Jinyi champion

The four cabinet ministers came out of Qianqing Palace with ugly expressions.

Jiang Mian looked at Yang Tinghe and shook his head helplessly.

Several people on the road did not speak.

After returning to Wenyuan Pavilion, Yang Tinghe finally spoke, without even shying away from Fei Hong: "Aren't you really going to let Tang Bohu, who was born in Juren, enter the Imperial Academy?"

The implication is that the little emperor was annoyed because I refused Tang Yin to enter the Imperial Academy.

Why do you think that I, as the chief assistant, should agree to such a breach of the rules?I said that letting Tang Yin take the imperial examination again was enough to give the new emperor face, but the new emperor was unwilling to accept it.

Fei Hongdao: "Tang Yin is just a recruiter. In just one year, he has become a member of the Ministry of Industry. That is an official position that many Jinshi have never obtained before becoming an official. He should have been satisfied long ago."

Mao Ji shook his head and sighed beside him: "This is not a question of whether Tang Yin is satisfied, but His Majesty wants to cultivate the old people of Xingwangfu in the court...Xingwangfu has many teachers, lecturers, and accompanying students, why do you have to cultivate Tang Yin alone? "

Obviously Mao Ji also knew the inside story of King Xing's Mansion.

Zhu Si's teacher is not only Tang Yin, Tang Yin joined Xing Wang's mansion halfway, but in order to avoid the pursuit of Ning Wang's mansion, he had to hide his whereabouts.

At that time, King Xing recruited people like Tang Yin into the palace. In fact, he wanted to make King Xing's mansion bigger. If someone participated in the impeachment at that time, he might be charged with conspiracy. After all, King Xing's mansion is theoretically righteous. The source of the first heir to the throne during the period, this kind of thing can easily be used to make a big fuss.

But Zhu Youzhang's insistence on reusing Tang Yin is enough to show that Tang Yin does have merit.

Jiang Mian asked: "Unfortunately, now, we really have to decide who will be in the cabinet?"

The problem lies ahead.

The new emperor has directly mentioned the matter of adding cabinet ministers in front of the four cabinet scholars, and stated clearly that it does not matter if you disagree, he will directly bring it to the court meeting and say, come to the court to see who will suffer in the end.

Yang Tinghe asked, "Is it more important to select people to join the cabinet, or to maintain the rules?"

The obvious thing is that even if Yang Tinghe knows that by stuffing Tang Yin into the Imperial Academy, he can make the little emperor shut up on the matter of candidates for the cabinet, he still will not compromise.

Don't say that Tang Yin is a Juren, even if Tang Yin is a Jinshi...Yang Tinghe can't agree.

It's all because Yang Tinghe is very clear about Tang Yin's role and existence value in the new emperor's system.

If Tang Yin was allowed to successfully get the opportunity to enter the Imperial Academy for gilding, with this experience, Tang Yin's entry into the cabinet would be in sight, so the little emperor would really be unable to control it.

Tang Yin is different from other cabinet ministers, he is the young emperor's hardcore, and he is not an orthodox "professional" background. People from Yeluzi suddenly enter the cabinet, which can easily disrupt the originally stable order of the court, just like Tang Yin has already The order of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry has been severely impacted.

Yang Tinghe couldn't allow the restless elements of the court to run in front of him to show off his might.

"That's right. In fact, many people in the court are eligible to join the cabinet. Everyone can think more about it and wait until the court pushes it."

Jiang Mian mentioned something.

Mao Jidao: "In my opinion, during the court meeting, the courtiers can be opposed. Please take it back."

Ting push?

no way!

The emperor said that he would enter the cabinet personally, so we have to agree?
What Mao Ji meant was that we should not limit ourselves to fighting for candidates for the cabinet, but should put an end to the little emperor's attempt to stuff people into the cabinet casually from the very beginning!
Therefore, it is necessary to argue with the emperor at the court meeting, and Zhu Si must not be allowed to open the precedent of randomly increasing the number of cabinet ministers!

"Um."

Yang Tinghe nodded, obviously agreeing with Mao Ji's point of view.

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No matter who joins the cabinet, Zhu Hao, the official historian, has no chance of compiling.

In this matter, although Zhu Hao is the mastermind, it is enough to watch the whole process.

The news quickly spread throughout the Hanlin Academy.

"...Have you heard? Your Majesty this morning

He summoned several cabinet ministers and proposed to increase the manpower in the cabinet, but who is qualified to join the cabinet? "

"I think Xueshi Liu bears the brunt of it... He was a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and now he is in charge of the Imperial Academy. He is the chief author of imperial edicts and so on. It is a pity that such a big man is not admitted to the cabinet."

"Not necessarily. You may not know that Xueshi Liu and Elder Yang Ge are not on good terms. I heard that Xueshi Shi and Xueshi Feng have more chances."

People's discussions in private may not be regarded as spreading in a small area, but in public places, even Zhu Hao, who has never been involved in such things, can hear what they say.

The scholar Shi mentioned by Hanlin is naturally Shi Ping, and the scholar Feng is Fengxi.

Although Fengxi was well-known in the Hanlin Academy and was a representative figure of the northern school of literati, he still lacked prestige and was easily exploited. Historically, Fengxi participated in the Zuoshunmen incident and was later fined and garrisoned in Zhenhaiwei, Fujian. He was originally a great talent who had the opportunity to join the cabinet, but in the end he ended up in a garrison for crimes and death.

It can be said that the political factional struggles in the early years of Jiajing were extremely serious.

Zhu Houcong's outburst in the third year of Jiajing can be said to be a catharsis of the oppression the little emperor has suffered in the past few years. Whoever hits the muzzle at that time will be the result of not being able to see the situation clearly and thinking that what he did was an act of loyalty.Many people did not rush out to be the early birds, but went through smoothly, and later obtained higher official positions.

Which is right and which is wrong, it is difficult to have a public opinion.

Confucian officials headed by Yang Tinghe thought it unacceptable for Zhu Houcong to fight for the status of his father and mother, and even violated the ancestral constitution and believed that it violated the righteousness of Confucianism.

But the problem is...

Isn't it in line with Confucian filial piety that the emperor strives for the status of his biological father and biological mother?

It all depends on which angle you look at it from...

Zhang Cong and others' great ritual proposals can attract many people to vote for them, not because Zhang Cong represents the new emperor, but because "inheritance and not inheritance" itself is also in line with Confucianism.

Zhu Hao summarized it as:
Now whoever takes the lead for Yang Tinghe will be praised by the scholars, and will be promoted to a noble in a short period of time;
And one day in the future, with Yang Tinghe's retirement, those who stood up for him will face the fate of being liquidated and punished by the emperor, and they will die...

Perhaps because of this, the dawdling officials of the Hanlin Academy noticed that even though Liu Chun had the most prestige, he was expected to join the cabinet according to the rules, but he fell behind Shi Pang and Fengxi in ranking.

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Zhu Hao went back home.

It was also Zhu Niang who mentioned that after not seeing his daughter-in-law for a long time, Zhu Hao took Sun Lan, pretending to be a harmonious couple, and went back to visit his old mother together.

Zhu Niang was very happy, she took her daughter-in-law's hand and asked questions, but Sun Lan didn't know what to say.

Because of most of Zhu Niang's questions, she didn't know the answer, some vaguely knew it, and couldn't say it... This made her very shy, and she was always silent in front of her mother-in-law, but it was quite pleasing, at least between Zhu Niang and her mother-in-law. From Aunt Li's point of view, this is not a troublemaker.

She is a lady of every family, so she is much better than Zhu Hao, who was born in a military household.

"Xiaohao, this is your high ranking...Treat him well."

When Zhu Niang sent her son and daughter-in-law away, she specially called Zhu Hao to her side and said a few words alone.

After Zhu Hao took Sun Lan back to the nominal mansion, he said directly, "Spent the night at home? If you don't want to stay here, you can have someone send you to the women's school."

Even if Zhu Hao and Sun Lan don't live together, he knows that Sun Lan lives with Lou Suzhen most of the time now.

The relationship between good sisters has improved a lot recently.

During this period of time, Zhu Hao hadn't had a deep talk with Lou Suzhen, so he didn't know what the two sisters had exchanged with, and Lou Suzhen didn't intend to tell Zhu Hao, the young master, anything.

"No...no need..."

Sun Lan muttered.

Zhu Hao nodded: "My father told me earlier that the Sun family has now moved to the capital, and your mother is here. I don't know if it is your biological mother or... Hehe, speaking of it, I don't know much about your family affairs. Find some time to talk about it."

Zhu Hao really doesn't care much about Sun Jiao's family affairs.

Sun Jiao had a son in his later years, and there is no record in history of what happened. Zhu Hao couldn't find out the result even if he asked others, so it was naturally difficult to speak directly in front of Sun Jiao.

I am not very familiar with Sun Lan, and it is far from the time to talk about this kind of topic.

Sun Lan just nodded.

Obviously Sun Lan cares about her family very much.

She got married in just one year with her father in the capital, and most of her family got the news in her hometown. Only her elder brother attended her wedding. Very deserted.

In short... her marriage is a political marriage, and she has always been separated from her husband's family. It is difficult to integrate into the life of Zhu's family for a while, but her connection with her family is still close.

"Okay, make up your own mind, I'll go first."

Zhu Hao said and turned around to leave.

Sun Lan had already got off the sedan chair, and asked in surprise, "Master, won't you go in?"

Zhu Hao stopped and looked back, and said with a smile, "Master, am I very old? If you don't feel used to addressing others, just like madam, you can call me son."

Sun Lan lowered her head, not knowing how to call Zhu Hao.

Here Zhu Hao was about to leave again, Sun Lan said: "Actually, my sister... Madam has told me a lot about her."

"yes?"

Zhu Hao was greatly surprised and turned his head again.

How secret is the matter about Lou Suzhen?As a dead person, Lou Suzhen would easily reveal her identity to Sun Lan?
If this is the case, then Lou Suzhen really regards Sun Lan as a bosom friend.

"Actually... the concubine didn't believe it at first, but I never thought... she is... from Prince Ning's Mansion..."

It's not good for Sun Lan to speak too bluntly.

After all, I am afraid of being overheard, this place is not in the inner courtyard of the deep house after all.

But Zhu Hao understood everything as long as she said these things.

Lou Suzhen is really fearless and dares to say anything.

Sun Lan might also feel that, knowing such a secret, she should tell Zhu Hao that she already knew the inside story, so as to avoid any misunderstanding between husband and wife.

"Let's just say it, as long as you don't reveal it to the outside world, she is lonely, and I am afraid that she will tell you everything because she regards you as a close friend... Many of the things you like are what she is good at, learn from her more on weekdays .”

Zhu Hao didn't mind much.

He had to rush back to deal with official business, so naturally he couldn't tell Sun Lan too much.

Let everything take its course.