In the Imperial Palace, there was a sad atmosphere at the imperial meeting. Zhao Hongshou, the first minister of the Pen, Fun, and Cabinet www.biquge.info, has been confirmed to be assassinated, leaving behind countless things that need to be dealt with in the aftermath. The Ming Empire implemented a semi-real cabinet governance, and the first and auxiliary ministers had the right to make decisions or convene cabinet meetings to discuss many matters.

Originally, there were six ministers in the cabinet, and the first minister had a voting advantage of two votes, so it was originally designed to hope that the cabinet would vote on some national affairs on the principle of minority obeying the majority, but unfortunately this policy changed in different ways during the reign of different emperors.

The first emperor to implement this policy was the Emperor of the Apocalypse. However, at the end of his reign, he began to divide and disintegrate the power of the cabinet and build momentum for his son's restoration. The same thing happened repeatedly, the strong emperor often controlled the cabinet, and the weaker one restored the cabinet system -- the cabinet before the death of Emperor Zhu Changle was considered a relatively strong cabinet.

Although there are still six cabinet ministers, basically only Zhao Hongshou and Wang Jianfeng are the two who are the first to look forward. Although Wang Jianfeng was favored, the cabinet was suppressed by Zhao Hongshou, and the entire court was relatively stable, and there were no huge mistakes.

After Zhu Mu, the new emperor, came to power, although he always wanted to establish his own court power, and indeed won over Wang Jianfeng through Wang Jue, he never had the opportunity to really change the balance of power in the court. Now that Zhao Hongshou has passed away for a long time, it has also given His Majesty the young new emperor a chance to make a move.

The first assistant minister was immediately replaced by Wang Jianfeng. During the war, the country's political and military affairs could not be delayed. Zhu Mu, who was sitting on his dragon chair, made his position clear in the most concise words - he needed an obedient and supportive cabinet, he needed a stable rear to support him, and he avenged his father!

It has been a long-standing practice for the deputy minister to replace the first minister, and Wang Jianfeng's ability as the deputy minister has always been highly praised, so the proposal was quickly adopted. However, what His Majesty the Emperor announced next was a bit confusing.

First of all, the two obscure cabinet ministers themselves stood up and asked for a tribute, and these two people knew that the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty were all supporting Zhao Hongshou. If they quit the cabinet together, someone must make up for it, and if the person who makes up for it is His Majesty the Emperor's henchmen, then the entire cabinet will be useless for Zhu Mu.

These two ministers don't have too tough backgrounds, they are just pawns for Zhao Hongshou to charge into battle. Now that Zhao Hongshou has completely collapsed, the two of them were squeezed away by His Majesty the Emperor, which is also the proper meaning, the so-called one son of heaven and one courtier, it can't be more vivid.

Then Zhu Mu's choice of a new cabinet minister made everyone feel incredible. I saw Zhu Mu sitting on the dragon chair and continued in a loud voice: "The second assistant is served by the cabinet minister Ma Siyuan, the third cabinet minister is served by Huang Yao, the fourth cabinet minister is the secretary of the Jin Military Department Ge Tianzhang, the fifth cabinet minister is the secretary of the Jin Rite Department Zhang Huai, and the sixth cabinet minister is the secretary of the Jin Officials Department Bai Fei!" ”

After hearing this appointment, the ministers standing below immediately turned their heads to each other: It is not surprising that Zhang Huai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to the cabinet minister, after all, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is a candidate for the cabinet minister, and he has always been known as the elder of the cabinet. However, Ge Tianzhang is already old and frail, and at this time he was promoted to a cabinet minister, and it seems that His Majesty the Emperor is determined to install his own people in the military department.

Sure enough, in the later personnel appointments, the Ministry of Rites, who had recently made great achievements in diplomatic mediation, was promoted to the Ministry of Rites, and was appointed to be in charge of the Imperial Foreign Affairs. And the secretary of the military department also left a letter to Cheng Zhi, the soldier who Ge Tianzhang trusted, in accordance with the procedure - but Shen Yan, the waiter who came up later, was not the original soldier Langzhong, and was directly appointed by Zhu Mu.

As for Bai Fei, the secretary of the ministry, he was originally a supporter of Emperor Zhu Mu, and it was with the support of the ministry that Zhu Mu has always been able to firmly control the position of the prince, and he was also supported by a large number of grassroots officials as soon as he came to power. Letting Bai Fei enter the cabinet is equivalent to the emperor himself putting his hand into the cabinet, so including Wang Jianfeng, His Majesty the Emperor already has an absolute dominance of 5 or even 6 votes in the cabinet, no matter how powerful Ge Tianzhang is, he can't turn things around.

Bai Fei's vacant position was naturally taken over by Chen Yu, the servant of the ministry, and Chen Yu's vacant position was directly lost to the original Langzhong Luo Haoran. This is also a more orthodox promotion procedure, but the person who succeeded Luo Haoran is an unknown person, and the only commendable background is that behind this person is the Jiangnan chaebol.

Because of his age, Ge Tianzhang sat on the silk stool given by the emperor, looked up at the young emperor on the dragon chair, and finally stood up and thanked him for this nominal promotion with the support of Cheng Zhixin beside him. Cheng Zhixin got the book of the Ministry of War, which was at least not the worst result for Ge Tianzhang's strategic arrangement.

Because of Zhao Hongshou's departure, the vacated position needs to be filled by a large number of officials. This time, the people who benefited from the court meeting were only the court members above the third grade, and the positions that spread down would at least allow more than 100 people to be promoted. This is also an opportunity for Zhu Mu to arrange for his own confidants, and of course he will not let go of such an opportunity.

This change can be regarded as a reshuffle of the central power of half of the Ming Empire, and different faces naturally smell different flavors. For example, the military department that has moved the most vaguely reveals a hint that His Majesty the Emperor wants to change the national strategy. Because the general named Shen Yan who added it was an out-and-out former minister of Prince Zhu Mu, unlike the forces cultivated by Ge Tianzhang in the military department, he was more inclined to obey His Majesty the Emperor's orders.

Many ministers, including Wang Jianfeng, looked worried, after all, rashly changing the strategic direction and established national policy of an empire is definitely not a simple move, and it is even impossible to tell whether such a change is right or wrong in a short period of time. After Zhu Mu came to power, he was so eager to adjust the strategic center back to the north, which really made the ministers in the court a little nervous.

However, Zhu Mu would not be in such a hurry to start shaking the established national policy so quickly, so for a while, the court was still talking about how to divide Zhao Hongshou's political legacy - after all, there are more than a dozen positions that may be planted in people, and it is really important to compete for one or two as a favor for his own personal confidants, isn't it? (To be continued.) )