Just when Zhu Houzhao was addicted to Shen Xi's martial arts novels, Wang Hua had contacted Liang Chu and Yang Tinghe to carefully study the contents of several volumes of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", listed several crimes, and prepared to write to Emperor Hongzhi to expose the matter, which Zhu Youzhang personally took charge of.

Wang Hua personally drafted the memorial, and the three main crimes listed are:

First, the wild people in the book do not follow the king's transformation, form cliques to fight against the government, kill and set fire to do everything they can; second, it detracts from the orthodox Confucianism, the protagonist is a prince of Dali, but he is not skilled, does not follow Confucianism and governs the country well. He actually wanders around the world and gets many adventures, which is useless for education; third, the content is morally corrupt, and the male and female protagonists have made their lifelong life without going through the three books and six rituals. Although they stop at the last moment, they almost make a big mistake in human ethics, which is really unbearable.

After the drafting of the memorial, Wang Hua and others were in trouble. Although they had a high status in the court, Emperor Hongzhi rarely held large dynasties. Every day, he simply recruited cabinet members and officials from the Six-Minist Hall to the Qing Palace to discuss matters. It was difficult for them, such as the Eastern Palace lecturers to meet the emperor. In winter, they did not hold daily lectures, so how to submit the memorials became difficult.

Of course, the memorial could have been submitted by the Tongzheng Envoy, and after layers of review, it could have been handed over to the emperor. People with status and status could also be found to submit the memorial directly in the court.

Wang Hua did not want to write the memorial to the Ministry of Transportation and Administration, because it is very likely that the memorial to the sea. You should know that what he was doing was a trivial matter in the prince's daily life, which was almost equivalent to making small reports. The prince reads those books that are not irrelevant, and these gentlemen are also at fault. At the same time, this kind of thing is not good for the emperor and the prince, so it is more appropriate to find someone to convey the memorial on their behalf.

Wang Hua first thought of his fellow villager Xie Qian.

Xie Qian has been in the limelight in recent years, especially when Liu Jian and Li Dongyang took leave one after another and did not attend court, Xie Qian became the chief minister of the dynasty. Wang Hua wanted to establish a good relationship with Xie Qian, which might be helpful for his future entry into the cabinet, so he wanted to ask Xie Qian for help, and at the same time he wanted to give Xie Qian a chance to "make meritorious service".

Wang Hua sent someone to send a greeting to Xie Qian. It took three days to see the busy man Xie Qian. After Xie Qian read the books and the contents of the memorial brought by Wang Hua, he immediately refused Wang Hua's request.

Xie Qian shook his head and said, "Dehui, please forgive me. I have been busy with court affairs recently and have no time to report it to you. It is better for you to look for others."

Among so many ministers in the court, Xie Qian is a famous cunning man, known as You Kankan, who is completely a smiling tiger, and his best friend is to manage human relationships and worldly affairs.

Emperor Hongzhi is now in good health and values ​​the prince's schoolwork the most. What he should do at this time is to change his ways to make the emperor feel that the prince is diligent and studious, and can become a promising wise ruler in the future. But you report that the prince reads extracurricular books during class, which is equivalent to feeling uncomfortable in front of the emperor.

As for what books the prince read, Xie Qian didn't care much. He never thought that this matter was related to Chenxi, thousands of miles away. If he knew about it, he wouldn't have helped.

Wang Hua is not a person who doesn't know how to behave. Although Xie Qian is two years younger than him, he is admitted to his house teacher for the exam. The two are considered teacher-student relationships, especially now Xie Qian is in charge of the cabinet. Wang Hua saw that Xie Qian did not want to cause trouble and immediately said goodbye.

Wang Hua returned home and thought about it, so he had to ask for another friend, Li Dongyang, who was also a famous "Li Gongmo" in the Ming Dynasty.

Over the past year, Li Dongyang has asked for leave every now and then, mainly because he was unhappy in his later years of loss of his son, which led to his health deteriorating. However, during this period after the New Year, Emperor Hongzhi granted his newly adopted son a bright future. In order to repay the "imperial kindness", Li Dongyang had to return to the court to do things even if he was "ill". As a result, Wang Hua came to report the prince to study idle books in class.

Li Dongyang couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, but he was not as worldly as Xie Qian. After learning about this, he asked in detail and left the memorial and a few idle books, saying that he would mention this matter when the memorial was being reported in the court.

On this day, Emperor Hongzhi summoned important officials to discuss matters in the Ganqing Palace, mainly to discuss the candidates for the three-sided governor.

Emperor Hongzhi has also had a headache these days. In the Hami front line in the northwest, the Oirats repeatedly invaded the border, and the tide was heard. The court had long said that they would send troops to teach the Oirats a lesson. As a result, the only small-scale attack did not achieve great results. After Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia were old, no one could stabilize the situation in the northwest, which was very a pity.

The court was discussing, and Li Dongyang glanced at Xie Qian. At this moment, Liu Jian was sick at home, and there were only two Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.

Li Dongyang did not mean to be jealous of Xie Qian, but he just felt that Xie Qian was calm and calm, and it was a bit abnormal. Depending on the situation, Xie Qian already had a suitable candidate in his heart.

At this moment, Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, who was standing on the other side, came out to report: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the left deputy censor and the governor of Shaanxi Yang Yiqing have been in charge of the Northwest Ma politics in the past two years. They have made great contributions to eliminating local ills. They can lead the three-sided military affairs to guard the northwest!"

Ma Wensheng brought Yang Yiqing out, and many people disagree that the future Chief Minister came out to preside over the three sides. The main reason is that Yang Yiqing is upright and often opposes the powerful. In the first year, he impeached Wu'an Marquis Zheng Hong, and even Emperor Hongzhi was a little disliked by this person.

But since he was the candidate proposed by Liu Daxia, Zhu Youzhang always had to give him some face and did not refute him. He immediately asked Li Dongyang and Xie Qian for their opinions.

Li Dongyang had no opinion on Yang Yiqing and did not say anything. Xie Qian agreed with this. He knew at a glance that Xie Qian and Liu Daxia had discussed this matter.

Seeing that both of his confidant ministers agreed to the candidate, Zhu Youtang nodded immediately: "Since that's the case, Yang Yiqing, the left deputy censor, temporarily assisted in the military affairs of the trilateral. As for the governor of Shaanxi, who is the candidate?"

If Yang Yiqing is promoted, his original position needs to be filled.

Xie Qian left the list: "Your Majesty, I think Wang Qiong, the right governor of Shanxi, has made contributions to governing Caohe in recent years. He can be promoted to the governor of Shaanxi to show His Majesty's kindness."

When Li Dongyang heard the name of "Wang Qiong", the first thing that came to mind was the former Henan Governor Gaomingcheng. When Gaomingcheng was covering the sky with his hands in Henan, the right governor Wang Qiong went to the capital to sue the imperial court and defeated Gaomingcheng. However, in a blink of an eye, Gaomingcheng was transferred from Henan Governor to Beijing as a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue, and then promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Since then, Wang Qiong has been suppressed. Later, Gaomingcheng died in Xuanfu. In the third year, Wang Qiong was appointed as the top candidate. He should have been transferred to Shanxi as the right governor because he was not favored by the important officials in the court.

Such a person had nothing to do with Xie Qian, but Xie Qian unexpectedly proposed to transfer Wang Qiong to the northwest to work.

The position of the governor of Shaanxi is very difficult. It is just an adjutant of the governor of the three sides. It is also bullied by the general officers with the throne of Dukes and Marquis, but it is a shortcut to be promoted to the Six Ministry of Deputies. The three sides are the most frequent areas of the Ming Dynasty's war against the Tatars and the Oirat. After a war, no matter how big or small the merits and demerits, the court will promote many people in order to demonstrate the prestige of the Ming Dynasty. This is also the reason why many people like to go to the northwest to perform their duties.

For Zhu Youzhang, there were hundreds of ministers under his command. Even if he knew something about Wang Qiong before, he was upset and didn't think too much about it. The promotion of the right governor to Shaanxi was a two-level call, which was quite reasonable. It happened that Xie Qian had done his job properly in the past two years, so Emperor Hongzhi did not consider it much and adopted it directly.

The officials of the court saw that the emperor was in a bad mood, and they had been coughing before, so they were mentally prepared to end the court discussion as soon as possible.

Xie Qian suddenly walked out "unaware" and said, "Your Majesty, the admiral of the military service of Shen Xi, the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, swept the southwestern coast of Guangdong a year ago, wiped out local bandit leaders, and more than 2,000 bandit leaders, negotiated with the foreigners of Folangji, and obtained three warships and tribute letters. A few days ago, he planted sweet potatoes and corn in the local area were sent to the capital, please visit them!"

In one sentence, Zhu Youzhe's interest was stirred up.

Zhu Youzhang had known Chen Xi's achievements in suppressing bandits in the local area and rewarded him as appropriate, but this was the first time he heard about Chen Xi's growing sweet potatoes and corn.

Zhu Youzing said expectantly: "Oh? Come and see me."

Before, Zhu Youzhang heard Xie Qian play these two crops so magically, so he had long wanted to see them.

When Xie Qian heard the order, he sent someone to take two packages from the palace gate. One of them was a golden corn cob, and the other was an oval sweet potato weighing about one pound, which was presented to Zhu Youting.

Zhu Youzhang played with sweet potatoes and corn for a while and asked, "This thing is really good to harvest?"

Xie Qian reported: "When you go back to your majesty, the harvest is still under calculation. However, based on the planting calculation in Guangdong, one acre of mature fields can produce corn for two seasons, with a yield of about 800 kilograms per mu; sweet potatoes can produce a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu, and can be planted for two to three seasons."

"Okay, okay." Zhu Youzhang praised it very much.

For a scholar who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, perhaps even the five grains are not clear, and he does not know the yield per acre of land per mu. But as a diligent emperor, he knows this very well.

Emperor Hongzhi not only wanted to use the fields at the beginning of spring every year, but also reviewed and approved the tax yield per mu reported by local governments in spring and autumn. Zhu Youzhang remembered it as much as he saw it.

A per mu yield of about 1,000 kilograms can support three people. If the per mu produces three seasons, it can support nine to ten people.

The ministers present couldn't help but talk. Although they had heard of corn and sweet potatoes before, they had never seen them. At this time, they were shocked to hear that they could have such high yields. Zhu Youzhi said: "I ordered Chen Qing's family to promote this crop earlier so that the people can have enough food and clothing as soon as possible. Cough cough."

The emperor was very happy, but the result of his happiness was that his blood and his face turned flushed, and he coughed violently for a long time. The ministers present understood that the court discussion must end.

Finally, Zhu Youzhe asked questions on a routine basis. Seeing that no one reported any major or small matters, he waved his hand: "Get out of your family... Come on, tell me that Jianchang Bo has entered the palace!"

As soon as the court broke up, the emperor asked his brother-in-law to enter the palace. No one could understand whether the two were related. Only Xie Qian smiled deeply, shook his head helplessly, and pulled out of the Ganqing Palace.

Li Dongyang could hardly help but want to chase after Xie Qian and ask Xie Qian. What did you see? Do you know the purpose of Your Majesty calling Jianchang Bo into the palace?

But Li Dongyang still did not leave the palace with Xie Qian and others. He stayed and wanted to report the prince's idle books in class. This was what he promised Wang Hua. Behind Wang Hua, Liang Chu and others also made suggestions. Li Dongyang could not disappoint these juncai ministers in his mind.

Li Dongyang has always been approachable and made friends. He was accused of literature when he entered Hanlin for a while. He presided over the literary world for decades and was good at dealing with literati.

In comparison, Mr. Li’s mansion is far less difficult to enter than Mr. Xie’s mansion. Those with little talent and reputation usually achieve their wishes when they come to visit. Li Dongyang has always been known for his liking to promote young scholars. He often writes poems and essays for them, and there are many beautiful talks among the people.

Because Emperor Hongzhi was enlightened and Li Dongyang had a great position in the court, even if Li Dongyang stayed, no one dared to drive him out.

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