Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 118 Hongzhi Xiuzheng (seeking monthly ticket)

Cheng Minzheng is a middle-aged man in his early 40s with a bushy black beard, and he is a sure winner in life.

He is from the Huizhou Prefecture of Nanzhili Province. His father Cheng Xin was the former minister of the Nanjing Military Department, and his father-in-law was the former chief assistant Li Xian. He was only 20 years old when he was ranked second in the second year of Chenghua High School.

At the beginning, he was awarded the editorship of the Imperial Academy, and he was a lecturer in the East Palace. Today, he is a bachelor of the Imperial Academy.If Xu Pu hadn't been appointed Minister of Rites last year, he would have been a Hanlin scholar now.

Since the path has already been paved, he naturally wants to join the ranks of Qingliu. He only needs to earn his qualifications honestly to be able to join the cabinet in the future.

Seeing Cheng Minzheng standing up, Zhu Youtang said calmly: "Master Cheng, when I was in Qing Palace, I remember what you said to do: be loyal to ministers, be filial to sons, be honest to officials, and write Han Shu forever! I think Master Cheng is such a person, and I hope Master Cheng will not forget his original intention."

Huh?
When the officials heard Zhu Youtang's sudden opening, they couldn't help but looked at each other.

Obviously, these young emperors have already seen the mission Cheng Minzheng shouldered, so now they have to warn their teachers.

It's just that he may not underestimate the uprightness of Qingliu officials, where he might retreat easily, he will definitely face up to difficulties and let the young monarch take back his five policies.

"Your Majesty, the number of Shuji scholars in the Imperial Academy is uncertain, and the number of study years is not fixed, which is not conducive to the court's reserve of talent. I ask the court to select 20 people from each new section of Jinshi, and the academic period will be three years. Those who are eliminated will be selected by the bureaucrats!" Cheng Minzheng finally stretched his hand to the sleeve of his right hand, and took out the memorabilia inside.

Snapped!
Some officials who vowed in their hearts that Cheng Minzheng would detonate the dispute were slapped in the face one after another. After all, the emperor chose to back down instead of stretching his hand to the left cuff.

In fact, it is no wonder, not to mention that Zhu Youtang has become the real emperor now, the legal crisis caused by Li Quan just now has made the young emperor here want to kill.

Now that he dares to go against the scales, even a majestic emperor teacher may be wiped out by the arbitrary Zhu Youtang, not to mention Cheng Minzheng also has to take into account the relationship between teachers and students.

"It's not a good show, if I knew it, I wouldn't have come!"

Marquis Funing Zhu Yong and the others don't understand government affairs at all, but now that Cheng Minzheng is doing things normally, they can't help but pat their foreheads in regret and say in disappointment.

Seeing that Cheng Minzheng did not choose to "make trouble", Zhu Youtang also decided in his heart that in the future Tang Yin's fraud case, he should protect the black beard and give Tang Bohu a chance to be an official.

It's just that Cheng Minzheng's proposal now has the same "bad intentions".

Many people don't understand why the civil official group could always suppress the military general group in the Ming Dynasty, and even succeeded in killing the power supervisor repeatedly, and even emptied the imperial power together?
In fact, the most important thing is that they can always transfer power through the teacher-student relationship, and they have begun to cultivate their disciples carefully as early as the beginning of their careers.

The most important part of their training is to find ways to send their favorite students to the East Palace to serve as lecturers for the prince for nine years, so that their students can become the emperor's teacher of the new king, and finally they will hand over all their political resources.

Doing so will naturally pay off, not to mention being able to maintain one's political influence, and disciples will not only be one's own umbrella, but can even help oneself clean up the mess.

Like what happened to Xu Jie, it is well known that he has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and he is already the real No. [-] corrupt official in Ming Dynasty. As a result, his favorite student Zhang Juzheng helped deal with the political crisis, and finally Xu Jie was arrested by the court after his death. He was posthumously granted the posthumous posthumous title of Grand Master and posthumously titled Wenzhen.

In addition, many people pinned the blame for canceling the China-French policy on Ye Qi, then Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but they selectively ignored Xu Pu, who was the chief assistant at the time. It was difficult to push, but the officials behind only dared to attack Ye Qi and only dared to mention Xu Pu veiledly, maybe it was because Xie Qian's influence was protecting Xu Pu.

Now Cheng Minzheng asked to increase the number of Shu Jishi, just to send more good seedlings to their powerful ministers.

After all, it is impossible for anyone to preside over the examination all the time, but the teaching of Shujishi has always been held by the academicians of the Imperial Academy or even the elders of the pavilion. For example, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie formed a teacher-student relationship during the career of Shujishi.

Zhu Youtang knew that if he wanted to weaken the civil servant group and prevent this power group from getting too big, he must now try to cut off the teacher-student relationship that maintains the inheritance of power.

Guo Yong also saw that Cheng Minzheng had changed his mind temporarily, and immediately read according to the procedure: "Answer: Shujishi is related to reserve talents for the country, and 20 people are rare. From now on, new Jinshi will be selected based on their native places in two capitals and thirteen provinces." A number of people, up to 50 people, will set up a new State Reserve Academy, choose a senior Hanlin official to serve as the dean, and select another six senior Hanlin officials to serve as instructors!"

This……

In fact, Xu Pu was the real promoter of Shu Ji Shi's customization. Now that Zhu Youtang played this trick, he immediately looked at his once very dull disciple in disbelief.

Not to mention that too many Shujishi would have virtually weakened the gold content of Shujishi, and now the new State Reserve Academy is being established to cut off the relationship between the Imperial Academy and Shujishi.

Once the Shujishi go out independently, they are likely to become the emperor's minions instead of their good disciples.

Not all officials can see that they are actually "fighting", but many officials feel that Zhu Youtang's approach is to adopt Cheng Dezheng's suggestion, and even generously increased the number of Shujishi from 20 to 50 people.

"The minister leads the decree!" Cheng Dezheng found that this disciple really couldn't see through, so he cupped his hands bitterly.

At this time, the morning sun had already risen high, and the golden sunlight was shining on them.

The scene of sparks hitting the ground that everyone was looking forward to did not happen after all. The court meeting was coming to an end in everyone's disappointment, and the most interesting thing in the whole morning court was naturally Shang Baosi Shaoqing Li Quan's deadly remonstrance.

This was originally an event that could be recorded in the annals of history, but Chen Kun, the right servant of the household department who caught the mouse, rushed out to stop Li Quan, so that Li Quan failed to remonstrate successfully, so he also saw a loneliness.

"I knew this was the result, and I came back to catch up on sleep after I finished my duty!" Liu Wentai yawned, looking very disappointed.

An official from the Honglu Temple next to him glanced at Liu Wentai, then jokingly said: "Just now Li Quan didn't hit him, if he hit the stone lion and survived, isn't this your chance to make up for it?"

"I don't think so, the medical skills judged by Li Yuan... I'm afraid they don't have such miraculous effects!" Another Honglu Temple official seemed to be speaking with sincerity.

In the current officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Wentai is actually considered a celebrity.

Liu Wentai was in charge of treating Chenghua Emperor's wind-cold disease in August last year, but the prescriptions he prescribed had no effect, and instead caused Chenghua Emperor to die within ten days.

This was originally a serious crime, but fortunately Liu Wentai was good at managing contacts in the officialdom, and someone interceded for him in the end, so he was just demoted from the envoy of the Fourth Rank Tai Hospital to the Fifth Rank Tai Hospital.

"I don't want to talk nonsense with you! It should be because of the dismissal, right? Being on night duty in the palace is really tiring, I have to go home and get a good sleep!" Liu Wentai knew that some topics were sensitive, so he yawned again road.

He was on duty in the palace last night, and he chose to come to attend the morning court because he knew that today's morning court would not be peaceful.It's just a pity that Li Quan didn't hit him, let alone staged the scene he was expecting.

"Now that the last one has finished its work, it must be time to disperse!" An official of Guanglu Temple observed the front, also with a bit of anticipation.

Just when everyone was about to send Emperor Hongzhi away from the court, thinking that the early court was over, Guo Yong suddenly took out a bright yellow imperial edict.

Huh?
The right servant of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Jian, and other officials noticed this scene, and couldn't help but looked at each other, but they didn't know what Zhu Youtang was going to do.

Guo Yong didn't wait for everyone's reaction, he immediately started to read and said: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: Heaven's heart is subordinated, and the sun is involved, the slaves of the main family deceive the emperor, and the ministers peek at the emperor's affairs, so the outer yin invades the inner yang! Liu Wentai and other foreign officials from the Imperial Hospital colluded with the internal officials who missed them, and frequently handed out notes to secretly have an affair, which violated the ancestral precepts and the way of heaven, so they are pardoned. Anyone who has an affair with a note will be punished and not spared. I will repair the province for three days and only sue the Xuanji Hall. The ministers and workers have their hearts and work together to help the cause. I appreciate it!"

(End of this chapter)