Li Mingrui is also from the Hanlin Academy, and the music he writes is also brilliant, well-organized, and logical. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although he himself was unwilling to divide the Ministry of Rites into three in his heart, but now that Zhu Youxiao was forced by his strong authority, he could only cater to Zhu Youxiao to write this unwillful recital.

Li Mingrui also felt quite aggrieved in his heart, although since Qian Qianyi was sent to prison, he has become the first civil official, but he is still nothing in front of His Majesty, once he makes His Majesty a little unsatisfactory, His Majesty can dismiss himself in a flash, and let everything he has turn into nothingness in an instant.

Zhu Youxiao took the music from Li Mingrui's hand, nodded with satisfaction after looking at it, and then handed it to Wang Chengen and said: "Take it to the master of ceremonies to approve the red, Li Ge Lao's music should not be taken lightly." ”

"Obey the order", Wang Chengen hurriedly picked up the song, trotted to the celebrant supervisor, at the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the current Ming is indeed not as good as the Ming seven years ago of the Apocalypse, if seven years ago the Apocalypse, the second assistant of the cabinet can be forced by His Majesty to be like this is unimaginable, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty already has the custom of ministers to stage all martial arts in the court, so under normal circumstances, the emperor does not dare to do anything with these important ministers.

But in today's Ming Dynasty, the ministers do not dare to disobey His Majesty's wishes, this is also the time when there is no way, now Zhu Youxiao controls the army and finances, and after the expansion of the imperial examination, there are a lot of scholars waiting to be officials, so His Majesty Zhu Youxiao can not consider the feelings of these officials at all, and directly take force to oppress.

Of course, when it is not a last resort, Zhu Youxiao will not directly use power to oppress, after all, this empire still needs the management of these bureaucrats, and he can't do without these bureaucrats.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao did not directly dismiss Li Mingrui, but only dismissed Li Biao and used this to deter Li Mingrui, so that he would not mistakenly think that he could really only consult with him because he was discussing with him.

In fact, from the very beginning, Zhu Youxiao knew that Li Biao, an old-fashioned official who adhered to the ancestral system, would inevitably oppose his reform of the Ministry of Rites, but he didn't expect Li Mingrui to oppose it, so Zhu Youxiao changed the idea of letting Li Mingrui pressure Li Biao to agree to the reform of the Ministry of Rites, and directly dismissed Li Biao and exiled Ha Miwei, so that he could force Li Mingrui to agree through *** standard.

As long as Li Mingrui agrees to carry out the reform of the Ministry of Rites and makes him the initiator, the grassroots officials of the Ministry of Rites will carry out the reform, after all, the Ministry of Rites is Li Mingrui's people.

Zhu Youxiao is forcing Li Mingrui to let go of power, and Li Mingrui has to obey.

However, although Zhu Youxiao once again used his imperial power to achieve his political goals, this result was not the result he wanted very much, the officials of the old school are always so ignorant of current affairs, although they do need to maintain a certain power to compete with the reformists if they want to stabilize the rule of officials, but these old school officials are always contrary to their own political ideas, and they always become their own obstacles.

Fortunately, there was a Qian Qianyi who could figure out his intentions and obey unconditionally, and because he was coerced by the old school, he rebelled against himself when he was full-fledged, which forced him to follow Li Mingrui's wishes and put Qian Qianyi in prison, so that until now there is no way to find a representative of the old school who satisfies him and can fight with the reformist officials.

looked at Wen Tiren, who had been showing a flattering smile, and then thought that this guy had also performed well when he was an envoy to Jiannu before, and he really cheated Dolgon and Huang Taiji, so Zhu Youxiao also thought that maybe he could give this Wen Tiren a chance, although this Wen Tiren was also a notoriously shameless person.

But now who is really playing politics in these years is a righteous gentleman, so Zhu Youxiao called Wen Tiren over: "Wen Tiren, if I let you be the first secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, you may be qualified for the position, since the opening of the sea, my Ming Dynasty and overseas countries have closer contacts than before, and friction and contradictions are indispensable, can you handle it properly?" ”

Wen Tiren heard Zhu Youxiao say this, and naturally guessed that His Majesty wanted to draw himself up, so he hurriedly replied that he would do his best to think that the Ming Dynasty's diplomatic career would go to the soup and fire, and would never make the Ming Dynasty suffer the slightest loss or be insulted when he contacted foreign countries.

Zhu Youxiao just nodded when he heard this, and let Wen Tiren be in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was relieved, after all, this Wen Tiren will pit people, and it is much better to let him go to the pit than to let him pit people in China, and now looking at Wen Tiren's performance, he can also figure out his intentions but he is not arrogant, and he can obviously be regarded as the next key official to be promoted.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao also knows that such a person will definitely not be able to be used for a long time, but now there is no way to do it, there are very few officials who can be used, and even fewer non-reformist officials who can be used, and Wen Tiren can only play a role of checks and balances for the time being.

Zhu Youxiao loved and feared Li Mingrui and other reformist officials who represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, and these officials were all emerging capitalists belonging to the Ming Empire and had the same interests as himself, but Zhu Youxiao's dictatorship threatened their expansion of political rights and interests, so Zhu Youxiao was afraid that they would launch a revolution after they were strong enough, oust themselves as a monarch or send them directly to the guillotine.

But the good thing is that none of the civil and military officials in the military system and the Praetorian Guard system, who control military power, have been allowed by Zhu Youxiao to allow his family to set up new enterprises, and Zhu Youxiao has also strictly forbidden them, so that these officials can still remain neutral, and there is no way to use and control them by reformists or conservative officials.

Zhu Youxiao also let Dongchang always pay attention to the latest trends in the trend of folk thought, although he is laissez-faire for most ideas, but still maintains a high vigilance for those ideas that question the monarchy, although Zhu Youxiao will not use this to directly launch the literary prison, but will also invite the creators of these extreme ideas that threaten the rule to drink tea and have a good talk.

Without further ado, no matter what Zhu Youxiao's attitude towards the various officials of the court is, and no matter what thoughts these court officials have, they still have to do the right thing to do. Li Mingrui's recital soon spread to the court, and no one expected that Li Ge Lao would suddenly propose to reform the Ministry of Rites and divide the power of the Ministry of Rites into three, which made many officials puzzled by this, because everyone knew that the Ministry of Rites was Li Ge Lao's back garden, and now Li Ge Lao took the initiative to give up his power, which was undoubtedly self-defeating.

Although most officials do not understand, they will not care about Li Mingrui's decentralization, and the few officials who smell the real smell of it are that His Majesty wants to change it today directly fold the bullet and impeach Li Mingrui for having nothing to do, and a small number of people wish that Li Mingrui's power would be reduced because of this, and directly expressed their stance on Li Mingrui.

In any case, because Li Mingrui took the initiative, the resistance to reform was much smaller, and the curtain of reform of the Ministry of Rites was successfully opened.