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Chapter 153 Li Dongyang’s example! Zhu Houzhao: I am not Liu Chan! I am the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the sun never sets
"Your Majesty, this is the charter for this Enko."

The next afternoon, Lin Han appeared in front of Zhu Houzhao.

He did not rashly take out Li Dongyang's recommendation letter. Instead, he first did what Zhu Houzhao told him and then asked to see Zhu Houzhao in the name of a work report. He was accompanied by Liu Jin, the Minister of Rites.

"Oh, are you so fast?"

Zhu Houzhao was a little surprised. He took a deep look at Lin Han and Liu Jin, took the Enke charter and started reading quickly.

"Your Majesty, after you explained the matter yesterday, Mr. Lin and his ministers have already started working on it. Mr. Lin even revised the charter overnight. After it was almost perfect, we also solicited the opinions of the Hanlin Academy and various departments before we dared to change the charter. To Your Majesty."

"In addition, our Jinling Gongyuan has not held a national enke for a long time."

"We also sent people to organize an inspection of Gongyuan and roughly counted the number of students this year."

"As long as His Majesty gives the order, this year's Enko can start preparations immediately."

Liu Jin was afraid that his credit would also be robbed, so he quickly took the opportunity to report his efforts.

"I also counted the vacancies filled in various ministries this year. There are about 123 vacancies filled. Among them, there are 19 vacancies for ministers and ministers, 66 vacancies for envoys, envoys and supervisors, and seven provinces for prefects. , The county magistrate is short of twenty-three people..."

Lin Han naturally did not fight an unprepared battle. He knew that the reason why Zhu Houzhao initiated the imperial examination was to promote his own people.

Therefore, he also thoughtfully came up with a more convincing set of figures.

Haha, it is still right to spend a thousand gold to buy bones.

Zhu Houzhao was very satisfied with the two people's proactive and hard-working attitude.

Who says Ming officials can't get things done? Aren't these people very good at figuring out my wishes?

Zhu Houzhao was very satisfied and did not show it. Instead, he quickly read the regulations of the imperial examination and frowned: "As for the martial arts examination, I see that your martial arts examination... is written very vaguely, and you can't even learn from the Tang and Song Dynasties." ?"

From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to Tianshun eight years ago, although the military examination system was established, it was in name only.

There are several main reasons. First, Zhu Yuanzhang committed the Blue Jade Case and killed heroes in his later years. He was worried that the military would be self-reliant and would pose a huge threat to the rule of the Ming Dynasty... Therefore, although there were military exercises, they were basically not taken seriously.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang decided on several upward passages for generals. One is the military household system. His father is a soldier and he has been a soldier for generations. The second is the feudal king's guard system. The feudal king has his own army and can recruit troops. The third is the guard station system, which is for ordinary defense. This is basically absorbed from military households.

Anyway, under this Ming garrison system, the recruitment of soldiers and generals of the Ming Dynasty also formed its own system.

Naturally, the martial arts competitions were in vain.

This resulted in the emperor having no choice but to be the general and commander-in-chief himself, and forcibly made Zhu Di the general of Zhu Gaochi's expedition to the north.

After Zhu Di himself rebelled and came to power, so many Jingnan military generals could not be arranged, so he would not pay attention to martial arts.

Until - Baozong destroyed the elites of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and the civilian officials were completely in power. How could it be possible to expect the civilian officials to strengthen the generals' power!

After the restoration of the Baozong, perhaps they felt that the power of the civil servants was too great, and they also wanted to try to get back what they had lost.

Therefore, in the eighth year of Tianshun, the first law related to the martial arts system of the Ming Dynasty - the "Martial Arts Law" was promulgated.

Unfortunately, there are too many sins.

As soon as he had the starting move, he was seen through or something, and he died.

This was an advantage to Xianzong, who promoted a group of civil servants who could fight through the martial arts law, and made the Ming Dynasty's military ethics somewhat stronger again.

Unfortunately, during the period of Zhu Houzhao's father, military affairs... declined again. Instead, the situation became more and more dominated by civilians. Civilians had already inserted their hands into the military system.

The second reason is that civil servants look down on each other, so why would civilian officials care about martial arts exams?
Zhu Houzhao wants to do martial arts, so naturally Lin Han and others are not following this line of thinking and continue to use culture to control martial ethics!

But I want to find a few real warriors!

See if you can find Napoleon.

"Your Majesty, do you want to learn from the martial arts of the Tang and Song Dynasties?" Lin Han was stunned, but he didn't expect that he hadn't figured out the holy meaning yet.

"Yes! Your rule... Only children can participate in martial arts. Do you think... you can really recruit the generals I want?"

"Also... the scope of participation, why only military households are required to participate? This time I am facing everyone. Especially the nine-border border army, coastal guards, and... merchants, farmers, etc. , everyone can sign up!”

Zhu Houzhao directly stated his tendency to recruit people. He did not want to recruit some scholars who knew nothing about it.

Lin Han and Liu Jin were silent. They couldn't help but glance at Zhu Houzhao again, and a thought emerged in their hearts. Is this really okay? It’s not too radical!
"Also, there are some problems in the literary examination. The Four Books and Five Classics can be tested, but I think that Sun Tzu's Art of War, Zhuge Wuhou's "Twenty-four Chapters on the Art of War", etc. can also be included, and the Four Books and Five Classics can be appropriately reduced. "

Zhu Houzhao didn't care. Since he wanted to recruit talents, he had to recruit enough people with strong martial arts at once.

Lin Han's ideas were not radical enough, and he ran into problems one by one.

"How about it?"

"Can it be changed?"

Zhu Houzhao talked for a long time and paused slightly when he saw the difference in the expressions of the two people.

"Yes, it can be changed!"

"I respectfully obey your Majesty's instructions."

Both of them had taken this step, and there was no way out, so they had no choice but to agree.

"Also, Lin Han, it's not fair to just list civilian officials to fill the vacancies. You should also seek the opinion of the Ministry of War to see how many vacancies there are." Zhu Houzhao pointed out Lin Han's problem directly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will revise it."

After Zhu Houzhao raised so many questions, Lin Han gave up the idea of ​​writing a letter of recommendation to Li Dongyang. After completing the preparation, he would put the icing on the cake to make Zhu Houzhao satisfied.

"Okay, let's go down. You guys have done a good job. I see your efforts."

Seeing the two people's obedient attitude, Zhu Houzhao changed his tone of encouragement.

"My lord, please retire."

The two were preparing to leave.

"By the way, Lin Han, you stay, I still have something to ask you for."

However, at this time, Lin Han was stopped by Zhu Houzhao.

Lin Han's eyelids couldn't help but twitch wildly, and a thought came to him: Has the scandal happened?
He wanted to see Zhu Houzhao's expression, but found that Zhu Houzhao didn't know what he was looking at. He seemed to be lowering his head and waiting for irrelevant people to leave.

Lin Han felt even more uneasy, and already regretted that he could not do his job well.

But there is no other way. At this point, if His Majesty really knew that he was out of the city to find Li Dongyang, he would have no choice but to take the risk and come up with a letter of recommendation.

The imperial study fell into a very brief silence.

This silence made Lin Han wonder how much more psychological activities and pressure he had.

He could only sigh that His Majesty's imperial mind was becoming more and more sophisticated.

"Teacher, he should be fine, right?"

I don’t know how long it took, but Zhu Houzhao finally broke the silence.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Lin Han knew that the luck in his heart was just a fluke. "Mr. Ge, he is fine. He is in good mental and physical condition."

Lin Han was relieved and immediately answered respectfully.

"Whenever he comes to Jinling, I can go and greet him."

Nothing could be seen on Zhu Houzhao's expression. Lin Han didn't know how to interpret this sentence. Is it full of hostility or sincere welcome?

"Mr. Ge is going to visit an old friend in Xuzhou. At this time today, Mr. Ge may have already arrived in Xuzhou. I sent him off in the morning."

Unable to guess Zhu Houzhao's thoughts, Lin Han could only answer truthfully.

"Huh? He goes to Xuzhou?"

There was surprise on Zhu Houzhao's face, and he subconsciously said: "I am also planning to let the teacher join our preparation pavilion. Why is he going to Xuzhou?"

"Ah? Your Majesty wants Mr. Li Ge to join the cabinet?"

Lin Han was a little stunned. Looking carefully at Zhu Houzhao's expression, it didn't seem like he was faking it.

This...he felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, and then he couldn't help but express his gratitude. It seemed that His Majesty had already had a round of fighting with Mr. Li Ge from a distance.

If the emperor really brings Li Dongyang into the cabinet here, then the cabinet in the north will become even more unjust.

Even if the news spreads back to the north, Liu Jian and others may be suspected of being betrayed. This will be a heavy political blow to the north.

Although Li Dongyang may not tolerate it, he can't stand the gossip.

In the end, I even had to resign.

My rank, no, my standing is not high enough!
No wonder Li Ge was always the elder. He had obviously realized that the emperor might resort to this trick to ruin his reputation, so he acted decisively and wisely to protect himself, not to advance but to retreat.

"Um...No, I just said it casually."

Zhu Houzhao came back to his senses and returned to the topic again: "Teacher, is he really just going to Xuzhou to visit friends?"

"Your Majesty, before leaving, you gave me a letter and asked me to show it to your Majesty."

He could no longer think about it, and Lin Han didn't dare to ask any more questions. He honestly took out the autographed letter from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Houzhao respectfully.

He hadn't read the letter and didn't dare to read it.

"Oh, it's interesting. I want to see what the teacher wrote for me."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait to take the letter, and sure enough he saw Li Dongyang's handwriting on the envelope, and there was also handwriting on the adhesive joint. It was obvious that the letter had not been read by anyone else.

He opened it immediately and started looking at it.

When he saw it, his expression became a little exciting, and Lin Han became nervous, and his palms and back started to sweat at some point.

Because Zhu Houzhao looked at him while looking at him.

Obviously, Li Dongyang's letter still mentioned him.

Zhu Hou looked after the letter for a short time, but when he put the letter down with a sigh, Lin Han felt as if three autumns had passed.

"Haha, Lin Han, for the sake of the teacher, I can promise you to join the cabinet, but if you join the cabinet..."

Zhu Houzhao smiled before speaking, and he only spoke half a sentence.

"I will always follow His Majesty's lead and serve His Majesty wholeheartedly to complete this encore!"

Of course Lin Han had this awareness and immediately knelt down and swore allegiance.

"Do you know what the teacher said about you here?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and asked again.

"I don't know. Mr. Ge must have his own reasons for his views." Lin Han said quickly.

"Okay, you can go down. Things should be done more beautifully. I also hope that our cabinet will be formed as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

Lin Han took the reassurance and couldn't help but look at the letter in Zhu Houzhao's hand before leaving, and also guessed what Li Dongyang said in it and how he said it.

But he is destined not to know, maybe it is a handle, maybe...

"Interesting, interesting! When necessary, teacher can help me stabilize the northern cabinet..."

"Wang Shouren was even mentioned, haha..."

After Lin Han left, Zhu Houzhao took another look at Li Dongyang's letter, with an interesting smile on his face.

Li Dongyang's letter is very long, but it boils down to four things.

The first is to praise Zhu Houzhao for his recent political methods. Although he is immature, he is full of royal principles. With a little experience, he will definitely catch up with some heroes, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Zhu Di, etc.

The second is to tactfully advise, saying that he wants to be Emperor Taizong and some of the methods of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but also pay attention to the fire, balance the forces of all parties, learn the lessons of Yingzong, and avoid following in the footsteps of Yingzong and making the Ming Dynasty miserable. Let him continue to study more, think more, take a slightly smaller step, listen more to other people's opinions, and test the experts behind him around the corner.

The third is to recommend some talents as a matter of course. Lin Han was among them, and there were also some truly talented people in Jinling official circles who casually mentioned that Wang Shouren could be of great use.

The last thing is the key point. The key point is to discuss with him the composition, goals, and purposes of his cabinet. He even considered the possibility of a real division between the North and the South, what role he could play in this, and even taught some checks and balances. The methods of the cabinet, as well as the risks of his cabinet, are full of complexities and temptations.

"This letter is no less than Zhuge Liang's instructions to Liu Chan."

"Teacher, are you really worried about me?"

After reading it, Zhu Houzhao felt a little warm in his heart, because it was the first time that he knew Li Dongyang's vision and good intentions.

Does Li Dongyang know about this Ming Dynasty problem?

Obviously, he knew it clearly, and even listed a series of very sharp issues in the letter, such as the risks and resistance in the West, and vaguely pointed out that this was a big move that violated some interests.

It is an exhortation and a sincere expression.

It seemed to Zhu Houzhao that he was really acting like a master.

Even the deeper admonition Zhu Houzhao understood was to let him be a decentralized monarch like Liu Chan and fully trust officials. Only by finding some good officials and fully relying on these officials can some of the stubborn diseases and status quo of the Ming Dynasty be slowly changed.

It's a pity that Zhu Houzhao didn't know whether Li Dongyang was worthy of Zhuge Liang or not.

Anyway, he is definitely not a conservative emperor who stares at the three-acre land of Shu, or even the three-quarter acres of land in the world.

He is now an emperor with a global vision.

"When you have time, maybe we can really have a chat with the teacher, talk about the whole world, and talk about what will happen to the emperor after the parliament develops and grows..."

Zhu Houzhao did not destroy the letter, but instead kept it. He already had a plan in mind. The master and apprentice should find an opportunity to have a good chat and discuss the issue of "Tomorrow Never Sets".

He really wants to open Li Dongyang's eyes and use Li Dongyang's rich experience to give him a reference. What he lacks most now is top talents in this area.

(End of this chapter)