Chapter 256: Court Discussion
However, in the eyes of these censors, this was a treason, which made Chongzhen dare not raise it in the court, so he could only play tricks on his own. Later, the incident happened, and there was no way to kill Chen Xinjia, who was in charge, so he comforted the censors.
Zhu Hongsan has not appointed the official position of Zuodu Censor, because he is afraid of letting these troublemakers out and delaying his major affairs. However, since he has inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's inheritance, he has to follow Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangements. Ma Mingyuan and others have proposed that Zhu Hongsan re-establish the censorship system many times, but they have asked Zhu Hongsan to make excuses for various reasons.
However, if a country wants to develop healthily, it is not possible without a supervisory agency, so Zhu Hongsan did not intend to completely ban the censorship system, but the time has not yet come.
In Zhu Hongsan's mind, the position of Zuodu Censor must be an upright but not pedantic person. However, there were many upright people in the late Ming Dynasty, and fewer those who were not pedantic. Originally, Chen Zilong should be a good candidate, but his qualifications were too low and he was not a candidate for the three ministers at all. Zhu Hongsan thought for a long time and could not just leave this position empty first. Anyway, he was only limited to Guangdong now, and there were not many officials under his command, so the institution of the Censor was not very needed.
Zhu Hongsan was thinking about it all in the house, and Zhang Jiayu had already sent the order of the governor to Feng Ruoshu in the cabinet. Feng Ruoshu devoted himself to the work of the chief minister in the past two months. Although he was almost seventy, as the saying goes, power is a man's medicine for spring. Old man Feng burst into the second spring medicine in this medicine.
Now Feng Ruoshu has to work five or six hours a day, which is a fatal blow to a 68-year-old man, but Old Feng is getting more and more energetic as he works.
Old Man Feng is now very satisfied with his position. Zhu Hongsan, the governor, basically does not care about government affairs, but is only interested in some strange and lustful skills. A large amount of government affairs are handed over to literati and doctors led by him. Isn’t this the system of virtual kings advocated by literati and literati throughout the ages?
Sometimes Feng Ruoshu fantasized about leading the army to complete the Northern Expedition and supporting the Ming Dynasty. At that time, he would definitely surpass the wise ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps he could surpass Zhang Juzheng and Yu Qian. After all, Yu Qian only defended Beijing, and Zhang Juzheng only delayed the decline of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with themselves, perhaps the emperor would give him the title of civil servants after his death, Wen Zheng.
Thinking that he would get a posthumous title higher than Zhang Juzheng Wenzhong in the future, Feng Ruoshu couldn't help but get a little drunk. When he thought about how happy he couldn't help but twist three wisps of beard with his hands.
At this time, Zhang Jiayu sent Zhu Hongsan's order to the cabinet and handed it to Feng Ruoshu.
Feng Ruoshu looked at Zhang Jiayu and did not give him a good look. Feng Ruoshu looked down on Zhang Jiayu's surrender in Beijing at that time, so he was very disgusted with Zhang Jiayu.
Zhang Jiayu also knew that this old man Feng had no good impression of him, but there was no way. He was now the prime minister, and he was countless levels higher than his secretary. After handing over the orders of the King of Chu to Feng Ruoshu, Zhang Jiayu stood beside him and waited for a question.
The order was very short, which was to ask the cabinet to prepare 10,000 weapons and equipment to the Nanyang Governor Fu Wenlong.
After reading the order with a glance, Fu Wenlong frowned and asked, "Yuanzi, why did the regent give 10,000 troops to Nanyang?"
"Returning to Yuanfu, Nanyang Governor Fu, Lord Fu, came back in the morning. The Folang Jiren massacred more than 20,000 people from the Ming Dynasty in Luzon. The King of Chu was furious and ordered Lord Fu to start a war against the Folang Jiren immediately." Zhang Jiayu repeated the story of Fu Wenlong in the morning.
"Absurd, Guangdong is now in ruins, and billions of people from the north are looking forward to the king's army. How could the King of Chu send troops to Luzon and Folangji people thousands of miles away to start a war?"
Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, who were handling official duties next to him, saw Feng Ruoshu getting angry and hurriedly stood up to watch the orders of the King of Chu.
Ma Mingyuan was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and knew that all forces in Guangdong had already been used for the war in Nanzhili, and he was really willing to go to war with the Folang Ji people but not enough.
"What Lord Yuan Fu said is that the Ministry of Revenue has no money now. He has used 2 million taels of silver this month for the war in Nanzhili. Now the Ministry of Revenue still has less than 500,000 taels of silver deposit, so he really can't fight."
Tong Yangjia is the Minister of War. The more the army expands, the greater his power. In addition, Tong Yangjia is not in the way of dealing with Ma Mingyuan. Although he has not yet reached the point of rebelling with everything, he has to refute everything Ma Mingyuan has proposed.
"Master Ma can't say that. Could it be that the people in the north are my Ming people, and aren't Luzon's?"
Seeing Tong Yangjia jump out to refute him, Ma Mingyuan was very annoyed. Tong Yangjia was like a toad on his feet, not biting people and disgusting people. In the past two months since he entered the cabinet, this guy will squeeze himself whenever he has something to do. This time he must be good-looking.
Just as Ma Mingyuan was about to open his mouth and talk, Feng Ruoshu shouted, "Don't argue, you two, it's all here, let's discuss this matter." Feng Ruoshu meant to push the court to discuss.
Court discussion was the deliberative system of the court in the Ming Dynasty. The court discussions in the Ming Dynasty were all political affairs that were "related to great interests" and required court officials to discuss. The specific methods of court discussions were mostly conducted in the form of discussion in the form of discussion in the Ming Dynasty. The results of court discussions must be submitted to the emperor. When the opinions of court discussions are inconsistent, the emperor should be briefly reported to the emperor for a ruling.
Convening the court meeting was one of the duties of the chief minister. Now Feng Ruoshu found out that he ordered the court meeting to be convened, and the various sects in the cabinet immediately summoned all qualified civil servants in Dongguan to participate.
At this time, Zhu Hongsan had not had a few civil servants. Now there were cabinet members in Dongguan, Feng Ruoshu, Ma Mingyuan, Tong Yangjia, plus Fu Wenlong, the governor of Nanyang who had just arrived in Dongguan, Zhang Bingwen, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, Gong Dacheng, the magistrate of Dongguan, Wang Yunchang, the disciple of Feng Ruoshu, and Zhang Jiayu, the secretary of the state supervisor, a total of eight people. Other qualified civil officials were either divided into towns or led troops outside.
In a short while, eight people gathered together. Everyone came to the small conference room next to the cabinet and began to discuss the court.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Feng Ruoshu spoke first. "Dear colleagues, today we will come to the court to discuss it for one thing, which is the issue of fighting against the Folang Jimen raised by Lord Fu. Now please tell me about the situation first."
Fu Wenlong stood up and told him how the Folang Jiren massacred the Ming people in Luzon, and finally told him the military equipment ships that the governor promised him.
When Fu Wenlong finished speaking, Feng Ruoshu said, "Let's discuss it, and take out a charter for the supervisor to decide."
Ma Mingyuan was just squeezed by Tong Yangjia, and his anger had not yet dissipated. Now he stood up and fired the first thing he wanted.
"My dear sirs, I think we should return the order of the State Administration. Now the Ministry of Revenue has no money at all. Ten thousand people in the north already need to provide all their strength. Now they are starting a war, which is no benefit to the great cause of the Northern Expedition. Therefore, I hope to return the order of the State Administration to transfer troops."
Ma Mingyuan's words were completely axiom, but he didn't expect that he would offend Fu Wenlong immediately as soon as he said it.
As the direct executor of the plan, this is related to his future and official position. Fu Wenlong had considered opposing candidates before coming, but he never expected that Ma Mingyuan would oppose him. Fu Wenlong's legitimate daughter had just married Ma Mingyuan's nephew Ma Shaoguang, and Fu Wenlong and Ma Jiyuan were married to the same year. He originally thought that Ma Mingyuan could support him, but he did not expect that Ma Mingyuan would oppose him first.
Fu Wenlong immediately stood up and said, "Mr. Ma's words are different. Is it true that the great cause of the Northern Expedition important? Is it not important for Luzon's affairs? Are the people of Luzon not the people of the Ming Dynasty?"
Tong Yangjia saw Fu Wenlong standing up to refute Ma Mingyuan, and quickly beat and drum on the side. "Mr. Fu said that all the kings under the world are kings, and all the kings are kings. Everyone in the world is my Ming Dynasty. How can Lord Ma favor one over the other? Could it be that Lord Ma was dissatisfied with seeing Lord Fu being valued by the governor? "
Tong Yangjia's thoughts were extremely vicious, and what he said was to alienate the relationship between Fu Ma and the two families. Fu Wenlong was also an old official, so he didn't know Tong Yangjia's thoughts. But now in this situation, Ma Mingyuan expressed his attitude and objection. If he offended Tong Yangjia, his combat plan would be vain, so Fu Wenlong had to take over the olive branch handed over by Tong Yangjia and temporarily form an alliance with him.
When Ma Mingyuan heard Tong Yangjia say this, he cursed angrily: "Tong Yangjia, you villain, do I mean this? You are misinterpreting my words!"
"You know what it means in your heart."
At this time, Wang Yunchang next to him spoke, "Don't make noise, sir, don't make noise, let's listen to Yuan Fu's meaning!" Wang Yunchang was Feng Ruoshu's proud disciple, so he naturally knew that Old Man Feng did not agree with the orders of King Chu. At this time, Feng Ruoshu was also taking advantage of the opportunity to suppress others.
Gong Dacheng, the magistrate of Dongguan County under Tong Yangjia, stood up and said, "Mr. Wang, Yuan Fu has just said that we have to discuss with the court. Why do you still have to take advantage of the situation? Do you want to use the opportunity to suppress others?"
Wang Yunchang, whose mind was revealed, was very annoyed. He looked down on Gong Dacheng at first. Gong Dazhou was just a juren, and he didn't know who he gave the money to be a magistrate. Unexpectedly, after leaving, he followed the King of Chu in Huguang, and now he became a magistrate in Dongguan. You must know that the power of Dongguan County is greater than that of a magistrate. He is a Jinshi of two lists, and now he has to use the power of his teacher to be a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel.
Wang Yunchang looked at Gong Dacheng and said, "What are you? You are just a juren, and you dare to talk to me on two Jinshi lists?"
Wang Yunchang's words immediately offended Tong Yangjia. Gong Dacheng was a juren and was scolded by Wang Yunchang for something. Tong Yangjia was just a scholar himself, so that's not something anymore?
"Dr. Wang, what do you mean? The state supervising has a ruling to be a sensible one. Do you want to oppose the state supervising? "
Chapter completed!