Seeing the court officials sweating profusely and the official robes were soaked, some elderly officials seemed to be a little shaky and were about to faint from heatstroke. However, because the censor supervised from the side, he did not dare to move at will for a moment and could only force him to hold on.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao was a little embarrassed, so he ordered Wang Chengen to give a seat to some older ministers, and at the same time ordered each to give him a cup of iced sour plum soup.

There were young censors who didn't understand the rules and wanted to take advantage of this to say that the court could not be turned into a teahouse. The ministers would violate the imperial etiquette and other words. However, they were stared at them by other officials. Everyone was so hot and their mouths were dry and cracked. Why did they do so seriously at this time? I really didn't understand the rules.

The censor had to retreat and dared not speak any more in disappointment.

For a moment, the sour plum soup was served. Because the Royal Academy of Engineering of the Ming Dynasty improved the refrigeration technology, the Ming Dynasty can now perform low-temperature ice production. However, because the cost is too high, it can only be used for scientific research and royal family. These iced sour plum soup is made of temporary refrigeration. When it was put into the Ganqing Palace, these ministers did not care about the loss of etiquette in front of the king, and they smacked their mouths like old cows and started drinking.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing for a while. Since he became the emperor, he had not disciplined these bureaucrats like this. During the seven years he was in power, he had only had two extreme ways to tie up his ministers and circumvent his house.

Obedient makes you rich and powerful in an instant, and you will be in power, and you will feel the warm kindness given by the emperor as spring; disobedient will make your family ruined and you will deeply experience the ruthlessness of the monarch; but now he found that it would seem better to punish these ministers in the past, such as the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty, especially when it is not a big deal to punish group officials.

After all, if you want to rule this empire, you still need a large number of bureaucrats to form this ruling system. It is impossible for you to confiscate all your officials at any time to exterminate your family. If this is true, even if you have the army to support them, these scholars and officials dare not speak out, but I am afraid that few of them will dare to do their best to do their own thing.

When the empire entered a period of stable and balanced situation and social contradictions, the relationship between the emperor and his ministers also changed from fierce confrontation to a more harmonious state, with fewer radical officials, and as the emperor, His Majesty, could also begin to tolerate the temporary small mistakes of his ministers.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao, the ministers who were hungry at the beginning and exposed to the sun for half a day after rushing to the morning court, were already exhausted, so they left the morning court after drinking the iced sour plum soup.

Except for a few young and unreachable young officials who were a little confused and wanted to speak, other senior officials took the lead in saluting Zhu Youxiao and sent His Majesty Zhu Youxiao to retire from the court.

Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied with this state of harmony between the monarch and minister. After nodding, he left the main hall of the Ganqing Palace and walked towards the West Warehouse. At the same time, the Minister of the duty of the West Warehouse, Li Mingrui, the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace, Lu Xiangsheng, the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, and Yang Sichang, the Left Minister of the Ministry of War, also walked towards the West Warehouse.

Since the Qing Dynasty was eradicated, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to let Lu Xiangsheng return to Beijing, and directly let him enter the Xihun Pavilion, and added his official title of Taifu and awarded Xinning Bo, which obviously replaced Li Mingrui. Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng knew that he had military power and made too great achievements. If he showed his strength in the officialdom, he would have been a literary and yummy man, so he deliberately showed a low-key look and did not show his intention to compete for power with Li Mingrui.

But Li Mingrui, who likes political struggles, still has a headache about this. He finally defeated the conservative leader, namely the chief minister of the cabinet, Qian Qianyi. Now, Lu Xiangsheng, who has a high status in the military system, has appeared. Although Li Mingrui did not have much contact with Lu Xiangsheng, he knew that Lu Xiangsheng's status in His Majesty's heart was definitely not inferior to him. Otherwise, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao would not hand over the daily affairs of the Imperial Guard to him, and even asked him to serve as the Minister of War.

Therefore, Li Mingrui still regarded Lu Xiangsheng as an imaginary political enemy, especially the position of Jianji Hall, which is now the chief minister of the cabinet, is empty. His Majesty Zhu Youxiao has never instructed the court to recommend who will be the chief minister of this cabinet. Li Mingrui was even more worried, worried that His Majesty Zhu Youxiao would let Lu Xiangsheng be the chief minister of this cabinet.

Of course, in addition to Lu Xiangsheng, Li Mingrui also had to be wary of the new leader of the conservative school, because although Zhu Youxiao exiled the conservative school Li Biao due to the reform of the Ministry of Rites, he suddenly became the Grand Secretary of the Jinshen Hall a few days later, and also added the title of Young Guardian, and promoted his official position to the first rank, and his cabinet status also rose to the second place, even surpassing Lu Xiangsheng directly. Although he did not enter the Western Warm Pavilion, Li Mingrui still felt a threat.

Li Mingrui didn't know who His Majesty was to be the chief minister today. If Lu Xiangsheng, who had made outstanding contributions, was the chief minister, why did Cheng Jiming be the Grand Secretary of the Palace of Jinshen, and even ranked above Lu Xiangsheng, but if Cheng Jiming was to be the chief minister, why didn't he let him enter the Xihunting Pavilion to participate in central affairs?

Li Mingrui also thought about the worst result, that is, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao was just considering the choice between Lu Xiangsheng and Chengji's fate. After all, although Lu Xiangsheng made great contributions, he was already considered to be the first-class nobleman. According to the national system and the rules of the convention, nobleman could not control the highest power of the government.

Although Cheng Jiming is like Li Biao, he is honest and upright and abides by the current Confucian traditional Confucian idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor, he is not practical and has aging thoughts. As a thorn in the Censorate who once worked as a censor in the Censorate but directly scolded him to faint from the head of the chief censor, Li Mingrui did not think that His Majesty would let such a man become a bridge of communication between himself and his emperor.

In other words, Your Majesty is probably still hesitating whether to let Lu Xiangsheng be the chief assistant or Cheng Jiming be the chief assistant.

But when he turned around, Li Mingrui had thought that His Majesty might still let him be the chief minister. After all, Zhu Youzhao also made up for his third son as Shang Bao Sicheng a few days ago, and also named his late mother as a first-class imperial edict and his father as a Guanglu official. This kind of favor was so honored in the Tianqi Dynasty that Sun Chengzong, who presided over the transformation of land and rebirth in Liaodong.

This means that there is another possibility here. Your Majesty Zhu Youjiao was appointed as the Earl of Lu Xiangsheng and was appointed as the Grand Tutor, and was promoted to the Grand Secretary of the Jinshen Hall to balance his future cabinet chief. After all, Lu Xiangsheng is the representative of the military system and a group of neutrals, while Cheng Jiming is the representative of the conservative school. According to the thinking of a wise emperor, this balance is to be achieved.

In fact, Li Mingrui is very disgusted with His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's balance, because in Li Mingrui's view, only the royalist officials (emerging bourgeoisie) who are bound to His Majesty's interests will be in the same mind as His Majesty, support His Majesty's reforms, and support His Majesty in plundering and exploiting overseas countries.

Therefore, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao did not need to achieve this balance. Although he almost prevented His Majesty from carrying out the reform of the Ministry of Rites because of his greed for power, he finally chose to obey unconditionally. Based on Li Mingrui's understanding of Zhu Youxiao, he felt that His Majesty, his Emperor, would not be so tiny.

"The Jiandou defeated Jiannu this time and eliminated hidden dangers that threatened our Ming Dynasty for decades. It is an indelible contribution. It is brilliant for thousands of years. It is not enough to praise your achievements." In order to deliberately show his unintentional character in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, Li Mingrui took the initiative to greet Lu Xiangsheng as soon as he came.

Lu Xiangsheng has been with generals and soldiers in the army for many years, so he has developed some martial arts habits. When he saw the best civil servant and the best favorite minister of the emperor, Li Mingrui was like other bureaucrats. When he saw him, he simply bowed to Li Mingrui: "The master of the Pavilion is a reward!" As he said that, Lu Xiangsheng went to the West Warehouse and sat at the desk on the right, preparing to read the memorial and discuss state affairs with His Majesty Zhu Youjia.

Li Mingrui did not mind Lu Xiangsheng's intimate nature. He said nothing except a faint smile. When Yang Sichang, the left minister of the Ministry of War, came in, he also came to greet Yang Sichang: "Mr. Yang has not seen him for a few days, but he has lost a lot of weight. You still have to take care of your health. After all, Your Majesty still cannot live without you. If you are sick, Your Majesty will have no staff."

"Hmph! Mr. Li should care about himself. Don't be so greedy. Don't worry about this and that. Don't be too greedy. Don't be too many gray hair." Although Yang Sichang was an official of the Ministry of War, he also witnessed many ordinary migrant workers exploited by the Li family workshop in the capital. When he thought about the unfairness of these migrant workers being squeezed out by these merchants, Yang Sichang was even more serious to Li Mingrui. Therefore, although he was just a minister, he was not polite to Li Mingrui.

Li Mingrui was helpless to Yang Sichang's sarcasm, except for his hatred. After all, he knew that although Yang Sichang was just a little servant, he was always unreasonable, but he was quite indifferent to the appetite of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao today.

Therefore, Li Mingrui laughed at him. When Admiral Liu Ruoyu saw this, he couldn't help but smile secretly. He thought to himself that Li Mingrui was also depressed enough. He was accidentally criticized by the little servant and did not dare to say a word.

When Zhu Youxiao approached the West Warehouse, several senior officials from the West Warehouse had already sat down and saw Zhu Youxiao coming in, they stood up at the same time to salute.

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As he said that, Zhu Youxiao handled several other government affairs. After the sun set in the West Mountain, Zhu Youxiao left the West Warehouse and walked towards the inner court.

However, Li Mingrui and several other officials had to continue to stay until dark, and one of them was even on duty until late at night.

After returning to the inner court, Zhu Youxiao did not go to Jingren Palace again, but to Kunning Palace. The queen of Kunning Palace Zhang Yan had already learned that Zhu Youxiao had been to visit Concubine Fan Hui. Zhang Yan knew that as the queen, she must be mentally prepared for His Majesty to have more women today. Therefore, after learning about this, she immediately ordered someone to give Concubine Fan Hui some rewards.

But what Zhang Yan didn't expect was that just when she was dealing with Concubine Fan Hui, she saw Hai Lanzhu bringing Bumubutai to Kunning Palace for a visit.

As the lord of the six palaces, she basically manages the daily affairs of the harem, so she has to ask about these newcomers who have entered the Forbidden City and has met them.

But it is precisely because of the fact that in the eyes of Queen Zhang Yan, Bumubutai is a famous beauty in Jiannu, because she does have a natural charm. Even if Zhang Yan is a woman, she seems to be easily attracted to her soul. Queen Zhang Yan couldn't believe that if His Majesty saw Bumubutai, he would end up like Huang Taiji.

Therefore, Queen Zhang Yan was still struggling with whether to meet Bumubutai at this time, but when she thought that His Majesty kept this person and was greedy for his beauty and would meet sooner or later, she nodded and signaled to allow Hai Lanzhu and Bumubutai to come in.

As soon as Bumubutai entered Kunning Palace, she fell in love with it. Only then did she know what kind of palace in this world is the house where the most noble woman in the world should live. She regretted why she became Huang Taiji's woman first and was captured here as a prisoner. Otherwise, she felt that she could definitely become the lord of these six palaces with her own abilities!

But now she is just an ordinary woman living in the Forbidden City, and her status is not as good as Hai Lanzhu. In fact, she is still a slave to Hai Lanzhu. This makes Bumubutai very depressed. She really wants to pull down the queen Zhang Yan, who is sitting on the tail of the phoenix, and then sit on it by herself.

Bumubutai believed that if he became the queen, he would definitely become Zhu Youxiao’s wife and would make Zhu Youxiao a man who conquered this world.

Because his current political and class status is too low, in order to take advantage of the sympathy of Empress Zhang Yan and get close to Emperor Zhu Youxiao, Bumubutai had to come to Empress Zhang Yan first to complain, and deliberately acted very dignified and virtuous. This made Empress Zhang Yan quite satisfied.

"Speak straight away if you have anything to do. Everyone is a family, don't be restrained." When Queen Zhang Yangang said this, Bumubutai knelt down first: "I have a heartless request. I hope that Your Majesty and the Empress can allow me to become monks and nuns. I know that my sins are serious and they are also of the decay of flowers and willows. I don't expect to gather all my favors like you, but I just hope to find a piece of pure land and spend the rest of my life. Please allow me!"

The Empress Zhang Yan was a little moved when she saw this. She didn't know what to do for a moment, but Bumubutai was too attentive, which made Zhang Yan feel embarrassed to refuse and gave a big gift to Zhang Yan directly.

Bumubutai had no choice but to not do this at this time. She thought she could attract Emperor Zhu Youxiao with the graceful sound of the piano, but she did not expect that the emperor would not buy this account and forced herself to let her maid commit suicide. Now that if she wanted to attract Zhu Youxiao's attention again, Bumubutai had to find Empress Zhang Yan and forced Zhang Yan to ask Zhu Youxiao to make a decision by insisting on becoming a monk.
Chapter completed!