There was no need for any officials to push the court, and Emperor Xuande himself continued to consolidate the position of the cabinet, Huang Huai was added to the rank of squire of the Ministry of Ministers by the general political envoy of Zheng Sanpin, and Yang Rong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, was also the Taichang Siqing of Zheng Sanpin, and the prince and young master of Zheng Erpin.

Wenyuan Pavilion University scholar Jin Youzi also has the title of secretary of the household department, and he is crowned the prince of the second grade.

The most senior official is still the secretary of the Ministry of Jianyi, and he is named one of the three orphans. He immediately resigned from Shangshu and became a cabinet counselor.

The title of Yang Shiqi, the emperor's most trusted one, is dazzling, and the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, the scholar of Huagai Palace, and the scholar of Zuo Chunfang University, and the Shaobao, one of the three orphans, was crowned.

In this way, the official position of the cabinet has been completely promoted, and it has become the same grade as the six books.

In order to calm down the criticism, Zhu Zhanji made a special remark that Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, and Huang Huai "are all in charge of the internal system, and they do not pre-empt their promotions."

"All hands on the internal system" means that the four members of the cabinet are the emperor's attendants and close ministers, and in layman's terms, they are the secretary general and advisers, who can help the emperor make decisions on government affairs. And "not pre-promoted" means that most of the official positions of cabinet ministers are renewed, and they can get the corresponding positions and can also supervise, but they don't really go to the six ministries to be a scholar or a squire, in a word, they have no real power.

The famous vote power in history was also born, so far the status of the cabinet scholars is respected, and the weight of the cabinet power is like that of the Han and Tang dynasties, but there is no name of prime minister.

The Xuande Dynasty's voting system was very effective in consolidating centralized power, and at present, there were no eunuchs to hinder it, and Zhu Zhanji trusted Yang Shiqi and other cabinet ministers very much, and he himself was impatient with cumbersome and heavy government affairs, which made all the cabinet buildings almost immediately become the emperor's edicts that must be carried out in all parts of the world, far exceeding the administrative efficiency of the Hongxi period.

The cabinet cooperated with the emperor and gave full play to the strengths of ministers and emperors, in a sense. It is close to the internal political structure of modern Western countries, and it is also close to the democratic centralism of modern China, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the originator.

The candidates for the three dukes and the three orphans were released one after another, and the civil and military officials suddenly found that there was still a Taibao left, and they couldn't help but talk about it, and it was generally believed that it was left to Xu Hao, and in addition to Xu Hao, who was qualified?

Around the core ruling group of Emperor Xuande, Jian Yi Jian is simple and scheming, and Yang Shiqi is upright. Yang Rongming is promising, Xia Yuanji is good at making decisions, and is good at personnel work; Jian Yi is good at etiquette system, Yang Rong is good at military affairs, Yang Shiqi is good at civil affairs, Yang Pu, who is still young, is a role model that everyone admires, and Zhang Fu is the nominal army commander, so it can be said that each has its own distinctive characteristics and can complement each other.

Xu Hao's status is precisely the most special, everyone can ignore him, but everyone can't ignore his existence. Although he didn't care about anything, he often influenced the decisions of the emperor and the cabinet.

In private, Xu Hao politely rejected Zhu Zhanji's offer to seal the Taibao on the grounds that his father was alive and his age was still young, and he naturally cared about the power Xu Hao very much. But he didn't care about the honorary title of the third duke.

At the same time, Xu Hao understands Zhu Zhanji more and more, the current imperial power is equivalent to walking on one leg, relying too much on the cabinet, and any far-sighted emperor will be worried. Either you have to learn from Taizu and do everything, or you have to find another leg to balance, otherwise it will go on for a long time. The emperor is lax in government, and once a powerful minister is produced to overthrow the emperor, the consequences will be unimaginable.

To this day, Xu Hao still hasn't thought about what parliaments he has done in the past, the backbone of ancient China, the squires are equivalent to local councils at all levels, without the support of the squires, it is impossible to be a good magistrate, and Shilin can also play some functions of the central council.

Xu Hao understands better than anyone else that if you want to completely modernize, you can't learn from the United States, because the United States has no history, and people can establish a new political system on a blank sheet of paper, start from scratch, and cut off the cultural ties with the European mother country, but China cannot.

Xu Hao already has the answer in his heart, in the land of China, there is a ready-made successful experience, but unfortunately it cannot be implemented at this stage, and he does not have the ability to implement it. As for democracy, freedom, and modernization? It can only be said that it is really the second or has ulterior motives.

In a corn garden, Ripple and Ye Qin passed the suspension bridge on the mountain, and when they saw a few women sitting upstairs, they stood up and said, "The two grandmothers have worked hard, walking around every day. ”

Ripple smiled: "It's nothing, it's just that you are also tired." ”

One of the women smiled wryly, "Not really! It was ten times more lively than usual, and people on both sides came and went every day, most of them greedy for the road to get close to the past, like a hall, and the stairs rang all day and night. At night, the lights are lit up and down, and it is even more lively than a teahouse. ”

Ripple smiled, and Ye Qin said: "Let's hit the platform and come over, the handle of the mirror door is loose, I'm afraid that Ming'er will take off the bamboo shoots again and hurt people." The people over there don't have much experience, you go over and see, such a big mirror is too expensive, it is better to install a railing door

The women agreed to come down, Ripple and Ye Qin went down the stairs, and when they saw Xu Cuiliu coming out of the corridor, Ripple looked at the patio and asked, "Why don't you build a pergola on a hot day?" ”

Xu Cuiliu said: "Last year, the pergola in the third brother's study was made of machine, which was very convenient. It was built with an iron pole, and the tent was made of silk, and there was no need to pull it hard, but only to spin the snail on the pole, and the tent opened like a wind. Spin it up again, and the tent will roll up like a wind. Mrs. loves this, so this year's old tent is not called to ride, and I will send it over to Liaodong, and I am waiting for it, indicating that it will arrive the day after tomorrow. ”

"It was developed by the students of the school." Ye Qin smiled again: "It's good, it's a hundred and ten taels of silver, such a big account, and I have to be scolded by the old lady." ”

Xu Cuiliu also smiled: "Say eighty taels of silver each, even the wife's courtyard has a total of thirty, about three thousand taels." But Mrs. is accurate, this money is all from Mrs. Niang, let's follow the light,"

A gust of wind blew, and there was no trace of coolness in the heat, and Ripples said while wiping sweat: "It's too hot, it's going to rain to cool down this day, and if it's hot, you really can't do anything at all, and everyone is worried about going into the water to relieve the heat." ”

Xifu, Xu Hu is back to Beijing with his nephew Xu Ye, the weather is hot, he is wearing a single shirt in the study of the inner house, and he is called the maid Xiaofeng to play a fan, he opened a list on the paper, asked someone to take it out, and called the account office to come over, to buy some things to relieve the heat and divide it.

Xu Hu asked his wife's right-hand man Xiaofeng: "I remember that I ran forty Yunnan fans last year, where did I put them?" It's so hot, why doesn't anyone mention it? You hurriedly ask Liu Yuan's family, and ask each room to come and collect it quickly. ”

Xiaofeng came out in response and went to find Liu Yuan's family, and bumped into Liu Shun's family on the way, Liu Shun and Liu Yuan were cousins.

Xiaofeng stopped and asked, "Mom came just in time, the master called Liu Yuan's mother, are you outside?" ”

Liu Shunjia was surprised: "What? It's my sister-in-law who is shouting? Didn't you call me, did you hear me wrong? ”

"Mom came to make fun of it again." Xiaofeng smiled and said, "Can I hear this little thing wrong?" ”

"How do you do things? One by one, they think they are shrewd. Liu Shunjia was even more surprised, and said speechlessly: "Didn't my grandmother send my sister-in-law and his wife to Quanzhou together at the beginning of last month, and they haven't come back yet." ”

"Didn't come back?" Xiaofeng was also surprised, and said, "The masters are all back, why are they outside?" ”

Liu Shunjia said: "You don't know about this, grandma is afraid that the master will know, and she will hide it like an iron bucket." I am still my sister-in-law and told me in private that there is an urgent matter in Quanzhou. Let's not talk about it, what the hell are you, you tell me. ”

Xiaofeng said the words of the big fan, and Liu Shunjia said: "Ask the right person, I accepted it last year, I'll go back to open the warehouse now, clean it up, and send it in." ”

Xiao Feng then turned around and came back, because Xu Hu had something to do, she went out and returned the matter to Feng Wenjun, but Liu Yuan's family did not mention it, she didn't know what was going on, for fear of making Feng angry if she said it.

When Xu Hu came in at night, he shouted hot, Feng Wenjun instructed the maid to take off his long shirt for him, and asked Xiaofeng to play a fan.

Xu Hu felt a little more comfortable, took a sip of herbal tea, and said, "Have you heard that the eldest brother was dismissed from his post last night?" ”

Feng Wenjun said in surprise: "Where can I take care of these things, I can't take care of it at home." What the hell is going on? Big brother got into trouble again. ”

"Don't mention it." Xu Hu shook his head, "It's for the bad thing of Xuan'er's nephew, which made the second master angry and slapped him a few times." Our third brother and sister-in-law are now eighty percent gone, and we will compensate the eldest wife, right? ”

"Ahh Feng Wenjun was very surprised, "Why?" ”

Xu Hu sighed and said: "It's too nonsense, last month Xu Xuan and Master Xia went out to listen to the play, and they fought with the people in the troupe for no reason, he went to the Terracotta Division to find the eldest brother, do you want the eldest brother's temper?" The people who directly led people to the troupe were arrested, not only beaten but also paraded in the streets, and later the drama garden was sealed, and the boxes and costumes were sold and confiscated, which was all done by the nephew in the name of the third brother and the eldest brother.

Who knows, the owner of the opera garden is Liu Lao Wu's person, and Liu Conglong is the proud person of the third prince, but as a result, people went to Yue Wangfu to complain, accusing our family of relying on power to bully others and blackmail the people. Just now, the old man called me over, just for this matter, now our family is extremely rich, it can be said that it is a big tree, warning me not to come nonsense, there is no continuous such trouble, our Xu family is afraid that it will be unstable. ”

Feng Wenjun bowed his head and was silent, and Xu Hu said again: "There is still a matter." Yesterday, the Ministry of Officials sent a letter asking Shen Peiyuan, a candidate for a clerk in the ministry, asking for a vacancy there, saying that he was a protégé of our Xifu, and asked if there was such a thing. Just now the master asked me, I don't know, and when I checked the roster, I found out that it was my wife's companion, Liu Yuan's original name. Isn't it a miracle, you say? When did he go to buy a non-current? and vainly begged for a lack of space, but he was not in the house at the moment, and said that he had gone out on leave. (To be continued......)