Chapter 256 255 Impeachment of King Hui

The Forbidden City is the central axis of Beijing City. At the end of a long straight road outside Chengtian Gate is the Daming Gate. If it continues to extend outward, it is the Zhengyang Gate, the inner city gate.

The straight road outside Chengtian Gate just divides the important yamen offices of the Ming Dynasty into two parts: east and west.

The yamen on the east side naturally leans against East Chang'an Street, while the yamen on the west side is facing West Chang'an Street.

The Hanlin Academy is located at the outermost periphery of the east government office concentration area, and it is very convenient to have a value of up and down, but today it is a little farther away for Wei Guangde.

The Tongzhengsi is located on West Chang'an Street, with its back against the Five Army Governor's Office. Standing outside the main entrance of the yamen, you can see Fengtian Gate.

The Tongzhengsi Department was placed in this position, naturally, so that the Tongzhengsi Department could send the memorials to the palace and submit them to the emperor for the fastest viewing.

The full name of the Tongzheng Department is the Tongzheng Department. Its chief is the Tongzheng Department, who is in charge of internal and external memorials and sealed complaints by subjects.

The prime minister had great power in the early Ming Dynasty, and had a unity of the central departments. He had the right to review the memorials before the emperor handled the memorials and chose some of them to submit them.

In such an environment, the court offices actually obeyed the Prime Minister, namely Hu Weiyong.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who could not bear it, executed Hu Weiyong and abolished the prime minister system that lasted for thousands of years.

However, after losing the Secretariat of the Secretariat to classify the memorials, the emperor gradually collapsed every day in the face of the chaotic memorials as mountains. Finally, in July of the tenth year of Hongwu, the Tongzheng Department was established to manage the memorials.

The power of the Tongzheng Department is to split the Prime Minister's organization, submit various memorials to the emperor's power, assume the "Tongxiuanxi's situation, guard the government and guard the entry and exit of the various departments, report the four parties' memorials, and make feudal comments, express the confession and military information.

"The important task of disasters and other matters"; when the government is in charge of the government, the chief of the Tongzheng General Secretary of the Tongzheng General must report to the emperor various affairs in the court; when discussing major policies, prisons and civil and military ministers, the Tongzheng General is qualified to participate

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The Tongzhengsi Department has always been valued by the court in Hongwu, Yongle, Hongxi and Xuande dynasties because it is an important way for the emperor to control the officialdom under his rule. Whenever there is any disturbance, it will inevitably start with the Tongzhengsi Department.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the power of the Tongzhengsi Department was still very large, especially when facing the emperor for a long time, in addition to submitting normal memorials, Tongzheng envoys would often directly meet with the emperor and submit emergency memorials when encountering emergencies.

However, after Emperor Yingzong ascended the throne at the age of nine, the power of the government fell into the hands of the three Yangs of the cabinet. The envoy of Tongzheng lost the right to meet the emperor alone to report, and could only obey the cabinet, which gradually became a common example.

On the grounds of the health of the holy body, Yang Rong interfered in the number of reports from the General Secretary of the Changgong Dynasty, saying that every morning court, he only allowed eight things to be spoken about, and he needed to report to the cabinet in advance.

Later, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were negligent in political affairs and rarely reviewed memorials. Everything was handed over to the cabinet and the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of

The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming Dynasty's set of arrangements, and the system of the Tongzheng and Ministers was also retained, but the status of the martial arts world was low and became a redundant department in the eyes of court officials. During the Reform of 1898, it was denounced as a model of useless departments by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, and was abolished in the new policy in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, these things have no effect on Wei Guangde now. Today he is going to send memorials to the Tongzheng Department and to the cabinet and the West Garden.

The current Tongzheng Secretary Tongzheng envoy is Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua, but at this time Zhao Wenhua was not in the capital, but went to Zhejiang for the second time to command the Japanese war.

After Wei Guangde first signed in at the gate of the Hanlin Academy, he went straight back to his public room and sat for a while, took out the prepared memorial and paper and read it carefully.

He read it countless times last night, repeatedly pondering the wording in the text, striving to be correct.

In the memorial, Wei Guangde detailed the matter of Geng An when he encountered a complaint on the road, and also wrote the paper attached to Geng An in the memorial to avoid being pulled away or being dropped.

Although Chen Ju said that there should be no one from King Hui in the court, Wei Guangde still took precautions.

After drinking half a pot of tea, he got up and walked out of the public housing, left the Hanlin Academy and walked towards the Tongzhengsi.

Walking east along West Chang'an Street, the towering Fengtian Gate on the right gradually became clear. Upstairs and downstairs were as long as before, as the palace examination half a year ago.

Half a year ago, he was just a civilian, or a scholar with fame and fortune.

Half a year later, he has become a sesame official.

Now, what he wants to gain is naturally to gain greater power so that he can live a better life in the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Guangde would not do anything that would upset Emperor Jiajing. It was not just a matter of time but a foolish thing. At least he would never do it without the confidence to win.

Wei Guangde had already figured out how to live a stable life in this Ming Dynasty, just like Hai Rui, who is one of the few celebrities in the Jiajing Dynasty that Wei Guangde remembers.

Hai Rui posted a memorial saying "Jiajing, Jiajing, every family is pure". Wei Guangde doesn't remember the exact name, but only knows that Emperor Jiajing yells to kill him after reading it.

Of course, it was not killed in the end.

Wei Guangde had thought about this matter. At the beginning, he would not do anything. At that time, Emperor Jiajing was very angry. Even if he knew that Hai Rui would not die in the end, he could not plead with anger. He was looking for it himself.

Knife.

It is better to wait until Emperor Jiajing’s anger is gone before writing a letter to plead with mercy. As long as you grasp the time nodes, you can maximize your interests and gain a direct name.

This is also one of the few opportunities that Wei Guangde has mastered and can only be used, so he must not be missed.

Now that the impeachment of King Hui is now, although Wei Guangde doesn’t know what the final result will be and whether King Hui will fall due to this, he only hopes to achieve his goal, that is, to be an official brand of the Censorate.

With the Censor's brand, his official power should be much more important in the future. At least if he was the Censor, Liu Dazhang would not dare to object to his opinions and could only be timid.

When he arrived outside the gate of Tongzhengsi, Wei Guangde walked straight in without hesitation. The officers outside the gate naturally would not stop him. This is Tongzhengsi.

After entering the lobby, this was the place where officials submitted their memorials, but at this time today there seemed to be no one. When Wei Guangde entered the house, he saw that there was nothing inside, and he was the only one who came to hand over the memorials.

"Oh, Lord Wei is here."

Wei Guangde is now quite famous in the officialdom of the capital. Even if he didn't know him before, after Wei Guangde returned to Beijing from Xuanfu, he would find an opportunity to go to the Hanlin Academy to recognize what the person looked like.

The speaker was Huang Dacheng, the right senator of the Tongzhengsi, and the others were several clerks serving him.

"Mr. Huang."

Wei Guangde hurriedly bowed his hand. Needless to say, he knew that he had submitted the memorial.

According to the procedures, after the official submits the memorial, the Tongzhengsi will give him a note to record the time of the memorial and the name of the person who received the memorial, as well as the main content of the memorial.

Wei Guangde handed over his memorial and stood quietly aside without saying much.

Wei Guangde has been here once last time, and it was a thank-you note after being rewarded.

However, in Wei Guangde's opinion, that memorial is not considered a memorial. It is just a programmatic thing. If you receive praise from the emperor, you must thank you.

The impeachment memorial I submitted this time was considered by Wei Guangde to be a real memorial.

Huang Dacheng took Wei Guangde's memorial and opened it. The paper inside was reflected in his eyes. He was surprised, but he quickly browsed the paper and then read Wei Guangde's memorial again.

The impact is a bit big.

Wei Guangde has started impeaching people again.

Well, the first time Wei Guangde entered the door, Huang Dacheng actually had such a premonition in his heart.

The first memorial of Wei Guangde that Huang Dacheng saw was naturally transferred by Weng Pu, impeaching the right governor and general of Xuanfu Liu Dazhang, from a small official in the seventh rank to impeach the first rank military general.

Looking at the memorial in my hand, it has been upgraded, but it has really been upgraded. This time, it was the seventh-rank sesame official who impeached the super-rank prince, or the King Hui who was extremely favored by the current Jiajing Emperor.

Wei Guangde is so bold.

The incident of Emperor Jiajing in Xiyuan is now only spread among the court officials who have contact with the emperor's servants. For most officials, they do not know that the emperor once cursed King Hui.

In their impression, they still believed that King Hui was a minister who was extremely trusted by Emperor Jiajing.

In fact, most of the officials in the capital have more or less connections in the palace, but most of these relationships are not with the emperor's servants.

The news in the palace spread very quickly, but it was not as fast as the Forbidden City was flying around in an instant.

The servants around the emperor also knew the right degree. Except for a few channels that would be informed, most of them would only spread after a period of time.

It was then passed down by the eunuchs, and finally made it widely known to all civil and military officials in the outside dynasty.

At this time, only officials who had eyeliners arranged around Emperor Jiajing would know that King Hui had fallen out of favor.

However, for those officials, whether to impeach a prince or not is optional for their career, so most of them did not take any action.

If you can establish contact with the close ministers around the emperor, you will naturally not be ordinary officials in the court, but you must at least go up with the fourth rank.

For fifth-rank officials like Tongzhengsi Senate, there is naturally no one.

However, they also have one advantage, that is, when accepting official memorials, they can understand the changes in the official trend as soon as possible.

As long as we come to Wei Guangde for two or three memorials to impeach King Hui, they will understand what it means.

However, at this time, Huang Dacheng finished reading Wei Guangde's memorial, his face was expressionless, and he wrote a note step by step and accepted Wei Guangde's memorial.

Wei Guangde took the note and looked it over, then folded it and put it in his arms. He bowed to Huang Dacheng and thanked him before turning around and leaving.

The moment he turned around, Huang Dacheng's face, who had been Gu Jing Wubo's before, twitched slightly, and looked at Wei Guangde's back as he looked at the idiot.

In fact, the Tongzhengsi Department has not received any memorials on impeaching King Hui.

Since the third King of Hui, Zhu Houyu, was favored by Emperor Jiajing, he had falsely accused some local officials for his friends, and was impeached many times by local civil servants and censors of the Censorate.

However, most of these memorials ended in vain after being handed over to the cabinet.

After a long time, everyone can see something. King Hui is a bit big and cannot defeat him.

The current Hui King Zhu Zaiting, like his son, joined the favor of Emperor Jiajing, recommended alchemists and presented elixirs. Then he was impeached by civil servants. Naturally, there was no result. The position of the prince was still stable.

Keep doing it.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Beijing officials, the King of Hui really couldn't touch him.

Over time, no one paid attention to King Hui's illegal affairs anymore. He couldn't bear to blame him, and it was just a waste of time to keep staring at him.

Huang Dacheng didn't expect that he had received a memorial to impeach King Hui today. After hesitating for a moment, he saw that Wei Guangde had already left the Tongzhengsi Gate, so he got up and walked into the yamen with Wei Guangde's memorial in his hand.

go.

Of course, he would not help King Hui do anything, but he had to tell his superiors left and right Tongzheng people first. Now Zhao Wenhua, the envoy of Tongzheng in the yamen, is not here, and the affairs of the yamen are the ones who are in charge of the government affairs.

Whether to submit or not, when to submit, these are all specific.
To be continued...