Wenyuan Pavilion.

After Mao Ji returned to the capital, as soon as he arrived in the cabinet, he was ordered to go to the Qianqing Palace to talk.

The four cabinet ministers went together, but when they came back, there were only two people, Mao Ji and Jiang Mian, and the emperor left Fei Hong and Liu Chun to talk, obviously to divide and disintegrate the cabinet camp.

「…… His Majesty intended to make Huang Gongxian a cabinet minister, but Huang Gongxian had never entered the Hanyuan before, but he was temporarily recruited as a Hanlin scholar, and he was arranged to join the cabinet in a blink of an eye, and His Majesty clearly intended to provoke discord among the ministers."

Mao Ji's temper was a little bigger than Jiang Mian's, and when he returned to the cabinet room, he saw that there was no one around, and finally couldn't help but complain to Jiang Mian.

Jiang Mian's tone was very flat: "Whether we are harmonious or not is secondary, I am afraid that His Majesty still refuses to give up on the ceremony."

Mao Ji was furious.

Huang Zan became a scholar of Hanlin as the minister of etiquette, and if he was allowed to enter the cabinet again, it would represent that the parliamentary faction would have a firm foothold in the court. Jiang Mian and Mao Ji are listed as the first and second assistants in the cabinet, so they naturally don't want to let the "black sheep" enter the center of the Ming Dynasty.

While the two were talking, Fei Hong and Liu Chun also returned. Mao Ji hurriedly went over and asked, "What did Your Majesty tell you?" Liu Chun appropriately stood back and asked Fei Hong to come out and reply. Fei Hong said: "Your Majesty has inquired about the assessment of the use of cultivation over the years, and it seems that he intends to cultivate it."

"Repair?" Mao Ji frowned.

That day, he was obviously talking about Huang Zhan's entry into the cabinet, why did he suddenly mention Yang Shen? Although Yang Shen was in the limelight at the Great Rites Discussion, it was difficult for him to enter the eyes of the cabinet scholars, and it was not his turn to take the position.

Fei Hong nodded: "Your Majesty did mention the use of cultivation, and also said that he wanted to promote him to be a bachelor...... At the same time, questions were asked about the replacement of the Hallym Bachelors...... The relevant matters will be discussed in the court in the next few days, and if there are opposing opinions, it will not be too late to talk about them."

Fei Hong tried to make himself look less important. At the same time, I am also reminding Mao Ji and Fei Hong, I will tell what I know, if you think there is a problem, you can go to the court to talk about it.

Since you know that this is the emperor's deliberate means to divide and divide us, then don't treat me and Liu Renzhong as enemies, we have no intention of betraying the civilian camp.

Jiang Mian said: "I used to repair the performance of the ceremony, but His Majesty is still pressing, right?"

Fei Hong reminded: "It's already been called back." "You didn't say anything with Xiu?"

Jiang Mian was very strange that he, as a scholar of Shoufu University, didn't know anything about this matter.

Fei Hong shook his head, indicating that he didn't know the details. Mao Ji was slightly puzzled: "This kind of sparseness, the palace can understand it, what does it mean to call back?" Then you will be promoted to a bachelor of service? Is this to gag the mouth of Yongxiu?"

Liu Chun finally couldn't help but interject: "I don't think you need to worry, there are a lot of things to discuss and use cultivation, but you have never been able to enter the core issue...... If Your Majesty wants to exert favors on Yongxiu in order to stop him, I don't think His Majesty will make such a move, and Yongxiu will definitely not compromise."

"Hmm."

Liu Chun's words immediately attracted the rest of the cabinet to nod in agreement. The emperor would not be so stupid to buy Yang Shen, and Yang Shen would not be bribed...... Outsiders think so.

Yang Shen has always been above the top, and will make compromises in principle for personal interests? The emperor hates Yang Tinghe so much, will he think about buying Yang Tinghe and his son who has not yet achieved his ambition?

It's completely unreasonable!

Mao Ji said: "When the court pushes, you can agree on it, and there is no need to increase the number of candidates in the cabinet now, I believe that a few of you think the same as me." Don't be biased."

After Fei Hong and Liu Chun looked at each other, they also nodded in agreement.

The emperor wanted to win them over to pave the way for Huang Huang to enter the cabinet, and here Jiang Mian and Mao Ji put pressure on them to oppose the addition of people to the cabinet, Fei Hong and Liu Chun are now suffering from the same illness and have to huddle together to keep warm.

Hallym Temple.

Hanlin, who was jointly discussing the ceremony, heard the news that Yang Shen had been beaten back, and gathered at Yang Shen's mansion on this day to discuss with Yang Shen about playing again.

More than a dozen people came, which made Yang Shen a little reluctant to face it, after all, Yang Shen had reached a secret agreement with Zhang Zuo, and he would inevitably feel guilty.

「…… With Xiu, I heard that His Majesty wanted to let Master Huang enter the cabinet, and leave the position of Master Huang to leave the position of Master Hanlin to Zhang Bingyong, and now it has been rumored in the Han Garden. 「

Not only to oppose the emperor's posthumous title of the emperor, but also to oppose the emperor's ministers who used the courtesy.

Huang Zhan's side, as an ordinary Hanlin, it seems difficult for them to object, after all, Huang Zhan returned to Beijing as a Hanlin bachelor as a scholar of the Southern Household Department, and from the perspective of officialdom promotion, there was no significant promotion, but Zhang Zhang, as a jinshi in the upper department, was promoted to a Hanlin bachelor in less than three years, which is unreasonable.

They asked themselves that their qualifications and experience were far richer than Zhang Zhang's, and they all belonged to the "old people" in the Hanlin Academy, so they felt that why they couldn't oppose the emperor's appointment of Zhang Zhang?

Yang Shen said: "The idea below is to play the ritual and slow it down."

Ye Guizhang came over with everyone and asked puzzledly, "Why do you want to delay?"

Yang Shen tried his best to make his speech meet everyone's expectations at this time, and said, "Elder Jiang Ge and Master Feng have talked to me, thinking that I was in too much of a hurry to play, and His Majesty has not changed at this time, and I will propose the ceremony first, which will only stimulate Your Majesty's rebellious mentality, and now that the ceremony is temporarily calm, it is best to wait for Your Majesty's old matter to be brought up again, and I will play it later."

Yang Weicong squeezed forward from the crowd and looked very excited: "We are united and have high morale, but we want to wait? I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right? 「

Yang Shen glared at Yang Weicong.

At this time, Yang Weicong, under the operation of the civil official faction, re-entered the Hanlin Academy and became the Hanlin Writer, which was already on the same level as Zhu Hao.

Recently, Yang Weicong has been in the limelight, and Yang Shen has not abandoned his suspicion of Yang Weicong, so that now Yang Shen is very disgusted with Yang Weicong. "Everything must be done with the overall situation first, and this time Your Majesty has sent us back, which will explain the problem, even if we are stubborn, can we not get the help of the ministers and the Hanlin Scholars, how can we get things done? Shouldn't we take care of all aspects of our feelings before doing things?"

Yang Shen taught the group of people present who were "full of food and have nothing to do".

In the past, Yang Shen regarded them as close comrades-in-arms, but now he regarded them as opponents.

Yu Chengxun hurriedly came out and said: "Don't worry about repairing, all your colleagues are well-intentioned, and the previous joint names are all for your face, why are you still in a hurry?"

Yang Shen said: "Now we have to find the right target, focusing on dealing with those who support the Yili in the court, I heard that recently, some people in the Beijing Division have published books on the Yili and discussed the court affairs without authorization, these people have ill intentions, shouldn't we target them first?"

"This ......"

Ye Guizhang hesitated for a moment and said, "With cultivation, to put it mildly, the people who have recently published and printed books on the Deliberations in the Jingshi are not just people from the Deliberation Sect."

Yang Shen was indifferent: "No matter who you are, you can't openly discuss the affairs of the court in this way, Jingdao discussed with me before, and he said that he would go up to the impeachment of these people and let me co-sign, and I agreed. I don't force you to do things, but if you want to sign a joint name, you can stay."

Yang Weicong sighed, "Wouldn't it be a pole to overturn a boatload of people?" Someone pulled Yang Weicong's clothes, but Yang Weicong was very stubborn. In fact, Yang Weicong also wanted to take refuge in Yang Shen's big tree, but the problem was that he himself saw that he had not been treated by Yang Shen in the past two years, so why couldn't he stand on his own at this time?

Yu Chengxun said: "I think it makes sense to use cultivation, the publication of books in the Beijing Division, and the blatant discussion of court affairs, which itself has committed a taboo, and we should not cover up and connive at it just because someone stands on our position, and we should treat everyone equally, so it seems that we are not biased in our position.

"It is difficult to achieve results in the matter of deliberations with us, so we should consult with the important ministers of the court before making a decision, and advance and retreat together...... Isn't it clear to you about the position of the repair? He has pioneered with his own flesh and blood and career prospects, and now let us know that only by playing steadily can we win, and we should support him."

"Hmm."

Most of the people present saw the wind at the helm.

They didn't want to be on the issue of the Great Rites in the first place

is too radical, it is coerced to have to do this, and now I see that the one who picks the head has retreated first, but I feel better.

Only a few people with certain political goals felt that Yang Shen was doing this as a kind of surrender and compromise, and they were a little dissatisfied with Yang Shen, but because the main public opinion was on Yang Shen's side, those who had opinions could only choose to forbear for the time being.

The joint impeachment of those who participated in the publication and printing of the books of the Beijing Division was handled smoothly.

Zhu Hao took the lead, and Yang Shen mobilized the people of the Hanlin Academy, and at once recruited seventy or eighty people to sign together, even Yang Weicong and others, who had strong opposition before, also signed together.

When Yang Shen handed over the joint name to Zhu Hao, he communicated privately with Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao asked, "Now in the Hanlin Academy, there is no wind that is unfavorable to you, right?"

"Nope."

Yang Shen shook his head and said, "Actually, I'm also worried that if Your Majesty secretly spreads some news, saying that I have made some inappropriate exchange with them........

Zhu Hao sighed: "In any case, when you are promoted to a bachelor's degree, there will still be criticism, but what are you afraid of? As long as we remain steadfast in the general direction of the rituals, we will not only speculate on our own affairs, and we will not be able to achieve the climate at all."

When Yang Shen heard this, he felt better.

Yang Shen said, "Speaking of which, why doesn't Your Majesty want me to join the side of the council directly?"

Zhu Hao smiled, "Brother Xiu, are you laughing? You're not really that unprincipled, are you?"

"Of course not."

Yang Shen said, "It's just that His Majesty asked me to postpone the ceremony, but he gave such generous conditions, I can't understand it...... Is it really that important in my overall plan?"