Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, has been very troubled recently, because Emperor Zhu Houzhao changed the Quanxu system in this way, which is equivalent to letting him, the first assistant of the cabinet, have the right to recommend the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so there are many officials who have visited him recently.

But Wang Hua didn't know how to choose the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he found Zhang Cai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hoping to still screen out the officials who met the Ministry of Rites through the examination files of the Ministry of Rites.

In order to choose a book of the Ministry of Rites that satisfies the emperor, Wang Hua and Zhang Cai did not dare to be careless, because the emperor Zhu Houzhao likes pragmatic officials, they can only be selected among the officials who have experience in local governance, but also selected a group, there are many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, although they are all based on eight shares to take taxis, but it is not difficult to find a few followers.

"Your Majesty, the minister recommended Ouyang Dan as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, this person has done Xiuning County Order, and later did the supervision of the imperial history, successively served as Huguang according to the inspection of the affairs, Zhejiang according to the deputy envoy, the political envoy to participate in the politics, the left and right political envoys, and Ying Tianfu Yin, now the right deputy capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Inspectorate, when fifty years old, six!"

Wang Hua finally recommended an official who had been put on hold to Nanjing to be an idle official, and Zhu Houzhao knew that Wang Hua was thinking about it, and he praised it very much.

And at this time, Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the first recommendation to promote Ouyang Dan as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, from the perspective of the Quanxu system, there is nothing to refute, Ouyang Dan was originally a third-grade official, and the examination is full to be moved, but there are hundreds of third-grade officials in the world who urgently need to be promoted, what the minister wants to ask is, how should these hundreds of people be used, if you talk about qualifications, you can move to the main hall official, but like Ouyang Dan, from the state capital, there are few people who practice in the local area, most of them are from the first and second class Jinshi, and most of them are Beijing officials, and few people are released, but these people, The imperial court cannot abandon it. ”

"This is a problem, the election of officials has always been heavy on background and light experience, Beijing officials are better promoted than foreign officials, Hanlin is better than Jinshi, the first and second class Jinshi is better than the third class with Jinshi, and Jinshi is better than lifting people, so that although Hanlin Qingliu officials have no local political experience, most of them have been in the position of Lang Zhengqing, and the local capable officials have mostly stopped at the three grades, and now even if they follow the officials, these people who have been in high positions can not be ignored, but it is okay to return to the furnace and rebuild", Zhu Houzhao said.

"Rebuilt?"

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, glanced at each other, and Zhang Cai took the initiative to ask: "Your Majesty, do you want them to study at Beijing Normal University?" Just like the sons of the nobles and the electors? But they are all members of the court, let them all study for three years and five years, won't the court be empty! ”

"It's not to go to Beijing Normal University, Beijing Normal University focuses on education and education, and it is only expedient to train officials to be political officials, and it is unrealistic to let these officials who have been officials for a long time go to Beijing Normal University to study for three or five years, I know it, I mean that a school dedicated to training officials will be established, which will be called the National School of Administration."

Zhu Houzhao said his purpose, he also knew that it was still difficult to make the officials in the court become the officials needed by the emperor and the Ming Dynasty, at least there were not many of them, and sometimes the imperial court had to take the initiative to transform the officials, cadre training was a very important aspect of national and enterprise management in later generations, and the Ming Dynasty could not do without.

"National School of Administration?"

In recent years, new schools have emerged, and words such as "country" and "nation" have appeared in large numbers, and some radicals have even refuted that many Confucians in the Yuan Dynasty can only be loyal to Confucianism, and can only be traitors to the country and the nation, and even the Yansheng Mansion is ashamed of its ancestors, so it has also caused many Confucianism to be angry, and also asked the court to suppress these big nonsense.

However, because Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Zhengde refused on the grounds that the imperial court was the government of the people of the world, and he only had the obligation to protect the freedom of speech of the people but had no right to block the people's tongue, the Confucians could only argue and fight against the rebels with novel ideas in the newspapers and periodicals, in the academies and in the major literary societies, so that they did not stop until now.

Rao is Wang Hua and Zhang Cai, who live above the temple, also know something, and even participate in it under a pen name behind their backs, so they also know what the state means, what the administration means, and what the academy means, but what makes them stunned is that His Majesty the Ming Emperor seems to be deliberately applying the new ideas and practices that have emerged among the people to the court.

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask, why is it called the National Academy of Administration?" Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, asked, he didn't know whether he should accept the emperor's behavior of applying the new ideas to court politics, so he decided to ask a question, so as to find out the emperor's intentions and then decide whether it was time to advise.

"Needless to say, the establishment of this school is a place to train national soldiers, not a place to cultivate my family slaves, there are kings and ministers, there are ministers and ministers, and the people accumulate the people for the country, and the people are grouped by the family, and the family and the country are the world, you are not only my ministers, but also the officials of the people, and the people of the country, and you are the countrymen! Don't you want me to treat him as a countryman, and do you want me to treat him as a slave? ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, suddenly understood, and hurriedly said: "My emperor is wise!" ”

"Your Majesty's intention to raise the country's scholars is really a well-intentioned move, but the officials in the world are already the talents of the imperial court, and re-educating them will not damage the method of selecting scholars, and provoke the people of the world to laugh, saying that the method of selecting scholars today is useless, and those who are selected are useless people!"

Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, said.

"If people in the world laugh at it, but if they laugh right, most of the officials in the court are useless, this is a fact!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, was speechless for a while, he didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor to be so direct and didn't care about the opinions of the people in the world, but if he thought about it, His Majesty the Emperor didn't seem to care too much about the opinions of the people in the world since he ascended the throne.

"The common people need to learn in social studies, county schools and even primary and secondary schools, etc., scholars need to learn in universities, national prisons, etc., and I, the emperor, also have a feast to learn, and the prince and other princes have palace studies to learn, don't court officials have to be humble to study, Rao is you are only eight buckets high, and there are still two buckets not yet full."

Zhu Houzhao continued to ask, and asked Wang Hua: "Wang Hua, you are from the top of the family, tell me whether your knowledge has been perfected, you don't need to ask others for advice, and learn from others." ”

"The minister is just the champion of the two hundred and ninety-eight people in the seventeenth year of Chenghua, and there are many people who can't learn in the world, and the sage said, threesome, there must be my teacher, no one does not need to concentrate on learning", Wang Hua naturally will not proudly say that he has learned five cars, no need to learn again, in fact, although the literati are proud in their bones, there are few people who dare to be arrogant enough to say that they are only eight buckets.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao said:

"Even Wang Hua still didn't dare to say that he didn't need to learn, and who really didn't need to study, and the scholars and doctors really didn't need to study, and the purpose was to set up a national administrative academy with a duration of one year, and select local officials of the third grade or above, two Beijing officials of the fourth grade or above for rotation training, and local officials of the fourth grade or above and two Beijing officials of the fifth grade or above for regular training, so as to elect the officials of the north and south of Beijing and the local chief political officials."

"Zhang Cai, you are the secretary of the ministry, and you will concurrently serve as the priest of the National Academy of Administration, but the matter of training, you have to let Zhang Xuan come, he is the first student of Beijing Normal University, and has done a local county order, familiar with the new policy, Wang Hua, you plan to recommend Zhang Xuan as the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials and the secretary of the National Academy of Administration, and the right attendant of the former Ministry of Administration is the first batch of students of the National Academy of Administration."

After Zhu Houzhao gave such an instruction, Zhang Cai, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, was quite happy in his heart, because he did not expect that His Majesty intended to let the National Academy of Administration be managed by the Ministry of Officials, which meant that although he had lost the power to recommend high-ranking officials, he had the opportunity to be a teacher of middle and high-level officials, which meant that he could organize a lot of political forces in the future, at least to ensure that no one dared to attack him casually.

However, Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, was even more envious of Zhang Xuan, and he had to admit that His Majesty was indeed interested in the students who chose to enter Beijing Normal University at that time, and these people were separately archived by His Majesty the Emperor as soon as they graduated, and they were also named after the selection and transfer of students, as the name suggests, they were selected from Beijing Normal University to serve in the local and grassroots areas.

And the promotion speed of this batch of selected students is indeed fast, because the files of the selected students are placed on the case of His Majesty the Emperor.

Xia Yan was already the right attendant of the military department and was on his way to patrol the West, and it was Zheng He, the most trusted minister of the Yongle Emperor, who did the same thing, which was enough to show Xia Yan's status in the emperor's heart.

And Zhang Xuan has also been promoted from the local county order to the governor of Hetao, and now His Majesty the Emperor has transferred him to Beijing to be promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, and is also in charge of the National Academy of Administration, obviously letting him cultivate his own political power, and intends to let him take over the position of first assistant.

Zhang Cai knew that he was old and his health was deteriorating, so he naturally had no chance to be the first assistant, but he could be sure that Xia Yan and Zhang Xuan were both going to be the first assistant.

Not only Zhang Cai thinks so, Wang Hua also thinks so, he knows that His Majesty is determined to innovate and intends to make officials younger, Zhang Xuan is only in his forties and will be the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, and Xia Yan has just passed the year of his establishment and is now the right attendant of the Ministry of War, and it is time for the Jinshi of his generation of Chenghua Dynasty to abdicate and make way for Xian, and hand over the position of the first assistant with increased authority to these young and powerful officials.

"Obey the order!" Zhang Cai received the order, and then asked: "Your Majesty, that minister, may I ask whether the teachers and students of the National School of Administration should be decided by the cabinet or the ministry, or by him after Zhang Xuan enters Beijing." ”

"The National Academy of Administration is the academy of the Ming Empire, not his Zhang Xuan, naturally the Ministry of Officials is specifically responsible, reviewed by the cabinet and submitted to me for final review, any official promotion and demotion must follow the organizational procedures, the Ministry of Officials is responsible for managing the official organization, representing the imperial bureaucratic organization, and you, the Ministry of Officials, is the head of the Ministry of Officials, and you are responsible for screening the first batch of teachers and students;

You count yourself as a teacher, the cabinet and the two Beijing and Jiuqing, you choose the one who can be the teacher, Jiao Fang and Xu Jin, who are happy at home, can also be transferred to Beijing as teachers, although they have resigned, but they are also my courtiers, they are organizational people, although they are old and infirm and cannot manage secular affairs, but it is also necessary to teach young officials and pass on many years of experience in governing the country. ”

Zhu Houzhao said and said: "As for the students, it is also your ministry to select, and you will first transfer a group of middle-level officials who are ready to be promoted to important ministers to Beijing, especially those who will be promoted to the secretaries and attendants of various ministries, as well as political envoys and envoys. ”

They don't know whether these words are made up by His Majesty or whether they are ancient, but they have to admit that these words do express some meanings very appropriately, so that they also accept them calmly, after all, for language, it is also common for new words to appear from time to time or some old words to become popular.

Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, is now stunned that His Majesty the Emperor wants to reactivate the old ministers of Zhishi, and he has to admit that his Majesty the Emperor really will not want anyone to be idle, even if he is a Zhishi, he will be arrested back to continue to work, so that Wang Shu was arrested back to take charge of the Ministry of Officials after many years of Zhishi, and finally died in the second year of Zhengde.

And Zhang Cai had to secretly sigh that those who want to be promoted to the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty in the future must be trained by the National Academy of Administration, which means that in the future, officials all over the world will be proud to enter the National Academy of Administration, and the first assistant of the cabinet and the officials of the Ministry of Officials must also give priority to recommending and promoting officials who have been trained by the National Academy of Administration, otherwise it will be against the rules set by the emperor.

As a result, the functions of the Hanlin Institute will be weakened and it will no longer be a phase storage institution.

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, recommended Gui Cao, a student who was selected and transferred after graduating from Beijing Normal University, Li Shi, who was also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhai Luan, a student of the Hanlin Academy, as candidates for governor of the Hetao.

The cabinet and Jiuqing participated in the court push vote to agree with Wang Hua to recommend these three people to the front of the emperor, and Zhu Houzhao naturally chose to let Gui Cao serve as the governor of Hetao, the reason is very simple, Gui Cao is selected and transferred.

This also makes the world more aware of how much His Majesty the Emperor values people who come out of Beijing Normal University, so that more and more people are willing to sign up for Beijing Normal University in the future.

Ouyang Dan was also recommended by Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the other ministers and Jiuqing did not want to refute Wang Hua's face, and they also knew that unless there was a real and legitimate reason, even if they vetoed Ouyang Dan, Wang Hua recommended him Wang Hua to recommend someone he valued by Wang Hua, so there was no need to obstruct it and waste energy.

Zhu Houzhao also agreed, and the first assistant of the cabinet appointed by himself, the emperor, naturally had to support the work of others, and officially issued an edict appointing Ouyang Dan as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

And Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, also knew that he would cooperate with the emperor's work, and recommended Zhang Xuan, the governor of Hetao, to be transferred to Beijing to serve as the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials and the secretary of the National Academy of Administration, after all, if he did not cooperate, Emperor Zhu Houzhao could directly dismiss him as the first assistant of the cabinet and replace him with an obedient one.

The other cabinet ministers and Jiuqing couldn't disagree, if Wang Hua recommended Ouyang Dan as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who would be willing to find something to give Lord Shoufu eye medicine.

But what really made the civil officials of the empire feel new was the National Administration Academy proposed by Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, and they were all discussed for a while, after all, only Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Cai, the secretary of the ministry, knew this concept, and most officials still did not know.

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