Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 133
After hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Queen Zhang gave her son a blank look, but she didn't say anything. The family of three had a meal together, which was warm and harmonious.After eating, the father and son chatted with Queen Zhang for a while, and then they left Kunning Palace and rushed to Qianqing Palace together. They didn't get along like this for some days, and the father and son felt familiar and unfamiliar.

"Let's talk about it!" After it was done, Zhu Youtang said first. He knew what his son did, but he wanted to know why his son did it.

Although Zhu Youtang is called a benevolent king, in fact he is not reluctant to punish some people. He knows about the affairs of the Ye family, and he also knows why his son did this. In fact, Zhu Youtang doesn't think it is wrong for his son to do this of.Besides, my son made a mistake, and I would smoke at home, but I still have to support my son and wipe his ass.

"I went to the Lianghuai salt field after I left Yangzhou, and I saw those stove households!" Zhu Houzhao said with a soft sigh after sitting down.

"Father, the life of those kitchen households is very miserable. They have no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies. The ambassadors and stewards of the saltworks treat them as slaves. They can't live longer." Zhu Houzhao became angry as he spoke. Get up: "Who caused these? Is it the father? No, the father saves money every day, and is reluctant to wear even a good dress."

"For so many years, nothing has been added to the palace, and the queen mother is also saving money every day, but what about them?"

"Father, Jin Yiwei copied a garden of the Ye family in Yangzhou. That garden is very, very large, not to mention the money in it. Women alone copied more than 300, all of which are Yangzhou skinny horses. Maybe I don’t know what a Yangzhou skinny horse is, it’s a pretty little girl bought from a young age, and then trained.”

"Let them know how to serve men like this, and know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. When they grow up, the Ye family will take them into the house or give them away."

"Give it to those officials, or officials, red sleeves add fragrance, this thing is beautiful in the pen and ink of literati, but in the eyes of my ministers, these are the blood and tears of the people of Ming Dynasty, because they have no place to cry Those scholars, they should have taken the world as their own responsibility, and they should have worked hard for Ming Dynasty. Didn’t they say, “Build a heart for the world, build a life for the people, inherit the sage’s knowledge for the past, and create peace for all generations”? ? That’s what they do?”

Seeing your excited son, the expression on Zhu Youtang's face gradually became serious, and he asked in a deep voice, "Is the Ye family really doing this?"

"Father, all the ministers who followed my ministers to Yangzhou saw this matter. They all knew it, and even many ministers in the court knew it, but they all chose to ignore it. Their eyes were not blind, but they Pretending to be blind." Zhu Houzhao said here, his eyes were red, and he said in a slightly low voice: "They are digging up the roots of Daming."

"If this continues, these people will become fleeing households. From fleeing households, they can become refugees, and these refugees will become the hidden population of the gentry. They are taking advantage from the beginning to the end."

"Once there is a catastrophe, these refugees will be the fuse. At that time, there will be a danger of chaos in the world. This is just a kitchen household. How many military households are there in Ming Dynasty? I feel afraid when I think about it."

Zhu Youtang was also silent. Although he knew that the situation was not good, he was also working hard to change the situation, and he worked hard, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.Glancing at his son, Zhu Youtang felt very relieved again, that he had a successor. After thinking about it, Zhu Youtang asked, "Then did you think of any solution?"

"After all, the world is governed by scholars. Although the Ming Dynasty did not share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, there are almost few of them today."

"Our father and son are in the Forbidden City after all. How many people can we punish and kill? How much can we do? Now that you have seen it and you think it is unfair, what do you think should be done?"

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Zhu Youtang. Neither father nor son mentioned Mu Bin, but both father and son knew that Zhu Houzhao had already pleaded for Mu Bin, and Zhu Youtang also listened to it.What Zhu Houzhao said just now, Zhu Youtang also listened to it, what Zhu Youtang is asking now is how to solve this problem once and for all, this is the way to be a king.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had said so much before, if he couldn't come up with a comprehensive solution, his father would be disappointed. After planning a domain by himself, when it comes time to plan for the overall situation, this is the mind that an emperor should have.

As for the matter of the Ye family, or Ye Qi's death, Zhu Youtang didn't take it seriously, let alone a retired household secretary, what about the current household secretary?The emperor wanted to tidy up as usual, what Zhu Youtang wanted to see was his son's solution, not to vent, not to complain about the whole thing, but how to solve the immediate matter, whether kingly or domineering, what works is a good way.

"My ministers feel that the top priority is the administration of officials. It is urgent to improve the supervision system and rectify the administration of officials. Weed out the old, weak and stupid officials, severely punish corruption, and punish lazy and inactive officials without mercy." Zhu Hou looked at Zhu Youtang and said.

"The imperial court has the Metropolitan Procuratorate, each department has a supervisory censor, and the six ministries have a clean-up department. The inner court also sent eunuchs to guard officials, but the government is not like this?" Zhu Youtang shook his head, looked at his son, and asked, "Government of officials. It has been a big problem since ancient times. Every emperor wants to solve the problem of government officials, and they all want the government to be clear and bright, but how many people can do it?"

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, and then said: "Father, although there are many supervisory offices in the imperial court, the officials protect each other! Besides, if these people are also corrupt, what should we do? Just like Yangzhou this time, the guards in various places Eunuchs, it's not that the ministers look down on them, they are not the opponents of those civil servants, we still have to find another way."

Hearing what his son said, Zhu Youtang also became interested, and asked with a smile: "Then what can you do? Tell me."

"Officials know officials best, and officials know officials best. My son wants to introduce the secret book system!" Zhu Houzhao directly expressed his thoughts without the slightest hesitation. In fact, the secret book system is the secret book system of the Qing Dynasty. The development of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and even the establishment of the crown prince was a system of secret edicts to establish the crown prince. The secret edict for the establishment of the crown prince was hidden behind the upright plaque of the Qianqing Palace.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, the old system of the Ming Dynasty was followed. Officials reported to the emperor when they had something to do.

The title book is stamped, but the memorial book is not stamped.The inscriptions were all submitted by the General Secretary Jin, and before the emperor's approval, the cabinet scholars had already "drafted".Therefore, these two documents are public, which is not conducive to conveying the feelings from the bottom to the top.Secondly, the procedures for handling documents are too complicated, and the operation speed is very slow, and because there are too many handling personnel, it is easy to cause leaks, which greatly restricts the emperor's implementation of government affairs.

(End of this chapter)