Zhu Hao was somewhat speechless when faced with a young man who was eager to exert his authority as emperor.
Such children who are in the rebellious period of adolescence cannot always be educated and often need to be groomed along the way.
"Your Majesty, a lesson is necessary, but now both sides have not come up with their tricks, and those scholars have not done anything extraordinary yet, so a direct lesson seems insufficient, so we must create some conditions for them to make a big fuss.
Punish him how he should be punished, and I’m afraid even the ministers in the DPRK and China won’t have any objections.”
Zhu Hao suggested an idea to Zhu Si to solve the problem.
If you want to teach those disobedient scholars, I can completely understand your mood. Not only will I not object in words, I will even help you deal with them, but you need to pay attention to strategies and means.
In this way, the emperor would have expectations for what Zhu Hao would do in the future, and would even be curious about the extraordinary things those scholars did.
At that time, the emperor will think, look at you, you have fallen into the trap carefully set by me and Zhu Hao, right? At that time, the emperor's hatred for the troublesome scholars will be replaced by the hatred of the hunter who sets the trap and watches the prey fall into the pit.
Instead of being full of pride, the emperor was more likely to accept Zhu Hao's suggestion of small punishments and big warnings when punishing those scholars.
Zhu Hao wanted to create for Zhu Si a state of mind in which everything was under control and all I had to do was sit back and watch the show, so that the emperor would be intoxicated and unable to extricate himself.
"Then Jingdao, how can we make things worse so that they will automatically fall into the trap?"
Zhu Si clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "I will fight to the end and insist on building an ancestral hall for my father... That's enough, right?"
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Although Zhu Si's attitude was a bit chaotic, Zhu Hao felt that at least he was a filial child.
After all, Zhu Si showed "filial piety" when he ascended the throne. After receiving the imperial edict, he set out from Anlu in no hurry and went to pay homage to his father first. He delayed his departure for a few days and was still attached to his mother in every possible way. When he arrived in the capital, he didn't even sit on the throne.
Strive to enter the palace through Daming Gate, and then fight against all opinions to take my mother to the capital...
Originally, when Sun Jiao told Zhu Hao about Hou Tingxun's opinions, he was quite persistent, thinking that such a thing that aroused heated discussion between the government and the public might make the emperor and Zhu Hao retreat.
Sun Jiao frowned deeply: "That's all you can see..."
Zhu Youtian had only one son. Zhu Si probably felt that it would be unfilial for his only son to be adopted and cut off his father's sacrifice, so he tried every means to fight for the title of imperial examination.
Zhu Hao shook his head and said, "Your Majesty will use the ceremonial meeting as an excuse to make some changes to the cabinet first, so that Mr. Jiang Ge and Mr. Mao Ge will be able to retreat voluntarily. After eliminating the hidden dangers, he will use lightning speed to cover up the situation.
The imperial edict of the Great Ceremony is issued, and by then the opposition forces in the DPRK and China will be gone."
There are various signs that the emperor is really serious and did not suddenly become ill.
The same discussion started in Nanjing. Hou Tingxun's manuscript is completely opposite to Zhang Cong's. Hou Tingxun's remarks belong to the cliché "succession to succession" argument. The words are fierce, but the examples presented are not new at all. However, because Hou Tingxun once
In Nanjing, he had face-to-face arguments with Zhang Cong, Gui E and others, so that Hou Tingxun had a very high status among Nanjing scholars and was considered to be the vanguard of the civil service group who stood on the front line against Zhang Cong's delusions and heresies.
Zhu Hao said: "Now regarding the great ceremony, your Majesty only notifies the Minister of Rites. If you think about it, the Minister of Rites will probably mobilize the courtiers to give advice together. Your Majesty only needs to stick to your point of view in the court, and the courtiers will definitely do something."
To make concessions, for example, agreeing to give the late emperor the imperial title but not to take the imperial exam... What I proposed is just an idea, and this is not the only strategy they have to take a step back."
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"Why don't you argue? Which family does the throne belong to? You still don't understand the difference between the small sect and the big sect, right?" Sun Jiao was also angry and directly taught him a lesson, "Jingdao, don't forget,
Why did your Majesty get the throne? As a human being, you must never forget your roots!"
Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Mr. Sun, are you going to make another joke? I have a lot to say to His Majesty. I don't know which sentence you mentioned. Even if I have a good mind, if I tell you in detail, it will take me a few days.
I can’t finish it in a few nights.”
Zhu Hao seemed to have heard a big joke and sneered slightly: "Are Mr. Sun joking? Let the king retreat first? I really want your majesty to behave like a gentleman, but even your majesty himself wants to retreat.
Can you retreat?
After Sun Jiao finished speaking, he took out a transcribed manuscript and threw it to Zhu Hao.
Zhu Hao finally persuaded Zhu Si not to attack the scholars first.
"wrong."
Sun Jiao tried several times to discuss matters with Zhu Hao, but failed. On this day, he simply went to Zhu Hao's house, which made Sun Lan, who had come back early to receive the news, very passive. He had no choice but to ask the Jin Yiwei who was guarding the door to inform Zhu Hao.
Zhu Hao said: "After they give advice first, Your Majesty can take action directly."
Zhu Hao basically finished reading, handed it back to Sun Jiao, and said with a smile: "Mr. Sun, don't you think this is just two kids fighting, regardless of right or wrong, just picking on and attacking each other?"
Zhu Hao said: "Your Majesty, don't be anxious. There are many things that are better to be observed while walking."
But after Zhu Hao analyzed his position, Sun Jiao suddenly felt that it seemed difficult to make a stubborn emperor give up being a filial son...
The little emperor did not take any action, so the civil servants would naturally not stop the scholars below from discussing the matter. Civil servants have never objected to scholars discussing politics. This is a sign of the lofty status of scholars. In the eyes of many people, this is the progress of the times.
Sun Jiao listened to Zhu Hao's talk and was very angry at first, but later became helpless.
Zhu Hao was very polite when he saw Sun Jiao and invited him from the main hall to the study room. After the guests and hosts sat down, he was the first to express his apology. In fact, he had already cursed in his heart: Old man Sun, you are really ignorant. How can you be so forceful?
?You couldn’t find anyone, so you went directly to someone else’s house and blocked the door?
"...Jingdao, don't blame me for being presumptuous. This is a document written by a Jinshi in the same field as you, called "Dali Bian". Look at their thoughts and cultivation, and then look at yours, you can't imitate it.
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The number of discussions between the DPRK and the Central Government increased, making Sun Jiao, an old guy who prides himself on being neutral, extremely anxious.
Zhu Hao nodded: "That's probably what it means, but when it comes to implementation, it still depends on the specific situation and one step at a time. If the plan is too long-term and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee do not go as expected, sometimes they may make mistakes in ways and means.
Make certain changes."
It doesn't mean that the emperor can take back his life by convincing Zhu Hao, so it's essentially useless for him to brag about his beard and stare at Zhu Hao here.
Zhu Si thought about it for a while, shook his head and said: "I think it is not enough to just add the emperor's name. I want my father to be the emperor. Otherwise, who will inherit my father's incense?"
Zhu Si suddenly realized that his previous displeasure was gone, and he smiled and said: "So the goal of the Great Ceremony is to get rid of all the people in the cabinet who don't listen to me. By the way, there are still six chief officials, right?"
"hehe."
Sun Jiao said with emotion: "Jingdao, I understand you, and sometimes you have to do it, but you have never thought that if you want the court to be stable, if someone has to step back, can't it be the king who takes a step back?"
"His Majesty is under tremendous pressure from his biological mother, the Queen Mother. His Majesty wants to be a filial son, but is he only half of it? Compromising means that he can only be a son to others and cut off the incense of his ancestors. If you let His Majesty suffer such a boring loss, it will
Is this what a minister should think?"
Zhu Hao said sternly: "But even if it is a great clan, isn't it because the emperor's heirs are interrupted? The throne is passed down to other branches, and the successor neither raises him in the palace for the prince nor serves the adopted son on the bed.
A temporary edict was passed to the fiefdom, and he became a great treasure... Is the issue of status really more important than the stability of the Ming Dynasty?"
Finally, Sun Jiao met Zhu Hao, a busy man, at his son-in-law's house.
Moreover, this kind of discussion will largely influence the direction of public opinion and move the Dali discussion in the direction of the "successor faction".
Zhu Hao took it and took a look, and found the "Dali Bian" written by Hou Tingxun, who was also a Jinshi in the 16th year of Zhengde's reign. He was first the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites and now the head of the Nanjing Bureau of Officials.
As expected, Zhu Si became interested.
"Okay! I want to let those who don't listen to me go, and I also want my father to build an ancestral hall and enter the Taimiao... Humph, I don't believe it. With you as a living Zhuge, what else can I let those guys take advantage of?"
Cheap! He said respectfully, when the people named Jiang and Mao in the cabinet retire, I will let you join the cabinet."
This disease has always been there.
He did not wonder whether Zhu Hao's words made sense. A rigid old man would never consider the opinions of young people. In their view, young people were useless and lacked experience... But there was one thing Sun Jiao had to admit.
Zhu Hao was mainly catering to the emperor's ideas.
Sun Jiao said with a straight face: "Jingdao, I want to ask you a question... What did you say to His Majesty before he ascended the throne?"
There was no reason why Sun Jiao would not be angry.
With good intentions, I brought you a copy of a manuscript written by a famous person in the world. You thought about it for a long time and thought it was just something for children to fight?
Zhu Hao said: "Why, it doesn't look like it? One Zhang Bingyong, an old scholar, rose to power by catering to His Majesty, while the other didn't like it, but because he missed the best time to get on the ship, he did the opposite and stood still.
From what we consider to be the moral high ground, we criticize the other faction as fallacies and heresies, but the question is... Regarding the issue of succession or non-heir, given that His Majesty is firmly on the throne, is there any need to argue?"
Sun Jiaodao: "I just want to ask you, did you give your Majesty a warning before he received the imperial edict from the late emperor? You played a role in his series of actions before entering the capital, and his paranoia about filial piety and etiquette after entering the capital.
What role did you play? But you have been behind it all the time, fueling the flames?"
Old Man Sun has some brains after all, and even Zhu Hao has to admire this.
Perhaps Sun Jiao knew that he had been acting as an adviser to Zhu Si, and further speculated that Zhu Hao was leading the process from beginning to end.
Zhu Hao shook his head: "Mr. Sun, you think highly of me. Before Your Majesty enters the capital, I have been waiting for the imperial examination in the capital. It is a long distance from the capital to Anlu Mountain. How can I make warnings and arrangements in advance?
"Your Majesty lost his father when he was young, and Mr. Sun should have heard about the importance he places on the family when he was in Anlu. As for adding fuel to the flames... His Majesty pursues filial piety wholeheartedly, and ministers can only help them with all their strength. This is in line with the way of being a minister.