The elimination of these eight yamen is equivalent to the elimination of nearly one-third of the establishment of eunuchs and maids in the palace, which greatly reduces the expenditure of the court. The personnel in the Daming Palace adopted the material supply system, that is, the distribution system according to demand.

This kind of distribution system cannot even be realized by a certain party that has been fighting for the best ideals all its life, let alone in the Ming Dynasty of the feudal centralized system.

In the palace without supervision and costing, for those eunuchs who had no concept of cost, they wasted and stole materials far more than they normally consumed.

Although there is a so-called system of recovering stolen goods in the Ming Dynasty, the targets of the recovery of stolen goods are corrupt and theft officials, and waste is not counted. In addition, the Ming Dynasty did not have a fixed regulatory system, and the exposure of corrupt and theft officials was usually nothing more than the result of political overthrow.

This also makes Daming's ** a common problem, and compared with civil officials, eunuchs who lack the opportunity to make money, as long as they have a chance, they will do their best to corrupt and accept bribes.

Although they were only eunuchs, they were also members of the bureaucracy. Although the establishment of the Metropolitan Governor's Prison can curb the phenomenon of corruption and corruption, it cannot eliminate the problem of waste.

You can never teach an official what saving and cost-accounting is, because the wealth saved has nothing to do with him, but the wealth that makes others unhappy because of the economy is his own.

From the moment he entered the palace, Zhu Youzhen was shocked by the huge establishment of the 24 yamen in the palace, and he was even more shocked by the wealth consumed by these personnel every day.

There are nearly 30,000 people in the 24 yamen, just to serve the emperor's family, and according to Zhu Youzhen's estimate, he may not be able to see all these people who serve him until he dies in this life.

For an empire that is about to go bankrupt, what Zhu Youzhen wants to do now is to reduce the establishment of palace personnel, if the reputation damage can reduce more than one-third of the palace personnel, then Zhu Youzhen is happy.

For an emperor who doesn't care about his reputation at all, Wang Chengen is helpless. For the restraint of the Ming Emperor, the means that the eunuchs could use were almost none. Compared with civil officials, who can also use the words of sages and the mandate of heaven to persuade them, eunuchs, as the emperor's domestic slaves, basically can't even speak out against them.

The eight stewards and eunuchs walked out of the upper study with different thoughts, and Wang Chengen was also sighing in his heart, since these eight yamen were forced to rectify by Chongzhen, they actively moved closer to him, wanting Wang Chengen to turn around in front of His Majesty.

But Chongzhen's uncompromising attitude let Wang Chengen know that these eight stewards and eunuchs would no longer expect anything from him. His idea of subduing the eight stewards and eunuchs as his arms and assistants has also been shattered.

At the court meeting the next day, Huang Liji followed Chongzhen's wishes and proposed three things: rehabilitating Zhang Douyao, abolishing the prohibition of scientific examinations, and adding three positions of deputy county, director of finance and taxation, and judicial officer in each county.

To Zhu Youzhen's surprise, he originally thought that the rehabilitation of Zhang Douyao might encounter the most opposition, and the abolition of the official Xu was not allowed to conduct scientific examinations. However, the fact is just the opposite, and all the ministers of the court and China are aiming at the abolition of the ban on scientific examinations.

Zhu Youzhen found that the more low-level officials were, the more resolutely they opposed the abolition of the ban on scientific examinations, and the Donglin Party members were even more unanimous and vigorously opposed to the end. Even Zhu Youzhen saw for the first time that some people would make a lot of nonsense in the court one by one for the sake of this seemingly extremely unreasonable system.

Even Liu Zongzhou and Wen Zhenmeng, who had conflicts at the previous court meeting, seem to have forgotten their previous unhappiness today. The two of them had the ambition to oppose the participation of officials in the imperial examination.

It seems that he still has not thought about it, and for these low-ranking officials and Donglin Party members, the imperial examination has become a sacred ritual. Allowing treacherous officials who are despised by them and who have broken people's hearts to participate in the imperial examination will undoubtedly make these civil officials feel that their reputation has been tarnished. ”

It's like a civil official said: Even officials can participate in the imperial examination, and whether the prostitutes will also be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future, this is simply what kind of system. For Zhu Youzhen, he has no resistance to prostitutes participating in the imperial examination.

But from the eyes of these civil officials, Zhu Youzhen understood that for these civil officials, letting officials and prostitutes participate in the imperial examination was simply a matter of heaven and earth.

Zhu Youzhen was on the throne and rubbed his forehead with his fingers. Huang Liji, the first assistant below, turned pale, and except for Li Guopu, the other two did not dare to stand up to support Huang Liji's superiority.

Seeing that seven or eight out of ten officials in the Manchu Dynasty were opposing him, Huang Liji sighed secretly in his heart. By this time, his heart, which had been bewitched by the prime minister's throne, had finally cleared up. "It seems that I must take the initiative to retreat, otherwise I will be attacked by a group."

Huang Liji took a step forward and was about to take off the Qiliang crown on his head to retreat. Zhu Youzhen finally spoke up at this time, "It seems that I made a mistake, when I discussed political affairs with the first assistant, I insisted on adding the ban on abolishing the participation of officials in the imperial examination, and now it seems that I have not thought it through." Since this is the case, then Huang Shoufu just removed the one I added. The other two items are ready to be implemented, and Zhang Douyao's rehabilitation will be handled first. ”

Huang Liji's movements were obviously stalemate, he never thought that Chongzhen would take the initiative to stand up and carry this black cauldron. For a long time, it was the ministers and eunuchs who carried the black cauldron for the emperor, and when the emperor would stand up and carry the black cauldron for his subordinates, this was completely against the political tradition of the feudal dynasty.

Although Chongzhen was forced to make concessions, some Donglin Party members were still unsatisfied. An imperial historian from the Donglin Party suddenly stood up and admonished: "State affairs should be put into public discussion in the court, and it is really against the principle of political clarity that Your Majesty and the first assistant discuss in private." Huang Liji, as the first assistant of the cabinet, is bent on catering to His Majesty's preferences, but he has no minister's system, and the minister Guizhou Provincial Imperial Shi Mao Jian impeached the first assistant Huang Liji..."

"Political opportunists." Zhu Youzhen quickly came to a conclusion about the official who stood up for impeachment.

The political tradition of the Ming Dynasty is that once an important minister of the court is impeached by an official, he must immediately take off his official hat and accept the impeachment.

Although Huang Liji is fame and fortune, he has not violated this tradition. After hearing Mao Jian's impeachment, he immediately took off his hat and waited for Chongzhen's decision.

With Mao Jian taking the lead, several imperial historians were also ready to move. Zhu Youzhen did not intend to let these officials set off a wave of impeachment of Shoufu, although Shoufu Huang Liji was fame and fortune, but he was still a responsible figure, and dared to confront the Donglin Party, which was getting stronger and stronger in the DPRK and China.

As for several other cabinet scholars, Li Guopu and the Donglin Party members are on good terms, but Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu are still a little less courageous, and they are not opponents of the Donglin Party in the DPRK and China at all.

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to interrupt several officials who wanted to continue speaking, and said: "The setting of the cabinet is to assist the emperor in handling state affairs. If I don't discuss with Shoufu, do I want to come out with a policy full of mistakes and omissions to have a tea party with everyone?

Outside the country, there are border disasters in the east, and there are rebellions in luxury, and civil uprisings in various places. The urgency and pragmatism that the Ming Dynasty needs to deal with are countless, and the officials do not think about how to save the time of the courtiers, but instead pay attention to some details.

If I even have to ask the speaker to discuss political affairs with the first assistant, then what is the significance of my Ming Dynasty setting up a cabinet? If even the Shuntian Mansion wants to collect more than 20 taels of silver in taxes, such trivial matters need to be decided by my household secretary, then what is the purpose of me Ming Ming setting up so many official positions? ”

Chongzhen's words finally dispelled the idea that the official wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and impeach the first assistant in one fell swoop.

Although Zhu Youzhen finally suppressed the officials' continued attack on Huang Liji, he didn't seem to stop there.

"Although I abolished the post of prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet students are equivalent to my prime minister. Now the hundred officials are derelict in their duties, and they do not know their own responsibilities or their own powers, which is because the cabinet has not restrained the hundred officials for me.

The Master once said: If the name is not right, the word is not good; If you don't go your way, you won't get it. Today, the Ming official system has become a mess with unclear responsibilities. A Guizhou Taoist imperial historian who cares nothing about the affairs of Guizhou, and thinks all day long about gaining fame by attacking the ministers of the DPRK and China.

There is a rebellion at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and the people in the three places are displaced, dare to ask this imperial history, do you know that Guiyang City was besieged for a year in the rebellion of luxury, and the people in the city cannibalized each other, and there were less than thousands of people left of more than 400,000 people?

As the imperial history of Guizhou Province, have you ever cared about the souls who died in vain in the siege? Have you ever cared about how those who survived should face their future lives?

In your eyes, are the more than 100,000 people in Guizhou less important than me and Shoufu discussing state affairs? What have you read after reading the books of the sages for so many years? Master's righteousness, that's how you read it? ”

Zhu Youzhen's questioning made Guizhou Daoist Shi Mao Jian's face red and speechless, and he was so ashamed and indignant that he had to take off his official hat and ask for resignation.

Zhu Youzhen was still not enough, and wanted to make an example of him, and ruthlessly kill the chaos in the road.

However, Liu Zongzhou stood up, he didn't want Zhu Youzhen to continue to chase Mao Jian. First, because he insisted on the mistakes of a courtier, which damaged Chongzhen's reputation; Second, most of the officials are young officials with high qualifications, and Chongzhen's criticism is too much, which will undermine the enthusiasm of these officials to speak in the DPRK and China in the future.

"What Your Majesty said is very true, but the ancestors set up the science and technology officials to correct the behavior of the ministers of the court. After His Majesty's reprimand, the minister thought that Mao Yushi should learn a lesson and would not make today's mistakes again. For the sake of the country's cherishing talents, I ask Your Majesty to show mercy. ”