Chapter 400

Liu Bu got a lot of silver, but he didn't dare to go back to the north. He must continue to garrison in Fengyang area and continue to wipe his ass. he was worried about how to use these nutrients, but he soon fed back from his father. His father was only worried about not getting silver and not how to spend money.

Moreover, his father is far more experienced than him in how to spend money. In some aspects, Liu coin thinks he is better than his father in terms of strategic vision, because his father will appear in the limitations of the times, but he is far less than his father in terms of practical operation and practical stability. In terms of dealing with people and worldly affairs, Compared with his father, he still has to learn a lot. This is recognized by everyone. Apart from that, his father's official position is much higher than his. Although his rank of chief soldier is not low, the culture of expensive literature and cheap martial arts in the Ming Dynasty continued to every aspect and level. No one thinks Liu Bu is a chief soldier, Older than his father, a governor.

Liu Bu saw that his father used the silver legally and reasonably without taboo. He knew that he could stay here at ease and wipe his ass here. He believed that his father would use the silver very reasonably if he gave it to his father.

Under these circumstances, Liu Bu began to prepare for Yingshi court to come here, and Wu Zongda, the special envoy and cabinet assistant minister specially responsible for investigating this matter, arrived.

Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang needed to work more than six hours a day. He was overwhelmed by complicated government affairs. Under such an environment, he established the cabinet bachelor system. Cabinet university scholars are divided into: huagaidian bachelor, Jinshen Dian bachelor, wuyingdian bachelor, wenyuange bachelor and Dongge bachelor.

A bachelor is only a five-level official, acting as an adviser and Secretary to the emperor, helping the emperor sort out documents, deal with unimportant trivial affairs and so on. Because the imperial court abolished the prime minister system, the six ministers were promoted from the third grade to the second grade, and were directly responsible to the emperor. At the beginning, the status of the cabinet was far lower than that of the six ministries.

After the successful rebellion of Zhu Di, king of Yan, he became the emperor, but he lacked the patience and ability to deal with government affairs. From the reign of Zhu Di, the status of the cabinet began to improve. Although it was still not as good as the six ministries, there were significant changes after all. During the reign of Renzong and Xuanzong, the cabinet scholars began to help the emperor handle official documents. Of course, the emperor needed Zhu's approval and approval. It can be seen that at this time, the cabinet has begun to surpass the six ministries. After Yingzong Zhuqi Town, due to Xianzong Wu Zong's laziness of several emperors.

The cabinet and the Secretary of rites and supervisors formed a new political pattern in the Ming Dynasty. Nominally, the cabinet is not a formal institution, and the cabinet has no right to manage the six ministries, but in practical operation, the cabinet has been above the six ministries.

The cabinet shall not invade the six parts of the world. In Yan Song's time, the power of the ministry began to be broken. When Zhang Juzheng was right, the power of the Ministry went to the cabinet. He hesitated to ask for officials, and the ancestral system changed. The power originally belonging to the six ministries has been eroded by the cabinet, and there is a situation that "all political affairs must be feasible and can not be carried out at the lower part", such as the power of troop dispatching of the Ministry of war, the power of construction of the Ministry of industry, the power of household support, and so on. Changing from six ministers to a cabinet bachelor is a promotion because he has entered the highest level of decision-making.

There are five cabinet bachelors in total, but the interior of the cabinet bachelors is not harmonious. Among the several cabinet university scholars, most of the power is concentrated in the hands of the head and auxiliary. As for other cabinet bachelors, they have the name of an old cabinet. In terms of actual power, they may not be better than the book of the Ministry of officials.

In order to win the position of the first auxiliary, the cabinet elders have been fighting with each other. It is said in history that the first auxiliary since Jiajing has been obtained by squabbling and crowding out. Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli dynasties belong to the glorious period of the cabinet. During the reign of the Apocalypse emperor, the eunuch group headed by Wei Zhongxian completely suppressed the civil service group including the cabinet.

In the reign of emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Zhu Youjian was a man who liked to do it himself. Under such circumstances, the power of the cabinet began to shrink.

And while the power of the cabinet was shrinking, the emperor had greater hopes for them, so that the emperor changed cabinet ministers when he was slightly unhappy, hoping to change a cabinet member, which could change the adverse situation.

Wu Zongda, named Qingmen, was born in Wujin, nanzhili. In the 32nd year of Wanli, Yang Shouqin was the third scholar on the list and was awarded the editing of the Imperial Academy. Promoted to the Imperial College for sacrifice. Served as vice president of Shenzong records. Li Guan is the right waiter of the etiquette department. Although Wu Zongda was accused of being the Donglin Party, he was not investigated. In the early years of Chongzhen, Wu Zongda was reappointed as the right chamberlain of the Ministry of officials. The court pushed the cabinet minister, ranking second. He recommended sun Shenxing to replace him. In the third year of Chongzhen, he and Wen Tiren were promoted to the Bachelor of Dongge and participated in the government. Soon, he added the title of Shaofu and entered the Jianji hall. He once served as the examiner of the conference examination and is known as a person. He was a junior teacher and a great scholar of Zhongji hall in the later Jin Dynasty, but he had just been promoted to a great scholar. It happened that Zhongdu Fengyang was captured, which made him suffer a lot. Originally, he was a little old and frail and had been begging for bones, but this time he was ignored by the emperor. The emperor saw that he was not playing his due role, However, he was highly respected, so he was sent to Jiangnan to take charge of this matter.

If you send a cabinet minister who is in the middle of the sun and rising steadily to deal with such things, there may be some effects, but the emperor and the imperial court sent another person who they think is highly respected. In fact, this highly respected person is a person who stands aside in the eyes of many people. He stands aside like this. He dares to offend these people when he comes here, Vigorously inquire about such things?

It is said that after such a big man came, if it were in the past, the local tyrants, officials and squires in Yangzhou City would certainly come out in empty groups, greet each other and flatter each other, hoping to win the favor of the cabinet member. But now after the silver hatching incident, many people are bankrupt, many people have no money, and they are in a state of despair for the imperial court, They seemed reluctant and unhappy about the arrival of Wu Zongda, a cabinet minister.

Even the magistrate Gao Wang was not interested in this. He was worried that this cabinet minister was coming. Did he come to clean him up? You know, if such a big thing happens, the imperial court will certainly issue a decree to deal with some people. As a local official of Yangzhou, he is duty bound. Others can push him, but he can't refuse. Many people think that the imperial court will certainly remove him from his post, so he thinks that this big man is coming to remove him from his post, and he is less interested.

Zhu Dadian wants to flatter this big man, but he knows that he must be responsible in this matter. Most of them will be blamed. If he pleases or not, the other party will not be merciful. Moreover, the other party is a person who has repeatedly asked for help and has no progress in his official career. What's the use of flattering such a person?

Therefore, after these leaders have this attitude, the people below them will not flatter the boss beyond their level, so that when this important Minister of the Imperial Cabinet arrived at the north gate of Yangzhou, there was no one to meet at the door. Only the magistrate looked up to him as a land snake and ordered his deputy to meet him.

Governor Zhu Dadian took the initiative to return to Fengyang on the pretext that there was something wrong with Fengyang. The chief soldier Liu Bu took the pretext that there was a civil commotion and sent troops to the place to play pressure. Neither of the top leaders of the two places came to welcome this cabinet minister from the imperial court.

Wu Zongda, who has been an official for decades, has already gained a lot of experience as an official, that is, he shares the same life with others and knows everything. He is always famous for not offending people. He will not offend people to death when he wants to retire. In fact, the imperial court asked him to investigate this silver incubation event this time. He himself thinks that the imperial court is pushing it into the pit, This is a hot potato. It's hard to do.

Although he had repeatedly argued that he was old and frail and could not bear the heavy responsibility, the emperor still asked him to come. He came to investigate such things when he was too late and had no way.

An old man was worried that if he got involved in such a thing, he would bring trouble to himself. Who knows how deep the water is? He has no head. If he steps in, he doesn't know whether he will be submerged or killed by others.

At present, many people in the imperial court still think that the imperial court still has great authority and great control over the place, but Wu Zongda doesn't think so. He thinks that if the imperial court really has such authority, where can there be so many man-made rebels, how can there be so many rogue bandits, and how can Liaodong lose land? He knows these things very well, Understand very well, but he knows there is nothing he can do. Many things have formed an interest system, so he can't challenge and change alone. What he has to do is to do his own things without seeing.

For example, this time the imperial court ordered him to Yangzhou to investigate. About the failure of incubating silver this time, it investigated where the silver went. At the same time, some officials of the Ministry of punishment and officials of the Metropolitan Police Academy came, who were responsible for holding local officials accountable.

At the same time, they also shoulder the responsibility of investigating the whereabouts of these silver. However, they came happily and found that local officials were quite cold and indifferent to them. They simply did not have the panic and joy enthusiasm to meet the Imperial Envoys, which made them very angry and angry, so these officials broke out on the spot, I hope I can give them powerful military sticks to let them know how powerful they are, but Wu Zongda knows that now that they have arrived, everything is still low-key. In Yangzhou, they have upset Zhu Dadian and Liu Bu, who are in charge of military power. In fact, it is not good for them.