Zhang Xiang opened the Forbidden City, and people followed the door to see the dragon light.
Under the morning sun, the ministers were divided into six rows to attend court.
This was Su Hao's first time attending court.
The throne room in front of him had a yellow roof and red walls. The yellow glazed roof on both sides gradually fell off. It was magnificent.
The head of the civil officials, Zhang Ju, walked to the right, while the head of the generals, Gu Jianshan, walked to the left.
The Crown Prince walked beside Gu Jianshan, and the Fourth Prince walked beside Zhang Juzheng. They seemed to be discussing something.
As a second-grade official of the Ministry of Central Affairs, Su Hao's position was still very high.
He looked back and saw a crowd of people. There were so many officials in the court.
However, only a few dozen people could enter the throne room.
The rest would not be able to enter the main hall, or perhaps they would never be able to enter the main hall in their lifetime.
Many officials in the capital could only see the Emperor from afar for the rest of their lives.
When the officials who were qualified to enter the hall stood still, the emperor in the dragon robe appeared.
The solemn eunuch beside him said loudly,"
"Court ginseng!"
"Long live my emperor."
After the ministers bowed, the morning court session began.
The ministers began to beat up the Emperor.
Su Hao held a memorial in his hand. He was going to fire the first shot.
Seeing that the court meeting was about to end, he took a step forward and bowed.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report.”
Emperor Qian saw Su Hao and smiled."
"Su Hao has a memorial on his first day of court.”
Su Hao glanced at the ministers and said in a deep voice,"
"Your Majesty has ordered me to study the shortcomings of the government, so I have my first suggestion.”
"It's the provincial officials!"
The ministers exclaimed.
Emperor Qian's eyes lit up.
He had long discovered the weakness of the Great Gan Dynasty, which was that there were too many officials.
Not only him, even during the previous emperor's era, the previous emperor knew the harm, but he did not dare to take the step of reducing the number of officials.
Things were different now, and Emperor Qian had long wanted to take this step.
However, he had hinted several times, but the ministers did not agree.
Zhang Juzheng agreed in his heart, but he had offended too many noble families in the past few years. He didn't want to make enemies again in a short period of time.
This matter had been dragged on.
Today, someone finally brought it up.
"Okay, tell me what you think." Emperor Qian coaxed.
Su Hao was calm and composed. He was not afraid of the gazes of the ministers at all and said,
"When the late emperor was building his empire, in order to win over the great clans, he had no choice but to appoint a large number of officials. According to the records of the Ministry of Personnel, on the way to Guanzhong, there was once a day when there was a record of hiring more than a thousand officials.”
" Along the way, there are more and more officials. What could have been done by one person now has to be divided among three, five, or even a dozen people. In the end, it will take more than a month for an official document from the Imperial Court to reach the lower prefectures and counties.”
"More than a month. How much manpower and resources will be wasted? With this efficiency, how could the imperial court still do things?”
As soon as he finished speaking, someone answered.
The Minister of Personnel Affairs, Wang Zhao, said,
"Lord Su is right. The harm of having too many officials has been around for a long time. During the previous emperor's time, he also had the idea of reducing the number of officials.”
"But he didn't do it in the end. Why?”
"The former emperor was wise and wise. He knew that sealing the governor was a good thing to win over the hearts of the people, and taking off the black gauze hat of others would offend people.”
"It's not easy to win the hearts of the great clans, but it's easy to lose them.”
Everyone agreed with Wang Zhao's words.
Emperor Qian's cold gaze swept over.
He knew that most of the officials had to be removed.
The ministers were deeply intertwined, and one move would affect three.
They didn't want to lose their jobs.
This matter was extremely difficult to handle.
He saw that Su Hao was about to speak and immediately waved his hand to stop him. He smiled and said,
"The matter of merging the provincial officials has a huge impact. Everyone is thinking about it and will discuss it tomorrow.”
"Retreat!"
The ministers bowed again and retreated out of the throne room.
Zhang Juzheng stopped Su Hao and smiled.
"You brat, why didn't you tell me about this? On the first day of court, a bomb was set off.”
"You've offended almost all the officials in the court.”
Su Hao facepalmed and said,
"Prime minister, I discussed this with you yesterday and you agreed with me.”
Zhang Juzheng waved his hand.
"I didn't ask you to report."
Su Hao cursed the old fox in his heart.
Zhang Juzheng chuckled.
"However, you hit the nail on the head. He will put you in an important position again.”
The two of them were chatting.
Han Diao Temple walked over and said with a smile,
"Prime Minister, Lord Su, His Majesty has summoned you.”
The two of them exchanged a glance and followed Han Diao Temple to the Hall of Heaven's Tribute.
Entering the main hall, he found the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince present. There was also Great General Gu Jianshan, Marquis Weiwu Xie Yu, Shangshu Ling Xiao Qinyan, Censor Zhongcheng Liu Qian, and Minister of Personnel Wang Zhao.
They were surprised to see Su Hao.
It was obvious that he was not qualified to attend a small court assembly of this level.
After Su Hao entered the door, he stood at the back.
The Fourth Prince turned his head and winked at him.
Su Hao rolled his eyes.
Damn it, this Fourth Prince is so sloppy. How did he get so much attention from the Emperor?
" Everyone is here. Let's discuss Su…" Emperor Qian glanced at Su Hao, who was hiding at the back, and shouted," Su Hao, come up here. You lit a bomb in the imperial court, why are you hiding now?"”
Su Hao facepalmed.
PS: Writing late at night, votes.
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