Snowy nights, night returns.

At this time, the person who hurried against the wind and snow must be a person with a story.

This man is a monk.

He is so handsome, especially those eyes, they are really seductive, I don't know how many good families are charmed by his eyes.

However, he was a monk.

Not close to women, not touching meat and bitterness.

He was on his way in the middle of the night, and the wind and snow poured him all over his body.

The direction he was heading in was a place called Higashiyama-gun.

There are currently three major factions in the Tang officialdom.

Guanzhong gentry department, Jiangnan talent department and Dongshan chaebol department.

Among them, the gentry in Guanzhong is the origin of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty, which belongs to the ancestral hall, and the power above the court has always been very strong.

And the Dongshan chaebol is the most powerful, they are a huge interest group that exists more than several dynasties, the Dongshan chaebol is extremely good at investment, and the most proud of them is the investment emperor!

Especially in troubled times, the Dongshan chaebol can always accurately pick the person who will become the emperor in the future, and then invest in the other party with all his might.

This is similar to a gambling investment method, and once it is successful, the harvest is naturally huge. In the history of the Dongshan chaebol, there have only been a few failed investments, but because they are too powerful, even if they fail, they will not break their bones.

Moreover, those emperors who have not been invested by them may have a lot of opinions about them at the beginning of their tenure, but after they have been in power for a long time, they always ask for the head of the Dongshan chaebol.

Money is the scariest and cutest thing in the world.

As for the Jiangnan talent faction, it is a faction that Li Hong single-handedly supported after he ascended the throne, the purpose of which is to balance the Dongshan chaebol and the Guanzhong gentry.

Jiangnan talents are all the kind of vigorous and enterprising young people, they are full of energy, they don't like the flies and dogs above the court, they dare to say anything, dare to do anything, and they have no ability to do things.

But when it comes to political wisdom, he is far from being the opponent of those old foxes, and Li Hong was forced to come forward to clean up the mess for these young people several times. It does take time for young people to grow up, but Li Hong doesn't have that much time, and what he is most worried about is that when these young people grow up, they will become like the gentry in Guanzhong and the Dongshan chaebol, extremely slippery, with only power in their eyes and no people's livelihood.

In fact, there is a place where the students are very suitable for officialdom, they are upright but not cunning and suspicious, they dare to show their swords, and they will not refuse to use dark and obscene tricks, they linger in the flowers, and they will secretly take advantage, but they are never false and wrongful in official affairs, and can do everything that involves people's livelihood seriously.

This place is the academy.

However, Li Hong never reused the students of the academy, he gave up such a natural talent pool and turned to promote the talents of Jiangnan.

Li Hong's behavior directly led to the students of the academy not dealing with the students of the Jiangnan Talent Department, and now most of the energy of the officials of the Jiangnan Talent Department is used to compete with the officials born in the Academy, but they can't get it every time, which makes Li Hong extremely angry and quite embarrassed.

However, the Jiangnan talent line is not without talents, and two of them have won Li Hong's trust, namely Lu Tiansuo, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Bao Xiyuan, the superintendent of weapons. The official positions of these two people are all four grades, and their official positions are also very important, especially Lu Tiansuo, who has become Li Hong's super confidant, and has almost no hiding from him, which can be said to be the only favor.

In the eyes of other officials, Lu Tiansuo is already the only candidate for the next Zuo Minister, and when Li Wuji returns to old age, he will be supported by Li Hong to take the position. Even if Li Hong dies, the next emperor will reuse Lu Tiansuo. Because this is the left phase that Li Hong cultivated for his successor!

However, then again, relying on a Lu Tiansuo and Bao Xiyuan, the Jiangnan genius line still can't really gain a foothold in the court, and what Li Hongzhi lacks the most is the successor of the army.

Zhou Ding is gone, Meng Zhulu has already revealed his willingness to return to old age, even if he can keep him for another ten years, the Tang army is still in a situation of lack of success. The Dongshan chaebol and the gentry in Guanzhong have been quietly supporting the military forces, hoping to get involved in the military power, which Li Hong absolutely cannot tolerate, so just three days before the snow disaster broke out, Li Hong made a heavy hand and beheaded several military newcomers, in order to declare his absolute control over the army.

And this behavior also intensified the contradiction between him and the two powerful groups.

Especially the gentry in Guanzhong, many of those powerful people are Li Hong's elders in terms of blood.

They once begged Li Hong not to be so ruthless, but Li Hong did not accept it, and used the most ruthless means to kill the few people they supported.

After that, the snow disaster broke out, and rumors from all sides emerged one after another, and it is difficult to say that there is no shadow of these people.

Forgetting Huan chose to come out of Xinglong Temple at this juncture, Li Hong insisted that he must have been influenced by those gentry in Guanzhong, and his imperial brother never gave up the pursuit of the throne one day.

They want to take this opportunity to overthrow Li Hong's rule!

In the face of such a situation, the Dongshan chaebol group will naturally not sit idly by, they also covet the throne, and this time the investment object they chose is the four princes!

The gentry in Guanzhong are the party of the great prince, even if they forget to become the emperor in the end, they will pass on the throne to the prince in only a few years at most, not to mention that the gentry in Guanzhong just want to use the gentry and do not really intend to push him to the throne. Once the goal is achieved, there is no use value for forgetting.

The Dongshan chaebol group also took advantage of the outbreak of the snow disaster to make a crazy layout and put more weights into its basket.

Their behavior angered Li Hong and provoked the gentry in Guanzhong.

This monk is here to deal with this matter.

He braved the wind and snow to come to Dongshan County.

It is a very quiet and peaceful town, and it is the base camp of the Dongshan chaebol.

The monk stood at the entrance of the town, took off the hat covered with snow, looked at the archway that stood tall, and smiled.

He's not here to kill.

Monks don't kill easily.

He just came to tell those people that the next Tang Emperor can only be the eldest prince, and the fourth prince can be a prince in peace and enjoy a lifetime of wealth.

Of course, if these people from the Dongshan chaebol don't listen to persuasion, he doesn't mind sitting here and reciting Buddhist scriptures to them for a month.

Don't question whether he can do it.

He has a very nice Dharma name, called Blossom.

He is the world's representative of the Hanging Temple, the senior brother of Yan Chen, and the strongest person in the Hanging Temple.

Others chant sutras and become enlightened.

Blossom chanting, excess. I want to talk about "The Strongest Waste Material System" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~