"Why, are you all surprised? What objections can be said. Yang Mu smiled.

"Old minister...... The old minister was embarrassed. Fan Hongji bowed.

"Wechen has no objection." Kong Shangxian also shook his head again and again.

Just kidding, who His Majesty the Emperor appoints as prime minister can be decided by others!

Especially in the case of mutual checks and balances between the left and right prime ministers, as the left prime minister, what is the intention of denying the candidate for the right minister?

Kong Shangxian dared to guarantee that even if he said one more ambiguous word, even if His Majesty the Emperor had no idea about him, he would attract Fan Hongji's hostility.

This is not a simple personnel appointment and dismissal, it is very important, involving the interests of the entire Fan family and the old aristocracy, no matter how great the friendship on weekdays, no matter how good the relationship between colleagues is, it will become invisible because of this sentence, and even become a mortal enemy.

Zeng 13 became the right prime minister, which did not have a big impact on him, the left prime minister, but for the Fan family and the old nobles, it was very important.

Cutting off people's future is like killing their parents, of course Kong Shangxian knows this truth, and he will not be unclear about the priority on this kind of issue.

Yang Mu's gaze lingered on the two of them for a moment, and he bowed slightly.

He also knew that these two people would definitely be surprised by their sudden decision, the appointment and dismissal of the prime minister was very important, and his decision was so simple that it would really make people uncomfortable.

However, can these two people now think of the hardships of him, the emperor?

At present, the officials of several of the 12 ministries are all technical, such as the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Criminal Department and the Ministry of War.

Slightly in line with it, it is about Wang Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Qing, the secretary of the Ministry of Education.

However, neither of them is suitable for each other.

Why?

First of all, Wang Ying is the head of the Wang family and a representative figure among the old aristocracy, but he is about the same age as Fan Hongji, and he is about to reach the age of the old man.

Not to mention being the right prime minister, it is estimated that he will not even be able to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites for a few years.

And the latter, Chen Qing's qualifications and abilities are enough, and he is also from an old aristocratic background, and he is still qualified to be a right prime minister, but as we all know, Chen Qing and Kong Shangxian are very close, if the two serve as the left and right prime ministers respectively, then it violates the principle of separation of powers.

This alone is Chen Qing's death hole, maybe when Kong Shangxian retires, he can serve as the left minister, but at present, it is absolutely impossible to be the right minister.

Therefore, the tall one among the short people, and Zeng Thirteen is still passable in all aspects.

Although, Zeng 13 is close to the Fan family, maybe there is something greasy behind his back, but Yang Mu doesn't care anymore, as an emperor, he has to take care of the overall situation, people are not perfect, he is not the kind of emperor who has a strong desire to control to the point of perversion, and requires his subordinate courtiers not to have a trace of distractions, as long as he does not commit adultery and does not do things harmful to Cangguo, he is completely understandable.

"By the way, even if Aiqing wants to resign, he can't leave in the near future." Yang Mu said a word and said, "Since you have decided to prepare for the war, it is not appropriate to carry out a quick handover of affairs during this time, and you have to ask Aiqing to assist next to Zeng Thirteen." ”

Fan Hongji was upright and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, as long as the old minister can do something, he will never shirk half a point, and he will still be able to persist in a year or two!" ”

Yang Mu nodded, as long as everything could work normally, he didn't care about a little detail.

"In this way, the two of you will go back and rest, and tomorrow morning the court will discuss, and the two Aiqing will draw up an outline.

Kong Shangxian stepped forward and bowed: "Your Majesty, slow down, Weichen still has something to say." ”

"Huh?"

"Last year, His Majesty asked Wechen to investigate the relevant matters of the Dahong Dynasty, for which Wechen sent more than a dozen teams, including caravans and messengers, after a year of exploration, there has been a breakthrough."

"Oh?"

Yang Mu was surprised, four years have passed since he arrested a group of people from the Dahong Dynasty.

During these four years, at first it was only oppressive methods, torture and interrogation of those people.

But last year, he happened to hear that more and more refugees from the Dahong Dynasty had fled to the Dali Dynasty, and that a great war was breaking out there, so some uneasy families sold all their property and formed a caravan to cross the desert Gobi and enter the Dali Dynasty.

To be precise, it should be the generation of today's Wu State and Wei State.

Here, we have to mention the situation of the current Dali Dynasty.

After successive wars and annexations, there are still sixteen countries left, of which only eight are small.

The rest of the small countries, in the past few years, have either been wiped out by the big powers, or forced to take the initiative to submit, and among the eight small countries that still exist today, Kang, Shao, Xiang, Mu, and Yan are all vassal states of Cangguo.

The remaining three small countries, namely Dan, Yuan, and Fan, still maintain their independence.

Fan Guo can survive because it is not very small, as a neighboring country, although the strength is much stronger, but it really can't swallow it for a while, the two sides are attacking and defending, and they are in a stalemate.

Dan and Yuan were close to each other, and learned the lessons of the remaining small countries around being annexed by Yun and Chu, and the two sides carried out close cooperation, helped each other, and strengthened their strength, while Chu and Yun were restrained by each other, and neither allowed the other party to annex these two small countries, so it has been a stalemate.

Therefore, in the northern part of today's Dali Dynasty, judging from the map, there are only Ruan, Wu, Wei and Jin.

The territory of Wu and Wei, after the expansion, happened to be a big Gobi in the north.

On the other side of the Gobi is the Dahong Dynasty.

In terms of territory and numbers, the Dahong Dynasty is not as good as the Dali Dynasty, but due to political reasons, the Dahong Dynasty is a unified country, and the Son of Heaven is the only monarch in the entire country, so in terms of strength, it is stronger than any country in the Dali Dynasty.

However, in the face of the joint suppression of the Daqing Dynasty and the Datong Dynasty, the Dahong Dynasty, which was already full of smoke, was defeated and fell into a predicament.

In addition, not long after Emperor Dahong ascended the throne, he was already a notorious faint monarch, and the state affairs were all maintained by the efforts of the ministers of the court, and there were factional infighting, so under internal and external troubles, the Dahong Dynasty was already alone, and even the frontier army was crumbling.

So, the princess of the Dahong Dynasty, Ji Anling, the county lord Ji Qingyue, they came from the Dahong Dynasty, Zhang Zhan, the prince of Xuanguo, plus a few loyal ministers, went to the Dali Dynasty for help.

But I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the Dali Dynasty, I learned that Wang Ji of the Dali Dynasty had been divided, and the Son of Heaven had completely become a useless puppet, and he entered the Cangguo.

In this way, the identity of the group was exposed, and after the negotiations with Cangguo were fruitless, they were wiped out by Jinyiwei.

It wasn't until a year ago that Yang Mu learned about the situation of the refugees and some news about the Dahong Dynasty that he sent someone to the Dahong Dynasty to check.

Now, Kong Shangxian actually said that there has been a breakthrough!