Hearing the back, Sun Jiao began to sigh.

He can see that it is impossible to convince his son-in-law from the truth, the son-in-law's idea is not important, the important thing is that the emperor has his own opinion, and the decision made by the young monarch and minister, unless it is resisted by Yang Ting and this kind of important minister of Kuang Fu Sheji, it is useless to rely on his grandson to persuade him.

Sun Jiao will go.

Zhu Hao put Sun Jiao on the table, ready to leave it for him to study and figure out the copy of "Great Rites and Confessions" written by Hou Tingxun, picked it up and stuffed it back into Sun Jiao's hand.

"The old man specially recorded it for you to see."

Sun Jiao's fingers were pressed together, not wanting to take it.

Zhu Hao said: "I read it and wrote it down, it is all vulgar and clichéd arguments, if I use these to communicate with Your Majesty, it is estimated that Your Majesty will drive me away directly...... Recently, His Majesty has been under a lot of pressure from his biological mother, the Empress Dowager, and Elder Sun wants to convince me that it is better to try to go to the Empress Dowager Jiang's side to ventilate."

Sun Jiao glared at Zhu Hao, and there was a lot of meaning, "If it was so easy to discuss with the Queen Mother, I would still need to come to you".

But then Sun Jiao lost his temper.

Because even he didn't want to go against the will of the Empress Dowager Jiang, let the two teenagers go to the Empress Dowager Jiang, isn't it a bit difficult for a strong man? Besides, that is the emperor's biological mother, when today's son has no father since he was a child, showing filial piety in front of his mother, isn't it the concept advocated by Confucianism?

"Respectfully, as a courtier, you don't have to obey the king's will in everything, and persuading the king to walk on the right path is far more important than helping the country, so that you can win a good reputation among the courtiers and gain a foothold in the court, why not?" Sun Jiao began to educate the younger generation again.

Zhu Hao smiled slightly: "How is Kuangfu Jiangshan Sheji, and how about winning fame? Didn't you remind me, Elder Sun, that in order to prevent the miserable end of the bird's bow, why did you want me to disobey the king so quickly, and ignore the friendship of the king and the minister in order to win a false name?"

"You ......"

Sun Jiao was choked by Zhu Hao's words, and he couldn't speak.

Zhu Hao said: "I know that Elder Sun has no intention of staying in the court for a long time, and the time with Sun *** will not be too long, and I also have something to say to you. For a young man like me who has no heels, it is certainly undesirable to have a high level of merit, but if you have nothing to do, you can touch the emperor's mold and die faster."

"Actually, I really don't have the heart to help the country, those things that are great when I hear about them are better left to people who have ambitions for the court, such as the people in Hanyuan now, and Zhang Bingyong."

"My ideal in life may just be to build trains and railways, connect all parts of the Ming Dynasty, open mines, do some business to make some money, and even weave cloth to let the people of the Ming Dynasty have a few more winter clothes.

"Hey!"

Sun Jiao was speechless, if he had just met Zhu Hao, he would have felt that this remark was completely cowardly, but after getting along for a long time, he knew that this son-in-law was not so false, and it was probably from the heart.

"Elder Sun, the matter of the Great Rites Discussion is the only way for Your Majesty to take charge of the court, stabilize people's hearts, and seek a stable development for decades in the future, and maintain Confucian etiquette, which is still weaker than maintaining the stability of the Ming Dynasty, please forgive me for standing in a different position from you, and I apologize in advance for this."

Zhu Hao politely saluted Sun Jiao.

Sun Jiao was not too old-fashioned on this issue, but he stood with his hands in his hands, pretended to be deep, and coldly threw down a sentence: "Do it yourself!" After speaking, he walked straight to the door, and even his son-in-law was stopped from going out to see him off.

……

……

Zhu Hao still sent Sun to the door from afar.

After Sun Jiao left, Sun Lan walked out of the room with a confused face, looking at her husband with an embarrassed face.

This is the third time that Sun Jiao has broken into Zhu Hao's home, fortunately, Sun Lan is at home this time, so as not to say that the husband and wife are not at home before the appearance, and they need to find someone to invite them alone, finally this time Sun Jiao did not attack the life mode of his daughter and son-in-law.

In other words, Sun Jiao no longer cares about the young man's family affairs.

"Father

It seems that he is not as angry as before, and when he mentioned Xianggong to his concubine, he repeatedly told him to assist Xianggong and take care of the family affairs, so that Xianggong does not have to worry about the affairs of the inner court."

Sun Lan's words exposed Sun Jiao's thoughts.

Although when Weng and his son-in-law met before, Sun Jiao showed the appearance of a stereotypical antique, but he was clear in his heart, this kind of persuasion was meaningless, and in terms of control of the court, he Sun Jiao could not accept the old man, and even most of the things in the household department were from Zhu Hao's secret plan.

Zhu Hao nodded: "Elder Sun told me that he wanted to quit the court before the year."

Sun Lan regretted a little: "My father's health is not as good as before, so I am afraid that he will have a tiring journey back to his hometown."

Zhu Hao said: "It's better to stay in the capital, have your two brothers, and you go over to take care of you at any time. In fact, in recent years, it is not bad for him to stay in the capital for retirement."

"This ...... I'm afraid it's not up to me and the younger generations to decide."

Sun Lan actually didn't want to be separated from her father and family.

If Sun Jiao wants to take the Sun family back to Anlu, then Sun Lan will be separated from his father, it is estimated that the next time they meet again, they will go back to give their father a funeral, and the water spilled by the daughter who married out in this era may not have the opportunity to see his father for the last time, everything depends on the attitude of the husband's family, and it is indeed too far to return to Anlu from the capital.

Zhu Hao smiled: "Others can't do it, but if Your Majesty lets Sun Lao stay in the capital, and then find something to form a bond on Sun Lao, then he will stay if he doesn't want to stay."

"It's not easy, is it?"

Sun Lan probably knew that since Zhu Hao said so, he had a certain degree of certainty.

But things won't be too simple, especially no matter how you look at it, it's like a young couple calculating the old father, which makes Sun Lan feel a little guilty of making up her own minds.

Whether or not to return to his hometown seems to be decided by Sun Jiao, rather than the juniors, especially secretly plotting, which will appear disrespectful to the old father.

Zhu Hao said: "Leave everything to me, I will definitely let Ling Zun stay in the capital willingly, even if I drink tea with him in the future and listen to his nagging, it is also very good." I lost my father when I was a child, and I regarded him as an elder who could persuade me so that I would not go the wrong way...... Isn't it the same with the elders to the juniors?"

Sun Lan was very moved when she heard it.

The husband and wife have not officially joined the house, and Zhu Hao has regarded her father as a family.

This shows that Zhu Hao did not treat her as an outsider.

And Zhu Hao didn't mind that Sun Jiao had nothing to do with a surprise attack, and he didn't blame Sun Jiao for his old-fashioned lessons, which made Sun Lan let go of the big stone in his heart, and finally didn't drag her husband down to do business in the court because of himself and his mother's family.

……

……

Zhu Hao confiscated Sun Jiao's copy of "The Great Rites", and Zhu Hao did not take the initiative to mention this matter to Zhu Si.

But Zhu Si still learned about the actions of Hou Tingxun, the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, from Jinyiwei, which made Zhu Si hate it.

「…… Jingdao, I have made up my mind, let Nanjing Jinyiwei take this person down, secretly arrest him in Nanjing Imperial Prison, and interrogate him well, even if he confesses that there is no mastermind, I have a way to make him confess some people in the court...... What do you think?"

Zhu Si's methods became more and more numerous.

Even the yin tricks have been learned.

used a small person Hou Tingxun to bring out the big people in the court, and took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

Zhu Hao said, "So Your Majesty has to deal with the matter of the Great Rites Discussion first, and then balance the personnel arrangements between the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy?"

"Ugh...... By what you said, I seem to be a bit of a prioritizer...... Hehe......" Zhu Si looked very shy in front of Zhu Hao, and when he was embarrassed, he would involuntarily scratch his head.

Zhang Zuo and the others on the side couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this.

I thought to myself, the only one who could persuade this willful little emperor was Mr. Zhu Jiaxiao.

Zhang Zuo asked with a smile, "Mr. Zhu, you said earlier that you would hand over the positions of cabinet ministers and Hanlin scholars to people who are willing to serve His Majesty in the form of reconsideration of the ceremony, but I don't know what the specific plan is?"

This is obviously asking questions for the emperor.

Zhu Hao said: "Now that the topic of the Great Rites Discussion has been fermented in the court, Your Majesty can focus on the matter of rediscussing the Great Rites with the ministers at the court meeting in the past two days, saying that anyone in the court can participate in it, and whether or not you support Your Majesty's proposition can be freely expressed, and Your Majesty will not blame the people who played it."

Zhu Si said helplessly: "I'm afraid that the music that criticizes me is going to pile up into a hill."

Zhu Hao said: "But there will also be some people who will stand on His Majesty's side, and Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites can also justifiably lead a group of people to argue with His Majesty, and then as long as His Majesty has a tough attitude, Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites will not move, and Jiang Ge, the first assistant of the cabinet, will first submit his resignation."

"Why is that?"

Zhu Si was puzzled.

Zhu Hao sighed: "When Wenchen expresses his opinions, the cabinet chief assistant often can't rush to the front, which will cause discord between the monarch and the minister, so he will find an agent to come forward, that is, Wang Shangshu and the officials he found to discuss the great gifts with His Majesty. However, if His Majesty is resolute and it is necessary for the minister to put pressure on His Majesty by means of resignation, etc., the Cabinet Chief Auxiliary must first stand up and express his position......

Zhu Si suddenly realized: "No wonder the big gift mentioned before, it was not Old Man Yang rushing in front, but the surname Mao, and this is the reason for the feelings. Jingdao, if the surnamed Jiang asks for his resignation, will I approve him?"

"Hmm."

Zhu Hao nodded, "Accurate should be accurate, but Your Majesty should pay attention to proportion."

"I don't know what the proportions are?"

Zhu Si is like a student, and he earnestly learns political rules from Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao said: "Proportionality is to maintain the stability of the court, to put it in layman's terms, it is to divide and disintegrate, to attract all the forces that can be co-opted, and to find a balance in it, so that others will not feel that Your Majesty let Jiang Ge Lao leave the court because of the matter of the Great Rites."

"This ...... How to play?"

Zhu Si looked confused.

You're saying a good thing, but I don't understand it.

Zhu Hao said: "This requires that the cabinet Fei Ge Lao and Liu Ge Lao stand on the side of Jiang Ge Lao at the same time in the matter of the Great Rites Discussion, but when the cabinet plays a resignation, His Majesty wants to keep Jiang Ge Lao and Liu Ge Lao, and let the two of them stay in the court to stabilize people's hearts, so as to achieve the purpose of division, and let the courtiers understand that even if they are opposed to Your Majesty in the matter of the Great Rites Discussion, they can stay in the court with peace of mind."