.Chapter 783: Court Promotion (Central)
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As the government center of the huge empire, all military and national affairs must be gathered here, and all confidential national policies are born here. Therefore, its security measures are equivalent to the Emperor's Ganqing Palace. A bronze plaque was hung high outside its gate, engraved with a strict regulation of the imperial edict, saying: "The secret place is a serious matter, and all officials and idle people are not allowed to enter without permission. Violators will be punished without forgiveness."
Because everything involves confidentiality and is well aware of the disadvantages of escorting the official, among all the documents in the cabinet, except for the letters that can be written by the regular documents of the documents, all documents that need to be treated in detail are drafted by the cabinet ministers themselves, and the chief minister is no exception. He has never been lazy to order the clerks to do their own work. The hard work and self-restraint of the cabinet ministers is almost unprecedented.
Therefore, the cabinet proposed to add cabinet ministers not entirely because of the power struggle, but because they were really too busy to do it. They were not young and middle-aged people in their thirties or forties. Who can stand the price of all night long?
He wrote the last ticket neatly, put it in the memorial book, and then stacked it neatly. Xu Jie breathed a sigh of relief and was about to stretch when he heard the Western bell ringing six times in the corner of the wall. He couldn't help but shake his head helplessly... It was another sleepless night, and he thought he could sleep for two hours.
Xu Fu, a native of his hometown, brought a white porcelain tray with a white wet cotton towel on it, and asked softly: "Master, do you want to sleep for a while?"
Xu Jie shook his head, and Xu Fu had to put the tray in front of him. Xu Jie took it, leaned on the back of the chair, and applied the wet cotton towel on his eyes. He suddenly felt cold and comfortable, and the fragrance of chrysanthemums was also the sour and swollen feeling finally subsided, and his mind became much clearer.
Xu Jie greedily enjoyed this rare ease. It was not until the wet wipe was heated up that he gently lifted it down and slowly opened his eyes. The world became much clearer.
Xu Fu took the cotton towel and whispered: "Master, breakfast is ready. I will serve you to wash and have a meal."
Xu Jie nodded, slowly stood up with a chair, and came to the outer room... The conditions of Wenyuan Pavilion are no longer as good as those of Xiyuan. In the late stage of Xiyuan, Xu Jie had his own independent courtyard. Although it was not big, it was also five rooms in the east and west, which were enough to meet daily diet and daily life... After moving back to the Da Nei, he was naturally in the main hall for government affairs, but when he worked overtime at night, Xu Jie returned to the East Corridor Office of the Rights Office, where the right office was the right office, and spent one sleepless night after another. Gao Gong had long felt that this place was too cold and proposed to expand, but Xu Jie did not agree. First, he did not like to let Gao Gong succeed, and secondly, he felt that this would help to create the image of the cabinet ministers restraining themselves and returning to courtesy. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, who was like a strong dragon, could only be placed in this small suite.
The outer room is a small living room, and of course it also has his dining room. When Xu Jie finished washing up and came to the outer room, a simple breakfast was already arranged on the dining table, and the latest issue of the residence newspaper.
After taking the yellow rice porridge handed over by Xu Fu, Xu Jie pressed his beard with one hand and a bowl with the other, and drank silently in a small mouth. This would prevent the beard from being stained with soup or rice grains. After drinking half a bowl, Xu Jie loosened his beard, picked up chopsticks, and wanted to pick up some pastries from the imperial kitchen. His eyes were on the newspaper beside him, and he swept it casually and continued to eat.
As he was eating, Xu Jie suddenly frowned, put down the bowls and chopsticks, picked up the new mansion newspaper sent by Tongzhengsi. He looked carefully and finally found the source of his uneasiness on the third line - it was a seemingly ordinary excerpt, which said that Yang Song, the Censor of the Censorate, wrote a letter to impeach the silence. During the siege, he had a private exchange with the Mongolians and talked about trade with each other, which was a great sin. Especially as the Minister of Rites, he should be punished more than one level. Please ask the officials to verify it.
As a senior government official, no one has ever been impeached, let alone such accusation of stolen evidence and unfounded evidence. As long as you keep silent, you can expose it after explanation, it is no big deal. But it seems like an ordinary one, but Xu Jie can't swallow it. He stood up with a frown, pushed open the door and walked into the yard.
Today is the 'light snow' in the twenty-four solar terms. It means 'the rain is thin by the cold air, so it condenses and turns into snow, but it is not even as strong as it is." However, in recent years, the temperature in the north has always been low, the river has begun to freeze, and the yard has a thick layer of white frost, as if it has entered the middle of winter.
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Taking the mansion newspaper, Xu Jie walked from the corridor to the main hall. It was not yet office hours, and there were only two Si Zhilang in the hall, where he distributed the documents to prepare for the work that the cabinet masters were about to start.
Seeing that Mr. Xu came in, the two of them quickly saluted. Xu Jie nodded and raised the Di report in his hand: "Where is this memorial? Why have I never seen it?" Dibao is a kind of "official daily" and its issuing agency is the Tongzheng Envoy Department who receives and receives memorials. The content mainly comes from the imperial edicts issued by the cabinet and the memorials of ministers. It can inform the officials of the court's dynamics, appointment and removal of officials, emperor's edicts, emperor's edicts, emperor's edicts, and minister's edicts. However, the people will also obtain the official edicts as soon as possible and copy the world, and then become well-known news.
It is precisely because of its huge influence that the cabinet has always strictly controlled the content of the newspaper. Every memorial published on it must be drafted by the cabinet and agreed to be made public before it will be included in the Tongzheng Department.
When Yuanfu asked, the two Si Zhilang quickly put down the friend at hand and searched for the source in the file separately. Finally, after processing yesterday, the original text of the memorial was found in the stack of documents that had not been archived.
Xu Jie took it, but he didn't look at the content, and turned to the last page and looked at the tickets above. A line of familiar fonts came into view: "Let me listen to the person's self-dispute" did not add the word "secret" after it, which means it can be made public.
‘Guo Pu…’ he met day and night, and Xu Jie certainly recognized that it was written by Guo Pu, a great-grandson of the Cultural Hall.
At this time, Guo Pu happened to talk to Gao Gong and came in. Seeing that Yuan Fu had arrived early, the two bowed and bowed and were about to return to their respective seats. Xu Jie said, "Dongye, come here."
Guo Pu had no choice but to stand firm, came to the prime minister's case, and whispered: "Yuan Weng, what's the matter with me?"
"This memorial," Xu Jie's Yu Guang glanced at the left, but saw Gao Gong looking as if nothing had happened. He couldn't help but sneer in his heart and said lightly: "It seems that he shouldn't have been in a hurry to report it, right?"
Guo Pu looked down and thought it was true. He said calmly: "The master has divided the memorials and the official will write them according to your order. This memorial is not a military and national event, so I have not submitted it to you for review again."
In order to show that his "three returns" were not empty talk, and because of Gao Gong's aggressiveness, Xu Jie distributed the documents submitted by various departments, government offices and officials to the three major officials for the draft. However, the final result must be handed over to the chief minister for review... Of course, this is just a matter of theory. In fact, the memorials sent to the cabinet every day are like snowflakes, and Xu Jie has no time to review them one by one, so he authorized everyone to only hand over important drafts to him for review. As for those process-based and unimportant documents, they can be handled by each person at their discretion.
Now it seems that Xu Jie shot himself in the foot, but he was not so easy to pass. He frowned and said, "It was clearly Yang Song who sought fame and impeached a member of the Nine Ministers who had just made great contributions. Can such content be allowed to be reported? How much damage will it cause to Lord Shen's reputation? How much damage will it be to the court's reputation?" Unconsciously, Xu Jie's voice became higher and higher. Compared to his usual calmness of "Taishan collapsed before he did not change color".
At this time, Li Chunfang came in. I don’t know why the prime minister got angry. He quickly tiptoed back to his seat and sat down. He picked up this thing and pretended to be reading with his head down, but his ears were stuck... and then he heard Guo Pu say in a deep voice: "You often teach us that the turbid ones will be turbid ones, and the clear ones will be clear. Since Lord Shen is flawless, this kind of article will not affect his reputation when he is reported. It can only make Yang Song, who seeks fame, be pointed out by thousands of people, and also wake up those who are trying to speculate."
"You are right..." Xu Jie looked at Guo Pu's simple face, as if he saw his hidden deep snicker. He said angrily: "But now is his extraordinary period. Don't you know what this means to him?"
"What does it mean?" Guo Pu curled his lips and said, "Isn't it just that I can't give up the court for the time being? It's not important. As long as I make it clear, wouldn't it be better to participate in the court for the court for the court?" He said earnestly: "Yuan Weng, please forgive me for being too talkative. You are so nervous about Lord Shen's affairs. We know that you love talents and cherish talents, but outsiders don't know. They only know that you are his teacher... and destroy bones, Yuan Weng."
Xu Jie was so angry that his face turned pale. He thought that he didn't teach him a lesson, but instead he taught him a lesson. But after all, he was the prime minister's demeanor, and he said in a flash: "What you said is that I am concerned about it, but I am confused." Now that things have come to this point, it is useless to say more, so I can only let Gao Gong take more jokes.
Guo Pu was still comforting Xu Jie and said, "Don't worry, Master, I will give the Censorate a special case and only give them a ten-day deadline. As soon as the case is closed, it will be announced at the beginning of next month..."
"Well..." Xu Jie nodded with a black look on his face and said from his throat: "I'm worried, you go..."
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In that room, Gao Gong was already laughing and hurting his stomach. When he saw Guo Pu’s serious lesson, Xu Jie was so embarrassed that he felt relieved. It was more satisfying than eating sour plum soup in the summer...
Looking up at Xu Jie, seeing his expression unconcealed solemnity, Gao Gong sneered in his heart: 'Xu Jie is indeed worried about the fate of the students, but not for Shen Zhuoyan, but for Uncle Zhang." You know, Shen Mo's current official title is from the first-rank prince Taibao, and his position is the Minister of Rites, known as the "Cutting Prime Minister". In any aspect, it is natural to enter the cabinet. Even if he competes with the old antiques that will come back next year, he can stand out.
But Zhang Juzheng is different. Although he entered the officialdom nine years earlier than Chen Mo, he is now only a third-rank minister and a minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He has no achievements to make. He only relies on his close relationship with the teacher-students and his first contribution when he was appointed as the crown prince. However, if he wants to enter the cabinet with this, it can only be said to be a delusion. If the court votes openly, everyone is afraid of offending Xu, so he votes for it. But he just votes secretly and does not have that psychological burden. How many people will choose Zhang Juzheng who is far from enough?
Once those old people return to the court, Zhang Juzheng, a mere minister, will not have a chance to make a name for himself within at least ten years.
Chen Si is twelve years younger than Zhang Juzheng. If Chen Si is allowed to enter the cabinet first, unless he takes the initiative to make a mistake, Zhang Juzheng will never have the day to "Juzheng".
It is precisely based on these two points that Gao Gong believed the words from the silence: "I'm going to be plotted." As the leader of the silence entry into the cabinet, since he believed it, he certainly could not sit idly by... Under the premise that the cabinet lacked people, the silence was indifferent to the limelight, and the relationship with the emperor was the best, his entry into the cabinet was already unstoppable. In order to make him not favor with Old Man Xu in the future, Gao Gong had to give him this favor first.
Now that Shen Mo is in trouble when he enters the cabinet, Gao Gong is desperate for it. Because he saw the opportunity to completely pull him to his side... If he can get this aid, his current bad situation will definitely be improved.
Gao Gong would naturally spare no effort to help him, but he would not be too revealing his own behavior, which would only help him. Fortunately, Shen Mo's two requests were asked to try to get Yang Song's memorial to the palace; the other was to ask him to meet Yang Bo, without any request, just say something.
Both of these things are not difficult to handle. First of all, Xu Jie was strictly guarding him, but was a little relaxed against Guo Pu. Gao Gong asked Lao Guo to do it. Guo Pu could make Jiajing respect it, so it was naturally reliable to do things. As expected, he was sloppy with Xu Jie and let Yang Song's memorial go out in the whole world.
But Gao Gong still couldn't figure out what the abacus was like in Chen Si? Because this could only be postponed for a few days. As Guo Pu said, the Censorate's special affairs were handled in a special manner. The process could be completed in ten days at the earliest, and he would be given a good person card to Chen Si, so that he could regain the qualification of the Ting Tui. At that time, it would be impossible to use the same trick again. After this lesson, Old Xu would definitely strictly review the future Dibao. If the Dibao was not exposed and the charges were made of heinous, Xu Jie could also suppress it and wait until the Tingtui was over.
In order to prevent Chen Si from being blind, Gao Gong went to find Yang Bo and had a secret conversation with him as requested. The effect was pretty good, and Yang Bo had already hated the master and apprentice. However, Gao Gong was not naive yet, thinking that Yang Bo and Xu Jie could completely break up by sowing discord. Thoughts, Gao Gong couldn't even think of what method could silence break this game. But he was not pessimistic, because he knew that silence was definitely not a soft persimmon that could be pinched by others... Even if the person pinched him was Xu Jie.
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As expected, although he was still recuperating at home, he immediately submitted a self-defense after seeing the report, and was at home as usual, and immediately classified himself as a problem official waiting to be dealt with. However, there is nothing to make a fuss about. Every impeached official will do this. The difference is that many people will stick to their work when they are guilty and persist in their work. Only those who are guilty and have clearer facts will stay at home.
This kind of 'sin' body' is just a kind of official practice and generally does not affect much, but if someone really takes it seriously, the nature will be different - because the "Da Ming Law" contains a clear text that the criminal officials cannot be transferred or promoted before the problem is clear, and of course they cannot be recommended.
If your memory is not bad enough, of course you will remember that Zhang Juzheng withdrew from the last court with a false charge and dragged Yang Bo out of the water.
Now Shen Mo is actually taking medicine according to the prescription and treating the person with his own way - if you do the first day of the lunar month, I will do the fifteenth day of the lunar month, of course there is no psychological burden.
But as Gao Gong was worried, Zhang Juzheng caught Yang Bo off guard last time. When he realized that he had already made a comeback, he was irreversible. But this time the situation was different. The other party had enough time to deal with it, such as sending him a good person card quickly and then holding a court push immediately.
Moreover, it is a fact that the cabinet lacks people. If the silence side is delayed for a long time, Xu Jie would re-determine the candidate and directly let Zhang Juzheng enter the cabinet first. At that time, he would compensate his wife and his troops, and he would cry without even crying in silence.
"Do you think I am you?" When Shen Mingchen asked his question, Chen Si rolled his eyes and said, "Will he be so stupid?" Seeing that the other two were expecting, he ignored him and told him about the possible situation next time.
After hearing his words, Wang Yin looked at him in disbelief and said in silence: "Can you be digging a hole for Zhang Taiyue early in the morning?" He thought to himself that if that was the case, then you would be really called a "sweet-mouthed sword".
"I can only say that you should not have the intention to harm others, but you should be careful of others." Chen Si said lightly: "Since I dared to give him an idea, I had a solution, but I just didn't tell him for the time being. But..." As he said that, he raised his eyebrows and showed strong confidence and said: "If I don't want to solve it, no one in Beijing can solve it."
"It's just not to cause any trouble." Yu Yin said with some concern.
"Don't worry, I'm a good person." The silent mood suddenly lowered a little: "I'm not the kind of person who abandons the public for personal gain."
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Regarding Zhang Juzheng's question. In real history, this guy only did one thing in the 20th year of the Jiajing Dynasty, which was to make soy sauce. Then as soon as Jiajing died, he was promoted from a fifth-rank Hanlin Academy to a Hanlin Bachelor's degree, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, and then promoted from a left minister of the Ministry of Rites and a grandson of the East Pavilion, and was honored to enter the cabinet. In less than ten months, he was promoted from seven levels and a bureau-level cadre to the cabinet to be the prime minister. It is unprecedented.
Moreover, his entry into the cabinet was not recommended by the group members, but was specially scribbled by the emperor. At this time, Zhang Juzheng shone brightly and officially appeared on the stage of history.
Chapter completed!