Conquer the king with power

early morning.

Except for the assassination, Si Yan had rested for a few days since he took the throne, and he basically never missed the court meeting.

When the first emperor was alive, there was a big court meeting every three days, and a small court meeting every day.

The Chinese and military ministers in the court will attend the court if they are qualified.The Xiaochaohui will only allow the cabinet ministers and the main officials of the Sixth Department of the Chinese Book to participate, and there will be no more than twenty people at most.

Since Si Yan ascended the throne, the small court meeting was temporarily cancelled, and the daily big court meeting has been maintained.

Si Yan was also familiar with government affairs when he was a prince before, but the late emperor did not appoint a prince for a long time, and he had no actual contact with many things.Therefore, in order to take over government affairs as soon as possible when he ascended the throne, he basically kept the daily court meeting.After he was ready to get used to it, he returned to the way it was before.

Today's court meeting, hundreds of officials gathered.Si Yan caressed Dou Yu's hand and walked up to the throne step by step.

"Shanhu!" Si Yan sat down, Dou Yu stood beside Si Yan and shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty, long live!" The officials knelt down and shouted.

Looking at the kneeling civil and military officials, Si Yan felt a little desolate in his heart, and even laughed a little.

"Pingshen!" Si Yan raised his hand.

This is Dou Yu saying loudly again: "If there is something to do, let's play, and if there is nothing to do, we will leave the court."

"Minister, I have something to play." At this time, Li Fu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, came out and stood in the middle.

"Li Aiqing, tell me!" Si Yan nodded slightly, and the beads shook, making a small sound.

"Floods have frequently occurred in Shuqiu recently, and the officials have come forward to ask for an order to build water conservancy." Li Fu folded his hands.

This kind of paper presented face to face in the court is either an extremely important event, or a matter that requires the emperor to discuss the regulations in court.

What Li Fu brought up was something that needed to be decided by the banquet in court.

Dou Yu hurriedly went down and presented Li Fu's memorial to the secretary, then returned to his seat and waited respectfully.

Si Yan unfolded the booklet. This is a huge water conservancy project that requires a lot of money and manpower.

Si Yan read the papers, and then handed them to Dou Yu, and then slowly said: "This is a good thing, benefiting the country and the people. Feng Xiang, Cai Shoufu, and all the officials of the Ministry of Households, please take a look."

After Si Yan finished speaking, Dou Yu passed on the notebook in his hand and handed it to the officials called by Si Yan to check it.

After the officials checked them one by one, Dou Yu held the folder in both hands and returned it to his Majesty.

"I think it's inappropriate!" Feng Xiang turned his eyes, stood up, and dismissed it directly.

The reason why this note was not transferred to the cabinet through the Zhongshu, but was directly presented to His Majesty in front of the hall, is to skip Xiang Feng.

The Ministry of Industry is from Cai Shoufu, and the construction of water conservancy projects requires funds from the Ministry of Households, which is from Feng Xiang.Once the money reaches the Ministry of Industry, it is equivalent to entering Cai Shoufu's hands. No one knows what will happen, so Feng Xianghui simply disagrees.

How could he take out the money in his hand so easily, so that others could have a chance to reap some benefits.

Feng Xiang will naturally object, unless it is absolutely necessary.

Si Yan frowned, and then facing the six ministers, the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "Where is Cai Shoufu?"

Cai Shoufu was given such a name by Si Yan, and he immediately stood up: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, I think it is feasible. The land of Shuqiu produces a lot of water and food. If the water conservancy is out of balance, it will be of no benefit to the people. I don't know why Feng Xiang refuted it."

"The autumn harvest in Shuqiu has passed, and the floods have been properly dealt with. Such a huge water conservancy project, I don't know how much food it will cost. Now that the national treasury is empty, it is really not appropriate to spend money and effort. How about this? Order the local officials to deal with the original water conservancy projects. Repair the embankment." Feng Xiang sneered, he didn't know what Cai's party was up to.

Seeing the dispute between the two parties, Wei Chun looked up at Si Yan, which was what Si Yan wanted.As a fledgling, he will never let the two parties join forces, so giving them endless disputes is the best way.

This is the trade-off technique left to him by the first emperor, and it is also the best learned by Si Yan.Si Yan is like this, using himself and him to make this balance.

"Your Majesty!" Wei Chun stood up suddenly: "I think it's better to stay in the middle. The Ministry of Households will provide money, the Ministry of Officials will provide personnel, and the Ministry of Industry will provide methods. Everyone can do things together."

Wei Chun is not a civil servant who can't explain those great truths, but he added another dimension to Feng Xiang.

This is Feng Xiang's Ministry of Officials. Although the Minister of the Ministry of Officials is vacant, the officials of the Ministry of Officials are still Feng Dang.

Now it's up to Cai Shoufu to make a decision. If he really wants the Ministry of Households to contribute money and the Ministry of Industry to repair water conservancy, he has to make concessions and let Feng Xiang's Ministry of Officials join in, otherwise this matter will not be discussed.

Cai Shoufu took a look at Wei Hou, Wei Chun is a general, not involved in disputes between civil servants, what happened today, I will interject at this time.

Si Yan's eyes gradually darkened, and then he raised his hand to ask Feng Xiang and Cai Shoufu.

"What do you two think, what Wei Hou said?" Si Yan's tone was a bit cold.

Feng Xiang immediately changed his tone: "What Wei Hou said is fine, it is also a matter for the country and the people. I shouldn't block Cai Shoufu like this. Why don't we follow Wei Hou's words, allocate funds from the Ministry of Households, send people from the Ministry of Officials, The ministry came up with the charter, and everyone worked together to do this.”

Cai Shoufu almost gritted his teeth. He mentioned water conservancy repairs, but there was a reason, otherwise who would mention such a thankless job.

Repairing water conservancy is not an easy task, and the whole process is thankless.If you do it well, it will benefit the country and the people, so you should do it.If you don't do it well, say you're a waste and can't be used for much.

But there is a lot of oil and water in the middle, and a random [-]% to [-]% is not a small sum.

He just ran for the "[-]% and [-]%". Now if someone from the official department gets in, he will have to get in the way and it's hard to use it.

"What Feng Xiang said, I think it's very good!" Cai Shoufu had no choice but to agree, otherwise the two sides would not be friendly, and it would be better to put this matter on the agenda.

"Then follow what the gentlemen say!" Si Yan decided with one word.

"What else is there?" After the banquet was settled, his eyes fell on Xu Jinnian, which was the highlight of the day.

Xu Jinnian stood up at this time, holding the memorial, hands above his head, and slowly knelt on his knees.

"My lord, Xu Jinnian, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, pleads for the people!" Xu Jin said every word with force.

Pleading for the people, these four words are very important.As soon as these four words came out, all the military officials in Chinese and Chinese looked at Xu Jinnian who was kneeling on the ground, and then there were discussions in their ears.

"Quiet!" Dou Yu shouted immediately when he heard the noisy voice.

All the officials were silent, while Si Yan got up and stepped down a step, showing respect for this note that pleads for the people.

"Recently, I received a complaint from a woman, suing the minister of the Ministry of Rites for collaborating with others, participating in human trafficking, forcing people into prostitution, giving and accepting bribes, and assisting the evildoers. There are dozens of crimes. There are too many serious crimes to write down!" Xu Jinnian said. Hold high and play sparsely.

The ministers were in an uproar, and the Minister of Rites jumped out immediately.

"Xu Jinnian, you are slandering me!" The Minister of Rites pointed at Xu Jinnian and cursed.

Cursing at all, Lin Jian is still very guilty. Last night both Dali Temple and Gyeonggi Nine Gates went to search for the Jiaofang Division. The woman named Su Rao disappeared again. One of the forces must have taken it away.

Lin Jian went to discuss with Cai Shoufu overnight, and Cai Shoufu told him not to panic, to go to court normally, and refused to admit it.

Lin Jian thought that no matter which party took the woman away, they would come to negotiate terms.After all, he is a second-rank official in his imperial court who holds great power, and everything will be negotiable at that time. I didn't expect to meet such an upright person like Xu Jinnian.

At this time, Dou Yu walked down quickly, took the booklet in Xu Jinnian's hand, and presented it to the secretary.This is the important thing today, don't delay.

After reading Xu Jinnian's memorial, Si Yan stretched out his hand and dropped the notebook in his hand, making a loud smash.

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Feng Xiangyue had already guessed what was going on, and immediately knelt down, bowed his head and shouted to calm down, but he was not afraid at all, and even gloated a little.

Seeing Feng Xiang kneeling, all the officials also knelt down, and only Wei Chun was left standing.

"Zhongshuling, where is it?" Si Yan calmed down, and then spoke.

Zhang Zefang immediately crawled out, and knelt down where Si Yan could see: "The minister is here!"

"Look, look! This is the Ritual Department of the Zhongshu Province you manage!" Si Yan turned around and returned to the dragon seat, and sat down.

Zhang Zefang swallowed her saliva in shock, then crawled over tremblingly, picked up the booklet and read it.

It's okay if you don't look at it, but when you look at Zhang Zefang, you almost fainted from fright in court.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Your Majesty...!" Zhang Zefang couldn't speak for a moment.

"Lin Jian, tell me!" Si Yan directly called out Lin Jian's name.

Lin Jian hesitated for a moment, then crawled over, took the folder in Zhang Zefang's hand, looked at it for a moment, and immediately bent down on the ground.

"Your Majesty is wronged, please investigate!" Lin Jian shouted loudly.

"Might check it out!" Si Yan nodded, "Okay! Xu Jinnian!" Si Yan called out to Xu Jinnian.

Xu Jinnian responded immediately: "The minister is here!"

Si Yan straightened his sleeves: "You and Marquis Wei will investigate this case together."

"Yes!" Xu Jinnian lowered his head.

Wei Chun didn't know why Si Yan called his name, he hesitated, but then he also reacted and bowed his head in agreement.

Feng Xiang was still a little secretly happy at this time, after all, this Ministry of Rites is Cai Shoufu's Ministry of Rites.

"Your Majesty!" Cai Shoufu wanted to calm down, but the secretary gave Cai Shoufu a look directly.

Cai Shoufu looked at Si Yan's eyes, and immediately swallowed his words back, feeling cold in his heart.

Just now, the secretary directly ordered the banquet, and did not ask the officials about this matter, and did not give the officials any time to react.This can only show one thing, he can't keep the Ministry of Rites.

Feng Xiang also saw Si Yan's look in his eyes, and the joy in his heart a moment ago disappeared in an instant.It seems that he has also entered into a game of Si Yan, this incident is just a beginning, as for the result, no one knows yet.

Wei Chun didn't understand why Si Yan asked him to handle this matter. Isn't one Xu Jinnian enough?

What the secretary wants to do, only he knows.He wants to use this as an opportunity to clear the court.As for how to clear it up, it depends on how the case can be investigated and how many people are involved.

How can other officials of the Ministry of Rites not know about the human trafficking that all ministers of the Ministry of Rites are involved in?Didn't anyone else notice the sixth volume of Zhongshu?