Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 369 Zhu Houcong meets Xu Jie, Xu Jie wants to make progress!

Zhu Houcong's goal was to make the majority of people benefit and the minority suffer losses.

Otherwise, his power base would be non-existent.

However, if the majority of people are to benefit, it means that the court must take out more profits to benefit the majority, which means it has to increase spending instead of keeping the money in the treasury.

Because interests follow objective laws and will naturally prevail among a small number of people.

This is also the reason why annexation has not been eradicated since ancient times.

By doing this, Zhu Houcong was doing the opposite. To do this, productivity had to continue to improve and the production resources controlled by his court had to continue to increase.

otherwise.

Zhu Houcong could not prevent wealth from being concentrated in the hands of a few people, and naturally he could not prevent a few people from becoming the monopolists of the entire empire's resources.

Fortunately, Zhu Houcong has been promoting productivity and increasing production resources.

For example, right now, he is going to continue to send officials to Japan to develop new resources.

Although many bureaucrats in the imperial court were afraid of serving as officials overseas, the Ming Dynasty had a large bureaucratic base after all, so there were still many bureaucrats who submitted petitions to recommend themselves to serve as envoys in Hinode Town.

First, no matter whether they are civil or military officers, once they go to Japan to serve as officials, their rank will be promoted to the fourth rank. Especially for civil officials, they will be directly given the title of Censor-in-Chief, which is a promotion opportunity that many bureaucrats will never get in their lifetime.

Secondly, the bureaucrats who want to advance know that the emperor is working hard to govern the country and actively seeking overseas resources. Whoever volunteers to go overseas will be favored by the emperor, and as long as they can come back alive in the future, they will naturally be valued by the emperor.

Therefore, after thinking for a long time, Hanlin official Xu Jie submitted such a self-recommendation memorial.

He knew that crossing the sea to Japan to serve as an official was no joke.

But he wanted to improve so much!
He also knew that the emperor did not value the empty talkers in his Hanlin Academy, otherwise he would not have allowed officials like Wang Qiong and Lin Jun who were not from the Hanlin Academy to enter the cabinet.

Zhu Houcong also saw Xu Jie's name among the many memorials recommending himself to go to Japan.

He couldn't help laughing at this and actually mentioned Xu Jie's name.

There is no other reason.

Firstly, Xu Jie was very good at the examinations, having won the third place in the imperial examination, and he was the third place in the first imperial examination after the change of the reign title. He needed to be supported as a role model for future Jinshi candidates.

Secondly, Zhu Houcong believed that Xu Jie, who was the first person in history to be promoted to the position of Prime Minister and who was able to have a good ending despite being so corrupt and forced by Hai Rui to return the land he had invaded, was a man of great ability.

This was the first time that Zhu Houcong sent officials to conduct business overseas, and it was the first shot in the process of expanding resources overseas.

It is crucial to be able to fire this first shot well.

If he fails to fight well, the conservatives will have more reasons to prevent him from expanding abroad, and neutral people will also begin to question his expansion.

Therefore, Zhu Houcong needed a capable person to go.

Zhu Houcong was not worried that Xu Jie would pretend to obey his orders but actually oppose his strategy of governing the country in this way.

After all, even if Xu Jie pretended to obey but actually disobeyed, he would not take this risk.

You know, in this era, many people think that going overseas is extremely risky, just like going abroad to the Middle East and Africa in later generations.

What's more, in Zhu Houcong's impression, Xu Jie was a sophisticated and selfish person who would never completely sacrifice himself for the interests of the conservatives, otherwise he would not have deceived Jiajing in history.

Besides, isn't Xu Jie only in his twenties now? He can't be considered cunning and sly. He should have a stronger desire to improve himself.

Zhu Houcong was willing to give young people opportunities and would not really look at a person based on preconceived impressions.

As long as the young Xu Jie wants to make progress, he will give Xu Jie a chance.

And if Xu Jie really ruined his plans, he would naturally not be polite.

Of course, he believed that with Xu Jie's intelligence, even if he was not very experienced in the world, he would know how serious the consequences would be if he messed up this matter. However, Xu Jie's self-recommendation to serve as an official in Japan in accordance with the imperial order also shocked many of his fellow countrymen and friends.

"Are you really going to Japan?"

"what do you think?"

After learning about this, Wu Yipeng specifically asked about Xu Jie.

Xu Jie looked at Wu Yipeng solemnly, his eyes filled with the words "I want to improve so much", and said:
"If you don't do this, I don't know when His Majesty will notice you. The examples of Zhang Fujing, Xia Yan, and Yan Song all show that if you want to be promoted quickly, you must understand what your emperor and father want, and be anxious about what your emperor and father want!"

"Even you, the Grand Master of the Imperial Clan, are able to head the Ministry of Rites. Isn't it because you understood what the emperor and father wanted and were concerned about what the emperor and father were concerned about when selecting concubines that you were able to successfully sit in this position?"

"Grand Master!"

"I don't want to suffer in the Imperial Academy anymore!"

"Besides, Your Majesty doesn't like people who are only willing to be noble officials in the Hanlin Academy!"

After Xu Jie said this, Wu Yipeng did not refute it, but said earnestly: "You are too impatient!"

"No hurry!"

Xu Jie replied with a serious expression.

then.

Xu Jie added: "Your Majesty is wise and intelligent, and has eyes and ears everywhere. I am afraid that he has known my past behavior for a long time. He may have already disliked me. Maybe he thinks I am a villain and cannot be used. It is just because I am not in a prominent position that he wants to see if I can change. If I don't seize this opportunity, I will only suffer until I die. It is better to die in a foreign country!"

After hearing this, Wu Yipeng said nothing more.

He knew that Xu Jie was unwilling to be an ordinary person.

In addition to mentioning Xu Jie, Zhu Houcong also appointed Ke Rongchong, the assistant commander-in-chief, as a guerrilla and deputy envoy of propaganda and pacification.

Zhu Houcong also summoned the two men to the imperial study to show his importance.

The two were naturally excited after knowing this, and they both knew that His Majesty really took this matter seriously.

When Xu Jie walked towards the imperial study with Ke Rong, he was in high spirits and was obviously more energetic than the strong and mighty general Ke Rong.

The reason, of course, was that the imperial study he was now heading towards was the place of highest power.

As he walked towards the imperial study, he couldn't help but begin to fantasize that in the future he might enter here as a ruler, listen to instructions and discuss government affairs in front of the emperor every day, and truly become second only to the emperor and above everyone else.

He even imagined that when he reached this point in the future, there might be a new young master. At that time, he might be able to completely control the world and be respected by people all over the world.

As a military general, Ke Rong naturally did not have these ideas.

After all, he had not thought that the pinnacle of a military general would be to discuss state affairs and make decisions on world affairs with His Majesty in the Imperial Study.

But Ke Rong was still excited.

The fact that the emperor was willing to summon him showed that he had no intention of looking down on the military general.

Therefore, when the two met Zhu Houcong and performed their greetings, they both behaved very piously.

Zhu Houcong looked at the two men after letting them stand still.

He knew about Ke Rong. After all, Ke Rong was a general who had fought against both the Western Barbarians and the Japanese pirates and had rich experience in foreign warfare. Zhu Houcong believed that Ke Rong would not be afraid of the armed forces of the Eastern Warring States daimyo when he went to the East.

Not to mention Xu Jie.

Zhu Houcong looked very seriously at this invincible ninja who had tolerated him and Yan Song for decades in history.

(End of this chapter)