Chapter 26: Confrontation

Zhu Youxiao ordered Xu Guangqi and Wei Zhongxian to build the plan of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences, which had only been launched for two days. The officials in the court learned the news and persuaded each other one by one. For such a thing to happen, Zhu Youxiao could only stop the court meeting twice in a row.

On this day, Zhu Youxiao sat in the Nuanchun Pavilion, and Wei Zhongxian, who had always been inseparable, stood beside him.

"Your Majesty, this is the music received by the celebrant of ceremonies, Your Majesty ......."

Wei Zhongxian softly reminded Zhu Youxiao, who was rubbing his eyes.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the entire basket of concertos carried by the two little eunuchs, and couldn't help but sigh.

"The music remains".

After Wei Zhongxian heard Zhu Youxiao's order, he instructed several eunuchs to classify the chapters one by one. placed in front of Zhu Youxiao's desk.

Zhu Youxiao picked up a few books from it, most of which were written about working hard and wasting money, and exhorting the emperor not to indulge in strange and obscene acrobatics.

"What I think in my heart, and how can I know, is full of rat-eyed people."

Zhu Youxiao sighed weakly in his heart, feeling helpless about the lack of eyes of these officials. But there is nothing to be done, and these officials cannot be directly pushed to the end. After all, it is still up to these officials to govern the country.

In fact, these are a bit miscellaneous in Zhu Youxiao's own thoughts, after all, he comes from later generations and knows some of the developments of later generations. If he is really in this era, for the people of this era, reading the words of the sages, the way of learning Confucius and Mencius has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Therefore, there is a saying that everything is inferior, but there is a saying that reading is high.

And Wei Zhongxian, who was waiting on the side, saw Zhu Youxiao and picked up a piece of music to check them one by one. It was completely different from the usual practice of receiving a note about this matter, and all of them were taken to the imperial dining room to be burned, and I couldn't help but ask.

"Your Majesty, do we want to build the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences?"

After Zhu Youxiao heard Wei Zhongxian's words, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Of course I have to build, not only to build, but also to build bigger, whoever dares to stop me from building the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences is my enemy."

"Otomo informs me that tomorrow morning will open normally, and I want to see if anyone is against it."

The next day, outside the Fengtian Palace, the officials of the court and the central government who were preparing to go to the court gathered together one by one.

"Lord Yang, this time we must dissuade Your Majesty from building any academy of sciences, it is completely obscene acrobatics, if the Ming Dynasty is like this, we will be sinners."

"It's Your Majesty's construction of this Academy of Sciences, this thing is completely useless for the people and money, and now the state affairs are difficult, the expenses are huge, and the money should be used where it should be used, but it is not a matter of the Ming Jun to use it for this trivial matter."

The other chimed in.

"Alas, if Your Majesty really wants to forcibly build this academy of sciences, how can I persuade it?"

There are also officials who do not have any hope for the dynasty this time, after all, what kind of virtue the son of the old Zhu family is, everyone understands it in their hearts. If you don't know it, I'll give you a strike, like Emperor Shenzong, hasn't he been to court for 30 years.

"If Your Majesty does not listen to the persuasion this time, the old man will definitely be splattered with blood on the spot to admonish him."

A gray-haired official embarked on the road to the court with the confidence of death.

When it was time to officially go to court, after Zhu Youxiao sat down on the dragon chair, he went through all the processes according to the process.

"There is a book, and there is no book".

As soon as Wei Zhongxian's words fell, several officials came out of the courtiers standing on both sides.

"Chen Yu, the Imperial Governor of the Minister, hereby asks His Majesty to withdraw the construction of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences."

As soon as Chen Yu's words fell, several officials later also fell to their knees, bursting into tears one by one.

"Your Majesty requests Your Majesty to withdraw the construction of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences."

As soon as the dynasty opened, it entered the topic.

Zhu Youxiao also had a headache when he saw everyone kneeling on the ground.

For the leading Chen Yu, Zhu Youxiao learned from the mind of the Emperor of the Apocalypse that this person was too brainless and old-fashioned. He has been forced to die many times, so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse has an incomparably headache whenever he sees this person. I have the intention to remove him, but this person has gone through three dynasties, and he has relied on his qualifications to become the position of the Left Governor, and there is no legitimate reason. You can't just dismiss people just because they admonish you.

Zhu Youxiao could only comfort first, "The ministers should go first."

"If Your Majesty does not withdraw, the Holy Decree of the Ming Imperial Academy of Sciences will kneel and die in the hall."

"Ministers, the country has important things to do every day, and the cabinet courtiers and the six ministers have not yet made up for it, but the ministers are arguing endlessly about these small things, don't you feel that you have put the cart before the horse?"

"More on that later."

Zhu Youxiao's face was serious, and there was an unquestionable tone in his voice.

The ministers who knelt on the ground thought about it, and Zhu Youxiao's expression was not very good, so they had to get up first.

It's just a big thing, sooner or later, there will be a result of the discussion, and the matter finally returned to the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences.

"Where is Lord Chen of the Left Governor's Imperial History"?

Zhu Youxiao saw that the cabinet matter had been discussed, so he had to take the lead.

"The minister is here". Chen Yu, the governor of the left, replied and stood out of the train.

"You and all the ministers of the DPRK and China are opposed to the establishment of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences, I don't know why you oppose it"?

After Chen Yu heard Zhu Ruxiao's inquiry, his eyes turned red, and he suddenly burst into tears, so that Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised, did this person bring something, why could he cry when he wanted to, he was not prepared at all.

"Your Majesty, now that I am in the Ming Dynasty, there are Houjin tigers eyeing me outside, and there are homeless people rebelling inside, and natural and man-made disasters have occurred peacefully, which is an eventful autumn. Liaodong alone, it will cost more than one million taels of silver every year, accounting for 1/5 of my Ming Dynasty's taxes, and my name, the taxes are decreasing year by year so that the household is empty, and even the officials can't afford to pay it, but Your Majesty has worked hard to build the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences. Your Majesty does not see the Imperial Palace of Qin and the Grand Canal of Sui".

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Yu with a smile on his face, "The Afang Palace mentioned by Chen Aiqing, I also know some about the Grand Canal, so let's talk about it here."

Zhu Youxiao closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then opened his eyes and spoke.

"I don't know the ministers of the court, who knows about the Imperial Palace"?

"Wechen knows". Zhu Guozhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came out of the column and said.

"In the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shi Huang, he began to build a court palace in Shanglin Yuan, south of the Wei River, that is, Afang Palace. Due to the enormity of the project, Qin Shi Huang only built a front hall during his reign."

According to Taishi Gong's "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji" records: "The front hall of Afang is five hundred steps from east to west, fifty zhang from north to south, ten thousand people can sit on it, and five zhang flags can be built below, Zhou Chi is the pavilion road, from His Royal Highness to Nanshan, the top of the Nanshan Mountain is considered to be que, it is the compound road, from Afang to Wei, which belongs to Xianyang. "The scale is huge, and the cost of labor and money is huge, you can imagine. The project was not completed, Qin Shi Huang died, Qin II Hu Hai transferred the craftsmen to build the Afang Palace to build the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and then continued to build the Afang Palace, but the Qin State soon led to the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang because of tyranny, which can be said to be Qin lost its deer and chased the world. After the fall of the Qin State, after Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, led his army into the customs, he turned his hatred into things, and set fire to Afang Palace and all the ancillary buildings, turning them into ashes. ”

"Master Zhu is really knowledgeable and talented." Zhu Youxiao opened his mouth to praise Zhu Guozhen.

"Lord Chen, who is the grander scale of Afang Palace and my Ming Royal Academy of Sciences?"

Chen Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, he also knew something about Chen Yu of the Royal Academy of Sciences, but it only covered an area of more than ten acres, and most of them were sparsely populated places.

Chen Yu could only reluctantly speak, "The scale of the land of Afang Palace is more than hundreds of times larger than that of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences."

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile after hearing Chen Yu's words, and then continued to ask.

"Have I ever recruited people"?

Chen Yu shook his head weakly, "Your Majesty has not recruited people's husbands, but used money as employment to make the people have income."

"Since the people have not been requisitioned, but the people have benefited, then the matter of laboring the people does not exist."

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he paused, glanced at Chen Yu standing in the court, and then continued.

"The money for the construction of the Ming Royal Academy of Sciences this time is all from my inner hall, and the treasury has never been touched, and there is a matter of harming the wealth."

After Chen Yu heard Zhu Youxiao's words, he had to be silent, not knowing how to answer.

"Lord Chen's performance is to agree with my statement, since there is no labor and no money, how can there be a saying that labor and money are harmed."

"But .........", Chen Yu didn't know what to say if he wanted to open his mouth to speak.