Wanli 1592

Chapter 664 Shen Yitong's ambition keeps expanding

Shen Yiguan didn't offer such a high price to attract people for no reason.

The most important thing is that while Cai Guozhen wants Shen Yiguan to express his position, Shen Yiguan also wants Cai Guozhen to express his position, because Zhongzhi's entry into the cabinet means "flattering" and being unruly. In an era when opposing the emperor is politically correct, unruly It means cutting oneself off from the officials and civil servants.

Once he is appointed to the cabinet, he can only face the courtiers with the emperor's back, and meet the verbal attacks and all kinds of difficulties that will come soon.

Shen has always been different, he is an upright cabinet minister.

Of course, civil servants cannot directly dismiss cabinet ministers, nor can they forcibly bypass the emperor and force the emperor to change his mind, because in a legal sense, cabinet ministers are the emperor's private secretaries, their grades are not high, and they are completely appointed by the emperor. Nothing has changed now, the emperor has the power to appoint cabinet ministers in legal procedures.

The emperor ordered you to enter the cabinet, and you can enter the cabinet in a fair manner. This is how you came before.

But now, when all the ministers advance and retreat together, the authority of the emperor's decree has plummeted, and the right to choose cabinet ministers has also changed from the emperor's appointment to the election of the ministers. The emperor's decree becomes the central decree without the approval of officials. Civil officials have nothing to do with waste paper, and they don't have to follow it.

However, only in the matter of the selection of cabinet ministers, the emperor still has the power to designate candidates. Although the ministers and courts push the list of candidates to the emperor, the emperor's circle of people decides the candidates. It seems that the ministers limit the candidates. The emperor No matter how you choose, everyone agrees, but if the emperor throws off the court and forcefully orders you to join the cabinet, there will be no problem in legal procedures.

Tingtui is a rule, and it can even be said to be an unspoken rule of legitimacy, but it is still not a law.

This is the only way for non-Hanlin people to enter the cabinet. Before that, only Zhang Cong succeeded, and served as the chief assistant three times, leaving a valuable lesson for future ministers who are not Hanlin.

But that's all, because the civil servants were split and almost destroyed in Yan Song's era. After learning the lesson, they began to learn to fight among themselves, but they had to advance and retreat together when facing the emperor, pushing the imperial power into a desperate situation step by step. Among them, the undefeated golden body is achieved step by step.

During this process, anyone who might become Yan Song will be beaten without hesitation, and any civil servant who works for the emperor, or even speaks a word of justice for the emperor, will be knocked down and regarded as rebellious, such as Wang Xijue.

At this time, no matter which faction you belong to, everyone will give you a hat of "fascinating" and start the speech officer to scold you to the point of mental breakdown with a round of spat. Even the thick-skinned people can't bear this Mental pollution attack.

You must know that in the sick moral society of the Ming Dynasty, if there is a flaw in morality, you will be finished.

It's not that the emperor has never tried to use the central decree to order ministers to join the cabinet, but frightened by the coercion of the group, no one dared to accept it.

Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty was in such an embarrassing and desperate situation, struggling helplessly.

Now, however, the situation seems to have changed a bit.

The reason lies in Shen's consistent personal selfishness.

The main reason is that he was frightened by Zhao Zhigao's tragic situation.

Zhao Zhigao can be said to be one of the most miserable people among the chief assistants of the Ming Dynasty. It doesn't mean that the fate is not very good, but that it is better to die than to live a miserable life.

After Shen Yiguan had an insight into the situation of Zhang Juzheng's previous chief assistants, he referred to Yan Song's approach and made a comparison. He realized that if he wanted to gain a firm foothold and become the chief assistant with real power, he would become a person that no one dared to provoke. Dear chief minister with real power who can give effective orders must have a solid team.

This team regards its own will as the highest will, takes its own instructions as the code of action, everything is centered on itself, and everyone has the same interests and goals, and will not easily leave the team.

Zhao Zhigao's predicament is that he had no intention of becoming the first assistant at all, and he was pushed to the first assistant position by the force of the times. At that time, he was already over 70, very old, and he didn't have any reliable team. He can cooperate, plus he has a gentle personality and doesn't like to compete with others, so he has become a negative teaching material for sad reminders.

In Daming, there were quite a few chief assistants with a more miserable ending than Zhao Zhigao, including Xia Yan and Yan Song, but there were really few who were as tragic as Zhao Zhigao.

This is the capital of Ming Dynasty, the political center of Ming Dynasty, the center of the political vortex, you are the chief assistant and don't fight with others, so what do you want to do?Pension?
Politics is a life-and-death struggle. If you don’t fight with others, no one will fight with you. They will only think you are easy to bully, and everyone wants to bully. Anyway, there will be no consequences.

Shen has always seen every bit of these years in his eyes and kept it in his heart. He deeply understands the reason why Zhao Zhigao is so sad. He has sworn a long time ago that if he can't be Zhang Juzheng, he can't be Zhao Zhigao, and the worst thing is to be Shen Shixing!

For this reason, he needs a group of people who have no other backers but himself, and who have no other retreat but himself to become his allies, to help him form Shen Yiguan's cabinet, and to fight against those civil servants who want to influence his will all the time!

Shen Yitong's ambition continued to expand.

He promised Shi Xing, promised Song Yingchang, promised Cai Guozhen, and then secretly prepared to implement the tactics of beheading Yang Junmin, preparing to implement tactics of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot against Yu Jideng, and implementing tactics of cold reception against Xu Zuo. Then gradually expand your sphere of influence.

At the same time, it is necessary to strictly control the group of speech officials.

Zhang Juzheng controlled a part of the speech officials in order to carry out drastic reforms while not being overwhelmed by the tactics of spiritual pollution. After Zhang Juzheng's death, the speech officials revived, gradually lost control, and gradually became a tool for the party to fight dissidents.

The spokespersons at this moment are no longer the group that spoke out for axiom and justice. They are now completely the spokespersons of interest groups. Taking advantage of their privileged position in political life, they do not distinguish between right and wrong, and only follow the principle of interests. , became a complete biting dog.

Shen Yiguan has always been at odds with the group of officials, so in front of Xu Zuo, the censor of the right capital, he has never been able to get any good looks. It doesn't matter, the evolved Shen Yiguan has decided to use Zhang Juzheng's method to give this biting dog The vicious dog is muzzled and collared.

He had decided long ago that once he ascended to the position of chief assistant, the first thing he would do was to attack the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Division.

It's just that it's not the time to do it yet.

A common enemy helps to shape a group, and Shen always needs this common enemy to win people's hearts for himself.

Once Cai Guozhen and others boarded their own boat, they would never think about going down again.

(End of this chapter)