First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 371

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Ximeng discussed it properly, and the rest is to find a suitable person and go to Guangzhou to persuade He Zhen.

"Who do you think can handle this matter?"

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "I think our people may not be familiar with the situation in Jiangxi, but there is one person who is very suitable."

Old Zhu thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Sir, you can't be talking about Yu Gaomen, right?"

Zhang Ximeng nodded quickly, "It's this person!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't agree immediately, but said: "Yu Gaomen suddenly stood up and stabbed Qian Tang. It seems that he came suddenly. What is the heart of this person, and it is indeed time to test it. It makes sense for the master to arrange it."

Zhang Ximeng smiled sheepishly, "It's always hard to believe that these big clans that have been passed down for thousands of years have many ways to survive."

Lao Zhu also agreed, and then he asked Yu Gaomen to come over and told him the matter.

"Would you like to go to Guangzhou to persuade He Zhen to surrender?"

"willing!"

Yu Gaomen agreed without hesitation, "Please rest assured, the superior, I will do my best and fulfill my mission."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "It's not enough for you alone. Let Zhou Dexing, Zhu Liangzu, and Lu Zhongheng each lead the horse infantry, go south to Ganzhou, station troops in Meiling, and threaten Lingnan!"

Yu Gaomen was even more happy, and immediately saluted, "The waist of the minister is even harder!"

He said a few more words, and was about to leave, but Zhang Ximeng got up and sent him out. Yu Gaomen was very clever, and he understood that Zhang Ximeng had something to say, so he stopped a few steps away from the door, Bow down and wait for instructions.

Zhang Ximeng said: "I heard that there are four elder brothers in your family, among them the elder brother and the second elder brother were also officials of the Yuan court?"

"That's true. I once persuaded my brothers to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, but they kept saying that they don't want to be second ministers. I am willing to cut off my friendship with them, and I will break it off!"

"No!"

Zhang Ximeng waved his hand, "No, we follow the king of Wu, and as officials and people, we must adhere to principles and be flexible.

If it's just for this official uniform, you don't even recognize your relatives, it's wrong. "

Yu Gaomen's face was sullen, wondering: "Master Zhang, I don't want to fall out with my family, but they are stubborn and stubborn. Even if I want to keep my sympathy, I can't."

Zhang Ximeng took a breath, thought for a while, and sighed: "Under the general situation, there are indeed people who will kill themselves, and they are relatives and friends.

It is also helpless.But we must always do our best to be worthy of our hearts. "

Zhang Ximeng pulled Yu Gaomen and said, "Come with me."

Taking Yu Gaomen to Zhang Ximeng's office.

A few tables and chairs, a desk, and then a mountain of books, Zhang Ximeng let Yu Gaomen sit down, then turned around and went into the pile of books, rummaging through them.

The first time Yu Gaomen came to Zhang Ximeng's office, he was also very curious, and only dared to peek around. The office was not large, but there were so many books that it was outrageous, densely packed and piled up like a mountain.

However, it can be seen that it is clearly divided into two parts, one part has been classified, and there is a brand new cover with text descriptions on it.

There are also a bunch of things that haven't been sorted out in time.

It turned out that these books were all collected by Zhang Ximeng after someone went down to the Bailudong Academy and collected books from the academy.

Everyone in the world knows that Prime Minister Zhang is clean and honest, and it doesn't matter to send anything else, so we can only send these books over here and they are not given to Zhang Ximeng, but just ask Prime Minister Zhang to read them, so that they can be summed up, and then sent to Jimin School again.

In this way, Zhang Ximeng was able to gather a large pile of rare ancient books without having to go to great lengths to steal books.

Perhaps it is one of the few joys right now.

Zhang Ximeng rummaged for a while, finally took out a volume of books, put them on the table, and greeted Yu Gaomen happily.

"Look, whose book is this?"

Yu Gaomen hurried over to take a look. The cover reads "Jingyan Spring and Autumn Lecture Notes". Yu Gaomen was slightly startled, then asked in surprise: "This is from the ancestor Yu Yonggong?"

Zhang Ximeng nodded. This scroll of Jingyan Spring and Autumn Lecture Notes is indeed Yu Yunwen's work...Looking at the civil servants in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, Yu Yunwen, who won the battle of quarrying stones with less, is proficient in military affairs, has both civil and military skills, and has the talent to save the time.If it weren't for him, Zhao Liang might have raised millions of troops to the West Lake, and immediately became the first peak of Wushan.

Zhang Ximeng dug out Yu Yunwen's works, then pondered for a while, then took his pen and ink, and wrote eight characters.

"Great Mr. Yu, a man of civil and military power!"

After Zhang Ximeng finished writing, he took a closer look, and found that it was quite satisfactory. After so many years of practice, he finally broke away from the category of dog crawling, and he could barely catch his eye.

"After Jingkang, the country fell, and the country fell... The emperor Zhao and Song were cowardly and incompetent. In Wu there was Yue Pengju, and in Wen there was Yu Yunwen... They all had the merits of preserving the country and helping China. Although the power is weak, it is difficult to reverse Qiankun. However, the descendants of future generations still did not give up, but continued to move forward along this road. Now our army is rising, sweeping away the smoke and dust, and restoring China. I hope that your Yu family can think clearly about how to choose at this juncture. Dust the ancestors, don't leave a bad name."

As Zhang Ximeng spoke, his handwriting was dry. He wrapped Yu Yunwen's scroll with the eight characters he wrote, and stuffed them into Yu Gaomen's arms.

"I'm going on an envoy. When I pass by Fuzhou's house, I will bring my intentions to your elder brother. I hope they will cooperate with Juntian and don't ruin the reputation of our ancestors!"

Yu Gaomen was holding the scroll and characters in both hands, trembling slightly.

Tears welled up in the eye sockets, and he had to widen his eyes so as not to lose his composure.

"Ms. Zhang respects my family's ancestors so much, and the next official really has nothing to repay."

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "I just said something fair. The annals of history have their own comments, don't you think so?"

"Yes!"

Yu Gaomen puffed up his chest, "I, I'm leaving now, those things don't know what's good and what's wrong, even if they are killed, they deserve it!"

After finishing speaking, Yu Gaomen left immediately, rode on a fast horse, went south overnight, and returned to Yu's house.

"Look, this is the bandit Red Thief that you look down on. Compared with Ni Yuan, who is served by the eldest brother and the second brother, how is his bearing? How is his heart?"

The eldest brother Yu Anmin held the book, looked at the eight characters again, frowned, and fell into deep thought. The other brothers also looked solemn and shook their heads.

"He, what does he mean?"

"What else do you mean, I advise you to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and don't do things that will bring your own destruction and stigma for thousands of years!" Yu Gaomen said bluntly.

The brothers looked at each other, and the second brother Yu Yannian couldn't help but said: "Fifth brother, although the Zhu family's army was invincible and defeated the Han king Chen Youliang, after all, they don't respect scholars. They are too earthy and may not be able to achieve great things. For the sake of long-term consideration, you can't bet on one family"

Before he finished speaking, Yu Gaomen suddenly stood up, face to face, and said mercilessly: "Second brother, you are really confused, and you still want to play the trick of the first and the second mouse? You can't see it when you look at it?"

"Then, why is he still writing this?" Yu Yannian was confused.

"You are really stupid!" Yu Gaomen said bluntly: "If Zhang Xiang hadn't seen it, why would he take the initiative to mention family matters to me? But he saw it, and he didn't reject my younger brother, and he didn't treat you much. It’s a start, but it’s hard work, and I sent this picture, do you know what this picture represents?”

Yu Gaomen looked at his elder brother again, and said with a sneer: "With the current status of Zhang Xiang, he wrote these eight characters, which is equivalent to setting the coffin for our ancestors. What kind of face is this? How dare the second brother call Zhu Jiajun Rustic? Yuan Tartars have a smelly body, so I give it to your petty official, don't you also treat yourself like a fart?"

In an instant, Yu Yannian's face was blood red and his eyes widened with anger. He really wanted to kill this fifth younger brother. Your words are too bad, why did you focus on your weakness?

"stop fighting."

Yu Anmin suddenly scolded: "I know about this, take out the property list I prepared, and also all the deeds of sale, land deeds, pawn tickets, and IOUs at home, find them all for me, and don't keep any of them! "

Yu Yannian became anxious, "Brother, you, you want to hand over all these? This is our lifeline!"

Seeing that his second brother was still stubborn, Yu Gaomen really wanted to come up and beat him up, to make this guy sober up.

"Still treating those things as lifelines, I think it's almost a reminder! Zhang Xiang is as benevolent as he is, and I am also as benevolent as I am.

If you die again, no one can save you! "

"Okay!" Yu Anmin stretched out his hand to stop Yu Gaomen, "Fifth brother, you are under the king's order now, don't delay, if you finish the errands, you will give face to our parents. I know what to do about other things."

Seeing what elder brother said, Yu Gaomen didn't want to delay, so he said: "I hope elder brother has an opinion, don't let our family's thousand-year reputation be lost!"

Yu Anmin took the lead vigorously and watched the fifth younger brother leave. Then he ordered everyone to be called, and immediately prepared to divide the family and analyze the property, and cooperate with King Wu's people to implement the equalization of the land.

Yu Yannian was still not convinced, and Yu Anmin didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked for family law.

"Brother, do you still want to beat me? You, if you separate the family and property, this family law will not be in my hands!"

"Hehe, the family law can't control you, so be careful that the national law is ruthless!"

Yu Yannian was startled suddenly, but was speechless after all.

Then Yu Anmin wrote a letter expressing his support for Juntian, and said that the matter of Juntian should start from the Yu family, and if there is any behavior of hiding the land, he will accept the king's law!

With the Yu family taking the lead, Jie Wen'an's Jie family, the Yang family, and the Wu family all wrote letters, expressing similar attitudes.

"The Yu family may have already had the idea of ​​betting on both sides of the mouse. We look down on this kind of high-ranking family who thinks they are smart."

Old Zhu snorted angrily: "If we let us do it, we will only force Yu Gaomen to go to his house to divide the fields, let their brothers kill each other,

Let's see a joke! "

Zhang Ximeng was dumbfounded and lowered his head helplessly. "Actually, the minister is also forcing their family to express their stance, not allowing the first and second ends."

"But the master's method is better, and he lifts the weight as lightly as possible!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but praised: "The overall situation of Juntian in Jiangxi has been completely opened up! This is all thanks to the master!"

Zhang Ximeng hurriedly said: "The minister is just pushing the boat with the current, it's nothing. In fact, the lord can do well without the minister."

Old Zhu smiled and said, "Let's do it, then blood will flow like rivers."

Zhang Ximeng said: "It is precisely because of the lord's blood that the minister can push the boat smoothly, otherwise, how could they take him seriously? In the end, the minister is holding the light of the sky, a fox pretending to be a tiger!"

Old Zhu laughed, "Mr.'s flattery is very comfortable. No matter what, this matter is all due to Mr. We, we should praise the hero."

"Mr. can be No.1!"

Zhang Ximeng was taken aback for a long time, but was finally speechless...

Chapter 372 The Future Official System

As the number one hero appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Ximeng did not have too many surprises, as if it should be like this.

But now that he thought of establishing a country, Zhang Ximeng couldn't be safe. There are really too many things to do right now... A country can't be like Liangshan, a group of heroes lined up, and then the big brother, the second brother, the big bowl Drink and eat meat in chunks.

It is not an easy task to build a complete national system.

How to design official positions and formulate the rules for the operation of the country will test the wisdom of the superiors everywhere.

Frankly speaking, there are many omissions in the official system of the Ming Dynasty in history... But what is very interesting is that during the operation process, the continuous patching can be regarded as plugging a lot of loopholes.

This has something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of Zhongshu Province.

Lao Zhu made a loophole in the operation of the imperial court, and it was this loophole that gave future generations room to play and made the official system of the entire Ming Dynasty unique.

Have to say, this is a beautiful mistake.

Zhang Ximeng sat in the study room, pondering for a long time in front of the vast sea of ​​books, and then he began to spread out a piece of rice paper, and then began to outline the structure of the future country.

Zhang Ximeng adopts a tree-like structure to present what he thinks in his heart.

First of all, the core of a country must be the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is the king of a country. He has the constitution of heaven in his mouth and has supreme authority. Decision-making, supervision, personnel, military affairs, etiquette... all belong to the Son of Heaven.

In order to assist the emperor, it is necessary to set up a Zhongshu province, set up a prime minister, assist the emperor, and lead his officials.

In the Han Dynasty, there were prime ministers and three princes. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, three provinces were established to divide the power of prime ministers.

Which one is more appropriate?

Here Zhang Ximeng drew a branch next to the emperor, and wrote the word cabinet in the box.

The power of Zhongshu remains unchanged, but the cabinet is the emperor's advisor, governing the affairs of the inner court, responsible for daily life, drafting orders and other matters. In this way, under the cabinet, it must govern the Imperial Academy, Honglu Temple and other yamen.

At the same time, these yamen are also under the Ministry of the Ministry of Education, which means that the personnel arrangements are under the Ministry of the Ministry of Education, and the specific work is under the jurisdiction of the cabinet.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhang Ximeng's establishment of this cabinet is naturally not the cabinet of chief officials in history, but more to serve the emperor.

This arrangement from the beginning can greatly limit the expansion of eunuch power.

It's not that Zhang Ximeng has any prejudice against the eunuch party. After all, for a long time, the existence of eunuchs in the inner court made up for the loopholes in Ming's system and supplemented the imperial power.

But after all, hundreds of thousands of eunuchs, countless children suffered from that knife early, it is really too sad.

Eunuchs should be suppressed as much as possible, even if they cannot be completely abolished, they should be limited to the inner court of the imperial palace!

Zhang Ximeng looked at the picture in front of him again. Starting from the Son of Heaven, there were two branches, one was Zhongshu Province, which had six ministries and nine ministers, and the other was the cabinet, which governed the Imperial Academy and Honglu Temple...

It seems that it is not so suitable. Will the two yamen also fight? After all, there was a similar secretarial organization Shangshutai in the Han Dynasty, and it was also to check and balance the three lords.

But at the end of the development, Shang Shutai embezzled the power of the prime minister and became the power of the prime minister again, and the dragon slayer eventually became a dragon.

Zhang Ximeng thought about it again and again, he transferred a yamen to the cabinet, and this yamen was the Imperial College!

In the future, Imperial College will be under the jurisdiction of Taixue. As the highest institution in the country, there must be a considerable number of industry experts in it. This group of people will take on the responsibilities of Jingyan and provide professional endorsement for various policies.

That is to say, in the future, the opinions provided by the cabinet to the emperor should be more professional and academic, and the cabinet should be flatter to accommodate these professionals.

And with the pool of these professional talents, it can also resist the pressure of the Ministry of Education.

Still the same sentence, there is no big tile-roofed house that has been leaking for thousands of years, Zhang Ximeng just made the work more detailed, and tried his best to avoid the mistakes that have already occurred.

Suggestion, decision-making, execution... After these three core powers are determined, the rest will be easy to handle, nothing more than filling in according to history!

First parallel to the Zhongshu Province, the Yushitai was established to supervise the Zhongshu Province, and then the Gongwei Division was promoted to Jinyiwei, which was subordinate to the cabinet in name, but in fact was directly controlled by the emperor.