Chapter 65: Wenchen
On August 16, Zhu Di held his first grand court meeting in the North Parallel Institute for more than half a year.
Because of the delay of more than half a year, although many major events have been handled by Zhu Di through the express, there are still a lot of things that need to be dealt with in the backlog.
The Great Pilgrimage Meeting was held for two days in a row, both of which were dealing with these affairs.
Zhu Zhanji got Zhu Di's permission, and also watched this court meeting, and felt more and more that being an emperor was really a hardship in this era.
The southeast coastal typhoon needs to be rescued, the women of Shanxi want to repay their grievances with justice, and the second generation of gentlemen is bullying others, and some cases that should not be resolved by the emperor at all in Zhu Zhanji's opinion were sent to Zhu Di for various reasons.
The imperial court has raised so many ministers, but it can't fulfill its responsibilities, perform its duties, have laws to follow, and those who violate the law must be prosecuted, so many things have been pushed in front of the emperor.
Again, it's convention, not once or twice.
This also means that although you are an emperor, you not only have to manage national affairs, foreign policy, military wars, but also worry about people's food, drink, lazar and sleep, and also worry about judging cases.
Seeing a lot of bad things that have been submitted, people take it for granted, and even Zhu Zhanji doesn't know where to correct everyone's concepts.
And, even if he wanted to reform, the resistance would be staggering. No matter how great his power is, he also exerts his power through the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and when the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs does not realize that this is a mistake, you want to change, it is impossible.
Zhu Zhanji believes that if he is sitting on the throne now, if he talks about reform, I am afraid that the decree will not be able to get out of this hall.
On August 17, Zhu Di issued an order. Hu Guang, a scholar from Zuo Chunfang University, Yang Rong, a scholar from Hanlin, and Jin Youzi wrote "Records of the Northern Expedition" to carry forward the great achievements of the Northern Expedition.
And the deeds of Liu Sheng, Zheng Heng, Mandu and other heroes were recorded in the book and published in a book, so as to encourage the martial arts and meritorious heart in the army.
At the same time, it was also officially decreed that the world should be rewarded, and the military and guard meritorious departments were vigorously publicized and praised by the imperial court in addition to economic interests.
Liu Sheng was originally promoted to Marquis of Anyuan, hereditary earl. Because of the first military merit in this Northern Expedition, although his title was not promoted, Galumi was 500 stones, and the hereditary earl was made a hereditary marquis.
This reward is relatively large, if his Marquis An Yuan is passed on to his son, he will become An Yuanbo. But this time, the title of Marquis of Anyuan will become the heirloom of the Liu family.
has changed from a lifelong marquis to a hereditary marquis, which is heavier than the reward for him to be a duke.
Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng led the Chinese army to dispatch well, and charged to kill the enemy first, so he was hit by an arrow in the cheek. Meritorious work was added to hard work, so he was also able to be made a hereditary marquis.
The families of these two have also been sealed as a result, from their elders to their juniors, they have all received some rewards more or less, and none of them have been missed.
On August 18, the Great Court Meeting on this day has been discussing the matter of formally awarding medals to all military guards.
Military merit is divided into two levels of meritorious service, in Zhangbei Zhu Di's award of the three armies is only to confer merit, but the formal award must be through the court, through the ministers, through the military department This channel can be regarded as official, Zhu Di speaking alone does not work.
If it was in the late Ming Dynasty, the military generals were vigorously suppressed by the Wenchen, and even if there was a reward, it might be reduced.
But during this period, under the strong rule of Zhu Di, although the military generals could not be regarded as close to each other, they did not have much constraint on each other.
Although the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Military Department, a military general's own camp, and an institution for civil servants to restrain military generals, there will often be some minor contradictions between them. But everything is still under control, and there is no one who is higher or who is lower.
Although Zhu Zhan was influenced by later generations and did not have a good impression of Confucianism, he only knew that a feudal dynasty could not do without the support of Confucianism, a scholar who occupied the mainstream of social thought.
And Confucianism in this era is actually not as unbearable as he imagined. Today, inside and outside the court, there are a large number of Confucian scholars with idealism and practical spirit.
Just within the imperial court, Zhu Zhanji thought that there were a large number of good ministers.
People like Xie Jin, Huang Huai, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, Jian Yi, Yu Xin, Liu Guan, Zheng Ci, Song Li, Jin Chun, Xia Yuanji, Lu Zhen, and Jin Zhong are all people who can leave their names in history.
Outside the court, in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, there are many literati like this.
For example, Huang Fu, who concurrently served as the political envoy of Jiaozhi Chengxuan with the title of Shangshu, and the political envoy of the proclamation and the envoy of the procurator, Zhu Zhanji had never heard of such a person in his later generations.
But now it is found that Huang Fu is one of the most capable administrative officials he has found since he came to this era.
In terms of this person's strategy of controlling Jiaozhi, although some of the methods he implemented were not quite in line with Zhu Zhanji's intentions, he could make Jiaozhi people obey him and let people know his ability just by relying on his single-handedness.
Zhu Zhanji accidentally discovered this person from the concerto, and after getting to know him, he felt more and more that he could not underestimate the ancients.
Because no matter what position this person is in, what kind of job he does, he can be impeccable.
But a person like Huang Fu who likes to do practical things is naturally not noble enough in Wenchen, and he will not be respected by Wenchen himself, so his reputation in history is not obvious.
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Huang Fudeng entered the Shidi. Later, he entered Taixue and served as Jinwu's avant-garde experience.
Because of his book on national affairs, Zhu Yuanzhang appreciated him and promoted him to the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry
After Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he relied on Huang Fu quite a lot. At the time of the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di made a list of 29 traitors to the party, and Huang Fu was among them.
But later, because of his outstanding talent and outstanding officials, Zhu Di did not ask questions and resumed his official position. Soon, he was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.
The ministers of Zhu Di's period were divided into several camps, including those of Zhu Yuanzhang, those of Emperor Jianwen, and Zhu Di's own close ministers.
A minister like Huang Fu, if he was in the same dust as the light and behaved with his tail between his legs, he might have a good result, but because he was responsible, he was framed by many opponents.
Chen Ying impeached Huang Fu for being inconsiderate of the craftsman, so he was changed to the Beijing Xingbu Shangshu. The following year, he was arrested and imprisoned in Jinyi Prison, and was later demoted to an official. Soon after, he was reinstated, and as the Ming army attacked Annam, he was in charge of the governor's salary.
With Wenchen in charge of the general logistics officer of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Huang Fu still did a very good job. After the pacification of Annam, the Ming Dynasty changed Annam to Cochin. Zhu Di ordered Huang Fu to take the title of Shangshu and concurrently serve as the political envoy of Jiaozhi Chengxuan, the political envoy of the political envoy and the envoy of the probationary department, and became a famous feudal official of the Ming Dynasty.
Such capable ministers are what Zhu Zhanji really wants to reuse, although he can't get in touch with the government, but he has been looking for these capable ministers inside and outside the court, and recorded them.
As for those who only like to put their mouths out, they still have to stay cool.
For example, Xie Jin, although he is Zhu Zhanji's teacher and a former cabinet scholar, has outstanding literary talents and talents.
But he is a simple literati, such a person, he can engage in academics and education, but it is a disaster to let him become an official.
In this period of the Ming Dynasty, there were still many representative ministers like Xie Jin and Huang Fu, and many people's position arrangements were unreasonable.
Huang Fu is relatively lucky, and there are many capable ministers who are as brave as him, but now they are in prison.
Even Zhu Gaochi, the crown prince, can't participate in too many political affairs, let alone Zhu Zhanji, the grandson.
In order to prevent Zhu Di from being taboo, even if Zhu Zhanji knew that some people were wronged, he could only pay attention secretly and did not dare to meddle in the affairs of the DPRK and China.
Moreover, it cannot be said that there are no such ministers with rigid thinking in this era, but the number is indeed very small. Because of that kind of rotten Confucianism, not only Zhu Zhanji looked down on him, but even Zhu Di looked down on him, and those people didn't have any chance in the Yongle Dynasty at all.
In this regard, Zhu Zhanji is also relatively lucky, if he wants to travel to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, at that time, I am afraid that there are very few people who want to find something that can really be used.
On August 18, the imperial court issued a number of edicts in succession, rewarding the world and amnesty at the same time.
In fact, there is a clear distinction between the book-making, edicts, and wills issued by the emperor, the book-making is the reform of the system, and the edict is the order and announcement of specific people and specific events.
Will, on the other hand, refers more to commands in private matters.
Most of those decrees are actually edicts.
And when he came to this era, Zhu Zhanji knew that the original "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict" in front of each holy decree was actually "Fengtian carried the emperor, the edict said".
And these common sense insights are the biggest gains that Zhu Zhanji feels.
Such a move as amnesty to the world was originally highly respected by literati in all dynasties. Zhu Di's move was also to cater to the public opinion of the literati, in exchange for their support for the generals.
The amnesty is not one-size-fits-all, and those political prisoners who rebel, bully the monarch, and fight against the imperial power, as well as murderers, are not included in the amnesty.
But no one will sympathize with such people, and the main concern is those who have committed minor crimes, or the relatives of the ministers who have been implicated.
When this order was transmitted to all parts of the Ming Dynasty through the post station, the entire Ming Dynasty was boiling, whether it was a military general or a small country people, all of them were grateful to Zhu Di.
At this time, Zhu Di's prestige has really reached its peak.
None of this had anything to do with Zhu Zhanji, who stayed in the courtyard of Zhao Wangfu in a low-key manner, carefully preparing a business plan for the development of copper mines.
This work can be complicated and difficult for others. But for Zhu Zhanji, who has already made hundreds of mine development plans in later generations, it is a piece of cake.
When August was about to pass and Zhu Di was ready to leave to return to Yingtianfu, Zhu Zhanji's business plan was all done.
(Sorry, Carvin, but today the update was late.) )