Chapter 3 Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan are living a good life
In recent times, Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, the helmsman of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, felt that he had ushered in the highlight of his life. After the emperor fainted and woke up, he was as stupid as he stayed in the Ganqing Palace all day long, stayed in the main hall, went to court, summoned ministers, and didn't even read the memorials when he heard from the internal officials! Any eunuchs who had written the past in the cabinet were criticized by the eunuchs in the inner study, and then used the eunuchs with their seals.
This style of conduct has never happened to this master on the stage. With this rare and good time, the two helmsmen turned over and sang serfs and arranged a series of people they liked. At first, they were a little restrained. After testing it a few times, they found that the emperor was indeed abnormal during this period, so what are they waiting for? Hurry up and do it. If you miss this village, there will be no store! Maybe one day, the emperor will return to his previous attitude of doing everything, so good days are not often there.
Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, who lived a good life, missed the way they used to make up lies and deceive the emperor into being anxious all day long. You said that if the emperor did not return to normal for a long time, would we lose our skill of making up lies and coaxing people? This is a special skill, so it is better not to lose it!
"The saint is the thief and the thief are growing more and more. The urgent documents in Kaifeng City and Fengyang are reported all day long like snowflakes. Should we report these memorials to His Majesty? His Majesty's Holy Body has been bad these days. Will there be any problems when you see these bad news?"
"Young Master, it is definitely not enough to hide and not report. Although the emperor has not been in charge of government these days and has never summoned all the ministers, it is not only our cabinet, Jinyiwei, Censorate, and the six departments of the ministers. Sooner or later, the memorials of the censors will spread the news to Your Majesty. However, in my opinion, we cannot report all the news to Your Majesty. There is still some good news these days. Since Ma Yaocao took office as Governor General Lufeng, he has stabilized the situation. Nanzhi can be said to have turned the danger into safety!"
"That is, although the state affairs have not yet turned into danger, there are still signs of improvement these days. Our cabinet has made some achievements during the period when His Majesty cannot take power. So we should report the good news to His Majesty!"
To be honest, Zhou and Chen felt that without the emperor, they were still very comfortable in handling the current state affairs. At least they were more efficient than before, with less constraints, and more policy implementation. For example, when Ma Shiying took office as Governor Lufeng, the efficiency was much higher than before. Ma Shiying was a good person, but his political status was not good. The identity of the eunuch party made him suffer a considerable loss in promotion. This time, he was asked to be Governor Lufeng, and Zhou Yanru and others took great political risks. As soon as the bill was released, the censors attacked them in various ways. If it were based on the previous emperor's style of conduct, it would probably be time to delay this thing, and he would definitely hesitate for a while.
Zhou Yanru is also a person who has been in the cabinet for a long time. Although his character is not very good, he still knows which person can solve the problem, otherwise he will be useless after so many years. Of course, he can see Ma Shiying's abilities clearly, at least it is much easier to use than those who only speak vernacularly.
The political environment of the Ming Dynasty was quite strange. Logically speaking, people like Zhou Yanru must be the Donglin Party! They were the top scholar and were from Changzhou Prefecture, Nanzhi, not the Donglin Party or what? He has always regarded himself as a Donglin man over the years, but now he has become a stinking street among the serious Donglin people, and many Donglin people are proud to attack him. I feel that in the public opinion environment of the Donglin Party, as long as he takes power, he is naturally a bad person. Whether it is Wen Tiren or Zhou Yanru, they are despised by Donglin as soon as they enter the cabinet!
This situation is not surprising, because after entering the cabinet, these people will naturally put national interests first, and national interests are also the most in line with their vital interests. In this case, they will inevitably have conflicts with Donglin interests who only care about their own interests. It is not that Zhou Yanru and others do not take care of Donglin interests, but that they really cannot take care of them. There are only so many real core positions, and there are many people in Donglin. No matter how you divide pork, some people will feel that the distribution is unfair and complain! When dividing pork, there will always be a distinction between closeness, ability and political views. In this way, they will offend a large number of people who have not eaten pork, and it would be strange if they are not attacked by the crowd!
So at least in the late Chongzhen period, the so-called Donglin and the eunuch party dispute were the inner circle and interest disputes of the Donglin party members! As long as you have real power and have the qualifications to share pork, you are the eunuch party! If you are not the eunuch party, how could you let me be a big shot like me? Use all the villains and incompetent people? Look at how much state affairs have been corrupted by you!
In the Donglin Party, if you want to have the right to speak, you cannot hold real power, and you cannot hold real power for a long time. You have to be like a person like Qian Qianyi, who has been outside the core power level and finally gained real power and wanted to enter the cabinet. He was also dismissed from the position of corruption, bribery, favoritism and fraud. After coming out, you don’t say why you were removed from your post, but you are framed by villains! With such a package, you are the hero in the eyes of the Donglin people!
Why did Qian Qianyi have such a high prestige among the people of Donglin? It has nothing to do with talent and ability, but because when he was working, he took care of many scholars from Jiangnan, and then he stood aside before he could do the job of placing pork. In this way, he had all had good relationships and no evil causes! Why did Zhou Yanru have a bad reputation? It was not because he had been sharing pork for too long and offended all the good relationships he had made! Not to mention ability, just talking about talent, Zhou Yanru is much higher than Qian Qianyi, but there is no place to reason about this matter! Is it because of the matter of ability? Both of them are half a pound and not worth mentioning!
Some people live a good life, so naturally some people are neglected. Chen Xinjia, one of the Ministers of War, was a little unhappy! Although the Ministry of War is under the jurisdiction of the cabinet, in recent years, they are actually semi-independent from the cabinet due to frequent wars. Under normal circumstances, Chongzhen summoned the Minister of War to the palace to discuss matters more frequently than summoned the members of the cabinet. But since he fainted once, Chen Xinjia and other Ministers of War and Ministers have never been summoned once. This situation is a bit wrong!
The emperor did not directly approve the memorials handed over, but asked the Sili Supervisor to submit them to the cabinet, allowing the cabinet to pass the bill and take out the charter, and then return to the Sili Supervisor to approve the bonus.
What's this? The people in the cabinet know what military emergency is? Do you understand military affairs? Let them vote, isn't this just letting the chef get a haircut, and lay people lead experts? Given the decline in status recently, the people in the Ministry of War thought that they had to take action! So Chen Xinjia took several chief officials of the Ministry of War to the inner palace and locked the door to ask for a visit.
Chapter completed!