After all, Li Mingrui was also a scholar from the Hanlin Academy, and his memorials were written with excellent literary style, clear organization and clear logic.

Although he was unwilling to divide the Ministry of Rites into three parts, he had no choice but to force Zhu Youxiao under the authority of his power, so he could only cater to Zhu Youxiao to write this memorial against his will.

Li Mingrui was also quite frustrated. Although he had become the number one civil servant since Qian Qianyi was sent to the imperial prison, he was still nothing in front of His Majesty. Once he made His Majesty feel a little unhappy, His Majesty could dismiss himself from his post and let everything he had become nothing in an instant.

Zhu Youxiao took the memorial from Li Mingrui. After looking at it, he nodded with satisfaction, and then handed it to Wang Chengen and said, "Take it to the Sili Supervisor to approve the money. Mr. Li's memorial should not be looked down upon."

"According to the order", Wang Chengen hurriedly answered the memorial and trotted to the Silijian. At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the Ming Dynasty is indeed no longer as good as the Ming Dynasty seven years ago. If the second auxiliary of the cabinet was forced to be like this by His Majesty seven years ago, it would be impossible to imagine that the Ming Dynasty had ministers who performed all their martial arts practices in the court, so under normal circumstances, the emperor would not dare to treat these important ministers.

But in the current Ming Dynasty, the ministers did not dare to disobey His Majesty's wishes at all. This was a time when there was no way. Zhu Youxiao now controls the army and finances, and after the enrollment of the imperial examination, there were a lot of scholars waiting to be officials. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao didn't have to consider the feelings of these officials and directly adopted powerful oppression.

Of course, before the last resort, Zhu Youxiao would not directly use power to oppress. After all, this empire still needs the management of these bureaucrats, and he still cannot do without these bureaucrats.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao did not directly dismiss Li Mingrui, but only dismissed Li Biao and used it to shock Li Mingrui, asking him not to mistakenly think that he really had to discuss with him because he was discussing with him.

In fact, from the very beginning, Zhu Youxiao knew that Li Biao, a conservative official who adhered to the ancestral system, would inevitably oppose his reform of the Ministry of Rites, but he did not expect Li Mingrui to oppose him. So Zhu Youxiao changed his idea of ​​opposing Li Biao to agree to reform the Ministry of Rites, and directly dismissed Li Biao and exiled to Hami Guards, so that Li Mingrui could be forced to agree through Biao.

As long as Li Mingrui agrees to carry out the reform of the Ministry of Rites and asks him as the initiator, the grassroots officials of the Ministry of Rites will continue to implement the reform. After all, the Ministry of Rites is all Li Mingrui's people.

Zhu Youxiao was forcing Li Mingrui to delegate power, and Li Mingrui had to obey.

However, although Zhu Youxiao once again achieved his political goals with his imperial power, this result was not the result he wanted very much. The conservative officials were always so ignorant of the current affairs. Although they really needed to maintain a certain force to compete with the reformists in order to stabilize the administration, these conservative officials were always contrary to their political ideas and always became their own obstacles.

At least there was a Qian Qianyi who could figure out his intentions and obey unconditionally, and he was also sang against him when he was full of wings because he was swept by the conservatives. This forced him to fulfill Li Mingrui's wishes and sent Qian Qianyi to the imperial prison, so that he could not find another conservative representative who satisfies himself and can fight with reformist officials.

Looking at Wen Tiren, who had always shown a flattering smile, and thinking that this guy had performed outstandingly when he was on the mission to Jiannu, he really cheated Dorgon and Huang Taiji. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao thought that he might give Wen Tiren a chance, even though Wen Tiren was also a famous shameless person.

But nowadays, who is a real gentleman who is a political person? So Zhu Youxiao called Wen Tiren over: "Wen Tiren, if I let you be my first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, you may be competent. Since the opening of the sea, our Ming Dynasty has had closer contacts with overseas countries than before, and friction and contradictions are indispensable. Can you handle it properly?"

Wen Tiren heard Zhu Youxiao say this, so he naturally guessed that Your Majesty wanted to simply slap his own meaning, so he quickly answered confidently that he would do his best to think that the Ming Dynasty's diplomatic cause would never suffer any loss or insult when he contacted the foreigners.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao just nodded and asked Wen Tiren to take charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was relieved. After all, Wen Tiren was good at cheating people. It was better to let him cheat the outside world than let him cheat the people in China. Now, looking at Wen Tiren's performance, he could figure out his intentions but not arrogant. He could obviously be regarded as the next official to be promoted.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao also knew that such people would definitely not be able to use them for a long time, but there was nothing we could do now. There were very few officials who could use them, and even fewer non-innovative officials could use them. Wen Tiren could only temporarily play the role of checks and balances.

Zhu Youxiao was both loving and fearing the reformist officials who represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, like him, they were both emerging capitalists of the Ming Empire and had the same interests. However, Zhu Youxiao's dictatorship threatened their expansion of political rights and interests, so Zhu Youxiao was afraid of whether they would launch a revolution after they were strong enough, and would drive themselves, the king, or directly send them to the guillotine.

However, the good thing is that the civil and military officials in the Ministry of War system and the Imperial Guard system that controls military power have not been allowed by Zhu Youxiao to start new enterprises, and Zhu Youxiao has strictly prohibited them, so that these officials can remain neutral and cannot be used and controlled by reformist or conservative officials at present.

Zhu Youxiao also asked Dongchang to always pay attention to the latest trends in folk thought. Although he was laissez-faire about most of his thoughts, he was still highly vigilant about those who questioned the power of the monarch. Although Zhu Youxiao would not use this to directly launch literary inquisition, he would also invite these creators of extreme ideas that threaten rule to have tea and have a good talk.

Less gossip. No matter what Zhu You proofreads the attitude of the various officials in the court, or what their thoughts are, they still have to do the important things they should do. Li Mingrui's memorial was soon spread to the court. No one expected that Li Ge Lao would suddenly request reform the Ministry of Rites and divide the power of the Ministry of Rites into three, which made many officials puzzled by this, because everyone knew that the Ministry of Rites was Li Ge Lao's back garden. Now Li Ge Lao took the initiative to give up his power, which undoubtedly cut off his arm.

Although most officials do not understand, they will not care about Li Mingrui's delegation of power. A few officials who smelled the real smell that His Majesty wants to change it now directly impeach Li Mingrui and found trouble. A small number of them hoped that Li Mingrui would reduce his power because of this, and directly expressed their opinion on Li Mingrui.
Chapter completed!