Chapter six hundred and eighty third father and son keep mustard
Yang Shen said that he obeyed his father's advice, but he still had some grudges in his heart, but he also knew that it was not that simple for the emperor to promote him.
As for why the new emperor wanted to add Zhu Hao to the list... He didn't have the time to think about it at the moment, he just felt that his father was delaying his future.
Yang Shen returned to his yard, looking lonely.
The night is dark.
Yang Shen didn't want to go into the room to rest, so he sat on the stone bench beside the flower bed in the courtyard and thought about something. After a while, a woman in her twenties with a beautiful appearance, virtuous and quiet temperament came out and bowed to salute.
"Why are you so sad?"
The woman spoke softly, with a bookish air, giving people a mature and intellectual feeling.
This person is Yang Shen's step-sibling Huang E.
Huang E was a talented girl in Sichuan, and she left a huge reputation in history books. Her father, Huang Ke, once served as Minister of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, and was an old friend of Yang Tinghe.
After the death of his first wife Wang in the 13th year of Zhengde, Yang Shen married the 21-year-old Huang E in the 14th year of Zhengde. Huang E had long admired Yang Shen because of her outstanding talent and reputation. Their marriage was regarded as a marriage between a talented man and a beautiful woman.
, However, Yang Shen was later sent to Yunnan due to the Zuoshunmen incident, and Huang E was not allowed to go with him and returned to Yang Shen's hometown of Xindu, Sichuan. Only when Yang Shen returned to his hometown to attend his father's funeral did the two meet.
From then until Yang Shen's death, the couple never reunited, and their time together did not exceed five years.
Yang Shen was a talented scholar of the Ming Dynasty, recognized as the number one poet in the Ming Dynasty, and Huang E was also a talented woman of the generation. Because they were separated by vast distances for the rest of their lives, they became a good story in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Shen glanced at his wife, shook his head and sighed: "It's nothing."
Yang Shen felt miserable in his heart. He wanted to take a further step in his official career. He saw that those who were in the same field as him were now among the middle-level officials in the court, but he was still writing for historians like Yu Chengxun and Zhu Hao in the Hanlin Academy.
, I still do errands and odd jobs for my father, which is inevitably a bit sad.
Huang E said: "If your husband's business is not going well, you can take some time off to relax and relax; if your family affairs are not going well, it is because I have failed to fulfill my responsibilities, and I hope my husband will punish me."
Seeing how considerate his wife was, Yang Shen forced a smile, shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with you."
As he was talking, there was a knock on the door.
The maid went to see him and came back and said, "It's the second young master."
Yang Dun came to meet Yang Dun, but Yang Shen, regardless of anything else, let his wife go into the room to escape, while he went out of the hospital to talk to Yang Dun.
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"If you're not in your room preparing for next year's Beijing exam, why would you want to go out and walk around?" Yang Shen couldn't raise his head in front of his father, but in front of his younger brother, he felt aloof and arrogant.
Among his peers, Yang Shen had the best future, was the number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty, and was recognized as a great talent throughout the world. He was certainly qualified to teach his younger brother the same words as an older brother.
In addition, Yang Dun is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp. He usually causes countless peach blossom debts outside, and he has caused a lot of troubles in the past, a bit like their uncle Yang Tingyi.
Yang Dun raised the lantern in his hand into the air, looked at Yang Shen's tense face, and said with a smile: "Brother, this sad look, is he encountering something unhappy? I went to see my father, I know
reason,"
"Father asked you to come?" Yang Shen frowned.
"right."
After Yang Dun finished speaking, he was about to rush in. He didn't mind at all that this was the courtyard where his brother lived, and there were women in the house. He wanted to see if his talented sister-in-law was inside, and kept mumbling to himself, "Father is afraid that you will have wild thoughts."
, let me tell you whether it was a lie that His Majesty told you and Zhu Jingdao to be promoted to minister, or it was true that he wanted to seduce you... By the way, brother, why haven't you seen my sister-in-law coming out recently? I also want to compete with her by reciting poems."
When Yang Shen saw his brother looking careless, with a frivolous smile on his face, and mentioned his beloved wife again, he immediately became angry.
In terms of age, Yang Dun was much older than Huang E. In addition, Yang Dun was very imprudent in matters between men and women, so that Yang Shen subconsciously felt a certain hatred towards his younger brother.
What's more, because there are some things that his father didn't tell him, and he asked Yang Dun to tell him...doesn't his father care at all about the face of his eldest son?
This kind of thing is always shameful
, but his father didn't seem to care about anything and wanted to let the world know that his eldest son was resentful because of his unsatisfactory career.
"There is only half a year until next year's Beijing Examination. From what I understand, your preparation for the exam is so-so. Not to mention ranking first, it will be very difficult even if you are on the gold list. If you don't even have the slightest intention to learn, how can you enter the court?
official?"
Yang Shen means, brother, you really don’t know yourself.
Are you here to make fun of your elder brother?
No matter what, I am also a top scholar, and I am currently serving in the Hanlin Academy, and who are you?
Yang Dun looked away and curled his lips disdainfully: "I know that brother, you like to train people when you have nothing to do. Okay, okay, next year I will definitely be on the gold list. I still have this confidence. But brother, I hope you will do it by then.
We can still stay in the capital instead of being transferred to other places by His Majesty, otherwise it will be difficult for us brothers to sit down and discuss things again. Alas!"
The more Yang Shen listened, the more annoyed he became.
Yang Dun turned around and left, carrying a lantern, swaying and stumbling, as if he had just drank wine, and a faint teasing voice came: "In the end, when I arrived at the Hanlin Academy, you were missing. It's boring to think about it... Actually
It’s best for you, brother, to do this job, it’s really frustrating.”
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Yang Shen heard it, and Yang Dun was full of confidence that he would become a Jinshi and even enter the Hanlin Academy.
Where does a person with poor talent and no reputation in the literary world get his confidence? In other words, who gave him this confidence?
Could it be the father?
Yang Shen knew very well that in order to cultivate cronies in the court, Yang Tinghe often used extreme methods. Perhaps Yang Tinghe felt that having his son in the court was not enough, so why not add Yang Dun as a double insurance?
Especially when Yang Shen felt that he was being treated poorly by his father, he had this kind of idea, and he felt a sense of sadness and anger that he had fallen out of favor in front of me.
The next day Yang Shen arrived at the Hanlin Academy. Yu Chengxun wanted to invite him to drink, but Yang Shen refused.
Yang Shen found Zhu Hao and talked about the rumors in the Hanlin Academy.
"Of course I've heard about it, and I don't know why Your Majesty would put me on the same page as Brother Yongxiu... But what does this have to do with me?" Zhu Hao looked very unjust.
Yang Shen said: "Relax, I don't think anything will happen. Your Majesty's move is just to find an excuse to transfer us out of the capital to remove the thorn in his side."
Zhu Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Am I that important?"
Seeing Zhu Hao like this, Yang Shen suddenly felt better. It turned out that he was not the only number one scholar being targeted. Now that he had his father's support, he had no problem staying in the Hanlin Academy. However, it was Zhu Hao whose future was uncertain.
"Last year, when we were discussing the big gift, you stepped forward and even married Sun Budang's daughter. This time, in your daily speech, you made fun of His Majesty for his pursuit of wealth. The future is worrying!"
When Yang Shen said this, he felt more and more comfortable.
yes.
If anyone wants to offend the emperor, it must be Zhu Hao.
He stole women from the emperor, and even took the lead in jointly debating lavish gifts. He was tit for tat with the emperor during daily speeches...
When you are in a bad mood, compare yourself with someone whose fate may be more miserable than yours, and you will feel much better.
Zhu Hao snorted: "Then should I commit suicide to apologize?"
"Okay, okay..."
Yang Shen didn't want to waste words with Zhu Hao, and said: "Your Majesty intends to make a fuss about the Hanlin Academy this time, and there seems to be a deep meaning in it. But now, there is only one person in the Hanlin... who is from the same hometown as you. You might as well communicate with him more when you have time.
Take a look and see what's wrong."
Hey, here to delegate tasks again!
Zhu Hao knew that the man Yang Shen was talking about was his uncle Sun Yuan.
Among the Hanlin Academy, only Sun Yuan and Zhu Hao came from Anlu Prefecture, and Sun Yuan's father was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and was personally invited by the emperor to serve as an official from Anlu. From a certain point of view, Sun Yuan was the new emperor with a well-established Miaohong roots.
The emperor's people...
Of course, this is debatable, because Sun Jiao never said that he was on the side of the new emperor.
Zhu Hao said: "What are you asking about with him? Isn't that too much?
Too... making a fuss out of a molehill?"
Isn't it because the emperor wanted Tang Yin to enter the Hanlin Academy?
Or want to add someone to the cabinet?
It makes all the grass and trees become soldiers!
Now Sun Yuan, who has nothing to do with this matter, must be strictly guarded? Zhu Hao thinks that Yang Shen is simply neurotic.
Probably now Yang Shen can't find the "shadow staff" in the new emperor's faction, and wants to find clues from various angles while preventing anyone from helping the new emperor.
In Zhu Hao's view, Yang Shen was using Yang Tinghe's chicken feathers as arrows and regarded himself as the head of the Hanlin Academy?
Yang Shen said: "The person your Majesty can use or wants to use may be in the Hanlin Academy."
Zhu Hao thought to himself, you are really right.
Isn't it just me?
Zhu Hao asked: "Is it possible that it is in the Southern Hanlin Academy?"
"Um!?"
Yang Shen was about to go back to the writing room, but when he heard this, he looked back at Zhu Hao and then shook his head, "Most of the people in the Southern Hanlin Academy are my father's disciples, so there will be no problem."
This statement obviously revealed some information.
As a person familiar with history, Zhu Hao certainly knows who will make waves in the Ming Dynasty in the future.
For example, in the Nanjing Hanlin Academy...the person who is now in charge of the affairs of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy as an attendant is Yan Song, the female prime minister of the later generation who was very powerful in the government.
Yan Song was over forty years old, but there were still twenty years before he became successful. Yan Song was truly a man of old age. Even if Zhu Hao thought that he had a strong relationship with the new emperor, he had to consider his future path.
Should Yan Song be on guard?
Even if you hit one Yan Song, will the second one come?
Those who later became famous in the court, such as Xia Yan who is now in the court, or Xu Jie and others who have not yet entered the court... Do you want to bring them into your camp?
Seeing the change in Zhu Hao's expression, Yang Shen asked, "Jingdao, what do you think about the matter of entering the palace to speak?"
Zhu Hao smiled and shook his head: "I know that my ability and information are not good enough to make a name for myself, but I am somewhat interested in leaving the Hanlin Academy and going to perform my duties locally. Brother Yongxiu, you also said that I would offend Your Majesty and stay in the capital.
If there is nothing big to achieve, why should we go for the tiger mountain when we know that there are tigers in the mountains? Wouldn’t it be better to recognize the current situation early and realize our political ambitions as soon as possible?”