Chapter 846 935 Right Censor

"Shandai, His Majesty has been on the throne for several months now, but I only want to make changes to the court meeting.

In the duty room of the Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, Zhang Juzheng talked eloquently to Wei Guangde, who was sitting next to him.

"How do you plan to change it, uncle?"

Wei Guangde asked in confusion.

"I would like to report that your majesty will visit the court every three or nine days every month. This way, there will be an interval of two or three days, and your majesty will not be too hard. After all, your majesty is still young."

Zhang Juzheng said, "There are rumors outside that I want to come to Shandao. Your Majesty only goes to court twice a month, which really makes me feel uneasy."

Wei Guangde nodded when he heard this. He also knew the rumors outside. Although the emperor was young, the officials in the capital could not see the emperor for a long time, so they would make strange remarks.

Emperor Longqing did the same thing at the beginning. No one said anything because they were all adults and naturally knew what to do.

But that's it, I didn't expect to kill the emperor directly.

Although many of Emperor Longqing's affairs have not been dealt with openly, there are many private rumors.

Therefore, the courtiers were dissatisfied with the emperor's long absence from court.

Even if the emperor is young, he can't hide it from others all the time.

It would be good to show up every now and then to at least let everyone know about the emperor's current situation.

At least if everyone shows up in front of the emperor, maybe there will be a chance?

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde then answered: "Brother Uncle, what you said is reasonable, but since ancient times, although emperors have sacred qualifications, they are especially anxious to study. My Taizu has attached great importance to classical studies, classic banquets, and daily lectures, which have the power to become a constitution. The Emperor is wise and wise, divinely endowed, wise and wise, and all his speeches are correct. His etiquette, hiring, and administration are all impeccable. He is sincere and unparalleled. If he adds the merits of learning, ethics, and openness and wisdom, then the cause of peace can be calculated. ”

"Shan Lian means that Your Majesty should hold a sutra feast?"

Zhang Juzheng understood the meaning of Wei Guangde's words as soon as he heard it. It was time for the little emperor to study.

When Zhu Yijun was still the prince, he naturally talked about leaving the cabinet to study. But now that he is the emperor, the emperor's study is naturally not to leave the cabinet, but to study at the banquet. In fact, they are all classes, but the names are different.

Before the princes and princes reach adulthood, they will be educated, that is, read, by specialized royal private school teachers in the study room.

However, after the prince becomes the emperor under minor age, the emperor is the highest representative of the country's power. Under an autocratic government, all the people of the world are united to serve one person. The status of the Nine-Fiveth Emperor cannot be overstepped by anyone.

Therefore, no one dares to call the emperor's teacher without permission. In ancient China, people who had the title of emperor's teacher could only be called emperor's teacher by Minister Tuogu.

However, whether Zhang Juzheng or Wei Guangde had to deal with heavy government affairs, it was naturally impossible for them to focus on teaching the little emperor, so they could only arrange lectures by knowledgeable and respected people in the court, and they could only give lectures to the little emperor. The emperor attends class.

"It's time for the sutra feast to begin. Your Majesty is actually past the age of enlightenment. It's a bit later than the common people."

Zhang Juzheng said: "I will talk to Lu Shusheng about this and ask him to determine the candidate for the banquet officer as soon as possible. You and I will also take turns giving lectures to His Majesty." ’

"That matter was reported to the cabinet"

Wei Guangde asked.

Arranging teachers is one thing, but asking the palace for approval requires a separate report from the cabinet.

When Wei Guangde asked this, he naturally asked Zhang Juzheng whether you should draft this memorial or should I do it.

Logically speaking, even if Wei Guangde is anxious about this matter, he cannot report it alone, because this is the responsibility of the chief minister of the cabinet.

"Let me do it. I will draft a memorial later and send it to the Shanxi Loan Value House for review."

Zhang Juzheng said.

It should be the responsibility of his chief assistant. Zhang Juzheng naturally does his duty and will never do anything to others.

"Well, Shandai will just wait for your uncle's memorial."

Wei Guangde smiled.

"Let's finish it once. Since Shandai mentioned this matter, I think it is related to what I mentioned before."

Zhang Juzheng smiled and asked casually.

"Brother Uncle also knows that His Majesty is still young after all, so it is best to separate the viewing and lectures and read them in between."

Wei Guangde smiled and continued: "Since my uncle suggested that His Majesty attend the imperial court, I think it would be better to arrange for His Majesty to give lectures and read in the Wenhua Hall on other days.

In this way, it is best to pay close attention to the dynasty and study diligently. "

Zhang Juzheng stroked his beautiful beard and pondered Wei Guangde's opinion.

After a while, he nodded and said with a smile: "Shan Lian's words are reasonable. Your Majesty will pay attention to the court for three to sixty-nine days, and spend the rest of the days in the Wenhua Hall to give lectures. Unless there is severe cold or heat, there will be no lectures on those days. , I won’t have to go to court on the day of lectures and readings, so the common people will not be too tired.”

It should be said that what Zhang Juzheng said later made up for some mistakes in Wei Guangde's previous arrangements, that is, under special weather conditions, the morning study can be exempted, which is a rest day.

Hearing this, Wei Guangde nodded, and then said: "In addition, there will be no need to read after the meeting, and no other arrangements will be made. Your Majesty will have two days to rest. What do you think, uncle?"

According to the previous arrangement, don't think that the little emperor can have fun without studying after watching the court. It's not that simple.

There will be no lectures after watching the court, but the banquet officials and the palace will assign calligraphy homework to the young emperor, such as copying books such as "Huangming's Ancestral Instructions" that need to be memorized by the emperor.

Reading is not as good as copying books. Ancient times actually knew how to enhance students' memory.

In fact, the current young emperor Zhu Yijun is copying the "Emperor Ming Ancestor Instructions", and if he doesn't understand it, the eunuch Feng Bao next to him will explain it.

Wei Guangde felt that Feng Bao had no problem in understanding the Imperial Instructions, and that he could interpret the Imperial Instructions, but such work should be done by court officials, so it was necessary to arrange the Imperial Lecture as early as possible.

After leaving Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde returned to work. Recently, he mainly dealt with the memorials from the Ministry of Rites, which were directly connected to his duty room to arrange the funeral arrangements for Emperor Longqing.

When the court was about to end, Zhang Juzheng sent two memorials, one of which was "Please Open the Imperial Lecture", and the other was "Please Lecture Two or Three Matters in Wenhua Hall".

Wei Guangde read it hastily and found it was similar to what they said in the duty room, so he signed his name after it and left a space in front of his signature for Zhang Juzheng to sign.

After finishing, he immediately asked Lu Bu to send it back.

These two memorials, which he and Zhang Juzheng had discussed, had to be read by Lu Diaoyang. Only when the cabinet members signed them together could the influence of the memorials be great enough.

The memorial was sent to the palace, and two days later it was sent back with a red seal. According to the eunuch who sent the memorial, the red seal was written by Empress Chen herself, and the text was full of approval.

After all, it was a big event to send the little emperor to school. Although Zhu Yijun had already recognized a lot of characters, it was not systematic after all. He could read and write many characters, but he didn't understand their meaning.

Empress Chen had intended to let the outer court send Hanlin to be the teacher of the little emperor and give him lessons, but at that time Emperor Longqing had always refused, saying that if the child played for a few more years, he would have no time to play after studying.

In fact, the prince of the Ming Dynasty had to study much harder than the children of the same age in the folk. Emperor Longqing might have learned from the pain of his own childhood study and was reluctant to let his children suffer too much, so he kept blocking the Ministry of Rites' request for the prince to go out to study.

Wei Guangde arranged things one by one, and on this day, an imperial edict of grace suddenly came from the palace.

"In addition, the cabinet's chief minister Zhang Juzheng was promoted to the title of Left Pillar State and promoted to the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall, and his son was given the title of Secretary of the Ministry of Treasures.

The second minister Wei Guangde was promoted to Junior Tutor, Pillar State, and then to the Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, and promoted to the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall, and his son was given the title of Secretary of the Ministry of Treasures.

The assistant minister Lü Diaoyang was promoted to the title of Junior Guardian of the Crown Prince and promoted to the Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall."

Zhang Juzheng was already Junior Tutor, Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, Minister of Personnel, Pillar State, and Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall in the fifth year of Longqing. This time he was only promoted to Left Pillar State, and his palace title was also promoted to the highest level of Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall.

And Wei Guangde's additional grace this time was to make up for his vacancy in the fifth year of Longqing, adding Junior Tutor, Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince and Pillar State, and his palace title was directly promoted from the original Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall to the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall, skipping Wenhua Hall, which was also to match his status as the second minister.

Of course, it is not true that the chief minister of the cabinet must be the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall. In fact, when Yan Song and others served as the chief minister, because they were promoted quickly, they only had the title of Grand Secretary of Jinshen Hall for a long time. They were promoted to Grand Secretary of Huagai Hall a few years later.

The Grand Secretary of Huagai Hall is now the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall, and the Grand Secretary of Jinshen Hall is the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall. After all, in the 41st year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing changed the names of the three major halls, and the titles of the Grand Secretary of the Palaces also changed accordingly.

This time, the grace is actually aimed at the two busiest departments recently, the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites. The list of officials who have been granted grace also includes the names of the officials who have been confirmed by the Ministry of Rites.

It's funny to say that the Ministry of Rites is a leisurely office. It is only a little busy during the imperial examinations on weekdays. The rest of the busy time is when the old emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne. There are graces after things are done.

The Ministry of Personnel received the edict, and Wei Guangde's mansion sent a new edict the next day.

Along with Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde and others, Ma Ziqiang and others were also rewarded. Ma Ziqiang and Tao Dalin were both promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, while Wang Xilie, Zhu Dashou, Yu Youding, Chen Jingbang, He Luowen, Shen Li, Zhang Zhi, Shen Yuan, Xu Guo and others were promoted one level each.

The funeral of Emperor Longqing was decided, and Wei Guangde could finally breathe a sigh of relief. At this time, he also met with Wang Guoguang and began to discuss the issue of sea transportation of grain.

Wei Guangde did not look for Fu Yi at the beginning because in this position, many times the person in charge is actually the big boss behind the scenes. Fu Yi may have his own attitude, but he can only do things according to the meaning of the backer behind him.

He did not look for Yang Bo because Wei Guangde had heard a little news from Guo Chaobin of the Ministry of Personnel that his immediate superior seemed to be ill.

Wei Guangde did not doubt that Guo Chaobin would lie to him. According to Guo Chaobin, he accidentally discovered that Yang Bo was ill.

That day, he was going to the Shangshu's duty room to submit official documents, but he heard Yang Bo coughing violently outside the door, while his personal clerk was helping him take medicine in the room.

You know, Yang Bo gave people the impression that he was energetic and strong outside, and he didn't look sick at all. Moreover, no one found Yang Bo secretly taking medicine, whether in the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Personnel.

However, Wei Guangde actually understood that Yang Bo's health should not be good. After all, he was almost seventy years old, and he had been supervising the army in the border town for many years. He should have a lot of chronic diseases. Therefore, Wei Guangde didn't believe that this adult could compare with Yan Song and Xu Jie in life span, and could still stay in the court at the age of eighty.

Although, it seems that this person thought so.

"Lord Wang means that Minister Fu wants to be transferred to the Nanjing Censorate?"

Wei Guangde persuaded Wang Guoguang to publicly support the sea transportation of grain, but Wang Guoguang did not agree immediately. Instead, he complained to Wei Guangde that Fu Yi repeatedly disobeyed him because of his close relationship with the Minister of Personnel Yang Bo, so he wanted to transfer him away.

Well, Wang Guoguang and Fu Yi are not on good terms, so just listen.

However, Wei Guangde also knew from a few words that their idea was to prepare a ladder for Fu Yi to be promoted and to get greater development.

Sure enough, after repeated inquiries, Wang Guoguang finally offered a price, which was to let Fu Yi take charge of the Nanjing Censorate as the Right Censor-in-Chief.

Although most of the censors were in Beijing, there were more than ten censors in the Nanjing Censorate, mainly censors from several southern provinces, each of which had two or three censors here. Every year, the Nanjing Censorate would take turns to send these censors to inspect various provinces.

In terms of power, although it is not as big as the Censorate, it is not small. At least the mouthpiece is not much worse than that of the Beijing Censorate.

However, Wei Guangde did not care about the power of the Nanjing Censorate. He was more worried about Wang Guoguang's actions, which aimed to allow Fu Yi to replace Ge Shouli in the future and let the Shanxi Gang control the Censorate, a key government office.

Because of the personnel gap in Jiangxi, Wei Guangde has been quietly cultivating his friend Lao Kan, hoping that he will be transferred directly to the Censorate after training in Fujian, first as the Deputy Censor-in-Chief, and the ultimate goal is to get his hands on the position of Left Censor-in-Chief.

After the political struggles of the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties, it is obvious that all the forces that are currently on the stage have actually set their sights on the Censorate and the Six Departments, two government offices that seemed to have little power in the past.

Don't think that the ancients were not wise, they just lacked historical experience, and the time travelers can see farther and higher.

But when it comes to political struggles, the experience is no worse than that of ordinary time travelers, and even stronger.

After all, they came up step by step, or struggled and won to sit in their current positions.

Unless the time travelers themselves are high-ranking officials with rich experience in struggles, they may not do better than the natives when they come here.

As for the time travelers being able to change the world, come on, then you must first learn to teach people of this era to think about the problems they face with modern minds.

Even if you come up with a good solution, it will be limited by the times, and problems that future generations do not consider to be problems will emerge one after another.

Modern people know that sea transportation is cheaper than river transportation and has fewer limitations. In fact, the Ming people also understand this, but they did not choose this way.

For personal gain, but also for the public interest.

At least, before there are measures to properly settle the millions of riverside laborers, the grain transport in the Ming Dynasty will always be more stable than sea transportation.

"If Minister Fu is transferred away, the voice of opposition in the Ministry of Households will be smaller. As long as Minister Guo insists, there will be no obstacles to the sea transportation of grain in the Ministry of Households."

At this time, Wang Guoguang still vowed to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde was actually angry about Wang Guoguang's attitude, and he was fooling him like a three-year-old child.

Wei Guangde even wanted to throw his hands on this matter.

Why should I work hard to make this happen?