This time, a case of embezzlement caused by cholera was resolved in a very short period of time, but the shock caused by the government and the opposition was not small, after all, a Shangshu and a young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy and the Shuntian Mansion Yin were all high-ranking officials, and there was also the nature of collusion between the ministers and the foreign ministers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao has to deal with it seriously, after all, the collusion between the ministers and the ministers is a ban, and if it is not dealt with strictly, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be overshadowed by these ministers who collude with the inside and outside in the future.

However, because of the speed of handling this case, the impact on the affairs of the imperial court is not great, and the epidemic control of cholera is still proceeding in an orderly manner, especially after Cheng Jiming, a cabinet member, personally presided over the affairs of Shuncheonfu, the efficiency of the entire epidemic control is significantly faster.

In less than a month, the daily increase in the number of infected people has returned to normal and is gradually leveling off, indicating that the intervention of the imperial court has had an effect.

Of course, these phenomena are not good news for Li Mingrui, his younger brother was sentenced to be executed, and he was also seized of the crown prince's crown guard, which undoubtedly shows that His Majesty intends to hit his reputation among civil officials, and the implication is that he does not want to become the next first assistant, so as not to cause excessive suppression of the political pattern of the old school.

Li Mingrui knew that he was now out of contact with the first assistant of the cabinet, and His Majesty now made Cheng Jiming, the new leader of the old school, fully responsible for the control of the epidemic, obviously intended to give Cheng Jiming a chance to make meritorious contributions, so as to find an excuse to promote this Cheng Jiming and let him achieve the political qualifications that are enough to compete with him.

Li Mingrui's mood is very bad, he will not and dare not hate the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao, after all, whether it is for Guo Yunhou's family or his Li Mingrui family, Zhu Youxiao has the grace of reinvention for them, so Li Mingrui will only hate Cheng Jiming and Wu Youke now, and hate Cheng Jiming's dignified cabinet scholars but they have nothing to do to do an epidemic statistics, and they also found the clues of their younger brother and Guo Yunhou's greed for ink.

In Li Mingrui's view, this is obviously deliberately aimed at his reformists, and even wants to directly pull himself into the water.

And the reason why Li Mingrui hates Wu Youke is that Wu Youke is too bad at being an official, knowing that the water inside the court is very deep, but he directly informed His Majesty about the medicinal materials, so that there is no room for turning around on his side.

Of course, Li Mingrui will not have anything to do with Wu Youke, he naturally knows that people like Wu Youke are not a threat to him, not to mention that His Majesty has always taken this kind of person very seriously, unless he has evidence of Wu Youke's rebellion, it will be difficult for His Majesty to make up his mind to attack Wu Youke.

Therefore, what Li Mingrui is thinking about now is how to fight back against Cheng Jiming and the old school behind him.

As Li Mingrui expected, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao really did not want Li Mingrui to be the first assistant of the cabinet, so as soon as the cholera epidemic was brought under control and basically eliminated, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to convene the six ministries and seven secretaries to hold a court push, that is, the addition and adjustment of cabinet members.

However, Zhu Youxiao finally decided to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet, that is, the scholar of Jianji Palace, but it was Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng was also added to the title of Taibao again, and there were very few officials who were added to the three dukes in the Ming Dynasty, especially civil officials, so this was a rare honor for Lu Xiangsheng, and the three who were co-opted into the cabinet were Yang Sichang, Wen Tiren and Yang Tinglin.

In addition, Cheng Jiming was indeed added as a young master because of his effective control of cholera and the discovery of a major case of corruption to prevent the spread of the plague, becoming one of the three orphans, and also becoming a scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, on an equal footing with Li Mingrui, and even half a level higher than Li Mingrui, because Li Mingrui had been stripped of the title of crown prince.

As soon as he left the court, Li Mingrui couldn't help but leave the Qianqing Palace with a smile, at this time, he no longer had many people willing to approach him, after all, everyone felt that Li Ge Lao at this time seemed to have no holy family, and if he was too close, he might be implicated in the case of greedy ink.

However, Shang Zhouzuo, who was newly admitted to Beijing to serve as the imperial history of the left capital, did not scruple about these, and when he saw Li Mingrui walking alone in front, he came over: "Why does Li Ge Lao look depressed? ”

"Ming Jian (Shang Zhou Zuo character Ming Jian) said that he was laughing, how could he have been depressed, why, today several colleagues have added officials to the knighthood, Ming Jian, you don't go to congratulate you, why are you coming to my deserted place?"

Li Mingrui said with a smile.

Shang Zhouzuo, as the former governor of Liangguang and an enlightened official who was more enthusiastic about commerce and foreign trade, was naturally closer to Li Mingrui and others who were reformists. ”

Saying that, Shang Zhouzuo couldn't help but pull Li Mingrui to the side: "Elder Li Ge, it is the first time for Xia Guan to come to Beijing to be an official, and some places are not very clear, can you please take a step to speak." ”

Li Mingrui saw that this businessman Zhou Zuo did not avoid suspicion and intended to get close to him, but he was also quite moved, so he nodded.

Then, Zhou Zuo, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, pulled Li Mingrui aside and asked: "Elder Li Ge, the lower officials have the courage to ask, now Your Majesty doesn't let you be the first assistant, but let someone else be the first assistant, and why is it that you are still interested in promoting such an old stubbornness as Cheng Jiming, could it be that Your Majesty has changed his original intention and started to follow the old ways?" ”

Hearing Shang Zhouzuo say this, Li Mingrui couldn't help laughing, shook his head and said: "You still haven't seen Your Majesty's mind clearly, think about it carefully, although Your Majesty was promoted to Cheng Jimei, but in the end he didn't let Cheng Jiming be the first assistant of the cabinet, but let Lu Gelao, who has always been in charge of government affairs and only military affairs, be the first assistant of the cabinet, and a few of the several new cabinet ministers are not from the Praetorian Guard system, just from this point, didn't you find anything?" ”

Shang Zhouzuo thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but say: "Let the warmongers become the center of the empire, Your Majesty is going to take the hegemonic line." ”

"Well, the officials who have always been in charge of the army are independent of the two factions of innovation and conservatism, and now His Majesty has vigorously promoted them, obviously both to balance us and to increase the implementation of foreign wars, but I am afraid that there will be war clouds again in the near future."

Saying that, Li Mingrui said again: "However, this is a good thing for us, it has always been the war first, the business last, but for those old stubborns are not willing to see things, in their opinion, these are all reckless military things, in vain to waste the people's wealth, and wait, these people will anger Your Majesty!" ”

Shang Zhouzuo couldn't help but nod after hearing this, he only understood a little bit of his true intention of His Majesty Emperor Zhu Youxiao to arrange the cabinet members and hierarchical order like this.