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When everyone was stupefied and pondering, Zhu Wei continued: "Cabinet members are only selected from ten ministers and ministers, and then appointed by the palace.

More than ten people are selected each time, and then five to nine of them are selected by the Palace as cabinet ministers, and one person is selected as the head and assistant to coordinate the government affairs of all ministries.

In order to prevent the ministers from arguing about the election in the court and causing party disputes, the heads and assistants of the various ministries wrote the names of ten cabinet ministers on the paper, signed them and handed them in.

After that, the palace will ask the ministers to vote on the spot, and choose the top ten, top eleven, or twelve with the most votes.

The ballots will be published again, and the ministers will check and confirm that they are correct before handing over the list to the palace.

This is how the new cabinet is formed. If you have any doubts, you can ask now. "

After listening to Auntie Zhu's speech, Yuan Jixian thought about it and found that the selection method of the new cabinet members was not much different from before, except that the candidates were limited to ministers and ministers.

If there is, it means that the emperor has stronger control over the cabinet ministers.

After all, there are only so many ministers and ministers, and there are more than ten candidates to be selected by the emperor. As long as the emperor controls the candidates for the ministers and ministers, he can firmly control the cabinet.

Others also feel that the selection method of cabinet members is not much different from before.

What most ministers care about is that the power of the cabinet is too different from before.

In addition, the left and right censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also directly excluded from the cabinet, which made Jiang Riguang quite concerned.

Before, he was quite excited when he saw that Zhu Yuxi agreed to call Gao Hongtu to be the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Because judging from the composition of the ministers of the imperial court at that time, although there were not all the ministers in the imperial court, including eunuchs like Ma Shiying, and lucky ministers such as He Tengjiao who were promoted by first contacting Zhu Yuxi, but overall they were still biased. Most of the "official ministers" who moved to the Donglin Party.

And the Metropolitan Procuratorate is completely in the hands of the Donglin Party.

According to past habits, most of the left and right censors will be selected as cabinet ministers.In this way, the Donglin Party will also occupy a place in the cabinet.

But now he and Gao Hongtu had no hope of joining the cabinet.

This made it a little difficult for him to accept.

He thought for a while, and said: "Reporting to Jian Guo, the separation of the four powers of the military, government, procuratorate and law will certainly make the functions and powers of the various institutions of the imperial court more clear.

But if there is something that needs the cooperation of all parties to solve it, who should take the lead?You can't bother your majesty with everything, can you?
What's more, the king has what heaven wants, and as a wise king, there is no problem in coordinating all parties.

But if the king of later generations is a mediocre person, how can we ensure that the various institutions after the separation of the four powers can still cooperate seamlessly? "

After hearing Jiang Riguang's words, many of the rest nodded their heads, thinking that what he said was not unreasonable.

The separation of the four powers sounds beautiful.

But as Jiang Yueguang said, after Aunt Zhu, what should the court do when it encounters major events that require the cooperation of all parties?
Facing Jiang Yueguang's question, Auntie Zhu said calmly, "Where is there a perfect system in this world? And where is there a policy that will last forever?

Apart from other things, how many systems and policies established by Emperor Taizu back then are still being fully followed now?

The reason why the palace established the separation of the four powers is that one is to learn from the advanced experience of later generations, and the other is to facilitate the restoration of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible so that the country can be prosperous and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

If this can be achieved, the system of separation of the four powers is worth implementing.

Besides, the new system has not been in operation yet, how do you know that it will not make the government run more efficiently than before?
As for whether this system will have problems due to social changes after the palace and the ministers, it is up to the successors to deal with it, and it is not for the palace and the ministers to worry about it.

Zhuqing thinks, is what I said right? "

For a while, the ministers fell into deep thought again.

They recalled and found that Auntie Zhu did not say that the system of separation of the four powers would become the permanent system of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, even if an emperor said so, the subsequent emperors and ministers may not always follow it.

Isn't the prestige of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty high enough?

But shortly after his death, the two emperors Jianwen and Yongle changed many of their systems and policies.

So Auntie Zhu's saying is right, how can there be any system or policy that is never easy?

There is only one word that is truly eternal in this world, and that is "change"!
The reasoning of Aimee Zhu's words, and what she wanted to express, was not complicated.

All the ministers present at the meeting were top talents from Ming Dynasty, so they all understood very quickly.

Therefore, Ma Shiying got up first and bowed to Auntie Zhu, saying, "Jianguo's words are great wisdom, I bow to you!"

The rest of the people all reacted when they saw this, and they stood up and bowed together and said: "Your servant waits to bow!"

Seeing that all the ministers of the court were convinced (at least on the surface), Auntie Zhu couldn't help being secretly happy.

She raised her hand with a smile, "Zhuqing flattened, sit down."

After everyone sat down, she continued: "Since that's the case, should you start selecting cabinet ministers now? If anyone can't remember the rules I just said, you can look at the hanging board."

After finishing speaking, Auntie Zhu signaled Han Zanzhou to hang a copy of the "Cabinet Member Selection Rules" on the big wooden board before.

Immediately, all ministers and ministers were writing while thinking about who to choose.

Only then did they discover another function of Aimee Zhu's arranging the seats—almost forbidding the possibility of them communicating with each other in private.

And the "rules" also stated that when voting in court, they are not allowed to exchange opinions with each other.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Aunt Zhu asked, "Have all the ballot papers of the ministers been written?"

It doesn't take much time to write ten names, what takes time is the choice.

However, there are currently only seven of the ten, and almost half of the servants are missing, so it is not difficult to choose from everyone, because there are only a dozen people who can be selected.

After all the ministers expressed that they had finished writing, Zhu Wei asked Han Zanzhou to collect the ballots and sang them in court.

After the results came out, eleven people were selected, because several people had the same number of votes and tied for the same ranking, so there was one more person at the bottom of the list.

And this is also the intention in the "rules" that "ten to 12 people" will be selected in the end.

Afterwards, the ministers elected Huang Daozhou and Lu Zhenfei to check the ballots on behalf of them—this was just a process, no one would cheat in the first cabinet member election.

After checking and confirming that the ballots were correct, the list of these 11 people was handed over to Aimee Zhu.

All the ministers thought that Auntie Zhu would end the meeting first, and spend a day or two thinking about who to choose.

Unexpectedly, when Auntie Zhu got the paper on which the list was written, she picked up a red pen from the royal case and drew circles on it.

That quick movement made many ministers' hearts jump, thinking to themselves: Governor of the country, please don't make a mistake by slipping your hands.

However, all the ministers also came to a realization: Aimee Zhu had already made up her mind about the cabinet members, so she was able to make a decision on the spot.

When all the ministers were thinking about each other, Zhu Wei copied the circled names on a sheet, and added the title of a scholar to each cabinet minister according to the management.

Then someone handed it to Zhang Jiayu, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy who made the meeting summary for her, and said, "Let's refer to it according to the content above."

Wang Yingxiong stayed in Sichuan before and is now on his way to Nanjing.

As for Zhang Jiayu, Hao Guangming picked it out and recommended it to Aimee Zhu after seeing the list of officials who were detained in the Ministry of Punishment to be dealt with a few days ago.

Gai is quite famous in later generations, and he is one of the "Three Loyalties in Lingnan".