Chapter 46 It doesnt matter if the meeting is not held this morning
Looking at his meaningful eyes, Wang Qiong was thoughtful.
If there is anyone in the current cabinet who is not of the same mind as Yang Tinghe, it is only Liang Chu who served as the chief minister during the periods of Yang Ting and Ding You.
Liang Chu, who accompanied Emperor Zhengde in his expedition south to conquer King Ning, also had stains related to his ministers and ministers.
Wang Qiong also knew that in Guangzhou Prefecture, the hometown of Liang Chu, the Liang family had a good reputation and had committed many crimes.
The cabinet is about to expand, but it won't suddenly reach six or seven people, right?
Could it be that Liang Chu has received some news, and Yang Ting and others want to squeeze Liang Chu out first?
Unlike the ups and downs on the side of the civil servants, the situation on the side of the military officers and generals was much calmer.
Anyway, the power of the court has nothing to do with them. Now they barely become a class, just because of the ancestral system.
The third drum sounded, and the civil and military officials finally began to line up quickly in order of position.
Before dawn, the left and right doors in front were slowly opened.
Passing through the deep doorway, the Fengtian Gate, which is difficult to see in its entirety, appears vaguely in front, with not a single glazed tile reflecting the light of the rising sun.
Everything is like a new dynasty with an unclear tone at the moment. How will the Holy Will decide certain matters? Who will the Holy Will fall on?
At this time, Zhu Houcong had already stood up from the Huagai Hall.
He was not sitting on the chariot. Behind him, Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin each held a box in their hands, and behind him there were several eunuchs from the clerk's room carrying trays with many memorials in them.
After coming out of Fengtian Hall and going down the steps, Zhu Houcong walked to the west corner door on the right front.
The etiquette and rules were like this, and Zhu Houcong looked helplessly at the not-so-wide area over there.
In fact, he will go to court under the "eaves".
Listening to government affairs at the Imperial Gate sounds very high-end, but it is just sitting in the "concierge" and discussing national affairs.
It's just that the eaves of this gatehouse are very wide, with a depth of four bays.
The east and west corner doors are much smaller and not on the cloud platform, so their momentum is much weaker.
Once there, many people had to stand in the open air outside the "eaves".
When Zhu Houcong arrived at the place and sat on the throne that had been set up there, the Honglu Temple officials began to sing, and Zhu Houcong's first court appearance finally began.
From his field of vision, first of all, there were guards of honor and guards lined up on both sides of the door, and then there were hundreds of civil and military officials lined up on both sides.
At this moment, they all wore black belts with horns on their court uniforms to mark the mourning period.
Zhu Houcong was also not wearing a uniform. He quietly watched Yang Tinghe, Xu Guangzuo and others take the lead in walking in.
There were only thirty or forty people in total who could walk into the porch, and the rest were outside the door.
After they finished their obeisances, Zhu Houcong said quietly: "Get a life. I just heard that the court officials, except for Cui Yuan, the prince-in-law, and several others were all here due to illness. You all saw them when you ascended the throne.
We are no longer strangers. Mr. Yang Ge, are your eyes uncomfortable?"
Yang Tinghe's tone was a little excited and he even said more choked up: "Your Majesty came to court to attend to the matter in great mourning. I was so excited that I lost my composure for a moment."
Zhu Houcong smiled and nodded.
It really came out of the blue, and I don’t know if it was because I was really moved, or because I remembered Zhu Houzhao who often did not go to court, or maybe I had a premonition that today’s court meeting would be difficult, and I started to want to cry.
His eyes swept through the crowd one by one, lingering on Yuan Zonggao in the distance for a moment, and then moved to Yan Song and Xia Yan.
One is an editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the other is a military officer.
Those around Yan Song were all nobles from the Hanlin Academy, including Liu Long, the son and daughter of Cui Yuan.
Near Xia Yan, there were two very active people: Zhang Jiuxu, who was in charge of the official department, and Qi Zhiluan, who was in charge of the military affairs department.
Qi Zhiluan wrote two very destructive memorials. The first was to ask Zhu Houcong to recall Fei Hong, and the second was to ask Zhu Houcong to open up his voice and let domestic and foreign civil and military ministers and those who were honored for non-military merit write their own statements.
Let Ke Dao investigate and impeach the traitorous villain.
Fei Hong and Zhu Houcong had already ordered the invitation, but the other memorial was still retained.
Zhang Jiuxu was even more ruthless: he impeached Liang Chu by name, four of the six ministers, and many bigwigs from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Zhu Houcong withdrew his gaze and said: "I have read all the memorials in the past month and the past few days, and I have read them for four days."
Yang Tinghe took the lead and knelt down to praise: "Your Majesty's hard work is really a blessing to the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Houcong smiled: "After looking at it and checking the accounts for four days, my feeling is: there is no good person in the court, and our Ming Dynasty will perish."
All the civil and military ministers who had been exchanging compliments just now were kneeling and unable to get up.
For some reason, Yang Tinghe felt relaxed for no reason: Sure enough.
He knew there would be something wrong. Didn't he come on time?
Yang Tinghe didn't find it scary to say that there was no good person in the court: he had seen a lot of alarmist things.
This was the first time the new monarch publicly discussed state affairs in front of the officials, and when it came to auditing the accounts, some people couldn't help but feel uneasy in their hearts.
After all, they are not like Yang Ting and others who have dealt with the emperor several times, and their impression of the emperor is still shallow.
Zhu Houcong gestured to Zhang Zuo: "I have made statistics. During this period of your memorial, I have asked people to extract all the words you said a lot, Zhang Zuo, read it to everyone."
"My servant obeys the decree." Zhang Zuo opened a piece of paper in his hand, stepped forward and said loudly: "In accordance with your Majesty's decree, I have excerpted the words and phrases of the memorials of the ministers. The count is as follows:"
"...little man, count ninety-three times."
"Party attachment, eighty-eight times."
"Supporting rebellion, count seventy-nine times."
"Deceived, seventy-four times in total."
"Jiang Bin, count sixty-eight times."
"Powerful traitor, counted sixty-one times..."
Zhang Zuo read out the high-frequency words in the Memorials of the Officials in this crisp way. The listeners had never seen such an expression technique before, and they were a little confused for a moment.
These are just high-frequency words, but they all have an understanding of the court. Judging from the frequency of certain words, it naturally points to three important topics: courtiers' fights, Chenhao's chaos, and eunuchs' chaos in government.
Didn’t you hear that Wang Qiong and Liang Chu also appeared in the high-frequency vocabulary?
After Zhang Zuo finished reading, Zhu Houxuan pointed to the many memorials beside him: "Four cabinet ministers, six ministers and ministers, ministers and eunuchs... almost all of them were impeached by their names. In your mouth, all of them are included.
The crime should be punished. I have read the memorials for four days, and 70% of them are about purging traitors, party members fighting against different parties, and personnel disputes. The 20% are about specific state affairs. Only a few people have come up with personal strategies for these state affairs. This is always the case in the court.
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No one answered.
In the court, this is indeed always the case, most of the energy is spent fighting with each other.
This is the center of the empire. Different people in the same position will naturally play completely different roles.
Could it be said that letting others do what they want is not the most important state matter?
As for other state affairs, it has not always been the case. It is only based on personal ability to make suggestions, set the direction and the person to supervise, and let the people below take care of it. Isn't it enough?
What's more, this is the time to put things right. The new king will experience such storms when he succeeds to the throne.
Now, everyone is wondering what the emperor's intention was when he said this.
"Let's all get up." Zhu Houcong looked at them who were standing up thanks to Xie En. "When I was a child, I heard the villagers talking in Anlu, saying that the officials should be pulled out and lined up in a row. Maybe it would be unfair to chop them all, so chop off every other one.
Almost all of them deserve it. Mr. Yang Ge, what do you think of these remarks?"
Yang Tinghe was named and had to stand up and refute the emperor's sudden remarks: "Why should your majesty take these ignorant remarks to heart?"
"Ignorant people? Ignorant?" Zhu Houcong sneered, "Then the courtiers have studied hard for many years, so they can't be regarded as ignorant people and ignorant, right? In your memorials, it is true that most of the officials in the Ming Dynasty are guilty. Doesn't this just show that the people
Is your opinion correct?"
"Your Majesty, if all the officials are guilty or not, it is up to the competent authority to verify them in accordance with the law." Of course Yang Tinghe knew the trap in Zhu Houcong's words, and he also replied, "You will understand after listening to it. I hope that your majesty will take state affairs as the top priority and handle it prudently."
Zhu Houcong nodded: "How to deal with it prudently?"
"As His Majesty said in the edict of ascending to the throne, we should first eliminate the traitors and abolish the treacherous ones; then stay away from the villains before going to court for the imperial decree. Encourage the opening of schools and appoint good ministers; broaden the scope of speech and clarify the administration of officials; reduce the corvee and light the tax, and carry out benevolent governance; the monarch and his ministers should be in harmony with each other.
Zuo, I’ll send you another message to Zhongxing.”
No matter how Zhu Houcong once evaluated "Hongzhi ZTE", Yang Tinghe's thinking will not change.
What he is saying now also represents the interests of most civil servants.
All in all, don't bother and let these "virtuous ministers" manage the world on your behalf. You should deal with the virtuous ministers personally and listen to their suggestions to govern the world. Don't be instigated by villains to engage in military warfare, large-scale construction projects, and waste people and money.
It's all an old routine. It was what the sage emperors Yao and Shun did many years ago when they were in power. The goal of the emperors and ministers throughout their lives was just to return to the legendary era of the past.
Zhu Houcong sighed softly: "If we keep talking nonsense like this this morning, then we might as well not hold it again in the future."
Yang Tinghe was shocked, and the other important ministers were not much better, and they all knelt down immediately.
"Your Majesty! Why do you say this? Throughout the dynasties, if the kings diligently look after their dynasties, the world will be in good order. If not, traitors will run rampant and the people will suffer. What is wrong with my words that makes Your Majesty make such a fallacy?"