Chapter 838

The ministers went to the morning Court on time. The ministers in Daming were still very hard. They had to get up early in the morning. Before dawn, they had to rush to the Imperial City in the dark with lanterns.

Emperor Chongzhen was a very diligent emperor. After becoming emperor, he had to go early every morning.

In the early Dynasty, he listened to officials report on major events from all over the country, and openly discussed the handling opinions and major personnel appointments, which was also the best way for him to convey the emperor's authority.

Such a diligent emperor has made the ministers miserable. The ministers are beginning to miss the beautiful days when the Wanli dynasty did not go to the court for 28 years. Everyone can sleep until the sun rises, and then slowly go to the imperial city to be on duty.

The current emperor is not easy to serve. He came early in the morning, even earlier than his ministers. If Feng Xian would be asked to name him when he was in the imperial court, who would be named and criticized by him if he didn't arrive? Who would be willing to be named and criticized by the emperor in these aspects? So they had to come on time one after another.

It's not easy for everyone to be an official. It's not worth eating the emperor's death for such a small thing. Therefore, almost all officials go to bed early and get up early, otherwise they won't have enough spirit to go to court early.

Officials filed into the Jinluan hall and lined up according to the rules. The censor of Feng Yu also began to sing his name and confirmed that no one was absent and no one didn't come.

In the early Ming Dynasty, after more than ten years, it has also formed a practice. If you really don't come, you must ask for leave.

As usual, this is the eunuch loudly calling for the emperor to ascend the throne and saluting all officials.

After the ceremony, he said in a loud voice, "if you have something to start, you will retreat from the dynasty if you have nothing to do.

If it was another Dynasty, most emperors in the early Dynasty mainly asked their ministers to meet and order their Mao, and then went to the imperial study or other places to deal with and publish. Only emperor Chongzhen liked to put forward many problems and discuss them openly, typically looking for trouble.

But today is very strange. It should be the time when the emperor took the throne, but he didn't see anything. All the officials felt strange and talked about it one after another. Eunuch Wang Chengen hurried to the eunuch and said, "the emperor has something to do today. Take a day off, and all the officials please go back to their offices. Don't be lazy."

This surprised all officials. In their eyes, the emperor was very diligent. Even if he was ill, he would come to the court and listen to the reports of civil and military officials on national affairs. It was really strange to ask for leave openly like this. There must be demons when things happen.

Wang Chengen also ignored the comments of the Minister of civil and military affairs and left on his own.

The ministers naturally gathered around Zhou yanru and asked him what had happened?

Zhou yanru spread his hands and said, "I don't know. I'm afraid the emperor is ill. I'll take a day off for a while."

But everyone thought it strange that if the emperor was really ill and asked for a day off, it would show that the dragon was ill and rested for a day. It was very rare to say that he had something to rest for a day.

Zhou yanru felt wrong, so he immediately went into the palace to see the emperor. However, when he was at the gate of the palace, he was stopped by Wang Chengen. Wang Chengen said, "Your Majesty works hard on state affairs day and night. The dragon's body is not safe. Don't disturb the Emperor's rest."

Zhou yanru thought it was very strange. The more the other party refused to let him see him, the more he wanted to see him. He said, "the emperor's dragon body is sick. As a minister, you should go and greet him."

Wang Chengen said: "shengkang'an, you don't have to go. You'd better go back to the cabinet to deal with political affairs, which is the greatest help to the emperor."

Since the other party said so, Zhou Tingru didn't dare to insist, so he had to return unhappily.

When Zhou yanru came to the cabinet, everyone asked him one after another. Zhou yanru had to tell the story.

Today, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is a real talent withered. Wen Tiren left his post, Wu Zongda was captured, Zhou yanru just joined the cabinet, and several others were temporarily recommended. Their qualifications are very shallow, which means that they have no prestige and appeal and are not enough to lead the officials, so that there is a joke among the people that they are called window papering.

Compared with the paper paste cabinet of the previous dynasty, the cotton cabinet is very old.

The six departments and the duchayuan sent people to inquire about the news and what happened to the emperor?

Emperor Chongzhen didn't think that he just didn't go to court in one day, which attracted so much attention. It may also be related to his diligence and never didn't go to court.

What is emperor Chongzhen doing? He is now summoning all eunuchs and royal guards to line up and start armed training. He learned the story of martial arts practice under the ban of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Over the past 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has always implemented the policy of emphasizing literature and neglecting martial arts. Even the emperor supports the imperial court to suppress the military attach é s, which is equivalent to castrating the military attach é s and noble groups n times, which also makes them bloodless. Without combat effectiveness, the emperor is clear about these situations, which is also conducive to the rule of the Ming Dynasty and social stability.

For more than 200 years after the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no real chaos between the generals and the generals, and there was no local separatist regime, which was related to their long-term policy of emphasizing culture and neglecting military.

But today. Daming's military strength has been extremely weak, so weak that it can't deal with JianNu externally and rogue bandits internally. In this case, if we suppress it again, it means that Daming is really castrated and can only be bullied in the future.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen learned from the painful experience and decided to change his course. He wanted to turn the national policy of emphasizing culture over military into paying equal attention to both culture and military. Only paying equal attention to both culture and military is reasonable and can he govern the country and the world.

Wang Chengen was worried when he saw the emperor wearing yellow armor and doing some simple military actions with the soldiers. He knew that this matter could be concealed for a while and could not be concealed for a lifetime. If the officials in the court knew it, it would certainly cause an uproar.

The emperor will certainly think that the emperor's power is absolute and overwhelming, but Wang Chengen knows that the government order does not go out of Beijing, and the strength of civil servants is very large. They do not support the emperor's practice. It is very embarrassing for the emperor to spread his will outside the capital, let alone make fundamental changes to these.

But Wang Chengen knew the emperor's temper. Once the emperor decided, he couldn't persuade the nine cows to come back, and Wang Chengen didn't dare to persuade. Now he also saw the problem of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is that the civil power is too large to override the imperial power. The five senses are extremely weak, weak to the point of becoming a patient, and the civil and military are unbalanced, Something big is going to happen.

It is expected that the emperor should pay equal attention to both civil and military affairs, which is a good recipe to save Daming.

However, it is hard to say whether this good recipe can be implemented smoothly or not. Although there is the strong support of the emperor, the emperor also knows that the civil service group will not support him, so he will secretly do it first, prepare to make achievements, and then have a showdown with the ministers again.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there can be no secret. The palace is a sieve that leaks everywhere. Whether the cabinet or the six ministries will quietly install some spies in the harem to provide some information in case something big happens in the palace. They don't know and don't know how to deal with it? Missed a great opportunity.

Wearing iron armor, the emperor trained in the imperial garden of the imperial palace. In the evening, the shocking news spread all over the Imperial City, which means that it spread all over the officialdom of the capital.

The officials were shocked to hear that the emperor actually did such a thing. The emperor was so willing to degenerate. Some emperors didn't do it and wanted to be generals and train troops for war. Isn't that in the face of their literati? Do you still have face?

Such a scene was unexpected to Emperor Chongzhen. If it hadn't been for the night, the gate of the palace would be closed and the courtiers could not enter the palace, I'm afraid it would have been noisy.

Even so, all the ministers were dissatisfied and very unhappy. They wrote memorials all night and criticized the foolish practice of the emperor.

In their eyes, the emperor's behavior was very stupid. They thought that the martial arts men were only worthy of being the running dogs under the door and driving them.

Now it's good that the emperor practiced martial arts openly in the ban. What does that mean? Is this a martial art? Is this looking down on Wen Chen?

Therefore, the ministers were bitter and blamed and scolded the emperor one after another. Some ministers even thought that they would have to write a memorial to the emperor tomorrow morning and denounce him for this wrong practice. If the Emperor didn't listen to the advice of the ministers, everyone would quit.

In the past, if the ministers did not do it, the emperor would be a little worried and not afraid, but now he will be more worried and afraid. Why do you say so?

In the past, all officials and all people wanted to break their heads and fight for their heads. They tried every means to be an official, but now it is different. The market of Daming is not as good as before, and they are still facing the consequences of being annihilated by the Chinese army at any time. Therefore, many people are not as enthusiastic as before, sharpening their heads and drilling into the officialdom of Daming. You know, you want to be an official now, In fact, you can also change your face and go to the South and the great Chinese Empire. The atmosphere there is even better. It's just like the middle of the day.

This can be said to be the first shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the people's Republic of China more than 200 years ago. This is really to the point that officials can't make a living. This result also shocked and disturbed all people. The emperor is even more worried. If ministers quit, why don't he do it in Chengdu?