After a brief pleasantries. Lu Tiaoyang, who has been acting as an agent for the affairs of the Hanlin Academy, began to explain to Shen Mo the errands within the duties of the Academy.

"Generally speaking, the responsibilities of the head of the academy are as follows." I only listened to Lu Tiaoyang and said: "First of all, it is to talk about the feast day. Every year in the spring and autumn of the sutra feast, the Hanlin Academy first lists eight sutra speakers, and arranges the order of direct lectures. After a pause, he said, "Of course, I haven't had a sutra feast for thirty years, so adults shouldn't have to worry about it." ”

"Second, is it the matter of the Hanlin Academy in charge of the Jinshi Dynasty Examination," Lu Tiaoyang said: "After each major competition, the Ministry of Rites will send the new Jinshi roster to our hospital, and the bachelors of the Academy will organize the court examination, and the questions will be selected. After another pause, he said: "But this errand only comes once every three years, and it generally can't change the order of the palace examination, so adults don't have to worry too much." ”

Shen Mo couldn't help but touch his nose, this was his performance when he was helpless, Zhu Dashou knew best, and then said: "There are also things you must pay attention to, such as 'On the History of Writing', all the blessings, treasures, inscriptions, inscriptions, and sacrificial texts must be completed by our hospital." Furthermore. The compilation and revision of the actual records, hadiths, scriptures, jades, and the editing and revision of the history of books are either undertaken by our institute, or our institute is sent to edit, review and participate in the compilation and revision, and the responsibility is not insignificant. ”

Shen Mo couldn't help but muffled and said, "Then is it also under our control to draft the edict?" ”。 That's what really matters, what embodies power.

"What are these...... At the beginning of the country, it was under our control, but now it is under the cabinet. Zhu Dashou said helplessly: "It's impossible for adults not to know." ”

Lu Tiaoyang also heard it, it turned out that the adult felt aggrieved, and comforted: "Although the status of our hospital is not as good as that of the beginning of the country, it is customary to be on duty in the inner class: Hu Cong from the emperor out of the group, in case of consultants." And every year of the big competition, we can serve as examiners at all levels......"

After listening to their patient persuasion, Shen Mo touched his chin and said: "I understand, our Hanlin Academy was originally the most important, but now its power has been usurped by the cabinet, and it is embarrassing all of a sudden, right?" Fewer words"

"You don't have to think like that, we can't get along with ourselves." Lu Tiaoyang said with a sincere face: "My lord, everyone knows that the Hanlin Academy is just a step for you to move around, and none of us will stay here for a lifetime, so why worry too much?" ”

"Thank you brother for reminding me," Shen Mo nodded heavily, "I see." "But he sneered in his heart: 'If you don't take advantage of the toss now, if the emperor goes one day, it will be my ugly time.'" Although he has always been respectful to Xu Jie, Shen Mo's mind has always been very clear, and he has long realized that he is not Xu Jie's favorite candidate. So no matter how harmless and docile you are. can't escape the fate of being idle and marginalized.

But he is not without a chance, because after all, he is the first hero of the Yan, and most people don't know what he is doing, and they still think that his relationship with the current prime minister is so close. Moreover, Emperor Jiajing has always been kind to him, at least he does not have to worry about being killed, and it is unlikely that he will be dismissed from office, which gives him the objective conditions to make waves.

The ancients said that soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Now that Yan Shifan has fallen, he is safe, and the original strategy of Taoguang to raise obscurity can also come to an end, because he is not in line with Xu Jie's taste, so he can only cultivate more and more obscure. It is better to pull the tiger skin to make a banner, and take advantage of the fact that the vast majority of people have not yet come back to the taste and develop rapidly. Let the tiger bite the hedgehog and have nowhere to go, so that he can be safe.

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At noon, I had a light meal at the yamen and rested for a while. In the afternoon, Shen Mo, accompanied by Lu Tiaoyang and Zhu Dashou, came to the Shuchang Pavilion next door to the Hanlin Academy, and met with the thirty-six Shuji of Xinke.

Unlike the lazy and loose main house, the Shuchang Hall is orderly. The Hanlin Preparatory Hanlin were sitting in a precarious position, and everyone's faces were either excited or serious, obviously retaining the pride and honor of Zhongjin Shi and Xuanhanlin, which made Shen Mo feel a little relieved.

His attitude towards these Ji Ji Shi is also much more serious than that of those Hanlin, not only spent half an hour collectively speaking, hoping that these Ming talents should 'guard against arrogance and rashness, take the world as their responsibility, and take the revival of the Ming Dynasty as their life goal'.

This is what Shen Mo wanted, and he struck while the iron was hot, and began to talk to the chuckis one by one. Generally speaking, the master of the academy does not have to pay attention to these grates...... Although only the Gits can enter the cabinet and serve as high-ranking officials of the Central Committee, most of the Gits are only mediocre all their lives, and only the real elites can stand out, and the success rate is too low. Therefore, the master of the academy will not put much energy, at most he will take a picture when the museum opens, teach a few words, and then ignore it.

But Shen Mo doesn't look at it that way, he thinks that as long as he can be elected to the Shu Jishi, he is a talent - those who can't be the prime minister can be a scholar, and those who can't be a scholar can be a Langzhong, and the central government can't get mixed up, and he can go to the place.

Even if these rookies have no background. It's also inconspicuous, but silence is not short of time, he is ready to spend half a month to complete, let Xu Shixing arrange the order, talk to these people one by one, through questions and chats, understand the potential of these people's character and temper, so that he can know in his heart.

When the long conversation ended, Shen Mo was happy to find that he had really fallen into Baoshan, although the previous Shujishi were elites, but this session was definitely the elite of the elite. If the strange thing of Bingchenke is their 'seven sons', then the seven jades of this branch 'Xu Shixing, Wang Xijue, Yu Youding, Li Wen, Xiao Daheng, Yang Junmin, Jian Da' are not inferior, and even in some aspects, they surpass their 'seven sons'.

In addition to Xu Shixing, who was silently turned into the Seven Jades, there are also Xu Fuyuan, Chen Younian, Sun Yingyuan and others who also have great potential, and the rest are not weak, and they are definitely worth cultivating. Shen Mo is ready to use these three years to teach them according to their aptitude, gradually instilling some of his ideas and ideas into these people, and cultivating them into his staunchest supporters.

But then again. Within a few years, these rookies still can't be counted on, and what Shen Mo wants to get has to rely on his original strength.

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In this great era of stormy meetings, new things are happening every day, and three major events have happened in the capital recently, so that the silent eyes have to be removed from his ivory tower and pay attention to the development of the situation.

These three things have more or less something to do with him. First of all, the one that has the least relationship with him is that on the fourth day of May this year, Shen Chun said in the middle of the matter in the right of the household department, "In previous years, the household and the second department of the Ministry of Work occasionally had a lot of trouble due to lack of money. Temporary acceptance of various examples is a temporary expedient technique. After a few years of this trip, it is not yet discussed. The minister thought that this law would not compensate for the harm, and that the treasury should be slightly surplus, so it was advisable to order the household department and the Ministry of Industry to do everything they could, so as to plug the flood. 'Demand that the Beijing officials and the officials who are close to the people stop receiving aid and never reopen.

As mentioned earlier, the aid is to let hundreds of officials donate a part of their salaries to support the country to tide over the financial crisis, and it will be directly deducted from the monthly salary, so that you don't even have the opportunity to be unpatriotic. We know that most of the Beijing officials have no way to get extra money, and the salary is only enough for food and clothing, but now they are deducting a part of it, and they have not been paid directly.

Shen Mo has seen with his own eyes that in order to make a living, his subordinate officials timidly go to the rich family as an account office, copy books for bookstores, and even run their own business if they are bold. How can you be at ease on an errand? The Beijing official system is in such a state of chaos, how can they coordinate and command the two capitals and 13 provinces?

It's like the kind of stingy boss who screws up the whole business in order to save some wages. Now the imperial court is trying to save a little money and plunge the country into chaos, which is really more than worth the loss. Therefore, since the opening of the 'recruitment', it has been fiercely criticized by the officials, and the annual request for cancellation is like snowflakes, but the imperial court has always accepted it, because it was set by the elder of the small cabinet.

In the later period of the reign of the Yan family father and son, because the father and son did not know how to operate, and took the lead in corruption, the Ming Dynasty was already empty of the treasury, and the debts were high, and if it continued to develop, it would go bankrupt. Therefore, as the actual ruler, Yan Shifan had to solve this problem, and on the one hand, he raised local taxes. especially the tax on salt and iron; On the other hand, they have tried their best to reduce expenditure, cut the funds of the central and local yamen, and even directly withheld the salaries of officials in the name of 'receiving aid...... Of course, he knew that it was very offensive to do so, but first, he couldn't think of any other way, and second, he always thought that those who were in power did not live by their own money -- he and his comrades were happy to eat and take cards, and they thought that others could also eat and eat them, which was really no different from 'why not eat minced meat'?

This is Yan Shifan's biggest weakness, as the strongest second ancestor, he is high up as soon as he enters the officialdom, he has never experienced the hardships at the bottom, and he is inevitably too subjective and one-sided when making decisions. As a result, as soon as the second order came out, hundreds of officials were in an uproar, but the country was indeed in a financial crisis at that time, and although a hundred officials were unwilling, they had to endure it silently.

But later, the country opened the sea ban, and Jiangnan City Bosi made ten thousand gold every day. The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, under the auspices of the Cabinet, held several consultations, but in the face of the astonishing deficit, the final result was to increase the collection for another year, and stop collecting it immediately after the fiscal situation improved.

This has also become the reason why many people hate Yan Shifan, they say, 'You Yan Shifan has been corrupt and bribed, and has become a huge rich, which we are not jealous of, but you still want to be greedy for our poor money, isn't this a way to cut off people's lives?' It's too lacking in morality! But the court was full of complaints, and until Yan Shifan stepped down, the aid continued to be accepted......

Now that the new phase has finally come to the stage, as soon as Shen Chun's recital is handed over, everyone is looking at it, hoping that there will be a turnaround. Soon the cabinet came with news that Elder Xu Ge made a vote to 'accept aid is meaningless and should be stopped immediately.' ’

Everyone listened, and said in their hearts that Xu Ge was still kind, but he couldn't be happy too early, because he still had to pass His Majesty's level, and if he couldn't convince His Majesty, everything would be in vain. The officials showed their own powers, and even inquired about the conversation between the emperor and the prime minister in the Ziguang Pavilion. It is said that on that day, Xu Ge Lao told His Majesty that the country's financial shortage was a major matter, but relying on the officials' little money alone was a drop in the bucket and useless, and the people were panicked, and the gains outweighed the losses, and they should immediately stop collecting aid to save the people's hearts. After some painstaking persuasion, he finally persuaded the emperor to approve the red on his ticket - quasi-play!

When the news came out, the hundred officials rejoiced, and they all praised Xu Ge Lao for his kindness and justice, a hundred times stronger than the Yan family's father and son, and even those who were originally close to the Yan family's father and son no longer spoke ill of Xu Jie, but began to turn their hearts to the Xu Party.

Xu Jie's instruction brought political gains, which are even bigger than his three fires and three axes combined, it can be seen that no matter how loud the slogan is, no matter how high the goal is, it is not as important as making people have enough to eat.

Just when the hundred officials were celebrating, Shen Mo sneered in the study, as an insider, he not only had to applaud Xu Jie's wrist - you must know that Yan Shifan's stupid idea of 'accepting aid' was put forward at the instigation of Xu Jie, and then the reason why he couldn't stop several times was also Xu Jie's obstruction, making Yan Shifan believe that the country's finances were always on the verge of collapse, and he couldn't take care of the grievances of the hundred officials at all. But as soon as Xu Jie came to power, he stopped the 'recruitment', obviously this is not the need of the country at all, but Xu Jie's digging of a pit for Yan Shifan - one more day of recruitment, the resentment of the hundred officials against Yan Shifan will be one point heavier, and when Xu Jie's appearance stops in the future, the officials will have more good feelings towards him.

It's really a bargain to kill two birds with one stone, Xu Ge is really smart, but Shen Mo wants to ask him, have you ever considered how to survive for hundreds of officials? How much will the administration of the country be affected? Maybe in the end, people will praise and clarify Yuyu and set things right, but have you ever thought that this old man has been the deputy prime minister for more than ten years, and the country is in chaos like that, doesn't he have a little responsibility? !

Of course, history is a little girl who can dress up at your disposal, and maybe in the end, he will be able to make a reputation as a virtuous person.

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The second thing is more related to silence, and Lu Guangzu wrote to Jiajing: "The minister heard that the emperor intends to let the Dongchang Admiral Jinyiwei, which is His Majesty's sacred heart arbitrary, the minister did not dare to say more, but the minister heard that the Dongchang Admiral Chen Hong, the gas is narrow, and he will repay, and I have a very old grudge with my deceased uncle, when my uncle was funeral a year ago, he led the lackeys to the door to make trouble, and wantonly arrested and persecuted officials and civilians, and his arrogance is no less than Liu Jin, Gu Dayong and others. Now that Dongchang has become the superior of Jinyiwei, it must be a deliberate move by His Majesty in order to improve efficiency, but if Chen Hong is appointed, he will inevitably take revenge for personal gain and persecute the backbone of Jinyiwei, so that the factory guard will be separated from morality and fall into civil strife and cannot operate normally. Please Your Majesty for the sake of the factory guards, and for the sake of my dead uncle, changing to a benevolent governor of the East Factory must be a blessing for the factory guards, and also a blessing for all officials and the people. He is Lu Bing's nephew, and he is justified in saying this, and it seems to be affectionate and righteous. Moreover, he supported the emperor's decision to 'merge the factory guards', but he only had objections to the selection of the factory governor, and he was not afraid of arousing the emperor's suspicion.

As soon as this recital was published, Chen Hong panicked, he knelt in front of Jiajing and cried bitterly, saying that he was by no means the kind of villain that Lu Guangzu said, and he would definitely treat everyone equally, love and protect Jinyiwei, and would never be persecuted a little.

Jiajing didn't believe Chen Hong's set at all, they were all slaves who had followed him for decades, and the emperor knew the little flowery intestines in his stomach. He believed what Lu Guangzu said that once Chen Hong came to power, he would inevitably purge Jinyiwei on a large scale...... The emperor didn't care about how many people died, how many people were persecuted, etc., he was touched by the two names in the chapter, that is, 'Liu Jin', 'Gu Dayong', the eunuchs of the previous dynasty were not far away, so that Emperor Wuzong Zhengde was stained before and after his death, and he would be laughed at through the ages. This is also the reason why Jiajing has always been wary of eunuchs, he wants to be the lord of the Holy Ming, how can he let these eunuchs have a bad reputation?

So in the first forty years of his reign, he threw the eunuchs aside and dealt with the officials independently, until now, when he was no longer able to do so, he thought of finding the eunuchs out of the garbage heap and helping him keep an eye on those disobedient officials. In the final analysis, Jiajing just wanted to take advantage of them a little, and he never wanted the scandal of the eunuch dictatorship to appear in his own court. So he had to think about it, if Chen Hong really subdued Jinyiwei completely, Dongchang would have no constraints, how to limit the expansion of its power?

Instead of bothering to get rid of him at that time, it's better to prevent it from getting worse now and not let him become bigger!

Thinking of this, the skill of checks and balances rooted in the emperor's brain attacked, and Jiajing said to Chen Hong: "Don't worry, I won't change people." "Although there are many eunuchs around, there has been no stage for performance, and as a result, there are few people who can be trusted by the emperor, and only Chen Hong and Huang Jin are capable of managing Dongchang. And given the close relationship between Huang Jin and Li Fang, the emperor would never let him get involved in Dongchang.

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