Wanli Xinming

Chapter 201 The Imperial Family
The establishment of organizational structure is the foundation of all administration.After the expansion of the cabinet, the already tense office space of Wenyuan Pavilion was obviously not enough. Zhu Yijun expanded and renovated part of the palace in Xiyuan and Nanhai, separated it by a palace wall, and titled it "Zhengshitang" as the new cabinet of the cabinet. Office location.

The original office of the cabinet in the Forbidden City, Wenyuan Pavilion, was vacated as the office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

With such a change, the cabinet has also changed its original purpose in terms of space, and all civil and military officials can see it clearly: the former Zhang Juzheng, with the title of "prepared for advisors", actually served as the prime minister.Zhang Taiyue, who moved into the political affairs hall today, has already achieved "the name and the reality". Zhang Juzheng, the minister of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, is in charge of the authority of the former prime minister.

The institutional mix of decrees greatly strengthened the authority of the cabinet and gave Zhang Juzheng the legal power to control the government.It can be said that, apart from military power, judicial power, and personnel power above the minister, the emperor personally controls Zhang Juzheng's authority, which ranks among the prime ministers of all dynasties and dynasties.

Different from the political system of the old Song Dynasty, the Zhengshitang was not formed by the merger of the provinces under the Zhongshumen, nor was it juxtaposed with the six departments, but directly managed the nine departments after the reform.The government of Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng is in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel.There are several sub-phases under it, and they are in charge of the rest of the departments:
Lv Diaoyang is in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Education; Wang Guoguang is in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, which is formed by combining the functions of the Du Branch, the Ministry of Posts and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Housing; Zhang Siwei is in charge of the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Construction and Communications.

Six ministries were transformed into nine ministries, and while the power was dispersed, the original four temples were concentrated: Taichang Temple and Honglu Temple were merged into the Ministry of Rites; Guanglu Temple was merged into the Ministry of Internal Affairs; Taipu Temple was merged into the Yizheng department.

In addition to the above changes, the names of the Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Court have not changed, and their functions have been further expanded, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the cabinet.
The Ministry of General Affairs and Envoys, which originally belonged to the auxiliary department, was abolished, and its functions were divided into two parts, part of which was assigned to the servant room and part to the cabinet; the name and functions of the Imperial Academy remained unchanged, and it was under the joint jurisdiction of the emperor and the cabinet; the Guozijian belonged to the Ministry of Education; The names and functions of Renfu and Zhanshifu remain unchanged.

In the entire reform, Zhu Yijun's headache was the six subjects: this powerful grasp of feudal centralization, placed in any sequence, violated the peace, and would bring about inefficiency in the operation of the court.

Finally, after repeated thinking, Zhu Yijun could not give up the error corrector and pressure reducing valve of the government, so the names of the six divisions remained unchanged, and the functions were expanded: Zhu Yijun separated the daily management work of the administrative management system and institutional reform of the imperial court and the establishment of the organization from the personnel department. , and placed it in the Six Sections—the Office of the Compilation Committee of later generations.

Facts have proved that the reform of the six departments has become the crowning touch of the reform of the entire organization - it has played a decisive role in the crossover of functions of the new departments and the confirmation of the list of powers.

After Zhang Juzheng returned to Beijing, he took over such a new court that had put up a shelf and gradually began to run in.After several enlarged cabinet meetings attended by ministers from various ministries presided over by the Zhengshitang, Zhang Juzheng, who was determined to take the world as his own responsibility and was able to fulfill his ambitions, had a feeling like an arm and a finger—there was no longer any constraints in issuing orders. No need to do a lot of communication and coordination as before!
Because the imperial court after the reform stipulated the "administrative chief responsibility system", which is the so-called "official and senior level crushing people", the subordinates only need to execute the orders of the superiors. If the orders of the superiors only have an outline, the subordinates still have some room to play; If the superior's order is detailed - you just follow the order.

If the abilities of other prime ministers and chief assistants are considered as heavy oil engines on an aircraft carrier, Zhang Juzheng is like a nuclear reactor.He used to need a lot of oil and coolant to work, but now he doesn't.He finally found the most suitable position in the new political system. He only needs to listen to reports, read materials, hold meetings, investigate, analyze, and think—issue orders, and all obey!

Now, Zhang Juzheng no longer has to go out of the palace at night and work overtime at home - he can live in the political affairs hall.Like him, everyone in the Zhengshitang can break through the restrictions of the palace ban and work unlimited overtime in the Zhengshitang.

As a result, there are three places in the capital that are brightly lit at night. The first two are Jiaofangsi Hutong and the Daily Office, and the new one is the Zhengshitang.

The first priority that Zhang Juzheng implemented in the sixth year of Wanli was to convene a clan meeting according to the emperor's plan in the fifth year of Wanli.

For this meeting, the Zongren Mansion and the emperor have been building momentum for more than half a year, with remarkable results.Moreover, in the assassination of Zhang Wenming in the second half of the year, many thorny clans were taken care of by Jin Yiwei, which greatly reduced the resistance to clan reform.

Among them, there are several princes and county kings who made outrageous words at home on weekdays and attacked the New Deal and reforms.This time, the clan was completely stunned.

The fact that these clans who had their homes seized by the country were most dissatisfied with the new policy and reforms was not actually the emperor's reform edict, but Zhu Yijun's failure to consider the interests of the clan when he reformed the salt government.The salt administration reform made them lose all their income from reselling salt. Not to mention, Zhu Yijun even excluded the clan from the scope of purchasing salt farms, which made these clans angry for a long time.

However, being angry and angry is just impotent rage.As Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng judged when studying the clan issue, after more than 200 years of waste cultivation, Daming could no longer produce the princes of the Jingnan period.For the central court, if Zhu Yijun is shameless, he can use force to get rid of these burdens.

Of course, among the clans, there are also powerful cities such as Zhu Zaiyu's father and son. For the capable clan, Zhu Yijun will reuse them as the emperor's Pingfan.

More importantly, Zhu Yijun would also use the imperial clan to promote the development of Ming's industrialization as soon as possible.

As of the beginning of the sixth year of Wanli, under the cultivation of Tianji Pavilion, many production-oriented enterprises of the Ming Dynasty have been born, but the wealthy clans hold a lot of capital but do not invest to make profits, which is a huge financial cost loss - this is also the case. Zhang Juzheng decided to use the clan reform to initiate the important reason for the reform.

Zhang Juzheng led the clan meeting prepared by the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites to achieve two main goals: first, to allow the clan to accept the political arrangement of demotion and rank.The second is to lure the money out of their hands and use it as the start-up capital for the development of industry and commerce in Daming.

To achieve these two goals, of course, we cannot rely on the consciousness of the clan.After repeated discussions with Zhu Yijun, Zhang Juzheng decided to take a multi-pronged approach. First, he used the eight clans as bait to divide and disintegrate the clan, so that they could not form a group to resist; the second was to use the Neifu Industrial and Commercial Group to divest non-core businesses at the same time. , come up with good things to encourage clan investment.

As for the reason for the clan meeting, Zhu Yijun said: "The queen checked years ago and she is pregnant. With such a happy event, you can let the clan relatives come to the capital and walk around."

　I'm very sorry, but I have something more to do.Feel sorry!
　　
　
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