As a generation of powerful ministers ends, the court structure will naturally undergo great turmoil and changes.

The day after Li Si returned to his hometown and was buried, the emperor summoned kings, princes, ministers, civil and military officials to court. The country should not be without a king for a day, nor should the court have no form. During the period after Li Si's death, the entire court was in chaos, and the three provinces and six ministries had accumulated countless memorials that needed to be dealt with. Therefore, the position of Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat must be arranged as soon as possible.

The people who are currently qualified in this position can count with one hand. There is one person who is expected to be the most popular and no one can replace him. That is the young master of the dynasty, the Marquis of Qinghe, the Marquis of Jingyang, the husband of the fifth princess, and the world-famous immortal disciple Chen Xu.

Therefore, there were not many twists and turns in the court. Almost with the unanimous approval of civil and military officials in the court, Chen Xu, the 19-year-old Hou of Qinghe, officially accepted the emperor's appointment, was appointed as the Supreme Minister, and was in charge of the Secretariat. At this point, he became one of the three giants in the court of the Great Qin Empire, below one person and above ten thousand people.

For others, this may be an opportunity to glorify the ancestors of the family in one step, but for Chen Xu, this is the beginning of... suffering.

After accepting the congratulations from all civil and military officials, Chen Xu entered the palace to thank the emperor after the court was dispersed. The emperor and his ministers reported that they had been in the past hour. After leaving the palace, Chen Xu went to Feng Quji and Meng Yi's mansion to visit each other again, which was considered as a visit to the dock with the same identity.

"Son-in-law, today you will eventually become the left prime minister. Do not be as lazy as before. Every day, you are almost in a position of court to discuss politics!" In Meng Yi's mansion, the father-in-law and son-in-law chatted while drinking tea. Meng Yi knew Chen Xu's nature well, so he couldn't help but remind him.

As soon as he heard about the two things about Dian Mao and the court, Chen Xu's face suddenly collapsed, and he nodded with a bitter face and said, "Brother-in-law, do you think it's too early to go to the court?"

"How early? It has been dawn since ancient times, and it is the right time for Mao!" Meng Yi shook his head while pulling his beard.

"Civilians still have sunrise and sunset. It is the regular working hours from 9 to 5. They have to have two weekends a week. On holidays, they have to have to have at least three or five days off for a seven-day holiday..." Chen Xu muttered with his fingers.

"What is nine to five, what is the same as one week and two holidays? And what are the seven-day holidays you mentioned..."

"It's morning from 9 to 5... Chen time is at a different time, Shen time is at a different time, and two days off a week is at a different time..." Looking at Meng Yi's increasingly dark skin, Chen Xu stopped talking embarrassedly.

"Son-in-law, I know that you are extremely intelligent and have received the heavenly book. Now that you are still young and have not yet won the ceremony, you have become an extremely minister. This is an honor that has never been seen in the ages, but the position is a national weapon. Your Majesty has handed over such an important position to you. Please don't play around like you do on weekdays..." Meng Yi continued to persuade him with great thought.

"Thank you, my father-in-law, for your teachings. I will write it down. I will definitely work hard and work hard!" Chen Xu quickly bowed.

"That's good. By the way, Wan'er has been married to you for more than two years, why is there no movement?" Meng Yi picked up the teacup and said.

Chen Xu glanced at his father-in-law depressedly, and instantly remembered the pair of small steamed buns. He twitched his face and said, "Wan Niang was still young last year, and her son-in-law must work hard this year..."

"Just work hard, I see you staying in the Chinese Money House every day and having sex with that concubine all day long. If you dare to ignore Wan'er, don't blame me for stabbing you to the emperor!" Meng Yi curled his lips and threatened.

"My business...what do I have?" Chen Xu was puzzled.

"Hmph, you left in Mount Tai, and then secretly went to Wuzhong, had a wine fight with Xiang, and stayed in Langya for more than a month. You must have done some shameful activities and also hooked up with Jiang Beiting's daughter. Could it be that you are blind as a censor?" Meng Yi hummed a few times.

Chen Xu:...

"That auspiciousness was created by you, right?" Meng Yi's face became cold.

Chen Xu opened his mouth a few times and finally had to nod: "Yes, that's just a coincidence. I couldn't imagine that such a big lake clam would be fished out when I was having fun in the lake!"

"I heard that the emperor gave you that auspicious bead?"

"yes!"

"Next time I come and remember to bring the giant beads to play with me for a few days!"

"Don't worry, my father-in-law, I have given that pearl to Wan'er. I will definitely bring my father-in-law to play next time!" Chen Xu smiled bitterly.

"That's good. I know you're busy recently, so I won't leave you for a banquet!" Meng Yi brought tea to see you off, and Chen Xu was eager to leave early. He couldn't talk to this lustful gangster father-in-law at all. He would always talk about his precious daughter in a few words.

The Qinghe Hou Mansion is decorated with lights and colorful colors.

When Chen Xu returned home, he welcomed his neatly dressed family and hundreds of servants. The housekeeper personally set up a roll of three thousand firecrackers at the door to light them, and there were also lion dancers and gongs and drums to celebrate. Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the two lions jumped and churned wildly with the sound of gongs and drums.

"Congratulations to the Marquis, congratulations to the Marquis!" Shui Qingrou Ying Shiman Meng Wan and Fan Caiying all saluted in brand new spring dresses.

"Congratulations to Master!" Amidst the huh, the maids of the servants and maids kowtowed all over the ground at the gate of the marquis' mansion.

"No gifts, get up!"

Chen Xu smiled bitterly after getting off the car. As soon as Li Si died, he celebrated so high-profilely. It may be criticized when he was exposed, but it is not enough to be low-key now, because the fact that he became the Left Prime Minister has spread throughout Xianyang City. On the way back to the mansion, countless pedestrians cheered and knelt down. As expected, a large number of officials and wealthy Xianyang came to congratulate him soon.

Sure enough, shortly after Chen Xu returned to the mansion, one carriage after another came from Xianyang City southeast, southwest and northwest. In less than half an hour, the street at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion was filled with cars and horses. In addition to the people who came to watch the fun, the whole street was already crowded and almost to the point where it was blocked.

Zhang Cang, Chen Ping, An Yuliang, Hu Kuan, Xiao He, Huangfu Que and other relatives who had a relationship with Chen Xu came to congratulate him in groups with gifts.

One person has achieved enlightenment and became the three great masters of the country. In the future, these people will climb up faster. Even if they do not consider getting promoted and wealth, at least they will be more at ease in the future, and no Li Si will interfere with it. Especially in the two ideological fields of newspapers and the Academy of Literature, Chen Xu will have the final say. Everyone can show their talents and knowledge and will not be suppressed by the Legalists again.

Although the emperor ordered Xianyang to ban entertainment and banquets for one tenth of a year, the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion still stopped slowly for five or six days. Thousands of guests were coming and going, and the gifts they received were piled up like mountains and could no longer be counted.

Chen Xu has been very tired these days. In the past, the Secretariat was Li Si's territory. Most of the officials in it were the Legal disciples. Chen Xu took office immediately, so he naturally had to straighten it out. He gave these Legal disciples several vaccinations, inspected the subordinate offices, convened the main officials of the State Administration Office to hold meetings, and at the same time figured out the main scope and working methods of these institutions. After more than ten days of busy work, Chen Xu submitted a personnel transfer plan to the emperor. After considering the consideration, the emperor approved it and handed it over to the Ministry of Personnel for handling. After changing several seemingly insignificant positions, the Secretariat's work was finally straightened out.

The work of the Secretariat Province is much simpler than that of the Secretariat Province. It is to upload and issue the emperor's orders. Its main task is to review all memorials from the three provinces and six ministries, identify the priorities of these memorials from various counties across the country, analyze whether the officials of the six ministries handle these memorials in a legal way, reasonably send the signing opinions back to the six ministries to arrange the handling, unreasonable rectification opinions, and important and urgent memorials are submitted to the emperor for review. In fact, Chen Xu's original intention of restructuring was to speed up the court's handling of memorials in various places, and at the same time, it also reduces the emperor's tasks in disguise. Another greater purpose is to slightly limit the emperor's rights and increase the prime minister's rights to check and balance the imperial power.

Of course, the main purpose is to increase the speed of the court handling government affairs.

In this era of inconvenient transportation and information blocking, it takes more than a month for some memorials to be transmitted from remote counties to Xianyang. If the imperial court has accumulated a period of time and it is not timely to deal with it, it may not be uncommon for the first half of a year. By the time the memorials are processed and sent back to the county, the daylily is already cold.

When Li Si was there, he almost covered the world in the Secretariat, and he checked and reviewed all matters in all kinds of things. Although Li Si liked this feeling of being in power, for Chen Xu, it was okay to be an official and make money, but if he couldn't eat well and sleep well every day, it would be too much for him to worry about state affairs. It was not that he was unwilling to worry about it, but that some things were thankless.

Therefore, Chen Xu once again implemented a joint office method within the Secretariat Province. Six review teams were set up according to the tasks under the different jurisdictions of the six ministries, and another emergency affairs handling department, and then an internal inspection and supervision department. These groups and departments were directly responsible to Chen Xu, while Chen Xu controlled the operation of the Secretariat Province through the Supervision Department, and posted a strict working system in each department. All memorials were set to different levels according to priorities. All major matters such as military, civil chaos, bandits, disasters, etc. were set to red levels and dealt with by the Ministry of Emergency Affairs. Review opinions must be given within one day submitted by the Secretariat Province; for ordinary counties, people's livelihood affairs, set to yellow levels, the review team must give review opinions within three days; for other miscellaneous matters, they are classified as green levels, and the review team must give review opinions within one day, and anyone who delays seizing the memorials for no reason will be severely punished.

What Chen Xu asked for was the speed and efficiency of handling government affairs, so that officials of the six ministries could not run errands back and forth.

Under Chen Xu's working system, officials from various offices in the Secretariat could only accept it with a slight look. After going to work every day, they worked like being chased by a dog. They completely abandoned the work habit of making a cup of tea after work, reading the newspaper for half an hour and chatting. This reform measures also came immediately. A large number of memorials submitted by officials from the six ministries were quickly dealt with and returned. Therefore, when they went to court to discuss politics every day, Feng Quji and the six ministries were laughed at Chen Xu so hard that they could not stop. When they met, they would bow and thank him.
Chapter completed!