Chapter 873 Knock on the Palace Gate
Xiangyang.?
All the officials have not seen His Majesty the Emperor for many days.
Since Li left Beijing and went to Hebei, he became the governor of Yanyun and became the Prime Minister, His Majesty the Emperor had never been there for the morning court that day after he left.
The emperor did not come to the imperial city's Zhongshu.
Anyway, the king will not go to court early from now on.
The palace gate was closed, and officials could not see the emperor without the emperor's will.
Censorate.
A group of censors gathered together and sighed. No one expected that the emperor would use such a trick, so he avoided this.
"Liu Zhongcheng, this is not enough. Your Majesty is deliberately delaying us!"
The censors and censors have always been brave. Even if ordinary officials see the emperor's intentions, they are not easy to explain clearly. However, these censors have no scruples. They are born to kill people with their mouths.
If you don’t even dare to point out the emperor, you can still be a censor?
"Your Majesty is not in good health and does not go to court to govern the government. Then let's go to the subordinates of the Minister of the Minister to find the prime ministers." A censor said loudly.
Li went out but did not fall. What made them most angry was that the emperor came to a king and did not go out early, and they hid in the deep palace and did not leave. It was useless for them to submit a memorial and ask for a meeting.
Memorials enter the sea like stones, and even if you ask for a visit, you never get permission.
And Li's chaos in politics is still being implemented.
Theoretically, Li's new policies were actually implemented by the Secretary of the Central Secretariat. It was proposed by Li, and then with the approval of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat and the approval of the emperor, finally formed official documents and decrees to promote the whole world.
Therefore, even if Li goes out now, as long as the Secretary of the Central Committee does not intend to abolish these new laws, the Secretariat and the Six Ministry will continue to implement these new policies, and the Daozhou and counties in various places cannot be changed.
The national system has its own set of rules.
Many censors thought that as soon as Li left, they could applaud and that the chaos would be abolished and returned to the old track. But in fact, everything was still the same.
How can this not be popular?
"What did these prime ministers under the Secretariat think? Why didn't the new law be abolished?"
According to the Tang Dynasty system, the world was supported by the prime ministers under the Secretary of the Central Committee to govern the country. After the Secretary of the Central Committee made a decision, it was handed over to the Secretariat and the Six Ministry to implement it.
The emperor is supreme, but the emperor cannot take care of everything himself, so the emperor authorized the prime ministers to help him manage the government.
This is like a company in later generations. The emperor was the chairman, but generally speaking, the chairman did not manage the company himself, but instead selected the general manager and department managers as management teams to help him manage the company's daily maintenance.
The chairman is responsible for the board of directors and grasps the general direction.
Li was the deputy general manager of the company and launched a series of new plans. Now Vice General Manager Li has been placed in the branch, but the board of directors has no documents to stop Vice General Manager Li's original plan, so the company can only operate according to the original plan.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the company's general manager should propose a new plan to the chairman at this time, or restore the original old plan.
But no one proposed this, whether it was Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, or other prime ministers.
Part.
"Who is the presidency of the Shangshu Province now?" someone asked.
No one answered that Li went out, but he was still the Minister of State. Therefore, Li was still the Minister of State, but when he went out of Hebei, he could not actually preside over the provincial affairs. According to the system, the left and right servants should be responsible for preside over the presidency.
The left servant Xiao Yu, and the right servant Chen Shuda.
These two people are said to be against the new law, but why is the Shangshu still implementing Li's scheme?
There is a public housing not far from the Censorate, which is the office room of the Censor Wei Zheng.
Wei Zheng, who had just returned from the school, was listening to the report of his staff, and was talking about the conversations about the censors in the Censorate.
Wei Zheng had a dark face and didn't speak.
As the chief of the Censorate, all the Censors below followed Liu Shi, the Chief Censor of the Censor, which was not a good thing for Wei Zheng.
To put it lightly, it was because he couldn't control the Censorate. To put it seriously, it was because he was incompetent and could not control his yamen. But he also had his ideas: his eldest son and Li's sister were engaged, and the two families were in-laws.
In Li's case, he had to avoid suspicion.
Because of this, Wei Zheng has never interfered in this matter.
"The Prime Minister and the Censors plan to ask for an explanation from the Prime Minister of the Secretariat, and even prepare to impeach Ma Zhou, Sun Fujia, Cen Wenben and other Li Dang."
Wei Zheng snorted, "Why didn't they impeach me, the censor, first? Do they also call me Li's party? It's simply stupid!"
The subordinates of the Zhongshu have not been stable during this period.
Because Li went out and the emperor did not pay tribute, the prime ministers under the Secretariat eventually became disagreements and formed two factions.
One faction is Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, and Ma Zhou and he supported him. They understood the emperor's intention and insisted on continuing to promote the new law of luggage. For those opponents, they just left the other side and ignored it. Anyway, the emperor did not stand up and said that he would abolish the new law, so they would continue to implement the new law.
And another faction.
Then there are five prime ministers, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yu Wenshi, Gao Shilian and Yang Gongren, who stand together. They mean that the subordinates of the Secretariat should abolish the new laws and restore the old rules.
There are eleven prime ministers under the Secretariat.
Li went out, and there were ten left.
Now there are two factions, and there are exactly five on one side, which is very subtle.
In the past, the prime ministers under the Secretariat discussed matters, because they were eleven prime ministers, they usually decided on the voting decisions, and they could always distinguish the number of them.
Although generally, it is not necessary to choose which one side of the supporters, but in fact, most prime ministers agree to a decision and get the support of the emperor before they can pass.
But now, the emperor does not come to the court or discuss matters. Ten prime ministers are in court. Every time the ministers meet, whenever they talk about the abolition of the new law, the result is always five to five.
Not to mention that any party has obtained the majority, even if there is one more vote, it is naturally impossible to abolish the new law.
Xiao Yu and the others wanted to see the emperor and let the emperor speak abolish the new laws, but the emperor not only did not see all officials, but also did not see the prime minister. Their memorials were sent up, and the emperor also did not respond.
The subordinates of the Secretariat could not achieve the result. Although most of the officials in the court wanted to abolish the new laws, they had no choice.
After all, the emperor did not say that he would not abolish it, and the subordinates of the Secretariat were still controversial and did not reject it. The officials did not dare to force it too much. They also hoped that the emperor and the subordinates of the Secretariat would eventually express their opinions and abolish the new law.
But these people from the Censorate couldn't wait.
They have always been pioneers.
"We will go to the Minister of the Central Secretariat to ask for an explanation today. If all the prime ministers don't give the explanation, then we will occupy the Minister of the Central Secretariat and will not leave!" Liu Shi was also a little angry. He still remembered that morning court that year, the emperor coldly interrupted him to impeach Li and asked him if he had finished speaking.
As the second officer of the Censorate, the emperor's words were simply an insult to him.
The more the emperor did this, the more Liu Wei wanted to impeach Li and abolish the new law.
If the new law is abolished, they will go to the prime ministers to explain. He even thought that if the prime minister under the Secretariat does not give him any explanation, they will go to the palace gate to kneel down and knock on the palace gate and invite the emperor out.
"Go together!"
"Go together, this matter must be given immediately and cannot be dragged."
At this time, the censor asked, "Wei Xianggang is back, are we going to invite him to go with you?"
Wei Zheng was not only the chief of the Censorate, but also one of the prime ministers under the Secretariat.
Liu Wei turned his head and looked at the other side of Wei Zheng’s public housing.
"I will go and invite Prime Minister Wei later. If Prime Minister Wei refuses to go with him, then we will go!"
Facing Liu Shi who came to invite him, Wei Zheng did not refuse to go with him.
"I am the Censor and I am also a matter of Pingzhang in the same position as the Minister of the Central Secretariat. I must not be absent from today's affairs anyway. Let's go and go to the Minister of the Central Secretariat together."
Yacheng, Secretariat.
A large group of censors from the Censorate came uninvited and stood outside the gate of the Secretariat to meet the prime ministers.
"Old Du, what should you do if you talk about this?"
Fang Xuanling asked Du Ruhui.
"The soldiers come and the generals stop, and the water comes and the soil is flooded." Du Ruhui replied while coughing.
Changsun Wuji, who was standing aside, looked ugly, "What's wrong with this Wei Zheng? Your Majesty gave him the Censorate. This is how he did it? Even a Censorate can't manage it well, and being pulled away by those Censors. What's the skill? It's not as good as Du Yan and Sun Fujia in charge of the Censorate."
"Don't blame Wei Zheng for joining in the fun. How could he not come today's scene?"
After a few complaints, the last few prime ministers were still helpless, "What should I do about this?"
Du Ruhui looked bad and calmed down, "It's nothing difficult to deal with. Now that His Majesty is not out of the palace, Li goes out to Hebei, and there are ten prime ministers under the Secretariat. As long as the five of us remain unchanged, no matter how powerful the censors make trouble, we are not afraid."
Du Ruhui's countermeasure was very simple, and these censors attended a meeting under the Secretariat, and ten prime ministers discussed the issue of the abolition of the new law.
Everything comes according to the system.
But only if the five of them do not change their position, the result will not change at all. Five to five, and they also have the same appearance and second appearance as the Secretariat and Shizhong, so they will naturally not be able to turn the world.
"Can the censors accept this result?"
"Everything is done according to the rules of the court. If they are dissatisfied with the decisions of the Secretary of the Secretariat, they can report to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to make a decision."
Changsun Wuji, hehe, the emperor hides from the palace every day and doesn’t come out. If you ask the emperor to make a judgment, it will definitely be like a mud cow entering the sea.
This is going to be dragged to the end.
"Go and invite Xiao Xiang, Chen Xiang, Gao Xiang, Yuwen Xiang, and Yang Xiang to come and discuss matters, and then notify the censors outside the door and let them attend the audience." Fang Xuanling ordered the officials.
Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda sighed when they heard the officials' message.
"Isn't this intentional bullying? Why do you have to go through this process even though you know the result?"
"Of course it's for everyone in the world."
"This can't be the case."
Chapter completed!