In the end, no official raised any objections to the court's proposal on the formulation of the Imperial Constitution.

Because the senior officials of the Ming Empire never thought that the empire's system needed to be clearly stipulated, Zhu Houzhao's proposal was undoubtedly too novel, which caught them off guard and confused them, not knowing whether to stop or agree.

In this case, Zhu Houzhao could only use the imperial power to order the Hanlin Academy to organize the Constitutional Hall, and the Constitutional Hall would draft the "Outline of the Imperial Constitution".

At the same time, this draft will be held again after the drafting is completed.

However, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who formulates the imperial constitution of the Constitutional Hall must be appointed by Zhu Houzhao himself.

Zhu Houzhao asked the selection of officials from Hanlin Academy from different classes to participate. There should not be only those who came from the official and gentry class, but also those who came from the common people and landlords, and those who had no businessman background. At the same time, there should be only those who were from the northerners or the southerners.

It can be said that although Zhu Houzhao formulated the "Outline of the Imperial Constitution" was to protect his imperial power, his approach was still very democratic. He did not say that he made a decision directly and did not discuss it with his ministers.

Of course, the purpose of Zhu Houzhao doing this was actually to make these civil servants of the Ming Empire accustomed to the way of thinking of governing the empire with the legal system, rather than using ethical relations to govern the empire.

Wang Yangming, who was the governor of Nanzhili at that time, also learned through Huang Ming Pao that the court wanted to formulate a constitution. At the same time, he also learned from Huang Ming Pao that the content of the court discussion on the formulation of the constitution and the debate in the newspaper.

This discussion on formulating the constitution also brought great impact to other officials of the empire, but also brought great impact to Wang Yangming.

Wang Yangming found that even though he was in the court at that time, he could not tell whether His Majesty the Emperor was right or wrong in doing so.

He had to admit that His Majesty, the emperor, likes to make rules very much. He had just formulated a "Convention" in Nanzhili, and also formulated a "Convention" with several internal and external officials associated with the Royal Bank. Now he has to formulate a "Constitution".

But what Wang Yangming had to admit was that these rules were very necessary and effective. Once the rules were found, there would be order and fairness. For example, the "Convention" in Nanzhili forced the gentry of Jiangnan to pay taxes without refuting it because the rules were placed in black and white.

But this also made Wang Yangming discover that the Confucian Neo-Confucian knowledge he learned was very lacking in this regard. It seemed that the Confucian Neo-Confucian knowledge he learned only focused on self-cultivation and emphasized ethical relations. He had never explained what rules needed for governance in the empire. There was no clear political program, and only said that the king was the subject of the minister and the father was the subject of the son.

But what is the lord's guise and what power does it have? Is this Confucian idea that everyone in the world wants to be slaves to the king? What does the king say mean? Dominate the life and death of the subjects? In this case, why is there another saying that "the king treats his ministers as earth, and the ministers treat the king as enemies?" isn't this contradictory?

Wang Yangming found that he needed to study again, explain the relationship between people, people and nature, people and the country, people and kings, and people and themselves. For the world, special knowledge needs to be used to interpret what the most reasonable system is, and what rights and obligations should people have.

Wang Yangming found that he was about to open up a new world of thought.

For this reason, he read Zhu Houzhao's "Outline of Governance", went to the bamboo forest, went up the mountain to find monks who were meditating and Taoist priests who practiced immortals. He even specifically asked the farmer who wanted what the farmer wanted, and asked himself what the maid wanted. With Wang Yangming's repeated encouragement, the maid took off her clothes shyly and said she wanted to be an aunt.

Like Wang Yangming, Kang Hai, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, is also very confused now. The fact that His Majesty the Emperor wants to formulate a constitution seems ridiculous to him, because since ancient times, there has been no constitution in the dynasty governing the world, either Huang-Lao's theory or Confucianism.

But Kang Hai cannot say that the absurdity is now. Even though the State and the State regard Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as orthodox, there is no explicit regulation that Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism can be used directly as a political system, or even cannot be used directly as a political system! Because "preserving the laws of nature and destroying human desires" is used to demand individuals and demanding that the country have some sense of mismatch.

Moreover, even if the theory of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is taken as a political program, it seems very contradictory. According to the idea that the king is the main body of the minister, the gentry in the world should not question the emperor's advice to the emperor, otherwise even if he advises the emperor, if the emperor does not listen, they will have to obey.

As an official and gentry class, Kang Hai had to admit that he was very resistant to such a view, but he didn't understand why he regarded this idea as orthodoxy.

But when Kang Hai thought of his father as a son, he felt that there was nothing wrong with that. How can a son oppose his father?

Kang Hai was confused. He found that the emperor in the palace had given him a difficult problem, which made him realize that even the top scholar, he seemed to be not proficient in his studies and could not understand many things clearly. Especially when he saw the usually gentle Hanlin scholars in the Constitutional Hall blushed with a quarrel, he did not expect that officials from officials and gentry origins would have such great differences in the formulation of the constitution.

Kang Hai gave a memorial to resign from his post and go to the Peking University to be a student. He found that there were many knowledge taught at Peking University that were not mentioned in the Four Books and Five Classics, and many of them were directly related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and it was very straightforward. He didn't even know what system these knowledge were, but now he decided to study and study. He felt that he could learn some new knowledge from there to answer his doubts.

Zhu Houzhao agreed to the request of Kang Hai, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and considering that he was too old, he was especially exempted from military training.

However, Kang Hai's request caused a sensation in the court, and even the entire Ming literary world was quite surprised because the official of the Hanlin Academy was one of the most noble officials in the Qingliu, which even indicates that he would enter the cabinet next, according to the previous rules.

Now that Kang Hai is about to resign from his official position to study, many people are puzzled. Moreover, he still goes to the capital university that is unwilling tolerant or even criticized by the world, and even goes to the place to study as a great scholar of his generation, which makes many arrogant scholars really unable to accept such a thing.

Xu Zhenqing asked Kang Hai: "Why did you resign from your post and go to study in that place? Do you really want to study with a group of younger generations?"

"I don't know anything. Because the day before yesterday, Your Majesty wanted to carry out constitutionalism, I found that I had learned very little and could not tell whether Your Majesty's words were right or wrong. According to the saints, whether it is better to limit the power of the monarch or not? But even the words of the saints are not unified. This has led to no one in the court who can argue the right or wrong of what Your Majesty did. In order to better refute Your Majesty's rebellion, I must learn what Your Majesty knows!" Kang Hai said.

Xu Zhenqing did not stop Kang Hai from doing anything.

Zhu Houzhao did not expect that he was just formulating a constitution, which made the civil servants so confused and even had great differences. Because his words "The constitution is the foundation of the future rule of the country, and kings and even the people of the world must take this as the basis" made a group of literati and scholars from the Constitutional Hall of the Hanlin Academy dare not be disrespectful, and they failed to formulate a draft for several months, and even became more and more fierce.

Zhu Houzhao did not stop him, and even said, "It's best to argue more. Now I'll understand it so that I won't cause dissatisfaction in the future and cannot make a result. I'll let more people quarrel. I can always formulate a constitution that will satisfy all the subjects in the world, so there is no need to worry."

Because of this, almost all literati in the world participated in this war of verbal war and expressed their views on how the Constitution was formulated through the Huang Ming Pao.

Zhu Houzhao didn't care. Even if a literati rolled up his sleeves and fucked, he didn't ask the Jinyiwei to ask. Besides, he didn't have so much time to care about how these literati quarrels. Moreover, in his opinion, it was good for literati to quarrel on their own, so that he would not deal with him as the emperor.

"Your Majesty! The Censor Ximen Fu impeached the Hou of Shouning Zhang Yanling, even though his family slaves seized hundreds of hectares of land."

Zhu Houzhao did not expect that the civil servants did not bother him, but the nobles of the foreign relatives caused trouble for him. It was obvious that his two uncles now thought that after Emperor Hongzhi's death, they would indulge them more and continue to annex the land without scrupulously.

"I ordered the Marquis of Shouning to return the land to the people immediately, and the slaves who occupy the land should be sent to the Jinyiwei within three days. Otherwise, I will ask the Jinyiwei to come to the door to get people and reduce his title!"

Zhu Houzhao naturally would not be polite, and even took the memorial to find Empress Dowager Zhang and said to Empress Dowager Zhang:

"My mother, although relatives of the foreigners are not allowed to interfere in politics, I think that the two uncles cannot be so ignorant. If they destroy their mother's reputation, they will be criticized by officials. Moreover, even if I favor the Zhang family now, the emperors in the future may not be favored by the Zhang family. In order to ensure the wealth of the Zhang family, I think that the two uncles should be allowed to study at the Beijing University, just like other nobles, so as not to be left with the name of a playboy!"

"But your two uncles are not young, so is it still too late to study now?" asked Empress Dowager Zhang.

"This study is not limited to age. Those who have attained enlightenment first become teachers. Let the two uncles learn the principles are better than causing trouble now, otherwise it will bring a huge disaster to the Zhang family! Now the censor has reported that they embezzled people's land. If they cause deaths in the future, they will even be unfaithful and unrighteous, and they will listen to the instigation of traitors to rebel."

Zhu Houzhao said.

After all, Empress Dowager Zhang is just a woman in the deep palace for many years. Now, after hearing what Zhu Houzhao said, she naturally has to agree. Of course, she doesn't want her two younger brothers to continue making trouble like this.

At this time, as soon as Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling received the imperial edict asking them to study at the Capital University, they came to Zhu Houzhao unwillingly: "Your Majesty, I have returned the seized land, and the family slaves who committed the crime have also been escorted to the Jinyiwei, but can we not let us study!"

"No! This is the imperial edict issued by the Queen Mother! It is to keep the Zhang family rich forever! And you are complaining privately that Royal Bank has not counted your share, do you regret not willing to invest in the stock? Now I have made it clear that if you are unwilling to go now, you can, and I will not find two uncles if I have any money in the future, so as not to let you lose!"

Zhu Houzhao said.

But because of Zhu Houzhao's words, both of them had to accept the arrangement of going to the Beijing University to study, and asked again: "Your Majesty, can you avoid military training?"
Chapter completed!