To be honest, Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't want Xu Jin to join the cabinet to prepare for flights, because he could already be sure that Xu Jin was not a clean official.

If Xu Jin was just a purely Taoist minister, a pure Conservative party, and would rather disobey his emperor than advise him to establish a crown prince, Zhu Houzhao could have brought him into the cabinet because of his integrity and loyalty to etiquette, just like Kang Hai.

But it is obvious that Xu Jin is not an official with a good style, a selfish and innocent civil servant, and a hypocritical hypocrite!

If it weren't, Zhu Houzhao believed that after his eldest son Zhu Zailei told him that Pan Gu, an official of Shuntian Prefecture, purchased inferior steel from the Xu family at a high price and asked Zhu Zailei to adopt Pan Gu's suggestion to bribe the Xu family directly with this, Xu Jin's students would not be rushing to submit a memorial to advise him to make the eldest son the crown prince as soon as possible.

However, Zhu Houzhao, who has entered the old age, understands that in many cases, he cannot do things based on his subjective feelings, and he has to be more rational. If he refuses Xu Jin to enter the cabinet at this time, he will naturally let Xu Jin and other civil servants know that they are dissatisfied with them, and may even directly realize that Zhu Zailei told him about the money for the construction of the tap water project of Pan Gu and the Xu family greedy for Mo Shuntian Mansion.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't want Xu Jin to realize it now, because he wanted these Qingliu civil officials to support a prince who actually would not take care of the interests of these bourgeoisie.

In this way, the emperor needed to run a scam, which made Xu Jin always think that the eldest son and the princes were taking care of their civil servants.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao finally agreed to add Xu Jin to the cabinet against his conscience.

After Xu Jin learned that he was promoted to the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, he was naturally very happy. His joy at this time was no less than that when he passed the imperial examination.

His Xu family was also very happy, so they held a big banquet.

After all, the fact that Xu Jin was able to enter the pavilion proved that the emperor valued Xu Jin very much, which means that the Xu family was still rich and noble. Moreover, the Xu family had just made a lot of money while the eldest son of the emperor was the prefect of Shuntian. In addition, now that Xu Jin has entered the pavilion, the Xu family is naturally cooking oil with fire and flowers.

Xu Jin naturally didn't know that his emperor had already regarded him and his Xu family as prey at this time, and just waited for the Xu family to grow a little bit, and then became more and more unscrupulous in doing things, which would destroy the entire Xu family and replenish the country's losses with the blood of the Xu family.

Xu Jin is now optimistic about the prospects of himself and his Xu family, because he feels that the emperor is old and the new emperor is probably the eldest son of Zhu Zailei, and Zhu Zailei takes good care of his civil servants. As long as he helps the eldest son to be the crown prince, the Xu family will always remain rich for decades in the next few decades.

In fact, many powerful families in the capital are optimistic about this and optimistic about the prospects of the Xu family. Even the Xu family of Ding Guoguo recognized their relatives with Xu Jin, and Xu Jin also took a concubine with leisure and elegant manner, staged a scene of an old couple.

In the court, because Xia Yan regarded himself as the prime minister and did not give full equality to civil officials, the complaints and dissatisfaction of civil officials towards Xia Yan increased day by day. The newly-entered civil official Xu Jin, the Qingliu civil official, was naturally highly respected by civil officials, so that Xu Jin's power and prestige increased greatly when he entered the cabinet.

Zhu Houzhao was naturally very insightful about these things, but he knew that if he wanted to destroy the enemy, he would first make him crazy, so he would also give Xu Jin some things from time to time to show his favor with him.

Xu Jin became more and more proud.

But once a person has selfish intentions, it means that he is also an ordinary person. An ordinary person will make fatal mistakes due to the temptation of some interests, while a saint is different. A saint is selfless and desireless, so it is difficult to make mistakes.

Although Xu Jin is a gentleman on the surface and a great scholar who is almost a sage, it is obvious that Xu Jin is an ordinary person with selfishness, so he will make some mistakes, and some mistakes that he will think he is stupid afterwards.

What's more, he is now in the prime of his youth, so he is more likely to be neglected and fall into traps.

When the second prince Zhu Zaitu left the capital, he knew about Xu Jin's entry into the cabinet, which made him not in a good mood, because he was basically sure that his elder brother Zhu Zaitui continued to use the Shuntian Mansion tap water project funds to purchase inferior steel pipes of the Xu family and bribed the Xu family in this way, Xu Jin had become a hard-core supporter of helping his elder brother Zhu Zaitui as the crown prince.

Therefore, Xu Jin's becoming a Grand Secretary in the Cabinet was a result that the second prince Zhu Zailei was unwilling to see. He implemented his plan and decided to expose more of the Xu family's handle to his elder brother Zhu Zailei to see if his elder brother Zhu Zailei will continue to shelter Xu Jin.

Zhu Zailii arrived in Henan, which was a major grain-producing province in the Ming Dynasty, but due to the Yellow River, Henan often suffered disasters.

However, there has not been floods in the Yellow River at present. Zhu Zailii also checked the river section and basically there was no embankment that needed renovation. However, just when Zhu Zailii inspected the embankment, a newly built railway pier suddenly collapsed. Zhu Zailii rode his horse over and looked over, but found that the building materials of the piers were very small.

Zhu Zailei felt something was wrong and hurriedly looked for people who had lived on the banks of the Yellow River to take him to inspect other bridge piers. He was surprised to find that the building materials of these bridge piers were very small, and even under the impact of the river, it was gradually in danger of collapse. Moreover, Zhu Zailei discovered that these collapsed railway steels were also inferior steels of the Xu family!

"This is simply a disaster to the country and the people. Who gave me the courage to do this?!"

Zhu Zailei felt very scary. He was the new supervisor of the Henan section of the two Beijing Railways. He naturally had the power to supervise the railway matters and hurriedly found Shao Ju, the right governor who was responsible for the construction of the Henan section: "Who gave you the courage to do this?!"

"Your Highness calms down. It's all about this matter that the second son of the Xu family forced the subordinates to do so. The subordinates were helpless and dared not to refuse to obey." Shao Ju said that, and handed the letter from the second son of the Xu family to Zhu Zailei.

Zhu Zailie immediately took it over and looked at it, and couldn't help but get even more angry: "Bastard! This is a major project that concerns the national economy and people's livelihood. How can these profiteers allow erosion?"

"Your Highness, don't be angry, this is inevitable. The official also knows that this is not good, so he has not reported it to the Ministry of Railways for a long time, saying that the Henan section is completed and he is just waiting for the new Futai Lord to come and discuss a good solution. Now I didn't expect that it is Your Highness, you governor Henan. The official sees that Your Highness should not make any statement about this matter. After all, the old master (Xu Jin) has just entered the cabinet. Once this matter is exposed, the old master Xu's career will be ruined, but your noble master's position will be ruined, Your Highness!"

The right governor of Henan, Shao Ju, said excitedly.

Zhu Zailei is now obviously able to determine that Xu Jin is a landworm in the empire, and he even began to feel a little disgusted with these civil servants who often use his position to threaten him. This made Zhu Zailei feel very frustrated. He wanted to be the crown prince, but did he really want to sit down and watch these landworms exist in order to be the crown prince?

Zhu Zailei encountered a problem. Of course, he knew Xu Jin's position in the civil servant group. If he reported this matter to the court, it would definitely cause an uproar, and he would offend the entire civil servant group.

However, Zhu Zailei could not sit idly by and watch these civil servants embezzle state assets, engage in tofu projects, or even be corrupt to the point where they would harm the people and destroy the foundation of the country.

"It's better not to be a prince like this!"

Zhu Zailii couldn't help but say something in his heart. He finally chose to expose this matter. He decided that he would rather not be the prince than cause huge losses to the national interests and the people's interests. After all, the corruption problem in railway construction in Henan is different from the Shuntian Prefecture Water Project. The Shuntian Prefecture Water Project uses inferior steel to only involve the interests of the people of Shuntian Prefecture. Now if there is a problem with the entire railway between the two Beijings, it means that the entire country will suffer huge losses!

Zhu Zailii didn't want to wipe his butt in the Xu family this time, and he couldn't do it, and he couldn't tolerate such a borer. In the end, he directly submitted the impeachment memorial to the Censorate and also reported the matter to Zhu Houzhao in the form of a letter from his family.

At this time, the capital city was still singing and dancing to peace.

Zhu Houzhao and Xu Jin didn't know these things yet.

Zhu Houzhao took his concubines to go on a spring outing, and Xu Jin also hugged his newly-acquired concubine's waist and let him gallop on him. However, he was old and soft as mud in less than a few strokes, but his face was filled with a satisfied smile.

But at this moment.

The East Factory Inspectorate had already surrounded his mansion with people.

Zhu Houzhao naturally learned the news first. He did not expect Xu Jin's family to extend his hand to the two Beijing Railways. Of course, what he did not expect was that his eldest son would choose to expose this cabinet minister who had just entered the cabinet.

This happened very suddenly, and Zhu Houzhao didn't expect it.

But now that Zhu Zailei has put this matter on the surface, no one can cover it up.

After all, Zhu Zailei was the eldest son of the emperor and the governor of Henan. After being detained as the Censorate, he would reveal this matter to the Censorate.

Now the media industry in the Ming Dynasty is so developed that it is enough to let everyone in the world know the sins of the Xu family in three months!

Even Emperor Zhu Houzhao had to follow the trend at this time, asking the East Factory Inspectorate to immediately investigate Xu Jin's second son and temporarily suspend Xu Jin.

However, at the same time, Zhu Zailien was suspended by Zhu Houzhao and summoned him to Beijing, because Zhu Zailien was also the person in charge of the Henan section of the two Beijing Railway, so he naturally wanted to go to Beijing to accept Zhu Houzhao's personal interrogation. Of course, Zhu Houzhao actually wanted to protect Zhu Zailien's life safety.

Because Zhu Zailei did this to offend many civil officials, who knows whether these people will commit silence and revenge.

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were not without the courage to kill the emperor, let alone the prince.

Xu Jin was very surprised. He couldn't believe that it was the Xu family reported by the eldest son Zhu Zailei. When he saw his second son being taken away by the inspector of the East Factory, he felt betrayed. He suddenly felt extremely angry with the eldest son Zhu Zailei!

"Why did he do this!"

Xu Jin was roaring in his heart, but he could not show such a mentality on the surface. He praised the eldest son for being selfless, and while writing a memorial to ask for retirement and regret standing in the court without saying a word.

At the same time, Xu Jin also secretly reminded his second son not to sell his family.

then.

Xu Jin's second son admitted that all these things were done by him, saying that they had nothing to do with his father.

Xu Jin's second son was naturally sentenced to death, and the Xu family also paid a huge fine. However, Zhu Houzhao did not agree to let Xu Jin resign. After all, Xu Jin's crime is not yet punished, so Zhu Houzhao naturally would not let him retreat bravely.

This matter has come to an end for the time being. The Henan section of the two Beijing Railway can only be rebuilt, and the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Zailei also returned to Henan. Under his supervision, the project did not make any mistakes.

Over time, both the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Zailei and other princes, have done well, such as the second prince Zhu Zaitu and Zhu Houzhao, who found that under his management, the income from the sea trade in Zhejiang Province has been increasing.

However, Zhu Houzhao felt something strange. Haimao seemed to be too calm, so few smuggling cases occurred, but Zhu Houzhao did not force it out of nothing. He believed that if someone was playing tricks with him, then who would be his fox tail would eventually be revealed.

The second prince Zhu Zaitu is very happy now. After he learned that Zhu Zaitui had reported the dirty things about the Xu family, he also caused Xu Jin's second son to be executed.

Because the second prince knew that this meant that his elder brother had already cut himself off from the entire civil service group: "My elder brother is still too honest and can't rub the sand in his eyes. Gu really thought he had learned more smoothly than before, but he didn't expect that he was still so full of justice!"

Zhu Zaili's behavior did anger the entire civil servant group, making many civil servants start to feel fear of him, and were worried that if Zhu Zaili really became the emperor in the future, he would become the second Zhengde Emperor.

Therefore, the scholars and people in the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty were surprised to find that after this, the voices of demanding the emperor to appoint a crown prince early and to follow the etiquette and law to establish the eldest son Zhu Zailei were much less, and even disappeared. What is even more surprising is that some real guardians even advised the court to establish the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Zailei as the crown prince, but would be attacked by civil servants.

Zhu Houzhao realized this change and began to be more and more satisfied with Zhu Zailei's performance. But he knew that the civil servants were becoming increasingly disappointed with Zhu Zailei, but Zhu Houzhao didn't care about this. After all, he had the final say in the Ming Empire.

Zhu Houzhao was so happy that no one was bothering him about the country's foundation, but when the civil servants were not in a hurry to urge him to establish the crown prince, Zhu Houzhao was already determined to establish the eldest son Zhu Zailei as the crown prince.

Because the reason why Zhu Houzhao has been delayed until now is nothing more than whether Zhu Zailii has the determination to protect national interests and the interests of the people. It is obvious that Zhu Zailii's behavior of reporting the Xu family was not very clever, but he maintained a public heart. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao made up his mind and made Zhu Zailii the crown prince to end the decades of unresolved crown prince.

Not long after, Zhu Houzhao issued a direct order to promote the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Zailei to the Minister of Revenue. This move naturally made the court officials smell some smell, but many civil officials were not happy about it.

On this day, Zhang Juzheng happened to submit a memorial to appoint a crown prince again to determine the foundation of the country. Zhu Houzhao summoned all the ministers and said, "I have decided to follow the wishes of the scholars and the people and make the eldest son Zhu Zailei the crown prince."

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhou Luo, the Minister of Rites, stood up: "Your Majesty, I think it is better to be a virtuous than a legitimate one. Now the princes are wise and foolish, and the crown prince is the crown prince, so it cannot be decided lightly. Therefore, I should carefully examine it if I make suggestions!"

"It's so strange. You said that the legitimate and chief are established by following etiquette and law. Now you say that you are a wise man." Zhu Houzhao said coldly and glared at Zhou Luo directly.

Zhou Luo was so scared that he crawled on the ground: "Your Majesty clearly understands that I have never mentioned the matter of establishing a legitimate and a chief, but the choice of the crown prince is a major national event, so it is indeed impossible to decide easily!"
Chapter completed!