After chatting with Emperor Hongzhi for a long time in the Yangsheng Hall, Emperor Hongzhi's mood improved a lot. Then Liu Jin walked to the Shangshu room again, ready to see classmate Zhu Houzhao who was reviewing memorials.
"Hiss~"
In the study room, Zhu Houzhao kept scratching his head and touching his ears while reading long memorials. He felt extremely uncomfortable.
"It's such a big deal. On this Dog Eclipse Day, you have to write a separate memorial?"
Zhu Houzhao threw a memorial directly to the ground, extremely dissatisfied.
This is just a waste of my youth and time. Things like Tengu eclipsing the sun occur every year. It is a very common astronomical phenomenon. However, local officials are like a bad woman binding her feet.
A report from God or something like that comes up.
Zhu Houzhao was already extremely impatient when he read the memorials. But when he came to read this kind of memorials, one can imagine the collapse in Zhu Houzhao's heart.
Then looking at the memorials piled high next to him, Zhu Houzhao climbed onto the desk in despair.
This is not how people live!
Zhu Houzhao was in pain here, but Liu Jin, who had been following Zhu Houzhao, was full of energy. It seemed that it was finally his turn to stand up.
I saw him pick up the memorials that Zhu Houzhao had thrown on the ground. He carefully folded them and waited on them very patiently.
Well, now is not the time to raise your tail. The head of the eunuchs in the palace is still Xiao Jing. I only temporarily followed Zhu Houzhao to enjoy a little bit of the handprint of the eunuch.
"Your Highness, Liu Jin, the Minister of Household Affairs, would like to see you."
Soon, Liu Jin, who received the news from Xiaohuangmen, came to Zhu Houzhao and said:
"Lao Liu is here?"
"Quick announcement."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately became energetic and shouted immediately.
Soon, Liu Jin walked in with a smile on his face.
"Old Liu, you came just in time."
"I originally wanted to find time to have a good chat with you, but my father asked me to deal with these important national affairs, so I haven't been able to spare the time."
Seeing Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao said immediately.
"If your Highness has any wishes, just let them be conveyed directly to you."
Liu Jin replied respectfully, "Well, in formal occasions, you can't be casual or careless."
"It's my father's business."
"Can this intestinal carbuncle be cured?"
"How sure are you?"
Zhu Houzhao thought about it and asked Liu Jin very seriously.
"Back to Your Highness, intestinal carbuncle can definitely be cured. If the necrotic intestinal carbuncle is removed through surgery, the body will naturally recover as before."
"As for the success rate, it is only about half at present, but I have already ordered the establishment of a Royal Medical Corps. I have even ordered the recruitment of famous doctors from the Ming Dynasty and abroad to come to the capital. I have also ordered a large number of surgical experiments to remove intestinal abscesses."
"I believe this success rate can be improved soon."
Liu Jin thought for a while and replied.
"Well, my father's operation must be successful and there must be no accidents."
Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction. He was still very relieved when Old Liu was doing things.
"Your Highness, I have also discussed this matter in detail with the Royal Medical Corps. Soon, the Royal Medical Corps will enter the palace to report their treatment plan to His Majesty and His Highness."
"According to the plan, they will need about three months to prepare. They will specialize in researching this operation and also studying drugs. During these three months, they need to recuperate His Majesty's body."
"Your Majesty's health is really bad. He has a long-term poor appetite, poor absorption, eats less, and is getting better every day. His body is weak, which is very detrimental to the success of the operation."
"It is necessary to recuperate. Your Majesty should increase his food intake and eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains. After the body is recuperated, it will be more conducive to the success of the operation."
Liu Jin thought about it and began to give Zhu Houzhao a detailed report on the plan formulated by the royal medical team. Liu Jin had also reported this plan in detail to Emperor Hongzhi, who affirmed it and also expressed that he would actively cooperate with the treatment.
"Lao Liu, I can rest assured that you will do your best."
"Please be sure to cure your father's illness. You don't know that running a country is really not something humans do."
"I would go crazy if I saw these memorials around me."
After talking about Emperor Hongzhi's business, Zhu Houzhao also began to complain to Liu Jin.
"Your Highness, this has just begun~"
Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao's appearance, smiled and said.
"Yes, so when I think about reading these memorials every day from now on, my head is getting big."
"Father, it's really not easy for me. I have been reading these memorials every day for more than ten years. I am very tired every day."
Zhu Houzhao nodded, and when he really started to handle government affairs for Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao realized that being an emperor was really tiring and difficult. There were too many things that needed to be dealt with every day.
"Old Liu, look at these memorials. Many of the things are really big things, but they happened to come to Father."
"This is a report about the Tengu eclipse. It's a lot of nonsense."
"There are also these memorials. Each one is very long. They are all trying to show off their literary talent or something. They are long and smelly, but they do not mention anything serious."
Zhu Houzhao pulled out a volume of memorials and motioned to Liu Jin to read them. He looked extremely helpless.
"These ministers are all wasting the emperor's youth and time."
"I still like the memorials written by these generals in the army. They are simple and direct, without any unnecessary nonsense. They write down the things clearly and then propose solutions. Such a simple matter must be so lengthy."
Liu Jin picked up the memorial and read it carefully.
As Zhu Houzhao said, the writing style is very good, each word is written very beautifully, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the scriptures are quoted, but it is all nonsense and has no effect. The real things are very small and very few.
No wonder Zhu Houzhao went crazy. There were many memorials and memorials, but they were just a waste of time with some memorials like this.
"It's no wonder that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty didn't like going to court, and it's no wonder that they delegated part of the power of reviewing memorials to the eunuchs. That is to say, people like Zhu Yuanzhang and Emperor Hongzhi could review these memorials for decades, and any other person could do it.
Can't stand it."
After reading it, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh.
Being an emperor is really not something that ordinary people can do. Just reading the memorials is tiring enough. Many things are trivial, but it is a waste of time and energy to write a big one.
There are also some ministers who like to write memorials to the emperor when they have nothing to do, in order to show their presence. On the one hand, they deepen the emperor's impression of them, and on the other hand, they show that they are working hard and loyal to the emperor's orders.
But it brought huge pressure to the emperor's work and seriously increased the emperor's workload. For a diligent emperor, it was okay, but for a slightly lazy emperor, he would simply stop working.
No matter how much you love, nothing will happen to you anyway.
There were not just one or two emperors in the Ming Dynasty who did not fall in love with the imperial court. Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli, etc. were all famous. Even if they did not go to the imperial court for decades, nothing happened to the Ming Dynasty.
The same is true for reviewing memorials. Some emperors did not criticize memorials very much at all. Like Zhu Houzhao, after he became emperor, he did not criticize memorials. He only went to see a few major military and state affairs in person, and left the rest to the eunuchs around him to review.
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Regarding this point, it has a lot to do with the system of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor cannot be said to be lazy.
This morning, we have to get up at three or four in the morning. Summer is better, but in winter, it is very cold here in Beijing. Who can stand it?
Liu Jin went to the morning court for a while and couldn't bear it. He didn't want to waste a day of this holiday. The morning court, the early morning court was really too early.
"Your Highness, you can actually ask the cabinet to sort out these memorials in advance and divide them into priorities. You can just let the cabinet ministers handle this small matter."
"Your Highness handles state affairs on behalf of His Majesty. What you need to focus on is the construction of national systems, the construction of laws, and the control of the country's future development direction. Regarding specific matters, just leave it to the people below."
Liu Jin thought for a while and said.
"Yes, yes, Lao Liu, you are really my soulmate, and I mean the same."
"Things like this, about the Tengu eating the sun, shouldn't have come to me at all. It should have come to the Cabinet for approval."
"As for the attack by the Kazakh Khanate in the Hezhong area, this is a real military and national event. It should be reported in time and dealt with as soon as possible."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he nodded immediately, picked up two memorials and said the same thing.
"The Kazakh Khanate attacks the Transoxiana region?"
"Are our casualties high?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately asked with concern.
"See for yourself. The casualties are not very large. It should be the provocation of the Kazakh Khanate towards our Ming Dynasty after seeing that the Ming Dynasty withdrew some of its troops."
Zhu Houzhao put the memorial aside and motioned to Liu Jin to read it.
"How does Your Highness plan to handle this matter?"
Liu Jin read it carefully. This memorial was written by Yang Yun, the commander-in-chief of the army in the Hezhong area of the Western Regions. The Kazakh Khanate saw a large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty entering the Hezhong area and had the intention of taking root in the Hezhong area. At the same time, the number of troops stationed in the Hezhong area was also
Some of them were dispatched to the north of the Altai Mountains to deal with the remnants of the Oara tribe, so they also took the opportunity to provoke Ming Dynasty and test Ming Dynasty's reaction.
"Of course it's tooth for tooth, blood for blood. The Kazakh Khanate dares to provoke our Ming Dynasty. Naturally, our Ming Dynasty must respond forcefully. Otherwise, in the future, the countries and tribes in Central Asia will feel that our Ming Dynasty is weak and can be bullied?"
Regarding military matters, Zhu Houzhao was very passionate and said directly and decisively: "I have ordered another 50,000 newly trained cavalry from the northern grasslands to be sent to the Hezhong area. This time, I must kill them.
It will only take a river of blood to let all the countries in Central Asia know how powerful my Ming Dynasty is."