Chapter 29
Wang Yangming never thought that his father Wang Hua could take charge of the real power department of the court. In his opinion, his father was a pedantic and rigid person, not suitable for being an official, but only suitable for studying, and even if he was studying, he could only follow the steps and could not become a person with great knowledge.
But Wang Yangming did not expect that his father Wang Hua would be appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue by His Majesty. As far as he knew, his father could not even calculate how many acres of land and expenses his family had, so it was naturally difficult to manage the Ministry of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty.
So, after Wang Yangming returned home, he sat in the Mingtang waiting for his father to return home. He could give his father advice and write "Nine Things to Do in Taxation, Money and Food of the Ministry of Revenue".
At one moment, Wang Hua returned to the mansion, and Wang Yangming hurriedly came to see his father: "Master, you are back. When you learn that you have been moved to the Minister of Revenue, I will congratulate you here."
Wang Hua was in a good mood when he was promoted to the Minister of Revenue. He only smiled faintly: "If it weren't for your erratic past and causing trouble for me, the government and the people said that I, Wang Hua, had no choice but to be promoted to the second rank until now."
Seeing that his father was even promoted to the Minister of Revenue, Wang Yangming could only silence his mouth helplessly, and then said, "The master will be appointed as the Minister of Revenue tomorrow. I was not talented before in the Ministry of Works. The Ministry of Revenue has observed politics and has a little understanding of the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue. Now I have written "Nine Things in Taxation, Money and Food of the Ministry of Revenue" for the Master to refer to it."
Wang Hua was very depressed about this. The fifteen-year-old emperor Zhu Houzhao guided him how to manage the Ministry of Revenue. Those who were a minister could not refute him and could only accept it. But now that he had to be taught by his son how to manage the Ministry of Revenue. Wang Hua couldn't help but get angry: "It's useless for your father to be old and needs you to teach you!"
"Your Majesty, don't be angry, the child is just a suggestion. The Minister of Revenue is burdened with heavy burden, so you must pay attention to your health in the future. In addition, I don't know if you have introduced your Majesty to Your Majesty. You now want to advise Your Majesty about the border, the vassal king, and the rivers!"
Although Wang Yangming is over, his career is still going well now. He has never experienced setbacks and has not changed his habits when he was young. He is still a simple personality trait with a little eagerness to express.
When Wang Hua saw Wang Yangming like this, he thought of the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, whom he had just met. Wang Hua couldn't help but sigh and pointed at Wang Yangming: "I really don't know if my Ming Dynasty is in your hands or a disaster!"
Wang Hua snorted and said nothing. He picked up the "Outline of Governance" given to him by Zhu Houzhao. He was ready to open it and read it. After all, it was given by the emperor. But when he saw that the first sentence of the opening was "The contradiction between the growing material and cultural needs of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the backward productivity was the main problem of the Ming Dynasty at present", he thought why the first sentence of the opening was not to be generous to the people or something.
However, Wang Hua continued to watch, but when he saw that there was a saying "Frugality is not a prosperous era, while plundering from the outside can make the whole people rich", he almost became furious, but he finally endured it:
"Who taught Your Majesty these rebellious words! All the ministers in the Eastern Palace can be punished!"
"Master, was this authorized "Outline of Governance" written by Your Majesty? I didn't expect that Your Majesty is so clear about the world of Ming Dynasty. Look at the historical cycle and land annexation relationship, these are very insightful. Isn't it just that the world's general trend will be divided and separated for a long time. It's rare that Your Majesty has analyzed the reasons here."
Wang Yangming stood on Wang Hua while watching seriously and said with relish, but he did not notice that his father was staring at him like a ferocious wolf.
"This is not a good thing. These are all dregs that bewitch people's hearts! I don't know who taught these for Your Majesty. No matter what, I have to burn it, otherwise if it spreads it, it will cause chaos in the world!"
Wang Hua still did not make up his mind to beat his married son, but yelled at Wang Yangming, and he was about to burn books after the yell.
But Wang Yangming took the book over: "Master, this is a gift from the emperor. You should not burn it. Leave it to the child, and the child must keep it properly."
After Wang Yangming finished speaking, he ran back to the room with the book.
When Wang Yangming's wife saw Wang Yangming come back, she hurriedly laughed: "You are back, did you make the master angry again just now?"
"No, you go to bed first. I will stay up late to read this book tonight, otherwise I will not be able to read it tomorrow!" Wang Yangming said as he put the wax table next to him and read it carefully. Wang Yangming's wife said with some disappointment.
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Zhu Houzhao didn't know that his imperial "Outline for Governance" had fallen into Wang Yangming's hands. He initially took the time to write these contents about governing the country and governing the country to help the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the civil servants of this era learned from elementary school all four books and five classics. All they could do was to use Confucian ethics to maintain social stability and order, and even rely on Confucian ethics to maintain social stability.
Otherwise, in many cases, ancient Chinese society would not have had the situation of imperial power not being placed in counties. It was because the ancient Chinese government did not know how to manage the grassroots, and they could only rely on the clan formed by Confucian ethical order to manage the grassroots for themselves.
Zhu Houzhao did not want his Ming Dynasty officials to rely on the clan society formed by gentry to manage the common people. He needed to give these officials some basic knowledge of governance, at least let these officials know that they should not always think that saving government costs can bring peace to the world. People will still want to eat well after eating, and they should find a way to increase their income to the Ming Dynasty.
As for whether the world will be in chaos, Zhu Houzhao also considered it, but he thought that since he was the emperor, no one dared to do anything to him. At worst, he would just recite the name of cynical and rebellious.
The chaos in the world is nothing more than the bankruptcy of a large number of self-cultivated farmers, which led to the destruction of the ruling foundation or the system was changed to make the literati and officials support the new emperor again. It would not affect the people's farming in their own thoughts and speeches, nor did they change the system to deprive the literati and officials of the people of their power to exploit the people. Naturally, there is no need to worry about chaos in the world.
While Zhu Houzhao was spreading the concept of governing the country, his attendant department director Xu Jing had already begun to invest with the help of Liu Jin and Zhang Yong. Xu Jing first visited the cabinet chief Liu Jian.
Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is now angry because his wife actually spent 60,000 taels of silver to buy a crystal sitting lotus Guanyin from Emperor Zhu Houzhao.
But Liu Jian did not directly call his wife a prodigal girl, but said angrily: "My wife, why do you think you are buying this thing for money? I am also the chief minister at least. I am the old minister of all dynasties. I just want any royal treasures. I don't believe that Your Majesty dare not give them to me!"
"Why are you talking about this? You didn't know that Your Majesty had this treasure before, and we were not short of the 60,000 taels of people." Liu Jian's wife carefully worshiped Guanyin Guanyin at Crystal Sitting on Lotus.
"There is no shortage of silver, but did you do this to give the censor a verbal verbal and ask them to impeach me? Now that His Majesty is poor, he sells royal treasures on the street, but my family, the chief minister, can buy royal treasures for a high price of 60,000 yuan. What do you want others to think about?" Liu Jian said speechlessly.
"What are you afraid of? You have not been impeached by the censors. You are the chief minister now. Who can do anything to you? Even the newly ascended His Majesty has to look at you for your face." Liu Jian's wife said, "We don't have a grandson yet, so this thing is useful when we buy it."
Liu Jian was not talking, and at this time a servant came to report that Xu Jing, the director of the attendant's office, came to visit. Liu Jian naturally knew that Xu Jing was a literati who had just been acquired by Emperor Zhu Houzhao, so he met Xu Jing, the director of the attendant's office.
Xu Jing also stated that he was here to raise funds and hoped that Liu Jian could pay money to participate in the investment activities of the Royal Taxation Bureau. Liu Jian only thought that this was His Majesty the Emperor asking for money, and he didn't know what investment was. Even the first time he heard about it, he said directly:
Chapter completed!