Wang Yangming came to Zhu Houzhao naturally to prepare for the money for the establishment of Beijing Normal University.

When Zhu Houzhao found out, he decisively ordered to summon Wang Hua.

After Wang Hua saluted Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao asked: "How did you become a household secretary, you don't even have the money to run a Beijing Normal University, so it won't cost much silver?" ”

"Your Majesty, the non-ministers are unwilling to give, there is really no money! Since the Qianqing Palace was repaired, the household department has run out of money," Wang Hua replied.

"It's not that you don't have money, it's that you don't know how to be a book, I will give you an idea, you take a loan from the Royal Bank!"

Zhu Houzhao gave Wang Hua an idea.

Wang Hua nodded yes.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that a scholar like Wang Hua was not suitable for being a scholar in the household department, but what he couldn't help was that he was elected through the so-called "democratic" election method of Tingtui, which was the result of the balance of forces within the civil official group at that time.

Zhu Houzhao really can't be easily dismissed, and it is also the most beneficial to him, the emperor, after all, the more balanced the internal forces of the court, the better.

Fortunately, although Wang Hua is not good at managing the Daming Money Law, he is not stubborn, and he can tolerate new things and rebellious people, otherwise Wang Yangming would not have survived until now.

This is also the reason why Zhu Houzhao is still willing to let Wang Hua take charge of the household department, he can't find a competent subordinate, and it is also a good choice to find a subordinate who can listen to people's words and has no tendons.

Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, and the talents who can really become the pillars of the empire must be cultivated slowly.

Zhu Houzhao sometimes thinks that maybe Beijing Normal University is an opportunity, but what he doesn't know is that after the palace examination Enke, how many literati are willing to come to Beijing Normal University for further study.

Xu Jing finally confirmed the final agreement on the loan with Wang Hua, the secretary of the household department, and also obtained the approval of Jiao Fang's vote from the cabinet and Zhu Houzhao's approval.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao did not let the household department only borrow money to establish Beijing Normal University, and also borrowed a reserve fund for the purchase of military rations.

In this way, Zhu Houzhao does not have to worry about the impact of grain prices if the grain is distributed.

Of course, as for how to repay this loan, Zhu Houzhao also thought about it for Wang Hua, since Ye Qi, the head of the household department, changed the salt system to open the Chinese method to accept silver for rice, and the household department has a sum of no less than one million taels of silver every year into the Tai warehouse.

Theoretically, this money was used by the household to purchase military rations to supply the army.

Of course, the supply of military supplies alone naturally does not cost so much, especially in such peacetime, so many times, this money will be saved.

It became an important income of the central court.

In the future, the household department will naturally be able to use this silver to repay the loan, and now he can use the money borrowed from the Royal Bank to buy grain for military supplies when the price of grain is low, so as to avoid the increase in the cost of military supplies caused by the price of grain being raised by merchants when the salt and silver arrive, and at the same time balance the price of food and avoid the price of grain being too high or too low.

Zhu Houzhao's doing this is tantamount to making the flow of funds from the central government of the Ming Dynasty more flexible.

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After solving the problem of lack of money in the household department, Zhu Houzhao went to the duty room of the cabinet and the celebrant to prepare to start the day's government affairs.

But as soon as Zhu Houzhao stepped into the cabinet and the celebrant duty room, Liu Jin walked up to Zhu Houzhao and said with a solemn expression:

"Your Majesty! In the middle of the matter, Zuo Dongxiu rejected the decree issued by the cabinet on the implementation of the central civil official selection examination, saying that it was contrary to the law of the ancestors! “

"Your Majesty! The big thing is not good, Beizhen Fusi just received the news that the prince of Shangshu was attacked by gangsters on the way home! At this time, Guo Rong, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, also suddenly appeared outside the duty room, and said with a panicked expression.

"Your Majesty! The cabinet has just received a letter from Yu Shi Liao Yiming for impeaching Zhao Botao for embezzlement of Wen Xuan Shilang! In Yichen's view, this is their dissatisfaction with the central civil official election examination! ”

Jiao Fang, the deputy assistant of the cabinet on duty, also walked up to Zhu Houzhao to report.

After Zhu Houzhao heard these three news, he was also a little distracted.

Frankly speaking, he attaches great importance to the central civil official selection examination, even more than the so-called Enke, because this is his attempt to reform the Ming Dynasty official election system, and it is also an important part of the reform of the official administration.

Although the selection of officials by the Ministry of Officials was only for officials with lower official ranks, it was these officials who constituted the majority of the imperial officials and also determined the degree of corruption in the Ming Dynasty.

Changing the mode of selecting officials from the ministry to the selection of officials by examination can undoubtedly greatly curb the belly of the grassroots officials of the empire.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao took advantage of the opportunity of this opportunity to carry out the reform of the civil official selection examination system after the elimination of a large number of official vacancies in the imperial court, and he also considered that it might cause a backlash from the civil official forces, so he only carried out the reform at the central level.

But what Zhu Houzhao didn't expect was that he was still hindered!

First of all, he was actually refuted by the official officer!

Secondly, Wang Shugang, the official who supported the reform, escaped death by chance, and now he has been assassinated again in the capital, which shows how much the officials in the court can't tolerate him!

I have to admit that Emperor Hongzhi asked Wang Shu Zhishi to protect him.

As for the impeachment of Zhao Botao for embezzling ink in the Imperial History Liao Yiming, as Jiao Fang said, this is Zhao Botao expressing his dissatisfaction with the imperial court's official selection examination system, because once the official selection is based on the examination, he will be robbed of the power of the Wenxuan Shilang!

Otherwise, this Liao Yiming is full of food and can't support it, so why is he suddenly impeaching Wen Xuan Shilang for being greedy.

Although the official position of Wenxuan Shiro is easy to be greedy for ink and has a lot of oil and water, the power is not small, and he can generally become Wenxuan Shiro, and the background is also very hard.

This imperial historian Liao Yiming must have Zhao Botao's permission to impeach him, because as long as Zhao Botao is impeached, Zhao Botao can be suspended from office pending questioning, and he can also strike justifiably, so that the reform of the imperial court election examination cannot be carried out.

And Emperor Zhu Houzhao couldn't even grasp Zhao Botao's mistakes, because he was impeached and couldn't work.

It is equivalent to, on the surface, Zhao Botao is a victim.

Not to mention Zuo Dongxiu's rejection of Zhu Houzhao and the cabinet's will to reform the election system, because this is the power given to him by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and the officials of the six departments have the power to refute.

But because of this, even if Zhu Houzhao changed to a literary anthology, it would be useless, because the will of the reform was rejected by the officials of the people's bureaucracy!

And Wang Shu's assassination is undoubtedly a warning to some civil officials who want to change the system of electing officials.

"Good, good! Very good! ”

Zhu Houzhao really felt the resistance to reform at this moment, and he was really angry, he couldn't help but ask Guo Rong: "How is Wang Shu's situation now, is there a big problem?" ”

"It's okay for the time being, but I was shot in the right foot, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to go to the court to participate in politics for a while," Guo Rong replied.

"How can this be good, once the prince recovers, then the reform of the official election examination can only be shelved!" Jiao Fang said with some concern.

"Who said it should be put aside! I didn't say shelved, then I didn't! Passed the decree and sent the officials to Zuo Dongxiu and Yushi Liao Yiming in the matter to be imprisoned and interrogated strictly! Interrogation may be suspected of conspiracy and collusion, whether he intends to obstruct the new policy of the imperial court and disobey the decree, deliberately embarrass the officials of the ministry, and even assassinate the court bosses! ”

Zhu Houzhao commanded coldly.