Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Most of the officials in the officialdom who can communicate with each other have special relationships or political alliances.The letter will not just talk nonsense for no reason, so it will mostly talk about government affairs.

After Su Mu left Beijing for more than half a year, all the news in the political arena had been reported to the residence and exchanged letters with friends.

All the correspondence and residence newspapers he has in hand now say one thing: Emperor Zhengde ignores the government, the power in the court is in the hands of the Eight Tigers headed by Liu Jin, the power of the ceremonial supervisor has become powerful, and the cabinet is useless.

The thing is, in the first month of last year, after the emperor got married, and the empress of the benevolent Zhang returned to power after the emperor retired to the second line, the emperor Zhengde truly controlled the entire Ming Empire.

At the beginning, it was probably the Empress Dowager Zhang who was very powerful, and Zhengde didn't dare to go too far.Every day, I stay honestly in Xiyuan or the imperial palace. I should go to court, deal with government affairs, and study.

This situation, at least until the time when Su Mu left Beijing.

But Emperor Zhengde's temper, Su Mu, was very understanding, he liked to be active but not quiet, and he was an older child.Generally speaking, the profession of emperor is very rigid, especially in the Ming Dynasty. In many cases, it was only a constitutional existence, and in everyone's mind, it was just an arbiter and decoration.This kind of life has passed for a long time, and Zhu Houzhao will make some disturbances and do some things that are not suitable for the emperor's status.

If it was in previous years, Empress Dowager Zhang might have reprimanded him a few words.But her son is already grown up and is in charge of the government. It is not in accordance with the etiquette and system for her to intervene in the government after becoming the dowager.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cisheng simply turned a blind eye.

In this way, Zhengde immediately indulged when he saw that the Empress Dowager was not restraining himself.In this way, it aroused strong resentment from the civil official group, feeling that this is not something an emperor should do.The emperor did this to discredit Daming.More importantly, such a deviant emperor made the civil servants feel a little worry that the situation was out of control.

According to colleagues who wrote to Su Mu, there are three main reasons why the emperor has done absurd things in the past few months: first, he no longer goes to court early; second, he often goes out of the palace to play;

Among them, it is no longer early and not to mention.We must know that even though Emperor Hongzhi was seriously ill and dying, he still struggled to go to court every day.According to the ancient Chinese tradition, a wise monarch should be diligent in government affairs.So, what does it mean to be diligent in government affairs?The emperor lived in the deep palace every day, and ordinary people had no way of knowing what he was doing when he came down.Therefore, whether to come to the early court or not has become a direct sign of whether an emperor is dedicated to his work.Now, Emperor Zhengde, you didn't even come to court early, aren't you considered a faint emperor?

In fact, Su Mu disagreed with this point.As a modern person, he hates the fact that he has to get up at three o'clock every morning to go to the palace, especially in the coldest days of the next year, when he has to get out of the hot quilt to go to work, it is even more painful. Nothing can be added.

Moreover, going to court so early, people are sleepy and drowsy, and they are not efficient in doing things.To be honest, the nine-to-five life of future generations is pretty good.I don't understand why the ancients had to go to work when they had to be hired?

Emperor Zhengde was just growing up, so it was understandable to sleep too much.It is estimated that he was also annoyed by this inhumane system, so he simply refused to go.

The main reason why Zhu Houzhao couldn't go to court early was that he often went out to play in the palace, and he would go back to Xiyuan after dark.It is understandable that I am tired from tossing and can't get up in the morning.

Su Mu also found it inconceivable that the ancients did not allow the emperor to leave the palace.Scholars also pay attention to reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles!An emperor wants to rule the world, but he doesn't know what the world he needs to rule looks like, and how the people under his rule live. Su Mu doesn't think he can be a qualified emperor.

Any dynasty, its prosperity is also vigorous, its death is also sudden.The main reason is that several generations of monarchs before the founding of the country were just ordinary people who knew the sufferings of the people.Later, born in a deep palace and grown in the hands of a woman, why not eat minced meat, it's just a decoration.When there is a problem with the state apparatus, the dynasty will collapse.

Therefore, Su Mu felt that it was a good thing for Emperor Zhengde to go out of the palace and go out to see around Beijing.

As for indulging in sensuality, as far as Su Mu knew.The emperor also likes to practice martial arts, boxing, swimming, and raising cranes, hunting dogs and other pets in the palace on weekdays is purely a personal hobby.Even this kind of thing has to be pointed at the nose and scolded by people as playthings and losers. Isn't it too boring to be an emperor?

Of course, Su Mu can only think about these views in his heart, so it's not convenient to tell others.

This involves political correctness, and any dynasty has its political correctness.For example, in the United States in modern society, everyone knows that black people are troublesome, but you can't just point at a black person and call a nigger.

The political correctness of the Ming Dynasty meant that civil servants could speak freely and scold the emperor at will. This is the integrity of a gentleman, and it is a symbol of strong bones.Conversely, if you say good things for the emperor, you intend to please the emperor, and if you want to make progress, you are a villain.

If it was in the past, when Su Mu was by the emperor's side, he might have defended all the officials' accusations against Emperor Zhengde one by one from a modern point of view.It's a pity that he is now the editor of the Hanlin Academy, the number one scholar, and he is already a member of the civil official group.

If nothing else happened, he would spend his entire life in this numbingly large organization.The so-called butt decides the head, so what you say and do should naturally be in line with your environment.

Just read these letters. As for Emperor Zhengde's troubles, he can only solve them by himself.

Sure enough, the emperor was in big trouble if he acted so rashly.

Soon, the cabinet couldn't stand the stubbornness of Emperor Zhengde.

After all, the cabinet is the country's decision-making body, and the three elders of the cabinet are the leaders of the civil service group.Moreover, these three cabinet ministers all grew up watching Emperor Zhengde grow up, and have been his teachers for many years.

In their minds, they still regarded Emperor Zhengde as the prince who lived in the East Palace back then, but they didn't realize that Zhu Houzhao had grown up and become the emperor of the Ninth Five.

Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was the first to attack, and he published a profuse and eloquent book in ten thousand words, teaching Emperor Zhengde what to do to be a qualified emperor.

He also went to see the emperor in person several times, and it took two hours to say it.

It was really unbearable to be entangled by Lao Liu, and with the presence of the emperor's master, Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to say yes again and again, and he would definitely change it.

But who is Emperor Zhengde, he is probably afraid of Liu Jian.From that time on, Zhu Houzhao simply did not see Liu Jian, and handed over all government affairs to the Sili Supervisor for disposal.Once Mr. Liu Ge asked to see him, let Liu Jin say he was not there.