Chapter 451: The Cabinet's Thoughts
In front of the mansion of Du Yushi Wang Lun, today can be described as very lively, because today is the day when Zhou Zhong took Jinxuan back to visit relatives, and now Jinxuan has been officially canonized as Princess Zhao, and her identity is very different, so she went home to visit relatives Naturally, the road in front of the mansion was blocked by the escort car alone.
Speaking of which, Wang Lun never thought that a family affair he set at random back then would make his daughter become a princess all of a sudden. Originally, Wang Lun was already very satisfied with Zhou Chong's son-in-law, after all, Zhou Chong was able to become a feudal official at a young age, which is not something that anyone can do, and he has also heard about Zhou Chong's overseas affairs, and there are millions of victims who survived because of this alone.
However, Zhou Chong's surprise to Wang Lun is far more than the above, a few days ago Zhengde announced Zhou Chong's true worth at the court meeting, and named Zhou Zhong as the king of Zhao, Wang Lun, who was standing in the court at that time, was the most shocked person, and even he didn't know how to end the court meeting, but vaguely felt that many people gathered around him to congratulate him, after all, Wang Lun can have a prince as a son-in-law, it is also a very glorious thing.
After Wang Lun calmed down, he felt a little regretful in his heart, after all, although the identity of the prince is noble, but according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the prince must go to the domain to live, and can not hold a position in the court.
However, Wang Lun still underestimated Zhengde's importance to brotherhood, and even authorized Zhou Chong not to go out to the domain, and even handed over the affairs of the military academy to Zhou Chong to manage, and even deliberately let Zhou Chong contact some court politics, which is obviously preparing for the future of the Ming Dynasty, plus Zhengde has never had an heir, and the court has been worried about the continuation of the Ming Dynasty's imperial power, and now there is a good choice for Zhou Chong, so for Zhou Chong, a special prince. All the ministers in the court also chose to acquiesce.
Today, when his daughter went home to visit relatives, Wang Lun was naturally very happy, in fact, when Zhou Chong first arrived in the capital, he had already brought the whole family to Wang Lun once the next day. It's just that Zhou Chong hadn't recovered his identity at that time, and even Wang Lun didn't know what Zhou Chong was entering Beijing for this time, and Wang Lun was happy when he saw his granddaughter and grandson, and he didn't ask about Zhou Chong for a while, just hugged a pair of grandchildren and smiled.
Today, Zhou Chong brought Jinxuan to Wang Lun here, not just to visit relatives, but before Zhou Chong received an invitation, which was written by Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe, inviting him to Li Dongyang's mansion to talk. Although Zhengde encouraged him to have more contact with the ministers of the court, Zhou Zhong felt that he had just arrived in the capital, and he was a vassal king. It was really not appropriate to get too close to a minister like Li Dongyang, so he pushed down this invitation, but while Zhou Zhong pushed down the invitation, he also told Li Dongyang that he would visit his father-in-law Wang Lun in a few days. I hope he and Yang Tinghe can sit together.
Wang Lun and Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe are all ministers of the same dynasty, and Wang Lun and Li Dongyang's personal relationship is also good, now that Zhou Chong's son-in-law with a distinguished status has come to the door, according to the courtesy, Wang Lun wants to invite two important friends to sit with him, so Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe are just qualified for this matter, although in essence, there is no difference. But in terms of etiquette, no one can pick out the reason.
For Zhou Chong's careful arrangement, Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe were also amazed, and agreed to Zhou Chong's arrangement at the moment, and today they pushed off most of the government affairs and came to Wang Lun's house to wait, and Wang Lun also knew that Li Dongyang and the two must have something important to find Zhou Chong. So he was also prepared, for example, when the banquet was held at noon, Wang Lun deliberately set up a banquet in a quiet pavilion in the back garden, and after eating a few bites, he left under the pretext of excuses. Only Zhou Chong, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and the three were left.
"As soon as His Royal Highness King Zhao took over the military academy, the atmosphere of the military academy was invigorated, and those young people also retreated, which is really a comforting thing!" Seeing Wang Lun leaving, Li Dongyang immediately arched his hand to Zhou Chong, speaking of which, Li Dongyang is almost seventy years old this year, although he is a few years younger than Jiao Fang, but he may be a little older than Jiao Fang because he has been worrying about government affairs for many years.
"Gong Li is polite, this king is entrusted by the imperial brother, so naturally he will not let the military academy fall into the hands of Xiaoxiao, and the affairs of the court also need to be worried about by Duke Li and Duke Yang!" Zhou Chong smiled and said, although he is a prince, but the two cabinet ministers in front of him are not much lower than his status.
In addition, Zhou Chong also heard it, Li Dongyang was expressing his dissatisfaction with Jiang Bin in and out of his words, it is estimated that inviting Zhou Chong to come this time is also for Jiang Bin's business, and this is what Zhou Chong wants to see the most, after all, he is also dissatisfied with Jiang Bin, if he can reach an agreement with Li Dongyang and these ministers now, it will be much easier to deal with Jiang Bin in the future.
Hearing Zhou Chong's words hint that he was also a little dissatisfied with Jiang Bin, this made Li Dongyang's face happy, and he spoke again at the moment: "What Your Highness said is very true, although you are smart today, but you are easily deceived by traitors, Your Highness is the brother of Your Majesty, and please ask Your Highness to admonish him more in front of Your Majesty, the court can no longer afford to stop the rebellion of Liu Jin back then!" ”
"Haha, Duke Li has a good reputation, although this king is valued by the imperial brother, but he is only in charge of the affairs of the military academy, but he is unintentionally involved in other affairs, and this king believes that with the assistance of important ministers like Li Gong and Yang Gong, the imperial brother will definitely not be deceived by villains!" Zhou Dazhong laughed twice and said, he had already heard the meaning of Li Dongyang's words, after seeing that he was also dissatisfied with Jiang Bin, the other party actually wanted him to persuade Zhengde to stay away from Jiang Bin, although Zhou Chong didn't want Jiang Bin to follow Zhengde, but now that Jiang Bin is being favored, if he is so tough to admonish, I'm afraid that even if Zhengde follows his advice, I'm afraid there will be some mustard in his heart in the future, so Zhou Chong will not do such a stupid thing.
Hearing that Zhou Chong was unwilling to collide with Jiang Bin, Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe looked at each other helplessly, if Zhou Chong was just a prince who grew up in the palace, then it would not be difficult for them to encourage Zhou Chong to fight hard with Jiang Bin, but it was a pity that Zhou Chong had been living abroad since he was a child, and even became the governor of the Ming Dynasty with his talent, and his official reputation was excellent, such an outstanding young man was naturally very clear about the dirty methods in the officialdom, and they were just a test just now.
"His Royal Highness King Zhao is right, there are a few people in the court, and naturally I will not let the young people control the government affairs of my Ming Dynasty, but His Majesty lacks people to accompany him, so he lets the villain take advantage of the situation from time to time, and now His Royal Highness and His Majesty recognize each other, and His Majesty has authorized His Highness not to go to other places to be vassal, it is precisely to let His Royal Highness accompany His Majesty, so please go to the palace more!" Yang Tinghe suddenly interjected at this time.
"Hehe, this is the duty of this king, speaking of which this king has been living outside the palace since he was a child, and the queen mother and His Majesty have not seen each other for many years, although there is family affection between each other, but after all, there are some births, plus the queen mother likes her grandchildren the most, so she has to be called into the palace often, and the king naturally inevitably enters the palace to ask the queen mother for peace!" Zhou Zhong also said with a smile at this time.
Yang Tinghe's words have begun to change their strategy, no longer asking Zhou Chong to bump into Jiang Bin, but hoping that Zhou Chong can use the friendship of Zhengde's younger brother to let him go to the palace to walk around more, so as to make up for Zhengde's lack of feelings, I believe that Zhengde has Zhou Chong's company, and the time to mix with Jiang Bin is naturally short, so that Jiang Bin's favor can be indirectly curbed, and even Yang Tinghe also hopes that Jiang Bin can take the initiative to provoke Zhou Chong after seeing Zhou Chong's obstacle, so that They will be able to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
Zhou Zhong also saw Yang Tinghe's plan very clearly, and knew that the other party had plans to use him, but he didn't want Jiang Bin to get too close to Zhengde, so before he came to the capital, he had already planned to enter the palace often to prevent Jiang Bin from affecting Zhengde too much, and now since Yang Tinghe also made the same request, he also agreed, and by the way, he could also get a favor from the cabinet.
Seeing Zhou Chong's promise, Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe were relieved, although Zhou Chong did not agree to confront Jiang Bin head-on, but as long as he often entered the palace and walked around, coupled with His Majesty's attention to his younger brother, it would definitely cause Jiang Bin and others to be dissatisfied, as long as Jiang Bin dared to provoke His Royal Highness King Zhao, with Zhou Chong's means of revealing overseas, Jiang Bin and those people would definitely suffer enough.
Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe's purpose of coming to see Zhou Chong has been achieved, and now both of them are in a good mood, and Zhou Chong also knows the cabinet's attitude towards Jiang Bin and others, and also knows that they have a basis for cooperation in this matter, which is enough, so now Zhou Chong is also very happy, and the three of them are drinking and talking, and Li Dongyang also asked Zhou Chong about the overseas situation by the way.
At the beginning, the cabinet headed by Li Dongyang was actually very opposed to the overseas layout implemented by Zhou Chong, but because of the support of Zhengde, Zhou Chong was not criticized by the Ming court. Now the annual sea trade can bring millions or even tens of millions of taels of income to the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the overseas immigration has also solved the problem of the Ming Dynasty's domestic displaced people, making the Ming Dynasty become extremely stable, these two alone have made the Ming Dynasty change its view of overseas, for the Sihai Governor's Mansion founded by Zhou Chong, the imperial court has also begun to pay attention to it, otherwise with Wang Shouren's qualifications, it would have been transferred to the court a long time ago, rather than being sent to the Sihai Governor's Palace.