"Zhang Zhongyun, Your Highness, please come over."
Outside the Xiefang Hall of the East Palace, Liu Jin said to Zhang Tianrui who was already about to retreat.
"Your Highness... Your Highness wants to see me?"
"Look at what you said. Dare I spread His Highness's will indiscriminately? I'd better ask Mr. Zhang to come over quickly."
Zhu Houzhao got a lot of money,
He is a prince, not a person who lives at home. Wealth does not mean much to him. The purpose of the money is to use it.
In fact, the state's control of wealth has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the country's financial situation is better and it can do some things.
The downside is... once you encounter a relatively mediocre monarch, the wealth will flow into private pockets.
As mentioned above, the reform of the Kaizhong Salt Law led by Ye Qi, the Minister of Household Affairs: in the past, merchants transported grain to the border to obtain salt, instead of merchants directly paying silver to the court to obtain salt. When the imperial court had money, it would allocate grain and pay to border officials.
There are many dangers in doing so.
There is also an advantage - the country's income has increased a lot in a short period of time.
It stands to reason that if you get the money, you should be able to do something reliable, right?
In fact, this is not the case. According to subsequent historical experience, this advantage has been lost. Because the money was misappropriated for other purposes, it was quickly consumed.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty is a patient full of diseases. Sometimes when I think about it, my head is full and I don’t know where to start.
But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao will gather wealth in his hands and do more things.
The affairs of the academy that were previously considered could no longer be postponed.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Tianrui, goes to see His Highness."
"Pingshen, come closer. Why are you so far away from me?" Zhu Houzhao waved.
"Oh." Zhang Tianrui lifted up the corner of his clothes and took a few small steps forward. "Your Highness, I wonder what your orders are when you summon me?"
"I have already read your discussion about the Academy."
Zhang Tianrui was a little surprised. After so many days, he thought it was all over the place, but he didn't expect His Highness to actually finish reading it.
"But I don't know if His Highness considers him to be a minister. How do you write it?"
"There are still some rules." Zhu Houzhao was not going to scare him anymore, in case anything bad happened again, "Mr. Zhang."
"I'm here."
"If I ask you to be responsible for the preparation of the Medical Palace, would you be willing?"
Zhang Tianrui's heart was agitated,
In my mind, I couldn't help but think of what Yang Tinghe said to him when he left that day!
His Highness is waiting for someone to do this for him!
Once you do a good job... and gain His Highness's favor, you will be the old man who can be used by the Prince of the East Palace from now on.
By that time, being a small Zhongyun official is not his end.
"Return to your highness! I am willing!"
Zhang Tianrui knelt down again.
Seeing his expression, Zhu Houzhao also smiled slightly and joked, "This thing costs money, you can't use my ten taels of silver to do five taels, and the remaining five taels go in Your pocket."
Zhang Tianrui's body tensed up when he heard this, "I don't dare to do this!... Your Highness, I am timid. If I take the extra money home, I probably won't be able to sleep every day."
So I have toiled for half my life, achieved little, didn’t get anything, and couldn’t fit into this circle.
"Okay." The prince paused and thought for a moment, "Let's do it after the new year. In the spring after the new year, you will officially build this medical palace for me. During this period of time before the new year, you first choose a palace in the capital. In a suitable location, we will also find a few experienced craftsmen to think about how to build a place to teach people to study medicine."
"I obey the decree."
Now there is no real estate development in the Ming Dynasty, and there are not so many departments to go through to build a building. So this shouldn't be difficult.
Zhang Tianrui has been thinking about this for a few days. At this time, he blurted out some key points and asked, "Your Highness, I don't know how large the medical palace will be built and how many students are going to be recruited?"
"Build it bigger. Let's start with the scale of three thousand students."
"Three thousand?!" Zhang Tianrui was shocked, "You want to build such a big building? In this case, I think it will cost a lot."
How did he know that what Zhu Houzhao wanted was not medicine at all?
In the future, all majors will be crammed into it, of course, as big as you can.
"Then we will build it in phases. The first phase will be limited to 500 people, and the place will be cleared for me first. You don't have to worry about the money, I will handle it myself."
At his current age, it is neither too early nor too late to arrange education.
The level of productivity in ancient times was like this. No matter how powerful he was at playing tricks and how accurately he grasped people's hearts, the overall national strength of the country would be like that.
Anyway, there is only so much food in one acre of land, one worker can do so much work, and one horse can run so far in one day. If the person who governs the country is reliable, the distribution will be better. If the person is unreliable, the distribution will be blind with eyes closed.
Therefore, we must adopt temporary measures such as carrying out reforms, playing tricks, and fighting against those with vested interests.
We also need to plan for root causes such as improving productivity.
Once a hurdle is overcome, many major problems will be solved. For example, what should we do about the Tatar problem in the north?
Although the Nine Borders were well defended, how much did the court spend to maintain the Nine Borders?
In fact, there is a simple and crude solution to the real solution - powerful and stable thermal weapons.
In the cold weapon era, the nomads were indeed powerful. But once there are machine guns, those rugged men will soon change from majestic and burly to good at singing and dancing.
Therefore, although Zhang Tianrui was a low-key official who did not attract attention, he himself may not have thought that the mission assigned to him by the prince was actually very critical.
Qianqing Palace.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at the approved imperial edict and smiled.
This imperial edict was sent to Wang Yue, ordering him to set off to the capital as soon as possible to prepare for his post.
"In this way, the northwest can be determined. I am relieved."
Recently, one or two things can be done according to his wishes, which makes him much happier. Sometimes it's just like playing a game. It's fun to win all the time, but it's boring to be beaten all the time. In the end, just lie down and do whatever you want.
"Where is the prince? You haven't come here today?" The emperor turned to the eunuch beside him and asked,
Xiao Jing smiled and replied: "Your Majesty, don't be anxious. According to the past time, His Highness will be here in half an hour."
"I understand. You choose someone to declare this decree, and remember to be smart."
"My slave understands."
Xiao Jing's current job is much easier, after all, the emperor is happy.
His mouth seemed to be more lively than before, "I remember that in the ninth year of Hongzhi, Wang Yue went to court to clear up his grievances. Now that His Majesty has given him such a great favor, I don't know how excited he will be. So. No matter how powerful this general is, he still has to meet a wise king."
Speaking of this, Hongzhi was also proud. Wang Yue was an arrogant person, but the more arrogant a person is, the stronger the rebound will be. Therefore, this kind of people should be beaten and used. I think it is just right to call him back to Beijing this time, and he will be able to serve the country with sincerity.
"I think he is already seventy-two years old. Even if he has some flaws, how many more years of 'disaster' can he cause?"
It is unlikely that the border troops will suddenly lead a rebellion. In fact, if a general who knows how to fight does not rebel, then most of the shortcomings can be ignored by the emperor.
"It's rare to be happy in life, and I will make it happen this time!"
It has been fifteen years since the powerful Weining Bo was deposed and expelled in the 19th year of Zi Chenghua. Over the past fifteen years, he has continued to file his grievances, but he has never regained his former majesty. There were a few iterations in the middle, but each time fell short.
Now, it's finally going to be different.
