Army Governor's Office and the representatives of the honorable ministers and generals really say nothing?
The emperor didn't look at him, but Guo Xun couldn't wait for the emperor to look over and hint at something.
Your Majesty is having a hard time too! If he looks over and can't fart, then what does that mean?
Guo Xun boldly interrupted: "I thought so!"
(End of chapter)
