Early in the morning, the General Affairs Department located inside Xigongshengmen began a busy day of work.
General Affairs Minister Xue Songyi personally sat in the public hall and supervised his officials to open the memorials delivered to the office from all over the country.
After unsealing, the officials of the General Administration Department must carefully examine the memorials from the provincial governors, military and political yamen, the six ministries and five government procuratorates, and other imperial yamen, and immediately transcribe and submit the memorials for urgent matters.
The rest of the memorials were reviewed by the Secretary of General Affairs, and a brief explanation of the verses was written on the bottom of the paper, which was called "yellow paste". The registration number was then verified before being sent to the Secretary of Ceremonies.
¡°Furthermore, the General Affairs Department can also send back memorials whose format does not meet the requirements, and order the petitioner to submit them again as required.
The General Affairs Department has many requirements for various types of memorials, from common headings and taboos to the number of pages and sizes of memorials for officials of different ranks. There are detailed regulations.
This discretionary power of the General Affairs Department gives them a weakened version of the ¡®right to refute¡¯.
¡°As long as they want your memorial to never see the light of day, you won¡¯t be able to pass the General Affairs Department level.
After all, as long as you pick, you can always find faults.
There is really nothing wrong with it, I can help you add some flaws
This is why Mr. Xu Ge asked the General Secretary to help him stop the unpreventable overt and covert attacks.
Since three days ago, Xue Songyi has issued a secret order to reject all Chinese and foreign memorials impeaching Mr. Xu Ge.
And he personally sat in the General Administration Department and put on a defensive posture.
However, after three days, I still haven¡¯t found a memorial to impeach Mr. Xu Ge.
This is very reasonable. After all, Mr. Xu Ge is as holy and flawless as the white lotus in everyone's mind
An hour later, the preliminary screening of today¡¯s memorials was completed.
You Tongzheng reported to Xue Songyi that there were still zero bullets against Mr. Xu Ge.
Xue Songyi nodded with satisfaction and ordered him to send the important memorials and a silver medal secret memorial to the Chief of Ceremonies first.
The so-called silver seal secret memorial is also called Jiejie. It began in the Renzong Dynasty and became more prosperous than the Jiajing Dynasty. The emperor gave a silver seal to Chinese and foreign officials of third rank or above, and the title of the seal was affixed to it. Only the emperor could open the seal.
This is set up for ministers who are inconvenient to publicly advise or report matters. The General Affairs Department has no right to open the seal.
But officials of the third rank and above are very stable and rarely use this power, because the fact that you submit to this kind of secret memorial means that you are closer to the emperor. The so-called "either slander or sycophancy".
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Of course, occasionally someone will be forced to use this right.
¡°For example, today I received a letter from the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment in Nanjing.
But Xue Songyi was not worried at all, because the minister was the only one who would not impeach Mr. Xu Ge.
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When Mr. Xu Ge returned to Wenyuan Pavilion after many days, he saw three bachelors and a group of cabinet ministers, Zhilang and Zhongshu Sheren, who had been waiting by the big stone bridge for a long time.
"Welcome Yuan Fu back to the pavilion!" When Xu Ge walked onto the stone bridge, the three bachelors bowed together and saluted.
"Welcome Yuan Fu back to the pavilion!" Si Zhilang and others all knelt down.
Seeing this situation, Mr. Xu Ge¡¯s wounded heart came back to life.
"Everyone, please get up. You've been working hard recently." Xu Jie stretched out his hand to support me slightly, and said with a slight smile: "From today on, I have to thank you all again."
"I am willing to do my best for Yuan Fu." The cabinet officials paid loud flattery to Mr. Xu Ge's return.
"Hey, you can't say that, I'm just sharing your Majesty's worries." Mr. Xu Ge corrected, but the smile on his face did not diminish.
Then, accompanied by three bachelors, he came to the main hall of Wenyuan Pavilion and sat down.
The people from Zhongshushe brought the memorials they had collected recently and piled them into a small mountain in front of the four bachelors.
Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng briefly and comprehensively introduced to Mr. Xu Ge what major events had happened in the imperial court during this period. To what extent have the tasks assigned previously been completed
Mr. Xu Ge listened patiently for a while. When the people in the middle school room finished their work and went out, he dropped the memorial in his hand and said in a deep voice:
"You three, let's put these things aside for now. The top priority is to restore the normal operation of the imperial court. This was also the thing that worried your Majesty the most when he met the saint earlier."
"Please give me instructions from Yuan Fu." Li Chunfang immediately picked up the brush with one hand, twisted his cuff with the other hand, sat upright, and listened attentively.
"I heard from Prime Minister Zhang some time ago about the ins and outs of the matter." Xu Ge had already made up his mind, so he said unhurriedly: "I have a few immature ideas. Let me share them for everyone's reference."
"First of all, I want to criticize myself. It was really not well thought out when I agreed that the Zhongguan would sit in the regiment camp, guard the local area, and return the Tengxiang Four Guards to the Royal Horse Prison. I didn't expect the backlash would be so big" Xu Jiexian apologized Looking at everyone, he said with a sincere face: "I'm reviewing this. I'm getting older and I don't think about the problem so thoroughly. I'd like to ask the three of you to correct me in the future. Don't have any scruples."
The three of them were tired of hearing this. Is this a problem that was not considered carefully? It was obviously you who dug the hole, right?
??Especially Chen Yiqin has a straightforward temper and can't hold back his anger. Everyone is about to fall apart due to his torment these days. Now I would like to say a few words, please correct me?
Lao Tzu said to correct your turtle son!
He couldn't help but want to ridicule Yuan Fu, but Zhang Juzheng, who was sitting opposite, stopped him with his eyes.
Chen Yiqin then swallowed his anger and looked at the door without looking back.
Xu Jie didn't take it seriously either. He knew that this time he was purely using his power to suppress others, and the three bachelors, including Zhang Juzheng, must have felt uncomfortable.
But who cares? At this age and stage, I only care about my own feelings.
"Since no one has objections, let's shelve the matter indefinitely." Mr. Xu Ge sneered in his heart, and then continued:
¡°Then we need to get the Sixth Section back to work as soon as possible. This is the top priority.¡±
"Master, the Sixth Section has gone too crazy this time. Even if we want them to come back, we must first severely punish the several section chiefs and those who took the lead in making trouble."
Zhang Juzheng hated those officials so much that he could not help but gritted his teeth and said: "Otherwise, in the future, we will all give up our picks at every turn, and the court will be in chaos!"
"Hey, this matter is a special situation." Although Xu Jie was also very unhappy with the crazy dogs of Liu Ke, but now that he had offended the emperor, hated the lieutenants, and alienated his colleagues, he could only rely more closely on the Liu Ke Yanguan. Continue to control the court.
So, Mr. Xu Ge spoke for Yan Guan: "After all, the Zhongguan attacked Section Chief Ouyang first, and the next day he intensified his attack. He gathered a crowd at Huiji Gate to ambush all the members of the Sixth Section, injuring countless remonstrators in the court."