Jinyi champion

Chapter 912 Established Strategy
Hearing the back, Sun Jiao began to sigh.

He finally understood that it was impossible to convince his son-in-law logically. It didn't matter whether the son-in-law's idea was big or not. Otherwise, relying on his grandson's persuasion would be of no use at all.

Sun Jiao will leave.

Zhu Hao put Sun Jiao on the table, picked up the copy of "Da Li Bian" written by Hou Tingxun that he was going to leave for him to study and figure out, and put it back in Sun Jiao's hand.

"The old man specially transcribed it for you to read."

Sun put his fingers together, not wanting to take it.

Zhu Hao said: "After reading it, I will write it down. They are all vulgar and trite arguments. If I use these to communicate with Your Majesty, I think His Majesty will drive me away...Recently, Your Majesty has been under a lot of pressure from his birth mother, the Empress Dowager. If you want to convince me, you might as well try to go to the Queen Mother Jiang to get some air."

Sun Jiao glared at Zhu Hao, with the meaning of "If it is so easy to discuss with the Queen Mother, I still need to come to you".

But then Sun Jiao lost his temper.

Because even he didn't want to go against the Queen Mother Jiang's wishes, so it was a bit difficult for two teenagers to go head-to-head with the Queen Mother Jiang?Besides, that is the emperor's biological mother. Today, the son has lost his father since he was a child, so showing filial piety in front of his mother is not exactly the concept advocated by Confucianism?

"Jingdao, as a courtier, you don't have to obey the king's will in everything. Persuading the king to walk on the right path is far more important than helping the country. If the court has a foothold, why not do it?" Sun Jiao began to educate the younger generation again.

Zhu Hao smiled slightly: "How about helping the country and the country, and what about gaining a reputation? Didn't Mr. Sun remind me to prevent the tragic end of the bird's death? Why did you want me to disobey the king so quickly in order to win a false name?" How about disregarding the friendship between the monarch and his ministers?"

"you……"

Sun Jiao was so choked by Zhu Hao that he couldn't speak.

Zhu Hao said: "I know that Mr. Sun has no intention of staying in the court for a long time, and the time to work with Mr. Sun will not be too long. I also have some things to tell you. For a young man like me who has no footsteps In other words, it is of course undesirable to make great achievements, but if you have nothing to do with the emperor, you will die faster.

"Actually, I really don't have the intention to help the country and the country. Those things that are great at first sight are better reserved for those who have ambitions for the court, such as the people in Hanyuan today, or Zhang Bingyong.

"My ideal in life may be to build trains and railways, connect all parts of Ming Dynasty, open mines, do some business to earn some money, and even weave cloth so that the people of Ming Dynasty can have more winter clothes. Iron Horse, there are a lot of people who want to do it, so I will give them the opportunity!"

"Hey!"

Sun Jiao was speechless. If he had just met Zhu Hao, he would have felt that these remarks were completely hypocritical, but after getting along with him for a long time, he knew that this son-in-law was not so false, and probably came from the heart.

"Old Sun, the matter of great ceremony is that His Majesty is in charge of the court, stabilizing people's hearts, and seeking a stable development for decades in the future. Maintaining Confucian ethics is still weaker than maintaining the stability of Ming Dynasty. Please Forgive me for being in a different position than you, and I apologize in advance for that.”

Zhu Hao politely saluted Sun Jiao.

Sun Jiao was not too rigid on this issue, but he stood with his hands behind his back, pretended to be serious, and said coldly: "You can do it yourself!" After speaking, he went straight to the door, and even his son-in-law went out to see him off. They were all stopped by him.

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Zhu Hao still sent Sun to the door from a distance.

After Sun Jiao left, Sun Lan came out of the room with a confused face, looked at her husband with embarrassment.

This is the third time that Sun Jiao broke into Zhu Hao's home. Fortunately, Sun Lan was at home this time, so it would not be the case that the husband and wife were not at home and had to find someone to invite them alone. There was no attack on the lifestyle of the daughter and son-in-law.

In other words, Sun Jiao can no longer take care of young people's family affairs.

"Father doesn't seem to be as angry as before. When he mentioned Xianggong to his concubine, he repeatedly told him to help him and take care of the housework so that he doesn't have to worry about inner court affairs."

Sun Lan's words exposed Sun Jiao's thoughts.

Although when Weng and his son-in-law met before, Sun Jiao showed a rigid and old-fashioned appearance, but he was clear in his heart that this kind of persuasion was meaningless at all. In terms of controlling the court, his grandson Jiao refused to obey the old man, and even most of the household affairs It all came from Zhu Hao's secret plan.

Zhu Hao nodded: "Elder Sun told me that he wanted to quit the court before the year."

Sun Lan had some regrets: "Father's health is not as good as before, and I'm afraid that he will be tired from the journey back home."

Zhu Haodao: "Staying in the capital, with your two elder brothers, and you going to take care of him at any time, is the best. In fact, in recent years, it is not bad for him to stay in the capital for the elderly."

"This... I'm afraid it's not for me and the juniors to decide."

In fact, Sun Lan didn't want to be separated from her father and family.

If Sun Jiao wanted to take the Sun family back to Anlu, then Sun Lan would have to be separated from his father. It is estimated that the next time we meet again, he will go back to send his father a funeral. Moreover, the water poured out by a married daughter in this era is really not good. There must be a chance to see my father for the last time, everything depends on the attitude of my husband's family, and it is indeed too far to go back to Anlu from the capital.

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Others can't, but if His Majesty lets Elder Sun stay in the capital, and finds something to bind Elder Sun, then he will stay if he doesn't want to."

"It's not easy, is it?"

Sun Lan probably knew that since Zhu Hao said so, he was sure of it.

But things will not be too simple, especially no matter how you look at it, it seems that the young couple is plotting against the old father, which makes Sun Lan feel a little guilty about making her own decisions.

Whether or not to go back to his hometown seems to be decided by Sun Jiao, rather than the younger generation making suggestions, especially secretly planning, which would appear to be disrespectful to the old father.

Zhu Hao said: "Leave everything to me. I will definitely make your father stay in the capital willingly. Even if you drink tea with him in the future and listen to his nagging, it will be very good. I lost my father since I was young, and I have long regarded him as my father. Elders who can advise me so that I will not go astray... Isn't it the same for elders and younger generations?"

Sun Lan was very moved when she heard it.

The husband and wife have not formally consummated their marriage yet, and Zhu Hao already regards her father as a family member.

This shows that Zhu Hao didn't treat her as an outsider.

Moreover, Zhu Hao didn't mind that Sun Jiao came here to make a surprise attack, and he didn't blame Sun Jiao for his old-fashioned teaching. This made Sun Lan feel relieved, and at last he didn't drag her husband down in the court because of herself and her natal family.

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Zhu Hao confiscated Sun Jiao's copy of "Great Rites", and Zhu Hao didn't take the initiative to mention this matter to Zhu Si.

But Zhu Si still learned from Jin Yiwei what Hou Tingxun, the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Nanjing, had done, which made Zhu Si itch with hatred.

"...Respectfully, I have made up my mind to let Nanjing Jinyiwei take this person down, and secretly arrest him in the Nanjing Imperial Prison, and interrogate him carefully. Give me a confession... What do you think?"

Zhu Si's methods became more and more numerous.

Even learned tricks.

Using Hou Tingxun, a young man who is a young bird, brings out the big men in the court, and takes the opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

Zhu Haodao: "So Your Majesty has to deal with the ceremony first, and then balance the personnel arrangements between the cabinet and the Imperial Academy?"

"Uh... After what you said, I seem to be a bit indiscriminate... Hehe..." Zhu Si looked very shy in front of Zhu Hao, and he couldn't help scratching his head when he was embarrassed.

Zhang Zuo and others on the side could not help but secretly heave a sigh of relief.

I thought to myself, the only one who can persuade this willful and reckless little emperor is really only Mr. Zhu Jiaxiao.

Zhang Zuo asked with a smile: "Mr. Zhu, you said earlier that the positions of cabinet ministers and Hanlin bachelors should be handed over to people who are willing to serve His Majesty, but I don't know what the specific plan is. of?"

This is obviously asking questions for the emperor.

Zhu Haodao: "Nowadays the issue of the great ceremony has been fermented in the court, your majesty can put forward the matter of the great ceremony with all the ministers at the court meeting in the two days, and say that anyone in the Ming court can participate in it, and whether they support your majesty's proposal or not. Opinions can be expressed freely, and His Majesty will not blame the person who gave the performance."

Zhu Si said helplessly: "I'm afraid the memorials attacking me will pile up into a hill."

Zhu Haodao: "However, some of them will stand on His Majesty's side, and Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites can justifiably argue with His Majesty along with a group of people. As long as His Majesty has a tough attitude, Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites will not move, but The chief assistant of the cabinet, Chiang Kai-shek, will resign first."

"why is that?"

Zhu Si was puzzled.

Zhu Hao sighed: "When civil servants express their opinions, the chief assistant of the cabinet often can't rush to the front, which will cause discord between the monarch and the ministers, so he will find an agent to come forward, that is, Wang Shangshu and the officials he brought to discuss the ceremony with His Majesty. But if His Majesty is determined and needs civil servants to put pressure on His Majesty by resigning, etc., the chief minister of the cabinet must first stand up and express his position..."

Zhu Si suddenly realized: "It's no wonder that it was not the old man Yang who rushed to the front when it came to the big ceremony, but the one surnamed Mao. This is the reason for the relationship. Respectfully, if the person surnamed Jiang offered to resign, would I approve him?" ?”

"Ah."

Zhu Hao nodded, "It must be accurate, but Your Majesty must be careful."

"I don't know what is the measure?"

Zhu Si is like a student, earnestly learning political rules from Zhu Hao.

Zhu Haodao: "Property is to maintain the stability of the court. In layman's terms, it is to divide and disintegrate, draw in all the forces that can be drawn in, and find a balance point in it, so that others don't think that His Majesty let Chiang Kai-shek do it because of a big ceremony. Ge Lao left the court."

"This... how to play?"

Zhu Si was stunned.

You speak well, but I don't understand it.

Zhu Haodao: "This requires the cabinet elders Fei Ge and Liu Ge to stand on the side of Jiang Ge at the same time when it comes to the big ceremony, but when he resigns at the cabinet, His Majesty must retain Jiang Ge and Liu Ge Let the two of them stay in the court to stabilize the hearts of the people, so as to achieve the purpose of division, and let the courtiers understand that even if they are against His Majesty in the matters of the ceremony, they can stay in the court with peace of mind."

(End of this chapter)