(Note, this chapter has a history introduction)

After Li Banghua and others retired, Feng Ying was the only one cabinet minister left in the Ming Dynasty, and the six ministers of the ministers also appeared vacant.

Because Cheng Guoxiang was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Li Banghua also served as the Left Censor of the Inspectorate, Meng Zhaoxiang was the Minister of Works, Jiang Fengyuan was the Minister of Personnel, and he also served as the Minister of Rites.

After these big shots retired, they did bring great opportunities to some capable officials, and Zhu Ciyang was also carefully considering the candidates for several Shangshu.

Now the position of Minister of War Lu Xiangsheng is as stable as Mount Tai. Sun Chuanting is really tough. He is very suitable to be Minister of Personnel.

Zhu Cilang decided to use Yang Tinglin as the candidate for the Minister of Rites.

It was difficult to choose the candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Zhu Cixuan finally decided to temporarily let Zuo Maogeng, the current Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, try it.

After Li Yan entered the cabinet, he did not hold the post of the six ministries for the time being. Zhu Cilang was preparing to let him be responsible for the education and cultivation of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Confucianism is about to change. The poor cannot afford to read books. The ultimate goal of rich people studying is to serve their families. They only have a small family in their hearts and no one else is there.

When building schools in various places, children must be on the agenda for schooling. The teaching content is basically close to future generations. There are three subjects of Chinese, mathematics and history. History mainly learns patriotic knowledge...

The reconstruction of the southern part of the Ming Dynasty is about to come. In the future, official roads, railways, shipbuilding, minerals, etc. will all need to be done by the Ministry of Works. It can be said that the Ministry of Works is very important now, and the candidate for the Minister of Works is even more important.

Zhu Cilang thought for a long time, but still couldn't find the right person in his heart. Later, he accidentally picked up a memorial book and saw the name of someone on the memorial book. Zhu Cilang's eyes suddenly lit up and he suddenly made a decision.

This person is Chen Zilong, who has outstanding performance in land reform. He is currently mainly responsible for cultivating agricultural talents, and all farms are under his jurisdiction.

With outstanding personal abilities and loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cilang, such a young talent, doesn't have to wait any longer now. He can definitely be a qualified Minister of Works.

Chen Zilong has trained a group of successors, and his departure will not affect the follow-up work of Zhu Cixuan's land reform.

Chen Zilong's ancestors worked as farmers for generations. His father Chen Sowen was famous for his literature. He passed the Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli and became a Jinshi, and was promoted to the position of the two ministers of the Ministry of Workers.

Chen Zilong entered school at the age of six, diligently studied classics and history, and worked hard to grasp chapters and sentences.

In the third year of Tianqi, 16-year-old Chen Zilong ranked second in the imperial examination.

In the third year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong failed the Jinshi three times because Wen Tiren was extremely rejecting the members of the Fushe.

Confidence was hit hard by this, and he was almost discouraged. He went home and closed his door to thank the guests, focusing on learning.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he went north for the third time, and he and Xia Yunyi were both Jinshi.

At this time, the pressure of the Qing army outside the pass and the hungry people's uprising inside the pass made the already decaying Ming Dynasty in danger.

At the same time, it prompted a group of intellectuals who were worried about the country and the people to become strongly dissatisfied with the empty talk of Wang Yangming's later generations, and loudly called for "usefulness in the world" to change the cruel social reality.

Chen Zilong is one of the typical representatives. During this period, he did two very meaningful things for the development of science and culture in ancient China.

In the summer of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong compiled the "Editor of a gentleman with the sense of urgency that "a gentleman's learning is more important than knowing the times; what is urgent for the times is for fear of the future." He compiled the "Editor of the Emperor Ming Jingshiwen" with Xu Fuyuan and Song Zhengbi.

There are 504 volumes, and four volumes are added. The selected text of this book is based on the principles of Ming Dynasty, reserving differences and similarities, detailing military affairs, and focusing on economy.

The content is very rich, including politics, military, taxes and service, finance, farmland, water conservancy, school culture, rules and regulations, etc., and based on many practical issues encountered at that time, the editor's political propositions were expressed.

The motivation and purpose of Chen Zilong and others to edit this book is to "prepare the principles of a generation, and to learn from later generations."

Try to reverse the bad trend of "the common Confucianism is the past rather than the present, and to pick up the beauty and abandon the reality" through his own efforts, and not to focus on reality.

It is a book that "starts from historical reality, summarizing the 200-decade ruling experience of the Ming Dynasty, trying to learn from it, and use it to change the current reality and be practical in the world.

The editing and publication of this book was a serious challenge to the literary style and academic style at that time, and it also played a leading role in later Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and others' emphasis on practical and practical learning."

Later, Chen Zilong compiled Xu Guangqi's great agronomy book "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs".

Editing "The Complete Works of the Emperor Ming Jingshi" and compiling the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" were Chen Zilong's two most important contributions in his life to the practicality of the world.

After that, Chen Zilong once wanted to dismiss his official position and stayed at home to show that he had no ambitions.

However, facing the prairie fire of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the step-by-step advance of the Qing army, in order to save the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, he finally gave up his personal plans.

In June of the 13th year of Chongzhen, he became the manager of Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and soon began to act as the magistrate of Zhuji.

On his day of office, due to the floods in his jurisdiction over the years, hungry people were rising. In order to maintain the stability of the local society, he used both hard and softness and used both suppression and comfort.

While practicing Baojia, he set up a law of mutual leadership and the order of Shen Lianshou to quell the riots of hungry people. At the same time, he personally handled relief, helped the hungry people, established a porridge factory, set up a pharmacy, cared for the elderly and the children, cured diseases, collected dead bones, and saved more than 100,000 people.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the pass, Li Zicheng was defeated, and Chen Zilong was about to go north when he heard the news of Chongzhen's death.

Not long after, King Fu Zhu Yousong was in Nanjing and became emperor soon after. Chen Zilong, under the recommendation of Huang Daozhou, served in the Hongguang court with the position of military service as a military officer who was appointed during the Chongzhen period.

Although the military department is only a seventh rank, it can directly discuss national defense matters. Chen Zilong has been in court for more than 50 days, wrote more than 30 times, and put forward a large number of valuable suggestions.

However, Emperor Hongguang was addicted to alcohol and sex, and had no intention of restoring the country, and only sought peace. Chen Zilong was extremely disappointed with the government. At the same time, because he bluntly said that he had violated Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others, he resigned on the pretext of returning home.

Later, Chen Zilong was arrested when he raised his troops to resist Jiannu. On his way to Nanjing, he passed through Qiantangqiao in Songjiang, the guards were unprepared and suddenly jumped into the water. When he was fished out, he was already exhausted.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Chen Zilong did not get peace after his death. Jiannu brutally beheaded Lingchi and abandoned his corpse in the water. He was forty years old at the time.

Recalling Chen Zilong in history, Zhu Cilang no longer hesitated and decided to promote Chen Zilong to the new Minister of Works of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, Li Yan became the least qualified cabinet minister in history, and Chen Zilong became one of the six most experienced ministers in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

No one dares to use talents in this kind of unconventional manner except Zhu Cilang. One should know that one is a cabinet minister and the other is the Minister of Works.

If Zhu Cilang did not start a massacre while regent, he would almost kill all the civil officials who could only speak loudly, and when he was officially announced in the court, he would also be drooled...

The position of Zuodu Censor is temporarily vacant, and Zhu Cilang decided to let the honest scholar Huang Daozhou try it, but he was worried that Huang Daozhou would criticize him.

After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to use Huang Daozhou, which is not an indispensable position. If Huang Daozhou does not cooperate and often criticizes him, Zhu Cilang will let him step down again.

However, before Huang Daozhou took office, Zhu Cixuan decided to let him visit the successful land reform first and let Huang Daozhou passively brainwash it.

It is not a big problem for Zhu Cilang not to attend court, but the six ministers and cabinets must do their jobs for him. Now the six ministers and cabinets have not been in place, so he must attend court in a few days...

Why did Zhu Ciyang use the zodiac?

Because Huang Daozhou was the great scholar whom Zhu Cilang admired the most in the late Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the gentry in the world saw that Emperor Shenwu did not use great scholars.

When I deal with the gentry and landlords in Jiangnan in the future, I would push Huang Daozhou to the front desk by the way...

Zhu Cilang really wanted to know how Hong Chengchou dealt with Yan Shenggong, how Huang Daozhou dealt with the gentry and landlords in Jiangnan...

Huang Daozhou is the only celebrity in Chinese history who combines calligraphers, Neo-Confucians, and national heroes. He is well-known in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Later, due to the cultural confinement of the Qing Dynasty and many historical reasons, it gradually faded out of people's sight and became little known.

Today, Huang Daozhou left a multifaceted impression on the world, the coldness of a calligrapher, the rigor of a Neo-Confucianist, the ruthlessness of a minister, and the tragic hero of a national hero.

In the fifth year of Tianqi, Huang Daozhou was promoted to the official lecturer and lecturer.

When he was the first time he was attending a lecture for the emperor, he was a small book show official who dared to refuse to surrender to Wei Zhongxian's power. He changed his convention and changed his kneeling behavior and walked straight, shocking the court and the public.

The next day, he took leave and returned home because he was dissatisfied with Wei Zhongxian's autocracy.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian controlled the government and dominated the world, and ruled out dissidents. Although Huang Daozhou was not a member of the Donglin Party, he still stood opposite Wei Zhongxian and fought tenaciously.

Even if the other party is a powerhouse who can determine his or her political future, even life and death.

Behind this kind of pride is the dignity of being a human being. What Huang Daozhou can do is because he puts dignity above the political future and above life.

Tianqi died, Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian fell, Huang Daozhou went to Beijing to resume his post, and Qian Longxi was assisted many times.

All the civil and military officials in the court knew that Qian Longxi was wronged, but no one dared to stand up and say justice for him. Only Huang Daozhou alone made an appeal for Qian Longxi.

He advised Chongzhen not to mess around and kill innocent people indiscriminately. Chongzhen was very angry and asked him to reflect on himself and not to find trouble for nothing.

Huang Daozhou was not grateful. Instead, he did not regret it, but repeatedly insisted on his own ideas and gradually gained support from public opinion on the court and the public, which made Chongzhen very embarrassed and eventually failed to kill Qian Longxi, while Huang Daozhou himself was suspended.

Huang Daozhou begged for a break again, but before leaving, he went to "Shuomen of the Release of the Door", which fully analyzed the various problems existing in the court.

He also pointed out that Chongzhen was not sure about his employment and sincerely advised Chongzhen to stay away from the gentleman and stay away from the villain. As a result, he angered Chongzhen, who felt good about himself, was stripped of his post and expelled from the civil service!

At that time, the eunuch party group had just been eradicated, and it was the time when Chongzhen had the highest reputation and was unquestionable and had the greatest temper. Therefore, he remained silent and no one dared to provoke this angry lion.

Huang Daozhou was not a censor, and he had no friendship with Qian Longxi. There was no need to stand up for an unlucky passerby. However, he looked down on all the ministers and stood up, and won the praise of "the first minister in ancient and modern times".

According to the herd effect theory, a flock of sheep will only follow the leading sheep, regardless of right or wrong.

Huang Daozhou is different. He does not follow the silence because of others' silence, but takes the initiative to argue for fairness and justice. Behind his pride is a sense of justice and responsibility.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Huang Daozhou went to Beijing again to resume his post. Unexpectedly, he had a successful career. He was promoted four levels in a row within a year and almost entered the cabinet.

However, unlike ordinary people who actively work and become officials in a low-key manner after promotion, he chose to resign and quit six times within half a year! His resignation was not a hypocritical and polite manner in the officialdom, but a true feeling from the heart.

It can be seen that despite being promoted one after another, he was very lonely inside, helpless and tired of dealing with the status quo.

He had almost no contact with others, had no fun or pleasure as an official, and suffered a lot. He was promoted to level 4 within a year but resigned six times.

This shows that Huang Daozhou was an official without desire and had no intention of making profits at all. This was a proud "profit" - not seeking personal gain! Behind his pride is his indifference to fame and fortune and his indifference to power, which is a very valuable quality of life.

Soon, Yang Sichang took the love and entered the cabinet, Chen Xinjia took the love and became the governor of Xuanda, and Huang Daozhou submitted a memorial to impeach the two of them.

Because Huang Daozhou was unable to enter the cabinet and the time for submitting a memorial was too coincidental, Chongzhen suspected that he had selfish intentions and wanted to use it as a negative example, and took the opportunity to suppress the Qingliu faction.

Therefore, the famous "Platforms and Right" was held on the fifth day of the seventh month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

In this confrontation, Huang Daozhou and Chongzhen met with each other in a close relationship, and they debated the principles and ethics.

As a result, Chongzhen was defeated, his demeanor and face were lost. In his rage, Huang Daozhou was demoted to level six consecutively.

If you have enough time to prepare for other occasions, you can also choose calmly. This call is completely different, it is purely on-the-spot performance, and the target is the supreme ruler - the emperor.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Huang Daozhou showed no timidity. He talked about it according to reason and directly criticized Chongzhen for being loyal and indistinguishable from his loyalty. Behind his pride is his loyal patriotic enthusiasm and nobility and confidence rooted in his heart.
To be continued...