Chapter One Hundred and Thirty One Great Chance of Second Master Zhao
"Yeah." Zhao Jin smiled embarrassedly: "Uncle, don't worry, we will definitely be united in this matter."
"What opportunity?" Mr. Zhao asked vaguely, while eating sheep tail oil with sesame sauce. The rich gummy sheep tail melts in the mouth, and the fragrance of oil is progressing layer by layer on the tip of his tongue. The happiness that rushed to his forehead made him feel a joy of running in the sunset with his hips naked.
"What else can I do?" Zhao Hao said, "The highlight of this court recommendation is not to recommend the officials and the Minister of the Second Ministry of War."
"That's it?" Mr. Zhao asked with wide eyes.
"Think about it..." Mr. Zhao said slowly and carefully.
"Oh, I remembered it." Mr. Zhao picked up the handkerchief on the corner of his mouth, slapped his forehead and said, "I heard that Mr. Chen has also resigned. Is it the highlight that the Zuodu Censor is elected?!"
Seeing that the three of you rolled your eyes together, Mr. Zhao covered his mouth with his left hand and said, "No? Could it be that he still wants to promote the Grand Secretary in court?"
"Isn't this nonsense? What's more important than his mother's heavenly official is just a Grand Secretary?" The old man wanted to use chopsticks to suck him. Why did he give birth to such a fool? What's even more hateful is that this fool actually wants to go to heaven.
"Is that so? I haven't heard of it at all." Mr. Zhao smiled embarrassedly, and quickly picked up chopsticks for the old man and said, "Dad, you can eat this without any trouble."
"If you talk about serious things, you will know how to eat!" Zhao Liben opened his mouth angrily, and Zhao Shouzheng delivered the meat to his mouth accurately. Well, let alone it smells good.
"Food is the most important thing for people, and the world is the most important thing for eating." Zhao Shouzheng smiled and said, "Who can be elected to the cabinet? It's just a topic of conversation for the meal. Anyway, we have nothing to do with it."
"How do you know that nothing is wrong with you?" Zhao Liben sneered, picked up the wine cup and sipped it.
"Of course I know, people are more important than self-knowledge." Zhao Shouzheng said with a look of course: "The court is like this gusting copper pot, the Grand Secretary is the sheep tail oil, and the Da Jiuqing is the mutton and tripe. Am I like this? At best, it is a side dish."
As he said that, he picked up a piece of cabbage and said, "When will cabbage become the main course?"
"Uncle II is biased. You are the top scholar and you have been the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites in ten years. How can you be considered a side dish?" Zhao Jin shook his head flatly and said:
"Say it's like even cabbage? This copper pot is a good word, and the first thing to do is to have a good taste... The copper pot only recognizes mutton, and cannot mix beef, nor can it mix fish and shrimp. But it's too greasy to be all mutton? It also needs to be a side dish to relieve greasy - this cabbage has the most peaceful personality and a slight sweetness. It not only will not make the taste of a pot of soup, but it will also provide the most loyal support for the original taste of the mutton. Therefore, all kinds of vegetables are not as good as cabbage, so it is qualified to put it in the pot early."
"I am worthy of being in charge of imperial food and know a lot." Zhao Shouzheng gave a thumbs up in admiration.
Zhao Hao and Zhao Liben also liked each other, but the contents of Zhao Erye praised were completely different.
Zhao Jin compared the cabinet to hot pot. Only mutton can be used as a pot, and only officials from Hanlin origin can enter the cabinet. Even if an official who has never been a Hanlin, he will not be able to enter the cabinet even if he becomes the governor. So the candidate for this Grand Secretary is not the most important thing to pay attention to the word "right".
As for the statement of cabbage, it is even more exquisite, which is exactly the role of Mr. Zhao to Mr. Zhang.
Zhao Liben couldn't help but smile and said, "My nephew is deeply tempted by the three flavors of officialdom."
"Son, son, why do everyone use hot pot as an analogy? Your grandfather thinks what I said has no taste?" Zhao Shouzheng asked his son in a low voice.
"Because you are still at the point where you see the mountains as if you see the mountains, your old brother has reached the state of whether you see the mountains or the mountains." Zhao Hao replied with a smile: "Although you see all the mountains, you are on the first floor and you are on the third floor of your home."
"The more I talk about it, the more mysterious it is..." Zhao Shouzheng laughed and said, "According to what my nephew said, this Grand Secretary may really fall on his father's head?"
"Not bad." Zhao Hao nodded.
"It's the second uncle." Zhao Jin also nodded.
"Hmph, you're lucky." Zhao Liben curled his lips.
"No way? Are you serious?" Zhao Shouzheng opened his mouth wide, feeling his heartbeat a little faster. He grabbed Zhao Jin and said, "Nephew, they both joke with me all day long. You are a stern person. Tell me about it quickly. What's going on?"
"Second uncle, you are really not idle." Zhao Jin smiled bitterly: "Since the Empress Dowager and the Emperor both let go, Yuan Fu's love will be 80% bad. Now that Ge Lao Lu doesn't take matters, the cabinet will be empty as soon as Yuan Fu left. If you don't hurry up and add the cabinet members, will the country still be able to change?"
"Well, it makes sense." Zhao Shouzheng nodded and said, "But isn't it about seniority when entering the cabinet? There are at least twenty people in front of me, right?"
"Nonsense, when Mr. Zhang was appointed as the prime minister, there were also 20 or 30 people in front of him. He was pushed into the cabinet by Master Xu?" Zhao Liben curled his lips and said, "Oh, by the way, he entered the cabinet as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites. Who dares to say that you are not qualified enough? Isn't that slap Mr. Zhang in the face?"
"Mr. Zhang is Mr. Zhang. I am me, is that comparable?" Zhao Shouzheng waved his hand modestly.
"Of course there is no more!" Zhao Liben said without hesitation: "You and your in-laws are like a dragon and a pig, and the blind bird meets a big golden eagle!"
"Dad, in your eyes, I am a pig and a blind family bird." Zhao Shouzheng said depressedly.
"Otherwise?" Zhao Liben looked at him and said, "But stupid people have good fortune, and they are stupid. If you are a real dragon, you don't have the chance to enter the cabinet. If you are only a big eagle, you won't be able to make it to the sky this time!"
"Uncle means," Zhao Jin hurriedly explained to Zhao Shouzheng: "After this battle to seize love, the rift between Mr. Zhang and the officials has emerged. If he does not make comprehensive arrangements, can he return to his hometown with confidence?"
"Yes." Zhao Liben nodded and said, "Now it is the situation where the seven masters of the Pavilion are in the opposition. In addition to Gao Xinzheng, Xu Huating, Li Xinghua, Zhao Dazhou, Yin Licheng, and Chen Nanchong are all deeply loved by everyone. With many aid, it is difficult to say whether they will take the opportunity to make a comeback. Any of these people will have a great restraint on him and make him very uncomfortable."
"So my father-in-law must fill the cabinet in advance before leaving so that they don't have the chance to come out of the mountain." Zhao Hao also added: "This time, 80% of the senior officials will be introduced at once."
"So many places." Zhao Shouzheng swallowed.
"And the second uncle has a great advantage, and this time he has a very high chance of winning." Zhao Jin echoed.
"Yes, Father, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Zhao Hao bewitched his father: "If God doesn't take it, you will suffer the blame. After passing this village, there is no such store. If you miss it this time, I'm afraid I'll have to wait for another ten or eight years. Who knows what will happen then?"
"What are my... advantages?" Zhao Shouzheng's voice began to float, obviously not because he was drunk.
"I've gone too much." Zhao Jin smiled and said, "First of all, you are Zhang Xianggong's in-laws. You will be prosperous and you will be rich and you will be damaged. This is the most reliable thing."
"The most important thing is that you have no ambitions, are easy to control, have no position, are dull and cannot make his rebellion." Zhao Liben also praised: "It is simply the best candidate to take a pit and be a puppet!"
"Dad, isn't it the six-character mantra you taught me - words should be slow and heart should be kind?" Zhao Shouzheng said to his grievanced index finger.
"Is there any?" Zhao Liben laughed and said, "You are too stupid, so I thought of such a solution that I can't do anything about."
"Uncle has looked at people with his old eyes. Uncle has improved a lot over the years." Zhao Jin quickly smoothed out the situation for Zhao Shouzheng and said, "Although you and my brothers and a few gentlemen are here to give some advice. Maybe he has regarded this official as a stable official and has such a good official reputation. This is definitely a skill."
"Hi, Mr. Qingteng said, I don't know how to do it, I only know how to be an official." Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but say proudly: "And I discovered that the bigger the official, the better. When I was in the county, I was a laborer. Now I came to the ministry, a cup of tea and a bag of cigarettes, and a copy of a mansion for a long time, and I was doing nothing all day long."
"Indeed, the higher the official, the more pursuing it. Otherwise, how did the Sixth Secretary of the Clay Sculpture and the Three Pavilions of Paper Paste come from?" Zhao Jinshen agreed.
"In this way, I can still be competent as a paper-based cabinet master." Zhao Shouzheng finally had confidence, but before he was happy for a while, he said with a bitter face: "But the cabinet master needs to be recommended by the court. Although the in-laws can be selected, if the votes are too small, he will always be ridiculed in the future."
"Yes, we have to make the top three with our own strength!" Zhao Liben slapped the table and said.
"More than 100 people voted, how can I rank among the top three?" Zhao Shouzheng was as big as a fight.
"What is the matter with people?" Zhao Hao smiled and calculated: "The Ministry of Personnel's seven votes, the Ministry of Revenue's twenty-six votes, the Ministry of Rites seven votes, the Ministry of War ten votes, the Ministry of Justice 16 votes, the Ministry of Works 11 votes, the Ministry of Works 10 votes, the Ministry of Works 11 votes, the Dali Temple 5 votes, the Censorate's 16 votes, the Tongzheng Department 6 votes, and the Six Section Chiefs, a total of 110 votes."
"Among them, we all have fifty-seven votes." Zhao Liben said in a muffled voice.
"So much?" Zhao Shouzheng was startled.
"What do you think you and your son are busy with all day?" Zhao Liben snorted arrogantly: "Officials from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhili and Shandong will definitely vote for you."
"But in order not to be obsessed with appearances, we will control it to about forty votes, so that others can have nothing to say." Zhao Hao said.
"Based on past experience, it is safe to get three-quarters of the votes." Zhao Jin continued: "That is to say, we have to get more than forty votes."
"More than forty votes..." Zhao Shouzheng took a deep breath.
"Don't worry, Father, even if we do nothing, you won't get a few votes." Zhao Hao cheered him up:
"My father has a very good relationship with all factions and is a well-known charity. After the big dispute, people are inevitably panic. Everyone is worried that they will be liquidated. There is a chance that the cabinet master can bridge the relationship between all parties and save everyone from panic. It is willing to all parties."
"Besides, we won't do nothing." Zhao Liben said proudly: "We have chips in our hands, and it's not difficult to get you forty or fifty votes."
"But the second uncle has to be successful." Zhao Jin said again: "If you say a thousand words, you will be the one who wants to join the cabinet. Your performance is the most important thing!"
Chapter completed!