Chapter 89 Learning for Fun

"I invite you today to discuss the candidates of the admiral of the Beijing camp. What do you think?" Zhu Houzhao came to Wenhua Pavilion and sat on the dragon chair. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, three cabinet scholars, were in His Royal Highness.

"Your Majesty, we have prepared a memorial." Liu Jian handed over the memorial.

"Yang Yiqing?" Zhu Houzhao asked with a fold and frown.

"Exactly, this humanistic martial arts strategy - as a scholar during the Chenghua period, and successively served as the governor of Shaanxi, governor Ma Zheng, and has a lot of experience in governing the army." The cabinet is also making its own calculations. Yang Yiqing's political achievements are quite good. If he is transferred back to the central government's first-level officials, I'm afraid that he will be promoted quickly, and entering the cabinet will be a matter of sooner or later.

"How can you kill a chicken with a cow knife? Since Yang Yiqing is so outstanding, he is not suitable for this position." Zhu Houzhao refused.

The cabinet has been set up - this talent is neither high nor low! Several people's choices were proposed, and Zhu Houzhao rejected them one by one.

"Your Majesty, what do you think?" Xie Qian is a little impatient. As soon as he exits, he is impatient to make the talkative officials retreat!

"I don't know what do you think of Zhang Yong?" Zhu Houzhao smiled and showed his true intention.

"Zhang Yong?" The three of them were really surprised.

"Yes, it's my servant, Zhang Yong."

"Isn't he a eunuch?" Xie Qian asked.

"Yes, that's right." Zhu Houzhao still smiled. He seemed to have expected that the three would react like this.

"Your Majesty, this is a must." Liu Jiandao, who is quick-tempered.

"Why not?" Zhu Hou asked.

"Since Emperor Taizu, internal ministers have not been allowed to engage in politics, let alone the military affairs of the admiral." Li Dongyang said slowly. In fact, this is not right. Wang Zhen, the eunuch of Yingzong, has already taken control of the government.

"What does that matter? I'm the emperor, and I can use whoever I want. Zhu Houzhao began to play childish temper. He naively thought that the emperor could decide everything, but this was the Ming Dynasty. The cabinet was not a virtual institution, and these three cabinet members also experienced a lot of ups and downs of officialdom. The three of them looked at each other.

"Your Majesty, let us go back and discuss with the ministers, and then give you a reply." Liu Jian sold a barrier.

"Okay, I'll wait for your reply." Zhu Houzhao was very happy and said with a smile.

From this moment on, Zhu Houzhao decided to use his wisdom to single-handedly challenge the ministers and unite the eunuchs to fight with them!

"Master, your proposal has been rejected by the cabinet." Liu Jin came to report.

"What? Do they dare to resist the order? Zhu Houzhao jumped up.

"Master, they used the cabinet's right to refute."

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment. The right to refute is the unique right of the cabinet to return the emperor's order, which must be agreed by all the members of the cabinet. Generally, it is not useful. It seems that these old men really regard themselves as children.

"Master, Master..." Liu Jin shouted.

"It's okay." Zhu Houzhao's eyes were straight and he sat in the chair in a daze.

It seems that things are not as simple as Zhu Hou said, and the emperor is not supreme, nor does he do whatever he wants. These ministers did not entangled with themselves at all and pushed themselves back at once. The first confrontation ended with Zhu Houzhao's failure. This incident left a deep impression on Zhu Houzhao's heart. These civil servants are really not so easy to deal with!

Some people don't want to be emperors, but some people deliberately become emperors, and end up trap themselves!

Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, was summoned to the palace when Emperor Hongzhi was still awake, saying that the emperor missed the princes in the distance and wanted them to accompany him on his deathbed. King Ning stayed for a month, and the emperor had died for half a month. Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, but no one mentioned that he should return to Nanchang!

Hongzhi's move is really amazing - you'd better not have the idea of rebellion! It's magnificent to let you come to the palace to eat and live for nothing! If you have the opposite of rebellion, then this is like house arrest. When Zhu Houzhao sits firmly, where do you like to go back? Zhu Houzhao, a mixed demon king who does not want to be an emperor and pursues freedom of personality and enjoys life, is tied to the dragon chair like a needle and needle.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, such an absurd son of heaven must have a sackman! And the eunuchs who spoke in their ears, with the fertile suddenness of the faint king, it is difficult not to grow into a traitor!

Liu Jin, a native of Xingping, Shaanxi Province. My surname is Tan. At the age of six, he was adopted by the eunuch Liu Shun, and then went to the palace as a eunuch, so he pretended to be Liu and served the crown prince Zhu Houzhao, who later became the Ming Wuzong. He knows how to cherish this rare opportunity to serve Prince Zhu Houzhao, because he knows that the eunuch who serves day and night after the prince ascends the throne in the future is a meritorious minister, and power and wealth are at his fingertips. Therefore, Liu Jin tried her best to please the prince and serve the prince who was only ten years old at that time.

He is good at observing words and colors, adapts to changes, and is deeply trusted. After the prince succeeded to the throne, he was promoted several times and climbed to the throne of the eunuch. Once the power is in hand, it will lure Wuzong to indulge in luxury**. Yizhong took the opportunity to specialize in government. At that time, people called him the emperor and Wuzong as the emperor. He trapped dissidents, and most of the upright officials in the court were persecuted by him. Liu Yu, Jiao Fang and other villains rushed to their doors and became their party members.

The concentration of power stimulated his greed. He took advantage of his power and embezzled. He advised Wuzong to order all the provinces to lose all the money and embezzle a large amount of silver from it. He openly took bribes and engaged in money and rights transactions. Officials from all over the country made a pilgrimage to Beijing and had to pay bribes to him, which was called a "meeting gift", moving to a thousand taels of silver, some as high as 5,000 taels. Some people have to lend to the rich people in Beijing in order to pay bribes, which is called "Beijing debt". All officials who are promoted to office and return to Beijing to report on their duties have to give him gifts. In addition, he also sent his cronies to serve in the local area to accumulate wealth for them. Liu Jin "wived Han Fu, a servant, to wreak havoc on the lake and give more than 100,000 taels of silver." Those who are good at bribery are often well-fed, such as the governor Liu Yu, who has bribed tens of thousands of silver taels, and his official position has also risen to the Ministry of Officials.

Wang Shouren, the head of the six-grade military department, became a fish watching the fire across the shore. Although he was extremely indignant at what Liu Jin had done, he could only gather several friends and scolded him. During this period, he formed an alliance with some young and successful officials such as Li Mengyang and He Jingming to support each other and serve the country! From them, Wang Shouren saw the iron bones of the literati of the Ming Dynasty, the integrity and the hope of the Ming Dynasty!

Wang Shouren's sacred learning was also well-reveted in the National Prison. One day, in the mixed noise of applause and scolding, someone whispered, "Stop it, look who is sitting behind..."

Everyone looked at it, and the noise stopped abruptly. The three were Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and Liu Jian, the three swordsmen in today's cabinet.

Li Dongyang said, "Yang Mingzi, come with me. I have a more important job for you to do!" Liu Jian pulled La Xieqian's sleeve and asked, "This Yang Mingzi's sacred science is a little extreme. According to him, if you want to die, can you die? Is it okay for him to come to the Pope to learn?"

Xie Qian smiled and said, "It's a good way to fight poison with poison!"

Wang Shouren came to the Wenhua Hall with the three. Li Dongyang said, "If you can teach the emperor, you can teach the world!" So Wang Shouren became the teacher of this inferior student. This student's truancy history is rare:

In February of the first year of Zhengde, the first scriptures were held after Zhu Houzhao became emperor. Li Dongyang and Xie Qian taught the first chapter of "University" and the first chapter of Shangshu Yaodian respectively. But Zhu Houzhao has already prepared many tricks to delay.

In March, Liu Jian handed over such a letter, saying that the scriptures would be held on February 2 this year. "Since the beginning of the lecture, the decree has been temporarily waived from time to time". According to statistics, "the number of lectures has only been nine days" in more than a month. Presumably, he was tortured too much by Zhu Houzhao. Lao Shoufu couldn't help speaking more seriously. He quoted Mencius's sentence "One day is violent, ten days are cold" as a criticism of Zhu Houzhao's conduct; then he focused on several excuses that Zhu Houzhao used to avoid reading, such as "the two palaces to worship" And "choose a day to ride a horse" - Liu Jian pointed out that "it seems that riding a horse and other things are not as good as lectures". Why can't you learn by riding a horse? As for "Gong's greetings" and "the exchange is only in an instant", it can't be said that it will affect learning, and "I'm afraid that it's comforting the kindness and respect for a day's study by asking for a day's greetings in a moment." These words are not only refuted, but also vaguely expose Zhengde's lies and blame him for living up to his parents' expectations, which is quite ruthless.

Zhu Houzhao was unmoved and still went his own way. In May, on the pretext of "hot weather", he simply suspended the "one day, ten days of cold" learning, and issued a decree "to hear it until August". When it came to August, but caught up with the big wedding, it had to be postponed again until September 3rd. However, in October, we learned from Li Dongyang's memorial: "Recently, we have been ordered to stop the exemption day, and we will hear about it until February next year." According to the calculation, from May under the pretext of hot weather to the resumption of September, a total of 11 or 12 days has been mentioned, and now it has been decreed to stop speaking, and it will not be mentioned until February next year. That is to say, Zhu Houzhao's studies have been abandoned for almost a whole year. Li Dongyang advised in hiszou zhang: "The winter solstice is still far away, and it's not very cold. It seems too early to stop reading... But the result is "not accepted". In March, Li Dongyang said, "It's better to talk about it on the day by decree, and it's still the same day." No reply was found. This is also the last time we have seen the auxiliary minister urge and begging Zhu Houzhao to study and read. The two sides continued a tug-of-war between persuasion and anti-admonsuasion, which ended with Zhu Houzhao's victory.

Wang Shouren solemnly took over Li Dongyang's teaching stick and had to follow the Tongmeng education in his teaching theory: "Today, teaching children will make them tend to be encouraged, and the center will be happy, then they will not be able to make progress; for example, when the rain and spring breeze, stained by Huimu, they will sprout more and naturally grow, and gradually become longer." To implement, because this student's play is more than a three-year-old child, so stimulating his interest in learning is at the forefront.

Wang Shouren did not open the four books and five scriptures, but took the emperor to the Buddhist temple as an exception. He pointed to the two classes of monks specially invited and asked, "Your Majesty, on the left is the northern monks chanting scriptures, and on the right is the southern monks chanting scriptures. Which class of monks do you like to recite scriptures?"

Zhu Houzhao thought: This gentleman is interesting! So I toured back and again very cooperatively and said, "The chanting of the scriptures on the left is boring and makes people drowsy. The monk on the right is like singing, which makes me feel peaceful. Of course, I like the monk on the scriptures on the right!"

Wang Shouren nodded: "Well, they are the same pious, but they behave in different ways. Reading scriptures can be interesting, and so can reading. As long as the emperor studies from his humble position, he will definitely be able to enjoy learning!"