Zhejiang is thousands of miles away from the capital.
When Wang Hua went deeper and deeper here,
Liu Jian was holding a memorial in the East Palace to request an order.
Prince Zhu Hou is wearing a red uniform with a gold-woven dragon embroidered on the chest, back and shoulders. He wears a jade belt around his waist and a black winged crown on his head. He now stands taller than Liu Jian.
The little old man is getting shorter every year.
Compared to his old age, the prince's skin was smooth and translucent, he was extremely heroic, and his whole person exuded great vitality.
In his current state,
This is where the people of the Ming Dynasty, starting from Emperor Hongzhi, placed their hopes.
Young, with strong steps and calmness.
In fact, with the qualities that Zhu Houzhao showed, let alone Emperor Hongzhi, who had a special childhood and attached great importance to family ties, even emperors with a little more normal brains in history would not dislike having such a son.
It's just that when it fell on Emperor Hongzhi, his behavior was even more exaggerated and proud.
Moreover, imperial families are still different from ordinary families. The emperor, even an emperor like Hongzhi who is not a talented and strategist, must also consider whether the successor is suitable.
As for Zhu Houzhao, Hongzhi was obviously extremely satisfied.
Liu Jian is also involved in state affairs more deeply than anyone else. He understands very well the power of the Prince of the East Palace in today's court. If a child behaves mischievously and the parents still protect him, this is called doting. But if the child strives for success, the parents protecting him is still called doting. Maybe not, maybe they just let it go on purpose.
The prince finished flipping through the memorial submitted by Xu Ruoqin that Liu Jian handed over, and even turned to the last page, "Where are the cabinet votes?"
Liu Jian raised the old man's hand and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me. I haven't got the draft yet, because it involves His Highness, so I sent it here. I want to ask His Majesty for your approval. After that, the cabinet draft will be sent to His Majesty for preview."
This little thought is moving.
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile.
"Whatever I say, the elder will draw up a vote?"
Liu Jian dared to answer this.
The prince's wishes are as follows. Nothing can go wrong in the Hongzhi Dynasty.
"Of course it is."
"Then I want you to write a proposal to refute this officer?"
"If Your Highness wants to write, then I will write."
old fox,
Liu Jian was certain that the crown prince would not let him write like this.
Because the two of them have formed a long-term tacit understanding.
They are all smart people. Even if they don’t say it, you will naturally understand it after interacting with them a few times.
For the prince, he also needs a cabinet to cooperate with him.
If the cabinet were to write a refutation of Xu Ruoqin's memorial, it would worsen Liu Jian's living environment among civil servants.
This is not what the prince wants, because the prince needs Liu Jian.
Of course, Liu Jian will be abandoned one day.
Not today,
Nor would it be for a little Xu Ruoqin.
It’s not like the cabinet is unaware of what Dong Palace is doing in Zhejiang. In such a simple situation, Donggong will not make himself too passive, nor will he have no way to deal with it.
So Liu Jian dares to say such things,
Now that he said this, Zhu Houzhao no longer had to embarrass the old man.
"As you said, why would a small prefect need such a big fight? I know about this matter. Just leave the memorial here. You don't know what to do if you take it back."….
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case.
But at that time, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also asked the ministers to give the prince's poems first. Someone found such an ancestor's practice, so Emperor Hongzhi naturally adopted it.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao can be retained.
However, because his inner thoughts were exposed, Mr. Liu Ge surrendered his hands and confessed, "It's because I have lost my mind."
But Zhu Houzhao would not pursue him on such a matter. He simply ignored it and said instead: "The struggle of viewpoints is fake, and the struggle of direction is also fake. There are only interests."
The struggle with power is real. Mr. Liu Ge, am I right? "
"Old minister, please tell me the truth."
Zhu Houzhao was in good spirits and raised his wide cuffs, "Say."
"Your Highness should not underestimate the power of perspective."
"I understand what you mean." The prince lowered his eyebrows, but he had another thought, "No matter what kind of struggle it is, I will not let the country's worms stay."
Liu Jian listened and was shocked in his heart. After several years of tempering, the East Palace has begun to look different.
For Zhu Houzhao, it was no longer the eleventh year of Hongzhi. At that time, ministers could deceive the prince into being young and send him back to Wenhua Palace to study, without letting him do anything.
So of course he cares about power and public opinion.
But who can stop Zhu Houzhao from succeeding to the throne today? So power is important, but more importantly, he cannot let these people do whatever they want.
"Mr. Liu Ge, everything is fine here. You can go back to the cabinet."
"Yes, I am resigning."
After they left, Zhu Houzhao put Xu Ruoqin's memorial aside and told Liu Jin: "Call Fengxi over."
"yes."
Fengxi was the one who was ranked second in the 12th year of Hongzhi's career, and then lost the top spot because he was a cripple.
In fact, lameness was not very convenient in ancient times, because there were important sacrificial activities, and that was enough in ordinary times. I was worshiping my ancestors, and everyone was kneeling, but you couldn't kneel down, or you couldn't get up from your knees. In that kind of situation, it was always inappropriate. good.
But he was still able to get the second place in the list because he wrote excellent policy articles.
Fengxi stayed in the Hanlin Academy for two years, and then went to Zhan Shifu as the ninth-rank school secretary, which is actually the prince's secretary. Now he has been promoted to the sixth-rank Zuo Zanshan and attendant article.
Because his legs and feet were not good, Zhu Houzhao used his brain to draw pictures and had someone buy him a simple wooden wheelchair. He had nothing to think about. If a cripple could be favored by the prince, he would basically die.
Now I am very familiar with Zhu Houzhao.
As soon as the prince told him, there were special attendants pushing him into the East Palace soon, and then he used crutches himself.
Normally, when Zhu Houzhao feels troubled, he will go out and come down the steps by himself, and this time it was the same.
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"Your Highness, I need an hour." Fengxi looked away and nodded.
"Well, there's no rush. Just take your time." Zhu Houzhao turned around and entered the palace on his own.
The outside ministers basically didn't know about Liu Jian taking the memorial to the East Palace.
But they knew that Xu Ruoqin had a book published.
As a result, there was no movement for several days.
This is a bit annoying,
Liu Daxia also felt something strange when he was discussing with Zhang Cheng, the Minister of Rites, and Shi Daishan, the Censor of the Inspectorate.
"Donggong is not such a good-tempered person. Could it be that Xu Ruoqin's memorial was retained like this?"
Liuzhong means that the emperor saw the memorial, but felt it was inconvenient to deal with it, so he stayed. That means he would not approve the transfer and let the ministers handle it, let alone copy it in the imperial newspaper.
It was an inconvenient thing in the first place, yet everyone knew what it was doing.
In this way, as the Minister of War, Liu Daxia, he was very embarrassed and it was difficult for him to intervene in this matter.
This is also recorded in history. Even in the last years of Hongzhi, the emperor always called Liu Daxia to report to him, and even once said: Oh, if anything happens in the court, I will always think of you. But I was worried that this matter would go beyond your authority and would look bad, so I gave it up.
However, Liu Daxia was still embarrassed when the emperor said this.
Because the ministers submitted memorials through the general affairs envoy, and then entered the cabinet, and the cabinet voted, that is, they wrote a suggestion on "what to do", and then submitted it to the emperor, who used a red pen to approve it, which is the so-called red approval.
Of course, the emperor of the Zhu family was lazy, and the job of criticizing the red people was also given to the eunuchs who were responsible for the ceremony. The emperor, who was so arrogant, threw everything to the eunuchs without even looking at it.
After being approved by the Director of Ceremonies, it will be forwarded. The emperor's opinion has already been expressed, and whoever should handle it will handle it. As for the copying of the six subjects and the issuance of the Di's newspaper, it can be done as usual.
So here comes the question,
Now this memorial has stopped at Zhu Houzhao. Logically speaking, only the General Secretary, the cabinet and the prince know about it. Why does the Ministry of War know? ….
The Ministry of Rites and the Inspectorate would not even know.
So this is where their distress lies.
They didn't expect the prince to play such a trick! Obviously Xu Ruoqin's memorial was quite fierce in words, but it ended up being like this!
In fact, the circulation process of memorials in the Ming Dynasty was like a broken window leaking air.
Basically, the emperor has not yet approved it, so all the important officials can know about it.
But no one mentions things like this. It’s such a trivial matter, but no one can afford to pursue it.
However, if this is the result...
Liu Daxia, Dai Shan, and Zhang Cheng had no choice. Because the first memorial can be forgotten, then the second one can also be dragged on like this.
The money from Zhejiang is taken care of, and the grain from Datong is taken care of, but nothing changes.
Liu Daxia was helpless, "Back then, Your Majesty wanted to send troops to the north, and we also urged Your Majesty to cherish the power of the people. Now it's just a matter of doing it again. As long as it is for the country, the country, and the livelihood of the people, there is no need to hesitate? In a few days , when the time is right, I will enter the palace to meet His Majesty!"
Wait a minute,
However, Zhu Houzhao first waited for the situation in Zhejiang.
As a result, Prince Yujuan was so angry that Wang Hua deliberately left 800,000 taels for them. But what did they do?
"Eight hundred thousand taels of silver, they take 500,000 taels, and I take 300,000 taels! They even say that I have done a good job, do I still need to thank them?!"
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