The four cabinet ministers came out of Qianqing Palace, their faces a little ugly.
Jiang Mian looked at Yang Tinghe and shook his head helplessly.
Few people on the road spoke.
After returning to Wenyuan Pavilion, Yang Tinghe finally spoke, not even shying away from Fei Hong: "Aren't you really going to let Tang Bohu, who is a scholar, enter the Hanlin Academy?"
The implication is that the little emperor was upset because I refused Tang Yin to enter the Hanlin Academy.
Why do you think that I, as the chief minister, should agree to such a violation of 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 Hong said: "Tang Yin is just a candidate for promotion. 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 official. He should have been satisfied long ago."
Mao Ji shook his head and sighed: "This is not a question of whether Tang Yin is satisfied, but that His Majesty wants to cultivate old people from Prince Xing's Palace in the court... There are many people in Prince Xing's Palace who teach, lecture, and accompany students, so why do you have to cultivate Tang Yin alone? "
Obviously Mao Ji also knew the inside story of Prince Xing's Mansion.
Tang Yin was not the only teacher of Zhu Si. Tang Yin joined Prince Xing's Mansion halfway, but he had to hide his whereabouts in order to avoid being pursued by Prince Ning's Mansion.
At that time, King Xing recruited people like Tang Yin to join the palace. He actually wanted to make Prince Xing's palace bigger. If someone had participated in the impeachment at that time, King Xing might have been charged with evil intentions. After all, Prince Xing's palace was theoretically righteous. The origin of the first heir to the throne during the period was something that could easily be used to make a big fuss.
But Zhu Youzhen insisted on using Tang Yin re-employed, which shows that Tang Yin does have merits.
Jiang Mian asked: "It's ugly now, do we really have to consider who should join the cabinet?"
The problem lies before us.
The new emperor has directly mentioned the selection of additional cabinet ministers in front of the four cabinet ministers. He has made it clear that it doesn't matter if you don't agree. He will directly bring it to the court meeting and let him know who will suffer in the end.
Yang Tinghe asked: "Is it more important to elect people to the cabinet or to maintain rules?"
It was obvious that even if Yang Tinghe knew that by stuffing Tang Yin into the Hanlin Academy, he could shut up the little emperor on the matter of selecting candidates for the cabinet, he still would not compromise.
Not to mention that Tang Yin was a scholar, even if Tang Yin was a Jinshi... Yang Tinghe couldn't agree.
The whole thing is that Yang Tinghe is very clear about Tang Yin's role and existence value in the new emperor's system.
If Tang Yin successfully gets the opportunity to enter the Hanlin Academy, with this resume, Tang Yin will be in the cabinet right before his eyes, and the little emperor will really be unable to control it.
Tang Yin is different from other cabinet ministers. He is a die-hard supporter of the little emperor, and he is not from an orthodox "scientific" background. Someone from a wild background suddenly enters the cabinet, which can easily disrupt the originally stable order of the court. It is as if Tang Yin has already The order of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry was shaken to pieces.
Yang Tinghe could not allow this unstable element in the court to come to him and show off his power.
"Yes, in fact, many people in the court are qualified to join the cabinet. You can think more about it and wait until the court recommends it."
Jiang Mian mentioned something.
Mao Jidao said: "I think that during the court meeting, the courtiers can raise objections and ask your Majesty to take back the order."
Tingtui?
no way!
If the emperor says that someone should be appointed to the cabinet, do we have to agree?
What Mao Ji meant is that we can't just compete for candidates to join the cabinet, but we should put an end to the little emperor's attempt to randomly stuff people into the cabinet from the beginning!
Therefore, we must argue with the emperor at the court meeting, and we must not let Zhu Si set 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 historian, has no chance.
Although Zhu Hao was the mastermind in this matter, he could just watch the whole process.
This news quickly spread throughout the Hanlin Academy.
"...Have you heard? Your Majesty this morning
You summoned several cabinet ministers and proposed adding more people to the cabinet, but you don’t know who is qualified to join the cabinet?”
"I think Liu Xueshi is the first to bear the brunt... He once served as the Minister of Rites, and now he is in charge of the Imperial Academy. He is the author of imperial edicts and so on. It would be a pity that such a powerful person does not join the cabinet."
"I don't know. Maybe you don't know that Academician Liu and Elder Yang Ge are not on good terms. I heard that Academician Shi and Academician Feng have a better chance."
People's private discussions may not be considered to be spread within a small area, but they are simply discussed in circles in public. Even Zhu Hao, who has never participated in such things, can hear what they say.
The scholar Shi that the Hanlin scholars refer to is naturally Shi Yue, and the scholar Feng is Feng Xi.
Although Fengxi had outstanding talents in the Hanlin Academy and was a representative figure of the northern literati, he always lacked reputation and was easily exploited by others. Historically, Fengxi participated in the Zuoshunmen Incident and was later punished to guard Fujian Zhenhaiwei.
He was a great talent who had a chance to join the cabinet, but he ended up in the garrison and ended up miserable.
It can be said that the political factional struggle in the early years of Jiajing was extremely serious.
Zhu Houcong's outburst in the third year of Jiajing can be said to be a kind of catharsis for the oppression suffered by the young emperor in recent years. Whoever hits the muzzle of the gun will be the result of not being able to see the situation clearly and thinking that they are acting loyally.
Many people did not rush out to be the best, but instead stabilized and later obtained higher official positions.
It is difficult to say which one is right and which one is wrong.
Zhu Houcong fought for his father and mother's status, which was considered unacceptable by the Confucian officials headed by Yang Tinghe, and even violated the ancestral rules and regulations, which was considered to be against the principles of Confucianism.
But the problem is...
Isn't it also consistent with Confucian filial piety for the emperor to fight for the birthright of his biological father and biological mother?
Everything depends on the dialectical perspective...
The great ceremony proposed by Zhang Cong and others was able to attract many people to join him, not because Zhang Cong represented the new emperor, but because "succession without succession" itself was in line with Confucian theory.
Zhu Hao summarized it as:
Now whoever stands up for Yang Tinghe will be praised by the scholars and promoted to a noble rank in a short time;
And one day in the future, as Yang Tinghe retires, those who stood up for him will face the end of being liquidated and punished by the emperor, and will not die...
Perhaps because of this, the officials at the middle and lower levels of the Hanlin Academy noticed that even though Liu Chun was the most prestigious, he was expected to join the cabinet according to the rules, but he fell behind Shi Yun and Feng Xi in terms of ranking.
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Zhu Hao went back home.
It was Zhu Niang who mentioned that she hadn't seen her daughter-in-law for a long time, so Zhu Hao took Sun Lan and pretended to be a harmonious couple and went back to visit their old mother.
Zhu Niang was very happy, holding her daughter-in-law's hand and asking questions, but Sun Lan didn't know what to say.
Because she didn’t know the answers to most of Zhu Niang’s questions, and she knew some vaguely, but couldn’t tell... This made her seem very shy, and she was always silent in front of her mother-in-law, which was quite lovable, at least between Zhu Niang and her mother-in-law.
In Aunt Li's opinion, this is not a man who likes to cause trouble.
She is a lady of the family, so she is much better than Zhu Hao, who was born in a military household.
"Xiao Hao, you are trying to reach a higher level...be kind to others."
Zhu Niang saw her son off, and when her daughter-in-law left, she specially called Zhu Hao to her side and had a few words of explanation alone.
After Zhu Hao brought Sun Lan back to the nominal mansion, he said directly: "Would you like to spend the night at home? If you don't want to stay here, I can have someone send you to the girls' school directly."
Even if Zhu Hao and Sun Lan don't live together, they still know that Sun Lan lives at Lou Suzhen's place most of the time.
The relationship between the good sisters has improved a lot recently.
Zhu Hao has not had an in-depth conversation with Lou Suzhen during this period of time. I don’t know what the two sisters have communicated with each other. Lou Suzhen has no intention of informing Zhu Hao, the young master, of any situation.
"No... no need..."
Sun Lan whispered.
Zhu Hao nodded: "Your father told me earlier that the Sun family has moved to the capital. Your mother is here. I don't know if she is your biological mother or... Haha, speaking of which, I don't know much about your family affairs. Let's talk about it later.
Let’s have a nice chat sometime.”
Zhu Hao really doesn't care much about Sun Jiao's family affairs.
Sun Jiao had a son in his later years. There is no record in history as to what happened. Zhu Hao couldn't find out the result even if he asked others. Naturally, it was difficult for him to tell Sun Jiao directly.
I don't know Sun Lan very well, so it's far from time for us to talk about this kind of topic.
Sun Lan just nodded.
Obviously Sun Lan cares about his family very much.
She got married just a year after following her father to the capital. Most of her family members learned the news in their hometown. Only her brother attended her wedding. The banquet held at Sun's house was very perfunctory, and almost none of Sun's friends attended the wedding. The scene was
Extremely deserted.
In short... her marriage was a political marriage, and there was always a gap between her and her husband's family. It was difficult to integrate into the Zhu family's life for a while, but her relationship with her family was still close.
"Okay, you can make your own decision, I'll leave first."
Zhu Hao said and turned to leave.
Sun Lan had already got off the sedan, and when he saw this, he asked in surprise: "Master, aren't you going in?"
Zhu Hao stopped and looked back, smiling and said: "What sir, am I very old? If you feel uncomfortable calling me anything else, just like madam, you can call me son."
Sun Lan lowered her head, not knowing how to call Zhu Hao.
Zhu Hao was about to leave again, and Sun Lan said: "Actually, sister... Madam has told me a lot about her."
"Yeah?"
Zhu Hao was greatly surprised and looked back again.
How confidential is the matter about Lou Suzhen? As a dead person, would Lou Suzhen easily leak her identity to Sun Lan?
If this is true, then Lou Suzhen indeed regards Sun Lan as a confidant.
"Actually... I didn't believe it at first, but I never thought... that she is... from Prince Ning's Mansion..."
Sun Lan doesn't want to be too blunt.
After all, I was afraid of being overheard. This was not in the inner courtyard of a deep house after all.
But she only said this and Zhu Hao understood everything.
Lou Suzhen is really fearless and dares to say anything.
Sun Lan may also feel that knowing such a secret, she should tell Zhu Hao that she knows the inside story to avoid any misunderstanding between the couple.
"Just say it, as long as you don't leak it to anyone. She is lonely, and she probably treats you as a close friend, so she will tell everything... She is good at many of the things you like. Learn more from her on weekdays.
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Zhu Hao didn't mind much.
He had to rush back to handle official business, so naturally he couldn't say too much to Sun Lan.