Guo Peng has prestige and did not allow Shangshu Ling and Shangshu Pushe to expand his power in governing affairs, and temporarily eliminate the emergence of a dual monarchy at the central level.

However, it is difficult to avoid them from making contributions again with such status and power in the future, then winning the title of the Three Dukes, once again gaining the power of the summons, and developing their family into top gentry like the Yuan family of Runan and the Yang family of Hongnong.

The Shangshutai itself is the emperor's secretariat and does not have such great honor.

The significance of its creation is the same as that of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the Military Affairs Office of the Southern Study of the Qing Dynasty. It was all for the purpose of extending the imperial power, but later they all developed into powerful power departments.

What is different is that because of the existence of the imperial examination system, the power of the cabinet and the Nanshufang Military Affairs Office always comes from the emperor. The emperor's decision with one word will only strengthen the monarch's autocracy and will not threaten the monarch's power. This is the same as strong as Zhang Juzheng.

But this is not the case with the Shangshutai.

The Shangshutai is the Shangshutai for scholars. After changing the emperors, they are all their own people. It is difficult to strengthen the imperial power. They dance in shackles within the rules and cannot make fundamental changes.

When Cao Rui was the emperor, he was very worried because he could not interfere with the government affairs of the Shangshutai, or even entered the Shangshutai to conduct documents, but he was helpless, which shows the weakness of the Cao Wei imperial power.

Therefore, when Guo Peng was unable to use the imperial examination system to cut off the foundation of the source of power of scholars, he had to differentiate the power of Shangshutai, weaken the authority of Shangshuling and Shangshu Pushe, and weaken their role bit by bit.

Then find a way to refocus power in your own hands.

In this way, the germination was extinguished in the cradle before the birth of a new national aristocratic family.

The power was divided into eight departments, each with heads. Cheng Yu and Tian Feng were asked to take the lead in one department to try their best to prevent them from exercising their power wholeheartedly.

That's not all, in order to further check and balance the Shangshutai, Guo Peng also set up a cabinet outside the Shangshutai.

The Shangshutai was originally a secretariat established by the Emperor of Han to divide the power of the three ministers and nine ministers. It was also classified as a Shaofu and an inner court department, which was of similar significance to the birth of the cabinet.

So Guo Peng set up a cabinet very early, and he intended to make cabinet officials his confidants and help him with government affairs. He could only appoint him and could not go to the cabinet any other way.

Then, the cabinet chief minister also does not have the power to summon his subordinates, which is very important, and this is specifically determined by Guo Peng.

The cabinet is his private advisory department. Although it is also a formal official office, the prime minister does not have the qualifications to recruit officials, so the cabinet chief minister can only rely on Guo Peng. This is the case in the entire cabinet. This will be an important prerequisite for Guo to control the cabinet to fight against the Shangshutai.

Also, because the cabinet chief minister is Guo Peng's closest minister, he is closest to Guo Peng. He is facing the Shangshutai with his back to Guo Peng, and may be placed in an important and powerful department as a confidant at any time as a confidant. Therefore, the advantages and power of the cabinet chief minister are not underestimated in the Shangshutai's opinion.

The power of the cabinet chief comes from Guo Peng, and cannot come from himself and his bloodline.

Because of this fact and Guo Peng's various preferential treatments for cabinet members, some scholars have already expressed dissatisfaction with the existence of the cabinet.

They believed that the cabinet was full of "lucky ministers", including Wang Can, the former chief minister of the cabinet. He was appreciated by Guo Peng for his mathematics and could only flatter him without the character of a scholar.

Preliminary political disputes have begun to emerge.

Although Guo Peng cannot shake the foundation of scholars' politics in the traditional sense, he has made some innovations himself. In the eyes of scholars, although he is dissatisfied, he must admit it even if he pinched his nose. Who made Guo Peng highly prestige and powerful?

It also represents the power and strength.

Although Guo Peng cannot elevate the cabinet to the same level as the monk's desk for the time being, it can at least make the cabinet actually have an important position.

It is the traditional sense of position and weight.

This is the same as the positioning of the Shangshutai at the beginning. Guo Peng wants to make the Shangshutai feel aware of crisis, so as to compete with the cabinet and attract firepower.

In any case, the connection between Shangshutai and Guo Peng cannot avoid the cabinet, and the cabinet actually becomes the thug of imperial power, in a sense, forming a check and balance against Shangshutai, which has unprecedented power.

We must also promote Guo Peng's superiority as the emperor.

It is not convenient for the emperor to end up tearing his ministers to fight for power by himself, which is very unqualified and will lose the sense of mystery.

Not only that, Guo Peng also gradually took action in the cabinet, incorporated more children of poor families and excluded the children of scholars. In the near future, the cabinet monks and secretary stations will become the base camp for fighting between poor families and geniuses respectively.

This is one of the means to win over poor families and attack scholars.

At the same time, the power of the Shangshutai was divided into one and divided the responsibilities. Each department had a Shangshu and two ministers, and directly gave birth to the prototypes of the Six Caoshus, which had not yet formed rules, into mature Shangshushus, each with its own powers.

The supreme Shangshu Ling naturally still exists now, but in the future, Guo Peng will gradually undermine the power of Shangshu Ling, make Shangshu Ling have a name but not a real thing, and actually cut off the Shangshu Terrace and various departments.

Guo Peng would gradually, directly order these service departments rather than the Secretary of the Secretariat, gradually, allowing the eight ministers to actually directly connect with the emperor through the cabinet, so that there was no unified head, thereby weakening the power of the scholars.

Gradually, the Shangshu Ling, the actual prime minister, was put undermined, abolished the prime minister's power, and took all the prime minister's power and imperial power into his own hands.

Cheng Yu and Tian Feng are certainly Guo’s confidants, but Guo is now the emperor, the king, and not the people.

In order to consolidate the imperial power, the general power these two people actually possessed was his biggest enemy. He could still control general power when he was there, but once he was gone, his descendants might face the embarrassment of Cao Rui.

Cao Rui could not even interfere in the administration of Shangshutai. Faced with the boycott of scholars, he was even powerless and could only stare at him. This was equivalent to the infringement of the imperial power by the prime minister, which was a crisis of imperial power.

Guo Wei cannot repeat the mistakes of Cao Wei.

But a cabinet is obviously not enough, and at present, there are many children of scholars in the cabinet, even outstanding children of scholars, such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

Guo Peng wanted to use them, but their own class attributes meant that they were Guo Peng's enemies.

Therefore, it is not possible to rely solely on the cabinet. At most, party struggles are formed and it is difficult to have a positive impact.

So there is also need other help.

The Censorate counts one.

Because the Guo family is a legal family, the main position of the Censorate has basically been monopolized by the Guo family and relatives.

As supervisory officials, the Censor and the Censor Zhongcheng were defined by Guo Peng as positions that were backed by the emperor and faced the ministers. They had the power to supervise. Their main responsibility was to supervise the officials of the Shangshutai.

Let’s see if they have corruption and dereliction of duty.

The advantage of Guo Peng's complete control of the Censorate is that it facilitates Guo Peng to launch a political purge in the name of anti-corruption at any time.

In the eyes of future generations, Guo Peng will definitely become the first emperor to fight corruption on a large scale and high frequency since Qin Shihuang.

The Staff Platform is also an institution established by Guo Peng, and it was also built by Guo Peng to divide the power of scholars.

Xi Zhong and Guo Jia are the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders of the Staff Platform, specializing in planning and strategic design of marching and conquests, and do not participate in administration.

There is only one Guo Peng separated from the staff platform and the army. Although the staff platform itself is used by Guo Peng to isolate traditional scholars and the army, the people used by the staff platform itself are basically scholars.

I am not worried at the moment, but in the long run, in order to avoid being infiltrated by the army that I am firmly in control by scholars, Guo Peng decided to establish a military academy at the same time.
Chapter completed!