"King, Xu Changshi and Li Changshi are waiting in the hall."

"Got it." Zhu Houwei frowned and walked directly to the hall.

As soon as Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang saw Zhu Houwei, they immediately got up and arched their hands and said, "Your Majesty has seen the king."

"The two long histories don't have to be polite." Zhu Houwei said with a smile after sitting in the right seat: "When I first entered Huzhou, the two long histories are complicated, but there is something wrong with coming to see this king today?"

Xu Zhenqing, as Zuo Changshi, said to himself: "Your Majesty saw that the palace sent someone to collect folk children, saying that they wanted to teach them to enter the industry?"

Zhu Houwei nodded and replied: "Yes, this matter was arranged by the king yesterday to be done by Ren Companion."

"I don't know what the king's intention is to do this?"

"What do you think the two long histories think?"

Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang looked at each other, and they always felt in their hearts that they were not facing a thirteen-year-old child, but an old fritter of officialdom who had been through the ups and downs of the sea for a long time.

The palace suddenly searched for children from poor families, and also had to provide food, clothing, and shelter, which could not help but make the alarm bells in the hearts of the two of them.

was vigilant in their hearts, but the two of them were not stunned, knowing that some words could not be declared, so in the face of Zhu Houwei's rhetorical question, the two of them invariably chose to remain silent.

Zhu Houwei smiled: "Aren't the two Chang Shi Mo worried? Do you think that this king let these children study, and in the future, they will be able to take scientific examinations, so as to cultivate their own power in the officialdom? ”

Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang didn't reply, but it was obvious that they both thought so.

"You're thinking too much, and it's too outrageous."

Zhu Houwei shook his head slightly and said: "If you want to become an official, you need to study the sage books hard, be clear and subtle, and be able to do beautiful articles, but this king teaches these children not to let them spend their lives to study the Confucian classics, they are at best reading and reading, not reading the four books or the Five Classics, just reading and reading, and after a year or two, they will learn others."

For example, the master of arithmetic, the king can let them go to the accounting room to be the shopkeeper, the craftsman is talented, the king will let them study the strange skills, create some novelties, if there is a talent for music, then go to study the lyrics and compose music, in short, to make the best use of it, and the scientific research has nothing to do. ”

After hearing this explanation, the two Changshi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, originally thinking that Zhu Houwei was ambitious and wanted to cultivate forces to invade the court, but now it seems that they have thought too much.

If the prince recruits children to just learn some miscellaneous studies that are not in the stream, it will be harmless, and it will be a big deal that they will stare at some in the future.

And the two of them are also Beijing officials, how can they not know what kind of virtue the second prince Zhu Houwei is, this prince is calm and calm, and his brother Emperor Zhengde's escape is completely two extremes, but unfortunately it is not the eldest son, otherwise he may not be able to become a generation of heroes and create a generation of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houwei likes to study strange skills and tricks, and he also built a workshop outside the palace, collecting iron and copper craftsmen, and creating some messy things all day long.

But then again, a prince who likes to smelt iron and copper is not a blessing for Daming.

Zhu Houwei waited for the two backs to disappear, and then said: "These newly accepted children should be properly settled, and a few masters will be invited to enlighten them to read and write."

"The slave and maid understand, and have already ordered to do it."

Zhu Houwei glanced at Ren Xing and nodded with satisfaction.

The favorite thing for civil officials in the Ming Dynasty to do was to limit the imperial power, whether a thing was right or wrong, as long as they thought it was wrong, they would oppose it, and even the emperor's will, the cabinet had the right to refute it.

Without the ruthlessness of Emperor Hongwu, the courage of Emperor Yongle, and the political wisdom of Emperor Jiajing, the rest of the emperors could only be restricted by the civil official group.

Civil officials advertise themselves as for the Ming Dynasty and for the righteousness of the country, such officials are not absent, but more are for their own selfish desires, just like a generation of virtuous ministers who have a clean and honest city, and the land in his home is 400,000 mu, which is beyond the reach of Yan Song, who is in power and opposition, and has been notorious for thousands of years.

In stark contrast to the civil official group, the eunuch group, the reason why the eunuchs can become powerful is because in the eyes of the civil officials, the eunuchs are not as good as him, but all the eunuchs who are favored by the emperor deserve to die.

In such a political environment, the only thing that eunuchs can rely on in addition to holding a group is the emperor's trust, and in the eyes of the emperor, eunuchs are their own people, naturally closer than civil officials, and eunuchs are domestic slaves, even if the power is leaning towards the government and the opposition, they can be stronger than the civil officials who are noisy all day long and they are not necessarily helpless.

Over time, the civil officials with huge common interests and the eunuchs with the support of the emperor and the imperial power itself formed a solid triangular relationship, which maintained the continuous progress of the Ming warship, so as not to withstand the risk of capsizing if it was a little wind and waves.

However, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he killed Wei Zhongxian, completely breaking this balance, and he himself failed to raise a great eunuch who was enough to compete with the civilian forces, and finally let the civilian forces led by Donglin completely sit large, and the Ming Dynasty, which was fighting for dynasty, party struggle, power and profit, internal worries and external troubles, and encountered the Xiaoice River, finally came to an end.

Zhu Houwei, who lives with a modern soul in his body, does not have much affection for eunuchs, because in history, eunuchs have almost become synonymous with disasters to the country and the people, such as the eunuch rebellion in the late Han Dynasty, such as the eunuch power that can easily control the emperor in the Tang Dynasty, and the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty who can almost cover the sky with one hand.

But only through personal experience, Zhu Houwei knew that he was still too young, for example, he built a workshop in the capital to recruit blacksmiths, if this kind of thing was done by his brother Zhu Houzhao, the prince, the civil officials would attack it en masse, after all, the prince would be the emperor sooner or later, and an absurd emperor would be a curse or a blessing for the Ming Dynasty.

But he is just a prince, if nothing else, this life is almost insulated from the throne, even if he is ridiculous, what harm can he do to the country, is he bullying people or is he tyrannical, let the blacksmith create some novelty, how can it become a heinous in the mouth of the civil official?

In stark contrast to his personal eunuch, as long as he orders something, Ren Xing and Hong Ji will carry it out to the letter, even if they are scolded by civil officials, they will not say a word.

For example, now that Zhu Houwei is a vassal member, the palace maids and eunuchs in King Yong's bedroom have joined the vassal together, and they have taken care of them all along the way, but what about Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang?

They are for surveillance, they are the eyes of the civilian clique, and they are ready to give Zhu Houwei black hand eye medicine anytime and anywhere!