Chapter 123: Prime Minister
After the Great Expedition, Zhao Chen and Zhe Yueru's birthdays were sent to Qintianjian!
The officials of the Qin Heavenly Prison will carefully calculate and come up with an auspicious day for the wedding!
On February 3, Zhao Chen rarely went to court! This is the first time he has been to court since the New Year!
Sitting on the throne, Zhao Chen kept yawning! Zhao Chen was holding a small piece of wood in his hand and a carpentry knife, carving there at will!
"If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat!" Lin Bao stood up and shouted loudly.
"Your Majesty, Weichen has something important to play!" As soon as Lin Bao finished speaking, Han Ping stood up and said.
"What's the matter?" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, after Li Gang was demoted, there has been no phase in the DPRK and China! The Lord is a privy envoy to protect His Majesty from Tongguan to Hanzhong, support His Majesty to ascend the throne as the emperor, work hard, and can be the prime minister! Han Ping said.
"What do you think?" Zhao Chen said.
"Weichen also thinks that Lord Zhe can be the prime minister!" Wei Ming stood up and said.
"Weichen also agrees with the fact that Lord Zhe is the prime minister!" Xue Ruidao.
"This prime minister's position is none other than Lord Zhe!"
"Except for Lord Zhe, no one can be the prime minister!"
"It must be Lord Zhe as the prime minister!"
……
One by one, the ministers stood up and said.
In the end, all the ministers except Zhi Keqiu and Zhi Yanwen stood up.
Zhao Chen smiled slightly and said, "Since this is the case, I will issue a holy decree and appoint Lord Zhe as the prime minister!" ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhe Keqiu knelt on the ground and said.
"Zhe Aiqing, please get up quickly! From now on, I will leave all the affairs of the state into your hands! You must not slack off, you must be diligent and diligent, and handle state affairs! Zhao Chen said.
"Your Majesty, rest assured! Although this Great Song is His Majesty's, it is also what I can ask for! I can ask for it, and naturally I will not waste national affairs! He laughed.
His laughter was full of pride and excitement! Now he is already the prime minister, and the real one person is above ten thousand people! And unlike Li Gang, the waste prime minister, he has real power! No one in the officials of Hanzhong and Sichuan and Shu dared to oppose him, and no one in the court of civil and military affairs dared to oppose him! He still has more than 100,000 troops in his hands, which is enough to guarantee his status! Moreover, the prime minister is only the first step in realizing his heart's wish! He felt that sooner or later he would be able to take the country into his own hands!
"Your Majesty, after Lord Zhe became the prime minister, no one held the position of privy envoy, I think General Zhe Yanwen can serve as a privy envoy!" At this time, Han Ping stood up again and said.
"This ......" Zhao Chen seemed to show a hesitant expression!
"Your Majesty, Weichen also agrees with Lord Zhe Yanwen to serve as a privy envoy!" Wei Ming said.
"Weichen also thinks that Lord Zheyanwen can be a privy envoy!" Xue Ruidao.
"Weichen also agrees!"
"Weichen also thinks that only Lord Zhi Yanwen can serve as a privy envoy!"
"Wechen agrees!"
……
Those ministers stood up one by one, as if they had already discussed it, and they all supported Zhi Yanwen as a privy envoy!
According to the political system of the Great Song Dynasty, the prime minister is the head of the civil officials and controls the government! However, the prime minister has no right to interfere in the military, and the privy envoy is in charge of the national military! The prime minister and the privy envoy are the two most powerful positions in the Great Song Dynasty! In general, the relationship between the prime minister and the privy envoy is not very good! Since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, there has been a battle between the prime minister and the privy envoy! At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the power of the privy envoy was relatively large! Later, after Zhao Pu became the prime minister, the power of the prime minister exceeded that of the privy envoy! Since then, the power of the Prime Minister has been on the Privy Council!
But in any case, the relationship between the two is well known!
But today, when Zhao Chen is in power, the prime minister and the privy envoy have become father and son! The father is the nominal head of the civil service, and the son is in charge of the national military! This is also something that has never happened in the history of the Great Song Dynasty!
"In that case, let's let Zhi Yanwen serve as the privy envoy!" Zhao Chen said lightly.
"Congratulations to General Zhe!"
"Congratulations to General Zhe!"
"In the future, I will have to fold the general and carry it a lot!"
At that moment, countless ministers came to Zhe Yanwen and congratulated him!
Zhi Yanwen laughed, and his heart was also very excited! Before, he was only the prefect of Hanzhong, but now he has become a privy envoy, and his status has increased several times at once, and his mood is naturally very good!
The mood is also very good! Although whether it is a privy envoy or a prime minister, as long as he can ask for it, he is the head of a hundred officials in the court! But after all, the prime minister is a head taller than the privy envoy, and he is more justifiable!
"If there is nothing else to do, then disperse!" Zhao Chen said.
There was no more minister below, and Zhao Chen was walking towards the outside of the Taihe Hall under the protection of several guards!
After Zhao Chen left, none of the ministers of the Taihe Hall left!
"Let's move on to state affairs!" Zhe Keqiu looked at the ministers around him, showed a satisfied look, and said!
When Zhao Chen was there, he didn't discuss state affairs! At this moment, Zhao Chen is gone, so he discusses state affairs with his ministers! He disdains Zhao Chen to the extreme in his heart, and he doesn't want Zhao Chen to participate in state affairs at all!
After a full hour, Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanwen led the ministers to leave the Taihe Palace!
After that, they left the palace and went to their own home, and the ministers followed them to their own home!
Now the father and son, one is the prime minister and the other is the privy envoy, so they naturally want to feast the ministers and express their celebration! During this period, the ministers came up one after another to flatter and pat the horse, which is needless to say! Fold can be sought, and the father and son of Zhe Yanwen are also extremely useful!
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In the afternoon, the sun sets!
It's the second month of the lunar calendar, and the snow in the palace has melted a lot, but the cold wind is blowing, and the weather is still very cold!
Zhao Chen was standing in his bedroom, and Kang An was standing behind him at the moment!
"Kang'an, how many people in the imperial camp are willing to be loyal to me now?" Zhao Chen said.
"Now there are more than seventy people who are willing to pledge allegiance to Your Majesty! I've tattooed the words 'swear to kill the thief' all behind them! Your Majesty, rest assured, they are absolutely loyal to you! They are ready to die for you as long as Your Majesty needs them! Kang An said.
"More than seventy? Some are too few! Zhao Chen frowned lightly.
There are a total of tens of thousands of people in the imperial camp, and now there are only more than 70 people who are loyal to Zhao Chen, which is too small and too little!
"Your Majesty, these seventy or so people are not ordinary guards, most of them are captains and officers! Wechen can mainly contact these people on weekdays! Only after confirming their intentions can Wechen manage to recruit them! If they don't agree, Wechen will have to kill them! During this period of time, there have been three people who have died in the hands of Weichen, and Weichen now does not dare to recruit in large quantities, for fear of being folded and begging traitors to know! Kang An said.
"You're doing a great job! You said that most of these seventy people are lieutenant officers! Not bad! Not bad! When there is real chaos, they will raise their arms and shout, and the soldiers below will inevitably follow them! Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.
In the era of cold weapons, the communication conditions are unusually backward, and the small soldiers are only the commanders! As long as the commander is willing to be loyal to Zhao Chen, those little soldiers will follow the commander and use them for Zhao Chen, except for those who are particularly loyal!
"Your Majesty, in addition to the imperial camp, I also have a few friends in the Zhejia army! Those friends are already willing to be loyal to His Majesty, and they have also sworn to kill thieves on their backs! Kang An said again.
"I wonder what positions they are?" Zhao Chen said.
"There are adjutant generals in the army outside, there are also two partial generals, and there is a captain guarding the north gate of Hanzhong!" Kang An Road.
"The captain guarding the north gate of Hanzhong?" Zhao Chen suddenly noticed this sentence!
"Yes, his name is Meng Jun, and he also promised to be loyal to His Majesty! However, there are three captains in the North City Gate, and he is only one of them! Kang An said.
"It's already good! Captain of the city gate, although the position is low, the power is not small! In the future, this man will also be of great use to us! Kang An, I want to thank you! ”
"Where did Your Majesty come from? Weichen is loyal to His Majesty, that is the duty of a courtier! Kang An said hurriedly.
"When I ascend the throne, I will never forget your merits! And those in the army who are willing to be loyal to me, I will not forget their merits! You go and tell them that when the day I do it, everyone will be promoted to the third rank! I'm not telling you! Zhao Chen said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Kang Anxin was overjoyed and said.
He was forced to take refuge in Zhao Chen, but if he could be promoted and make a fortune, it would naturally be unbelievable! Those people loyal to Zhao Chen that he recruited must be very happy if they get this news!