In modern times, for the college entrance examination party, June is the parting season, and the current capital is also the parting season. The major restaurants in Ming Shifang, the long pavilion and the short pavilion in the suburbs of Beijing, are all the figures of the scholars to bid farewell, and Xu Jin also participated in several farewell banquets in Jiangxi Province in the same year.

In late June, the new science and technology scholars who were released were basically gone, and Xu Jin also resumed his life at two points and one line. The advantage of not having to go to the morning pilgrimage is that you can sleep comfortably until dawn every day, and then go to work in the Hanlin Academy after eating breakfast calmly.

Xu Jin's work is leisurely and calm, but the court is not calm at all, and it is even full of gunpowder.

At the court meeting on June 16, Shi Xuan, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, acted as the vanguard and once again put forward the "discussion examination". The so-called "discussion examination", as the name suggests, is to discuss the imperial examination, and to put it bluntly, it is to determine who Emperor Jiajing's father is!

The traditional ministers, headed by Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, insisted that the little emperor call Emperor Hongzhi the imperial examination, and call his biological parents the imperial uncle and the imperial uncle. Zhu Houxi naturally refused, but he was alone, and he couldn't distinguish the ministers who quoted the scriptures, so he simply retreated from the court and drove back to the palace in a fit of anger.

However, the traditional ministers who thought they were in charge of the situation obviously did not intend to give Emperor Jiajing a chance to breathe, and vowed to give the matter of "Emperor Laozi" in one go, so the recitals of the courtiers and the officials of the science and Taoism flew to the desk of the little emperor like snowflakes.

Zhu Houxi was shocked and angry, he was a stubborn person, but the aggressiveness of the ministers completely angered him, and he simply ordered the master of ceremonies to keep all the notebooks in the middle, and filled a few large baskets, and almost took them to the imperial dining room on the spot and burned them.

The Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty all have a urine that is not afraid of death, and the little emperor's approach did not discourage them, but was more high-spirited.

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On June 28th, the weather was fine, Xu Jin returned to work in the Hanlin Academy as usual, spent a few hours in the hospital, and sneaked out near noon.

"Xu Hanlin stays!"

Xu Jin just slipped out of the Hanlin Courtyard, and was about to leave when he heard someone calling him, he couldn't help but be startled, and thought that he had been caught with braids, but when he looked back, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said: "It turned out to be Brother Bingyong!" ”

The person who came was Zhang Xuan, and he laughed twice with his beard: "Brother Ziqian, it's abrupt, where are you going?" ”

Zhang Xuan is forty and eight this year, and now he is the status of a Jinshi who views politics, and has not yet been specifically conferred an official, so he is still wearing a dark blue Jinshi uniform and a black gauze Jinshi scarf, obviously just returning from attending the court meeting.

Slipping into being bumped into by a colleague, Rao is Xu Jin was thick-skinned and a little embarrassed, and lied: "I was about to go to the restaurants on the street for lunch, the food in the hospital, hehe, Brother Bingyong understands!" ”

Zhang Xi couldn't help but suddenly realize that the public meal was provided by the big kitchen, and the taste was indeed not as delicious as the restaurants outside, and it was normal for young people like Xu Jin to not like to eat, so he smiled: "I happen to be hungry in the next place, if Brother Ziqian doesn't mind, why don't you go?" ”

Xu Jin couldn't help but be speechless, he was going to sneak home, no matter how good the food outside was, it was not as good as the lady's "love meal", but at this time, it was already difficult to ride a tiger, so he had to bite the head and say: "If you want it, please use your brother!" ”

So the two went to the street together and found a fairly clean restaurant. Xu Jin originally wanted to find a random spot in the lobby, but Zhang Xuan asked for a private room and made it clear that he was in for a treat.

Xu Jin couldn't help but move in his heart, Zhang Xuan had nothing to do and was courteous, it seemed that he was asking for something!

Sure enough, after being full of wine and food, Zhang Xuan took out a playbook from his arms, and said with a smile: "Brother Ziqian, I have a little experience in observing politics in the next day, so I wrote a playbook and want to ask Brother Ziqian to refer to it in detail." ”

"Brother Bingyong is polite!" Xu Jin quietly took the notebook and opened it, not daring to say a secret, isn't this the famous "Great Gifts" in later generations!

"The court said that the emperor entered the heir of the great sect, it is appropriate to call the emperor Xiaozong the emperor, change the name of the king of Xingxian as the emperor's uncle Xingxian king, Xingxian princess as the emperor's uncle and mother Xingxian princess, but only stick to the story of King Tao of Han Ding and King Song Pu, it is said that the latter is the son of the latter, and he is not allowed to revisit his private relatives......

Husband, how can there be a country without parents in the world! The ministers established the Qing Dynasty, and they were indignant and heartbroken, and they had to distinguish the matter for the emperor......"

At this time, what Zhang Xuan showed to Xu Jin was the famous "Great Rites", and it was also this recital on Zhang Xuan that set off the "Great Rites Discussion" controversy in the early years of Jiajing, which directly led to the split of the courtiers into two factions, one faction was the Puyi faction headed by Yang Tinghe, and the other faction was the upstart faction headed by Zhang Xuan and Ji Cao.

Why is Zhang Zhang's "Great Gifts" so powerful?

Because it poked at Yang Tinghe's weakness like a sharp sword, the reason why Yang Ge Lao was able to confidently let Zhu Houxi change his recognition of Emperor Hongzhi as his father was based on the precedent of King Dingtao in the Han Dynasty and King Pu in the Song Dynasty.

And Zhang Xuan's "Da Li Shu" just grasped this point as a breakthrough, because whether it was King Dingtao of the Han Dynasty or King Pu of the Song Dynasty, he was raised in the palace since he was a child and cultivated as the heir to the throne, but Zhu Houxi's situation is different, he has lived in the vassal country since he was a child, raised by his biological father King Xing, and has never promised to recognize Emperor Hongzhi as his father. In addition, Zhu Houxi is still an only son, and according to the etiquette law, an only son cannot be passed on to others.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Xuan's "Great Rites" refuted, the most powerful basis for Yang Tinghe's proposition became untenable, and the ministers who had originally firmly supported Yang Ge Lao began to split, some people turned to support Zhang Zhang, and of course some speculators were trying to curry favor with the emperor.

Emperor Jiajing was suffering from isolation, and suddenly got Zhang Xuan's "Great Gifts", which was naturally like a treasure, and Zhang Xuan was also appreciated by Emperor Jiajing.

At this time, Xu Jin closed the notebook, his mood was quite contradictory, he was once an old fox who was up and down in the business sea, how could he not understand Zhang Zhang's purpose of giving himself "Axe Zheng" in "Da Li Shu", it was nothing more than to hand over the notebook to the little emperor by himself, you must know that if he handed over the notebook through the cabinet, it would definitely be intercepted, and it was very likely that it would not reach the little emperor's desk.

Emotionally, Xu Jin naturally wanted to help Zhu Houxi, but reason told him that this "Great Rites" was the fuse that triggered the "Great Rites Discussion" dispute, and the final result was that Yang Tinghe and other ministers all resigned. Of course, these are secondary, the most important thing is that Emperor Jiajing began to indulge in the study of "rites", built temples on a large scale, and engaged in various sacrificial activities.

Zhang Xuan saw that Xu Jin had finished reading it, his eyes were hiding hope, and he asked with a mustache: "What does Brother Ziqian think?" Please don't hesitate to give advice! ”

Xu Jin was quite entangled, nodded and said: "Reasonable, very good, the emperor should be happy when he sees this recital!" ”

Zhang Xuan was secretly overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Brother Ziqian, this recital ...... That, can you please transfer it to the emperor, the current situation in the court, hehe, Brother Ziqian understands! ”

Xu Jin took Zhang Zhang's "Great Gifts" into his arms, and said casually: "Look at it again, if I have the opportunity to meet the emperor, I will present it for Brother Bingyong." ”

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed and arched his hand: "There is such a brother Lao Ziqian!" ”

The reason why Zhang Xuan asked Xu Jin for help so reassuringly was not because of how iron his friendship with Xu Jin was, but because he felt that Xu Jin was an out-and-out "royalist", and he would definitely not refuse anything that was beneficial to the emperor.

After the two finished eating, they opened the restaurant, Xu Jin no longer concealed it, and went home directly, while Zhang Xuan went back to the official office to continue working.