In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 332 The true way of an emperor

At this time, Lin Rui was focused on the compilation of the law. He had food and accommodation in Xiyuan, and had also given instructions not to disturb him unless there was a major military or national event.

Therefore, it was not until Qian Qianyi, Shi Kefa and others came to the palace gate with officials and scholars to ask for an audience that the Secretary-General dared to report.

"Oh, they asked to see me directly without writing a petition?"

Lin Rui was also quite surprised. He didn't know what happened to those southeastern party members.

"Replying to Your Majesty, they did not write a letter or submit a petition, they just requested an interview with Your Majesty!" the secretary director hurriedly explained.

"These guys have learned to be smart. What happened recently?"

Lin Rui also laughed, and then asked, because if an official submits a letter, as long as the content is not within his scope, he will be given a demerit or even fired.

As for petitions, officials were all fired, and scholars were dismissed from their jobs and took the exam again. Therefore, Qian Qianyi and other people directly asked to see the emperor. After all, there was nothing wrong with asking to see the emperor. At most, they would not be summoned.

The Secretary-General also quickly explained the turmoil in the officialdom these days in detail.

Obviously influenced by Lin Rui, in the eyes of this secretary-general, the recent turmoil in the officialdom of the foreign court is not a big deal at all.

"It seems that Hong Chengchou still has some courage."

Lin Rui was quite surprised after hearing this. He obviously didn't expect that Hong Chengchou would do it so neatly given his temperament.

Lin Rui naturally knows the specific reasons why the Government Affairs Council has been unable to implement the new policy nationwide.

That is, many officials from various places have violated the orders of the Government Affairs Council. Hong Chengchou was afraid of wolves and tigers, and worried that he would settle accounts in the future, so he could not let go. For more than a year, he has basically been dredging up the provinces. Official relations.

After all, if you want to unify the government, you must first unify the people. If the people are not unified, how can we get things done?

Especially in ancient times, if the capital city issued an order, if the prefecture, county magistrate and the Government Affairs Council thousands of miles away were not of the same mind, there were many ways to delay and shirk the responsibility.

That's why Lin Rui wanted to force Hong Chengchou and the officials of the Government Affairs Council to either use the power he gave them to achieve political consensus and implement all policies as soon as possible, or they would all be finished in two years.

As for whether officials all over the world would be in unison with the Government Affairs Council and would threaten the imperial power, he was not worried at all.

Because the State Council had no military power, let alone judicial power, even if all the prefects and prefects in various places followed Hong Chengchou's lead, they would not be able to threaten him as the emperor.

The reason why Lin Rui wanted to make Hong Chengchou a powerful minister was that Lin Rui had no choice. After all, the civil servants in the world could not be of the same mind as the emperor.

Therefore, he can only control the Government Affairs Council with the help of Hong Chengchou, and as the emperor, he only needs to control Hong Chengchou. If he is obedient and does well, he can continue to do it. If he is not obedient, he can be replaced at any time.

As for the emperor's mental skills and the way of balance, he naturally had to do it, but Lin Rui, who had experience in his previous life, naturally knew that the previous emperors had made mistakes.

The true way of an emperor should be to use power to balance power, rather than using people to balance people.

To put it simply, the three powers of administration, judiciary, and supervision are independent and check and balance each other. It does not matter who is in charge of these three powers, as long as they do not exceed their authority.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the three powers were mixed together, and even the military power was mixed together. In order to fight for power and gain all day long, you impeach me, and I impeach you.

In order to protect themselves, they had to form cliques. In the end, all their energy was spent on the small temple.

"Your Majesty, are you going to drive them away or not?"

Seeing that Lin Rui had not given any instructions for a long time, the Secretary Director had to ask for instructions.

After all, there are 500 people, and it is definitely not possible to always block the entrance of the palace.

"not see."

Lin Rui waved his hand, and he naturally knew what those guys wanted to do.

It was nothing more than scaremongering and slandering Hong Chengchou. Once he saw them, after they said these words, they would definitely dismiss all the civil servants in the court and investigate them, so it was most appropriate not to see them.After all, killing people and ransacking homes has never been his purpose. His purpose is to make all officials act according to the rules he set, or fight.

This kind of Ming Dynasty-style struggle is absolutely undesirable.

"Wait a minute...go get a set of compiled administrative laws."

Lin Rui thought about it and said to a lady in charge of compiling administrative law.

"It's Your Majesty."

Not long after, the lady left and returned, holding a thick booklet in her arms.

Lin Rui took the book and looked through it, then nodded with satisfaction, and then handed it to the secretary-director with a smile.

"Give them this administrative law and let them take a good look at it when they go back."

"It's Your Majesty." The secretary director quickly took it.

At this time, more than 100 officials, including Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa, were outside the palace gate, but they were all confident and possessed of wisdom.

Behind him, more than 300 scholars with no reputation stood aside, everyone was excited, but they did not dare to shout slogans.

In fact, there are still six to seven hundred officials under the court, but those officials are either scholars or civil servants. Qian Qianyi and other judges with Jinshi background simply look down on those people, and never admit that they are civil servants, but just serve as officials. Naturally, they would not be brought here to use them. However, it was the six or seven hundred talented people who really did the work.

However, Qian Qianyi and others wanted to bring together Sun Chuanting and other officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to face the impeachment. However, Sun Chuanting just thanked guests behind closed doors, obviously not wanting to participate in the battle between the two parties.

When the secretary-general came to the palace gate and conveyed the emperor's missing message, he handed over the administrative law to Shi Kefa.

"Head of the Academy of History, gentlemen, His Majesty has told you to go back and take a good look at this administrative law."

"Wait a minute, Director Liu, my request to meet with Your Majesty this time is really of great importance. It affects the country of Dahua, so please pass it on again!"

"Be careful, please don't refuse, I would like to thank you!"

Shi Kefa was naturally unwilling to give in, and quickly stopped the secretary-general who was about to leave. Others were also anxious, and no longer even cared about their dislike of these women, they all saluted and asked. Qian Qianyi even stepped forward and took something from his sleeve. A delicate jade hairpin came out.

Qian Qianyi and others had no choice but to use jewelry as bribes. Compared with the eunuchs and eunuchs of the past, these women did not love money and had no family, so they had no way of doing anything, so they missed the eunuchs of the past very much.

"Humph, I advise you to go back and read the administrative law carefully. His Majesty said it is true. If you say no, you will see it. No matter how long it is, it is useless. As for your broken hairpin, you should take it back to comfort your concubine."

The Secretary-General snorted coldly, turned around and left without even looking at the hairpin in Qian Qianyi's hand.

As the secretary-general and second-grade imperial concubine, she can't wear all the jewelry given to her by His Majesty. She can't even think of bribing her with just a hairpin. These people can't imagine it.

Indeed, after plundering so many nobles, the various jewelry and fine cloths they obtained almost piled up into a mountain. Lin Rui did not take any of them for the imperial shop to sell, so the ladies of the inner court were most indispensable. Gold and silver jewelry and fine clothing.

"No reason!"

Everyone was angry that smoke was coming out of their nostrils, but there was nothing they could do about it.

His Majesty didn't even see them. No matter how good their eloquence was, it was of no use. In the end, after a lot of confusion, everyone had to choose to go back to the Yamen first to see what was written in the Laoshizi Administrative Law.

When he heard that His Majesty had not seen Qian Qianyi, Shi Kefa and others, Hong Chengchou slumped down on his chair with relief.

The other eight ministers also relaxed their worries and secretly wiped away cold sweat.

Although they all guessed that His Majesty supports the Government Affairs Council to unify the decree as soon as possible and remove the disobedient officials, after all, the power of God is unpredictable, and the emperor's heart is unpredictable.

(End of this chapter)