Daming Military Empire

Chapter 560 Why Delegate Power

Once the "Daming Chongzheng Law" was announced, it was shocking. The emperor actually wanted to restrict the scope of his own power, and even delegated most of the power of the central government to the cabinet. This is simply an ancient legend, shocking!
What does the emperor mean by this, no one really can figure it out, but none of the civil and military courts in the Manchu Dynasty tried to dissuade him from the memorial.

This is not because Zhu Cijiong implemented a high-pressure policy to suppress all dissatisfied voices, nor is it because all literati are following others and losing their pride. The main reason is that they have no reason to object!

Literati originally had the dream of governing the country and showing their ambitions. This was especially true in the Ming Dynasty. Civilian groups and the emperor struggled for power from the time of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to the Tianqi Dynasty of Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao for nearly 300 years. It never stopped. I don’t know how many literati lost their lives because of this. There was even a strange phenomenon that the emperor trained eunuch groups to deal with civil official groups. As a result, the Ming Dynasty was also the era with the most powerful eunuchs, even more than previous dynasties. All ages add up to be many.

Of course, these civil servants in the Ming Dynasty did not want to overthrow the emperor or seek to usurp the throne. Most of them represented the appeals of various interest groups, and some were purely for ideals and ambitions.

Now, the emperor has devolved almost all the powers of governing the country, which is exactly what the literati dreamed of, and they are trying to dissuade them, not to mention that the emperor will be unhappy, most of the literati will be unhappy, this kind of thing offends both the emperor and the literati all over the world , Whoever does it is two hundred and five, so after the announcement of "Daming Chongzheng Law", Zhu Cijiong did not receive a memorial of opposition!

However, someone still came to dissuade him. It's not that this person is a two hundred and five. The main thing is that he does not belong to the civil official group, but to the royal family group. This is naturally the emperor's fifth uncle Xinwang Zhu Youjian.

When the whole capital city and even the various government departments were discussing, he silently walked towards the emperor's private study with a stack of memorials. It seemed that there was an important memorial for the emperor to review.

To be honest, he had never been so cautious. Usually, he didn't need to prepare anything when he went to the emperor.

He was not a stupefied young man, he also knew that going to dissuade the emperor at this time would offend people, and if he went there blatantly and unscrupulously, he would definitely become the target of verbal criticism, so he deliberately covered it up, trying to avoid others' suspicion.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong was planning to form a new department. The implementation of "Daming Chongzheng Law" was only part of his strategy to improve the governance of the country, and the establishment and improvement of various functional departments was also an indispensable part.

Hearing that Uncle Huang was coming, he quickly put down the brush in his hand, stood up directly, and greeted the door.

Needless to say, the relationship between the uncles and nephews even had the taste of a wise monarch and virtuous minister. After the two parties greeted each other, Zhu Cijiong took the letter king Zhu Youjian to the conference table and led him to the first place on the left. sit down.

Zhu Youjian put the memorial in front of him, and sat down respectfully. Before he could speak, Zhu Cijiong said with great interest: "Uncle Wu, you came just in time. I just wanted to tell you about the policy strategy after the cabinet reorganization Woolen cloth."

Hearing this, Zhu Youjian said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for talking too much. Why did you delegate the power of governing the country to the cabinet?"

Zhu Cijiong also knew that no one would understand why he wanted to delegate power at this time, but he was not worried that some people would object. If the power was given to them and they were allowed to exercise it, and they still objected, then there was something wrong.

On the contrary, the Fifth Uncle Zhu Youjian ignored it. From the perspective of the royal family, doing so was indeed a disadvantage, but he had to suffer from it, because with the development of Ming Dynasty, various interest groups would also develop slowly. Come on, if they are not given any right to speak, they will definitely try their best to fight for this right to speak, and it is possible to fight until the time comes!
In other words, if he doesn't suffer this loss now, his future generations will definitely suffer even greater losses.

It is normal for Xin Wang Zhu Youjian to not understand, because he does not know that when the society develops to a certain level, the feudal dynasty is bound to perish, and if it does not want to perish, it must be changed.

Of course, it is useless for Zhu Cijiong to say these things now, because no one can understand. He can only see what this fifth uncle thinks first, and then explain to him in a way that people can understand now.

Thinking of this, he asked directly: "Uncle Wu, do you think it's wrong to do this?"

In fact, Zhu Youjian also has a stubborn side, but he has never had the opportunity to show it. This time, he thought that he was doing it for the interests of the royal family, and the nerve in his head was finally hooked. He actually learned from the stubborn donkey before Huang Daozhou In this way, Zou Yan straightly remonstrated: "Your Majesty, it is not only inappropriate, you are simply being too upside down, give someone a handle!"

If someone else said that, Zhu Cijiong would probably be angry if he didn't lose his temper, because he was used to being an emperor who kept his promises. It would be no wonder he wasn't angry if anyone dared to contradict him so directly.

However, his fifth uncle can be an exception. He was not angry when he heard the words, but asked with great interest: "Oh, is it so serious?"

Zhu Youjian said bitterly: "Your Majesty, you don't know that those civil servants have too much desire for power. If you don't let go, they all want to seize power. My Daming has been on guard since the Taizu, and I don't know how many people have been killed. Put them down, how can you just give them all the power?"

The Ming Dynasty was indeed famous for killing civil officials, especially the Emperor Taizu, who was so ruthless when he killed him, and blood flowed like rivers at every turn. In the entire Hongwu Dynasty, more than half of the civil officials were killed. It can be said that in the Ming Dynasty Officer, that is quite a high-risk occupation.

Civilian groups and the emperor struggled for power throughout the Ming Dynasty, but sometimes they fought fiercely, and sometimes they were suppressed fiercely. What's the point of fighting back and forth? It is getting weaker and weaker. The Ming Dynasty was a typical example of being strong before and then weak. During the period of Taizu and Chengzu, he was invincible in the world. When it comes to the two brothers Tianqi and Chongzhen, they are simply bullied by others. This is inseparable from the serious internal fighting. .

Fighting back and forth is actually a matter of social development, because society is developing towards democracy and civilization. Unless we reverse the car and suppress social development, the feudal monarchy will be eliminated sooner or later. Zhu Cijiong naturally knows this, but he can't talk to Zhu like this now. Youjian explained that he could only start from the current situation and lead him: "Uncle Wu, do you think that if everyone is not a fool, one person's ability can exceed ten or even hundreds of people?"

This is naturally impossible, and Zhu Youjian didn't know what the emperor meant by asking this, so he could only shake his head and say, "Of course it's impossible."

(End of this chapter)