Hong Chengchou looked in the mirror and looked at his new Ming Dynasty official robe.
The emperor sent someone to reward him with a new official robe, a purple robe and a jade belt, a symbol of a noble minister of the third rank or above.
"Our Majesty Shaotian seems to like to be new and different. The robes of the Ming Dynasty have not been changed in the past three hundred years, but he insists on restoring the style of the Tang and Song Dynasties." An aide helped Hong Chengchou arrange the ruffles on his purple robe and put a half-piece of goldfish in his handbag.
Tie the talisman's goldfish bag.
Hong Chengchou looked at himself in the purple official robe in the mirror and felt a little uncomfortable.
One day, one day, there is color.
For example, in the Tang and Song dynasties, purple was worn in the third rank and above, and scarlet was worn in the fourth and fifth ranks. In the Ming Dynasty, purple was abolished in official uniforms, and the first to fourth ranks were all red.
When Huang Taiji established the Qing Dynasty, he wanted to use water to extinguish fire, so he stipulated that all officials should wear stone blue, that is, all official robes were blue regardless of rank. Even the concubines in the harem were like this, and they only wore bunzi to distinguish their ranks.
Hong Chengchou had not worn the red robe of the Ming Dynasty for several years. He had worn the blue robe for several years, but now he changed to the purple robe again.
He wiped his clothes a few times and found that this big purple robe made him look very brave.
Another staff member was very happy to congratulate Hong Chengchou for being favored and reused by the emperor, "The admonishment court has been reopened, and your Excellency has appointed him as Zuo Jianyi doctor. He is a first-grade official. This is an important position with real power."
Hong Chengchou shook his sleeves and felt that this official robe fit him very well. He was not so optimistic about the new official position assigned to him by the emperor. After all, he was a new person.
It is not unusual for Emperor Shaotian to reopen the Jianyuan.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the system of the Yuan Dynasty was followed, and there was also a court of admonition, with officials admonishing, making up for mistakes, giving middle-level positions, full-time attendants, giving advice, granting refutes, etc.
Later, Zhu Hongwu abolished the prime minister and enhanced the power of the six ministries. He also changed the admonition Yuan to six subjects.
Although this advisory institute has been abolished, the following six departments still bear the same responsibilities.
It's just that in the early Ming Dynasty, the left and right admonishment officials in the Admonition Yuan were the fourth-rank officials. Later, the six-rank officials were only the eighth-rank officials. This was also Zhu Hongwu's power strategy at that time. He abolished the prime minister, monopolized the power, and the six ministries were in charge.
The emperor also appointed some fifth-grade civil servants as cabinet bachelors to assist in handling government affairs, and even appointed a group of eighth-grade junior officials as admonishers to keep an eye on the six ministers.
The idea of using small to make big is reflected everywhere.
From then on, the Sixth Section and the Imperial Procuratorate were both called Kedaoguan. The Yushi and Jishizhong had great power, but their ranks were very low. They were not affiliated with the Sixth Cabinet and were directly responsible to the emperor. Therefore, it was helpful for the emperor to control the court.
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Even in important meetings such as court meetings and court meetings, among the six subjects and matters, the thirteen chief censors are qualified to participate in the highest decision-making.
Even at the time of Chongzhen, the group of officials in the Sixth Section were all very difficult to deal with. They were young and held great power. Even the emperor dared to confront them head-on.
Become a vanguard in party struggle.
It is said that in the Shaotian Dynasty now, the Sixth Section seems to have less power than before. Like the cabinet, its power has dropped a lot.
Now that the emperor suddenly restored the Jian Yuan and asked him to serve as the Zuo Jian Yi doctor, Hong Chengchou could not think of the specific purpose for a while.
He only knew that the emperor had reformed many of the Ming Dynasty's systems. For example, the same was true for the official system. The old bachelor's rank was low, but now it is directly the first rank, and the six ministers have also been upgraded to the first rank, and even the left and right officials of the original second rank are imperial officials.
Shi is now also from Yipin.
In this newly established admonishment court, the chiefs are the left and right admonishment officials, and they all hold the first rank.
Under it, there are also the left and right sections of Zheng 2nd grade for admonishment, the right and left 3rd grade for Zhengyan, and then the six subjects of Zheng4th rank are all for Shizhong, the left and right branches of 4th rank are for Shizhong, and the 6th section of Zheng5th rank are for Shizhong.
The official position of the Admonition Yuan is almost the same as that of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The imperial censorship starts from the first rank, and the left and right censors from the first rank.
There are the deputy capital censors of the first and second ranks, the chief censors of the capital and the third rank, then the thirteen chiefs of the fourth rank supervise the censors, the associate ministers of the fourth rank supervise the censors, and the thirteen chiefs of the fifth rank supervise the censors.
Compared with the original Metropolitan Procuratorate, not only the grade has been improved, but also the classification of the thirteen supervisory censors has been increased. Each department has a chief supervisory censor, which is also a palm seal, and then there are two assistant supervisors.
In addition to sealing history, there are a number of supervisory censors, and one of them will be selected to take turns to serve as patrol supervisor, salt patrol, river patrol, sea patrol, canal patrol and other censorship duties.
Now the lowest supervisory censor is now a full five, and can wear a scarlet robe.
The chief supervising censor is even Zhengsi.
If we compare the power of the Sixth Section and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the past, the Sixth Section has far greater power than the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
All the thirteen supervisory censors were promoted, and the six subjects were naturally promoted to the fifth rank.
And Hong Chengchou was awarded the title of Zuo Jianyi doctor of the first rank. This is the benchmark of Zuodu Yushi, the leader of the Jianyuan. Officials of the Six Sections are also called Kedaoguan, Yanguan, and Jianguan. Hong Chengchou is naturally the Jianguan.
The first.
If we only look at the original six subjects, this admonishment court has great power, and he, Hong Chengchou, was even the head of the admonishment officials. From the first rank to the left, he admonished the officials. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, he was a senior official in the province. That was
Prime Minister.
He felt something was wrong for a moment. Judging from the cold treatment of him by the emperor after he arrived, the emperor hated him, but why did he give him such a high position?
After thinking about it, he felt that there was only one possibility, that is, although the Zuo Jianyi doctor was from the first rank, the real power of the Jianyuan was those who were in charge of matters.
The six senior admonishers may really be just admonishers.
The emperor gave him a purple jade belt, but he could not actually directly manage the six subjects. He only had the power to regulate and admonish the attendants, but did not have the power of sealing, rejecting, and copying the six subjects.
If this is the case, then the so-called admonition to the officials from the first rank and the head of the court is meaningless.
But he also felt that if the emperor really wanted to make him idle, he could just assign him any official position, so why go to all the trouble to re-establish the Admonition Yuan?
Hong Chengchou could not guess the young emperor.
In the past, during the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, he could basically completely grasp the emperor's thoughts, but now he can't guess it at all.
This made him feel very uneasy.
Even when he faced Huang Taiji, he could guess 70% of Huang Taiji's thoughts.
The Zuo Du Yushi of the Duchayuan and the six ministers are collectively called the Qiqing, and the Neng General Secretary and the Dali Temple Minister are the Dajiu Qing.
Its greatest power is to correct and impeach hundreds of officials. In fact, in terms of power, it should be higher than the six ministers. After all, this is a special official position. It is dedicated to serving as the emperor's eyes and ears and supervising hundreds of officials. This is not an official who handles specific tasks, but
The official who keeps tabs on people must be an official trusted by the emperor.
This Remonstration Yuan came from the Sixth Section. The Sixth Section used to have more power than the Chaoyuan, but their low rank restricted them. Now suddenly there is also a first-rank dean. So what does the emperor want?
Use him, Hong Chengchou, to persuade the emperor? To refute the imperial edict?
He thinks this is impossible.
Of course, in many cases, the six subjects of the Ming Dynasty were actually used by the emperor to restrict the cabinet, and they were also used to supervise the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The supervisory power of the Six Subjects and Thirteen Roads was extremely strong, which made Hong Chengchou a little excited. He felt that perhaps it was his fame and talent that made Emperor Shaotian, who led the army in the Northern Expedition with the intention of reviving the Ming Dynasty, want to reuse him.
Rely on your own talents.
If this is the case, then Hong Chengchou felt that he could repay Emperor Shaotian well and fulfill his duties as the director of the admonishment court. The Shaotian Imperial Procuratorate under the leadership of Liu Zongzhou was said to have done a very good job and was praised by everyone. They all said that Shaotian was selfless and selfless.
The official administration of the Celestial Dynasty was reorganized.
He, Hong Chengchou, was in charge of the Admonition Court, and he believed that he would not lag behind Liu Zongzhou.
He knew Liu Zongzhou very well. He used to run academies and give lectures. His literary talent was indeed great, but when it came to actually doing things and managing things, he was definitely not as good as himself.
Even in the field of Kedao supervision, Hong Chengchou was confident that he could do a better job than Liu Zongzhou's talkative one.
The emperor's decree must be reviewed by the Sixth Section. He dare not say that he can refute the emperor's decree, but the Sixth Section is responsible for the cancellation of case files, and he will definitely be able to fight to the end.
The so-called cancellation of case files means that the Sixth Section will inspect the relevant case files and documents for matters handled by various ministries in accordance with the instructions to check whether they have completed the work according to the deadline.
If the inspection is delayed and wrong, we have the right to investigate and deal with it.
In short, the Sixth Section has the right to reject and reconsider decisions made by the cabinet if they think they are wrong. As for the matters that are implemented by the ministries after the decision is passed, they also have the right to supervise. If it is not completed by the time limit, they can participate in the investigation.
This is like supervising work. The six departments wait for the yamen to work, and they supervise the work from behind. If the work is not completed, they will be whipped.
Hong Chengchou was confident that if he led the six departments of the Admonition Academy to supervise the work, he would definitely be able to cure all the problems of ministries and departments who like to delay and shirk work.
As for the power of admonishing the emperor and impeaching ministers, he believes that he can also use it well.
Of course, the Sixth Section also has the power to propose political affairs, which is the core decision-making power of participating in court discussions and court recommendations.
In the past, the seventh-rank official could participate in the court's selection of bachelors, six ministers, governors and governors, etc., and could directly express opinions on military and state affairs of the court. Now he is advising the officials from the left of the first rank, so isn't he the eighth minister?
That is definitely a real important minister.
At this moment, Hong Chengchou was really filled with emotion. No wonder it was said that Emperor Shaotian was able to achieve great things in such a short period of time by sparing vassal vassals and setting up his own country to oversee the country. It was truly remarkable.
Just Emperor Shaotian's eclectic use of himself fully demonstrated his true character as a sage king who only appeared once in a thousand years.
Compared to the petty Emperor Chongzhen, he was tens of thousands of times stronger.
He had even made up his mind that he would definitely die for Emperor Shaotian in order to repay the kindness of the emperor.
A chief in the wilderness like Huang Taiji would only take off his mink fur and put it on him. It was very artificial, but he easily refused to give him real authority.
It's like Emperor Shaotian, who directly gave him the important position of Dean of the Admonition Court, the Eighth Minister.
I have never met him before. To him, a traitor who surrendered to the enemy, and he is still a prisoner, he can be so trusting and generous. What else can he say?
"The imperial edict has arrived!"
Qianniu Guards escorted an internal official who arrived to announce the decree.
"I am bestowing the title of Marquis of Nan'an on Hong Chengchou, the left-hand admonishment officer of the Remonstrance Court, and the crown prince's Taibao. I am also granted the title of Bachelor of Cabinet Co-organizer and a position in the Prime Minister's Office to assist in military affairs. I appreciate this!"
The emperor promoted Hong Chengchou to another rank. The Qing court newly awarded him the title of Marquis of Nan'an, and the emperor kept it for him.
He was also given the title of Palace Protector, awarded the title of Bachelor of Cabinet, and was admitted to the Prime Minister's Office.
Hong Chengchou's face turned red with excitement, and he could no longer calm down. He fell to his knees with a plop, kowtowed to the north, and shouted loudly and tremblingly to thank the emperor for his kindness, long live, long live, long live, long live.
His appearance surprised several staff members.
However, Hong Chengchou already felt that he was deeply dependent on the emperor and was regarded as a confidant by the emperor.
Although he also knew that the emperor had also made changes to the cabinet. There were now three palaces and three pavilions, each with a bachelor, and then there were several co-organizers without the names of the palaces, cabinet bachelors, and cabinet attendants.
Although these co-sponsored bachelors, bachelors, and apprentice bachelors are not as noble as the grand masters in the palace, they still have considerable power and can join the cabinet to help with military affairs.
And it's even more incredible to be able to enter the Prime Minister's Office, where the real emperor is near and the real decision-making center is.
With the addition of these titles, Hong Chengchou was now very sure that the emperor already wanted to rely on him as a confidant, and even regard him as the emperor's mentor!
Hong Chengchou's face turned red with excitement. He accidentally kowtowed a little too hard, and some blood came from his forehead.
After getting up, he asked to go and pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor immediately.
"His Majesty is also waiting to see you. Mr. Hong, please come with us."
Hong Chengchou was as excited as he was thirty years ago when he saw the ranking list and won the Jinshi.
