Cheng Minzheng is a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a thick black beard and a sure winner in life.
He was from Huizhou Prefecture in South Zhili. His father Cheng Xin was the former Minister of War in Nanjing, and his father-in-law was Li Xian, the former chief assistant. He was ranked second in high school in the second year of Chenghua, and he was only twenty years old at that time.
He was first awarded the title of Editor and Editor of the Hanlin Academy, and was appointed as the Lecturer and Reader in the Lidong Palace. Now he is appointed as the Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. If Xu Pu had not been appointed Minister of Rites last year, he would have been a Hanlin bachelor by now.
Since the road has already been paved, he naturally wants to join the ranks of the clear stream. He only needs to work hard to get the qualifications and then he can join the cabinet and become the prime minister in the future, but he has to be careful not to preside over the examination that Tang Yin will participate in.
When Zhu Youtang saw Cheng Minzheng standing up, he said calmly: "Master Cheng, when I was in the Qing Palace, I remember that you once said that you should be loyal to your ministers, filial to your sons, honest to your officials, and write the Book of Han for the first time! I think Master Cheng is such a person, and I hope Master Cheng will not forget his original intention." Huh?
When the officials heard Zhu Youtang suddenly spoke, they couldn't help but look at each other. Obviously, these young emperors have seen the mission of Cheng Minzheng, so now they want to warn their teacher.
It's just that he may not underestimate the uprightness of Qingliu officials. Wherever he may retreat easily, he will definitely face the difficulties and let the young monarch take back the five policies of the general policy.
"Your Majesty, the number of shuji scholars in the Hanlin Academy is uncertain by year, and the year of study is uncertain, which is not conducive to the court's talent reserve. I request the court to select 20 people from each new academic year. The study period will be three years, and the best ones will be three to five. When people leave the hall, those who are eliminated will be chosen by the officials!" Cheng Minzheng finally stretched his hand to the sleeve of his right hand, took out the memorial inside and said something.
Snapped! Some officials who had sworn that Cheng Minzheng would trigger a dispute were slapped in the face. The imperial master finally chose to give in and did not choose to reach for his left cuff.
In fact, it is no wonder, not to mention that Zhu Youtang has now become the true emperor, the legal crisis caused by Li Quan just now has made the young emperor here have murderous thoughts.
Now that he dares to go against his will, even a dignified imperial master may be destroyed by the arbitrary Zhu Youtang, not to mention that Cheng Minzheng also has to take into account the relationship between teachers and students.
"It's not a good show. I wouldn't have come if I had known it!" Funing Hou Zhu Yong and other Wu Xun didn't understand government affairs at all. Now that they saw Cheng Minzheng acting normally, he couldn't help but slap his forehead with regret and said in disappointment.
Zhu Youtang saw that Cheng Minzheng had no choice
"Making trouble", I also decided in my heart that in the future Tang Yin fraud case, I would still protect this black bearded man Yibao, and incidentally give Tang Bohu a chance to become an official.
It’s just that the proposal Cheng Minzheng is throwing out now is actually the same
"With bad intentions". Many people don't understand why the civil servant group was able to suppress the military general group during the Ming Dynasty. It also succeeded in killing the power supervisors many times, and was even able to evade the imperial power all together?
In fact, the most critical thing is that they can always transfer power through the teacher-student relationship. As early as the beginning of their disciples entering the officialdom, they have already begun to carefully train them.
The most critical aspect of their training is to find ways to send their favorite disciples to the East Palace to serve as the prince's lecturers for nine years, so that their disciples can become the emperor's tutors of the new king, and finally hand over all their political resources.
Doing so will naturally be rewarded, not to mention being able to maintain one's political influence, and the disciples will not only be one's protective umbrella, but can even help one clean up the mess.
For example, something happened to Xu Jie. It was already known all over the world that he owned hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land and was truly the most corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty. However, his favorite disciple Zhang Juzheng helped to deal with the political crisis. In the end, after Xu Jie's death, he was still arrested by the imperial court. He was posthumously named Grand Master and given the posthumous title Wenzhen.
In addition, many people put the blame for canceling the opening of the Chinese law on Ye Qi, the Minister of Household Affairs at the time, but they selectively ignored Xu Pu, who was the chief minister at the time. You must know that major issues involving reform are difficult to achieve without the support of the chief minister. It was difficult to push forward, but the officials behind him only dared to attack Ye Qi and only vaguely mentioned Xu Pu. It might not be because Xie Qian's influence was protecting Xu Pu.
Now Cheng Minzheng is asking to increase the number of Shujishi, just because he wants to provide more good seedlings to their powerful ministers.
After all, it is impossible for anyone to preside over the examination all the time, but the teaching of Shujishi has always been done by bachelors of the Hanlin Academy or even senior ministers. For example, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie formed a teacher-student relationship during their careers as Shujishi.
Zhu Youtang knew that if he wanted to weaken the civil servant group and prevent this power group from becoming too big, he had to start trying to cut off the teacher-student relationship that maintained the inheritance of power.
Guo Yong also saw that Cheng Minzheng had changed his mind temporarily, and immediately read according to the process: "Answer: Shujishi is related to the reserve of talents for the country, and there are as few as 20 people. From now on, new Jinshi will be selected based on their birthplaces in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. A certain number, the number of people will be increased to 50, and a new Institute of State Reserves will be set up. A senior Hanlin officer will be selected to serve as the dean, and six senior Hanlin officers will be selected to serve as instructors!" This... Xu Pu is actually the real promoter of Shujishi customization. , now seeing Zhu Youtang actually playing this trick, he immediately looked at his once very stupid disciple in disbelief.
Not to mention that too many shujis will invisibly weaken the value of shujis. The new National Reserve Academy is now being established to cut off the relationship between the Hanlin Academy and shujis.
Once the Shujis become independent, they are likely to become the emperor's minions rather than their good disciples.
Not all officials can see that they are actually
"Battle of tricks", on the contrary, many officials felt that Zhu Youtang's approach was to adopt Cheng Dezheng's suggestion, and he even generously increased the number of Shujishi from 20 to 50.
"I accept the decree!" Cheng Dezheng realized that this disciple really couldn't see through it, so he raised his hands bitterly.
At this time, the morning sun had already risen high, and the golden sunshine was shining on them. After all, the scene of Mars hitting the earth that everyone was looking forward to did not happen. This court meeting came to an end in everyone's disappointment. The most interesting thing about the whole morning court was naturally the death remonstrance of Li Quan, the young minister of Shangbaosi.
This was originally an incident that could be recorded in the annals of history, but Chen Kun, the right minister of the Household Department, rushed out to stop Li Quan, so Li Quan failed to succeed in his remonstrance, so he was lonely.
"I had known this would be the result. I would have come back to catch up on my sleep after my duty was over!" Liu Wentai yawned and looked very disappointed.
An official from Honglu Temple nearby glanced at Li Wentai and joked: "Li Quan didn't hit him just now. If he didn't die after hitting the stone lion, wouldn't it be your chance to make up for it?"
"I don't think so. Li Yuanpian's medical skills... may not have such miraculous effects!" Another Honglu Temple official seemed to have something to say.
In the current officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, Li Wentai is actually considered a celebrity. Li Wentai was responsible for treating Emperor Chenghua's wind-cold disease in August last year, but the prescription he prescribed was ineffective, and Emperor Chenghua died within ten days.
This was originally a serious crime. Fortunately, Li Wentai was good at managing connections in the officialdom, and someone finally interceded on his behalf, so he was only downgraded from the official of the fourth-rank hospital to the judge of the fifth-rank hospital.
"I won't talk nonsense to you! It must be the end of the court, right? It's tiring to be on duty in the palace all night, so you have to go home and have a good sleep!" Liu Wentai knew that some topics were sensitive, so he yawned again road.
He was on night duty in the palace last night. He knew that today's morning court would not be peaceful, so he chose to come to attend the morning court.
It's a pity that Li Quan didn't bump into him, let alone perform the scene he expected.
"Now that the last one has finished his work, the court must be dismissed!" An official from Guanglu Temple observed the front with a bit of anticipation.
Just when everyone was preparing to send Emperor Hongzhi off, thinking that the morning court was over, Guo Yong suddenly took out a bright imperial edict.
Huh? Liu Jian, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and other officials noticed this scene and couldn't help looking at each other, but they didn't know what kind of trouble Zhu Youtang was going to make.
Guo Yong didn't wait for everyone's reaction, and immediately started to read: "The emperor is destined to be carried by heaven, and the edict says: Heaven's heart sends favors, which affects the sun. The slaves of the main family bully the emperor, and the foreign ministers peek into the emperor's affairs. Therefore, the blame is that the external yin invades the internal yang!" Liu Wentai and other foreign officials from the Taiyuan Hospital were in cahoots with the internal officials' nostalgia, and frequently passed notes to secretly have an affair. This was against the teachings of our ancestors and the way of heaven, so we should be forgiven for dying... I hope all ministers will take this as a warning, and there will be no paper inside or outside. Anyone who commits adultery will be punished without mercy. I have been repairing the province for three days and only reported it to the Xuanji Hall. Since all ministers and ministers are sincere, they have worked together to help us solve the problem. I appreciate this!"
