Chapter 693: Everyone is an old fox
Cabinet.
No matter what kind of fluctuations have taken place in the court situation, the daily handling of government affairs must be maintained, but because Li Tingji, a scholar of Dongge University, has been on leave for a few days, there are only four cabinet ministers left who are working in the cabinet these days.
Today is the meeting of the cabinet to discuss the selection of people for Suzhou Mansion, and Zhu Geng came to the cabinet early, but to his surprise, the first assistant Wang Xijue came earlier than him.
"I've seen Motosuke!"
I vaguely felt that something was wrong in my heart, but Zhu Geng didn't show it, and respectfully bowed and said.
"Shaoqin is here, let's sit down first, this is the list handed over by the officials, you can take a look first!"
Wang Xijue looked as usual, pointing to the chair next to him.
I took out a list from my side and handed it over.
This made Zhu Geng's heart even more confused, but he could only take it silently, but after seeing the content of the list clearly, his brows were furrowed, and his tone suddenly became a little cold.
"I can't imagine that at such an age, Gensuke has begun to take care of his protégé?"
On the list handed over by Wang Xijue, there are only three people's names, the first one is Wang Xijue's fellow countryman, Wang Yingjiao, the second is Han Yi, who is the main promoter of the Imperial Party, and the last one is Guo Weixian, who is the main promoter of the Zhejiang Party.
Of course, Zhu Geng has a deep foundation in the court, so he naturally knew the content of the list a long time ago, in fact, he was also prepared, after so many years in the court, Zhu Geng deeply understood a truth, before the dust settled, no one knew what the result would be.
Although he didn't know what happened to make the Son of Heaven so angry with Li Tingji, one thing was certain, the Son of Heaven was really angry, otherwise, he would not have punished Li Tingji, the leader of the imperial party, in this way.
Obviously, Li Tingji's behavior at the last court meeting was his own reckless behavior, which also gave them the opportunity to seek this errand.
Zhu Geng never thought that the emperor would willingly hand over the Qin mission to the Zhejiang party, and the emperor would definitely want to leave such a great achievement to the imperial party, but because of the situation, he had to issue an order and hand it over to the cabinet.
As for the situation of the Imperial Party, Zhu Geng knew in his heart that there were two people who could serve as the Qin Mission, one was one of the three giants of the Imperial Party, Ye Xianggao, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and the other was Zuo Yude Han Yi.
Ye Xianggao needless to say, although he and the Son of Heaven do not have the name of teachers and students, they have the fact of teachers and students, as one of the three giants of the Imperial Party, they are slightly less qualified than the first two, but it is easy to win this Qincha.
Whether it is prestige or official qualifications, as long as he is willing to come forward, no matter who the Zhejiang Party comes up with, it will not be comparable, perhaps in other aspects, the Zhejiang Party can barely find one that can compete with it, but Ye Xianggao still has the skill of Conglong on his back, which is incomparable.
So what Zhu Geng was most afraid of was that the emperor handed Ye Xianggao out in order to seek stability, if this is the case, even if he doesn't use any means, the imperial party can get this errand.
Of course, in this case, it is too much waste for the imperial party, with Ye Xianggao's qualifications, what is needed is to stay up for a full year, and then transfer in the ministry and prepare to enter the cabinet.
Such things that go to the local errand are often done by juniors who need to accumulate qualifications, and few bigwigs in the faction really put down their identities to do these things, take the Zhejiang Party as an example, the qualifications are much deeper, not to mention anything else, if Zhu Geng himself goes up to compete, who can be more qualified than him?
But he is a dignified minister, and if he really wants to go up and compete with a group of juniors, he will be poked in the back.
And Ye Xianggao's identity is a special situation between the junior and the bigwig, he is not only the boss of the imperial party, but at the same time he is also very young, just like the older but younger characters in the clan.
With his identity, he shouldn't have waded into such troubled waters, but if he really wanted to, no one else could say anything.
Therefore, Zhu Geng's first thing to do is to make the person promoted by the imperial party become Han Yi, it should be said that this is not as difficult as imagined, the emperor relies on Han Yi very much, this is a well-known thing, now Han Yi has not yet entered the court, just waiting for a great achievement to accumulate qualifications, so Zhu Geng boldly guessed that the emperor should be very hesitant in his heart, whether to send Han Yi or Ye Xianggao to fight for this errand.
What he wants to do is to help the emperor make this determination, in fact, it is very simple, and the focus is on the officials!
What happened at the court meeting, if Zhu Gengdong watched the fire and changed places, he would definitely think of ways to curry favor with the emperor, and Sun Piyang would be even more so in order to keep his official position, and this errand was a good opportunity.
So he kept an eye on it when recommending candidates, and recommended Pei Yingzhang and Guo Weixian, Pei Yingzhang's qualifications are profound, his official position is prominent, and he can hardly find fault with it, but Guo Weixian is more than a step behind, and he has just returned to the DPRK and is not familiar with the big disadvantage of court affairs, although it is stronger than Han Yi, but the strength is limited.
And in addition to recommending the two candidates of the Zhejiang Party, he did not exert any pressure on Sun Piyang, in order to sell his favor to Sun Shangshu.
He believed that the emperor could also see Sun Shangshu's position, and this list would definitely be seen by the emperor in some way before it was sent to the cabinet.
What he has to do is to make the emperor feel that the Zhejiang Party has taken the Qincha matter as a bag, and has put a heavy pressure on Pei Yingzhang.
In this way, in the eyes of the emperor, things have taken a turn for the better, compared with Pei Yingzhang, Han Yi is too bad, and if he wants to fight for the errand, he can only shoot Ye Xianggao, but if there is only Guo Weixian, Han Yi may not be able to compete with him.
Sure enough, as Zhu Ge Lao expected, Sun Shangshu really deleted Pei Yingzhang's name, and the emperor also summoned Han Yi and Shoufu to the palace with great fanfare, presumably to build momentum for Han Yi.
And Zhu Geng also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the emperor sent Han Yi out, he was confident that he would win the errand over, and the flaws he left behind, if he played with himself, it would be too ridiculous and generous, and he had already made up his mind for today's memories.
It's just that what surprised him a little was the appearance of Wang Yingjiao, the Son of Heaven suddenly summoned Wang Yingjiao to Beijing to report on his work, which made Zhu Geng a little surprised, but after he checked Wang Yingjiao's resume, he didn't care, the Son of Heaven wanted Yuanfu to do things for him, and he always had to give some benefits, Wang Yingjiao is Yuanfu's fellow countryman, and it is also the right thing to carry out.
But what he didn't expect was that Wang Yingjiao was also included in this list, and he was ranked first, which made Han Yi suddenly feel a little bad, could it be that he guessed wrong, the Son of Heaven was willing to hand over this great work to outsiders?