Having a low position and weight is the way for the emperor to employ people, and not giving important power departments a formal identity and status is the emperor's mind.

Have the right and can do things.

Without a title, you can easily dismiss it.

The real power is still in the hands of the emperor.

Unfortunately, the cabinet already has a formal institutional presence and rank.

Although Guo Peng can currently control the cabinet members, so that the emperor has the power to do things in the traditional sense, and has no actual position, the emperors after Guo Peng were not sure who would give the real power to the cabinet.

It took nearly a hundred years for the Ming Dynasty cabinet to develop to a complete body.

At present, after more than ten years of operation of the cabinet, the cabinet members have developed excellent administrative abilities and are very excellent helpers of the emperor. It is unwise to depose the cabinet at this time.

If the cabinet was dismissed for future worries, Guo Peng would be exhausted now.

However, considering this fact, Guo Peng felt that he needed to prepare for a future and to prepare for an existence that could invade the power of the cabinet when necessary to check and balance the cabinet chief.

The inner court and the spies can check and balance the cabinet in a sense, but Guo Peng does not want the inner court and the spies to be involved in daily administration too much.

The inner court and spies were able to restrict the cabinet in terms of internal affairs and intelligence of the palace, and could attack the cabinet when the emperor needed it, but Guo Peng was still unwilling to let them penetrate into daily administration to form conventions.

The inner court and spies can obey orders to attack court officials, but they cannot become formal leaders, just as the cabinet assistants are connecting with the Nine Divisions but are not formal leaders.

If eunuchs and spies are really involved in daily administration, it will not be the effect that Mr. Guo needs.

Just like the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, eunuchs led their troops to fight, contact military power, and became the leader of the army because they would not have descendants and no threat. That was really a great ambassador in the world.

Eunuchs and spies should always be the arm of the emperor. They should obey orders behind the emperor, maintain the tentacles of imperial power, and deter officials, rather than really exert administrative power and military power, and really go out to do business and govern the country and the army.

They are not professional after all.

Psychic people is their profession, and governing people is not what they should do.

So he needed a tool department to check and balance the cabinet and become the cabinet's administrative enemy.

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

It does exist, but it does not seem to exist, but it can indeed interfere with the cabinet and deter the cabinet, so that the cabinet cannot develop into a complete body, and itself is not a complete body. The imperial power can be maintained in such a balance.

Guo Peng thought seriously.

In the past, he held a grand ceremony in the main hall of Fengtian Hall, symbolically handling some major matters, and daily handling of government affairs and summoning ministers to discuss the real national affairs, he was in the side hall southwest of Fengtian Hall.

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

There is no name in it, it is just a side palace.

Now that it was necessary, Guo Peng's eyes turned and thought of something interesting.

He ordered people to make a plaque [Southern Study Room] for this side hall.

So, the Wei Empire version of Nanshu was born.

The cabinet's official office is in the palace, in the 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. The area outside the palace city that wrapped the palace city was the imperial city, which was the location of the central imperial court office.

Most of the central imperial offices are in the imperial city, with only two institutions: the Staff and the Cabinet in the palace city to show the emperor's control over military power and the importance of the cabinet.

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

The outer palace is a palace community with Fengtian Hall as the core. It is located in the south of the palace city. It is the place where the emperor deals with government affairs and holds a grand dynasty meeting to receive ministers.

The inner palace is a palace community with the Yangxin Hall as the core. It is located in the north of the palace city and is the location of 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 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 meet his mother with relevant people.

These rules are all rules passed down from the Qin and Han dynasties. The Wei Empire was only used by it. Guo Peng often handled government affairs in the side hall of Fengtian Hall. He never thought about the Nanshufang at the beginning.

But now that there is a need, Nanshufang must enter the historical stage.

We must ensure that power is controlled, that power is not invaded, and that no one can threaten the emperor...

At some point, Mr. Guo sighed deeply, covered his forehead, feeling a little tired.

But it was just a moment.

Nanshufang is not a formal official office, and there is no formal position or anything else. It is just a side hall where the emperor reads, writes, and handles government affairs reception officials on a daily basis. It is no big deal.

However, it is necessary to set up a name for [Nan Study Room] in such a side hall, which always makes some people with a keen sense of smell think that the emperor is meaningful to do this.

In fact, it is not wrong. His Majesty the Emperor did this with some intention.

Nanshu is aimed at the cabinet, not a specific person, so people from any department can be selected to come to Nanshu to accompany the emperor to study, write, and then...

Discussing the government affairs, and even helping the emperor convey certain necessary messages to the outside world.

Originally, it was a place for reading and practicing calligraphy, as long as you were accompanied by eunuchs.

However, Guo Peng said that the existence of Nan Study Room is not only meaningful, so he needs to choose a very outstanding talented and promising person from his ministers to come to Nan Study Room to accompany him to read and write and handle some small things.

With such a purpose, on the third day of the establishment of Nanshufang, two people were called to Nanshufang by Guo Peng from his original department and gave him the title of [Nanshufang Sushi].

One person is Pang Tong, from Jingzhou, Sima of the Staff Office. He is almost in the middle of the Staff Office, and his status is not prominent, but his talent and reputation are quite high.

Another person is Zhuge Jin, from Xuzhou, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who is considered a strong candidate for the next Minister of Civil Affairs.

Now Zhuge Jin can be said to be a veteran official who joined the Guo Wei Group before Guo Peng became emperor. He has always been honest and has no record of illegal crimes. Guo Peng has caused many political storms and did not involve him.

Although Pang Tong joined after Guo Peng became emperor, he has been in office for several years so far, working diligently and sincerely, and he has not been involved in all the storms.

During this tax reform storm, Zhuge, Langya, represented by Zhuge Jin, and Pang Tong's native Xiangyang Pang family, both owned a variety of manors and land before the founding of the Wei Empire.

Faced with the emperor's harsh demands, these two families were in Xuzhou and Jingzhou, where the rebellion was fierce, and were among the few who agreed to the emperor's request and accepted the conditions for measuring the land and survived the crisis safely.

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

Similar families include the Xianyufu family in Youzhou, the Li Dian family in Jizhou, the Qiaorui family in Luoyang, etc.

This type of family is now sparse in number, and the amount of land occupied has been greatly reduced. It is not as good as the climate and can no longer threaten the local regime of the Wei Empire.
Chapter completed!