"Is there anything wrong with this matter?" Huang Yongji looked at his father and asked with some confusion on his face.
After I told my father about this matter, he took it very seriously, as if there was something special about it, but he just never told me.
Now that my father has brought up this matter and these two people again, there must be something going on.
Huang Kezun glanced at his son and said solemnly, "What's special isn't the event, but the person. The young man you mentioned who met Song Yingxing should be His Majesty. Based on your description, I think I'm right."
After hearing his father's words, Huang Yongji stood up in disbelief and asked in shock, "It's His Majesty?"
Huang Kezun looked at his son, who was in shock. He was furious and scolded him directly: "Look at you. You are so frightened when encountering things. How can you achieve great things in the future? Don't be impatient. Be steady."
Looking at his father, Huang Yongji smiled bitterly and said, "Father, who can remain calm when faced with something like this?"
"If the child had been more proactive that day instead of following for the sake of watching the fun, it would probably be because I had made friends with His Majesty. If that day had really come, my son would not have to stay at home all day." Huang Yongji's tone was full of regret and remorse.
"Do you think staying at home is unfair to you?" Huang Kezun said angrily, "With your current condition, even if you enter the officialdom, you will not have a good life. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I asked you to read Xunzi's books these days. Have you read them? I tell you, this concerns your future."
"The child is already watching it." Huang Yongji said with some guilt.
He had indeed been reading it, but he was not paying much attention to it. He just treated it as a leisure book.
He had previously complained to himself about why his father made him read such a book, thinking it was of no use at all.
But in this situation, Huang Yongji finally understood his father's intentions.
Looking at his father, Huang Yongji asked hesitantly, "Father, don't you want to..."
Looking at his son's surprised face, Huang Kezun smiled and said, "What's wrong with that? Your father is also a cabinet minister now, but does he have the same status as your father in the cabinet?"
"Han Yu, the Grand Secretary and Chief Minister of the Cabinet, may not seem to have much influence, but he serves as a balancing force. This is the best thing for him; as long as he doesn't make any moves, his position will be very stable."
"Xu Guangqi, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, is the face of the new policies. From lecturer Chen Kedao to the Minister of Rites' Shen Tingyun, they are all Xu Guangqi's people. They are the ones that His Majesty is preparing to use, so their positions are very stable. Even if they do something out of line, it doesn't matter; His Majesty will protect them."
"As for Sun Chengzong, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, he is your majesty's teacher and represents the Hanlin Academy and some upright officials. Because he himself is a Hanlin scholar and holds a high position, Sun Chengzong's position is naturally very stable. He is your majesty's choice to balance Xu Guangqi. If things get out of control over there, your majesty will let Sun Chengzong take over."
"As for your father, I seem more like a freeloader. But why did His Majesty put me in the cabinet?"
"That's because His Majesty needs me to increase their sense of crisis. It's also a form of insurance. If they become unreliable, His Majesty will replace them all at once. When that happens, there must be an old man in the cabinet to hold the cabinet together. That old man is me, your father."
"But the people in the cabinet are all old foxes. They won't give your father such an opportunity. Under such circumstances, I can't do anything I want to do. I can only serve as a cabinet minister for a few years and then retire. And His Majesty won't try to keep me for too long, because there are people in the court who can replace me."
"Do you think I want this?" Huang Kezun looked at his son and asked with a smile.
"If I hadn't entered the cabinet, I might not have any thoughts; but now that I have entered the cabinet, I am naturally unwilling to accept it," Huang Yongji said directly.
"Father's talent and learning are naturally first-rate, and his wisdom and experience are no less than theirs. Naturally, he is unwilling to accept this. Fulfilling his ambitions and leaving his name in history is what father should do."
"So, your father and I have been looking for an opportunity." Huang Kezun said with a smile, "It's just that there have been no good opportunities, but this time the opportunity has finally come."
"Not many people know that Your Majesty likes Xunzi, but we happened to know it. This is an opportunity given by God. If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences. This opportunity must not be missed."
"But if we do that, I'm afraid we'll offend a lot of people," Huang Yongji said worriedly. "And I'm afraid it'll damage my father's reputation. I'm worried that public opinion will be unfavorable to him."
Huang Kezun waved his hand and said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "That's useless. The first thing your father realized after entering the cabinet was that you must have your own stance within the cabinet, no matter what it is, but you must have it. Those who go with the flow will never be reused."
"What does Xu Guangqi represent? What's his current reputation? But what's the point? He's still the cabinet's second-in-command. If the reforms are truly successful one day, you know Xu Guangqi will go down in history. There's no future to talk about with this kind of thing, because no one knows what the future will hold. So all we can do is do our best and leave the rest to fate."
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