The Prosperous Era of Longwan

As the Japanese pirates returned to the sea, starting from April of the 31st year of Jiajing, the Japanese invasion of various prefectures in Zhejiang was temporarily subsided.

In Beijing, after the Supreme Being became furious over this matter, the efficiency of the Ming court finally improved somewhat.

"If you think about it again, if there are no mistakes, then we will report it like this."

In the Wenyuan Pavilion located to the east of Bauhinia City in Beijing, Yan Song, Lu Ben and the new cabinet minister Xu Jie were sitting at the top, while six ministers were sitting below to discuss government affairs.

The Ming Dynasty initially followed the system of the Yuan Dynasty, establishing the Zhongshu Province and appointing left and right prime ministers. However, after the Hu Weiyong case, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the Zhongshu Province and the prime ministers, and the power returned to the six ministries.

Later, a bachelor of Wenhua Palace was appointed as his adviser. This was the prototype of the cabinet.

Later, after Zhu Di ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he tried his best at first, but his repeated northern expeditions made it difficult for him to take charge of political affairs, so the cabinet system came into being.

The preparatory work of cabinet ministers began from this time. However, at that time, those who joined the cabinet were all editors, inspectors, and lecturers. They did not have official subordinates and were not allowed to dominate the departments. When the various ministers report things, they are not allowed to be related to each other.

At this time, the cabinet only played the role of Zhu Di's secretary.

After several more emperors, the power of the cabinet gradually increased.

The cabinet minister's suggestions were written on a piece of paper and affixed to the memorial, which is called "voting draft", while the emperor's instructions were written in red letters, which was called "pinning red".

However, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the emperor's approval of red became a symbol, and he directly delegated power to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, which led to the saying that the inner and outer courts were divided.

The institutions of the inner court and the outer court of the Ming Dynasty were completely symmetrical. There was the cabinet outside, the ceremonial supervisors inside, the three law departments outside, and the Dongchang and Jinyiwei inside. The outer court had governors and governors sent to local places, and the inner court also had guards sent to local places. Eunuchs, guard eunuchs, etc.

In this way, the inner court and the outer court can restrict each other to ensure the emperor's decision-making status.

However, this also resulted in a struggle for power between the two major political forces, both internal and external.

"Remove the post of Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province, Cao Bian, and return to his hometown to listen to the investigation; suspend the salary of Li Chong, the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province, and Li Tingsong, the Minister of Inspection, and there will be no problem in being arrested and questioned by the ministers.

However, Lin Yingji, the censor of Zhejiang Province, reported the Japanese pirate incident in April. The bodies of officials such as Li Wenjin, the deputy envoy of the Haidao Road, and Gu Qiao, the deputy patrol envoy of the sub-inspection department, were not allowed to eat. At that time, Ding Zhan, the deputy envoy of the Haidao Road, was promoted, and they all commanded Zhang Tie to prepare for the Japanese pirates. What should be done should be done, and His Majesty's wishes cannot be violated. inverse.

However, in this case, Ding Zhan was dismissed from service to the people and replaced by Li Wenjin. Zhang Tie was sent back to the original guard and replaced by Zhou Yingzhen. All these were a complete reversal of April's treatment, which was unseemly. "

Xu Jie said.

"Lin Yingji said that their corpses were left bare, but the people he recommended mishandled the Zhejiang Japanese disaster. Shouldn't they be corrected?"

As soon as Xu Jie finished speaking, an official below asked questions.

Xu Jie just glanced at the person who spoke, then lowered his head and stopped talking.

In fact, he just said this to give people an explanation. Who didn't know that Li, Zhou and others were from the Yan family, and that Lin Yingji was in decline. When he encountered a Japanese invasion that had not been seen in a century, His Majesty was furious. What else could he do?

"Because Lin Yingji is good at professionalism, ordering him to leave office has already given him dignity, and depriving him of three months of salary is only a small punishment."

Second Assistant Luben also nodded and said.

Xu Jie glanced at the others, but no one wanted to say anything. He knew that this was the only way to do it, and then nodded slightly.

What can be said?

It is an indisputable fact that Zhejiang was turned upside down by Japanese pirates. It should be done, and it should be awarded. It was just because of being played by the imperial censor that it escaped disaster. No matter how you think about it, it feels wrong.

"In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs recommended Wang Yan, the governor of the Shandong Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Yushi of Qiandu, to supervise military affairs, inspect Zhejiang, and take charge of Fuxing Quanzhang.

The Ministry of War's opinion on setting up one separate garrison commander in Zhejiang Province is based on the fact that Yu Dayou, the garrison general in Qiongya garrison, is in command, and Tang Kekuan, the garrison general in charge of the garrison in Zhongdu, is in command.

Yu Dayou was stationed in Wentai, Ningshao and other places, and Tang Kekuan was stationed in Fuxing, Quanzhang and other places, and they all obeyed the restraints."

As the cabinet discussed and finalized the regulations, the memorial was quickly sent to Xiyuan.

Regarding the memorial concerning Zhejiang, the Chief of Ceremonies immediately handed it over to Emperor Jiajing of Wanshou Palace.

"Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan"

Emperor Jiajing took the memorial from Huang Jin and quickly read the contents of the memorial in one glance and ten lines, murmuring in his mouth.

"Huang Jin, what do you think of these two people?"

Upon hearing Emperor Jiajing's question, Huang Jin hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, I don't know what these two people are like."

Regarding military and national affairs, Huang Jin would not be stupid enough to express his opinions casually. He knew the character of his master very well, after all, he had been with him for countless years.

It's okay if you say it correctly, but if you say it wrong, you're not sure you'll remember it at any time.

"Hmm."

Emperor Jiajing was not surprised when he heard Huang Jin's answer. He just asked casually.

"They are cunning. The list of rewards was handed over to me exactly as reported by the Nanjing Ministry of War."

Emperor Jiajing stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows slightly. After a while, he opened his eyes and looked at the memorial on the case again. He seemed to have made up his mind and said: "Forget it, I finally won the battle and didn't lose face. Let's check this with the royal guards." A few commanders, let’s see how capable they are.”

The Nanjing Ministry of War's report on the details of the Zhejiang War had been sent to the capital a few days ago. The great turmoil in Zhejiang was certain, but it was tight-lipped about the rewards. It only gave a general outline, and everything was based on the emperor of the capital. Holy judgment.

For the only time they faced the Japanese pirates head-on and won, the three guards of Nanzhili and the Jiujiang guards of Jiangxi naturally came into the eyes of Emperor Jiajing.

"Disobeying military orders. The merits and demerits are equal to each other."

"Brother Zeng, brother Zeng, get up quickly, Gongyuan has announced its results."

Wei Guangde went upstairs and knocked on the door several times. Perhaps Zeng Yuanshu was still awake. It took him a long time to hear voices coming from inside, and he immediately shouted impatiently at the door.

"What? The results were released?"

Zeng Yuanshu screamed in the room and heard a "dong" sound, which seemed like a heavy object falling to the ground.

When Wei Guangde and the others walked out of the inn, many people on the street were going to Nanchang Gongyuan. Most of them were dressed as scholars, so naturally they went to see the rankings.

There are also some people who are not dressed as scholars but look like people from the market, but they run faster than them one by one. Obviously they should also be looking at the list, but what they care about is naturally not whether they are on the list, but the final case. Who is the leader, and whether the gambling ticket in his hand is gold or waste paper.

Wei Guangde and the others finally arrived at Gongyuan Street. At this time, the place was also crowded with people. Gongyuan Street had been blocked, but even so, people who came after them kept crowding in, completely losing their previous reserve.

"It's still too late. There are so many people. When can we get in?"

Zeng Yuanshu was a little disappointed when he saw such a scene, and regretted that he should not have drank too much yesterday and missed the time.

"I will open the way in front, and Brother Zeng will protect Guangde and Yuanrui from behind."

Wu Dong said hurriedly, after working hard for more than a year, he was different from the past.

Wei Guangde and others followed Wu Dong's instructions and rushed to the gate of Gongyuan as Wu Dong struggled to squeeze through the crowd.