Wu Junchuan's identity fits Zhu Houzhao's idea of becoming a military academy.
According to the system established by Zhu Yuanzhang, military membership must be hereditary. This is actually unreasonable. The father's fighting ability has nothing to do with the son.
This is so obvious that it doesn't take another 500 years of vision to see it clearly.
But the emperors of the feudal dynasty care most about stability, so giving everyone an identity and using various ideological doctrines to bind you and make you accept your fate is actually a way to maintain rule as much as possible.
Because the founder of the country was a wise man, how could he not know that the kings of later generations were not so capable? It's just that it is impossible to achieve eternal life under the premise of a family and a world, so the various institutional efforts of the past dynasties appear to be a bit absurd.
Let’s not mention these.
In the current hereditary system of military membership, Zhu Houzhao did have the idea to put some of the children of military officers in the military academy for unified training. Although this is unfair to those peasants who want to be generals, it is absolutely fair and he cannot do it. He is not a god. He can make the country's seas, rivers, and all directions surrender in the decades he has been emperor. It's already an incredible feat.
The significance of the Academy is that Zhu Houzhao can find ways to turn these people into vested interest groups on the East Palace chariot to compete with the old interest groups.
If the power of new interest groups is not strong enough, it will be easy for people to die and the government to die. As long as a core figure fails to make it out of the top seven, someone will jump out to oppose it.
Cheng Minzheng, who had just entered Beijing, was a very prestigious person, so when he was with Wu Kuan, he only dared to say that, so what could he do? Everyone is applying for the position of right minister of the Ministry of Rites.
He even asked directly: "Since we know that the East Palace has this secret plan to assassinate Chen Cang, why haven't the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty responded at all?"
Wu Kuan had a sullen face. The bags under his eyes were so heavy that they felt like blisters. He had a worried face with no smile at all.
"Master Cheng," the speaker was Wu Kuan's student, Qian Gui, the imperial censor of Zuo Qiandu. He did not dare to refute too harshly, but Cheng Minzheng's accusation was really unreasonable, so he said with full of grievance, "In the beginning, the prince was just talking. They talk about it, but they don’t actually do it. We ministers will not hold on to a few words from the East Palace. How can there be any courtesy in this? Moreover, the name the prince mentioned is for the poor people. How to react to this?"
The most profound opposition is always when what you are talking about starts to fall off the ground and your own interests are seriously damaged, otherwise no one can escape the boiling frog in warm water.
It's not that time now.
"It's just that... no one thought it would happen so soon."
Cheng Minzheng snorted, "Of course it will be faster if it doesn't go through the cabinet and ministries. When there are signs of this, you should know that this matter is not simple."
Now let’s not talk about the real money and silver flowers going out to build a grand project in the capital.
The prince is still willing to let the Jinshi who have won the first place also go to the training. Doesn't this imply the idea that 'sacred learning is useless'?
"Donggong... always does things with a lot of planning," Wu Kuan now fully believed this. "Looking back now, it was planned beforehand not to submit the matter to the cabinet for discussion, and it was done in the name of poor people. Of course it was not an unintentional move.”….
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It seems that Dong Gong knows them well enough to act like this.
Another point Wu Kuan did not dare to say was that Li Guang's matter should also be part of the plan, because if it was not submitted to the cabinet for discussion, there would be no money.
What to do with the money?
A few months later, when I look at it now, I realize that this is a big deal.
The only gap was that Wang Hao wanted to be the peacemaker between Wu Kuan and the prince, and he even planned to persuade Wu Kuan to jointly run the academy.
This let him know that in addition to the Medical Palace, the East Palace also had plans to establish military, agricultural, and official schools.
Really step by step.
Now that they have people and money, what should they do?
"What does Keqin plan to do?"
Although Cheng Minzheng is an arrogant person
, but he is never without brains. He pondered for a while and said: "Since His Highness wants to build it, let him build it. Medicine needs a place, and Confucianism also needs a place. We can advise His Majesty to add Confucianism to this academy. This subject tells the way of saints, spreads the knowledge of saints, promotes education, and gathers people's hearts. There is no objection to this, right?"
Both Wu Kuan and Qian Gui's eyes lit up.
"This is a great way to draw on the east wind and draw out the firepower from under the cauldron!"
In the past, they just wanted to convince the prince, but it didn't work several times. Now it's different.
Qian Gui couldn't help but praise: "This is a plan that kills two birds with one stone. Not only will it be enough to wait for the official school, but it will also be able to create a second Imperial College."
In fact, it’s not worry.
Wu Kuan was thinking about how the prince could deal with it...
Because, he always has.
"Keqin's plan is indeed a good one. But... what if the prince handles it properly?" Old Man Wu reminded.
"Responded appropriately? Teacher means opposition?" Qian Gui also thought for a while, "We propose to establish an academy and educate the people. How can there be room for disapproval?"
Educating the people is a universal principle. Now, as the crown prince, how can you firmly oppose it?
But Wu Kuan had a psychological shadow, so he thought about failure before he succeeded.
Even if he thought about it carefully, Qian Gui's words made sense, but he still didn't think that killing two birds with one stone would be so easy.
"Let's talk about everything after Keqin meets Dong Gong."
Speaking of which, the ministers fought with Emperor Hongzhi for many rounds just because of when the East Palace would come out to give lectures.
Unexpectedly, everything went smoothly after the beginning of spring this time. All the preparations made by the Ministry of Rites and all the reports were presented. Emperor Hongzhi at least accepted the request and never mentioned that he had to postpone the request for some reason.
The three cabinet ministers Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian slowly felt relieved.
Everything in Wenhua Palace is ready, waiting for the auspicious day to arrive.
Early the next morning, Zhu Houzhao got up early. In the Ming Dynasty, when the crown prince was studying, there was a special ceremony called "Lecture Notes from the Cabinet". It was a special ceremony specially held for the first time. The scale was quite large, especially because the emperor loved the crown prince.
In terms of personnel, in addition to the teachers who actually give lectures to the prince, officials responsible for rituals and etiquette such as Jinyiwei and Honglu Temple will also be present, not to mention the eunuchs such as the Chief of Ceremonies and other yamen. Even if they just open the book, You have to send someone there.
When Zhu Houzhao took a sedan chair to the Wenhua Hall, looking at the fish-belly white sky, all the officials had already arrived before him, lined up in two rows, and stood facing each other.
When Liu Jin helped Zhu Houzhao to the seat in the middle of the Wenhua Hall, the eunuch in the palace shouted, "Officials come into the hall to give lectures!".
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