Zuo Maodi, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was the first to come to his senses and immediately looked at Emperor Chongzhen with surprise in his eyes.
He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign. He first served as a local official, and then came to Beijing as a household minister in the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign. Over the years, he watched how the emperor was doing, and he naturally knew what he was doing.
If you want to say that the emperor was wise in the past, it can only be flattery.
If he were really wise, the world would be in chaos? There would be constant partisanship in the court?
It was obviously the princes in the court who were playing tricks on the emperor. The emperor had no power, but he was just a tool for the princes in the party to fight!
Who fears him?
Everyone thinks he is just a decoration!
For selfish reasons, anyone who can deceive him will deceive him!
However, at the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, after Emperor Taizu appeared, Emperor Babaili rushed to summon him to Beijing and was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Since then, Zuo Maodi has seen the emperor's performance.
With punches and kicks, no matter whether it was the chief minister, the minister or the Duke of the country, etc., all the tigers were picked out without mercy. Those who deserved to be killed were killed, and those who deserved to be exiled were exiled.
Including reorganizing the inner palace, they also executed former favorites, such as Wang Zhixin and others.
He also tried his best to reorganize the Yongwei camp and the Jing camp, despite all opinions, and in just half a year it became a strong army. It won the Battle of Jizhou and wiped out hundreds of thousands of captive troops.
This kind of thing would have been unimaginable before!
The emperor's courage and methods seemed to be completely transformed, as if he was possessed by Emperor Taizu.
No, as for today's imperial meeting, if it was the former Emperor Chongzhen, how could he have such a method to make a palace maid serve as a third-grade civil servant?
A suggestion was made and the emperor obeyed!
With this kind of method, if it were the former emperor, Zuo Maodi wouldn't believe it even if he were beaten to death!
But now, like the emperor in front of him, who can eat the courtiers to death and control the imperial meeting, it can only be done by Emperor Taizu, or under the guidance of Emperor Taizu, right?
While he was thinking this, Chief Assistant He Fengsheng had come to his senses. When he saw that Chen Yuanyuan had already received the order to thank him, he immediately became anxious.
He is the chief minister, and such a ridiculous thing happened during his tenure. What will be written in the history books?
So, He Fengsheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it's inappropriate, it's inappropriate. This palace... Chen Yuanyuan has no fame, but he is directly appointed as the deputy political envoy of the third rank. There is no precedent in the ancestral system!"
The emperor is the greatest, but no matter how great the emperor is, he cannot be greater than the ancestral system. Therefore, if he wants to dissuade him, he can only talk about the ancestral system.
"Yes, yes, your majesty, Chen Yuanyuan has no fame, so this is inappropriate!" Ni Yuanlu heard this and immediately seconded, "If this is really the case, the officialdom will be in chaos. Who will study hard to take the scientific examination in the future?"
After hearing this, the others wanted to speak, but Emperor Chongzhen said immediately and calmly: "You are right, so let's give Chen Yuanyuan the same background as a Jinshi!"
"..." Upon hearing this, He Fengsheng and others were dumbfounded.
Is it permissible for the emperor to confer the same birth status as a Jinshi?
Of course it is possible, and such things have indeed happened in history.
But the key point is that the person who was granted Jinshi status is a woman. This has never happened before. This is wrong!
Thinking of this, Liu Zongzhou also hurriedly came out and said: "What the Minister of the Ministry of Finance said is absolutely true. If your Majesty directly grants Tong a Jinshi background, and she is just a palace maid, and other women follow suit, what will other scholars think? None of them will
Are you still studying hard in the cold window?"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said without hesitation: "Today is an extraordinary period. If I want to revive the Ming Dynasty, I will naturally have to take extraordinary measures. As for the future, women's subjects can be opened and women can participate in the imperial examination. Once admitted, they can enter
He serves in government offices such as the Department of Political Affairs and the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, women who become officials also have hard-working backgrounds!"
"..." When Liu Zongzhou and others heard this, they were immediately dumbfounded.
Unexpectedly, after persuading the emperor for a long time, I originally wanted to persuade the emperor to take back his life, but the result was good. After persuading, he actually persuaded a female doctor!
Since the birth of the imperial examination, there have been many subjects such as Xiucai, Mingjing, Junshi, Jinshi, Mingfa (law), Mingzi, Mingshu (mathematics), etc. The examination contents include timely affairs, classics, essays, etc.
In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination included Jinshi and Ming Jing subjects. The examination content included scriptures, ink meanings and poems. After Wang Anshi was appointed as political advisor, he canceled poems, poems, Jings and ink meanings, and selected scholars based solely on the scriptures' meaning, theory and policy.
By the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination became a test of eight-legged essay.
If there were a women's department, that would have never happened before!
Therefore, He Fengsheng hurriedly announced: "Your Majesty, there has never been a precedent for female subjects, so it is inappropriate to implement it rashly!"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sneered and said: "Is there any precedent for the imperial examination before the Sui Dynasty?"
"..." Everyone in the Wenhua Hall was immediately speechless.
How to refute the emperor's words?
Indeed, everything has a precedent. Just because there hasn’t been one before, doesn’t mean there won’t be one in the future!
The Political and Communication Department, which did not exist before, has been newly established by the current emperor!
There is also the Jiangnan Procurement Yamen. It didn’t exist before, but it does exist now!
Not to mention the Political Affairs Department, the Jiangnan Procurement Office alone played a very important role in the stability of the court. This is obvious to all!
Not talking about yamen, but just officials, chief assistants did not exist in previous dynasties. They did not even exist during the period of Emperor Hongwu. They only appeared later.
The establishment of new official positions and new yamen is itself the power of the emperor. If it exists now, it has become a precedent, and it can also happen in the future.
While they were thinking about it, they heard Emperor Chongzhen say with a serious expression: "Besides, what's wrong with a woman being an official? In the Ming Dynasty today, how many people can compare to Marquis Zhongzhen? Also, Chen Yuanyuan's
Talent also lies here, as for the position of the Political and Communication Department, if you are dissatisfied, you can compete with Chen Yuanyuan on the spot!"
"..." These people in the Wenhua Hall were once again rendered speechless by him.
Speaking of which, this Ming Dynasty is also strange!
There was a Qin Liangyu. As a woman, she had countless military exploits and a great reputation. She had been fighting for the country since the Wanli period. Among all the veterans, there was no man who could compare with her!
Even in martial arts, where men can best dominate women, women have taken the lead, and women are not inferior to men! In terms of civil affairs, who can say that he will definitely surpass women? If he really wants to compete in front of the emperor to test the content of the political affairs department, he will probably
Being slapped in the face by a woman!
Thinking of this, no one in the group of people who had just started to play dared to come forward to compete with Chen Yuanyuan.
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the ministers below with cold eyes. Seeing that none of them dared to come forward to compete with Chen Yuanyuan, he loudly said: "I have set an unprecedented precedent, and not only set up female subjects. Anyone who can strengthen the country and enrich the people, revive the Ming Dynasty, and make the world
I will do whatever it takes for the people to live a good life. There will no longer be wars, hunger, and cold. They can have enough food and clothing, enjoy peace, and live a stable life. I will do whatever it takes to live a good life!"
"Unprecedented things such as the pardoning of lowly status, the establishment of female subjects, the promotion of science, the application of steam trains, and steamships in the future, as well as lights as bright as day, clairvoyance, ears for the wind, etc., will all be realized."
When talking about the later period, Emperor Chongzhen’s voice became louder and louder, and he became more and more determined, speaking categorically!
The officials below became more and more surprised when they heard this, so that in the end, they were all dumbfounded.
The creation of a steam train would be earth-shattering and would change the Ming Dynasty. Now, according to the emperor, there are many things like steam trains that can change the world?
Even lights as bright as daylight, clairvoyance, and ears for the wind are all legendary magic, right? Can the emperor achieve it?
If this is really the case, what does it mean to just open a women's department?
If they said that they had never seen a steam train, and Emperor Chongzhen made such outrageous claims at this time, they would also think that the emperor was bragging.
However, something that they had never dreamed of before, such as a steam train, has become a reality and they have even ridden it themselves.
With the steam train, it used to take several days to get from Tianjin to the capital. But now it’s just a matter of getting up from sleep!
Not to mention anything else, it is food transportation. I don’t know how much it consumes on the road. With this steam train, the consumption on the road is almost negligible!
There are many more like this, and they can all be realized by listening to the emperor's tone.
Then the Ming Dynasty will undergo great changes. In this case, if women are officials, what is the point of establishing a women's department?
At this moment, it can be said that everyone present was shocked by Emperor Chongzhen's grand blueprint!
As the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, He Fengsheng came to his senses and asked excitedly: "Your Majesty, can this really be done?"
If these can really be achieved, the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably become the most glorious era in history. And the most glorious period of this era, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty as the head of hundreds of officials, that is, He Fengsheng, will inevitably be recorded in the history books.
Leave a big mark on it!
If he can really assist the emperor to create a new Ming Dynasty, it will be no less great than Qin Shi Huang's founding of the imperial system and the realization of great unification. To some extent, he may even be valued by future generations even more than Qin Shi Huang!
Hearing the excited question from the first assistant, the others immediately thought of it.
Just as He Fengsheng was the chief minister, they were also the highest-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty in this major change. If they participated in this great change, they would all leave their names in the history books and be praised by future generations just like this era.
Who wouldn't want to seize such a good opportunity?
Compared with this, those things we just argued about suddenly feel a bit insignificant!
Of course, the premise is that the Ming Dynasty will really change as the emperor said! Only in this way can it be remembered by history even more than the change of dynasties!