"The courtiers who were killed were all in collusion with King Chen."

Shen Mi said this, with a somewhat obscure complexion, "Although the old ministers may not necessarily support the emperor's slaughter of heroes, but King Chen's threat to the Zhao family is too great, they are all descendants of the Zhao family, if King Chen's power really reverses, it will not be beneficial to them, because of common interests, they will naturally choose to stand on the side of the Zhao family." ”

I see.

Shen Yan suddenly felt that his thoughts were much clearer, to put it simply, the emperor who was now on the dragon throne also had enemies, that is, those founding fathers in the cabinet, maybe they showed their disdain for the unarmed emperor in their daily contacts, so the emperor felt that the imperial power was threatened, and he was eager to prove himself.

In this way, Shen Mi's favor makes sense, the emperor needs to cultivate his own strength, so he picked the Shen family, to be exact, Shen Mi, and then handed over the responsibility of raising talents to the Shen family's father and son, and let them preside over the Spring Festival, so that the talents they picked out will also become the emperor's people in the future.

However, he didn't expect Xu Jingfang and Guo Yunze to have an open mind, one was courteous to Shen Mi, and the other was not selfish to promote Shen Mi's talents and knowledge to the emperor, the emperor was afraid that Xu Jingfang and Guo Yunze would pull such a person he had finally found, so he took Cheng Wei to carry this huge jade screen and swaggered across the city to Shen's house.

Now, presumably the entire Jingshi knows that Shen Mi is more favored now, right?

"The emperor's mind is inevitably too small." She frowned and said, "Elder Xu Ge is no matter how flamboyant they are, in the end, they still don't have the careful eyes of those who exclude the juniors, in the final analysis, they still think about it, if I were him, what if they underestimated me?" No matter how bad it is, doesn't he still have the talent to bring these capable people under his command? ”

When she said this, it was obvious that she had sorted out the context clearly, and Shen Mi couldn't help but nod appreciatively. There was no one else in the house, so he didn't care about her nonsense, and said, "No one is perfect, how can there be no shortcomings?" The emperor works hard and is not lazy, which can be regarded as his merit. ”

As a courtier, apart from properly affirming him when he hears a lot of criticism, what can he say behind his back?

Shen Yan nodded, there are some things that should not be said, except in front of Shen Mi, she naturally will not mention half a word anywhere else.

I don't know if it's because I know about Shen Guanyu's collusion with the queen, Shen Mi has been discussing with Shen Guanyu less often recently, and now he will talk to Shen Yan about court affairs so naturally, Shen Yan cherishes this kind of talk very much, so he didn't ask him for it, and obediently went back to the room.

Then she wrote a letter to Hua Juncheng.

The emperor's abacus is good, and he has won over the Shen family's father and son, and when the time comes, there will naturally be many scholars who will come to join him, saving a lot of effort.

Jun is a minister, and there is nothing wrong with him using the Shen family.

It's just that he shouldn't kill the Hua family. Judging from the information revealed by Shen Mi on the killing of the heroes, because the people who died were all people who had something to do with King Chen, combined with the fact that the abolished prince was also deposed because he said a few words for King Chen, can it be guessed that the Hua family was actually beheaded because of King Chen?

If it was because of King Chen, wouldn't the Hua family have already lost contact with King Chen's mansion after the Great Zhou? Why did Huang Shi still target him because of this?

She wrote to the past, of course, not to ask about this, but to ask about the move.

The inside and outside of Zishu Hutong have begun to ask someone to clean it again, and the garden has also hired a gardener to tidy it up, and the first batch of people who came to Beijing to fight the front station have arrived, and the old mansion of the Hua family is busy in an orderly manner.

Shen Mi explained to Hua and Shen Yan because of the screen that the emperor had rewarded, so that they could maintain normal interactions with the elders of various provinces, and they didn't have to be too close, and they didn't have to be estranged because they were in the way of the emperor. After all, the emperor has never torn his face with the senators, and he will not be able to bear the favor of the emperor, so it is relatively safe to keep an appropriate distance from the senators.

As Shen Yan expected, Shen Mi was rewarded by the emperor again, and it was Cheng Wei who personally passed on the decree, and the whole Jingshi knew about it.

In addition, the next day, the military department sent a holy decree to the northwest, and outsiders did not know the details, at least the military department and the internal and the nobles who led the soldiers and horses still knew, which made Shen Mi even more praised.

Xu Jingfang slapped the table and scolded "little rabbit cub", and he didn't know whether he was referring to the emperor or Shen Mi, so he went to the street with the spout of the teapot. It is not a problem for the relatives of the Xu family to interact with Hua's family. After Guo Yunze brushed his beard for a long time in front of the newly blooming green shoots in the courtyard in the mansion, he also went leisurely to find Fang Wenzheng to play chess.

But the Anning Marquis Mansion is far less calm.

An Ninghou walked around the main room with his hands, his face was not very good-looking.

"You've lost a great opportunity! What are you arguing with me about Shen Mi is just a fifth-grade official, do you know how valuable he should be as a fifth-grade official now, right? Now Guo Yunze has become a noble person who recommended him, and Xu Jingfang has become a knowledgeable Bole, seeing that he is getting up step by step, we haven't even touched half of his hair! ”

Cai was also angry, and he was a little unconvinced. She sneered: "Hou Ye is wise and martial, and he has no last resort. However, since Hou Ye stabbed Shen Mi in the cabinet to Cheng Wei, and wanted to use the emperor to separate Xu Jingfang and Shen Mi, didn't Hou Ye think that the emperor would reward him for Shen Mi's dedication?

"It's clear that Hou Ye missed the emperor's favor to Shen Mi, and now Shen Mi has taken advantage of it, but because of Cheng Wei's words, he is deeply favored by the emperor, Hou Ye doesn't look at his own clan, but because of this, he is angry with me, it's really unreasonable!"

"You!"

An Ninghou was stabbed by her, and suddenly couldn't get off the stage.

On the same day, after Liu Kuo's advice, he revealed to Cheng Wei that Shen Mi had discussed the situation in Eastern Liao in the cabinet.

The emperor has always been in awe of Xu Jingfang and others, but in private he deeply hates their domineering, he thought that when he knew that Xu Jingfang intended to hook up with Shen Mi, he would definitely punish Shen Mi a little, and he waited until that time to go to Shen Mi to show goodwill, it was difficult to guarantee that Shen Mi would not be tempted by him.

But he didn't expect that the emperor not only did not change his attitude towards Shen Mi, but also promoted him so highly, is an unrefined strategy against the enemy more important than the secret competition with the old ministers of the court? Would the emperor rather give up an opportunity to beat Shen Mi than sit and watch the chaos in Eastern Liao?

It was precisely because he couldn't figure it out and couldn't find a place to get angry with him that he chose to vent his anger on Cai.

But Cai's irony made his face hot, he knew that this was the result, why did he bother to deliver these words to Cheng Wei? If he didn't poke the words to Cheng Wei, the emperor would not have summoned Guo Yunze to question, and if he didn't summon Guo Yunze to question, maybe Guo Yunze would not have shown Shen Mi's merits.

He stood sullenly for a long time, brushed his sleeves and went to the study.

The concubine walked in with lotus seed soup, raised her orchid finger and scooped up a spoonful of lotus seeds to his mouth, and persuaded in a coquettish voice: "Master Hou doesn't have to be angry, Mrs. is a knife mouth tofu heart." ”

An Ninghou was not in the mood to pay attention to these intrigues in the inner house. He said: "Go and pass Liu Kuo in!" ”

Liu Kuo came soon, he walked in front of An Ninghou in a figure-eight square, and said with his eyebrows: "I heard that Shen Mi won another great reward from the emperor yesterday for his strategy of dealing with the war in Eastern Liao?" "He is An Ninghou's confidant, so he can naturally get rid of those rules.

An Ninghou was silent for a moment in front of him, and said: "Shen Mi seems to have made up his mind not to accept our co-optation, and now that he has made meritorious contributions, the queen mother is even more rare to take him in." The Xu family and the Guo family seem to want to hold Shen Mi now, and as time goes by, maybe Concubine Shu will start to reach out and ask you to come just to ask you what you have in mind. ”

In fact, the old ministers are okay, they are close to Shen Mi just because they value his future development, so that he may be able to take his own children, what he is most worried about is that Concubine Shu also began to reach out to Shen Mi, if Shen Mi fell to Concubine Shu, then they obviously have one more strong rival. Now this little five-grade foreigner has become a sweet spot in front of everyone.

Liu Kuo also felt a little tricky, he pondered for a moment, and said, "If the soft one doesn't work, then try the hard one!" ”

"How is it hard?" An Ninghou sat up straight, "He is a dignified member of the sixth department, and the emperor is trying to reuse him, can you use a knife on his neck to force him to join us?" Lao Tzu's neck is not as hard as the emperor's guillotine! ”

"When I say hard, it doesn't mean that I will force him with a knife." Liu Kuo explained, "A person always has his weaknesses and weaknesses, as long as you grasp him, you are not afraid that he will be disobedient." Hou Ye only needs to ask him carefully, see if he has any special people and things he cares about, find his throat, and then we will discuss how to take him again. ”

"Handle?"

When An Ninghou heard this, he couldn't help but groan.

Maybe what Liu Kuo said has some truth, everyone has weaknesses, didn't the queen mother find Shen Guanyu's weakness at the beginning, and then successfully took him?

Of course, Liu Kuo didn't know about it. For such an important matter, it was impossible for him to sue others lightly, and then attract the emperor's anger.

He nodded, thought about it again, and said, "You can consider it." ”

When the news reached the Wei Mansion, Han Ji was busy.

The morning sun of early spring shone into the courtyard, the morning fog was thin, he was dressed in the sun and bent a bow under the camphor tree, and the little boy next to him, who was four or five years old and fat like a meat ball, with a total horn, squatted on the ground and watched him carefully, with obvious admiration in his watery eyes, and in his hands, he also held two shortbreads sprinkled with various nuts. R1152