His father's childhood experience shaped his confidence and courage, but also created some low self-esteem and suspicion. As his status rose, he eventually became multi-faceted and contradictory.
Zhu Biao suddenly stopped while walking on the road and looked back at the palace with overlapping buildings and tents, as if looking back in later generations, he saw the Hongwu Emperor who completely released him after the death of his wife and son.
A heart ailment requires heart medicine. What Zhu Biao can do is to comfort Zhu Yuanzhang with actions and let him know that Zhu Biao will keep the foundation he has worked so hard to build.
All the way back to the East Palace, Zhu Biao began to plan for emigration. Yun Jin had come back. She was now the fifth-rank Shang Palace of the Shang Palace Bureau, and she was already at the pinnacle of female officials. This shows how much Empress Ma likes Yun Jin.
Zhu Biao counted the days. There were about ten days before the imperial examination, and then the wedding, before he could go to Shandong.
First, there was the imperial examination. Although he was not in charge of it, it was the first imperial examination after the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As the prince and crown prince, he had to go and see it in person.
And although these scholars have never heard of any famous ministers, it is not too bad to think about it. If you can get to this point, there is no problem in becoming a prefect.
Of course, the most important reason is the factional issue among the imperial examination candidates. For the examiners, this group of people may serve as envoys or governors in various provinces across the country in twenty years, or they may serve as ministers or ministers of the Six Ministries in the central government. This resource is so rich that no fool would try to win over them. Moreover, in order to avoid suspicion, many high-ranking officials would instruct their students to submit memorials when it was inconvenient to speak out.
For these new scholars, even though they have passed the Jinshi examination, which can be regarded as a great achievement, they still have to be protected by someone! After all, there is still a long way to go from now on, so it is necessary to find a big backer.
It's good to be able to stay in the central government, but what if you are assigned to a local place? Therefore, whether you are an outstanding candidate selected into the Hanlin Academy or the Sixth Department, or an ordinary candidate assigned to a place, it is right to go to a senior leader to pay a visit to the dock before taking office.
But the emperor is very taboo about this. As the most polished commander, the emperor is very afraid that his subordinates will form cliques for personal gain. It will be bad if he is ignored by the time. Therefore, everyone used the guise of teachers and students to engage in reasonable hookups. In fact, many so-called teacher-student relationships are simply fake. Most of them are when you take the exam, I am the invigilator or the marking teacher, and then you pass the exam, find a teacher-student excuse to worship the dock, let's The two are bound together.
Coupled with the influence of thousands of years of Confucian thought of respecting teachers and valuing education, since there is a relationship of interest and an emotional basis, the teacher-student relationship in the officialdom is generally relatively strong, just like Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong.
There is no way for Zhu Biao to end personally. The current situation is that the Huaixi Party must be suppressed, so it is impossible for Li Shanchang to absorb these fresh blood into the Huaixi Party.
But the only person with the qualifications and prestige to preside over the first imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was Li Shanchang.
Zhu Biao came to an end. After the results came out, he invited the new scholars to the East Palace for a meal. With the opportunity to contact the prince, who would take refuge in the examiner?
Li Shanchang is a smart man, not to mention how old he is. While waiting for some new scholars to become fifth-rank officials, he may have been lying in the ground for several years. Therefore, he would refuse the visits of those new scholars, and everyone would be happy.
Zhu Biao was going to visit Li Shanchang and his teacher Song Lian tomorrow. After Zhu Biao made the plan, he went to sleep with Nuanyu in his arms.
The next day, Zhu Biao got up early and took Yun Jin to Kunning Palace. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang and the ministers were still attending the morning court. They had to attend the court from early morning to noon. Officials of fourth rank and above could talk directly with the emperor. Other officials It was necessary to submit the memorial through the eunuch, and after the morning meeting, the ministers went home to do business.
At noon, the emperor began to have dinner. At this time, the emperor had to choose which concubine would sleep with him in the evening. After a short rest, he would start reviewing the memorials handed over by his courtiers in the morning. This was Zhu Biao's daily work.
There were usually a lot of memorials, and the emperor had to correct them all afternoon. In the meantime, he would have a small meeting with the first-rank officials to discuss urgent or key government affairs. He would have the second main meal around two o'clock in the afternoon, and then continue to deal with government affairs after eating, just like Zhu Yuanzhang often reviewed at night until early morning.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang felt sorry for his son who was growing healthy, and usually drove him back to the East Palace to sleep as soon as it got dark. In fact, Zhu Biao also felt sorry for his father. He also mentioned the establishment of a cabinet once, but now the prime minister is still there, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not here either. Feel free to let others intervene.
Zhu Biao grinned thinking about his father's workload in a day. This is not the work of a human being.
When they arrived at Kunning Palace, Zhu Biao bowed to his mother, then walked up and picked up Zhu Lu: "Lu'er, have you been good these past two days?"
Zhu Lu wore her cute pigtails and nodded: "Be good\(^o^)/"
The brother and sister talked for a while, but classmate Zhu Lu was not happy. Why is it not over yet? I want to go to the ground to play!
Zhu Biao had no choice but to put her down and watch her waddle outside as a group of palace maids immediately protected her.
Zhu Biao sat down with a smile. Queen Ma looked at her son and said, "Biao'er, you must do your best to relocate the people."
Zhu Biao looked at his mother and replied: "Don't you worry about my son's work? Since I took the initiative to take over this matter, I intend to do my best."
Empress Ma shook her head and said: "Mother is afraid that you are just acting on a whim. The immigrants are already suffering, so you have to be considerate. Even if there are people who are dissatisfied and resisting, you have to send people to persuade them first, but don't do it directly. Suppress with killing.”
Zhu Biao nodded and said in relief: "Don't worry, we are not going to the battlefield to fight. Those people are also my subjects of the Ming Dynasty. Unless it is really a last resort, I will never kill a person indiscriminately."
Empress Ma felt relieved after hearing this: "I also talked about it with your father last night. There are a lot of cattle and sheep that you drove from the grassland outside the capital. This time, I brought more and distributed them to the immigrants. They saw the livestock. It also makes me feel more at ease.”
Zhu Biao patted the queen's hand and said, "As expected of the empress, she is indeed a mother who respects the world. She doesn't even care about her own son's marriage."
Empress Ma glared at her son and scolded her with a smile: "You brat, you are talking about serious matters and you are still talking nonsense here. There is no room for mother to interfere in your marriage. Your father has already discussed it with the Minister of Rites dozens of times."
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