The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was really born in the Yongle Dynasty in history, and Zhu Di, who wanted to take the lead in every battle, did not have Zhu Yuanzhang's superhuman energy. Even so, they had to follow the example of the Song Dynasty and set up five bachelors such as Huayi Palace, Wuying Palace, and Wenyuan Pavilion to be ready for consultants at any time.

In order to reduce fatigue and consolidate the imperial power, Zhu Di created a cabinet to assist the emperor, so his physique and energy are far inferior to Zhu Di's Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi, who was under the pressure of heavy and cumbersome government affairs, was out of breath, and secondly, in order to balance power, because the six Shangshu were all old ministers from the Hongwu and Jianwen dynasties without exception, and a new power structure must be established to check and balance.

Before the establishment of the cabinet, the prime minister had decision-making power, parliamentary power and administrative power, and later after Zhu Yuanzhang's dictatorship, Zhu Yunwen's decentralization and decentralization, the status of the six Shangshu was greatly raised, and the power of the prime minister was equally divided, and the minister faintly had signs of being able to compete with the imperial power, so the reason why Wenchen supported Emperor Jianwen so much was also related to the power in his hands.

After all, Zhu Gaochi does not have his father's irreplaceable huge prestige in the army, but fortunately, Xu Hao, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and other generals are loyal to him and act in a measured manner.

Zhu Gaochi put a lot of thought into this regard, and selected Huang Huai, the secretary of the Hanlin Academy, who was good at analyzing the situation and political situation in the world, to replace Yao Guangxiao, who was second to none in this regard.

Of course, Zhu Gaochi is not confused, and he will not alienate his descendants because of this, and understand the names of Jin and Yang Shiqi one after another. It can be regarded as showing his trust in Xu Hao as always.

Xie Jin recommended his fellow villager friend Hu Guang, who was the champion of Jianwen in the second year, and his father Hu Ziqi had served as the governor of Guangxi, the prefect of Pengzhou, and the prefect of Yanping, with outstanding political achievements.

Yang Shiqi also recommended his friend Yang Zirong, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Zhu Gaochi personally inspected his knowledge, Yang Zirong talked eloquently, his words were clever and funny, and he was especially insightful about military affairs.

In addition, Zhu Gaochi personally selected the talented attendant Jin Youzi in the Hanlin Academy, as well as Hu Yan, who was proficient in astronomy and geography, and the legal calendar divination, and was first awarded the post of Qin Tianjian. After Xie Jin's recommendation. Awarded the Hanlin Academy for review.

History always has a striking similarity, or maybe talents will always be talents, and the above seven people were promoted to Wenyuan Pavilion at the same time after Hong Xi's reform. began to serve Emperor Hongxi day and night. Assist Zhu Gaochi in handling political affairs.

However, among the seven people, only Xie Jin has a higher official position and the most seniority. Yang Shiqi was only a third-rank official at this time, and the rank of the seven ministers was far inferior to the six Shangshu of Zhengyipin, and it was a secretarial participation in government affairs. There is no prestige with shallow qualifications, there is no official subordinate below, and there is no jurisdiction over the affairs of the six ministries and departments.

Xu Hao was optimistic about this, and also intended to protect a cadre of old ministers during the Hongwu Dynasty, because a large number of Wenchen who should have died tragically such as Fang Xiaoru survived, but Zhu Di had already died, and the royal grievances were a full stop.

In the face of Zhu Gaochi's Yin Yin retention, many officials loyal to Zhu Yunwen finally chose to stay, this is undoubtedly a very good beginning, but also laid a solid foundation for the next Hongxi reforms, throughout the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, where to find such a large number of honest and self-disciplined civil officials?

For the cabinet, Xu Hao vaguely remembered that in many historical novels he had read, the "vote" and "red" were explained in detail, and it was about 30 years later, when it came to the Xuanzong period, there would be cabinet ministers who wrote the suggestions on a piece of paper, and then pasted them on the top of the chapter and reported it to the emperor by the celebrant supervisor, it seems that the four-year-old Zhu Zhanji was troublesome and approved a few copies casually, and in order to save worry and effort, he ordered the eunuch to read and write, and read the chapter on his behalf, which caused the rise of the eunuch.

Since then, the inner court and the outer court of the Ming Dynasty have restrained each other, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have restrained each other, the imperial court has sent governors and governors and other officials, and the inner court has sent eunuchs to the local area, garrison eunuchs, etc., and the result of the two major political forces fighting for power and profit is to enable the emperor to balance the political situation and always hold the imperial power firmly in his hands.

That is to say, if the minister wants to be a supreme minister to display his ambitions, he must not only go through several ups and downs of the eunuch sea and defeat his political enemies, but also must befriend the eunuchs of the inner court, so that he can be consistent inside and outside, otherwise he will become a eunuch of the eunuchs.

Wang Zhen and Liu Jin appeared because they controlled the right to approve red, thus indirectly controlling the cabinet, while Zhang Juzheng and Yan Song and other first assistants without exception controlled the imperial court by controlling the eunuchs.

Zhu Gaochi is not a diligent politician, Yao Guangxiao is not a person who is attached to the powerful, and Xu Hao does not like to be a celebrity. Then a new group of young officials, represented by the cabinet, will soon come to the fore and begin to challenge the status of the old Manchu ministers and gradually replace them.

To say that the current seven ministers of the cabinet are more or less related to Xu Hao, given time, the increasing authority of the cabinet will not become his help, and it is unlikely to become a mortal enemy.

However, Xu Hao thinks that these people who have left names in history may be worthy of their names, but he is more inclined to continue to reuse the old ministers left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

During this period, a lot of things happened, Hu Run and Gao Xiang, ministers of state affairs, wore mourning clothes and entered the court, facing the palace gate to mourn for Zhu Yunwen, and Xu Hao insisted on pardoning his crimes. Even people like Zhuo Jing and others who would rather die than surrender, even if there is a disagreement with Yao Guangxiao, Xu Hao insisted on resigning and going home.

Xu Hao has done a lot of similar things, and after a long time, he will inevitably get bored, the open and secret battles between Wenchen are endless, and all kinds of means are unguardable, if Xu Hao does not have the talisman of honor, I am afraid that he will be beaten to the point that there is not even a slag left in a few years, even if tens of thousands of lives are saved, no one knows the history of Lu Dao, who reads his good?

Seeing that the imperial court was gradually on the right track, Xu Hao immediately chose to retreat bravely and no longer participated in the struggle for power.

It's a pity that the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, just because of the feeling that Emperor Hongxi has already sat on the throne, many officials for their own future, in order to remove the ministers above, began to have a tendency to settle old accounts for the Battle of Jingjing, and several impeachment letters were sent to the Qianqing Palace every day.

For a while, the news came out, Wang Yu, the secretary of the household department, Zhang Zhen, the secretary of the ministry, Zheng Ci, the secretary of the criminal department, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and even Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong. Guo Ying and others were all worried about it, and even Ru Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was on pins and needles.

Xu Hao doesn't take this seriously, Zhu Gaochi is steady, there is a queen mother who understands righteousness, Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and others are not villains who fall into the well, and the traitors are just a few people such as Chen Ying, of course, they know the face and don't know the heart, but the commander of Jinyiwei makes Xiao Wei loyal and not a wicked person, because this turmoil may have a few people lose their official positions and resign, and it should not implicate too many people.

Because there was a theft in the house. Xiao Shi was afraid that something would affect his daughter-in-law's mood. In addition, Mrs. Mu missed her daughter, so she ordered her family to send Ning Xue back to her parents' house to recuperate for a while.

Xu Hao, who had nothing to do, went to Daoxiang Village, went to the courtyard and entered the room, and saw Xiangyu in front of the window. In his hand, he carried a banana fan with long spikes. Leaning on the window sill on his back and napping. There was no one on all sides.

It turned out that in order to facilitate him to steal incense, his aunt Mei took the initiative to ask to live with Xiangyu, although Xiangyu had a free body. manages the female doctor, but she is simple and not keen on money and power, and returns to the Xu family to live whenever she is free, and because of Xu Hao's support, she has been safe and sound.

Under the management of Xiangyu, although the female doctor has nearly 1,000 disciples, she is actually just a loose organization that shelters the poor homeless and often holds free clinics, but this has never aroused the hostility of her peers and the vigilance of the local government.

Xu Hao habitually walked over and pinched Xiangyu's little nose, Xiangyu woke up, opened his eyes and saw that it was him, pursed his lips and smiled and pulled him to sit down, let the man's hand slide to his chest, and asked softly, "Are you here to see your godmother?" ”

Xu Hao said: "Both of them look. ”

Xiangyu smiled with satisfaction and said, "After opening the faces of Zhiqing Qingwen and the two of them, they became more and more like a great beauty, but they must pay attention to moderation." ”

"Hmm!" Xu Hao dragged her into the bedroom together, Mei was sitting on the kang, holding a hand mirror to carefully compare her face.

"Hao'er is here?" Mei hurriedly put down the mirror and got up to greet him, "Have you eaten?" Shall I give you two bowls of crab noodles? Pick up your favorite hot dishes and make a few of them, and there's a jug of good wine in the house. ”

Xu Hao nodded in agreement, Mei personally cooked and fried a few delicious side dishes, Xiangyu helped to help, and quickly brought in the fragrant noodle dishes, set up three pairs of dishes and chopsticks, filled with wine, and the three of them sat opposite each other to drink and eat noodles, chatting about trivial matters.

Suddenly, I heard someone outside asking, "Is the young master here?" ”

Xiangyu got up and said, "It's Zhiqing who is here, please come in, the young master is in the house." ”

Mei Shi hurriedly sorted out the clothes that deliberately slipped down to cover the half-exposed breasts, Xu Hao smiled and secretly said that there must be progress in the investigation of lost property, speaking of which I am afraid that the matter between him and his aunt will not be able to hide people, he has already planned to send people to Liaodong or Qinhuangdao, and in the future, Xu Hao will have to go to the north once a year and stay for a few months.

Xu Hao's affairs can be hidden, and others can't hide it from Zhiqing and Qingwen and a few other people around them, otherwise Zhiqing would not have found this place accurately.

At the moment, Mei Shi was a little embarrassed, her cheeks were red and she obviously didn't admit herself, but Zhiqing came in generously and asked for peace first, and said: "Most of the lost things have been found, but what to do with them, we can't make decisions in private." ”

Xu Hao became interested, pointed to the empty seat next to him and said, "Come and have a glass of wine together, and tell me slowly." ”

Zhiqing glanced at the amorous Mei family, and suddenly her face turned red, secretly saying that the young master is really ridiculous, and he has to instruct Qingwen Musk Yue to serve with him, if he is with Xiangyu, forget it, if he is with his uncle's wife, how can he have the face to see Miss in the future?

Looking at Zhi Qing's cowardly appearance, Xu Hao frowned and said, "Where did you think of going?" Sit down. ”

"Hey!" Zhiqing hurriedly agreed and sat down beside Xu Hao obediently.

Xiangyu has always been the most loyal to Xu Hao, and the other one is Musk Yue, who has a confused personality, the two are willing to do whatever Xu Hao does, and they are willing to do ridiculous things, and they can be regarded as accomplices to the Xu family's inner house.

Xiangyu grinned, turned around and took a pair of chopsticks, Mei Shi only felt panic on his face, sighed secretly in his heart, and saw Zhiqing take out a hard thing and put it on the table.

Mei hurriedly touched her hand in the skirt, but the silver-red silk pants were already soaked. (To be continued......)