Chapter 388 Bullying is not allowed
Zhu Zaijing, who was in the official supervision of the country, was the first person to meet with the Secretary of General Affairs. He did not go to the cabinet and the six ministries. It was not because Zhu Zaijing really couldn’t see it. The reason why I understand these memorials written in parallel prose is because Zhu Zaijing knew that his every move now was actually under the supervision of Emperor Jiajing.
His status as Supervisor of the State is just the result of the whim of the old Taoist priest from Jiajing. If Zhu Zaijing really used this "chicken feather" of the Supervisor of the State as a command arrow and really issued orders to the six cabinet ministries, then it would be terrible. It's all over.
So, Zhu Zaijing knew very well from the beginning that his identity as a supervisor was nothing more than an ingenious political show staged by Emperor Jiajing, and it must not be taken seriously.
Because imperial power is inherently selfish, whoever dares to really get involved in imperial power, let alone his own son, even his own father, will be cut off!
What's more, Zhu Zaijing still has a younger brother alive. Unless he has a crazy brain, he will really regard the power of the prison country as real power.
Therefore, even though Zhu Zaijing is now the supervisor of the country, even though he has several stacks of memorials dedicated to the imperial power, Zhu Zaijing does not easily write a word on them.
When the General Secretary of the General Affairs Department heard that King Yu had summoned him, he was a little unbelievable.
Although the General Affairs Department can be regarded as one of the Jiuqing yamen, by the Ming Dynasty, the General Affairs Department, like Dali Temple, was one step lower than the Six Ministries and the Duchayuan, and the official in charge was only the third-rank official position. , not as good as the second-rank status of the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, whether in the officialdom or among the people, it was no longer customary to call the imperial government offices "Jiu Qing", but "Qi Qing". The meaning of these Qi Qing is obvious, that is, to explain the general The Chief Secretary and Dali Temple are no longer worthy of being called the "Jiu Qing" yamen on an equal footing with the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Moreover, in addition, the powers of the inner court yamen such as the Si Li Supervisor overlap with the powers of the General Affairs Department, so the General Affairs Department becomes more and more transparent.
But today, Prince Yu actually took the initiative to summon the general affairs envoy to see him. This made the current general affairs envoy Shen Kui confused, but also a little excited.
Shen Kui followed Meng Chong from the Tongzhengsi Yamen to Prince Yu's Mansion, and then led by Meng Chong to Zhu Zaijing's study.
After arriving at Zhu Zaijing's study, Shen Kui immediately saluted and said, "My general envoy Shen Kui is here to see the prince."
After Zhu Zaijing heard Shen Kui's voice, he tilted his head. Turning his head from behind a pile of memorials, he looked at Shen Kui who had prostrated himself on the ground.
Zhu Zaijing put down the memorial in his hand and said in a neither salty nor cool voice: "Envoy Shen Tongzheng, please rise."
Shen Kui thanked Zhu Zaijing, then stood up and quietly glanced at Zhu Zaijing At a glance, he found that the young prince was sitting behind the desk, flipping through the pile of memorials in front of him.
For a moment, Shen Kui felt that this was the diligent king he dreamed of.
But immediately afterwards, Shen Kui regretted this idea.
Zhu Zaijing stood up and picked up a memorial he had just read, and handed it to Shen Kui, "Zhengtong Shen read this memorial once and tell me what this memorial said?"< br>
Shen Kui was shocked to the ground when he heard Zhu Zaijing's words, but Zhu Zaijing had already handed the thick memorial in his hand to Shen Kui. Shen Kui said "yes" repeatedly, and then started to look through the book. The content of the memorial.
Just after Shen Chenkui had read it for about half a minute, Zhu Zaijing suddenly asked: "Mr. Shen Tongzheng put the memorial together and told me what was said in this memorial?"
Shen Kui was confused for a moment. He had just read the beginning, how could he know what was said in it?
Shen Kui bowed slightly awkwardly: "I haven't finished reading yet."
Zhu Zaijing hummed, "How many have you read?"
Shen Kui didn't know what kind of medicine Zhu Zaijing was selling in his gourd, so he carefully replied: "I just saw less than a third of it."
Zhu Zaijing hummed again, "Then Let’s talk about this one-third of the content.”
When Shen Kui heard what Zhu Zaijing said, he was stunned again. This one-third of the content is all rhetorical preparation. Where is the actual content?
But he had no choice but to reply to Zhu Zaijing's question. Shen Kui repeated a third of what he had just seen. After he just finished reciting, Zhu Zaijing asked again: "Are these contents useful?"
After Shen Kui heard this, he suddenly realized that it was Prince Yu who disliked the format of these memorials.
But these are the rules passed down from past dynasties. Unless it is something very urgent or a statement of love, it must be written according to this format.
However, those urgent memorials generally do not go to the Chief Secretary. The memorials that go to the Chief Secretary are all trivial matters that are neither urgent nor painful nor painful. Otherwise, these memorials would not be moved to Zhu Zaijing. Instead, it was urgently delivered to the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and directly to Emperor Jiajing.
So these memorials that can be sent to Zhu Zaijing's house are simply for Zhu Zaijing to practice, and they are not at all for Zhu Zaijing to perform his duties of supervising the country.
But Zhu Zaijing doesn’t agree with this either. What the hell is this? Bullying, right?
You can't lose your temper with the cabinet, nor with the Chief of Ceremonies, but against the little General Secretary, Zhu Zaicheng still dared to lose his temper!
Shen Kui said: "Your Majesty, the format of these memorials are the rules handed down from past dynasties. Except for some urgent official documents and memorial memorials, they must all use this kind of solemn and gorgeous four-six parallel prose. Writing, in this way, can we show the style of our heavenly kingdom."
Zhu Zaijing said: "The four-six parallel prose is gorgeous and solemn, but its language is too particular, many things are unclear, and it is always unclear. He likes to quote some pretentious allusions but cannot speak directly. I don’t know what your majesty thinks, but now I am ordered to supervise the country. I don’t like this kind of flashy style of writing. "< br>
"As the chief officer of the General Administration Department, you are in charge of the internal and external affairs, and your responsibilities are very important. If you can't lead by example and understand the internal and external ministers and report matters with truth, then what's the use of you? ? Does the imperial court have to support you idle people who write and copy?”
Zhu Zaijing’s words were so harsh that even Shen Kui didn’t expect him to do so when he saw Prince Yu for the first time. He was treated so harshly by Prince Yu.
Shen Kui's temper suddenly rose. Shen Kui replied: "Your Majesty, the court has its own laws. I am the official in charge of the General Affairs Department, so naturally I have to act in accordance with the court laws. The General Affairs Department is in charge of internal and external affairs, so naturally I should We have to do things according to the rules. It’s not something that the prince can obliterate with just one word.” Zhu Zaijing chuckled, “I can’t obliterate it, but I can make the General Secretary more free now! If you can work around it and ask the internal and external ministers to write the memorials to the General Affairs Department in plain language, then I can also arrange for people from the General Affairs Department to handle political affairs for me as appropriate. But if the General Affairs Department does nothing, I will just keep it. The so-called rules, then I can only ask your Majesty to grant permission for the Supervisor of Ceremonies to handle this matter."
Zhu Zaijing also knew that to deal with old officials like Shen Kui, he had to use some direct methods. ways to deal with them.
Otherwise, if you don’t speak clearly and keep doing things in circles, then even if Zhu Zaijing goes to Shen Kui several times, the memorial sent to Zhu Zaijing will still be the same. There is not the slightest change.
So, Zhu Zaijing was not so polite to Shen Kui, and directly threatened him with the ceremonial supervisor. If Shen Kui was unwilling to do this business, then Zhu Zaijing would skip him directly. Make his general affairs office more transparent and less likely to be cared about.
Shen Kui was stunned. He never expected that Prince Yu would be so direct, leaving no room for detours.
But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing to worry about in the General Affairs Office.
If Prince Yu really asks for permission to let the Chief of Ceremonies take full responsibility for sending memorials to Prince Yu's Mansion, then once this becomes a habit, who will take the Secretary of General Affairs seriously in the future?
So, after a fierce ideological struggle, Shen Kui also found a step for himself. Prince Yu is young and energetic, so it is normal that he can't stand this kind of parallel prose.
At worst, during this period, the General Affairs Department will just send a clear message to each department and yamen asking them not to write such gorgeously written memorials in parallel prose.
As a result, Shen Kui bowed to Zhu Zaijing again and said: "I am ashamed, I will definitely correct it and let the General Affairs Department pass the prince's orders to all the yamen to tell the truth and put an end to flashy words."
Zhu Zaijing said yes, "Okay, you go down."
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