In the end, no official raised any objections to the Outline of the King James Constitution.

Because the high-ranking officials of the Ming Empire never thought that the imperial system needed to be clearly stipulated, Zhu Houzhao's proposal was undoubtedly too novel, which caught them off guard and made them very confused, not knowing whether to stop or agree.

Under these circumstances, Zhu Houzhao could only use the imperial power to order the Hanlin Yuan to organize the Constitutional Hall, which would draw up the draft of the "Outline of the King James Constitution."

At the same time, the draft will be discussed again after the drafting is completed.

However, the scholars of the Hanlin Academy who formulated the imperial constitution of the Constitutional Hall had to be appointed by Zhu Houzhao himself.

Zhu Houzhao demanded that officials from different classes of the Hanlin Yuan be selected to participate, not only from the gentry class, but also from the common landlord class, and those with merchant backgrounds and those without merchant backgrounds, and at the same time, there should be no only northerners and not only southerners.

It can be said that although Zhu Houzhao's purpose in formulating the "Outline of the King James Constitution" was to protect his imperial power, his approach was still very democratic, and he did not say that he made a direct decision and did not consult with his ministers.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao's purpose in doing this is actually to make these civil officials of the Ming Empire accustomed to the way of thinking of governing the empire with the legal system, rather than governing the empire with ethical relations.

Wang Yangming, who was the governor of Nanzhili at the time, also learned about the imperial court's constitution through the Huangming Bao at this time, and at the same time, he also learned about the content of the court discussion on the constitution and the controversy in the newspaper from the Huangming Bao.

And this discussion about the constitution had a great impact on Wang Yangming, just like other officials in the empire.

Wang Yangming found that even if he was in the court at the time, he could not tell whether His Majesty the Emperor was right or wrong in doing so.

He had to admit that His Majesty the Emperor was very fond of making rules, having just drawn up a "Convention" in Nanzhili, and a "Covenant" with several important ministers at home and abroad who were associated with the Royal Bank, and now he was going to formulate a "Constitution".

But Wang Yangming has to admit that these rules are very necessary and effective, once there are rules, there will be order and fairness, for example, Nanzhili's "Convention" made the Jiangnan gentry have to pay taxes, and there is no way to refute them, because the rules are written in black and white.

But this also made Wang Yangming find that the knowledge of Confucianism he learned was very lacking in this regard, and it seemed that the knowledge of Confucianism he learned only focused on self-cultivation and emphasized ethical relations, and there was never an explanation of what rules the empire needed to govern, and there was no clear political program, only saying that the monarch is the subject and the father is the son.

What is Kejun's program and what powers are there? Could it be that this Confucian idea is to make everyone in the world a slave of the king? What the king says is what it is? Juggernaut Subjects Die in Peace? In this case, why is there a saying that "the king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy", isn't this contradictory?

Wang Yangming found that he needed to do his studies again, to explain the relationship between man and man, man and nature, man and country, man and king, and the relationship between man and himself.

Wang Yangming found himself about to open up a new world of thought.

For this reason, he read Zhu Houzhao's "Outline of Governance" again, went to the bamboo forest, and went up the mountain to find the monks who sat in meditation and the Taoist priests who cultivated immortals, and even went to ask the farmers who farmed the land what they wanted, and also asked themselves what the maid wanted.

Like Wang Yangming, Kang Hai, the head of the Hanlin Academy, is also very confused now, and the matter of His Majesty the Emperor wanting to formulate a constitution seems ridiculous to him, because since ancient times, there has been no constitution to govern the world, either the Huang Lao doctrine or the Confucian doctrine.

But Kang Hai can't say that it is ridiculous now, even if the dynasty is orthodox with Cheng Zhu Lixue, but there is no clear provision that this Cheng Zhu Lixue can be directly used as a political system, or even directly used as a political system at all! Because the thing of "preserving the principles of heaven and destroying people's desires" is used to demand individuals, and there is a sense that the country is not on topic.

And even if Cheng Zhu Lixue's doctrine is used as a political program, it seems to be very contradictory, according to the idea of the monarch as the minister, the gentry in the world should not question the emperor's advice to the emperor, otherwise even if the emperor is advised, the emperor can only obey if he does not listen to them.

As a gentry, Kang Hai had to admit that he was very resistant to such a view, but he also did not understand how he regarded this idea as orthodox.

But when Kang Hai thought of the father as the son, he felt that there was nothing wrong, how could a son of man oppose his father!

Kang Hai fell into confusion, he found that the emperor in the palace gave him a problem, and also made him realize that even if he was the champion, he didn't seem to be proficient in his studies, and he still couldn't understand many things clearly, especially when he saw the plain and gentle Hanlin bachelors in the Constitutional Hall arguing, he didn't expect that the officials from the original gentry and the officials from the common people would be so different in the formulation of the constitution.

Kang Hai wrote a book of notes that he wanted to resign from his official position and go to Beijing Normal University to be a student, and he found that there were many things taught at Beijing Normal University that were not mentioned in the Four Books and Five Classics, and even many of them were directly related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and they were very straightforward, and he didn't even know what system these studies were now, but he decided to study now, and he felt that he could learn some new knowledge from there, so as to answer the doubts in his heart.

Zhu Houzhao agreed to the request of Kang Hai, the head of the Hanlin Academy, and in consideration of his age, he was exempted from military training.

However, Kang Hai's request also caused a great uproar in the Manchu Dynasty, and even the entire Ming literary circle was quite surprised, because the official of the Hanlin Academy was one of the most noble official positions in the Qing Stream, and even indicated that he would enter the cabinet in the next step, according to the previous rules.

Now Kang Hai is going to resign from his official position to study, which naturally makes many people puzzled, and he still goes to study at Beijing Normal University, which is often tolerated and even criticized by the world, and even goes to that place to study as a generation of great Confucians, so that many arrogant Confucian literati really can't accept such a thing.

Xu Zhenqing asked Kang Hai: "Why did my brother resign and go to that place to study, do you really want to study with a group of juniors?" ”

"My brother doesn't know, but because His Majesty wanted to practice constitutional government the day before yesterday, my brother found that he had learned very little, and he couldn't tell whether what His Majesty said was right or wrong, according to the words of the sages, whether it was better to restrict the monarch's power or not to restrict the monarchy, but even the words of the saints were not uniform, so that none of the ministers in the court could argue the rights and wrongs of what His Majesty did, in order to better refute His Majesty's deviance, my brother must learn what His Majesty knows!" Kang Hai said.

Xu Zhenqing did not stop Kang Hai's behavior.

And Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that he was just formulating the constitution, which made the civil officials so confused, and there were even great differences, because his sentence "The constitution is the foundation of the future dynasty, and the king and even the subjects of the world must take it as the key", so that a group of literati and scholars in the Constitutional Hall of the Hanlin Academy did not dare to be disdainful, and they did not formulate a draft for several months, and even quarreled more and more fiercely.

Zhu Houzhao didn't stop it, and even said: "It's best to quarrel more, now that the argument is clear, so as not to cause dissatisfaction in the future, and if the quarrel can't get results, let more people quarrel, and always formulate a constitution that satisfies the subjects of the world, don't worry." ”

Because of this, almost all the literati in the world participated in this scolding war, expressing their views on how the constitution was formulated through the Huangming Bao.

Zhu Houzhao didn't care, even if some literati directly rolled up their sleeves and fought because of this, he didn't let Jinyiwei ask, not to mention, he didn't have so much time to care about how these literati quarreled, and in his opinion, it was good for the literati to quarrel themselves, so they wouldn't come to deal with him, the emperor.

"Your Majesty! Yushi Ximen Fu impeached Shouning Marquis Zhang Yanling, even though the domestic slaves seized hundreds of hectares of land."

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that the civil officials didn't bother him, but the relatives and nobles made trouble for themselves, and it was obvious that his two uncles now thought that after the death of Emperor Hongzhi, he would indulge them even more, and continue to annex the land unscrupulously.

"Order the Marquis of Shouning to return the land to the people immediately, and send the slaves of the Zhantian family to Jinyiwei within three days, otherwise, I will order Jinyiwei to personally come to the door to get people and cut their titles!"

Zhu Houzhao was naturally not polite, and he also went to the Empress Dowager Zhang with the song, and said to the Empress Dowager Zhang:

"Queen Mother, although my relatives are not allowed to interfere in politics, I feel that the two uncles can't be so unlearned, not to mention ruining the reputation of the mother's family, they will also be criticized by hundreds of officials, not to mention that even if I am now favored by the Zhang family, the future emperor may not be favored by the Zhang family, in order to ensure the wealth of the Zhang family, I feel that the two uncles should be allowed to study at Beijing Normal University now, like other nobles, so as not to leave a name in vain!"

"But your two uncles are not young, is it too late to study now?" Empress Dowager Zhang asked.

"There is no age limit for studying and studying, the first to attain the Tao is the teacher, and it is better to let the two uncles learn the truth than to cause trouble now, otherwise it will bring monstrous disasters to the Zhang family at that time! Now it has been said in the imperial history that they have embezzled the people's land, and what if they cause more trouble in the future, and even do not know their loyalty, and listen to the traitors instigating rebellion."

Zhu Houzhao said.

Empress Dowager Zhang is just a woman in the deep palace all the year round, and now that she heard Zhu Houzhao say this, she naturally had no choice but to agree, of course, she didn't want her two younger brothers to continue to mess around like this.

At this time, as soon as Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling received the holy order that they should go to Beijing Normal University to study, they reluctantly came to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the ministers have returned the seized fields, and the house slaves who committed the crime have also been escorted to Jinyiwei, but can you not let us go to study!" ”

"Can't! This is the decree of the Queen Mother! In order to let the Zhang family stay rich forever! And aren't you complaining in private, the Royal Bank didn't count your share, do you regret that you didn't want to invest in the shares, now I make it clear, if you don't want to go now, you can, I won't find two uncles to make a fortune in the future, so as not to let you lose! ”

Zhu Houzhao said.

But because of Zhu Houzhao's words, both of them had to accept the arrangement to go to Beijing Normal University to study, and only asked again: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, can you be exempted from military training?" ”

"Can't!"