Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 168: This is how you become a prince and prime minister

Early the next morning, Wang Daoqiu went to the Forbidden City to queue up as usual, and heard the little eunuch roar: "The emperor has decreed that he will not be in court today."

Then he went to Xiyuan to make a formal work report to Emperor Jiajing and the cabinet, as well as the six ministers, ministers, Duchayuan, Dali Temple, Zongzhengfu and other leading figures in the government offices.

In fact, judging from Wang Daoqiu's work experience since joining Xiyuan, Wang Daoqiu really wanted to seek justice for Emperor Jiajing from future generations of history novices.The history novices of later generations all condemned Emperor Jiajing for his neglect of government, saying that Emperor Jiajing knew his own interests and hobbies, regardless of the country and nation. As an emperor, he did not go to the morning court for more than 20 years.

Yes, Emperor Jiajing has a dark history of not attending court for more than 20 years, but Emperor Jiajing's absence from court does not mean that he does not manage politics!For example, in Xiyuan, he basically summoned ministers every day to discuss state affairs.Otherwise, how could he have firmly controlled the power of the country if he had not been in power for more than 20 years?
This is similar to the chairman of a large company in later generations. Although he does not go to the company to clock in, his office in the company is empty every day.But people privately ask the company's executives to go to his home every day to report on their work and make decisions on the general direction of the company!

Moreover, as Wang Daoqiu gradually understood the court's handling of political affairs, he did not find anything wrong with Emperor Jiajing's work style of not going to court and talking in private. Instead, he felt that those emperors who liked going to court were Some pretense.

Yes, Wang Daoqiu supports Emperor Jiajing's way of working without going to court, and despises those emperors who always call court meetings.

Why would Wang Daoqiu have such an idea?The reason for this is not complicated. Just like the consensus of later generations, the longer the conference, the less likely it is to solve any substantive problems.The bigger the issue, the more substantive the problem, the more it can only be solved by a few people holding a small meeting.This is the same in Western democratic and legal societies, as well as in major autocratic countries in Africa and the East.

Because in those so-called conferences, in full view of the public, if you want to avoid others catching on to the mistakes in your words and attacking you, then every word you say must be based on political correctness and stand on the highest moral ground. Open defecation on the bed.

To put it bluntly, every word spoken by every smart person at the conference is just pretentious. They always serve the people and are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.These words are lofty in terms of moral pretentiousness, but what substantive problems can he solve?
Therefore, those so-called conferences, without exception, will eventually be held as pretentious conferences that cannot solve any problems.This is the same for the so-called early dynasty of the feudal dynasty. Its main form is that the emperor sits on the dragon throne and watches the ministers below who are all trying to show off.

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing did not go to the morning court. If something happened, he would only talk to the cabinet and the six ministries and other important officials of the court, and talk privately.Although it is somewhat blocked, the opinions from the grassroots cannot be conveyed to the higher level.But this is undoubtedly much more efficient than that morning morning when everyone was pretending to be cool.

It's just that Emperor Jiajing is unkind. Since you don't want to go to court yourself, why don't you just cancel this prank of holding court early every day and torturing the courtiers every day.

I don't like Emperor Jiajing's bad conscience who has found an efficient way of working with flexible working hours, but still doesn't abolish the clock-in system.In the Longevity Palace, Wang Daoqiu gave a report on his work in Shandong for more than two months to Emperor Jiajing and other important court officials.

As soon as Wang Daoqiu finished his report, the effect was not surprising at all. Emperor Jiajing and several officials who were accustomed to being prudent and self-protective all kept their mouths shut and refused to comment.Yan Shoufu spoke out to support Wang Daoqiu, saying that Wang Daoqiu did well and did the right thing.

And those Qingliu officials went out one by one, sternly condemning Wang Daoqiu for killing innocent people in Shandong, and being unfavorable at work. As a result, all the men of the three vassal kings in Shandong and the Kong family of Yanshenggong were tortured to death, and all the women were tortured over and over again. Once again, it caused extremely bad social impact.For this reason, they asked Emperor Jiajing to severely punish Wang Daoqiu.

What the Qingliu officials said one by one was well-founded and impassioned. What Wang Daoqiu said was a bad guy who everyone hated, not even a pile of shit. People like Wang Daoqiu should be made into fertilizer and used to fertilize the fields .

The Qingliu people spoke very vigorously, spitting everywhere, but Wang Daoqiu neither talked back nor argued with what they said, he just stood there like a statue.Anyway, he knew that Emperor Jiajing was satisfied with everything he did in Shandong.

Wang Daoqiu knew that the more Qingliu attacked him, the more Emperor Jiajing would like him.After all, for a narrow-minded emperor like Emperor Jiajing, what they are most afraid of is that the ministers under him will form a group to limit the imperial power together.What they like most are the so-called "lonely ministers" who are only loyal to the emperor and are enemies with other courtiers.Precisely because he knew that the petty Emperor Jiajing liked his lonely ministers, Wang Daoqiu showed a look of contempt for Qingliu, saying that they and I were mortal enemies.And Wang Daoqiu's attitude of not looking down on Qingliu and refusing to fight at all undoubtedly made those Qingliu angry to death. After all, Wang Daoqiu's attitude hurt their self-esteem too much. ?
So faced with Wang Daoqiu's attitude of not taking them seriously, the Qingliu people became even more angry, and they all knelt down in front of Emperor Jiajing in anger.The next accusations they made against Wang Daoqiu were even more vicious. They almost negated all of Wang Daoqiu's work since he became an official. They just said that Wang Daoqiu peeped at the old lady taking a bath, beat the lame and scolded the deaf, and robbed the children. The kid got a lollipop.

He even asked Wang Daoqiu to sacrifice his life for the innocent people in Shandong and Kong Shengren's family, and asked Emperor Jiajing to execute Wang Daoqiu Lingchi and annihilate the nine tribes.

Qingliu's emotions became more and more agitated, one by one, like a relay race, the accusation against Wang Daoqiu was seamlessly connected, and the other immediately followed up after one finished speaking.The charges they gave Wang Daoqiu'an were getting heavier and heavier, as if they didn't kill Wang Daoqiu, God would not accept it.

The Qingliu people were so entangled and entangled that Emperor Jiajing was extremely annoyed by them.In the end, Emperor Jiajing was really annoyed by the noise made by the Qingliu gang and couldn't bear it anymore.He interrupted those Qingliu accusations and used his imperial methods.

Regarding Wang Daoqiu's work in Shandong in the past two months, Emperor Jiajing first thought that he was basically competent, but in some aspects of work, he lacked experience and was not detailed enough.Therefore, Emperor Jiajing announced that Wang Daoqiu would be punished by withdrawing his title of "Young Master", so that Wang Daoqiu could learn a lesson and pay attention next time.

The Jiajing Emperor's qualitative report on Wang Daoqiu's work and the lack of language are really far from those long "reasonable and well-founded" speeches from a certain country.To be honest, with Emperor Jiajing's level of language and writing, he really wouldn't be able to work as an office clerk in a certain country.

Mentally giving Emperor Jiajing a bad thumbs up for his language skills, Wang Daoqiu honestly knelt down and "thanked" Emperor Jiajing.But he had just finished thanking him and was about to get up and continue being a statue.Emperor Jiajing, who always did not follow the routine, publicly announced Wang Daoqiu's contribution to solving the shocking corruption case in Jinan, and announced his reward for Wang Daoqiu's contribution. He promoted Wang Daoqiu to the rank of Bachelor of Wuyingdian, and awarded him The title of Taifu is of the first rank.

After letting Wang Daoqiu pay homage to the prime minister, Emperor Jiajing granted Wang Daoqiu the title of Zhongyong Hou for the third generation on the grounds that Wang Daoqiu had made great contributions in quelling the rebellion and avenged the three vassal kings of Shandong and the Yanshenggong Kong family.

Isn't it too hasty to confer a title of marquis and worship the prime minister?Mudd!This is indeed very Emperor Jiajing. Laozhi has the final say on Laozhi's territory. Whoever Laozhi says is good can do it or not; whoever Laozhi says is not good is not good and can't do it. Anyway, the main idea is that he cannot accept it.

The tone of the meeting just now was still how to punish Wang Daoqiu!At this moment, Emperor Jiajing went directly to Wang Daoqiu to become the Prime Minister. Do you think this reversal made those Qingliu Qing embarrassed?

So the few Qingliu officials who are kneeling there now are all trying to get rid of the cold.They now also know that the human king Daoqiu and Emperor Jiajing are basically the same group. What Wang Daoqiu did in Shandong was simply because Jian was in the emperor's heart, and even went on a killing spree. It was Emperor Jiajing who asked Wang Daoqiu to do it.

After understanding this, the eyes of those Qingliu officials were filled with tears. They knew that Emperor Jiajing, when they requested Wang Daoqiu Lingchi, returned Wang Daoqiu to the title of Marquis and Prime Minister.That was the sternest warning to them. At this moment, they could no longer offend Emperor Jiajing, otherwise Emperor Jiajing would think that they were challenging the imperial power.After all, Emperor Jiajing's intentions were so obvious. If he still demanded severe punishment for Wang Daoqiu under such circumstances, Emperor Jiajing would definitely think, who are you targeting at Qingliu for doing this?
Therefore, the few Qingliu officials who knew that they could never speak anymore at this moment, filled with grief and anger, stared at Wang Daoqiu angrily, and stood back to the courtroom unwillingly.

Qingliu's appearance clearly showed dissatisfaction, but Emperor Jiajing didn't mind after seeing it.After all, the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty was famous for daring to violate the direct remonstrances of the emperor, confronting the emperor, rushing to get the imperial stick, and refusing to obey even to death.Compared with the horrific deeds of their predecessors Qingliu in the past, the current Qingliu just showed their "unyieldingness" with their eyes, which was enough to give Emperor Jiajing face.

So at this moment, Emperor Jiajing was not angry at the "unyielding" Qingliu people, but instead felt a sense of accomplishment in being able to overwhelm Qingliu.

(End of this chapter)