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.

In the spring of the 17th year of the Apocalypse, Qi Changguo agreed to the peace talks request of Tsar Mikhail I of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and agreed to negotiate in Tianci City after the Imperial Guards evacuated Moscow. The time was set on May 28, which was exactly the same date as the signing of the Treaty of Aihui in later generations.

Last year, Emperor Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ministry of Rites to re-enact the merits of capable ministers who made great contributions to the dynasty. Qi Jiguang was posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Jian'ou because of his contributions to the suppression of Japanese pirates and repelling the Tartars during the Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli periods.

Although Qi Jiguang, who is in the world, said that "I am not my intention to be a marquis, I hope the sea will be peaceful", it is not a bad thing to be a marquis after all. In order to encourage the current civil and military ministers of the Ming Dynasty to continue to establish meritorious achievements and advocate a national strategy of active expansion, it is also necessary to be appointed as a marquis.

As his son, Qi Changguo was also hereditary to Jian'oubo. Therefore, although Qi Changguo was just a general in the Imperial Guard, he had the title of Jian'oubo and a first-rank title of the left governor who was also given due to his father's merits. Therefore, he was qualified to be a plenipotent representative to preside over this negotiation against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The Rakshasa Kingdom sent the great noble Duke Morozov to represent the Rakshasa Kingdom to come to Tianci City to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called Tianci City is actually a Tianci City built by the Imperial Guards guarding here after the Ming Dynasty developed the Tianci Coalfield, with the managers of the Royal Industrial Company and workers recruited from Monan, Mobei, Gansu and other places. Although the sky here has always been gray due to the influence of the "Tianci Coalfield", the newly built Tianci City is the first step in the cultural expansion of the Ming Dynasty. Because Tianci City adopts the construction of the Central Plains city, the magnificent pavilions, lofts, magnificent city towers, inner and outer walls, and the moat like a green belt, are all signs that Han cultural elements have begun to be imprinted in the Siberian region.

At this time, the weather warmed up and the snow melted. The mining of Tianci City and Tianci Coalfields made the area broadly flattened the primeval forests, and the view of this area became extremely wide. Now, when the weather improved and the blue sky appeared again, it made people feel even more comfortable.

Qi Changguo also specially put on the imperial python robe today, sat on the official hat chair with a handsome appearance, fiddling with a globe made of brass in his hand. After hearing the pendulum ringing for fourteen times, he asked, "Are all the long-haired ghosts coming?" Li Mingrui was also quite frustrated. Although he had become the first 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 the *** 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.

Since he became the Right Minister of Rites, he has always been responsible for the public opinion propaganda of the Ministry of Rites. Now he has become the Minister of Rites and has changed his own people to the Ministry of Rites. It can be said that he has now completely controlled the power of customizing etiquette, academic affairs, diplomacy, public opinion propaganda, and other powers in the Ming Dynasty, and his position in the literary world has become very rampant.

If Zhu Youxiao divided the Ministry of Rites into three, then Li Mingrui's power would be cut off by two-thirds.

Therefore, Li Mingrui first stood up and expressed his objection. Of course, his opposition was very tactful. However, the Ministry of Rites was originally the ministers in charge of various affairs, which was not inconsistent with the refinement His Majesty wanted to achieve. It was just that a few ministers could be added. If the Ministry of Rites was directly divided into three parts, it would be a bit of a big fight, which was not conducive to the stability of the court.

Zhu Youxiao was a little displeased. He could feel that since Li Mingrui became the second auxiliary in the cabinet, he had been getting farther and farther away from him. The emperor seemed to be almost unable to control the power tiger he raised.

Wen Tiren frowned slightly when he saw that Zhu Youxiao frowned, and knew that it was because Li Mingrui disliked His Majesty's intention. He himself wanted to divide the Ministry of Rites into three, because in this way he could become the Minister of Shang and could be promoted to another level. What's more, he knew that Li Mingrui was now nepotism, and he was labeled as close to Yang Sichang and others from the beginning. Therefore, if the Ministry of Rites was divided into three and was always under the control of Li Mingrui, he could not stand out.

In addition, Wen Tiren, who is good at judging the situation, also realized through various information and observations that Li Mingrui's holy relatives are decreasing, but the rift with His Majesty is getting bigger and bigger. This means that it is the time for him to take advantage of this, because once His Majesty wants to attack Li Mingrui, he will need a sword to punish Li Mingrui, and he should work hard to become this sword and act like he is competing with powerful ministers.

Wen Tiren knelt down and shouted that His Majesty was wise and praised Zhu Youxiao's actions as if they were full of spectacles. It seemed that if Zhu Youxiao did this, the world would be completely peaceful and clear.

If it weren't for this, Zhu Youxiao knew that Wen Tiren was a famous treacherous slander in the Chongzhen Dynasty in history, he would have long regarded Wen Tiren as his political confidant.

But now, Zhu Youxiao did not make a direct statement, but directly asked Li Biao, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites of the East Pavilion.

Li Biao has been the Right Minister of Rites since the beginning of Tianqi, but in order to promote several conservative leaders, Zhu Youxiao asked Li Biao to serve as the Grand Secretary as the Right Minister of the Cabinet, which was considered a great honor.

Li Biao bowed respectfully to Zhu Youxiao and said confidently: "Your Majesty, the ancestral system cannot be violated!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have a black line, and he wanted to throw the teacup directly on Li Biao's face, thinking that there are ministers who dare to talk to him about the ancestral system. Li Biao is brave enough. Don't he know that the officials who talk to him with the ancestral system are either going to Huangquan or go to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to teach?

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but find that it was a wrong decision to ask these officials of the Ministry of Rites to discuss the reform of the Ministry of Rites. It would be easier than to issue a central order directly. If these officials of the Ministry of Rites still stopped them, it would be easy for him to simply dismiss them directly, but he would even say good things to them. This is good, but he doesn't appreciate it!

"Li Mingrui, he planned the decree of Taoism. Li Biao was old and foolish, disobeyed my wishes, and was dismissed from Longyan. He dismissed his position as the Grand Secretary of the Dongge and Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and demoted him to the teaching of Pingwu County, Shaanxi Chengxuan Zhengzheng." Zhu Youxiao said indifferently and looked at Li Biao. Li Biao calmly took off his black hat and slowly retreated.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shout, "Stop! Have I asked you to retreat?"

Li Biao stopped and suddenly realized that because His Majesty suddenly removed him from his post, he felt a little upset and wanted to retreat directly, but unexpectedly he forgot the etiquette of the monarch and his subjects.

Just when Li Biao was a little at a loss, Zhu Youxiao's memorial had already been called: "Rareless! Take it down, demoted to exile, exiled to Hami to guard the border, and never return to Central Earth!"

Li Biao did not show any performance, but this time he knew the rules and resisted the anger in his heart and thanked him. However, Li Mingrui was scared very much because of this. Naturally, he could see that His Majesty was shaking the mountain. If he dared to mention the word "opposition", he would be afraid that the ending would be even worse.

Li Mingrui, who was so scared that he was sweating coldly on his back, quickly drafted the imperial edict and brought it over in person: "Your Majesty, please check it out."

"I wrote well, and I scolded it very well. I will write another memorial to the Ministry of Reforming Rites. I will write it now!"
Chapter completed!