Soon after the officials admitted to the palace examination in the 14th year of Chongzhen were selected and appointed to serve in the major yamen, Zhu Youxiao summoned Li Mingrui, the secretary of the Shili Department of Zhongji Temple, Li Biao, the right attendant of the Shili Department of Dongge University, and Wen Tiren, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Youxiao decided to carry out the long-planned administrative reform, starting with the Ministry of Rites, and then slowly radiating to change the entire Ming Dynasty's academic politics and diplomacy.

From the social society in the countryside to the county school and the two Beijing Guozijian and other co-ordinated reforms, the ultimate goal is to make the entire school administration of the Ming Dynasty an independent system from the central to the local.

The central school departments are directly accountable to the cabinet, while the local school departments are under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Rites and the local court officials.

The same is true for the diplomatic work of receiving foreign envoys, although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have a vertical system at the local level, but the administrative level is still the same as that of the student department.

When Zhu Youxiao conveyed the reform idea of dividing the Ministry of Rites into three to the three officials of the Ministry of Rites, none of the three officials of the Ministry of Rites immediately expressed their position, although among the three officials of the Ministry of Rites, Li Mingrui and Wen Tiren are both sleek people, good at figuring out and catering to the wishes of the emperor, but Li Biao is a well-known old-fashioned official.

Therefore, whether the reform of the Ministry of Rites can be supported by the officials of the Ministry of Rites depends on whether this Li Biao cooperates, and Zhu Youxiao also threw out his olive branch, that is, once the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are established, the post of Shangshu will continue to be selected from the three officials of the Ministry of Rites.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that it was Li Mingrui who stood up and spoke first, Li Mingrui arched his hand to Zhu Youxiao, he naturally understood the intention of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao's reform, it was nothing more than that the power of the six officials was too great, which hindered His Majesty's desire to carry out a deeper new policy.

As a member of the royalists, he should logically support it unconditionally, but now that he has shown a great interest in power, he is not willing to weaken it.

Because in fact, although he is a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the first two do not have much administrative power, and under the rule of a dictatorial emperor as a cabinet assistant, the actual element of the prime minister has to be greatly reduced, and the Ministry of Officials has always been in charge of Cui Chengxiu, and it is this Ministry of Rites that is really his power back garden.

Since he was the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, he has always been responsible for the public opinion propaganda of the Ministry of Rites, and now he has done the Book of the Ministry of Rites, and he has changed a group of his own people in the Ministry of Rites, so to speak, he has now completely controlled the Ming Dynasty etiquette customization, academic politics, diplomacy, public opinion propaganda and other powers, and his status in the literary world is therefore very arrogant.

If, once Zhu Youxiao divides the Ministry of Rites into three, then his power Li Mingrui will be cut by two-thirds.

Therefore, Li Mingrui first stood up to object, of course, he said that the language of the opposition was very euphemistic, but the Ministry of Rites was originally in charge of various affairs, which did not contradict the refinement that His Majesty wanted to achieve, but it was enough to add a few more waiters, and if the Ministry of Rites was directly divided into three parts, it would be a bit of a big move, which was not conducive to the stability of the court.

Zhu Youxiao was a little unhappy in his heart, he could feel that since Li Mingrui became the second assistant of the cabinet, he was getting farther and farther away from himself, and his emperor seemed to be completely unable to control the power tiger he raised.

Wen Tiren frowned slightly when he saw Zhu Youxiao, and he also knew that it was because Li Mingrui brushed His Majesty's will to dislike His Majesty, and he himself wished that the Ministry of Rites would be divided into three, because in this way he could be a scholar, and he could be promoted to a higher level, not to mention that he knew that Li Mingrui was now a cronyist, and he had been labeled as close to Yang Sichang and others from the beginning, so if the Ministry of Rites was not divided into three, and it had been managed by Li Mingrui, he would not be able to come out.

In addition, Wen Tiren, who is good at judging the situation and sizing up the situation, also noticed through various information and observations that Li Mingrui's holy family is decreasing day by day, but the gap with His Majesty is getting bigger and bigger, which also shows that it is the time for him to take the throne, because once His Majesty wants to make a move against Li Mingrui, he needs a sword to sanction Li Mingrui, and he should strive to become this sword and make a confrontation with the ministers.

Wen Tiren knelt down directly, shouting at Your Majesty's wisdom, praising Zhu Youxiao's move as a foolish thing, as if Zhu Youxiao did this, the world would be completely cleared.

If not, Zhu Youxiao knew that this Wen Tiren was a well-known treacherous minister of the Chongzhen Dynasty in history, but he was afraid that he would have regarded this Wen Tiren as his political confidant.

But now, Zhu Youxiao did not express his position directly, but directly asked Li Biao, the right attendant of the Shili Department of Dongge University.

Li Biao has been the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites since the beginning of the Apocalypse, but in order to promote several leaders of the old school, Zhu Youxiao let Li Biao enter the cabinet as a scholar as a right attendant, which can be regarded as the emperor's grace.

Li Biao saluted Zhu Youxiao very respectfully, and said very firmly: "Your Majesty, the ancestral system cannot be violated!" ”

Zhu Youxiao's eyes couldn't help but rise with a black line, and he couldn't wait to directly slam the tea cup directly on Li Biao's face, and secretly said that there are still ministers who dare to talk to him about the ancestral system, and this Li Biao is also bold enough, doesn't he know that the officials who talk to him about the ancestral system are now either going to Huangquan or going to Yunguichuan to teach support?

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but find that it was a wrong decision to find these officials of the Ministry of Rites to discuss the reform of the Ministry of Rites, it was better to make a direct decree by himself, if these officials of the Ministry of Rites still stopped him, he simply dismissed them without knowing how easy it was, but he still had to say good things to them, which was good, people didn't appreciate it!

"Li Mingrui, the will of the Dao, Li Biao is old and faint, disobedient, disobedient to Long Yan, deposed from his position as a scholar of Dongge University and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and demoted to Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Si Pingwu County Teaching", Zhu Youxiao said very indifferently, and looked at Li Biao, Li Biao took off the black gauze hat quite calmly and slowly retreated.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shout: "Stop! Did I tell you to step down? ”

Li Biao also stood still, and suddenly realized that because of His Majesty's sudden dismissal of his position, he felt a little troubled in his heart for a while, and wanted to retreat directly, but unexpectedly forgot the etiquette of the monarch and the minister.

Just when Li Biao was a little at a loss, Zhu Youxiao's book had already called: "Presumptuous!" Pull down, change to exile, exile to the Hami garrison, and never return to Middle-earth! ”

Li Biao didn't show anything, but this time he also knew the rules, and he held back the resentment in his heart and thanked him, but Li Mingrui was frightened because of this, he naturally saw that His Majesty was knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, if he dared to mention the word "again", he was afraid that the end would be even worse.

Li Mingrui, who was already frightened and broke out in a cold sweat on his back, hurriedly prepared the holy decree and personally held it: "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

"It's well written, it's very good, and I'll write another book to ask for the reform of the Ministry of Rites, and I'll write it now!"

Zhu Youxiao was not polite, and directly asked Li Mingrui to give an ultimatum to let him stand up first and propose to reform the Ministry of Rites, if Li Mingrui was unwilling, Zhu Youxiao didn't mind letting him accompany Li Biao to Hamiwei.