When Yang Zhenqing cleverly captured Xiuyan City, here in Nanjing, Zhao Han had only a few days to move into the Forbidden City.
Li Xiangjun's official promotion was very slow, but her actual status was very high because she had become a female official who compiled memorials for the emperor.
Before the emperor went to work, Li Xiangjun was already in place, and there were several female officials behind him holding memorials.
The memorials were all handled by the cabinet and classified into categories by Li Xiangjun. Especially the memorials that were related to each other were all labeled with female officials and listed on separate sheets of paper.
It is very convenient for the emperor to review it. He can search it immediately, which is similar to reviewing a memorial at once, which saves time, labor and effort.
Of course, in order to prevent the female officials from being clever, when Zhao Han reviewed the memorials, he would randomly select one copy, instead of reviewing them from top to bottom or bottom to top.
When Zhao Han came to work, Li Xiangjun had already finished grinding the ink.
In addition to the female officials and palace maids, there are also two civil servants sitting. They belong to the living order and history. They follow the emperor every day and record the emperor's every word and deed, good and bad things.
Whichever concubine the emperor slept with was recorded in the daily notes. This statement is pure nonsense. Unless the historians were not allowed to go to the harem unless ordered to do so, they would certainly not know where the emperor slept at night.
Han Yue wrote: "On a certain day, I reviewed the memorial at eight o'clock in the morning."
Then he put down his pen and could read by himself. Only when Zhao Han summoned ministers to discuss a certain memorial would he start working again.
The wording "eight o'clock in the morning" was strictly required by Zhao Han. Nowadays, clocks have become popular in cities, and some rich people in the countryside also have clocks in their homes.
Zhao Han sat down, glanced at the memorial, and randomly selected it from the pile of punishments.
Just reading the beginning makes me feel unhappy. The deputy transport envoy of Henan Province was found to have committed corruption while transporting food for resettlement. This was a shady case, involving more than 20 officials, and it was considered the largest corruption case this year.
The cabinet's reply was: serious investigation and punishment.
Zhao Han wrote Zhu Pi in red pen: Investigate and punish severely.
A memorial from the Ministry of Punishment was processed in this way.
Moreover, a single word difference can cause a big difference in the processing results.
Under the emperor's supervision, officials may be held accountable. Why promote such people to transport grain?
The Henan transit envoy will definitely be held accountable. There has been a case under your command, and it has lasted for two years. How come you, as the leader, don’t know anything?
Then he took out the memorial from the Ministry of Rites, and Zhao Han immediately smiled.
The old king of Sulu asked for a daughter in marriage for the second time and wanted to send his youngest daughter to the palace.
The cabinet's reply was: The matter is left to His Majesty to decide, and it is recommended to accept it in order to reassure the country.
Zhao Han thought about it carefully, and Zhu said: Yes.
Royal marriage, this method is very primitive, but it has always been effective. If Zhao Han accepts this sultan's daughter, the sultan of Sulu will definitely feel more at ease.
It's just that he's too young.
The king of North Korea is even more funny. He sent his own sister here. She is only a few years old. This is not a nursery.
Sending girls was not enough. This year, the North Korean king asked for the gift of the daughter of a North Korean minister.
This is a consistent practice in North Korea. The Ming Emperor's harem often had concubines from North Korea, almost all of whom were the daughters of North Korean ministers. Moreover, the Ming Emperor and the King of North Korea would occasionally marry a pair of sisters, aunts and nephews.
For example, Zhu Di's concubine Han Li's niece is the princess of North Korea.
Huang Meiren, who was sent to Beijing with Han Lifei, was extremely nonsense at the time, and was discovered by Zhu Di that she was not a virgin. After careful interrogation, it was found that she had had an abortion, and had several boyfriends in North Korea, one of which was her brother-in-law, and the other was her neighbor...
Zhu Di's favorite concubine was Concubine Quan Xian from North Korea. She could be said to be the most favored concubine in the six palaces.
Even when Zhu Di personally went to Mongolia, he took Concubine Quan Xian with him. He also specially recruited Concubine Quan Xian's brother to China and promoted him to the rank of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple.
But the beauty was ill-fated, and Concubine Quan Xian died of illness a year and a half after entering the palace. According to Korean records, she was poisoned to death. There were only eight words left in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" to comment on her: she was beautiful in appearance and good at playing the jade flute.
Just look at the emperor Zhu Di, who had so many Korean concubines (and the number of Korean palace ladies), and you can understand why the Korean king went crazy about offering beautiful women to Zhao Han.
That is people's tradition. If they don't accept it, the North Korean king will be afraid: Does the father of the Chinese emperor have a problem with me?
The third memorial: The Zhang family in Longhu Mountain requested the restoration of 200 acres of sacrificial land.
The cabinet's reply was: No.
Zhao Han's Zhu Biao added a line: No. If there are relevant memorials, they will be rejected. They will not be submitted to the cabinet or before the emperor. If I see such memorials again, the relevant officials will investigate and deal with them strictly!
It’s only been a few years, and all kinds of monsters and monsters are jumping out. It’s just that the scars have healed and they have forgotten the pain.
The emperor's work was so boring. He spent the whole morning reviewing memorials. During this period, he stood up, walked around the room, and then continued to sit down and review memorials.
No wonder eunuchs with pen pens were born. Everything was left to the eunuchs to handle. It was so relaxing and enjoyable to be an emperor.
The cabinet ministers were also tired. The cabinet's approval sometimes involved long discussions. Several cabinet ministers even argued endlessly. In the end, the chief minister made the final decision, drafted the votes, and sent them to the emperor for final decision.
Seeing the chief minister's decision, we knew that Zhao Han's cabinet adopted the system of the mid-Ming Dynasty.
The name of the Ming Dynasty cabinet remained unchanged, but the power structure changed several times.
To put it bluntly, the early cabinet belonged to the secretariat, and the real power lay with the emperor and the minister. Yu Qian was too lazy to join the cabinet. As a minister, he could call the cabinet at will.
The cabinet's control of power began in the Sanyang era.
By the time of Emperor Jiajing, he had reached the pinnacle of power, and he could finally overwhelm the six ministers. By the time of Zhang Juzheng, he had reached another peak, and he was called a true powerful minister.
After the peak, there is the trough.
The cabinet is still the cabinet, and the chief minister is still the chief minister, but the chief minister can no longer make the decision. Hey, cabinet ministers have the right to vote, and whoever has more votes will listen to whoever has the most votes.
Then the party struggle came!
Since the chief minister can't make the decision, let's form cliques. Whoever holds more seats will have more votes and can influence the cabinet, or even bypass the chief minister to do things.
Once you vote, once the parties fight, it's life and death.
If you agree, I will firmly oppose it. If you want to do something serious, I will disrupt it for you.
If I defeat one of your cabinet ministers, I might get one more. Just one more minister will give me one more vote, and I can influence the opinions of the cabinet.
This cabinet voting system was not actually discontinued until the Chongzhen period and was still used on the surface.
As far as Chongzhen is concerned, it doesn’t matter who says it, only what I say counts!
A lesson for the past and a guide for the future.
Zhao Han doesn't dare to let the cabinet ministers vote on the resolution. You can discuss it internally, or the chief minister can organize the vote, but in the end the decision must be made by the chief minister.
For very complex matters, the cabinet's draft must be detailed, listing the pros and cons of various decisions. After summarizing, make a decision, and then send all the decisions to see if the emperor listens to your opinions.
If the emperor was unable to judge matters that were too important and complicated, he would call ministers from various ministries to discuss the matter.
Today's work was pretty easy. Around four o'clock in the afternoon, all the memorials were approved.
Zhao Han felt dizzy and asked: "Which courtyard are you in tonight?"
The female officer in charge of daily life said: "Your Majesty, I would like to honor Concubine Liu Zhuang today."
"Let's go." Zhao Han stretched out and went out.
The two officials in charge of daily living just wrote a sentence today and read by themselves the whole time. This job was actually very comfortable.
The two strode to the street without calling for a sedan chair. They had been sitting there all day and wanted to take a walk to stretch their muscles.
Han Yue sighed: "Oh, I don't know when I can go outside. This kind of life is really boring."
Ding Shijing smiled and said: "What's not good? I can serve His Majesty and be a real minister of the Emperor. I also have a lot of leisure and can read every day. I would like to write notes on daily life for the rest of my life."
Han Yue said: "The dynasty has just been established, and everything is waiting for improvement. Where can we not put our talents and learning to use?" Suddenly, Han Yue said with a smile, "I plan to apply to be appointed as a county magistrate after passing the exam. Even if I can't become a county magistrate, I can become a county."
It's okay to be a prime minister. It's best to go to the north and become an official. There are many things you can do, and you will definitely be able to show your ambitions!"
"I won't go, but you have to go." Ding Shijing didn't like to mess around.
Although the civil servants of the Datong imperial court have formed factions, their overall vitality is still very high. As long as you are capable, dare to fight, and dare to do things, you will generally have opportunities for promotion and find a place to display your talents.
This is what a business should be like in the early stages of a business.
Things were not going well for Li Zicheng. When Shanxi was first recovered, the Dashun Group was also very energetic. But they could no longer expand, and the civil servants were suppressed by the military generals. It was difficult for the military generals group to fight and gain military merit, and it had already entered the stage of corruption in advance.
The Manchu and Qing Dynasties are somewhat similar.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty had always had fierce internal strife, but they could continue to expand and internal conflicts were passed on. Now that they could not expand, internal conflicts began to intensify, and Dorgon and Hauge were once again at war with each other.
Zhao Han, who had been sitting for a whole day, also took a walk to Liu Rushi's courtyard.
While walking and doing radio gymnastics, he felt that he was almost useless and would probably have some extra fat in a few years.
"His Majesty!"
"Hail, Your Majesty."
Zhao Han nodded towards Liu Rushi, then smiled and said to Tian Xiuying: "Mrs. Tian is here too, let's go for a walk in the garden together."
After strolling around the garden for a while, Zhao Han lay down on the lounge chair and let the powerful palace maid massage him. He felt that the muscles in his back shoulders were a little sore.
Liu Rushi played the piano, Tian Xiuying played the flute, and the palace maid massaged. Zhao Han fell asleep while listening.
It's winter now, it didn't snow today, but the temperature is also very low.
Liu Rushi quickly said to the palace maid: "Go quickly and get a blanket for Your Majesty."
After taking a nap until evening, Zhao Han finally woke up.
Tian Xiuying knelt down and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, the civilian girls are here to say goodbye today. Your Majesty and the empresses are about to move into the Forbidden City, and the civilian girls will find a house to live in on their own."
Only then did Zhao Han remember that the address of the previous royal family had not yet been arranged.
Zhao Han thought for a while and said, "You can move in too."
Tian Xiuying said: "It's not very convenient."
Zhao Han used the pure eyes of a man to carefully admire the Tian Guifei. Her appearance was the best in Chongzhen's harem, as well as her intellectual and graceful temperament, with a faint heroic spirit hidden in the middle.
To be honest, Cao Cao's thief's heart has long been moved, but he has never been too embarrassed.
Men are all big pigs. At the beginning of the incident, Zhao Han, who was afraid of the negative impact and did not even dare to take a concubine, has now turned into a pervert step by step.
Of course, he has been tolerant enough and has controlled the world for several years. Now he only has one concubine and three concubines. Even among the emperors of the past, he is one of the top "bad women".
On the pretext of moving into the Forbidden City, Zhao Han said, "You should come too, the palace is still short of a concubine."
Tian Xiuying was startled, then blushed with embarrassment.
(My wife has a fever of 40 degrees and has to stay in the hospital for a week. My mother-in-law is with her now. She still owes another chapter.)