Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "Get up, what should be done at tomorrow's court meeting, you can discuss it now, and then tell me about it." I'm tired, so I'm going to rest first. After saying that, he got up and left, Wei Zhongxian had a gloomy face and did not go out with him.

After the three of them got up, Mao Yuanyi looked at Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng and made a gesture, and the two hurriedly returned the salute. Mao Yuanyi said: "Yuanyi is all arranged by the two, and there is no problem in singing red and white." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was silent, and Sun Chuanting said: "You will first lay out the difficulties of the Ministry of Railways tomorrow, and ask Your Majesty to allow the Ministry of Railways to transfer only part of its resources to the northwest." ”

Wei Zhongxian said angrily: "How can this make it, we must come up with another way to make the prestige of the Holy Lord undamaged. ”

Sun Chuanting said with a bitter face: "Factory Father, now Your Majesty must damage your prestige, and we can't do it." ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "The bachelor is not an outsider, we have always cooperated very happily in the court, but Mao Shangshu has little contact. I believe that the three of them are loyal to the Holy Lord, loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and you all have university questions, I didn't read any books, the Holy Lord said that loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is more important than loyalty to the emperor, what does this sentence mean? Isn't the emperor the Ming Dynasty? ”

Lu Xiangsheng arched his hand and said: "Gonggong, Your Majesty means not to be confined to one moment, but to focus on thousands of generations. Now he is destroying his prestige, but also so that the Ming Dynasty can be passed on forever. Since you are going to have a child, you will naturally have labor pains. ”

Wei Zhongxian said with red eyes: "Since the Holy Lord ascended the throne, he has rectified the armament, revitalized education, exterminated the slaves, opened up the territory, and the meals are not allowed to exceed ten dishes, and he often wears cloth clothes in the palace. The harem is only one queen and two concubines, and the palace maids are cleaned up to less than a thousand, have you ever heard of such an emperor? I don't know what to do, I only know that such an emperor, you want to damage his prestige, do you let the dog eat it? ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Factory Gong, this is His Majesty's own request, what can we do?" ”

Wei Zhongxian sneered, "Your Majesty asked for it? If you are so obedient at this time, what is the use of asking you ministers? I've heard of the Lord humiliating the death of his ministers, but I don't know what it means. ”

The three of them looked at each other, Wei Zhongxian was so messing around, but it made sense in it. Sun Chuanting thought for a while and said: "What the factory said is reasonable, we have to find a way to not damage Your Majesty's prestige, but also meet Your Majesty's requirements." ”

Wei Zhongxian actually understood that since the emperor had to do this, no one could stop it. He just wanted to make the emperor's face not be damaged in the process of doing this, so he forced these three people.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "If you want to take care of both, you can only propose it yourself by Your Majesty." The reasons given by His Majesty must be unavoidable, and the Cabinet and the Ministries must jointly make proposals and even make decisions on state matters. ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Where is there such a reason? ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Do you remember the last time Your Majesty went on patrol? ”

Sun Chuanting was overjoyed and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of this method?" When His Majesty goes on patrol, the crown prince will supervise the country, and the prince is young, so it is logical for the cabinet to assist in state affairs. Bachelor, he really deserves to be a tanhualang, this seven-trick exquisite heart is really admirable. ”

Wei Zhongxian breathed a sigh of relief, in this way, a special case can be created, and as long as the Holy One speaks, the special case can become an eternal case, so the Holy One's prestige will not be damaged, but it will also meet the requirements of the Holy One.

The four of them discussed for a while, and finally Sun Chuanting looked at Wei Zhongxian and said, "Gonggong, then please talk to Your Majesty, this is already the best way we can think of." ”

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile on his face: "Very good, Sun Gebu and Master Lu are both wonderful people, and the way they came up with will naturally be agreed, and the Sprinkle family will go." ”

The reason why Zhu Youxiao wanted to limit the emperor's power was actually very simple. In the original history, imperial power was subject to the cabinet, and there were very few edicts that were not drafted by the cabinet, such as hand edicts and edicts. After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he first wanted to snatch some power from the cabinet, and then he trained the army by his own will, strengthened the government, and put commerce and agriculture in the same position, so that the Ming Dynasty greatly increased its national strength in a relatively short period of time, and leveled the Jurchen, Wa and Nanyang countries. By this time, however, edicts such as the Decree were already in common use, and they did not cause much backlash among officials.

Because of the emperor's wisdom and because the emperor holds almost all the power, the cabinet and the various ministries are the emperor's favorite people, so the emperor's will is actually the will of the cabinet and ministers. Of course, there will be no rebound in this case, but Zhu Youxiao has realized this problem, and on the one hand, he wants to make the Ming Dynasty an open, and the emperor and the ministers are the masters together, but in fact, he has been undermining this. Therefore, he wanted to start by restoring the original vote, and to institutionalize the vote, so that the later Ming emperors had no way to change it at will.

The next day was a great court meeting, and after everyone saw the salute, they each took their seats. Zhu Youxiao said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I intend to go to Fengyang and pay homage to the mausoleum of Taizu. ”

At this time, although the crown prince was underage, he was already thirteen years old, and the emperor already had three sons, so the emperor wanted to go to Fengyang, but the ministers could not find a reason to object, or did not want to oppose at all.

Xu Guangqi stood up and asked, "When Your Majesty was on his southern tour, it was still the case, the crown prince was in charge of the country, and the queen was in charge?" ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "This time I went to worship my ancestors, and I want to take the queen and the two concubines with me." Therefore, the crown prince is in charge of the country, and the cabinet can assist. And in addition to military affairs, domestic civil affairs are all up to you. ”

The ministers were shocked, what the emperor said is up to you, what you are talking about is the decision of the prince and the cabinet, but the prince is too small after all, and the supervision of the country is actually mainly symbolic, so what the emperor means is that domestic affairs are decided by the cabinet?

Xu Guangqi was also surprised, but his face did not change and said: "If there is any suspense and unresolved, the ministers will send it to Xingzai in an urgent mail and present it to Your Majesty's Imperial Review." ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said: "Sir, I mean that domestic civil affairs are all decided by yourself, which is literal. If there is anything and how it should be handled, your cabinet will issue a draft, and then the celebrant will submit it to the prince, and the prince will give instructions and then submit it to the cabinet for execution, so that it will be done. After processing, the General Administration Department will file it, and I can look at it again when I return to Beijing."

Although this system has been implemented, in front of this powerful and holy emperor, the cabinet vote is actually just a beautiful cloak for His Majesty who has not used the central decree. But now that the emperor wants to use the ticket system during the southern tour, and the minor prince will give instructions, this is tantamount to putting all the authority except the military in the hands of the ministers, will there be any ...... Issue?