Zhu Hao appeared in front of Yang Shen again, but it was in Yang Shen's mansion, and he still came to visit late at night.

When Yang Shen learned from his subordinates that Zhu Hao, the new right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, appeared in front of his house, he was also a little surprised, but he immediately sorted out his thoughts and met Zhu Hao, a person who had always confused his position, in the study that originally belonged to Yang Tinghe.

"Brother Xiu, it's been a long time." Zhu Hao smiled and arched his hand.

Yang Shen nodded and motioned for Zhu Hao to sit down, but Zhu Hao shook his head with a smile: "I'll say a few words and leave."

Yang Shen immediately asked unceremoniously, "Where have you been recently?" Originally, Zhu Hao should have come to talk about things, but Yang Shen has always been a strong person and wants to control everything, even the elders of the pavilion, Shangshu, and Hanlin Bachelor, he completely ignored them, let alone Zhu Hao?

You Zhu Hao still want to take the initiative in front of me? Zhu Hao replied, "I went to Xishan." "Why do you want to go to West Mountain?" Yang Shen frowned.

If Zhu Hao is doing things for the emperor, then what is Zhu Hao's purpose in running Xishan? Isn't that a place for coal mining and coal digging? What is the matter with a civil official from a top rank?

Was he secretly sent to hard labor?

Zhu Hao said helplessly: "Sometimes some things are not something I can choose, but now I feel more like a chess piece, I was previously coerced by Sun Shangshu of the Household Department, and now I am a bachelor of Hanlin Tang, I can't help myself!"

"Hmm." Yang Shen nodded.

He agrees with this point, Zhu Hao should not be the leader of the consolidation incident, more like an errand runner, and there is another culprit behind it.

Otherwise, Yang Shen really couldn't accept that he had been kept in the dark by Zhu Hao, like a fool.

Yang Shen said, "So, your promotion to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites is also a choice made by someone for you?"

Zhu Hao smiled: "Brother Yong seems to care a lot about who I'm doing things for."

"Hmph."

Yang Shen was very suspicious of Zhu Hao now, and in front of Zhu Hao, he tried his best to maintain a kind of lofty majesty, as if everything was under his control.

Zhu Hao said, "Now I don't know what position I should maintain...... It stands to reason that I should work with my colleagues in the Hallym Academy to advance and retreat together in everything, and this is exactly what I did when I first entered the Hallym Academy, but the result was ...... It's not ideal."

It means that when I first entered the Hanlin Academy, it wasn't just what you said?

When he advised the emperor, he co-authored, and even became the chief initiator, and finally ended up in the miserable situation of being sent to the mine for two months of labor reform, and these pasts are still vivid.

You can't say that I didn't take care of the feelings of your colleagues in the Hanlin Academy, right?

"In any case, you shouldn't change your mind." Yang Shen said in a tone of lesson.

Zhu Hao nodded: "Later, you also saw that there were many things in the court that fell on me, first I was driven to Nanjing, and then to Yongping Mansion, after a few tosses, I thought it was going to be calm, but there was an errand from the Criminal Department waiting for me, and finally I went around and returned to Hanlin Academy, I was really tired!" At this time, Mr. Tang said to me, let me be a wicked person, and leave a little room between the monarch and the minister in the court, and I did so."

Yang Shen said, "Do you want to say that the proposal to posthumously seal Emperor Xingxian for the Bunsheng Emperor Examination was told to you by Tang Yin in advance?"

Zhu Hao spread his hands and didn't answer directly, but the meaning was obvious———— who could it be if it wasn't him?

"Then Mr. Tang asked me to act as a lobbyist and make a deal with you, but I was exhausted when I got it...... Why do you think I didn't show up in Hallym Temple? Do you think the errand of the Hanlin Academy means anything to me under such circumstances?" Zhu Hao looked sad.

Yang Shen said coldly, "Then who are you doing things for now?" Zhu Hao said: "Naturally, I am doing things for the imperial court...... Now I can be considered a competent pawn! Whoever asked me to do things, I tried my best to help, just to balance the relationship between the court and the court, but in the end, everyone betrayed their relatives and left ......

"But it's good now, I was suddenly appointed by the imperial court as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and I did what I could for the court's etiquette, can I be said to be irresponsible?"

Yang Shen didn't say anything this time.

"I just came to inform you that Mr. Tang had approached me earlier and told me that in two days,

The last controversy in the court over the Great Rites is about to enter its final stage, and I take the risk of telling you this news, what do you think of my position?"

Zhu Hao seemed to be very upright. But when it comes to his position, he just avoids answering. In other words, he wanted to play the role of a neutral faction, and continued to make Yang Shen unclear about his motives and intentions.

"Two days later?" Yang Shen checked it.

Zhu Hao shook his head: "I'm not sure what day it is, but I guess it's these two days." As far as I know, His Majesty has sent Jinyi Guard, as well as people from Dongchang, to set up obstacles throughout the palace gate to prevent Wenchen from gathering to make trouble...... That's all I can remind."

Yang Shen suddenly slapped the desk, looking very angry.

Because of what Zhu Hao said, it just corresponded to the strategy he discussed with the imperial historian.

But this does not mean that it can be prevented, no matter whether there are brocade guards or royal guards at the palace gate, it will not prevent them from kneeling and crying at the door, but this will make many officials who just rely on a blood to kneel and beg and cry at the door have concerns, and many timid people will hesitate on the issue of going or not going, which is a disguised discord for the originally monolithic civil official camp.

Yang Shen said, "If the ministers gather and play with His Majesty, you won't go, will you?"

"Hmm."

Zhu Hao nodded without hesitation, "Now, if you have to ask like this, I can only answer like this. Yes, I won't go! 「

"Huh."

Yang Shen's eyes were full of contempt for Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao said, "Actually, I'm also very curious, why do you care so much about my position? I was originally born in Anlu, I have already said that I have known Your Majesty for a long time, although before Your Majesty ascended the throne, I have passed the examination, but as a Jinshi from Anlu, am I not qualified to serve the imperial court? 「

Zhu Hao asked Yang Shen rhetorically.

Why do you think that I must stand in opposition to the emperor? Shouldn't you think that I wear the same pants as the emperor?

Yang Shen said coldly, "Jingdao, how much do you know about your Zhu family? Do you understand that the death of Emperor Xingxian's eldest son was related to your Zhu family?"

Zhu Hao said: "I really know something about this matter, it is said that King Xing's family has been persecuted by the imperial court repeatedly, but I really don't know, even if Emperor Xingxian is dead, or his eldest son is also dead, and the whole family is extinct, can't anyone among the several princes of Emperor Daxing Xianzong have a child?" What is the point of murdering a vassal king? Could it be that someone deliberately said this in order to ask for merit from the imperial court?"

"...... you," Yang Shen was asked.

The Zhu family's involvement in the murder of Zhu Youhang's eldest son sounded reasonable at first glance, but after Zhu Hao's statement, it seemed very unusual.

Zhu Hao sighed: "At least I was treated well in the Xingwang Mansion, not to mention the opportunity to study, and later with the support of Emperor Xingxian, who was the king of Xing at the time, I won the fame, but when I went to the township to take the test, Emperor Xingxian passed away, and I was very sad. From the beginning to the end, I have a good relationship with Mr. Tang, Yutianbo and others, and I have never had any suspicions."

The more Yang Shen listened, the more strange it became.

Zhu Hao is clearly saying that you treat me as a thorn in the side of Xingwangfu, but I actually mix well in Xingwangfu.

In this case, why can Tang Yin be a bachelor of Hanlin, and I can't be a bachelor and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites?

"Brother Repair, are you blaming me for not telling you this in advance? In fact, since the first day I met you, I haven't hidden anything from you, right?"

Zhu Hao looked wronged. Yang Shen thought about it carefully. It seems like that's the case.

From the very beginning, it was Yang Tinghe who told him that Zhu Hao could be reused, and he also felt that Zhu Hao, as a member of the Zhu family in Jinyiwei, could not gain the trust of the current emperor, and then he wooed Zhu Hao and let Zhu Hao work for himself.

"I have always been conscientious, and on the issue of the Great Rites, I initially confirmed that His Majesty should not be too persistent, and it is clear that he is suppressing dissidents in this way. I don't want chaos in the court, that's why I'm taking the lead in opposing it.

"But always, Emperor Xingxian has the grace of knowing me, and now Ling Zun and Jiang Ge Lao and others are no longer in the court, and Your Majesty is interested in discussing the court

Although I understand the insistence of using Brother Nun and your colleagues to resist the refusal, I cannot be ungrateful, and I cannot stand by your side in the matter of the ceremony!"

Zhu Hao told a tortuous story and put himself on the opposite side of Yang Shen.

And Zhu Hao's story sounds very "reasonable", and even makes Yang Shen feel that Zhu Hao has some truth in doing this.

"Brother Xiu, I can remind you that everything you have said, what you want to do, please think about it in advance, what the result will be, it depends on you to fight for it!" Zhu Hao said, "For Your Majesty's appointment, I have also shirked, but you see, Your Majesty wants to use me as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites to participate in the ceremony, and there is Mr. Tang's full support behind him.

"Regarding the matter of the ceremony, please forgive Zhu for not being able to help, I can only say sorry first! Good luck to you!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Hao arched his hand, even if he wanted to leave. "Stop!" Yang Shen stopped Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao turned around and asked, "It's your turn to teach me a lesson and scold me for not keeping my duty as a courtier, right?"

Yang Shen was annoyed.

felt that Zhu Hao could accurately calculate what he thought in his heart every moment, and he really wanted to scold Zhu Hao just now, but since Zhu Hao said so...... Then he couldn't let Zhu Hao "calculate accurately", so he had to change his way to say it.

"Jingdao, you are doing this very unprincipledly, you know?"

Yang Shen's tone of scolding Zhu Hao was already quite polite. Zhu Hao smiled bitterly: "I have no principles? Tell me first, what are the principles to me? With my Xingwang Mansion, if I were as unprincipled as you said, I would not let Zhang Bingyong's status rise rapidly, let alone be used as a pawn to be manipulated and discarded at will!

"The experience of the past few years has made me understand a truth, I just need to be a good courtier with peace of mind, as for the principle...... It's all illusory things, and here I also want to ask you a rhetorical question, when you were trading with Grandpa Zhang, did you think about what the principles you adhered to? 「