Chapter 113: Restlessness
The rumors spread for several days, but there was no sign of displeasure or anger on the emperor, and the eldest prince waited and muttered in his heart, is this not taking the rumors seriously, or does he really have that plan, intending to point the winged king to the third prince as a concubine?
No matter how anxious Mu Zhao was, he didn't dare to venture into the truth, so as not to alarm the emperor, so he patiently secretly persuaded himself to calm down and wait for a while.
After such a day passed, Mu Zhao counted the days and stayed up, carefully observing his father's attitude towards the three princes in the court, and did not see anything unusual, no different from usual, he couldn't help but wonder how the three princes were so calm, is it really as guessed?
Mu Zhao returned to the mansion and called his staff to take a closer look, where should he go next, did he really have to wait until the power of the three princes grew stronger little by little under the deliberate laissez-faire of his father, and he was evenly matched with him.
Mu Zhao now deeply understands what kind of mentality the second prince Mu Rong made a rebellious choice, and the whole person slumped on the chair like a deflated pocket, looking out the window with empty eyes and the fragrance of birds and flowers.
The taste of sitting firmly in Diaoyutai Mu Rong has never tasted even once, the taste of being rushed to death is indeed felt every moment, the hanging heart can not let go, he has done everything that can and can't be done, and the result is nothing, however, he has not yet reached the same point as Mu Rong, he should not be depressed at this time, he can't be intimidated by the previous president, the turtle can't solve the problem by itself, is it true that he has to wait for the three princes to be full of wings and compete with himself?
Why, why should I wait, it's so stupid and incorrigible, Mu Zhao secretly scolded himself for being frightened and losing his previous sharpness, Mu Rong's death brought him too deep a blow, and he shuddered every time he remembered it, he didn't want to be the next Mu Rong, so he felt that if he didn't do anything and didn't provoke his father's suspicion, there would still be a glimmer of opportunity.
It's ridiculous. Mu Zhao silently laughed at his incompetence, where did he go when he was full of ambition before, but now he is more and more cautious and does not dare to take half a step, blindly telling himself that only patience will have hope. In my own impression, my father should be a long and long-standing emperor, but unfortunately I forgot a little, he is not a son-in-law, what is the use of taking the identity of the eldest son, his mother has now lost the favor of his father, and there are really not many hole cards in his hand, and it is not much worse than the three princes.
Although he said that he had the support of the maternal forces, he seemed to be strong, but he knew that the Yuan Mansion could not be used at all, who made his pro-foreign Gong Qinglu is the secretary of the military department. There is a title of Shangshu, the army is not touchable, there is someone else who is in charge, if the Yuan family dares to make small moves behind the scenes, the first person to ask the emperor is the Yuan Mansion. No doubt.
Yuanqing Road is not like the dead Hubu Shangshu Zuo Wei, a military general and a civil official don't have to guess, which one is more brainy, but the earliest one who died is also the smartest, who made Zuo Wei think he was smart, no wonder Mu Zhao couldn't protect him.
Just looking at Mu Zhao's previous sphere of influence, it was many times stronger than that of the third prince Mu Jinming, and there was a grandfather of the military department and a henchman of the household department. The military power of the military department and the money bags of the household department are all in their own hands, and the strength seems to be strong on the surface, but after Zuo Wei's death, his power was greatly reduced and deliberately weakened by his father, and it was not as good as before.
Mu Zhao now came back to his senses and pondered carefully, the reason why his father let it go was because of this. There is a grandfather who is still in the military department who can't use it, and there is a scheming henchman who is dying quickly, and he turns around and looks at what is left, there is nothing left, how ridiculous is it?
The third prince, Mu Jin, knows what he has. Lost his mother since he was a child, the Qi family was not close to him, he disliked him as an unpleasant person, and he did not want to associate with him, the power of the mother clan was not worth mentioning, and his knowledge was not very good but he was thrown to the household by his father not long after returning to the palace.
Mu Zhao was frightened by his sudden thought, and sat up suddenly, with frost in his eyes, no, whether it was true or not, he shouldn't sit still.
The arrival of the staff interrupted Mu Zhao's complicated thoughts, and he restrained his exposed expression, restoring the normal situation in front of him.
The rumors of the three princes and the winged king are flying all over the sky, and the three of them are becoming tigers, and it is almost an established fact under the mouths of the people, the emperor has not spit, and Mu Zhao is really useless.
There is humanity, the emperor can't see the result, or start from the prime minister, see what Ouyang Ye has in mind, whether he wants to marry into the prince's mansion or enter the palace as a concubine.
As soon as the words fell, someone objected, Ouyang Ye was an old fox, how could he really get something out of Ouyang Ye's mouth.
Someone else spoke, or if they didn't find someone to write a book, they would say that when the third prince reached his age, it was time to choose a side concubine, so as to determine which position the emperor would put the Wing King in.
Someone shook his head when he heard this, what should the emperor do if he delayed the appointment of the third prince as a minor concubine, you can't blindly try it, if you can't do it, you will have a big one.
Bigger? Mu Zhao relieved Wei Yang's confusion, and motioned for the man to continue.
"Blindly defending the city, blindly retreating is not the way." The man was insightful and said, "We are bound and our hands and feet are stagnant. ”
After hearing this, Mu Zhao thought it was true, and coincided with his thoughts, and a shallow smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"What kind of medicine do you want?" What the man said was not unreasonable, and they had always taken caution and temptation as the benchmark, but the result was very little, so that it was better to do a big job, so as not to be suffocated on their own one-third of an acre of land.
The example of the second prince is in the past, even if they are no longer brainless, they will not step on the old road taken by the second prince, and the prince has the advantage of having fewer princes.
First of all, the reputation of the three princes is ruined, the reputation is not good and the farther away from the prince, there is no talent and no virtue to be spurned, it can have an unexpected effect than killing a person, as a prince, you need to have both ability and political integrity, and the three princes and the eldest prince are a big difference.
With the three princes and the winged king first, it is easy to do the following, and if the matter is big, it will be said that the three princes robbed the emperor's woman, which is against filial piety, and this alone can make the three princes discredited.
Not to mention the risky method, Mu Zhao is worried that the follow-up will be out of control, and if his father makes a big move for this and orders a thorough investigation, it is very likely that he will fall into embarrassment.
Mu Zhao was undecided, and the reputation of the other three princes was planted by himself, and the gains outweighed the losses.
The eldest prince's concerns are not unreasonable, some people retreated, and during this period of time, they calmed down and observed the development of the situation before making a decision, and the third prince could not reach such a height as the eldest prince at once.
Mu Zhao waved his staff away in distraught. I was quiet by myself, and I relied on my staff to make an idea, which time I had an ideal harvest, no, it's not that the strategy is bad. Either he doesn't agree, it's just that the situation is changing and the chess is a bad move, it's just that he can't come in a hurry, what's the use of being in a hurry, Mu Rong's death is imminent, let's stop.
Mu Rong is determined to practice forbearance to the extreme, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, isn't it just a third prince who has not grown all his hair, what is he afraid of. It's a big deal, the net is broken, and he still has an heir, don't think about it for the third prince, he will be defeated when the time comes, but he will be the biggest winner. Who remembers that the emperor's heir is thin, and who can be blamed?
Thinking about this, the blocked heart was swept away, the whole person instantly felt comfortable physically and mentally, the look in his eyes came back again, and Mu Zhao's whole person became different.
The third prince, Mu Jinming, was busy grabbing power in the household department at this time, fighting wits and courage with those old foxes. Without the previous mind of contemptuous fun, the whole person is like a sharp sword out of the sheath, with an incomparably sharp edge, and the mentality of the household officials has not changed much, and they sneer at it lightly, and the officials who are not optimistic about the three princes are miserable now. I have tasted the cruel situation of what makes people block and kill people and Buddhas and prevent and kill Buddhas, how can it be summed up in a miserable way.
No one in the household can escape the sharp blade of the three princes, and if you don't wait for you to react to the knife on your neck, you have to never obey and never follow, otherwise you know how to write dead words. Even if it is sued in front of the emperor, it is difficult to speak, the household department is fat and lacking, and the big and small officials always have a head, how can there be a good official with a real two-sleeved breeze, so in front of the emperor can't run to go to the criminal department to take a look, it is better to follow the will of the three princes, so that the official position can be guaranteed, and the small life does not have to be compensated, hello, I am good, everyone is good, no one really dares to toast and not eat and drink.
For the old fritters that are difficult to gnaw, Mu Jinming has learned a profound lesson, and implemented the method to the end, the old man who is not satisfied and stubborn, okay, he has the ability to go to the criminal department to say how wronged he is and how loyal he is to the emperor, since he is loyal, how to take the emperor's silver into his pocket, don't think that you can't really take it without account books and no evidence, just copy the house, and count it in public after copying, and find out if there is any greed.
Many officials with qualifications were defeated one after another, and the officials of the other five ministries shook their heads when they looked at the excitement, unable to help for fear that the disaster would lead them to disaster, and only sighed that the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger.
The water to the clear is no fish, the iron law summed up by the past dynasties, the eyes are full of fallacies, and the clear water can also raise fish, but in order to enrich their own pockets, the excuse made up, fortunately, there is no burden in the heart when reaching out, and the generous take the country's silver to live happily, blindly let the raised are borers, and the practice of killing chickens and monkeys has been deterred for a time rather than a lifetime.
According to the meaning, corrupt officials and corrupt officials should be killed, and a batch of kills will be replaced by a batch, and the remaining officials will be numb in their scalps, and they will deeply remember what should be done and what should not be done.
Mu Jinming's behavior was beyond everyone's expectations, the household department seemed to have become the territory of the three princes, and he couldn't express his dumbfoundedness, compared to the style of the Wing King, cough, he didn't dare to use the word young and frivolous, for fear of flashing his tongue.
Mu Haoyu praised Mu Jinming's means of acting, he should be decisive in doing things, and wasting time with those officials, one is a minister and the other is a king, he doesn't need to give a good face to be a slave, he doesn't need to change people directly, there are many people who want to sit in that position, and those who don't know how to promote should let Xian get ahead as soon as possible.
Mu Jinming lowered his head and listened to his father's teachings, without mentioning the meaning of yes, now looking at his father at close range, his face is indeed no longer as ruddy and bright as a normal person, his heart is dull, he is not careful, he ignores his father's body, he only wants to be happy, it is really unfilial, just like the day when the eldest prince Mu Zhao doesn't want to see his full wings, why don't he want to be trampled to death Mu Zhao, it's a hundred.
Although it is a good strategy to paralyze the enemy, it is not absolutely effective, and halving the time will also have an impact on itself and even break the overall layout, there is nothing wrong with a little bit of cannibalization, what is wrong is that the timing is wrong, Mu Jinming should not compete with the officials of the household department, and the key point is that if you don't see the plan clearly, you can't go according to the desired result.
Mu Jinming thought back to what he had done, and felt that he had made a fool, and his father did not point out that he hoped that he could figure it out, and he would not scruple to say anything, and poured a basin of cold water on his head, completely sober.
didn't have the heart to care if Mu Jinming figured out what horrific things he had done, and went into the craftsman's pile to watch the first gun take shape with his own eyes.
There was a little progress in the question of springs, and there was confidence that a better one could be made, and the craftsman's affairs had to be reconsidered.
The three princes showed their minions for the first time, and the ability they showed, the officials of the court and China were stunned, they thought it was a straw bag that couldn't support the wall, but they thought it was a golden jade wrapped in straw clothes, and whether they looked away left a lot of controversy for a while.
No one has ever understood the person of the Three Princes, just hearsay has fascinated the eyes of many people, the Three Princes are not famous, and they are amazingly famous, and the officials of the Great Prince's faction are particularly nervous.
Some people don't think that the three princes have real talent and real learning, either the emperor instructed the three princes to do it, or they draw a gourd to learn from the method of the Yiwang to deal with the Ministry of Industry, and turn around or transfer it to the emperor.
There are not many who are really optimistic about the three princes, age is one thing, and the means are another, the ministers like to deal with the master gently, and they don't like the master who puts people in prison at every turn, the former gives some face to see the feelings, and the latter turns his face faster than turning a book, killing people is like killing a pig without blinking his eyes, for his own career and his own life, the former is more supported by officials, and he is good at doing things under the good-tempered master, followed by a moody master, his head has to be hung on the waistband of his pants all the time, and he is worried every day, is it a person who does the most dangerous thing with a meager salary? In contrast, there is no need to reconsider the opinions at all.
Although the young master is easier to handle, it is also to determine that the young master is really a soft persimmon without talent and virtue, and it is convenient to start it, on the contrary, he may be able to pierce his hand, after all, it is the prince and grandson, although the minions are weak, there is still its edge, and if you can't get it, you will be poked blind, and you don't need to talk about the future, the whole province.
Anxious to be anxious, no one dares to encourage the eldest prince to attack the third prince, in extraordinary times, you can do whatever you want, living examples are in front of you, and you can weigh it yourself.
Mu Jinming dug out the craftsman's room in the Ministry of Industry, it was already nine days later, Hongrui came back, Hongming took the task and left early, and the selected forbidden army was sent to the valley outside the city in batches, and they were greeted with unforgettable days.
"I haven't seen you in a few days." Mu Jinming complained that he ran to the workshop of the Ministry of Works, and he didn't even have time to go into the palace to accompany him and his father to dinner.
"You're not busy." Raising his eyebrows and looking at Mu Jinming, the household seems to be pinched in Mu Jinming's hands, and there are many people who are secretly making ghosts, and they can't compare to being idle.
"Didn't you say you wanted to combine work and rest?" Mu Jinming's words blocked people, and he and his father were worried that they would be too serious and tired.
"I just watch other people do it." I don't know how to forge iron, I don't need to work hard just to look at it, I don't feel tired, I have to try and change things when I make them, and the time is pressing.
"That's not going to work either." Mu Jinming said toughly: "The workshop is full of men with bare arms, and it's hot and smelly, where are you staying." "He was distressed.
"Things are important, don't look at them and don't feel at ease." I plan to pick out skilled craftsmen and take them for my own use.
"You are not afraid that those craftsmen will be nervous when they see you, and they will not be able to do the things in their hands well." Mu Jin emphasized clearly.
I couldn't laugh or cry, "What you said is all crooked, if you are really afraid of me, are you still a man?" "It's ridiculous, I'm not a flood beast, as for being so scared that I forget everything, the craftsman eats by his craft, not just by his head.
"Shi can't talk about you, you go back and talk to the above." In the Ministry of Industry, Mu Jinming will not say the word father, and he must be careful if the wall has ears.
"How did you become a mother-in-law?" Tilted his head and looked at Mu Jinming, "I will remember to take care of myself, and so will you, it will be fine if there are three more days, and now I won't come out, just three days and so on." ”
"Then you're going back tonight." Mu Jinming has always been okay.
"Okay." should be next.
is so serious, the matter itself is important Mu Jin knew it, so he didn't say anything more.