Although the expedition to Spain was the first expedition of the Ming Dynasty to other countries, because the Ming Dynasty and Spain were separated by tens of thousands of miles, after the expeditionary force went to sea, everyone in the empire no longer paid attention to this matter, and only waited for the results after a year and a half.

For the Empire, the dispatch of the expeditionary force is not a major event that deserves too much attention, and the officials and citizens of the Empire are really concerned about the storage position.

After all, the current Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao is almost old, and this age is considered a long life in the Ming Dynasty, and even for several emperors of the Ming Dynasty, almost no one can say when he will die at this age.

The system of the Ming Dynasty determines the level of the monarch, which still plays an extremely important role in the operation of the country.

Therefore, everyone in the world is speculating and guessing who the next generation of princes will be.

In fact, there are many people who would rather the emperor give the crown prince the position and directly follow the system of establishing a successor and a chief, so as to avoid everyone's guesses, so that they don't know how to stand in line, which also leads to all the princes in the country not daring to offend, for fear that one of them will become the prince in the future.

However, Xu Jin and Zhou Luo's "Lixian" remarks prevented the emperor's decision to establish a successor, so that the matter of the throne is still unresolved, so many people complain about Xu Jin and Zhou Luo.

However, there were also many civil officials and scholars who knew that the political intentions of the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Zailei, did not suit the interests of their own class, and supported the views of Xu Jin and Zhou Luo.

Zhu Houzhao is actually in good health now, he has insisted on exercising since he was fifteen years old, and he has restrained greed for decades, paid attention to health preservation, and does not accumulate depression and boredom, so that his temples are still not dyed with white frost, and he does not need help when he walks, and even can still resist a woman every day, and the fragrance is not soft when it is extinguished.

Of course, this may be related to Zhu Houzhao's body that has loved martial arts since he was a child, and it is also related to Emperor Hongzhi's regret that he did not let him suffer and was able to keep up with nutrition since he was a child, so that Zhu Houzhao's body is still strong.

It cannot be ruled out that it is related to factors such as the development of Daming Dairy's technology, the further improvement of nutritional level and the improvement of drug research technology.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao sometimes doesn't understand why the subjects of the world are so anxious to let themselves become princes, as if they really feel that they are going to see the first emperor soon.

Of course, the ministers around Zhu Houzhao did not have these anxieties, they could see that His Majesty still had a health that was different from ordinary people, and Xia Yan, who was too old, was convinced of this.

Because, he could see that His Majesty the Emperor was much healthier than when he was at this age.

For Zhu Houzhao and Xia Yan, it is natural to age slowly, after all, one of the two is now the emperor, the other is the first assistant, the other is the Daming Weijia in the sea, the people don't know the hunger and cold, and the other is a very human minister, and there is not much anxiety and pursuit, just thinking about how to stabilize the country.

But for many people, they really want the years to pass slowly, and they grow old slowly, but they are helpless to watch their hair dyed white and their complexion darkened.

This day is Yan Song's seventy-seventh birthday.

The secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, who was free from hunger because of the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes, has always had a close relationship with Zhu Houzhao, and the two have a deep cooperative relationship in agricultural scientific research.

And Yan Song is very good at making friends, especially with his own Emperor Majesty, but he has also been criticized by many people for inviting favors.

But in any case, Yan Song is indeed very good at making friends with the emperor, and recently because of his research on rhizobia, Emperor Zhu Houzhao paid more attention to him, and Yan Song simply boldly invited His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao for his birthday.

Zhu Houzhao, who was accustomed to eating the delicacies of the sea in the palace, also wanted to taste the birthday banquet of the bureaucrats and doctors, so he readily agreed, and asked the inner government to prepare a congratulatory gift.

But what people didn't expect was that Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, also came to congratulate him in person, although it was not ruled out that he was worried that the emperor would begin to pay more attention to Yan Song.

But for Yan Song, it is naturally a great honor that the emperor and the first assistant both came to celebrate his birthday!

But at Yan Song's Shoutang, although Zhu Houzhao came to celebrate his birthday, he didn't know Yan Song's age, so he asked Yan Song's age.

Yan Song couldn't help but reply: "The old minister has seven out of seventy this year!" ”

"It's older than Yuanfu, Xia Qing, you should call someone a brother", Zhu Houzhao said to Xia Yan with a smile after hearing this.

"Your Majesty's words are very true, the old minister and Yan Gong are both Gan people, and they should have called him a brother", Xia Yan said, and said:

"However, eldest brother, it doesn't look like he's nine years older than His Majesty, but it looks like he's nineteen years older than His Majesty, so it can be seen that my brother has also worried a lot about the court over the years, and he should unload some of the burden to the younger generations."

Zhu Houzhao knew that this Xia Yan was hiding a sharp edge in his words, obviously afraid that Yan Song would be more trusted by himself, and deliberately poked Yan Song's sore spots, reminding Yan Song that you are old, don't put your mind on currying favor, you should think about retirement.

Zhu Houzhao can hear Xia Yan's words, how can Yan Song not hear it, he is naturally very unhappy in his heart, why doesn't he want to wear a first-grade seven-beam crown like Xia Yan, although Xia Yan is here to celebrate his birthday today and does not wear official clothes, he wears regular clothes, but the Yunhe complement of the first product also makes Yan Song look envious, he is still a second-grade Shangguan, and the complement is still a golden chicken, the key is that he is still older than Xia Yan, and even Xia Yan was his own student.

However, Yan Song didn't dare to be angry with Xia Yan in front of Zhu Houzhao, and said elegantly and implicitly: "Xiaguan thanks Yuanfu for his care, but Xiaguan really can't be called Yuanfu's brother, and even, Xiaguan should be called Yuanfu's brother, in front of His Majesty, the minister does not dare to trust the old, in fact, although the minister has seven out of seventy, he is obviously not as old as Yuanfu." ”

Xia Yan smiled slightly, he didn't say more, although he was disgusted with Yan Song's sleek but habitual pets, but he also knew that the Ministry of Agriculture could not leave Yan Song now, and now Yan Song said that he was more old, he could only admit it, and he had to admit it, after all, if he was not more old, how could he become the first assistant.

Zhu Houzhao is sometimes very tired of sitting and chatting with these Wenchen, obviously not happy with the military attachés, because these people like to talk around one by one, but Zhu Houzhao can't force these Wenchen to speak more straightforwardly, he only smiled: "You Xia Yan is this mouth is unforgiving!" ”

Yan Song could see that although His Majesty the Emperor only said Xia Yan and criticized Xia Yan, he obviously still valued Xia Yan who dared to do it, otherwise he would not say that Xia Yan was just unforgiving, not that Xia Yan was narrow-minded and jealous!

But Yan Song didn't hate Xia Yan very much, or rather, he and Xia Yan had not yet reached the point where they were incompatible in history.

Yan Song even admired Xia Yan very much, admired Xia Yan for daring to stand up and confront Wang Wei, the leader of the Qingliu at that time, when he was young, and got His Majesty's respect, and later exposed the conspiracy of the traitors to murder His Majesty in the Ordnance Bureau, and since then he has prospered in the official road, and finally became an important minister because of his inspection of the West.

However, Yan Song never felt that he was worse than Xia Yan, and he engaged in fertilizer research in Nanzhili and the sweet potatoes and potatoes that he later promoted, so that Daming avoided several famines caused by major droughts, and thwarted several conspiracy of profiteers to hoard Juqi, and now that every family has surplus grain, it has a great relationship with their own agricultural research.

Therefore, Yan Song thinks that his political achievements and deeds can be like Xia Yan in the cabinet, but he is helpless that everything he does is basically beneficial to the people, and the people are the most silent, so that the scholars and doctors who have the right to speak do not respect him Yan Song very much.

Unlike Xia Yan, a tax reduction outside the customs made the government and the opposition praise, and the inspection of the Western Sea and trade made the merchants grow as a result, and he Xia Yan was even more famous overseas.

But in any case, Yan Song still insisted on agricultural research, because although the people only knew that they would follow the children of the family to shout for tax reduction and exemption and increase welfare after reading the book, they forgot about him, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture.

But he knew that His Majesty the Emperor knew his role, otherwise he would not have agreed to come to celebrate his birthday, and he would also divide shares and profits in the agricultural industry, so that although he was not as proud as Xia Yan in the officialdom, he was richer than Xia Yan in terms of assets.

It's just that Yan Song knows that he is not interested in women, but there are a lot of daughters-in-law, and there is only one daughter-in-law, what he is interested in is to be an official, to be the biggest official!

And whoever can make himself the biggest official is naturally the emperor.

Therefore, Yan Song is still happy to please Zhu Houzhao, Rao is his birthday, and he can't help but say from Zhu Houzhao's preference: "Your Majesty, the minister recently built a fungus fertilizer factory according to the nitrogen fixation effect of rhizobia, the purpose is to promote the production of bean plants, after all, you said that the people of Daming can't eat enough, and they have to eat well, and now Daming's demand for bean plants has not declined because of the decline in demand for horses but is increasing day by day, why don't you take a look, it's on the west side of the minister's mansion!" ”

As soon as Yan Song said this, Zhu Houzhao became interested, and he was busy watching it.

Seeing this, Xia Yan had to shake his head slightly, he did not object to Yan Song's research in this area, and even supported it, after all, he also hoped that Daming's grain production would continue to increase, but he had to admit that Yan Song obviously did not reduce his pursuit of power because he was getting older.

Zhu Houzhao was very satisfied with Yan Song's research on rhizobia, and also expressed his support after visiting Yan Song's fungus fertilizer factory, after all, this kind of thing that appeared in the thirties of the twentieth century in the original history can now appear in advance in the Ming Dynasty, which undoubtedly shows that the Ming Dynasty has been far behind other civilizations in microbial research.

However, not long after Zhu Houzhao visited Yan Song's fungus fertilizer factory, news came from the Ministry of Rites that Zhang Jing, a cabinet scholar, died suddenly, Zhu Houzhao was grief-stricken after hearing this, thinking that these old ministers are now going to another one, but for Yan Song, it is a joyful thing, because Zhang Jing's death means that he has the opportunity to enter the cabinet.

Zhu Houzhao didn't mind letting Yan Song enter the cabinet, after all, aside from Yan Song's slander of Xia Yan in history, Yan Song in this life has also done a lot of practical things, but Zhu Houzhao doesn't mind that Yan Song can't enter the cabinet, after all, there are many officials in the empire who can enter the cabinet, and Yan Song doesn't enter the cabinet, which has no impact on the Ming Dynasty.

But when the court introduced Wang Yongbin as the right and Zhou Luo as the accompaniment, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but frown, he clearly remembered that Wang Yongbin was a representative of the Jin merchants, and since he became an official, he has always asked the court to reduce commercial taxes, not to mention Zhou Luo, an official who has just made a suggestion and is a virtuous official, an official who has been scolded by the people of the world.

Since Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, he has not changed the Ming Empire's court push system, and has always let the officials under him vote to elect important officials of the empire, after all, such officials seem to be more fair and democratic, but Zhu Houzhao can't help but find that it seems that the officials introduced by the court are not very favored by him, or are too concentrated in some officials with rich business backgrounds.

"Your Majesty, Xichang has checked, since the death of Zhang Gong, these qualified officials have been running around, and a person named Hou Lu from the Shanxi Guild Hall has donated more than 300,000 silver dollars to the Wang clan association to help Wang Yongbin win the position of Dongge University Scholar in the court."

Gao Zhong, the eunuch of Xichang, explained to Zhu Houzhao about the investigation of Tingtui in Xichang, and Zhu Houzhao had to admit that with the development of capitalism, these businessmen had begun to control the politics of the imperial court.

Zhu Houzhao was thinking about whether he should take back the power of the court push, and the cabinet ministers should have been appointed by himself, but because of the death of Qiu Jun from the eighth year of Hongzhi, the Hongzhi Emperor issued an edict to be promoted by officials such as officials, so that from then on, the imperial cabinet ministers were promoted by officials.

"This court tui seems to be very democratic, but it is inevitable that capital will use it, and although the elected officials can be accepted by the courtiers, it is inevitable that I will not be grateful that I promoted them, but that the courtiers promoted them, so as to become the spokesmen of the civil gentry group, and not become my loyal ministers, but I am getting old and taking back the power of Tai'a, but I do not have the energy to carefully select officials who are not popular to hold important positions."

Zhu Houzhao fell into confusion, he used to be proud of the democratic system like the Ming Dynasty, but now he has to admit that this system does have great hidden dangers, because this seemingly democratic system is easy to be controlled by the chaebols behind it.

"Since my body does not allow me to rule in the world alone, I will directly publicize it, so that more people in the world can see the real inside story of this court push, and the West Factory will disclose the matter of Hou Lu's manipulation of the court push through the Huangming Bao, so that everyone in the world can see it, I don't believe it, this world is really just the world of the rich chaebols", Zhu Houzhao ordered.

After Zhu Houzhao said that, he did not immediately appoint Wang Yongbin or Zhou Luo as the new cabinet scholars, but only hid in the inner court and continued his life of fishing and teasing birds.

Huangming Bao is the official newspaper of the Ming Dynasty and is directly managed by Zhu Houzhao's attendant office.

The officials in the attendant room are all selected from the officials who have just entered the official career, and they all have a fair heart, so when Xichang brought the results of the investigation about Tingtui to the attendant room, the officials in the attendant room were shocked at first.

Among them, Hai Rui, who had already been appointed as the chief editor of the chamberlain's office, couldn't help but slap the table: "There is such a thing, the merchant manipulates the imperial court to re-enact, is this world still the world of all people?!" ”

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