In the vertical arch hall, the officials who followed Zhao Yuanyan and Wang Qinruo to coax blindly, under the scolding of Li Di and Wang Zeng, were like rats who had met a cat, and shrank their necks.

There are some things that Kou Zhun can't say, but Li Di and Wang Zeng don't need to take care of them.

Li Di stared at Zhao Yuanyan, although he didn't scold, but all kinds of cynical words came out of his mouth one after another.

Zhao Yuanyan, who was damaged, frowned.

Wang Zeng stared at those civil and military ministers and scolded.

After the two of them finished scolding, they didn't seem to feel that it was enjoyable, and they fined a sum of money one after another before they gave up.

Although Li Di and Wang Zeng pressed the hundred officials as governors, no one dared to speak, but they did not suppress the hundred officials.

The hundred officials seemed to be passing through the qi behind their backs, and stood in the middle of the vertical arch hall one by one, motionless.

When Li Di and Wang Zeng saw this, their brows furrowed.

Li Di said angrily: "What are you guys doing here? Is it forced to the palace? ”

The officials were silent and no one answered, but their attitude said it all.

Li Di and Wang Zeng looked at Kou Zhun together.

Kou Zhun's face was gloomy and terrifying, but he didn't say a word.

Instead, he looked at Kou Ji, who didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Kou Ji's gaze swept over Zhao Yuanyan, Wang Qinruo, Li Jian and others one by one.

He saw something different.

"Should I call you the Yuan Yan Party? Or should I call you usurpers? ”

Kou Ji sneered in his heart.

If he expected it to be true, eighty percent of these people voted for Zhao Yuanyan.

They joined forces and asked for the purpose of their promotion, and Kou Ji more or less guessed a few points.

It is not so much that they are asking for a promotion for themselves, but that they are using this to test Kou Zhun.

Test how far Kou Zhun can back down.

As long as they test the bottom line that Kou Zhun can back down, they can let go of their hands and feet to act in the court.

The mastermind who controls all this should be Wang Qinruo.

He was 'recuperating' in the house for half a year, and he had enough time to plan all this.

"Zhao Yuanyan should not be able to help it...... But how can I make you happy? ”

Kou Ji sneered in his heart.

After feeling Kou Zhun's gaze fall on him, Kou Ji took a step forward and said loudly: "Qi Guanjia and Taishi, since the hundred officials are gracious and willing to nominate the minister to serve as a scholar, the minister will be ashamed."

If the official family or the Taishi feels that the minister's official position is humble and his qualifications are too shallow, and he is promoted to a scholar, which does not conform to the rules of the court, then the minister can use the official status of the four grades to manage or promote a public business. ”

Hearing this, Kou Zhun was stunned, staring at Kou Ji thoughtfully.

He roughly understood the meaning of Kou Ji's words.

The official position is not moved, and the power is increased.

Li Di and Wang Zeng also understood the meaning of Kou Ji's words.

Kou Ji's proposal is a good way to break the impasse in the vertical arch hall in front of him.

Wang Zeng immediately said: "Your proposal is good. ”

Wang Zeng looked at Kou Zhun and Li Di, and said, "Since it is difficult for the Manchu Dynasty to be civil and military, then follow the method that Kou Ji said?" ”

Li Di looked around at the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military forces, nodded coldly and said, "Then let's do it." ”

Kou Zhun still didn't speak.

Li Di and Wang Zeng both glanced at him.

Seeing that he didn't mean to speak, Li Di coughed dryly, stared at Kou Ji and said, "Right now, the criminal department is in charge of the Wang Xiang, and the household department is in charge of the old man, you can choose one of them and collude with the other." ”

Kou Ji straightened up, put away Chao Wat, and said with an indifferent smile: "The criminal department and the household department are not suitable for the lower officials. ”

Li Di was stunned.

Wang Zeng frowned and said, "You want to go to the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Li Di heard Wang Zeng's speculation, and his face was not good-looking.

Compared with the criminal department and the household department, the Ministry of Industry is not called the yamen.

The Criminal Department is now a proper and powerful yamen, and it is also the only one of the six ministries with perfect power.

The person in charge of the Criminal Department has only one line weaker authority in his hands than the three rulers and the three envoys of the inner court.

Although the household department is not as good as the criminal department, it robbed some power when the criminal department was deposed, and when Li Di served as the secretary of the household department, he more or less shared a little power from the third department.

The power in the hands of the person in charge of the household department is not as good as that of the criminal department, or even as good as the three ya, but it is three points stronger than the other departments.

In comparison, the Ministry of Industry is the weakest of the six yamen.

It's even weaker than the ritual department that has a very low sense of existence.

Although the Ministry of Rites does not have much power, people can occasionally come out and show their faces when various major rituals are held in the imperial court.

The Ministry of Industry is different.

Not only does the Ministry of Industry have no power, but it doesn't even have the opportunity to show its face.

In terms of fortifications, the imperial court has three supervisors: Shaofu, Jiangzuo, and Dushui.

The fortifications of the court up and down, inside and out, were almost all taken over by these three eunuchs.

The Ministry of Industry didn't get any of it.

There is a joke among the people that the Ministry of Industry is the 'lonely garden' of the imperial court.

What is that place in Solitary Garden?

It was a place to support orphans, the elderly, and orphans.

In other words, the Ministry of Industry is the pension yamen in the imperial court.

Cao Shilang, a powerful official in Kou Ji, was transferred to the Ministry of Industry to be in charge of the first department, which seems to have been promoted and has taken over the power.

In fact, he doesn't have any power at all.

If it wasn't Kou Ji who took the initiative to bring it up, but someone else said it, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty would have wondered if this person was trying to harm Kou Ji.

Under Wang Zeng's questioning, Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "Yes, Xia Guan plans to transfer to the Ministry of Industry." ”

Wang Zeng and Li Di glanced at each other, frowning, and their hearts were full of doubts.

They didn't understand Kou Ji's intention of going to the Ministry of Works.

They looked at Kou Zhun.

Kou Zhun seemed to understand Kou Ji's 'intentions', the expression on his face softened a little, and said, "It's good to go to the Qingshui Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to sit in that Qingshui Yamen for a few years, and hone your temperament." ”

He bluntly said that the Ministry of Works is a Qingshui Yamen.

But no one thought he was wrong.

As soon as Kou Zhun said this, Wang Zeng, Li Di, and the Manchu Dynasty also understood Kou Ji's 'intention'.

They all felt that Kou Ji was using this method of rising and descending to deal with the stalemate in the Vertical Arch Palace.

It not only satisfied the invitation of the officials, but also satisfied the thoughts of Kou Zhun, Li Di, and Wang Zeng who were afraid that he would be promoted too quickly.

"Zhongshu Sheren, the purpose is ......"

"The power of the officials Cao Shilang, the Protocol Yuanzheng, and the Baozhou Thorn Shi Kou Ji, moved to the official affairs of the Ministry of Gou, ranked in the fourth grade, in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Works, and the power is equal to that of the power of Cao Shangshu......"

“……”

As soon as Kou Zhun opened his mouth, he was promoted to the fourth rank of Kou Ji's original official position from the fourth grade, and he was promoted to the fourth grade.

At the same time, all the affairs of the Ministry of Industry were handed over to Kou Ji to be in charge.

The so-called official affairs of the Ministry of Management and Coordination can also be called the official affairs of the Ministry of Management.

The word "Guan Gou" is mostly used when officials are not qualified enough or have enough rank, but they want to hold power.

In this regard, the Manchu civil and military did not have any objections.

For some of them, as long as Kou Ji is transferred out of the ministry, whether he is promoted or demoted, they don't care.

For others, as long as Koji's position was promoted under their pressure, their purpose was accomplished.

After the Zhongshu people drafted the edict, it was sent to Zhao Zhen.

Kou Zhun nodded.

Zhao Zhen stamped the jade seal on the edict.

Chen Lin held the edict in his hand and read it out in front of the Manchu civil and military forces.

After Chen Lin finished reading the edict, Kou Ji, the powerful official Cao Shilang, became an official of the Ministry of Management.

The civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty congratulated each other with their own intentions.

Kou Ji smiled but didn't say anything.

Kou Zhun announced that he was scattered.

Zhao Yuanyan took the lead in leaving the Vertical Arch Palace.

Before leaving, he glanced at Wang Qinruo meaningfully.

Wang Qinruo nodded his head and understood, and after Zhao Yuanyan left, in the name of drinking and feasting, he invited Li Qian and others to a banquet in a courtyard in the outer city of Bianjing.

The group formed a group and left the vertical arch hall.

The other officials also gathered together in twos and threes, discussing the changes in the court today, and walked outside the hall.

Li Di, Wang Zeng, and Kou Ji were the last to leave.

Li Di stuffed Chao Wat into his sleeve, pressed the sleeve and withdrew it for a long time, paced in front of Kou Ji, and sighed, "Hey! It's not good for you to go somewhere, you have to go to the Ministry of Industry.

What else does the Ministry of Industry have except for a group of officials who refuse to resign from the imperial court and wait for death? ”

Wang Zeng held Chao Wat in both hands, walked in front of Kou Ji, and said with some hatred: "Since the first year of Tianxi, there has not been an official in the Ministry of Industry who can be promoted. Prior to the Jubilee, there were few official transfers in the Ministry of Works.

Except for a few people who also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, other officials of the Ministry of Industry basically stayed in the Ministry of Industry until death.

Whether it is the criminal department of the old man's temporary generation, or the household department of Li Xiang's temporary generation, it is a good place.

As long as you go, will the old man and Li Xiang still embarrass you?

When the time comes, the two of us will definitely throw the power in our hands to you, and firmly occupy the name of Shangshu, even if others want to use this to suppress you, they can't.

Li Xiang opened his mouth to remind you, that's what it means.

But you didn't understand what Li Xiang meant, so you had to go to the Qingshui Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to eat and wait for death.

I'm angry old man! ”

Kou Ji arched his hand to Li Di and Wang Zeng and said, "The two elders have good intentions, and the kid naturally knows it. But the reason why the kid chose to go to the Ministry of Industry is also the kid's own intentions. ”

Li Di and Wang Zeng were stunned when they heard this.

Li Di opened his mouth and sneered: "What? You went to the Ministry of Industry, and you still want to plot and take away the authority of the young government supervisor, the general supervisor, and the capital water supervisor? ”

Kou Ji smiled: "It's okay. ”

Li Di snorted coldly: "The old man advises you to put away this thought." Among the three supervisors, the water supervisor is okay to say, the judge is the supervisor of the water department, and he is at the same level as you, if you want to seize power from him, you can still plan one or two.

But the young government supervisor and the general supervisor, the judgment supervisor of the two prisons are all from the third grade, and the official position is higher than yours.

More importantly, the Shaofu Supervisor was in charge of the Imperial Court's Coinage Bureau, and the Supervisor was in charge of ordnance forging.

There are mixed people inside, and the entanglement of interests is complicated.

Many martial artists, civil ministers, and clan relatives and royal families are all mixed in it, which is far from what you can mix with a small four-rank official.

You want to wrest power from the two of them, it's pure wishful thinking. ”

After a pause, Li Di said again: "In terms of qualifications, ability, merit, and connections, Lin is far better than you." But during his tenure in the Ministry of Workers, he did not dare to move the young government superintendent and would be the superintendent in the slightest.

Before Lint, there were several highly decorated veterans who also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

None of them dared to touch the young government eunuch, and they would be imprisoned. ”

Wang Zeng pointed to himself on the side and said, "Even if the old man, who participates in political affairs, wants to move the young government supervisor and will be the prisoner, it is very likely that he will fall into the quagmire and not be able to get out." ”

Kou Ji knew that Li Di and Wang had told him this, and it was also for his good, but he made up his mind to go to the Ministry of Industry and would never change it.

Kou Ji gave up his hand to the two of them again and said, "Thank you two for your love, the kid has his own plans." ”

When Li Di and Wang Zeng heard this, they glanced at each other and sighed.

They're not stupid.

Of course, it can be seen that Kou Ji insists on going to the Ministry of Industry, and he must want to do something.

It's just that the water of the Ministry of Works, the Shaofu Supervisor, and the General Supervisor is a little too muddy, so muddy that neither of them dares to interfere easily.

Kou Ji insisted on touching the nail.

How could they not sigh in their hearts?

Kou Ji saw that the two of them sighed for a long time, so he smiled indifferently: "You don't have to worry about the kid, if the kid doesn't do anything in the Ministry of Industry, he can be transferred out at any time."

Anyway, the kid is still young, and you three elders support ......"

When Li Di and Wang Zeng heard this, they nodded reluctantly.

Kou Ji said again: "The kid's trouble, it's not trouble. Compared to the troubles that the imperial court was about to face, it was nothing at all. ”

"The troubles that the imperial court is about to face?"

Li Di and Wang Zeng were stunned.

Kou Ji nodded and said, "If the kid guesses correctly, the great sect is Zhao Yuanyan, I'm afraid it's not simple." ”

Li Di and Wang Zeng's faces changed slightly.

Li Di asked, "What do you mean by that?" Could it be that you have heard something? ”

Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I didn't hear it, but I saw it." ”

"See?"

Both frowned at the same time.

Kou Ji continued: "Didn't you two see that Zhao Yuanyan, Wang Qinruo, and Li Zheng were wearing the same pants in the main hall just now? Today, if it weren't for the three of them joining forces to persecute the palace, I wouldn't have moved to the Ministry of Works. ”

Li Di and Wang Zeng's faces changed again and again.

If Wang Qinruo and Li Zheng had any plans, Li Di and Wang Zeng probably wouldn't care.

After all, as an important minister in the court, if there is no city government and no planning, it is not normal.

But if Zhao Yuanyan is added, it will be very different.

With Zhao Yuanyan's current status, he is so close to the important ministers of the court, and he almost doesn't need to guess what he wants to do.

"You go back to the house first. The two of us are going to the Shishik Hall to discuss with your grandfather. ”

Li Di and Wang Zeng guessed through Kou Ji's words, but they didn't reveal anything.

Li Di ordered Kou Ji and stopped dealing with Kou Ji.

Together with Wang Zeng, he hurried out of the Vertical Arch Hall and went to the Capital Hall to find Kou Zhun.

After Kou Ji waited for the two of them to leave, he let out a sigh of relief and said to himself, "Dare to dig a pit for me? Then don't blame me for being rude. ”

Kou Ji stepped out of the vertical arch hall, stood outside the hall, and took another deep breath.

The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, and then the smile became brighter and brighter.

"Ministry of Industry, in your eyes, it is Qingshui Yamen, but in my eyes, it is the home field!"