eldest son of Ming dynasty

In the fourth year of Zhengde, that is, in 1509 AD, Emperor Zhu Houzhao was already 19 years old. According to the calculation of the ancients, it is also possible to say that he was [-] years old.

It has been a year and a half since the last Battle of Liangxiang.

In addition to the battles along the way of the capital, the battles in Yulin in the northwest and Ningxia were also successfully won under the command of Yang Yiqing and Wang Shouren, but Huozhai was not caught. Huozhai fled back to the grassland with a thousand remnants of soldiers, and he had to be on guard against the Ming army at all times Will there be another 'suppression set'?

Beijing Normal University.

After the Northwest War ended, Yang Yiqing unloaded the burden of the governor of the three sides and returned to the cabinet's duty room to assist the emperor in handling the government affairs.

According to the emperor's sorting out after the three-year court meeting of Zhengde, the new concept of "division of responsibilities" was also popularized in the cabinet.

Yang Yiqing joined the cabinet earlier than Wang Jia and Wang Bing, so he can naturally be called the first.Since it is the first Kui, the burden will be heavier.The emperor asked him to mainly contact the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites and the Department of General Affairs.

Wang Jia was responsible for contacting the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Shaofu, and the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Bing was responsible for contacting the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

At the same time, both of them have the duty to assist Yang Yiqing.

Connection is a wonderful word.

It only shows up when it's 'big stuff'.

For example, Ma Zheng, the war horse is the "strategic material" at this time, so it is naturally a major matter.

Ma Zheng is under the jurisdiction of Taipu Temple, which is under the Ministry of War.When Zhu Houzhao was dealing with affairs related to horse affairs, he would ask the chief of the cabinet, the officials of the Ministry of war, and the ministers of Taipusi to participate.

In this way, a situation can be formed in which the "major affairs" are handled by the cabinet elders.The chief of the cabinet is the head of all officials, and the personnel and resources he can mobilize are unparalleled. The "major affairs" in his hands have become a national strategy in a certain sense, and no one dares to violate it easily.

In addition, because the horse administration involves money and repairs of some buildings, the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry need to participate together.

As for particularly important Tianzihao affairs, such as the Hetao military area, then the cabinet and the six ministries will all participate.

Because Wang Kai and Wang Bing also have the duty of assisting the chief, and they must cooperate fully as required when they encounter problems.

Of course, in this process, there will be prevarication, non-cooperation, and things that are not your own. This is the friction and running-in of the political system in the process of operation. The emperor came to solve it.

For Zhu Houzhao, the advantage of this model is that it can target people: there is a main person in charge of what is going on, and if there is a problem, he can know who to call.

The so-called everyone cares means that everyone doesn't care. Hundreds of courtiers gossip about it in Fengtian Temple, but no one really does it, or no one is responsible if something goes wrong. That's not good.

This reshaping of the responsibility system plays an important role in promoting the improvement of administrative efficiency.Of course, don't expect that this will remove the formalism, bureaucracy, corruption and other ills that existed in the original bureaucratic system.

But at least one advantage is that when faced with major affairs, the emperor's will can be effectively implemented, because it is deduced layer by layer, and of course there will be cases where it cannot be pushed forward, but it doesn't matter, the emperor will ask after a while.

Once the actual effect is unsatisfactory, it will prompt the officials in the chain to take the risky behavior of "having to deceive the top and the bottom", thus quickly pushing up his political security cost.

To put it simply: if you are brave enough, you can lie.

This will be much better than the situation of 'government orders not leaving the Forbidden City', and it will be much better than letting all officials idle and have nothing to do.

Zhu Houzhao is more used to this. His current morning court has become once every three days, and more forms of government affairs handling have become based on his calling responsible officials.

In this way, normal government affairs are handled by the civil service system, and the emperor will seize important matters, and the whole country will naturally be managed by someone.

It's been a year and a half, except for cabinet changes.

The ministers of various ministries in central Beijing have also been transferred.

After Wang Bing entered the cabinet, he no longer served as Minister of the Ministry of War, and the emperor transferred Qi Chengsui, the former governor of Shaanxi, to Beijing to take over.This is another example of awarding meritorious officials after the success of the duplication.

Qi Chengtun originally belonged to Yang Yiqing's group. There were two wars in the Northwest in the past few years, and there was no merit but hard work. Besides, being able to get Yang Yiqing's approval shows that this person is not a dead man.

There are actually quite a few officials in the Qing Dynasty, but Zhu Houzhao is unwilling to let such people get involved in the Ministry of War.

When the time comes, he doesn't like generals like Zhou Shangwen and Yang Shangyi who are inclined to attack. He suppresses them, and then mobilizes them indiscriminately, and asks the emperor to come out to clean up the mess. It's better to appoint people from the original military system. For the border generals, it is also convenient to maintain a stable and peaceful relationship with the capital.

In addition, more than three months ago, Min Gui, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, became an official. He was born in the fifth year of Xuande (1430). The old age in the hometown, but it was still winter, so I thought about returning to my hometown this spring.

Min Gui is from Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. As long as the weather is a little better, he can go all the way south by boat.

In fact, apart from the weather, there was another reason why he didn't hurry back.

After two years of construction, the library garden in the capital was officially completed.

The Library Garden is located in the southern part of the capital. It is generally composed of rockery, artificial lakes, and book buildings, and is decorated with promenades, pavilions, and bookstores winding around it. Of course, there are also various flowers, plants, and green trees. It can be this A scholar's 'royal courtyard'.

In order to ensure a certain level of security, the Library Garden has a wall courtyard, and only one south gate is opened. Above the gate, there is a plaque with the words "Book Garden" written by Zhu Houzhao himself.

The purpose of establishing this garden is engraved on the stone wall on the left, which is also a famous sentence quoted.

Books are like medicine.Good reading can cure stupidity.

The stone wall on the right side is also a passage of text, which mainly records how the emperor decided to build a library garden at that time. Among them, the name of the official in charge of this matter appeared, Shaofu Zhangchi.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming in March.

People from Shenwuwei and Jinyiwei stood inside and outside the library.

It is not uncommon for the emperor to go out of the palace now. The project of the library garden cost the court millions of taels of silver, so he had to come and see it no matter what.

The entire structure of the garden is an ellipse, with mountains, waters, and bamboo forests in the middle. The left and right sides are separated, with Confucianism on the left and miscellaneous learning on the right.

All the way down the stone road, there is a sage garden like the Confucian Society, where the works handed down by Confucius, Mencius, Zhu Zi, etc. will be placed according to their names.

The Garden of Sages is further divided into dynasties, so that there will be a distinction between Han Fu, Tang Poetry, and Song Ci. Some literary masters and historical books of that era are collected.

The garden of miscellaneous studies is simpler to build, and it is divided into specialties, such as medicine, military science, agriculture, geophysics, weapons, geography, arithmetic and so on.

These independent courtyard buildings have different styles, but what is unified is that a large tank is placed at the main entrance, which is filled with water, so that if there is a fire, water will be taken immediately to put out the fire and the loss will be minimized.

In addition to books, there are also some necessary shops in the library, which are opened by the library itself, such as simple restaurants, four treasures of the study, and paper umbrella shops.

Reading does not cost money, but everything here costs money, and this business is not open to private individuals. Anyway, some money will be recovered, and the idea is to earn back the wages of the management and maintenance personnel.

Although reading books does not cost money, in order to carry out the necessary management, there are requirements for the people who enter, that is, the people who come in must register, specify which park they are going to, and then they will issue a certificate, and enter the park with this certificate.When you come out after reading, you should also indicate whether you want to leave or go to another garden, which will also have a voucher.

In this way, traces can be left. If the books in the garden are stolen or destroyed, it is possible to accurately locate who has entered the garden.

Guarding against villains is not guarding against gentlemen, you have to be meticulous in doing things to have the possibility of success.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't need these things when he came here.

He came in mainly to check three points, one is whether the things needed for reading books such as tables and benches are enough, the second is the collection and classification of books, and the third is the overall security, for example, do not have Tall trees, this is basic common sense.

Yang Yiqing, Chief of the Cabinet, Lin Han, Minister of Rites, and Gu Zuo, Minister of the Shaofu, followed the emperor.

These are all departments directly related to the Book Collection Garden. For such less important matters, Wang Jia and Wang Bing don't need to accompany them. They have to discuss with their subordinates to deal with the government affairs in hand just like the emperor.

It is not necessary for everyone to follow the emperor all the time.

Zhu Houzhao first went to the Sage Garden, which is a required action, and here he mentioned another picture, which is regarded as a gift for everyone who comes to study:

Learn literary and martial arts, goods emperor's family.

"Your Majesty's calligraphy has improved again." Yang Ge said the truth.

Zhu Houzhao still knows how to practice.

But that's just a simple practice when cultivating sentiment, "Just write and write, I don't want to be Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, whether the handwriting is good or not is not the key."

"Your Majesty, should I hang this painting in the sage's garden? This is also an encouragement to those who come here to study." Zhang Chi, an official of the Shaofu, suggested.

"It's okay, you can figure it out. Zhang Chi,"

"The minister is here."

"Today, Mr. Yang Ge, Li Shang, and the Minister of the Shaofu have all come. The importance of the library garden is no less than a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, but if it is considered to be more important than a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, it will take at least ten years of work. After the garden is completed, You are the administrator of the garden, and you are usually responsible for the management. Management is mainly in three aspects, one is to ensure the normal order of people entering and exiting, this is a place for reading, and there should be no chaos. What is the salary, do not default or deduct it; the third is to do a good job of maintenance and cleaning. Books will be damaged if they are often turned over. They must be repaired or replaced. This cannot be stopped. Moisture-proof and insect-proof. In a word, don’t let a library garden become a landscape building. I will come every once in a while, and if I find any problems, I will come to you.”

Zhang Chi cupped his hands: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the library contains the hard work of my minister, just like my child, I will definitely do my best to take good care of him."

"Manly man, you must be responsible for what you said." Zhu Houzhao pointed at him, then turned to look at the minister he brought over, "You heard what he said. If someone destroys the library, find the person who destroyed it." , but first of all he must be punished for the crime of ineffective supervision.”

Yang Yiqing and the others had nothing to say.

The emperor is now in this style, very simple, but also very rude. If you focus on one thing, you will find someone.So they, including Zhang Chi, were not surprised.

"Your Majesty, do you want to go outside again? There are also stone tables and benches in the corridor. The scenery is pleasant, and you can also read."

"Okay, let's have a look."

……

When the emperor went out, no one could be found inside or outside the Forbidden City, which made the harem anxious.

Empress Xia patted Concubine Shu's hand: "I have asked someone to look for it. This is a happy event. Your Majesty must be happy to hear it."

Concubine Shu is from the Shen family. She was selected into the palace because she looked like Qiuyun, and it seems that it will be two years, and her stomach has finally seen movement.