Zhu Houzhao took off the phoenix crown on the little queen's head, clamped it under his armpit, and then took the little queen's hand: "Let's go, see the queen mother!" Wear it again at Cining Palace! ”

The little queen's hands were soft, but Zhu Houzhao didn't dare to squeeze hard, for fear of pinching and fracture.

The little queen hummed, smiled sweetly, and only trotted all the way with Zhu Houzhao, and half of her head poked out of her skirt from time to time in brocade embroidered shoes.

At this time, Concubine Su and Concubine Liu were also waiting outside Cining Palace, and when they saw Zhu Houzhao and the little queen appear, they hurriedly saluted.

"Excuse me!"

Only then did Zhu Houzhao put the phoenix crown on the little queen, and let go of the little queen's hand and entered the Cining Palace, and took the three little girls, no, it should be said that Zhu Houzhao's three wives came to the Empress Dowager Zhang's place.

Empress Dowager Zhang smiled lovingly, and after the due etiquette was over, she asked Zhu Houzhao and the others to sit down, only pulled the little queen in front of her, gave her a jade bracelet, and greeted her with concern, completely forgetting her own son Zhu Houzhao: "Last night, did you have the same room?" ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Empress Dowager Zhang to ask this directly, thinking that this really doesn't treat this group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old concubines as girls, and has no scruples?

"Back to the Queen Mother, I'm in the same room!"

The little queen didn't know what she meant, she just thought that she had been in the same room with the emperor as Mama said and slept together, so she replied.

Empress Dowager Zhang was even happier when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's time to change your name to the queen mother!" ”

Zhu Houzhao really couldn't stand this atmosphere of having nothing to talk about this kind of topic, and hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, I still have government affairs to be busy, so I will leave first!" ”

Zhu Houzhao walked outside the palace gate after speaking, but as soon as he raised his feet, he heard the little queen's ouch, and hurriedly looked back, but saw the little queen frowning a little embarrassedly, and at this time, the queen mother had already asked with concern: "What's the matter?" ”

"After returning to my mother, my butt still hurts a little", the little queen replied with an embarrassed smile, and then gritted her teeth and sat down slowly.

"Zhao'er is really, how to love to enter from behind, I'm afraid I want it more than once, Ruyi, how did you teach!" Empress Dowager Zhang said a word at this time.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this, and went straight to the cabinet and the celebrant duty room.

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As soon as he arrived at the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, Ma Wensheng, the first assistant on duty, saw that Zhu Houzhao came so early, so he was busy with the ceremony, and said with a sincere smile: "Your Majesty is really more diligent than the previous emperor, and now that the newlywed Yan'er is newlywed, it is understandable to rest for a while." ”

"The ancestor's country is more important, let's discuss it, there is something important today?" Zhu Houzhao sat in the center as he spoke, leaning on the pillow, only turning up the music that had been prepared and continuing to watch.

Ma Wensheng noticed that Zhu Houzhao had an injury on his hand when he lifted Zhu Houzhao's sleeve, and couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty, what is this injury?" ”

"It's okay, I got it for the queen," Zhu Houzhao said.

"Your Majesty, the queen is still young, but take your time, although Your Majesty is the master, he is also a husband, and he should also pity the fragrance and cherish the jade", Ma Wensheng thought that Zhu Houzhao hurt the queen and caused his hand to be scratched by the queen's nails, so he persuaded him.

"Let's get down to business", Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to talk more about this, and said directly.

"In accordance with the order, Wang Shu, the official of the Ministry of Shangshu, has officially recited, suggesting that the imperial court implement the method of examination, and began to restart the Beijing inspection in April this year, first inspect the Beijing officials, and then plan the local officials, and the ministers have voted to allow it!"

Ma Wensheng handed over Wang Shu's recital.

Zhu Houzhao said while looking at it: "Now that the official selection examination has ended, after the imperial court has added a large number of Beijing officials, it is also a good time to hold the Beijing Inspection, and it is also a good time to implement the new examination method. The celebrant approves the red! Then, the cabinet immediately issued a decree to the ministry, and ordered the yamen of all ministries to start the Beijing inspection! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and threw the song in front of the eunuch Gu Dayong, who immediately took it and approved it.

In this way, in the first year of Zhengde, the reform of the Ming Dynasty entered the deep water area, opening the prelude to the implementation of the examination law, and the performance reward and punishment system will be opened in advance through the Jingcha began to stir up new vitality and vitality for the Ming political arena that has gradually been corrupted into a pool of backwater.

For officials who do practical things, this kind of reform is undoubtedly a good thing, because they can not only increase a large amount of income through their political achievements, but also improve their political achievements, instead of relying on fame and relationships to get the opportunity to be promoted, and at the same time, they do not have to work hard to make money in order to make a living.

Langzhong Hongming of the Criminal Department is such an official, he can't create unjust cases for the sake of collecting money, but he also suffers from not having enough income to meet the life of his seven sons and one wife and two concubines every day, and at the same time he has no money to bribe his superiors to get promoted, and he is ridiculed by many of his peers for being pedantic.

Now that the court's performance rewards and punishments have been evaluated to prevent Hong Ming from falling into the abyss of corruption, he found that since he can satisfy his needs for a good life through diligence in political affairs, and can also be promoted because of good political performance, he no longer cares about the ridicule of others, and only speeds up the efficiency of reviewing cases, so as to hope to get a good performance evaluation result when he is in Beijing.

Because the Ministry of Officials is Wang Shu in charge, and now several ministers in the court are indeed dedicated to promoting officials, plus after the reform of the performance system, the completion of officials' political performance is clear at a glance and the information is open, it is easy to compare who is superior and who is inferior, so Hong Ming was added three months of the corresponding grade monthly reward for the year because he was the first in the assessment of the Criminal Department.

That is to say, in the years before the next Jingcha, his monthly monthly salary was four times that of the current one, that is, sixty-four stones, and it was all real hair, without folding, which was more than the monthly salary of the previous Zhengerpin officials.

And because of this, he was promoted by the court as the right attendant of the criminal department in the following year.

"It's really the emperor's grace, and the world is clear!" Hong Ming said with emotion.

But there are also many officials who are very dissatisfied with this, and even most of them, people are inert, and they all hope that they can get more for nothing or less work, so most officials hope that they can do less and easily get the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, even if they can get a lot of rewards for their political achievements, they are not willing, after all, even if the income is high, it is very hard.

This new examination law requires officials to report their affairs every day, and promises when they are completed, there will be rewards for political achievements when they are completed, and there will be punishments for failing to do so.

In particular, Qingliu officials who are good at talking about government affairs and not good at government affairs, they have always relied on fame to gain the benefits of advancement and wealth, but now they only look at practice and do not value fame in the examination of the law, which is simply their life.

Li Mengyang is this kind of official, but his official position is not Qingliu is the Sichuan Qing official Shi Langzhong, but he is taking the path of a Qingliu official, relying on fame and writing poetry and articles to win merit, and now the test method makes him very acceptable, and he directly slapped the table and said: "What is this Ma Junzhou going to do!" The election of officials does not ask about their background, does not ask about their reputation, does not listen to the recommendations of the minister, and does not pay attention to the clear stream, which is undoubtedly contrary to the program of the dynasty and the right way! ”