It is the hottest season of the year, and Zhu Hao's day of entering the palace to give a lecture has been decided, and the time of Zhu Hao's day of entering the palace to give a lecture is set on the eighth day of June.
At this time, the Great Sutra Feast has stopped.
In the Ming Dynasty's Sutra Feast Day Lecture System, there were three meetings on the 2nd, 12th, and 22nd of each month. Originally, they were not held during the winter and summer seasons. This was also mentioned by Zhu Si when he proposed to the civil officials to select young people as lecturers. They could be held in the summer.
When it is not very hot, find someone to come into the palace to give daily lectures.
"Is this your speech?"
Yang Shen is responsible for reviewing the parts that Zhu Hao will talk about.
According to the rules, the scripture banquet must discuss the meaning of the Four Books and the articles of saints.
However, the content of the daily lectures was relatively broad, but it mainly focused on explaining the Confucian philosophy of governing the country. Most of the time it was a supplement to the meaning of the classics. It stands to reason that Zhu Hao should also talk about the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics, or some of his insights on Confucianism.
Now Yang Shen intends to let Zhu Hao talk about some "deviant" things and show the power of the little emperor. In this way, Zhu Hao will become the leader, whether it is the spear of the civil servants or, in Yang Shen's view, the power of the new emperor.
The guns will all be aimed at Zhu Hao, a bird that flies away upon orders.
Zhu Hao asked in surprise: "Compared with the previous lecture, a lot of things have been added. Is this still enough?"
This is the third edition of the lecture prepared by Zhu Hao.
"No."
Yang Shen was still not satisfied.
Zhu Hao thought to himself that this was more troublesome than preparing Zhu Si's lesson plan when he was in Prince Xing's Mansion.
Speaking of lecturing to the emperor, I have been teaching Zhu Houcong for six or seven years. What content have I not taught? Even people like Tang Yin and Sui Gongyan have no intention of teaching Zhu Si. In fact, I am the real emperor.
division!
I knew the emperor's preferences and made preparations for them. But luckily for you, I vetoed them all.
Yang Shen said: "I will give you a lecture later. You can think about it carefully when you go back and just follow the script."
One sentence made Zhu Hao feel a strong sense of "office politics".
As the supervisor of this daily lecture, Yang Shen seemed to be very open-minded. He repeatedly expressed his trust in Zhu Hao and asked him to prepare the lecture notes by himself. However, he read three drafts in a row and repeatedly rejected them. Now that the plan was so poor, he directly asked Zhu Hao to use the one compiled by Yang Shen.
That version of.
If I had known this, what else would I have prepared?
You told me from the beginning and asked me to listen to you, right?
Of course politics is not such a simple thing.
Yang Shen asked him to prepare three drafts, precisely to create the impression that "it is because your preparation was unsatisfactory that you adopted my draft." This made Zhu Hao feel frustrated and felt that he was incompetent.
to suppress Zhu Hao.
In terms of official positions, neither of them is higher than the other. Both are compiled by historians. However, when it comes to the post of official historian, because Yang Shen took the job earlier, from the perspective of seniority in the Hanlin Academy, they are both bachelors or equals.
Officials, as long as they take the first step, they will be ranked higher.
Yang Shen also took this opportunity to create a concept in front of Zhu Hao that I am better than you.
"good."
Zhu Hao had no objection.
You explain the case to me and I use it?
Think I'm stupid!
Anyway, they are all about deviant content. When the time comes, I will be pushed out to be the leader, so why should I listen to your orders? I will say whatever I want when the time comes!
If you have the ability, shoot at me. Who is afraid of whom?
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Zhu Si wanted to choose Zhu Hao to be an official that day, and it was also on a whim. On the one hand, he wanted to give Zhu Hao a small promotion as a reward; on the other hand, he was afraid of the inconvenience of leaving the palace in the future, so he wanted to have a place to discuss things with Zhu Hao.
A sudden idea to come up with a countermeasure.
But during the following period, he went out of the palace as usual, and no one in the court seemed to notice his going in and out of the palace, so they almost forgot that Zhu Hao was going to Japan.
When Zhu Hao said it in front of him, Zhu Hao slapped his forehead, shook his head and said: "Hey, if you don't tell me, I would have forgotten that there is such a thing... Okay, then you can say whatever you want. Anyway, you
You don’t have to teach me for a day or two, I just listen attentively.”
Zhu Si was competing in the palace recently
More boring.
He doesn't have any concubines yet. Most of the three palaces and six courtyards are from the previous two generations of emperors. Now they are all under the jurisdiction of Empress Dowager Zhang. Zhu Si is more like a guest living in the palace. If you say something unpleasant, some people want to harm him.
, he was unable to fight.
Zhu Si urgently needs more freedom, and the wedding will be a turning point in his life.
From then on, he could cultivate his relatives' influence openly and openly, and the palace would become his home. At that time, he would also accept concubines into the palace, and naturally he would no longer think about leaving the palace every day to have fun.
Tang Yin has no plans to return to Xishan recently.
Zhu Si reviewed a few memorials and then went to listen to the opera. Tang Yin stayed behind and accompanied Zhu Hao with Zhang Zuo to review the memorials. Tang Yin yawned early on.
"...The situation in the northwest has been turbulent recently. The three border areas have been under martial law. The summer grain production is almost exhausted. I am afraid that after autumn, the imperial court will allocate a lot of money and grain to the northwest."
Zhu Hao said: "I am afraid that the Tatars will suddenly launch an attack from the front line of Xuanda Piantou Pass and invade the outer pass."
"Why do you have this idea?"
Tang Yin frowned, "Could it be that you've calculated it again?"
"No, I have read reports from various places in the northwest. According to the past situation, the Tatars harassed the three sides and other places for the purpose of plundering. Due to the bad weather in the grassland in the past two years, coupled with the political turmoil, some small
It is difficult for tribes to survive. If a large and ambitious tribe wants to encroach on a small tribe and become bigger, it will inevitably need a large amount of food and supplies. If the grassland cannot provide it, it can only be robbed from the Ming Dynasty. In this case, there is no reason to let more people go.
The rich Xuanda and other places."
Zhu Hao made his own judgment.
Zhang Zuoyi was a little nervous when he heard this: "Does that mean that Xuanfu, Datong, Piantou Pass and other places will all be under martial law?"
Tang Yin said: "Now is the season for summer grain to be put into storage. I'm afraid there will be adverse effects if you do this. The grain is almost harvested, what can you grab now? Zhu Hao, you must not rush into this kind of decree."
Order, if it affects the grain harvest in Xuanda, it will be difficult for the people there to survive this winter."
Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Sir, don't even think about it. I've told you that Mr. Yang Ge and others want to use Huang Shangshu of the Southern Household Department as a target to clean up the military and political affairs in the northwest. Can't we follow suit?"
Do they mean to cause chaos in the Xuanfu?"
"this……"
Tang Yin was greatly surprised.
Could this also involve Yang Tinghe?
Zhu Haodao said: "The current predicament in the northwest is that after the grassland has experienced some turmoil in the past few years, a new pattern is taking shape. Several large tribes have joined forces and a new overlord is about to be born. They are eager to restore the previous control over the Ming border.
They raided and harassed the Ming Dynasty, plundered money, food and supplies, and grew stronger. If the Tatars really invaded the Ming Dynasty on a large scale from the front line of Xuanda, they would suffer big losses if they were unprepared."
It has been about four years since Dayan Khan passed away.
During this period, the grassland pattern has indeed undergone great changes.
Wire reports say that the grassland has suffered serious disasters in the past two years. When the tribes are struggling to survive, they naturally think of how to make a fortune from the Ming Dynasty. Especially when the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty has just ascended the throne, the little emperor still passed through the branch, which is not orthodox.
in the case of.
From a general perspective, when the Ming Dynasty changed from the old to the new, it was mostly more conservative than aggressive.
If the Tatars invaded, the Ming Dynasty would inevitably go on the defensive.
Even if the little emperor had the tendency to fight back with force, the military expansion of the former "Wuzong" made the civil servants in the DPRK and China complain a lot, and there would inevitably be mass opposition. As a result, the little emperor could not do anything.
Would the prairie people easily let go of such a good opportunity?
"You...oh!"
Tang Yin didn't want to answer such a profound question. He didn't know much about military affairs and didn't want to express his opinions rashly.
"Okay, let's not discuss this matter for now. Let His Majesty raise it in the court and see the opinions of the senior cabinet ministers. It is always good to be vigilant. The Tatars are not the only one. As long as the scale is a little larger,
The tribes want to bite off a piece of meat from the Ming Dynasty. Don’t wait until they arrive at the city to discover the danger! It’s time to show your Majesty’s ability to rule outside the country!”
Previously, Zhu Hao portrayed Zhu Si as a man who could raise money and food by himself.
, the image of Emperor Wen who knew frugality and valued filial piety and etiquette very much.
Because of the late emperor's "excellent" performance in martial arts, civilian officials were extremely repulsive to the emperor's militarism. Zhu Hao had no intention of making Zhu Si a majestic, powerful and military emperor.
But if the emperor is indifferent to military affairs, it will appear that the young emperor is lacking in some aspects of ability, and it is time for Zhu Si to take this step.
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cabinet.
Jiang Mian handed Yang Tinghe a copy of the inscription from Nanhubu.
Yang Tinghe frowned after reading it.
Jiang Mian concluded: "...His Majesty previously sold off the Xishan coal mines in exchange for money to alleviate the financial gap in the southeastern coastal defense. However, as the transaction was suspended, all the money was returned to the merchants."
"Since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Revenue has successively allocated taxes, treasury silver, and grain levied from various places to the southeast. The total value is less than 70,000 taels. But now Nanhu has reported that more than 200,000 taels have been allocated to the local area.
Thirty thousand taels have been allocated to all coastal defense stations..."
Yang Tinghe had a headache after hearing this.
The little emperor's ability to raise money and food was incredible.
Everyone thought that the little emperor had no other choice, so he put the newly opened coal mine in Xishan up for auction. Then the little emperor made peace with Yang Tinghe, and there was no movement at the Xishan coal mine. Even if the coal mine remained open, the emperor sent someone to manage it.
, continue production, but where did the money, food, weapons, etc. worth 160,000 taels of silver come from to fill the gap?
"What's the news from Anluzhou?"
Yang Tinghe asked.
The only thing he can think of now is that Prince Xing's Mansion has some wealth. For example, when Zhu Youqi lived in Anlu, he thought about making his son the emperor and accumulated a lot of wealth. Or maybe Prince Xing's Mansion is very good at managing business?
Jiang Mian shook his head, expressing his complete ignorance.
This is no longer eighty thousand taels of silver, but one hundred and sixty thousand taels.
In addition to the previous gap in the northwest border defense, the new emperor has raised more than 400,000 taels of money and food on his own since he ascended the throne.
"It has recently been reported that the land on the three sides has been repeatedly attacked. The local government requested the imperial court to allocate money and food again. His Majesty once summoned Sun Zhitong from the Ministry of Household Affairs to the Palace of Qianqing to inquire about the reform of the salt tax. He proposed to increase the land for commercial settlements in the northwest. This person
Your Majesty, you seem to be very good at managing money and food."
As Zhu Hao worked hard to design, even senior Confucian officials like Jiang Mian now feel that the little emperor is a genius in allocating money and food, let alone other things.
Yang Tinghe replied coldly: "Let's talk about it later."