Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 62 Where's My Chief Assistant?
As the night deepened, the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace was brightly lit.

Compared with the laughter and laughter of the official mansion outside, this majestic palace looks very quiet. A young man in a dragon robe is dealing with government affairs under the lamp.

The imperial decree to appoint Wang Yue as Prime Minister of Yanzheng has been issued, and the ice of Yanzheng has been broken a little, but the final effectiveness of eliminating salt abuses can only be seen by Wang Yue.

Even though he is the emperor of Ming Dynasty, there is a distance in time and space between the center and the place, and the power to control the place is at a natural disadvantage.

Now the matter of the salt government can only be put aside for the time being, after all, there are many malpractices in this dynasty, and his latest focus is on water transportation.

Every year, the imperial court collects several million stones of grain from the six provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Henan, and Shandong to transport to the capital, but the annual cost of manpower and material resources for grain has reached [-]%.

Such a large loss made the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was talked about by the dynasty, become the most expensive toy of the Ming Dynasty, and the sea transportation is undoubtedly the most effective way out.

Zhu Youtang has never been a naive person. In his previous life, he experienced severe beatings from the society. The annual expenditure of several million stones and [-]% of the grain, the maggots that breed here are much more than the Yanzheng.

If I act rashly now, not to mention that the military power of the Beijing army has not yet been controlled, even if I control the Beijing army, I have to find someone to kill first.

"Your Majesty, why have you been going to Xiyuan all the time lately? Isn't it raining today? You couldn't ride a horse and shoot arrows in the past, right?" Live to inquire about authenticity.

Zhu Youtang was thinking about how to cut into the trap in this way, when he heard the words, he said indifferently: "What? I have to report to you for whatever I do?"

"How can I be so unruly, I'm just curious about what you did in Xiyuan! Today you left the Qianqing Palace for a while, and Eunuch Huai came to the Qianqing Gate and said that he would return to his life. The servant said you were not here, and he actually wanted to come in and take a look. Look, this Eunuch Huai is so ignorant of the rules that the servants don't even know how he can sit on it!" Niu Mengmeng immediately said a lot of things.

Zhu Youtang knew that many people didn't like Niu Mengmeng's small talk, but he said very relaxedly in his heart: "When I lived in Qingning Palace, my favorite place to stay was in the closet. Keep this closet prince in your eyes!"

"Ah? This is actually true?" Niu Mengmeng stared at Zhu Youtang with a face full of disbelief.

Seeing Niu Mengmeng's surprised expression, Zhu Youtang couldn't help but secretly sighed. He looked out at the dark sky through the window, but he knew that if he wanted to change some people's inherent cognition, he would have to see blood. .

After the closet prince killed people, would these people really realize that they were emperors?
It was just dawn, and there were more and more civil and military officials in front of the Meridian Gate.

Due to the rain yesterday, today's weather has become significantly colder, but many officials' eyes are shining, and they are resolutely looking forward to today's morning court.

"Xu Xueshi, good morning!" Liu Ji, who was wearing a first-rank official uniform, saw Xu Pu who had arrived late, and immediately greeted him authentically.

Xu Pu has a good drinking capacity for people in the north, and he had a good dream last night, he still had a smile on his mouth, and he walked with wind, so he responded: "Old Liu Ge, good morning! "

"Xu Xueshi, since you proposed to ask His Majesty to re-open the sutra banquet, I will follow you!" Liu Ji looked around and lowered his voice slightly.

Xu Pu couldn't help being startled secretly, he didn't expect his conversation at the banquet last night to reach Liu Ji's ears, but he still said calmly: "Thanks to Mr. Liu Ge's help today, things can be done."

After defeating Wan An, the person standing in front of him was Liu Ji.

It's just that it's not yet time to take action against Liu Ji, not to mention whether he can bring down Liu Ji, if it takes a long time for him to be blocked from the cabinet in the end, it would be a big joke.

That's why, choosing to live in peace with Liu Ji now, and working together to put pressure on His Majesty is the best choice.

After the two sides reached a tacit understanding, when they heard the morning bell ringing and the opening of the Meridian Gate, they led the civil and military officials through the cave of the Meridian Gate and walked towards the magnificent Fengtian Gate in front of them.

Du Ming, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, exchanged glances silently, and found that the ranks of civil servants were more orderly today, and vaguely felt that they had gathered into a powerful whole.

In the morning light, in front of Fengtian Gate, thousands of officials began to observe politics.

"Your Majesty, I will greet you, long live my emperor!" Wan An was no longer here, and now he was led by Liu Ji and Xu Pu, bowing to the young emperor.

Zhu Youtang turned his head and glanced to the left, and found that Liu Ji was the only cabinet minister kneeling here alone.

Familiar process, similar formula, started by the clan mansion.Today, the clan mansion is no longer asking Zhu Youtang to finalize the names of the clan members, but the king of Zhou invited him out of the city to pay respects to the ancestors.

After all, what was supposed to come has finally come. When it was the turn of the Ministry of Rites, the atmosphere in the square instantly changed.

Li Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Du Ming, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, also felt strange, and looked at the team of the Ministry of Rites vigilantly.

Zhu Youtang saw the copy in his hand. The Ministry of Rites submitted yesterday that the consort Zhou Jing was dispatched to Emperor Jing's mausoleum. This is undoubtedly a trivial matter.

Ni Yue, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, came out and said confidently and impassionedly: "Your Majesty, Yingzong Zhijing Yanyi Annotation, on the [-]nd, [-]th, and [-]nd of each month, three times to give lectures. The cold and heat are temporarily exempted. If the sutra feast is not abandoned for a day, the sages and saints will advance in one day; Naturally strong and sensitive. Lectures at the banquet are a place for the gentleman to broaden his mind and inspire his spirit. It has been a full moon since your Majesty climbed the Great Treasure, and the prime year will not come again, and it will never be morning again. Please do not violate the ancestral system, please open the scriptures Feast, talk all day!"

"Second ministers!" Zhou Hongmo, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and other officials knelt down and agreed after listening to Ni Yue's request.

At this time, most of the officials who participated in the early court knelt down, and they were so powerful that they wanted to join forces to force Zhu Youtang to resume the sutra banquet and Japanese lecture.

Zhu Youtang, who was sitting on the throne, looked at the officials who were kneeling on the ground darkly in front of him. Hearing the voice louder than shouting long live, he finally felt the true power of the civil official group.

If this group of officials really advances and retreats together, even if he is a high-ranking emperor, it will undoubtedly be extremely difficult to control the entire civil official group.

The imperial examination system of Ming Dynasty has laid the foundation of civil servants. The emperor himself can control the cabinet and the six ministries, but he cannot control the whole world at all.

At this moment, he knew that if he wanted to disperse this force, he had to dismantle the system of selecting officials through the imperial examination, otherwise the civil official group would swallow up the imperial power one day.

Naturally, Zhu Youtang would not be confused because of this, and looked at Liu Ji with a normal face and said: "Mr. Liu Ge, how does the cabinet handle things? The memorial to the Ministry of Rites submitted by the cabinet yesterday was not based on this matter. I don't know who it is." Something went wrong?"

"Your Majesty, maybe Wange made a mistake! It's just that the emperor's festival should not be preceded by lectures, and lectures should not be preceded by sutra feasts. I also ask the Holy One to re-open the sutra banquet!" Liu Ji did not intend to be Zhu Youtang's courtier First, he directly shifted the responsibility to Wan An who had already returned home, and at the same time directly stated his position.

"Your Majesty, I would like to invite the Holy Majesty to re-open the sutra feast and set an example to the world's scholars!" Xu Pu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, leading the rest of the officials to put pressure on Zhu Youtang.

At this time, the vast majority of officials in the square had already stated their position, resolutely wanting to force Zhu Youtang to bow his head, obediently restart the Jingyan, and carry out a major ideological transformation.

Zhu Youtang didn't respond to Xu Pu and others' request, but continued to stare at Mr. Liu Ge and asked, "Mr. Wange made a mistake? Hehe... I remember that earlier, the important officials of the imperial court were not allowed to use any reason. Lack of court, why didn’t Wan An come to court this morning? Doesn’t he, the Chief Assistant, don’t want to do it?”

what?
As soon as these words came out, Qianguan who was kneeling in the square was dumbfounded.

Didn't that old man in Wan'an be discovered by you because you offered the book of art in the house to the late emperor? You already took the tooth card yesterday and kicked him out of the Forbidden City. Can he still come?
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