Listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Empress Zhang glanced at her son, but she didn't say anything, the family of three had a meal together, warm and harmonious. After eating, the father and son chatted with Queen Zhang for a while, and then left Kunning Palace together to rush to Qianqing Palace.

"Let's talk about it!" After doing it, Zhu Youzhu spoke first and said that he knew what his son had done, but he wanted to know why his son did it.

Although Zhu Youzhu was made a benevolent monarch, in fact, he was not unable to punish some people, he knew the affairs of the Ye family, and he also knew why his son did this, in fact, Zhu Youzhu didn't think that his son was wrong to do this. Besides, if my son made a mistake, Lao Tzu went home and smoked it, but he still had to support his son and wipe his ass.

"After Erchen left Yangzhou, he went to the Lianghuai Salt Farm, and Erchen saw those stove households!" After Zhu Houzhao sat down, he sighed lightly and said.

"Father, those stove households have a miserable life, they don't have enough food and clothing, and the ambassadors and stewards of the salt works treat them like slaves, and they can't live happily." Zhu Houzhao became angry as he spoke: "Who caused these? Is it the Father? No, my father was frugal every day, and he was reluctant to wear even a good dress. ”

"For so many years, nothing has been added to the palace, and the queen mother is also frugal every day, but what about them?"

"Father, Jin Yiwei copied a garden of the Ye family in Yangzhou, that garden is very, very large, not to mention the silver money in it, the woman alone copied out more than 300, all of them are Yangzhou thin horses, my father may not know what Yangzhou thin horses are, they are good-looking little girls bought since childhood, and then trained."

"Let them know how to serve men like this, understand piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and when they grow up, the Ye family will take them into the house or give them away."

"Give it to those officials, or scholars, red sleeves add fragrance, this thing is beautiful under the pen and ink of the literati, but in the eyes of the sons, this is the blood and tears of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the wailing that they have no place to cry. Those scholars, they should have taken the world as their own responsibility, and they should have served the Ming Dynasty well, didn't they say, 'Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations'? That's what they did? “

Looking at your excited son, the expression on Zhu Youjiao's face slowly became serious, and he asked in a deep voice, "Did the Ye family really do this?" “

"Father, all the ministers who followed their sons to Yangzhou saw this, they all knew about it, and even many of the ministers in the court also knew about it, but they all chose to ignore it, their eyes were not blind, but they pretended to be blind." Zhu Houzhao said this, his eyes were red, and he said in a slightly low voice: "They are digging the roots of Daming." ”

"If this continues, these people will become fugitives, and from the fugitives they will become homeless, and these homeless people will become the hidden population of the gentry, and they will reap the benefits from the beginning to the end."

"Once there is a catastrophe, then these displaced people are the fuse, and then there will be a danger that the world will be in danger, this is just a stove household, how many military households are there in the Ming Dynasty? Erchen felt scared when he thought about it. ”

Zhu Youzhu was also silent, although he knew that the situation was not good, he was also trying to change the situation, and he was working hard, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad. Glancing at his son, Zhu Youzhu felt very relieved that he had a successor, and after thinking about it, Zhu Youzhu opened his mouth and asked, "Then have you thought of any way?" ”

"After all, the world is governed by scholars, although the Ming Dynasty is not the same world as scholars, but it is almost the same today."

"After all, our father and son are in this Forbidden City, how many people can be punished, and how many people can be killed? How much can you do if you want to? Now that you see it, and you feel that it is unfair, what do you think you should do? ”

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Zhu Youzhang, and neither father nor son mentioned Mu Bin, but both father and son knew that Zhu Houzhao was already interceding for Mu Bin, and Zhu Youzhu also listened. Zhu Houzhao just said those words, Zhu Youzhu also listened to it, and what Zhu Youzhu is asking now is how to solve this problem once and for all, this is the way to be a king.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had said so much before, if he couldn't come up with an overall solution, his father would be disappointed, after he planned a domain, when it was time to plan the overall situation, this is the mind that an emperor should have.

As for the affairs of the Ye family, or Ye Qi's death, Zhu Youzhu didn't see it, let alone a retired household secretary, what about the incumbent household secretary? The emperor wants to clean up, what Zhu Youzhu wants to see is his son's way, not to vent, not to complain about the whole thing, but how to solve the things in front of him, whether it is royal or domineering, it works is good.

"Erchen feels that the first thing is the rule of officials, and it is urgent to improve the supervision system and rectify the rule of officials, eliminate the old and weak officials, severely punish corruption, and severely punish lazy and sloppy government." Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhu Youzhu and said.

"The imperial court has a metropolitan procuratorate, each province has a supervising imperial history, the six ministries have a Qing official department, and the inner court has also sent a garrison eunuch, but the rule of officials is not like this?" Zhu Youzhu shook his head and looked at his son, and asked: "The rule of officials has been a big problem since ancient times, every emperor wants to solve the rule of officials, and they all want to rule Qingming, but how many people can do it?" “

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, and then said: "Father, although there are many supervision yamen in the imperial court, the officials protect each other!" Besides, what if these people are also corrupt? Just like Yangzhou this time, the garrison eunuchs everywhere, it's not that the ministers look down on them, they are not the opponents of those civil officials, so they have to find another way. ”

Hearing his son say this, Zhu Youzhu was also interested, and asked with a smile: "Then what can you do?" Let's hear it. “

"Officials know officials best, and officials know officials best, and Erchen wants to launch a secret book system!" Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate at all, and directly said his thoughts, in fact, the secret book system is the secret folding system of the Qing Dynasty, this system developed to the peak in the Qing Dynasty, and even the establishment of the crown prince is a secret edict system, and the secret edict of the crown prince is hidden behind the plaque of the Qianqing Palace.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the old system of the Ming Dynasty was followed, and officials reported to the emperor when they had something, and they used the title book for official affairs and the music book for private affairs.

The question book is stamped, and the recital book is not stamped. The inscriptions were all submitted by the envoy of the general government, and before the emperor read and approved them, the cabinet scholars had already "voted" for them. Therefore, both instruments are public, which is not conducive to the transmission of feelings. Secondly, the procedures for handling documents in the subject script are too complicated, the operation speed is very slow, and because there are too many handling personnel, it is easy to cause leakage, which greatly restricts the emperor's implementation of government affairs.