Chapter 3 Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan are living a good life
In recent times, Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, the helmsmen of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, feel that they have ushered in the highlight moment of their lives. After the emperor fainted once and woke up, he seemed to be stupid and stayed in the Palace of Qianqing all day long. When I came out, I didn't go to the main hall, I didn't go to court, I didn't summon the ministers, and I heard from the internal officials that I didn't even read the memorials very much! All the votes drafted by the cabinet were approved by the eunuchs who held pens in the inner study, and then the eunuchs printed them with their seals. .
This kind of behavior has never happened to the man on stage now. With this rare good time, the two helmsmen turned around and sang, and arranged a series of personnel that they liked. At the beginning, they I'm still a little restrained. After testing it a few times, I found that the emperor is indeed not normal during this period. So what are you waiting for? Get out of your way quickly. If you miss this village, there will be no store! Who knows which day the emperor will be here again? We have returned to the way we used to do everything by ourselves, so good times don't come often.
Zhou Yanru and Chen Yan, who have lived a good life, actually miss the way they used to make up lies to deceive the emperor into panic all day long. You said that if the emperor does not return to normal in a while, our skills in making up lies and deceiving people will not work. Will it be lost? This is a special skill, it is best not to lose it!
"Fasheng, the intruders and thieves are becoming more and more popular. Urgent documents are coming back and forth like snow flakes all day long in Kaifeng City and Fengyang. Should we report these memorials to His Majesty? Your Majesty's Holy Body has not been doing well these days. Will there be any more problems after seeing all this bad news?”
"Young Master, it is definitely not possible to hide and not report. Although Your Majesty has not been in charge of politics these days and has not summoned the ministers, we are not the only ones who can send memorials to the palace. Our cabinet, Jinyiwei, Metropolitan Inspectorate, and the Sixth Section are the only ones who can send memorials to the palace. Sooner or later, the official memorial will reach His Majesty's ears. However, in my opinion, we cannot report all the news to His Majesty. There is still some good news these days. Ma Yaocao takes office as Governor of Lufeng Since then, the situation has been stabilized, and it can be said that Nanzhi has turned the corner!"
"Exactly, although the national affairs have not turned around yet, there are still signs of improvement these days. Our cabinet has still made some achievements during the period when His Majesty was unable to take charge. So we still have to report the good news to Your Majesty!"
Frankly speaking, Zhou and Chen felt that without the emperor meddling blindly, they could still handle the current state affairs very easily. At least they were more efficient than before, with fewer constraints and better implementation of policies. For example, when Ma Shiying took office. In the case of Governor Feng, the efficiency is much higher than before. Ma Shiying is a good person, but his political status is not good. His status as an eunuch made him suffer a lot in promotion. Let him be the Governor of Lufeng this time , Zhou Yanru and others took a huge political risk. As soon as the details of the draft came out, the officials attacked him in various ways. If the previous emperor's behavior style was followed, it is estimated that this thing will not be postponed for how long, he will definitely Will hesitate for a while.
Zhou Yanru has also 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 all these years would have been in vain. Of course he can clearly see Ma Shiying's ability, at least It's much easier to use than those guys who only talk nonsense.
The political environment of the Ming Dynasty is quite strange. Logically speaking, a person like Zhou Yanru must be a member of the Donglin Party! He was born in the No. 1 Scholarship and was from the Changzhou Prefecture of Nanzhi. He is not a Donglin Party or what? In recent years, he has been known as the Donglin Party.
He is a Donglin person who prides himself on his identity, but now he is notorious among 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 is in power, he
They are naturally bad people, whether it is Wen Tiren or Zhou Yanru, they were spurned by Dong Lin as soon as they entered the cabinet!
It is not surprising that this situation occurs, because after entering the cabinet, they will naturally put the national interest first. At that time, the national interest is also the existence that is most in line with their vital interests. Under such circumstances, they will inevitably end up with those who only care about themselves.
Donglin's interests conflict. It's not that Zhou Yanru and the others don't take care of Donglin's interests, but that they really can't take care of them. There are only so many real core positions, and there are so many people in Donglin. No matter how the pork is divided, some people will feel that the distribution is unfair and complain!
When dividing pork, there will always be distinctions between relatives, abilities, and political views. This will offend a large number of people who have not eaten pork, and it would be strange if they are not attacked by a group!
So at least in the later period of Chongzhen, the core of the so-called Donglin and eunuch disputes was the involution and interest struggle of the Donglin Party members! As long as you have real power and are qualified to share the pork, you are an eunuch! You are not an eunuch.
Party, how could you leave a great talent like me alone? Instead, use a bunch of villains and incompetent people? Look at the extent to which state affairs have been corrupted by you guys!
In the Donglin Party, if you want to always have the right to speak, you cannot hold real power, let alone hold real power for a long time. You have to be like people like Qian Qianyi, who have been outside the core power group and finally gained real power.
You were about to join the cabinet, but you were removed from your post and imprisoned for corruption, bribery, and malpractice for personal gain. After you came out, you didn’t say why you were removed from your post, but you said it was framed by a villain! With such a package, you will be in the eyes of Donglin people.
hero!
Why does Qian Qianyi have such high prestige among Donglin people? It has nothing to do with talent or ability. It's just because he took care of many Jiangnan scholars when he was in office, and then stepped aside before he could do the job of dividing the pork.
In this way, all the good karma has been formed, and no evil karma has been sown! The reason why Zhou Yanru has a bad reputation is not because he divided the pork for too long and offended all the good karma he had formed! No.
It is said that ability is only measured by talent. Zhou Yanru is much higher than Qian Qianyi, but there is no reason to argue about this! As for ability, both of them are about the same, not worth mentioning!
Some people live a good life, and naturally some people are left out. Chen Xinjia, one of the Ministers of the Ministry of War, is a little unhappy! Although the Ministry of War is under the control of the cabinet, due to frequent wars in these years, they have actually become semi-independent of the cabinet
Except. Under normal circumstances, Chongzhen summoned the Minister of War to the palace to discuss matters more frequently than he summoned cabinet members. But since he fainted once, Chen Xinjia and other Ministers of War and ministers have not been summoned once. This situation
Something is not quite right!
The emperor himself did not directly approve the memorial submitted. Instead, he asked the Supervisor of Ceremonies to forward it to the cabinet for approval. After taking out the charter, he returned to the Supervisor of Ceremonies for approval.
What is this thing? Do those people in the cabinet know what a military emergency is? Do they understand the military? Asking them to vote is not like asking the cook to get a haircut, while the layman leads the expert? In view of the decline in status in recent times, the people in the Ministry of War
After summing up, I felt that we had to take action! So Chen Xinjia took several officers from the Ministry of War and ran outside the inner palace to knock on the door and ask for an audience.