Seeing the courtiers sweating like rain, the official robes were soaked a lot, and some elderly officials seemed to be a little shaky, about to faint from heat stroke, but because the imperial history was supervising from the side, they didn't dare to move wantonly and could only hold on. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Youxiao was a little unbearable when he saw this, so he ordered Wang Chengen to give seats to some older ministers, and at the same time ordered everyone to give a cup of iced sour plum soup.

There are young officials who don't understand the rules who want to take advantage of this to say that the court can't be turned into a teahouse, and the ministers will violate the imperial etiquette system if they drink sour plum soup, but they were glared at by other officials, everyone is so hot, and their mouths are dry and chapped, why are you so serious at this time, you really don't understand the rules.

The official had no choice but to retreat, and he did not dare to speak again.

For a while, the sour plum soup was brought up, because the Ming Royal Academy of Engineering improved the refrigeration technology, the Ming Dynasty can now also make ice at low temperature, but at present, because the cost is too high, it can only be used for scientific research and royal use, and these iced sour plum soup is temporarily refrigerated, and when it is brought into the Qianqing Palace, these ministers also don't care about the loss of honor in front of the king, and they are like old cows and drink with their mouths.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but snicker for a while, since he became the emperor, he has not rectified these bureaucrats like this, in the seven years he has been in power, there are only two extreme ways for the ministers to bind their interests and Ling Chi to raid their homes.

Obedience makes you rich and powerful in an instant, and you feel the warm kindness of spring given by the emperor; If you don't obey, your family will be ruined, and you will deeply experience the ruthlessness of the monarch; But he now found that it seemed better for the previous Ming emperors to punish these ministers for kneeling outside the palace gates, especially when it was not a big deal to punish a group of officials.

After all, if you want to rule this empire, you still need a large number of bureaucrats to form this ruling system, and it is impossible to exterminate all the officials at every turn.

When the empire entered a period of relatively stable and balanced situation and social contradictions, the relationship between the emperor and his ministers changed from fierce confrontation to a more harmonious state, and the number of radical officials decreased, and His Majesty, as the emperor, also began to tolerate the small mistakes of his ministers.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao, who was hungry at the beginning and had been exposed to the sun outside for a long time, was already tired because Zhu Youxiao was too late to have breakfast because he was in the early court, he retired directly from the early court after these bureaucrats drank the iced sour plum soup.

Except for a few young officials who were young and unfamiliar with the world and did not understand and stopped talking, other high-ranking officials took the lead in saluting Zhu Youxiao and sending His Majesty Zhu Youxiao off from the court.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with this harmonious state of monarchs and ministers, nodded and left the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and walked towards the Xinuan Pavilion, and at the same time, the minister on duty in the Xinuan Pavilion, Li Mingrui, the scholar of the Zhongji Temple, Lu Xiangsheng, the scholar of the Wuyingdian University, and Yang Sichang, the left attendant of the military department, also walked towards the Xinuan Pavilion.

Since the eradication of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao issued a decree to let Lu Xiangsheng return to Beijing, and directly let him enter the Xinuan Pavilion, and add his official title of Taifu, and give him the title of New Ningbo, faintly replacing Li Mingrui, fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng knew that he had military power, and his merits were too great.

But now Li Mingrui, who likes political struggle, still feels a little headache about this, he finally overthrew the leader of the old faction, that is, Qian Qianyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, but now there is a Lu Xiangsheng with a high status in the military system, although Li Mingrui and Lu Xiangsheng do not have much contact, but he knows that Lu Xiangsheng's status in His Majesty's heart is definitely not inferior to himself, otherwise His Majesty Zhu Youxiao would not hand over the daily affairs of the Praetorian Guard to him, and let him concurrently serve as the secretary of the military department.

Therefore, Li Mingrui still regards Lu Xiangsheng as an imaginary political enemy, especially now that the post of Jianji Hall Scholar, which symbolizes the first assistant of the cabinet, is vacant, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao has not instructed the court to recommend who will be the first assistant of the cabinet, and Li Mingrui is even more worried, worried that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao will let Lu Xiangsheng be the first assistant of the cabinet.

Of course, in addition to Lu Xiangsheng, Li Mingrui also has to beware of the new leader of the old school, Cheng Jiming, because although Zhu Youxiao exiled the old school Li Biao because of the reform of the Ministry of Rites, he was suddenly promoted to a scholar of the Jinshen Palace a few days later, and also added the title of Shaobao, and the official character was promoted to the first grade, and the status of the cabinet was also promoted to the second, and even directly crossed Lu Xiangsheng.

Li Mingrui doesn't know who His Majesty wants to be the first assistant today, if it is to let the meritorious Lu Xiangsheng be the first assistant, then why let Cheng Jiming be a scholar of the Jinshen Palace, and even rank above Lu Xiangsheng, but if it is Cheng Jiming, why don't he let him participate in the central affairs of the Xinuan Pavilion.

Li Mingrui also thought about the worst outcome, that is, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was just considering the choice between Lu Xiangsheng and Cheng Ji's life, after all, although Lu Xiangsheng had high merits, he was already half a foot in the first-class honor, according to the system of the country and the rules of the dynasty, the honorable cannot grasp the supreme power of the court.

Although Cheng Jiming is the same as Li Biao, Geng Jie is loyal and upright, and abides by today's Confucian traditional idea of loyalty to the monarch, but he is not familiar with practice, and his thinking is aging, as a thorn who once served in the Imperial Court as an imperial historian but directly scolded his boss a certain imperial history in the past, Li Mingrui does not think that His Majesty will let such a person be a bridge of communication between civil officials and himself, the emperor.

In other words, His Majesty is likely to be hesitating, hesitating whether to let Lu Xiangsheng be the first assistant or let Cheng Jiming be the first assistant.

But after all, Zhu Youxiao also made up for his third son as Shangbao Sicheng a few days ago, and also named his late mother as a first-class edict, and his father was a doctor of Guanglu.

That is to say, there is another possibility in this, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao conferred the title of Earl of Lu Xiangsheng and added the position of Taifu, the official residence is superb, and Cheng Ji's promotion to the scholar of the Jinshen Palace, all in order to check and balance his future cabinet chief, after all, this Lu Xiangsheng is the representative of the military system and a neutral person, and Cheng Jisheng is the representative of the old school, according to the thinking of a wise emperor, it is necessary to engage in this balance.

In fact, Li Mingrui is very disgusted with His Majesty's Zhu Youxiao's balancing act, because in Li Mingrui's view, only royalist officials (the emerging bourgeoisie) like himself, who are tied to His Majesty's interests today, will be of the same mind as His Majesty, will support His Majesty's reforms, and support His Majesty's plundering and exploitation of overseas countries.

Therefore, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao did not need to engage in this balance, although he almost prevented His Majesty from carrying out the reform of the Ministry of Rites because of his greed for power, but in the end he still chose unconditional obedience. With Li Mingrui's understanding of Zhu Youxiao, he felt that His Majesty the Emperor would not be so small.

"Jiandou leveled Jiannu this time and eliminated the hidden dangers that threatened my Ming Dynasty for decades, which can be said to be indispensable, brilliant for thousands of years, and Le Shi Yanran is not enough to praise your merits", Li Mingrui took the initiative to greet Lu Xiangsheng in order to deliberately show his unintentional and broad-minded character in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Lu Xiangsheng has been with the generals and soldiers in the army all the year round, and he has a bit of martial arts habits, and when he saw the first dignified civil official and the first favorite minister of the Son of Heaven, Li Mingrui was like other bureaucrats in front of him, and when he saw himself, he arched his hand to Li Mingrui very simply: "The old man has won the award!" With that, Lu Xiangsheng went to Xinuan Pavilion and sat at the desk on the right, ready to watch the music and discuss state affairs with His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Li Mingrui didn't mind Lu Xiangsheng's unapproachable temperament, except for a faint smile, he didn't say anything, and when he saw Yang Sichang, the left attendant of the military department, coming in, he also came to greet Yang Sichang: "Yang Shilang hasn't seen him for a few days, but he has lost a lot of weight, you still have to take care of your body, after all, Your Majesty can't leave you, if you are sick, Your Majesty will have no staff members." ”

"Humph! Li Ge Lao still cares about himself, don't be so greedy, worry about this and that, don't have countless gray hairs", although Yang Sichang is a military official, he has also witnessed many ordinary migrant workers who have been exploited by the Li family's workshop in the capital, and when he thinks of the unfairness of these migrant workers being squeezed out of blood and sweat by these businessmen, Yang Sichang is even more polite to Li Mingrui, so although he is just a waiter, he is not polite to Li Mingrui.

Regarding Yang Sichang's sarcasm, Li Mingrui was helpless in addition to the itchy roots of his hateful teeth, after all, he also knew that although Yang Sichang was just a little waiter, he had never been unforgiving, but he had quite an appetite for His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Therefore, Li Mingrui laughed back, and Liu Ruoyu, the commander of the East Factory, couldn't help but smile when he saw this, thinking that Li Mingrui, an official, should be aggrieved enough, and he was accidentally scolded by the little waiter, and he didn't dare to say a word.

By the time Zhu Youxiao approached the Xinuan Pavilion, several senior officials of the Xinuan Pavilion had already sat down, and when they saw Zhu Youxiao coming in, they got up and saluted at the same time.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and also sat on the throne of the head, picked up the recital that had been screened by the celebrant Liu Ruyu and several ministers on duty and looked at it, when he saw that Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mentioned that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had completed the merger and was ready to send the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask for Dolgon.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but say: "It's just a guy who doesn't know how to lift, sending Lang Zhong really looks up to this Lin Dan Khan, reply to Wen Tiren, just take charge of things!" ”

Saying that, Zhu Youxiao dealt with several other government affairs, and only after the sun set on Xishan did Zhu Youxiao leave Xinuan Pavilion and walk to the inner court.

However, Li Mingrui and several other officials had to continue to stay up until dark, and one even had to be on duty until late at night.

After returning to the inner court, Zhu Youxiao did not go to Jingren Palace again, but went to Kunning Palace, the queen of Kunning Palace Zhang Yan had already learned that Zhu Youxiao was fortunate to Concubine Fan Hui at this time, Zhang Yan knew that she must be prepared for more women in Her Majesty today, so when she learned about it, she immediately ordered someone to send some rewards to Concubine Fan Hui.

But what Zhang Yan didn't expect was that when she was dealing with Concubine Fan Hui's affairs, she saw Hai Lanzhu bring Bumu Butai to Kunning Palace to ask for a meeting.

As the lord of the six palaces, she is basically in charge of the daily affairs of the harem, so she has to ask about these newcomers who have entered the Forbidden City, and she has also met them.

But it is precisely because I have seen it, in the eyes of Queen Zhang Yan, this Bumu Butai is a famous beauty in Jiannu, because he does have a natural charm, even if Zhang Yan is a woman, it seems that it is easy to be hooked out of the soul, Queen Zhang Yan can't believe that when His Majesty sees this Bumu Butai, he will end up with the same fate as Huang Taiji.

Therefore, Empress Zhang Yan was still struggling with whether to meet this Bu Mu Butai at this time, but when she thought that His Majesty had kept this person until now because she was greedy for his beauty and would have to meet sooner or later, she nodded and signaled to allow this Hai Lanzhu and Bu Mu Butai to come in.

Bumu Butai fell in love with this place as soon as she walked into Kunning Palace, she only knew what kind of palace in this world was the house where the most noble woman in the world should live, she regretted why she became the woman of Huang Taiji first and was captured here in the form of a captive, otherwise, she felt that she could definitely become the master of these six palaces with her own ability!

But now she is just an ordinary woman living in the Forbidden City, and her status is not as good as Hai Lanzhu, in fact, she is still a slave of Hai Lanzhu, which makes Bu Mu Butai very depressed, she really wants to drag down the queen Zhang Yan who is sitting on the phoenix tail at this moment, and then sit on it herself.

Bumu Butai believes that if he becomes the queen's mother, he will definitely be able to become Zhu Youxiao's virtuous helper, and can make Zhu Youxiao a man who conquers this world.

Because his current political status and class status are too low, in order to be able to take advantage of Empress Zhang Yan's sympathy and get close to His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao, Bumu Butai had to come to Empress Zhang Yan to complain at this time, and deliberately behaved very dignified and virtuous, which also made Empress Zhang Yan feel quite satisfied.

"Let's talk about it directly, everyone is a family, don't be restrained", as soon as Queen Zhang Yan said this, this Bumu Butai knelt down first: "The slave maid has a reluctant request, I hope that Your Majesty and the queen can allow the slave and maid to become a nun, the slave and the maid know that they are guilty, and they are also the quality of the broken flowers and willows, I don't expect to be able to collect thousands of favors like you, I just hope to find a piece of pure land, spend the rest of my life in peace, please allow the mother!" ”

Seeing this, the queen mother Zhang Yan was a little moved, she didn't know what to do for a while, but Bu Mu Butai was too attentive, which also made Zhang Yan a little embarrassed to refuse, and directly saluted Zhang Yan.

Bumu Butai couldn't help but do it at this time, she thought that she could attract Emperor Zhu Youxiao with her graceful piano sound, but she didn't expect the emperor not to buy this account, and forced herself to let her maid commit suicide, and now if she wants to attract Zhu Youxiao's attention again, Bumu Butai had to find the queen Zhang Yan, and forced Zhang Yan to ask Zhu Youxiao to make a decision by insisting on becoming a monk.