The most beloved princess in the prosperous world

Chapter 132
Sure enough, things still follow Feng Moran's ideas in some places, and there is indeed a lot of discussion outside, and some old officials in the court are indeed tirelessly giving papers to Emperor Yuanchang because of the rumors outside. It seems that the right prime minister must be selected as soon as possible, otherwise if this continues, there will be chaos.

Even in the early dynasties, there were already a few old officials who used their qualifications as the elders of the two and three dynasties to openly put pressure on Emperor Yuanchang in the hall. They must not tolerate the rumors outside, and they must take this as a warning. It was short of saying that we must beware of Ruan Fu monopolizing power.

This time, Emperor Yuanchang was not angry, he seemed to be interested in looking at the courtiers below and said with a smile, "Since that's the case, who do you think is suitable to be the prime minister in the current court?"

"This……"

Several people who were competing to speak could not answer the question of Emperor Yuanchang for a while. After looking at each other, they continued to say in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the establishment of a prime minister is a major event for the country. You should be cautious about choosing a candidate. I can't wait for a while." Observe."

Sitting in a high position, Emperor Yuanchang heard such words and said, "I can't understand it for a while. I'm afraid the time of a few lovers in the court is longer than mine. The people in the court have changed from generation to generation. If you can’t understand it anymore, then I really dare not employ people.”

Hearing what Emperor Yuanchang said, several courtiers hurriedly said, "Your Majesty's sacred heart is clear and discerning."

"It turns out that you still think that my Sacred Heart is decisive and discerning, not a foolish emperor." Emperor Yuanchang said.

This voice sounded the same as usual, not even the emperor's usual coercion was there.

However, the few old ministers who were still talking showed a trace of panic on their faces.

Just now, they had been advising Emperor Yuanchang on what to do and what not to do, as if Emperor Yuanchang would not be the emperor. Now that they heard what Emperor Yuanchang said, they felt that they were a little anxious.

A few people hurriedly said, "Your Majesty forgive me, the old minister is just anxious about important affairs in the court."

Emperor Yuanchang snorted softly, ignored these people, and went directly, "What else do you love?"

None of the courtiers in the hall stood up.

Emperor Yuanchang was obviously quite satisfied with this situation, and even his expression relaxed a lot. He glanced at everyone below, and Emperor Yuanchang said, "Now that I have encountered such a thing, I have been thinking about it over and over again for the past few days. Many, since the Central Plains began to establish a dynasty thousands of years ago, it has been divided and combined for thousands of years. Well, Nanhua has always regarded itself as orthodox in the Central Plains, and with its rich background, it has always been regarded as the head of the powerful countries in the Central Plains, but our Chen Kingdom, should we always be in the second place?"

Having said this, Emperor Yuanchang's voice was low and he paused.

But most of the people in the hall did not know why Emperor Yuanchang suddenly said such a thing today. Nanhua has always been regarded as the head of the Central Plains power. Chen Kingdom's courtiers were not reconciled. Emperor Yuanchang's words easily aroused the inner emotions of some ministers, especially military commanders. Although they listened to Emperor Yuanchang with their heads down, all of them were Their eyes were clear, as if they were waiting for an opportunity for them to make great achievements.

Emperor Yuanchang just paused for a while, and seeing that the expressions of many ministers below had changed, he continued, "However, how to become stronger, except for a strong national power, a substantial treasury, strong soldiers and horses, a wealth of talents, and the hearts of the people. The most important thing is a court where everyone is united."

When he spoke again, Emperor Yuanchang looked serious and serious, and he spoke in a cadence. When he said the last sentence, Emperor Yuanchang tapped his fingers on the table vigorously. The sound of the desktop seemed to hit everyone's heart.

In the entire hall, only Emperor Yuanchang's voice was heard. Once his voice stopped, it seemed a little quiet, and the people who were still talking lively stopped at this moment.

Emperor Yuanchang's gaze wandered over the crowd again, although he could only see a black head, but nothing affected his mood.

His expression is still so serious and serious, "But, you see, since Ruan Song's accident, there is only one missing right minister, so you can't do your own things, so you don't have to be nervous all day long, guess what I want Which person should be established as the prime minister, if there is one person missing in the court, you will not know where you should stand, and where to go, our Chen Kingdom will always be left behind Nanhua, and then , less than a hundred years from now, I will be wiped out, and you will be taken with me!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!" All the courtiers in the hall knelt down and shouted.

Emperor Yuanchang's last words came out with a full sense of shock. Many courtiers could not bear the anger of the emperor, and knelt on the hall with their heads down, not daring to speak out.

Emperor Yuanchang seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief, still sitting in a high position, and continued, "Look at these people among you, look at the people next to you, look at those few people kneeling in front of the hall who were still talking to me a quarter of an hour ago. Those who are arguing, what have you guys done these days? Something happened to Ruan Song, the prime minister of the court so blatantly embezzled all the silver in a state for several years, and transported away all the richest minerals in our country of Chen. When something happens, you all look happy because he is your political enemy. Some of you are happy to see him go down because he is outside the party. Some of you want to implicate more people just because of him. In this regard, who suppressed the other party to death, who told me how Jiazhou will recover in the future, how Jiazhou's business will continue to develop, and how to get back so many lost minerals and silver? In the struggle for power, just for the position of a prime minister, you tell me how and how fierce the rumors outside are, and how they will shake the court. If you didn't set an example on weekdays and let the staff in the government go outside to stir up people's hearts, it's just a phase , why is there such a big controversy.”

Since the establishment of the Chen Kingdom, or since Emperor Yuanchang took the throne, there has never been such a scene of reprimanding courtiers in the main hall as it is today.

None of the people below dared to breathe.

"You are all the real humerus of the imperial court. You are my hands and feet, and you are going to take care of the world's affairs for me. There is nothing missing for the officials to govern the people's livelihood. But look, now, it should be my most respected Sangong elder. I’m here to advise anyone how to be cautious in the future, and if you don’t come to warn me how to prevent the erroneous progress, but here you want me to stand up for the rumors of some people who know that some of you deliberately made it, for fear of compromising your own interests, I think , you are not asking me to choose someone to be a prime minister, but to promote you who are not prime ministers!"

"Your Majesty calm down, the old ministers are loyal and loyal, that's definitely not what they mean." An old courtier hurriedly said in a trembling voice.

Emperor Yuanchang snorted softly, looked at the people below, and said, "The strong of a country is nothing more than change. Change leads to success. Determined to change the atmosphere of the court, but in the end because of unstable timing and too many obstacles, it ended in failure. Now, Chen Kingdom is undergoing changes. I'm going to do it all over again."

When Emperor Yuanchang just uttered these words, some senior courtiers immediately realized what Emperor Yuanchang was going to do. However, they all remember very clearly those actions that are related to their fate in the future.

At that time, Emperor Yuanchang was still too young, he had just ascended to the Great Treasure, and the political situation was unstable, but he was full of enthusiasm, which eventually caused some chaos, and they had enough ability and influence to make the young emperor compromise, but, 20 Years have passed, but anyone who still has some impressions knows that now, they are no longer capable.

Everyone looked at Emperor Yuanchang in astonishment.

Emperor Yuanchang said directly, "An Cheng, read the decree."

An Cheng respectfully replied, "Yes."

Then he took out a bright yellow imperial decree and unfolded it slowly. Looking at the complex expressions of the ministers below, his voice was loud and not as sharp as before, "Since ancient times, the three princes have discussed the Tao, and the six ministers have divided their duties. Since ancient times, When it was established, a prime minister was first set up, and it was not followed by death. For thousands of years, successive dynasties have followed the system. However, looking at the history of thousands of years, although there are virtuous prime ministers, there are many villains who use power and chaos, and even chaos in the court. , People’s livelihood is endangered, and the disaster is fundamental. Now, before there was a rectification of officials, the truth made me terrified. Now Ruan Song is using power for personal gain, endangering the foundation of the country. I meditated for a few days, taking history as a mirror, and discovered that the foundation of a strong country lies in the rule of people. If the people rule the country, the country will be clean, and the country will be strong if the country is clean. If the people's aspirations, then the world will be unified. Therefore, I decided, from now on, I will dismiss the Prime Minister , abolished the three lords and three ministers, exempted hereditary titles, set up five government offices, six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department, Dali Temple and other yamen to manage the affairs of the world. In the future, the successor will not be allowed to establish a prime minister, and if the ministers dare to request the establishment, the civil and military officials will immediately impeach him and punish him severely."

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Abandoning the Prime Minister was originally a big event, especially after Emperor Yuanchang abolished the prime minister and no longer appointed him, it was even more important. However, this time, it was not just dismissing the prime minister, Emperor Yuanchang directly sent Chen Since the founding of the country, some of the positions of public ministers established have been abolished one after another. This is the most important event among major events.

This decision is like a sudden killing halfway. After An Cheng finished reading the imperial decree, until Emperor Yuanchang directly announced that he would go to court, many people had not reacted. However, before they could react, Emperor Yuanchang was in court. Minister Xiao Yu's imperial decree was posted in the fastest speed on the bulletin board of Yongjia City's gate.

It even sent special people to stand at the height of the city gate and shout to inform all the literate and illiterate people.

In addition, after this imperial decree was issued, Emperor Yuanchang immediately issued another imperial decree, which stipulated in detail what the duties and powers of the newly defined and planned positions were after certain positions were abolished, so that the people would know .

Although the common people were shocked by such a big change in court officials, they actually didn't care too much about it. They only cared about what benefits they could get from it.

However, after the two edicts came out, the recruiting hall was full of people that day, and even if they stood outside the recruiting hall, they could still hear the voices of discussions inside.

The prime minister is gone, and the six departments are headed by the emperor and are directly responsible to the emperor. In this way, there will be no situation where the power of the prime minister overwhelms the power of the emperor.

However, if this is the case, the emperor's authority is too large, and it is easy to appear in a situation of arbitrariness and arbitrariness. This problem was quickly realized. However, before they started discussing this matter, Emperor Yuanchang's imperial decree came out again In other words, the Hanlin Academy’s chief imperial study room will become the emperor’s exclusive institution to handle political affairs, that is, the Hanlin Academy will set up an institution to select some people to become the emperor’s hands and pens, called Yuange.

Everyone quickly thought of the position of Tongzhi of Yushufang.

Soon, everyone understood that this was the origin of the post of Yushufang Tongzhi.

Just when the third edict was issued, an imperial edict from the imperial palace was also sent to Ruan Phuc’s prefect. Emperor Yuanchang directly appointed Ruan Fu, the former imperial study co-prefect, as the newly established chief of the courtyard. , that is, the Prime Minister of Yushufang, and she continued to be directly ordered by the emperor.

A thousand layers of waves were stirred up for a while, and today's Yongjia is destined to be very lively.

By the time everyone has reacted, all three imperial decrees have been issued. Such a direct and major change, how can it be reversed? Until this time, many people have realized that Emperor Yuanchang is probably already prepared. It's been a long time.

When Feng Hexuan returned to Zuo Xiangfu, the expression on his face had not recovered.

Ever since the rumors appeared, Emperor Yuanchang never deliberately said anything to him, but now that the rumors are heard, it seems that he has been ignored directly.

Only now did he know that Emperor Yuanchang had such an idea, and all of them were wrong.

Feng Moran hurried forward, "Daddy, you..."

She has naturally heard about the things outside, seeing Feng Hexuan's expression now, her face is also a little pale, "Father, you are now..."

Feng Hexuan sneered, "Mo'er, there will be no prime minister in Chen Kingdom in the future, and you will not be a prime minister either."

This kind of Feng Hexuan made Feng Moran a little worried, but she has a strong temper, so she will never act like the daughters of ordinary officials, when she hears such news, she will do nothing as if the sky is falling. He said, "So what, Daddy, even if the prime minister's seat is gone, can Daddy only rely on this seat to get everything he wants?"

Feng Hexuan looked at the increasingly calm and elusive daughter with deep eyes, Feng Moran said, "Daddy, you still have a daughter, the daughter will not let you, let our Feng family have nothing."

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On the other hand, after the imperial decree was issued, in Prince Xuan's mansion, as soon as Yu Wulin returned to the mansion, he swept everything on the table to the ground in a rage, including many precious jade wares.

Yu Wuyan hurriedly followed behind Yu Wulin, "Fifth brother, don't be angry."

"Don't be angry? Why don't you tell me not to be angry? My father really didn't give me a way out. I found the Taiwei Mansion. Now it's good. He directly abolished the Taiwei Mansion. You said, I want Jiang What's the use of a family? Well, it's very good, since the father is so ruthless, don't blame me for being a son in the future!"

Hearing this, Yu Wuyan frowned and said, "Fifth Brother, be careful!"

After all, he looked around, Yu Wulin was obviously still angry, "Now at this time, you still tell me to be cautious, what's the use of being cautious."

Yu Wuyan sighed, "The current situation is not what we want to see, it's just a pity for the Jiang family, but Fifth Brother, in fact, it's not a big deal whether the Taiwei is dismissed or not. The power has basically been emptied by the father. The military power in Jiang Taiwei's hands has been taken back after the last incident. However, the fifth brother does not need to worry. The Jiang family always has some connections in the army. Some ability to speak."

Yu Wulin naturally understood this level, although he was angry, but he didn't lose his mind, "I know, now it seems that the Jiang family may not be happy, the others have been withdrawn, or there is some compensation and sympathy, Now the father is directly letting Jiang Taiwei enjoy the life of wealth and honor."

Yu Wuyan said, "If Fifth Brother still persists at this time and has a sense of friendship, are you afraid that the Jiang family will not take the initiative to rely on Fifth Brother?"

Yu Wulin smiled, the smile on his lips was a bit cold.He squinted his eyes and said, "I really didn't expect the emperor to do this."

"Of course, we can't guess what Royal Father thinks, but seeing how calm the Fourth Brother was when the imperial decree came out today, I'm afraid he already knew about it."

Yu Wulin snorted coldly, and said, "I think even if the emperor ordered it, it may not make things go so smoothly, but... Ruan Fu... I didn't expect that this fellow acquaintance of the imperial study would actually plant a grave in front of him." With such a big foreshadowing, the Prime Minister of the Imperial Study Room, father, father, is also a son, why do you only see the fourth child."

Just as Yu Wulin said, even though Emperor Yuanchang made the decree, this matter did not end so quickly. Just when everyone felt that because of this sudden change, there would definitely be some short-term chaos in the court. However, those so-called chaos did not appear, except that on the second day after the imperial decree was promulgated, everything was in order, except that it was a little strange because it had just started.

Among them, the biggest main force is that after the imperial decree came out, a group of loyal defenders and executors of Emperor Yuanchang's decree appeared.

They are familiar with every process and the meaning of every sentence of a decree. Even if there are some difficult problems that cannot be faced because of this change, they can solve them easily. And the main force is mainly the upstarts in the court.

In the face of those who want to jointly exert pressure, their answer is mostly one-you can ask Ruan Tongzhi or His Royal Highness Jin Wang about this matter.

It was precisely this sentence that caused waves among some princes.

After the third day, Ruan Fu and Yu Wujue both went in and out of the imperial study to help Emperor Yuanchang with the new changes.

Such a situation finally reveals a problem that everyone has long guessed in their hearts, but because it has never been made clear, that is, the absolute unity of Ruan Fu, Yu Wujue, and Emperor Yuanchang in terms of political views has already put them together. Draw out the circle.

　For the imperial decree, Xiqing referred to Zhu Yuanzhang's resignation to dismiss the prime minister.

　　So I am promoted again, congratulations!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)