After listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Queen Zhang rolled her eyes at her son, but she didn't say anything. The family of three had a warm and harmonious meal together. After the meal, the father and son chatted with Queen Zhang for a while. Then they left Kunning Palace together and rushed to Qianqing Palace. They hadn't gotten along like this for some days, and the father and son felt familiar yet strange.

"Tell me about it!" After doing it, Zhu Youtang said first. He knew what his son had done, but he wanted to know why his son did it.

Although Zhu Youtang was called a benevolent king, in fact he was not unwilling to punish some people. He knew about the Ye family and he also knew why his son did what he did. In fact, Zhu Youtang did not think that his son was wrong to do what he did. Besides, if my son makes a mistake, I will go home and give him a beating, but I still have to support him and wipe his ass.

"After I left Yangzhou, I went to the Lianghuai Salt Fields. I met those kitchen households!" Zhu Houzhao said with a sigh after sitting down.

"Father, the lives of those Zao households are miserable. They don't have enough to eat, and they don't have enough clothes to wear. The ambassadors and stewards of the salt field treat them like slaves. They can't live any longer." Zhu Houzhao became angry as he spoke. He stood up and said, "Who caused these? Is it my father? No, my father is frugal and frugal every day, and he can't even bear to wear a good piece of clothing."

"For so many years, nothing has been added to the palace. The queen mother is also frugal every day, but what about them?"

"Father, Jin Yiwei raided a garden belonging to the Ye family in Yangzhou. That garden was very, very large. Not to mention the money in it. The women alone took out more than 300 of them, and they were all Yangzhou thin horses. Father, The emperor may not know what a Yangzhou thin horse is, which is a good-looking little girl bought since childhood and then trained."

"Let them know how to serve men like this, how to play music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When they grow up, the Ye family will take them in or give them away."

"Giving it to those officials or officials, red sleeves add fragrance. This thing is beautiful in the writings of literati, but in the eyes of the ministers, these are the blood and tears of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they have no place to cry. The wailing of those scholars. They should have taken the world as their own responsibility and should have served the Ming Dynasty well. Didn't they say, "Establish a heart for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations." ?That’s what they do?”

Seeing your excited son, the expression on Zhu Youtang's face slowly became serious, and he asked in a deep voice: "Is the Ye family really doing this?"

"Father, all the ministers who followed my son to Yangzhou saw this matter. They all knew it. Even many ministers in the court knew it, but they all chose to ignore it. Their eyes were not blind, but they were Pretending to be blind." Zhu Houzhao said this, his eye circles were red, and he said in a slightly deep voice: "They are digging up the roots of Ming Dynasty."

"If this continues, these people will become runaways, and those who run away will become refugees. These refugees will then become the hidden population of the gentry. They will reap benefits from the beginning to the end."

"Once there is a major disaster, these refugees will be the trigger, and then there will be a danger of instability in the world. These are just kitchen households. How many military households were there in the Ming Dynasty? I feel scared just thinking about it."

Zhu Youtang also fell silent. Although he knew that the situation was not good, he was working hard to change it, and he worked hard, but he did not expect that the situation was so bad. Looking at his son, Zhu Youtang felt that

I was very pleased that I had a successor. After thinking about it, Zhu Youtang asked: "Then have you thought of any solution?"

"After all, the world is governed by scholars. Although the Ming Dynasty did not share the world with scholar-officials, it is almost the same today."

"After all, we, father and son, are in the Forbidden City. How many people can we punish and how many people can we kill? How many people can we do if we want to? Now that you have seen it and you think it is unfair, what do you think we should do?"

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Zhu Youtang. Neither father nor son mentioned Mou Bin, but both father and son knew that Zhu Houzhao was already pleading for Mou Bin, and Zhu Youtang also listened. What Zhu Houzhao just said, Zhu Houzhao

Youtang also listened. What Zhu Youtang is asking now is how to solve this problem once and for all. This is the way to be a king.

Zhu Houzhao knew that after what he had said before, his father would be disappointed if he could not come up with an overall solution. After planning a domain by himself, when it comes time to plan for the overall situation, this is the magnanimity that an emperor should have.

As for the affairs of the Ye family, or Ye Qi's death, Zhu Youtang did not notice it. Let alone a retired Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, what about the serving one? The emperor wanted to clean up the matter, Zhu Youtang

What I want to see is my son's solution, not to vent, not to complain about the whole thing, but how to solve the problem at hand. No matter whether it is kingly or overbearing, whatever works is a good way.

"I feel that the first priority is the administration of officials. It is urgent to improve the supervision system and rectify the administration of officials. We must eliminate old, weak and weak officials, severely punish corruption, and be severely punished for laziness and neglect of government." Zhu Hou looked after Zhu Youtang and said.

"The imperial court has the Metropolitan Procuratorate, each province has a supervisory censor, the six ministries have a clean official department, and the inner court also sends garrison eunuchs, but the official administration is not like this?" Zhu Youtang shook his head, looked at his son, and asked: "The official administration

It has been a big problem since ancient times. Every emperor wants to solve the problem of official administration and ensure the Qingming Dynasty, but how many people can do it? "

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, and then said: "Father, although the court has many supervisory offices, the officials protect each other! Besides, what if these people are also corrupt? Just like Yangzhou this time, the guards in various places

Eunuchs, it's not that the ministers look down on them, they are no match for those civil servants, so we have to find another way."

Hearing what his son said, Zhu Youtang also became interested and asked with a smile: "Then what can you do? Let's talk about it."

"Officials know officials best, and officials know officials best. Erchen wants to introduce the secret book system!" Zhu Houzhao said his thoughts directly without any hesitation. In fact, the secret book system is the secret folding system of the Qing Dynasty.

The development of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and even the establishment of the crown prince was a secret edict. The secret edict for establishing the crown prince was hidden behind the bright and upright plaque in the Qianqing Palace.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, the old system of the Ming Dynasty was followed. When officials reported something to the emperor, they used inscriptions for official matters and memorials for private matters.

The inscriptions are sealed, while the memorials are not. The inscriptions and memorials are submitted by the general envoy, and before the emperor reviews and approves them, the cabinet bachelors have already "voted and drafted" them. Therefore, both documents are public.
Chapter completed!