Chapter 108 Yan Song is coming to Beijing
Of course, no matter what you do, money is indispensable.
Wang Yangming also understands this truth. Even if Zhu Houzhao talks about it again and again, money must be spent to run a school.
Therefore, Wang Yangming asked Zhu Houzhao: "I dare to ask Your Majesty, where did the money to build the Capital University come from?"
"Money? Go to your father!"
Zhu Houzhao replied casually without thinking. Although Jiao Fang, a scholar in the cabinet, was now in charge of the household affairs, Zhu Houzhao had not yet clarified the specific authority of the cabinet and the six ministers, so the minister of household affairs was still in charge of the Ming Dynasty's finances.
Wang Yangming was speechless and had to reply: "Your Majesty is indeed the king and father of me, so I asked your Majesty, where will the money come from?"
Zhu Houzhao did not expect that he would accidentally become the father of the sage Wang Yangming.
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said: "Your father is the Minister of Household Affairs. If you don't look for him, who can you look for?"
"Yes!"
Wang Yangming could only respond in this way. He originally thought that Emperor Zhu Hou had asked him to use internal funds to build the university, but he did not expect that the emperor wanted the Ministry of Household Affairs to use funds to build the university.
At this time, all the court officials knew that Emperor Zhu Houzhao must have made a lot of money since he had betrayed the party's family.
So they all wanted to get some money from the emperor to do some serious things, but some also wanted to do bad things to make money.
Wang Yangming was naturally no exception. He also thought that since the emperor is so rich now and it is the emperor who wants to build the Capital University, you will naturally have to pay for it.
But Wang Yangming did not expect that Emperor Zhu Houzhao was so stingy that he still had to pay from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
However, Wang Yangming could not disobey Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao didn't say much and just asked Wang Yangming to retreat.
Zhu Houzhao was not really stingy and was reluctant to provide money himself. He wanted to change the way of providing money. Directly providing money himself would cause officials at all levels of the court to ask for money from him as the emperor in the future.
In that case, the emperor himself would no longer be the Son of Heaven but the God of Wealth!
There is no free lunch in the world. Zhu Houzhao wanted his ministers to understand this truth. To govern the world, you have to pay a cost. As an emperor, you cannot ask for your own money. You can only ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to borrow it!
Moreover, borrowing is not free, there is interest.
After all, the stable operation of a court not only ensures the interests of the royal family, but also ensures the wealthy life of you rulers, but you cannot always make the emperor lose money.
anyway.
Wang Yangming still had to go to his father, Wang Hua, the Minister of Household Affairs.
As soon as Wang Yangming came to Wang Hua, Wang Hua put on a straight face and shouted seriously: "Tell me about you! You are already thirty years old. Why are you still so ignorant? The sacrificial wine from the Capital University is useless. No official in the government wanted to pick him up, but only Go pick me up. Since His Majesty values you and has allowed you to enter the Hanlin Academy and become a minister, you can be said to be a close minister of the emperor. You should keep a low profile and work in a low-key manner. You may be able to enter the cabinet in the future and fight for the reputation of our Wang family and honor our ancestors! ”
"Sir, please calm down. Wang Yun wants to be a good minister, not for the royal family. In fact, he wants to be an official so that the Han Dynasty will not fall into the hands of foreigners in the future. Although the Capital University is not a noble place in the Imperial Academy, it is the best place for scholarship, and among others The meaning is far beyond what I see now. Unless Wang Yun is presumptuous, my knowledge can only stop at Shangshu!"
When Wang Yangming said this, Wang Hua was so angry that he didn't hit him on the spot, but when he thought that this was the Ministry of Household Affairs and not home after all, he had to endure it and said angrily: "You are a traitor, that is, I am your master, otherwise I will You have long been disliked by the powerful because of your lack of understanding of the world! I don’t know how much your Majesty values you! Tell me, why are you here?”
"I need money! Your Majesty has decreed that the money to build the Capital University must come from the Ministry of Revenue. Since I am the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, I will naturally come to you!"
Wang Yangming replied.
"I don't need any money! Now that the two taxes have not been raised, all the money from house confiscation has gone into internal funds. How can the Ministry of Household Affairs have any money!"
Wang Hua, the Minister of Household Affairs, replied without thinking.
"Okay, then I will tell you the truth!" Wang Yangming said and turned around and walked away.
Wang Hua was so angry when he saw this that he shouted: "Come back!"
Wang Yangming pretended not to hear and kept walking forward.
"Come back!"
Wang Hua was really afraid that Wang Yangming's answer to Zhu Houzhao would make Emperor Zhu Houzhao unhappy and implicate the entire Wang family.
Therefore, Wang Hua hurriedly ran and stopped Wang Yangming: "You are really going to make me angry to death! Do you really plan to tell the emperor directly that the Ministry of Revenue has no money as I said?"
"If you don't say so, why do you say so?"
Wang Yangming smiled secretly, turned around and asked pretending to be confused.
"What do you want me to say to you? You go back first and I will think of a solution. The Ministry of Finance really has no money!"
Wang Hua replied.
"Da Situ! If there is no money, there will be no money. Why worry so much? Just tell the truth to Your Majesty. I believe that Your Majesty will not punish you, me, or the Wang family for this. What are you afraid of? Your Majesty is not the same." "Hunjun, you can see in the court today that your Majesty really wants to work hard. It's impossible that he doesn't know the difficulties of the Ministry of Finance and is too cautious to do important things!"
Wang Yangming said and left.
Wang Hua couldn't help but jumped up and shouted: "I don't need you to teach me how to be an official!"
Wang Yangming had to go to Zhu Houzhao again.
At this time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs officially began to organize the central civil servant selection examination.
Each department also informed the Ministry of Personnel about the vacancies in succession, and the Ministry of Personnel compiled the statistics and informed them to the various prefectures and counties as well as the Northern and Southern Imperial Colleges. Those who were interested in serving the country were ordered to come to Beijing to be considered as alternate officials in various departments. It is equivalent to civil servants in later generations.
The Ministry of Personnel will then promote or transfer serving officials according to the situation of each ministry, as well as appoint and remove alternate officials.
Of course, high-level officials still need to be recommended or discussed.
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At this time, Yan Song, who was recuperating at home, also learned the news from the prefect.
Yan Song was originally an editor of the Hanlin Academy, but he had to resign and return to his hometown to recuperate due to a serious illness in the 18th year of Hongzhi.
Now, he has already recovered from his serious illness, but the court has been in turmoil recently, and the situation has changed dramatically. He can't find a way to resume his job.
Now that he saw that the imperial court was going to directly select officials through examinations, he immediately ran home happily and said to his wife Ouyang: "Madam, I want to tell you a good thing!"
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Zhang Cong, Xia Yan, and Yan Song all appeared. Book friends who are familiar with the Ming Dynasty should know the connection between the three of them. Everyone should guess what the author is going to do.
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