A young man slammed the table and shouted: "How can the rules of the court meeting be changed arbitrarily? As soon as Wang Ruoxu became minister, he regarded the Ming Dynasty's ancestral system as child's play. Changes to the court meeting must not be approved!"
"Not only should we stop him, but we should also impeach Wang Ruoxu!" another shouted to Shi Zhongye.
Zhu Mingyang feels that these subordinates are all mentally retarded. If you want to invite people to gain fame, you have to choose the right target. What kind of reputation can you gain by impeaching Wang Yuan? What's more, reducing the number of morning court meetings every month is something that all civil and military officials are happy to do. Etiquette jumps
Coming out to oppose is just a big move to make the crowd laugh.
"Ahem!" Zhu Mingyang coughed.
During the incident, Wu Lian asked, "What is Zhu Zhangke's opinion?"
Zhu Mingyang said: "I think it should be allowed."
"Nonsense!"
Wu Lian pointed at Zhu Mingyang's nose: "You and Wang Ruoxu were Jinshi in the same year, do you want to take advantage of the opportunity to join him? You are in vain to be the master of etiquette, and you actually regard etiquette as nothing. I will impeach you too!"
The third person in charge of the unit pointed at the nose of the number one person in charge and cursed in front of many colleagues - this is the Sixth Section!
They have no psychological burden when scolding, because there is neither a superior-subordinate relationship nor a subordinate relationship between the first-in-command and the third-in-command. They are all independent officials, and they can report things individually without looking at anyone's face.
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Moreover, before Zhang Juzheng's reform, the Six Sections were not subject to cabinet restrictions and they were directly responsible to the emperor.
The cabinet vote may be passed by the emperor, but the Sixth Section will reject it because it violates the rules and regulations. The work content of the Sixth Department may also be held accountable by the Sixth Section because they represent the emperor.
The inscriptions and memorials of each department are copied into a volume by the Sixth Section and sent to the cabinet every five days; the incidents handled by each department are also supervised by the Sixth Section, and they are checked and canceled every five days.
They do not belong to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, nor to the Six Ministries, nor to the Cabinet - in essence, the Six Ministries are the emperor's secretarial agency, while the Cabinet is the emperor's advisory agency.
If someone travels back in time and becomes the emperor of the late Ming Dynasty, the first step should be to separate the Sixth Section from the cabinet. Use the Sixth Section to control the cabinet and the Sixth Department. If the eunuchs are not obedient? Then reuse the General Affairs Department, because the Sixth Section can take the path of the General Affairs Department.
? Report directly to the emperor on all matters.
"I'm too lazy to mess around with you." Zhu Mingyang said angrily.
Wu Lian sneered: "You must have been fooled by what I said? You are in trouble but you want to cling to the powerful!"
"Just go and impeach." Zhu Mingyang looked calm.
After all, the first-in-command is the first-in-command and has the final power to deal with it. But if the third-in-command doesn't like it anymore, he can only impeach him with a memorial, but he can't fight back Wang Yuan's changes to the documents of the previous dynasty.
Did Wu Lian really get it right? Zhu Mingyang did intend to seek refuge with Wang Yuan.
Zhu Mingyang was promoted by Yang Tinghe as an official? Strictly speaking, he belonged to the Yang Party, and he had submitted memorials to impeach Wang Yuan many times.
But so what?
Zhu Mingyang was the same year as Wang Yuan. When he was a shujishi, there was only a wall between his dormitory and Wang Yuan. He was in trouble as a member of the etiquette department? Now he joins the army? Wang Yuan would definitely accept it.
And there is no need to be too obvious, just discuss matters and handle things strictly. Who can say that he betrayed his benefactor Yang Tinghe?
Whether Wang Yuan becomes minister or not, Wang Yuan's authority will not change much.
But after becoming the Minister? Things changed instantly. Even the Li Ke was surrendered to Shi Zhongjing and he took the initiative to join him!
Did the Etiquette Department cooperate in the process? The reform bill of the court meeting was successfully passed. The situation after the reform is as follows...
Dynasty: Held on New Year's Day, Winter Solstice, and the Emperor's birthday? It is a ceremonial court meeting.
Shuo Wang Chao: Held on the first and fifteenth day of every month, it is also a ceremonial court meeting.
Morning court: Held on Wednesday, Saturday, and September of every month? All parties are allowed to perform.
Noon Dynasty: Held every day. Only the General Affairs Department, the Sixth Section, and the Guards Officer can perform affairs if there are important military situations. Mainly discuss military and state affairs.
All civil and military officials were so excited that they secretly shed tears. They only had to stay up late nine days a month, and could sleep soundly the rest of the time. Of course, while they were happy, they also had to criticize Wang Shangshu for not being so hasty.
Change the ancestral system.
Of the three things a new official does when he takes office, Wang Yuan, the first one, is quite able to win over people's hearts.
The second fire is to promote frugality, starting with food.
The matter of meals is under the jurisdiction of the Fine Food Department of the Ministry of Rites, and involves Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple and Honglu Temple. There are meals for the dead, event meals and hospitality meals. Except for the meal for the dead, which cannot be easily changed, other food standards are the same.
Although being streamlined by Wang Yuan makes people feel uncomfortable, they cannot object to it. Who dares to advocate luxury?
The third fire is to fight against corruption!
Taking advantage of this personnel adjustment in the Ministry of Rites, Tian Qiu, a fellow Jinshi and good friend, was recruited by Wang Yuan to be the doctor of the Fine Food Department of the Ministry of Rites.
"Thoroughly investigate the kitchen staff and accounts of the three temples." Wang Yuan warned.
Tian Qiu asked: "Get to the bottom of it?"
Wang Yuan said: "It can be stabbed into the sky or inserted into the earth."
Tian Qiu said with a smile: "I'm afraid a lot of people will lose their official positions."
The metaphor of "oil and water" is used to describe whether we can reap benefits. However, Taichang, Guanglu, and Honglu Temples really have oil and water. They care about the living and the dead!
To what extent do you make money?
When Guanglu Temple and Honglu Temple received envoys from the vassal state, not only were the dishes on each plate sparse, but there were more bones than meat. They also added water to the wine and the rice was all cold, so that "the barbarians came to the table.
There is nothing to eat, no chopsticks at all."
A North Korean envoy recorded the reception banquet he attended in the Ming Dynasty. It was roughly as follows: Before the foreign guests from all over the world sat down at the table, a bunch of miscellaneous officials and assistants from Guanglu Temple came. They walked past the table and everyone grabbed a piece of food.
One portion, but by the time the foreign guests came to the table, it was already empty.
All of the above are corruption methods of low-level officials. Higher-level temple officials, such as temple ministers, etc., make plans based on purchase money and meal supplies.
What's even more frightening is that there are kitchen servants. People need to serve at government banquets, and they also need to pay and sell meat, eggs, vegetables and other items. What if the officials are corrupt and the officials steal, and those items disappear? All the blame is put on the households.
He said that the other party didn't deliver anything at all, forcing many people to go bankrupt.
There are also those who serve in the kitchens, who are oppressed and even extorted by eunuchs and officials. Every year, some of the kitchen servants flee. The eunuchs and officials also let the common people who serve in the kitchens do private work for them for free, just like
Serving an officer as a sergeant is an operation.
Since Wang Yuan is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites is also in charge of the meals of the three temples, of course he must start from the places where the people's anger is the greatest and the least difficult to rectify!
The imperial court compiled a green book for kitchen servants, similar to the yellow book of taxes and servitude. There were two copies, which were placed in Guanglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites.
Tian Qiu opened the youth book and counted, there were more than 8,000 kitchen workers in Beijing, second only to the peak of more than 9,000 during the Xuande period. This was abnormal. Emperor Hongzhi ordered that the kitchen workers be reduced year by year, and when Zhu Houzhao succeeded to the throne, there were only
The price dropped by more than 6,000, so why did it go up by nearly 2,000?
Tian Qiu borrowed 20 students from the School of Physics, paid by the Ministry of Rites, and asked them to secretly visit and investigate according to the youth records.
It only took a few days to find a tiger.
Liang En, the eunuch of Guanglu Temple, the eunuch of Shangshan Supervisor, forced thousands of kitchen servants to build his own yard, farm land and serve as domestic servants for a long time.
Tian Qiu came back and found Wang Yuan: "Wang Shangshu, this matter concerns Shangshang Supervisor, and the Ministry of Rites cannot handle it."
Wang Yuan said: "Tell the etiquette department the details and they will help."
Zhu Mingyang, who was in charge of the etiquette department, immediately went out with a group of trolls, scaring the eunuch Liang En so much that he did not dare to leave the palace.
Liang En found Zhang Yong, knelt down and kowtowed, and said with a tearful voice: "Please make the decision, Lord Governor!"
Zhang Yong closed his eyes and calmed down and said: "It was the Etiquette Department that impeached you, but it was the Etiquette Department that provoked this matter. Wang Erlang wanted to set a fire when he took office, but it accidentally burned your head. You can only blame yourself for your bad luck. Let's help
No, otherwise I won’t give Wang Erlang face. In this way, if you take the initiative to send those kitchen servants home, no one will give you some money as compensation. Then you will spit out some of the money you have eaten since becoming the admiral of Guanglu Temple, and then complain about illness.
If you resign, you can return to your hometown to retire."
Liang En opened his mouth wide and said reluctantly: "You have already spit out the money, and you still have to report illness and return home?"
Zhang Yong suddenly opened his eyes: "Don't you know what kind of character Wang Erlang is? He hopes that you will fight to the end, just to scare the monkeys!"
Liang En left in despair, planning to spend most of his family wealth to save his life.
The officials of Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Honglu Temple were also on pins and needles at this time, fearing that they would become the next target. From the temple level down, every one of them was definitely a corrupt person. The higher-ranking temple ministers and
Si Cheng, on the other hand, may be innocent because they usually do not deal with specific affairs.
Wang Yuan plans to pick out at least ten of the imperial officials above the seventh rank to establish his authority, and a lot of those below the seventh rank will be thoroughly investigated. At that time, the ministers of Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Honglu Temple will all be blamed for this.
Resignation only depends on whether the emperor agrees to their resignation.