Chapter Three Hundred and Five Officials
Seeing Zhu Hongsan listening to his advice, Feng Ruoshu felt relieved because Zhu Hai was not only involved in the Ma family, but also his Feng family. Last night, Ma Mingyuan came to see him and said it very clearly. If he didn't help him, the Ma family's present is the future of the Feng family. Tong Yangjia is now close to the Feng family. Do you think Tong Yangjia is so easy to get along with? The first thing Tong Yangjia did after he became powerful was to knock down the Feng family.
Feng Ruoshu also knew that Ma Mingyuan was right. In the past, he asked Feng Ziyong to alienate Ma Mingyuan because he wanted Zhu Hongsan to realize that the Feng family was an isolated minister. But who would have thought that Ma Mingyuan was so careless and was caught by Tong Yangjia in the provincial examination (this is really a bad thing). Fortunately, the King of Chu did not want the Ma family to fall too quickly, so the board was raised high and gently fell down, and Ma Mingyuan went home.
It was precisely because the Ma family had not yet collapsed and Tong Yangjia was still afraid of the Ma family's power that he did not attack the Feng family.
In fact, Tong Yangjia also became happy during the year when Ma Mingyuan retired. Now Tong Yangjia is in charge of the Ministry of War and Xing, and has great power. Some of the forces of the Ma family in the court have been removed by Tong Yangjia. Zhu Hongsan also discovered this and is planning to find an opportunity to make Ma Mingyuan come back in the past few months to restrain Tong Yangjia.
Feng Ruoshu said everything he should say and asked, "Your Highness, now the third renege is over. Should we do the next step of doing the serious business!"
"Hey! Okay! You insist on me sitting in this position, it's not easy to do!" Zhu Hongsan had to make five or six at this time.
Zhu Hongsan waved to Cao Fang, and Cao Fang quickly went out to the cabinet to hold the edict of the King of Chu that had been drafted. The content was very simple. Zhu Hongsan knew the intentions of you, the ninth princes. I was also moved by your perseverance and shamelessness. I was going to be the emperor on the first day of the first lunar month and change the name of the country Shenwu. You can do the other cabinets, I don’t care about it!
Seeing Cao Fang go out, there is no one in the room, Feng Ruoshuss wants to speak.
Zhu Hongsan looked at Feng Ruoshu's constipation and looked strange. When did Old Man Feng feel embarrassed?
"My uncle, do you have something to say?"
"Your Highness, I wonder if you want to enthrone the ministers after ascending the throne?"
"Of course, who will work if you don't have an official position?" Zhu Hongsan understood as soon as he finished speaking. Old Man Feng was asking for an official position with him.
However, Zhu Hongsan was able to quickly gain a foothold from Huguang to Guangdong. The old man Feng in front of him made great contributions, so of course he would be granted his official position.
"Don't worry, uncle, you are a civil servant, Marquis of Huayang!"
"Your Highness, the old minister who is granted a title or not does not care. The old minister is seventy years old this year and he will live a few days later. This posthumous title after my death..."
Damn, it turns out that it is this. The posthumous title is that after the death of ancient emperors, princes, ministers, high-ranking officials, ministers, etc., the court gave a title based on their life behavior to praise and criticize good and evil, and called posthumous title or posthumous title. There are two key points of the posthumous law system: one is that the posthumous title must be consistent with the person of the deceased, and the other is that the posthumous title is evaluated and awarded by others after death. The posthumous title of the monarch is determined by the ritual official and announced by the ascended emperor that the posthumous title of the minister is given by the court. The posthumous title is judged and is equivalent to a final conclusion.
Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Let's do this, my uncle's posthumous title will be "Wenzheng"!"
When Feng Ruoshu heard this, he burst into tears and knelt down on his knees and shouted long live! Zhu Hongsan was so angry that he didn't even give him a fiefdom, and he shouted long live a broken posthumous title.
Zhu Hongsan did not study and did not know the importance of posthumous title to civil officials. In Chinese history, there was a very strange phenomenon after the Song Dynasty. After the literati became officials, they dreamed of getting a posthumous title "Wenzheng". The emperor, as the ruler, did not give this posthumous title to others easily. In history, most of the people who could get the posthumous title of Wenzheng were the objects of respect by literati at that time.
Before the Song Dynasty, the highest posthumous title of civil officials was "Wenzhen". By the time of Emperor Renzong of Song, because Emperor Renzong of Song was called Zhao Zhen, in order to avoid taboos, "Wenzhen" was changed to "Wenzhen". When Xia Shu was planned to posthumously named "Wenzheng", Sima Guang proposed for the first time: "Wenzheng is the extremely beautiful posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous titles, and it is Jing Gong's posthumous posthumous morality, and it is the ultimate morality of literati. After his publicity, "Wenzheng" was considered to be the extremely beautiful posthumous posthumous title of minister. The emperor refused to give it to others easily. The posthumous titles of "Wenzheng" in the Song Dynasty were Li Fang, Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang, Wang Dan, Wang Zeng, Cai Bian, Huang Zhongyong, Zheng Juzhong, Cai Chen, Su Shi (I don't know if it was the original posthumous posthumous posthumous title or later added). The posthumous titles of Wenzheng in the Yuan Dynasty were Wu Cheng, Yelu Chucai, Liu Bingzhong, Xu Heng, and Lian Xixian.
During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty, Grand Secretary Li Dongyang was about to die. Grand Secretary Yang Yiqing came to see him. Seeing that Li Dongyang was worried about his posthumous title, Yang Yiqing told him that he gave him the posthumous title of "Wenzheng" after his death. The dying Li Dongyang actually kowtowed to Yang Yiqing on the bed. Because Li and Yang had a strong personal relationship, some people wrote poems to sarcastically say: "Wenzheng has always been posthumously named Wang Fan, but now Wenzheng is hard to bear. The strong wind blows on the sycamore tree, and others say that others say that they are short and short." The Ming Dynasty received the posthumous title of "Wenzheng" were Fang Xiaoru, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Ni Yuanlu, and Liu Lishun. Fang Xiaoru was killed for resisting the order of King Cao of Yan ascending the throne. Hongguang time posthumous title of "Wenzheng", and Ni Yuanlu and Liu Lishun were posthumous titled "Wenzheng". Ni Yuanlu and Liu Lishun were posthumous titled "Wenzheng" afterwards. Li Zicheng captured the capital, Ni Yuanlu and Liu Lishun hanged himself for his death. During Hongguang time, he posthumous title of "Wenzheng".
Only five people received the posthumous title of "Wen Zheng" in the entire Ming Dynasty in 260 years. Fang Xiaoru, Ni Yuanlu, and Liu Lishun were posthumous titles later, and only Li Dongyang and Xie Qian were given posthumous titles after their death. Feng Ruoshu heard that he would be called "Wen Zheng Gong" with those famous literati in the future, so how could he control his mood!
At this time, three cabinet masters and six ministers of the ministers came into the house and were about to discuss the ascension of the throne with Zhu Hongsan. When they saw Old Man Feng kneeling on the ground and crying.
When Zhu Hongsan saw someone coming from the cabinet, he said, "You are here, Mr. Chen, please draw up the first imperial edict after this king ascended the throne. Feng Ruoshu worked hard and made great contributions. After his death, he was granted the title of Taimiao and was posthumously named "Wenzheng"!"
As soon as Zhu Hongsan said this, the literati in the room looked red. This was jealous. "Wenzheng", the most civil servants! I don't know if I could get it. Feng Ziyong knelt down and kowtowed after hearing it, thanking Zhu Hongsan for his preferential treatment to the Feng family. In addition to major events, such as the emperor's ascension ceremony, and the emperor's death, the literati in the Ming Dynasty did not have to kowtow to the emperor at other times, and he just bowed to the court. Zhu Hongsan even treated the literati and officials. Several cabinet ministers in the court all had seats. Feng Ziyong kowtowed today for his father, after all, the two words "Wenzheng" meant a lot.
Zhu Hongsan asked Feng Ziyong to send Old Man Feng home and wait for his death with peace of mind. Then he began to discuss the ascension of the throne with all the ministers in the cabinet.
The time for ascending the throne is set on the first day of the first lunar month, and no one has any objections. Everyone has many opinions on the year name. Everyone does not agree with the Shenwu year name drafted by Zhu Hongsan.
The year name is a special name used for the feudal dynasty in ancient China. The year name was first created in ancient China, originating from the republic era when Duke Zhaomu and Duke Ding of Zhou dynasty jointly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty, but the subsequent Zhou kings did not continue this system. Until Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty Liu Che ascended the throne, China began to use the year name system. The first year name of Emperor Wu of Han was "Jianyuan". After more than 2,000 years, the Chinese feudal dynasty continued to use the year name system, and the number of words of the year name was generally two characters. There are a few three characters, four characters or even six characters. For example, Wang Mang's "First Founding of the Kingdom", Wu Zetian's "Long Live the Heavenly Heaven", and Jingzong of the Western Xia Dynasty "Tians and Laws of Heaven" were "Yanzuo".
I saw everyone talking about it. Some guys said that the year name should reflect the meaning of the Ming Dynasty's revival, but it would be called "Xingming"; another guy said that it would be called "Yongping", which would be forever pacified; some people said that since Zhongxing the Ming Dynasty, it would be better to be called "Zhongxing". For a while, the house was messy, like a vegetable market.
Zhu Hongsan saw the guys talking more and more intensely, and finally wanted to resolve the dispute. He slapped the table and shouted: "Okay! Stop talking!"
The ministers calmed down and listened to what Zhu Hongsan said.
"I decided to call it Shenwu, Shen is the emperor, and Wu is the sanction of the world, so that's it!"
Seeing that Zhu Hongsan was firm in his attitude, the ministers had nothing to say. After all, according to their intention, they would not be able to choose a good year number until next year.
Next, Zhu Hongsan would make large-scale adjustments to the central office. First of all, the cabinet. Because this dynasty emphasized orthodoxy, Zhu Di and his descendants who usurped the throne made the cabinet system absolutely impossible, and the prime minister system could not be used because of Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial ancestral teachings. Zhu Hongsan took a different approach to develop a "prime minister system". The prime minister was the first rank and was responsible for all civil affairs in the country. The prime minister had five to six deputy officers, and was the deputy prime minister. From the first rank, each person was in charge of one to two sections; the original six sections of the cabinet were ten.
The three ministries, each ministry is the second rank; the official department is the Organization Department and the Human Resources Department, the Organization Department is responsible for assessing officials, and the Human Resources Department is responsible for appointing officials; the household department is the three ministries, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs; the etiquette department is the second ministries, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Education, which decomposes the functions of the Ministry of Rites that were originally responsible for fame and fortune, and is responsible for the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Rites is now responsible for diplomacy, clan mansion, etc.; the military department is the second ministries, the equipment department and the logistics department; the Xing department is the second ministries, the Justice and the Police Department; the engineering department is the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Agriculture.
The command function of the Ministry of War was independent. The Military Affairs Office was established, and one military aircraft leader was established, and three to four deputy commanders were established. The Military Affairs Office was responsible for the mobilization of all military troops in the country, the appointment of military officers, the collection of intelligence, the allocation of equipment, the issuance of combat orders, etc. The Military Affairs Office was directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and no one was allowed to mobilize the army without the emperor's tiger talisman. Zhu Hongsan independent of the functions of the General Staff of the later generations and was part-time job by the emperor. The weakened Ministry of War became the logistics department responsible for manufacturing equipment and building houses for the army across the country, and completely became the role of the housekeeper. Tong Yangjia's face turned green when he heard Zhu Hongsan's imperial edict. The Ministry of War was his one acre and three-point land. This reduced his power greatly reduced, but this was not the most important thing, because what Zhu Hongsan said below Tong Yangjia was so hungry.
Chapter completed!