After Liu Hou figured out the intentions of those ministers, he decided to play with these people, so he pretended to attach great importance to this matter and held a court meeting for three consecutive days, so that all the gods and goddesses had enough time to perform.

The time interval between the court meetings of all dynasties is not the same, some dynasties have a three-day dynasty, some have a five-day dynasty, and some have a ten-day dynasty. Like Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, the so-called British lords sit in the court every day, I don't know if the ministers will scold them behind their backs~ perverted, of course, there are also strange things like Wanli who have not been in court for 30 years.

Liu Houding's rule is that every three days, which can be regarded as a relatively diligent government among the emperors of previous dynasties. In terms of the interval between court meetings, Liu Hou is relatively diligent, but in terms of the time of the early dynasty, he is a relatively lazy emperor.

According to tradition, it is generally on the fifth watch, that is, the Mao time, which is equivalent to 05:00 to 07:00 Beijing time. Ministers usually wait outside the noon gate when they are in Yin, that is, from 03:00 to 05:00 Beijing time. That is to say, the ministers should get up in the middle of the night, wash up in a hurry, have a full breakfast, put on neat official uniforms, and rush to the palace to attend the court meeting in the cold wind and rain of the early morning.

Breakfast must be full, otherwise from early morning to noon, you will have to be hungry and stick to your spine. Warm clothes should also be worn enough, early morning is the coldest time of the day, rain and snow weather is even worse, early morning is also the highest incidence of myocardial infarction in the elderly. When you go out at this time, if you are old and have cold legs or something like that, you will be frozen and half your life will be gone.

Therefore, although high-ranking officials are good, they also have to work hard in exchange. In view of this, Liu Hou stipulated that the time of the court meeting should start at the end of the hour and the beginning of the morning (that is, at nine o'clock in the morning), claiming that it was to sympathize with the hard work of the ministers, so that the ministers could sleep a little later, which was conducive to everyone's health. Of course, in fact, he himself didn't want to get up so early, and he still set the office hours of the imperial court according to the 9-to-5 working hours in his previous life.

In this impeachment incident, Liu Hou saw that everyone was arguing so vigorously, his eyes rolled, and he had bad thoughts. He ordered the early dynasty to be held for three consecutive days, and claimed that if the result of the argument was not out, the early dynasty could continue to be held continuously, and the key thing is that he also attached an order that he would restore the ancestral system and carry out the early dynasty according to the time specified by the ancestral system, that is, the beginning of the dynasty.

The reason he gave was that throughout the debates of the ministers in the past few days, the time was very insufficient, there were too many ministers who wanted to speak, and everyone was at length, and often the last few ministers who had not yet spoken in a day ended early, so in order for everyone to have enough time to speak, in order to open up the way of speech, the morning pilgrimage was held early, so as to extend the time of the morning pilgrimage every day.

This reason is very sufficient, reflecting the emperor's spirit of attaching importance to words and ways and accepting the opinions of ministers, and everyone can not find fault. However, in this way, all the ministers can suffer a lot, especially the elderly and those who are not in good health, especially those who have physical weakness and cold problems.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, because Liu Hou has been implementing the system of going to court at nine o'clock for a while, the ministers have long been accustomed to getting up late, and now they have to get up two hours early~ Go to work, the biological clock is disrupted all of a sudden, and it is no wonder that they are not uncomfortable.

So, the ministers complained bitterly in their hearts one by one, but they didn't dare to say it if they were bitter, so they could only swallow it in their stomachs, because the little emperor said it, this is to attach importance to words and accept advice.

Who would dare to argue with this reason? If anyone dares to jump out and tell the emperor, you don't listen to the opinions of so many ministers, just dictatorship yourself, and ensure that the ministers will treat him as a mortal enemy and drown him with spittle, because the ministers always like an emperor who listens to their own words, and will not like an emperor who is arbitrary and arbitrary.

In the words of Wen Xuanxuan, they like an emperor who is widely accepted, but they don't like an emperor who listens and is clear, and even refuses to accept advice. They will even regard whether they are willing to accept advice as one of the important criteria for judging whether an emperor is good or bad. If you dare to jump out and call the emperor dictatorial, you will definitely be regarded by the ministers as a flattering traitor, and you will definitely be rejected and suppressed by the ministers.

Even if it is an emperor, he may not like such a person, because they will think that this person is a flattering villain, as a Ming monarch, he should be "a pro-virtuous minister, far from a villain", of course, except for the faint monarch, who likes to be a villain the most.

As a result, the ministers now have to get up in the middle of the night before the rooster crows, and go to court every day with two panda eyes. It doesn't matter if it's like this for a day or two, it's like this for several days in a row, and everyone is a little overwhelmed.

Liu Hou sat on the throne alone, watching a group of national treasures powerlessly arguing over and over topics that had been debated countless times, but he was secretly happy in his heart.

After tossing like this for a few days in a row, the iron man can't stand it, not to mention that most of these ministers can ascend to this high position, and most of them are not young, so their energy is getting weaker and weaker, and they are becoming more and more weak in debate. Of course, Liu Hou's move is a bit of a killing of 1,000 enemies and self-loss of 800, because the ministers have to get up early to go to the court, and he himself has to get up early.

But he was much better than the ministers, because he lived in the palace, and the ministers had to walk long to get to the palace. In the past few days, he simply moved to the palace closest to the Jinluan Hall where the court meeting was held to sleep, and after getting up, he only had to walk for two or three minutes to arrive, plus washing, dressing, and eating breakfast, half an hour was appropriate. So he only needs to get up at half past six, unlike the ministers, who have to get up at two or three ~ o'clock to prepare for the court.

Liu Hou's bad is not only these, he also has a backhand. The so-called morning court is to hold a morning court meeting, and at noon the court will be dispersed, after the court is dispersed, everyone will go to have lunch, and then the ministers will go to their respective yamen to sit on duty and deal with the official affairs of their yamen. Therefore, although everyone participated in the morning pilgrimage, it would not delay the normal operation of the yamen.

Of course, this is "strictly speaking" or "in accordance with the relevant regulations", but the actual situation is not necessarily the case. The people who can participate in the court meeting are generally the bigwigs of various ministries, that is, the leaders of each yamen, and the bigwigs don't have a few deputies and a few subordinate officials? It is impossible for a yamen to have only one lord in the main hall, and if this yamen has only one single commander, then this yamen will definitely not be able to operate normally.

In fact, some yamen are very large and have a large number of officials, which can make the yamen function normally. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the system of six ministries in three provinces had not yet appeared, and the system of three princes and nine secretaries was still implemented, which could be regarded as both official positions and yamen, and behind each name was actually an institution composed of a group of officials to deal with related political affairs.

For example, Taichang, the head of the Nine Qings, has subordinate officials mainly Taishi, Taile, Taizhu, Dazai, Taibu, Taiyi Liulingcheng, as well as the doctor's sacrificial wine and the temples and cemeteries, with complex institutions and huge establishments.

These six orders are actually six branches, plus the doctor's sacrificial wine and the temples and cemeteries, which are equal to eight branches, and there are many officials in each branch. For example, the "institution" of Taishi, its subordinate officials are: Taishi Ling, rank of 600 stones, copper seal and black ribbon, palm time, ephemeris;

Tai Shi Cheng, rank 400 stones, copper seal black ribbon, auxiliary Tai Shi Ling; Edict, rank 200 stones, divide the ephemeris, turtle bu, please rain; Governing the calendar, the main calendar; Too often Peng, rank 400 stones, copper seal black ribbon, help too often Cheng; The story, the rank of 200 stones, the main story, the national sacrifice in history, the funeral;

Grand Dian Star, Palm Ephemeris; Hope for the air, the Lord for the hope; Mingtang Cheng, rank 200 stones, copper seal yellow ribbon, palm guarding Mingtang; Lingtai Cheng, rank 200 stones, copper seal yellow ribbon, palm guard Lingtai; The edict of the Lingtai is divided into the stars, the sun, the celestial phenomena, the clock and so on.

That is to say, the affairs of each yamen of the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries are usually handled by deputies or subordinate officials, and it is really difficult to make a decision before the chief official makes an idea. In this case, it doesn't matter if the chief official doesn't go to the yamen for half a day. And the fact is that, generally speaking, if you need to go to the morning court that day, the bigwigs of the various yamen will go home to rest in the afternoon.

ps. The official position paragraph was indeed copied back from the Internet, and there was a suspicion of irrigation, but that paragraph was given away for free and the money was confiscated, so there are more words in this chapter.