Chapter 28 I am very interested in your son Wang Shouren
Although Zhu Houzhao's Royal Exposition has ended, the shock it brought to the civil servant group has not.
The political opponents of Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, have begun to instruct the imperial censor to take advantage of this to attack Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, and others, criticizing them for their ineffective governance of the country.
In the end, it ended with Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, voluntarily resigning, and the cabinet's vote also agreed to resign. There was nothing we could do. His Majesty the Ming Emperor was forced to sell goods on the street, so Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, could only memorize it. This is the fault of the mean Junfu.
Zhu Houzhao also didn't expect that he was just opening a royal exposition to make some money for himself and promote the Ming Dynasty's commerce, but it caused a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs to become an official. For this, Zhu Houzhao was quite guilty, and by the way, he rewarded Han Wen with five hundred taels and went home. fee.
Zhu Houzhao is now wealthy. He has earned more than 300,000 taels of silver from just one royal exposition. What's more, the internal funds are now back in his hands, so a reward of 500 taels of silver to the minister is nothing. He originally wanted to reward a thousand taels. Two taels, but I was still a little reluctant to give it up. In line with the principle that these ministers and ministers were not poor anyway, I took out 500 taels.
Even if it was five hundred taels, it was still a reward from the emperor. Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, also accepted it with tears of gratitude and returned to his hometown in Shanxi with no choice.
Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, is gone, so the position of the remaining Minister of the Household Department will naturally have to be re-elected.
Zhu Houzhao found that his plan to control the government seemed to have been disrupted. He originally wanted to overthrow Zhang Zhao, the eunuch in charge of the Royal Horse Supervisor, but now that Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, was killed by himself, the one who resigned first and left was the Hubu. Shangshu in Korean.
In this way, the power of Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet, and others will be weakened, and he, the emperor, can elect the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue again.
Now that Zhu Houzhao has taken back the internal funds, the Ministry of Household Affairs is only responsible for the state treasury, land tax and head tax. However, Zhu Houzhao does not want to reform these taxes yet, and he does not care who the Minister of the Ministry of Households asks to do it. But if People other than Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet, are naturally more beneficial to him. After all, in this case, the power of the cabinet will be restricted, and his imperial power will be greater.
The Minister of Civil Affairs, Ma Wensheng, selected a few more people, and the two people finally selected who needed to be decided by Emperor Zhu Houzhao were still not from Ma Wensheng. It was enough to show that Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers still had great influence in the court selection.
Zhu Houzhao selected Wang Hua, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. The main reason was that he was the newly selected candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. One was Guo Yue, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, and the other was Wang Hua. He was only familiar with Wang Hua and knew that he was not a clique. He sent someone who was not very good at being an official, so he naturally chose Wang Hua.
In addition, Zhu Houzhao felt that Wang Yangming was so deviant that Wang Hua did not kill him, which showed that Wang Hua was more tolerant of rebellious personality. Zhu Houzhao thought that he would do a lot of deviant things in the future, and Wang Hua was undoubtedly Very suitable for ministers who get along with rebellious kings.
Zhu Houzhao met with the new Minister of Household Affairs Wang Hua as usual.
Because people like Wang Hua, who was born as a scholar, have a relatively high status in the literary world, some theories can easily cause a lot of trouble if they are directly brought to Wang Hua. Even Liu Jin did not have a relationship with him, so Zhu Houzhao did not let Liu Jin and others go. Develop Wang Hua as a member of the Zhongjun Society.
When meeting Wang Hua, the new Minister of Household Affairs, Zhu Houzhao only talked about government affairs and not party affairs: "The Ministry of Household Affairs is not as leisurely as the Hanlin Academy, and it does not manage as many gentlemen as the Ministry of Rites. The safety of the country, the country, and the country should not be ignored, and you should have some practical spirit. This is the "Outline of State Governance" I have drafted. Take it back and read it. "
Wang Hua was surprised, because in the past, ministers taught his majesty how to govern the world, but now, as usual, he came to see his majesty to thank him, but he was taught how to manage government affairs by his majesty, and he was also rewarded with an imperially-gifted "Outline of Governing the Country"!
But Wang Hua had to accept it. Although he didn't dare to believe that the fifteen-year-old young emperor could write any insights on how to govern the country, the emperor gave it to him. As a minister, if he refused, he would be disobeying the decree.
"I obey the decree, and I will definitely read your Majesty's work carefully." Wang Hua accepted the "Outline of the Governance of the Country" given by him. Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction. In this way, he wanted to change the model of monarch and ministers governing the country, that is, to change the model of civil servants asking the emperor how to be a wise king to the model of the emperor asking ministers how to be a wise minister.
After talking about the business, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but chat. After all, he was very interested in Wang Hua's son Wang Yangming. If it weren't for Wang Yangming, he would not know Wang Hua and would not choose Wang Hua as the Minister of Household Affairs:
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"My Royal Xiyuan Taiye Pond also has a bamboo forest with excellent scenery. If your son is interested, you can come to me to check bamboo. You can tell me that you can come at any time if you have leisure. I am very welcome."
Wang Hua was a little surprised, wondering how his majesty knew about his son's stupid things in Ge Zhu's past, and why he was interested in his son again.
Wang Hua didn't know the nature of the new emperor Zhu Houzhao except from the outside court. He only knew from other officials that his majesty was cynical, so he thought that his majesty also had a hobby like rabbits. For a moment, he was afraid that his son's chrysanthemums would not be saved, so he had to say awkwardly: "Your Majesty, Quanzi has been married for a long time and has passed his thirties."
"I won't let him be my consort, so it doesn't matter if he gets married or not," Zhu Houzhao said.
Wang Hua was even more certain that Zhu Houzhao had some special hobbies. He thought to himself that he really didn't expect that His Majesty wanted to recruit a consort. Now it seems that he is not recruiting a consort. It seems that he is really playing like a rabbit. What should he do?
"Your Majesty, the dog's skin is rough and fleshy, and his face is not very good-looking. He looks more like his mother," Wang Hua said hurriedly.
"Well, it turns out Wang Yangming is an ugly guy!"
Zhu Houzhao was shocked, thinking that the history did not mention what Wang Yangming looked like, but he still smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter. I don't want him to be the face of the court, such as spokesman or anything. It doesn't matter what he looks like. I just have a good impression of your son's temperament. Your son's ideal is to be an eternal saint. My current ideal is to be an eternal emperor. , everyone is crazy! I like young people who are a little crazy!”
Wang Hua couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was suddenly shocked. He didn't expect that his son Wang Yangming's shocking words back then were also known to His Majesty. What he didn't expect was that His Majesty actually had no intention of blaming his son for this. He seems to be as arrogant as his own son back then! What you say always makes people feel that something is wrong, what kind of spokesperson or ideals and so on.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Houzhao was an emperor with a high status, Wang Hua would have reprimanded Zhu Houzhao directly.
However, his own sons Wang Yangming and Wang Hua could beat and scold him, but he did not have the guts to beat or scold His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao. He could only advise: "Your Majesty, if you want to be the emperor for eternity, you can learn from Yao and Shun. You must first cultivate your moral character and be virtuous and rational." .”
"Okay, don't talk about these big principles, please step down." Zhu Houzhao interrupted Wang Hua and asked Wang Hua to step down.
And Wang Hua couldn't help but shook his head, thinking why young people today are like this. They all like to talk big words but don't pay attention to reality. What great saints must do, but they don't even want to listen to a good word. His son is okay. The most he can do is harm his own family, but His Majesty is the head of a country. If this continues, instead of becoming an emperor for eternity, he will become a coward for eternity.
(End of chapter)