Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 008: The Censors' Criticism

Although Wanli had warned that what happened in the palace that day could not be spread outside, as expected, it still got out.
The big men in the Imperial Household Department must be politically sensitive and would not easily leak information. But you have to know that the Imperial Household Department is not just about eunuchs who hold seals and eunuchs who hold pens. There are also many small eunuchs who do odd jobs under them. These people have such meager incomes that they hope to leak some information and get rewards from the servants of the civil officials outside.
Moreover, since the Longqing era, the appointment of personnel in the inner court has been seriously interfered with by civil officials from outside. If the eunuchs in the inner court do not get the support of the ministers from outside, it will be difficult for them to be the head of such an important institution as the Silijian. So, the eunuchs will not leak the news, but won't they instruct the junior eunuchs to leak a little?
Then, Zhu Youdong's remarks were spread, and it was like throwing a big stone into the cesspool of a toilet.
Countless impeachments rushed towards the cabinet and the palace at lightning speed.
The first to bear the brunt of the attack was the cabinet. The chief minister Shen Yikuan, the elders Zhu Geng and Shen Li were all criticized by the censors and the secretaries.
Although the styles and grammar of these memorials are different, their general meaning is the same: What do you cabinet ministers do for a living? The crown prince is the heir to the throne, and the crown prince is also the heir to the throne. Why don't you pay attention to the education of the heir to the throne? Look at what the crown prince says? He is full of money! What will happen if this continues? !
Naturally, the Ministry of Rites, Hanlin Academy, Zhanshifu and other relevant departments followed suit.

Of course, the ones who were attacked the most were the officials who were actually responsible for the prince's education, led by the current Minister of Rites Guo Zhengyu and others: The crown prince is only four years old this year, and has not yet been formally enlightened, so of course he has no teacher. Where did the crown prince's money-grubbing come from? It was you bastards who taught him that! Well, you, Guo Zhengyu, are also known as one of the "three great sages in the world", but I didn't expect you to be a hypocrite! Come on, come on, let's spray him to death!
Although the above-mentioned departments and officials attracted most of the firepower , Zhu Changluo still did not get any good results.
The general meaning is: If a child is not taught, it is the fault of the father. Even children understand this principle, how can you not know it when you are in your twenties? You are the crown prince! If you can't even recite the Three Character Classic, you are probably the second Sima Zhong!
The censors of the Ming Dynasty had been indulged for more than two hundred years. When they criticize others, there is only one word to describe them: unscrupulous. Moreover, these days, the more harshly they criticize, the more famous they become - they do not shy away from the axe and sword, and speak out their opinions directly. And the more famous they are, the more likely they are to be transferred from a poor censor to a powerful official. Once they hold real power, they can make a lot of money and earn back the poverty they suffered in the past few years ten thousand times!
Therefore, if there is an opportunity, how could the censors let it go easily?
"Hey~~ Dong'er, you should be more careful about what you say and do in the future. Look, what did the censors outside say about your father? Did you finish reading the Three Character Classic? You even called your father Emperor Hui of Jin. Hey! Your father, your father is really..."
"Haha, father, do you take this nonsense seriously?"
"Of course I won't take it seriously, but, but it really makes me angry. Look, this article also said that your father was busy playing with women all day long and neglected to discipline you. I, I...your father spends half a day in the Yangxin Palace to accompany the emperor to handle government affairs, and can only go home at twilight every day. After returning home, he will spend at least an hour to accompany you to study. These censors are too much!"
"So what is father going to do?"
"Of course I have to file a petition to defend myself."
"No, father, you are the prince and the king. How can you talk back when your subjects scold you? If you defend yourself, it will only make the censors outside more excited."
"So that's it?"
Hey, my dear father, have you seen the ugly appearance of these mad dogs now? As I said before, if a dog bites you, do you still bite it back? However, I just thought about it in my mind and I certainly didn't dare to say it out loud.
"Haha, Dong'er is right. Prince, you haven't seen those memorials scolding Dong'er, have you? Wouldn't you be even angrier if you saw them?"
Yes, although Zhu Youdong was only a four-year-old child, he could not escape. Of the more than one hundred bullets received by the Imperial Palace, at least ten were aimed at Zhu Youdong.

In these ten books, most of the petitioners were earnestly trying to reason with the Crown Prince: Crown Prince, let's not talk about money, okay? Talking about money is a very disgraceful and immoral behavior. Crown Prince should study hard and learn the words of the saints. Always strictly demand yourself by the standards of the saints. It is better to cry together than to cry all the way. This is a famous saying of Fan Zhongyan, which was highly praised by Confucian scholars of all generations, especially the Saint Zhu. So no one dared to criticize the Crown Prince for this sentence.
But what? It is natural for us officials and wealthy merchants to be rich. How can it become a disaster? Your words, Prince, still make us angry!
Therefore, there are a very small number of bullets that directly criticize a four-year-old child.
What is this saying? A child born young may not be good when he grows up. What is this saying? A dragon gives birth to nine sons, and they are mixed. There are even more vicious sayings that there are good and bad dragons among dragons - implicitly pointing out that this blue dragon that came to the world may be an evil dragon, coming to harm the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youdong had a good attitude towards these things - before crossing over, he had criticized others and was criticized by others. Moreover, the trolls of that era had already mastered all kinds of jokes. The censors of the Ming Dynasty, well, were very powerful, but for someone like me with extremely strong psychological qualities, they were really not good enough!
Play it, play it as you like. I have a thick skin, and it won't break even if I blow it!
But, the one who said I was the evil dragon, oh, Yang Yingwen, the Minister of Household Affairs? Very good, I have noted your name, and I will definitely make you my own if I have the chance!
"Dong'er."
"Grandpa Emperor, please give me your orders."
"Although the emperor will keep all these memorials, you must decide on your tutor as soon as possible."
"Oh, okay. Grandson, I'll leave it to Grandpa Huang to arrange."
In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the education of the princes and grandchildren was generally handled by the Zhanshi Mansion. Later, the Zhanshi Mansion basically became a springboard for the promotion of the Hanlin Academy, and it was no longer in charge of the affairs. The actual power of arranging specific teachers was in the hands of the cabinet.
Generally speaking, the selection model for tutors at this time was as follows: the Hanlin Academy submitted preliminary candidates, and after approval by the Cabinet, six to ten candidates were sent to give trial lectures in front of the person being educated (the prince or grandson of the emperor), and then the person being educated would select a few candidates.
Generally speaking, the educated will either become emperors or princes in the future, so they are monarchs. As long as the person chosen by the monarch is not too bad, the cabinet will not reject it - it was originally chosen by your cabinet, I just made a second choice.
When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he said this about the education of the royal children: In the past, the royal education of each dynasty was to invite special Confucian scholars to teach the children. These Confucian scholars only served as officials in the Prince's Mansion and not in the court. As a result, it is easy for the teachers in the Prince's Mansion and the officials in the court to form their own systems, which are contradictory to each other and seriously affect the relationship between father and son. I, Zhu Chongba, decided that the current court officials will teach the prince part-time in the future. In this way, a seamless transition can be achieved after the prince ascends the throne in the future.
Therefore, the tutors of the Ming Dynasty began to intervene in the lives of the princes or grandchildren of the emperor when they were very young. They would inevitably transfer their own values ​​to the ones they educated. Then, when the ones they educated grew up, especially when they ascended to the throne, the tutors who were originally court officials would often enter the fast lane of official career .
For the educated, the tutor is the person closest to them when they ascend to the throne. This is their first political force.

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