"You, you, you" Xia Yuanji and the others were so angry that they trembled, a mouthful of phlegm stuck in their throats, and their old faces were bruised, and they turned their backs on them. otbnkotgt Yang Shiqi naturally wouldn't stay here, as soon as his sedan chair came, he bent down to get on the sedan chair and asked the sedan chair driver to carry him away quickly.
"A group of old wastes" sat down in the sedan chair, and Yang Shiqi snorted coldly.
He stayed away from the gray-haired old men.
Yang Shiqi's sedan chair went straight into the palace and fell at the Qianqing Gate.
Yang Rong also happened to come back, and when he got off the sedan chair, the two went to the Qianqing Palace together.
"Why didn't you say hello today, and you proposed to boycott the dynasty" Yang Rong also had the same question, obviously as his closest comrade-in-arms, he was also kept in the dark.
"I didn't mean to hide it," Yang Shiqi looked at Yang Rong and sighed, "I just don't want you to be implicated."
He said in a low voice and said: "This kind of thing is very likely to ruin a person's career, Youzi has already gone, if I am also deposed, I have to keep you in the cabinet to assist the emperor."
"Alas" After listening to Yang Shiqi's explanation, Yang Rong's unhappiness disappeared in his heart, and he looked at Yang Shiqi with a worried face and said: "Brother Shiqi, why are you so loyal to the king, but you have a clear conscience, can you be so desperate?"
"At the beginning, we swore together to open peace for all generations, for this oath, we paid so much, and Youzi also put his life into it" Yang Shiqi looked up at the gloomy sky, and said with an extremely resolute expression: "So this battle, even if we are defeated, we must win" "Brother Shiqi" Yang Rong sighed, and said with shame on his face: "I'm not as good as you." ” While talking, the two entered the Qianqing Palace.
After returning from Changling, Emperor Hongxi has been recuperating from his illness, and he has not looked at the court for nearly half a month, but only receives scholars every morning and dusk to deal with some urgent military affairs.
Although he was ill, the emperor was still alarmed by the grand public sacrifice on Qipan Tianjie, and seeing Yang Shiqi come in, Zhu Gaochi couldn't hold back his anger and said: "I heard that you proposed to boycott the court at the public sacrifice site, what kind of famous hall do you want to make?"
"The emperor is tolerant, Weichen is not trying to blackmail the emperor, Weichen is providing weapons to the emperor" Yang Shiqi replied unhurriedly.
"Oh" Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you say this?"
"Before the British public roared at the Golden Palace, the nobles cried and made trouble, and even killed civil officials, the reason why the emperor was unable to punish him severely was nothing more than that they used the big hat of the ancestor Gangchang to buckle the emperor's head, making the emperor very passive" Yang Shiqi said in a deep voice: "In the final analysis, the Holy Son of Heaven should be the arbiter of cause and effect, rather than personally ending the game, and fighting to the death with Xungui" "Oh" Zhu Gaochi's eyes lit up obviously, these words were really like an enlightenment, which made him solve his long-standing doubts at once Zhu Gaochi couldn't understand why Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were ten times bigger than him, but they could still be at ease, no courtier dared to be disrespectful to them, let alone why he failed so much before roaring at the monarch, everyone dared to argue with himself, and even dared to point at his nose and scold his mother, so that his prestige was ruined, this emperor was extremely wretched.
Originally, Zhu Gaochi only blamed himself for not having military power in his hands, but after listening to Yang Shiqi's words at this moment, he suddenly opened his mouth, it turned out that he was too anxious and did all the errands of his courtiers, so he naturally had to bear the rights and wrongs of his courtiers At this time, what he should do most is actually to retreat to the outside and be an arbiter.
Let the civil and military generals fight, hide their will in the ruling, and let the court become what they want.
This is actually the most basic imperial mental technique, he knew it in his chest when he was a teenager, but after years of suffering and once ascending the throne, he was carried away by too many emotions, and he actually committed the taboo of kings, and he didn't know it.
Now as soon as Yang Shiqi woke up, Zhu Gaochi suddenly felt clear and overjoyed, and actually got up and hugged Yang Shiqi and said, "Bachelor, I have been taught" "You are just a fan of the authorities, with the emperor's sage, you don't need to talk too much, and you will soon wake up."
Yang Shiqi was naturally full of humility, changed his words, and returned to the topic: "Weichen's call for civil officials to strike the dynasty is to give the emperor a chance to punish the generals."
After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "From the central to the local, the operation of the Ming regime depends entirely on civilian officials.
As soon as the civil officials quit the court, the entire Ming Dynasty will be suffocated, of course, the emperor must, of course, immediately restore the normal operation of the imperial court, then it is natural to give the civil officials an explanation and let the nobles hand over the murderers."
"That's right, but on that day, almost all the nobles participated in the murder, and I couldn't have wiped them all out, and in the end, I could only kill a few scapegoats, which didn't help."
Zhu Gaochi was excited at first, and then calmed down.
"The emperor is very worried, and he must not let them find a few scapegoats and lock this up."
Yang Shiqi said with a deep gaze: "You should take the opportunity to deprive them of the right to discuss politics" "Oh" Zhu Gaochi looked at Yang Shiqi in surprise, only to know that he was playing this abacus After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although the official division between civil and military affairs was clear, but once the military general reached the level of the duke and earl, he had the right to participate in politics.
When he was in the court, he stood at the forefront of the court class, and he could point fingers at everything, and the emperor had to listen carefully, and did not dare to take their opinions as a left ear.
The ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty cannot be knighted unless it is a military merit, so the civil officials have never been given the opportunity to dictate the martial arts, and they have been steadily pressed on the top of their heads by the military generals for decades and cannot turn over.
If the nobles are deprived of the right to participate in the administration and discussion of state affairs, the situation will be turned upside down immediately, not only will the nobles no longer be able to interfere in government affairs, but the civilian officials will also be able to grasp military affairs in their hands justifiably.
Because the military is a continuation of politics, whether to fight or not, and how to fight is a military issue, and at the same time, it is also a political issue "How to do it" Zhu Gaochi stared at Yang Shiqi tightly, and his panting voice became heavy.
"It's very simple, as long as the emperor gives an order, all the nobles in Changling that day will be suspended, think about it behind closed doors, and wait for the investigation."
Yang Shiqi said lightly: "This is the proper intention to appease the civil officials, and it is not said who is to be convicted, and the nobles should not object." ” "And then" Zhu Gaochi nodded and asked.
According to the rules, impeached officials should be immediately suspended pending investigation, let alone suspected of killing court officials "Then, to investigate such a case, there will definitely be all kinds of obstacles, and it is normal to investigate for a year and a half" Yang Shiqi said in a deep voice: "Such a long time is enough for the emperor to move the power from the outer court to the inner court."
"Moving from the outer court to the inner court" Zhu Gaochi's heart was stimulated by these words.
Because since he ascended the throne for half a year, he has personally felt the disadvantages of foreign court discussions, and everything has to be discussed at the court meeting, which is not only inefficient, but also those princes and ministers rely on the old and sell the old to sing the opposite, and sometimes he, the emperor, has to withdraw his life.
This made Zhu Gaochi very uncomfortable.
If the decision-making power of military affairs can be transferred from the court to the inner court, and it is limited to the emperor and a few scholars, the efficiency can naturally be greatly improved, and the state power will be more tightly controlled in the hands of the emperor "Brother Shiqi, you are really my Kong Ming and the ovary" Zhu Gaochi stretched out his hand and grabbed Yang Shiqi's arm, slapped him a few times, and said excitedly: "Listen to your words, I am better than reading for ten years, thank you" "It's all what Weichen should do."
Yang Shiqi's expression was flat, as if he had just done a trivial matter.
"This matter is so decided, let's discuss the details" Zhu Gaochi unexpectedly immediately made a decision In normal times, His Majesty the Emperor would definitely be cautious about this kind of action related to the structure of the regime and the future situation of the court, but at this moment, he was too deeply injured, too angry, and bullied too badly by the nobles, and he couldn't tolerate any other thoughts in his heart except how to weaken the nobles and monopolize power As for the balance issue, it will have to wait until the civil officials and the nobles can sit on an equal footing.
As for whether the scholars will have too much power, that is not a question that the emperor is considering now, he is now afraid that the power of the scholars is too small to help him check and balance the nobles The emperor and Yang Shiqi were discussing the next steps enthusiastically, and Yang Rong listened quietly on the side, occasionally picking up and filling in the gaps.
For Yang Shiqi's performance today, he was so shocked that he was originally called Eryang with him, and he felt that they were indistinguishable from each other, but looking at Yang Shiqi's repeated actions today, he was actually beyond his reach On the way back from Changling, all the civil officials fell into despair, because at that time, even His Majesty the Emperor had to compromise and retreat to the arrogant nobles, how could this not make people feel that the future was bleak, and that the civil officials could never turn over.
However, Yang Shiqi did not despair, he saw a big opportunity from the great crisis, and after returning to Beijing, he immediately gathered all the yamen to jointly hold a public sacrifice to seek justice for the dead officials Yang Shiqi used the public memorial conference to mobilize the feelings of officials with the same hatred of the enemy, twisted the scattered yamen into a rope, and then brazenly announced the boycott Originally, Yang Rong thought that he would be reproached by the emperor, but who knew that Yang Shiqi turned his hand into the clouds and rained, and actually designed a golden strip for the emperor to take the opportunity to deprive the nobles of the right to discuss politics and transfer the power from the outer court to the inner court Yang Rong knew very well that Zhu Gaochi would never refuse this gift, in fact, as long as he was a sane emperor, he would not refuse this opportunity to monopolize power Yang Rong also knew very well that Yang Shiqi's large-scale plan was certainly planning for the emperor, but it was also a serious private matter in the inner court, what kind of cabinet and eunuch yamen.
And the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty was there, and the eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in politics, so naturally the cabinet and the emperor were left to discuss the country: