The so-called "reply" actually means the emperor's approval of the ministers' memorials, or the approval of the cabinet's draft opinions.
After a minister submits a memorial, the cabinet will vote on whether the matter should be approved and what should be done.
After all this was done, the proposal would be sent to the emperor. If the emperor approved of it, he would give his approval. If he disagreed, it would be sent back to the cabinet, who would then ask them to redraw a new strategy.
Xu Guangqi's memorial had already been sent to the Imperial Household Department.
Zhu Youxiao did ask everyone to discuss it, and the petition was kept in the Silijian. If Zhu Youxiao never mentioned it, then the petition would never see the light of day again, which is the legendary "keeping it in the palace without issuing it."
Now Zhu Youxiao asked Chen Hong to take out this petition and directly approved it in red. The meaning was very clear: I agree with what Xu Guangqi said.
Then the next step would be to send the memorial back to the cabinet for execution according to the emperor's approval. This memorial would become the imperial decree and would be executed according to the execution standards of the decree.
It seems to be just a sentence from Zhu Youxiao, but in fact the matter has been settled.
So the news spread quickly, Xu Guangqi's memorial was approved, and the work at the Imperial Household Department could continue; the Ministry of Revenue would also set up a yamen first, and Xu Guangqi would need to submit another memorial to decide how to do it specifically.
So the matter was finalized.
But the ministers refused to do so.
They asked us to discuss it before, and we were all ready to oppose it, so how come it was suddenly approved?
If this happened so suddenly, there must be a reason.
So everyone started investigating the matter and soon got the result.
This kind of thing cannot be concealed, so it is not surprising that it is discovered.
It turned out that Zhang Guoji, the head minister of the Imperial Household Department, went to the palace to ask the Empress for help, and the Empress asked His Majesty for help, so the matter was resolved.
For a moment, the ministers didn't know what to say. Some felt that the emperor had gone too far and needed to write a letter to impeach him.
This is external relatives interfering in politics, which is absolutely not allowed!
However, most court officials did not dwell on this issue, as they knew that there was no way to deal with it. As for the idea of foreign relatives interfering in politics, the Ming Dynasty did not have the soil for such interference. At most, it would be a mess, but it would be completely ineffective.
This reminds people of another royal relative, that is, Emperor Longqing’s mother’s family. That father-in-law was quite excessive.
Everyone knows about this matter. Not only did Emperor Longqing's father-in-law often go to the palace to ask for rewards, he also had a quarrel with his daughter and did many more abominable things!
But what can you do to him?
Can you arrest him and convict him, or can you kill him?
It's totally unrealistic.
But that doesn't mean there's nothing he can do. After all, he's just a father-in-law of the emperor. There's not much he can do, and the harm he can cause won't be that great.
But it’s different when the father-in-law is in the Imperial Household Department. He controls the Imperial Household Department, and there’s a problem here.
So the officials quickly reached a consensus that the father-in-law should be removed from the Imperial Household Department as soon as possible.
As long as he doesn't cause trouble in the Imperial Household Department and goes back to be the emperor's father-in-law, then everything will be fine, right?
As a result, there were many petitions impeaching Zhang Guoji, and they were very powerful. It was obvious that someone wanted to get rid of him.
However, there was no response to these petitions, and all of them were kept by Zhu Youxiao. To put it bluntly, the emperor just didn't want to deal with this father-in-law.
As a result, countless people became even more excited and showed the attitude that they must take down the father-in-law of the emperor.
Actually, this is very simple. When a person cannot be taken down, he becomes a mountaintop, a symbol. Whoever can take him down will gain greater prestige.
Just like climbing Mount Everest, if no one challenges Mount Everest, it will just be a high mountain there, perhaps the highest mountain in the world.
But when one person chooses to climb it, it's no longer just an ordinary mountain. If the person ahead doesn't succeed, the people behind will want to follow. They don't necessarily want to climb the mountain; they just want to prove they're better than those who climbed it.
If more people can't make it, then more people will want to make it. Because the more people can't make it, the stronger you will appear when you make it.
So now Zhang Guoji is like this kind of mountain. Everyone wants to bring him down. The more people fail to bring him down, the more people want to bring him down.
In fact, this is often the case with eunuchs and powerful officials. They may not have done so many bad things, and their actions may not be different from those of other court officials, but because they are favored by His Majesty and cannot be taken down, countless people flock to them.
This is called boosting reputation. Whoever takes them down or overthrows them will surely go down in history.
So all kinds of charges were put on them, whether they were really guilty or just some fabricated things, all of them were put on them, and their reputation naturally became worse and worse.
As the saying goes, "Gossip can melt metal, and constant criticism can destroy a person." This is actually the truth.
After this incident, Zhang Guoji faced this matter, which was also the reason why Zhu Youxiao pulled him in.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't let Hu Fei bear all this. Zhang Guoji could bear this hat, but Hu Fei couldn't.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com