After traveling through time, I was spotted by the new emperor

The next morning, although Ye Wuwei was angry, he still went to Prince Qi's Mansion first.

When he was leaving the gate, he saw a servant from Prince Qi's mansion coming back with food in his hand. Ye Wuwei took out some silver from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand, then took the food from him.

"Please buy it again."

"Captain Ye, no silver is needed."

"Take it."

Ye Wuyi started eating while talking.

Qi Wushuang asked him: "Didn't you have breakfast?"

"Ah."

I didn’t sleep well last night and got up late this morning, so I didn’t have time to buy breakfast.

Qi Wushuang thought:

We still have to clean up the palace as soon as possible and let Wuwei live in the palace, so that Wuwei can at least have breakfast every day.

Ye Wuwei didn't know what Qi Wushuang was thinking. He was thinking about his insomnia last night.

Before going to bed, I just thought about the key points and highlights of the demolition work, and then thought about how to deal with Qi Wushuang's entanglement, and then I couldn't fall asleep.

Qi Wushuang's entanglement is indeed a trouble, otherwise he would take up a position in the Imperial Guard while the demolition is taking place.

Thinking of this, Ye Wuwei felt that it was a good idea.

After entering the Taiji Hall, Ye Wuwei asked Qi Cheng for a new self-recommendation form and wrote down the position of "Minister of Works" in the column of self-recommended official position.

On the previous self-recommendation form, Ye Wuwei filled in the position of "Deputy Commander of the Imperial Guard" as agreed by everyone.

After all the officials arrived, Qi Wushuang first asked Xiao Dengzi to collect the forms filled out by everyone.

Ye Wuwei volunteered to take on the statistical work.

Qi Wushuang looked at Ye Wuwei. He never liked trouble, so why was he so proactive this time?

Despite his doubts, Qi Wushuang still did not refuse Ye Wuwei's request.

Ye Wuwei naturally had his own little plans.

The rank of the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard is set at the third rank, with a quota of two. The previous candidates were Ye Wuwei and Major Zhan.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhan was Nie Youren's subordinate and was previously a fourth-rank captain.

Ye Wuwei was worried that if he privately removed the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, it would be taken advantage of by the people of Grand Tutor Zhuang or Prime Minister Yuwen, so he wanted to add the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Guard to Qi Wu's self-recommendation form.

That's why he took the initiative to take on the statistical work.

When the statistical table came out, Ye Wuwei read out the results of self-recommendation and recommendation from the third rank and above on the spot.

When Ye Wuwei read that his self-recommendation form was not for the position of "Deputy Commander of the Imperial Guard" as previously assigned, but for the position of "Minister of Works", Qi Wushuang thought to himself:

No wonder Wu Wei took the initiative to take on the statistics work. It turned out that he wanted to keep a distance from me.

He hadn't objected before, so he was angry yesterday.

Qi Wushuang had never told anyone that he wanted to arrange for Ye Wuwei to live in Zhaohua Palace, which was why Ye Wuwei had agreed to serve as the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard.

Chu Fuchi was also surprised, but he suddenly felt that Ye Wuwei's position as Minister of Works was much better than that of Deputy Commander of the Imperial Guard.

The Ministry of Industry manages construction, logistics, water conservancy, manufacturing, etc. Ye Wuwei can go to the Ministry of Industry to take charge of construction and logistics first, and be responsible for the construction of the new city west district.

Qi Wushuang has no shortage of generals, and he can easily point out a few who can serve as deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, but he has no one who can serve as the Minister of Works.

Previously, Ye Wuwei chose the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Guard because he wanted to be lazy. Now that he wants to go to the Ministry of Works, it is perfect.

According to the previously agreed results:

Qi Wushuang first took control of the Cabinet, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, and then slowly expanded it out.

If Ye Wuwei entered the Ministry of Works, even if he was only an assistant minister and not a minister, with his fickle mind and unconventional style of doing things, I believe the Ministry of Works would be under his control in no time.

Except for Chu Fuchi, Qi Cheng, and Qi Wu, Nie Youren and the others all thought that it was Qi Wushuang's idea to change Ye Wuwei to the position of Minister of Works because Ye Wuwei took the initiative to take on the demolition task.

Then Ye Wuwei read Qi Wu's self-recommendation form. This time, except for Qi Wu himself who was a little surprised, no one else was surprised at all.

Although Qi Wu was promoted three levels from the fourth-rank deputy captain to the third-rank deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, his skills were ranked first in the army, and he had been protecting Qi Wushuang since he was a child, so it was normal for Qi Wushuang to favor him.

After Ye Wuwei read out all the self-recommendation and recommendation forms for official positions above the third rank, he first decided on the military positions.

This was also agreed upon by Qi Wushuang and the others, because military positions are relatively less likely to cause major disputes.

As Qi Wushuang and the others had expected, military positions were basically held by whoever led the army.

Nie Youren was appointed commander of the second-rank imperial guards.

Major-General Zhan and Qi Wu were appointed as deputy commanders of the Imperial Guard, rank three.

Qi Kangping, the former commander of the Imperial Guard, was transferred to Chunyu Prefecture for garrison, but he retained his second-rank official rank.

After all the military officials above the third rank were appointed, the next step was to select civil officials. First, one Chief Censor of the Censorate (second rank) and two Deputy Chief Censors (third rank) were appointed.

The Censorate was a supervisory department directly under the emperor, with main responsibilities including supervision, impeachment and making recommendations.

However, Qi Wushuang was short of civil servants, so no one from his faction recommended themselves for the positions in the Censorate. The last three officials were each taken up by someone from the factions of Qi Taiwei, Zhuang Taifu, and Yuwen Taishi.

Also due to lack of manpower, the Censors who should have been set up to supervise officials in various prefectures and the Six Censors who should have been set up to supervise the daily work of officials in the six ministries were not included in the scope of official positions in the Qi Dynasty this time.

Qi Wushuang planned to adopt the imperial examination system in the future, and then set up the Supervisory Censor and the Six Departments of Censors after he had talented people.

The next election of the six ministers is the beginning of the highlight.

Fierce quarrels began to break out in the Taiji Hall, one after another, making it very lively.

In the end, everyone managed to reach a balance and decide on the personnel.

Minister of Personnel (Faction of Grand Tutor Zhuang);

Qi Guangren, the Minister of Revenue (son of General Qi);

Minister of Rites (confidant of General Qi);

Minister of War He Changsong (a subordinate of Qi Wushuang);

Lu Zhaozhong, the Minister of Justice (a subordinate of Qi Wushuang and the illegitimate son of Prime Minister Yuwen);

Minister of Works (confidant of Grand Tutor Yuwen).

Judging from the selection of the six ministers, Qi Wushuang did not seem to have gained much advantage, because the most important Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Revenue were not his people.

In fact, Qi Wushuang and Qi Guangren have reached an agreement under Chen Shusheng's introduction, and Qi Guangren will help Qi Wushuang secretly.

It was already noon when the candidates for the six ministers were finalized.

Qi Wushuang announced that they would have lunch first and then decide on the cabinet members after lunch.

Lunch was prepared by the steward of Prince Qi's mansion and his people, and the lunch location was set in Liangyi Hall.

Qi Wushuang had Ye Wuwei's dining table moved to the side of his table. The two tables were connected together, one horizontally and one vertically, and were separated from other people's tables.

Qi Wushuang handed Ye Wuwei the chili sauce that the housekeeper had specially prepared for him: "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

Ye Wuwei took the chili sauce and said without beating around the bush: "I want to stay away from you."

"Do you think you can avoid me by going to the Ministry of Industry?"

"So you'd better not force me to go far away."