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Chapter 467 How many emperors are immoral, and courtiers have no great evil?

Zhu Youxiao did intend to weaken the power of the Ministry of Personnel.

Although Zhu Youxiao admitted that as an emperor, it was impossible for him to rule the empire in every detail.

After all, he was not Zhu Yuanzhang and could not work more than ten hours a day for his rule.

He wants to have more leisure time.

Therefore, this destined that his imperial power would be divided into many parts and then represented by some people to maintain the rule of this empire.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't want the power to recommend officials to be really only in the hands of the Ministry of Personnel.

In this way, the civil servants of the Ministry of Personnel will control the power of the entire imperial officials, which will not only help sell official positions, but also help to engage in party disputes and eliminate dissidents.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao wanted to grant more recommendations to court officials.

In this way, even if the court officials use the power of recommendation to sell official positions and titles, it will lead to more sellers and the official price will not be raised too high. In this way, those who buy officials will not force the people too hard to make the people too cruel in order to make money.

At the same time, this can also make the civil service group more divided. Everyone has the power to recommend others, so naturally no one can accept anyone.

Just like when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, in order to curb local tyrants, he asked Lijia and grain chiefs to take turns to be held by wealthy families.

In the past, the grassroots were dominant, and a powerful local area monopolized all power in the village.

But Zhu Yuanzhang changed this way, and the meaning of "the emperor takes turns to be my house next year", which made no local tyrants accept each other and were in a state of division, which was more conducive to the rule of the empire.

Now Zhu Youxiao is going to do this.

Since it is inevitable that officials can share their imperial power, then share more, and then cook it.

"You will use this to draw an order to summon the world. In the future, whenever there is a vacant official of the important officials, you will need to recommend the officials of the fourth rank or above, and then recommend it to the court. This is an example. The Ministry of Personnel shall not be recommended by the Ministry of Personnel. If there is any violation in the future, there will be a suspicion of selling official positions and tyranny and arbitrary. The new Minister of the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council envoy and deputy envoy, and the new cabinet ministers, the Ministry of Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council, and the cabinet, immediately the ministry will discuss the required quota. The increase of the quota will be increased. Now the territory of the empire has increased, and the internal affairs have also increased a lot. It is also very necessary to add six or seven auxiliary ministers and even the Privy Council ministers. Once the quota needs to be added, the government officials of the fourth rank or above will be recommended and then the court recommends the system, and the court recommends the court. We have to discuss it again. Then, we will recommend the talents now."

Zhu Youxiao said this.

If the communication technology conditions have not kept up, he would have planned to let local officials participate in the recommendation of officials and the recommendation of the court.

Now, because it often takes several days or even one or two months to contact the local government, he can only allow more Beijing officials to participate in the recommendation.

Yuan Keli naturally followed the order.

For him, who is the Minister of Political Affairs, Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council and Chief Cabinet, weakening the power of the Ministry of Personnel is beneficial but not harmful.

It is just that it is harmful and not beneficial to the entire civil service group.

Therefore, although Yuan Keli did not object, he did not support him, and he only became an executor who obeyed orders.

"If Your Majesty does not have the power to belong to the six ministries, why does it restrict the power of the Ministry of Personnel? Your Majesty thinks that the power of the officials, the ministers and officials, those old men, aren't the power enough?"

Wu Weiye was very dissatisfied and disappointed with such an imperial edict.

"How can the power belong to the Six Tribes? It is still contrary to the rule of the king alone. It is better to belong to everyone. Today, I don't want to exhaust myself, nor do I want anyone to check and balance him!"

Zhao Jinmei said this.

"The next election of the regent ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, the cabinet ministers and the Privy Council ministers will be recommended by the fourth-rank Beijing officials. In this way, how can we gentry determine that the wise ministers who are beneficial to us will be selected? How can we make the elected ministers speak for our entire sect? They will only attract the power to the king!"

Wu Weiye smiled bitterly because of this.

After seeing such an order, Sun Chengzong quickly understood why the emperor specially ordered him to replace Cui Jingrong as the Minister of Personnel, rather than electing the Minister of Personnel through the court, which was clearly for this day.

"If you don't plan for the overall situation, it is not enough to plan for a while. In order to weaken the power of the Ministry of Personnel more smoothly, Your Majesty deliberately ordered himself to be the Minister of Personnel before issuing this order. If you want to be a cabinet minister, you will be tactfully accepted such an arrangement and recommend it to others. If you don't want to, your career will only stop at the Minister of Personnel! Your Majesty will be the Minister of Personnel!"

Sun Chengzong smiled and thought to himself.

As a good person in the officialdom, no one can compare with his fame, at least much better than Xu Guangqi. Therefore, Sun Chengzong did not worry about no one recommending him, but he was only worried about whether the emperor would like to use him.

"Report to Your Majesty, a fourth-rank official above the capital, the list of the recommended auxiliary ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council and the cabinet ministers have been fully counted. Some have recommended Sun Chengzong as the auxiliary minister of the Political Affairs Hall, and some have recommended Zhu Xieyuan as the Privy Council."

On this day, Yuan Keli reported to Zhu Youxiao, who was practicing calligraphy.

Zhu Youxiaoze said without raising his head, "No need to show it to me. He directly summoned the nine ministers and important officials to the court to recommend it. All those recommended are candidates. Then the court will introduce three times the number of places to be added. Then I personally discuss it. If I am really talented, I will use it on the spot!"

"Abide by the order!"

Yuan Keli replied.

"Since the establishment of the dynasty of the country, many emperors have been unvirtuous and court officials have no great evil. Therefore, the country's fortunes have been for more than 200 years but have not declined. The so-called chaos in the court is mostly civil servants and women. Even if it is a treacherous minister Yan Song, it is not a great evil, but in fact it is just a favorite minister in the temple. It can be seen that our literati and officials are good doctors who have long-term stability in the country, but why is Your Majesty very well prepared for civil officials and has no words to cut off the power of the Ministry of Personnel? Now the court directly recommends that the number of places needs to be added three times, and His Majesty must be appointed after personally negotiating. In this way, no one can guarantee that who can be selected!"

After Wang Yongguang learned about Tingtuizhi, he told Sun Chengzong about this.

Sun Chengzong smiled and said, "Your Majesty is not guarding against civil servants. Instead, he is willing to believe in more civil servants. Otherwise, he would not have changed the power of recommendation from the Ministry of Personnel to the recommendation of all ministers."

"Even so, it will undoubtedly be more difficult for court officials to do something in the future, after all, it will be difficult to become a powerful person."

Wang Yongguang replied.

"It may not be possible to achieve success!"

Sun Chengzong continued to reply.

Seeing that Sun Chengzong was not up to the point of enlightenment, Wang Yongguang was greatly disappointed, so he stopped talking to Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong turned around and went home and wrote a secret book to submit it to the imperial court.

After the court push, Sun Chengzong, Wang Yongguang, Li Biao, Liu Hongxun, Yang Weiyuan, Zhu Xieyuan and others were pushed up.

Zhu Youxiao therefore asked these people to come negotiately.

As soon as these people arrived at the Qinzheng Hall, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Yongguang first: "Wang Yongguang, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Wang Yongguang, I heard that you said in private that the emperors of this dynasty are too unvirtuous, and the court officials have no great evil, and the people who cause trouble in the court are mostly eunuchs and women in the temple, so the country's fortune is still undefeated. Therefore, in your words, the Ming Dynasty is still undead, which is all the merits of all the ministers?"
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