Since Zhu Houzhao's condition worsened, the emperor has completely forgotten about the new system every time he goes to court.
Except for New Year's Day, Winter Solstice and other major festivals, this guy doesn't go to Fengtian Temple at all. He doesn't even go back to the Leopard Room for ten and a half days. He stays in Haoshan Garden for a long time, urging the improvement of muskets and muskets, and when he's bored, he just watches the warriors.
Wrestling and fighting - the environment of that place is better than the Leopard Room. After all, the Summer Palace was built here in the Qing Dynasty, which was very suitable for Zhu Houzhao to maintain his health.
It's a pity that I still can't quit drinking. If I have that kind of self-control, I wouldn't be called Zhu Houzhao.
The emperor stopped going to court at all, and all political affairs were left to the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies. If there were no problems, it would be pure fantasy.
Zhang Yong knew that he was old and frail and would probably not live for a few more years, so he did not directly move the money from the treasury to his home as he did before. However, this guy used the power of holding both a palm print and a pen to promote his family members crazily!
The elder brother Zhang Fu and the younger brother Zhang Rong were named Qin Anbo and Andingbo respectively as early as the fifth year of Zhengde. Then their positions as royal guards were soon transferred to hereditary status. Now, the elder brother Zhang Fu has died, and Zhang Yong forced the queen to
In the Military Governor's Mansion, his younger brother Zhang Rong was promoted to Commander of the Imperial Guards (hereditary, but without actual duties and power).
There are also several sons and nephews of Zhang Yong, all of whom have become hereditary members of thousands of Jinyiwei families.
Li Ying has been promoted to the right governor of the rear army governor's palace, in charge of the royal guards. Faced with Zhang Yong's appointment document stamped in red, Li Sanlang simply could not refuse. Once he refused, he would be disobeying the emperor's order.
Zhang Yong's nephew Wang Gu, who used to be promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief Qianshi, has now become the first-grade Commander-in-Chief (military attaché with real power)!
Wang Wei crazily coveted the food and wages of the soldiers in the capital camp, while Zhang Rong attacked the people in the suburbs of Beijing and occupied countless people's fields wantonly.
The ministers were too lazy to impeach, so the impeachment memorial from the Sixth Section had to be handed over through the General Affairs Department, and finally it was handed to Zhang Yong, the Supervisor of Ceremonies. The impeachment memorial from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, after wandering around in circles, still reached the Secretary.
In the hands of the ceremonial supervisor Zhang Yong.
Who in the hall is suing me?
It’s useless!
Wang Yuan could see the emperor, but with Zhu Houzhao's character, he would not care about such matters at all. Telling a snitch would only offend Zhang Yong.
Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe were unanimous about this. They had already sharpened their knives and only waited for the emperor's death to attack Zhang Yong. Historically, Yang Tinghe joined forces with Zhang Yong and Wang Qiong to get rid of Jiang Bin and Lu Wan.
.But they turned around and immediately turned against each other. Wang Qiong was exiled and sent to the army, and Zhang Yong was thrown into guarding the imperial mausoleum.
Nowadays, Zhang Yong is still very naive. While promoting his family members and allowing them to take bribes and bend the law, he secretly befriends Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe, hoping to achieve a good death by playing both sides.
"Duke Zhang, there is no cabinet vote, your imperial edict is against the rules!" Yang Tinghe rushed to the Supervisor of Ceremonies to discuss his explanation.
Zhang Yong was already very old and had age spots on his face. He didn't get up when he saw Yang Tinghe. He just lay on the chair and bowed his hands in greeting: "Mr. Yang Ge, this is His Majesty's will. It's useless for you to tell me. Your Majesty is in the northwest.
There is a beautiful mountain garden in the suburbs. Mr. Yang Ge can go there on his own and ask your Majesty to take back his order."
Yang Tinghe frowned and asked, "But Wang Ruoxu instigated it?"
Zhang Yong said with a smile: "Who else could it be besides him? Our family still hasn't figured out what the purpose of the railway is."
Yang Tinghe said depressedly: "That's where the Dragon Vein is. How can we easily break ground? If something goes wrong, who can afford it? There is also the Ministry of Works. Your Majesty didn't even discuss it with the Ministry of Personnel, so he just added a Cleaning Department!"
Zhang Yongzai leisurely picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and persuaded: "Mr. Yang Ge, you and I are already old. Why should we argue with young people when they are half buried? This Wang Shangshu, although he is young, is very good at doing things.
But he is extremely well-organized and will definitely not act haphazardly. He knows that you cannot agree to move the earth in Long Pulse, so he persuaded His Majesty to issue an imperial edict directly. This matter does not go through the cabinet, and even if there is a problem, it will be discussed with you cabinet ministers.
It’s irrelevant.”
"Of course I know." Yang Tinghe said.
Zhang Yong said with a smile: "Wang Shangshu has no selfish motives in this matter, otherwise he would not have bypassed the cabinet."
Bypassing the cabinet and issuing an imperial edict directly would allow the railway to be built quickly, but it would be equivalent to handing Yang Tinghe a knife. The Yang Party could use the Dragon Vein as an argument and frantically impeach Wang Yuan whenever a disaster occurred.
But Yang Tinghe just couldn't stand it. Wang Yuan was driving him crazy.
Wang Yuan sometimes cooperates, sometimes gives in, and sometimes bypasses the cabinet to do things. What he does is completely unorganized. Yang Tinghe can't guess whether Wang Yuan wants to cooperate with him, or wants to go against him, or is it just the well?
Don't offend the river.
"That's it!" Yang Tinghe walked away with a puff of sleeves.
Zhang Yong suddenly said: "Mr. Yang Ge, please listen to our advice and stop messing around. Wang Shangshu is actually very easy to deal with. You are an official and he is doing things. As long as you don't block him from doing things, he will
It will not prevent you from being an official."
Yang Tinghe seemed to be enlightened, suddenly enlightened, but at the same time unwilling to admit it.
What does it mean that you are an official and he is doing something?
It's like I'm eating a vegetarian meal with my dead body!
It is precisely because of this that Yang Tinghe regards himself as a minister of the country and does not consider himself a professional politician, so he has never been able to figure out Wang Yuan's approach.
Yang Tinghe sneered, without looking back, and said as he walked: "Mr. Zhang, I would also like to advise you to take good care of your brothers and nephews! Otherwise, Wang Ruoxu, a person who works, will not be as easy to talk to as an official like me."
Father, like son.
Zhang Yong and Yang Tinghe can only see each other clearly, but cannot correctly understand themselves. Even if they know, they subconsciously do not want to admit it.
Zhang Yong was stunned. After Yang Tinghe left, he suddenly called a young eunuch: "Tell An Dingbo (Zhang Rong) and Wang Dudu (Wang Gu) what stupid things they have done recently. Try to make up for it. Don't do anything."
Got caught!"
The little eunuch immediately ran to deliver the message.
Zhang Yong said to himself again: "It's wrong, it's still wrong..." After thinking for a long time, he finally figured it out, "Wang Erlang does things with the overall situation of the world in mind. Yang Tinghe is an official who is pretentious and clear. He will definitely not tolerate the emperor."
Dear minister, once Your Majesty... then, it is not Wang Erlang who wants to attack me, but Yang Tinghe!"
After Zhu Houzhao died, Yang Tinghe would definitely attack the eunuchs, Jin Yiwei, and Baofang border troops in order to increase his prestige. Because these three forces had great public resentment, were not tolerated by civil servants, and were easy to deal with, Zhang Yonghui was the first to be dealt with by Yang Tinghe.
Zhang Yong was so anxious that his vest was sweating, and he stood up tremblingly. He planned to go to Haoshanyuan every now and then and try his best to use his time to personally serve the emperor. Regardless of whether it was effective or not, he would frantically apply eye drops to Yang Tinghe until Yang Tinghe was dismissed from office!
If Yang Tinghe cannot be dismissed from office, Zhang Yong will dismiss his family members from their official positions, ask them to bring back the treasures they have collected over the years, and pray that Yang Tinghe will not kill them all.
Yang Tinghe dismissed from office?
You can't let it go, otherwise Zhu Houzhao's health care will not be peaceful.
No matter what Zhang Yong thinks, Yang Tinghe is too lazy to stop Wang Yuan from doing things anyway. He doesn't stop or cooperate. If Wang Yuan has the ability, he will bypass the cabinet to do everything. If the performance is good, the cabinet will pick the peaches. If there is a problem, he will catch Wang Yuan.
handle.
The illegal edict was thrown away, which immediately aroused opposition from the official department, but the engineering department was happy to see the result.
However, the objections of the officials were invalid, and their objections had to be reported to Zhang Yong through the General Affairs Department.
Why does Li Ke object?
Because Wang Yuan wanted to increase the number of yamen and officials, he established a new Railway Cleaning Department at the level of Yuanwailang in the Ministry of Works!
There are four major civil affairs departments in the Ministry of Industry, namely Yingtuo (construction and repair), Yuheng (mountains, forests and rivers), Dushui (water conservancy projects) and Tuntian.
Now, Wang Yuan wants to add a Railway Cleaning Department, with two subordinate agencies, the Railway Office and the Railway Bureau.
The Department of Railways is in charge of all railway affairs across the country. There is temporarily one senior fifth-rank officer, three junior fifth-rank officials and foreign ministers, and three senior sixth-rank directors.
The Railway Office is in charge of the operation and construction of railways across the country. It has two deputy chiefs at the seventh-grade office, two deputy chiefs at the eighth-grade office, and six deputy chiefs at the ninth-grade office.
The Railway Bureau is the small treasury of the Railway Department. All revenue from railway operations is collected by the Railway Bureau; railway construction materials are also kept by the Railway Bureau. There is one temporary ambassador of the ninth rank and three deputy ambassadors of the ninth rank. This unit has only
Custody rights, no disposal rights, there will be a full-time Yuan Wai Lang in charge.
The above are all official officials, and there are also miscellaneous officials, assistants, and servants who are not official officials.
Moreover, the officials of the Railway Department of the Ministry of Industry were all assigned to physics disciples, and Wang Yuan did not allow outsiders to get involved.
This matter must be settled quickly before the officials are aware of the huge profits. Adjustments will definitely be made in the future. Subsidiary agencies will be set up in various places and profits will be distributed to local governments and the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In exchange for the cooperation and support of other yamen.