Zhu Yijun took the monthly exam, which was also a kind of success.
Zhang Juzheng's examination method, even when it was piloted in the capital, did not go well. There were many objections from the officials, and the methods of opposition were also various.
In the original historical direction, Zhang Juzheng's reforms actually failed to achieve their full success in many cases.
To sum up, it is a coy way to change the law, but also to abide by the laws of the ancestors, and to comply with the Confucian etiquette. This kind of thinking of wanting, wanting, and wanting makes this reform always change. But it has changed a little bit.
Is Zhang Juzheng incompetent? it's not true.
Gao Gong's "Chen Wu Shi Shu" required the young emperor not to approve the memorials internally, which offended the Queen Mother and directly issued an order to depose Gao Gong. Zhang Juzheng's reform did not receive the full support of the imperial power from beginning to end.
The descendants of Queen Mother Li exercised imperial power, and Feng Bao protected the imperial power, but they could not provide enough support for Zhang Juzheng's reforms. Both Queen Mother Li and Feng Bao were worried that the Ming Dynasty would have another high-profile event.
In a system design based on the imperial system, lacking the support of imperial power, Zhang Juzheng's reforms were indeed somewhat unfair in name and inconsistent with his words. In desperation, Zhang Juzheng shouted out the sentence: I am not the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister.
The biggest problem for the young master is the absence of imperial power under the imperial system.
"It can be a little more difficult next time." Zhu Yijun stood up, held his hands, and looked around at the courtiers. The smile on his face turned into a sunny and cheerful smile. He said calmly: "I have been listening to politics recently and reviewing memorials. , found that the officials had many doubts about Mr. Yuan Fu’s method of passing the examination, and wrote a series of memorials discussing the pros and cons of passing the examination.”
"I took the exam today with ease, far less than the laborious work of the Liubu Hall officials, but the matters of supervision, supervision, and supervision are of great importance to the country."
"In the future, the lecturers will no longer have to send examination papers to Mr. Yuanfu."
Zhu Yijun raised his requirements for himself. He asked the bachelor to formulate the questions and sent them to Zhang Juzheng for review. In fact, he acquiesced that the emperor could cheat.
After all, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao teamed up to drive Gao Gong back home. In the eyes of the officials, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were wearing the same pair of trousers. If Zhang Juzheng knew about it, then Feng Bao would know about it, and the emperor would also know about the content of the exam.
However, this test is about silent writing, interpretation and brief description. If the emperor knows it, he must write it down. If he can write it silently, in Wang Xilie's opinion, it is already quite good!
After all, the emperor was only ten years old.
The reason why Zhu Yijun raised his demands on himself and broke the default rule of cheating was to use his imperial power to give Zhang Juzheng a platform to pass the exam.
Without Zhu Yijun's platform, Zhang Juzheng could still implement the examination method, but with the imperial power's platform, Zhang Juzheng had the imperial power's charter. The difference lies in whether it is upright and justified.
"My lord, thank you for your kindness." Zhang Juzheng frowned, glanced at Feng Bao, and then thought about the two queen mothers in the palace. This is not the first time that your majesty has given him a platform. The first time was when the emperor was hoeing the ground in Jingshan. The emperor spoke, and Ge Shouli was bypassed; the second time was to stop the party quarrel, the emperor spoke again, a clan party, which silenced all the officials inside and outside;
This is the third time that the implementation of the imperial examination law has been opposed by many courtiers. Now Zhang Juzheng used his authority to force it forward.
The emperor came out again to support him.
Zhang Juzheng really didn't expect that the little emperor would use his academic assessment as a platform for his success. For a moment, Zhang Juzheng thanked him respectfully.
Zhu Shaoguo suspected that the most terrifying problem was the system design under the imperial system. The absence of imperial power was terrifying and would be extremely fatal to the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne at the age of nine, the country fell into doubts about whether he was the master of the young country. Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Dowager Sun were too doting on their children. Sanyang assisted in the administration, and the world had many praises.
But in Zhu Yijun's own opinion, San Yang's assistant government caused great damage to the national affairs of the Ming Dynasty. In Zhu Yijun's opinion, San Yang was far inferior to Zhang Juzheng.
In the ninth year of Xuande's reign, the sixth southward voyage to the West was completely stopped. The fleets that once dominated the oceans were rotting silently at their berths. The Ming Dynasty's maritime power was like a large ship docked quietly at its berths, rotting, sinking, and being washed away by the river. Gone never to return.
In the first year of Zhengtong, King Annan was canonized by the Ming Emperor. Annan Kingdom became legally independent. With the canonization of Annan Kingdom, Ming Dynasty's influence in Luchuan (Southeast Asia) plummeted, and Luchuan began to rebel. The protracted three wars The conquest of Luchuan exhausted the national power of the Ming Dynasty.
In the third year of Zhengtong, the British Duke Zhang Fu, the minister of the auxiliary country, no longer went to court. The Ming Dynasty's martial arts was completely weakened and marginalized.
In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Yang Shiqi became an official, and Ming Yingzong ruled personally. What was left behind was a corrupt dynasty. The southeast, southwest, and northwest were plagued by wars, and Ming Yingzong himself was a bastard who broke through the emperor's lower limit.
In the 13th year of Zhengtong, the Ye Zongliu-Deng Maoqi Civil Rebellion spread to Fujian, Huguang, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and nearly a million farmers rose up.
In the 14th year of Orthodoxy, Tumu Fort experienced a sudden change.
And now, in the first year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun is ten years old, and he is also the master of the country. The imperial power is absent, and Zhang Juzheng is in the country. But Zhang Juzheng is in the country. Unlike Sanyang, Zhang Juzheng first aimed his gun at the civil servants, or in other words, Zhang Juzheng was in the country. , Zhang Juzheng pointed his gun at this bad world and wanted to change it.
As the chief minister of the empire, Zhang Juzheng doesn't know how bad the world is? Doesn't he know how serious the problem is? He knew it clearly, he knew it very well.
The one who knows better will not move, which is a kind of sober pain, knowing clearly that you cannot do something, but insisting on doing it.
The bridle of the examination method was put on the heads of all officials, and it seemed that Zhang Juzheng was destined to end.
Zhu Yijun had great respect for Zhang Juzheng. Yu Qian turned the tide from falling and helped the building to collapse. When Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was captured and became an overseas student in Wala, he repelled Wala and rebuilt the Beijing camp.
What happened to Yu Qian?
After the restoration of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian was unjustly killed because of his "intention". Yu Qian sought glory and was humiliated.
Zhang Juzheng is a scholar, and he clearly knows what Yu Qian's fate will be.
Zhang Juzheng could have chosen to be like San Yang and collude with the Jin party, or even accept Yang Bo's conditions, merge Chu and Jin, and become a powerful minister with so much power that even the emperor would look at him.
Zhang Juzheng didn't do that. He wanted to do something to make the declining Ming Dynasty better.
By standing up for Zhang Juzheng, Zhu Yijun was exercising his imperial power and endorsing Zhang Juzheng's restructuring, which put less pressure on him.
After Zhang Juzheng's death, he was counterattacked, the examination law, the one-whip law, etc. were abolished, and even Zhang Juzheng's son was starved to death. What would Zhu Yijun let this happen?
As long as Zhang Juzheng does not turn his Zhang Party into a clan party, Zhu Yijun is determined not to let such a thing happen.
"Let's discuss the matter." Zhu Yijun took out the "Direct Interpretation of the Four Books" and planned to continue as usual. He was reading and listening to politics on the platform while the courtiers were arguing below.
Habits can be formed after twenty-one days of repetition. Zhu Yijun has become accustomed to this weird atmosphere. It's weird as it is, but at last the Ming Dynasty can stumble forward despite the doubts of the young master.
"Your Majesty, today is the ninth day of rest." Zhang Juzheng looked at the ministers, bowed his head and said.
His Majesty did not study in his schedule today, and the courtiers only came to Wenhua Palace to invigilate the exam.
Today is a rest day. After the exam, Your Majesty can have a day off.
In the past, the emperor could take one day off on every 369th day and nine days in a month. However, since the "New and Chen Five Matters" was published, the young emperor went to the Wenhua Hall to listen to the government every day. Zhang Juzheng, Wang Xilie, Wang Xijue, etc. After discussion, we finally decided to take a day off after the monthly exam.
Too much is too much, and the little emperor is frustrated. How can the little emperor return to his old ways?
A balance between work and rest is required.
Zhu Yijun was stunned and put away the "Direct Interpretations of the Four Books". After the court officials reported this matter, Queen Mother Li specifically said that Zhu Yijun was busy and forgot about it.
His life was extremely fulfilling. He listened to political lectures in the morning, practiced martial arts and farmed in the afternoon, stamped his seals in the evening, and read agricultural books, summarized and excerpted them in the evening.
"Why don't you go to my Baoqi Palace to have a look? I have been engaged in farming for more than a month. Seeing that the Qingming Festival is approaching, why don't you all go and have a look?" Zhu Yijun thought for a while and asked. Since I have nothing to do, let's go to Baoqi. Let the court have a look and let the courtiers see what he has done.
Lu Shusheng, the Minister of Rites of Ye Province, and the officials of the Ministry of Science and Education used this to talk about things every day, saying that the emperor did not do his job properly. In the eyes of Confucian scholars, the Ming emperor's job was to cultivate virtue, which was benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, trustworthiness, gentleness, respect, thrift and humiliation.
But the virtue that Zhang Juzheng interpreted is the principle of practicing one's own experience, the principle of practicing the Tao and gaining something, the principle of theory guiding practice, and the virtue of practice complementing theory.
Zhu Yijun felt that Mr. Yuan Fu was right.
In half a month, Zhu Yijun's glass fire room has completed the breeding. In a few days, it will be Qingming Festival, and farming can start after Qingming Festival.
During this period of time, Zhu Yijun was most busy with this.
The First Assistant and Second Assistant, the Sixth Mining Duke, the Imperial Procuratorate, Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong and others were all stunned. They really thought that the emperor's marriage to Nongsang was just a show. They didn't expect that they could visit Baoqi Hall. two.
Is this what the courtiers can see?
Since the assassination of the king, the news coming out of the palace has been bizarre. I don’t know how much is true or how false. The ministers don’t know what the little emperor was doing after he left the Wenhua Palace.
"I am willing to follow your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng quickly bowed his head and said.
Zhu Yijun stood up and said with a smile: "Let's go."
Zhu Yijun led a group of ministers to the Baoqi Hall in Jingshan. The Baoqi Hall was very small. The former fruit orchard had been transformed into fertile fields, covered with a layer of melted compost, and a glass fire room covering an area of half an acre was still burning. There was a fire, the small yellow door was opening the thick grass thatch, and the sunlight poured into the sun room and also onto Zhu Yijun's body.
"This is my nursery." Zhu Yijun stood in the sun, holding his sleeve with his left hand and his right hand behind his back, with his head half raised, quite satisfied with his masterpiece.
