Shen has always not offered such a high price to win people over for no reason.

The most important thing is that at the same time that Cai Guozhen wants Shen to always make a statement, Shen has always asked Cai Guozhen to express his position, because entering the cabinet means "flattering" and not paying attention to the rules, in the era when opposing the emperor is politically correct, not paying attention to the rules means isolating himself from the ministers and civil officials.

Once he enters the cabinet, he can only rely on the emperor to face the ministers and meet the words and swords and difficulties in all aspects that will soon come.

Shen has always been different, he is a cabinet assistant minister of righteousness and brightness.

Of course, civil officials cannot directly dismiss cabinet ministers, nor can they force the emperor to change his mind, because in the legal sense, cabinet ministers are the emperor's private secretaries, and they are not of high rank, and they are completely appointed by the emperor, which has not changed until now, and the emperor has the power to appoint cabinet ministers in legal procedures.

The emperor decreed that you should enter the cabinet, and you could enter the cabinet in a righteous and bright manner, which was how it used to be.

But now, in the case of the ministers advancing and retreating together, the authority of the emperor's holy decree has plummeted, and the choice of cabinet ministers has also changed from the emperor's appointment to the election of the ministers.

However, only in the matter of the selection of cabinet ministers, the emperor still has the power to designate candidates, although the court of ministers pushes the list of people to the emperor, and the emperor circles people to decide on candidates, it seems that the ministers limit the candidates, and the emperor chooses people who are recognized by everyone, but if the emperor throws off the court and forcibly decrees you to enter the cabinet, there is no problem in legal procedures.

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

This is the only way for non-Hanlin people to enter the cabinet, before that, only Zhang Xuan succeeded alone, and served as the first assistant three times, leaving a valuable precedent for future generations of non-Hanlin ministers.

But that's all, because the civil official group was almost wiped out in the Yan Song era, and they learned a lesson, and began to learn to fight inwardly, but in the face of the emperor, they must advance and retreat together, and force the imperial power into a desperate situation step by step, and achieve an undefeated golden body step by step.

In this process, anyone who may become Yan Song will be beaten without hesitation, and any civil official who does things for the emperor, or even says a fair word for the emperor, will be defeated and will be regarded as a rebel, such as Wang Xijue.

At this time, no matter which faction you are from, you will be given a hat of "flattery", and you will be scolded until you have a mental breakdown by launching a war of words with a wheel of words.

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

It was not that the emperor had not tried to order ministers to enter the cabinet with a central decree, but because of the coercion of the group, no one dared to accept it.

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

And now, that seems to have changed a bit.

The reason lies in Shen's personal selfishness.

was mainly frightened by Zhao Zhigao's tragic situation.

Zhao Zhigao can be said to be one of the saddest people in the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, not that the fate is not very good, but that the sad urging of life, the grievance of living, it is better to die.

After Shen has always had an insight into the situation of the successive first assistants since Zhang Juzheng, he referred to Yan Song's practice and made a comparison, and he realized that if he wants to gain a firm foothold and become the chief assistant with real power, and become the chief assistant with real power who can give effective instructions that everyone dares not to provoke and everyone must respect, it is necessary to have a solid team.

This team takes its own will as the supreme will, takes its own instructions as the code of action, everything is self-centered, and everyone's interests are the same, the goal is the same, and it will not easily leave the team.

Zhao Zhigao's predicament is that he didn't plan to become the first assistant before, it was completely forced by the times to push him to the position of the first assistant, at that time he was already in his seventies, dying of old age, he had no reliable team to cooperate, plus he had a gentle personality, and he didn't like to fight with others, so he lived a sad and sad negative teaching material.

In Daming, there are many Shoufu who have a more tragic ending than Zhao Zhigao, Xia Yan and Yan Song, but there are really few people who are as tragic as Zhao Zhigao.

This is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the political center of the Ming Dynasty, the center of the political whirlpool, you are a first assistant, do not fight with others, so what do you want to do? Pension?

Politics is a life-and-death struggle, there is no one who fights with you if you don't fight with others, they will only think that you are easy to bully, and everyone wants to bully, anyway, there are no consequences.

Shen has always seen every bit of these years in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, he deeply understood the reason why Zhao Zhigao was so sad, he had already sworn that he couldn't be Zhang Juzheng or Zhao Zhigao, and at worst, he had to be a Shen Shixing!

To this end, he needs a group of people who have no other backers and no other way out except himself to become his allies, and help him set up Shen Zheng's cabinet to fight against those civil officials who want to control their will all the time!

Shen's ambition continued to swell.

He promised Shi Xing, Song Yingchang, and Cai Guozhen, and then secretly prepared to implement beheading tactics against Yang Junmin, preparing to implement the tactics of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle against Yu Jideng, and implementing cold reception tactics against Xu Zuo, first winning the three departments that could be won to his side, and then gradually expanding his sphere of influence.

At the same time, it is necessary to exercise strict control over the group of speech officials.

Zhang Juzheng controlled a part of the speech officials in order to carry out drastic reforms while maintaining not to be knocked down by mental pollution tactics, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the speech officials were revived, gradually lost control, and slowly became a tool for the party to fight against differences.

At this moment, the spokesmen are no longer the group that spoke out for justice and justice, they are now completely the spokesmen of interest groups, taking advantage of their privileged position in political life, they do not distinguish between right and wrong, they only follow the principle of interests, and they have become complete biting dogs.

Shen has always been at odds with the Yanguan group, so in front of Xu Zuo, the right capital, he has never been able to get a good face, it doesn't matter, the evolved Shen has always decided to use Zhang Juzheng's means to put a muzzle and collar on this biting vicious dog.

He had already decided that once he ascended to the position of first assistant, the first thing he would do was to take action on the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Sections.

It's just not the time to do it.

A common enemy helps shape a group, and Shen has always needed this common enemy to win hearts and minds for himself.

Once Cai Guozhen and the others get on their own boat, they don't want to go down again.