Commander Xie was immediately dumbfounded when he saw the imperial edict unfolding in Sun Cheng's hand.
Deputy Ambassador Song on the wall was also dumbfounded.
They really don’t know this exists!
Of course, in fact, this batch of Wutaishan University graduates all have this thing.
This is not what Yang Feng asked for them, but a reward from the Queen Mother. These graduates are the hard work of Zhu Yunxi. From admission to study to internship, he personally took care of everything. Therefore, in the Queen Mother's view, these students are naturally loyal to her and her
The Queen's. Now she also needs her own confidants. This kind of capable and loyal to her mother and father can be said to be the most perfect choice. Therefore, in order to show her feelings for the late emperor, she gave each of the five hundred disciples of the late emperor a reward.
Such an imperial edict.
Return to the next batch of graduates.
All the students recruited by Zhu Yunxi during his lifetime will have such an imperial edict after graduation, including those primary school students on Wutai Mountain. As long as they graduate from college, they will also have such an imperial edict. This means that there will be conservatively estimated to be more than 5,000 such students in the future.
Of course this does not give them immunity.
If they have committed a crime, how should they be interrogated or convicted? This is not an ironclad guarantee. It cannot absolve them of guilt. However, no matter which level of law enforcement agencies want to arrest them, they must first file a report and obtain the permission of the imperial edict before they can be prosecuted.
The next step is to arrest, interrogate and convict them. Because they are disciples of the late emperor, master and apprentice are like father and son, they are equivalent to the godson of the late emperor, and of course the queen mother is equivalent to their godmother.
No matter what crime they committed, they must speak to the Queen Mother, right?
Very reasonable.
But the Queen Mother did not expect that this thing would block the way for local officials to deal with them within the rules.
It cannot be caught directly.
There must be an imperial edict.
By the way, the little princess would be damned if she could issue such an imperial edict!
It is simply impossible to solve them within the rules.
There was an eerie silence.
Sun Cheng held up the imperial edict in his hand somewhat proudly.
"Thank you, Commander, I do have a humble official position, but after all, my responsibility lies. No matter who it is, I can't arrest Li Tuiguan without an imperial edict. If I have to resist the edict, I can only do my duty."
he said.
Then he pointed the short gun in his hand at Xie Yuan.
The other Jinyi guards on both sides of him also pointed their guns at Xie Yuan.
The latter immediately woke up and turned to look at Deputy Song envoy hatefully. He had been cheated. Although he did suffer losses due to Li Xin's copying of the gentry's land, it was only a small benefit after all, and it was not worth it.
The best choice now is to stop the loss in time. He then waved to his soldiers. Those guardsmen who did not want to fight quickly put away their weapons and followed Commander Xie who turned their horses to evacuate in a hurry. And on top of the wall
Deputy Song, who was on top, watched them go away with tears in his eyes, and then turned to look at Li Xin, who was drinking tea below. The latter sat there leisurely and looked at him...
"Deputy Ambassador Song, don't you want to come down and talk to me about what's going on?
I'm still confused!
Those people were fugitives who had been issued wanted warrants by Xiangyang Prefecture. Why were they not arrested when they arrived in Wuchang, but instead became accusers? And why did the Prosecution and Prosecution Commission ignore the facts and convict me on their false accusations?
What happened in the middle?
Who did anything from it?
Don’t you want to talk about it?”
Li Xin said.
Vice Ambassador Song stood there awkwardly.
But then he woke up.
"Li Tuiguan is an old and decrepit weapon, just used by others."
He said with a smile on his face.
"Then we need to talk about it more carefully.
Don't worry, Xiaguan is not the kind of ignorant person. I know that you just follow orders. Xiaguan's ancestral home is Shandong, so we can be considered fellow townsmen."
Li Xin said.
…
Five days later.
Wuying Hall of the Imperial Palace.
This is now the little princess's office.
After all, the Qianqing Palace is where the Empress Dowager lives, while the Daqing Palace is a place for court gatherings. Generally, there is no need to be there for large court gatherings or ceremonial activities, but there must be a place for daily office work. You can't send all the details to the embassy in Mount Wutai, right?
What does that look like?
How could the Daxia Embassy be the place where the Ming Dynasty was in power and handled government affairs?
Where is the decency?
In the end, Wuying Palace became the ideal choice. Anyway, Daqing Palace is not far away, and it is only a few steps to Qianqing Palace. Moreover, it is more convenient for the little princess to enter and exit through Xihua Gate. Including her current official title, she has also changed to Ruling Palace. , the queen was young and the queen mother supervised the country, but the queen mother had to take care of the queen, so she entrusted Princess Hanshan to govern.
From now on, when calling the little princess, there is no need to use the long title Princess Hanshan, just call her the ruler.
Of course, this is not an official position.
The official positions in the Ming Dynasty were still the same, it was not that there was an additional governor.
This is a title.
It just so happened that she was also a woman, so there was no inconvenience. She could enter and leave the palace at night, including the Qianqing Palace where the Queen Mother lived, and she also had a bunch of female officials as her subordinates. The one who contacted her at the court was the bachelor of Wuyingdian, Of course, it is Zhang Xianzong, and he can also be honored as the chief assistant.
He received the ruling order here, and then returned to the cabinet room to discuss more details with other bachelors.
The government affairs of the imperial court are more like the late Ming Dynasty, that is, the cabinet drafts edicts, the ceremonial supervisor issues edicts, the six departments review, and the six ministries handle affairs. However, what is different from the late Ming Dynasty is that the current cabinet is purely a tool, and specific affairs are handled by Wuying The decision was made through discussion in the palace. The main discussants were Yang Feng, Little Princess, and Sister Liu, just like an oligarch meeting, and the discussants were Zhang Xianzong, Zhang Ying, and Chun Ji. Therefore, Zhang Shoufu was on the same level as Ambassador Yang’s concubine, and then Zhang Shoufang went back to draft the decree. There is no such thing as the cabinet not being willing to draft decrees. After all, they are asked to do this work just to formulate rules, but it is not that the little princess herself cannot write. As for the six subjects, it is just to see if there is grammar. There are errors, typos and other decorations, and there are only three subjects in one of the six subjects left for Shizhong.
In short, all systems are like the late Ming Dynasty, that is, the monarch above the head really has the final say.
Ambassador Yang is very satisfied with this system.
Originally, this system was already the most complete in the classical era.
There's nothing better than it.
British cabinet?
The early power of the British cabinet was not as great as that of the Ming cabinet at the same time!
The collapse of the Ming Dynasty was not a problem of the cabinet system.
On the contrary, their cabinet system is the most likely to evolve into the modern cabinet system. In the late Ming Dynasty, the chief minister of the cabinet was already elected by the imperial court. Although the decision was still made by the emperor, it was also made by the king in Britain at the same time. It is said that when Charles I was guillotined, Chongzhen They have been hanging themselves for five years.
It's just that the evolution process was interrupted, and it became a decoration in our Qing cabinet.
Later, the Military Aircraft Department picked it up again.
But the Military Aircraft Department had no power to restrict the emperor.
It's essentially a step backwards.
So now Yang Feng wants to speed up the cabinet transformation.
"So they are joining forces?"
Ambassador Yang looked at the secret report sent by Li Xin.
He is feeling sleepy when he is in power, maybe because he overworked last night...
Overworked at work.
The eldest princess of Hanshan, as an unmarried girl, worked so hard for the Ming Dynasty, which was also very tiring.
In order to get rid of his merits, the deputy envoy of Song Dynasty confessed the whole incident without reservation, including that Zheng Ci was betrayed by him.
The system united and tried to strangle the local officials sent by the imperial court. According to their plan, Li Xin would be thrown directly into prison after being caught in Wuchang. At the same time, Song Xing would go down to Jingnan Road as a sub-inspector to take over Xiangyang, and then vindicate the unjust case and put him in jail.
All the gentry arrested by Li Xin were released.
As for the imperial court, if Li Xin is ordered to be released, he will be killed violently in prison.
We can't let him live anyway.
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
Tell the new scholars who will be sent to other places in the future to be more honest.
It is true that Yang Feng cannot be killed, but they are not invincible. Don't be ignorant and risk your life. As long as these people are frightened and bribed with some money, they will slowly be dragged into the water.
very smart.
but……
"They should all be dismissed!"
Yang Feng said.
"What crime?"
Zhang Xianzong said in shock.
"It's a clique. The three local bureaus colluded to frame a government official. Isn't this a clique?"
Yang Feng said.
"Where's the evidence?"
Zhang Xianzong said.
"Isn't Song Xing's confession enough evidence?"
Yang Feng said.
"Song Xing is just one-sided, but who of those who complained can prove that Xue Peng came here? Who can prove that Huang Xin ordered his arrest because he was entrusted by Xue Peng? What's more, who can prove that Li Zhigang was really involved? There must be evidence.
?Song Xing can’t just say it’s true, not to mention that Song Xing was not present, he just speculated on his own.”
Zhang Xianzong said.
Indeed, theoretically this is just Song Xing's guess.
Although he knew everything, the problem was that he was not involved. He just knew it, and it was obvious that this could not be used as a basis. Moreover, those complainants went to complain, and the Prosecution Commission received the complaint and wrote a document asking Li Xin to go to Wuchang.
If you don't believe it, of course you will send someone to arrest him.
Huang Xin was right again.
As for Xue Peng and Li Zhigang, on the surface, they have no connection with the case at all.
"Did Taizu and Emperor Gao ever want these?"
The ruler said dissatisfiedly.
"Well, Emperor Taizu Gao must at least review the facts of the case."
Zhang Xianzong said.
"Then arrest him first and then send him to the imperial prison for interrogation. I don't believe that if you go to the imperial prison, there is nothing else they won't recruit!"
The ruling tyrant waved his hand gracefully and said.
"Princess, I think it's better to be dismissed directly as before!"
Zhang Xianzong said melancholy.
Therefore, sooner or later these three people must be dismissed from their posts. Instead of having them go to prison and be beaten severely before being dismissed, it is better to dismiss them altogether so that they will suffer less.
"Then I leave this imperial edict to you to write."
said the little princess.
Zhang Xianzong became even more depressed.
So he had to make this obviously unreasonable imperial edict reasonable for her. Unfortunately, he has been called a traitor over the years, and he probably won't be able to take off this label in the future.
"By the way, why did Song Xing rebel so easily?"
Yang Feng said suddenly.
Deputy Ambassador Song defected very quickly!
"Ambassador, it is too chilling for you to say this about him. He is from Dezhou, Shandong, and there is no shortage of land in the north. Moreover, he comes from a humble background and is not from a wealthy family. By the way, after he called himself Song Taizu, he said that his ancestors
He survived the Battle of Yashan, and then fled to the north and took Song as his surname. He remained anonymous during the Hu and Yuan Dynasties. He didn't have much land, so it was not worth fighting for. This time, it was probably just because he was the sub-inspector of Jingnan Road and his duty was
."
Zhang Xianzong said.
"Then after loyalty, let's promote him to be the governor of Huguang!"
Yang Feng said.
"Yes, this kind of person has betrayed the gentry, and he is still a northerner. He doesn't have to worry about the southern gentry digging up his family's ancestral graves. He will be free to do things and let him be the governor of Huguang. He has been working as a deputy envoy in Huguang and is familiar with the place.
Don’t worry about the chaos in local government affairs in Huguang.”
The little princess said immediately.
Zhang Shoufu looked melancholy at the father and mother who had known each other for many years. He found that the two were getting worse and worse. In the past, one was just unruly and the other was savage. Now they have the flavor of a devil and a witch. I have to say that Zhu Yun is evil.
The death of his younger brother would be regarded as making the world's gentry suffer. Zhu Yunxi could only gradually reform while he was alive. He even had to consider the feelings of the gentry. Maybe the reform would only be limited. This is inevitable. Zhu Yunxi never thought of really bringing down the world.
The gentry was driven to a dead end. What he wanted was for the gentry to cooperate with him and carry out reforms in the Ming Dynasty according to his design. But now that these two people are replaced, it is no longer a reform at all, but is forcing the gentry to continue to go to a dead end.
The gentry will never stop playing to death.
It can be said that Zhu Yunxi's death allowed these two to finally let themselves go.
Of course, this has nothing to do with him.
He is not from a wealthy family, his mother just raised him by knitting straw sandals.
And this has nothing to do with the Fujian gentry behind him.
There are no big landowners in Fujian.
There is no way to form big landowners in that place. Where can we find tens of thousands of acres of land for one person?
As long as Ambassador Yang encourages industry and commerce, the Fujian gentry will not fight over the land issue. In fact, the Fujian gentry is now responding to Ambassador Yang's call and crossing the strait to develop a certain island where there are many plains that can be reclaimed.
Moreover, the King of Liao has already started building his palace on the island, and it is estimated that he will be able to move there next year at the most.
The only problem is that there are natives on the island...
Well, this was not a problem for the King of Liao. After all, with the full support of his sister, his guards began to use flintlock guns.
"Will they resist? After all, our true colors have been exposed. They can't just sit back and wait for death, right? This is not just a matter of these three people, but something that all civil servants and even some military generals have to face together. We have already
We have made it clear that we will not give them a chance, but this dog is anxious and jumps over the wall. After all, they are not powerless to resist. They can't just stretch their necks and wait for our knife to fall, right?"
Seeing Zhang Xianzong leaving, the little princess suddenly became energetic and lay on Yang Feng's shoulder and said.
Indeed, their true colors have been revealed.
If the behavior of Huang Xin and others was just because they guessed Yang Feng's purpose and had to take action, then directly dismissing them from their posts in such an obviously tyrant-like way would be considered recognition...
We just want to kill the landed gentry.
We just want to divide the fields.
We don’t even pretend anymore.
"Then let's see if they have this ability."
Yang Feng sneered.
The little princess next to her also smiled very enchantingly, as if she was possessed by the legendary Daji.