Walking in the lush Forbidden City, the Han generals along the way looked solemn, the eunuchs walked with their heads slightly bowed and small steps, like migrant workers who hurried to work in later generations, and the civil officials walked slowly and leisurely, talking and laughing.

Along the way, all the people who saw Xu Hao stopped to salute first, and they were faintly in awe, no matter how much Xu Hao appeared to be indisputable to the world, harmless to humans and animals, his identity as the first person in the military would be terrifying.

Xu Hao has always been wary of the current situation, it is a good thing for Mu Xiu to be in Lin, so he did not reform the current inefficient Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, so as not to be suspicious.

Then there is the relative friendliness of the ministers and the low profile of the nobles, who coexist peacefully with each other, and although they are satisfied with the current cabinet, they are also somewhat disappointed with the cautious cowardice of the first ministers.

The Yongle Dynasty, which was full of talents in history, was the first to create a precedent for the eunuch Wang Zhen's dictatorship to bring disaster to the country. Xu Hao pondered as he walked, Wang Zhen, where are you? Can we still have fun together?

The Wenyuan Pavilion on the side of the Wenhua Hall was busy, Hu Guang, who had just been promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet this year, sat in the innermost, Yang Shiqi sat beside him, and Huang Huai, Hu Yan and Yang Pu sat in the outermost, and Yang Rong, who had just returned to Beijing from Gansu, was saying something to everyone.

Sanyang, who is famous for posterity, is a newcomer with very shallow qualifications at this time, even Hu Guang is only the champion of Jianwen's second year, and other people's qualifications are not as good as that, so the cabinet is at best a secretarial institution and a group of consultants, and its status is far lower than that of the six books.

The only person with deep qualifications is Xie Jin, who has been the head of the cabinet in recent years, and some people praise him as the first talent in the Hongwu Dynasty, talented and outspoken, and there are many people who have offended.

Last year, Minister Li Zhigang and others impeached Xie Jin for "unfair reading of the court examination papers", and Xu Haoren was not in the capital at that time, and was demoted to the position of the Guangxi Political Secretary.

Xie Jin is Xu Hao's most important ally in the court, and while he is not demoted, he can't help but say that it is a warning call. Therefore, after Xu Hao returned to Beijing, he had been silently observing the shape shì.

Today's Yang Shiqi's message still contains a trace of hidden worries, his son Yang Ji and Hu Guan and other concubines have a very close past, if Chen Ying is ordered to continue to investigate, Yang Ji will definitely be implicated, then Yang Shiqi must go to the book to admit the mistake of his adopted son not teaching, and then be transferred out of the capital.

Then Xu Hao's two allies have stayed away from the center, and the rest of the ministers are not only friends with Xu Hao, but also Hu Guan is cautious, and he is a person who will never take his stance lightly, Yang Rongjin, Youzi, Hu Yan, Huang Huai, etc. Xu Hao worries that the next person who is close to him will be his turn, or it will be himself.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaochi looked at Mu Qingshuang in front of him with great interest, and asked with a smile: "Do you have a teacher when you study in the boudoir?" ”

Mu Qingshuang said with a smile: "As a woman, I don't dare to extend my teacher to sell my name, except for teaching some words by hand, my sister did not teach the scriptures, because she did not respect the teacher." ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "It's rare, your mother teaches her daughter well, and your intelligence is a gift from God." Is it okay to write a poem for me? ”

Accompanied by a number of ministers on both sides, Xu Hao happened to bump into this scene when he came in, and the lieutenant set up another low case next to the imperial book case, and moved the four treasures of the royal study to it.

Zhu Gaochi stood beside Qingshuang. Said happily: "You immediately think about it, and wait for me to see it for yourself." ”

Xu Hao smiled secretly in his heart, and saw Qingshuang write it in block letters on the paper, which was really a bit fluttering.

The Son of Heaven has a way. The fortune of heaven is bright, and the sense of the four seas is successful; The sense of the four seas is successful, in the name of the sacred civil and military.

Fortune is bright. The Son of Heaven has a way, and the four seas forget Dili's creation; The four seas forget the creation of Dili, and the nameless name is swept above.

The holy life is ten thousand years, the holy name is ten thousand, and the ministers are praised and praised. The minister praised and called Rui, and the little girl also had to write a pen to dedicate herself to the flattery.

The so-called thousands of clothes are not worn, Mu Qingshuang wrote poems in the genre of the Spring and Autumn Period, complimenting Emperor Hongxi, and similar gorgeous rhetoric is not uncommon in the court, and Xu Hao has always been very disgusted with such disgusting things.

Probably Zhu Gaochi wanted to leave a story for the ages today, and said happily: "The body is high and ancient, the words have a legacy of three hundred, and the idea is agile and talented." ”

Seeing this, the ministers had to praise each other a few words, Xu Hao smiled heartily, and secretly said that Qingshuang's trick could succeed.

Zhu Gaochi winked at him slightly, and said: "Qingshuang is the lord of Dali, a descendant of the Bai family's royal family, her status is noble and her virtue is extraordinary, you should choose a good son-in-law carefully, you can't lose yourself to the bandits, and hurt the transformation of my civilization." ”

Mu Qingshuang was overjoyed, it turned out that she had recently been suffering from being selected by Mrs. Mu from around to choose a son-in-law, so she simply ran to the palace to sell cuteness, and wanted to learn from her sister's example of choosing her own son-in-law when the emperor gave her, and asked the emperor to partner in a play, and now her wish has come true.

The girl of the Bai nationality is lively and bold, and she has had the custom of choosing her own husband since ancient times, so she wants Qingshuang to honestly marry a man she has never seen, how can she be willing?

Xu Haoxin said Qingshuang, Qingshuang, aren't you afraid of sheep falling into the mouth of the tiger? Sure enough, Zhu Gaochi's words changed sharply, and he said with a ghost in his heart: "In the past, Shangguan Wan'er of the Tang Dynasty dreamed that a god and a man gave him a scale to weigh the talents of the world. Today, I also give you a jade ruler, which can be used to measure the talents of the world for me. ”

It's just a joke from the emperor, so Mu Qingshuang can't move the capital if she doesn't want to be famous, it's not a good thing for a girl to be famous, Ning Xue was silent for many years because of this, and her aunt also went to the north for this reason to avoid the rights and wrongs of Jinling.

Xu Hao secretly laughed at Qingshuang's cleverness but was mistaken by cleverness, and Zhu Gaochi didn't dare to let Qingshuang enter the palace even if you were scheming.

Mu Qingshuang's stunning color is enough to amaze Zhu Gaochi, and the man's inferior nature is exposed, that is, he can't get a beauty, and others can't succeed.

After the officials dispersed, Zhu Gaochi asked with a smile: "It's rare that you came to see me at this time." ”

Xu Hao pointed at Qingshuang, who was secretly happily playing with the jade ruler, and said, "It's not to take her home, my wife wants to take her over to stay for a few days." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Gaochi thought for a while and said: "I just want to talk to you about something, Hu Guan was impeached for marrying a concubine privately, and the Zongren Mansion and Jinyi Wei will be tried, and this kind of thing must not be tolerated." ”

Xu Hao said calmly: "Hu Guan was born in a family of heroes, his father and brothers have all died, and it is understandable that he wants to spread out as a person. Everyone around him can marry a beautiful wife and concubine, even if he is a concubine, is it too harsh? But it is a sin to forcibly marry a woman. ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "Your words are reasonable, Hu Guan was married by the emperor's grandfather back then, and he couldn't help himself. Most of the husbands of the aunts died tragically. It can be seen that the marriage of the son of Xun Gui is not a fortunate thing. As you said, who would be willing to guard a woman for the rest of their lives if they were born rich and noble? I don't want my daughter to become a widow, so in the future, I will be the son of the common people's family, and I hope that the daughters will be safe and secure in the future. ”

Xu Hao nodded with a smile, very relieved in his heart, Zhu Gaochi did not want the princess to marry the Jingnan hero in order to stabilize the imperial power, obviously he had the intention of preserving everyone, unlike the daughter of Comrade Zhu. The relatives of the son-in-law's family were also killed.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no phenomenon of the queen seizing power and relatives interfering in politics, which was done well by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochi said again: "Yesterday, an official impeached Yang Shiqi for conniving at his son, and he was detained by me. Yang Shiqi has spent all these years compiling the Hongxi Ceremony, and he has no merit. By the way, Xie Jin has been an official outside for a year, and it's time to return to Beijing. ”

Xu Hao said quietly: "The minister has no right to intervene in personnel matters. But dare to guarantee the character of the two adults with their lives. ”

"I'm a little tired, Yang Rong just came back from the north and talked last night, I'm afraid the frontier is unstable." Zhu Gaochi's expression was slightly tired, "I know the personality of Xie Yang. Know you better, it is inevitable that Your Majesty will knock and knock appropriately. The so-called no one is perfect, Xie Jin did make a mistake in the matter of the examiner, and how Yang Shiqi did not restrain his son's words. Sooner or later, it will be affected. ”

Xu Hao nodded, Zhu Gaochi is indeed much stronger than Zhu Di, and Zhu Di is slightly suspicious and suspicious. Treat those who trust with suspicion, treat those who do not trust them with simple and rude direct elimination, never treat officials prudently, often relying on their own likes and dislikes.

In history, Zhu Di admired Xie Jin very much, but because of Zhu Gaoxu's slander and belief that Xie Jin was involved in the competition for the throne, he immediately turned his face and did not recognize anyone.

trusted Yang Shiqi, and the officials turned a blind eye to the mistakes of impeaching Yang Ji, so that Yang Ji became more and more emboldened, and after Zhu Di died, Yang Shiqi lost his official position because his son killed dozens of lives.

With the all-pervasive means of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, how could they not discover the guilt of the son of the cabinet minister? It was dozens of lives, probably because of Zhu Di's favor to Yang Shiqi, no one dared to stand up at that time.

Zhu Gaochi is as meticulous as a hair, he is better at dealing with civil officials, and his means of balancing civil and military officials are smarter and more ingenious, and today he easily convinced Xu Hao, and by the way, he resolved Xu Hao's counterattack.

took her sister-in-law out of the Forbidden City, on the way Mu Qingshuang looked at the prosperity outside the window, and shouted happily: "Brother-in-law, let's not go home, okay?" ”

Xu Hao was thinking about something, and said in surprise when he heard this: "Why? ”

Mu Qingshuang pouted and said, "There are people everywhere in the house, and I don't like so many rules and etiquette." I wanted to go back to Yunnan for a long time, but I didn't know my second brother very well. ”

Xu Hao said with a headache: "You are a big girl now, how can I take you to play?" ”

Mu Ningxue raised the white jade ruler and said, "It was inconvenient before, but now that you have this, what are you afraid of?" Besides, I thought my brother-in-law was a big hero, who knew that he was afraid of wolves and tigers, is reputation really that important? Do you still want to be the prime minister who will leave a name in history? ”

The unintentional words immediately stirred up a thousand waves, and Xu Hao suddenly realized that he had indeed become more and more conservative in the past few years, and he did everything to scruple about this and that, and he didn't dare to make a mistake at all.

Zhu Gaochi said intentionally or unintentionally today that no one is perfect, it seems that he is not trying to be perfect now! is not greedy for money or power, but always pays attention to the world's major events, and does good deeds everywhere Corporal Lixian invites people to buy people's hearts, giving people the illusion that he is planning to learn from Wang Mang?

Back then, in order to get close to Zhu Di, he took the initiative to pursue Ning Xue, opened a shop to chase money, and now he doesn't even give Yushi the identity of a concubine, although there are many women around him, they can be counted as maids.

Xu Hao looked at the tempting and delicious Qingshuang, and said with a straight smile: "This is what you asked for, don't blame me if you lose your body." ”

"Humph!" Mu Ningxue glanced at her soul, and snorted boldly and hotly, "What is the number of men my Bai daughter has before marriage?" I like my brother-in-law, and I've wanted to give you my virginity for a long time. (To be continued......)