Chapter 6 State Conference

The same thing has different difficulties in the eyes of different people.

However, Jiajing said nothing about these things. He said, "Then convene your so-called state meeting. The prince and I will go there at that time. As long as the officials do not object, this matter will be settled."

Jiajing wanted to see if the system designed by Zhou Mengchen could work.

Zhou Mengchen thanked him but did not mention it.

He immediately began preparing for the conference.

At this conference, Zhou Mengchen not only invited all the head officials of the six ministries and nine ministers who were in office, but also received invitations from all the officials of the six ministries who resigned.

Xu Jie naturally had a letter.

Of course, based on Xu Jie's news channels, what he knew was not just this invitation.

Xu Jie handed all the letters in his hand to Xu Pan and asked Xu Pan to read them all. After Xu Pan finished reading them, he finally saw the invitation from the State Conference and immediately said, "Father, I will accompany you to Beijing."

Xu Jie said slowly: "What am I going to Beijing to do?"

After leaving the capital, Xu Jie's face turned much better, as if there were a few more black hair on his head.

As Xu Pan's eyes circulated, he thought of all kinds of difficulties he encountered under Hai Rui. A burst of anger couldn't help but emerge. He said, "Of course, I'll give Zhou Mengchen a good look."

Xu Jie took out a letter from a pile of letters and said to Xu Pan: "Read again."

Xu Pan took a look and said that he had just read the letter. It was written by Zhang Juzheng to Xu Jie, introducing Zhou Mengchen's new cabinet system. After reading it, he looked up at his father. His eyes were full of confusion.

Xu Jie shook his head secretly. He understood a little about Jiajing's feelings towards the prince. His son is not much better than the prince. Although he is not a fool, he lacks political sensitivity. Zhang Juzheng's words have already written clearly. He has not yet understood what this new cabinet system represents.

Xu Jie could only explain and said, "Our Majesty is a mean and ruthless leader, and he is extremely suspicious. He refuses to let others do anything about power. But you see this new cabinet system, it is actually a new prime minister. I said that the cabinet chief minister was the prime minister before, but I understand best, that's not. The so-called cabinet chief minister can only maintain the team. I can't do anything. Now the cabinet chief minister is the real prime minister."

"Do you know what it means?"

The former cabinet chief minister undertook the sages to do business. There were imperial edicts and power, but without imperial edicts, there was nothing. Now the cabinet has the head and subordinates, and its leadership relationship with various ministries has also been determined.

It is naturally not much different from the Political Affairs Hall of the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Prime Minister is naturally the Prime Minister.

Xu Jie felt that he was already making it clear. But Xu Pan still scratched his head blankly and said, "What does this mean?"

Xu Jie said, "You still blame me for not letting you become an official. With your talent, you are a little lacking in being a prefect. If you become an official, you will definitely not be able to leave for a long time." Then he sighed and said, "What Zhou Mengchen did was to hang a bell on the neck of His Majesty, the real dragon. I really don't know how he did it."

"Such a person is destined to be arrogant. Actually, I am not afraid of him, but for your sake, I still have to avoid him. Hai Rui is his beloved general. You angered Hai Rui. I have no problem for me for a day. But one day I am gone, I really don't know how you will continue."

After hearing Xu Jie's words, Xu Pan clenched his fists in his sleeves, but he did not dare to let Xu Jie see them.

This is a hurdle that can never be overcome between Xu Jie and Xu Pan and his son.

In Xu Jie's opinion, Xu Pan's ability is too poor. If he becomes an official, he will become Xu Jie's weakness. It doesn't matter if Xu Pan himself has something to do, but it also implicates Xu Jie in the face of Yan Song.

Xu Pan felt that he was very talented, and the reason why he could not make achievements in this life was because Xu Jie was too selfish. For his future, he didn't care about his son's future.

But Xu Jie is also someone Xu Pan dares to face in his whole life. When Xu Jie was not in Songjiang, Xu Pan dared to do whatever he wanted, but when Xu Jie waved his fingers, he could only be honest and dared not do anything.

Xu Pan dared not refute Xu Jie, so he could only say in a low voice: "Is this why you don't go to the capital?"

Xu Jie said: "It's not entirely true, because I know that this State Conference is destined to be unreasonable. If I pass one or two worlds, I would rather go and have a look."

Although Xu Jie retreated, he still had a good grasp of the overall Ming court.

Under Jiajing's rule, there were no tens of thousands of horses in silence. But it was almost the same. Many ministers who dared to give in a direct way were all desperate. Even in recent years, Xu Jiekuan, even the censor, did not recover for a while.

When the State Conference was held for the first time, many people couldn't figure out what it was doing. Naturally, they wouldn't speak randomly. The result was that the entire conference was just following the process.

What's so good about this?

However, after all the officials became familiar with each other, they knew that this conference really agreed on major events in the next few years. There would be some quarrels at that time.

If Xu Jie was still healthy then, he really wanted to go and see what the new political ecology built by Zhou Mengchen would look like. Will the full martial arts be performed?

After all, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty also had a criminal record of using military force.

Although Xu Jie was thousands of miles away, his judgment on the State Conference was still very accurate.

Indeed, a conference was generally not good. The whole process, that is, all officials were in charge, Jiajing arrived, and the ceremony was paid. Zhou Mengchen read out his state letter. Then the minister began to question and ask questions.

Fortunately, Zhou Mengchen was prepared for this session. He arranged a few people to come forward to ask questions. Zhou Mengchen returned to the questions one by one, and finally made the atmosphere more lively.

All officials have understood the three major events that Zhou Mengchen said, namely, to Taiping, Ministry of Revenue Reform, and Yellow River Construction. The three events. Overall, these questions have no intention of questioning, and more because some places do not understand.

I want Zhou Mengchen to explain it more clearly.

It's more like going through the motions.

Jiajing was a little disappointed with this conference. He felt that this conference was simply unnecessary. He also had some doubts about what Zhou Mengchen said before.

However, after Zhou Mengchen published his state letter in the newspaper, the news spread and flowed into the world's peddlers and barbarians, and the matter became more active. At first, the gentry and people in the world were very uncomfortable with this kind of public order. Then great enthusiasm erupted.

He just did not raise too many questions about Zhou Mengchen's three strategies. Instead, he raised many problems in the world in Ming Dynasty and wanted to let the court solve them.

I don’t know if Zhou Mengchen intervened secretly. In short, this time, some cases were exposed in the newspapers and some local problems were exposed.

Jiajing personally reviewed this according to what Zhou Mengchen said before, and sent it to the newspaper, severely scolding Gao Gong.

Let Gao Gong investigate and handle these cases.

What a person Gao Gong is, naturally he is selfless and even more thunderous. Within more than a month, he investigated and dealt with several prefectures and more than a dozen prefectures. The local officials knew for the first time what the power of public opinion was. He knew that there was also this way to reach Tianting.

For a moment, local officials were trembling as if shocked. They became much more honest.

Jiajing also gained a lot. There were countless voices of chanting the saints in the newspaper for a while. Jiajing discovered for the first time that he seemed to be loved and welcomed by the people. He also found that there were so many people in the newspaper who could flatter him.

It's really amazing.

For a time, the emperor was good and all officials were bad. Only when all officials deceived the emperor would find that the public opinion was aroused by all kinds of things. Although Jiajing could not be completely whitewashed, Jiajing's image was very good for a while.

This satisfied Jiajing.

The disappointment with the previous state meeting was gradually reversed.

At this moment, a major event suddenly came to the newspaper, which made Jiajing feel extremely uncomfortable.

That is Yang Bo's beloved general who stayed in Liaodong, Liaodong general Yang Zhao, leaked news during a frontier operation and was ambushed by the Mongols outside the pass. When Yang Zhao came over, all the ambushed soldiers came out. Yang Zhao was not afraid of danger and retreated, but was shot by the Mongolian archer and died.

In this battle, the Liaodong army suffered not much loss, but lost one of the heavy generals, and the morale of the entire Liaodong was very low. Jiajing had never encountered such heavy generals in many years.
Chapter completed!