Zhang Juzheng put the chapter memorial he had just planned to write to Zhu Yijun back on the case, and continued: "At least this possibility cannot be ruled out!"
Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and said, "Please give me some advice, father."
Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly and said: "It seems that Feng Bao is using Zhang Jing to get rid of Sun Dexiu, so that His Majesty will feel that he has no greed for power. But who knows, is Zhang Jing working with His Majesty to deceive Feng Bao?"
"Knowing people but not knowing their hearts, with His Majesty's early wisdom, plus, if this whale is a bold person instead of Zhang Hong's sophisticated people, wouldn't Zhang Yong and Yang Anning (Yang Yiqing) be able to get rid of Liu Jinzhi? thing?"
What Zhang Juzheng said about Zhang Yong's alliance with Yang Yi to eliminate Liu Jin refers to the incident during the Zhengde period when the eunuch Zhang Yong had conflicts with Liu Jin and joined forces with the civil servant Yang Yiqing to defeat Liu Jin.
In Zhang Juzheng's opinion, Zhang Jing might not have the intention of defeating Feng Bao in a fight to advance himself further, and at the same time, it could be considered as catering to the emperor's wishes.
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu suddenly realized and asked, "It's possible that my father said this. Then should we remind Eunuch Feng to be careful about Zhang Jing?"
"No need!"
"If Zhang Jing really knows how to cater to His Majesty, why would our Zhang family offend the Emperor for Feng Bao?"
"The only person in this world who can really show kindness and dew is the emperor, not Feng Bao!"
"Besides, maybe Feng Bao is not ignorant, but he has no choice but to trust Zhang Jing. In the end, no matter how powerful he is, Feng Bao relies on the Queen Mother to rely on him, he is still just a domestic slave of His Majesty!"
Zhang Juzheng sighed as he spoke, with a look of disappointment on his face, and said: "But if this is really the case, will the emperor who was taught by his father be the second Shimiao (Jiajing), who only knows how to use skills to gain power?" , but don’t know how to govern the country with great principles? How can this not be worrying?”
Zhang Juzheng frowned, and then picked up a new volume of "Emperor's Illustrations" that he was writing personally, and said with a wry smile: "I taught him so many stories about the Holy Lord and the wise principles, but he still couldn't wait to put his cleverness aside first." When I play tricks with the naughty people around me, I can even say that I am self-taught without a teacher!"
"It is difficult to send a letter to Jun Yao and Shun!"
"Father! I heard that Your Majesty is a diligent scholar in his lectures and banquets, and he is praised by hundreds of officials. He is not necessarily just a king with skills but no morals. What's more, the empress dowagers of the two palaces are very strict. Father, you can't talk to everyone about officials. He taught me very diligently, but now that His Majesty intends to take over power, perhaps it is just because he is not controlled by Feng Bao."
Zhang Jingxiu comforted his father with kind words, who put much more emphasis on cultivating the emperor than on cultivating his own sons.
Zhang Juzheng nodded: "You are right. Now it seems that as a father, I can only cast stones and ask for directions for the restructuring in advance."
"Throwing stones to ask for directions?"
Zhang Jingxiu asked.
Zhang Juzheng smiled meaningfully and said: "That's right! It can be regarded as the emperor's exam for my father, to test whether he has the heart to reform and reform. At that time, the Shimiao played with hundreds of officials in the palm of its hand and exercised power within the nine states, but I don’t dare to be the first for the world, and I don’t know if His Majesty is so young and smart now, whether he dares to be the first for the world!”
"How does father plan to take the exam?"
Zhang Jingxiu asked.
Zhang Juzheng said: "Tomorrow is the day to inspect the court. Let the censor restart the roll call system that was not strictly implemented in the Longqing Dynasty! Start cleaning the court to see your majesty's attitude! I hope your majesty will use Hai Rui not only to check and balance his father, but also to use it to check and balance his father." Zhang Jing is not just trying to bring down Feng."
According to Zhang Juzheng's daily schedule for Zhu Yijun, the emperor's student, every third, sixth, and ninth day, a morning court meeting would be held.
The rest of the time, except for the sutra banquet, is used for lectures and readings in the Wenhua Hall.
This day, the ninth day of March, happens to be the day to watch the DPRK again.
Going to court is very hard, not only for the emperor, but also for the officials, especially those who live far away from the palace. If they want to go to court early and not be late, some of them don't dare to sleep the night before, so they just sit and wait until the early morning. Just go to the court, and prepare to go home to catch up on sleep after the court meeting is over.
Fortunately, Emperor Longqing was cowardly and considerate of the officials, and could even be said to be conniving. As a result, the court was often seen as useless. The imperial censor was too lazy to name names, and many ministers were too lazy to come. After all, if he was discovered not to come to court, Emperor Longqing would not deal with it either.
And this phenomenon continued until the first year of Wanli.
Who makes the emperor young now?
The officials felt that the young Emperor Wanli would not know how to uphold the authority of the imperial program and national laws, and to clean up the bureaucrats' laziness and disrespect for the imperial programs and national laws.
Therefore, officials will still be absent from work and late for work.
Zhu Yijun also knew this, but he did not show his sword to the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty in the early years of Wanli to clean up the laziness among the bureaucrats and their contempt for the imperial outline and national laws just because he was already the Wanli emperor with the soul of future modern people.
Because Zhu Yijun had made up his mind to hide his political intentions while Zhang Juzheng was still in charge of the country for him, and while he was still under the control of Empress Dowager Li and Feng Bao. As long as Zhang Juzheng did not take the lead, he would never show any The intention is to innovate, eliminate malpractices and clean up the political agenda, so as to wait steadily until the time when power is taken into power in the future, and then give the bureaucracy a big surprise by surprise.
Therefore, during this period, Zhu Yijun turned a blind eye to the officials who were absent and late for the previous court every time he visited the court.
However, what Zhu Yijun didn't expect was that the morning court on the ninth day of March in the first year of Wanli was extremely different.
Zhang Juzheng took great pains to allow his emperor student Zhu Yijun more time to study. Considering that the formal morning court etiquette was too cumbersome and time-consuming, he did not allow the morning court to be held in the main hall, but at Xunzhimen.
In this way, many procedures can be saved because the court is not held in the main hall, making the entire morning court process much simpler and not making a young emperor too tired.
On this day, when Zhu Yijun was going to Xuazhi Gate to see the court, he heard a censor outside the gate calling his name with a roster!
Moreover, after the Jin Yiwei ordered hundreds of officials to come to the court due to the arrival of the sage Zhu Yijun, the imperial censor named had already begun to report to Zhu Yijun to impeach the officials who did not arrive on time.
"Your Majesty, I impeach Ninghou Zhu Gang, Xinning Bo Tan Guozuo and other 274 court officials for not attending court without first asking for medical treatment! They are guilty of dereliction of duty and lack of compliance with the national laws. Please judge by your majesty!"
After the imperial censor Wang Shi of Shanxi Province was called and the class report was given, Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng.
Zhu Yijun guessed that Zhang Juzheng was going to cause trouble from the moment he saw the censor suddenly roll up his name and strictly check attendance, and he was going to start rectifying the administration of officials.
A politician who is determined to reform cannot be content with the status quo. Sooner or later, he will use the opportunity of taking power to do something practical.
Zhu Yijun is also willing to cooperate, not to mention that this is what he wants to see, let Zhang Juzheng reform for him, and take action against the increasingly lazy bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, and then revive the bureaucracy that is gradually becoming corrupt, and pave the way for further progress in the future. Prepare for fiscal reform.
Therefore, not long after, Zhu Yijun pretended to be shocked and said: "There are so many courtiers who have not come to court? Is this treating the morning court as a joke? Although I am young, I dare not neglect the court system. I stand up wearing the stars and the moon, and all the ministers work Even if it’s hard work, you shouldn’t be so contemptuous of me and the imperial laws!”
After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Juzheng: "How does Mr. Yuan Fu Zhang think this matter should be handled?"
