After several days of combing, the personnel arrangements of the political affairs hall of the new dynasty, the six ministries of the three provinces, and the nine secretaries have basically been finalized.

On the morning of the second day of the locking of the Imperial Palace, the mystery was revealed, and Liu Jinshan and Kong Kun served as governors at the same time, assisting Wei Renpu, the left minister, and Li Qiong, the right minister, to jointly deal with the affairs of the imperial court.

The new government center adopted the mode of adding one to one and taking turns to be on duty to deal with the major affairs of the imperial court.

According to Li Zhongyi's instructions, Li Qiong and Kong Kun were in a group, and Wei Renpu and Liu Jinshan were in a group, and they took turns to go to the ruling palace every day, and the cabinet office next to the inner study.

The cabinet is the new name given by Li Zhongyi to the West Flower Hall next door to the inner study. As the name suggests: the pavilion of the house!

Kang Mazi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the south study to seize the real power of the minister. Emperor Yongzheng, the fourth son of Kang Mazi, used the military aircraft department to seize the power of the south study, and his name said: The military aircraft is walking, and he is the real prime minister!

If Li Zhongyi wants to regain the power of government affairs, he must do the same and use the name of the cabinet to seize the power of the political hall.

To put it bluntly, the inner study is Li Zhongyi's version of the palace of nourishing the heart, and the cabinet is a copy of the State Council.

Whether it is the cabinet or the military aircraft department, it does not matter what the name is, the important thing is to hold real power.

In addition to replacing the political hall with the cabinet, Li Zhongyi also quietly played a ruthless chess game, and the Tongjin Yintai Division, which specialized in sending and receiving concerts from all over the country, was placed under the direct jurisdiction of Li Zhongyi.

In this way, after the whole day's recitals are submitted to the Yintai Division, they must first be handed over to Li Zhongyi's inner study, and then distributed to the prime minister and deputy ministers of the cabinet for discussion and handling.

At the beginning, the traitorous minister Cai Jing took advantage of the advantages of being controlled by his henchmen in the Yintai Division, adopted the means of deceiving the superiors and concealing the subordinates, and steadily became the prime minister for decades.

Li Zhongyi coerced more than a thousand years of outstanding insight, so naturally it was impossible for him to let a master of conspiracy like Cai Jing treat him like a fool and play with him in the palm of his hand.

In the imperial period of all dynasties, in addition to the male lord who founded the country, most of the emperors in the middle and late stages could not play the shrewd prime minister.

According to Li Zhongyi's personal understanding, there are three main reasons: the prince in the middle and late dynasties grew up in the hands of women in the deep palace, and has not experienced the actual government affairs of the state and county, does not know the suffering of the people, and is very ungrounded; It is not easy for the prime ministers to climb up step by step from petty officials, and they have experienced countless mergers and horizontals and mutual struggles, and they have extremely rich experience in political struggles; The prime ministers gang up, the party fights against differences, and the protégés are all over the court, full of wings, and it is easy to restrain the power of the emperor.

However, the way the ministers play is difficult for Li Zhongyi. In Li Zhongyi's bag, there is a ruthless trick of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, which has not yet surfaced.

The system of dense folding was invented by Kang Mazi and continued until the removal of wild boar skin. Judging from the actual effect, it can be said to be very good, greatly consolidating the imperial power.

In addition to the prince's struggle for the throne, the emperor can calmly grasp the world's major events through secret folding.

It's just that the scope of secret folding authorized by Kang Mazi is quite narrow. Generally, it is the provincial third-grade or above officials, including local Xuezheng, Suzhou weaving, Jiangning weaving, or Manchurian generals stationed in various places, who are qualified to go to the secret fold alone.

In light of the drawbacks of the secret folding, Li Zhongyi planned to expand the scope of the separate secret fold to the prefecture and county yamen in various localities, including the general judges, inspection envoys, teaching edicts, chief bookkeepers, and other subordinate officials.

For example, the magistrate of the county said that the local area had been flooded and there was a serious shortage of grain, and asked for tax reduction. However, the master book said that the local area has always been sunny and there is a bumper harvest of grain.

In this way, Li Zhongyi will definitely be suspicious, and he only needs to send a reliable henchman to make an unannounced visit to find out who is lying.

Since ancient times, whether it is a civilian system or a military general system, there are ugly unspoken rules that do not hide from the superiors. The subordinates here are not fart people, but lower-level officials.

Often, after the governor of a province is corrupted by bribery, the officials of the entire province are rotten, and it is this accomplice structure that causes the phenomenon of connecting the pots.

According to the practice of the imperial court, the newly appointed prime minister and the governor of the government must come to thank Li Zhongyi for his kindness.

What Li Zhongyi should say had already been instructed when he was summoned separately before the visit.

Today, Wei Renpu led the four ministers of the cabinet to meet Li Zhongyi, but it was just a polite talk about tea.

"The lord, the minister thinks that all the affairs of the country and the dynasty are the most important thing to establish the son." Kong Kun came out coldly with such words, which immediately shattered the originally relaxed atmosphere of the entire room, and the temperature in the room instantly dropped below freezing.

Wei Renpu was very angry in his heart, Kong Kun, a brother of Confucius, still doesn't understand the rules?

According to the usual practice, the left minister, as the prime minister, did not speak, and even Li Qiong, the right minister, is not easy to pass casually, let alone Kong Shenzhi, who is not yet hot in the cabinet?

Li Zhongyi had expected that such a big drama would be staged today, but what he didn't expect was that it was Kong Kun, who had just become a counselor, who fired this cannon first.

The Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties have placed great emphasis on the plan of establishing a reserve. Generally speaking, there are no two masters in the country, and there are no two days in the sky, which is a sincere logic that is universally recognized.

However, it is necessary to guard against any accident in the king, but no one can take over, which led to the rebellion of the eight kings of the Sima family in the Western Jin Dynasty, which eventually led to the historical tragedy of the Five Hu Chaohua.

Kong Kun naturally didn't want to rebel, even if he borrowed Kong Kun's 800 guts, he didn't dare to rebel. So, the question arises, why did Kong Kun fire this first shot?

Based on Li Zhongyi's understanding of Kong Kun, he just wanted to use major topics to make the ministers in the cabinet dare not despise him.

As the saying goes, power is given by the leader, but authority needs to be accumulated by yourself!

Kong Kun is not silent, Yiming is indeed very amazing, even the two old ministers Li Qiong and Wei Renpu, who are old and sophisticated, were stunned by his unscrupulousness!

Whether it is the establishment of the prince or the establishment of the prince, it is related to the stability of the country, and it is also the core issue that Li Zhongyi must face sooner or later, and he naturally has to have an attitude to the cabinet.

Among the four phases on the scene, Kong Kun is good at writing, Wei Renpu is an old slippery head, Li Qiong is a quasi-father-in-law, and Liu Jinshan is a technocrat who is immersed in practical things.

Li Zhongyi deliberately waited for a while, and when he saw that no one dared to answer Kong Kun's words, he immediately smiled and said slowly: "My health is not bad, and how about discussing this matter after my sons are weak?" ”

Kong Kun didn't expect Li Zhongyi to establish a prince immediately, but seeing that Li Zhongyi categorically cut off the room to continue to follow up on the matter of establishing a prince, he immediately changed his words and admonished: "The lord currently only has four sons, which is still too little. For the perpetuation of the country, the minister implored the lord's permission to recruit famous ladies to give birth to more healthy princes. ”

Li Qiong suddenly became angry, what is the surname Kong trying to do, isn't this afraid that the world will not be chaotic?

Wei Renpu's family did not have a suitable young woman, and he had already broken off his thoughts in this regard, and the impact in his heart was far less than that of Li Qiong.

Liu Jinshan glanced at Kong Kun, who was like a river, the surname Kong was obviously going for Li Qiniang's favor, Li Qiong must be very unhappy.

Could it be that Kong Kun wanted to fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to send the beautiful daughter of their Kong family to Li Zhongyi's side to compete for favor?