"Daming Dynasty 1566" from the Jiajing Emperor's imperial council, "Daming Dynasty 1566", this costume history drama, for the feudal dynasty, everyone's people's hearts, power and scheming, can be described as exquisite. Among them, the style of the Jiajing Emperor and a number of courtiers is portrayed vividly.
In the plot, on the day of Jiajing's thirty-ninth Chinese New Year's Eve, a royal meeting related to Daming's future livelihood quietly begins.
What kind of meeting was this?
The Jiajing Emperor had been living in the deep palace for a long time, how did he take the pulse of the flow of the situation?
How should the father and son of the traitorous minister Yan Song fight the Dragon Yan Da Yue and suppress the undercurrent?
Cabinet members Xu Jie, Gao Gong and other Qingliu, how should they punish the Ming Dynasty's wanton and wanton greedy behavior?
Also, the eunuchs who were tightly surrounding Jiajing were in charge of the power of the Celebrant, so what did they want to do?
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It's a long story. The official plot of the Ming Dynasty in 1566 began in this fluttering snowflake.
Outside the palace gate, Lü Fang, the eunuch of the Celestial Supervisor, warmly greeted Yan Song, the head of the cabinet who was already eighty years old. Between laughter, Lu Fang said her heart: At the beginning of the new year, I hope that everyone has a good New Year, don't be difficult!
Above the imperial council, the prefect of ceremonies was on the left, the cabinet was on the right, Yan Song was sitting in the center, and the throne was empty.
At this time, the Jiajing Emperor was fasting and meditating, praying for the blessing of Daming and dropping snow.
The Imperial Council has begun!
Yan Song's words revealed the mystery:
The hardest days are over! Last year's drought in two provinces, the flood in three provinces, the war in the northwest and southeast, and a fire in the palace, I don't know how it came!
The emperor is dressed for dinner, and everyone should be tired! It just so happened that there was no snow in the waxing moon last year, and some people used this to slander the imperial court, and if it didn't snow today, those of us who would have to resign!
The emperor fasted here to honor the heavens, and this snow was begged by the emperor! As long as our courtiers of the Ming Dynasty are honest and diligent, my Ming Dynasty can still be like the sun in the sky!
The cabinet has drawn up the votes, directly approved the red, and it should be passed!
Yan Song entered school at the age of 5, was lifted at the age of 19, and was admitted to the jinshi at the age of 25, and began a long career in the official field. In the era of imperial power, Yan Song, who was obsessed with power, knew that only by obeying the emperor's wishes could the tree not fall and the wealth last forever. And these words of the Imperial Council were the core of Yan Song's official learning.
In 1565, the Ming Dynasty suffered from disasters, natural disasters and wars. Among them, "natural disasters" are the most deadly, including real natural disasters such as floods and droughts, as well as fake natural disasters such as Yan Song Group and Si Li Supervisor. Obviously, the fake natural disaster is the real natural disaster of Daming! And who are the culprits of these real natural disasters?
This is a secret topic, a truth that is difficult to say by feudal imperial power.
Looking closely at a passage of Yan Song's words, I only saw yan Song say three sentences: Now the Ming Dynasty is like the sun in the sky, thanks to the Jiajing Emperor! Courtiers, all good courtiers! The cabinet of fiscal expenditures and the superintendent of ceremonies directly approve the red, do not entangle!
The Jiajing Emperor was good at cultivating Taoism, sitting in the inner palace and listening to the deliberations of the imperial court.
Yan Song was worthy of Jiajing's favor, and Yan Song's words easily disturbed the heart of the Jiajing Emperor: Just yesterday, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Zhou Yunyi of the Qin Heavenly Prison blamed the imperial court for corruption with the theory of celestial signs. The Jiajing Emperor had always believed in the theory of celestial phenomena, and Zhou Yunyi used this strange trick to come and advise something? Where did the corruption of the imperial court come from? Is it Yan Song?
In this regard, the Jiajing Emperor seemed to understand something.
Next, Xu Jie and Gao Gong, who were in charge of the household department, and Zhang Juzheng, who was in charge of the military department, began to confront the household department deficit with Si Lijian and Yan Song's father and son.
Listening to the courtiers arguing, the Jiajing Emperor flipped back and forth in the sea of books in the household account book--the great ming dynasty authority was in the household account book in the hand of the Jiajing Emperor.
Last year, the revenue of the national treasury fell into a huge deficit, amounting to more than 8 million taels, while the income of the entire Ming Dynasty was only more than 40 million taels. Such a sky-high deficit is the ball that the group of ministers kicks and kicks.
And whose house will this ball be spent? Is it reasonable? Whoever is home and reasonable is in the hands of the Jiajing Emperor.
The Jiajing Emperor had been practicing for many years, and the government was entrusted to the Qunchen to take care of, but there were two things that he always personally inquired about, one was the finances of Daming, and the other was the work of the first assistant of the cabinet.
This is the imperial art of the Jiajing Emperor, and it is also the plot under the special political situation of the Ming Dynasty:
The Superintendent of Ceremonies, the Cabinet, and the Emperor became the most powerful forces of the three parties; the Superintendent of Ceremonies was a close assistant of the Emperor and could closely monitor the Cabinet; the Cabinet was the representative of the clique of civil officials, who formally managed Daming and also supervised the Superintendent of Ceremonies; the mutual checks and balances between the Cabinet and the Superintendent of Ceremonies could ensure the power of the imperial power, and if they were united with each other, the Emperor only needed to pull a rope of the Superintendent of Ceremonies.
Yan Shifan was in charge of the bureaucracy and the Ministry of Works, of which the Ministry of Works had a huge deficit, amounting to nearly 5 million taels, in addition to nearly 3 million taels of silver imposed on the head of the military department.
In the face of Gao Gong's questioning, Yan Shifan knew that only by pulling his superior, the superintendent, could he escape the disaster:
Of the 3 million taels added to the military department, 30 warships were built, and 10 were transported to nanyang to transport timber to the emperor to repair the palace;
The Superintendent of Ceremonies was in charge of the Municipal Shipping Division, which borrowed 20 ships to transport silk cloth to do business overseas;
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the river embankment was repaired, and the cost details were recorded at all levels, and the project supervision was personally carried out by the eunuchs in the palace!
All the deficits pointed directly to the Si Li Jian - and behind the Si Li Jian was the Jiajing Emperor!
The Jiajing Emperor knew this, and he slowly walked up to the throne and read a poem by Li Ao. A sentence in the poem,
Clouds in the blue sky water in the bottle,
The Dao made clear the heart of the Jiajing Emperor: these courtiers are the clouds and the water, and the Jiajing Emperor is the blue sky and the bottle. The creation of the group of subjects could not escape the eyes of my Jiajing Emperor.
The group of ministers prostrated, and the Jiajing Emperor laid down the political situation: the superintendent of ceremonies should take care of himself, and check who killed Zhou Yunyi; Yan Shifan was a good official, and the group of ministers here were all good ministers of Daming.
A political struggle gradually came to an end, and a greater game of interests was about to be staged - with the acquiescence of the Jiajing Emperor, the Yan Song clique began to implement the national policy of changing rice to mulberry, the peasants sold farmland at low prices, sold grain at high prices, broke the embankment and flooded the fields, and all the conspiracies and tricks for competing for interests were displayed...
This is a top-down power drama of the Ming Dynasty, and I lament the power skills of the Jiajing Emperor,
Ju Tianwei and cut to the point - holding the treasury, bustling the world everyone comes for wealth; using minions to supervise the ceremony; beating the first assistant Yan Song, both hands regardless of the world seem to be stable.
And his favorite yan song father and son also used the same power technique to control the political situation of Daming and firmly grasp the chain of interest corruption.
I'm the seventh brother, follow me! Let's see the world together and appreciate the true taste!