"There's no need for Eunuch Chang to worry about this!" Zhang Juzheng snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and turned to leave.
When Zhang Jing saw this scene, he smiled slightly and didn't mind. He glanced at Li Cheng and said with a smile, "Follow me!
Don't stand here and be an eyesore. People like us are not welcome here! "With that, he left with the people from Dongchang.
Returning to the Cabinet duty room, Zhang Juzheng sat in his chair and glanced at Zhang Siwei and Lv Diaoyang, who followed him in. He asked in a deep voice, "What's going on with that Chen Lian?"
Lv Diaoyang and Zhang Siwei were both slightly embarrassed. The two of them looked at each other. In the end, it was Lv Diaoyang who said, "That Chen Lian is only a very ordinary scribe in our cabinet. To say that he colluded with the Mongolians is absolutely not true."
Nodding slightly, Zhang Juzheng certainly knew that there was no such thing. Chen Lian was not a fool. If he did this kind of thing, he would have to deal with the three tribes.
Besides, the Mongolians were about to be beaten to the ground. How could they dare to stir up trouble?
However, Zhang Juzheng also understood that Dongchang would never falsely accuse Chen Lian, especially in front of him.
Telling a lie that could be easily seen through would only invite humiliation. Zhang Jing would not be so unwise.
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Juzheng said, "What about the people from the other yamens?"
"There were more than a dozen people taken away by Dongchang. Dongchang did say the charges, and they were all read out in public."
Lv Diaoyang said directly, "Minister Zhang, why don't you go to the palace? If Dongchang is so noisy, it will be very troublesome!"
Zhang Juzheng glanced at Lv Diaoyang, but didn't speak. What was he going to do in the palace? Complain?
He couldn't afford to lose face.
However, this matter was not easy to deal with. Even if he went to complain, Zhang Jing would certainly have a reason. Not to mention anything else, those people were certainly not clean.
Submitting a memorial to impeach Zhang Jing would take a long time. Secondly, once the memorial reached the Bureau of Rites, the effect would probably be the same.
After some thought, Zhang Juzheng thought of a person. This person was the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites, Zhang Hong.
The reason why the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites, Zhang Hong, was ranked higher than the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites, Zhang Jing, was the reason why the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites, the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites, held a very important power: the seal.
This seal was not an ordinary seal, but the Imperial Jade Seal.
A memorial was handed over and drafted by the cabinet. To put it bluntly, it was a way to deal with the memorial.
For example, if a local official submitted a memorial for the disaster, the cabinet would write down the tax reduction or the distribution of food and money for disaster relief. This would be a draft.
When the draft reached the Department of Rites, if the Department of Rites had any opinions from the cabinet, then the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites would approve it, indicating that it could be done in this way.
At this point, the most crucial step was to have the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites stamp the imperial seal. Once the imperial seal was stamped on the draft, it would be an imperial edict, the most authoritative existence in the Daming Court.
If it was an imperial edict directly issued by the Emperor without going through the cabinet, then it would be called an imperial edict. Imperial edicts and eunuchs would not dare to resist, but civil officials would sometimes dare to refuse.
This was because an imperial edict represented the will of the Emperor, and not the will of the entire court.
The reason why Zhang Juzheng held such power was because whenever he submitted a draft, the Department of Rites would directly stamp it, without any objections or alterations.
In a certain sense, Zhang Juzheng's draft was an imperial edict.
If Feng Bao was present, Feng Bao would have the authority to stamp the imperial seal, and at the same time, he could restrain Dongchang. As long as he had a good relationship with Feng Bao, Zhang Juzheng would be absolutely safe.
But now it was different. The highest ranking eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites was not the same person as the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites.
This was originally the correct arrangement, and also a kind of restriction. Throughout the history of the Daming Court, the only person who had commanded Dongchang as eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites was Feng Bao.
Even the all-powerful Wei Zhongxian was only a eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites who commanded Dongchang by imperial edict.
This was also the reason why Gao Gong said that Feng Bao had falsified the imperial edict, because this kind of appointment did not conform to the rules.
During Wei Zhongxian's time, the eunuch in charge of the Department of Rites was Wang Tiqian. This meant that Emperor Mingqi's control over the Department of Rites had not gone out of control.
Although Wei Zhongxian had done a lot of arrogant and despotic things, his authority had always come from the Emperor and nothing else.
When it was time for Chong Zhen to deal with Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian could only obediently stretch out his neck to be executed.
Within the Daming Dynasty's system, checks and balances were everywhere. The Internal Court's Rites Supervisor was in charge of the seal, the Rites Supervisor was in charge of the Balance Department, the Rites Supervisor was in charge of Dongchang, and there was another Rites Supervisor was in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, one was in charge of the seal, one was in charge of spies, and one was in charge of the military.
The three of them were not subordinate to each other, but they kept each other in check. It was a very perfect system.
The chief eunuch Wang Zhen and Liu Jin were the eunuchs of the Department of Rites, Zhang Yin. Wang Zhi was the commander of the Western Faction Guards, he was the eunuch Bing Bi of the Department of Rites. There had never been anyone who held two positions at the same time.
Once a eunuch held two jobs, he would immediately become uncontrollable.
Once the eunuchs and the cabinet colluded, the imperial power would definitely be greatly weakened.
This was also a very important reason why Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng could get along very well in history.
If Feng Bao did not hold two jobs at the same time, there would definitely not be a peaceful relationship between the eunuchs and the civil officials in the Wanli Dynasty.
Dongchang still had the Imperial Bodyguard to keep him in check and balance, and also to prevent Dongchang from growing too big.
When it came to the Great Qing, this kind of checks and balances took a step further, and that was the appearance of the Grand Council.
Instead of using the Honours to keep the civil officials in check, the Grand Council was used to keep the cabinet in check, thus achieving the goal of a system of separation.
In the Outer Court, the civil officials and the Honours and generals kept each other in check. Before the Tumu Castle incident, this kind of checks and balances could be done. Although it had declined slightly, it still worked.
However, after the Tumu Castle incident, the military and the Honours were unable to recover, and the civil officials became powerful.
At this time, the Emperor could only rely on Dongchang and the Imperial Bodyguard.
For example, right now, the eunuch of the Department of Rites, Zhang Jing, who was ordered to supervise Dongchang, was looking for trouble, and Zhang Juzheng had a headache.
Even if Zhang Hong helped him, it was impossible for Zhang Hong to meddle in the affairs of Dongchang. That was exceeding his authority, and it was a big taboo in the officialdom.
At this time, the Emperor needed to come out and make a ruling. This was the importance of checks and balances.
Right now, Zhu Yijun did not have the final say. The ruling needed to be reported to Queen Dowager Li, but to let Zhang Juzheng go to Queen Dowager Li to complain, he still did not have the face to do it.
Besides, if he went to complain, people would also complain about him. It was not as convenient for him to enter the palace as a eunuch!
In the end, the foreign officials were always weak in the palace.
The civil officials' method was to submit a memorial to impeach, but to do so, not only would it take a long time, but the effect was not good and slow. This was not what Zhang Juzheng wanted.
If he could suppress this matter with a thunderous force, it would be the best.
Although Zhang Juzheng could not go, he could let Zhang Hong go, but how to let Zhang Hong help him, Zhang Juzheng had a headache.
In terms of distance, when Zhang Jing entered the palace, he worshiped as a disciple of Zhang Hong, and Zhang Jing called Zhang Hong godfather.