The six princes who graduated in the 20th year of the Grand Duke were waiting for him.
After receiving the news from the principal Zhou Wang, they quickly came to Zhu Jingyuan's office and bowed and said hello to Zhu Jingyuan in a polite manner.
Most of Zhu Jingyuan's children and grandchildren, no matter what their personality is outside, they are all honest when facing Zhu Jingyuan.
The main reason is that Zhu Jingyuan, the emperor's father, has too much prestige.
Only Zhudi Lan, the youngest son of Wang Ya, the de facto hostess of Zhu Jingyuan's harem, was slightly more relaxed.
He has been doted on quite a lot since he was a child.
Before Zhudi Lan left his mother's palace and lived alone in Chunhe Palace, he was able to see Zhu Jingyuan often.
So the instinctive fear in my heart is not that strong.
Zhu Jingyuan also knew how they would face him, so after receiving the gift, he went straight to business:
"You guys passed the graduation exam this year, and according to tradition, you should be given a place for practical training after the new year.
"Do you have any thoughts about this training?
"If you have any ideas, you can tell me now and I will try my best to make special arrangements for you.
"If you don't have any ideas, just follow the tradition of the past."
As soon as Zhu Jingyuan spoke, the serious expressions of the six princes present changed.
Although Zhu Jingyuan's special arrangement has not been mentioned publicly, the prince and the people around him can observe it from the side.
The first special arrangement was for the eldest brother and the second brother.
The eldest brother went to the army to drive a battleship, and has been serving in the fleet since then. Now he is the captain of a battleship.
The second brother went to a semiconductor factory, and later participated in the start-up of Fantasy Simulation Company, and has been working in this system ever since.
Now he has become the shopkeeper and chief engineer of Fantasy Simulation Company, and is a big celebrity in the entire computer industry.
In the entire computer game industry, the earliest games and the earliest popular games were either developed personally or under the leadership of Judy Pu.
Participated in formulating the basic framework and rules of the entire game industry, and created countless game types, gameplay, and algorithms.
According to the emperor's father's request, the producers of all virtual works must come forward at the beginning and end of the work to personally explain that the content is fictional.
So anyone who has played computer games now has seen his face countless times and naturally knows his name.
These two eldest brothers are both favored by their father, and both of them now have the title of county king.
When they progressed further within their own system, the eldest brother was promoted to the commander of the large fleet, and the second brother became the shopkeeper in charge of games of the New Industry Group.
Then there should be a chance to get the title of prince.
According to the rules set by Emperor Shizu, after the prince reaches the age of twelve, he will enjoy the treatment of a prince, and his annual salary is 20,000 silver coins.
After graduation, you can be directly crowned a county prince, but most princes will not be crowned a prince upon graduation and will continue to enjoy the treatment of a prince as a prince.
Usually, it is not until the middle and late stages of political training, around the age of thirty, that the title of county king is granted, and the salary is increased to 50,000 silver coins per year.
After passing administrative training and serving in various ministries of the central court, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to prince, and your salary will be increased to 100,000 silver notes.
Princes who are crowned princes in advance are usually highly valued by the emperor and have the opportunity to compete for the throne.
If the prince has passed the complete administrative training and has not been canonized as a prince before the age of forty, he will be crowned a prince at the age of forty.
Because if you are still a prince at the age of forty, you will have no chance to inherit the throne by default.
A prince who does not complete the education for the throne before the age of twenty can be granted the title of prince at the highest age of thirty.
But the emperor basically would not do that. At most, he would be granted the title of Duke or even be demoted to the rank of Duke.
The title of the Ming Dynasty directly corresponds to the "ruling ability". If you cannot provide governance ability, you are not qualified to have the title.
In other words, the prince's salary will not increase immediately after graduation.
If you are the grandson of the emperor, your salary after the age of twelve will only be two thousand silver notes per year. If you pass the assessment, your salary will be directly increased to ten thousand silver notes.
After that, whatever level of title the emperor's grandson can be promoted to, he will be able to get whatever level of title salary he can get.
However, the title of the grandson of the emperor cannot exceed that of his father who is the prince.
The princes who graduated this year feel that their two eldest brothers' princely titles are probably stable.
But there is definitely no chance to participate in the competition for the throne.
They are not suitable in terms of age. The key is that they have not participated in politics at all. Without political experience, it is impossible to succeed.
Dad's so-called special arrangement should be to take care of the children who have no chance to succeed.
It allows them to work in an industry they love from the start.
In addition to the eldest brother and second brother, the sons of father's foreign concubines also have very similar arrangements.
The question "should we make special arrangements?" is tantamount to "should we give up competing for the throne?"
So five of the six people present fell silent.
Only the youngest Judy Lan made the request with a little excitement:
"Father, father, I want to go to my second brother's company."
The other five people were all surprised when they heard this voice, and they all looked in disbelief.
They all know that they have a very smart brother, and they feel quite pressured to come with him today.
I originally thought that he would be my biggest competitor in the future.
But I never expected that this younger brother would take over what his father told him to do and accept this so-called special arrangement.
I don’t know if I really have no interest in the throne, or if I don’t realize the importance of the throne.
Or maybe they didn't realize that after taking over this special arrangement, they might not have a chance to succeed.
Zhu Jingyuan above wanted to close his eyes after hearing this, and subconsciously asked Judy Lan:
"You want to go to my second brother's company to play games, right?"
Judy Lan immediately shook her head:
"I'm not going to play games, but to be a tester of the fantasy simulation world. My second brother said this is a very important position."
Zhu Jingyuan continued to ask:
"Do I still want to be a client functional tester?"
Judy Lan shook her head again:
“What the kid wants to be is a black box tester.
“That is, pretending that you don’t understand the program logic at all, and not analyzing the method of realizing the surface function.
“Only consider and operate the specific functions provided externally by the fantasy simulation world.
“There are different types of actions and combinations of choices for the client features available within the fantasy world.
“Observe and record feedback on the final output of the fantasy world.
“Build a list of combinations of features and options, the resulting database of the final response from the fantasy world.
“I can feed these results back to developers to help them improve the intelligence of their computer simulation frameworks…”
Zhu Jingyuan said with a straight face:
“This is the first time I’ve heard someone talk about familiar gameplay in such an abstract way.
“It’s not that I don’t let you play games, I just don’t think of games as everything to you.
"You all have been living in the environment provided by the royal family and don't understand the outside world.
“Political training is also learning, a process in which you learn and understand society.
"Di Lan, just go to Nantong Automobile Factory and become the deputy director."
The Nantong Automobile Factory is not really a separate factory, but a city-level administrative unit similar to semiconductor factories and Liulichang.
The deputy director is actually equivalent to the deputy director of the sub-district office or the deputy director of the industrial park management committee.
Zhu Jingyuan was thrown to the Nantong Automobile Industrial Park by Zhu Jingyuan.
The other princes were all shocked, feeling how much their father valued their younger brother.
This kid really wanted to accept that special arrangement, and he expressed his desire to play games so directly.
As a result, although the father was obviously a little angry, he still pushed him back forcefully.
Forcing him to continue participating in the campaign for the throne.
As a result, something happened again that left them speechless.
Judy Lan listened to her father's order, but once again made a plea:
"Father, if I must go to a political training, can I choose to go to a semiconductor factory?"
Zhu Jingyuan said with a straight face:
"My arrangement is an order. I can send you to Ximo Continent with just one sentence.
“This is also the time when you truly leave the childhood stage and begin to experience the real rules of the outside world.
"Do you have any other opinions now?"
Several princes were shocked. Their father was really angry.
Then he was shocked by his brother's behavior of seeking death.
How dare you jump like this.
Maybe it's because I'm still young and don't know what fear is...
Judy Lan realized that her father was educating herself.
I am also sure that there is really no need to discuss this time. I really have to go to Nantong Automobile Factory to be the deputy director.
So the one my dad first asked about whether he wanted special arrangements was not specifically asking him, but he wasn't asking the other brothers either.
Judy Lan understood that it was just a word to educate herself.
Judy Lan could only agree honestly:
"My child has no objection."
After Zhu Jingyuan finished training Zhu Zhulan, he began to give comprehensive and routine instructions to the six children:
“When you go to local areas for practical training, the most important thing is to understand the situation at the grassroots level.
“Understand how people live.
“What entertainment do craftsmen, businessmen, farmers, and students like, what do they care about the most, and what do they hate the most.
"Understand how officials work.
"How to deal with the people, how to deliver and interpret the government's decrees, how to resolve various conflicts among the people, how to detect tax evasion and other irregularities, these things need to be reported and asked for instructions.
“Understand how officials govern places.
“What are the important things in a place, which things must be guaranteed and maintained, and which things need to be improved.
“How to control illegal and disciplinary behavior, how to coordinate different departments to solve problems, and how to deal with the relationship between colleagues and superiors and subordinates.
“Only when you understand this, when you are at a higher level in the future, can you know how the decisions you make will affect the lives of officials and people at the bottom.
“Only in this way can we know what things must not be done, otherwise it will lead to uncontrollable consequences at the grassroots level.”
The six children listened honestly and agreed together again after listening.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't know if they listened, but he just tried his best to remind them as much as possible.
The on-site lecture lasted for more than an hour before they were asked to go to the palace to meet their mothers and tell them about their official graduation.
After the six brothers left Zhu Jingyuan's office, they were all obviously relieved.
However, the other five brothers all felt a little excited, as if they had passed an important test.
Judy Lan was obviously a little regretful.
The six of them took a special car from the palace and went back to the harem to meet their mother.
The other five princes all said this all the time on the way, obviously because they were in a high mood and had nothing to say.
Only Judy Lan was uninterested, leaning on her seat with a frown on her face, looking at the scenery without saying a word.
After returning to the harem, the six brothers said goodbye and each went to his mother's palace.
When Zhudi Lan saw her mother Wang Ya, she first saluted and said hello according to the rules, and then explained her graduation according to her father's instructions.
When Wang Ya listened to her son's report, she mainly observed her son's reaction, invited him to sit next to her and asked:
"Lan'er, why do you seem so unhappy? Is it because you graduated in a hurry without learning everything, so were you punished by your father?"
Judy Lan sat down next to her mother, picked up the apple next to her and gnawed on it unceremoniously:
"My father really gave me a lot of training, but it wasn't because of bad grades, it was because I wanted to go to my second brother's company for internship, but my father wouldn't let me go.
"Obviously it was my father who asked if anyone wanted special arrangements. But after I told him, my father was not happy."
Wang Ya was speechless after she understood what was going on.
Then he looked around and saw that there were no outsiders, and then asked his son in a low voice:
"You kid really don't want to train normally at all? You can't possibly not understand what that means, right?"
Judy Lan said without hesitation:
"I know everything, but I think my father is working too hard, and I don't want to be as hard as my father.
“I think it’s best to do what you want to do most, like the eldest brother and the second brother, and finally get the status of a prince.
"If you want to participate in government affairs, you can express your opinions at any time. If you don't want to participate, you can live in peace and entertainment throughout your life."
Wang Ya paused slightly after listening.
I wondered whether the child really felt that being an emperor was too hard, or he didn't realize the importance of what he could gain from being an emperor.
Wang Ya felt that there was a high probability that he had never had anything unpleasant happen to him since he was a child.
So I am very satisfied with my current life, and I am also very satisfied with the treatment and status of the prince.
No pressure and no goals...
Then, Wang Ya asked her son with a smile:
"Then have you ever thought about why your father asked you to go for practical training? You have to go for practical training. You have to listen?"
Judy Lan said directly:
"Of course I understand. First of all, my father is my father. How can a son disobey his father?
"The point is, I feel that a small thing like listening to my father's words is nothing compared to what my father can give me.
"A little bit of dissatisfaction is nothing compared to the hard work of more than ten years of hard study and thirty years of political service.
"By the way, mother, can you tell me that you don't want me to be a factory director? I want to learn how to make games from my second brother."
Wang Ya was really helpless. It turned out that this child thought this little disappointment... was bearable...
Dad has given me too much, and obedience is a trivial matter.
Wang Ya feels that his son still has too little experience. When he encounters more and more unsatisfactory things in the future, he will long for his father's supreme authority.
Wang Ya patted her son on the shoulder:
"You kid, the pride you talk about in your mouth will probably make your second brother play games all day long.
"Mom, you really need to talk to your father about this.
"But instead of asking him to send you to your second brother's place, he will give you some additional responsibilities in your political training."
Judy Lan's originally unhappy expression became even more broken:
"My child knows that he is wrong. He will go back and study hard to prove it, and prepare for the political training in the coming year..."
Wang Ya just smiled and said nothing and watched her son escape from the palace.
Then, from the perspective of Judy Lan, a half-year-old child, I will write about the lives of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty and the details of the people in this world.
(End of chapter)
