"What's wrong with him?"

"He shouldn't have sent Zhang Juzheng to the southeast for the benefit of the southeast. If Zhang Juzheng is still in Beijing, Xu Jie can cultivate Zhang Juzheng. Now although Xu Jie has been reprimanded by His Majesty because of the affairs in the southeast, and the Xu Party is also declining, the Xu Party will not perish immediately, and he has time to cultivate Zhang Juzheng. However, now that Zhang Juzheng is in the southeast, it is not so easy to transfer Zhang Juzheng back. ”

Lu Tingfang shook his head and said: "Don't talk about him, you have been reused by Your Majesty this time, if you solve the southeast problem for Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty is jealous of you, it is impossible not to reward you at all." How are you going to do that? ”

Luo Xin smiled bitterly and said, "Father-in-law, the water in this capital is too deep, and it is too dangerous to stay by Your Majesty's side." It is the companion who is like a tiger, and I wonder if to release it again. With my current grade, with the addition of this meritorious service, if I am released, I can be a governor and a feudal official. ”

"Confused." Lu Tingfang scolded unceremoniously.

Luo Xin's expression was stunned, and he looked at Lu Tingfang with some puzzlement. Lu Tingfang stretched out his finger and pointed at Luo Xindao:

"Still not convinced, are you?"

Luo Xin smiled and said, "No, I just don't understand." ”

Lu Tingfang said: "Don't look at me, I only do a five-grade official, but I have also been in the officialdom all my life, and I really know too much about those things in the officialdom." The reason why I didn't continue to be promoted was not because I couldn't see the officialdom clearly, but because I was not capable enough and I didn't want to be a person who tended to be inflammatory.

And you are different, you have the ability, I can say that in the entire Ming Dynasty, no one is more capable than you, so you don't have to be inflammatory, do your best, and you will have a bright future.

However, before that, you must thoroughly understand this officialdom, otherwise no matter how capable you are, you will also fall on the officialdom. ”

"Please ask my father-in-law for advice."

"Do you know what your biggest problem is right now?"

"What?"

"Age!" Lu Tingfang said seriously: "You are too young, look around you, is there a twenty-year-old person who has already achieved the rank of fourth?" Although it is only a James Mansion left concubine. However, once you are redeployed, you are likely to be promoted to the third grade. For example, after your meritorious service this time, you will be released as a governor and be promoted from the third grade. It's too provocative, too jealous.

How many people?

Yes?

How many people can't touch the edge of the third grade in this life, you are only twenty years old from the third grade, do you say that all the officials will have no opinion on you? Will it not isolate you?

If you think about it, the reason why Xu Jie is called the Xu Party is that there are a large number of officials rally around him.

The reason why Gao Gong is called Gao Dang is also because of the large number of officials who rally around him.

But what about you?

In addition to yours, how many other officials rallied around you? ”

Luo Xin scratched his head and said, "I should have a lot of people who follow me in the army, right?" ”

"That's a!" Lu Tingfang glared and said, "Unless you want to rebel." ”

Luo Xin laughed there wryly, and secretly said in his heart, I have made friends with forces in the army, and I was originally prepared to rebel when necessary.

Lu Tingfang didn't know what Luo Xin was thinking, and continued to point out the country: "Civil official, do you know? It is necessary to have the power of civil officials. With your abilities, your future is the capital of the Cabinet. If you want to be the head of the cabinet, you must have your own circle of civil servants. However, your current civil service circle is too narrow. ”

"There's no way around it." Luo Xin spread his hands and said: "My age is there, even if it is the same year, some older ones may not be willing to obey me." I'm also uniting some of the younger ones who are older than me. ”

"So you have to boil, keep a low profile."

"I'm very low-key, that's why I want to go out. I can't survive in the capital, I'm too conspicuous. ”

"Why can't you survive?" Lu Tingfang glared and said: "Don't be promoted, at your age, the fourth rank is already very high, you can use your brains at the rank of the fourth grade." ”

"Not promoted?"

"Not bad!" Lu Tingfang nodded and said: "Find a way to become a Hanlin Bachelor, you, the left concubine of the James Mansion, can concurrently serve as a Hanlin Bachelor, and the Ming Dynasty has this precedent." If you become a Hanlin Bachelor, you will be able to hand over the Gurgis, which is your capital, and those Gurgis are your students, and they will gather around you. Moreover, if you stay up for two or three terms, two terms are six years, and three terms are nine years. Even if it is nine years, you are only twenty-nine years old at that time, and you should have been promoted in those years, and there will be many fourth-rank and fifth-grade officials in it.

At that time, you have a foundation, and your friends have also taken root in the court, so it is logical that you can consider joining the cabinet. Then boil it, boil all the people in front of you, and you can become the head of the cabinet. ”

Luo Xin smacked his mouth twice, according to what Lu Tingfang said, Luo Xin should finally be able to reach the position of the cabinet capital, but it will take fifteen years. And Luo Xin thinks why can't he go out first? First promoted to the third grade, and then transferred back to the capital, it is the third grade, isn't it faster?

"Father-in-law, this entry into the cabinet does not conflict with the release, right? Do you think Zhang Juzheng will be released? If Xu Jie's time is given and Zhang Juzheng is transferred back, it is different to cultivate into the cabinet? ”

Lu Tingfang glanced at Luo Xin with slanted eyes and said, "Zhang Juzheng has been a bachelor of Hanlin. ”

"What does this have to do with Master Hanlin?" Luo Xin asked puzzled.

"Of course it does!" Lu Tingfang hated the iron and said with a grudge of iron: "You are also familiar with the history of this dynasty, think about it, did all the successive cabinet capitals of this dynasty all have been Hanlin scholars, or served as six scholars, and finally entered the cabinet and became the cabinet capital?"

Is there anyone who has not been a scholar of Hanlin or a scholar of the Six Books, but who has been a feudal official outside the country, entered the cabinet and became the capital? ”

Luo Xin twisted his eyebrows and thought, Luo Xin has a deep study of the history of this dynasty. When he was in Hanlin Academy, when he was fine, he studied the history of this dynasty. At this time, the historical scenes of the Ming Dynasty flashed in his mind, and the information of the cabinet capitals flashed in his mind one by one, and his face gradually showed a solemn color.

Because he found that the facts were really exactly the same as what Lu Tingfang said, there had never been a feudal official, a scholar who had never been a scholar of Hanlin, or a person who had not been a scholar of the Six Books, who had entered the cabinet and became the capital of the cabinet. I couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Father-in-law, why is that?"

"These are two rivers that first intersected, but later they diverged further and further, never to meet again."

"Two rivers?"

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