Chapter 209 This is what Qingliu civil servants should do (two in one)
After Ye Zhi said this, he regretted it and immediately knelt down in front of Zhu Houzhao in fear.
The civil servants of Taichang Temple who were present also looked at Ye Zhi in astonishment. They were all wondering why Ye Zhi suddenly addressed the emperor directly and spoke rudely at this time.
Zhu Houzhao also laughed angrily. He walked up to Ye Zhi step by step and said, "Tell me, why are you so angry all of a sudden?"
Ye Zhi started to tremble all over, and felt a chill on his back. He hurriedly said: "I, I just, just, just can't stand this aphrodisiac. Although the traitor is shameless, Your Majesty cannot let innocent ministers like us suffer for this." It’s implicated!”
After Ye Zhi explained forcefully, he smiled awkwardly at Zhu Houzhao.
Although Zhu Houzhao has not yet confirmed that this matter is what Ye Zhi said, he has already suspected Ye Zhi in his heart. An official who dares to question himself as the emperor in front of everyone shows that this person has no regard for him as the emperor in his heart. Those who are in awe, or in other words, have long hated it in their hearts.
Zhu Houzhao believed that this was the time when Ye Zhi was most panicked and his psychological defense was at its weakest. Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao walked back to the throne, he took advantage of Ye Zhi's loss of soul and asked casually: "Ye Zhi, this is an aphrodisiac." What kind of medicine is it, Miqingsan?”
"No! It's a fan!"
Ye Zhi replied smoothly, and suddenly realized that he had let something slip. He looked around in panic, and then kowtowed to the ground again: "Your Majesty! I, I, I just heard, I just heard!" < br>
"Ye Shaoqing! Who gave you the courage to deal with His Majesty like this!"
Before Ye Zhi could continue to explain, Liu Jie, the minister of Taichang Temple, pointed at Ye Zhi and cursed him with dark circles under his eyes. He was not stupid. Although Ye Zhi himself did not admit it at this time, he could also He was sure that Ye Zhi was the one who secretly drugged His Majesty the Emperor. Therefore, at this time, he instinctively started to angrily question Ye Zhi.
Being scolded by Liu Jie, Ye Zhi couldn't make up any lies that he could think of at the moment, so he could only continue to kowtow: "Your Majesty, I am wronged, I am wronged!"
Yang Yuanyi, the Prime Minister of Taipu Temple, also walked over holding the back of his chair. After raising his hands to Zhu Houzhao, he pointed at Ye Zhi:
"Why are you being wronged? You are the only one who dares to address His Majesty directly in front of His Majesty. It shows that you have already had a disobedient heart. Now His Majesty just asked a little. All the courtiers in the hall did not know the name of this medicine, and you were the only one who quickly said it. Ye Zhi, you are a minister of the Ming Dynasty! I didn’t expect you to harbor such evil intentions!”
Youdao means that everyone will push down the wall.
Whether it was because he didn’t want to continue taking this addictive drug, or he was performing for Emperor Zhu Hou to avoid being implicated, all the civil servants from Taichang Temple present scolded Ye Zhi, and some of them had suggestions. , some suggested confiscating the family and annihilating the clan, and some just spit out words regardless of the emperor's manners.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the chaotic scene, only smiled faintly, and immediately ordered: "Take him down and let the three judges discuss the crime!"
Zhu Houzhao believed that as long as Ye Zhi's conspiracy was exposed, even if he, the emperor, did not give specific instructions, the empire's state machinery would give Ye Zhi the severest punishment for murdering his father.
Because the current system of the Ming Empire and Confucian Neo-Confucianism are actually in principle to maintain the majesty of the emperor.
Once the crime of murdering the emperor is exposed, even if the emperor does not pursue the case and wants to be lenient, the ruling class of the empire will not agree. In order to maintain the monarchy, patriarchy and Confucian ethical order, such criminal behavior will be severely punished.
Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, originally hated the officials who used such methods behind his back, because he could not understand why, as an official in the court and a scholar who should be determined to assist the wise king and govern the country, he would become someone who wanted to turn His Majesty into a The foolish king wants to turn the innocent world into a demon in the turbid world.
But now, Wang Hua couldn't bring up how much he hated Ye Zhi, the young minister of Taichang Temple. He didn't need to ask to understand why Ye Zhi did this. The son of Qi, the Ye family, who could have become rich by relying on salt profits, had to bear the huge losses caused by the reform of the salt policy. It is normal to feel hatred towards today's emperor who is determined to reform.
But what Wang Hua doesn't understand is why Ye Zhi, who is still from a famous family despite suffering a lot of losses, would do this. Can the interests of the family really be so great that he ignores the safety of the country and the country?
What Wang Hua had to admit was that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao won again this time. He was able to discover clues through his increasingly indulgent daily life. He had to admit that this emperor was indeed very careful, but he also had to admit that he was very careful. If you don't admit it, the emperor has obviously never let down his guard against the civil servants like him.
Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, was not happy at all. His ideal relationship between monarch and minister should not be like this. It should not be about scheming, suspicion, and harming each other, but working together to build this country to its peak. In this era, they chased Yao and Shun from far away, and advanced towards the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Zhu Houzhao never thought so in his heart. Wang Hua thought this. He was not targeting the entire civil servant group, nor did he really want to favor domestic slaves, nor did he want to be a dictator. But a series of events told him the fact that he wanted to harm There are many people of my own, and there are many people who want to take advantage of me.
"I'll leave!"
Wang Hua and others exited the hall. Zhu Houzhao looked at them silently without saying a word. He believed that there were still idealists in the Ming Empire. He believed that as long as he, the emperor, always showed his determination to rule the world, he would still be able to conquer the world. There is a group of people who are loyal to the world or like-minded people who follow you to govern the world.
Now, the problem before Zhu Houzhao is how to prevent others from using tricks on his diet. His profession is the emperor, so naturally he cannot cook in person, and there are many people in the entire royal food supply chain who rely on this supply chain. Supporting your family cannot be canceled even if you want to, because that will deprive a large group of people of their means of livelihood.
But Zhu Houzhao had to prevent such a thing from happening again. He had to issue an order. From then on, Taichang Temple would set up food tasting officers, who would take turns to taste food in the morning, noon and evening every day in front of the emperor. There would also be male and female food tasting officers. He could not just Considering the safety of himself as the emperor, the safety of the concubines in the palace must also be considered. The news of Ye Zhi's execution by Lingchi soon spread throughout Beijing through major newspapers and periodicals, and even in major cities in the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, there was an intention to frame His Majesty the Emperor and make Him a coward. With the deliberate promotion of the Second Attendant, people were dumbfounded by this story. They even became more and more disgusted with the hypocrisy and shamelessness of the literati and officials, and they all denounced the selfishness of Ye Zhi and others.
So in the future, even if there are unfavorable rumors about His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, people will choose to doubt whether some shameless civil servants are deliberately throwing dirty water on His Majesty the Emperor.
The civil servant group's control over public opinion is getting weaker and weaker, and as the public intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty, in many cases, even if they say some useful arguments, they will be questioned.
Xia Yan did not have the energy to participate in the condemnation of Ye Zhi's behavior. He respected the emperor Zhu Houzhao very much, but he was not willing to be a minister who only knew how to sing praises for the emperor Zhu Houzhao. He had his own ideals.
He wanted the Ming Dynasty to rebuild the rule of Hong Yongxi and Xuan Xuan. He wanted the Ming Dynasty to look like the prosperous Kaiyuan Dynasty. His favorite poems were not the first-class literary poems such as "My clothes are wet with apricot blossom rain, and my face is not chilled by the willow wind", nor were they heroic and free-spirited poems. "One life is spent in mist and rain under the coop", but "recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, there are still thousands of families in this small town".
Xia Yan didn't know whether the poet's words could be taken seriously, but he felt that what Emperor Zhu Houzhao said at the Capital University was right. The strength of the empire should not be reflected in the coming of all nations to the court, but in the fact that the common people did not know the suffering of hunger and cold. There is no intrusive heart above.
But what Xia Yan consciously regretted was that he did not become a people-friendly official. Because of his science studies at the Capital University and his talents, he was appointed by Emperor Zhu Houzhao as the first head of the Ordnance Bureau.
But he did not slack off because of this, and he continued to pursue his own affairs while in his position, looking at the Franco machine guns and Franco machine warships captured from the Franco soldiers.
Xia Yan had to admit that if the Ming Dynasty's craftsmanship system had not been banned, if invention and creation had not been encouraged, and if His Majesty had not attached great importance to the craftsmanship, the Ming Dynasty's courtiers would have only wanted to turn the emperor into a sacrificial priest. Tian listened to the words of the puppets, and they only wanted to hold the Four Books and Five Classics in one hand and let the people farm and pay rent with peace of mind. Now the Ming Dynasty is afraid that it has fallen behind the Folangji people in terms of ordnance.
"Without His Majesty, the small naval battle of Tuen Mun might not be so easy to win, but Xia believes that our Chinese carnivores will not be so stubborn that they don't know how to learn from the barbarians to defeat them, but Xia is worried Yes, if there is no motivation for innovation within the Ming Dynasty, we will always learn from these barbarians. Maybe your and my generation will learn, but if we encounter troubled times, , when we encounter the end of foreign rule, will these Fanyi who are better than us in skills one day become better than us in knowledge? I think I need to take a look at the world of Western Fans! Missionaries from the Ming Dynasty came to us, but the Confucian scholars from the Ming Dynasty had never set foot on their land. Xia wanted to go to His Majesty Shu as an envoy to Fo Langji!”
Xia Yan wrote this in a letter to his classmate and friend Zhang Cong.
Without waiting for Zhang Cong's reply, Xia Yan sent Zhu Houzhao to Zhu Houzhao in the summer of the ninth year of Zhengde and asked for permission from the Emperor to send him as an envoy to Western countries.
Zhu Houzhao approved Xia Yan's memorial to visit the Western countries. In any case, the Ming literati of this era who are willing to go out and see more will always support it.
Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, knew that he was not as agile as his predecessors Ma Wensheng and Jiao Fang in reforming the government. However, he was deeply influenced by the new things in the Constitution and decided to do his best to establish a good government while he was the chief minister of the cabinet. A good relationship between the king and his ministers will lead to a truly upright government.
Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, approved the request and presided over the cabinet's first meeting on the construction of spiritual civilization. In the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Wenhua Palace, he severely criticized a group of treacherous ministers who had gone against His Majesty for the family's personal gain, and said:
"My colleagues, it is said that civil servants die for admonishment and military officials die for war. As civil servants, we can die for admonishment and death for righteousness, but we cannot die for selfish interests and death for disloyalty! Wang believes that the cabinet and ministries, as well as provinces and localities A Loyalty Society organization should be established to promote the idea of loyalty to the monarch and the country within all yamen, and to prevent colleagues from humiliating our scholars for their own selfish interests! ”
As Wang Hua spoke, he personally offered his hand to Xia Yan, the right minister of the Ministry of War, and said: "We in the Ming Dynasty have no shortage of ministers. Although there are people like Ye Zhi who are selfish and unfaithful, there are also ministers like Xia Shilang who do not hesitate to travel across the ocean for the sake of the world. Sir, no matter what, since we are courtiers, we should drive out the traitors and rectify the source!”
Wang Hua had a very high status among the scholars. When he did this, all his disciples and old officials started to carry out this kind of spiritual civilization construction activities. Xia Yan, who was personally worshiped by him as the chief minister, was coincidentally He was praised as the Zhang Qian of his time.
But in any case, Zhu Houzhao was very satisfied with this. In his opinion, Qingliu officials were not without merit. If they could all be as dedicated as Wang Hua to maintaining the imperial ruling order and correctly guiding the imperial thoughts, it would also benefit the country and the people. thing.
Of course, Zhu Houzhao also knew that if Wang Hua had not made the Wang family a bureaucratic capitalist aligned with the royal interests because of his son Wang Yangming's investment in the royal industry, he, Wang Hua, a noble man of high rank, would not have become so loyal to the imperial affairs.
Although, this time the Ming Empire began to understand the Western world in a proactive and confident manner.
But at this time, Alfonso, the commander of the fleet stationed in Malacca, did not welcome the Ming Empire's sudden initiative to send an envoy to his country, because he believed that the Ming Empire innocently captured Tuen Mun Island and even captured people. The behavior of Andela and others to forcefully demand and pay a huge amount of atonement for the crime of aggression is an act that is disrespectful to their own country, France.
After learning that the Ming Dynasty and Guangdong Navy occupied Tuen Mun Island and captured Andra and other Folangji fleets, the entire Folangji fleet stationed in Managa was completely shaken!
Alfonso immediately shouted to let Ming know how powerful he was, and immediately prepared to send troops to attack Ming.
However, while Alfonso was still preparing, the Ming Dynasty navy led by Fu Gui and Wang Hong had arrived at Batam Island, Managara. This time, the Ming Dynasty brought five main sail warships and twenty hard-core ships. With the addition of more than fifty sail warships and other auxiliary ships, it is considered a large fleet in the entire Southeast Asia.
And Alfonso obviously still didn't know much about the strength of the Ming fleet. At this time, he only had fifteen warships stationed in Malacca, and his total strength was no more than a thousand men.
Not only that, under Wang Hong's coercion and inducement, Yang San and other Han people who followed Andela and other Folangji people as interpreters had already informed him of the true situation of Malaka. Therefore, as soon as the Ming Dynasty fleet arrived in Batam, , Wang Hong led five main sail warships and galloped towards Alfonso's main fleet berth in Malacca.
While Alfonso was still standing on the side of the ship enjoying the quiet sea breeze, five large Ming sail warships had appeared at the end of the horizon.
(End of chapter)