Seeing these ministers' aggressive attitude towards Wen Tiren, Zhu Youxiao was completely disgusted with the feeling of watching Wen Tiren joke about him.

Zhu Youxiao was vaguely able to see the true thoughts of these ministers about their peace talks with the Tartars. Perhaps, as Wen Tiren said when he betrayed Liu Zongzhou, the bureaucrats who were originally a gentry class did not understand what was really hindering the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, they realized from the beginning that the dynasty would eventually be destroyed by their greed, but except for a few idealists, most officials felt that the worst was to change to another dynasty that was loyal to them.

It was just that the emperor changed from a surname Zhu to another surname.

But it is absolutely impossible to make them lose the privileged position of ruling the common people. They can try their best to oppose and stop them.

Just like the Donglin Party at that time, it was because of this that the reason why it dared to kill the monarch.

And so far, there are almost no officials among the court officials who are radical enough to confront His Majesty the Emperor because they want to maintain their privileged status, but they must kill all the traitors who betray the interests of their own class.

Wen Tiren is a villain, with no principles at both ends of the rat. He will sell everything for his career, including his friends and gentry who belongs to the same class as him.

But such people are now the person Zhu Youxiao needs the most. It is because Wen Tiren has no principles, so Wen Tiren can do something that other officials cannot do, and even let Wen Tiren act as a shield. If one day, when he and the gentry need to reach a reconciliation, Wen Tiren can still act as a victim.

So, at this time, Zhu Youxiao had to favor Wen Tiren. So when he saw the ministers pressing Wen Tiren step by step, Zhu Youxiao coughed a few more times and said:

"Okay, I have another emphasis on Wen Tiren, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites. What's more, a small Tartar, who lets a third-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites be a permanent envoy, wouldn't it be too much for the Tartars to be faced? I think what Wen Tiren said is very much. The Tartars are barbarians, and what they lack most is education. Liu Zongzhou was a famous Neo-Confucian minister and was well-known both at home and abroad. Since this is the case, let Liu Zongzhou serve as an envoy to the Tartars!"

Zhu Youxiao's words were equivalent to making a decision directly, and it was difficult for the ministers in the court to object anymore.

Liu Zongzhou was also disheartened. He knew that the letter he had prepared to stop the peace talks was useless, but he did not expect that he would become a permanent envoy to the envoy to the Tartars in a confused manner.

Moreover, this idea was created by Wen Tiren, and Liu Zongzhou really hated Wen Tiren to the core now.

But sadly, Liu Zongzhou is no longer the Imperial College Priest, so he cannot stand up and oppose it, so he can only accept Zhu Youxiao's will with pleasure.

Zhu Youxiao also got off the throne at this time and patted Liu Zongzhou on the shoulder as if solemnly: "Liu Zongzhou, there was Su Wu shepherding sheep in the Han Dynasty. As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, you must not lose the integrity of my Ming minister. No matter how coercive and tempted the Tartars, you must keep yourself clean, do you understand?"

"Please rest assured that my husband is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and death is a ghost of the Ming Dynasty!"

Even though Liu Zongzhou did not want to go to the place outside the Kuhan Pass, he was unwilling to lose his demeanor as an upright minister in front of Wen Tiren. He even looked at Wen Tiren provocatively.

Wen Tiren smiled disdainfully. He knew that he had completely taken over the Liangzi, who hated him like Liu Zongzhou and his ministers who hated him like Liu Zongzhou.

But Wen Tiren did not agree. In the current Ming Dynasty, although civil officials still had a certain status, they could no longer suppress His Majesty. Therefore, as long as Wen Tiren followed His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's tune at all times, His Majesty would have to protect himself even if he hated his character.

Just like when almost all the officials wanted to go to the Tartars as envoys, His Majesty did not follow their wishes, but instead rejected their opinions and followed their opinions to let Liu Zongzhou go to Su Wu who was shepherding the sheep.

The Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Qian Qianyi smiled at Wen Tiren at this time. In his opinion, in the entire court, there were finally people who were jealous of all officials just like him.

After he decided to go to the Tartar State as an envoy, Zhu Youxiao asked the ministers to discuss the addition of the Cabinet Grand Secretary.

There is no limit on the number of people in the cabinet, especially since Zhu Youxiao has almost undermined the power of the cabinet. For the ministers, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet is more of an honorary title.

But hundreds of years of deep-rooted concepts have made the ministers deeply obsessed with entering the cabinet. When they saw that His Majesty wanted them to push the cabinet ministers, these ministers were all excited.

However, the ministers he recommended were almost unimpressed by Zhu Youxiao, such as Cheng Jiming, the young secretary and the guest of the prince, and the affairs of the Hanlin Academy of Nanjing, Zhou Daodeng, who was Liu Rushi's first husband in history, and Zhang Zhifa, Li Biao, etc.

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that so many officials would appear in a moment, but he did not refuse. As long as these ministers did not hinder his reform process, he would not hinder their path to promotion.

But according to Zhu Youxiao's original intention, Lu Xiangsheng, who was in charge of military affairs for him and Xu Guangqi, who was in charge of scientific research for him, must enter the cabinet, and Li Mingrui, who acted as his secretary, could also enter the cabinet.

Zhu Youxiao did not require the election of other cabinet ministers, so he simply followed the old rules and asked the six ministers and nine ministers to hold the bean-to-bean election in the Qianqing Palace the next day.

On this day, Zhu Youxiao had determined the general candidates for the cabinet to join the cabinet, and was preparing to add seven cabinet ministers this time. Now there are ten cabinet ministers, which means that the number of beans to be thrown is to decide who enters the cabinet and who cannot enter the cabinet.

Apart from the designated Lu Xiangsheng, Xu Guangqi and Li Mingrui, there are only four places that can be selected by all officials, but the alternative cabinet ministers have also been reduced to seven, so choosing four of the seven is a relatively high chance.

The final result of the court recommendation shocked Zhu Youxiao because Liu Zongzhou was actually among the cabinet ministers who were promoted by the court!

This made Zhu Youxiao very unhappy. He couldn't figure out what these officials meant. Did he deliberately give him eye drops? He could use this to force himself to take back the decision to let Liu Zongzhou be the envoy?

However, Zhu Youxiao, who did not want to be exploited by these officials, simply rejected the opinion of Tingtui and planned to re-promote the Tingtui, and stipulated that the cabinet ministers of Tingtui must be senior officials of the third rank or above in the capital and above in the second rank or above in the local area.

The officials now have no way to go against the emperor Zhu Youxiao, so they have to follow Zhu Youxiao's opinions.

In the end, in addition to Lu Xiangsheng, Xu Guangqi and Li Mingrui, the other three who entered the cabinet were also added to Zhou Daodeng, Cheng Jiming, Zhou Yanru and Li Biao.

Until then, Zhu Youjiao's cabinet was fully built, and soon Qian Qianyi was appointed as the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall, that is, the chief minister of the cabinet. Lu Xiangsheng added the Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall, Xu Guangqi was the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Hall, and Li Mingrui was still inexperienced, so he was the Grand Secretary of Dongge. Except for Zhou Daodeng, the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Hall, the other four ministers were all the Grand Secretary of Dongge, just like Li Mingrui.
Chapter completed!