Seeing Qin Zhongtang, the officers and soldiers guarding outside Dongchao's room did not stop him and allowed Qin Zhongtang to open the door.
A group of bureaucrats were discussing something in the room. Chen Chun, the censor in charge who was facing the door, was the first to notice Qin Dewei walking in from the outside and exclaimed: "Qin Banqiao!"
As a result, all the discussion stopped suddenly, and everyone looked at the door in unison.
Qin Zhongtang, who had been away from the court for a year and a few months, and Xia Shoufu, who had been away from the court for two years, also returned!
Qin Dewei stood at the door, bowed his hands to everyone in a perfunctory manner, and said in a formal manner: "Goodbye, gentlemen, how are you doing?"
Then, without waiting for anyone to respond, he asked his younger brother Chen Chun, who was standing in the crowd: "Who is presiding over this court meeting?"
In fact, when Qin Dewei came in just now, he quickly glanced around and saw Xia Yan, Yan Song and other officials from various ministries.
I also muttered something in my heart, why is there an internal and external meeting again.
Under normal circumstances, the imperial court is divided into internal and external affairs, and court discussions or court recommendations are matters of the outer court.
As the emperor's assistant, the cabinet bachelors did not directly participate in court discussions and could only accept reports and make decisions afterwards.
My father-in-law has also been a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so I think this will not happen when your father-in-law is in office!"
Wucao! Qin Zhongtang was speechless for a long time. He could only bow his hands to Fei Cai as a courtesy and let him go gently.
"The cabinet is the place where military matters are foreseen. Why can't they foresee military affairs?" Xia Yan still refused to give up.
When Chen Chun saw Qin Dewei's question, he answered truthfully: "Today's Chief Assistant, Mr. Xia Ge, is the host!"
Everyone began to speculate again, does Qin Zhongtang mean that if Xu Tianguan is too old and unable to do the job, he will become an official?
Qin Dewei was not surprised by this. Basically, every autumn was when the northern barbarians began to be active in raiding. This was the case every year.
The reason why internal and external meetings were always held in the West Inner Porch Room last year was because the daily meeting place of the cabinet ministers was in the Wuyi Hall of Xiyuan.
Now that the emperor is awake, why are you, Xia Shoufu, "unwilling" to return to Xiyuan and enter the Wuyi Hall near the emperor? Is it disrespectful?
Regarding this issue, it doesn't really matter if others are thinking about it, but if the emperor starts to think about it, that would be a big deal.
Feicai didn't know how to answer this soul torture, "Everything depends on God's will!"
Behind the Ministry of Husbandry were the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War. Qin Zhongtang could not "talk" to the Minister of Rites and the Minister of War, so he directly said to Fan Jizu, the left minister of the Ministry of War, "I heard that you want to be the Minister of War?"
Qin Zhongtang said sympathetically: "Xia Shoufu doesn't want you to be a minister, and I don't want you to be a minister either. What's the point of you, Zuo Shilang, being here?"
The West Inner Gate is located between Xiyuan and Miyagi City, so it is most convenient for meetings attended by academicians and foreign ministers to be in the West Inner Porch Room.
From Qin Zhongtang's tone, it seemed like it was a trivial matter. Where was the meeting?
Everyone held their breath for a moment. This was the first time Qin Zhongtang and Xia Shoufu had faced each other in two years!
Mao Bowen said angrily: "I just want to do something practical, and I don't want to get involved in the dispute!"
The first is the economic purpose, to rob the three guards of Wuliangha. After all, the three guards are well known to everyone, so it is normal for people like Anda to target them;
The second is the political purpose. Last year, the headquarters of the little prince, who was the nominal co-leader of the northern tribes, also moved eastward. I am going to march eastward, and it is also to deter the little prince who has already arrived in the east!"
What's even more infuriating is that these are all true.
Someone else asked: "Is it possible that Qin Zhongtang is already confident? Can you tell us so that we can know?"
If you weren't blind, why would you have chosen Yan Song in the first place?
Yan Song's face turned darker. It was Qin Dewei who was clearly talking to Mao Bowen, but why did he feel like he had been stabbed several times?
Seeing that Xia Yan was intimidated by Qin De again, Yan Song pretended to be loyal and said, "Rescuing troops is like putting out fire. The three Wuliangha guards are still waiting!"
Why is it that you, Qin Zhongtang, have the final say in the discussions between the Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department? Isn’t it true that you don’t need to waste your time here?
Just when everyone thought Qin Zhongtang would pursue Xia's first assistant and beat him fiercely, they saw Qin Zhongtang turning around and facing Yan Song, the second assistant.
"I understand! Could it be that Xia Shoufu, who presided over the meeting, doesn't want to go back to Xiyuan to join the army?"
Chen Chun replied: "The northern barbarians began to be restless again. The chieftain I promised to attack the three guards of Wuliangha eastward, and the three guards asked the Ming Dynasty court for help. This court meeting is to discuss this matter."
Qin Zhongtang saw that Mr. Yan Ge was silent and seemed to be bored, so he turned to Xu Zan, the heavenly official of the Ministry of Personnel.
Qin Dewei refused coldly, "The military service is a confidential matter. How can we say it casually in public?"
This year, the Anda tribe has probably recovered somewhat and has begun to mobilize on a large scale again.
Qin Zhongtang has this ability. Just one meeting can make people want to strangle him to death.
Although Xia Yan has been tested many times, he was still almost angry to death by this sentence.
There was even a Ministry of Industry, which was directly ignored by Qin Zhongtang.
Moreover, Qin Zhongtang, who has returned as the God of War, is already killing people like crazy. I don’t know who can stop Qin Zhongtang’s momentum!
Of course, Fei Cai's face didn't look much better either, and he scolded Qin Dewei: "My nephew Fei Maozhong is your master of room testing, how dare you be rude to me!"
Everyone originally thought that Qin Zhongtang would at least ask about the topic of today's meeting and then use the topic to express it.
In the first two years, Qin Dewei raided the headquarters of the Anda Department, which hurt the Anda Department a little bit. After the next year or two, there was little movement.
Next, Qin Zhongtang will propose a plan and solve the problem quickly and neatly.
After the official department is the household department, Qin Zhongtang directly skipped it. It seems that Qin Zhongtang not only followed the order of superiority and inferiority, but also was selective, only picking people who were not his own to "talk to".
Qin Dewei sighed: "How could I be that kind of person? My son has done a lot for me this year. I kindly advised him that it would be more promising to go south to Luzon, but he didn't believe it and insisted on going to Japan to see it."
Zhang Chao, the Minister of Rites, who had not spoken today, stopped Qin Dewei: "Are you really confident?"
Qin Zhongtang's words were not intense, they were just spoken in a straightforward manner, but they made Xu Zan, the official minister who had just passed his seventieth birthday, look ugly.
This time Anda did not seek to break through the border wall to the south, but chose to march eastward to attack the people of the same clan who had defected to the Ming Dynasty, commonly known as the three guards of Wuliangha.
But now in recent years, the cabinet has frequently participated in court discussions and directly guided the direction of court deliberations. This is called internal and external gatherings.
Can you, Qin Zhongtang, be more hypocritical? Who doesn't know that after you returned to the court, you would be shouldered by the Minister of War and the Military Aircraft Department?
Qin Dewei said unceremoniously: "Then let them wait! The three guards of Wuliangha have been deeply favored by our Ming Dynasty and have raised troops for thousands of days. Now they must show something!
The order is given to the three guards to resist desperately and hold back Anda's army! If you dare to surrender or have an ambiguous attitude, you will never be able to open the border city of Liaodong again in the future, and you will definitely be attacked by the Ming Dynasty afterwards!"
Then Qin Dewei asked again: "What are you gathering here to discuss today?"
After five steps, Qin Dewei stood still and asked calmly: "Last year, the internal and external meetings were held in the West Inner Porch Room. Why is it now changed to the East Chao Room?"
In Qin Dewei's words, the cabinet seems to have been excluded from the decision-making circle and is completely an executive agency.
I also heard Qin Dewei say to Xu Zan: "In the earliest days, the status of officials was higher than that of cabinet ministers. After Chenghua and Hongzhi, the status of cabinet ministers became higher and higher.
The faces of Xia Yan and Yan Song turned dark at the same time. What does it mean to have passed away? What does it mean to have been torn internally?
The Ministry of Personnel has always evaluated others, but these few words seemed to make Qin Dewei evaluate him, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, as incompetent.
Xia Yan: "."
"No such intention!" Fan Jizu replied very decisively.
Xia Yan really wanted to yell, Qin Dewei, this nonsense bastard! Now that Wuyi Hall is occupied by the Chief of Ceremonies and the Military Aircraft Department, how can the cabinet be moved there? Why is it that Xia Yan doesn't want to do it all?
Everyone peeked and saw that Xia Shoufu's face was twisted into a rag, but they couldn't say a word because they didn't dare to discuss this topic.
The Wuliangha Sanwei are close to Liaodong. In recent years, the only northern border market has been opened to the Wuliangha Sanwei, so the wealth of the Wuliangha Sanwei is far higher than that of other tribes of the same ethnic group.
Someone questioned: "The discussion has just begun, and the matter has not reached a conclusion yet, how can it be dispersed?"
This order aroused people's speculation. Did Qin Zhongtang "talk" according to his status?
But for many people, including Xia Yan, they suddenly felt a cold air rushing straight into the sky, as if autumn had suddenly turned into winter! It’s terrifying to think about it!
When the emperor was healthy, all the bachelors in your cabinet were in Wuyi Palace in Xiyuan. After the emperor fell into coma, you returned to Wenyuan Pavilion.
Qin Zhongtang is still the same Qin Zhongtang. Many troublesome or confusing things will become clear after being analyzed by Qin Zhongtang.
Yan Song gritted his teeth and asked, "How could I know that I wasn't silenced by you?"
Qin Dewei replied rationally: "After your Majesty agrees with the enemy strategy of the Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department, it will naturally be forwarded to the cabinet for information."
Chen Chun answered honestly: "You came in right after the discussion started."
Qin Dewei naturally grasped the rhythm of the court discussion, "According to my analysis, I have two purposes for conquering the three guards of Wuliangha in the east!
Everyone in the court room finally breathed a sigh of relief. Qin Zhongtang's killing spree was finally stopped.
Some bored people silently counted, Qin Zhongtang took five steps in total, as if each step contained the laws of heaven and could evolve into infinite changes.
Now the meeting place has been changed back to the East Chao Room outside the Meridian Gate, because the place where the Cabinet Scholars entered Zhizhi has returned to Wenyuan Pavilion, and the East Chao Room is between Wenyuan Pavilion and the Foreign Ministry.
This means that Xia Shoufu did not want to return to Xiyuan and enter Zhi, so he stayed in Wenyuan Pavilion and entered Zhi; and because he stayed in Wenyuan Pavilion, he held meetings in the East Chao Room near Wenyuan Pavilion.
Qin Zhongtang glanced at it coldly, but explained: "The Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department will discuss it, and then report it to His Majesty!"
When everyone saw this, their only thought was that Qin Zhongtang was still the same Qin Zhongtang! After returning from the town for more than a year, his combat effectiveness had not weakened, but he had even reached a state of transformation.
Xia Shoufu asked rhetorically: "Is it possible that even the cabinet is not allowed to hear about it?"
Behind the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites was the Ministry of Punishment. Qin Dewei looked at Mao Bowen, the chief minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and sighed deeply, "How can I become a thief, a beautiful lady like you?"
In order to lower the reading threshold, Qin Zhongtang suddenly made an expression of enlightenment and further explained:
After thinking for a while, Qin Dewei said: "If there is nothing else, please leave."
Even the location of the meeting could be linked to Xia Shoufu's lack of respect for the emperor. Without thirty-year cerebral thrombosis, I would never have thought of such logic.
Then Qin Dewei turned around and walked outside. Today's main task was actually to enter the palace to meet the emperor, and his appearance in the East Chamber was just a way to go.
Qin Dewei replied: "Teacher, please don't worry, I will try my best to solve this matter!"
So as to why the meeting place was changed, a minister can understand the reason. Are you, Qin Zhongtang, pretending to be stupid?
The main reason is that many of Qin Zhongtang's words are too deep and difficult to read, so most people can't understand them.
Qin Dewei seemed to have just seen Xia Yan and walked towards Xia Yan.
Yan Song immediately shut up, not wanting to continue discussing with Qin Dewei Yan Shifan's "great contribution".
But no matter what, the official of the Ministry of Personnel is still the head of the outer dynasty, and all court meetings and recommendations are presided over by the official of the Ministry of Personnel!
Why is it that in your generation, Xu Tianguan, even the presiding officer of the court meeting has been given up? When did the first fu university scholar start to preside over the court meeting?
But I didn't expect that Qin Zhongtang's state has reached the point where he can hurt people by flying flowers and picking leaves. If he wants to mess with people, he just opens his mouth and does not need facts at all.
I don’t know how Qin Dewei analyzed it, but after listening to Qin Zhongtang’s words, everyone felt suddenly enlightened.
Then Qin Dewei left Fan Jizu and said to Fei Cai, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, "I heard that you want to be the Minister of Rites?"
Qin Dewei blinked his eyes a few times and replied rationally: "I am also a bachelor of the cabinet. As long as I know the information, I can predict it on behalf of the cabinet!"
"I have something to tell Mr. Yange." Qin Zhongtang still said in a calm tone, "Young master probably felt that there was no future in the Ming Dynasty, so he took a naval warship to the Japanese country."
The logic is very clear and can be understood by individuals.
Qin Zhongtang shook his head and replied: "Then you have an eye problem!"
After Qin Zhongtang understood the current situation, he continued to ask: "Have you discussed any countermeasures?"
In Qin Zhongtang's eyes, this was probably a manifestation of the increasing power of the cabinet. Of course, in this process, Qin Zhongtang, who repeatedly found excuses to interfere in foreign court discussions, played an important role.
Qin Dewei said disdainfully: "Wake up, you Jiangxi gang are almost out of breath! Even if you are out of breath, the inside is already torn. What can you do to be the Minister of Rites?"
There is indeed a custom in the officialdom that when you reach the age of seventy, you can beg your bones and retire.
Everyone: "."
Everyone couldn't help but sigh, Qin Zhongtang was still reliable if something really happened. Although they didn't know what Qin Zhongtang was thinking, they felt relieved when they saw Qin Zhongtang's confident look.
In fact, Qin Zhongtang's method is very simple. Just take advantage of Anda's Eastern Expedition to sneak attack Anda's lair again.
According to historical records, after I built Bansheng City in Fengzhou Beach, I established a new base camp in the east. That place is now called Hohhot, and it is easier to find than Bansheng City in Fengzhou.
In this time and space, after Qin Zhongtang's victory at Fengzhou Beach, I will definitely choose a new base camp location. If nothing unexpected happens, I will probably follow the historical trajectory.
After all, the geography of mountains and rivers will not change. The most suitable place in another time and space will definitely still be the most suitable place in this time and space.
