The hall of the Zhengshi Hall is still so busy and noisy during the day. Even if Zhang Shuo sits in the study room, he cannot be quiet. However, such a sound cannot affect his mood. He has a sense of intimacy when he is used to listening, just like he can hear his heart beating. This is the heart of more than 1,000 counties in hundreds of prefectures and 1,000 counties in the Jin Dynasty.
A clerk had just polished the ink for him, so he took a pen and dipped it in the inkstone, and slowly wrote neat small characters on the white paper in front of him.
At this moment, the door was pushed open with a creaking sound. His nephew Zhang Jishi rushed in and called out his uncle. Zhang Jishi hurriedly changed his words: The Secretary of the Central Committee, Du Xian met with the emperor yesterday. Didn’t the emperor issued an imperial edict to sign him with the commander of the Dao Army? There is another thing. The emperor promised that he would be appointed as the Minister of War when he returned from victory.
Where did you know?Zhang Shuo's heart left a ball of extremely inconsistent thick ink on the paper, so he hurriedly put the pen down.
Zhang Jishidao: We sent officials to Huaqing Palace to pay tribute. The Empress Dowager said... How did the people in the cabinet get involved in the position of Shangshu Province?
Zhang Shuo didn't say anything, just sat on the chair and looked at the few words he had just written in front of him.
The other two people, one is Zhang Jishi, who is his nephew, and the other is his assistant for many years.
Zhang Shuo was silent for a long time before talking about something that seemed to have nothing to do with the topic: The day before yesterday, the Political Affairs Hall drafted a statement on the matter. Has it been handed over to the cabinet?
It seems that I was handed over yesterday. There are people on duty in the cabinet every day, and the memorials may be in the greenhouse hall now.The clerk hurriedly replied.
Zhang Shuo pondered: This kind of memorial is not a military and national event. The two women in the Greenhouse Hall will definitely approve the memorial. Our Political Affairs Hall will mostly deal with it as it will be done, and it will be too late to regret it.
My uncle thinks the handling of the memorial is not good?
Zhang Jishi hurriedly asked.
He has now been promoted to the Minister of War and sat in that position when he was in his thirties. Everyone knows that it was Zhang Shuo's relationship, but everyone pretended not to see it. Zhang said that there was nothing wrong with Zhang's statement that a Zhongshu Ling asked his nephew to be the Minister of War.
There is nothing wrong with reporting like this the day before yesterday, but now I feel that such a government order cannot be issued to the local area.Zhang Shuo said with certainty.
Zhang Jishi spent many years with Zhang Shuo and learned a lot of skills. After hearing this, he suddenly said: Uncle means... Zhang Shuo raised his head to stop him: Just talk and understand.
Zhang Jishi said again: When the memorial of approval is received, it needs to be implemented by the Secretariat. At that time, we still have a way to resolve it.
Zhang Shuo pulled a long face, and his expression became serious and his face looked very ugly, like a long radish, and the big beard on his chin was like a radish beard.
The emperor promised that Du Xian, a bachelor of the cabinet, would become the Minister of War?
This incident made Zhang Shuo realize a lot of things related to the government structure, but the most direct and obvious one is: the emperor will not give in to Hebei's strategy as if it were discussed, otherwise how could he be promoted to the person who proposed this mistake and strategy as the Secretary of Shang?
It would be nice not to take it out and bear the crime.
That's what Zhang Jishi wanted to say just now, but Mr. Zhang didn't let him say it.
The emperor was determined to do something, and it seemed that he was not careful about the cost. Zhang Shuo was not sure at the moment. What he could be sure of was that he must cater to the superiors at this time, otherwise the consequences would be very serious.
Zhang said that the official position had reached the level of a very powerful minister, but he was far from a powerful minister, and he knew that he could not be the one. During this period, the royal family of the Jin Dynasty was powerful, with direct forces and direct troops.
This power structure is from top to bottom. If the power of Zhang said one day loses the support of the emperor and Princess Taiping, it will only take a moment to fall.
Therefore, Zhang said that not only should we try to control the institutions below and make the government orders of the Zhengshi Hall efficiently implement them, but we should also always think about the above thoughts.
Zhang Shuo thought for a long time and turned to look at Zhang Jishi, and said in a very low voice: The memorial must be handled by the left and right ministers of the Shangshu Province. You can let someone take this matter off.
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The next day, the prime ministers met and discussed matters as usual, and something happened. The Right Prime Minister of the Shangshu Province lost an important memorial.
Zhang Shuo proposed to notify the Censor Taichung Chief, who made a mistake in his duties and may disclose the secrets of the court, and was impeached and dismissed from office and investigated.
Before Dou Huaizhen could figure out the situation, he thought that it was the official who lost the memorial, so he immediately suggested: We can re-written a memorial to submit it to the memorial so that local officials can appease the people.After the palace has approved it, you can report it to the residence, but it will delay the matter for a few more days and will not affect the overall situation.
Zhang Shuo was a little puzzled after hearing what he said. Logically, Dou Huaizhen flattered Princess Taiping to the point of taking advantage of the situation. Why did Du Xian not hear any news from the Huaqing Palace if he might have been promoted to Shangshu?
It is hard to say it clearly, because Du Xian’s incident was a verbal promise by the emperor, and the emperor did not say that it would be made public, and the source of the news was not a normal official document. How can Zhang’s report be convenient for him to take it out at the Political Affairs Hall meeting?
He said quietly: Comfort is a must, but I think it is not enough to just give me a reminder.In order to make the Hebei strategy smoothly before the New Year, we must start to help local officials and the people with kindness and power.First, the local officials were ordered to persuade the people who were causing trouble, and to build defenses to better protect the people of Hebei. They also needed to provide money, grain and tax subsidies to those families who were levied. This cannot be an empty word. The Ministry of Revenue will draw up detailed rules that can be implemented as soon as possible. If the civil servant dies in a border area, there must be a practical pension and order the local officials to do it. Second, for those officials who are unable to do things and ignore the court's orders, they cannot be dismissed from their posts and investigated!Those people who gathered to cause trouble would not disperse after being persuaded, must be instructed by others. These people who were planning to resist the court must suppress them!
Li Shouyi immediately said coldly: In two days, Zhong Shuling's face turned faster than reading, which is strange.
Zhang Shuo said seriously: It is already early spring of the first lunar month, and the weather has to start work when it gets warmer, but the labor force is not far from enough. Where is the execution ability of the Shangshu Province and the prestige of the imperial court?Our Jin Dynasty is not yet at the right time to impose government orders!
Hearing Zhang say that his tone is not as tough as pretentious, several prime ministers were silent, and they didn't know who understood the reason and who was still in the dark.
But even those who are still in the dark can figure it out sooner or later. Who can be the only one below who is at the position of prime minister?
Zhang said that he wanted to implement the Hebei strategy that the emperor criticized before the New Year. After thinking about it for a while, he naturally made his statement first: My colleagues should also think about the Secretariat. If the Hebei strategy is delayed, wouldn’t the palace ask him?The responsibility on the shoulders of the Zhongshu Ling is not light, and I agree with this article.
Dou Huaizhen and Xiao Zhizhong nodded thoughtfully, saying that they could submit the report, and Cheng Qianli agreed.Li Shou left without saying a word.
The letter from the Political Affairs Hall passed through the cabinet and then arrived at the study of the Greenhouse Hall. Xue Chongxun didn't see it, so he let the two women see it first. One princess and the other female official were not considered the person in power.
When Yao Wan saw the letter from the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, she handed it to Xue Erniang: Let me release this one separately, tell Your Majesty first and then approve it.
Princess Xue Erniang picked it up and browsed it and said with a smile: Do you remember yesterday that my brother promised Du Xian to be the Minister of War?Zhang said they must have known it, so there is no hurry.Just submit this article to the approval, so as not to delay their affairs. Then you can just say it when you see your brother.
Yao Wan reminded carefully: But Your Majesty said that important memorials need to be told first before they can be approved.
Princess Hezhong lifted up the red pen, held the long sleeve with her left hand, and said disapprovingly: Brother will also approve the song like this, don’t worry.
While she said that, she wrote two delicate red characters neatly on the black letters and handed them to Yao Wan: The jade seal is on the incense table, and the seal is used.
Yao Wan lowered her head and said nothing. When Princess Hezhong urged her, she raised her head and said seriously: Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise.I asked myself that I had no wisdom, but I was a little bit self-aware.Your Highness is Your Majesty's real sister. You can do whatever you want, but I am just a servant who serves you. Your grace has given you a female official. I have no right to use this memorial.
What a reckless act.The princess's face turned cold. You are a slave and a female official on the left, and she is soft and gentle. What is this word a needle hidden in the cotton?
I offended Your Highness for a moment, please punish me.
Princess in the river snorted: Are you confident, are you?OK, I can't help you, can't I do it myself?
After saying that, he stood up, walked to the other side of the incense table, stretched out his jade hand and opened a wooden box. Without hesitation, he took out the white jade seal inside, put it in front of his mouth in a big way, and let it breathe a sigh of heat, opened the sword and covered it with the jade seal.
She put the thing back and turned her head unhappily to look at Yao Wan and said: It’s obvious, I have to be pretentious.Just sue me in front of your brother, it’s better to add fuel to the fire and say a few bad things.
After hearing this, Yao Wan raised her chin and looked at Princess Hezhong: Your Highness is so worried, I have no intention to provoke your Majesty’s brother-sister relationship!But you should also understand one truth: who can move this pen and this piece of jade.Although we can write on the memorials of ministers, it is just a pen. The hand holding this pen should be His Majesty. Have you ever seen a pen that no one can write by himself when holding the pen?
A clerk had just polished the ink for him, so he took a pen and dipped it in the inkstone, and slowly wrote neat small characters on the white paper in front of him.
At this moment, the door was pushed open with a creaking sound. His nephew Zhang Jishi rushed in and called out his uncle. Zhang Jishi hurriedly changed his words: The Secretary of the Central Committee, Du Xian met with the emperor yesterday. Didn’t the emperor issued an imperial edict to sign him with the commander of the Dao Army? There is another thing. The emperor promised that he would be appointed as the Minister of War when he returned from victory.
Where did you know?Zhang Shuo's heart left a ball of extremely inconsistent thick ink on the paper, so he hurriedly put the pen down.
Zhang Jishidao: We sent officials to Huaqing Palace to pay tribute. The Empress Dowager said... How did the people in the cabinet get involved in the position of Shangshu Province?
Zhang Shuo didn't say anything, just sat on the chair and looked at the few words he had just written in front of him.
The other two people, one is Zhang Jishi, who is his nephew, and the other is his assistant for many years.
Zhang Shuo was silent for a long time before talking about something that seemed to have nothing to do with the topic: The day before yesterday, the Political Affairs Hall drafted a statement on the matter. Has it been handed over to the cabinet?
It seems that I was handed over yesterday. There are people on duty in the cabinet every day, and the memorials may be in the greenhouse hall now.The clerk hurriedly replied.
Zhang Shuo pondered: This kind of memorial is not a military and national event. The two women in the Greenhouse Hall will definitely approve the memorial. Our Political Affairs Hall will mostly deal with it as it will be done, and it will be too late to regret it.
My uncle thinks the handling of the memorial is not good?
Zhang Jishi hurriedly asked.
He has now been promoted to the Minister of War and sat in that position when he was in his thirties. Everyone knows that it was Zhang Shuo's relationship, but everyone pretended not to see it. Zhang said that there was nothing wrong with Zhang's statement that a Zhongshu Ling asked his nephew to be the Minister of War.
There is nothing wrong with reporting like this the day before yesterday, but now I feel that such a government order cannot be issued to the local area.Zhang Shuo said with certainty.
Zhang Jishi spent many years with Zhang Shuo and learned a lot of skills. After hearing this, he suddenly said: Uncle means... Zhang Shuo raised his head to stop him: Just talk and understand.
Zhang Jishi said again: When the memorial of approval is received, it needs to be implemented by the Secretariat. At that time, we still have a way to resolve it.
Zhang Shuo pulled a long face, and his expression became serious and his face looked very ugly, like a long radish, and the big beard on his chin was like a radish beard.
The emperor promised that Du Xian, a bachelor of the cabinet, would become the Minister of War?
This incident made Zhang Shuo realize a lot of things related to the government structure, but the most direct and obvious one is: the emperor will not give in to Hebei's strategy as if it were discussed, otherwise how could he be promoted to the person who proposed this mistake and strategy as the Secretary of Shang?
It would be nice not to take it out and bear the crime.
That's what Zhang Jishi wanted to say just now, but Mr. Zhang didn't let him say it.
The emperor was determined to do something, and it seemed that he was not careful about the cost. Zhang Shuo was not sure at the moment. What he could be sure of was that he must cater to the superiors at this time, otherwise the consequences would be very serious.
Zhang said that the official position had reached the level of a very powerful minister, but he was far from a powerful minister, and he knew that he could not be the one. During this period, the royal family of the Jin Dynasty was powerful, with direct forces and direct troops.
This power structure is from top to bottom. If the power of Zhang said one day loses the support of the emperor and Princess Taiping, it will only take a moment to fall.
Therefore, Zhang said that not only should we try to control the institutions below and make the government orders of the Zhengshi Hall efficiently implement them, but we should also always think about the above thoughts.
Zhang Shuo thought for a long time and turned to look at Zhang Jishi, and said in a very low voice: The memorial must be handled by the left and right ministers of the Shangshu Province. You can let someone take this matter off.
……
The next day, the prime ministers met and discussed matters as usual, and something happened. The Right Prime Minister of the Shangshu Province lost an important memorial.
Zhang Shuo proposed to notify the Censor Taichung Chief, who made a mistake in his duties and may disclose the secrets of the court, and was impeached and dismissed from office and investigated.
Before Dou Huaizhen could figure out the situation, he thought that it was the official who lost the memorial, so he immediately suggested: We can re-written a memorial to submit it to the memorial so that local officials can appease the people.After the palace has approved it, you can report it to the residence, but it will delay the matter for a few more days and will not affect the overall situation.
Zhang Shuo was a little puzzled after hearing what he said. Logically, Dou Huaizhen flattered Princess Taiping to the point of taking advantage of the situation. Why did Du Xian not hear any news from the Huaqing Palace if he might have been promoted to Shangshu?
It is hard to say it clearly, because Du Xian’s incident was a verbal promise by the emperor, and the emperor did not say that it would be made public, and the source of the news was not a normal official document. How can Zhang’s report be convenient for him to take it out at the Political Affairs Hall meeting?
He said quietly: Comfort is a must, but I think it is not enough to just give me a reminder.In order to make the Hebei strategy smoothly before the New Year, we must start to help local officials and the people with kindness and power.First, the local officials were ordered to persuade the people who were causing trouble, and to build defenses to better protect the people of Hebei. They also needed to provide money, grain and tax subsidies to those families who were levied. This cannot be an empty word. The Ministry of Revenue will draw up detailed rules that can be implemented as soon as possible. If the civil servant dies in a border area, there must be a practical pension and order the local officials to do it. Second, for those officials who are unable to do things and ignore the court's orders, they cannot be dismissed from their posts and investigated!Those people who gathered to cause trouble would not disperse after being persuaded, must be instructed by others. These people who were planning to resist the court must suppress them!
Li Shouyi immediately said coldly: In two days, Zhong Shuling's face turned faster than reading, which is strange.
Zhang Shuo said seriously: It is already early spring of the first lunar month, and the weather has to start work when it gets warmer, but the labor force is not far from enough. Where is the execution ability of the Shangshu Province and the prestige of the imperial court?Our Jin Dynasty is not yet at the right time to impose government orders!
Hearing Zhang say that his tone is not as tough as pretentious, several prime ministers were silent, and they didn't know who understood the reason and who was still in the dark.
But even those who are still in the dark can figure it out sooner or later. Who can be the only one below who is at the position of prime minister?
Zhang said that he wanted to implement the Hebei strategy that the emperor criticized before the New Year. After thinking about it for a while, he naturally made his statement first: My colleagues should also think about the Secretariat. If the Hebei strategy is delayed, wouldn’t the palace ask him?The responsibility on the shoulders of the Zhongshu Ling is not light, and I agree with this article.
Dou Huaizhen and Xiao Zhizhong nodded thoughtfully, saying that they could submit the report, and Cheng Qianli agreed.Li Shou left without saying a word.
The letter from the Political Affairs Hall passed through the cabinet and then arrived at the study of the Greenhouse Hall. Xue Chongxun didn't see it, so he let the two women see it first. One princess and the other female official were not considered the person in power.
When Yao Wan saw the letter from the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, she handed it to Xue Erniang: Let me release this one separately, tell Your Majesty first and then approve it.
Princess Xue Erniang picked it up and browsed it and said with a smile: Do you remember yesterday that my brother promised Du Xian to be the Minister of War?Zhang said they must have known it, so there is no hurry.Just submit this article to the approval, so as not to delay their affairs. Then you can just say it when you see your brother.
Yao Wan reminded carefully: But Your Majesty said that important memorials need to be told first before they can be approved.
Princess Hezhong lifted up the red pen, held the long sleeve with her left hand, and said disapprovingly: Brother will also approve the song like this, don’t worry.
While she said that, she wrote two delicate red characters neatly on the black letters and handed them to Yao Wan: The jade seal is on the incense table, and the seal is used.
Yao Wan lowered her head and said nothing. When Princess Hezhong urged her, she raised her head and said seriously: Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are wise.I asked myself that I had no wisdom, but I was a little bit self-aware.Your Highness is Your Majesty's real sister. You can do whatever you want, but I am just a servant who serves you. Your grace has given you a female official. I have no right to use this memorial.
What a reckless act.The princess's face turned cold. You are a slave and a female official on the left, and she is soft and gentle. What is this word a needle hidden in the cotton?
I offended Your Highness for a moment, please punish me.
Princess in the river snorted: Are you confident, are you?OK, I can't help you, can't I do it myself?
After saying that, he stood up, walked to the other side of the incense table, stretched out his jade hand and opened a wooden box. Without hesitation, he took out the white jade seal inside, put it in front of his mouth in a big way, and let it breathe a sigh of heat, opened the sword and covered it with the jade seal.
She put the thing back and turned her head unhappily to look at Yao Wan and said: It’s obvious, I have to be pretentious.Just sue me in front of your brother, it’s better to add fuel to the fire and say a few bad things.
After hearing this, Yao Wan raised her chin and looked at Princess Hezhong: Your Highness is so worried, I have no intention to provoke your Majesty’s brother-sister relationship!But you should also understand one truth: who can move this pen and this piece of jade.Although we can write on the memorials of ministers, it is just a pen. The hand holding this pen should be His Majesty. Have you ever seen a pen that no one can write by himself when holding the pen?