The matter of impeaching Pan Sheng was decided by Gao Pragmatically, so of course it was up to him to arrange the impeachment.
Gao Pragmatic himself will definitely not come forward to impeach a cabinet minister, at least not from the beginning. This is a basic rule.
It's like playing chess. If you don't hear the first move, you'll make a move. It's cool.
It is the job of a "general" to sit in the middle of the army and plan the overall situation. As for charging, killing and galloping, naturally there are soldiers and even chariots, horses and artillery under his command to do it.
Who should be arranged to do things like impeachment first? Of course, it is the supervisory officials, that is, the science and technology officials.
The power of supervisory officials in the Ming Dynasty was very great, and the objects of impeachment were also very wide, and they were not limited to their rank and status. They included all the relatives of the emperor, the old officials, even the grassroots officials, Qingjin scholars, and even the officials in the same department, supervisory officials were all the same
Can be impeached.
Throughout the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are many backgrounds and opportunities for impeachment incidents, and they have obvious characteristics of the times. There are impeachments under the background of major political events, impeachments under certain specific institutional backgrounds, and impeachments against
Impeachment of officials’ personal style and conduct.
Judging from the records in "Records of the Ming Dynasty", the Ming Dynasty had the most impeachment cases, and the most intensive era was the Longqing Dynasty - you read that right, it was the Longqing period of the good old man, Little Bee.
During the Longqing period, an average of 12.5 impeachment cases were recorded in the "Records" every year, which was the peak since the founding of the Ming Dynasty; followed by the Xuande period, an average of 11.3 impeachment cases occurred each year; and again during the Jingtai period, an average of 10.375 impeachment cases were recorded each year.
impeachment case.
The record of the "popular sage" Emperor Chongzhen is neither high nor low, with an average of 7 cases per year.
During the Jiajing Dynasty, which had a "great ceremony", there were only 4.67 impeachment cases recorded in the "Records of King Sejong" every year. This may seem strange at first glance, but it is not.
First of all, the "Jiajing" period was very long, as long as 45 years, and the Great Ceremony Conference was a matter in the early Jiajing period. In the later period, due to the Machiavellian tactics of Emperor Jiajing, although the struggle was fierce, the court situation itself was relatively stable. Especially when Yan Song was in power, he had great power.
Of course, most people would not dare to impeach indiscriminately.
In turn, this can explain why there were so many impeachment cases in the Long Qing Dynasty: in the first year of Long Qing, Xu Jie and Gao Gong fought against each other, and both sides set a record by impeaching all the way from "little soldier" to "coach"; later Gao Gong returned to the court.
, to help Long Qing clean up the mess, and at least impeach a few people who do not cooperate with the work.
However, Emperor Longqing himself died young, so the impeachment case was of course very intensive.
In fact, the record for the most impeachment cases recorded in the "Records" in original history was set by Wanli. During his 48 years of rule, a total of 240 impeachments were recorded in the "Records of Shenzong"; followed by Wanli's grandfather
Emperor Jiajing recorded a total of 210 times; the Zhengtong period also recorded 182 times.
The amazing thing is that during Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu period, during his 31 years of rule, there were only 63 impeachments, an average of about two per year.
Statistics are not idle things to do, but from this we can see that the performance of impeachments by officials in the Ming Dynasty had distinct stage characteristics.
During the reign of the emperors in the early Ming Dynasty, the political situation was generally stable, political struggles were not very fierce, and impeachment generally operated within a relatively stable and orderly institutional framework.
After Xuande, the number of impeachments gradually increased and reached its peak among orthodox people. This was closely related to the eunuch Ning Xing's wanton interference in government affairs during the Yingzong period.
In the Hongzhi Dynasty, there were signs of decline again. This should be the result of the Hongzhi ZTE and the improvement of the political climate.
From then until the end of the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, it can be said that impeachment actions became more and more widespread and remained at a high level. This also shows the ferocity of the political struggle in the late Ming Dynasty.
The early Ming Dynasty and the middle Ming Dynasty are already in the past tense. Although Gao Pragmatic compiled the "Da Ming Huidian", he was well aware of this, but he did not care much about it. What he really cared about was the present.
In other words, it is the direction of the government after Jiajing.
In terms of original history, the Ming Dynasty after Jiajing entered the later stage. During this period, political events came and went, and there was no sign of decline until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Along with these major political events, impeachment played an even more important role.
He plays an important role and is always involved in almost every political event.
In addition to various major political events, impeachment can also be found during the operation of certain specific systems, such as imperial examinations, the appointment and removal of officials, assessments, promotions, and even when officials take up their posts or seize love, etc.
Traces.
In the operation of these systems, as officials are promoted and demoted, the balance of political interests tilts, and fights are bound to occur. Impeachment is born under such circumstances.
Judging from the records in "Records", the most common and most powerful impeachments are roughly as follows: the first is the impeachment of the capital police; the second is the impeachment of the court; the third is the impeachment of seizing love; the fourth is the impeachment of the imperial examination.
During the Double Ninth Festival Conference, Zhang Yigui thought of troublesome Wang Xijue by going back to investigate the cheating case in the imperial examination. This was also because of the power of impeachment in the imperial examination. As for Wang Xijue's several career as an examiner, there was nothing to catch...that is another time.
It does not mean that there is something wrong with Zhang Yigui's thinking. What is problematic is just that it is "not very operable for specific objects."
This time, the impeachment case that Gao Pragmatic wants to launch against Pan Sheng is exactly one of the four major impeachment cases, the "Ting Tui Impeachment".
The so-called court recommendation refers to the system in which when important official positions in the court are vacant, court officials recommend candidates for appointment by the emperor.
According to the Ming system, ministers were appointed to the cabinet either by the recommendation of the imperial court, or by special decree. When executing the ministers, "the cabinet... recommended two persons from the imperial court" - that is, the cabinet provided two candidates for the emperor to choose one of them.
Of course, the emperor does not have to choose only from these two candidates. If he is really dissatisfied with both candidates, he can also ask the cabinet to re-select the candidates, or even bypass the cabinet and directly "join the cabinet"
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Due to the small number of seats, disputes are inevitable; in addition, those with the right to recommend are all important ministers of the Nine Qing Dynasty, and have a certain right to speak and supporters, which makes the struggle more complicated. The impeachment situation caused by court recommendation in the Ming Dynasty also
Focusing on the paradoxical political climate of the last days.
However, according to Gao's pragmatic view, the most famous impeachment case of Tingtui in original history should have occurred in the late Wanli period.
In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, when the court recommended ministers, Li Tingji, who has now become a disciple of Gao Pragmatism, was among them. At that time, he was firmly opposed by Cao Yubo and others who belonged to the Donglin Party. Later, although Li Tingji
With the support of Wanli, he entered the cabinet and even became the first assistant, but he was always resisted and even "attacked by dozens of people". In the end, after being refused to resign many times, he simply left alone.
Coincidentally, not long after, Li Sancai, the governor of Fengyang, was nominated to take charge of the Procuratorate under the operation of the Donglin Party, which again aroused the dissatisfaction of the Zhejiang Party.
So in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli, under the leadership of Shen Yi Guan, Shao Fuzhong, a doctor in the field division of the Ministry of Industry, accused Li Sancai of being "a treacherous person who looks like loyalty, a big deceit looks like uprightness, and he is a greedy, dangerous and hypocritical person" and tried his best to prevent him from ascending to the throne.
, which eventually led to Li Sancai also resigning and returning.
In fact, if we only talk about ability, then Li Tingji can be considered to be wise, honest and prudent in dealing with problems; and Li Sancai also has considerable political ability.
Maybe it will be of some benefit.
However, when parties fight, the first thing to look at is never ability, but faction.
It's just that Gao Pragmatic is currently very optimistic about this point: Pan Sheng's ability... is not bad, but it is indeed not irreplaceable. Get rid of Pan Sheng, and he will use it here.
It's people who can top it.
After all, Pan Sheng is in charge of the Ministry of Etiquette.
To put it bluntly, who can’t do the work of the Ministry of Etiquette, who is a Jinshi? In terms of ability requirements, no matter which one of the other five departments, they are more demanding than the Ministry of Etiquette, especially "business ability"
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Taking the Longqing Dynasty as an example, it would definitely be better for bureaucracies such as the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War to be run by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, who are practical and pragmatic, than to let Li Chunfang take over. There is no need to even explain.
The Double Ninth Festival dinner was over and the guests gradually dispersed, but a few people stayed after being quietly informed by the Gao family's servants.
The people who stayed behind were very interesting, they were two pairs of brothers.
Brothers Xiao Liangyou and Xiao Liangyu, and brothers Wang Tingzhuan and Wang Tingyu.
It's interesting to say that Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan, the two people who joined the "Sanding A" of Gengchen Branch with Gao Pangshi, have now become the "new backbones" that everyone in Gao's party is optimistic about, and together with them, they
Human brothers are also highly praised by the Practical School.
Xiao Liangyou and Wang Tingzhuan were favored, which is easy to understand. After all, they were originally Sandingjia and were "immortals in the sky." Although they had entered the Hanlin Academy in the past few years, they had followed Gao Jingshi to compile "Da Ming Dynasty".
When he was writing "Huidian", he gained a lot of credit, and he was promoted from editor to editor, but there was no promotion after that.
However, their resumes are here, and they are in the same year as Gao Jingjing, so they are naturally regarded as Gao Jingjing's future help. Of course, the seniors of the Practical School and Gao Jingjing's seniors will help as much as they can, although promotion is not good.
You can do it, but if you say nice things and give them an "excellent" rating for nothing, isn't that a piece of cake?
But Xiao Liangyu and Wang Tingyu were favored, which can only be said to be too pragmatic. Xiao Liangyu was ranked fifty-sixth in the top two, failed to pass the election of Shujishi Hall, and stayed in Beijing as an official; Wang Tingyu's ranking was even worse
Ranked 135th among the top three, there was no chance of selection, but he still managed to get a job in Beijing as an official.
Staying in Beijing as an official was originally regarded as a good place to go, even if it was to become a county magistrate and "take charge of the administration", it was not as good as staying in Beijing.
Moreover, their official career after staying in Beijing was particularly smooth, to some extent better than that of their elder brother who had mixed qualifications in the Hanlin Academy.
This can be seen by looking at their current positions: Xiao Liangyu was the censor of Zhejiang Province at that time (not the inspector), and Wang Tingyu was the official official at that time.
At this moment, in the waterside pavilion in the back garden of Baiyu Tower, Gao Pragmatic had been talking to two pairs of brothers for a while.
"The situation is roughly like this. What do the four Nian brothers think?" Gao pragmatically talked about what happened at the Double Ninth Festival Conference and got down to the topic.
Xiao and Wang glanced at each other, and they all knew Gao Pragmatic's intention, which must have been a hint that they were going to impeach Pan Sheng.
Xiao Liangyu immediately spoke first and said: "I am the Supervisory Censor of Zhejiang Province, and Mr. Pan Ge happens to be from Zhejiang, so I am naturally obliged to do this."
In fact, this statement does not make sense in theory. The supervisory censor in a certain place does not manage affairs according to the place of residence. Whether Pan Sheng is from Zhejiang or not has nothing to do with this.
However, Gao Jingjing would not dwell on this. He knew that Xiao Liangyu was just looking for a reason for him to take action, so he smiled and said: "Brother Nian's heroic essays have been read by Qingjing many times in the past few years. I believe that this attack will definitely hit him."
That’s it.”
Seeing that Xiao Liangyu had taken the lead, Wang Tingyu was not willing to be outdone and said: "Although Tingyu is not talented, he also deeply hates such ungrateful people. He will play a memorial tomorrow to echo Brother Xiao."
Gao pragmatic nodded with satisfaction, raised his hands in thanks and said, "Thank you two brothers Nian for your generous action."
The two of them hurriedly said they didn't dare.
Gao Pragmatic paused for a moment and then said: "By the way, there is one thing about this impeachment matter that you two brothers Nian must be aware of, but I still have to say one more thing. I hope you two brothers Nian will not be too nagging about it."
The two of them hurriedly said they didn't dare.
Gao Pragmatic said one word at a time: "In this impeachment, we must discuss the matter and the person - the person who did it only said that Pan Xinchang's nomination to the cabinet had caused controversy in the court, and he had never gone to court.
I sincerely apologize; I only talk about Pan Xinchang, and remember not to mention anyone else or expand the scope of the attack."
Well, Gao Pragmatic said it politely before, but when he was arranging things in detail, his tone of voice clearly sounded like "explaining the key points of the task."
Of course, there is nothing we can do about it. After all, he is the one talking about the matter. This is an objective reality.
However, when he said this, both of them seemed a little confused. Xiao Liangyu was doing better, but he frowned slightly and seemed to be lost in thought. Wang Tingyu asked in surprise: "Don't expand the scope of the attack? What Gongbao said
Don’t you also want to bring something to the attention of other people from the Xinxue school?”
Before Gao Pangshi could say anything, Wang Tingyu's elder brother Wang Tingzhuan spoke first, pointing out to his younger brother: "Especially Shen Yuanfu...don't mention it."
Wang Tingyu was a little confused, frowned deeply, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "But why is this? Isn't it the fault of Shen Yuanfu? I always feel that this... doesn't need to knock the mountain to shake the tiger, right?"
Gao pragmatic understood what he meant. He felt that "knocking on the mountain to shock the tiger" was meaningless, because by moving Pan Sheng, Shen Shixing must have understood that the Shi School was fighting back against him.
However, Wang Tingyu did not understand that what he meant was not to knock on the mountain to frighten the tiger, nor to scare the snake away. This was indeed meaningless. His meaning was actually very simple: it would be better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt him.
What's the use of bringing Shen Shixing along with him now? He just picked up a first assistant, and now Zhang Siwei has just left. For the emperor, this is a time for stability. Unless Shen Shixing wants to rebel, otherwise he will not
Maybe something happened to Shen Shixing at this time.
In this case, why is it necessary to move Shen Shixing? It is better to concentrate on defeating Pan Sheng. As long as Pan Sheng is impeached, other neutral factions who want to join the Xin School in the future will have to take a closer look and consider their own options.
Not so stubborn anymore.
"If Pan Xinchang is impeached, whoever the Xinxue group wants to win over in the future will have to think about Pan Xinchang's fate today. In this way, there will be a gap between the three types of people: the Xinxue, the neutral, and the wavering ones."
Isolating the Heart School from the Neutral School, and making some wavering people afraid to defect to Shen Shixing, is a highly pragmatic way of "cutting you into three parts"!
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