While everyone was stunned and pondering, Zhu Mai continued: "The cabinet members were only elected from the ten ministers and ministers, and then appointed by this palace.

Each time, more than ten people are selected, and then the palace will select five to nine people as cabinet ministers, and one person is selected as the chief minister to coordinate the government affairs of various ministries.

In order to avoid the ministers' disputes over elections in the court and lead to party disputes, the heads and officials of various ministries wrote ten names of the cabinet ministers on paper, signed the names and handed them over.

After that, the palace will ask the Inspector to vote on the spot, and select the top ten or top 11 with the largest number of votes, and twelve are also allowed.

The votes will be made public again, and the ministers of the ministries will check, and then the list will be handed over to our palace to confirm that there is nothing.

This is the rule of the establishment of the new cabinet. If you have any doubts, you can ask now."

After listening to Zhu Mai's lecture, Yuan Jixian thought about it and found that the method of selecting members of the new cabinet was not much different from before, except for limiting the candidates to the ministers and ministers of various ministries.

If you have to say that there is, it means that the emperor has stronger control over the cabinet ministers.

After all, there are only a few ministers and ministers in various tribes, and more than ten ministers have to be selected for the emperor to choose. As long as the emperor controls the ministers and ministers’ candidates, he can firmly grasp the cabinet.

The others also felt that the method of electing cabinet members was not much different from before.

What most ministers care about is that the power of the cabinet is too different from before.

In addition, the left and right censors of the Censorate were also directly excluded from the cabinet, which made Jiang Yueguang quite concerned.

Before, he was quite excited when he saw Zhu Mai agreeing to summon Gao Hongtu as the left censor of the Censorate.

Because according to the content of ministers from various departments of the court at that time, although it was not the Zhongzhengying court, including eunuchs like Ma Shiying, and He Tengjiao and others who were promoted by contacting Zhu Moe first, overall, it was still biased.

Most of the "main ministers" of the Donglin Party are moving forward.

The Censorate is completely in the hands of the Donglin Party.

According to past habits, most of the censors of the left and right capitals would be elected as cabinet ministers. In this way, the Donglin Party will also occupy a place in the cabinet.

But now he and Gao Hongtu have no hope of entering the cabinet.

This made him a little hard to accept.

He thought for a while and said, "Report to the State, the separation of the four powers of the military, political, procuratorial and legal system can certainly lead to the powers of various institutions of the court.

But if something happens that requires cooperation from all parties to solve, who should do the main thing? You can't bother with everything, right?

Besides, if the king is determined by God, he is a wise king, and there is no problem in coordinating all parties.

But if the kings of later generations are mediocre people, how can we ensure that the institutions after the separation of these four powers can still cooperate without interruption?"

After hearing what Jiang Yueguang said, many of the others nodded, feeling that what they said was reasonable.

The separation of the four powers sounds beautiful.

But as Jiang Yueguang said, after Zhu Ma, what should the court do when encountering major events that require cooperation from all parties?

Facing Jiang Yueguang's question, Zhu Ma said calmly: "Where is a perfect system in this world? Where is the policy that will last forever?

Not to mention anything else, how many systems and policies established by Emperor Taizu back then are fully complied with now?

The reason why this palace has set a system of separation of the four powers is to learn from the advanced experience of later generations, and to facilitate the palace to restore the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, so that the country can be prosperous and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

If this can be achieved, the system of separation of four powers is worthy of implementation.

Moreover, the new system has not yet been implemented, how can you know that it will not make the government more efficient than before?

As for whether this system will have problems due to social changes after this palace and the ministers, later generations will deal with it, which is not something that the palace and the ministers should worry about.

You all think, are what our palace says correct?"

For a moment, the ministers fell into deep thought again.

They recalled and found that Zhu Ma did not say before that the system of separation of the four powers would become the permanent system of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, even if any emperor says so, the emperors and ministers behind may not always follow it.

Is the prestige of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty high enough?

But shortly after his death, the two emperors Jianwen and Yongle changed many of their systems and policies.

So Zhu Masan said that it is right, how can there be any system or policy that will never be easy forever?

The only word that is truly eternal in this world is "change"!

The truth about Zhu Ma’s words and what he wants to express is not complicated.

All the ministers attending this meeting were all top people in the Ming Dynasty, so they quickly understood.

So Ma Shiying stood up first and bowed to Zhu Ma and said, "What the governor said is great wisdom, I will worship you!"

Seeing this, the others reacted and stood up and bowed, saying, "I'm convinced!"

Seeing that all the ministers of the court were convinced (at least on the surface), Zhu Mai couldn't help but feel happy secretly.

She smiled and raised her hand, "Jiu, sit down."

After everyone sat down, she continued, "Since that's the case, you will start to elect the cabinet ministers now? If anyone can't remember the rules that this palace has just mentioned, you can look at the board."

After saying that, Zhu Mojiu signaled Han Zanzhou to hang a "rule for electing cabinet members" on the previous large wooden board.

Immediately, the ministers and ministers of all the ministries wrote and thought about who to choose.

It was only then that they discovered that Zhu Meiyu's other function of arranging seats - almost forbidding their possibility of private communication with each other.

And the "rules" also state that when voting in court, no exchange of opinions is allowed.

After a quarter of an hour, Zhu Ma asked: "Have you written all the votes of all of you?"

It doesn’t take much time to write the names of ten people, and what takes time is the choice.

However, there are only seven of the ten chapters at present, and nearly half of the ministers are missing, so it is not difficult for everyone to choose, because there are only a dozen people who can choose.

As the ministers expressed that they had finished writing, Zhu Ma asked Han Zanzhou to collect the votes and sang the votes in court.

After the result came out, eleven people were selected, because several of them had the same votes and ranked in the same ranking, so one more person was ranked behind.

This is also the purpose of the "rules" to finally select "ten to twelve people".

Later, the ministers elected Huang Daozhou, and Lu Zhenfei checked the votes on behalf of everyone - this was just a process, and no one would cheat in the first cabinet member vote.

After checking and confirming that the votes were correct, the list of the eleven people was handed over to Zhu Mai.

The ministers thought that the meeting of Zhu Ma was discontinued first and spent one or two days to consider who to choose.

Unexpectedly, when Zhu Niu got the paper that wrote the list, she picked up a red pen from the imperial case and drew circles on it.

The quick movement made many ministers thump and thought to themselves: "Responsible for the country, don't slip your hand and make mistakes."

However, the ministers also realized that Zhu Ma had already thought about the cabinet members, so he made a decision on the spot.

Just when the ministers were thinking about each other, Zhu Mai copied the circled names on one piece and added the title of Grand Secretary to each cabinet minister according to management.

Then he handed it to Zhang Jiayu, a Hanlin Academy scholar who was preparing a meeting summary for her, and said, "See what is above."

Wang Yingxiong had stayed in Sichuan before and was on his way to Nanjing.

As for Zhang Jiayu, Hao Guangming picked it out and recommended it to Zhu Mai after seeing the list of personnel from various institutions of the Hongguang court a few days ago.

Therefore, people are quite famous in later generations and are one of the "Three Loyals in Lingnan".
Chapter completed!