Looking at He Ding who was kowtowing like garlic, Zhu Youtang laughed out loud: "He Ding, I just have insomnia and asked you to come in and chat with me. By the way, I asked you casually, why are you so excited?"
When He Ding heard that he was not being chased away, He Ding breathed a sigh of relief and answered honestly: "The emperor suddenly asked, which scared me to death. I have never seen my family since I entered the palace, so I still have some thoughts."
In the Ming Dynasty, the maids and eunuchs had no days off. They had to work non-stop all year round, which meant they were overworked and suffered.
"I have decided to give you a vacation in the future. You can visit your relatives once every six months. In addition, adjust your work and rest time. You can get up an hour later in the morning. Implement a shift system and divide everyone into two shifts. It will be rotated once a month, and you can have one day off every month. You can arrange your time freely on this day. What do you think, He Ding? Just tell Huai En these two items tomorrow and join the reform of the inner court. "
He Ding's eyes gradually became moist. Zhu Youtang, the master, was so kind to them. He actually treated them as human beings. They could finally live like human beings.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty's grace, I will thank you, Master, on their behalf!"
After He Ding left, Zhu Youtang secretly rejoiced. Aren't the two items he added to the reform of the inner court system considered to be political affairs that were conducive to the development of the Ming Empire? When the palace maids and eunuchs are happy, they will be able to work efficiently. My backyard will be at ease, and I can carry out drastic reforms in the court.
"Goldfinger? Come out and sleep with me."
Ding dong... [Hearing the call from the host, the host has met the summoning conditions once and has the opportunity to use it once. Do you want to use it? 】
"Yes", Zhu Youtang confirmed.
Ding dong... [Reward 1: I am energetic today and will last all day]
[Reward 2: Strengthen your body +2]
[Reward 3: One hundred thousand taels of silver] Please choose one of the three rewards. "
Today I have another choice and I am full of energy. Isn’t this the same as getting chicken blood later? Equivalent to stimulants? It looks pretty good, I’ll keep it for the harem later, but now I just want to make money!
"Choose three, get one hundred thousand taels of silver!"
Ding dong... [The host has obtained one hundred thousand taels of silver, and the silver taels have been put into the internal fund. Please pay attention to the host's withdrawal]
Ding dong... [This use is over, the system will be shut down soon, thank you for using]"
Zhu Youtang felt the pleasure of having the money arrive. In fact, even if he did not become the emperor, if he had this system to withdraw money every day, wouldn't he become the richest man in the Ming Dynasty? With this one hundred thousand taels of silver, we can first solve the urgent need for military pay in the northwest. The soldiers in the northwest were given money to stimulate their desire to fight, so that they could properly defend the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
But Zhu Youtang knew in his heart that resolving border issues by paying soldiers was not a long-term solution. A large army must be conscripted to completely destroy the newly established Mongol Khanate. However, with the Ming army's current combat effectiveness, even if it could assemble a large army, it might not be able to defeat the Mongolian cavalry with machetes on horseback. It was necessary to reform the military system as soon as possible and establish a new army.
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The only ones who didn't sleep that night were Emperor Zhu Youtang and Xu Pu, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel. When the new emperor promulgated the establishment of a new government office, all the ministers in the court basically opposed it. Under Wan'an's call, these ministers are working hard at home to write letters and prepare to submit remonstrances.
Xu Pu Jingtai ranked first, second, and second in the imperial examination in five years, which is also the second place in high school. Needless to say, he is talented. His immediate boss Yin Yan asked him to write a manuscript to remonstrate with the emperor.
Since the Jingtai Dynasty, he has written countless manuscripts. Now this remonstrance manuscript is a piece of cake for Xu Pu. He can make the emperor unable to reply. But he didn't want to do that today. He hated his immediate boss Yin Yan. He was a greedy guy who took the royal rations but didn't care about serving the country and benefiting the people. On the contrary, he used his power to promote many mediocre people to the post. The most detestable thing is that Yin Yan also colluded with the demon Li Zisheng to deceive the emperor and harm Chao Gang.
Xu Pu is already sixty years old. He has been an official for more than thirty years and still has not been promoted, making it difficult to realize his political ambitions. Tonight, Xu Pu felt that the opportunity had come. Since Zhu Youtang ascended the throne, he got rid of the eunuch Liang Fang, arrested Li Zi Province, rectified the Tengxiang Four Guards, and determined to establish a new government office. He felt that Zhu Youtang was a good emperor, at least better than his father, and maybe the leader of the ZTE.
Xu Pu said with a smile: "I'm already halfway into the loess anyway, so why not make one last bet? Since all civil and military officials in the dynasty are opposed to your majesty's establishment of a new government office, I will support your majesty."
If the emperor was not Zhu Youtang, it would undoubtedly be foolish for Xu Pu to fight against the ministers led by the chief minister of the cabinet alone. He might not only lose his black hat but also his head. But is this emperor Zhu Youtang or a soul who has traveled back from later generations? History has proven that Xu Pu is on the right side.
Because Zhu Youtang slept very late last night, he wanted to catch up on his sleep in the morning, but was woken up by Wynn early in the morning.
Zhu Youtangzhuo opened his eyes and looked at the memorials lying on the ground, and said lazily: "You can just read and deal with these memorials. Leave some important ones for me, and I will sleep a little longer."
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep. These memorials are all joint remonstrances, and they all have the same content. They are against the establishment of a new government office." Hua En said honestly.
Zhu Youtang suddenly lost his sleepiness and asked in disbelief: "Are all these memorials against them? Or are they jointly remonstrating? Who is the leader?"
Wynn replied: "I only read most of the previous chapters and they were all opposed to it. The person who led the remonstrance was Wan An, the chief minister of the cabinet."
"Wan'an? It's him again!" Zhu Youtang's cold eyes flashed with murderous intent, which happened to be fully visible to Wynn.
"Your Majesty, this old slave has the guts to remonstrate that Wan'an is not suitable to be the chief minister. He has no talent. When the late emperor was in power, he relied on Wan's mother-in-law's power and his own flattery to occupy a high position. But he failed to set a good example for officials and made no contribution to the country."
Zhu Youtang nodded and said coldly: "Wynn, you're right, it's time for me to deal with him!" Originally, Zhu Youtang had just ascended the throne not long ago, and his butt was still hot, so he didn't have the idea of dealing with Wan'an so quickly. However, Wan'an opposed his own political affairs at every turn and obstructed his implementation of the New Deal.
"Grandpa Huang, Wu Ying, the governor of the new Yamen, would like to see you." A young eunuch outside the door called softly.
"Let him in."
Wu Ying walked in and saw Huaien here, preparing to salute, but was dismissed by Zhu Youtang.
"Governor Wu, you are very efficient. How come you have explored all the shops in the capital?"
Wu Ying took out a piece of paper from her arms, unfolded it, handed it to Wynn, and said, "Your Majesty, we have found out everything. The monthly income of all shops is on this paper. Please let your Majesty know clearly what to do next."
Zhu Youtang sighed, put down the note presented by Wu Ying and said, "Governor Wu, please take a look at the memorials on the ground first."
Wu Ying picked up the memorial and looked at it. This memorial was submitted by Liu Ji, the deputy assistant to the cabinet. The general idea is that the emperor Zhu Youtang did not think carefully and established a new government office. You Wu Ying is a bastard and gave the emperor crooked ideas. If the emperor fails to do it, Liu Ji will die as a remonstrance.
"Governor Wu, don't be in a hurry and read a few more articles."
Wu Ying opened several memorials in succession, all with roughly the same meaning, criticizing the emperor and herself.
These memorials shocked Wu Ying, and she broke into a cold sweat on her back.
As expected, Wu Ying became the scapegoat. It was clearly Zhu Youtang who ordered him to set up the yamen, and it became his idea when he came to the ministers. If I, Wu Ying, have this idea, why would I be unable to get along in Jinyiwei before?
"It seems that there are a lot of objections from the ministers, especially our cabinet minister Wan."
Zhu You said with a sneer.
Wu Ying folded the memorial and put it back, and said quickly: "Master Wan is also worried. He is also doing it for the good of the country..."
Zhu Youtang glanced at Wu Ying and said unhappily: "Worried, what are you worried about? Worried that I will cut off their financial path? Worried that if their financial path is cut off, they will not build two houses anymore? Ha...that's all, our ten thousand heads It’s because I don’t like it, he wants to stand up and become the master!”
These words made Wu Ying break into a cold sweat. Zhu Youtang's tone of voice was extremely cold, and it seemed that he had murderous intentions.
Zhu Youtang pondered for a while and said: "Huai'en, look through those memorials carefully to see if there is anything else to report. Governor Wu, let's continue talking about the establishment of the new Yamen."
Wynn took out the letters one by one and looked at them carefully. Suddenly he found a memorial with more than 7,000 words. This letter was different from the previous ones. This letter supported Zhu Youtang's establishment of a new yamen.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, here is a memorial from Xu Pu. He supports your Majesty in establishing a new government office!"
Zhu Youtang's eyes lit up. Xu Pu was the seventeenth chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. He had been an honest official all his life. It is said that he even rented the house he lived in.
Zhu Youtang took the memorial and read it carefully. It seemed that Xu Pu had worked hard. It was eloquent and eloquent. There was not a single nonsense word in more than 7,000 words. Every sentence in it was quoted from scriptures. With Xu Pu's memorial, would he still be afraid that the officials would oppose him? ?
"What position does Xu Pu have now?"
"Replying to the emperor's words, Xu Pu is currently the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel."
Wu Ying had also heard of Xu Pu's name. On weekdays, many high-ranking officials came to give him gifts and befriend him, but Xu Pu severely refused them one by one. He was a selfless and selfless person, and it seemed that His Majesty wanted to use Xu Pu.
Compared with Emperor Chenghua, the Hongzhi dynasty still had a large number of famous ministers. The older ones included Xu Pu, Ma Wensheng, and Wang Shu, while the younger ones included Li Dongyang, Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Yang Tinghe, who later became more powerful. But Zhu Youtang could not directly appoint them to high-ranking officials. In this way, even if they could join the cabinet, it would be useless if the ministers were not convinced, so they had to be allowed to show their heads and then be promoted by themselves.
On the contrary, those mediocre people cannot be dismissed all at once. They have to be eliminated slowly. Even if they are dismissed and beheaded, you have to find a suitable reason, right? Therefore, the change of courtiers must be done slowly, eliminating some of the old and inappropriate ones, and then slowly introducing a group of fresh blood, so that people can be appointed on their merits.
