Ma Mingyuan knelt on the ground just now and begged the emperor for forgiveness, but after hearing that the emperor would remove himself and all the cabinet members from his post together with the thirteen Shangshu, and also let the Military Aircraft Department replace the position of the cabinet, how could Ma Mingyuan, as a person with vested interests, give up his rights.

"Your Majesty, this is not in line with the ancestral system! The Military Aircraft Department is only a military institution, but now it has to replace the cabinet, what can the government do? ”

Zhu Hongsan glared when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this: "What? Tell me about the ancestral system, I ask you stinky old nine, what did Emperor Taizu say back then? Does it mean that the descendants of the Zhu family are not allowed to set up a prime minister again, and those who dare to propose this proposal will be severely punished! Isn't that so? Now I am restoring the ancestral system of Taizu! ”

Ma Mingyuan didn't expect the emperor to know this, so he hurriedly quibbled: "Your Majesty, the prime minister who was forbidden by Taizu back then, but I am the prime minister, these two points are different!" ”

"Different? What's the difference? The government is in the hands of your prime minister, and the appointment and dismissal of officials are in the hands of your prime minister, and you still say that you are not the prime minister? "What Zhu Hongsan said is the real reason, what do you all want Lao Tzu to do? Do you want Lao Tzu to be a carpenter and a Taoist priest?

Zhu Hongsan saw that Ma Mingyuan was about to explain, Zhu Hongsan interrupted and said: "Ma Aiqing, I impeached you just now, I believe you don't know anything about your hometown, but now that the case is not over, Ma Aiqing will go home first and wait for news!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he didn't wait for Ma Mingyuan to explain, and then said: "You are all elders, all officials, and you are models for hundreds of officials in the world. Doesn't your conscience hurt? Are you still worthy of the saints of Confucius and Mencius? ”

Conscience was a bit of a thing when I first joined the company, but now? I don't know where I lost it. Although they all know that they have no conscience, how dare they say this in front of the emperor? Therefore, when the emperor asked, the hundred officials bowed down one by one and said, "Your Majesty, the ministers are guilty!" ”

Zhu Hongsan looked at these insincere bastards, pointed to the pavilion elders led by him and said, "You are the head of the hundred officials, don't you have responsibility for this matter today?" Now I will suspend you from your post and decide what you should do after the case in Henan is heard!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he said to Chen Mingxia of the Military Aircraft Department: "Chen Mingxia, you also served as a secretary in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and you are also familiar with how the imperial court operates. ”

Chen Mingxia was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, so wouldn't he become the first assistant? As long as he satisfies the emperor by doing errands during this time, it is very likely that he will change from acting first assistant to official first assistant.

Chen Mingxia, who had a wishful thinking in his heart, hurriedly bowed down to accept the order, and promised to assist the emperor in handling the government and politics.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Okay, the first holy decree of the Military Aircraft Department is to select and send ministers to strictly investigate the Henan case!" ”

Chen Mingxia hurriedly bowed down to receive the order: "Your Majesty, dare to ask the minister of the Qin Mission, who to choose?" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many kinds of Qincha, and now the governor who became a local governor was a kind of Qincha, and there were various supervisors who were sealed during the Chongzhen period, which was also a kind of Qincha. In fact, according to the regulations, the provincial inspection of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also a kind of Qincha. There are also some seven-seven-eighty-eight, what is the head of the city's shipping department, the town guard of each banknote, the weaving stationed in Suzhou, Hangzhou, etc., can be regarded as Qincha. These grades are not necessarily, there are the first grade of the superintendent, and there are also the seven grades of the patrol, but they all have one characteristic, and those who can be the Qincha must be the emperor's cronies.

This is also very simple, the emperor is an official sent by the emperor to solve one or several problems, and the emperor is afraid of being deceived by those magistrates, so he naturally wants to find someone he can trust.

This time, the case in Henan is very big, and it must implicate the big man in the court, so Chen Mingxia asked this question, who is the emperor in the Qin mission, you give a letter!

Zhu Hongsan lowered his head and thought about it, now that the forces of the DPRK and China are entangled, no matter who goes to be the Qincha, he will be restrained by several bigwigs in the DPRK and China, so it is really difficult to choose this candidate.

Zhu Hongsan pondered for a long time and said: "Ordered Zhu Yuan, the king of Yan, to be this Qincha!" ”

Zhu Hongsan now has five adult sons, and this fourth Zhu Yuan is the daughter of Chongzhen and the son of Zhu Yujiao, the princess of the dead country. It is precisely because Zhu Yuan has the blood of two generations of emperors that his status is extremely valuable among Zhu Hongsan's sons, and of course, because his identity is too valuable, he has also lost the possibility of competing for the throne.

Behind the crown prince Zhu Hai stood the huge Ma family, and Zhu Hongsan came to power under the banner of Chongzhen's rule of law, so he changed his own banner, which reduced the possibility of Zhu Yuan inheriting the throne to zero. If Zhu Hongsan chooses Zhu Yuan as his successor, then the legitimacy of his reign as emperor will be gone, so it is impossible for Zhu Yuan to become the heir.

Zhu Yuan himself also understands this, and when he became an adult at the age of fourteen, he opened his own mansion independently, and immediately took refuge in the crown prince Zhu Hai. Although Zhu Yuan can't be the heir, but after all, he has the blood of the emperors of the two dynasties, so Zhu Yuan still has some influence among some of the old and young in the former Ming Dynasty, and because of this, Zhu Hai also wants to recruit more people, so he naturally treats this fourth brother with courtesy.

Courtesy is courtesy, but Zhu Hai doesn't want to see Zhu Yuan also grow into a force, that would be too much of a threat to himself. Now hearing that his father was going to send the fourth brother to be the minister of the imperial mission, Zhu Hai hurriedly stood up and said: "Father, the ancestral system does not have the saying that the prince goes out of Beijing at all, let the fourth brother be the fourth brother to be the imperial messenger and the ancestral system is not in harmony!" ”

Zhu Hongsan sneered when he heard Zhu Hai say this: "Prince, I didn't expect you and your teacher to have an argument and start talking about the ancestral system!" Since you oppose your fourth brother going out, well, I ordered you to be this envoy as a prince, you are satisfied! ”

Zhu Haiting let himself be the prince to be this Qincha, he is the prince, and if he becomes a prince, isn't it abolished? What's more, when I left Beijing and left my father's side, I don't know how my younger brothers drugged themselves! Thinking of this, Zhu Hai hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Father, the emperor is his son Meng Lang, and the fourth brother is a good candidate for this Qincha!" ”

The seven pavilion elders and all the Shangshu were sent home by Zhu Hongsan, and now Chen Mingxia, who is in charge of the government, is still an echo worm, so the holy decree of using Zhu Yuan, the fourth son of the emperor, as a messenger, has also been passed.

At this time, it was already noon, Zhu Hongsan's gout attack was really untenable, and the court meeting ended hastily, and those who were saved from being disgraced went out and went home in a sedan chair.

The sedan chair man at the door was stunned when he saw his master come out, and when he went in just now, he looked like a dog, why did he come out disheveled, and he was crying with a sad face? The most unlucky ones are the seven pavilion elders and the thirteen Shangshu, who came out and even lost their official uniforms, official hats, and wat boards, and they all became white dings.

Ma Mingyuan, who was wearing a moon-white middle coat, looked at Qu Shiyun who was standing behind him, and asked coldly, "Qu Qitian, is this the result you hope to get?" ”

According to his plan, not to mention that Ma Mingyuan would be dismissed today, but also let the Chu Party lose a few cadres, but who would have thought that the fire at the city gate would affect the pond fish, and in the end, even he was made to lose his official position.

Although Qu Shiyun regretted it in his heart, the dead duck had a hard mouth, and he snorted coldly when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this: "Hmph, today's incident is all the sin created by your Chu Party!" ”

As soon as Ma Mingyuan heard that you Qu Shiyun was still reasonable, and now he was still playing with a rake, Ma Mingyuan turned around and said angrily: "Qu Shiyun, what's the matter?" Are you still not convinced? ”

"Ma Mingyuan, why is what the old man said wrong? Your Chu Party is a disaster for the country and the people! Today's situation is beyond the control of the old man, or you don't have to make Ma Mingyuan look good! ”

Ma Mingyuan was already on fire, and when he heard Qu Shiyun not talking here, he was angry and wanted to fight.

Seeing that these pavilion elders were going to fight in front of Chengtian Gate again, Feng Ziyong, one of the pavilion elders, stood up and spoke.

"Two, now is the time of crisis for us and other scholars, why do we still have to do it? It's all on fire, aren't you in a hurry? ”

Feng Ziyong's meaning is very simple, now that the cabinet is going to be dissolved, you old guys are going home to farm, and you are still fighting here, can you think of some constructive ideas.

Feng Ziyong is a duke, and he is also one of the four great strategists of Zhu Hongsan's family, and he has followed Zhu Hongsan for the second longest time, so he naturally has this qualification to persuade him. Ma Mingyuan and Qu Shiyun heard Feng Ziyong say this, so they snorted coldly at each other, and returned to their sedan chair to get up and go home.

The bigwigs of the imperial court were dismissed and went home, but some middle-level officials were not so happy, and they had to return to their yamen office, although the superiors changed from the cabinet to the military aircraft department, but their functions have not changed.

Zhu Hongsan returned to the harem to rest for a while, and then had a headache for this Qin messenger candidate. Just now he proposed that it was completely expedient for his fourth son Zhu Yuan to be a chincha, the fourth Zhu Yuan is only fifteen years old this year, and according to the later generations, he is only a thirteen-year-old junior high school student, how can he be a good qincha? However, it was really difficult to choose this candidate at the court meeting just now, and it was too difficult to pick out a person who was honest and honest, law-abiding, and did not belong to the major forces in the DPRK and China.

Zhu Hongsan sat on the dragon chair and thought about it, and said to Li Chengen: "Lao Li, you go and bring the list of low-level imperial history and Guozi eunuch students of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, I want to see it!" ”

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to ask people to take the list, hoping that he could pick the right person among these people.

Li Chengen was in charge of Dongchang, so he naturally had a list of all the officials in the entire capital, and when he heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly ordered someone to fetch it.

Zhu Hongsan took the list of low-level imperial histories, and looked at his life to see his hometown, either Huguang or Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Needless to say, Huguang is Ma Mingyuan's disciple, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all disciples of the Donglin Party.

After reading the roster of the imperial history, Zhu Hongsan picked up the roster of Guozijian again, looked at Zhu Hongsan's eyes and suddenly lit up, and said secretly in his heart: Lao Tzu has done too much in the past few years, how can he forget this person, it turns out that he has already become a leader!