Since the fifth watch on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the time of Prince Zhu Houzhao does not belong to him. The processes and words spoken in the pilgrimage and feast were predetermined.

This is not a place and occasion to shake the wit, after the harem, the queen receives the wife, and it is not the time when Zhu Houzhao can look at a young lady in a certain mansion and have an imaginary love.

Don't look blind with your eyes, even if you can tell whether this group of delicate women are married or waiting for words, but your mind is wandering, you can't turn around and find that people are related to you, and when the time comes, love will not work but a sadomasochistic love, which is not what Zhu Houzhao wants.

So don't have illusions, say whatever you should say to your courtiers, don't go to Wenhua Hall if you should appear in what Fengtian Palace, everything is safe and stable, this is also what people say, 'Good sign, what happened at the end of the year, it was even worse for Emperor Hongzhi to gasp for breath.

But it's not like there's no time to relax.

Zhu Houzhao watched the musicians invited from outside perform and sing in the palace, and when he had a lot of time, he also organized some eunuchs in the palace to perform a keju, but it was not interesting. He didn't kick, he could only watch, and when he did, everyone stood and watched him kick, and they didn't even dare to touch the corner of his clothes.

Fortunately, although it is peaceful, but these large and small affairs in the palace are not chaotic, and when the prince is found, he has a will to explain what to do, and he is also relieved that the news reaches the ears of Emperor Hongzhi.

Zhu Houzhao also considered leaving the palace, but it was canceled in order to reduce the emperor's worries, and it was not good to hear it, my father was sick, and you still went on a wild trip outside the palace, which is not good after all.

If there is anything different from the etiquette regulations, it is that Zhu Houzhao wrote a letter to Wang Wei, nothing serious, just to tell him that the palace is a little boring, how are you doing outside the palace?

It happened that Li Dongyang was a guest in his house and also saw this scene.

Although Li Ge Lao is a very popular minister, his personal fate is very tragic.

The eldest son, Li Zhaoxian, was smart since childhood, but died at the age of twenty-seven. It should have been too stressful, I was studying, I fell ill in the exam room at the age of eighteen, and when I died, it was also before the exam. The second son was only ten years old, and the third son was even younger, and died when he was one year old. Therefore, Li Dongyang has a sentence in "Huailutang Poems" Volume 5 "Crying Afternoon": Children are dissatisfied with the sun, so they will be lifelong.

He also had three daughters, but most of them died during the Chenghua years.

To this day, there is no birth at this age, only a son from the brother of the clan.

Therefore, when it comes to the New Year, Li Dongyang, who is prominent in front of people, is sad.

Historically, after Zhengde succeeded to the throne, Liu and Xie returned to their hometowns, only Li Dongyang stayed, and the descendants interpreted a lot from various angles, I don't know if I ever thought that Li Dongyang was not in the court, and it was a barren country after returning to his hometown.

Because it was a letter from the palace, Li Dongyang was there, and Wang Wei also told him to wait a while to read it. But after really reading it, the expression is weird. ….

Li Dongyang asked, "Something?"

"Nope." Wang Wei shook his head, the letter given to him by the prince, he is not good to talk to others, especially the tone in it is like a friend to a friend, he may show off if he is a friend, but he will not, "Mr. Xiya said earlier that the prince intends to make a plan, I don't know what the plan is?"

Li Dongyang saw that people didn't mean to say anything, so he didn't ask more questions without interest, and said: "Listening to the prince's meaning should be all-encompassing, and all yamen in Beijing must have it. The old heavenly official also knows that the prince cares about one thing, and he can't tell when he will announce that people will enter the palace. Therefore, Liu Ge Lao means that the cabinet must first discuss with the ministries, so as not to be caught off guard after the opening of the government."

"For the Ministry of Officials, it is the plan of Hongji for 18 years, and a goal for the next three or even five years. When the time comes, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will inevitably ask, so I'm wondering if we should come up with something first?"

After hearing this, Wang Wei couldn't help but shake his head and smile lightly,

Then he apologized and said, "Mr. Xiya, excuse me, I am laughing at something else. When the prince was still young and studied, he made a grand wish to revitalize the Ming Dynasty as his own responsibility, I heard it at the time with a lot of emotion in my heart, but I didn't expect that only a few years later, His Royal Highness told us to think about business when we celebrate the New Year. From this point of view, prosperity can be expected."

Prosperity can be expected...... Probably many people are thinking like this,

This year's New Year's Day, Emperor Hongzhi never appeared.

Although with the power of the East Palace now, the court cannot be chaotic. But there are inevitably all kinds of speculations, and officials of all sizes in the DPRK and China should be ready to change the name of the emperor.

Wang Wei's words made Li Dongyang feel like this.

The crown prince's talent is obviously better than that of today's saints, this is the consensus of people.

Some people's hearts in the court are impetuous because of this incident, and some people are actually holding back their strength, waiting for the Holy Monarch to come to the court, waiting for the tide to stand bravely.

No one dared to say it, but everyone thought so.

"Lu Shumao's reputation has been discredited, and now officials in the DPRK and China don't want to make a fool of themselves." Li Dongyang leaned closer, "The cabinet doesn't want to think about it. Their juniors can still be thick-skinned, and we people can't afford it."

That's right.

Wang Wei thought about it carefully, "Mr. Xiya, if it takes three or five years to make a plan for the affairs of the ministry, I think there are questions that can be thrown out for the test."

"I want to hear about it."

"Redundant officials."

The problem of redundant officials is actually the same as many problems, with the decline of the feudal dynasty and more and more serious, to a certain extent, it is also the inevitable product of the monopoly of imperial power, because the emperor does not trust officials, it is inevitable that there will be a person who works, another person monitors his work, and then sends individuals to monitor and monitor the work of others.

Just like the political envoys, the envoys, and the commanders, these are provincial-level officials, but because the emperor doesn't trust them much, he made a governor, and the governor was not fixed at the beginning, in fact, the emperor sent a person to inspect, and later found that this demand was great, so he fixed the governor.

Later, according to the actual needs, the governor was too powerful, and the emperor was not at ease, so he sent the eunuchs to guard the town.

Therefore, the separation of powers at the provincial level in the Ming Dynasty was not the three envoys originally conceived by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the governor, the governor and the town guard eunuch. ….

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also had the system of Enyin, that is, the important ministers of the imperial court could be eligible for one of their sons to obtain an official status and receive a salary, which was initially to win over the official group, but for more than a hundred years, in fact, many people who did not work were raised.

Of course, there are also the ministers, which began in the Chenghua years, the emperor appointed officials at will according to his will, the number and cost are small problems, mainly hurting the scholars who came up on the way to the imperial examination, they studied hard in the cold window, worked hard to death, and in the end it was better to please the emperor.

As soon as Wang Wei said these two words, Li Dongyang nodded thoughtfully, but also frowned, "The problem of the official is not big, His Royal Highness has always put state affairs first. But if other places want to lay off officials, it's really a big deal."

"Isn't this what Mr. Xiya said about three or five years? I thought that if only a part of it was cut every year, it would be good governance. The officials have a good government, and the other yamen also have some, so why worry that the court is not a thriving scene?"

"Good! That brings the question up." Li Dongyang slapped his thigh, and he was relieved in his heart, "Your Highness has already said the cabinet that day. Saying that we can't just put it aside because it's too big and too much to do, and if it drags on like this, it will only get harder in the future."

Wang Wei imagined the picture of the prince saying these words, "Mr. Xiya, let's seize the opportunity too. Your Highness has the courage and means, and what is even more commendable is that he has the patience to solve the problem slowly, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the Lord, and I can't help but cherish it."

How rare is this, both of them are veterans of the Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties, so they can naturally experience it firsthand. If those in power do not advocate promoting the solution of these problems, once they miss it, it will not be possible for a few generations to pass, and the Ming Dynasty will be full of smoke.

It seems that the scene in Wang Wei's house also happened in the important minister's mansion in Beijing, after all, Liu Jian and Xie Qian were not idle

Make move.

After Li Dongyang left, Wang Wei read the letter given to him by the prince again, and his heart was even heavier.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao will not write letters to people inexplicably, different people have different means, in the face of Yang Yiqing, he has to put the bottom line for him, and in the face of Wang Wei, he has to show grace, the more grace he has, the greater the pressure, and the less easily he will oppose when facing a choice.

This big court meeting after the opening of the government will inevitably throw out some profound questions, and Zhu Houzhao also needs the unconditional support of these ministers.

Life is all about politics, which Zhu Houzhao can't avoid.

Time is fast, and the Lantern Festival passes in the blink of an eye. On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, a lantern in the East Palace approached the prince's bedroom at night and woke up His Highness.

Zhu Houzhao endured his sore eyes and got up, and asked, "Father, is someone going to report it?"

The eunuch didn't care about the cold on the ground, propped his hands on, and said in a trembling voice, "If you go back to Your Highness, you haven't yet."

Zhu Houzhao sighed, the matter of Qingning Palace was requested by him before, seeing that the emperor was not good, many eunuchs had actually put the prince's words first, and did not dare to disobey the half.

However, it was concealed for the emperor's physical considerations before, but it was obviously not appropriate to conceal it at the last moment.

He sighed, "Send someone to report it."

For several months, many people were afraid of something happening, but they didn't expect that the news would come, but they waited for the bad news of Qingning Palace. The Empress Dowager of Zhou lasted a few months longer than in history, but she died suddenly when Emperor Hongzhi was seriously ill, and I don't know what the impact will be.

The eighteenth year of Hongji really started from a white affair.

It was also at this time that Liu Jin, Qiu Yun and the others arrived, they hurriedly changed the prince's clothes, and Qiu Yun also took an embroidered bag, "Your Highness, here is the cut ginseng, let's put a few more slices in your mouth!"

These days of the Chinese New Year have been hard for the prince, and now he has not had time to repair, and he has suffered adversities, this pass, this challenge, I don't know if the prince can survive it.

"Okay." Zhu Houzhao patted his cheek and ordered, "Open the door of the temple!"

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Took a nap at noon and overslept, so the update was an hour late, sorry.

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