Frankly speaking, Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't want Xu Jin to enter the cabinet to prepare for the plane, because he could already determine that Xu Jin was not an honest official.

If Xu Jin is just a pure Taoist minister, a pure conservative, abiding by the etiquette law, and would rather disobey himself, the emperor, than advise him to make a prince, Zhu Houzhao can also let him enter the cabinet for the sake of his good conduct and loyalty to the etiquette, just like Kang Hai.

But it is obvious that Xu Jin is not an official with such a good style, he is a selfish Qingliu civil official, and he is a sanctimonious hypocrite!

If not, Zhu Houzhao believed that after his eldest son Zhu Zailei told him that Pan Gu, an official of the Shuntian Mansion, purchased the inferior steel of the Xu family at a high price, and asked Zhu Zailei to adopt Pan Gu's suggestion and bribe the Xu family directly, Xu Jin's students would not have been in a hurry to admonish him that he would have established the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince earlier.

However, Zhu Houliangbai, who has entered old age, many times he can't do things based on his own subjective feelings, he has to be more rational, if he refuses Xu Jin to enter the cabinet at this time, he will naturally let Xu Jin, these Qingliu civil officials, know that they are dissatisfied with them, and may even directly realize that Zhu Zailei himself told himself about Pan Gu and the Xu family's greed for the money for the construction of the water supply project in Shuntianfu.

However, Zhu Houzhao did not want Xu Jin to realize it now, because he wanted these Qingliu civil officials to support a prince who would not actually take care of the interests of the bourgeoisie as them.

In this way, it is necessary for him, the emperor, to operate a scam, so that Xu Jin always thinks that the eldest son of the emperor and these princes take care of their civil officials.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao finally agreed to add Xu Jin to the cabinet with a clear conscience.

Xu Jin was naturally overjoyed when he learned that he had been promoted to a cabinet scholar, and his joy at this time was no less than the joy he felt when he was the first in the imperial examination.

His Xu family was equally happy, so much so that they threw a feast.

After all, Xu Jin's ability to enter the cabinet proves that the emperor still values Xu Jin, which means that the Xu family is still rich and noble, and the Xu family has just made a lot of money during the emperor's eldest son's reign as the Yin of Shuntian Mansion.

Xu Jin naturally didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor had taken him and his Xu family as prey in his mouth at this time, and when the Xu family grew a little bit, and then acted more and more unscrupulously, he would destroy the entire Xu family and make up for the country's losses with the blood of the Xu family.

Xu Jin is now very optimistic about the prospects of himself and his Xu family, because he feels that the emperor is old, and the new emperor is the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei, and Zhu Zailei takes good care of himself as a civil official, as long as he helps the emperor's eldest son to become the prince, at least for the next few decades, the Xu family will always be rich and noble.

In fact, many of the powerful families in the capital are very optimistic about this, and they are also very optimistic about the prospects of the Xu family, and even the Xu family, the Duke of Dingguo, recognized Xu Jin's own relatives, and Xu Jin also accepted a concubine with leisure and elegance, and staged a drama of an old husband and a young wife.

In the court, because Xia Yan regarded himself as the prime minister and did not give full equality to the civil officials, the complaints and dissatisfaction of the civil officials against Xia Yan increased day by day, and the Qingliu civil official Xu Jin, the new cabinet official, was naturally quite admired by the civil officials, so that Xu Jin's power and prestige in the cabinet increased greatly.

Zhu Houzhao is naturally insightful about these things, but he knows that if he wants the enemy to perish, he must first make him crazy, so he will also reward Xu Jin with something from time to time to show his favor for him.

Xu Jin became more and more proud.

But once a person is selfish, it means that he is also an ordinary person, and if he is an ordinary person, he will make fatal mistakes because of the temptation of some interests, but saints are different, saints are selfless and desireless, so it is difficult to make them make mistakes.

And although Xu Jin is a gentleman on the surface, he is almost a sage and a great Confucian Qingliu, but it is obvious that Xu Jin is a selfish ordinary person, so he will make some mistakes, and some mistakes he will feel stupid afterwards.

What's more, now is the time when he is proud of the spring breeze, so it is easier for him to be negligent and fall into the trap.

When the second prince Zhu Zaiwei left the capital, he knew about Xu Jin's entry into the cabinet, which made him not feel very good, because he is now basically sure that after his imperial brother Zhu Zailei continued to use the Shuntianfu water project money to buy the inferior steel pipes of the Xu family and bribed the Xu family in this way, Xu Jin has become a hardcore supporter of helping his imperial brother Zhu Zailei to be the crown prince.

Therefore, Xu Jin's becoming a cabinet scholar was the result that the second prince Zhu Zailei did not want to see, and he implemented his strategy, he decided to expose more of the Xu family's handles to his imperial brother Zhu Zailei, and see if his imperial brother Zhu Zailei would continue to shield Xu Jin.

Zhu Zailei went to Henan, which was a major grain-producing province in the Ming Dynasty, but because of the Yellow River, Henan also suffered disasters from time to time.

However, when Zhu Zailei was inspecting the embankment, a newly built railway pier suddenly collapsed.

Zhu Zailei felt bad, and was busy looking for people who had lived on the banks of the Yellow River for generations to take him to inspect other bridge piers, and he was surprised to find that the cement composition of the building materials of these bridge piers was very small, and even under the impact of the river, there was gradually a danger of collapse, and Zhu Zailei found that these collapsed railway steel were also inferior steel of the Xu family!

"This is simply a disaster for the country and the people, who gave the courage to dare to do this?!"

Zhu Zailei felt very terrible, he was the new supervisor of the Henan section of the Liangjing Railway, and naturally had the power to supervise railway affairs, so he hurriedly found Shao Ju, the political envoy of Youbu who was in charge of the construction of the Henan section: "Who gave you the courage to dare to do this?!" ”

"Your Royal Highness is angry, this matter was forced by the second son of the Xu family to do this, and the lower officials were helpless and did not dare to disobey", Shao Ju said and handed the letter to Zhu Zailei that the second son of the Xu family gave him.

Zhu Zailei immediately took it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be even more angry: "Bastard! This is a major project related to the national economy and people's livelihood, how can these profiteers be allowed to erode! ”

"Your Highness must not be angry, this is also an inevitable thing, the lower officials also know that this is not good, so they have not reported to the Ministry of Railways for a long time, saying that the Henan section is completed, just waiting for the new Lord Futai to come, and then discuss a good way, now I didn't expect that it is Your Highness you patrol Henan, the following officials see, this matter, Your Highness should not be quiet, after all, the current Pavilion Lao (Xu Jin) has just entered the cabinet, once this matter is exposed, Xu Ge Lao's career is small, but Your Highness, your storage position is big, Your Highness!"

Shao Ju, the political envoy of Henan, said with some emotion.

Zhu Zailei is now obviously able to conclude that Xu Jin is a moth of the empire, and even he began to be a little disgusted that these civil officials always use his position to blackmail him, which makes Zhu Zailei feel very aggrieved, he wants to be the prince, but does he really want to sit back and watch these moths exist in order to be the prince?

Zhu Zailei encountered a problem, of course he knew Xu Jin's status in the civil official group, and if he reported this matter to the imperial court, it would definitely cause an uproar, and he would offend the entire civil official group.

However, Zhu Zailei could not sit idly by and watch these civilian officials embezzle state assets, engage in tofu scum projects, and even become corrupt to the point of harming the people and destroying the foundation of the country.

"It's not appropriate for such a prince!"

Zhu Zailei couldn't help but say in his heart, he finally chose to expose this matter, he decided that he would rather not be the prince, and not let the interests of the country and the people suffer huge losses, after all, the corruption problem of railway construction in Henan is different from the Shuntianfu water project, the use of inferior steel in the Shuntianfu water project only involves the interests of the people of Shuntianfu, and now if there is a problem with the entire Liangjing railway, it means that the whole country will suffer huge losses!

Zhu Zailei didn't want to wipe his ass in the reigning Xu family this time, and he couldn't wipe it, and he couldn't stand the existence of such moths, so he finally directly submitted the impeachment to the Metropolitan Procuratorate urgently, and also explained the matter to Zhu Houzhao in the form of a family letter.

At this time, the capital is still singing and dancing.

Zhu Houzhao and Xu Jin didn't know these things yet.

Zhu Houzhao took his concubines to prepare for a spring outing, and Xu Jin also hugged the waist of his new concubine and let him gallop on himself, but he was old, and he was as soft as a puddle of mud in a few strokes, but he had a satisfied smile on his face.

But at this time.

The inspector of the East Factory has already surrounded his mansion with people.

Zhu Houzhao naturally knew the news first, he didn't expect Xu Jin's family to reach out to the Liangjing Railway, of course, what he didn't expect was that he, the eldest son of the emperor, would choose to expose this hot cabinet scholar who had just entered the cabinet.

This happened very suddenly, and Zhu Houzhao didn't expect it suddenly.

But now that this matter has been put on the bright side by Zhu Zailei, naturally no one can cover it.

After all, Zhu Zailei is the eldest son of the emperor and the governor of Henan, and he has hung up the post of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Now Daming's media industry is so developed that it is enough to let everyone in the world know about the sins of the Xu family within three months!

Even Emperor Zhu Houzhao could only take advantage of the situation at this time, and asked the Dongchang Inspectorate to immediately investigate Xu Jin's second son and temporarily suspend Xu Jin.

However, at the same time, Zhu Zailei was also suspended by Zhu Houzhao and summoned to Beijing, on the grounds that Zhu Zailei was also the person in charge of the Henan section of the Liangjing Railway, so he naturally wanted to enter Beijing to be personally interrogated by Zhu Houzhao, and of course, Zhu Houzhao actually wanted to protect Zhu Zailei's life.

Because Zhu Zailei is tantamount to offending many civilian officials by doing this, who knows if these people will do anything to take revenge.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are not without the courage to kill the emperor, let alone the prince.

Xu Jin was very surprised, he couldn't believe that it would be the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei who reported his own Xu family, when he saw his second son being escorted away by the Dongchang Inspectorate, he had a feeling of betrayal in his heart, and he felt extremely resentful of the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei all of a sudden!

"Why would he do it!"

Xu Jin was roaring in his heart, but he couldn't show such a mentality on his face, praising the emperor's eldest son for his selflessness, and on the other hand, he was negligent and regretted standing in the court without saying a word.

At the same time, Xu Jin also secretly told his second son not to betray the family.

Thereupon.

Xu Jin's second son admitted that all these things were done by himself, saying that he had nothing to do with his father.

Xu Jin's second son was naturally sentenced to death, and the Xu family also paid a huge fine, but Zhu Houzhao did not agree to let Xu Jin resign, after all, Xu Jin's crime could not be cured now, and Zhu Houzhao naturally would not let him retreat bravely.

This matter came to an end for the time being, and the Henan section of the Liangjing Railway could only be rebuilt, and the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Zailei, also returned to Henan, and under his supervision, the project did not go wrong.

With the passage of time, whether it is the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei or other princes, they have done a good job, such as the second prince Zhu Zaiyan, Zhu Houzhao found that under his management, Zhejiang Province's maritime trade income has been increasing.

However, Zhu Houzhao felt something strange, the sea trade seemed to be too calm, so that there were few cases of smuggling, but Zhu Houzhao did not want to force something out of nothing, he believed that if someone was playing with him, then whose fox tail would eventually be exposed.

The second prince Zhu Zaiyan is very happy now, after he learned that Zhu Zailei reported the dirty affairs of the Xu family and caused Xu Jin's second son to be executed.

Because the second prince knew that this meant that his imperial brother had cut himself off from the entire civil official group: "My imperial brother is still too sincere, and he can't rub sand in his eyes, and he really thinks that he is more sleek than before, but he didn't expect that he is still so full of justice!" ”

Zhu Zailei's behavior really angered the entire civil official group, making many civil officials begin to feel afraid of him, and worried that if Zhu Zailei really became the emperor in the future, whether he would become the second Zhengde emperor.

Therefore, the people of the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty were surprised to find that after this, the voices that asked the emperor to establish the crown prince early and follow the etiquette and law to establish the eldest son Zhu Zailei were much less, and even disappeared.

Zhu Houzhao realized this change, and he began to be more and more satisfied with Zhu Zailei's performance, but he knew that the civilian officials were becoming more and more disappointed in Zhu Zailei, but Zhu Houzhao didn't care about this, after all, the Ming Empire still had the final say.

Zhu Houzhao was also happy that no one bothered him with the matter of the country, but it happened that when the civil officials were not in a hurry to urge him to establish the crown prince, Zhu Houzhao had already made up his mind to make the emperor's eldest son Zhu Zailei the crown prince.

Obviously, Zhu Zailei's behavior of reporting the Xu family is not clever, but he upholds a public heart, so Zhu Houzhao made up his mind to make Zhu Zailei the crown prince to end the decades-long unresolved matter of establishing the prince.

It didn't take long for Zhu Houzhao to directly issue a decree to promote the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Zailei, to the head of the household, which naturally made the courtiers smell something, but many civil officials were not happy about it.

On this day, it happened that Zhang Juzheng Shangshu asked for the crown prince again to determine the country's foundation, and Zhu Houzhao summoned the ministers and said: "I have made up my mind, and I have decided to set up my eldest son Zhu Zailei as the prince according to the wishes of the people." ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhou Luo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is better to establish a virtuous person, but now the princes are stupid and ignorant, and the prince is a prince, so he should not be taken lightly, so the minister's advice should be carefully examined!" ”

"It's really weird, you said it was you who followed the etiquette law to establish a successor, and now you say that you are virtuous", Zhu Houzhao said coldly, and glared directly at Zhou Luo.

And Zhou Luo was so frightened that he crawled to the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister has never said anything about establishing a successor, but the choice of the prince is a national event, and it really can't be decided lightly!" ”

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