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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.

In the spring of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, Qi Changguo agreed to the request of Tsar Mikhail I of the Rakshasa Kingdom for peace talks, and agreed to negotiate in Tianci City after the Praetorian Guards withdrew from Moscow, and the time was set for May 28, which was exactly the same date as the signing of the "Aihui Treaty" in later generations.

Because of the last year Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty ordered the Ministry of Rites to recount the merits of the capable ministers who made great contributions to the dynasty, and Qi Jiguang was also posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Jian'ou because of his meritorious service to the pacification of the Japanese and the repulsion of the Tartars during the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli periods.

Although Qi Jiguang, who cherishes the world, said that "it is not my intention to be a marquis, but I hope that the sea will be peaceful", but after all, it is not a bad thing to be a marquis, in order to encourage the current Ming Dynasty's civil and military ministers to continue to establish meritorious deeds and advocate the national strategy of active outward expansion, it is also necessary to make him a marquis.

And Qi Changguo, as his son, is also hereditary for Jian Ou Bo, so although this Qi Changguo is just a general in the Praetorian Guard, he has the title of Jian Ou Bo plus a Zhengyi title of Zuo Du Governor who is also added because of his father's merits, so he is also qualified to preside over this negotiation against the Rakshasa State as a plenipotentiary.

The Rakshasa Kingdom sent the great nobleman Duke Morozov to come to Tianci City to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The so-called Tianci City is actually the Tianci City built by the Praetorian Guard army garrisoned here after the development of the Tianci coalfield, the managers of the Royal Industrial Company and the workers recruited from Monan, Mobei, Gansu and other places, although because of the influence of the "Tianci coalfield", the sky here has always been gray, but the newly built Tianci City is the first step of the cultural expansion of the Ming Dynasty, because the Tianci City is all used to build the Central Plains city, The majestic pavilions and towers, the inner and outer city walls, and the moat like a green belt are all signs that Han cultural elements began to be imprinted in Siberia.

At this time, the weather warms up, the snow melts, because of the construction of Tianci City and the mining of Tianci coalfield, the area of vision has become extremely broad, and now when the weather is better and the blue sky is reappeared, it is even more comfortable to feel comfortable.

Qi Changguo also specially put on the imperial python robe today, sat on the official hat chair in a dignified manner, fiddling with a globe made of brass in his hand, and only after hearing the pendulum ring fourteen times, did he ask: "Are the hairy ghosts here?" 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.

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.