Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Chapter 491 The First Pot of Gold

And Zhang Xin has now become the biggest obstacle for everyone to become the Crown Princess.

Zhu Zhanji must go there in person and go over the hidden dangers of Biyun Villa again.

After the general direction is determined.

The father and son turned to talk about things in the court.

"The retirement age has been brought forward to 60. What is the reaction of the people below?"

Zhu Gaochi was the one who proposed it, but he has no time to chat with those old guys recently.

"The retired officials said this was their first pot of gold in life."

Zhu Zhanji smiled.

"First pot of gold? Why?"

This is the first time I have heard of Zhu Gaochi's poem.

"Isn't the retirement allowance quite generous? They can do a lot with this money. I heard that several of them returned home to open academies, and they can collect a lot of tuition fees. There are many ordinary enlightenment academies now, and many people are scrambling to get in when they open academies after serving as officials in the court."

Zhu Zhanji felt that this incident was a bit like an unexpected success, and it was killing two birds with one stone.

"That's good. At least all those years of studying aren't in vain."

Zhu Gaochi nodded to express his satisfaction.

Zhu Di was a hands-off boss, and most of the government affairs were currently handled by Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji.

When Zhang Xin was in power, Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Xin had discussed the time of retirement, and it was set at 70 years old.

But during the time Zhu Gaochi accompanied Zhang Xin to Wudang.

Zhu Zhanji took over Zhu Gaochi's work and had more dealings with the six ministries and hundreds of officials.

I think this time can be brought forward.

The current officials in the court come from two categories.

One is the Imperial College, and the other is the imperial examination.

The students of the Imperial College originally belonged to the royal family. After graduating from the Imperial College, as long as they ran errands for three to five years, they could basically become officials in the court. Their average age was less than 30 years.

Most of those who passed the imperial examination were in their thirties or above. Unlike the students who had to go out for training, they did not go to the Imperial Academy to continue their studies. By the time they entered the court, they were basically over 40 years old.

There is a big age difference between these two categories.

On average, the students of the Imperial Academy were ten years younger than the Jinshi candidates.

As a result, the students were more energetic, they were direct descendants of the royal family, and they were more familiar with the practical affairs outside. The tradition of debate left by Zhu Gaochi to the Imperial College made the students fearless. They dared to speak out in the court and from time to time put forward some new ideas that could touch Zhu Di.

Zhu Di loved to use supervisors.

Invisibly, the scholars felt like they were being left out in the cold.

In addition, if one has read a lot and becomes an official at an old age, he or she will tend to be hesitant and always cite past examples to get things done.

Zhu Di really disliked this kind of conformity.

Sometimes they would even scold him in court.

Everyone wants to save face.

After more than ten years, these people became veterans in the court.

They didn't want to put any effort into anything, because if they did, they might make a mistake at any time and make Zhu Di furious.

However, they couldn't just stop trying, because if no one in the court tried hard and no one was in charge of state affairs, Zhu Di would be furious.

Everyone is fishing skillfully.

As they touched each other, everyone huddled together for warmth.

The entire court was clearly divided into two factions.

It would be fine if they just occupied the position and did nothing, at least they would do something, but forming cliques would only cause trouble to the royal family.

Zhu Zhanji felt that this was not going to work, so he discussed with Zhu Gaochi what to do.

The solution that the father and son finally decided on was to advance the retirement age for court officials to sixty.

Zhu Di also agreed.