Ningdi sighed and stood up from behind the imperial case.
He looked out the window, the dazzling sunlight spread on the ground, and cicadas cried faintly in the distance.
"Is it almost the Duanyang Festival?"
"Your Majesty, today is Duanyang, haven't you eaten rice dumplings?"
It's the Duanyang Festival, and after careful calculation, Gu Huaijiang has been to the border for more than a month.
Emperor Ning glanced at Gao Gonggong, and the latter said: "In the morning, the old slave asked your majesty, and your majesty said that he still eats the third child, but the old slave didn't bring it up."
Ning Di recalled for a moment, it seemed that this was indeed the case.
"You, how can you not eat rice dumplings during the Duanyang Festival? I didn't hear clearly. You should remind me one more sentence."
Ji Daogong smiled and said: "Your Majesty is busy with cabinet candidates these days, and his face is always dry and gloomy. How can Father Gao dare to bother your Majesty?"
Father Gao looked at him gratefully, "Thank you, Mrs. Ji, for the fairness of the old slave."
"Hey, look at him!" Ning Di pointed at him, "I have also been arranged, which means that I am unfair? Has Princess Danyang never been here? In the past years, she would give me embroidery on the Dragon Festival. Of the purse."
For the Duanyang Festival, wormwood and wormwood leaves, as well as some spices to dispel evil and avoid poison, will be rushed by the concubines and princesses from the front and back palaces to give him a purse, but this year I have not seen one.
Concubine Xian and the others didn't want to see him, and let Grandpa Gao stop him, but he didn't let Grandpa Gao stop Princess Danyang.
Ji Daoxue said: "Your Majesty, don't blame Princess Danyang. She is waiting to be married, and it is too late for her to embroider the wedding dress. How can she embroider a purse for her?"
There was no one in the Manchuria who was more fair than Ji Daogong, and Ning Di was quite heart-piercing when he heard his words.
The royal princess does not need to embroider the wedding dress by herself at all, and all the items are taken care of by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Rites.
He also knew what Princess Danyang was up to.
"I made myself a lonely widow. The two eldest sons didn't know what was going on in their hearts, and my most beloved daughter didn't get close to me anymore. I complained that I had given her the wrong person. I have both children and harem concubines. Not as good as the lonely old man in the market!"
Princess Danyang hosted a banquet in Chunhe Garden, and the humiliation of Yin Shuo on excuses was almost known throughout the dynasty, and Emperor Ning naturally knew about it.
He just pretended not to know, unless Yin Shuo really came to him to divorce.
Fortunately, the veteran Yin Shuo was prudent, and did not do anything that was detrimental to herself and others as Princess Danyang had hoped.
"Your Majesty wants to set up a cabinet, obviously, it is to weaken the power of Prime Minister Yin. He maintains the original idea and promises Princess Yin to Prime Minister Yin, do you want to appease Prime Minister Yin?"
Emperor Ning nodded, "Huaijiang is gone, and no one can understand my mind. I can only say a few words to Ji Lao. That's right, I don't trust Yin Shuo. He and his father committed the same fatal thing. The mistake made me very heartbroken. But I didn't want to make the scene too ugly. Yin Shuo was the only male of this generation who had fought for several generations."
Ji Dao fair said: "So your Majesty wants to give him the position of the cohort first. In the future, whether it is to weaken the power or completely abolish the phase, he can have an explanation to the courtiers and the two prime ministers of the Yin family?"
"Yes, that's what I meant."
As for whether to weaken the power of the phase or completely abolish the phase, Emperor Ning did not take the initiative to raise it, and Ji Daogong would not ask.
"Lao Ji, I really have a headache for cabinet candidates. Those who are talented in the DPRK have insufficient prestige. Those who I trust are slightly lacking in talent. After thinking about it, I wish I could get you into the cabinet as the first assistant!"
When Emperor Ning brought up the topic of the cabinet again, Ji Daogong was taken aback and stood up hurriedly, "Your Majesty, the old minister is already in the old age. Thanks to your majesty's love for the post of Imperial History, it is already a bit difficult. The cabinet's first and auxiliary posts are better than the prime minister. There are so many things, how can the old minister with his old bones can afford the hard work?"
"Sit down, I just said casually, you don't have to be so nervous."
Emperor Ning sighed and said: "Why don't I know how old you are and should have let you go back to your hometown for a long time? But you can't have the position of Yushi Du, you can tell the gains and losses by using people as a mirror. You are my mirror!"
This is what Tang Taizong Li Shimin praised a generation of virtuous minister Wei Zheng, and Ji Daogong said: "Your majesty is absurd. Your majesty's mirror is actually Gu Houye. At most, the old ministers rely on their seniority to advise the high-ranking ministers on behalf of his majesty."
"This is your advantage. You are not jealous, impartial, and fair. If the ministers of the Central Government are like Huaijiang and you, I don't need to be alone. I want to break my head by myself."
Ji Daogong raised his head and paused slightly, knowing that Emperor Ning was talking about the first prince and the second prince.
There were quite a lot of parties between the ministers of the DPRK and the two princes. Emperor Ning was suspicious of the two of them, and naturally refused to put his mind to the ministers whom they had good relations with.
With his strength alone, when can the cabinet be done
His head hangs down again, and his gray beard is like a weeping willow, motionless.
"Actually, I wanted to form a cabinet, not just because of Yin Shuo. I had this idea a long time ago. If the prime minister's power is dispersed, even if they are drawn into someone's camp, it will not directly harm my court. "