Li Youzi wrote the book the next day and asked the court to implement the official residence system to prevent the parents from seeking personal gain.
After the cabinet ministers saw this book, Zhang Juzheng also strongly advocated it, so they voted to approve it. Finally, it was approved by the Chief of Ceremonies and became an imperial edict. The imperial edict also stated that Feng Bao's outer residence in the original inner city was used as the imperial edict. The foundation was expanded into the official residence of the ruling ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, what Li Youzi did made many officials and civil servants dissatisfied with him. They were dissatisfied with him for catering to Zhang Juzheng without considering the feelings of the entire civil servant group, and they regarded Li Youzi as a villain.
But Li Youzi only cares about whether his power and status will be improved as a result.
As for whether the entire civil service community was living well or not, he didn't think it was that important to him.
Moreover, in Li Youzi's view, since he has been defined as a villain by the civil servants, apart from clinging to Zhang Juzheng's thigh and reaping more benefits for himself while Zhang Juzheng was still in power, he can no longer fantasize about what will happen after Zhang Juzheng's fall. , and can be respected and even elevated by the entire civil service community.
Therefore, Li Youzi was even less concerned about the opinions of other civil servants.
Zhang Juzheng put Li Youzi in charge of implementing the official residence system, which could be regarded as sending a signal to self-interested people like Li Youzi who were still involved in Zhang's party system.
Tell them that the cleanup is indeed over and the suppression will not continue.
And let them rest assured that Zhang Juzheng will still use them.
We just need to let them understand that they should not go too far in some things. If you make money, you will make money. Don't make money without losing principles, or even to the point of betraying the entire Zhang Party and secretly trying to bring down Zhang.
In that case, Zhang Juzheng would clean it up ruthlessly.
After all, the fate of people like You Qi, Li Cai, and Qin Yao are examples.
As a person who can serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Youzi also understands this truth.
Therefore, he was very serious about his responsibility in implementing the official residence system and did not dare to be careless.
Moreover, when he was designing the entire official residence, he really imagined that every minister was a snob like himself, and thought about how to use the design of the official residence to prevent people like himself from sneaking around or even sneaking in. Conduct private power-for-money transactions.
Li Youzi knew that once he built his official residence, he would definitely get an official position.
Because he was the first ministry official to ask the emperor to seize Zhang Juzheng's love when he was captured, he had already been blacklisted by the entire civil government.
It was only a matter of time before someone produced evidence of his crime and was impeached and returned home.
Therefore, when Li Youzi designed his official residence, he did not have to consider whether his perfect design would affect his own personal gain.
In short, Li Youzi's current mentality is: After I leave, who cares about the flood!
What's more, Li Youzi himself also understood that no matter how much the civil servants in the world hated him and gritted their teeth in their hearts, they could not deny the official residence system he promoted.
After all, no one would admit that he is a villain and be afraid of the official residence system. Instead, he should only regard the official residence system as the emperor's grace and good governance for the convenience of governance.
For Li Youzi, this is undoubtedly an opportunity to clear his name and leave a political achievement before he retires.
In any case, those who compile history in the future cannot ignore Li Youzi as long as they mention the restoration of the official residence system in the Ming Dynasty.
Just like when it comes to Zhang Juzheng's love being stolen, he cannot be ignored, just like Li Youzi.
However, Li Youzi is still worried that in the future, some literati and officials will deliberately ignore his contribution to the restoration of the official residence system.
Therefore, he decided that after returning to his hometown after becoming an official, he would mention this matter more in front of his close friends. He should also mention this matter more in his genealogy, local chronicles and even personal notes. It should even be mentioned on his epitaph in the future, so as to avoid the revision of history in the future. However, people still did not mention this matter in his official history, and even later generations still only remember supporting the matter of seizing love.
In addition, Li Youzi was also very grateful to Zhang Juzheng for this matter.
Because Zhang Juzheng gave him a chance to clear his reputation, and his previous dissatisfaction with Zhang Juzheng's too tough methods of cleaning up the family disappeared.
In private messages to his relatives and friends, he still praised Zhang Juzheng as his respected mentor.
"Your Majesty, according to my idea, all the official residences of the ruling ministers will be built around it, and the gardens will be placed in the center. In this way, when ministers are taking a rest, they can see which ministers have gone out incognito from the rockery in the park. The official residence, or someone’s children or servants brought someone in.”
"In addition, the official residences of the Chief Assistant and the Privy Councilor are at both ends, and the steps are higher, at the end of the central axis of the royal road. In this way, no matter who visits the Chief Assistant and the Privy Councilor, ministers in other official residences can see it;"
"And the chief minister and the privy council can also see from a condescending position who the other ministers are secretly conspiring with."
On this day, Li Youzi got an opportunity to be summoned by the emperor because he was responsible for the construction of the official residence. Therefore, he played the layout of the official residence he designed in front of Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this.
He had to admit that Li Youzi was really speculating on the ministers with the greatest malice, otherwise he would not have designed such a layout of the official residence.
This made Zhu Yijun very satisfied, and he still asked Li Youzi at this time: "What if I want to secretly visit a minister?"
"Your Majesty, the official residences have a special royal road. There are high walls on both sides of the royal road overlooking the various official residences. The royal road can lead directly to each official residence. Therefore, if your majesty goes to visit a minister secretly, he will not be noticed. "
Li Youzi replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded and was even more satisfied with it: "That's very good."
Next, after Zhu Yijun asked other questions such as gate posts, assassination prevention, and even fire protection, he finally agreed to Li Youzi's design of the official residences of the Ming Dynasty's ministers.
At this point, the design of the official residence was finalized, and the construction was naturally put on the agenda.
Because he knew that building an official residence would offend many civil servants, when Li Youzi was in charge of the construction of the official residence, he did not dare to embezzle project funds to avoid being caught.
However, this also made the construction of the official residence very fast.
After all, the wages of the craftsmen and civilians were not owed.
There are no tricks in the procurement of materials, so merchants who provide materials dare not delay the materials ordered by the Ministry of Industry.
When the imperial censor Zhu Nanyong, who was in charge of inspecting the project in shifts, came to the place where the official residence was built to inspect the project, he saw the drawings of the official residence, and his heart burned on the spot, so he said directly to Li Youzi:
"Da Sikong! You are clearly imagining all the ministers as villains who seek personal gain from their parents' power! You even imagine the chief minister and the privy councilors as villains who seek their father's power for personal gain!"
"If not, how can we prevent the slightest mistake?!"
"However, I believe that as long as you are a gentleman, you don't care about the layout of your official residence or what others think. As the saying goes, those who are pure will themselves be pure. Are you still afraid of people's random speculation?!"
"A true gentleman will only appreciate the emperor's kindness!"
Li Youzi questioned Zhu Nanyong, and finally added something.
After hearing this, Zhu Nanyong could not refute. He just went to see a certain pavilion elder that night and said eagerly:
"Mr. Pavilion, you don't know that Xiaguan took advantage of today's opportunity to inspect the project and saw with his own eyes the so-called layout of the official residence. The layout of the official residence was clearly designed to be like this. I will not be able to visit you privately in the future. !”
"Have you found out that Li Youzi has no project funds?"
The elder asked directly.
Zhu Nanyong said: "No, this villain is very shrewd. He knows exactly where the money is going and can't find any flaws!"
"Then we can only endure it, and when all new laws can be abolished in the future, this system will also be abolished!"
The cabinet minister said in a deep voice.
Zhu Nanyong cupped his hands and said yes, and sighed: "That's all it can do."
Then, Zhu Nanyong said again: "It's just that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng joined forces to disrupt the situation this time, causing us heavy losses. If we want to overthrow Zhang in the future, we don't know how long it will take?"
"Now we can only wait!"
"As long as Zhang Jiangling continues to restructure, he will still have a chance!"
