Chapter 2 Cabinet Personnel

In the Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Qizhen faces members of his cabinet.

Needless to say, the chief assistant Han Yong.

The second assistant was Zhu Yi, Duke Chengguo.

There is a story here.

Guo Deng died of illness three years ago.

Zhu Qizhen wanted Fang Jin to enter the cabinet at that time, but was blocked by Han Yong. Han Yong said that Fang Jin was not the Duke and blocked Fang Jin.

He nominated one of the Dukes of Teng, Duke Xu, Duke Wei, Duke Qian, and other majors.

Zhu Qizhen knew what Han Yong meant.

Han Yong is not an ordinary civil servant.

But he led the troops to fight.

Of course, he had no intention of controlling the military power of the court. This was a taboo thing. He was responsible. But he wanted to gather the power of military decision-making into the cabinet.

Before this.

Most military decisions seem to be discussed by the emperor and the cabinet, but in fact they are discussed by the emperor and several ministers, either by Zhang Fu, Meng Ying, Yang Hong, or Guo Deng.

These dukes are all inherited titles and have no combat experience.

Among them, Duke Teng, Duke Qian and Duke Wei are a little better.

After all, Duke Teng is only a second-generation title. In the view of the old Duke Teng Meng Ying of the Teng Kingdom, it is natural that the contemporary Duke Teng Kingdom is not good. But after all, he fought a war. Duke Qian and Duke Wei were both new generations of martial arts. Now Duke Qian has become the general officer of Yunnan, guarding Yunnan, and join forces with King Xiang of the present to plan several military operations against southern Xinjiang. He still has the ability.

However, it does not have the ability to control a country's military and political power.

In this way, such an incompetent Duke would not have such a strong say in the military. In this way, this power would be in the hands of Han Yong.

Although Han Yong was not as good as many generals in command of the battle, he didn't think he was worse than anyone else in the temple.

What Han Yong did seemed to be his own actions, but in fact it was a lineage of Yang Rong's original ideas. In Han Yong's opinion, military generals were just minions.

Of course, it is necessary to be driven by civil officials. It is abnormal for the head of all officials to be unable to interfere in this kind of military affairs.

Zhu Qizhen was actually angry at Han Yong's actions.

However, Zhu Qizhen had to give in to Han Yong.

No, Zhu Qizhen had no way to deal with Han Yong, but Han Yong grabbed Zhu Qizhen's weakness.

What weaknesses?

It's reform.

Han Yong spared no effort to implement the new law. It is easy for Zhu Qizhen to take Han Yong, but it is difficult to find someone who can replace him.

Zhu Qizhen was even more worried that his move to take Han Yong would give outsiders a wrong association and add more twists and turns to the reform.

It was not that Zhu Qizhen had no choice but to be afraid of Han Yong.

The reason why Han Yong rejected Fang Jin was also reasonable.

When the commendants enter the cabinet, they are all the heads of the commendants. Fang Jin is just a Marquis of Weiyuan and cannot become the heads of the commendants. If all the commendants cannot be suppressed, then it is not appropriate for Fang Jin to enter the cabinet.

Zhu Qizhen proposed Wang Yue.

Although Wang Yue was guarding the Western Regions at that time, the war in the Western Regions was not without Wang Yue.

Wang Yue was named Duke of Wei because of suppressing the rebellion in the Western Regions.

With Wang Yue's ability, he can naturally sit firmly in this position.

However, Han Yong said that although the war in the Western Regions was in danger, it was not reliable. Now that there are famous generals in the Western Regions, there is naturally nothing wrong. However, I don’t know what the situation in the Western Regions will be like when Wang Yue returns to Beijing.

Although Zhu Qizhen felt that Han Yong felt alarmist.

However, Zhu Qizhen also felt that it was reasonable.

After Shi Heng's death, a series of wars. Zhu Qizhen did not guarantee what Washi was thinking.

This is how nomadic peoples are. They only look at their strengths and weaknesses, and they have no credit at all.

If you should pay tribute, you should pay tribute. If you should trade, you should trade. But seeing that it is profitable, you will definitely not hesitate to fight a battle.

The war in the Western Regions has never ended, but the two sides are in an unstable state of stalemate. Next month, it was reported that the Western Regions and Wassat fought a previous battle.

Zhu Qizhen wouldn't be too strange either.

However, although Wang Yue cannot do it.

But there is still someone who chooses Zhu Qizhen, that is now Zhu Yi, Duke Chengguo.

Zhu Yi guarded Yili for three years and was famous all over the world.

In addition, although his contributions since his army were not enough to be granted the title of Duke, Zhu Qizhen was particularly kind and named Duke Zhu Yi. This is actually a plea for many noble children.

After all, although martial arts education has cultivated many poor generals, these generals were just ordinary people before, and they grew up step by step in the army through the martial arts system, and the representative of them is Wang Yue.

However, the most powerful group of the martial arts faction is the noble group.

Among the nobles, they can be divided into the founding of the country, the sanctuary, and the orthodox. There is no need to say that if they are divided into the right or wrong, they can be divided into the nobles who hold real power, and those nobles who have lost influence in the army.

After large-scale military reforms, the adjustments, cleanings, and abolitions in the garrisons. The special influence of the nobles on the garrisons cannot be maintained.

The previous commanders of the garrison were hereditary, and their relationship with nobles was passed down from their ancestors, so they could naturally be maintained. Now most of the garrisons have begun to be exiled officials.

Where did they care about the relationship between this garrison and a nobleman?

This group of people worked hard from the army through martial arts, and there were also a considerable number of them.

And Zhu Yi is their idol.

How did Duke Cheng get his title taken away? At the worst time, he was driven out of the imperially-given mansion. Zhu Yi took back his ancestral title step by step.

It naturally won the support of many people in the army.

Moreover, Zhu Yi, after all, was the young king of the first country, and was the most trained person under the ups and downs.

Zhu Yi may not be able to fight a lot, but he is politically keen enough. Since Zhu Qizhen recommended Zhu Yi as the spokesperson, even if Zhu Yi is not for the benefit of the nobles, he will not let Han Yong suppress it just for the sake of Zhu Qizhen's greeting.

Han Yong's idea of ​​suppressing the nobles was dismissed by Zhu Qizhen's repeated dismissal.

This is just a common move between Zhu Qizhen and Han Yong, a king and a minister.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhu Qizhen is approved by Han Yong, and there are even rumors that since the orthodox, the top honors of all dynasties were just Zhou Wenmu and the current Han Dynasty.

In fact, the quiet water flows deep under the calm waves, and only the world knows.

The other cabinet members also changed a lot, and the old minister Wang Yonghe retired.

In history, this old minister was one of the ministers who died in Tumubao. He is over 70 years old and has the most difficult affairs of the Ministry of Works. After Liu Dingzhi's sudden death, he had the intention to retreat.

After Wang Yonghe retired, Xiang Zhong was replaced by him.

This is Han Yong's idea.

However, as the chief minister of the cabinet, it is natural power to place people in the cabinet. Zhu Qizhen would not refuse.

But Zhu Qizhen would not let Han Yong install someone alone.

Zhu Qizhen also installed manpower, which is Shanglu.

Shang Lu also served as Minister of Rites, replacing the cabinet Grand Secretary Chen Wen.

When Liu Dingzhi suddenly died, Chen Wen was actually the one who could compete with Han Yong for the position of chief minister of the cabinet. However, although Chen Wen had many tricks, he was a little worse than Han Yong.

At least Han Yong's courage is not something Chen Wen does not have.

Han Yong could force Zhu Qizhen to compromise on many things. Zhu Qizhen was angry and had to admit one thing, that is, Han Yong was angry.

The real prime minister is to be courteous of all officials and assist in yin and yang. Without a little domineering, how can you suppress the situation?

Chen Wen was vulnerable in front of Han Yong.

However, if there are some things that have to be fought over, the consequences will be borne.

After Han Yong took office, he naturally suppressed the opponents in the cabinet, saying that they were either others or Chen Wen. Chen Wen was forced into a corner and had to retire due to his old age.

As for real old age or fake old age or illness, is another matter.

Another person who has withdrawn from the cabinet is Li Shi.

It’s not that Li Shi has no ability. He has done a lot of missions on several occasions, but he has been doing well in the cabinet. He is full of gods and evil spirits. Li Shi has served in the Ministry of Rites all his life. How can such a noble yamen cultivate a powerful general?
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