Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, has been very worried recently, because Emperor Zhu Houzhao changed the enrollment system so that he, the chief minister of the cabinet, has the right to recommend the Minister of Rites, which has led to many officials who have visited him, the chief minister recently.

But Wang Hua didn't know how to choose the Minister of Rites. He found Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, hoping to still screen out officials who meet the Ministry of Rites through the examination files of the Ministry of Personnel.

In order to choose a minister of the Ministry of Rites that satisfies the emperor, Wang Hua and Zhang Cai and others dare not be careless. Because Emperor Zhu Houzhao likes officials who are pragmatic, they can only choose among officials who have experience in governing the people in the local area. A group of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty were selected. Although they all rely on eight-legged essays to obtain taxes, it is not difficult to find a few officials with integrity.

"Your Majesty, I recommend Ouyang Dan as the Minister of Rites. This man was the magistrate of Xiuning County and later served as the Censor of the Supervisor. He served as the Deputy Censor of Huguang, Deputy Censor of Zhejiang, Deputy Censor of the Administration, Left-level Censor of the Administration, and Yingtian Prefecture. He is now the Right Deputy Censor of the Nanjing Censorate, and was fifty-six years old at the age of fifty-six!"

Wang Hua finally recommended an official who had been put on hold to Nanjing as a leisure official. Zhu Houzhao also knew that Wang Hua had put his heart into consideration and praised him very much.

At this time, Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the chief minister recommended Ouyang Dan as the Minister of Rites. From the perspective of the selection system, there is nothing to be argued. Ouyang Dan was originally a third-rank official and was ready to be transferred. However, there are hundreds of third-rank officials in the world who need to be promoted urgently. What I want to ask is how these hundreds of people should be used. If you are in terms of qualifications, you can be transferred to the official hall official left. However, like Ouyang Dan, who is a prefecture and trained in the local area, most of them are from the first and second-rank Jinshi, and most of them are officials in the capital. There are few people who are from the capital and have a few foreigners. However, these people cannot be abandoned by the court."

"This is a problem. Selecting officials has always focused on background and experience. Officials in Beijing are better than foreign officials, and officials in Hanlin are easier to promote than Jinshi. Jinshi is better than those in the first and second grades of Jinshi. Jinshi is better than those in the third grade. Jinshi is better than those in the juren. Even though the officials in Hanlin Qingliu have no experience in governing, most of them have been ranked as ministers and ministers. However, most of the capable officials in local areas have stopped following the third rank. Now even if they value officials, these people who have already held high positions cannot be ignored, but it is okay to rebuild them," said Zhu Houzhao.

“Return to the furnace?”

The cabinet chief Wang Hua and the Minister of Personnel Zhang Cai looked at each other, and Zhang Cai even asked: "Your Majesty, do you want them to study at the Capital University? Just like the children of nobles and the selection of officials? But they are all senior officials in the court. If they ask them to study for three or five years, will the court be empty!"

"It's not about going to the Peking University. The Peking University focuses on academic education and educating people. Cultivating political officials is only temporary. It is unrealistic to let these officials who have been in charge of the long-term study at Peking University for three or five years. I know that I mean to set up a school that specializes in training officials, called the National School of Administration."

Zhu Houzhao expressed his purpose, and he also knew that it was difficult to turn the officials in the court into the officials he needed as the emperor and the Ming Dynasty. At least there were not many. Sometimes the court had to take the initiative to transform officials. Cadre training was a very important aspect of state and enterprise management in later generations, and the Ming Dynasty could not be left out.

"National School of Administration?"

In recent years, new studies have emerged one after another, and words such as "country" and "national" have appeared in large numbers. Some radicals even used this to criticize many great scholars of the Yuan Dynasty, who could only be loyal ministers of Confucianism to the country and nation, and even Yanshenggong's mansion was ashamed of his ancestors, which also aroused the anger of many great scholars and asked the court to suppress these unrelenting slanders.

However, because Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao refused on the grounds that the court was the government of the people of the world, and had only the obligation to safeguard the freedom of speech of the people but had no right to block the people's verbal talk. Therefore, the great scholars could only argue and fight against the novel and rebels in the academies and major literary and social circles in newspapers and magazines, and even there was no intention of stopping.

Even Wang Hua, Zhang Cai and others who live in the temple also know something, and even participated in it under the pen name behind their backs. Therefore, they also know what the country means, what the administration means, and what the academy means, but to their surprise, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be intentionally applying the new ideas and practices that emerged from the people to the court.

"Your Majesty, I want to ask why it is called the National Academy of Administration?" Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, asked. He didn't know whether he should accept the emperor's behavior of applying new ideas to court politics, so he decided to ask to find out the emperor's intentions before deciding whether he should advise.

"Is there any reason to say? Establishing this school is a place to cultivate national scholars, not a place to cultivate my family slaves. If there is a king, there are ministers, and there are ministers. If there is a people, there will be a country. If the people accumulate the people, they will be a country. The people regard the family as the group, and the family and the country are the world. You are both ministers and officials of the people, and the country are the people. You are a country scholar! Don't you hope that I will treat me as a country scholar? Do you still want me to treat me as a family slave?"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Hua, suddenly understood and hurriedly bowed: "My emperor is wise!"

"Your Majesty intends to raise national scholars, which is a good and thoughtful act. But all the officials in the world are already talented in the court. If you educate them again, wouldn't it be a pity for selecting scholars and make people laugh at them, saying that the current method of selecting scholars is useless, and the people you choose are useless!"

Zhang Cai, Minister of Personnel, said.

"If people in the world are laughing, they will laugh right. Most of the officials in the court are useless. This is a fact!"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, was speechless for a moment. He did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor was so direct and did not care about the views of the people in the world. But when he thought about it carefully, his Majesty the Emperor seemed to have not cared about the views of the people in the world since he ascended the throne.

"The common people need to study in social studies, county schools, colleges, and even elementary schools, middle schools, and scholars need to study in universities, Imperial College, etc., and I, the emperor, also has a lecture to study, and princes and other palaces to study, so don't the court officials have to study humbly? Even if you are very talented, you are still not yet satisfied."

Zhu Houzhao continued to ask, and asked Wang Hua: "Wang Hua, you are the top scholar. Tell me if your knowledge has reached a state of enlightenment. You don't need to ask others for advice, but you will study from others."

"I am just the top scholar among the 298 students in the Xinchou subject in the 17th year of Chenghua. Many people cannot learn from all over the world. Moreover, the saints say that if three people walk, I must be my teacher. Everyone needs to concentrate on learning." Wang Hua naturally would not say proudly that he was well-educated and did not need to learn again. In fact, although literati are proud of themselves, there are few people who dare to be arrogant and say that they are very talented.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao said:

"Even Wang Hua dared not say that he did not need to learn, and who did the scholars and officials really didn't need to learn? I planned to establish the National Administrative Academy, with a one-year academic system, and select local officials with third rank or above, and train them in rotation, and train them in fourth rank or above, and train them in regular training for local officials with fourth rank or above, and select local officials with fifth rank or above, in order to select officials of the north and south rank and local officials."

"Zhang Cai, you are the Minister of Personnel. You also serve as the priest in this National Administration College. However, in the training, Zhang Cong has to come. He was the first student of the Beijing University and was a local county magistrate. He is familiar with the new policy. Wang Hua, you plan to recommend Zhang Cong as the Right Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Assistant of the National Administration College. The former Right Minister of Personnel was the first batch of students of the first batch of students of the National Administration College."

After Zhu Houzhao's instructions, Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, was quite happy because he did not expect that His Majesty intended to let the National Administrative Academy be managed by the Ministry of Personnel. This means that although he, the Minister of Personnel, lost the power to recommend high-ranking officials, he got the opportunity to be a teacher of middle and high-ranking officials, which means that he can organize a large political force in the future, and at least he can ensure that no one dares to attack him casually.

However, Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, was even more envious of Zhang Cong. He had to admit that His Majesty was indeed a student who chose to enter the Capital University at that time. These people were issued an edict by His Majesty the Emperor to archive them separately as soon as they graduated, and they were named after the selected students. As the name suggests, they were outstanding Jinshi selected from the Capital University to serve in local and grassroots levels.

This group of selected students is indeed promoted quickly, because the files of selected students are placed on the case of His Majesty the Emperor.

Xia Yan was already the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and was on the way to patrol the West. The person who did the same thing back then was Zheng He, the inner minister of Emperor Yongle, who trusted the most, which was enough to show Xia Yan's position in the emperor's heart.

Zhang Cong was also promoted from local county magistrate to Hetao Governor Censor. Now His Majesty the Emperor transferred him to Beijing to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel and also in charge of the National Administrative Academy. It was obvious that he was allowing him to cultivate his own political power and intend to take over the position of chief minister.

Zhang Cai knew that he was in his sixties and his health was getting worse, so he naturally had no chance to be the chief assistant, but he was sure that Xia Yan and Zhang Cong wanted to be the chief assistant.

Not only Zhang Cai thought so, but Wang Hua thought so too. He knew that His Majesty was determined to innovate and intended to make officials younger. Zhang Cong was only over 40 years old and wanted to be the Right Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Xia Yan was just over thirty years old and was now the Right Minister of the Ministry of War. It was time for his generation of Jinshi from the Chenghua Dynasty to abdicate and give up the wise, and hand over the position of chief minister with increased authority to these young and powerful officials to do it.

"I obey the order!" Zhang Cai accepted the order and asked again: "Your Majesty, then I ask, should the teachers and students of the National School of Administration decide whether it is decided by the cabinet or the Ministry of Personnel, or after Zhang Cong enters Beijing."

"The National Academy of Administration is the college of the Ming Empire. It was not his Zhang Cong. Naturally, the Ministry of Personnel is specifically responsible for it. It is reviewed by the cabinet and handed over to me for final review. Any official promotion and demotion must comply with the organizational procedures. The Ministry of Personnel is responsible for managing the official organization and representing the imperial bureaucratic organization. And you, the Minister of Personnel, is the head of the Ministry of Personnel, and you are responsible for screening the first batch of teachers and students;

You can calculate one of the teachers yourself, the cabinet and the nine ministers of the two capitals, you can choose the one who can be a teacher by yourself, Jiao Fang, Xu Jin, who is enjoying his life at home, can also be transferred to Beijing as teachers. Although they have resigned, they are also my ministers and people in the organization. Although they are old and weak, they cannot manage civil affairs, but it is necessary to teach young officials and impart their years of experience in governing the country."

Zhu Houzhao said again, "As for students, it is your Ministry of Personnel to choose. The middle-level officials who are preparing to be promoted to important officials will be transferred to Beijing first, especially those who will be promoted to ministers, ministers, and envoys of various ministries, and inspect the envoys."

Officials such as "organization" and "procedure" have also understood the meaning of words such as "organization" and "procedure". They do not know whether these words were fabricated by His Majesty or have existed in ancient times, but they have to admit that these words do express some meanings appropriately, so they all accept them calmly. After all, for language, it is a common phenomenon that new words often appear or some ancient words are popular.

Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, was now shocked that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to re-activate the old minister who retired. He had to admit that His Majesty, really would not want any talent to be idle. Even if he retired, he would have to arrest him and continue to work. This made Wang Shu, who was arrested and brought back to take charge of the Ministry of Personnel after he retired for many years, finally died in the second year of Yu Zhengde.

Zhang Cai had to secretly sigh that in the future, those who want to be promoted to important officials of the Ming Dynasty must be trained by the National Administrative Academy, which means that in the future, all officials in the world will be proud to enter the National Administrative Academy. The cabinet chief minister and the Ministry of Personnel will also be given priority to recommend and promoted officials who have been trained by the National Administrative Academy, otherwise it would be contrary to the emperor's orders.

The functions of the Hanlin Academy will be weakened as a result and will no longer be a capital storage agency.

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Hua, recommended Gui E, a selected student after graduating from the Capital University, and Li Shi, who is also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Zhai Luan, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, as candidates for the Hetao Governor. It can be seen that Wang Hua was still instinctively taking care of the officials of the Hanlin Academy, hoping to let them go to the local area to serve as governors, hone their experience in politics, and be able to bear great responsibilities in the future.

The cabinet and the nine ministers participated in the Tingtui vote to agree that Wang Hua would recommend the three people to the imperial court. Zhu Houzhao naturally chose to let Gui E serve as the governor of Hetao. The reason was very simple, Gui E was the selected candidate.

This also makes people all over the world know how much His Majesty the emperor attaches great importance to those who came from the Capital University, which has led to more and more people willing to sign up for the Capital University in the future.

Ouyang Dan was also recommended by the cabinet chief Wang Hua as the Minister of Rites. Other cabinet ministers and nine ministers did not want to refute Wang Hua's face. They also knew that unless there was a real and legitimate reason, even if they denied Ouyang Dan, Wang Hua would recommend someone he valued, so there was no need to block and waste energy.

Zhu Houzhao also agreed that the emperor appointed as the chief minister of the cabinet, and the emperor, would naturally support others' work, and issued an official edict to appoint Ouyang Dan as the Minister of Rites.

The chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Hua, also knew how to cooperate with the emperor's work, recommended the governor of Hetao, Zhang Cong, to be transferred to Beijing as the right minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the assistant of the National Administrative Academy. After all, if he did not cooperate, Emperor Zhu Houzhao could directly dismiss him as the chief assistant of the cabinet, and to change to someone obedient.

Other cabinet ministers and the Nine Ministers cannot disagree. If Wang Hua recommends Ouyang Dan as the Minister of Rites, who would have been willing to find trouble to the Chief Auxiliary for taking eye medicine?
Chapter completed!