Chapter 1151 Postscript: The Eighth Queen Mother and the Prime Minister are still too strong
Chapter 1151 Postscript 8: The Queen Mother and the Prime Minister are still too strong
Another day, Xie Yan was having breakfast when he suddenly heard noise coming from the direction of the office.
Xie Yiqin's face changed slightly, he put down his bowls and chopsticks and went out.
Xie Yan and his second brother Xie Kan quickly followed.
The younger sister also wanted to watch the fun, but her mother pushed her back to the dining table.
On the street in front of the government office, more than two hundred parents and children knelt there and howled loudly. They recounted the hardships of their lives, saying that if child labor was banned, they would not be able to feed their children, and begged the officials to give them a bite of food.
The situation at the gate of the government office next door was similar, and there was also a lot of crying and howling.
The officials persuaded them patiently and civilly, but there was no violent law enforcement to drive them away.
Xie Yiqin and the officials who were already at work looked very ugly at this moment.
These parents and child workers came from different factories. If they could get together to petition, there must be someone organized. Moreover, the officials also secretly sided with the petitioners, and the external officials became weak.
"How should we deal with the big verdict?" Xie Yiqin's full-time secretary (Jin Ningjun) asked in a low voice.
Xie Yiqin said, "Let them howl first while I go to the government office." He then said to his two sons, "Stop looking and go study."
Xie Yiqin turned around and went out through the side door, and soon entered through the side door of the government office, where he found the prefect Du Yinzheng with the same gloomy face.
In theory, the prefect is in charge of all affairs, but is mainly responsible for administration, caring for the people, personnel, science and education, greetings, sacrifices, etc. In particular, he is responsible for evaluating officials, supervising subordinate counties, and inheriting official documents. He can easily suppress all officials in the government.
Gotta die.
"Those factory owners don't even say hello." Xie Yiqin sighed.
Du Yinzheng said: "You and I must work together this time. Instigating the people to cry to the government and petition is just throwing stones to ask for directions. You may not know what will happen next."
Although capital is donated to collude with the powerful, not every official is qualified to be donated.
The cake has almost been cut long ago.
Item officials like Du Yinzheng and Xie Yiqin would be transferred after a few years of service. They had little connection with the powerful families in their jurisdiction.
In other words, the local aristocratic families are powerful and there is no need to curry favor with them.
I have another backer!
If the magistrate and magistrates are sensible and sensible, it will naturally be good for you, good for me, and good for everyone. In many daily tasks, powerful local families will actively cooperate and try their best to let the official achieve a good political performance.
But if any official is ignorant, it will be difficult to carry out daily administration.
"Drag?" Xie Yiqin asked.
Du Yinzheng thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "Hold on!"
The two parents reached a preliminary agreement and left tacitly, as if nothing happened today.
They don't know how the situation will develop, so they can only try to delay it as long as possible.
A real choice will not be made until the situation becomes clearer.
It is possible that the prefect and general magistrate can work together to reform.
It is also possible that the prefect and the tongpan will fight each other!
Xie Yiqin returned to the office and said to his subordinate officials: "Prepare some tea and let them cry. When they are tired of shouting, invite them to drink tea. Anyone who dares to break into the gate of the office will be immediately taken to jail for trial!"
The commander's office further away received an encrypted military telegram.
The commander, Shao Cheng, stared at the telegram for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and finally made a decision: "According to the orders of the cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Hubei Governor, send troops to arrest the people!"
The military camp outside the city quickly became lively.
There were even many officers and soldiers stationed on duty in the military camps who were cheating and cheating and not even on duty. In order to gather troops, the generals had to send cavalry. They first blew the troop gathering horn outside the city, and then rode into the city and blew trumpets along the streets.
The discipline of the army has become very bad!
A series of actions by the Huangzhou Mansion garrison quickly alarmed everyone. Not only the officials came to inquire about the situation, but even the local wealthy families also sent people to inquire.
Just when the commander, Shao Cheng, led the organized troops into the city, the prefect, general magistrate, county magistrate and other officials rushed to stop them.
"Commander Shao, without orders from the Ministry of War, garrison troops from various places are not allowed to enter the city!" Du Yinzheng reminded.
Shao Cheng stood up and dismounted, handed over a telegram and said: "A joint secret message between the Ministry of War and Hubei Dusi. No.: Bing 09 Ding Si 01 Yite 06. If the prefect has any doubts, he can call the Ministry of War or Hubei Dusi for verification. The verification password is 29455
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Du Yinzheng's eyes fell on the word "Yite". He nodded slightly to Xie Yiqin, and then the two of them went to the telegraph room together.
Half an hour later, the secret message was verified to be correct.
"A few common people are making trouble, and the Ministry of War directly intervenes?" Xie Yiqin was confused.
Du Yinzheng said: "How long has this quarrel been going on? The Ministry of War has no way of knowing."
The two fell into silence.
Obviously, the secret order to mobilize the army was not only sent to Huangzhou Prefecture, but also to all parts of the country!
Today is just a coincidence.
They returned to the city gate and ordered the officers to let the army pass.
Hundreds of soldiers, all equipped with armor, quickly rushed to the side of the petitioners.
Shao Cheng ordered: "Arrest them all and take them to the military camp. If there is resistance, shoot without mercy!"
The petitioners stopped crying and were all trembling with fear. They were taken to the military camp with their children.
Xie Yiqin couldn't help but ask: "How to deal with them?"
"Waiting for the boat." Shao Cheng said.
Du Yinzheng was even more confused: "What are you waiting for the boat to do?"
Shao Cheng said: "Wait for the ship to go to Shanghai, and then ship it overseas. If there are others at home, they can also apply to go overseas together. It is the same in every province in the country. It is just the difference between taking a boat and taking a train."
After hearing this, Du Yinzheng and Xie Yiqin looked at each other and already understood that something big had happened.
The Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Prime Minister finally have complete control over the country's military, and they directly show off their muscles to the officials, aristocratic families, powerful people and the common people!
There must be compromises and deals involved, otherwise there would be no need to spend three years.
At the beginning, they emptied the first three rows of the court (killed them all) for treason, and reduced the first ten rows to only a few generals (some of whom were exiled and imprisoned). They also imprisoned, exiled, and executed more than 200 rebel civil and military officers.
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Although they are not many in number, they are all top dignitaries, and their influence is so far-reaching that they dare not make the next move.
Because although the tree fell, the hozens have not dispersed.
These hozens are spread all over the country, including civil servants, military generals, and countless wealthy families. If anything happens, the whole country will be in chaos, and there may be several counter-insurgency wars.
The Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Prime Minister did not dare to act rashly, and those hozens also did not dare to move. Because it is a crime of rebellion, the new central team has great righteousness, and they will be justified no matter how many people are killed in the court.
Therefore, in the past three years, the relationship between the central and local governments has been extremely delicate.
The central government does not dare to randomly replace local civil and military officials. At most, it appoints and removes some officials below the sixth rank, or transfers some officials who have expired. At the same time, it waits for more local civil and military officials to express their attitude and support the central government.
The local civil and military authorities are even more passive. Even if they want to do something, they dare not do it openly. Because if they openly defy the central government, they will be caught and severely punished.
Three years later, the local army finally got it all done.
This was due to the foundation laid by Emperor Dingtai. At the beginning, he would rather force the army to rebel and quell the rebellion, but also reorganize the army and firmly control it in the hands of the emperor.
Otherwise, it would never be so smooth now.
Because those top military officials who were executed, imprisoned, and exiled for treason had countless disciples and former officials who were in charge of the army, and they even had immediate family members leading troops abroad!
Xie Yiqin watched the commander go away and arrested people, and gradually strengthened his determination - he wanted to be a reformist.
He even suspected that there had been wars in some places in the past three years, but the news had been blocked.
Not long after returning to the office, Xie Yiqin's old servant suddenly ran to the office with a telegram: "Ms. sir, this is a civilian telegram from the provincial capital."
Xie Yiqin took the telegram and read the newspaper: "The newly appointed chief ministers and inspectors have arrived in the provincial capital. The officials in the capital remain unchanged. Friend."
He knew which friend it was from.
But what the hell is it that the chief secretary and the chief officer of the general inspection department were all replaced without saying a word?
He actually needed a private telegram from a friend to know that he was a magistrate.
This is definitely a transfer of officials that the emperor took advantage of his privileges and directly issued an order to transfer officials without any discussion by the cabinet ministers. The news was so tightly sealed that it is estimated that even the formalities in the Ministry of Personnel had to be completed afterwards to prevent individual officials in the Ministry of Personnel from leaking the news in advance.
"The Queen Mother and Prime Minister, this is too strong!" Xie Yiqin felt a sense of fear.
Although he decided to be a reformist and side with the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister, he naturally hated this kind of rough behavior.
Unruly!
Even though you can follow formal procedures, you have to use the emperor's prerogatives. This is what officials hate the most.
More than half a month ago, Xie Yiqin was afraid that the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister were not firm and strong enough.
Now I feel too strong.
The Queen Mother has no political experience.
The Prime Minister only has experience as a local official, and his official style is very strong.
After seizing power, they held back for three years and carefully planned their plans. Now they can't wait to start governing.
Why can't you be strong?
The late emperor spent his whole life laying the foundation just to be able to have today.
Moreover, they have killed so many top dignitaries and offended countless civil and military officials. Now if they behave more calmly, will they be able to reconcile with those hozens?
In today's Ming Dynasty, even the ruling class is seriously divided.
The emerging bureaucratic capital is not shared by everyone.
There are still a large number of traditional gentry landowners who, while occupying land, also run some traditional industries and commerce. They are unable to benefit from emerging industry and commerce, so they are extremely disgusted with drastic changes in the industrial and commercial pattern.
There are even many scholars who miss and beautify everything in the past and believe that factories and steam engines should not appear.
It destroys the environment, harms the people, causes moral decline, and leads to a decline in social order.
These people are eager to severely attack bureaucratic capital, and at the same time they hope to become a part of it.
So now the newly appointed cabinet ministers in the court are called reformers, but they are actually conservatives. The so-called conservatives here refer to the long-term process of historical development. They are trying to block capitalism and the industrial revolution!
It is certainly impossible to stop it, but it can be restricted, that is, by applying the brakes.
The current situation really requires someone to put the brakes on.
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In the Luoyang Palace, a female official in her fifties was checking the emperor's homework.
She is Tao Jinfeng, a female Jinshi who has been missing for a long time.
After the homework was corrected, the little emperor went to play happily.
Tao Jinfeng smiled and said to the Queen Mother: "The official has made great progress in his studies these days, and he will definitely be a wise king in the future."
Queen Mother Ye sighed: "I am just good at learning, but I am still far from being a wise king. The female gentleman has been a local official for nearly thirty years. Do you think this reform can be successful?"
Tao Jinfeng said: "The late emperor has actually changed half of it, but due to his old age and the constraints of a large number of powerful people, the reform stopped at a critical moment. What we have to do now is just to follow the late emperor's tail."
"In the later years of the late Emperor, the situation was so dangerous that I am very scared now," said Queen Mother Ye.
Tao Jinfeng said: "In any reform, some people will benefit and some will suffer. The dangers the late emperor encountered in his later years were due to the close friends he promoted. Many of them became the beneficiaries of the reform. They benefited and were in high positions, so naturally they would not
I hope to continue to change it.”
Queen Mother Ye was silent.
Tao Jinfeng said: "The real enemy of the Queen Mother is not the local hozens who have lost their big trees. The late Emperor has uprooted the big trees with his own layout. The Queen Mother's reform will definitely succeed, and it can succeed easily. The real Queen Mother
The enemy is today’s group of reformist officials, who will inevitably turn into big trees with deep roots in the future.”
"Then what is the purpose of my reform? I uprooted a forest that was growing crooked, and planted a forest with my own hands until it grew crooked." Queen Mother Ye was a little discouraged.
Tao Jinfeng said: "The forest in the past no longer listened to the tree planters. In the future, even if the forest eventually grows crooked, it will grow crooked in the direction restricted by the tree planters. What's more, the Ming Dynasty seems to be strong now, but in fact its meridians are not strong.
The need must be unclogged."
Queen Mother Ye suddenly laughed and said: "I thought the female gentleman was going to talk about saving the world and saving the people."
Tao Jinfeng said: "The late emperor opposed all opinions and asked me to be a woman as an official. When I was young, my idea was very simple, that is, to repay the late emperor's kindness by doing a good job in the official position. Later I discovered that there are no truly good officials who can hold the position.
He has a good heart. In ancient times, there was an official named Zhou Mu, and this name is apt. As long as you become an official, you are the emperor's herdsman, and the common people are like the herds of sheep being driven away."
"The female gentleman is insightful." Queen Mother Ye said.
Tao Jinfeng said: "Since you are a shepherd, you must also perform your duties faithfully and not guard and steal. You must not let the sheep be picked up by wolves. You must also clean the sheepfold to prevent them from getting sick. You must also repair the sheep shed to provide shelter from wind and rain."
Queen Mother Ye said: "How about reinstating the female gentleman?"
Tao Jinfeng shook his head: "Why bother with so many complications? I am already over fifty years old, and I have no husband and no children. To put it bluntly, I would be satisfied if I could treat the official family as my own son and teach them carefully to support me until my old age."
"What do you think of Prime Minister Deng, sir?" Queen Mother Ye asked.
Tao Jinfeng said: "He is two years older than me, but he is my junior. This man thinks very highly of himself. When he was young, he relied on his talent and was arrogant. He was demoted to poor counties by the late emperor for many years. Now he has been tempered into steel. But there are still some
He is too strong and fierce, and even though his edges have been worn away, he still has a heart of stone. He has already been a towering tree and will not grow crooked anymore. The Queen Mother can rest assured and let him use him. As for his descendants, who is too far away, who can say clearly."