On the day when Zhu Yuanzhang left, Hu Weiyong couldn't even close his mouth.

Li Shanchang had already retired, and Liu Bowen also said that he could not get out of illness. The other generals, Xu Da, regardless of the government, Lan Yu and others were all friends of Hu Weiyong.

Hu Weiyong can be said to have covered the sky with his hands in the entire officialdom. After all, the emperor and the crown prince are not in Yingtian Mansion, so Hu Weiyong has the final say in this officialdom.

Even during the morning court, the officials who were waiting in the hall were no longer the emperor, but he, Hu Weiyong, Prime Minister Hu.

I saw all the officials standing in the hall. Hu Weiyong came at the latest and walked in from outside the hall, stepping under his feet, and the red carpet that the emperor could walk on.

The officials next to them were confused, but they didn't dare to say anything, and they bent their bodies one by one.

The remaining officials who were very angry snorted.

Hu Weiyong walked to the front with a normal expression, then turned around and said to the officials:

"Dear teachers, I have finished reading all your memorials. I will choose a few to talk about today."

Isn’t this the same thing as what Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang said on weekdays?

After Hu Weiyong finished speaking, the officials below, you looked at me and I looked at you, and no one spoke for a while.

Hu Weiyong turned around again and walked straight towards the emperor's seat.

The officials were stunned when they looked at the people, but fortunately Hu Weiyong did not sit directly in the emperor's seat.

If this is the case, even the officials who followed Hu Weiyong would not dare to continue to follow Hu Weiyong. This is a serious crime of rebellion!

Hu Weiyong just walked up a few steps, showing his uniqueness, then turned around and said with his hands behind his back:

"Okay, let's start discussing next..."

These officials were relieved and then began to discuss with Hu Weiyong.

While these literati were discussing government affairs, they didn't know that the guards and eunuchs next to them were already staring at them one by one.

In Yingtian Mansion, Hu Weiyong has already controlled the officialdom, called the wind and rain, and enjoyed the supreme glory brought by power.

Whether it was Li Shanchang or Xu Da, who could be as powerful as himself?

Hu Weiyong was complacent and thought that such a life would last for a month or two.

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However, Hu Weiyong was enjoying the pleasure brought by power in Yingtian Mansion.

Zhu Yuanzhang was now taking the Liao King Zhu Qi, the Yan King Zhu Di, the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, and three sons were waiting in Fengyang County, not far from Yingtian Prefecture.

Of course, they did not come to Fengyang to worship their ancestors, but instead they were coming to Fengyang for a temporary vacation. Anyway, Zhu Qi had nothing to do every day, so he would go to Zhu Yuanzhang to ask for peace when he woke up in the morning.

Then I studied with Prince Zhu Biao. In fact, it was to study, which was to be lazy.

Zhu Qi is such a salty person. It is impossible for me to learn the Four Books and Five Classics.

Every time he arrived at the study, he would say he had a headache, but when he just came here, he was in poor health.

It is not impossible for old physical illness to recur at this time.

The prince Zhu Biao is also very indulgent and protective of his younger brothers. When he sees Zhu Qi's health is unwell, he will naturally not force him to study in the study.

So Zhu Qi always goes to Zhu Yuanzhang to say hello, and then goes to Prince Zhu Biao to say hello, and then comes the time for free activities.

However, when Zhu Qi was freely active, he did not completely ignore what happened in the Tianfu. After all, he was the leader of the Jinyiwei, and the information involved in the Jinyiwei must be passed on Zhu Qi's side.

The Jinyiwei has not had any other special things recently, just to see the ugly appearance of the officials in Yingtian Mansion.

Hu Weiyong was arrogant and blessed, and the officials looked like they cursing Hu Weiyong behind him.

If you want to destroy someone, then praise him and let him go crazy first.

Seeing him setting up a high building to entertain guests, and seeing that his building collapsed, he was almost talking about Hu Weiyong.

But Zhu Qi thought about it privately. It was naturally because of his personal personality, but more of it was the result that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see.

In Hu Weiyong's view, the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang may be inseparable from the help and assistance of him, Prime Minister Hu, the eternal prime minister.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's ability has been one of the best among all emperors since ancient times.

It can be said that even without the assistance of the prime minister, Zhu Yuanzhang could handle government affairs in an orderly manner alone.

The facts do prove that Zhu Yuanzhang's prosperity foundation laid for his descendants was no worse than any founding king.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang tolerated Hu Weiyong to acquire rights for so many years, and now he simply gave all the rights to Hu Weiyong, was to see what extent Hu Weiyong could reach.

The core of the purpose behind it is to directly point to the establishment of the prime minister system that has been for thousands of years.

The emperor sits in the country, and the prime minister governs the country.

This system has been implemented since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it cannot be tolerated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Especially when I saw memorials and memorials sent from those places, I had to check them out for the Prime Minister before I could deliver them to the emperor.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang endure it?

If you want to abolish the prime minister system, it is not something that the emperor can do with just one word. You must have a suitable reason.

This will reduce the opposition from others and also make those who want to oppose know that they, the emperor, have already made up their minds to abolish the prime minister system.

So this is simply a confrontation between imperial power and ministerial power, and Hu Weiyong was just a stepping stone for Zhu Yuanzhang to achieve his goal.

In fact, it was not just Hu Weiyong, but also Yang Xian, Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others, and these famous scholars who dominated the world.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, they were all chess pieces he controlled.

Take the world as the chess board, and use capable people as the chess pieces.

This is - the Emperor!

The more Zhu Qi understood, the more he was doing what Zhu Yuanzhang was doing, the more he kept his distance from the political court.

Anyway, I, a little prince who is determined to live a salted fish life, just do something that will contribute to the country.

Those who can't even play with these things are all crazy and sloppy in the court, but Zhu Yuanzhang's hands are different, so he still has to plant seedlings.

If you say you are fighting for political power in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, you are really looking for death!

Fortunately, he had no ambitions, and he had never thought about fighting for the throne.

Although he had guessed what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to do, every time Zhu Di came to Zhu Qi, he asked sadly why he hadn't gone to Liaodong and Yanyun to join the vassal states, Zhu Qi waved his hand, saying that he didn't know.

Zhu Yuanzhang clearly didn't want him and Zhu Di to go so early to become a vassal.

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The reason why he asked himself to go to the vassal state was to paralyze Hu Weiyong, and to make him feel that the emperor listened to him very much and would adopt his opinions.

The most important thing is to let Hu Weiyong take power alone, and see who in the court followed Hu Weiyong, who remained neutral, and who opposed Hu Weiyong?

Of course, it goes without saying that those who follow Hu Weiyong will have an obvious outcome.

The Hu Weiyong case is known as one of the four major cases in Hongwu. After ten years, more than 30,000 to 40,000 people were killed in total.

It is conceivable that the number of officials involved due to Hu Weiyong should be how many?

Even the Lan Yu case after the four major cases in Hongwu is also the subsequent development of the Hu Weiyong case.

In this way, the days passed by calmly day by day, but under the calm, there were already turbulent waves.

The Jinyiwei was constantly collecting evidence, and there was naturally no evidence of Hu Weiyong's direct corruption.

But it is indeed unrealistic for those friends who followed him to be so clean.

As long as this person has the right, he will inevitably use the power in his hands to do evil.

Otherwise, why did these corrupt officials emerge like mushrooms after a rain?

Even though Zhu Yuanzhang peeled them and made them into straw men and hung them in the government office, they could see the consequences of those corrupt officials every day, but whenever it was his own, they would still accept the silver gifts.

This is all human nature. As long as you have 100% profit, you can risk your life to do something.

Not to mention corrupt officials, their profits are more than 100%, and they are simply making money for nothing, and they can get as much money as they want.

Even though Hu Weiyong can try to keep himself clean in order to protect his rights, it would be very difficult for him to ask the people below to do the same.

According to what the Jinyiwei saw more, although Hu Weiyong had clean hands, he had done a lot of things that showed his rights on weekdays, and even touched the bottom line.

What we said is not a matter of consuming and taking bribes or similar corruption, but Hu Weiyong used the emperor's imperial study without authorization when the emperor was not in Yingtian Mansion.

Or maybe he could only go up the stairs in the morning court, or he would often drink with the generals to discuss state affairs, or even sigh, thinking that the emperor gave the Wu mother too low, and other means to win over the hearts of the people.

This is no longer a suspicion of guilt, and a minister who does this will be 80% determined to rebel.

Does Hu Weiyong really have the intention to rebel? Various historical evidence shows that he is a little bit a little bit? But he doesn't have the courage.

Trying to win over military generals is not to win over them to rebel, because after Hu Weiyong comforted the generals, he also said:

"This is all instigated by that old thief Liu Bowen!"

This was clearly trying to kill someone with a knife. Knowing that His Highness of the Liao King was not easy to take action, he asked these generals to attack Liu Bowen.

No way, after the emperor returns, these generals will make trouble in front of the emperor for a while.

Perhaps the greatest wish is to be able to firmly hold the position of prime minister and become a star like Shang Yang, Xiao He, and Wang Anshi, and be remembered forever.

Not to mention whether Hu Weiyong has this ability, but his mentality and political power are obviously not as good as Shang Yang, Xiao He or Wang Anshi.
To be continued...