Under the bright moon, almost all the houses and houses in Chang'an Street are hung with lights.

Especially the Chief Courtyard on the street, it looks like daylight under the reflection of dozens of lights.

Listening quietly can tell by the frequent noisy footsteps that there are probably a large number of people in the CPC Courtyard at this moment.

During the day, the courses left by Zhu Yunwen in Fengtian Palace were not too difficult for this group of officials. After all, the ministers of the central departments and ministers were basically promoted by Jianwen in the dynasty, and none of them were promoted by officials left by Hongwu in the dynasty.

It can be said that every one of them can memorize the "Kangwen Encyclopedia" and the general outline is even more familiar.

It was not too much pressure for these people to do a good job of the emperor's schoolwork and deliver a perfectly acceptable answer, but they still came to Xu Buji's mansion, not for anything else, just to ask for advice.

What does the lesson left by the emperor mean?

The ministers in the court know the emperor's heart the most is Xu Buji. Who else can I find if I don't ask him for advice?

In the main hall, Xu Buji sat high on his head, and Wang Yusen sat in the guest seat on his right hand.

On the seats placed on both sides, more than a dozen officials sat in an orderly manner. Most of these officials were promoted by Xu Buji, and they were considered so-called members of the Xu Party.

"Gei Master, Your Majesty mentioned two points in his course today. One is why my Ming Dynasty has today's prosperity, and the other is how my Ming Dynasty can maintain today's prosperity in the future."

Among the dozen people, Gu Feng and the first one who replaced Xu Buji's position as Minister of Personnel, spoke first. He frowned and tentatively spoke with caution.

"How should these two problems be solved?"

The others were silent, but their eyes were all looking at Xu Buji, waiting for the latter to give some instructions.

But the latter was calm with them, just kept fiddling with the bowl cover, staring at the swelling fog.

"Gei?"

Gu Feng and the others opened their mouths anxiously, interrupting Xu Buji's silence.

"Fenghe, you are the Minister of Personnel, what should you do if you say it should be explained?"

The ball kicked back, making Gu Feng and Zhiyu say. But Xu Buji asked back and asked back? He couldn't help but answer? He had to bite the bullet and speak out.

"The first priority is to govern a country, possess officials, possess capable ministers, and possess officials. Today, we use the "Jianwen Collection" to draw materials. All the officials in it understand the way of governing the people as officials? Therefore, today's prosperous era.

As long as you can ensure that every newly registered public official can read the "Jianwen Collection" in the future? Be careful to study and understand Your Majesty's instructions on governing the country and the people, and reach a high degree of ideological consistency with the cabinet central government led by Your Majesty directly? You can continue to maintain today's prosperity in the future? Continue the past and open up the future and create another prosperous scene."

After saying a generous response, Gu Fenghe looked at Xu Buji, regretfully not seeing any changing expressions on the latter's face? He only got a no-thickness affirmation.

"Hmm? This answer is very good. If you polish it and fill it, it will be a good answer sheet."

With a simple answer, everyone here understood the implication of Xu Buji's words.

That is, if you only want to complete your studies, then take these two sentences from Gu Fenghe as the center? Focusing on these two points, filling in some function words, real numbers, or local governments and other contents, it will naturally form a good article.

Gu Fenghe hesitated for a while? Still spoke: "The Lord is still wanting to listen to the instructions of the elder."

"The teachings are not enough, let's talk about them briefly."

Xu Buji pondered for a long time? Finally, he put down the tea bowl and everyone in the hall sat upright. He was Wang Yusen, who was also a cabinet minister beside him, looked as serious as his expression.

"Your Majesty asked? Why has my Ming Dynasty been prosperous today? Be a prophet, how has it flourished today?"

Xu Buji looked around and said, "If it was not as good as the rule of the Tang and Song dynasties, and not as great as the ancestors, how could it be said that the prosperity was? Since the words "superior" must have moved far away from the previous dynasty. If we talk about the past and the present, what is the advantage of the present dynasty than the previous dynasty?"

In summary, the rule of the Tang and Song dynasties was promoted. In what aspects did the Ming Dynasty today surpass the Tang and Song dynasties?

"The core of the country lies in politics. If politics is not strong, there is no need to talk about vassal areas such as military, economy, diplomacy, scientific research, and culture.

Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the first step to reform the old and the new was to first move the political system and establish a cabinet. At that time, the cabinet ministers who entered the cabinet were Bao Zhao, Yu Xin, Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin.

The tasks responsible for the cabinet are basic government decisions, central operation, coordination of local and state affairs. This determines the scope of power of the cabinet. Based on the political system under the Secretariat of the Tang and Song dynasties, power was expanded to a certain extent.

The cabinet took over most of the simple government affairs of our Ming Dynasty. Almost every cabinet minister was busy with the mountains, seas and countless memorials from various provinces. His Majesty could withdraw from the document than Emperor Taizu and concentrate on compiling the "Kangwen Ceremony".

This step changed the direction of our Ming Dynasty recruiting officials, and then abolished the imperial examination system and eliminated the identity gap between officials. The new official is no longer just a Jinshi who can be appointed by holding this "Instructions for the Acceptance of County Magistrates", but needs to be promoted step by step from a grassroots civil servant.

These officials who have been promoted step by step from the bottom are more aware of civil affairs, and they are at ease in governing the government, so that the people will not complain about everything.

A county will prosper, a prefecture will prosper, a province will prosper, and the whole country will prosper.

Then there was a great day of prosperity, so this question asked, what is better than the Tang and Song dynasties is the institutional advantage.”

Xu Buji said something about the advantages of the system, and everyone felt a lot of feelings.

The rise and fall of a country is based on whether the country's political system is advanced and reasonable, and whether it has the ability to resolve various contradictions and appeals that have been constantly arisen by the state, society and the people as the times progress.

If this political system could solve these problems, or could not be solved at that time, but this system had extremely benign adaptability and regulation capabilities, and could spend a certain amount of time to resolve these endless demands and contradictions by changing the way of governance, then this political system would be extremely perfect.

"Only by carefully examining the changes and demise of the Liao, Jin, Yuan and Song dynasties after the Tang Dynasty, we can truly answer the lessons assigned by His Majesty.

Among the dynasties that changed before the Ming Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty must be an extremely important dynasty milestone in history.

Whether it is military, diplomacy, economy, culture, scientific research and technology, social system and its systems have left a brilliant mark in history. After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, including Liao, which later entered half of the Central Plains, the Jin Dynasty's national system and the rough structure of exercising rule were almost circled in the historical influence left by the Tang Dynasty.

Compared with these dynasties, the Song Dynasty took one foot to step out of the plate left by the Tang Dynasty.

The only difference is that the Tang Dynasty has been trying its best to centralize power, while the Song Dynasty has also centralized power.

The two dynasties were central at the same time, but there were fundamental differences.

The emperor was the center of the Tang Dynasty.

The central government of the Song Dynasty was the central government, which coexisted by the emperor and the scholar-official class.

It’s just that the emperor’s central government turned the political system and ruling system into a private weapon in the hands of the emperor.

In the Song Dynasty, based on the historical appeals at that time and some political interaction factors, Song Taizu and Song Taizong established the ancestral system to share the world with scholars and officials.

The political system and the system that exercises the right to rule over this country and govern the power has become a public instrument.

Everyone who is ranked in the center has the right to touch.

The literati and official class cannot be as unique as the emperor's family. The father passed on his son's family and passed on his generation to the world.

The scholar-official class is like living water. As the imperial examinations are held, newcomers and latecomers are constantly pouring in, and the elderly are then eliminated.

By the time Wang Jinggong made a move, this public instrument had changed from being exclusive to the central government to a literati group dedicated to the entire country.

This is the root of the war between Xun and Meng, Jing and Wen parties that lasted for nearly a hundred years.

Every official has the power to use public instruments, and he can naturally harm and conquer each other.

The advantages of this system are also obvious. Grassroots officials can govern themselves according to the customs and customs of different regions, without having to sway among the "legal system" and "dao system" all day long.

Don't worry about whether to adhere to politics or ethics.

This point is written in the political volume of the "Jianwen Encyclopedia", Your Majesty wrote two articles, namely "Research on the Baojia System of Wang Jinggong" and "Study on the History of the Song Dynasty", which fully demonstrated the conflicts between different party thoughts during the Song Dynasty.

While there are many parties quarrels, the government affairs in the middle and lower levels are still smooth, and they are still adhering to the governance based on different social complex situations in various places, ensuring the development of people's livelihood and economic progress.

This is why the economy, population, culture and scientific research levels were developing rapidly during the Southern Song Dynasty and surpassed the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of political system, Song and Tang have their own advantages and disadvantages."

After a breath of relief, Xu Buji moistened his throat and continued

"The destiny of the Yuan Dynasty for less than a hundred years is due to its lack of clear political system. The bureaucratic system of the Yuan Dynasty has no institutional characteristics. It completely destroys the already mature political system in an extremely barbaric way, exercises arbitrary and cruel rule, ignores social appeals, and forces conflicts in various fields to accumulate until it collapses when the contradictions break out."

Speaking of this, Xu Buji has briefly explained the reasons for the rise and fall of the political system of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and everyone became more serious, because after talking about the Yuan Dynasty, what we are going to talk about below must be the current dynasty.

"Your Majesty uses the Tang and Song dynasties as a reference, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties as a warning, and regulates the cabinet, which is to re-establish a new and more advanced and excellent political system.

The official goods belong to the central government and to the hands of Your Majesty, and then they were transferred to the cabinet for use after your Majesty's permission.

Then the cabinet delegated part of the use of public instruments to local governments, which not only ensured the flexibility of local political operation, but also eliminated the risk of political internal friction between local governments because of their independent and arbitrary rights.

If Zhu Yunwen had not emerged from nowhere, those who know the history of the Ming Dynasty knew that the political system of the Ming Dynasty was basically the same as that of the Song Dynasty, and they were both imperial power-bureaucratic system systems.

The advantage of this system is stability, and more importantly, the bureaucratic system can keep its vitality because it will continue to surge out of successors.

This is also the case in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor did not attend court for several years or decades, the country could still operate effectively and was widely recognized by over 100 million people in the entire country.

But this risk of using public power to completely publicize public instruments is the transfer of political power.

Since Zhu Di ascended the throne in the Ming Dynasty, the power of the civil servant group had already grown, forming a threat and counter-suppression of the imperial power.

After all, it is to start fighting with the imperial power for the right to use and scope of use of public instruments.

For example, they joined forces to fight against Zhu Di Yi Chu and hindered Zhu Di from moving the capital.

Emperor Hongwu personally ordered that "the internal ministers are not allowed to interfere in politics." This huge stone is in the harem, and Zhu Di cannot see any of the six big characters.

Zhu Di himself started the training of internal officials to read and read.

A military supervisor was established before the Beijing camp, and then a guard was established in the border town.

These are all bad news for eunuchs to interfere in military and political affairs.

Then the Jinyiwei was restored and the privileges of the spy agencies were all concrete means for the imperial power and the bureaucratic system to compete for public instruments.

This is why the disasters of eunuchs were severe in the Ming Dynasty and the disasters of Donglin Party even worsened.

After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he chose the same method as Zhu Di at the beginning, including the establishment of a Western Factory, strengthening the privileges of the spy agencies under the Imperial Front Office, and constantly using all means to deify his status, and ultimately sacred himself.

Completely take the public instruments into your own hands.

After he was able to unite the whole country, Zhu Yunwen began to slowly release his power, borrowing the public instruments to the cabinet for use, and borrowing them from officials across the country for use.

In order to continue to exercise the right to use the public instruments, the new bureaucracy must exercise its powers within a limited scope of permission. In other words, the only thing these officials are qualified to do is to do their jobs.
To be continued...