The next day.
Zhu Youxiao, who had finished his business with the queen, glanced at the queen beside him: "Don't sleep anymore, you should go back to your Kunning Palace."
The queen still closed her eyes tightly, her lips pursed slightly, and she ignored Zhu Youxiao.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes at the queen and wanted to reach out and push her.
But Zhu Youxiao finally took his hand back.
Then, Zhu Youxiao quietly got out of bed and asked someone to help him wash up before going to exercise.
After the exercise, as soon as Zhu Youxiao returned to Xinuang Pavilion, he saw the queen still sleeping soundly. He couldn't help but shook his head: "She is a fifteen-year-old girl after all. She is carefree. She doesn't know that she will be in the twenty-fourth year." Later, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, so I slept so deeply."
Zhu Youxiao said and walked over and patted Zhang Yan's face: "Hey, it's time to wake up!"
Queen Zhang Yan turned over and her jade-colored breasts were squeezed out, but her eyes were still closed.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't lift her quilt, so he had to shout loudly: "Queen Zhang!"
When Zhu Youxiao shouted, Zhang Yan's tightly closed long eyelashes suddenly parted, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she quickly shrank: "Your Majesty, are you awake?"
"It's time for you to return to Kunning Palace."
Zhu Youxiao said lightly, and then shouted: "It is said that the attendants around the Queen agree to come in!"
"yes!"
Wang Chengen replied.
Not long after, the four agreed and walked in with toiletries. After giving Zhu Youxiao a gift, they began to dress and wash Zhang Yan.
Zhu Youxiao walked towards the inner study, but after just a few steps, he stepped back, sat on the chair next to Zhang Yan, and said: "Now there are many more concubines and concubines in the harem, and you are Lord of the Sixth Palace, do you know how to manage it?"
Zhang Yan glanced at Zhu Youxiao confusedly, then shook her head, her big watery eyes seemed to be full of curiosity and doubt.
Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "You just need to remember that except for me, no one can ask you to do anything in this harem, and no one can teach you. Even if someone asks you to see her, you can't Lower your status to see her. If anyone wants to see you, they must first apply for your permission."
"Well, I, my concubine, will remember your Majesty's instructions."
Zhang Yan replied.
Zhu Youxiao came to the political hall in the snow.
"His Majesty!"
As soon as Fang Congzhe saw Zhu Youxiao coming, he stood up.
Zhu Youxiao said "hmm", then sat on the chair and looked outside the room.
At this time, Zhang Yan just came out of Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Youxiao also saw Zhang Yan wearing a large cloak and walking towards Kunning Palace through the snow. The person next to her was holding an umbrella to cover her from the snow.
But the umbrella couldn't block the wind, so Zhang Yan's face turned red.
"If Your Majesty feels that the Empress will easily freeze when she returns to Kunning Palace on such a cold day, you can ask her eunuchs to tell her that she will still stay in Qianqing Palace. This was a common practice in Xiaomiao. At that time, Empress Zhang He has been living in Xinuang Pavilion, accompanying Emperor Xiaomiao, but has never returned to Kunning Palace for a day."
Fang Congzhe spoke from the side.
Zhu Youxiao smiled: "I'm not worried about her being cold. I just think she looks good in red clothes walking like this in the snow. Besides, it's okay to be so cold, otherwise she'll be too weak. On the contrary It is not conducive to the birth of an imperial heir in the future."
Zhu Youxiao said, "Let's talk about business. How much has been done about clearing Zhang's land in Nanzhili?"
Fang Congzhe hurriedly reported back: "Your Majesty, according to the report from Southeast Governor Feng Quan, 70% of the work has been completed, and it is expected to be completed in the spring of next year."
Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked Wei Zhongxian: "How is the situation of the gentry in Southern Zhili now? Have they continued to do anything extraordinary because of the issue of clearing their father's land?"
"Going back to your Majesty, the gentry in Southern Zhili are now forming large groups, writing anonymous posts, and criticizing the government. The most direct one is to curse Feng Quan as a traitor, and some are advocating for chaos in the world. Moreover, Yan Yuanfu is good at power, chaos, and excessive taxation. , making the common people miserable, and even said that Your Majesty, you are licentious and have been deceived by the beauties that Yuan Fu secretly sent to the palace, and even said that your health is getting worse and worse. Such voices are becoming more and more frequent, and I don’t know where they come from. Where did it come from, but it is obvious that they are spreading rumors like this because they are dissatisfied with the imperial court.”
Wei Zhongxian glanced at Zhu Youxiao as he spoke. He didn't know if his emperor would be angry because of this, but he felt very angry anyway.
Zhu Youxiao was not angry, but laughed: "You are really good at making up! It seems that the control of public opinion in Nanzhili needs to be strengthened. Ruan Dacheng and a few people from his Chongwen Temple are not enough. They need to be adjusted. If more people go, private association must be prohibited. To form an association, I must obtain my permission. Scholars are also prohibited from discussing politics. Once a member is found discussing politics and engraving a letter privately, he will be directly removed from his position! In serious cases, he will be executed immediately!"
Fang Congzhe nodded after hearing this: "What your Majesty said is that in the early years of Wanli, Zhang Wenzhenggong carried out reforms to eliminate abuses, so he banned lectures in academies all over the world. This was not a ban on lectures, but in fact it was a ban on scholars in the world making unreasonable opinions through lectures. government affairs, and encouraged the uninformed scholars and people to oppose the new policies of the imperial court! Because the scholars all over the world now talk about current affairs by giving lectures, they even use the lectures to form associations and form parties, and even invite local officials to give lectures, so that these officials no longer know that there is a court and only know that there are scholars Forest."
"Yes, some people say that this will silence all the people in the world and make the world's speech even more blocked, so that the public opinion cannot be heard. But the scholars in the world cannot represent all the people of the Ming Dynasty and cannot represent the public opinion."
Zhu Youxiao continued: "Most of our people in the Ming Dynasty are still illiterate and don't know how to discuss current affairs or even express their own opinions. Therefore, many times, most of the public opinion we hear is only represented by the scholars. The meaning of the gentry, for example, right now, I just killed a beautiful woman to maintain discipline a few days ago, but some people say that I am dissolute and licentious. I have just begun to take the legal examination and clear my father-in-law's land, and you, Fang Congzhe, are already being said to be hijacking the emperor and disrupting the government. , so, since we can’t hear everyone’s voices and can’t hear the true public opinion, it’s better to shut everyone up first! In order to avoid listening to some people’s words and causing many people who don’t know the inside story to mistakenly think that the New Deal is a disaster for the country. !”
Fang Congzhe had to admit that His Majesty the Emperor was indeed an extraordinary emperor, and he did not really misunderstand that the public opinion of the world came from the mouths of the world's literati.
But Fang Congzhe was also a little puzzled as to how his Majesty the Emperor got such an insight, and couldn't help but secretly thought: "What did Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong, who were the officials at the Sutra Banquet, teach His Majesty? Could it be that they taught them the true art of the emperor?" he."
"Draft the decree! Fang Shihong, the young minister of Chongwen Temple, personally took everyone from Chongwen Temple to Nanzhili to inspect civil affairs. Dongchang also sent reliable people with enough manpower to Nanzhili to investigate the case. Anyone who formed a secret association would be arrested, and whoever did not Anyone who gives lectures with the permission of the government will be arrested, and anyone who builds an academy privately will be arrested!"
Zhu Youxiao started talking at this time.
"yes!"
Fang Congzhe replied and immediately began to draft the decree.
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