If Zhu Houzhao was an emperor like Song Renzong or his father Ming Xiaozong, then the three-person cabinet of Liu, Li, and Xie was actually very suitable, and there was no problem.

But he wasn't, and then sat down on the dragon chair, and he suddenly found that these old men were all respected ministers of the third or fourth dynasty. It is difficult to convince such a person what you have to do, but if you always fight with him, the face of the court is not good-looking, so you will unconsciously have a feeling of grievance.

At the same time, he himself is not the child of Hongzhi ten years ago, the gradual increase in power in his hands has made him more and more inflated, what he could endure a few years ago, he doesn't want to endure now, the choice that he could compromise a few years ago, and now he is unwilling to compromise.

People are like this, as an emperor, while he influences the environment, he himself is also affected by the environment.

After sending these ministers away, the slip in the chamber still had the name of Zhang Tianrui, the priest of the country.

Zhu Houzhao pinched his eyes with his fingers, forcibly suppressed some emotions in his heart, and ordered, "Announce it."

Liu Jin was cautious, "Your Majesty, do you want to rest for a while?"

"No need, you let him in. I guess I've been waiting a long time."

Zhang Tianrui is timid, so he will come over early, he is worried about what if the emperor's agenda ends early and the emperor waits?

After coming in, Shi courtiers saluted, and then raised his hands and sent the music to him.

"This is the situation of the academy that His Majesty ordered the day before yesterday to ask the ministers to play, and the ministers have been working hard for a few days after returning home, and now they are already on it."

Liu Jin went to get it, and the emperor took it in his hand, and he was not in a hurry to open it immediately.

"How's the Gewu Academy?"

Zhang Tianrui lowered his head and replied, "According to His Majesty's orders, I am teaching arithmetic and physical science, and some results have been produced, but the minister thinks that it is not of practical use."

Zhu Houzhao sneered, "You've read it all your life, of course you think it's useless. However, if you are so aimless, the speed of estimating the results will be very slow, and you still need to be problem-oriented, and you can only make progress in the process of solving problems. The other thing to pay attention to is talent, the kind of curiosity that is particularly strong, and you are willing to delve into it, you have to keep it."

"What about the others?"

"Give me the way. Hubu Gu Shilang went to Zhejiang, and he should return to Beijing after a while. When the time comes, you remember to remind me that there must be a contact between the academy and the Shaofu, and those who are not willing to study those boring problems will know some arithmetic anyway, so let them manage the account books, and now is the time for the imperial court to employ people. Those who are willing to stay, that is where the hope lies. Are there any good ones doing now?"

Zhang Tianrui didn't dare to say no, even if he made it up, he had to make up a name, otherwise what would be the name of this work report. But fortunately, there was a candidate in his heart, "There is a person named Shi Chengqi, he answered the question of why the stone sinks in the water and the wood floats in the water, and then he continued to study according to the word mechanics that His Majesty said, and now he is like a madman."

"I hope he'll make it."

"Your Majesty, the Holy Monarch is in the court, everything will be blessed by heaven and ancestors."

"I care about the academy in every way, the lectures where knowledge and action are united, and the training of doctors who help the world are all good governance for the benefit of the country and the people. If one day, I want to find someone who knows how to control water, you can name it; I want to find a famous doctor in the world, and you can also report the name...... Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion, my Ming Dynasty is full of talents, then you Zhang Tianrui is a shocking achievement, I want to reward you heavily."

….

Zhang Tianrui was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and thanked him.

On the side, Liu Jin seemed to see the emperor's affection, so he took two steps forward and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty may not have been to the academy for a long time, do you want to go again?"

Zhu Houzhao likes that place, not that it is so fun, but mainly when you face those ministers every day and feel suffocated and breathless, you will naturally like it there.

The emperor did not veto it immediately, but asked Zhang Tianrui first, "What do you think of the sacrificial wine?"

That is to say, the emperor wants to leave the palace.

Zhang Tianrui didn't dare to answer this, but the majesty of the emperor was no longer the crown prince of the day, he didn't dare to say it badly, so he spit out a sentence of harmony

"What Your Majesty wants your ministers to do, there is only one will, and the ministers will do their best."

Liu Jin flashed a trace of disdain on the side, and the literati just held it, wanting the emperor to appreciate it, but also not wanting to be obedient. In front of him, even a pig could see that the emperor's heart had moved.

But Zhu Houzhao doesn't care about these things with him, this is an honest man, let him do whatever he wants.

"Liu Jin, you can arrange it."

"The slave obeys."

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Li Dongyang dragged his old body back to the mansion after he got off duty, he was fifty-nine years old, pure and old, served several emperors, and reached his current high position, but he didn't seem to be able to escape that fate.

The emperor's dissatisfaction with the cabinet was about to overflow, so he had to do this today, and soon after returning home, he asked the people in the house to carry a sedan chair to find Liu Gelao.

Today's situation in the Qianqing Palace, they all saw it clearly, Liu Jian just didn't say it.

The subordinates of the Liu Mansion led him and took him to the study with special respect.

Pushing the wooden door, the wind outside the house made the candles sway, just like them were in the whirlpool of the court. Liu Jian's body is fine, and Li Dongyang is already bending slightly when he walks.

I don't think it on weekdays, but in view of the background of the court at this time, Liu Jian can't help but feel a little emotional, "I have been loyal to the country for forty years, and now, you and I are dying old."

"Elder Liu Ge should know that I will come?"

"Yes. But you didn't have to come. Because it's the same if you don't come or not. Confucius said that he knew that he could not do it. There are some things that Your Majesty has no choice for, and neither do you and me."

Liu Jian doesn't say these words in the cabinet duty room on weekdays, but as soon as Li Dongyang said it, he knew that Liu Ge's old eunuch had been up and down for more than 40 years, and his heart had long been like a mirror.

"Elder Ge, Your Majesty is not a monarch like that. Didn't the elder also say that it is a blessing for you and me to be such a monarch? Now that it has retreated like this, isn't there a pity in the heart of the elder Ge?"

"I was born before I was born, and I am old when you were born. This maybe, too, fate. I know you want to mediate, but if you can mediate with me, can you mediate with Your Majesty?"

Of course, Liu Jian felt that it was a pity that his ideals had not yet become a reality. Encountering a reliable monarch is the greatest guarantee for him to realize his ideals.

But after the new monarch ascended the throne, the contradiction with the cabinet came so violently, not to mention that Zhu Houzhao did not expect this, even he, an old and refined person, did not expect it before.

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Because the cooperation between the two parties is usually very good, after all, there is a common goal of 'strengthening the country and enriching the people'.

Li Dongyang is reluctant to leave, he has no children and no daughters, and there is only a little bit of young faith and morality left in his heart, if these are also let go and no longer important, then he can no longer exist.

"I can't mediate if I can't mediate, so the elder wants me to try. I don't think Your Majesty is ready, and everything is still going to turn around."

"Jin Yiwei went to Nanzhili, do you know?"

Li Dongyang didn't understand why Liu Jian suddenly mentioned this, he frowned and shook his head, "What if you go?"

"Your Majesty didn't believe Ding Zuping's performance, thinking that Nanzhili must have food, but Ding Zuping was unwilling to borrow it, so he dismissed him. But Ding Zuping wrote to me that Nanzhili really has no food." Liu Jian stretched out his old yellow finger and nodded on the table, "He is a person who lacks ability, but why doesn't he do what he can please the above?" It doesn't make sense."

Li Dongyang suddenly felt that there was something in this, "No, with Your Majesty's wisdom, he will not be unaware of Ding Zuping's unreasonable behavior. But why does His Majesty still insist that Ding Zuping is unwilling to borrow it?"

"From Your Majesty's point of view, it may not be possible to tell whether Ding Zuping is disobeying the yang or the yin, because some courtiers are indeed bold, this is a possibility, and there is nothing wrong with this possibility to dismiss him. The second possibility, Your Majesty will think that if Ding Zuping is indeed telling the truth, then he will also be dismissed, and at the same time, he will also go to check Nan Zhili. Because Nanzhili should not

There should be no food, in the sixth and ninth years of Hongzhi, the imperial court has sent important ministers to govern the Susong River, where taxes are heavy, but there is no food, what does it mean?"

A cool breath suddenly rose behind Li Dongyang, this is why Jinyiwei went to Nanzhili!

Although Emperor Xiaozong and these old men have many flaws, they are indeed serious about governing the country, and there are also a group of officials doing things, at least they are not fooling around, eighteen years of peace and stability, how can there be no food in that place?

Liu Jian said worriedly: "Your Majesty believes that Ding Zuping himself is unwilling to borrow food, but he did not startle the snake. But after the court meeting, he sent Jinyi Wei to Nanzhili. Binzhi, with His Majesty's scheming and skill, Nan Zhili said that it was another big eucalyptus. And Your Majesty's new and strange ideas are endless, these are all big things, you let me stay, how can I stay? What does this have to do with whether His Majesty is ready or not?"

Li Dongyang stopped talking. Liu Jian is a person with political wisdom, and he can see that in the future, it will not only be one thing to send troops, but there will be many things, and under this pattern, he can retreat once or twice, and if he retreats every time, he will have to consider his reputation.

Now he is still a cabinet assistant and a pillar of the imperial court, and maybe after a few years, he will be almost the same as the 'Long Live Pavilion Old' when Emperor Xianzong was. Long Live Pavilion Lao refers to Wan An when Emperor Xianzong, one day the emperor called him over and asked a few questions, Wan An couldn't answer, he knew that he kowtowed and said long live, so he was jokingly called Long Live Pavilion Lao.

For Liu Jian, this may be the future, the emperor wants to have a wrist and strength, just like this time to send troops, people took out their own silver, and everything will come according to the emperor's will in the future, so what can he do when he arrives at that time, and he doesn't kowtow and say long live when he encounters things?

"The name is not written, and the official should be old and sick. What is fluttering, the sky and the earth are a sand gull. When the tide comes, how can manpower stop it?"

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