Chapter 51

The next morning, when the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers He Mei took the initiative to ask the Son of Heaven to rectify the Ministry of Officials in the court meeting, the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty were stunned.

Subsequently, the emperor of Great Wei not only agreed to the old minister's request, but also weakened the entire ministry, which was an incredible change that made the Manchu courtiers feel unbelievable.

The Ministry of Officials, as the ministry with the greatest authority among the six ministries of Menxia Province, used to control the rights of selection, promotion, evaluation, demotion and supervision of officials of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it is undeniable that they are the head of the six ministries.

And now, after the promulgation of an imperial decree, the high-ranking officials have been completely knocked into the dust, reduced to a situation of equality with the other five ministries, and there is no special status to speak of.

In contrast, the newly established Imperial Historian has become the hottest focus at present, after all, the functions of this newly established government can be said to have been dug from the Ministry of Officials.

In addition to the Imperial History Supervisor, the Ministry of Rites is also the second beneficiary of this incident, because they have the right to preside over the scientific examination.

The officials are greatly injured.

"What the hell is going on?"

The other five Shangshu and servants of Menxia Province except for the Ministry of Officials looked at each other, they couldn't believe that yesterday the Ministry of Officials was still the head of the six departments, and the weight of authority was so heavy that the remaining five departments could hardly match it. But just one night later, the giant of the six divisions was not only knocked to the ground, but also stuck in the mud and unable to get out.

Yes, because of the newly established Imperial Historians, their first task was to cooperate with the officials of the Ministry of Officials and rectify the internal system of the Ministry of Officials, including the examination of the seventeen examiners who had been imprisoned in the prison cells of the Dali Temple.

"It seems that the officials will not want to raise their heads again for at least two or three years......

The Shangshu and squires of the other five ministries inevitably have a kind of schadenfreude thought, after all, the status of the former officials was too transcendent, as if they were above the other five ministries, and now, this transcendent giant has been pulled into the quagmire, even if they are officials in the same dynasty, there are many people who hold the view of schadenfreude.

In the face of these colleagues' seemingly comforting words, which were actually probing the truth, the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu He Mei could only force a smile.

He even began to suspect that the Son of Heaven promoted Luo Wenzhong as the chief invigilator of the examination at the beginning, in order to use the hand of the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun to catch out the fraud and some other hidden defects in the ministry, and then use this as an excuse to order the ministry to reorganize, so he took this opportunity to strip nearly half of the rights of the ministry and handed it over to the newly established imperial history supervisor.

Because this official department Shangshu He Mei has verified that the chief examiner of this scientific examination, that is, Luo Wenzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Literature, and this person's son Luo Rong, have a grudge with Zhao Hongrun, the eighth prince. If not, how could the rumored Eighth Prince, who has never cared about court affairs, have such leisure to meddle in the scientific examination and the affairs of the ministry?

It was precisely because of this understanding that He Mei, the secretary of the ministry, did not dare to intercede for his ministry at all, because he already understood that the defeat of the ministry this time was not because of the relationship between Luo Wenzhong or the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun, but because of the current emperor of Great Wei.

Son of heaven, I think the Ministry of Officials is too big.

After that, more than 100 identical answer sheets appeared in the scientific examination presided over by the Ministry of Officials, and it was inevitable that it would be spread after all, which made the candidates who stayed in Beijing and waited for the results of the scientific examination in an uproar.

However, before these candidates could make any protests, the imperial court issued the latest notice: the Ministry of Rites of the Son of Heaven reopened the examination.

Yes, it was just to ask the Ministry of Rites to reopen the subject examination, and did not directly say the handling of the invigilator of that subject test, nor did it investigate the candidates who cheated in that subject test.

This has puzzled many people.

These people are puzzled because they don't understand the thoughts of the Son of Heaven of Great Wei at all, who would have thought that the Son of Heaven of Great Wei doesn't care about who to deal with at all, and what the Son of Heaven wants is to weaken the officials as a whole.

This is a conceptual gap caused by different perspectives.

After the early dynasty, the Son of Heaven drove the vertical arch hall as usual, and approved the chapter folds together with the three ministers of the vertical arch hall.

It can be seen that the Son of Heaven of Great Wei is in a very good mood today, and it is hard to imagine that this Son of Heaven can still laugh in the case of such a serious fraud case in the court, and he laughs very openly.

"It seems that the one who won was Your Majesty......

The three ministers of Zhongshu glanced at each other, and secretly sighed in their hearts.

can be promoted by the Son of Heaven to the Minister of Internal Books, and the ability of He Xiangxu, Lin Yuyang, and Yu Ziqi is naturally beyond doubt.

In fact, they had been wondering a few days ago.

For example, an exception was made to promote a little-known official to the chief examiner of the examination.

For another example, the consideration of the prince's escort was unprecedentedly raised, and this place was finally given to the eighth prince, Zhao Hongrun.

What seems to be a coincidence, but is it really a coincidence?

And now they understand that behind this matter, the Son of Heaven has always been behind the scenes, taking advantage of the grievances between Luo Wenzhong and the Eighth Emperor Zhao Hongrun, deliberately instigating the Eighth Prince to interfere in the scientific examination presided over by the Ministry of Officials, and after the latter found out about the fraud in the scientific examination, and then used this to weaken the Ministry of Officials as a whole.

This emperor skillfully turned all those involved in this matter into pawns for him to weaken the officials, including the well-known Eighth Emperor.

"I'm afraid this is a blow to His Royal Highness......

Lin Yuyang and Yu Ziqi glanced at each other, and smiled helplessly in their hearts.

Although it sounded a bit rebellious, they still felt that the hand of the Son of Heaven was really a bit unkind. After all, no matter how smart the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun is, he is just a fourteen-year-old child, and the Son of Heaven uses the power of the promoter to achieve the goal with this kind of political means, and it is understandable to use it on the courtiers, and it can be used on a fourteen-year-old child, which is a bit of a big bully.

Although it is not bad to beat the Eighth Prince at the right time, it is really cruel in this way.

At lunchtime, the great eunuch Tong Xian reported to the Son of Heaven the latest movements of the Eighth Emperor Zhao Hongrun.

"Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness is out of the palace."

"Where?" In fact, when he asked this, the Son of Heaven already had the answer in his heart, after all, he also knew that his son had a good woman outside the palace.

Sure enough, Tong Xian replied in a low voice: "According to the return of the inner attendant, the Eighth Palace went to a water pavilion. ”

"Did you go find that Miss Su? Scold! The Son of Heaven smiled slightly, he knew very well that his hand would make the stubborn and proud son feel frustrated, so he ordered Tong Xian to send the eunuchs to keep an eye on Zhao Hongrun's movements since last night, lest the proud son not think about it for a while.

After all, the last words that the Son of Heaven said in his son's ear at that time were quite devastating.

"Hmm...... According to my message, the eighth prince Hongrun performed well in the scientific examination this time, and assisted the imperial court to catch the fraud in the scientific field, and should be rewarded, and from now on, the monthly salary of Wenzhao Pavilion will be restored. ”

"Is this a stick for a sweet date?"

Tong Xian smiled bitterly and reminded in a low voice: "I'm afraid that Your Majesty's kindness will be misunderstood as humiliation by His Royal Highness ......"

"Huh!" The Son of Heaven smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "Then you underestimate him too much, according to me, that bad son will accept my gift, and then think about it, how to get it back...... Instead of sticking to this defeat, it is better to fight again, this is the character of the bad son. But ......"

"But?"

"But I don't know when that bad son will recover, this time it should be quite a big blow to him......"

"Do you know you deliberately used words to squeeze him last night?"

Tong Xian couldn't laugh or cry.

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun, the eighth prince in their mouth, had indeed come to a water pavilion and had a private meeting with Miss Su of Cui Xiaoxuan.

Miss Su was very happy about Zhao Hongrun's coming to the meeting after many days, after all, Zhao Hongrun was the first man in her life, and women would inevitably have special feelings for the first man in their lives, even if Zhao Hongrun was six years younger than her.

It is worth mentioning that because there has already been an incident of his Royal Highness being taken captive, this time, all the sect guards said that they would not dare to stay away from their Royal Highness again, and ten sect guards accompanied Zhao Hongrun to Cui Xiaoxuan, and the scale of this guard made Miss Su stunned for a moment.

Fortunately, Miss Su gradually guessed that she was a little man who might have a good background, so she didn't care that he would have ten guards to protect her.

She gave the little girl Huan Lu'er some silver, and asked her to ask the stewards of the water pavilion to prepare a table of wine and food, and entertain Zhao Hongrun's ten guards in the outer room, while she herself invited Zhao Hongrun to the inner room, and also prepared a table of wine and food in the inner room.

"What Childe said a few days ago...... Is it solved? ”

After the wine and food came up, Miss Su very virtuously poured a glass of wine for Zhao Hongrun, and she was puzzled to find that today's "Jiang Gongzi" seemed to be in a somewhat depressed mood and a little depressed.

"Ah, it's solved." Zhao Hongrun lay on the blanket in the inner room with his head on his hands.

As Miss Su could see, his mood was indeed a little low.

It is undeniable that his purpose of interfering in the scientific examination this time has been achieved, and Luo Rong's scientific examination this time will definitely be out of play, because his son Luo Wenzhong was involved in the fraud in the scientific field, even if he retakes the examination, the officials of the Ministry of Rites will not call Luo Rong on the list.

And Luo Wenzhong is not to mention, nine times out of ten he will be kicked out of the position of the Ministry of Officials, if he is lucky, he will either start as a small official, or he will be directly assigned to the local government as an official, if he is unlucky, he will be found to have something to do with the fraud in the scientific examination, then he will be directly expelled from the official list, and even the father and son may be stripped of the scholar's status.

In this way, Pei Kai, the prisoner of Dali Temple, has not yet been retaliated against by Zhao Hongrun, but Zhao Hongrun suddenly has no such thoughts, and he is not even interested in paying attention to how Luo Wenzhong will be disposed of.

And the reason for all this lies in his Laozi Zhao Yuanxi, the son of the Great Wei Emperor.

The third battle of the father-son war started without Zhao Hongrun's knowledge, and then ended without Zhao Hongrun even noticing.

He lost, lost inexplicably, and at the same time lost the heart of the earth.

Different from the childish so-called father-son war in the previous two rounds, this time, the emperor of Great Wei showed him what is called an adult's game, what is called a promoter of power, and what is called an emperor's imperial art.

Loss and frustration are inevitable, but in addition to loss and frustration, Zhao Hongrun also gained a different kind of feeling.

"I don't know what that feels like...... Manipulate everything behind the scenes, dominate everything......

Drinking wine silently one by one, listening to the music played by Miss Su in order to soothe him, Zhao Hongrun felt a slight touch in his heart.