The cabinet is on duty, and the first assistant Huang Liji and the second assistant Shi Fenglai are sitting opposite each other.

"The first time His Majesty quit the court early and went to Xiyuan to train his ......troops," Huang Liji shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Maybe Your Majesty felt worried when he saw the rampant Dongyu and the successive defeats of the Liao army, so he became interested in military training. It's better than the first emperor doing carpentry work every day. Shi Fenglai said with a smile.

Huang Li glanced at Shi Fenglai, and said angrily: "It would be good if that was the case, but you don't look at what kind of soldiers Your Majesty has trained, and you have a group of noble and noble disciples, these people can't lift their shoulders or pick them, they are pampered, what else will they do except fight cocks and lackeys and play with women, expect them to deal with Dongyu, isn't that a joke?" ”

To tell the truth, Huang Liji looks down on his assistant, although everyone is attached to the eunuch party, but after all, most of what he does is for national affairs, but Shi Fenglai is completely undisciplined. When the first emperor was alive, Shi Fenglai wanted to give his own hand to the first emperor in order to flatter him, but unfortunately Wei Zhongxian couldn't take his turn. And now that the first emperor has just died, this guy is criticizing the first emperor for coming!

Shi Fenglai laughed.

"State affairs are like stalks, and many things need to be decided by His Majesty personally, if he really stays in Xiyuan and only knows how to train soldiers, how can it be good?" Huang Liji sighed.

Shi Fenglai said disapprovingly: "What's there?" Shenzong didn't go to court for forty years, and the first emperor didn't ask about politics for seven years, isn't state affairs good? ”

The emperor's absence from the court is naturally the most ideal state for the cabinet, which means that the power of the cabinet is getting bigger and bigger.

Huang Li looked at him speechlessly, and said in his heart, you can really say it, don't look at what the world has become, famine, earthquake, displaced people, and Jiannu, who are becoming more and more powerful from outside, the current Ming is like sitting on a powder keg, where is it?

But Huang Liji also knew that the new emperor was just a seventeen-year-old boy, and it was indeed a bit whimsical to put such a big responsibility on him.

But I still want to see Your Majesty work hard and be a promising son of heaven! Huang Liji sighed in his heart.

"No, I can't look at it from Your Majesty's temperament, I have to go and advise Your Majesty, I'll go to Xiyuan, Brother Yuwang, will you go?" Huang Liji looked at Shi Feng and said.

Shi Fenglai shook his head: "I won't go, after all, someone has to watch this cabinet......"

I heard that Wei Zhongxian was also training with the emperor in Xiyuan, how dare Shi Feng touch Wei Zhongxian's moldy head.

Huang Liji ignored him, and casually took a few letters in his hand as an excuse, and left the cabinet. Before he could leave the cabinet, someone told him that the emperor had returned to the palace.

Huang Liji smiled, fortunately, the emperor didn't treat Xiyuan as his home.

Zhu Youzhen returned to the palace and first went to see his sister-in-law, Empress Zhang. In the matter of Zhu Youzhen's accession to the throne, Empress Zhang made a very big contribution, and now she wants to transfer the eunuch Wang Chengen next to her, Zhu Youzhen feels the need to talk to her. Then Zhu Youzhen returned to his residence, Qianqing Palace.

Just now, Cao Huachun was transferred by Zhu Youzhen to the celebrant and became one of the eunuchs of the ceremonial supervisor Zhu Bingbi, and Wang Chengen was promoted to deputy chief and served by Zhu Youzhen's side.

"Emperor, Lord Shoufu Huang asks to see you." Wang Chengenyu reports.

Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly: "Xuan him in." ”

Huang Liji quickly walked into the Qianqing Palace, and after bowing, Zhu Youzhen gave him a seat.

"Your Majesty, the minister's request to see this time is something that Your Majesty needs to decide." Huang Li Ji said.

Zhu Youzhen said: "I have just ascended the throne and am not familiar with state affairs, so it is good for the cabinet to agree on the handling of something." ”

Huang Liji shook his head and said: "This matter has to be decided by Your Majesty, the first thing is to posthumously seal Your Majesty's biological mother, and the second thing is to canonize Your Majesty as the queen." ”

Hearing that it was related to his mother Liu Xianfei, who had passed away, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly sat upright and listened carefully.

As early as when Zhu Youzhen was five years old, his biological mother Liu died of illness. Later, after Zhu Youzhen's father Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he posthumously named the Liu family as a virtuous concubine. Now that Zhu Youzhen has ascended the throne, he should posthumously crown his biological mother as the queen mother.

After deliberation by the cabinet, the deceased Zhu Youzhen's biological mother, Concubine Liu Xian, was given the praise of "filial piety, pure and respectful, Shumu Zhuang Jingbi Tianyu Holy Empress Dowager", and Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with this.

Then there is the canonization of Princess Lixin as the queen, which is also the proper meaning. After reading the canonization edict prepared by the cabinet, Zhu Youzhen expressed his satisfaction, and after wearing red, he asked him to take it to the celebrant to seal it.

"I heard that Your Majesty went to Xiyuan to train troops today." After finishing talking about business, Huang Liji did not retire immediately, but laughed and talked about his routine.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Yuanfu, you are very well-informed, yes, I decided to form a new army of the Praetorian Guard in Xiyuan, and when the new army is trained, I will personally command the army to go out to conquer the Eastern Prisoners." ”

Huang Liji persuaded: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and you should focus on handling government affairs, and the matter of military training can be handed over to a military general, so why bother the Son of Heaven to do it himself?" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled: "I'm afraid you're here mainly to persuade me, right?" ”

Huang Liji stood up from the brocade pier and knelt down: "Your Majesty Shengming, the old minister is here to advise Your Majesty.

Since the rise of the Eastern Captives in the last years of Wanli, our Ming army has been defeated one after another, and almost all of Liaodong has fallen into the hands of captives. However, no matter how strong Donglu is, it is just an elbow and armpit disease, and with the Ningjin defense line, Donglu will never be able to disturb the Jingshi.

As long as Your Majesty works diligently and diligently, as long as the government and the ministers are single-minded, and the people accumulate national strength, sooner or later, they will be able to destroy the Dongyu and recover the homeland of Liaodong! ”

Looking at Huang Liji, who was kneeling on the ground and sincerely persuading him, Zhu Youzhen was in a trance, and he felt the need to reacquaint himself with the first assistant in front of him.

When the previous life had just ascended the throne, in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, whether it was Huang Liji or other cabinet elders, or even the six Shangshu, all of them were Wei Zhongxian's henchmen!

So after the throne was secured, Zhu Youzhen soon found an opportunity to come to a big change, and drove Huang Liji and other cabinet scholars, and the six Shangshu, as long as they were once attached to the eunuch party, all of them were driven out of the imperial court, and replaced them with the Qingliu ministers who thought they were upright and did not attach to the eunuch party, thinking that the situation would be completely new, and with the assistance of the "Zhongzheng", the Ming Dynasty would flourish and achieve Zhongxing.

Unexpectedly, the eunuch party is gone, the party strife is still there, and it is intensifying, the ministers are busy attacking political enemies all day long to eradicate dissidents, and they don't put their minds on serious matters at all, so that the state affairs are becoming more and more difficult, and in their own anger, they can only choose to remove the officials who are derelict in their duties and reappoint the officials they think are competent. However, the new officials are not much better than their predecessors, and they can only choose to continue to recall and continue to use new people......

In the previous life, he was the emperor for 17 years, and he was replaced by 19 chief assistants, and as for the number of other cabinet members and even the six Shangshu that were dismissed, Zhu Youzhen can't remember it now.

Now that I think about it, I think that a minister who is honest and clean may not be able to do it upright, and the eunuch party may not be without capable ministers.

For example, Huang Liji in front of him, in the third year of the Apocalypse, the emperor's brother Tianqi had to rebuild the three major halls, and at that time, the treasury was empty, and the border army could not even pay salaries, and other courtiers did not dare to persuade the emperor, only Huang Liji fought to the death. And this time he was able to ascend the throne, and Huang Liji was the first to propose it as the first assistant, and he was persuaded three times by the letter, which can be regarded as a meritorious contribution from this point of view.

At present, Huang Liji has come to persuade himself to be diligent in government, except for the stain of the eunuch party, what Huang Liji has done is worthy of this cabinet chief!

"The death of the Ming Dynasty was due to party strife!" The words of those people in the picture lingered in Zhu Youzhen's ears.

In this life, no matter what, we can't let the party fight again! In an instant, Zhu Youzhen made up his mind.

Honest and upright ministers are good, but corrupt officials and traitors are also useful, and those who are kings should make the best use of them, not according to their own merits and according to their own favorite appointments and dismissals.

But I still have to test a thing or two.

"What does Yuanfu think of the factory minister Wei Zhongxian?" Ignoring Huang Liji's advice, Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked.

Huang Liji was stunned for a moment, and cold sweat flowed down all of a sudden.