Chapter three hundred and thirty nine: sympathy
In the Forbidden City, the matter of Beijing inspection was already in chaos. Fortunately, the Forbidden City was not affected. Zhu Houzhao went to ask Empress Dowager Zhang early in the morning, and then arrived at the warm room excitedly. He wanted to review the memorials. In addition, there were many things to do.
The spring exam is about to come, and Zhu Houzhao has rarely started to pay attention. This is his second spring exam in office. During the last spring exam, he was almost uninterested in it, but he just listened in a daze as the cabinet ministers chose the candidate. However, this time, he was particularly concerned, especially the spring exam in the southern list, which made him look forward to it.
Ye Chunqiu must win, otherwise he will have to wait for another three years, so what should he do?
However, there are quite a few people in the court who can understand the holy heart. Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel, proposed that He Mao, a Hanlin lecturer, go to Nanjing to preside over the spring examination. Then Jiao Fang agreed that the other bachelors in the cabinet did not object much. After all, He Mao has a reputation of being upright.
Even Liu Jin was very recognized and came to Zhu Houzhao and said that He Mao was Ye Chunqiu's teacher. Back then, he ordered Ye Chunqiu as the head of the court for the examination. It can be seen that Ye Chunqiu's article was very good for his spleen and stomach. If His Majesty chose him, Ye Chunqiu's chances of being named on the Golden List would increase a lot.
Zhu Houzhao agreed deeply. Without any objection to the cabinet, he approved the advice of Zhang Cai, the Minister of Personnel. Now he gets up very early every day. After greeting the queen mother, he excitedly rushed to the warm room and concentrate on his "talent ceremony".
Zhu Houzhao didn't quite understand the eight-legged article, but he now has a general understanding of the list of previous imperial examinations and exam questions. Sometimes when he was discussing politics with several masters, he suddenly appeared: "The exam questions for the Xinchou subject in Chenghua's 17th year were Lao Wuyi Lao, why did he come to the provincial examination in today's exams? The same is true for the Sichuan Provincial Administration and the exam questions. If the candidate remembered this exam, wouldn't it be..."
The emperor suddenly changed his temperament, which made the master very pleased and replied with a smile. Now, Zhu Houzhao is also a master in the imperial examination. He is looking forward to Ye Chunqiu coming to the capital to participate in the palace examination after the examination. He also wants to study military tactics and archery techniques with Ye Chunqiu. If there is someone in this world who can think of the same place as him, I am afraid that Ye Chunqiu will be the one.
Sometimes when Zhu Houzhao thought of this, he couldn't help but laugh. He was too lonely and was very bored in his life. He hid too many things that others had unexpected in his heart. For example, he had been studying strategies for dealing with the Oirats, for example, he had thought about many fortifications of city defense, for example, he had always wanted to fight with the leopard, but if these words were said to Liu Jin, although these people were very good at responding to His Majesty, they all said His Majesty's wiseness. At the beginning, Zhu Houzhao really thought that this was the case. After a long time, he knew that they were just verbals. Although he talked about the wiseness every day, he actually didn't understand anything.
But if you tell the masters... Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be shocked when he thought of this. Most of the time, Master Liu would cry again, beating his chest and stumble and saying that he was ashamed of the late emperor; Master Xie rolled up his sleeves and insisted on hitting his sleeves, and even Master Li looked like he had eaten a fly, okay... he couldn't say it.
Those who know me say what I worry about, and those who don’t know me say what I want.
Zhu Houzhao shook his head. This is a sentence he learned recently, and he is very concerned about his current state of mind.
Only Ye Chunqiu is different. He is very good at playing, and he plays very high-end, and is not sure how taller than himself. Even playing makes people feel excited. This is what Zhu Houzhao admires. More importantly, he is very strategic and can think of the same place as himself, detect the intentions of the Japanese pirates, and is more courageous and dares to run alone to coerce Hainingwei to fight against the Japanese. On the other hand, although he saw the problem, he also wanted to go to Jiangnan to set up the battle situation. But, it is the emperor. He dares not do what others dare to do.
What Zhu Houzhao most admires is that Ye Chunqiu's military power, the three heroes of Guidao were cut down by him. Such people are really like gods of war. If I were a general, I would definitely be able to recognize the beads and promote him to the deputy general. Well... I am the commander of the army and horses, and he is the deputy commander.
But this guy had to take the imperial examination, which made Zhu Houzhao worry and anxious every day.
However, at this time, a report came. After receiving this report, the court and the country were actually very calm inside and outside. Zhu Houzhao was extremely excited when he received the message.
"Panpa Liu, come here, what does this mean?" Zhu Houzhao was still a little uncertain with this memorial.
Liu Jin looked at it and said, "Your Majesty, this is Wang Hua who has taken Ye Chunqiu as his disciple and closed his disciple."
Zhu Houzhao said in a distracted way: "So, I am a student of Master Wang, so is Ye Chunqiu? Wouldn't we become brothers?"
Liu Jin thought about it, a hint of jealousy flashed through his heart, but he still said with a smile: "We can't generalize it. What kind of virtue Ye Chunqiu can do? How can he be worthy of being His Majesty's junior brother?"
Zhu Houzhao danced and said, "Who can't say it? Look, I'm Master Wang's disciple, right? Ye Chunqiu is also his disciple, right? We are not wrong. Why isn't it? Master Wang is very powerful, silently, and he actually gave me an extra junior brother, um..." He squinted his eyes and seemed interested: "I have been young since I was a child, and I have no brothers, and it's hard to find someone to play. Now there is an extra junior brother. Do you think it's strange?"
It is strange that Zhu Houzhao has such a personality in the Tian family.
Others were afraid that they would have brothers, but Zhu Houzhao was actually the only son. The former Emperor Hongzhi only loved Empress Dowager Zhang for the rest of his life and gave birth to a son like Zhu Houzhao. Of course, Zhu Houzhao never felt the intrigue between the brothers of the Tian family. Instead, he hoped to have a brother. Now he suddenly had a junior brother, which was a bit inexplicable. However, Zhu Houzhao was very excited. He rolled up his long sleeves: "A few days ago, the masters told me that the most important thing in the country is etiquette. Since he is a fellow disciple, why are he not a junior brother? Haha..."
Liu Jin was just depressed and didn't know what to say.
Zhu Houzhao was in high spirits and read the memorial again, but then hesitated again: "It's so strange. Master Wang accepted a junior brother. The censor of the Censorate was surprisingly calm. He didn't even scold him. Weird, Liu Bao, why is this?"
Liu Jin was even more afraid. In fact, he had read the memorial early in the morning. The news first came from the south. Logically, the censors of the Nanjing Censorate had already had a lot of trouble, but...
Chapter completed!