Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 895, the collapsed Zhu Houzhao

After chatting with Emperor Hongzhi for a long time in the Yangsheng Hall, Emperor Hongzhi's mood improved a lot, and then Liu Jin went to the Shang's study room to see Zhu Houzhao, who was reviewing memorials.

"Sigh~"

In the Shang's study room, Zhu Houzhao kept scratching his head and touching his ears while looking at the long memorials, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"What's the matter, you have to write a separate memorial on this dog food day?"

Zhu Houzhao threw a memorial directly on the ground, extremely dissatisfied.

This is purely a waste of my youth and time. Things like the Tiangou eclipse occur every year. It is a very common astronomical phenomenon, but the local officials are like the feet of a dead woman, capitalized, close-up, and related to heaven, earth and people. God and the like report up.

Zhu Houzhao himself was extremely impatient with reading the memorial, and he still read this kind of memorial, and it is conceivable that Zhu Houzhao's heart collapsed.

Then, looking at the memorials piled up next to him, Zhu Houzhao climbed onto the desk in despair.

What is the life of a human being!

Zhu Houzhao is in pain here, but Liu Jin, who has been following Zhu Houzhao, is full of energy. It seems that it is finally his turn to stand up.

I saw him rushing to pick up Zhu Houzhao's memorials that had been thrown on the ground, stacking them carefully, and waiting patiently beside him.

Well, now is not the time to cock the tail, the head of the eunuchs in the palace is still Xiao Jing, and he just temporarily followed Zhu Houzhao to enjoy a little taste of the palm seal of the chief of ceremonies.

"Your Highness, Liu Jin, Minister of the Household Department, is seeking to see you."

Soon, Liu Jin, who received the news from Xiaohuangmen, came to Zhu Houzhao's side and said.

"Old Liu is here?"

"Quick announcement."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately regained his energy and shouted immediately.

Soon, Liu Jin walked in with a smile on his face.

"Old Liu, you came just in time."

"I originally wanted to find time to have a good chat with you, but my father asked me to deal with these important national affairs, and I haven't been able to find time."

Seeing Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao said immediately.

"If your Highness wants anything, just let someone pass it on to the minister."

Liu Jin replied respectfully, well, formal occasions should not be casual or sloppy.

"It's my father's business."

"Can this intestinal carbuncle be cured?"

"How sure are you?"

Zhu Houzhao thought about it and asked Liu Jin very seriously.

"Returning to Your Highness, intestinal carbuncle can definitely be cured. After surgery to remove the necrotic intestinal carbuncle, the body will naturally recover."

"As for the success rate, it is only about half at present, but I have already ordered people to set up a royal medical team, and even ordered famous doctors from Daming to come to the capital. At the same time, I also ordered to conduct a large number of experiments on intestinal abscess surgery."

"I believe this success rate can be improved soon."

Liu Jin thought about it and replied.

"Well, father's operation must be successful, and there must be no accidents."

Zhu Houzhao nodded in satisfaction. He is still very relieved when Lao Liu is doing things.

"Your Highness, I have already discussed this matter with the Royal Medical Corps in detail. Soon, the Royal Medical Corps will also enter the palace to report their treatment plan to His Majesty and Your Highness."

"According to the plan, they will need about three months to prepare for this operation, and also to study the medicine. During these three months, His Majesty's body needs to be recuperated."

"Your Majesty's health is really bad. Long-term poor appetite, poor absorption, eating less, and improving every day, the body is weak, which is very unfavorable for the success of the operation."

"Rehabilitation must be carried out. Let His Majesty increase his food intake and eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains. After the body is recuperated, it will be more conducive to the success of the operation."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin began to report to Zhu Houzhao the plan made by the royal medical team in detail. Liu Jin had also reported this plan to Emperor Hongzhi in detail. Emperor Hongzhi affirmed it and expressed that he would actively cooperate with the treatment.

"Old Liu, I can rest assured that you do things."

"Please also cure your father's illness. Don't you know that governing the country is really not something that humans do."

"If I see these memorials around me, I'm going crazy."

After talking about Emperor Hongzhi's business, Zhu Houzhao also began to complain to Liu Jin.

"Your Highness, this is just the beginning~"

Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao's appearance, smiled and said.

"Yeah, so thinking that I will have to read these memorials every day in the future, my head is getting big."

"Father is really not easy. I have been reading these memorials for more than ten years, and I am very tired every day."

Zhu Houzhao nodded. When he really started to handle the government affairs for Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao realized that being an emperor was really tiring and difficult. There were too many things to deal with every day.

"Old Liu, look at these memorials, many things are trivial things, but they just happened to come to the father."

"This is to report on Tiangou's eclipse, and it's a lot of talk."

"There are also these memorabilia, each of which is very long, very long, and each of them is showing me literary talents, or something, long and smelly, but they don't mention any serious business."

Zhu Houzhao took out a book of memorials and motioned Liu Jin to read it, but he seemed extremely helpless.

"These ministers are all wasting the emperor's youth and time."

"I still like the memorials written by these generals in the army. They are simple and direct, without any unnecessary nonsense. They write things clearly and then propose solutions. Such a simple matter must be so long-winded."

Liu Jin picked up the memorial and looked at it carefully.

As Zhu Houzhao said, the writing style is very good, each word is also very beautifully written, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the quotations are quoted, but all of them are nonsense and have no effect, and the real things are very small and very few.

No wonder Zhu Houzhao went crazy. There are a lot of memorabilia in itself, but these memorabilia are just a waste of time.

"It's no wonder that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty didn't like going to court, and it's no wonder that part of the power to review memorials was delegated to eunuchs, that is, people like Zhu Yuanzhang and Emperor Hongzhi could review these memorials for decades. Can't take it."

After reading it, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh.

Being an emperor is not something that ordinary people can do. Just reading the memorandum is exhausting enough. Many things are trivial, but it is a waste of time and energy to write a big one.

There are also some ministers who like to write memorials to the emperor when they have nothing to do, so as to show their presence. On the one hand, it deepens the emperor's impression of themselves, and on the other hand, it shows that they are working hard and loyal to the emperor's order.

But it brought enormous pressure to the emperor's work and seriously increased the emperor's workload. It's okay for the diligent emperor, but for the lazy emperor, he just quit.

Whatever you love, nothing will happen anyway.

There are not one or two emperors of the Ming Dynasty who do not fall in love with the court. Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli, etc. are all well-known. They have not been in court for decades, and nothing happened in the Ming Dynasty.

The same is true for reviewing memorials. Some emperors don’t criticize memorials at all, like Zhu Houzhao. After he became emperor, he didn’t criticize memorials. He would go to see only a few important military and state affairs in person, and let the eunuchs around him criticize. up.

Regarding this point, it still has a lot to do with the system of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor cannot be said to be lazy.

This morning, I have to get up three or four years in the morning. Summer is better. In winter, it is very cold here in Beijing. Who can stand it?
Liu Jin went to morning court for a while and couldn't bear it all. This holiday is not a day wasted. Morning court, early court, it is too early.

"Your Highness, in fact, the cabinet can sort out these memorials in advance and divide them into priorities. This small matter can be handled by the cabinet ministers."

"His Royal Highness handles state affairs on behalf of His Majesty. What needs to be grasped is the construction of the national system, the construction of laws, and the control of the country's future development direction. In terms of specific matters, it is better to leave it to the people below."

Liu Jin thought about it and said.

"Yes, yes, Lao Liu, you are really my bosom friend, and I mean the same thing."

"Things like this kind of dog eating the sun shouldn't come to me at all. If it's the best, it should go to the cabinet and there should be an approval."

"As for the attack by the Kazakh Khanate in the Hezhong area, this is a real military matter. It should be reported in time and dealt with as soon as possible."

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he nodded again and again, picked up the two memorials and said the same thing.

"The Kazakh Khanate attacked the middle of the river?"

"Are we suffering a lot of casualties?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin immediately asked with concern.

"Look for yourself, the casualties are not very large, it should be the provocation of the Kazakh Khanate to our Ming Dynasty after seeing that we have withdrawn some of our troops."

Zhu Houzhao put the memorial aside and motioned Liu Jin to read it.

"How does Your Highness plan to deal with this matter?"

Liu Jin read it carefully. This memorial was written by Yang Yun, the commander-in-chief of the Western Regions and the Hezhong region. The Kazakh Khanate saw a large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty entering the Hezhong region. Some of them were transferred to the north of the Altai Mountains to deal with the remnants of the Oirats, so they also took the opportunity to provoke Daming and test Daming's reaction.

"Of course it is an eye for an eye and blood for blood. They Kazakh Khanate dare to provoke me, Ming. Naturally, if I respond strongly, otherwise, won't the countries and tribes in Central Asia think that I am weak and bully?"

Regarding military matters, Zhu Houzhao is very passionate, and he said directly and decisively: "I have ordered to transfer [-] newly trained cavalry from the northern grassland to the Hezhong area. This time, I will kill it. Let the blood flow into rivers, so that all countries in Central Asia know how powerful I am."

(End of this chapter)