Zhu En was reprimanded by Zhu Houzhao and took the initiative to resign, and the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites became vacant again.

For some reason, the official book of the Ministry of Rites of the Zhengde Dynasty was always prone to accidents.

Zhang Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was sentenced to death for the crime of treason.

Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was executed by the former cabinet minister Xu Jin for his intention to establish a new emperor.

This is the most easy position in the cabinet to enter the Qing noble official position, and it seems that no official has been able to stabilize this position.

Zhu Houzhao's requirements for the Ministry of Rites are actually not high, and even among the seven Books (a new school), he only accepts that the Ministry of Rites can be pedantic and stubborn.

However, this is not to say that Zhu Houzhao doesn't like the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu is an official who doesn't understand anything but loves to be blind, the key is that he can't say anything about it.

"The imperial court system needs to be changed, in the future, in addition to the Criminal Department, the remaining six Shangshu and the provincial governors and ministers are recommended by the first assistant of the cabinet, and then voted by the cabinet and the incumbent Jiuqing and the six departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, if more than half agree, and then submit to me for approval, I must personally interview the recommended person, I do not ask about his qualifications, the first priority is his talent, if the recommended person is not talented, I will be held accountable to the first assistant, how did you recommend it!"

Zhu Houzhao knew that the Ming Dynasty was different from previous dynasties, because Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system, which led to the fact that the power of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the head of the administration to deal with daily administrative affairs, was not clear, and the emperor was nominally the head of state, the head of administration, or the military commander.

Although this is conducive to absolute monarchy, it is unrealistic.

Because not every emperor is as energetic as Zhu Yuanzhang, even if the prime minister system is banned, there will be an official position similar to the prime minister to replace the prime minister, such as the current cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty.

However, because the Cabinet was initially a temporary body, its administrative functions have been unclear and do not even fully function as a central body.

Because of this, it is sometimes difficult for the emperor to control the civil official group by controlling the cabinet, because many civil officials, especially the former Liubu Shangshu, do not take the cabinet too seriously, after all, they are not legally subordinate to the cabinet, and they are not recommended by the cabinet, they are recommended by the entire civil official group.

In addition to the support of the inner court, Zhang Juzheng's reform in history also had to control the six ministries before he could carry out the reform, but Rao is so, many civil officials still don't buy his account as the head of the cabinet, and he wants the cabinet to control the six departments and the officials will be opposed.

But now, Zhu Houzhao wants to put a tight spell on the entire civilian clique and install a housekeeper for them, that is, let the cabinet chief assistant really have the real administrative power of the prime minister, and the military power must not be had, and the supreme military commander must be himself! However, administratively, the cabinet chief assistant can have the real power to lead hundreds of officials, so that he, the emperor, can directly control the entire civil official group by controlling a cabinet chief assistant.

In fact, in the original history, the powers of the cabinet began to expand in the Jiajing Dynasty, and it was also from the Jiajing time that the cabinet really had the real power of the prime minister, and the so-called powerful ministers such as Yan Song appeared.

"Your Majesty! Please also think twice, in this case, the power of the first assistant of the cabinet is too great, and the officials in the world are not all his lackeys, and we are the ministers of the Son of Heaven, not his protégés! ”

At this time, Jiao Huangzhong, the head of the Hanlin Academy, stood up, he knew that this move was ostensibly His Majesty giving up power to the cabinet chief, but in fact, he was looking for another leader for the civil official group, just like a shepherd found a shepherd dog to take care of the sheep, Jiao Huangzhong knew that in the future, as long as His Majesty controlled the cabinet chief, it would be equivalent to controlling all the civil officials.

But Jiao Huangzhong can't say this directly, and can only try to organize Zhu Houzhao on the grounds that the power of the first assistant may be too great.

"You are all my protégés, even if the first assistant is your superior, it is only your official in the government, as long as you don't bend your knees, can he make you bend, the first assistant is not a king, he has no right to dispose of you, let alone the six branch of the gallery and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has no right to impeach you, only the right to recommend you! Moreover, not all civil officials need to be recommended by the head of the cabinet, and civil officials such as the three law departments do not need to be recommended by the head of the cabinet! ”

Zhu Houzhao said this, Jiao Huangzhong knew that he could not stop His Majesty the Emperor's intention to strengthen the power of the cabinet, and only sighed in his heart, those who want to be cabinet ministers in the future are only afraid of more, and the officials in the world are only afraid that no one will have the heart to concentrate on persuading His Majesty anymore, and only put his mind on being the first assistant above ten thousand people under one person, and only think about changing the world by himself, not thinking about changing the king, the king is more free, and he is afraid that there will be more faint kings in the future!

As Jiao Huang expected, Zhu Houzhao knew that he would make the emperor more free by doing this, and even if the emperor alchemized and did carpentry, he could make the world run normally, and even if the young lord ascended the throne, he could open a generation of Zhongxing rule, as long as the civil officials did not use despicable means, the emperor completely achieved the great rule of the world by controlling the first assistant.

But sometimes there is really a gap between reality and ideals, the emperor wants to control the first assistant, the civil official group also wants to control the first assistant, and even in the late Wanli period in history, Gu Xiancheng of the Donglin Party can link up with officials all over the world to interfere in the selection of cabinet ministers, and even control cabinet politics, forcing the cabinet chief and auxiliary party to go into the field.

No matter what the situation will develop in the future, at least the need to clarify and expand the functions and powers of the cabinet now conforms to the trend of history, and it is also the best way for Zhu Houzhao to continue to give full play to the factory and health system.

After all, civil officials are also human beings, and they must also have the highest goals, and if they are not allowed to see that they can have the highest power, they will not have the heart to progress and cherish the ideal of governing the country and leveling the world, otherwise, they will only feel that reforming the world is the emperor's own business.

"Your Ministers obey!"

Wang Huaxian, the first assistant of the cabinet, arched his hand, he knew that if he changed according to what His Majesty said, he would become the so-called prime minister, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried, he felt that he was sitting on a stove, and he felt hot and couldn't get down for a while.

Gui Cao, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, looked at Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, he couldn't help but have a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was even happier than Wang Hua, he knew that once he became the first assistant in the future, he would no longer be just the emperor's paperwork, but he could really lead the world's hundreds of officials to do good things and eliminate disadvantages.

Gui Cao secretly calculated who else was in front of him, and when he would be able to achieve the position of first assistant.

Liu Yu, the second assistant of the cabinet, also glanced at Wang Hua meaningfully, and for the first time, he felt that Wang Hua should retire.

Zhu Houzhao saw all these people's expressions, and he found that the civil officials had already begun to compare secretly, and they no longer focused on dealing with their own king.