Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 456
In the first year of Tianyan, the fifth day of the first lunar month, it was the first time in Zhu Biao's career as a king.

Although he had supervised the country before and made decisions for Emperor Zhu, he was no stranger to court meetings.But supervising the country and ruling the world are always different.

Civil and military officials are also familiar with Zhu Biao's style when he was the prince.But as new emperors succeeding to the throne, they must get in touch with the new emperor and slowly find out a way to get along.

With their thoughts, Zhu Biao would inevitably guess a little bit right, and then make the most suitable answer in his heart, so as not to be manipulated by them.

Today everyone is just talking about innocuous matters, such as who should be promoted and who should be punished, and the censor impeached some officials' private scandals.

Seeing everyone dawdling, Zhu Biao simply waved his hand to interrupt, signaling them not to talk about these trivial things: "My dear friends, you can just submit these matters. If there is a dispute at that time, I will discuss it with you again." Late."

The officials below were silent for a moment, and someone asked Zhu Biao whether he should invite Yan Shenggong for the new king's succession.

Zhu Biao looked at the speaker Zhou Qing, and asked puzzledly: "Zhou Yushi, what is this Yan Shenggong, I forgot."

Some of the civil servants below were speechless, Zhou Qing explained: "Your Majesty, Lord Yansheng... is not a thing, oh no, Lord Yansheng is a thing."

How to explain Yan Shenggong, Zhou Qing felt convoluted, so he simply stopped talking.

The first morning court, who the hell mentioned Yan Shenggong to me, is it that the past few years have been too comfortable, and the butt is itchy?

Zhu Biao showed a strange expression: "Everyone said, is Yan Shenggong a thing or not?"

The ministers dare not answer.

Zhu Biao glanced around and said: "I have something to say today. In recent years, the gentry's one-to-one payment of food has always been muddy, and the new dynasty has a new atmosphere. It should be done well. Which Qing family is willing to do it?" this matter."

The officials were silent, you look at me, I look at you, no one took this hot potato.

Well, in Zhu Biao's eyes, this matter is a big deal, but in the eyes of all the ministers, they don't think it's a big deal.

Logically speaking, the officials are scrambling to do the things arranged by the new emperor to win the favor of the new emperor.

But today all the officials were staring at each other, and some of them who opposed the gentry's payment of food all wanted to see Zhu Biao make a fool of himself.

Zhu Biao also held his breath and looked at the ministers with a smile on his face.

Zhu Di, who was standing below, felt unhappy when he saw that no one took up this matter. He couldn't let his elder brother lose face like this today.

"Your Majesty, my brother is willing." Zhu Di stepped forward directly, expressing his willingness to urge the gentry to pay the food as a whole.

Zhu Biao was touched and said: "I will send you to Suzhou Mansion to urge the gentry to pay for food."

He could see that his younger brother was out of respect for himself.

"I am also willing." Zheng Shiyuan looked around: "Your Majesty, this matter is for the sake of the Ming people and the world. Others are timid, and I, Zheng Shiyuan, dare to take over."

Zhu Biao sighed, and then praised Zheng Shiyuan: "I have a heart, but the affairs of the Ministry of Punishment cannot be separated from you, so let King Zhou go."

Although Zheng Shiyuan's request was rejected, Zhu Biao still admired his outspokenness.

Zheng Shiyuan nodded and returned to the queue.

The first thing Zhu Di took on for himself, Zhu Biao didn't ask the minister what he meant this time, he cleared his throat and said, "I have one more thing to do, which is to write a heroic biographies for the heroes of the founding generals.

Gao Qi, Song Na!The two of you are in charge of this matter, Luo Guanzhong is in charge of the painting, and the painter in the palace is the portrait of the general. "

This matter, Lao Zhu left it to Zhu Biao to decide.Emperor Zhu hoped that the generals would remember Zhu Biao's favor.

Xu Da, Chang Mao and Lan Yu all looked at Zhu Biao in surprise and were very moved that His Majesty wanted to write them into the book.

"I obey the order." Gao Qi and Song Na nodded.

"Let's go." Zhu Biao waved his hand.

The samurai standing in the hall is named Tang Xian, he is a student of the Beiping Army Military Academy. In the past two years, he has been the first in all examinations and competitions.

Tang Xian and Yuan Bao followed behind, and Zhu Biao stood on the porch talking to Zhu Di: "The gentry in Suzhou Mansion have always paid for food in a false way, and I am very worried."

"Your Majesty, I will personally watch them get food money from home and make a good start." Zhu Di was about to leave after speaking.

"To deal with Lao Lai, you have to use some unusual methods." Zhu Biao whispered in Zhu Di's ear and taught him a few methods.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"You should call me Big Brother."

"yes, Sir."

Zhu Di in the crowd is heroic.Zhu Biao smiled gratifiedly.

Three days later, Suzhou Mansion.

In front of the Yamen of Suzhou Mansion, hundreds of gentry stood neatly in line like an army formation, holding food and money bags.

These gentry were tortured half to death by those beggars yesterday, but today they obediently came over to hand over food to the imperial envoy from the capital.

They are all the people who have often fooled and delayed the payment of food in the past few years, and other people have followed their example and learned to rely on food.

The prefect of Suzhou is particularly troubled by this.But today he is refreshed, because the king of Zhou is sitting here to collect grain.

Zhu Di rolled his sleeves, stepped on the table with one foot, held a long knife in his left hand, and held a brush end in his mouth. His eyes were on these gentlemen, constantly observing.

"Listen, I'm Zhu Di." Zhu Di called out his name loudly: "From now on, if you don't pay your food and taxes properly, I will come every day. Whoever dares to fool you, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Lao Lai needs the rule of the king, and it seems that the method taught by his elder brother is really reliable.

Zhu Di danced non-stop with a knife in his hand.The gentry who came to pay the grain money were all kind and polite, and they handed over the grain in a polite manner.

And the money and food owed in recent years were all collected by Zhu Di at once.

At the Great Court Meeting in early February, in addition to the completion of the gentry's payment of food in Suzhou Prefecture, the officials also mentioned the matter of canonizing the queen.

In addition to the old Zhu Dingchang's meaning, it is also because Zhu Yunchi was trained by Zhu Biao himself, and he is also the candidate for the prince.

The Chang family was granted the title of empress logically and lived in Kunning Palace.

Shen Zhi was named a noble concubine by Zhu Biao, and so was Xu Miaowei.Zhu Biao never looked directly at Xu Miaowei about this matter, after all, he felt ashamed.

In the days that followed, Zhu Biao was busy dealing with the government affairs and the important affairs of Chunwei, so he put his guilt towards Xu's family behind him.

In the spring of the first year of Tianyan, Zhu Biao attached great importance to it. Officials were busy grading papers, and from time to time they presented some good candidates' papers to Zhu Biao for reading.

There are quite a lot of papers, because in addition to the southern, northern, and middle papers in the imperial examinations in Ming Dynasty, there are also papers for candidates from the National Academy of Scholars.

The division into north and south is because of the north-south list of the year, adding the middle volume, completely considering Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Nanzhili Fengyang, Luzhou, and Chuzhou.

The examiner who was in charge of the examination this time was overwhelmed by so many papers, but Zhu Biao enjoyed it very much. He wanted to select talents for Daming, and it was very interesting to think about it.

The papers shown to Zhu Biao were all top-notch works carefully selected by officials.There are articles praising, and there are articles criticizing current malpractices.

These articles are so damn good. If they were placed in modern times, they would definitely be full marks for composition.And the writing is neat, the font is the same as printed.

There is one more thing, Zhu Biao is more excited.

It was the first batch of students who graduated from various prefectures. Zhu Biao did not let them go to the National Academy of Scholars or the Imperial Academy, and suggested that they take the imperial examination together.

He wanted to see what kind of talents came out of this elementary school, county school, and government school.

There are so many things, I am so busy that I can't breathe.The only fortunate thing is that the palace test is scheduled for a month later.

This month.Zhu Biao can take a breath.

Lao Zhu doesn't care about things now, and around the Huachao Festival, he followed Zhu Biao's uncle to play together.

Look, is this what the father did!

After standing up to take a breath, many more test papers were delivered, and Tang Xian and Yuan Bao helped sort them out.

Because the test papers were divided into the North and the South, and other candidates were added, Zhu Biao made a slight change in the Ming Dynasty's Jinshi awarding system.

For example, except for the number one scholar, the second place, and Tanhua, the next sixty Jinshi are all backup officials.

The top ten are selected as Zhongshu Sheren, professors and judges, and the bottom twenty are selected as official teachers of schools in various prefectures and counties, which are also of high grade.

The next [-] were selected as officials of the local prefecture, county and township, and sent to the new vassal state of Ming Dynasty as local officials.

"Your Majesty, Princess Huaiping is here."

Tang Xian came in to report.

Huaiping was the princess before, but since Zhu Biao succeeded to the throne and changed the Yuan, she was promoted to the princess.

The emperor's daughter is the princess, the prince's daughter is the princess, and Zhu Biao's aunt is the eldest princess, such as Li Wenzhong's mother.Zhu Biao's younger sister is also the eldest princess, and their status is higher than that of ordinary concubines.

If Zhu Biao guessed correctly, she was acting as Lao Zhu's microphone again.

After a while, Princess Huaiping came in.

Zhu Biao put down the notebook in his hand, and said with a smile, "What's the matter, are you sending a message for your grandpa again?"

Huaiping pouted and said, "Ah, father, you guessed it right again."

　Ask for a ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)