A generation of powerful ministers came to an end, and the pattern of the court naturally underwent great turmoil and changes.

The day after Li Si returned to his hometown and was buried, the emperor summoned the princes and princes and civil and military officials to the court, the country can not be without a monarch for a day, and the court can not be without a phase for a day.

And the people who are currently qualified for this position can be counted on one hand, and there is one person who is expected by everyone, and no one can replace him, that is, Chen Xu, the young master of the dynasty, the marquis of Qinghe, the marquis of Jingyang, the husband of the five princesses, and the world-famous disciple of the immortal family.

Therefore, there were not too many twists and turns in the court, almost with the unanimous approval of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Chen Xu, the marquis of Qinghe, who was only nineteen years old, officially accepted the appointment of the emperor, and was appointed as the left minister, taking charge of Zhongshu Province, and thus became one of the three giants of the court of the Great Qin Empire, one person and ten thousand people.

For others, this may be an opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, but for Chen Xu, this is just the ...... The beginning of suffering.

After accepting the congratulations of the civil and military officials, after the dispersal of the dynasty, Chen Xu entered the palace to thank the emperor, and the two monarchs and ministers played against each other for nearly an hour, and after leaving the palace, Chen Xu went to Feng Qujian and Meng Yi's mansion to visit them respectively, which was regarded as worshipping the dock in the same capacity.

"Virtuous son-in-law, today you finally ascended to the position of the left minister, and in the future, you will not be as lazy as before, and it is essential to go to the court every day to discuss politics!" On Meng Yi's mansion, Weng and his son-in-law chatted while drinking tea, Meng Yi knew Chen Xu's temperament, so he couldn't help but remind.

As soon as he heard the two things of Dianmao and Shangchao, Chen Xu's face collapsed suddenly, and he nodded with a bitter gourd face and said, "Uncle Yue, do you think it's too early to go on a bad time?" ”

"How early, since ancient times, it has been the dawn of the day, and the time is right!" Meng Yi tugged at his beard and shook his head.

"Civilians also rest at sunrise and sunset, 9 to 5 is the regular working time, and there are two days off a week, not to mention the seven-day holiday, at least three or five days off...... "Chen Xu muttered with his fingers.

"What is 9 to 5, a week and two days off? And what kind of seven-day long holiday are you talking about......"

"9 to 5 is morning...... The time is on the up, the time is on the off, and the two days off a week are the five days off and the two days off......" Looking at Meng Yi's darker and darker face, Chen Xu sneered.

"Virtuous son-in-law, the old man knows that you are extremely intelligent, and you have a book from heaven, and now you are still young and have not yet been crowned, you have already been a very human minister, this is an unprecedented honor, but the phase is the important weapon of the country, Your Majesty will hand over such an important position to you, please don't play like usual......" Meng Yi continued to persuade bitterly.

"Thank you father-in-law for your teachings, my son-in-law has written it down, and I must be conscientious and conscientious!" Chen Xu hurriedly surrendered his hand.

"That's good, by the way, Wan'er has been married to you for more than two years, why hasn't there been any movement?" Meng Yi picked up the teacup and turned his head around.

Chen Xu glanced at his father-in-law depressedly, instantly remembered the pair of small steamed buns, and said with a twitch in his face: "Wan Niang is still young when she was old, and her son-in-law must work hard this year......

"Hard-nosed force, the old man sees that you stay in Huaxia Qianzhuang every day and hook up with that concubine all day long, if you dare to snub Wan'er, don't blame the old man for stabbing your affairs to the emperor!" Meng Yi pursed his lips and threatened.

"My business...... What's the matter with me? Chen Xu was inexplicable.

"Hmph, you left in Mount Tai, and then secretly went to Wuzhong, had a drinking conflict with the Xiang family, and went to Langya for more than a month, you must have done some shady deeds, and also hooked up with the daughter of Jiangbei Pavilion, could it be that you are an old man, this imperial historian is blind?" Meng Yi snorted a few times.

Chen Xu: ......

"Then Xiangrui is what you made, right?" Meng Yi's face became cold.

Chen Xu's mouth opened a few times and finally had to nod: "Yes, that's just a coincidence, I didn't expect to fish out such a big lake mussel when I was playing in the lake!" ”

"I heard that the emperor gave you that auspicious pearl?"

"Yes!"

"Next time, remember to bring the giant bead to the old man to play with for a few days!"

"Don't worry, I have already given that pearl to Wan'er, and I will definitely bring my father-in-law to play with next time!" Chen Xu smiled bitterly.

"That's good, the old man knows that you have been busy lately, so he won't leave you for a banquet!" Meng Yi served tea to the guests, and Chen Xu couldn't wait to leave early, and he couldn't talk to this money-greedy and lustful hooligan old man at all, and he would always talk about his baby daughter in a few words.

The Qinghe Hou Mansion is full of lights and is very lively.

When Chen Xu returned home, he was greeted by a neatly dressed family member and hundreds of servant guards, the housekeeper personally set out a roll of 3,000 firecrackers at the door and lit it, as well as the lion dance team and the gong and drum team to celebrate, in the crackling firecrackers, the two lions jumped and tumbled wildly with the sound of gongs and drums.

"Congratulations to Lord Hou, congratulations to Lord Hou!" The four daughters of Shui Qing, Ying Shi, Meng Wan and Fan Caiying all wore brand-new spring dresses and bowed.

"Congratulations, sir!" Huhulala, the servants and maids at the gate of the Hou Mansion knelt and kowtowed.

"Excuse me, get up!"

Chen Xu smiled bitterly after getting out of the car, Li Si had just died, he celebrated so high-profilely, and he was afraid that it would be criticized if it was passed out, but it was impossible to keep a low profile at the moment, because the matter of him becoming the left minister had now spread throughout Xianyang City, and countless pedestrians on the way back to the house cheered and bowed, as expected, a large number of officials and Xianyang celebrities and rich people came to congratulate him.

Sure enough, not long after Chen Xu returned home, one after another carriages came from the southeast and northwest of Xianyang City, and in less than half an hour, the street at the gate of Hou's Mansion was already full of cars and horses, plus the people who came to see the excitement, the whole street was overcrowded almost to the point of flooding.

Zhang Cang, Chen Ping, An Yuliang, Hu Kuan, Xiao He, Huang Fuque and all other relatives and friends who were related to Chen Xu all came in groups with gifts to congratulate.

One person ascended to heaven, Chen Xu became the left minister and became the three giants of Shangqing who really uphold national politics, and these people will climb up faster in the future, even if they don't consider being promoted to make a fortune, at least they will be more handy in the future, and there will be no more Li Si to get in the way, especially the positions in the two ideological fields of the newspaper and the Academy of Letters, almost all of them will be decided by Chen Xu in the future, and everyone can show their talents and knowledge to the fullest, and they will no longer be suppressed by the Legalists.

Although the emperor ordered Xianyang to prohibit entertainment and banquets for ten years, the Qinghe Marquis Mansion was still lively for five or six days before it slowly stopped, and thousands of guests came and went, and the gifts received were piled up and could not be counted.

And Chen Xu is tired enough these days, in the past, Zhongshu Province was Li Si's territory, most of the officials in it were Legalist disciples, Chen Xu took office, naturally it was good to straighten it out, give these Legalist disciples a few preventive shots, inspect the subordinate offices, convene a meeting of the main officials of the bureaus, and at the same time figure out the main scope of work and working methods of these agencies, after more than ten days of busyness, Chen Xu submitted a personnel transfer plan to the emperor, and the emperor approved it after careful consideration, and handed it over to the officials for disposal. After changing a few seemingly insignificant positions, the work of Zhongshu Province was finally smoothed out.

The work of Zhongshu Province is much simpler than that of Shangshu Province, that is, to upload and issue the emperor's orders, and the main task is to review all the concerts of the three provinces and six departments, to screen the priorities of these various pieces from counties and counties across the country, to analyze whether the disposal methods and opinions of the officials of the six departments are legal and legal, to reasonably return the signed opinions to the six departments for processing, to put forward rectification opinions unreasonable, and to submit important and urgent recitals to the emperor for review. In fact, Chen Xu's original intention of restructuring was to speed up the speed of the imperial court's disposal of various books, and at the same time to reduce the emperor's tasks in disguise, and there was a greater purpose to slightly limit the emperor's rights and increase the prime minister's rights to check and balance the imperial power.

Of course, the main purpose is to increase the speed of the court's handling of government affairs.

In this era of inconvenient transportation and information blockage, it takes more than a month for some recitals to be transmitted from remote counties to Xianyang, if there is a backlog in the imperial court for a period of time, it is not uncommon for the disposal to be delayed for half a year or a year, and when the recitals are disposed of and sent back to the counties, the daylilies are already cold.

And when Li Si was there, he almost covered the sky in Zhongshu Province, and all affairs were checked and reviewed by him, although Li Si liked this feeling of power, but for Chen Xu, it was okay to be an official and make a fortune, but if he didn't eat well and sleep well every day, it would be too much for him to worry about state affairs, not that he didn't want to worry, but some things were thankless.

Therefore, Chen Xu once again implemented the joint office method within the province, set up six audit teams according to the tasks under the different jurisdiction of the six departments, set up an emergency affairs disposal department, and then set up an internal inspection and supervision department, these teams and departments are directly responsible for Chen Xu, and Chen Xu controls the operation of the entire Zhongshu Province through the Ministry of Supervision, and posts a strict work system in each department. Handled by the Ministry of Emergency Affairs, a review opinion must be given within one day of the submission by the Ministry of Shangshu; For ordinary county and county livelihood affairs, it is set to a yellow level, and the audit team must give an audit opinion within three days; For other miscellaneous matters, they are classified as green, and the review team must give an audit opinion within ten years, and anyone who unreasonably delays in withholding the recital will be severely punished.

What Chen Xu asked for was the speed and efficiency of handling government affairs, so that the officials of the six ministries could not keep running errands back and forth.

Under Chen Xu's work system, the officials of the various departments of Zhongshu Province can only accept it with frowns, and after going on a business trip every day, they are like being chased by a dog, and the work habit of making a cup of tea and reading the newspaper for half an hour and chatting with each other after going to work is completely abandoned, and this reform measure is also immediate, and a large number of recitals submitted by the officials of the six ministries have been quickly disposed of and returned, so every day to discuss politics, Feng Quji and the heads of the six ministries are smiling at Chen Xu. When you meet, you must bow and thank you.

Under the influence of the effect of Chen Xu's reform measures, the emperor also praised Chen Xu several times in the court, and asked the Supervision Province and Shangshu Province to start implementing this joint office method and hierarchical disposal method, and the speed of the entire imperial court to deal with government affairs has been accelerated a lot.

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