Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 379 Your Majesty, Forgive Your Life!

In the ninth year of Qianxi's reign, it was the seventh day of the eighth lunar month.

In the US Palace, the meeting of the Government Affairs Hall is in progress.

Zhu Zhantang was sitting on a platform that was only two stories high, and on the second high platform below him, there were three tables.

Except for the desk in the middle, which was empty, a senior official sat alone behind the desks on the left and right sides.

The senior official behind the desk on the left is very young. This person is the former U.S. Prince Zuo Changshi who has been renamed Xu Youzhen and is currently the Prime Minister of the U.S. Royal Government Affairs Hall.

The senior official behind the desk on the right has a serious face. He is a middle-aged man in his 40s named Jin Renjie.

He is the former right-hand minister of the U.S. Palace and currently the Minister of Communications of the U.S. Kingdom.

Under the high platform on the second floor, sitting on both sides of the main hall were senior civil and military ministers who are now the center of the Mingmei Kingdom.

In the early years of Yongle, in order to facilitate the feudal kings to manage the domestic affairs of the feudal state, Zhu Di agreed that each feudal clan would implement a system different from that in the Ming Dynasty in their respective feudal states.

Such as the household registration system, military service system, imperial examination system, etc., but generally they must not violate the two fundamental laws of the Ming Dynasty, the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty" and the "Ancestral Instructions of the Emperor Ming Dynasty".

Therefore, King Shen, who took the lead in founding the country, followed the example of the imperial government's five offices, six ministries, governor's office, general affairs department, Dali Temple and other yamen, and set up a prince's governor's office, and he himself directly took charge of the military affairs of the vassal state.

In addition, there are six bureaus, administrative affairs department, general administration bureau, Guoli Temple and other yamen to manage other affairs of the vassal state.

This institutional design was so reasonable that all the vassals followed suit after the founding of the country.

On this basis, Zhu Zhantang drew on the "three independent sittings" system in the Han Dynasty and the "group ministers" system in the Song Dynasty, and integrated the six departments into the Government Affairs Hall. There was a Prime Minister in the Government Affairs Hall, who was served by his confidant and deputy prime minister. Six people, concurrently served by the chief officers of the Sixth Department.

The Government Affairs Hall takes charge of all government affairs of the Kingdom of the United States and is responsible to King Zhu Zhantang of the United States.

The Prime Minister of the Government Affairs Hall, referred to as the Prime Minister, not only has the power to control the other six deputy prime ministers, but also has the power to supervise, report and impeach officials in the six departments of civil servants, rites, households, industry, punishment and war.

However, the Prime Minister seems to have a high position and great influence, which seems to make the American King Zhu Zhantang fear him. However, in fact, the power that the Prime Minister can mobilize is very limited.

According to Zhu Zhantang's design of the official position of the Prime Minister, there are currently only more than [-] subordinate officials of the Prime Minister, including junior officials of the eighth rank and below such as the Chief of Staff of the General Affairs Department of the Prime Minister's Yamen and the official office.

The six departments run by the deputy prime ministers are not the prime minister's private agency. The prime minister has no power to appoint or remove officials in the six departments, but only has the power to supervise, report and impeach.

The appointment and dismissal of the Prime Minister of the United States and the Sixth Department and other government officials were all handled by Zhu Zhantang.

"Shilang Liu, the profit income of the Commercial and Trade Department in July dropped by [-]% compared to June. This is not [-]%, but a full [-]%!"

Xu Youzhen's eyes fell on the face of Liu Yangmin, the head of the Household Department, and said coldly: "I heard that the indigenous people reported that the quality of the kitchen knives, cans, etc. sold by the Household Department's Commercial Department was not as good as before."

"Prime Minister, the reason why the kitchen knives and cans sold by the Department of Commerce and Trade are of poor quality is because——"

Liu Yangmin was about to speak out his prepared speech, but was ruthlessly interrupted by Xu Youzhen.

"I'm going to say something ugly first. If you don't hurry up, I'm afraid your position as Minister of Household Affairs will be given to someone else."

Xu Youzhen looked at Liu Yangmin and said with a smile: "Don't forget, but there are many people staring at your seat."

"Next month I will definitely increase the transaction volume of the Commerce Department by [-]%."

Liu Yangmin immediately stood up, bowed quickly and made a promise.

"It's profit income, not just transaction volume."

Xu Youzhen pointed out the loopholes in Liu Yangmin's words without mercy.

"Yes."

Liu Yangmin immediately leaned over and said.

Then, Xu Youzhen chose to pause, waiting for the beauty king Zhu Zhantang on the stage behind him to speak.

However, after a few breaths, Zhu Zhantang still remained silent.

So, Xu Youzhen no longer waited, but turned her attention to Tan Lin, the Minister of Works, and said something that shocked everyone in the hall.

"Shilang Tan of the Works Department, I ask you to pay the wages on time to the employees who built the royal city. It is not easy for the common people who followed our king across the ocean to Wozhou."

As soon as Xu Youzhen said this, not only were all the officials present shocked, but even Zhu Zhantang, who had been silent just now, also looked sideways at Tan Lin, who was restless.

Tan Lin was in a state of confusion. He did not expect that Xu Youzhen would attack him at the government affairs meeting.

He hurriedly stood up, bowed and said in salute: "Prime Minister, please rest assured. I will take the roster as soon as I get back from work, and I will never delay the wages of employees."

"Secretary Zhao, Minister of Ceremony——"

Xu Youzhen saw that Tan Lin had a correct attitude and responded appropriately, so she decided to move on to the next question and turned her attention to Zhao Juluo, the Minister of Ceremonies.

"Wait!"

Zhu Zhantang suddenly spoke and interrupted Xu Youzhen.

He put down the report in his hand, picked up the beautiful royal seal on the corner of the table that was as big as an adult's hand, and stood up slowly.

When all the ministers saw the beautiful king Zhu Zhantang getting up, they couldn't help but be startled.

Zhu Zhantang slowly walked down the steps and stopped in front of Tan Lin, the Minister of Works.He dragged the seal with his right hand and swung it in the air. He stared at Tan Lin, who was pale, with cold sweat flowing out of his forehead, and his legs were trembling a little. He asked softly: "Since you didn't pay the salary on time, how about the money I allocated to you?" Where is Silver now?"

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will start handling this matter immediately after I retire!"

Tan Lin hurriedly bowed.

"Tan Lin, do you remember that more than half of these hired workers followed you across the ocean from the Ming Dynasty to Wozhou, right?"

Zhu Zhantang looked like he was remembering and asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes."

Tan Lin answered honestly: "My ancestors have been masons for generations, so they are quite famous in Jiangnan. When these fellow countrymen learned that I had joined the king who valued craftsmen, they all followed me to serve the king. Chen. To be able to rise from a commoner to the position of minister of the Ministry of Works depends entirely on the king's appreciation, and I dare not have any selfish intentions towards the king."

Zhu Zhantang said expressionlessly: "Raise your head."

Tan Linzhan slowly raised his head tremblingly.

"Look at Gu."

Zhu Zhantang said lukewarmly.

Tan Lin looked at Zhu Zhantang with evasive eyes.

Zhu Zhantang stared at Tan Lin, making the latter tremble.

"If the tiger's poison does not eat its seeds, are you still a human being?"

Suddenly, Zhu Zhantang picked up the seal like lightning and smashed it towards Tan Lin's forehead.

With a scream of "ah", Tan Lin fell to the ground.

Zhu Zhantang did not relieve his anger, but rode on Tan Lin, and then used the seal as a brick to continuously hit Tan Lin's forehead.

"My lord, spare my life! My lord, spare my life!"

Tan Lin wailed and begged for mercy.

At this moment, it was the first time for the civil and military officials in the hall to see the beautiful king Zhu Zhantang so angry.

At this moment, Zhu Zhantang's expression seemed to overlap with that of Zhu Gaoxu when he was a school captain in Zhili and punished corrupt officials in Yingtian Prefecture when he was young.

After about a dozen breaths, Zhu Zhantang stopped hitting Tan Lin with the seal.

He stood up, turned around, held the bloody seal tightly in his right hand, and walked step by step towards the high platform.

The civil and military officials sitting on both sides of the main hall remained silent.

At this moment, in the lobby, only Tan Lin's begging for mercy, "Your Majesty, have mercy on me," continued.

"If there is a next time, I will definitely kill you!"

Zhu Zhantang suddenly turned to look at Tan Lin lying on the ground and shouted loudly.

"I thank you for not killing me!"

Tan Lin endured the pain, got up with difficulty, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"The meeting continues."

Zhu Zhantang reached out and threw the seal at the corner of the table. After sitting down again, he looked up at Xu Youzhen's back and spoke lightly.

"Secretary Zhao of the Etiquette Department, the qualified list reported by the Etiquette Examination Department last month——"

Xu Youzhen first glanced at the document in her hand, then looked at Zhao Juluo and said.

"Xu Changshi, the number of native people who passed the ceremonial examination in July increased by 320 compared to June."

Zhao Juluo said hurriedly.

"What did you just call me?"

Xu Youzhen asked expressionlessly.

"Premier Xu."

Zhao Juluo quickly changed his words and showed an embarrassed smile.

"Okay, let's get here first."

Zhu Zhantang was in a bad mood. He raised his hand to interrupt the conversation between Xu Youzhen and Zhao Juluo, and said to the ministers in the hall: "Secretary Zhao will stay for a while, and the others can leave."

"I'm waiting to retire."

Xu Youzhen and Jin Renjie stood up first, turned around and saluted Zhu Zhantang.

Upon seeing this, the other civil and military ministers also bowed and saluted and said, "I will leave."

(End of this chapter)