Mao Ji was officially arranged to go to Shandong, on behalf of the imperial court, to go to the Confucian Temple to support the sacrificial ceremony.

Now among the four members of the cabinet, Jiang Mian and Mao Ji are deep-rooted Yang Party, and Mao Ji is gone, Jiang Mian is equivalent to the only remaining seedling of the Yang Party in the cabinet.

Mao Ji was very worried when he left.

"If you have something to do, go and discuss with the people of the Hanlin Academy, for fear that Your Majesty will turn around and stir up waves with a courtesy, and this court can't withstand turmoil."

Mao Ji was a little sentimental.

After Yang Tinghe left, the cabinet's control over the imperial court decreased a lot.

In the past, Yang Ting and the people who could be sent, many of which Jiang Mian could not send.

In the past, Yang Tinghe was their boss, and now Jiang Mian is at most their upper level, these people respect Jiang Mian, but they will not obey orders.

Moreover, among the six books, there is a lack of urgent pioneers like Lin Jun who dare to fight and rush, which makes Jiang Mian always feel constrained by some force when he plans to hold a meeting with the ministry.

Jiang Mian said, "You should also be careful all the way."

No more words.

Even when Mao Ji left, Fei Hong and Liu Chun, who were both cabinet scholars, did not go to see Mao Ji for the last time, and they did not call them together to say goodbye, which shows how big the split in the cabinet is.

……

……

Mao Ji left the capital without causing any waves.

Yang Shen, as an ordinary attendant in the Hanlin Academy, has become the most active one nowadays.

For several days, he met guests at home and discussed things with others, and even connected Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy, the prisoners of Guozijian and the well-known literati in Beijing, and even Yang Weicong, who had just returned to the capital, rejoined this small circle.

And Zhu Hao, as Yang Shen's former helper in the Hanlin Academy, is now incompatible with them.

After Zhu Hao's errand in the Criminal Department was completed, the Zhang brothers were assigned to serve on the three sides, and they should have been relieved of their errands in the Criminal Department, but either the civil officials and the people on both sides of the emperor forgot about Zhu Hao, and the result was that Zhu Hao's official position was still alive after the errand.

Yang Shen may have noticed this, when the train from Xishan to the capital was about to open, Yang Shen wanted to find someone to inquire about the construction of the railway, and came to Zhu Hao alone.

The place where the two met was in the private room of Zhu Hao's hot pot restaurant.

「…… Jingdao, you've been here a lot lately?"

Yang Shen knew that the owner behind this hot pot restaurant was Zhu Hao, considering that Zhu Hao might not have any official business recently, he should have gone to run the store.

Zhu Hao didn't answer directly, but asked with a smile, "Should I avoid suspicion? But now I've handed over the business to my family."

Strictly speaking, Ming officials can't do business, but which of the central government officials doesn't have a few shops at home? Is this shop rented out, or is it self-managed, so many people really dig deeper?

Yang Shen didn't bother to pay attention to this, and said, "You are now a member of the Criminal Department, and this official position is actually not low, but if you can't sit in the ministry, you still can't display your ambitions. I'm already helping you out, and I hope to get back to Han Yuan soon."

Zhu Hao smiled ashamedly: "Actually, it's the same everywhere, I'm an idler, I don't care much about these."

For Zhu Hao, is there any essential difference between being a Langzhong in the Criminal Department or being a writer in the Hanlin Academy?

Yang Shen said: "As far as I know, the imperial court has recently selected a Hanlin scholar to enter the cabinet, and most of the people in the Hanyuan have a very good impression of you, you are loyal and good, and your personality is upright, not to mention that you have a very close relationship with Liu Ge Lao and Sun Butang, you may be able to make progress in your career when you return to Hanyuan."

Zhu Hao narrowed his eyes.

Once Yang Shen keeps promising benefits to others, he knows what kind of tricks this guy is going to play again.

"Brother Xiu, let's talk about it directly." Zhu Hao said.

Yang Shen smiled, he had long been accustomed to Zhu Hao spreading out everything on the surface, and he was familiar with Zhu Hao's style of acting, so he had no worries about speaking.

Yang Shen said, "I heard that Your Majesty sent Jinyi Guard to dispatch men to build a road made of steel from Xishan to the capital

, but also in a kind of iron-hulled cart, on which things were transported. It should be passed recently, and the imperial court doesn't know the specific cost, and Tang Yin is your mentor, so it's better to ...... You go and ask him?"

"Huh?"

Zhu Hao asked curiously, "Is it so important to understand the usage problem?"

Yang Shen sighed: "You may not understand the joints, and it is not for auditing, but you have to find out how much it costs to build trains and railways."

Zhu Hao said: "After knowing the expenses, he will use this direct advice to inform Your Majesty that this is a move to work hard and lose money? For me...... It's a little hard to do."

Yang Shen once again saw Zhu Hao's straightforward heart.

What are the direct influences of an official like Yang Shen who served as a waiter in the Hanlin Academy on the imperial court?

Nothing more than creating public opinion!

Yang Tinghe has been preventing the construction of trains and railways from the beginning, but he has not succeeded, and now that the railway is about to be completed, Yang Shen wants to use an accurate financial expenditure for the construction of the railway to create public opinion, so that the people of the world know that the little emperor spent a lot of money for an illusory and absurd goal......

Although these coins did not belong to the coins in the first place, they were all taken out of the little emperor's private purse. But for those who create public opinion, there is no need to let the people know whose silver the emperor used, in short, the emperor's silver is taken from the people, so that the world feels that the emperor is not doing his job, that is enough.

"Jingdao, you didn't start looking ahead and backward when you weren't in Hanyuan?"

Yang Shen was very dissatisfied with Zhu Hao's attitude.

Zhu Hao shook his head: "Isn't it consistent for me to look forward and backward? Besides, I didn't have any worries before, but now I ...... My mother is in the capital and she is unwell, and I don't want her to worry about my career, so I ......."

Yang Shen was furious.

I almost scolded, your wife is sick, are you also sick?

At this time, you actually brought out your wife as a shield? It's really impressive.

"But with Brother Sister, I'll give you a free gossip from ear to hear."

Zhu Hao didn't care if Yang Shen wanted to hear it or not, he leaned over and whispered, "I heard that Your Majesty intends to recruit someone into the cabinet, but it is not one of the two Hanlin Scholars, it is more likely that Zhenjiang is the person with the same surname as you, and Your Majesty is more likely to recall the one who is now serving in Nanjing Dali Temple back to Jingshi and enter Hanyuan to study Hanlin."

"What did you say?"

Yang Shen frowned.

Where is this?

Zhu Hao said, "If you don't believe it, forget it. I listened to what Mr. Tang said, and he was also very dissatisfied with this, thinking that this move would definitely be opposed by the ministers of the court and the central government, but His Majesty insisted on going his own way, and he could not help it. I don't know why Mr. Tang is saying this in front of me, but I am telling you now because I hope you will be on guard."

The news given by Zhu Hao is that Yang Yiqing is going to enter the cabinet, and Zhang Xuan is a bachelor of Hanlin.

To Yang Shen, this information is not how explosive it is, but it sounds like a fantasy.

Yang Yiqing may be able to operate when he returns to the court, but will he be willing to be a fifth-in-command in the cabinet?

As for Zhang Xuan's entry into the Hanlin Academy, he became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy......

Is this to break all the promotion rules of Daming?

A Zhang Xuan is just proposing a big gift, what qualifications does he have to get a position that everyone envies? He became a bachelor of Hanlin, so is the next step to enter the cabinet?

The emperor was really cronyistic.

"Brother Xiu, don't blame me, I'm like this, always hanging up without caring about myself." Zhu Hao said, "Recently, I've been doing some idle things, taking care of my mother, and earning some money by the way, which is good." I think before the end of the year, I will ask the Ministry of Officials to assign me a new errand and leave the capital as soon as possible."

Yang Shen said, "Your wife won't agree."

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Look, I think so, Sun Butang may retire before the end of the year, and then he will no longer be able to influence me as an official, right?"

Yang Shen frowned: "Where do you know this?"

"Hehe, don't care where I learned about it, this matter is estimated to be eight or nine or ten, what does the court look like, Brother Xiu should know better than me, there are a lot of changes in the six parts now, I'm here

Naturally, the viewer will do some analysis."

Zhu Hao's meaning is that he didn't get the news from anyone, but judged it by himself based on the current situation.

Yang Shen stiffened his face: "In other words, Your Majesty repairs the railway, you don't want to help investigate?"

"Forgive me."

Zhu Hao politely refused.

"Hmm."

Yang Shen didn't force it anymore.

Now Zhu Hao is not a member of his faction, and there seems to be nothing that can force Zhu Hao to listen to him, the so-called help Zhu Hao return to the Hanlin Academy, he just took it out as a cover, and it is not easy to implement.

What even Sun Jiao can't accomplish, why should he pack the ticket?

……

……

Regarding the news given by Zhu Hao, Yang Shen thought about it seriously.

Quite possibly!

Except for Zhang Xuan's article, which is a bit nonsense, about Yang Yiqing's entry into the court, and Sun Jiao's retirement time, all of which are more in line with the current emperor's intentions.

At the same time, the issue of candidates for admission to the cabinet was widely circulated among the court officials.

Zhu Si no longer wanted to wait for Jiang Mian and Mao Jizhishi, although these two had recently followed in the footsteps of Yang Tinghe and asked the emperor to resign many times, but they were all rejected by the emperor.

At the end of the court meeting, Zhu Si summoned two Hanlin scholars from the Hanlin Academy, Shi Xuan and Feng Xi.

did not call any one in the cabinet, nor did he call the six ministries and nine secretaries, only summoned two Hanlin scholars, and from the outside, it seemed that it could only be to discuss the question of who of the two would enter the cabinet.

Originally, there was no need to discuss this matter, because Shi Xuan was more senior than Feng Xi, and when Liu Chun entered the cabinet before, Shi Xuan's voice was very high.

But there is one point, Shi Xuan has a close relationship with Yang Ting, and he is not liked by the emperor, if the emperor really wants to choose someone to join the cabinet, he may choose Feng Xi, who has a relatively moderate attitude.

In this era, although there is no ideological distinction between left and right, the relationship with the emperor, including the attitude towards major issues such as the Great Rites Discussion, will also be divided into radical, moderate, conservative and other factions, and Fengxi has an advantage in this regard.

The two were summoned by the emperor, and they originally thought it was for this matter, but when the emperor spoke, they realized that they were too naïve.

「…… The two Qing families, yes, I want to add a cabinet minister, and a Hanlin scholar. This Hanlin scholar is not responsible for the system, and he doesn't care about the affairs of the Zhan Mansion and the Hanlin Academy, don't get me wrong, I want to promote Tang Review. I want to choose these two people from among the young people, I wonder what your opinion is?"