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The ministers who opposed the peace were handed the proclamation into the palace and had no choice but to go home and wait for news. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Unexpectedly, the emperor neither changed his mind nor refuted everyone, but "left" all the pieces in the center. This can't help but make Sun Chengzong and others worried, first, they are really worried about whether there is a big problem with the emperor's dragon body, and second, whether these pieces have not been handed to the emperor at all.

For the next few days, Chongzhen did not come to the court, nor did he participate in the daily lecture, which made the ministers even more suspicious. Some people, as Mr. Lu Xun said, "have never been afraid to speculate on the Chinese with the greatest malice", and even began to wonder whether the emperor was hiding in the palace day and night to declare silver in the name of establishing a new institution and sealing female officials, ignoring the government of the dynasty.

But the emperor quickly proved that their guesses were all wrong. Except for the concerts related to the peace talks, which continued to be retained, all the other concerts were approved by the emperor. And unlike the previous "approval of red", in addition to the "Emperor's Treasure", all the replies now also have the three words "Zhu Youzhen" signed by Emperor Chongzhen, which is the same as the handwriting of the reply, which is a clear proof that the holy decree is completely out of holy will.

However, these replies made these officials shake their heads, first, the emperor's two words are too cold, almost like a dog crawling; The second is that the reply is so simple that it can't be simpler, the most are "may" and "can't", and occasionally there are batches of "nonsense", which don't pay attention to rhetoric at all. Moreover, the peace issues that the ministers were most concerned about were all left behind.

While they shook their heads and sighed, the pale-faced Zhu Youzhen stared at the large stack of music chapters that Mei Jian had just brought in a daze in front of the imperial case in the Qianqing Palace, and only said after a while: "Uncle, this is going to exhaust my old man!" ”

It turned out that Zhu Youzhen hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights in order to review the chapter!

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that in the past, the cabinet was responsible for drafting votes, and the celebrant was responsible for approving red, and many of the precedents involving specific affairs, especially those of local officials, did not need to go through the emperor at all, and these two departments directly completed the decision-making. However, what the emperor dealt with in the previous court was mostly related to personnel, especially the impeachment of officials, as well as some major matters that the cabinet felt that he could not bear his responsibilities and had to be judged holy. So Zhu Youzhen was quite relaxed some time ago.

Now it's different, Zhu Youzhen canceled the ceremonial supervisor and took the right to approve the red into his own hands, so correspondingly, all the pieces must also be done personally. The Ming Empire is so big, there are hundreds of pieces of music every day, and Zhu Youzhen's workload can be imagined!

What's even more annoying is that at least a quarter of these cantata are greetings and praises, without any substance, but they are still very long. Zhu Youzhen patiently saw the end from the beginning, but he didn't have a word of use, and he couldn't help but be angry.

As a result, he had to improve the secretariat first, and select 20 talented and learned from the more than 9,000 palace ladies in the Forbidden City, and divide them into four groups to screen the pieces. Specifically, the five members of the first group first reviewed all the chapters and divided them into categories, such as the category of requesting security, reporting disasters, personnel adjustments, participating in impeachment, and involving military affairs.

The members of the second group then ranked each type of movement in order of importance, with the most important ones at the top and the less important ones at the bottom. The third and fourth groups are purely audits, and if there is a misclassification or misclassification in the first and second groups, they will be corrected. Mei Jian does not participate in the review of the chapter, but is responsible for patrolling back and forth.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen made such an arrangement was that the secretariat should truly play the role of a "secretary" and that there should never be a situation in which he was lazy or even deceived himself. Although these palace ladies may not dare to do this, sooner or later the secretariat will have to bring in men, and the staff will have to be changed regularly, so it is also necessary to set the rules from the beginning.

After sorting and classifying, the cantata arrived at Zhu Youzhen, and he directly skipped the text for the recital of Ask An, and put the word "nonsense" at the end. For the rest of the movements, he will read them carefully throughout the important ones, and the general ones are ten lines at a glance, and the instructions are also concise and concise, that is, "may" or "cannot", and then signed, and then sealed by Mei Jian.

Although this has saved a lot of time and energy, Zhu Youzhen is still very tired. If nothing else, just writing was enough for him. On the afternoon of the fourth day, Zhu Youzhen finally couldn't bear it anymore and suddenly called a "daily lecture".

The ministers of the Donglin faction had not been able to meet the emperor for several days, but today they finally caught him, and they were very excited, and wanted to take this opportunity to persuade him not to negotiate peace with the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen did not give others a chance to speak at all, but took out the quill pen given to him by the missionary Maldini and demonstrated to the ministers how to write with a hard pen.

Now the ministers blew up the camp again, because they used a brush to write from the beginning of enlightenment. In fact, the hard pen is not a foreign product, it has existed in ancient China, including the work of craftsmen in this era, sometimes occasionally using a pen, and all the hard pens such as quill and chalk are used. But for readers, the brush is a symbol of identity and learning, because people who have never studied and worked hard will not be able to play with the brush.

Therefore, when they saw that the emperor wanted to use a hard pen to write, they immediately spoke out against it. In particular, Huang Daozhou directly criticized Zhu Youzhen, believing that if he was not good at calligraphy, he should study and practice hard, and should not use a hard pen.

Zhu Youzhen was not angry, and did not argue with Huang Daozhou, but smiled slightly: "You said that my calligraphy is not good, then your calligraphy must be good?" ”

In fact, in this era, anyone who can pass the imperial examination and become an official in the court has all worked calligraphy. The same is true of Huang Daozhou, he writes well, and he is often proud, and immediately said proudly: "How dare the minister show off in front of the king, it is nothing more than neat handwriting." ”

"Okay, how about we have a game today?" Zhu Youzhen smiled slyly, "Let Yuan Shangshu choose an article at will, you use a brush and a hard pen, and we will write at the same time." If you can finish it first, I won't need a hard pen from now on; If I finish it first, I'm sorry, and you'll have to use a hard pen to write the cantata later. Do you dare to compare? ”

Huang Dao thought of Zhu Youzhen's crooked imperial pen on Monday, and felt that the emperor was just a little clever, and if he really wanted to use the pen, he couldn't compare with himself in any way, so he immediately replied: "The minister should be edicted!" ”

Soon, a unique calligraphy competition began in Wenzhao Pavilion. Yuan Keli's title was Liu Yuxi's "Burrow Ming", and as soon as the words fell, Zhu Youzhen dipped some ink with a quill pen and wrote on the paper.

And Huang Daozhou also hurriedly studied the ink and polished the pen, and when he was ready to write, Zhu Youzhen had already written half of it.

Huang Daozhou couldn't help sweating on his forehead, and just wrote the first sentence "If the mountain is not high, there is a name for immortals", Zhu Youzhen laughed and said: "I won!" ”