020 The military department was established

The reputation of the cabinet is great.

Roll call under the Donghua Gate not far away, and then enter the cabinet office, is the ultimate yearning of the scholars in the world in the Ming Dynasty. But only those who live here know best how poor the office environment of the cabinet is.

The current cabinet is crowded under a section of palace wall opposite the Mandarin Hall next to the accounting gate. To the south is a room with a tall palace wall, and there is no sunlight all year round, and even in the middle of the summer, candles are lit inside. On both sides of the narrow passage are eight small houses, and on weekdays, seven or eight cabinet members and thirty or so clerks are crammed into them to work.

Zhu Youzhen lifted the curtain and just walked in.

Clear!

The sweltering heat behind the house in summer, coupled with the smell of clothes, shoes and socks, the sour smell of sweat on everyone's body, and the smell of fermented food left over at an unknown time, these smells have almost solidified into substance under the blessing of high temperature.

Zhu Youzhen just lifted the curtain of the door, neither entering nor retreating.

Fortunately, Wu Zhi, the great eunuch who was holding the door curtain, hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, there are too many people in this room, why don't you let everyone come out to salute?"

Only then did he save the big-eyed knife and pen officials in the room, and also saved Zhu Youzhen's life.

The Ministry of Industry has long laid out the map of the imperial city.

"What I mean." Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for these people to speak, the rhythm was too slow.

"From Nanhua Palace to Nanfang, all of them will be demolished, and a Guanglu Temple will be kept in the middle."

Hearing this, everyone felt strange to object, after all, what the emperor wanted to demolish was the place where his own house was demolished, and logically speaking, there was no room for them to speak. It is also strange to agree that in order to tear out a place for the cabinet, the area is almost half the size of the Inner Imperial City.

The Ministry of Industry is cautious:

"It's not good, it's a little far away from the emperor, and at the same time, when the inner door is closed at night, it's not easy to get around."

"That's okay, after a new cabinet is repaired, I will also leave a big study room, and I will come over when I have something." Hey, the people of the household department have already begun to prepare to sing praises of virtue, this is Mingjun.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to stop this boring behavior.

"Ask the emperor, all these places are for the use of the cabinet?" This time it was Bi Ziyan who asked, he never worried much, but he didn't know if the emperor didn't know if the size of the building and how much it cost at all.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, "The two sides of Guanglu Temple are empty first, and there is another purpose." In addition, today is all in, and the cabinet is also doing a split. ”

Everyone knows the big thing about the day is coming. Since the emperor ascended the throne, he first had nothing to do for a few months, and then he worked with a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west. I cleaned up the internal affairs, suppressed but did not kill the eunuchs, got close to the military and did not make any actual moves, I don't know what to do today.

By the way, the behavior is becoming more and more vulgar. This is not surprising, other princes have been trained in etiquette for ten years, this is good, this throne is completely picked up.

You see, I found another stone pier and sat down, and let a group of important ministers stand in a circle around him.

"The Cabinet is split in two. First, it is still called the cabinet, and it puts its own vision on taxation, people's livelihood, production, and education. Huang Ge Lao wrote three times to beg for bones, and I comforted him three times. The cabinet affairs are complicated, and I also feel that there is a shortage of people, so let's settle down. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for them to digest, and then said:

"Originally, the use of troops, requisition, defense, and logistics were all matters, and the military department was established. It will be located next to the Cabinet. ”

In the state of confusion and shock of everyone, Zhu Youzhen continued:

"Regarding the military department, I try to say it in layman's terms. The military department should set up the army, the layout of the border defense situation, the launching of the war, and the overall planning of the people's livelihood in the theater. After the re-establishment, "Zhu Youzhen paused,

"The cabinet is the head of internal affairs, and the military department is the head of defense."

Zhou Yanru stood up again:

"The emperor's matter is very big, and it should be handed over to the court for three discussions."

Zhu Youzhen looked at him:

"I don't think so." Zhu Youzhen looked at him,

"Qing is the champion of Wanli for forty-one years, and he went to high school at the age of twenty-one, with the intelligence of Zhou Qing's family and the experience of Huan Hai for more than ten years, what do you think the Great Dynasty will be now?"

Zhu Youzhen also knows that this is not Zhou Yanru's problem. This is already a common problem in the late stages of any dynasty. Everyone is accustomed to putting things in the form of group discussions, either letting things go away, or muddying the waters by muddying them. Zhou Yanru probably saw Sun Chengzong at the scene, so he made such a proposal.

Mixing the muddy waters is like trying to hide from the idle waters?

"The head of the military department doesn't need to be pushed by Tingtui, Sun Chengzong."

Old man Sun bowed slightly.

"I know that this position is not a good position, and I also know that you are old, and you should have returned to your hometown with honor. But the country is in turmoil, and I hope you can take up this position and give me five years to do so. In the five years that you have been the first assistant, I have given you three conveniences. ”

"The five-year period, no matter where and where the battle is defeated, it is not easy for the head of the military department to assist."

"The five-year period, no matter who or what will be derelict in their duties, it is not easy for the head of the military department to assist him."

"The five-year period, below the first assistant, is proposed by you to establish the military department auxiliary ministers."

Before that, Sun Chengzong only felt that the current saint might be because of the experience of the stage of believing in the king, and his understanding of the country and his sense of crisis were slightly stronger than that of the emperor who was kept in captivity in the palace. He was also somewhat aware that this Holy Master should strengthen the status and strength of the martial artist in the imperial court in the near future. But he didn't expect that the emperor's changed mind and courage would reach such a point.

The emperor's words have already reached this point, and Sun Chengzong hurriedly knelt down with tears:

"Obey."

Today, Sun Chengzong's position as the head of the Royal Army Academy and the newly established military department has brought this almost marginalized figure back to the highest political center of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen turned back to Zhou Yanru and said:

"There are two major events today, one is the change of the location and position of the cabinet, and the other is the establishment of the military department. Mainly with Zhou Shilang, the ministry will complete the change documents within 30 days. ”

"By the way, this should be handed over to the cabinet. If there is no objection, I nominate Zhou Yanru to the cabinet. ”

Boom, just now I was still envious of the white-haired Sun Chengzong, who was the only emperor and had a vast world to try his fists and feet. Who knew that the two words of entering the cabinet made the thirty-year-old Zhou Yanru dizzy.

When everyone began to pretend to be calm and cooperate with the emperor to discuss the next topic, Zhou Yanru was still standing in the bright sun, suddenly at a loss.

"The emperor wants to complete it before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the minister vaguely feels that the amount of work is not huge, and it should be possible." The Ministry of Industry is very clear that as long as it does not involve the construction of royal rules, and it is a work of demolition and repair, the construction period should not be a big problem.

"The minister can't agree. Since last month, the minister has not had a single extra silver coin. Bi Ziyan has a bitter face. It's easy to talk on paper, but it's really down-to-earth, if you don't have money, let alone the emperor, even if the Jade Emperor comes, it's okay.

"Don't worry about that, I've already stopped the work on the mountain that has begun to progress."

"Your Majesty, no. Your Majesty must not. "No matter how short of money you are, you can't stop Your Majesty's mountain project. At this point, everyone has a consensus, if it stops, it will already be very bullying the new emperor, even if the emperor proposes it. If you don't object now, you will definitely bury a fish bone in the emperor's chest. It may be okay now, but as you get older, sooner or later it will become an unhappy place in the emperor's heart.

"Your Majesty must not, the cost of the mountain mausoleum is 300,000 taels, and the ministers still have a little room to spare."

"I have made up my mind to stop the mountain, and there is no need to discuss it anymore. The account will not pay the money can be re-paid for other purposes. As for the other places where the money is used, I'll see if there are any other ways. ”

After saying that, he laughed and went back to the palace, leaving only a bunch of ministers who looked at each other.