Zhu Youzhen remembers very well that what he said at the court meeting was to let the governor of the foreign court, the officials of the various ministries in Beijing, and the first assistant of the cabinet all explain their political ideas, especially how to govern the Ming Empire after becoming the first assistant of the cabinet.

But Zhu Youzhen didn't know whether the cabinet had conveyed the wrong meaning, or whether the officials were still not used to expressing themselves directly.

The concert that made the officials recommend themselves to be the first assistant of the cabinet looks very much like a concert to please themselves.

Zhu Youzhen tried his best to let himself seriously read Ding Chukui's dedication to auspiciousness.

But he had to admit that the beginning of Ding Chukui's recital was really bad, even if it was purely for the purpose of offering auspiciousness, half of the content was written about how beautiful the white crane was, and finally he turned straight to how wise His Majesty was, and then mentioned:

"The minister knows that he is dull and vulgar, and his scholarship is shallow, but if His Majesty does not abandon him, he may be the head of the cabinet, and he must be loyal and prudent to serve the monarch's father!"

I clicked on the question at the end of the sentence, saying that I wanted to be the first assistant of the cabinet.

And if he becomes the head of the cabinet, he will definitely be loyal to himself as the emperor, and he will act cautiously.

Zhu Youzhen only now understands that it is not that these Ming officials do not want to be the first assistant of the cabinet and dare not express themselves.

It's that they understand what they mean wrongly, and at the same time, they instinctively like to use self-humility to express tactfully and implicitly that they don't really want to be the head of the cabinet, but if they do, they will definitely not disappoint His Majesty and the people or something.

These officials thought that the better they would praise their king, and the more modest they expressed, the more likely they would be to become the next cabinet chief.

Let's be honest.

Zhu Youjian finished reading Ding Chukui's recital, and it was quite hard.

Zhu Youzhen is not a person who is particularly strong in ancient Chinese, after all, he was born in science in later life.

He can now grit his teeth and read this nonsense, and he is extremely embarrassed, and it is not easy to use eight sentences to describe the white crane's demeanor.

Zhu Youzhen was very tired.

But what made him even more tired was that he didn't see the slightest shadow from Ding Chukui, the governor of Jiangxi, who was suitable to be the first assistant of the cabinet.

Let's not say that its music is not written enough to understand.

Even in terms of understanding the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, he only knows how to please himself as the emperor, thinking that if he pleases himself as the emperor, he will definitely get the position of the first assistant, and even thinks that he chooses the first assistant of the cabinet to pay attention to whether he is loyal and prudent.

"Loyalty and prudence are the virtues of a minister, not the first assistant of the cabinet, but the first assistant of the cabinet, this is not the most important, the most important thing is what he can do if he is the first assistant of the cabinet, and he knows that he is dull and vulgar, and his academics are shallow, since he knows that he is not good, then why write this useless self-recommendation!"

Zhu Youzhen was so angry that he slammed Ding Chukui's recital on the table:

"Go and bring all those auspicious performances, if I expected it to be true, it should be almost their self-recommendation, but the self-recommendation has become sycophancy, as if I want them to play and praise me, but it is clear that I want them to boast about themselves!"

Zuo Tongzheng Wu Zhenyu couldn't help blushing and smiled awkwardly.

Because of his own self-recommendation, although it is not auspicious, the content is almost to praise his majesty for his wisdom.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen said this, he quietly tucked his recitals into his sleeves and put a bunch of recitals presented by other officials in front of Zhu Youzhen.

Although Zhu Youzhen knew that these notes were almost the same as Ding Chukui's notes, the words were full of nonsense and the words did not reach the meaning.

But he still wanted to grit his teeth and watch as much as he could.

He didn't believe that he couldn't find one or two officials who were suitable for the head of the cabinet from so many notes.

It's a pity that Zhu Youzhen didn't see a few valuable ones after looking at it for a long time.

Some first praised their own achievements as emperors, and then said that they would be lucky if they could become the first assistant of the cabinet.

Some sang the praises of the entire Ming Dynasty, and then said that if they became the first assistant of the cabinet, they would definitely make His Majesty far away Yao Shun and become the saint of the ages.

Some said that they would definitely let people all over the world be filial to their parents, be brothers, friends, and brothers, be loyal, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness.

The more Zhu Youzhen looked at it, the more irritated he became, he didn't know what these many Ming officials in high positions were thinking.

"It's really a group of corpse vegetarian guys, these books that have been read for decades, have they seriously thought about what they want to do for Daming, can they only read four books and five classics."

Zhu Youzhen himself couldn't help laughing, and said in his heart: "It seems that since the beginning of the career, all the books and five classics that I have read are indeed the four books and five classics, and the exams are also four books and five classics." ”

Before that.

Zhu Youzhen paid little attention to the overall quality of the officials, especially the Ming officials.

After all, there have been all kinds of internal and external troubles before.

But now that the world is basically stable, especially at this moment, he found that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were incompetent to this point, even the officials of the six ministries only knew that they were just slapping their horses to meet the holy will, and they did not know what their political ideals were.

The culprit of all this is Confucianism!

Confucianism only produced a group of gentlemen, even hypocrites who were sanctimonious and hypocritical, but it did not explicitly educate a Confucian on how to become a good official.

Zhu Youzhen left the General Administration Department in disappointment, and now he understands why he, an ordinary college student and civil servant in a later society, can also fight with these guys in this era.

There is no other reason, in today's Ming Dynasty, after the mind was suppressed by science, for decades, the officials of the Ming Dynasty no longer know how to take the initiative to think about what they should do for this country, in their eyes, the cabinet is just a symbol of political status, and do not know what to do when sitting in this official position.

"Your Majesty, this is Li Mingrui's self-recommendation", Zhu Youzhen got Li Mingrui's self-recommendation, and saw that Wen Shu did not write any auspicious words and praise to himself, nor did he say that he might not be suitable to be the first assistant of the cabinet, only said what kind of goals he would have if he became the first assistant of the cabinet.

"Let Daming add another province within three years, and let every citizen of Daming have enough to eat within five years!"

Zhu Youzhen finally laughed: "This is the self-recommendation that you should have as an official, you just need to tell yourself what you want Daming to become, and even talk about your past political achievements, but don't write all nonsense." ”

Zuo Tongzheng Wu Zhenyu couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was fortunate that he could know in advance what His Majesty really wanted, otherwise he would have been thrown on the ground by His Majesty and passed by the head of the cabinet.

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't bother to make his views public, in his opinion, maybe the officials of the Ming Dynasty would only understand after experiencing some things that the empire no longer needs officials who have rules and souls.

(End of chapter)