Jinyi champion

Chapter 558
Not everyone wants to follow Zhu Hao to "fly to prosperity". As aunt and niece, Xiaobai and Xiaoyuan have very different choices.

Xiaobai is in his twenties, and he hasn't married yet, so he has no choice but to follow Zhu Niang to the capital to see if he can make a career for himself.

As for Xiaoyuan, she is still young and never thought of being a maid for the rest of her life. In addition, Zhu Niang's severance pay was not low. She felt that staying in Anlu would allow her to marry herself off early.

Of course, her family also left a way out. If she can't get married in the past two years, she will be sent to the capital to continue working as a maid... This arrangement is very clever.

In any case, Zhu Hao didn't have any thoughts about Xiaobai and Xiaoyuan. He didn't spend much time with the two girls, so naturally he couldn't talk about any feelings.

Since Xiaobai followed his mother to the capital, Zhu Hao couldn't stand by and watch, so he had to ask Zhu Niang to help Xiaobai find a partner. It was better for her to marry a good family than to be an old lady.

In the evening Zhu Hao stayed to have dinner with his family.

Rice grains, fresh meat, and vegetables were already prepared. Even though Zhu Niang and Aunt Li were new here and unfamiliar with everything, they were still busy making a "reunion dinner" for Zhu Hao, and even Zhu Ting joined in. The three women were very busy.

"Mother, in fact, we can ask the cook to do these..."

Zhu Hao understood the deep affection of the women in his family towards him, but he was thinking about going back to review the memorial at night, and he wanted to go back to work overtime after a simple meal.

The Imperial Academy can ask for leave, but Zhu Si's confession must be completed, because recently Zhu Si has been bombarded by civil officials in turn, and Zhu Si in the court can't deal with it, so Zhu Hao needs to prepare for him in advance.

Zhu Niang said: "You haven't eaten the food I made by myself for many years, you should try it no matter what."

Hearing these words, Zhu Hao seemed to be parting from life and death.

However, it may be because we haven't seen each other for a long time. When we meet again, the situation is very different from the past. Zhu Hao is already the number one scholar and has entered the court as an official. The mother of course wants her children to remember the most simple appearance of her family.

Zhu Hao wanted to go up to help, but Zhu Niang kicked him out of the kitchen on the grounds that "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen".

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It was just dark.

Lu Song hastily came to find someone and urged Zhu Hao to go back to work.

Zhu Haodao: "Lu Qianhu, my family just came from Anlu, don't they have a day off?"

Lu Song said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty has already left the palace. I have asked you many times on the way, and I have explained to Your Majesty...but today, Your Majesty was angered by civil servants in the court hall, and wanted to discuss countermeasures with Mr. Zhu. There are many other things. There is a backlog of memorials, but the cabinet deliberately withheld some important memorials before, and now they have all of a sudden brought them out... obviously to embarrass His Majesty."

Zhu Hao sighed: "Mr. Yang Ge will really give people problems. Doesn't he know what the cabinet is for? Can he do such a presumptuous move? When he is the emperor, can he still keep the memorial? "

Lu Song said helplessly: "That's why Your Majesty is in a hurry."

"Then... just wait."

Zhu Hao said, "I've had dinner with my family, and I'll go as soon as I'm done here."

Lu Song widened his eyes.

The emperor is urging you, but you want to take care of your family first?
Are you a courtier who is too disrespectful to the emperor?

"Go and tell Your Majesty, even if I'm busy all night tonight, I'll take care of things... Look at this, I'm afraid I won't be able to rush over until the second watch. If Your Majesty really can't wait, let him go back to the palace first. Or do other things." Zhu Hao said.

Seeing Zhu Hao like this, Lu Song understood how his family members felt when they first arrived in the capital.

"Then... let's do it first."

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After Lu Song left, Zhu Hao waited for a long time before having dinner with his family.

"...Xiaohao, was it Lu Dianzhan who came here earlier? Why didn't you invite him in?" Zhu Niang probably knew that keeping her son for dinner seemed to delay the business.

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "It's nothing, he just came to spread the message that His Majesty told me to go over quickly."

"You...can you see His Majesty?"

Zhu Niang had an incredulous expression on her face.

Zhu Hao said: "Not only can I see it, but I can see it almost every day. His Majesty will entrust me with many affairs in the court. I need to help him sum up and make a summary for him. Only then will he be able to deal with those ministers with ease. "

Aunt Li smiled and said: "Master Hao, even if you become an official, you can't talk nonsense. This...why doesn't it sound unbelievable?"

Zhu Hao shrugged: "I grew up with His Majesty, who can he listen to if he doesn't listen to me?"

Zhu Niang was also very curious, and asked, "Are there Yuan Changshi, Zhang Fengzheng, and Mr. Tang?"

Zhu Hao sighed: "Although Yuan Changshi is now an expensive cabinet minister, it is difficult to directly help His Majesty because he is suppressed by Mr. Yang Ge in the cabinet. As for Zhang Fengzheng's lack of experience in handling government affairs, Mr. Tang is now more busy with fighting in Huangzhuang. Matters of reason... Oh, by the way, Mr. Tang is now the head of the household department of the sixth rank.

"There is no one around your Majesty, and you are squeezed out and made things difficult by the old officials in the court, but I can hide in the dark, observe the overall situation, and see the tricks. In this way, Your Majesty attaches great importance to my opinions, and basically everything will be done. obey."

Zhu Niang and Aunt Li were stunned when they heard this.

Zhu Hao warned: "Mother, aunt, please don't talk about this matter to the outside world."

Zhu Niang nodded quickly: "Mother knows how to measure."

Zhu Ting asked, "Brother, are you going to see the emperor tonight?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Yes, but we all call you Your Majesty, and the title of Emperor... basically no one uses it. Today Your Majesty was angry with civil servants in the court, probably because the matter of welcoming the Empress Dowager into the palace was far beyond the standard." Now that the civil officials are out of control, the civil officials are now deliberately presenting problems to His Majesty."

"Oh."

Zhu Niang seemed to understand but not understand.

Aunt Li looked at Zhu Niang, then at Zhu Hao, and sighed, "In that case, it's better for Master Hao to finish his meal earlier and go to work."

Zhu Niang said: "By the way, Hao'er, after we arrived in Tongzhou, we heard that the imperial court was selecting for His Majesty, and asked Jiji's girl to report to the local government, is there such a thing?"

Zhu Hao glanced at Zhu Ting, with a calm expression on his face: "This matter has nothing to do with us... I am the number one scholar in this discipline. Even if someone from the yamen comes to force registration, I will ignore it. If it is urgent, I will directly bombard him. You can just go out. This time, the queen, or the concubine, will be chosen, and there will be many bad things in the palace, and we don't need to use these methods to improve the lintel, so don't let Xiaoting get involved."

Aunt Li and Zhu Niang didn't say anything.

But Zhu Hao could feel that Aunt Li wanted to let Zhu Ting go, but the problem was that Zhu Ting was a concubine after all, and to a certain extent belonged to "bad family background". Sometimes it was very difficult to choose.

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When Zhu Hao saw Zhu Si at night, Zhu Si was already yawning again and again.

"Zhu Hao, are your mother and family okay?"

After Zhu Si saw Zhu Hao, he didn't complain, but showed concern.

Zhu Hao cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. They are all fine. Today is because they just arrived in the capital and had a reunion dinner together."

Zhu Si nodded: "I understand. I was also very happy when the queen mother came to the capital. I wish I could stay with the queen mother every day... These two days, the fourth and fifth sisters are also in the palace. Seeing them, I feel refreshed and my worries are gone.”

Between children, especially good friends, talking seems very casual.

Zhu Si has been influenced by Zhu Hao's thoughts since he was a child, and under the influence of Zhu Hao, his thoughts are relatively open.

Generally speaking, it is to be able to generate some empathy, understand the suffering of others, and even carefully figure out the situation of the enemy, understand why the other party wants to do this, and what is the rationale for doing this.

But there are still some paranoid things in Zhu Si's temperament, which cannot be changed the day after tomorrow.

"Zhu Hao, Mr. Yang Ge has asked me several times about the military supplies in the Northwest. He also said that the money given to my father... the money for the temple construction of the late emperor must not go to the account of the Ministry of Households. What's more, I must I have to pay respects to the Empress Dowager every day...they are talking about the empress dowager to show filial piety...but that is not my biological mother, the empress mother is in the palace, why should I pay homage to someone else?"

Zhu Si was very annoyed.

Now Yang Tinghe and other civil servants are changing their ways to make him difficult.

Zhu Haodao: "If you want to do great things, you must know how to endure and sacrifice. It's not a bad idea to show others a look. You don't have to go every day, and it's good for you to visit once in a while."

Zhu Si shook his head: "I don't want to go."

This is what Zhu Hao worried about.

Zhu Si is too stubborn. Even Zhu Hao, a close friend, is hard to persuade him on certain matters, especially when it comes to big gifts. Zhu Si's stubbornness and persistence are not just for fighting with Yang Tinghe, but because he is sincere. Ri really thinks so.

If Zhu Si was embarrassed by such matters, maybe he would really quit, not just talk about it.

Zhu Hao should try his best to prevent this from happening.

Zhang Zuo came over at this time, and said: "Mr. Zhu, the memorabilia, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are all ready. Mr. Tang has picked out some more important ones. Look..."

Zhu Sidao: "Zhu Hao, I am going to review the memorials with you. I want to use diligence as an excuse to make the ministers feel that I am very busy and have no time to do other things. In the future, I will go out of the palace less. Some important matter will be handed over to you, maybe before the end of the year... I will have a headache."

Zhu Hao nodded.

The end of the year involves tax collection after the autumn harvest, which is the busiest period for the court.

But Yang Tinghe took the opportunity to pose a problem to the new emperor, more because of the distribution of money and food in the Northwest. After Sun Jiao returned to the court, he could not help the new emperor much...Zhu Hao could see that Sun Jiao was only famous Outside, in dealing with the affairs of the household department, because he has little power and is too much coerced by Yang Tinghe, Sun Jiao's work efficiency cannot be improved at all.

Zhu Hao couldn't come forward to do practical work, and Tang Yin's official position was not too high, which made Zhu Siming obviously have helpers, but he seemed isolated and helpless in the court.

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Zhu Hao was busy until midnight.

Zhu Si went to rest before the sound of the third watch drum, only Zhang Zuo and Tang Yin accompanied Zhu Hao until very late, Zhu Hao finished all the memorials and made a list.

At this point four more days have passed.

"Eunuch Zhang, go to bed earlier."

Seeing Zhang Zuo's red eyes and tired face, Zhu Hao couldn't help apologetically consoling him. After all, it was because he came late that Tang Yin and Zhang Zuo kept busy till late.

Zhang Zuo smiled and said: "Mr. Zhu should go to bed earlier, our family can still catch up on sleep during the day, but Mr. Zhu has to go back to the Imperial Academy for work."

During the conversation, Zhang Zuo was very kind.

This is also the reason why Zhang Zuo survived in the early years of Jiajing, because he has an easy-going personality, and he is not the kind of treacherous person who will do anything for power.

(End of this chapter)