In the Wenyuan Pavilion next to the Wenhua Palace, Wang Hua was dressed in a red official uniform, sat in the first place, looked at the civil officials in front of him and said first: "Colleagues, maybe you will already ask in your hearts why this official suddenly presided over the court meeting, there is no other reason, but there are two things to tell you." ”

"The first thing is about the resignation of the Minister, who has decided to resign from the post of First Assistant to the Cabinet."

After Wang Hua said this, he looked at the full hall of officials, and the officials were all shocked, and some were already muttering in their hearts, secretly wondering why Wang Hua was so good why he suddenly resigned from the post of head assistant of the cabinet, did he provoke His Majesty?

"You don't have to guess, this matter has nothing to do with anyone, it's just that Wang is old and weak, unable to assist the king in governing the people, and he is no longer able to understand the truth of governing the country."

Wang Hua said and said: "Next, the old man has to say the second thing, after Wang resigned, I hope that all colleagues must be clean and diligent in political affairs from now on, and do not disobey the Son of Heaven and Yang, and be the enemy of the people, you have also seen the fate of Lu Zhaoji, don't think that you are an official in the future, you can bully the good, and the Ming Dynasty also needs you to open a prosperous era for ten thousand years, not because of your corruption that leads to official coercion and rebellion." ”

"Today's world has changed, there are more and more businessmen, more and more workers, more and more literate people, and more and more people who care about national politics.

"In any case, Wang hopes that we and other scholars and doctors, since we have taken the world as our own responsibility, we should strive for the well-being of the people in the world", Wang Hua said and got up and arched his hand: "Here, Wang Hua bids farewell to you!" ”

With that, Wang Hua walked out of Wenyuan Pavilion and announced the end of the court meeting.

As a civil servant who has personally experienced various court changes in the Zhengde Dynasty, Wang Hua has a lot of feelings, and he also wants to say something to these civil officials and doctors of the same class as himself, but he seems to be very lacking in knowledge and can't say anything, and it seems that the only thing that can be reminded is to be honest and self-disciplined and seek benefits for the people.

Although Wang Hua didn't say much in the last court meeting, the civil officials present also seemed to understand what Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, meant, meant, and they all got up and bowed to Wang Hua, and no one stood up at this time to say that Wang Hua should not resign, nor did he say that Wang Hua should really resign early.

For the civil servants and doctors of the entire empire, they were confused, divided, and even feared by each other.

The confusion is because they don't know what it means to govern the world in the prosperous world, the division between them is because everyone begins to believe in different ideas of governance, and the fear is that they are worried about whether they will be severely punished for corruption or other crimes in the future.

In the final analysis, what will happen to the Ming Empire in the future depends on the choice of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

The officials now only know to follow the emperor's baton, and it is always easier to adapt to brainless obedience than to learn after questioning, and it is also easier to obtain practical benefits and avoid possible dangers.

Therefore, the civil officials felt that no matter what, it was just a matter of not going against the emperor.

Therefore, Wang Hua asked them not to be enemies of the Son of Heaven, and they all agreed very much in their hearts.

But in fact, Zhu Houzhao did not want the hundred officials to obey him unconditionally like a slave, after all, he never wanted to be an emperor who could do his own thing, and his purpose was to turn the Ming Dynasty into a country of democracy and freedom.

Zhu Houzhao knows that his current emperor can rule violently to let him do whatever he wants, people's natural rights are life, freedom, and property, and he, the emperor, can have it in this Ming Dynasty, and he can even deprive others of their lives, freedom, and property, and can therefore make himself richer and freer, and he can do whatever he wants.

However, sooner or later, you will have to pay it back.

If you continue to deprive others of their life, liberty, and property rights, after all, this is the most basic human right, and once you intensify this contradiction, others will try all kinds of ways to deal with you.

And the emperor himself has to be caught up in the daily busyness to maintain his violent rule, but he still can't help but live in fear.

Zhu Houzhao is not a coward who is afraid of struggle, but he really does not want to deprive others of the right to have life, freedom, and legal property, after all, he is a civilized person who has traveled from modern times to the past, not a barbarian who has traveled from primitive society.

Moreover, human beings have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, as well as their own social obligations.

Zhu Houzhao also has his own responsibilities as an emperor, and he will not only enjoy his rights but not assume the responsibilities of being an emperor.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that he had taken too extreme measures in the face of the suppression of the monarch by civil officials at the beginning, but he did not regret that he had to use barbaric means to deal with barbarism, and if there were barbaric forces in the future, he would still raise his butcher's knife.

But that doesn't mean he will give up on building a civilized world order.

Zhu Houzhao respected Wang Hua's choice to resign.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao also chose Liu Yu as the first assistant of the cabinet in accordance with the established practice.

Liu Yu also recommended Wang Qiong as a secondary assistant according to inertia, and recommended Kang Hai to join the cabinet and participate in the maintenance.

Both the emperor Zhu Houzhao and the civil officials at the top of the empire still seem to still follow the inherent practice of exercising their power to ensure the fairness of the distribution of power in the empire.

According to modern civilization, human rights are born, sovereignty rests with the people, and the state should be elected by the people, and it is the people who have given the power to govern the state.

In other words, officials such as the head of the cabinet who may have the highest executive power in the empire should be elected by the people.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not have such an electoral system, and even did not have this kind of awareness, the cabinet chief assistant was appointed by the emperor, and even the highest executive power of the cabinet chief assistant was given by the emperor.

But as the emperor, it is difficult for Zhu Houzhao to know which person is the cabinet chief assistant who really meets the requirements of the people, he really wants every official to make a speech to let himself know who is more suitable, but he finds that he does not have the energy, and the daily government affairs that the country constantly occurs every day and urgently need to deal with do not allow him to have time to choose a more suitable first assistant.

Zhu Houzhao can only choose according to the convention, the first assistant retires, the second assistant takes over, and then takes turns according to seniority, regardless of the merits and inferiority, this is the most just, and it is also the most unreasonable for the entire bureaucratic class.

On the contrary, if he rashly appoints an official with outstanding ability as the chief assistant of the cabinet, and does not follow his qualifications, then the second assistant and the third assistant of the cabinet will definitely be dissatisfied.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao still had to appoint the first assistant to the cabinet in accordance with the usual practice.

Liu Yu, the first assistant of the cabinet, also recommended Wang Qiong as the second assistant of the cabinet according to the custom, although the emperor Zhu Houzhao had given him the right to recommend scholars and officials of the six ministries, he did not dare to appoint cronyism or only appoint people who were consistent with his political ideas, and he could only come according to the convention.

Zhu Houzhao found that as a person within the rule of the empire, it is sometimes difficult to carry out a thorough reform, it is difficult to change the status quo, it is not that everyone does not understand the principle of meritocracy, but everyone cannot break the existing rules.

Liu Yu became the first assistant of the cabinet, so he was naturally very happy, and he also cooperated with His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, only following the way of Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, and had no intention of going against His Majesty the Emperor.

Wang Qiong became the deputy assistant of the cabinet, and she is also very happy, and has begun to maintain her health, eat fasting and chant Buddha every day, stay away from beauty, pay attention to her own style problems, and be honest and honest, obviously to prepare for her future as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Kang Hai also thanked Zhu Houzhao, expressed his recommendation to Liu Yu, and wrote a few poems praising the imperial court in a good mood, after all, the imperial court made him a cabinet scholar.

None of the officials had any opinions, and they all felt that this was a very normal ending of the court official change after Wang Hua resigned as the first assistant of the cabinet, and if it wasn't for such an ending, it would make people feel uneasy.

The people are even more lazy to care who the first assistant is and who the second assistant is.

The only one who is not satisfied is Zhu Houzhao, he is not satisfied with the fact that Rao is he has released power, and there is still no way to let Daming embark on the road of political democracy, what makes him even more depressed is that although he is not satisfied with the results he has made, the officials and the people are very satisfied with him as a king, and they all praise him as a king for being quiet and inactive, going with the flow and not disturbing the people and disrupting the government.

Perhaps for many people underneath, it is really a good thing that the leader does not toss.

But for leaders, can they be considered leaders if they don't toss around, and what is the difference between that and the walking dead.

Zhu Houzhao is in this kind of mentality now, he obviously wants to change something, but he still hasn't changed the internal political structure of the empire, but now he can only go with the flow and change slowly.

On this day, Zhu Houzhao came to the National Academy of Administration.

The National Academy of Administration was one of the new things that Zhu Houzhao brought to the Ming Dynasty, it was an official training institution that he established by using the power of the emperor, and the most obvious difference between it and the Hanlin Academy was that the National Academy of Administration more clearly indicated itself as a base for training imperial officials.

The National School of Administration, also located in the Royal West Garden, is a building with cement and stone as the main components, and the classrooms are all glass-windowed, not far from the Beijing Normal University and the Royal Industrial Experimental Base, so that the traditional officials who can study can get close to new knowledge and new things.

Zhu Houzhao believed that what the officials of this era lacked was not a lack of intelligence, but only a lack of knowledge and knowledge, and that it was Confucianism that imprisoned their minds, not really stupidity, so he felt that by exposing these officials to new knowledge and new things, he might be better at transforming the country than himself.

Governor Cao Yundu Yu Shi Conglan was one of the high-ranking officials who were selected to enter the National Academy of Administration in Beijing for training, and at this moment he was amazed by the building of the National Academy of Administration in the Ming Dynasty, he did not expect that cement could make the house ten stories high.

Cong Lan had to sigh at the difference in the imperial capital, but he was even more surprised when he took the first lesson, because in the first lesson, he saw Zhang Xuan, the left attendant of the ministry, actually took out a small white stick, and then easily wrote the words "human rights", "state", and "separation of powers" on the protruding black wall.

He had never heard any of these three words.