At the beginning of December of the first year of Hongxi, the Ming Jingshi was a little cold, this winter came relatively quickly, in the last half a month, the emperor every day in addition to the court, is in the Huagai Hall or Wuying Hall or Dongnuan Pavilion to summon the ministers to discuss matters, and rarely go out.

After a long time, the ministers also had a clear mind.

Dongnuan Pavilion is behind the emperor's dormitory Qianqing Palace, usually called by the emperor to the Dongnuan Pavilion for deliberations, are more anxious or important matters, Huagai Hall is the cabinet to help the emperor deal with official business, but the emperor in early December privately called them the secretariat, because many officials meet cabinet members in private, they will laugh and call them secretaries.

As for the Wuying Palace, it is the place where the assembly is held, and usually the emperor wants to convene a meeting of more than ten people, which will be in the Wuying Palace.

These three places happen to be near and far, so if you can often go to the Dongnuan Pavilion, you must be closer to the emperor.

On the second day of December, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the Qianqing Palace after handling official business from the Huagai Palace.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard laughter, and then I saw several children running out one after another, playing outside the palace, followed by a bunch of palace maids and eunuchs.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw them, his face also showed love.

His four sons and daughters, Zhu Zhanqi, Zhu Zhanqi, Zhu Zhancheng, and Zhu Min'er are playing together.

Four children On the surface, Sun Ruonan's son Zhu Zhancheng is the largest, but in fact, Jingshu's son Zhu Zhancheng is a gentleman in other places, but now he can only rank third.

After going to Yunnan, Zhu Gaoxu was busy wanting to rebel, but he was afraid of failure, so he didn't dare to have more children, and ran around preparing for rebellion.

It wasn't until after entering the Jingshi that they were picked up in September, and they may be pregnant at the moment, but they haven't found out yet.

"Father, father-" The eldest Zhu Zhanyan was only eight years old, with a long tiger head and a tiger brain, and when he saw Zhu Gaoxu, he was the first to run over.

Then Zhu Zhancheng and Zhu Min'er stepped forward one after another, but they didn't give a salute, and threw themselves directly into Zhu Gaoxu's arms.

Zhu Gaoxu laughed and hugged them very cordially.

Only the second son Zhu Zhanqi, Wei Moer's eldest son, came to Zhu Gaoxu, first respectfully saluted, and then looked like a little adult: "Zhanqi pays a visit to his father, and his father is Sheng'an." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, the last time I saw him, he hadn't been like this last time, it had only been two days, and he had changed his temperament, and he couldn't help but look at Zhu Zhanqi meaningfully.

Zhu Zhanqi also seemed a little excited, his face was slightly red, and he was probably a little unaccustomed to this, after all, he was still a child.

"Come here, let my father hug me." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile at this time.

Zhu Zhanqi hurriedly stepped forward and threw himself into Zhu Gaoxu's arms.

Today, when a few children are here, it is the day when Zhu Gaoxu takes the school examination every six days.

During the rebellion war, several children were taught by teachers invited in Yunnan, and now they have just entered the palace, and the teachers of the princes have not yet been determined, but Zhu Gaoxu already has a candidate in his heart.

At present, these princes are all following their respective mothers, and the teachers selected by the mothers are brought first.

Zhu Gaochu didn't take a bath first, and tested the children's recent learning in the main hall, and now the children are still learning the Confucian set, Zhu Gaochu asked first: "Who are your current teachers?" ”

Zhu Zhanyan said that it was the military department that gave Hu Hu in the matter.

Zhu Gaoxu felt that he had heard this name, but he couldn't remember it.

The original history Zhu Di sent Hu Hu to search for the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen last year, and he has been away for many years, and even when his mother died of illness, Zhu Di did not allow him to come back.

This time, because Zhu Gaoxu rebelled, Hu Hu didn't do it, but he was recommended by Sun Yan as Zhu Zhanyu's teacher.

Zhu Zhanqi and Zhu Min'er's teacher was actually Yang Pu, Yang Pu was the prince when Zhu Gaochi was the prince, and he was the prince washing horses, which was also equivalent to the nature of the secretary of the East Palace, but he had not been reused by Zhu Di before and did not become the first assistant of the cabinet.

After Zhu Gaoxu entered Beijing, he thought of Sanyang's name and reused him, but he didn't expect Wei Mo'er to choose Yang Pu.

But Yang Pu often helps Zhu Gaoxu with his work, and it seems that he doesn't have much time to teach them.

Jing Shu's son continued, his teacher was Gao Xianning, which made Zhu Gaoxu a little surprised.

This Gao Xianning wrote a "Treatise on the Auxiliary of Zhou Gongfu to the King" in Jingjing, which also moved Zhu Di, the king of Yan at that time.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he specially ordered him to be arrested, and Ji Gang read books with him and went to persuade him to surrender.

Ji Gang persuaded Gao Xianning to accept the official position, Gao Xianning said: "Jun was expelled from the school and rebelled, so I have been eating the court for many years, and I must not surrender unjustly, and that would also insult Mr. Wang's teachings."

Ji Gang knew that he could not change Gao Xianning's ambition, so he replied to King Yan politely, and King Yan released Gao Xianning home, which was a rare good deed that Ji Gang did.

Gao Xianning did not become an official after the Jingjing, and has been living in seclusion at home, this time he was recommended by Jiang Zhonglong, because Jiang Zhonglong and Jingqing have a good relationship.

Gao Xianning didn't want to go out of the mountain, but when he heard that he was the son of Jingqing's daughter, he agreed to go out of the mountain.

After the three of them finished talking about the teacher, Baba looked at his father, all thinking about what his father would do.

Behind the three of them were the henchmen and eunuchs in their respective mother's palaces, and they were also nervously waiting in the distance at this time.

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, stretched out his hand to beckon his daughter Zhu Min'er to his side, he took Zhu Min'er's hand, and said slowly: "If my father only has three cold melons (watermelons) around him now, and wants to divide them among the four of you, how can I divide them fairly?" ”

There was an uproar all around.

Zhong Xian, who was standing behind Zhu Gaoxu, was also at a loss, thinking in his mind, how should it be divided?

The four children were also at a loss.

"Zhan Yan, you are the eldest brother, you will say it first."

Zhu Zhan's face flushed, he thought for a moment, then disturbed his head, and stammered: "Erchen is the eldest brother, I am willing to give it to my younger brothers and sisters, and give them three of them, one by one." ”

"Hehe" Zhu Gaoxu smiled faintly and looked at Zhu Zhanqi again.

Zhu Zhanqi also thought about it, and then wanted to pretend to be a little adult, and said loudly: "The eldest brother should share one, Zhan Qi and Zhan Cheng are willing to share one, and there is one for the younger sister." ”

Zhu Gaoxu also smiled.

looked at Zhu Zhancheng again, Zhu Zhancheng was the youngest, but in fact he was the oldest, he said directly: "Either cut it all and divide it all equally, it should be the fairest." ”

Zhu Gaoxu still smiled, and then looked at Zhu Min'er.

Zhu Min'er looked at Zhu Gaoxu in fear, then lowered her head and said timidly: "Min'er doesn't like to eat cold melon, so let's give it to the three brothers, one for each person." ”

Four people and four answers, everyone present is thinking that the emperor likes that.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, smiled and applauded: "It's good that you can all think like this, brothers and sisters, be of one heart and one mind." ”

"Obey my father's teachings." All the sons and daughters said in unison.

After the incident, Zhu Gaoxu casually asked some exercises, several children can memorize something, and their memory is very good, thinking that they are much stronger than they were back then, and they hate memorizing things the most, so their English is also relatively poor.

When the children left, Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhong Xian, how did they go to school?

Zhong Xiandao sent it to the Nanbian Hall every morning (about seven o'clock), there were several houses in it, and several teachers each occupied a room and taught separately.

But in the past six months, Yang Pu was recruited by Zhu Gaoxu to the Huagai Palace, so Zhu Zhanqi would sometimes send him very late.

Nanbian Hall is the location of the later Wenhua Palace, which is diagonally opposite the inner carrier warehouse, and the distance is about more than 100 steps.

Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself, this is a lot worse than the Manchu Dynasty, the Manchu princes got up at three or four o'clock to study, and they had to learn everything and everything, and it was in this strict environment that the emperors of the Manchu Dynasty were somewhat more reliable than the Ming Dynasty.

Although he hated the Manchu Qing very much, he still had to learn the merits of others.

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In the morning of the next day, Zhu Gaoxu sat on the throne and found that many people in the crowd were yawning quietly.

But not to mention the ministers yawning, Zhu Gaoxu himself also played when he first became emperor and first went to the early court, because he also had to get up very early.

The imperial gate of the Ming Dynasty listened to the government too early, and the officials had to go outside the noon gate at about three o'clock in the morning, and open the door at about five o'clock to enter.

Even Emperor Zhu Gaoxu had to get up at four o'clock to prepare, and if there were elders, he had to greet the elders.

Fortunately, now he has no elders in the palace.

In the early dynasties, officials above the fourth rank could talk to the emperor, and below the fourth rank could only hand over the fold, and after the meeting, everyone would return to their respective departments, such as the Sixth Ministry and the Fifth Military Governor's Office.

Zhu Gaoxu has been thinking about restructuring recently, because he feels that the officials are working too hard (the important thing is that he has to get up early even with him), and some Beijing officials have to get up at about one or two o'clock in the morning if they live far away and have to travel through most of the Beijing division.

At this time in the future, many people have not slept.

And he didn't like the scene of so many officials in the early dynasty, because the more people, sometimes the more troublesome it was to deal with a matter, but if a few people could decide, the efficiency would usually be faster.

The formation of the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is probably also the reason.

He listened to the meeting today, and it was basically trivial and trivial, and important things all appeared on the excerpts approved yesterday.

Even if there is an important matter, sometimes it is difficult to decide on the spot because it has to be argued on the spot.

For example, today, he wants to dredge the canal and build water conservancy, and there are both pros and cons below.

Those who oppose it feel that they have just finished a big battle, and it is not appropriate to work for the people and lose money.

Those who are in favor of it feel that it is beneficial to the country and needs to be carried out.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to discuss it with them, and felt that it was a waste of time, because none of the following people could convince anyone, and it was up to the emperor to decide in the end.

Of course, in the original history, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the ministers dared to stand up to the emperor, and the emperor couldn't do anything about them.

"Silence." Suddenly, the eunuch Zhong Xian sang.

Everyone looked up, and only then did they realize that the emperor was beckoning.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent.

"Do all the officials present here today have carriages?" Zhu Gaoxu asked suddenly.

The crowd hesitated, and soon a minister stood up and returned to His Majesty, but the minister did not.

This minister Zhu Gaoxu doesn't know either, but if he can stand up and speak, he should be above the fourth grade.

Then I found that many people had complicated expressions on their faces, and there should be no carriages.

Of course, some people live close to the emperor, and they really don't need it.

"I've been on court lately." Zhu Gaoxu said slowly: "I found that some officials were yawning, and they should have not slept well the night before yesterday." ”

The expressions of the ministers suddenly differed, and some of them already showed panicked expressions on their faces.

"The ministers can't sleep well, how can they serve the Ming Empire and me?"

There was silence below, and no one dared to speak.

"I think about it, and I need to change the system of the upper dynasty."

Fortunately, Xie Jin is not here today, otherwise this guy would say that this is an ancestral system, and it can't be changed easily.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhu Gaoxu knew that he still had a little prestige, and he must have overthrown another prestigious Ming Emperor.

(End of chapter)