After Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and walked back and forth, he found that Wang Tiqian was standing on the side in a daze, and did not write down according to his meaning.

He asked a little unhappily, "What are you doing there, Princess?" Did you not hear what I just said? ”

Wang Tiqian was excited, and immediately came to his senses, and he immediately knelt on the ground and persuaded: "Your Majesty, this latter will is really too lenient, and my official position in the Ming Dynasty should not be so indulgent." And after Your Majesty declares to the world, if there are traitors who make trouble, first become pirates and then surrender, isn't this against Your Majesty's benevolence? And the elders of the foreign court will not draft this edict for His Majesty, and the six ministers will inevitably refute this edict..."

Seeing Wang Tiqian kneeling on the ground and persuading earnestly, Zhu Youzhen realized that he had overestimated the status of imperial power. Although Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, formulated a system to maintain the supremacy of imperial power.

However, the expansion of civil power over the past few hundred years has limited the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty. To put it simply, the way for the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty to deal with the imperial power is to use the ancestral system to suppress the emperor's personal outrageous ideas, and then maybe I can't stop you from doing anything, but I can not let you do anything successfully, and use endless water milling methods to eliminate the ambition in the emperor's heart.

In ordinary times, for an agrarian country, the less the emperor and the bureaucracy managed, the less the people's production and life would be affected, and the society would run very steadily, that is, the so-called rule by inaction.

However, in this era of the Xiaoice River for thousands of years, natural disasters have continued, and internal and external troubles have never stopped, the inaction of the Daming government is the greatest irresponsibility to the people.

Zhu Youzhen weighed it again and again, and suddenly turned his head to Wei Zhongxian, who was speechless, and asked, "Father-in-law Wei, do you also have the same opinion as Gonggong Wang?" ”

Wei Zhongxian seemed to have expected it, and said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty can first remove the second half of the edict to appease the pirates." After the pirates have surrendered, and then the officials of the headquarters will appoint the officials approved by His Majesty, then the officials of the foreign court will not object. ”

"Wei Zhongxian's meaning is to turn his request into an unspoken rule for pirates to follow. In that case, the influence of the edict will be much smaller, and any unspoken rules will eventually become a place to hide dirt and dirt. Zhu Youzhen thought about it silently for a long time, but found that in the end, it was Wei Zhongxian's method that was the most operable.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't have any available manpower at his hands now, if he insists on his own views and causes the civilian officials of the foreign court to give him a passive sabotage, then he will really have to blacken his eyes.

After hearing Zhu Youzhen's concession, Wang Tiqian breathed a sigh of relief. For him, in this extraordinary period of transition between the old and the new, the fewer things that can cause controversy in foreign countries, the better.

However, the matter was not transferred by Wang Tiqian's will, and for the two edicts issued by Zhu Youzhen for the first time, the civil officials of the foreign dynasty did not care about the latter edict to appease a sea thief who had surrendered and rebelled.

However, there was a fierce debate about Zhu Youzhen's recruitment of Xu Guangqi, Wang Zheng, Western missionaries, etc., and the revision of the calendar.

Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, Zhang Ruitu, and Li Guopu were members of the cabinet in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and they were somewhat undecided about the situation in which some people in the DPRK and China supported the traditional Chinese calendar, some supported the Hijri calendar, and only a few supported Xu Guangqi and others in revising the Western calendar.

Therefore, at the court meeting on the fourth day of the first month of September, the cabinet ministers formally put forward these three opinions to Zhu Youzhen and asked Zhu Youzhen to consider them again.

When Zhu Youzhen was frowning, suddenly an official below came out and said: "The minister thinks that it is not inappropriate for Your Majesty to recall Lord Xu to revise the almanac, since Guo Shoujing revised the almanac in the Yuan Dynasty, there has been no revision in hundreds of years, and the error of the almanac is at least dozens of times. Therefore, the minister thought that the revision of the almanac was an urgent matter. ”

The official's public support for the revision of the almanac was very gratifying to Zhu Youzhen. He quietly asked Wei Zhongxian, who was standing on the side, "Who is this person?" ”

Wei Zhongxian lowered his head and whispered in Zhu Youzhen's ear: "This is the household member Wailang Wang Shouzhi. ”

"Wang Shouzhi? He is the king of the guards. Zhu Youzhen muttered in a low voice, still sitting up straight.

After arguing below for more than half an hour, Zhu Youzhen felt that he had seen enough of these people's meaningless quarrels. These people didn't mention the data at all, but only used the ancestral system and the difference between China and foreign countries to oppress people, and finally some people turned up the Guo Jujing incident to prove the ill-intentioned intentions of these Western missionaries.

Zhu Youzhen's face became colder and colder, and finally shouted: "Enough, look what you look like." The court meeting is a place of deliberation, not a market for trading. What we want to argue today is whether or not to revise the calendar, not whether there is any problem with the moral character of the people who revise the calendar. Where is the Wind Magistrate? ”

"Chen Dong Zhongxing and Dai Xiang are here." Two officials standing under the dan qi stepped out.

"Write down the names of those officials who are not just talking about things, and from today onwards, officials who do not discuss government affairs at the court meeting, but make personal attacks on others. The first warning, the second demerit, the third sanction. Can you write it down? Zhu Youzhen said with a borrowed question.

Regarding the Ming Dynasty meeting, this kind of atmosphere that began to crook as soon as things were discussed, Zhu Youzhen had long wanted to rectify it, but he had never found an excuse, and today he simply brought it up with this opportunity.

Since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, he has never expressed his opinion at the court meeting. This made the civil officials in the DPRK and China gradually relax their vigilance, and therefore the argument at the court meeting today went too far.

But they didn't expect that Zhu Youzhen did not punish that official at all, but directly specified a new regulation, which was completely different from the previous Ming Emperor.

As the supreme Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he has always been about exporting the constitution, and he can punish and reward officials and subjects as he pleases, so as to show the unpredictable meaning of heavenly power.

It is unprecedented to formulate a rule for hundreds of officials, and then give the power of punishment to the two superintendents. Although the supervision of the imperial history itself has the duty of picketing hundreds of officials, they can only impeach officials to the emperor, and the final punishment decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen didn't end there, he glanced at the hundred officials who were already silent under the steps, and said again: "Who is still opposed to the revision of the almanac now, stand up and explain their reasons. ”

Zhu Youzhen's anger just now made these officials not get used to it, although there are still one or two officials who stubbornly oppose it, but they can't make a sense. After all, not being able to attack people who do things is not the routine of these mouth cannon experts at all.

And several Donglin Party members, who are most accustomed to citing scriptures and debating, are unexpectedly on the side of the revision of the almanac at this moment. Since the opposition was suppressed, Zhu Youzhen quickly passed the issuance of the two edicts.