The eldest prince Su Shu returned to the palace to make preparations and look forward to his performance when he goes to court for the first time tomorrow.
Su Shu knew that a person's first impression was extremely important, and he had to show his ability to inherit the throne in front of all the civil and military officials.
Only in this way can we try our best to win over the officials who are watching and cheer for him.
When he officially becomes the crown prince, he won't have to hide his capabilities and bide his time like he does now.
The eldest prince, Su Shu, was at his desk writing a speech for the court tomorrow.
Little did he know that the news of his return had been known to the officials outside.
It was precisely because of this unexpected situation that many officials took the risk of being impeached by the censor and went out in cars.
Most of the cars of expensive brands in the capital are concentrated near a few high-end houses.
The car door opened, and a well-dressed man quietly walked into the mansion.
The car that brought him gradually disappeared into darkness.
The residence of Cabinet Minister Lin Wenjing was brightly lit, and officials kept sneaking into Fu's residence.
The guards and maids of the mansion nervously checked everyone's identities, and only after confirming that they were familiar faces, they were taken to the study room with excellent sound insulation.
Lin Wenjing looked at everyone's panic. The talents of his group were withering, and many people had no intention of returning. Some wanted to protect the interests of small internal groups.
As we all know, in addition to being personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, the ministers recommended by the cabinet are all officials of the same power as the head of the cabinet.
There is a conflict between the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the Minister of Personnel. When the Prime Minister wants to exercise the most important personnel power, he will be constrained by the Minister of Personnel.
After a new prime minister takes office, he will find ways to transfer ministers from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to local areas or promote them to the cabinet, leaving vacant positions for the prime minister to operate.
Lin Wenjing has been working with Wang Zhongce. As a civil servant of Emperor Su He before he became king, he had a very high status.
Wang Zhongce went overseas to establish his country, and the huge royal party fell apart.
Some people set up their own business and just want to run their own small circle.
There are some people who are indifferent to fame and wealth or who want to speculate, and they regard themselves as disciples of Xinxue.
He claims to follow the guidance of Master Wang and teach the young eldest prince.
The thoughts of these people are very clear to others. They are weak in ability and have no room for promotion. They want to gain huge wealth for themselves or future generations by supporting the eldest prince.
More people chose to join the big forces at that time, or the kind of forces that could take them further.
Lin Wenjing chose the then Prime Minister Wei Shiming. Although he had defected to the past, he was also an official with status.
He has always regarded himself as the third person in this group.
Prime Minister Wei Shiming fought with Cabinet Minister Li Zhisheng.
After the two got angry, they wanted to use the power of His Majesty the Emperor to deal with their rivals.
This directly violated the bottom line of Emperor Su He, who dared to use the Emperor as a tool.
This directly led to a large number of officials being implicated, and their factional vitality was severely damaged.
After their strength was damaged, officials from overseas and in Guangdong and Guangxi took the opportunity to compete for power and protect maritime trade.
These people were very ferocious, and everyone who started the attack was unprepared, and many key positions were lost.
During this period, Confucianism had just completed its ideological transformation and was preparing to knit together the scattered internal forces.
Supporters of sea trade, disguised as merchants, directly interrupted this process.
Otherwise, as the most powerful civil service force in the empire, how could it compete with the newly developed merchants?
These people have a large amount of silver coins in their hands, and they also use newspapers and other channels to create ambiguous rumors.
These people used Spring and Autumn style to secretly guide the people. They secretly exerted their efforts to get rid of the imperial prime minister in order to raise their status.
Lin Wenjing is planning a big counterattack and is preparing to deal with Gu Qiandao, the Minister of Household Affairs.
This official, who was born as the governor of Guangxi, naturally gravitated towards the sea trade group.
But the news that the eldest prince Su Shu returned to the country directly interrupted Lin Wenjing's arrangements.
They all know that the eldest prince travels around the world with the empire's royal navy fleet.
This matter has just begun and officials are still discussing it.
But as time passed slowly, except for those disciples of mind science, few people paid attention to how the eldest prince was doing?
Because the eldest prince cannot affect their career.
It's completely different now. The eldest prince has returned to China and has experienced what happened overseas. His views on sea trade are definitely not disgusting.
Especially when I learned that the eldest prince will go to court tomorrow.
The fact that a prince can go to court to observe the affairs of the court has revealed the opinion of Emperor Su He.
They must consider the impact of the eldest prince on the situation.
Cabinet Minister Lin Wenjing recovered from his memories and looked at the messy scene in the study.
He knocked on the table with his hand, making a banging sound.
"My dear friends, we have reached the most critical period. Now we should remain silent, or we should go all out to deal with those Southerners.
Everyone must discuss a code of action, and once you start taking action, you will not regret it.”
As soon as Lin Wenjing said these words, the noise in the study became even louder than before.
Everyone discussed the pros and cons with each other, and there were some quarrels at first, and then the quarrels got louder.
Someone lit the first cigarette, and soon the study was filled with smoke.
There are some differences, but they are all human beings and know that now is the most critical moment. If they are still fighting among themselves, the only thing waiting for them is destruction.
Lin Wenjing knocked on the table with one hand and flicked the cigarette ashes with the other hand as she made her final summary.
"My dear friends, we have reached a consensus that as Confucian orthodoxy, we must support the prince, whoever is the prince supports whom.
We will no longer interfere in the fight for the crown prince.
Those old scholars of Xinxue have already occupied their positions.
Many other princes also burned cold stoves.
We only need to do our own thing well. Whichever prince comes to power must govern the country through us.
Tomorrow morning, we have postponed our original plan.
Important matters are important, but we have to wait for the eldest prince Su Shu to finish his performance. We must not overwhelm the guest.
We don’t need to get involved in the fight for the crown prince, but we can’t offend any prince.”
After Lin Wenjing finished speaking, the people in the study left one after another. They covered their tracks and returned to their homes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Lin Wenjing was not surprised at all by this situation.
Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has never tried its best to support a certain person as emperor.
In the Confucian view, supporting the prince is all personal action.
When Lin Wenjing was the Shaofu Order, he often had contact with Emperor Su He.
He knew where Emperor Su He's bottom line was. Emperor Su He would never tolerate a force that could control the choice of the crown prince.
Lin Wenjing was able to grow from a poor scholar to a cabinet minister of a huge empire. His only advantage was that he was self-aware and never touched anyone's bottom line.
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Cabinet Minister Wu Hongyi was in the palace, holding sugar cane wine, and he and his colleagues toasted to celebrate.
Nanyang Chamber of Commerce representative Li Xingge stood up and proposed a toast to Cabinet Minister Wu Hongyi.
He said with emotion: "Master Wu is a good official of the empire and has always served the people.
We ordinary people, when we met a petty official before, we would always accompany him in a humble manner.
I am afraid that these petty officials will be dissatisfied and our family will be destroyed.
There was a popular saying at that time, which was to destroy the county magistrate and destroy the prefect.
As long as you are unhappy with the local officials and the money we provide is delayed, they will inevitably be robbed by these officials.
Doing business now is much better than before.
As a group of businessmen, we can directly contact court officials like Mr. Wu through various methods.
We only need to spend a few silver coins to donate money to become a noble and serve as a member of the local council.
As long as we obtain these two identities, we businessmen are no longer low-class people who can be dealt with by local officials at will.
The existence of Wuhan University people and business studies has directly allowed us businessmen to straighten our spines.
Lord Wu, rest assured that as long as our Nanyang Chamber of Commerce can still run its business, we will definitely donate money to the business school and build it into the top school.
Let all businessmen always straighten their spines."
After Li Xingge finished speaking, he drained the wine in his hand.
His words immediately resonated with all the businessmen, and they all drank the wine in their hands.
It has never been easy for businessmen to do business. Bandits and bullies can still be reasonable, but corrupt officials don't even want to be reasonable and just knock the businessmen's bones and suck out their marrow.
In this situation, it was not until the establishment of the new dynasty that merchants felt a sense of security.
They seized the opportunity and immediately united.
Businessmen never want to be the meat on the chopping board again and be manipulated at will.
Wu Hongyi looked at the performance of these businessmen, and he was very satisfied.
As the first governor of the Nanyang region, many merchants engaged in maritime trade developed and expanded under his rule.
Wu Hongyi had a close relationship with these businessmen. Even after he failed the scientific examination, he was preparing to go into business. During this period, he also learned what the businessmen really wanted.
Based on his understanding of the business group, it only took him a short time to unite them.
At first, Wu Hongyi just wanted to protect himself, but the fight in the court was too shocking.
As an official who did not come from the imperial examination, he had a large number of subordinates living in overseas provinces.
He has no one to use, so he can only unite these businessmen.
Wu Hongyi never thought that these businessmen could unite with such great energy and their network of relationships was so huge.
He just tried his best and snatched several important positions from Confucianism, but Confucianism's response was very slow.
From then on, it was out of control, and his power seemed to snowball, growing bigger and bigger.
Wu Hongyi put down his wine glass, sighed and said: "We still want to achieve greater results, but in order to welcome the eldest prince Su Shu, we can only give up some things.
The purpose of calling everyone here today is mainly to ask you if you want to invest more in the eldest prince."
As one of the top leaders of the power, Gu Qiandao, the Minister of Household Affairs, carefully thought about the pros and cons before saying: "I think we should support the eldest prince. For us, the pros outweigh the cons.
When the eldest prince went to serve in the navy, he must have seen a busy shipping route, which directly contributed to the prosperity of surrounding countries.
The eldest prince likes going to sea and understands sea trade, especially the benefits brought by sea trade.
If the eldest prince can inherit the throne, he will definitely not let this policy of sea trade end.
Even if you have never seen the bitter consequences of the forbidden sea in the Ming Dynasty, you have heard about it from your elders.
We must not allow the court to become indifferent and simply ban things when they encounter them."
Gu Qiandao's words immediately resonated with many people.
These people are afraid that this good policy of opening up the sea will be directly reversed by an imperial edict.
They must start preparing now to support the prince who understands sea trade to ascend to the throne.
The great terror of the Forbidden Sea surrounds everyone's hearts, and they cannot calm down for a long time.
The scene was even more lively than when Li Xingge was speaking. It was only when Wu Hongyi interrupted these people that they regained their composure.
He began to collect opinions from everyone, mainly from officials of the same faction.
Although they have a huge chamber of commerce behind them, they also receive donations from a large number of businessmen.
But all interests belong to them.
They only come together because of common interests, not as puppets of businessmen.
After Wu Hongyi collected the opinions of the main figures of each faction, he said loudly: "I already understand everyone's thoughts.
Everyone agreed that if the eldest prince supports sea trade, we should support the eldest prince.
We must make sure that the eldest prince Su Shu is moving in the same direction as us."
In their current situation, there is no room for huge mistakes.
The eldest prince Su Shu has never dealt with government affairs, and he has never expressed his ideas to the outside world.
This kind of uncertainty is too strong, and there is no complete certainty. How dare you bet your own future and life.
Wu Hongyi said: “Our goal remains unchanged and we continue to promote the status of businessmen.
At the same time, we should find ways to improve the parliament. The current parliament is not very effective.
As long as these things are done well, the returns will be much greater than investing in the prince."
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Yu Wenhe, who is offering wine at the Imperial College, is sorting out a new batch of Jinshi who are preparing to take up their posts at the local level.
The process of the Imperial College is now very complete, so that truly talented scholars will not be buried, and at the same time, they will not let people pretend to be fake.
Yu Wenhe has been deeply involved in the Imperial College these years. Even if he had the opportunity to serve in the Sixth Department, he would find reasons to decline.
The work of the Imperial College is important but not important.
This is a relatively leisurely yamen, suitable for people who no longer care about official careers.
Yu Wenhe is an old scholar. He usually studies the theory of mind science and occasionally learns about the movements of the eldest prince Su Shu.
The eldest prince went overseas and there has been no news for two years.
Apart from the royal family, Yu Wenhe is one of the few people who cares about the situation of the eldest prince Su Shu.
He respected his promises very much and promised Wang Zhongce to take care of the eldest prince Su Shu, so he worked conscientiously and continued to do this.
In the past two years, the eldest prince Su Shu has left the empire, and he has been worried about the eldest prince's safety.
It was precisely because Yu Wenhe paid attention to Su Shu that he was able to understand the impact of the eldest prince Su Shu's return to the country at the first time.
He learned that Emperor Su He spent a lot of time meeting the eldest prince in Qianqing Palace.
Yu Wenhe immediately started writing memorials, and his spells have been the same content for the past few years.
I begged Emperor Su He to appoint a crown prince to consolidate the foundation of the country.
Now that the other princes are too young and not suitable for establishing a crown prince, his purpose is clearly revealed.
Yu Wenhe learned the news that the eldest prince had returned to the country, and he was now more motivated to write the memorial.
His memorial was quickly written and was ready to be submitted to the court tomorrow morning.
The eldest prince Su Shu is also the eldest son and is quite popular with His Majesty the Emperor.
Yu Wenhe believes that the possibility of the eldest prince Su Shu becoming the crown prince is very high.
Once the eldest prince Su Shu succeeds, these ministers who follow the dragon will definitely be rewarded.