"Cough cough! The Emperor is the important place of political affairs. What kind of morality is the Lords so noisy?"

After seeing Kangxi saying he wanted to choose a new prime minister, the scene in the hall was a little chaotic, so Soetu coughed twice! So soon, the hall calmed down again, but although it was quiet on the surface, the hearts of civil and military officials were still ups and downs!

...

"Your Majesty, I want to recommend someone!" Looking at the quiet situation he created with satisfaction, Soetu was the first to stand up and speak to Kangxi.

"Oh? Soetu, someone has chosen you so soon? Well, tell me, who do you want to recommend?"

"Your Majesty, what I want to recommend is: Li Guangdi!" Soetu replied confidently.

"Li Guangdi?"

"That's right! Emperor, Li Guangdi is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and is knowledgeable, not inferior to Xiong Cilu. He has served as the governor of Zhili for many years and is extremely talented. He is the best candidate for the position of the Minister of the Study!" Soetu said.

"Well! This is not bad. Whether it is qualifications, knowledge, or ability, Li Guangdi is indeed the best choice!" Kangxi also nodded.

"Yes, yes, Lord Li is indeed the best candidate!"

"That's right, Li Jinqing (Li Guangdi's courtesy name is Jinqing) deserves his name..."

...

Seeing Soetu's recommendation, Kangxi nodded, and some enthusiastic officials immediately calmed down. Although their minds had not reacted much, their mouths had already expressed their meaning at the first time - Li Guangdi, indeed, should be the first candidate! No one in the court's civil and military affairs was more qualified to compete for this position than Li Guangdi!

No wonder these people have this idea of ​​following the crowd! Because Li Guangdi does have the capital to convince the public!

Li Guangdi was a famous minister of Neo-Confucianism, and his knowledge was known to be chasing "Zhu Zi". Although this praise was a bit exaggerated, it also showed his status in the academic circle of the Qing Dynasty, where Neo-Confucianism was prevalent. Although he could not compare with Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Wang Fuzhi, who refused to be loyal to the Qing court and were truly devoted to learning, his status as a first-class official made him more influential to those scholars who were obsessed with the imperial examinations!

Moreover, Li Guangdi was also very talented and made many great contributions, and had a very good reputation among the officials and the people! During the rebellion of the Three Feudals, he sent people back to Beijing from Fujian to offer a strategy to pacify Fujian; when he recovered Taiwan, he recommended Shi Lang for the entire family of the Li clan in Hutou; when he was appointed as the governor of Zhili, he managed the Ziya River, Zhang River, and Yongding River, and largely corrected the "land enclosure" policy for decades in the early Qing Dynasty, set up Changping Yi Gang, and helped the people in the year of disaster... etc.! Kangxi had publicly placed many times Commend his achievements! It can be said that Li Guangdi has long been a capable minister who is "Jian Zai's Heart". He was already a highly-received prime minister candidate a few years ago. If it weren't for the sudden unknown place of a Gao Shiqi, Li Guangdi would have been the prime minister. Now, when Soetu mentions him, it is to summarize it in one word, that is: follow the heavens and respond to people! If Li Guangdi was not in the Governor's Office in Tongzhou, he would probably have thanked Jun's kindness first!

"Emperor, I object to Li Guangdi's appointment as Minister of Shangshu!"

Just when all the civil and military officials almost certainly believed that Li Guangdi was the most suitable candidate, a discordant voice sounded in the court!

"Xu Qianxue?!" Everyone was surprised! This man was a remnant of Mingzhu's party. Kangxi did not investigate them strictly, allowing this guy and several others to escape. However, he was still demoted from the Minister of Justice to the Minister of Justice, and was just a temporary minister. But now Mingzhu's party has long disappeared. Xu Qianxue dared to oppose Soetu without any support. He didn't want to live anymore?

"Hmph, it turns out to be Lord Xu. I just don't know why you think Li Guangdi can't be the minister of the study? He can't, can you?" Seeing that someone in the court dared to challenge him, and it was a remnant of Mingzhu's party before, Soetu was immediately furious and shouted angrily.

"Suan Jing, the humble official did not think that Li Guangdi could not become a minister in the study, but that he was 'not worthy'!"

"Oh? Why is Li Guangdi not worthy? Could he be greedy and bribed? Did he be trashed the country and harm the people?... Humph, he is always much more worthy than you, Xu Qianxu!" Soetu sneered.

"Haha, please rest assured. You are also self-aware of your humble position. You think you are not qualified to be compared with Li Jinqing. However, this minister in the study room is the prime minister, with a noble status and a long-standing position. You need someone with both virtue and ability to take up this position. Li Jinqing is naturally the only choice in terms of knowledge and ability, but... his 'virtue' is a disadvantage!" Xu Qianxue also sneered.

"You?!..." Suo'ertu was so excited that he stretched out a finger to point at Xu Qianxue, and almost wanted to hit someone.

The loss of Li Guangdi's "virtue" has been passed down for many years. From the "selling friends" case more than ten years ago (Chen Menglei case), to the "love-taking" case a few years ago and the "sading of a foreign woman's son comes back" case, everything is unclear, but it is even more confusing to explain it clearly. You must know that these three cases represent "unrighteousness", "unfilial piety" and "unkindness" and have long become the three biggest weaknesses of Li Guangdi. Now it has been raised by Xu Qianxue in the court. If the matter cannot be explained clearly on the spot, then Li Guangdi, the minister in the study, will not be able to do it!... After all, the court wants shame!

(Case of love-taking: Li Guangdi's mother died. According to the rules, he should go home and observe the system for three years. But at that time he was trying to enter the study room, so he hid himself and refused to report it. As a result, he was exposed. In order to make up for it, he had to submit a letter to ask to go home and observe the system. However, Kangxi gave him an imperial edict to seize love-taking!

The son of a foreigner came to the case: Li Guangdi had an affair with a brothel woman during the mourning period. Later, the woman gave birth to two sons for him, and sold her property to his hometown to recognize her relatives, but his tribe members refused. The woman was already penniless at that time, and the family of three found the capital like a beggar, but Li Guangdi still refused.)

Soetu didn't expect someone to mention this, because no matter from any aspect, Li Guangdi is the most suitable candidate for prime minister, and he is the most recommended person for the dynasty. Generally speaking, no one should object, because if he opposes, he will face revenge from him and Li Guangdi, the governor of Zhili. This is very terrible for the officials present. However, how could Xu Qianxue, the remnant of the pearl who should have tied up his tail and be a human being?

However, Soetu had no time to think about the reason why Xu Qianxue did this. In the court, he pointed his finger at the minister in front of the emperor and scolded him angrily. Such arrogant behavior has already angered a person!

"Soetu, this is the Ganqing Palace, not your family, why are you arrogant?"

"..." Someone dared to scold him? This voice didn't look like the emperor! Soetu was angry and immediately turned his head to look at the source of the voice. However, after seeing the person who scolded him, he became obedient, held back his anger, and honestly retreated back to his seat!

"Wu Dan, retreat!"

"Yes, the emperor!"

The slow question and answer shows who is the master of this place!

Kangxi's eyes flashed over Soetu without any emotion, causing a chill to emerge in the latter's heart. He no longer dared to hold his head up and droop carefully. He just occasionally flipped his eyelids and looked at the tall figure next to Kangxi, wearing a yellow jacket and a precious sword, and couldn't help but feel resentment.

Wu Dan! I don’t know my real name, but I only know that it was called "Stubborn Donkey". I was once a great thief in the Yangtze River. Before Kangxi captured Aobai, he and Mu Zixu (another name is "Li Xu") and others were summoned by Wei Dongting, abandoned their old identities and served as the guards of the great inner guards. In Kangxi’s last blow against Aobai, they fought hard and made great contributions! Later, after Kangxi succeeded, he and Wei Dongting, Mu Zixu and another wolf (Muqin) became Kangxi’s four guards!... Later, when the Three Feudatories rebelled, there was a fake name It was the man from the "Three Prince Zhu" of the former Ming Dynasty. He raised a Zhong Sanlang scholar and wanted to make trouble in Beijing while he took advantage of the chaos. He also contacted many eunuchs left by the former Ming Dynasty in the palace. As a result, when the mobilization was launched, these eunuchs besieged Kunning Palace. Queen Hesheli ignored the impending childbirth and asked the stubborn donkey to lead the guards out of the palace to quell the rebellion. In order to motivate him, he changed his name from stubborn donkey to Wudan! That time, Wudan's notoriety spread throughout Beijing because in order to intimidate the traitors, he performed a show: yelling the hearts of people!...

After the Three Feudal Rebellion was quenched, Wei Dongting, the first guard around Kangxi, served as the governor of the customs of the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and became the largest rank of the Qing Dynasty. Lang (Muqin) went to the Mongolian Kazuo to lead troops, holding 70,000 soldiers; Mu Zixu was appointed as the governor of Jiangsu and Jiangning Weaving Manufacturer, both Feique and was responsible for supervising the civil and military affairs of Jiangnan. Only Wu Dan was unwilling to leave the capital. As a result, he became the first guard in the Great Inner after Wei Dongting. However, although he was just a commander of the guard in name, Wu Dan also had the control of the nine-gate admiral's office. He was in charge of the yamen of the infantry commander, and was also in charge of Kangxi's personal army and was good at rushing the camp. He was really the first general in the capital! He was a warlike, bloody, and murderous person, and had a irritable temper. In the capital, no one could suppress him except Kangxi, so even Soetu was often scared when facing him. A few days ago, he had just been to Nanjing (i.e. Jiangning) under Kangxi's orders, and he had just returned recently. However, no one expected that he would use Soetu, the first power, to show his power!

"Xu Qianxue, since you don't agree with Li Guangdi as the Minister of the Shangshu, I guess there are other candidates in your heart, let's talk about it!" Soetu was "suppressed", and Kangxi asked Xu Qianxue again.

"Return to the emperor, I want to recommend Grand Secretary Chen Tingjing!" Xu Qianxue replied.

"Well, Tingjing is also a suitable candidate!" Kangxi refused to comment.

"Your Majesty, Lord Chen may not be as knowledgeable as possible!" Soetu retreated, but it did not mean that the people of his party had also retreated. Li Guangdi was a disciple of Soetu. In order to take power alone, Soetu could be said to have been determined to push Li Guangdi to the throne of prime minister. Therefore, under his eyes, Chen Xijia, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came out to oppose Xu Qianxue's proposal!

"Oh? Tingjing, some people say you can't learn, what do you think?" Kangxi asked Chen Tingjing with a smile.

"When I go back to the emperor, I believe that my knowledge is indeed not as good as Li Jinqing, and I have no intention of taking the position of minister in the study. I would like to ask the emperor to choose another capable person!" Chen Tingjing replied, looking neither humble nor arrogant!

"That's it... Xu Aiqing, since Chen Tingjing has no intention of this position, do you still recommend him?" Kangxi asked Xu Qianxue again.

"Your Majesty, I just think that Lord Chen is the most suitable. Since he has no intention, I have nothing to say!" After Xu Qianxue finished speaking, he also retreated. He did not really want to recommend Chen Tingjing. He was an enemy before, but he was just to obstruct Soetu. Since Mingzhu left, he and Yu Guozhu and other rebel Xu members of the Mingzhu party also wanted to surrender to Soetu. However, the resentment had been too deep before, Soetu was an arrogant person and actually sent someone to replace them. Just like the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Chen Xijia, the candidate for Soetu to replace Yu Guozhu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Yu Guozhu. In order to protect themselves, they knew that their opponents were strong, they had to fight back. Now Soetu recommended his disciple Li Guangdi into the study. If he succeeded, wouldn't the entire court really become Soetu's third party? In that case, it would be useless for them to fight back, so in order to avoid being unlucky in the future, he had to fight back.

"Oh, Li Guangdi is not good, Chen Tingjing doesn't want to. Are there any candidates for all the dear ministers?" Kangxi asked again. His sentence clearly stated that he did not agree with Li Guangdi's intention to be prime minister. In this way, both Soetu, who was still lucky, and others understood it and had to think about it.

"Your Majesty, I recommend Liang Qingbiao, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!" After thinking for a while, Yu Guozhu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came out to report.

"I recommend the crown prince's young tutor Tang Bin!"

"I recommend..."

"minister……"

...

"I recommend Jiangsu Governor Yu Chenglong!!!"

The biggest candidate was rejected. After thinking about it, all the officials recommended people who thought they were suitable. However, the warm recommendations stopped after this. Everyone looked at the guy who spoke up and recommended Yu Chenglong. As a result, the official was so scared that he immediately retreated!... Isn't it equivalent to calling Yu Chenglong to be the minister of the study? Isn't it equivalent to attracting a monkey who made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace? This proposal was agreed by the emperor, and all the officials should firmly express their opposition!

"Your Majesty, I want to recommend someone!"
Chapter completed!