Wang Yuan only personally recommended Song Cang, a disciple of Yang Tinghe, to take over as the minister of Guanglu Temple.
As for his own people, in order to avoid suspicion, Wang Yuan did not speak.
But with so many people being fucked, it was natural to take the opportunity to arrange for confidants, and the cabinet minister Wang Qiong would help recommend them. After all, Lu Wan's case was so big at first, and Wang Qiong was involved, but Wang Yuan stood up to protect him to death, and the two of them had long been tied up because of this.
Together.
Not only that, since Wang Yuan served as the Minister of Rites, he also appointed a guest of the prince early, and has been the prince's teacher. Everyone in the court knew that he was the future chief minister.
As for the future first assistant, it is not too much to form a team now.
As long as he does not promote mediocre people indiscriminately, Liao Ji, the upright and upright official minister, is willing to give Wang Yuan some green light.
Compared with Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, Jiang Bin and others who promoted their cronies when they gained power, Wang Yuan has been very restrained. This time he has the following arrangements -
In the same year of the provincial examination, Tian Qiu, a fellow from Guizhou, was promoted to the Right Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.
Yin Yansong of Shuntian Prefecture was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In Qingtian, Jiangxi, Chen Yong, who had offended numerous civil servants, had been demoted by the emperor for several years. Now he was reinstated as the right deputy capital envoy to governor the newly established Daning capital.
Liu Zhishu, who took the initiative to clear the fields in Hangzhou and during the Zhengde tour to the south, quietly joined Wang Yuan and was recruited to the capital to serve as the Minister of Honglu Temple.
As for Gui E and Chang Lun, who traveled to various places to clean up the fields and carry out reforms, they were both promoted to prefects. The two of them were suitable for fighting in battles, but it was not good to be transferred back to the capital. They had to take the path of local officials.
Zhang Yue, who went to open sea in Zhejiang with Wang Yuan, can be called a simplified version of Hai Rui. This time he was promoted to the right councilor of Huguang.
He Tang, who once scolded the emperor for being cowardly at the Sutra banquet, had several sons who were students of Wang Yuan, and now he was promoted to Shanxi's envoy.
Wang Yangming's close friend Zhan Ruoshui was promoted to Shuntianfu Cheng (fourth grade).
Fang Xianfu, Wang Yangming's disciple and good friend, was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Zheng Shanfu, a disciple of the Physics School and editor-in-chief of "Zhengde New Calendar", was promoted to Zuo Shaoqing of Honglu Temple.
The Qing of Taipu Temple in Shanxi Province and Ling Xiang of Yuanmasi Temple in Liaodong were recalled to the capital and promoted to General Affairs Envoy (in terms of actual power, is it considered an overt promotion or concealment? But General Affairs Envoy is only a springboard for another promotion).
In addition, several of Wang Yuan's fellow students and more than ten disciples were also promoted to varying degrees.
That's pretty much it. As a political exchange, Yang Tinghe and Wang Qiong's disciples were also placed in large numbers in Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple and Honglu Temple.
The Ministry of Justice is Yang Tinghe's headquarters, the Ministry of War is Wang Qiong's headquarters, and the Ministry of Personnel is Yang Yiqing's headquarters? Wang Yuan cannot move for the time being.
For example, Dali Temple? Although it is not affiliated with the Ministry of Punishment, it is deeply influenced by the Ministry of Punishment. Wang Yuan's good friend, Jin Gui's son-in-law Jin Lei, if he wants to stay in Dali Temple, he will have to slowly get promoted through seniority.
What a pity? The emperor did not allow Huang Ke and Li Hao to resign.
Otherwise? Even if Wang Yuan is shameless, he will recommend his two teachers to let Wang Yangming take over as the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu and Xi Shu as the Minister of the Ministry of Works.
Being a minister of the Ministry of Rites and a favored civil servant of the emperor, it was so convenient to get things done. Wang Yuan had been trying to control himself and try not to exclude dissidents, because it is always easy for people to get lost in power.
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Wenhua Hall.
The prince is ten years old. He looks more and more like Zhu Houzhao when he was a child, and his personality is exactly the same. He is lively and active, and he does various little tricks from time to time.
Yang Tinghe was also the prince's teacher. He was afraid that the prince would become another virtuous man. Not only did he strictly restrain the prince, but he also kept an eye on the eunuchs around the prince to prevent Liu Jin's generation from appearing again in the future.
Because of this, the prince respected and feared Yang Tinghe, and was even more afraid.
In comparison, the teacher Wang Yuan is very kind.
Today I will be talking about "Zhenguan Zhengyao". This book and "Zi Zhi Tongjian" were the main textbooks for the education of princes in the Ming Dynasty. However, in history, due to the different evaluations of Wei Zheng by Jiajing and the courtiers, "Zhenguan Zhengyao" was given to Emperor Jiajing.
Removed - this is a ridiculous thing to do!
Xi Shu's younger brother Xi Chun was recommended by Wang Yuan to serve as the prince's official reader. The foreman recited "Zhenguan Politicians: Accepting Admonitions" and then retired.
The first story goes like this: Li Shimin summoned Wang Gui, the minister of Huangmen, to have a banquet, and there was the concubine of King Lujiang waiting on him.
Li Shimin pointed at the beauty and said: "The king of Lujiang was debauched and immoral. He killed this woman's husband and took her as his own. He was extremely cruel, so how could he not perish?"
Wang Gui made some remarks and quoted an allusion from "Guanzi", saying that the demise of Guo was because the king liked good people and hated bad people.
Li Shimin was puzzled and asked: "You like good people and hate bad people. This is a wise king."
Wang Gui explained: "If you like good people, you can't use them; if you hate bad people, you can't abandon them. Therefore, the country will be destroyed."
This is an allusion to Li Shimin. He knew that King Lujiang should not kill his husband and seize his wife, but he killed King Lujiang and took his beautiful concubine. Li Shimin came to his senses and immediately sent this beauty back to his relatives.
"Prince, do you understand?" Wang Yuan asked.
Zhu Zaiyi said: "I seem to understand. After explaining the truth, you must act according to the truth. If you don't do it, it means you don't understand."
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Your Highness is smart."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "During this period, I heard a lot of complaints about officials. Why didn't my father punish those corrupt officials?"
Wang Yuan said: "There is no end to the killing of corrupt officials. In Taizu's dynasty, those who were greedy for dozens of taels of silver would have to be peeled off. It was so harsh that corrupt officials continued. There were few scholars at that time, so Taizu could only let the corrupt officials who committed crimes be punished."
, working in shackles, and even interrogating prisoners in shackles.”
"Why is this so?" Zhu Zaiyi was very surprised.
Wang Yuan explained: "Because officials' salaries are too small, they can only support their families. If they want to eat and drink, listen to music and play, or even keep slaves and welcome them to and from home, then their salaries are not enough. They must embezzle to have a living."
Silver. How can your majesty and the prince not have maids and eunuchs to serve them?"
Zhu Zaiyi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No."
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Officials are human beings too, and they also want to enjoy themselves. Your Majesty and the prince are in need of eunuchs and maids, and those officials are also in need of domestic servants and maids. If their salary is not enough, they can only be greedy."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "Isn't that full of corrupt officials?"
Wang Yuan shook his head: "There are also honest officials. One is able to endure and live in poverty; one is from a wealthy family and has family property to support him; the other is like a minister, who sends people to do business to get rich."
Zhu Zaiyi didn't understand, so he asked: "Which official is better?"
"Your Highness, you are the prince, you cannot just distinguish between good and bad," Wang Yuan said more directly and thoroughly, "Poor officials are a shame to the court. Why should honest officials live a hard life? This is not to tell the world, to do
Honest officials can only endure hardship, but only by being corrupt can they enjoy happiness? Everyone in the world hates poverty and loves wealth, so doesn’t this mean that everyone in the world should learn to be corrupt officials?"
"It seems like this," Zhu Zaiyi asked, "How can we let upright officials also enjoy happiness?"
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "To increase the salary of the officials in the world, at least it will make sure that the honest officials are not short of food and clothing, so that they can bear the basic expenses. But there are so many officials in the world. Once the salary is increased, the national treasury may not be able to bear it, so the annual income must be increased
.In order to increase annual income, we cannot plunder it from the common people, otherwise it will inevitably turn into a flood."
Zhu Zaiyi asked: "How to increase annual income?"
Wang Yuan said: "First, it can be obtained from overseas, and second, it is necessary to inventory the land and reform bad policies."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "I know that I got it from overseas. When I visited Haibo, I brought back a lot of gold. What does it mean to check the acres?"
Wang Yuan explained: "This starts with the second type of official. Why can the family become prosperous and wealthy after becoming an official, and can accumulate countless land in his hometown? This kind of official is not greedy, but his family relies on their power to continue to grow.
If they just invade and repay the land, they will only invade the land without paying taxes, which will continuously reduce the tax revenue of the court. Therefore, the land must be cleared frequently, and the gentry should not hide the land, and let them pay taxes like the common people."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "Doesn't the imperial court clear the land?"
Wang Yuan said: "The imperial court would regularly clear the fields and Qing Ding (population census), but they were just a formality. Take the Qing Ding as an example. Taizu stipulated that the census should be carried out every ten years. However, some local officials reported the previous reports.
, no one has increased or decreased in ten years.”
"Are you treating the imperial court as a fool?" Zhu Zaiyi couldn't believe it.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "This shows how perfunctory the Qing Dynasty is. Some local officials don't even bother to fool around."
Zhu Zaiyi said: "From this point of view, it is best for officials who get rich through business, who can live a good life without taking up state taxes."
"No," Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "Officials are not allowed to do business. Strictly speaking, I have broken the ancestral system by letting my servants do business. But officials all over the world are like this, otherwise it will be difficult to make a living. I can get rich by doing business.
Using physics knowledge to innovate machines. This is not the case for many officials in business. They rely on their power to do business to avoid paying business taxes and duties. They may also resell salt and tea, or even simply buy salt and tea.
Let your own people do business. That's all. Some officials even directly buy and sell by force."
Zhu Zaiyi was confused: "After listening to what you said, why are all the officials in the world so bad?"
Wang Yuan said: "Your Highness, you can't talk about good or bad. Although some officials are a little corrupt, but they can serve the country, they can be used temporarily. Otherwise, if they cling to their private ethics, everyone will secretly embezzle without doing anything.
People dare to stand up and do something. By then, everyone will be in full force, but there will be no one available."
Zhu Zaiyi was even more confused: "Then what should I do?"
Wang Yuan said: "Weigh gains and losses. Killing one person can thank the world, and great sages will kill them; using one person can benefit the country, and traitors can also use it. King's power is nothing more than this. However, we should know that the people are the basis, and everything must be based on prosperity.
The principle is to serve the people and benefit the people. If the people cannot live their lives, the Ming Dynasty will become a tree without roots and a tree without roots!"
Zhu Zaiyi smiled and said: "I know, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said that water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it."
Wang Yuan emphasized: "Your Highness should clearly understand who the people are. Many officials impeached people for boiling resentment, but what they actually said was 'gentry boiling.' The gentry are not the real people, but the billions of people are the real people. That's it.
Like an army, generals and officers are indispensable, but if you only have generals but no soldiers, how can you fight a war?"
Zhu Zaijun asked: "Then what should I do?"
Wang Yuan said: "It's like leading an army in battle. Your Highness should know how to rule the generals and let the generals restrain the commanding officers. The ultimate goal is to feed and clothe the ordinary soldiers and make them strong and strong, so that they can have high morale and fight. Once the soldiers
They don't have enough to eat, they don't have enough clothes to wear, and their life is simple. Even if the generals of such an army are loyal, brave, and resourceful, how can they dare to send them to the battlefield? To govern a country is to govern the people; to govern an army is to govern the soldiers.