As soon as the Western Expedition was won, the officials of the DPRK and China began to make trouble. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the morning of this day, Qian Qianyi, the left attendant of the Zhengsanpin Officials' Department, demanded that Li Hongfei, the commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, be dismissed from his post as chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense in accordance with the ancestral teachings.

The Minister of National Defense, the highest post in the Ministry of National Defense, is held by Zhu Youzhen, and the vice minister is naturally held by the future crown prince or the heir to the country proposed by Zhu Youzhen.

After all, it is not a democratic society, obviously these two positions can only be held by the royal family, and Li Hongfei, the chief of staff, can be regarded as the highest level of the Ministry of National Defense.

Qi Hongying and others only served as deputy chief of staff or directors of various departments.

Qian Qianyi is about to get rid of Li Hongfei's two important military positions, which is tantamount to kicking him out of the ranks of military generals..........

"Now that the war in the south is settled, the horseshoe soldiers have a great threat to both the ancestral training and the future status of the royal family." This is what Gao Hongtu, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, said to Zhu Youzhen in person when he asked to see Zhu Youzhen yesterday.

Now it seems that today's twists and turns are fueled by lofty ambitions.

After Qian Qianyi finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen seemed to be wandering in the world, neither affirming nor refuting, which was much better than when everyone mentioned Li Hongfei before, Zhu Youzhen was furious.

Obviously, Zhu Youzhen's heart began to waver.

Just like Gao Hongtu said, now that the overall situation has been decided, even without Li Hongfei, this battle can still be fought, Huang Degong, Qi Hongying, Zheng Chenggong, Shi Dewei, Guo Sheng, Zhang Chao........ Which of these people is not a famous general, why do they have to rely on Li Hongfei?

The art of the emperor is sometimes really difficult for people to figure out, and it is okay to share hardships with courtiers, but it is really difficult to share glory and wealth, especially in today's Ming army, and even the people of the Ming Dynasty, regard Li Hongfei as a military god, such a person, such an influence, even Zhu Youzhen is ashamed of himself.

Although Li Hongfei even handed over the command of this western expedition, but his limelight still overshadowed almost all the generals, the first group army under his command won successive battles, and the steam warships in Baoshan shined, which were inseparable from Li Hongfei.

Zhu Youzhen secretly looked at Li Hongfei below, and found that the other party was closing his eyes and recuperating, and he didn't care about Qian Qianyi's twists and turns, it seemed that he was ........ Fell asleep.

Maybe he really fell asleep, after Li Hongfei arrived in Nanjing recently, he has always had a court due to the rules, but he had to enter the palace before dawn this morning, and these ministers talked about some topics that had no nutritional value, and over time, Li Hongfei actually learned a skill to sleep standing up.

In fact, for this early dynasty. Li Hongfei even wanted to suggest that Zhu Youzhen change it from once a day to once a week, anyway, except for talking about trivial things, there was no major matter to discuss at all.

After all, the real major events will be submitted to the cabinet, and after discussion by several cabinet ministers, they will be transferred to Zhu Youzhen for approval, even if Zhu Youzhen does not go to court for a month, the imperial court can still operate normally.

This is not without precedent, when Emperor Jiajing, he did not go to court for 30 years, he was in Xiyuan every day, cultivating fasting and practicing Taoism, fooling around with Taoist priests all day long, and still governed the country very well.

Jiajing is an emperor who knows the art of emperors very well, although he has not been in court for 30 years, he has not made the imperial power fall, but Zhu Youzhen is different, his desire for power is much stronger than Jiajing.

According to historical records, Zhu Youzhen was in his twenties, his hair was white, and his eyes had crow's feet.

Shi Zhi said that "the rooster crows, sleepless at night, often becomes sick from exhaustion, and there is never a feast in the palace".

It is simply wishful thinking to let such an emperor, who has a strong desire for power, take the initiative to change the time of the court meeting, so Li Hongfei did not dare to mention this stubble at all, so he could only come to the court early every day and then sleep standing up..........

But he really didn't sleep today, and early in the morning, Wang Chengen, the superintendent of Dongchang, ordered a little eunuch to remind Li Hongfei that something big would happen today.

Wang Chengen is Zhu Youzhen's confidant and the intelligence chief in charge of the entire East Investigation Factory, and yesterday's reminder of Gao Hongtu, as well as the recent actions of many ministers in the DPRK and China, have long been guessed by Wang Chengen.

He knows what the identity of this Lord Li Menghui is, no matter what the emperor decides, he will not offend this "immortal" too much, so Wang Chengen sent a little eunuch early in the morning to give Li Hongfei a kind reminder, which can be regarded as a "political investment".

Li Hongfei closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, while secretly scolding his mother: "The Western Expedition has just ended, these people jumped out to pick peaches, and this Zhu Youzhen, the Northern Expedition has not yet begun, so they are in a hurry to establish authority, if it weren't for labor and management, you would have died three years ago!" ”

If it weren't for Li Hongfei occupying the Ministry of Defense and not allowing Wenchen to intervene, it is estimated that there would be several more civilian officials from the Ministry of Defense at this time.

After all, these people are all literati, as a staff officer or something, how can they be more qualified than those big bosses, with the combat effectiveness of the Ming army today, as well as the command ability of middle and lower-level officers, as long as they are not fools to command these armies, they can basically achieve victory, the key is how much they lose, how much victory they can achieve.

Once the civilian clique intervenes in the Ministry of National Defense, it is very likely that the armed forces that defend the country will become a tool for the game between politicians, and even the purpose of the war will change.

This is also the main reason why Li Hongfei does not allow civilian officials to interfere in the Ministry of National Defense, and it is better for the military to be pure in thought.

As for Zhu Youzhen, Li Hongfei understands that he has been out of the limelight during this time, and the people only know Li Menghui, and there are few cases of Zhu Youzhen singing praises for his virtues, and Zhu Youzhen is jealous.

Li Hongfei was angry, but he really didn't dare to say it clearly, so in desperation, he could only continue to pretend to sleep.

"The rules of the ancestors cannot be broken, please think twice." Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was slow to express his position, another minister stood up and began to urge.

At this time, Shi Kefa, a scholar of Dongge University who was standing on the side, made a gesture to Zhu Youzhen, and then stood up and said: "Qi Qi Sheng, the rules of the Ming Dynasty are indeed set by the ancestors, but the Holy Shang is the son of heaven, and he can also change from time to time, abolish bad habits, and formulate new rules, just like this national reform, only by breaking the old habits, can we reform and innovate, and achieve a generation of Ming Jun!" ”

Shi Kefa said very seriously, and he almost bluntly said that the rules of the ancestors were unreasonable.

At the same time, it is also a disguised threat, when the whole country was reformed, many ministers talked about the rules of the ancestors, but Zhu Youzhen was unmoved, and now it seems that Zhu Youzhen's decision is correct.

If Zhu Youzhen compromises this time, then when it spreads to the people, everyone will only say that Zhu Youzhen is jealous of meritocracy, which will affect Zhu Youzhen's reputation very much.

"That's right, the ancestral rules must be followed, but I am the son of heaven, Chrysostom Yuyan, Li Aiqing led the troops, I personally agreed to it at the beginning, and now I can't remove him because he is my son-in-law!" Zhu Youzhen said awe-inspiringly.

On the surface, he was agreeing with Shi Kefa's opinion, but in fact, it was a clear signal that when Li Hongfei was asked to lead the troops, the other party was not a concubine, and now that the other party is a concubine, the previous holy decree cannot be counted.

Maybe Zhu Youzhen forcibly married Zhu Yujiao to Li Hongfei at the beginning, on the one hand, for his own daughter, and on the other hand, it was also to take a handle on Li Hongfei.

"When Lord Li led the troops, he had not yet become a concubine, and now that the saint has withdrawn his order, it is neither a violation of the ancestors' teachings, nor a loss of the golden mouth." Sure enough, some ministers took advantage of this loophole.

"And the horse master does not have to lead the troops to fight, when the horse master was reformed in Suzhou, that is, the people under the rule of the management are in good order, and now the whole Suzhou is full of flowers, compared to Nanjing is no worse, we can let the horse master enter the court as an official, one to make the best use of the people, for the benefit of the people, after all, the battlefield is dangerous and abnormal, the princess and the horse have been separated from each other for a long time, and it is not conducive to the relationship between husband and wife." Someone is starting to put forward conditions.

Moved out of Princess Changping, this is their killer feature, the general has been fighting abroad all the year round, and rarely can take care of his wife and children, Zhu Youzhen can completely say that he is for the sake of Zhu Yujiao, removed Li Hongfei's military position, and then arranged an official position for Li Hongfei in the court, so that the common people can also understand.

"Is that it......... Let's let the dream go back to yourself and talk about it. Zhu Youzhen threw the ball to Li Hongfei.

The ministers immediately turned their eyes to Li Hongfei, but Li Hongfei was closing his eyes at this time, and his head was moving little by little, as if he was fishing.

Since it is pretending to be asleep, the play must be done sufficiently.

When Wang Chengen walked in front of Li Hongfei and woke him up in a whisper, he looked confused and began to "ask" about what happened.

"Hand over military power? That's fine, the Holy One can decide. As for entering the court as an official......... According to the rules of the ancestors, not only can the horse master not lead the troops, but also cannot enter the court as an official, since it is a rule, we have to abide by it all. And the minister has suddenly felt in recent days, presumably not far from the return date, so let's take the initiative to resign, don't do anything, concentrate on going home to accompany the princess, and hope that Your Majesty will approve it. Li Hongfei said very open-mindedly after "figuring out" what happened.

By now, Li Hongfei has understood that this Zhu Youzhen is a bastard, and history is not wrong about his evaluation at all.

The relationship between Chongzhen and his courtiers may be said to be the most embarrassing and strange period in history———— mutual hatred, interdependence, and mutual use.

During the seventeen years of Chongzhen's reign, in addition to suppressing the peasant army and resisting the Houjin, he devoted more energy to weakening the power of the civilian clique, and achieved certain results.

Although Chongzhen is ambitious, hard-working, well-fed, and will bow to everything, he has no strategy for governing the country, and he has no skills to appoint others, plus he is strict, suspicious, and suspicious, and often reprimands the ministers, asks for crimes, beheads them, and Ling Chi, and his cruelty and ruthlessness are as good as Wei Zhongxian's.

Because he didn't believe in civil and military officials, Chongzhen also frequently adjusted officials, and in 17 years, he actually changed 17 criminal department books and 50 cabinet scholars, resulting in a lack of talents in the country, and people with lofty ideals who were willing to serve the country were neither willing nor daring to ask for help.

In desperation, Chongzhen had no choice but to cultivate private forces and re-employ a large number of more corrupt and incompetent eunuchs, which eventually led to the historical tragedy of "100,000 eunuchs died in the Ming Dynasty".

Although Li Hongfei's arrival used his identity as a "god" to temporarily help Zhu Youzhen stabilize the government, but now that there is just an improvement, Zhu Youzhen has begun to mess up again..........

For this kind of "pig teammate", Li Hongfei really can't take it, if Li Hongfei still had ambitions in his heart before and wanted to help him support the society, but now he is no longer interested in it.

Now he is tantamount to giving Zhu Youzhen two choices in disguise, either don't move himself, or completely cut off the relationship with himself, and at the same time use the identity of "immortal" to remind Zhu Youzhen that he is a person who will leave at any time and will not threaten your status at all.

If Zhu Youzhen approved his resignation, Li Hongfei would definitely sell his family business in a short period of time, and then take Chen Yuanyuan to go overseas, and no longer care about anything in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, now that steamships have appeared, as long as he is willing to spend a lot of money, it is possible to build a few ironclad ships, and it is not impossible to lead warships to rampant overseas and conquer a few islands to become a king.

As for Zhu Yujiao, Li Hongfei was originally disgusted with this political marriage, and when the time came, he also gave people two choices, either return to Zhu Youzhen and continue to be a princess, or follow him to the end of the world.

Li Hongfei, who has already thought about the way back, has also relaxed his mentality, at this time, even if Zhu Youzhen opposes Qian Qianyi's proposal on the spot, Li Hongfei will not look at Zhu Youzhen differently, at least everything he will do in the future will not be based on the Zhu dynasty as the first element.

With Li Hongfei's opening, all the officials present did not dare to come out, what happened to Li Menghui? Crazy? actually asked to resign voluntarily!

Fortunately, Li Hongfei was too young to say the sentence of telling the old man to return to his hometown, otherwise wouldn't it be tantamount to slapping Zhu Youzhen in the face in public.

Despite this, Zhu Youzhen and those ministers who played also felt hot on their faces at this time.

They used the rules of their ancestors as an excuse, just to remove Li Hongfei from his military post, but as a result, they took the initiative to ask for the dismissal of all their posts, which is not a slap in the face.

The power in their eyes is nothing at all in Li Hongfei's eyes, and they don't want it if they say they don't want it.........

Although he was slapped in the face, the eyes of these ministers involuntarily shone brightly, this Li Menghui was too conceited, and he dared to say this in public, so that the emperor could not come to power, isn't this looking for death?

Although death is unlikely, for the sake of his majesty, the emperor may really approve Li Hongfei's proposal on the spot, so that they not only achieved their goal, but also exceeded expectations, can they not be happy in their hearts.