Daming: From the Son of Heaven to the Leader of Comprehensive Martial Arts

Xie Qian bowed his hands to Zhao Hengchen, waiting for the admonition.

Seeing Xie Qian's arrival, Zhao Hengchen looked at him with a smile, and saw that he was a man of talent and polite.

After a long time, just then nodded, and just now he said jokingly: "What a romantic talent, do you know, it's for you, the emperor personally took out your examination paper, and sent me and Youdu censor Li Weihan, Mr. Li, And the [-] bachelors of the Wenhua Palace, all of whom have severely criticized them?"

Xie Qian raised his head, his eyes were full of doubts, and he was about to ask why.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Hengchen didn't give him a chance to ask, and continued: "Okay, don't talk anymore. I just hope you will remember that you, Tanhualang, are watered by His Majesty's grace and rain. You have to be careful." To be a man, to be an official well, you must never disappoint His Majesty's grace of knowing you, you know?"

After saying that, Zhao Hengchen ordered: "Come here, change into an official uniform for Tanhualang."

An officer came over with an official uniform in his hands.

never thought...

Xie Qian glanced at the official uniform he had dreamed of, but he didn't take it. Instead, he bowed to Zhao Hengchen suddenly and said, "I don't want to be an official in this life, so I ask my mentor to tell you about the emperor."

Zhao Hengchen, as the chief examiner of this big exam, has a teacher-student relationship with all candidates.

Hearing this, Zhao Hengchen couldn't help being startled, and said angrily, "Bold! Heaven's grace is mighty, your Majesty's kiss, how can you refuse?"

The two stalemate for a moment.

Seeing that Xie Qian refused to give an inch and was still unwilling to take over the official uniform, Zhao Hengchen showed doubts and asked curiously: "Tell me, why are you doing this?"

Xie Qian immediately knelt on the ground and told the story of him and Liu Rushi.

However, he was still unmoved and did not take a look at the court official uniform placed next to him.

"It's worthless, the mud can't support the wall?"

In front of Xie Qian, Zhao Hengchen was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, he paced back and forth, and asked, "Just because of the number one oiran in the capital, a woman from a brothel, you don't even want Tanhua Lang?"

Zhao Hengchen couldn't understand.

This Tanhualang, how many scholars have spent their whole lives studying hard for decades, can't touch him, but he is so lucky that he wants to refuse the emperor's favor.

"If you go back to your mentor, then Liu Rushi treats her students as deeply as the sea, and even if the students die, they can't live up to her."

Xie Qian cupped his hands again and said: "Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be fulfilled. If I accept Your Majesty's favor, according to the imperial court system, I will surely fail Liu Rushi's deep love. Please be my teacher."

Hear this.

Zhao Hengchen couldn't help being stunned, and then he looked at Xie Qian carefully, and after a long time, he couldn't help nodding, as if he sympathized with Xie Qian's feelings and recognized Xie Qian's character.

However, the system of the imperial court is greater than the sky, and His Majesty's decree is greater than the sky.

Obviously it cannot be violated!

So, Zhao Hengchen started pacing back and forth again, and said loudly, "The pedantic Liu Adou who can't afford it! If Liu Rushi can never marry for you, why can't you never marry for her?"

"As long as you don't marry her now, you can still serve as an official. You have lived up to the emperor's grace."

The always rigid Zhao Hengchen actually said such words.

"But, this..."

For a while, Xie Qian was a little confused. He was usually eloquent, but he was speechless and didn't know how to answer.

"Okay, stop talking."

Zhao Hengchen interrupted him loudly, and then he yawned and said, "I'm tired too, I'm going back to take a nap, and His Majesty will summon me later."

After finishing speaking, he strode out of the Imperial College.

In the afternoon, according to the usual practice, Zhu Qizhen would summon the Xinke Jinshi in Qianqing Palace to give him a lecture, but in order to relax, Zhu Qizhen changed the place of the banquet for the Xinke Jinshi to the Imperial Garden.

Qianqing Palace, in the Imperial Garden.

Tables of banquets are arranged in four rows, all of which are filled with delicacies from mountains and seas.

Next to each banquet, there are 120 Shinke Scholars standing neatly.

The twelve Jinshi from the Jia Division, Zhao Hengchen, the chief examiner, Li Weihan, the deputy examiner, and the eighteen bachelors from the Wenhua Palace are naturally in the first row.

Gu Dingchen, Lun Wenxu, and Xie Qian, as the top three, sat in the same seat with chief examiner Zhao Hengchen and deputy examiner Li Weihan, closest to the emperor, as usual.

Xie Qian, as the emperor's hand-picked Tanhua Lang, even if he wanted to resign from office, he would not dare to openly contradict the emperor at this time, not giving the emperor face, and refusing the banquet, of course he also came.

As soon as Zhu Qizhen appeared, he walked into the imperial garden.

Wei Zhongxian shouted loudly with a drake-like voice: "Nine years of orthodoxy, Enke Scholars, pay homage to the Son of Heaven, and respectfully listen to the hadith."

"See Your Majesty."

Led by the chief examiner Zhao Hengchen, a group of Jinshi knelt on the ground and shouted in unison.

"My dear friends, let's live in peace."

Zhu Qizhen nodded in satisfaction, with a smile on his face.

All the talents in the world must serve me.

This is the principle and belief that he, as the emperor and the father of the world, has always upheld.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Everyone stood up, but they dared not sit down.

Zhu Qizhen took the lead to sit down, and said with a slight smile: "Everyone sit down, I changed this banquet to be held in the imperial garden, just to let you relax."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Everyone responded in unison, and then they all took their seats.

Zhu Qizhen smiled in satisfaction, took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and just started his first admonition to the emperor's disciples.

"The sage said, if you learn well, you will be an official."

Zhu Qizhen looked at these new scholars who had read poetry and books with a smile, and said: "You are all scholars. Some have been studying hard for ten years, some have studied hard for 20 years, and some have even studied for 30 or 40 years. Scholars, from being a scholar to juren, and then from juren to Jinshi, I also know that it is not easy for you."

"But you study and become officials, why?"

"That's right, studying and becoming an official is to honor your ancestors. I would like to congratulate you today, because today, you have all done it."

"However, I still want to warn you that if you learn well, you will become an official. So what is learning well?"

"That is knowing the truth, not just knowing how to read, but not knowing anything else."

"Know the book to understand the truth, know the book to understand the matter."

"The country selects scholars and selects talents. The big exam is only once every three years. From among you scholars, select people who are knowledgeable and knowledgeable. They will assist me in managing government affairs, managing the local area, governing the world, and stabilizing people's livelihood."

"Now, all of you have been admitted, which shows that you are already excellent in learning."

Zhu Qizhen first praised, then changed the subject and warned: "However, if you learn well, you will be an official. Whether you are a good official or a bad official depends on your future performance."

"How can I be a good official?"

"I send you three words."

"The first word is loyalty."

"The second word is public."

"The third word is able."

Chapter 1 Zhu Qizhen's Three Role Models for the People of the World

In the imperial garden, Zhu Qizhen gave Xinke Jinshi three words.

Loyalty, fairness, ability.

The people present, whether it was the 120 or eight Xinke Scholars, Zhao Hengchen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Right Capital Censor of the Supervisory Academy, and the eighteen Wenhua Palace University Scholars, were all silent and solemn.

Everyone looks thoughtful.

Zhu Qizhen took a sip of tea, and after a pause, he continued: "What is loyalty?"

"That is to keep my words firmly in my heart, and always think about my sake, the Ming Empire, and Jiangshan Sheji."

"Here, I want to introduce you to an example of a loyal minister."

"——Cao Zhengchun."

Hearing the voice of the emperor calling him, he had been waiting for Cao Zhengchun outside the imperial garden early, and was so moved that he wept bitterly, and stepped into the imperial garden.

"How good and capable is this servant girl, to be regarded as a model of loyal ministers by His Majesty."

I don't know if it's sincerity or acting, Cao Zhengchun sniveled and burst into tears, the tears gushed out more turbulently than spring water.

"Your majesty is virtuous and far-sighted. Whatever the slaves do, they are just in the heart of following your majesty's wishes."

"The slaves have devoted themselves to death, and they will never be able to repay His Majesty's kindness."

After saying that, he knelt down in the imperial garden and burst into tears.

The voice is sad, the kind that can move the heavens and the earth!

"Let's get down, give me a seat!"

Zhu Qizhen smiled lightly.

However, the people present, no matter whether it was Zhao Hengchen, Li Weihan, the 120 Scholars of the Wenhua Palace, or the [-] eight Scholars of the New Division, were all stunned.

They never expected that the loyal minister His Majesty spoke of would be Cao Zhengchun!

The people present are all people who have read poetry and books.

To be honest, they looked down on eunuchs from the bottom of their hearts.

What's more, Cao Zhengchun is still notorious in the ruling and opposition parties.

However, it didn't take long for many people to think clearly that Cao Zhengchun's role as a model of a loyal minister seemed unexpected, but it was indeed reasonable.

Because although Cao Zhengchun is vicious, he kills people without blinking an eye.

But what he maintains is the majesty of the emperor!

Although he is notorious in the government and the public, if he doesn't understand it, he will set off a massacre.

But he was plotting for the emperor alone!

As long as it is something that the emperor entrusts, he will do it with more care than anyone else.

After figuring this out, all the people present had a look of enlightenment, they finally knew Cao Zhengchun's way of being an official.

That is a word of loyalty!

He understands what Confucius said better than many people who have read poetry and books: Junjun, ministers, father and son, son and son.

The king is the guide for the subjects, and the father is the guide for the son.

As the master of the world, Zhu Qizhen was the father of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Empire, and he was the leader of the world.

This is loyalty!

It is because of loyalty that even though he is arrogant and domineering, even though he does things viciously and viciously, even though he sometimes does some wrong things, the emperor can still tolerate him.

It is because of loyalty that Cao Zhengchun can still stand firm in the face of countless impeachments.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What is a public?"

"That is, whether you are a person, doing something, or being an official, you must put your heart in the middle, be impartial, put the overall situation first in everything, put Daming's billions of miles of rivers and mountains as the most important in everything, and put the world in everything Hundreds of millions of Li people are the most important."

"Here, I also want to introduce a role model for you."

"—Yu Qian."

Like Cao Zhengchun, Yu Qian, Minister of the Ministry of War, who had been waiting outside the imperial garden early, straightened his official uniform when he heard the emperor call his name, and strode into the imperial garden with righteous spirit.

"Chen is here!"

Yu Qian kowtowed upright.

The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least. This is Yu Qian's creed as an official.

Thousands of hammers hit out of the deep mountain, and the fire burns as if waiting for nothing.I don't care about breaking my body to pieces, and I want to stay innocent in the world.This is Yu Qian's poem expressing his will.

Although Yu Qian is a bull-tempered person, he sometimes remonstrates with death.

But he did put the people of the world first in everything, and he did have a fair heart. He was praised by the world's scholars, and he was a model for the world's scholars to be officials.

Yu Qian is a model for a minister.

This is within everyone's expectations, because Yu Qian's name has long been famous all over the world, and he can indeed afford it.