Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 595 Ma Shiying Reforms Ming Dynasty

Zhou Hou was finally persuaded by the third prince Zhu Cihuan. Although King Hui and King Ding were both her own sons, she hoped that her eldest son would be the crown prince.

This has almost become an obsession in her heart.

Zhou Hou found an opportunity to summon Xu Zhaohua, the supervisor of ceremonies, Bingbi.

Xu Zhaohua has been staying in the Supervisor of Rites honestly these days, not daring to see anyone easily.

She didn't want herself to be involved in the complicated forces in the court, she just wanted to simply stay in the Supervisor of Rituals and help His Majesty the Emperor Ming to do some things.

But Zhou Hou took the initiative to summon her, and she had to go, so she came to Kunning Palace.

Zhou Hou also had some complaints about Xu Zhaohua. After all, he had cared for Xu Zhaohua all these years, but since Xu Zhaohua became an internal official, he had always seemed relatively indifferent.

Sometimes Zhou Hou also wants to say that it is not her own, Xu Zhaohua is always not very close to her.

But after all, Xu Zhaohua was already the supervisor of ceremonies, and even the Empress Zhou had to be more polite and kind to Xu Zhaohua.

Xu Zhaohua has always been worried that Queen Zhou will ask her to do something, even now, she can guess that the queen will ask her to help His Royal Highness Hui Wang.

But Xu Zhaohua didn't want to participate in the matter of seizing the heir, and she always remembered the teachings of His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

What's more, she still hated King Hui Zhu Cihong in her heart.

"Ma Shiying, the chief assistant of the cabinet, you should know," said Zhou Hou, wiping away tears.

Xu Zhaohua didn't know why the queen was crying, and the swollen eyes made her feel very distressed, so she nodded: "I know."

"Then do you know who Ma Shiying is! He is the one who encouraged your father to abolish your brother's crown prince, and he wants to murder your brother!"

Zhou Hou suddenly spoke to Xu Zhaohua excitedly.

"Mother, calm down! My son is just an internal official and has no right to comment on foreign court officials. Now that my father has chosen him as the chief assistant of the cabinet, my father's wisdom must have a reason for him to choose Ma Shiying as the first assistant of the cabinet." If it is true what the queen mother said, if Ma Shiying does not deal with the emperor's brother, no matter how arrogant Ma Shiying is, he will not dare to do anything to the emperor's brother, after all, the emperor's brother is the father's own son."

Xu Zhaohua really didn't expect that Zhou Hou would scold Ma Shiying to herself, she was a little too late to react, but she could only comfort Zhou Hou with good words.

Zhou Hou listened and nodded: "What does your Majesty mean? I don't understand as a woman, but I called you here today, just to ask if you are willing to help your brother and help your brother recover." As the crown prince, you need to know that your entry into the Supervisor of Ceremonies is not just for His Majesty's attention, and the significance of your entry into the Supervisor of Ceremonies is not just for reading memorials, for yourself and for your father, you should think about it carefully?"

Xu Zhaohua didn't expect Zhou Hou to speak so directly, and couldn't help but reply for a while: "But the emperor strictly ordered that the internal officials are not allowed to collude with anyone in private."

"This is no collusion! I didn't ask you to do anything against His Majesty, and I didn't ask you to do anything, but if someone wants to harm your emperor brother and threaten your emperor brother, you will naturally know better than us Hurry up, you just need to send a report, don't you even want to do this, it's no use for me to love you for so long!"

Said so a week later.

Xu Zhaohua quickly knelt down: "Queen Mother calm down, I will let my son think about this matter again, and after three days, son minister will give mother an answer."

Zhou Hou nodded, waved and said, "Back off."

Xu Zhaohua locked herself up for a whole day after she returned to the Prison of Rituals. She never thought that she would be asked to do such a thing, but she dared not tell the emperor Zhu Youjian about it, because it was the queen who asked her to violate the principle .

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Just when Xu Zhaohua was debating whether to go into the water to help Hui Wang Zhu Cihong, Ma Shiying had already started the work of reorganizing the cabinet.

Hua Yuncheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, spent a lot of money to keep his position as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the two servants of the Ministry of Officials were all moved.

Hubu Shangshu actually became Huang Zongxi, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites. This has to be said to be out of Zhu Youjian's expectation, but Zhu Youjian has not said anything now. Anyway, if there is a mistake in the Ming Dynasty's money law, he can just chop off Ma Shiying's head. up.

The Minister of War is still Ruan Dayue.

The Minister of Rites is still the Zodiac Zhou, which is specially requested by Zhu Youjian. The implementation of new education cannot be supported, no matter who forms the cabinet.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry is still Song Yingxing. So far, there is no one in Ming Dynasty who can replace him. If nothing goes wrong, Song Yingxing is probably the Minister of the Ministry of Industry for life.

There is no need to elaborate on the rest of the official positions, and Ma Shiying did not directly change blood from the beginning. Although attacking political parties is a means he really wants to play, he knows that what His Majesty wants is not for him to attack political parties, but to let him do business.

Therefore, as soon as Ma Shiying took office, he began to issue an order to clear the land in the south, and decided to announce the implementation of the policy of emigrating the people from the south to the north, and strictly prohibited forced slavery and severely cracked down on local forces that prevented people from emigrating to the north.

At the same time, the Ministry of Criminal Justice also promulgated the "Anti-Slavery Law", strictly prohibiting officials and people from raising private slaves in the name of raising children and raising daughters, and began to change the "Law of the Ming Dynasty". If a slave and a slave are killed, the master will still have to pay for his life, and the slave has the right to redeem himself according to the contract price, and the owner of the house cannot stop it.

At the same time, the Ministry of Criminal Justice began to promulgate the "Citizenship Law", which formally established the classification of citizens in Ming Dynasty and the rights and obligations of citizens of each level. The Han people in Guannei were all first-class citizens regardless of their wealth and status. They had equal rights in law. Civilians do not kneel before officials, and even have the right to education.

Not only that, in order to completely solve the shortage of labor force in the empire, especially the shortage of skilled labor force, Ma Shiying began to stipulate that women should also go to school on the grounds that everyone has the right to receive compulsory education in the Citizenship Law.

At the same time, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs promulgated a decree strictly prohibiting the recurrence of civilian drowning of baby girls and footbinding incidents. The cabinet also began to lead the change of social atmosphere, encouraging women to unbind their feet and go to the factory.

But because of this, Ma Shiying has also been abused by gentry all over the world in the past year.

First of all, they wanted to clean up the land and did not recognize the slaves born in the family, and even allowed women to enter school without footbinding.

All of a sudden, memorials to impeach Ma Shiying flew into Zhu Youjian's Qianqing Palace like snowflakes.

Zhu Youjian was too lazy to answer. He supported Ma Shiying's move. What Ming Dynasty lacks most now is population. Where does the population come from? From a political point of view, it comes from slave owners' manors; from a reproductive point of view, it comes from women. in the stomach.

Without eradicating the phenomenon of drowning female infants due to patriarchal thinking, and without liberating a large number of slaves from gentry manors, it is impossible to increase the female population. Ma Shiying is now playing a feminist role in full swing, but in fact, he is just It is only serving the capitalists who need the population to work in the country.

Emerging capitalists such as Han Shoujing from the Supervisor of Rites and Yang Mingshen from the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty supported Ma Shiying’s move. Even the eunuch Han Shoujing took the lead in establishing the Jingshi Women’s School in the capital, offering majors in textile and garment design and drama.

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