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Chapter 6 Sitting down and listening to politics

After copying it to the Leopard Room, Zhu Hou did not indulge in alcohol and sex. He knew that playing politics is not playing games, and he also knew that there must be many dangers encountered in the future. A strong body is very important. After all, the body is the capital of revolution.

Therefore, after moving to the Leopard Room, Zhu Houzhao took four or five beauties to take turns to accompany him every day, but in fact, he kept asking himself to be Liu Xiahui, basically getting up at Mao time to exercise every day, going to bed after Hai time, and listening to Bahu's reports at a fixed time. At the same time, he was also thinking about his own money-making plan.

On the first day of visiting the Leopard House, Zhu Houzhao didn't think of a clue, but it is worth mentioning that he is so poor now that he is very poor. He gave all the wealth he accumulated during his time as the crown prince to Bahu to manage his relationship. Moreover, he also spent a lot of money to build a Leopard House, and he had to spend money to raise beauties, band actors and other things to buy divine beasts so that people outside know that he was enjoying themselves.

Therefore, now he has to make himself miserable. His breakfast is only staple with steamed buns, and only three dishes and one soup at noon and evening.

Although it is relatively more affordable than ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, at least three meals a day. After all, the Ming Dynasty now eats two meals a day, but for him, the emperor, it is very shabby.

Whether it is accumulating capital to participate in political struggles or improving his own life, Zhu Houzhao had to rely on himself to open up new ways of wealth. As for his own treasury, he could only let the eunuchs from the Ministry of Revenue and the internal transportation treasury watch for him.

When eating steamed buns in the morning, Zhu Houzhao thought that the steamed buns needed soda ash to ferment, and from soda ash to saponification, so the first way he thought of was to make soda to sell.

Zhu Houzhao gave the last silver to Luo Xiang, and asked him to go to Qipan Street outside Daming Gate to purchase a batch of raw materials for soap production according to his order. At the same time, he asked Qiu Ju to open a good water source near the Leopard House to open up a "Royal Industrial Experimental Base".

For people of this era, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty was definitely doing something unreasonable and making trouble, but only Zhu Houzhao himself knew that he was the first step in starting the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Houzhao was ready to do a big fight in the Leopard Room, he still fulfilled some of the basic responsibilities of the emperor in this era, one of which was to go to court.

The night after he arrived at the Leopard Room, he returned to the Qianqing Palace and began to prepare for the third day of the dynasty.

This was the first dynasty after the new emperor Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne. Zhu Houzhao got up at the time of Yin and waited for him to visit the main hall of Qianqing Palace. It was not yet dawn. However, because it was the first time in the new dynasty, he did not find it boring, but only felt it fresh. He began to sit in court and listen to politics according to the ceremony stipulated by the Ministry of Rites.

Generally, such great dynasties are mostly polite and do not discuss important national policies, but there are exceptions.

Now this morning court is an exception.

Minister of War Liu Daxia and Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Liu Jian and others smiled and looked at Zhu Houzhao with some contempt. They thought that Zhu Houzhao would definitely be inexperienced for the first time in court, so they could be at the mercy of these civil officials.

Minister of War Liu Daxia gave a wink to his close confidant Censor He Tianqu, the Censor of the Censorate, and soon, the Censor of the Censor He Tianqu appeared in the center of the court:

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm impeached the Minister of Personnel, Ma Wensheng, to be deprived of government affairs. Those who are in such a position should no longer be indulged in power! To comfort those who are in the future!"

As soon as the censor He Tianqu's words fell, the court suddenly felt aroused. No one expected that Ma Wensheng, a veteran of the four dynasties, would be impeached in the great court, and would be impeached in front of His Majesty and all officials. No one could stand this insult, let alone Ma Wensheng was still a person who cared about reputation.

"you!"

Ma Wensheng was furious and pointed at the censor He Tianqu for a long time and couldn't speak, but his eyes were staring at Jiao Fang, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

The censor He Tianqu only held the memorial indifferently.

Cabinet Grand Secretary Liu Jian and others only watched all this silently.

Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, smiled secretly, looked at Ma Wensheng and glared at Jiao Fang, and felt even more satisfied. He thought that the plan of killing two birds with one stone was indeed done. Now, we are waiting for you, Ma Wensheng to dismiss, and then your disciples attack Jiao Fang, and I can be promoted to the Ministry of Personnel!

Zhu Houzhao naturally saw through the key point and understood that Ma Wensheng was impeached now because he was jealous of the cabinet when Emperor Hongzhi died.

Zhu Houzhao could guess that next, Ma Wensheng would definitely resign and report to prove his innocence.

However, Zhu Houzhao would not let Ma Wensheng leave the court, because once Ma Wensheng leaves, the entire court will be controlled by Liu Jian and others in the cabinet, and his situation will be even more difficult at that time.

So, Zhu Houzhao said with great regret: "The late emperor repeatedly told me to cherish the old ministers during his lifetime and use them more often. How can he repel the old ministers because of his old age? Wouldn't that hurt the old ministers' hearts? This proposal was rejected!"

The censor He Tianqu had to retreat. However, Liu Jian and others in the cabinet and Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, were not disappointed. On the contrary, they were a little moved and were willing to see the new emperor Zhu Houzhao compassionate with the old ministers. After all, they were also old ministers, but they believed that Ma Wensheng would definitely resign. After all, according to convention, once the cabinet is a Grand Secretary or a Secretary of the State Council is impeached, they will be resigned, otherwise they will be regarded as a position of greed for power.

As long as Ma Wen is promoted to the resignation memorial, Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers who have already controlled the inner court will be sure to directly agree to the resignation of Ma Wen, and then they will expel Ma Wen from the court.

Of course, once Ma Wensheng is expelled from the court, the blame for the dismissal of the old ministers will be taken by Emperor Zhu Houzhao, because theoretically, Ma Wensheng's resignation can only be approved by the emperor.

But in fact, the emperor Zhu Houzhao was unable to refuse the cabinet's votes, and he did not even have the power to refuse to approve the winner, because the Silijian and the cabinet are not the ones who can listen to him now.

However, civil officials such as Liu Jian obviously not only wanted Emperor Zhu Houzhao to take the blame, but also wanted Emperor Zhu Houzhao to stay in the palace honestly. After all, the emperor did not live in the palace meant that they could not control the emperor.

So, the director of the Huke Academy, Zhongxia Shi, stood up at this time: "Your Majesty, I have reported that I have recently heard that Your Majesty did not live with the palace ban but asked for pleasure in the Western Garden. Now the spirit of the Emperor of Daxing is not at peace. I hope Your Majesty will understand the world's desire for governance, move it back to the palace, demolish the leopard room, to show his desire to be motivated!"

Zhu Houzhao became even more angry at this time. He did not expect that Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers and Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, not only wanted to drive Ma Wensheng out of the court, but also wanted to drive himself, the emperor, back to the palace. In their eyes, it seemed that he could not control the country if he lived outside the palace.

"The weather is hot and the Ganqing Palace has not been repaired for a long time, and the ice storage supply is insufficient. The Emperor Daxing has already suffered from the heat and heat disease in the Ganqing Palace. Therefore, Long Yu even returned to heaven. Now you want me to go back and die of heatstroke?"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask coldly.

Now, Hu Ke's agent Zhongxia Shi didn't know what to say. No matter how he did, he would not dare to say that he was going to kill the monarch. Hu Ke's agent Zhongxia Shi hurriedly glanced at Liu Jian.

What else can Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, say? He dared not force Zhu Houzhao to return to the palace in front of all officials, saying that he would make Zhu Houzhao feel hot, so he could only let him go: "Your Majesty said so much. It's a big deal to be healthy in the dragon body. It's not too late to move back to the Ganqing Palace after the heat of summer."

After Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, said that Li Dongyang and Xie Qiandu were a little unhappy, but they also secretly thought that the chief assistant Liu Jian had a very good answer. They didn't believe that Zhu Houzhao had a reason to stay in the leopard room after the heat ended.

"Just according to Liu Aiqing, I will talk about it in three months!"

Zhu Houzhao quickly settled down to prevent these civil servants from remorse.

After leaving the court for a while, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and other party were in a good mood and left the court with a laugh. After all, they not only successfully impeached Ma Wensheng, but also received the promise of His Majesty the Emperor to return to the palace three months later.

Ma Wensheng was very disappointed at this time. Naturally, he did not want to resign. But he knew that he had to resign now, and he would definitely be expelled from the court by Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers. Who told him that he did not control his words and questioned the cause of the death of the late emperor at that time?

Liu Jian also looked at Ma Wensheng when he left, smiled coldly, and almost walked up and pointed at Ma Wensheng and said, "Even if you are the Minister of Personnel, I want you to get out of the court if you want you to get out of the court!"
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