my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 416

Zhu Di was sitting upright, leaning slightly in the Wenlou.

When he met the ministers just now, he didn't show his true nature.

But now, there is quite a bit of vigilance.

"Your Majesty." Yi Shiha said, "The tea is cold, so I will change it."

The hall, which had been too quiet just now, finally had a little life.

Normally, if the tea is cold, Yishihazi will change it silently.

But when he said this at this time, he actually discovered Zhu Di's abnormality, but he just wanted to pick up an excuse for an excuse.

As he spoke, he went to pack the teacups.

But Zhu Di said: "No need. Xie Jin... I never thought he was still alive."

As soon as these words came out, Yi Shiha suddenly understood something, he lowered his head slightly and said: "Your servant understands."

Zhu Di glanced at him, raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you understand?"

Yi Shiha said: "Slave... will deal with it properly."

Zhu Di waved his hands and said, "He is now Zhao Wang Changshi, and he came to the capital under Zhao Wang's order. What do you want to do?"

Yi Shiha hurriedly said, "Your servant will die."

Zhu Di said indifferently: "Recently, many people have been arrested, but I know better than anyone else that no matter how many people I arrest or kill, I will not be able to solve the resentment of scholars in the world. There are hundreds of thousands in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. Scholars and gentry, have I killed them all?"

After a pause, Zhu Di said: "This Xie Jin...has a great reputation. In the eyes of others, I have treated him badly. Moreover, he is smart. If he has a different heart, he will be difficult to deal with."

Yi Shiha said: "Let Jin Yiwei..."

Zhu Di shook his head directly: "Zhang Anshi, it seems that you still haven't seen him clearly. He is still too kind. Don't look at the outside world saying that he killed innocent people indiscriminately, but I know him. If there is no real crime, otherwise he will We will never easily frame and frame people, or kill people easily."

Yi Shiha thought for a while and said: "Then the servants will come..."

Zhu Di still shook his head: "Let's wait and see, Xie Jin... After all, he is just one person. If this person can cause trouble, it is because some people in the world are unwilling."

After a pause, Zhu Di said again: "Yang Qing's family is still right. Instead of worrying about the scholars and gentry in the thirteen provinces, it is better to focus on Zhili and persuade the people in Zhili to study more."

"Reading?" Yishi Hamu was puzzled.

He didn't understand why he was talking about reading again.

Zhu Di smiled and said: "Emperor Taizu Gao hated these scholars and gentry back then, and killed many of them, but in the end, he still gave them preferential treatment. What do you think is the reason? Is Emperor Gao benevolent? ? Or is it because Emperor Taizu Gao was educated by them?"

Zhu Di asked himself and answered honestly: "No, it's just because...there is nothing to do with them. I, Ming, can't let illiterate people become officials, and it's impossible to let warriors rule the world. If they are all eradicated, who will control them?" What about the people?

Yi Shiha opened his eyes slightly, and said with a look of sudden realization: "I understand, only Zhili has more and more scholars. In the future...these scholars trained by the New Deal can be used to treat officials from the top and bottom of the thirteen provinces. , instead."

"It can be said like this." Zhu Di said: "Zhang Anshi reported that among the people who accompanied Huang Sun to make a statement this time, there were more than 370 scholars, many of whom were responsible for organizing, transmitting letters, and preaching. , there are 20 people who have achieved fame. It can be seen that not all scholars are opposed to the New Deal. In addition, there are currently [-] scholars in Zhili. Useful."

Yi Shiha said sincerely and sincerely: "Your Majesty has far-reaching considerations."

Zhu Di shook his head: "It's not that I have far-reaching concerns, it's Yang Qing's words that woke me up."

"Mr. Yang... usually speaks little, but these days, there are quite a few times when he takes the initiative to offer advice."

Zhu Di smiled and continued: "This is a man of great wisdom. He is usually reticent, wise and protects himself. Whenever he encounters a good opportunity, he will offer his strategy. This man...it seems that he has never said anything good about the New Deal before."

Yi Shiha couldn't help but said: "Could it be...he sees that the New Deal has improved, so..."

Zhu Di shook his head: "Such a person will not temporarily change his ambitions and wishes. He may compromise on small matters, but once a major event occurs, he will never change just because he caught some rebellious parties. My own strategy. The only possibility is that this person has never had any ill feeling towards the New Deal, and has been secretly observing whether the New Deal is good or bad, and gradually becomes interested in the New Deal, but... if the time is not ripe, he will never take it easy Put forward your own suggestions, and only when the right time comes, will you present your views and suggestions on the New Deal."

"It's like his suggestion to focus only on the Zhili New Deal. If two years earlier, under the rule of Zhili, how many scholars were related to the New Deal? If he made this suggestion, what's the use? Now, it's called today. The time is different from the past, and the time is ripe for the Zhili New Deal to move the world, so he took advantage of the situation and put forward his own opinions."

Yi Shiha listened, and said: "Old and prudent, with a strategy in mind, slaves are far behind him."

Zhu Di laughed, raised his finger, pointed at him and said, "You are a slave, how can you compare with him."

Yi Shiha was not angry, and said frankly: "But this servant is more loyal than him, and has a deeper heart than him."

These words immediately penetrated into Zhu Di's heart, and Zhu Di nodded in agreement.

Zhu Di slowly picked up the teacup on the imperial table, took a sip of tea, and then said: "Just wait and see, in a few days, this Yang Qing will write a letter explaining his new policy proposals. When we met just now, From what he said, it is clear that he has his own views on the New Deal, and he has already thought it through carefully. Then, it must not be as simple as just a few words."

After Zhu Di finished speaking, he waved to Yi Shiha, and then continued to fall into deep thought.

Yishiha understood tacitly, and silently withdrew.

But in the evening, Yi Shiha suddenly came with a memorial and said, "Your Majesty, Duke Yang has a memorial."

After hearing this, Zhu Di's eyes flashed brightly, and he said, "I thought it would be a few more days, who would have thought that it would be so early!"

Immediately, Zhu Di took his seat steadily, took the memorial, looked down slightly, and saw that the memorial read: "Zhili Encourages Learning".

Seeing these five characters, Zhu Di kept a straight face and gently opened it to read.

In this memorial, a set of educational methods for the entire Zhili was systematically proposed.

What Yang Rong hopes is to establish an officially recognized education system, which must be different from the local education system.

At the same time, throughout Zhili, academic officials are still set up, and the responsibilities of these academic officials are no longer mainly based on the traditional imperial examination officials. In addition, there will be certain rewards for those who are eager to learn and have achieved something in their studies.

In addition, the recruiting students of each school need to make a book in the school administration office, make a student record, standardize each subject, and at the same time quote a group of talents required by the New Deal and confer honorary positions.

In order to encourage students to enter school, especially for outstanding young talents, if they are successful in their studies and can achieve outstanding results in the joint examinations of various schools, in order to reduce the burden on their families, they can order the school officials to exempt tuition fees, or provide Lumi rewards .

As for the detailed rules inside, there are thousands of words, and it is definitely not something that can be written in a day.

There are many things that need to be considered in it, all of which have been considered.

The school status proves the identity, so as not to be mixed, or some scholars who come out of elementary schools cannot obtain diplomas and do not have proof of study, so it is inevitable to be confused in terms of employment.

At the same time, it can also prevent the schools from being different, the knowledge taught is too confusing, set up various subjects, and at the same time manage some schools to a certain extent, and prevent people from bluffing and defrauding in the name of the school.

And in view of the need to encourage more common people's children to enter school, rewards can also make common people more willing to send their children to school.

Zhu Di took it very seriously. After all, he was only good at making decisions and disliked tedious administrative affairs, but Yang Rong thought about the situation everywhere.

And the purpose of this letter is very simple, that is to increase the possibility of military and civilian people reading as much as possible.

On the other hand, it also standardized schools everywhere.

In addition, it is best to link the education of the school with the New Deal, so that these scholars can be used by the court after studying in the future.

Zhu Di looked at it, frowned deeply, and couldn't help saying: "It seems that Yang Qing...has worked hard on the education and politics in Zhili."

"How did Your Majesty see it?" Yi Shiha asked curiously.

Zhu Di said: "In this memorial, the specific number of scholars in Zhili and the number of schools are mentioned, and even many examples are mentioned. If you don't pay enough attention to Zhili's academic politics, it is absolutely impossible to transfer these things , I made it casually. I am afraid that Yang Qing had already planned for a rainy day two years ago and secretly searched for information about this study and politics."

After listening to Yi Shiha, he was suddenly speechless.

He couldn't help feeling a little regretful. If he knew this, he should have paid attention to this matter. In this way, now, he can show his hand in front of His Majesty.

In theory, this Yang Rong can indeed be called foresight.

Yishiha suddenly remembered something at this time, and said immediately: "By the way, Your Majesty, the servant girl has just received a report from Dongchang, saying that... Xie Jin's boat has arrived at Songjiangkou."

After Zhu Di heard this, he just pursed his lips and did not respond.

Although the news from Java was delivered by the Clippers, basically, the news from the Clippers was not much faster than Xie Jin.

Xie Jin's ship is also a cruise ship.

Because the ties between Daming and overseas vassals became increasingly close, the vassal kings brought with them a large number of family members and attendants, and tens of thousands of households often migrated.

And these people, after all, still have many old memories in Daming. They are in other places, and they miss their relatives and friends more deeply, so letters are exchanged very frequently. In addition, there are also some gifts that are in great demand.

Under such circumstances, many shipping companies have launched the business of mailing ships, sending letters and packages that need to be mailed from Java, Annan, Xinzhou, Luzon and other places back to the mainland of Daming, while loading a large amount of mail. , You can also take advantage of this to do some passenger ship business, so... on the route between Daming and these places, there are cruise ships entering and leaving the port almost every seven or eight days.

Xie Jin disembarked at Songjiang Estuary. In fact, he was not very old at this time, but he was weather-beaten and his complexion was much darker.

He came to the post station in Huating County to stay temporarily. Local scholars and gentry, when they heard that Xie Jin had arrived, they came to visit one after another.

Looking at the many people in Lun scarves and Confucian shirts, they came one after another.

Xie Jin didn't dare to neglect, listening to their words of condolence, Xie Jin couldn't help crying.

It has been six years. In the past six years, others are in a foreign land, thousands of miles away, like floating duckweed. Everything that can go is buried in the bottom of my heart, and I still remember it firmly.

Now, finally returning to this place, it is inevitable to choke up, everything that was once familiar has long gone, but now, it suddenly appears in front of my eyes, suspiciously like a dream.

That night, with all kinds of touches, I talked with people all night.

On the next day, they had to set off, and then went to Zhenjiang, and then entered Nanjing City from Zhenjiang.

He is Chang Shi, and also the envoy of King Zhao. Naturally, the first thing he did was to go to the Ministry of Rites to submit King Zhao's memorandum, and then he was waiting for orders at the Ministry of Rites to listen to the imperial edict at any time.

However, the memorial was handed over, but the emperor did not immediately issue an order to summon it.

On the contrary, when he stayed at Honglu Temple, the people who came to visit him were like crucian carp crossing the river.

In the capital, after a petition, among the officials, although many were not involved in the case, there were also some who had criticisms of the New Deal.

And scholars, not to mention.

Almost everyone felt a heavy feeling in their hearts.

Xie Jin's return to Beijing finally made them feel somewhat relieved.

Of course, the consolation is only temporary. Everyone knows that His Majesty has become estranged from Jin.

The era of Xie Jin and Xie Jin has passed.

After a few more days, there was a decree to order Xie Jin to meet with him when he arrived at the court meeting.

The emperor did not meet him privately, but only arranged to meet him during the court meeting, because envoys from various vassal states were allowed to attend the court meeting.

It can be seen from this that the emperor has no affection for Xie Jin, and only treats him as an ordinary envoy of the vassal state.

On this day, hundreds of officials gathered.

Zhang Anshi had already arrived, he was the first to enter the palace, and went to see Zhu Di first.

Zhu Di took Yang Rong's memorial and showed it to him, and asked him to delete and modify it as appropriate.

Zhang Anshi only glanced roughly, and then said: "I turn around and let the Changshi Mansion sort it out again."

Zhu Di nodded: "It's very good."

Zhang Anshi said at this time: "I have one more thing..."

Zhu Di said: "Speak up."

Zhang Anshidao: "The secretary of the Changshifu, Zuo Yuqian, is a steady, loyal and reliable person. This time, I will also follow my ministers to the pilgrimage."

The Changshi Mansion of the county king is equivalent to a whole set of institutions. The official positions in it are different in size, such as Changshi, Sima, Chief Bookkeeper, Gongcao, Recorder, Bingcao, Shuzuo, Gatekeeper and other official positions. Zhang Anshi has not asked Zhu Di for a long time. I have recommended talents, and now suddenly a mere clerk suddenly mentioned it.

Hearing this name, Zhu Di seemed to think of something interesting, he smiled and said: "Oh, it's a Juren, who refused to take up a job with you at first, but you asked me to make a decree, so he was relentless." The one you want to come?"

There was a moment of embarrassment on Zhang Anshi's face, and then said: "Exactly."

Zhu Di smiled and said: "Alright, it's rare for you to appreciate someone, so recommend him with all your heart, so let's cultivate him well. What are the strengths of this person?"

Only then did Zhang Anshi look calm, and said: "On weekdays, he can be a book assistant or a meritorious service officer, but if the country is in crisis, such a person must be the one who helps the building and turns the tide. .”

For Zhu Di, this evaluation was too exaggerated. He didn't say much about it, but just smiled and said, "It's getting late...it's time to go to court."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di rushed to Chongwen Hall and was promoted to his seat.

Long live Baiguanshan.

Zuo Yuqian, secretary of the Changshifu, could only stand outside the hall.

Yes, there are actually not many people who are qualified to be in the hall. Most of the ministers only listen to the announcement outside the hall. Occasionally, they can hear some performances between the emperor and the ministers from the hall.

But he soon noticed someone.

Yu Qian is the secretary of the county king Changshi's mansion. In theory, he is also a foreign minister, and of course he is with the vassals of the vassal king.

But there was one person who quickly attracted everyone's attention.

Yu Qian even saw that many people looked at this person with admiration.

Until someone muttered the word Xie Jin.

Yu Qian's heart skipped a beat, and then he involuntarily looked at Xie Jin.

You know, Xie Jin is definitely an idol for most scholars.

If the world's scholars were ignorant boys and girls, then at this moment, I'm afraid there will be countless people hugging Xie Jin and shouting giegie.

Xie Jin's expression was very calm at this time. Obviously he didn't sleep well last night, so he looked very tired at this time.

And Yu Qian is also a calm person, but he didn't secretly go to see Xie Jin like others, but after a glance, he was shocked and felt that the trip was worthwhile.

At this time, the eunuch inside shouted: "Xuanzhao Wangfu Chief Shi will see you."

As soon as this remark came out, Xie Jin began to straighten his clothes, and then entered the palace generously.

"Chen Xiejin has met His Majesty, long live my emperor."

Everyone's attention fell on Xie Jin.

Even Zhang Anshi sized him up carefully.After all, this is an old acquaintance, and they have dealt with each other in the past.

Zhu Di looked at Xie Jin and said calmly, "Is King Zhao all right?"

"Your Majesty, King Zhao is ill."

This statement came out.

All the people in the hall had weird faces.

Zhao Wang is Zhu Di's youngest son, and now he is thousands of miles away. Xie Jin's words are ill, and he doesn't follow the routine at all.

If King Zhao was really ill, someone would send him to the palace immediately, and it was impossible to wait for the envoy to see him before telling him.

If it's just a minor illness and nothing serious, then as an envoy, logically speaking, it should be concealed, because after all, it is only a minor illness, and Father Jun should not be worried.

Therefore, if Zhu Di had not received an urgent report before, then Xie Jin's standard answer now should be that Zhao Wang is safe.

The people in this palace are not human beings. Just hearing this, they immediately understood that there is a good show coming, and someone is going to make trouble.

Zhu Di said, "What's wrong?"

Xie Jin said: "Heart disease."

Zhu Di: "..."

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