At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

A ghostly existence without a clear department, head, or official office.

It does exist, but it doesn’t seem to exist, but it can indeed interfere with the cabinet, deter the cabinet, prevent the cabinet from developing to a complete body, and itself is not a complete body. The imperial power can be maintained in such a balance.

Guo Peng thought about it seriously.

In the past, he held grand court meetings in the main hall of Fengtian Temple to deal with some major events symbolically, while he handled daily government affairs and summoned his courtiers to discuss real state affairs in the side hall southwest of Fengtian Temple.

He regarded it as his study and duty room, and it was also the real power core of the Wei Empire.

There is no name in itself, it is just a side hall.

Now that it was necessary, Guo Peng rolled his eyes and thought of something interesting.

He ordered people to make a plaque of "South Study Room" for this side hall and hang it on it.

Thus, the Wei Empire version of Nanshufang was born.

The official office of the cabinet is in the imperial palace, in Yongle Hall next to Fengtian Hall.

After Guo Peng rebuilt Luoyang, he built the imperial palace in the center of Luoyang City, and called the place where he lived Miyagi.

Most of the central government offices were in the imperial city, and only the staff desk and the cabinet were in the palace, to show the emperor's control over military power and the importance he attached to the cabinet.

The Luoyang Imperial Palace is divided into two parts: the outer palace and the inner palace.

The Outer Palace is a complex of palaces with the Fengtian Hall as the core. It is located in the south of Miyagi City. It is the place where the emperor handles daily government affairs and holds a grand court meeting to receive his ministers.

The inner palace is a complex of palaces with the Hall of Mental Cultivation as the core. It is located in the north of Miyagi City and is the daily life of the emperor and his family.

Foreign ministers can enter the outer palace to meet the emperor, but they must not enter the inner palace.

Even the prince must move to live in the outer palace after he becomes an adult, and cannot enter the inner palace at will. If he wants to see his mother, he needs to report in advance and go to see his mother accompanied by relevant people.

These rules were passed down from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Wei Empire only continued to use them. It was also his personal habit that Guo Peng often handled government affairs in the side hall of Fengtian Hall. He never thought of the South Study Room at the beginning.

But now that there is a need, then Nanshufang must be on the stage of history.

To ensure the control of power, to ensure that power is not infringed, to ensure that no one can threaten the emperor...

At a certain moment, Mr. Guo sighed deeply, clutching his forehead, feeling a little tired.

But it was just a moment.

The South Study Room is not an official government office, and has no formal position in charge. It is just a side hall where the emperor reads, writes, handles government affairs and receives officials daily. It is no big deal.

But deliberately listing the name [South Study Room] on such a side hall always makes some people with a keen sense of smell feel that the emperor has something to say by doing so.

In fact, that's right, His Majesty the Emperor meant something by doing so.

The South Study Room is aimed at the cabinet, not a specific person, so people from any department can be selected to come to the South Study Room to accompany the emperor to read and write, and then...

Discuss government affairs, and even help the emperor pass some necessary messages to the outside world.

Originally used as a place to study and practice calligraphy, as long as there are eunuchs to accompany it.

But Guo Peng said that the significance of the existence of the South Study Room is not limited to this, so it is necessary to choose very outstanding talented and promising people from among the courtiers to come to the South Study Room to accompany him to read and write, and to deal with some trivial matters.

With such a purpose, on the third day after the establishment of the South Study Room, two people were called to the South Study Room by Guo Peng from the department they belonged to, and they were given the title of "South Study Room Attendant".

One is Pang Tong, a native of Jingzhou, Sima of the staff office, who is almost in the middle of the staff office, and his status is not prominent, but his talent and reputation are quite great.

Another person is Zhuge Jin, a native of Xuzhou, the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who is considered to be a strong candidate for the next minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Now Zhuge Jin can be said to be a veteran official who joined the Guowei Group before Guo Peng proclaimed himself emperor. He has always been clean and has no record of any crimes.

Although Pang Tong joined after Guo Peng proclaimed himself emperor, he has been in office for several years so far. He is conscientious and sincere, and he has not been involved in any previous turmoil.

In this tax reform turmoil, the Zhuge family in Langya represented by Zhuge Jin and the Pang family in Xiangyang, Pang Tong's family, both owned manors and lands of varying numbers before the founding of the Wei Empire.

Faced with the emperor's harsh requirements, these two families were in Xuzhou and Jingzhou, where the rebellion was more intense, and they were among the few who agreed to the emperor's request and accepted the conditions of measuring land so as to survive the crisis safely.

So in the current era when the powerful families were destroyed on a large scale and the grassroots regime of the Wei Empire was consolidated unprecedentedly, the Zhuge family in Langya and the Pang family in Xiangyang were very few families that could still maintain their manors.

Similar families include the Xianyufu family in Youzhou, the Li Dian family in Jizhou, the Qiaorui family in Luoyang, and so on.

The number of such families is now scarce, and the amount of land they occupy has also shrunk greatly. They are not good enough, and they can no longer threaten the local power of the Wei Empire.

Therefore, Zhuge Jin and Pang Tong can be said to be quite clean.

Chapter 1309 One thousand 210 nine he finally understood Zhu Yuanzhang's difficulties

In the nine years of the Yande Year, the officials who could maintain the element of "clean net worth" were really not in the majority in the entire Wei Empire.

In particular, Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin are still scholars, and they have been able to persevere in the previous turmoil against scholars, and it has to be said that their teaming skills are superb.

Under such a premise, Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin were favored by Guo Peng, and they were called to the South Study Room, where they were given the status of [Nan Study Room Servants].

Let them accompany me to read and practice calligraphy, and help me deal with some government affairs and the like.

Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin still had their own jobs, and they were really confused when they were suddenly called by the emperor to give them the status of [South Study Attendant].

What is His Majesty the Emperor doing?

Nanshufang's servants are not formal positions, but just a title. Their official status is still Sima, the staff officer of the staff desk, and the right servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The South Study Room is not an institution of authority, but a place where the emperor himself reads, practices calligraphy, and handles daily government affairs.

The two were initially puzzled.

But within a few days, the two suddenly realized and fell into a burst of ecstasy.

The servants in the South Study Room seem to be just a useless identity, but they have obtained the qualification to often hang around Guo Peng, and often accompany Guo Peng to do business and chat with him!

All of a sudden, they changed from being unable to meet the emperor's foreign ministers often to being able to meet the emperor's trusted ministers frequently!

The people who can frequent the emperor's side are definitely the very few among the very few.

From the current point of view, only Cao Cao, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Guo Jia, the left servant of the staff desk, can do it.

They are often taken by the emperor to haunt the court and have a close relationship. Therefore, Cao Cao and Guo Jia are often used as weather vanes for courtiers to do things and talk.

Because these two people can best understand the emperor's thoughts, they also represent the staff desk and the cabinet, and declare that the staff desk and the cabinet are the emperor's right-hand man.

Suddenly the emperor listed the South Study Room, and asked Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin to serve as attendants in the South Study Room. They often accompanied the Emperor and met with the Emperor every day.

Although most of the discussions were about the content of books, the emperor would also talk about some government affairs from time to time, listen to their opinions, and admire them quite a lot in words.

This……

What exactly does this mean?

Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin had an in-depth private communication, and felt that something was wrong, and felt that the emperor must have a special purpose for doing this.

Otherwise, there is no need to list a South Study Room, and give them the status of the South Study Room attendant, allowing them to enter the outer palace.

That's interesting.

A few days later, Guo Peng called Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin to discuss with them about the value of money.

"Gu here is very busy dealing with government affairs. There are a lot of things to do every day. There are no talented attendants to accompany you. It's still quite stressful. Why don't you discuss and arrange the work on your hands? One day a day How about going to the South Study Room to listen to Gu's side?"

Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin's hearts were beating with excitement, and they immediately expressed their willingness to do so.

"The subject is willing to listen to His Majesty's orders, and is willing to listen to and use by His Majesty's side."

What a joke, the two of them are not the top leaders in the staff office and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, nor are they the ones who can make decisions. In terms of closeness, they are far inferior to Xizhong and Zaoyi.

But with the status of the south study attendants, they have the possibility of overtaking in a curve, surpassing those high-ranking officials who have a good impression in front of the emperor.

With such a good thing, how could they refuse?

In fact, Guo Peng also had his own practical needs for setting up the South Study Room.

It's not just to ensure that his power is not violated, but in the current situation, when his power is so huge, even if there is a cabinet to help him share the pressure of government affairs, his pressure is still particularly huge.

Especially after he solved the matter of Shangshutai's transfer of performances, although no one could divide the imperial power and infringe upon the imperial power, but because of this, all the performances related to the country's government affairs were directed at him.

Shang Shuling and Shang Shupu shot are gone, the highest government agency is gone, and the head of the government is gone, so naturally, everything can only be handled by the emperor, the supreme leader.

All the performances were sent to Fengtian Hall and handed over to Guo Peng, who will be handled by Guo Peng himself.

The unprecedentedly large number of playbooks flew towards him like snowflakes, which really caught him off guard. When a person read the playbooks, his eyes were dazzled and his head was about to explode.

But he also likes power, and he holds power firmly in his hands, and he is not going to let it go no matter what, so there is no way, this crime really has to be endured.

This is the test that the real emperor must stand.

The power that Guo Peng handed over to the cabinet was only a part of the power in his hands, which was far inferior to the power of Shang Shuling and Shang Shupushe.

Although there are many things that the cabinet can handle, they are not the main core government affairs, but mostly complicated but unimportant things.

These things are very troublesome and test the art of doing things, but they are not the core.

Guo Peng will not appoint anyone for the real core military and state affairs. He will personally manage and give instructions to ensure the smooth operation of the country.

For example, the treatment of the army, the location of the garrison, the distribution of military pay, the appointment of personnel by the army and the government, and the allocation of some disaster relief materials, etc., are all handled by him personally.

Even if it is really too late and has to be handed over to the cabinet, Cao Cao needs to summarize and streamline the completed matters, and then report to him on the spot with a report to let Guo Peng know.

He has to intervene in every detail, even if it is related to administrative orders, he will never let it go.

Once there is dissatisfaction, Guo Peng will order Cao Cao to change the disposal method on the spot, and then hand it over to the administrative department for implementation.

So his workload is really heavy.

Sometimes he has to review up to [-] to [-] words a day, and write a reply of nearly [-] words, and then instruct his ministers to act according to his will.

From morning to night, there is almost no time to rest.

Thanks to the well-developed transportation network he has repaired for many years, the speed of message transmission is slightly accelerated.

Thanks to the spread of paper, direct communication between him and his courtiers was possible.

Of course, this greatly consolidated the centralization of the emperor's autocracy, allowing his power to be greatly demonstrated, and the emperor's authority overwhelmed the world, but...

So fucking tired.

He finally understood Zhu Yuanzhang's difficulties.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang reviewed a total of 660 internal and external ministers' memorials within eight days, and handled 390 state affairs.

On average, more than 200 memorials are reviewed every day, and more than 400 state affairs are handled...

The daily number alone is so terrifying, and there are still eight days in a row...

In this way, I can live to be 70 years old.

It can be seen how powerful Zhu Yuanzhang's genes are, how energetic he is, and how good he is at managing time.

A true master of time management in Ming Dynasty.

True Daming Liver Emperor.

Guo Peng is still far behind.

No, it is never estimated to be comparable.

He reviewed the notebooks non-stop from morning to night, and dealt with state affairs continuously. At most, he handled 330 state affairs a day at a time, and he couldn't do such high-intensity work for eight consecutive days.

In this regard, he is willing to bow down.

He really didn't want to compare with Zhu Yuanzhang who could handle state affairs better.

The emperors of all dynasties have competed for diligence, and there is no one on the right side of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Really tired, feeling a little powerless.

And there are many things that make him dumbfounded.

For example, very, very many courtiers want to connect with him and want to leave a very deep impression on him, so they racked their brains to write a memorial for him. There are not many things, it's all flattery.

It annoyed him, but there was nothing he could do.

Chapter 1310 One thousand 220

Guo's series of actions directly caused the expansion of imperial power, and the courtiers were able to directly communicate with the emperor through the memorial, and there were as many as [-] imperial officials who had the right to hand the memorial to the emperor.