After Zhu Youzhen returned to the Qianqing Palace, he still felt a little uneasy. While he was pacing and thinking about his thoughts in the warm pavilion, Wang Dehua and two eunuchs walked in with a stack of papers.

Wang Dehua reported: "Your Majesty, the examination papers of the Governor have been approved, and there are 278 people who have passed. Among them, there are 69 palace maids and 209 chamberlains. The rest of the unsuccessful candidates have also been recorded and sent to the school affiliated to the inner study hall. Here is the list of those who passed, those who failed, and the examination papers of those who passed. ”

Wang Dehua handed the two sheets in his hand to Zhu Youzhen, and asked the two eunuchs behind him to put the test papers on the table in the room.

Zhu Youzhen took the list, took a cursory look at it a few times, then put it aside, and then ordered: "It just so happens that tomorrow you don't need to go to court, clean up one of the houses in the West Five, and let the qualified people gather there tomorrow morning, and I will teach them a lesson." ”

"Your Majesty gives them lessons?" Wang Dehua was a little surprised, although Zhu Youzhen loves to read, but he has never really worshipped the scripture master, what is this going to teach?

With deep doubts, Wang Dehua still accepted the order and left. Zhu Youzhen rubbed his temples and began to check the rolls of these qualified people. He hoped that through these volumes, he would have a basic understanding of the knowledge of these people.

The next day, in the courtyard of the West 5 Institute, which had been cleaned up overnight, 278 new members of the Metropolitan Governor Standing next to each other who had passed the examination. They were looking curiously at a blackened wooden plank in the middle of the courtyard, not knowing what it was for.

Zhang Xingsheng was a little sneering at the new emperor's coming to teach his own people, and he thought that this was just a joke by the young emperor. For a moment, he regretted taking this exam a little.

If it weren't for the fact that he had already offended the small-bellied father-in-law Zhang by taking the exam, he really wouldn't want to come here to accompany Zhu Youzhen to mess around. Compared with Zhu Youzhen's self-taught, he is a serious disciple of the Inner Book Hall and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

Among these qualified people, there are 7 or 80 people like him who are from the inner study hall, and even those palace maids are from the Jiangnan scholarly family. He really couldn't figure out where Zhu Youzhen got his self-confidence, and he was ashamed to teach them a lesson.

When Zhu Youzhen walked into the courtyard, he found that he seemed to be a little ill-considered, and nearly 300 people were huddled together in the courtyard, and they couldn't go to class at all. However, since people have already been called, it is naturally difficult to send some people away.

He just thought about it and walked to the middle of the yard. These palace maids were instructed to take their own small horses and sit in a semicircle with the erected blackboard as the center of the circle. Although the scene was very chaotic, under Zhu Youzhen's personal command, everyone was very obedient.

After a while, a dozen concentric circles were formed, ranging from 15 to 30 people. Zhu Youzhen walked to the last row, asked the people in the first row to say a few words, and after determining the volume of the voice, he walked back to the blackboard in the center.

Blackboard and chalk, Zhu Youzhen just casually ordered, today these two new things appear in this courtyard, it can be seen that the craftsmen of this era are not mixed with waste waiting for death.

Zhu Youzhen walked to the blackboard, wrote down two words in a dignified manner, and then turned back to these palace maids and eunuchs and said, "What I want to tell you today is these two words, cost." Whatever we do, we need to invest time, money, and labor, and that's the cost I'm going to tell you..."

Although he is not from an economics background, Su Changqing, as a project manager, pays the most attention to two things, cost and quality, which are the key to the success or failure of the project.

The palace maids and eunuchs who originally didn't care about Zhu Youzhen's lectures, but just wanted to cooperate with the emperor's vanity, were completely fascinated by what he called the superficial commodity economics. In Zhu Youzhen's view, this is just the foundation of the foundation, and it is the simplest truth. But he had completely forgotten that the knowledge he had learned was a rigorous system that had been built up over hundreds of years.

It is only when capitalism has developed to a certain level that everything including labor power has been objectified that this discipline will emerge.

And the palace maids and eunuchs he faced who could pass the exam belonged to the smartest group of people in the palace. But even these people can only understand the content of Zhu Youzhen's lecture very little, and most of them are like listening to the book of heaven, they can only write down the new terms they hear today and wait for future verification.

Many people regret that they didn't bring paper and pen with them, so that they can record them and go back to work on them slowly. However, a few people who wanted to curry favor with the new emperor brought paper and ink over in order to behave in front of Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen originally wanted to start with the cost, and then talk about the commodity economy superficially, so as to leave a preliminary knowledge of economics in the minds of these people. For his next changes in the palace, do a public opinion propaganda.

But unexpectedly, just a cost explanation would cost him a morning. In order to answer the questions raised by these palace ladies and eunuchs, he almost didn't dry up his own knowledge of economics, after all, most of his knowledge of economics had already been returned to the teacher.

After a half-day lecture, Zhu Youzhen's mouth was dry, and when he returned to his residence, he drank half a jar of cold tea. Although he was a little dizzy to deal with so many people's questions in the morning, his spirit seemed extraordinarily vigorous.

On the other side, such as Zhang Xingsheng, Guo Kai, Su Yanrong and other leaders in the exam, they were completely moved by Zhu Youzhen's doctrine after a class. It's not that Zhu Youzhen is so good, in the ears of these intelligent officials, Zhu Youzhen's speech is stammering, and even some places have their own contradictions.

But this did not affect the doctrine he spoke of, Zhu Youzhen opened a door to a new world for them, and the scenery inside this gate had already vaguely revealed a corner of their charming demeanor.

In the following days, Zhu Youzhen kept half a day of classes, half a day to deal with government affairs, and carefully observed the movements in the palace through Wang Chengen and other close attendants.

Under the recommendation of the British public Zhang Weixian, several powerful officers of Jinyiwei and Jingying, and Zhu Youzhen met with them one by one.

On the other hand, Cui Chengxiu asked for the selection of someone to serve as the prime minister of Beijing under the pretext that the British public agent was not a long-term strategy for the vacancy of the prime minister of Beijing. For a while, Wei Zhongxian's henchmen echoed and recommended Huo Weihua, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, to be the prime minister of Beijing.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the seven or eight officials below who were bowing to the ground to protect Huo Weihua, and squinted at Wei Zhongxian, who was standing on the edge of the throne without squinting. Suddenly smiling, he said to the officials below: "Where is Huo Weihua, the right attendant of the military department?" Stand up and let me see. ”