Reincarnation of Soul Cultivation 2

A few years later, after the next emperor of the country came to the throne, Lin Jing went to Beijing to take part in the general examination and palace examination, and became the new emperor's student of the emperor as he wished, and the second list of Jinshi.

Lin Ruhai also breathed a sigh of relief after Lin Jing was admitted to the Hanlin Academy. The Lin family finally took over, and there was no problem of succession.

Now that the new emperor has just ascended the throne, he has no intention of purging the veterans for the time being, so he is not in a hurry to resign. Anyway, he does not occupy any important department or official position, so he can support his son for a while.

Moreover, Lin Ruhai stayed in the court because he wanted to observe the new emperor's temperament, so as to determine the policy and strategy of the Lin family's future official duties.

Although the previous emperor liquidated many old ministers and left aside the confidantes of the Supreme Emperor who had no guilt like Lin Ruhai, he was still a wise emperor on the whole, even though his nature was too upright and paranoid, not like a qualified politician. He also has no complaints.

As the confidant of the Supreme Emperor, Lin Ruhai was already mentally prepared to be liquidated by the emperor.Even if the emperor became calm and rational later, it was reasonable to leave the emperor's confidantes idle.

Lin Ruhai just regrets that he was born at an untimely time.A family of officials like the Lin family will never lack wealth and glory, and Lin Ruhai is not one of those humble children who want to get ahead.But as a Confucian scholar who passed the imperial examination and became an official, he still had his own political ambitions.An orthodox scholar like him always hopes to meet Mingjun, and then become a virtuous minister, compose a legend of Mingjun and virtuous ministers, and let history remember their achievements.

The Supreme Emperor was a wise emperor when he was young, but unfortunately when Lin Ruhai became an official, he was already old and was no longer the wise and decisive emperor he was when he was young.The old Supreme Emperor was suspicious and overthinking, let his heirs fight among themselves, abolished the prince who had been trained for many years, and turned a blind eye to many people and things that violated the law in order to balance power.

So even if the Supreme Emperor valued Lin Ruhai and placed him in an important position, Lin Ruhai, an official, could not be considered happy.

Because he was just a chess piece played with by the Supreme Emperor, and he didn't get any respect from the king.

There is no tacit understanding or common political ambition between their monarchs and ministers.

Because at this time, the Supreme Emperor, apart from wanting to hold the power firmly in the palm of his hand, has no extra energy and mood to think about this country, or even tens of thousands of people.

Aspiring scholars yearn for officials like Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng.Even if the final outcome is not good, they have truly changed the fate of the country and the morals of the world, leaving their own names in the majestic history.

If you don't have that opportunity and ability, you will settle for the next best thing, and you also want to become a minister of the six books, or even a elder in the pavilion.Not to mention that reforms change the fate of the entire country, at least the power is in hand, and can determine many national policies and the fate of thousands of people.

But Lin Ruhai basically didn't have this opportunity, because when he became the confidant of the Supreme Emperor, the Supreme Emperor was too old, and it was impossible to train another cabinet minister.He has neither the time nor the energy.

Therefore, these confidantes who followed the Supreme Emperor after his later years were, in a certain sense, discarded sons who could be discarded at any time.It doesn't hurt too much to give up which one.Because he is the emperor, it is too easy for him to cultivate new confidants.There are so many new officials in the court who have no background and influence, and whoever dares not listen to which of the small officials he wants to obey.

Just like Lin Ruhai, does he really like being a pawn for the Supreme Emperor?It's just that there is no other choice.

Lin Ruhai was born at a bad time, because the emperor after the Supreme Emperor was also a Mingjun, but this Mingjun was jealous and dissatisfied with the Supreme Emperor, so he, the Supreme Emperor's confidant, was destined not to be reused.

His official career in this life has basically come to an end, and the current Lin family is Lin Jing's era.

Lin Jing only came out to take the Jinshi examination after the new emperor ascended the throne, that is what he meant, he didn't want to involve the previous emperor, and because of some reason, his official career was not going well.

It's a pity that Lin Jing's luck is not so good.

As soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, he conferred the title of a noble concubine from a humble background, pampered her wantonly, promoted her natal family, and used her to suppress the empress and the newly conferred Cheng'en Gongfu.The empress is well-known, and her family has made great efforts in the process of the new emperor seizing the throne and ascending the throne, and there is no obvious fault.

If the new emperor is a lustful idiot, then that's fine.It's a pity that the new emperor is very smart, and he is also famous among the former emperor's sons as shrewd and capable.He did this obviously on purpose.

Lin Ruhai's evaluation of the new emperor was immediately downgraded. The new emperor is extremely smart, but has a somewhat irritable and mean-spirited temperament.Borrowing the strength of the queen's family, but at this time, she disliked the power of the queen's natal family, which destroyed the balance between the harem and the previous dynasty.

Just after crossing the river, I wanted to demolish the bridge, and it would be too fast to change my face.

Of course, the new emperor wants a balance in the harem—don’t want the empress’s family to be dominant; he wants to cultivate new confidants in the previous dynasty—use them to balance the forces of the Cheng’en government that played a great role in his side in the past and are deeply rooted

——These are all understandable human feelings—both the harem and the former court really need a balance, and any dominant power will indeed pose a danger of overthrowing the imperial power for the emperor.

But he did it too hastily, and it was too ugly, and he played the trick of spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife in a blatant manner.

Even if he didn't see the full picture of the emperor's temperament, Lin Ruhai made a decision immediately, Lin Jing must not become the new emperor's confidant - because this emperor is too suspicious, too impatient, love desires life and evil desires death.

Just like the newly-canonized imperial concubine and her natal family, it is really like a fire cooking oil at this time, and it looks like it is really thriving.But Cheng Engong's family is not easy to mess with.Moreover, a family with a low status like the imperial concubine's natal family who became an official because of favor was also rejected by all imperial examination officials.

It can be said that the noble concubine's natal family has no allies and supporters other than the emperor's favor, and the future is really worrying.

Lin Ruhai discovered that the new emperor was not like the previous emperor—the former emperor was upright and stubborn, and showed no mercy to his enemies, but he was honest with his own people and his confidants, and the monarch and his ministers benefited from each other.

The new emperor is clearly like the overlord emperor in his later years - he regards the concubines in the harem and the courtiers of the previous court as pawns in his hands, and can play with them as he wants.

But he didn't know that if things are not fair, things will be loud, and if people's hearts are not fair, it will be even more serious--at the beginning, Lin Ruhai and the others dared to obey the orders of the Supreme Emperor, but it was because they were not fair and took advantage of the reason.

Now the new emperor blatantly spoils his concubines, destroys his wives, crosses rivers and demolishes bridges. In many people's minds, this is the emperor's flawed conduct.Even if he didn't dare to say it out loud, he still had an opinion about the emperor in his heart.

Lin Ruhai and the others dared to disobey the Supreme Emperor at the beginning, and in the future there must be courtiers who would dare to secretly disobey the current emperor.This is because what the new emperor has done is not convincing.

Mencius told King Xuan of Qi: "If the ruler treats his subjects like brothers and feet, then he will treat him like a heart; if the ruler treats his subjects like dogs and horses, he will treat him like a countryman; if the ruler treats his subjects like dirt, then his subjects will treat him like a robber. "

Even if the status of the monarch and his ministers are different, the king can make a decision on the wealth and life of his ministers, but he can't change the direction of people's hearts.

This emperor is too self-willed and impatient - it may be easy to get promoted if he is appreciated by the new emperor, but he is more likely to be manipulated by him as a pawn - just like the imperial concubine and her natal family.

So Lin Ruhai told Lin Jing to let him be an official in his own right - even if he becomes a high-ranking official in the future, he can always face the Holy Spirit, but he must not leave the emperor with the impression that he is very understanding - lest the Emperor think that he is very useful , you can use it however you want.

Instead of doing that, it is better to establish an image of being a responsible official, even if it is rigid and unflattering, at least it is stable.Even if the emperor doesn't like it, he won't hate it too much.

Lin Jing believed in Lin Ruhai's judgment very much, and since then kept a respectful distance from the emperor.

What happened later really verified Lin Ruhai's judgment on the emperor.

For example, the noble concubine was under the great favor and was hostile by all the women in the harem. Even with the emperor's protection, she didn't live for a few years, and soon died for no apparent reason.The noble concubine's natal family also gradually declined.

Even though the emperor was very sad, he soon had a new favorite concubine, and continued to use her to challenge the empress' authority.

The queen had always been famous when she was the crown princess, and she gave birth to a second son, so there was nothing wrong with it.It's a pity that the emperor's attitude of suppressing the empress and Duke Cheng'en's mansion was too obvious, so obvious that the empress lost her sense of security in the harem, desperately suppressing the emperor's favorite concubine, and also suppressing the emperor's other heirs.The entire harem was in chaos, and the heirs of the harem died one after another, and finally even the queen's two sons died young.

A woman is strong as a mother, and the queen desperately suppressed the emperor's concubines and heirs, making some of them infertile and some of the princes dying.These people retaliated, and even the prince's son born by the empress disappeared.The queen couldn't stand the blow either, and fell ill.

The emperor also became seriously ill because of this.

He really wanted to suppress the Queen's family, but he didn't mean to let the Queen and her two sons die.

It is precisely because the queen is the legitimate mother of the country, and the eldest son is the prince who is the most legally established prince, the emperor needs to suppress them so that they will not dominate the family.

But the emperor didn't want to abolish the empress, he actually valued his concubines very much in his heart, and among the several sons, he only considered making his son a prince.

Duke Chengen is very powerful, and the empress and the first-line prince are also known as righteous, so the emperor needs to suppress them appropriately, lest their family dominate and be unfavorable to the emperor.

In fact, although he suppressed the Queen and Duke Cheng'en's Mansion, he already planned to canonize the eldest son as the crown prince after he became an adult.

But the emperor was too hasty.

He thought that the empress had status, status, power, natal family and sons, so she would be able to protect herself and her sons in the harem.

Unexpectedly, his various behaviors of favoring concubines and destroying wives these years have already damaged the empress' prestige.As long as the concubines in the harem can become favorite concubines, they will not really put the queen in their eyes. In their hearts, the emperor prefers the favorite concubine and hates the queen, so naturally they don't need to be afraid of the queen.

Therefore, naturally some people dared to attack the queen and the two princes.

The emperor suddenly lost his wife and two valued sons, and couldn't help but fell seriously ill.After recovering from illness, the harem was cleaned up, and all the concubines who attacked the queen and the first prince were dealt a devastating blow.At the worst, the whole family ransacked their home, exiled, and beheaded.

Duke Cheng'en's mansion suddenly lost the empress and the two grandchildren of the first prince, which can be said to have lost the greatest future.At this time, the emperor no longer suppressed Duke Cheng'en's mansion, but promoted and reused them wantonly.The children of Duke Cheng'en's mansion soon made their mark in the imperial court.

Although the Cheng'en government hated the emperor for being too mean to the empress, but this kind of feudal dynasty, if they don't want to rebel, they can only accept their fate obediently.The emperor gave the compensation, so the Cheng'en government should be grateful to Dade for keeping it.

What's more, without the empress and the prince's grandson, the future of Duke Cheng'en's mansion is indeed in jeopardy. With the tense relationship between the harem concubines and the deceased queen, no matter which prince ascends the throne in the future, I am afraid that he will not have a good impression of Cheng'en's mansion.

Now the emperor feels guilty towards Cheng'en Gongfu and intends to make amends. If Cheng'en Gongfu doesn't take advantage of this opportunity to develop itself, I'm afraid it will be defeated in the future.

So on the one hand, old Cheng Engong had a grudge against the emperor, and felt that the death of the empress and the two princes' grandsons was wronged; but on the other hand, the emperor's compensation to Cheng Engong's mansion was very generous.The children of Duke Cheng'en's mansion, those who have some ability, have made their mark, and they have taken up many real positions in civil and military positions.

Things have come to this point, time cannot be turned back, and it is impossible for the queen and the two princes to come back to life.Duke Cheng'en's mansion has lost his grandson who may ascend to the throne in the future.Under such circumstances, old Cheng Engong naturally chose a better choice for the living, that is, to forget the resentment towards the emperor, and let the children of the clan appreciate the emperor's trust and promotion.

Losing the retreat of the prince's grandson and becoming the emperor's confidant and pawn is the only choice Cheng'en Gongfu can make.Because the emperor will have a new empress and favorite concubine, if you don't seize this opportunity and wait for the emperor's guilt to gradually dissipate, then Cheng'en Gongfu will be nothing in the future, it will only gradually lose power, and finally be forgotten by the emperor.

Cheng Engong's mansion bet on the emperor who was still the prince, in order to further the power of the family, and even let the next emperor have half of Cheng'en's mansion's blood.Now that the queen and the two direct princes are all dead, it can be said that the years of efforts of Duke Cheng'en's family have all been in vain.If he loses his current power again, he will really lose everything.

Old Cheng Engong is a qualified politician. He quickly calculated the gains and losses, readjusted the development direction of the family, and decided to become the emperor's closest family.

But Lin Jing took a completely different path.

After passing the Jinshi examination, he entered the Hanlin Academy to study. After the three-year period expired, he became an imperial censor for ten years. Later, he was promoted to Yushitai by a superior who appreciated him, and served as a censor for many years.Later, he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites, and became Minister of the Ministry of Rites many years later.

He has never been cited as a confidant by the emperor, and every time he is promoted, it is only because of the appreciation of his superiors, or because of his suitable qualifications, coupled with his good health and longer life than others, he has become a minister for life.Every step can be said to go steadily.

Even if Lin Jing was the first one, the emperor didn't pay attention to it. The emperor only thought that Lin Jing was a stable official, and it was not a good idea to use him, but he was relieved. Of course, he didn't intend to promote him into the cabinet. .

Lin Jing herself felt pretty good.

Lin Jing himself lived a long life, and the emperor did not give up.When Lin Jing wanted to make way for his children and grandchildren, and submitted a letter to resign, the emperor was still in front of the emperor.

Therefore, Lin Jing is not like Lin Ruhai, who has experienced three emperors, and can be regarded as a veteran of the three dynasties.

Lin Jing has only served this one emperor in her life.

This emperor is too smart - not easy to fool his subjects; and too capricious - not easy to serve his subjects.

So Lin Jing spent his whole life in this way, hoping that the next emperor would be more foolish and make it easier for his children and grandchildren to become officials.