Zhu Hao was not someone who bound his allies with worldly sentiments. He knew what to do and how to advance and retreat. He understood that since Huang Zan became a Hanlin scholar, his purpose was to join the cabinet, but he was not willing to become an official after only about half a year.
An official fan like Huang Zan would always promise him certain benefits.
Unknowingly, Zhu Hao and Huang Zan entered the bargaining mode.
After talking to Zhu Hao, Huang Zan left the theater with complicated tastes, but Su Zhaogui did not leave. He stayed to discuss the matter of giving Zhu Hao a gift. Su Xigui had a somewhat apologetic look on his face, and probably knew that Zhu Hao and Huang Zan were somewhat different now.
It's not like cooperation, it's more like doing business.
"...After Huang Gong arrived in the capital, he received too much cold shoulder. Huang Gong once said in front of me that it might be better to stay in Nanjing." "Then is Huang Gong willing to go back?"
"This... of course I don't want to. People go to higher places. Huang Gong has endured so many criticisms before he got the status of Hanlin bachelor today. He can join the cabinet in the next step. If he leaves now,
Wouldn't it be a failure? Besides, even if he returns to Nanjing now, I'm afraid his colleagues in the capital won't be able to tolerate him, so he won't be able to stay in Nanjing's officialdom for a long time."
"Um."
"Master Zhu, I am definitely not fighting for Mr. Huang. I just hope that you can fulfill your previous promise and let Mr. Huang join the cabinet as soon as possible so that I can give an explanation to him. In this way, I can also take credit for whatever Mr. Huang goes through in the future.
Retire after adulthood."
While Su Xigui was talking, the small wooden box was handed over again, and he opened it himself. What was inside was not a banknote, but a stack of house deeds and land deeds.
Su Xigui himself was probably worried about Huang Zan's future. In order to get an official position, he spent a lot of money and did not care about being stingy. Zhu Hao said: "Take it back...Are you very rich recently?"
A new railway will be built soon, directly to the Xuanfu. If you don't invest, other merchants will naturally contribute money and efforts. You'd better leave some wealth to ensure that you can still have appeal among investors in the future."
Su Xigui said with a smile: "The extent of your appeal is not about the amount of money, but whether you have a strong backer. It all depends on you, the young master."
Zhu Hao shook his head: "Then you don't have to give me gifts for the time being. I will honor all the things I have promised. But after all, I can only propose to Your Majesty. Who Your Majesty wants to use depends on the actual operation... Just
There is not only one competitor for the position of Hanlin Bachelor. Recently, Zhang Bingyong tried to smoothen the relationship and brought a group of people he had won over in Nanjing to the capital."
"understand."
Su Xigui's political sensitivity was acceptable. He nodded and said, "The opponent is not the enemy, but the friend. There is only one way, and you don't know who can make it." "You just understand, Mr. Huang now needs to have his own foundation in the court.
The plan is not to form a party for personal gain, but to make His Majesty feel that there is a powerful force behind him... I have said before that there will be some changes in official positions in the court at the end of the year.
, it’s easy to be surrounded by powerful enemies and unable to express your voice.”
"well."
Su Xigui nodded, stood up, rearranged the wooden box, stuffed it into his arms, nodded and bowed to leave.
Zhu Hao reminded Su Xigui that Su Xigui should persuade Huang Zan to form a clique and send more people to the court, so that he could form his own power. What Zhu Hao lacked most now was the help of central officials.
From the perspective of a traditional emperor, no one wants to see ministers forming cliques, but the problem is that now all the civil servants in the dynasty have formed a party and are against the emperor... The emperor naturally wants to see a large group of people in the court
, with the purpose of deliberation and safeguarding the emperor's rights and interests, he stood firmly on his side, and could come out to argue with the civil servant faction every time...
Zhang Cong can understand things, but Huang Zan doesn't understand? Or is it that Huang Zan just wants to protect himself? He has to act like a friend but not a party, claiming to be aloof?
You, Huang Zan, have been in power for so many years, so you should have some old subordinates and old friends, right? At the critical moment, there is no one who stands with you?
Two days later.
Zhu Hao and Tang Yin went to a hot pot restaurant for dinner. Also there was the recently famous Yutian Bo Jiang Lun.
Jiang Lun was talking about his experience in buying a shop at the dinner table. Recently, Jiang Lun received a reward from the Empress Dowager Chiang. In addition, the emperor also began to deliberately cultivate his relatives and gave him many gifts.
After receiving many rewards and having a lot of money, Jiang Lun wanted to buy property in the capital.
Everyone's focus is different. Jiang Lun naturally doesn't care about what happens in the court, but is more concerned about the prosperity of the shops along the street.
"...Mr. Zhu, can you give me some advice? Everyone says that Chongwenmen's first-generation shops are good, but I have gone to see them. There are very few dignitaries walking around there. On the contrary, the further you go to the north of the city, the more dignitaries there are. But they say that this Gongyuan
There are many scholars nearby, do you think it would be better to buy a shop over there?"
Jiang Lun asked Zhu Hao for business advice.
Tang Yin on the side said: "If you want to buy a shop, just buy it around here. Business thrives when there are more people. Maybe the feng shui in this area is good?"
Jiang Lun scratched his head in embarrassment: "Actually, I also want to open a restaurant or something like that, but I'm afraid of conflicting with Mr. Zhu's shop. Not to mention competing for this business, I'm afraid that if I open it, others won't want to patronize my place."
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Tang Yin rolled his eyes at him: "Can't you do some other business?"
"I don't know how to do anything else. It seems that this restaurant business is easy to do." Jiang Lun didn't hide it.
Zhu Haodao: "For this kind of thing, you should check the market more. The aroma of wine is not afraid of the alley... Mr. Tang, don't you plan to buy any property in the capital?"
Tang Yin held the tea cup and said slowly and calmly: "Forget it, even if I want to buy a property, I would rather buy it in Suzhou. The land in the capital is too dry, especially this winter, the cold wind is biting, even if the sun is red,
I can’t feel the warmth when I’m in the air, so the Jiangnan water town is more suitable for me.”
Just as he was talking, a member of the Jiang family came up and announced: "Sir, there are dignitaries from the capital downstairs. I heard you were here and wanted to buy you two drinks."
Jiang Lun read the name card handed over by his servant, smiled and said to Zhu Hao and Tang Yin, "You two, you chat first, I will go down to meet a guest and will be here soon."
When Jiang Lun came downstairs, Tang Yin also put down his tea cup: "I don't know what happened to him recently. It seems that he is a big family in the capital and wanted to visit, but he agreed..."
Zhu Haodao: "You don't understand this? Your Majesty needs to have a deeper foundation and connections in the capital. This is the experience and lesson learned after several grand ceremony meetings. Didn't Mr. Tang mobilize some of his old friends recently to prepare for the grand ceremony?"
Discuss building momentum?"
"never mind."
Tang Yin was sincere and shook his head, meaning you guys don't want me to work hard.
At this moment, Tang Yin coughed violently.
Because Zhu Hao knew that the deadline in Tang Yin's history was just a year ago, he was a little concerned about the sudden change in Tang Yin's body and even took a closer look.
Tang Yin waved his hand, indicating that Zhu Hao shouldn't be nervous. After calming down a little, he said: "Fortunately, I have been feeling a little unwell recently. Didn't you see that I even quit drinking? I'll wait until the end of the year..." Next year, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, I will find three or five more friends, write poems and songs every day, and drink and talk happily."
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Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.
At nightfall, Zhang Zuo accompanied Zhu Si to review the memorials. After a while, Zhang Zuo looked sideways, only to find that Zhu Si was already there with his head propped up and distracted. Obviously, reviewing memorials could not be done by the little emperor who was born with a carefree nature. Concentrate.
"Your Majesty?" Zhang Zuo reminded in a low voice.
Zhu Si came back to his senses: "There are too many memorials here, so I leave them to you... I haven't reviewed them with Jingdao recently, so it saves him trouble. It's not interesting at all... It's still outside the palace." Well, the night is the busiest time."
The young man was playful and Zhang Zuo knew very well that he could not allow the emperor to leave the palace after dark.
"Your Majesty, it's getting late, why don't you go back and rest early. The inheritance of the Ming Dynasty Dragon is also very important..."
As the emperor's close confidant, Zhang Zuo is qualified to remind the emperor about the husband and wife's love affair with each other. What Zhang Zuo means is that since you think criticizing memorials is boring, then you should be fine if you go back and have fun with the queen and concubines, right?
And there is some reason to do that. Spreading the branches of the Ming Dynasty royal family and passing on the family line are more important than anything else. But Zhu Si shook his head: "It's just those few, do you think I won't get tired of them?"
Zhang Zuolian
His smile suddenly became awkward. Are you talking to a eunuch about whether women are tired of you? Sorry, I don’t feel it. This question is out of scope.
"By the way, find me a book to read. It's one of those stories written by Jingdao before. Just find one." Zhu Sidao. Zhang Zuo said helplessly: "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhu hasn't written a new story for a long time. Can you please ·······》
"The old one will do, too. In this deep palace with high walls, do you think only women would feel that they are trapped within these four square walls? Don't I feel it? You can take the rest of the memorial to the Chief of Ceremonies and have someone help you. Approval... If it is still difficult to decide, ask someone to send you out of the palace early tomorrow morning and find Jingdao. He is in the city anyway. Just show it to me before going to court after approving it."
Zhu Si stood up while speaking.
Zhang Zuo regretted reminding Zhu Si just now.
If he pretended not to see it and Zhu Si just sat there and was distracted, it would be better now. He didn't care about national affairs. How could he be a diligent and self-denying wise king and saint?
Zhang Zuo followed him, arranged his manpower, and brought over the narrative book that Zhu Hao had written for Zhu Si. Zhu Si did not go to the inner palace, but sat in the corner, surrounded by three or five eunuchs, each guarding a lamp. As a result, the lights were bright, and Zhu Si took a book and read there.
"hey-hey."
Just when Zhu Si was looking at it, a young eunuch next to him suddenly laughed.
Zhu Si raised his head and stared at the laughing little eunuch and asked, "Why are you laughing?" The little eunuch quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "This slave is wrong."
"I ask you why you are laughing. You tell the truth. You are right or wrong. You can't say it yourself." Zhu Si looked unhappy. I am reading here. Do you think what I am doing is ridiculous?
The young eunuch lowered his head and said tremblingly: "My slave took a peek and saw that this book said that there is an island in the south of the Yangtze River called Peach Blossom Island, and I thought that... the late emperor had been to the south of the Yangtze River."
Zhu Si was startled, then he seemed to have thought of something, and grinned: "Hey, you reminded me, why do I have to stay in the capital? I can definitely go on a tour to see the scene in this world...