The next morning at court, when He Mei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, took the initiative to submit a petition to the emperor to rectify the Ministry of Personnel during the court meeting, all the officials in the court were stunned.
And then, the Emperor of Wei not only agreed to the petition of this old minister, but also severely weakened the entire official department. This unbelievable change made all the courtiers feel unbelievable.
The Ministry of Personnel, as the most powerful ministry among the six ministries in Menxia Province, used to control the selection, promotion, evaluation, demotion, punishment, supervision, etc. of officials in the Wei Dynasty. It is undeniable that it is the head of the six ministries.
But now, after an imperial decree was promulgated, the high-status officials were completely wiped out from the mortal world, and were reduced to the same level as the other five ministries, without any special status at all.
In contrast, the newly established Yushi Supervisor has become the hottest focus at present. After all, the functions of this newly established government office can be said to have been poached from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
In addition to the imperial censor, the Ministry of Rites is also the second beneficiary of this incident, because they have obtained the right to preside over scientific examinations. If nothing unexpected happens, the rural examination work carried out in the Wei Dynasty in the future will be directly handed over to the Ministry of Rites.
There is nothing more to do with the official department.
The officials' vitality was severely damaged.
"What the hell is going on?"
The ministers and ministers of the other five departments in Menxia Province, except the Official Department, looked at each other. They couldn't believe it. Yesterday, the Official Department was still the head of the six departments, with so much power that the other five departments could not match it. But after just one night, the Official Department
This giant in the six parts was not only knocked to the ground, but also got stuck in the mud and couldn't get out.
Yes, because the first task of the newly established Yushijian is to cooperate with the officials of the Ministry of Personnel and rectify the internal system of the Ministry of Personnel, including reviewing the seventeen examiners who have been detained in the prison cell of Dali Temple.
"It seems that the officials will not think about raising their head again for at least two or three years..."
The ministers and ministers of the other five bureaus inevitably have the idea of gloating. After all, the status of the official bureau was too aloof, as if it was superior to the other five bureaucracies. But now, this aloof giant has been dragged into the quagmire.
Even if they are officials in the same dynasty, there are still many people who take pleasure in others' misfortune.
Faced with the seemingly comforting words of these colleagues, which were actually probing the truth, He Mei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, could only force a smile.
The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel knew very well that when there was major fraud in the examination and when the system in the Ministry of Personnel was in chaos, these were just the emperor's excuses to weaken the entire Ministry of Personnel. He even began to suspect that the emperor promoted Luo Wenzhong to the examination in the first place.
The chief proctor, in order to use the Eighth Prince Zhao Hongrun's hand to find out the fraud and other hidden abuses in the Ministry of Personnel, and then use this as an excuse to order the Ministry of Personnel to reorganize, took this opportunity to strip off nearly half of the rights of the Ministry of Personnel.
It was handed over to the newly established censor.
This is because He Mei, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has verified that the examiner of this scientific examination, Luo Wenzhong, the doctor of the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and his son Luo Rong, have a rift with the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun. Otherwise,
, How could the eighth prince, who was rumored to have never cared about court affairs, have the leisure to interfere in scientific examinations and affairs within the official department?
Because he understood this, He Mei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, did not dare to plead for his Ministry of Personnel at all, because he already understood that the failure of the Ministry of Personnel was not due to Luo Wenzhong or the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun, but to the current Emperor of Wei.
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The emperor thinks that the official department is too big.
After that, there were more than a hundred identical answer sheets in the scientific examination administered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and it was inevitable that the news would eventually spread, which caused an uproar among the candidates who were waiting for the results of the scientific examination in Beijing.
However, before these candidates could make any protest, the imperial court issued the latest announcement: The Emperor proposed that the Ministry of Rites would re-open the examination.
Yes, it just asked the Ministry of Rites to re-open the examination, but it did not explicitly deal with the invigilator of that subject, nor did it pursue the candidates who cheated in that subject's examination.
This puzzles many people.
These people were confused because they did not understand the thoughts of the Emperor of Wei at all. Who would have thought that the Emperor of Wei did not care about dealing with anyone. What the Emperor wanted was to weaken the entire staff.
This is a conceptual gap caused by different perspectives.
After the morning dynasty, the emperor went to the Chui Gong Hall as usual and reviewed and approved the seals together with the three ministers in the Chui Gong Hall.
It can be seen that the Emperor of Wei is in a very good mood today. It is difficult to imagine that this emperor can still laugh, and his smile is particularly open and cheerful, when such a serious case of fraud occurs in the court.
"It seems that the winner is Your Majesty..."
The three Zhongshu ministers looked at each other and sighed secretly in their hearts.
The ability of He Xiangxu, Lin Yuyang, and Yu Ziqi to be promoted by the Emperor to the Secretariat of Internal Affairs cannot be doubted.
In fact, they felt confused a few days ago.
For example, an unknown official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs was made an exception and promoted to the chief examiner of the scientific examination.
For another example, the consideration of a prince accompanying the prisoner was unprecedentedly raised, and this spot was finally given to the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun.
Are these seemingly coincidences really coincidences?
But now they understand that it turns out that the emperor was behind this incident. He used the grudge between Luo Wenzhong and the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun to deliberately instigate the eighth prince to interfere in the scientific examination hosted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
After the latter discovered various incidents such as fraud in scientific examinations, they used this to completely weaken the official department.
The current emperor cleverly turned everyone involved in this matter into his pawns to weaken the officials, including the well-known eighth prince.
"This may be a blow to His Highness the Eighth Prince..."
Lin Yuyang and Yu Ziqi looked at each other and smiled helplessly in their hearts.
Although it sounds a bit treacherous, they still feel that the emperor's move is a bit unkind. After all, no matter how smart the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun is, he is only a fourteen-year-old child, and the emperor uses the power to promote this kind of politics.
The means achieve the goal, and it is understandable to use it on courtiers, but to use it on a fourteen-year-old child is a bit like bullying the young.
Although it would be good to hit the eighth prince at the right time, this method is really a bit cruel.
During lunch, the eunuch Tong Xian reported to the emperor the latest developments of the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun.
"Your Majesty, His Highness the Eighth Prince has left the palace."
"Where have you gone?" In fact, when he asked this question, the emperor already had the answer in his mind. After all, he also knew that his son had a beautiful woman outside the palace.
Sure enough, Tong Xian replied in a low voice: "According to the report from the eunuch, the Eighth Prince went to a waterside pavilion."
"Have you gone to find that Miss Su? Ha!" The emperor smiled slightly. He knew very well that his move would make his stubborn and proud son feel frustrated, so he ordered Tong Xianqian to go to him starting last night.
The eunuchs in the inner chamber were always paying attention to Zhao Hongrun's movements to prevent the proud son from getting distracted.
After all, the last words the emperor said in his son's ears at that time were quite devastating.
"Hmm... According to my instructions, the eighth prince Hongrun performed well in the examination and helped the court catch the fraud in the examination. He should be rewarded and his monthly salary at Wenzhao Pavilion will be restored from now on."
"Is this a stick and a sweet date?"
Tong Xian smiled bitterly and reminded in a low voice, "I'm afraid that His Majesty's kindness may be misunderstood as humiliation by His Majesty the Eighth Prince..."
"Ha!" The emperor smiled slightly, shook his head and said: "Then you underestimate him too much. In my opinion, that scoundrel will accept my gift, and then think about how to get back one step... Instead of being rigid
After this defeat, it is better to fight again, this is the temperament of that scoundrel. But..."
"but?"
"But I don't know when that bad boy will recover. The blow to him this time should be quite big..."
"Do you know that you deliberately used words to bully him last night?"
Tong Xian didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
At the same time, the eighth prince Zhao Hongrun they said had indeed arrived at a waterside pavilion and had a private meeting with Miss Su from Cuixiaoxuan.
Miss Su was very happy that Zhao Hongrun came to the meeting after many days. After all, Zhao Hongrun was the first man in her life. It is inevitable for a woman to have special feelings for the first man in her life. Even if Zhao Hongrun's
He is six years younger than her.
It is worth mentioning that because His Highness was kidnapped once, the sect guards did not dare to stay away from His Highness this time. Ten sect guards accompanied Zhao Hongrun to Cuixiaoxuan.
, the scale of this guard made Miss Su stunned for a moment.
Fortunately, Miss Su also gradually guessed that this little man like herself might have a good family background, so she didn't care that he would be protected by ten guards.
She gave the little maid Lu'er some money and asked her to ask the stewards of a waterside pavilion to prepare a table of wine and food and entertain Zhao Hongrun's ten guards in the outer room. She herself invited Zhao Hongrun to the inner room and prepared the same food in the inner room.
A table of wine and food was served.
"Has the matter that the young master mentioned a few days ago... been resolved?"
After the food and drinks were served, Miss Su poured a glass of wine for Zhao Hongrun virtuously. She was puzzled to find that today's "Mr. Jiang" seemed to be in a low mood and a little depressed.
"Ah, it's solved." Zhao Hongrun lay on the blanket in the inner room with his head on his hands.
As Miss Su could see, his mood was indeed a little low.
It is undeniable that his purpose of intervening in the examination was achieved. Luo Rong was definitely out of luck in the examination because his father, Luo Wenzhong, was implicated in fraud in the examination room. Even if he retakes the examination, the officials of the Ministry of Rites will not call him
Luo Rong is on the list.
Not to mention Luo Wenzhong, there is a high probability that he will be kicked out from his position as a doctor in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. If he is lucky, he will either start from a small official again or be directly assigned to a local official. If he is not lucky,
Well, if the censor finds out that he is involved in the examination fraud, then he will be directly expelled from the official position, and even the father and son may be deprived of their official status.
Calculated in this way, there was only one Dali Temple jailer, Pei Na, who had not been retaliated by Zhao Hongrun. But Zhao Hongrun suddenly no longer had this intention, and he was not even interested in paying attention to how Luo Wenzhong would be dealt with.
The reason for all this lies in his father, the Emperor of Wei Dynasty, Zhao Yuansi.
The third battle of the father-son war started without Zhao Hongrun's knowledge, and then ended without Zhao Hongrun being aware of it.
He lost, he lost inexplicably, and at the same time he was convinced that he lost.
Different from the childish so-called father-son war in the previous two episodes, this time the Emperor of Wei showed him what an adult's game is, what a pusher of power is, and what an emperor's art is. Compared with this, Zhao Hongrun's childish behavior before
The means of resistance are simply not on the table.
Loss and depression are inevitable, but in addition to loss and depression, Zhao Hongrun also gained a different kind of feeling.
"I don't know what it feels like...manipulating everything behind the scenes, dominating everything..."
Drinking glass of wine in silence, listening to the music played by Miss Su to soothe his mood, Zhao Hongrun felt a different kind of touch in his heart.