If Shen Mi was co-opted by Xu Jingfang, wouldn't the emperor's plan to pull Shen Mi over and cultivate him to fight against the meritorious veterans would be disrupted again?

Hearing this, the emperor frowned, turned his head and stared at the ground for a long time, and then said: "The official position is to be promoted, but we will wait until this battle is over." At present, before the eight characters have been skimmed, he has promised an official position, and even if he is damaged, it will not be easy to control in the future. ”

Cheng said yes.

The Emperor waved his hand and ordered him to retreat.

When the reward in the palace was sent to the Shen family, Shen Mi had just arrived at the house, and he was leaning on the Taishi chair, while receiving the tea that Hua's brewed was just right, while enjoying Shen Yan's massage of his shoulders, and she asked him in a different way to ask for the book "Officialdom Apocalypse" in the study.

After returning from the Xu family, Shen Yan did not go with Hua to socialize, but found some relevant books about the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to read, of course, this dynasty was not long ago, and there is no systematic history, only some miscellaneous records and wild legends from the people, although there is a lot of water in the middle, but combined with what you have seen and heard, as well as the actual situation of the current court, you can still get a lot of useful information.

For example, she has mastered a lot of the situation of Anning Hou, the Liu family originally established the power of relatives in order to do their best, so they supported the family descendants and in-laws with many forces, that is, after the prince was deposed, a large number of people were cut, and now there are more than a dozen officials above the sixth rank attached to the Anning Hou Mansion.

Of course, because of the deep damage, these people have not yet formed a general climate, and most of them are still low-level officials, and there are only a few confidential positions.

And Yang Shufei's side, the biggest backer is of course the younger brother Yang Mi, who is the governor of Shaanxi, Yang Mi was reappointed to Shaanxi when he entered Beijing last year, according to the experience of his previous life, he should stay in Shaanxi until three years later, and then transferred to Zhongshu Province as a governor. In addition, there is Concubine Shu's cousin Ren Fujun, who served as a general in the Zuojun Palace.

As for the rest of the family, they have not found any special potential now.

In this way, it seems that Empress Liu is better than Concubine Yang Shu in terms of numbers, but in terms of power, Concubine Shu is slightly better than Empress Liu. Empress Liu may have seen the shortcomings, so she thought of winning over the Shen family, the relationship with the nobles is so bad, she wants to get a lot of support from the military, it is still a little difficult, in comparison, it is easier for civilian officials who follow the rules to win over.

The more she knew about these things, the more she wished that she could be stronger, that she could be her second Miss Shen in the boudoir, but she wanted her eyes to be able to see the four high walls, so that her ears could hear the movements everywhere outside, so she needed some books that could teach her how to use these methods flexibly.

When Shen Mi wanted to agree but didn't want to agree, Ge Zhou brought Cheng Wei in to announce the decree.

"Shen Da is very knowledgeable, His Majesty is very happy, and he specially ordered the old body to come to pass the decree and reward, and the old man is here to give Shen Daren joy!"

After Cheng Wei finished reading the decree, he smiled and shook his head with Shen Mi. Shen Mi hurriedly got up from the ground and gave up his seat: "There is Lao Cheng's father-in-law." Shen Mi just said casually in the cabinet that day, and how to deal with it still needs to be jointly discussed and formulated by the adults and generals of the military department, and Shen Mi's frivolous words cannot be accurate. ”

Cheng Wei smiled and said, "Why should you be too humble? Even Guo Ge Lao deeply appreciated the adult's strategy, which can be seen to be extremely thorough. His Majesty had already asked the old slave to announce the decree of the Ministry of War, and acted in accordance with the adult's construction. His Majesty has high hopes for the adults, as long as the adults will carefully assist the emperor in the future and devote themselves to my Great Zhou, it will be beyond his authority to discuss a few political affairs, and the emperor will not blame the adults. ”

Shen Mi's eyes flashed with obscurity, and he lowered his head with a smile.

Cheng Wei stood up with a smile: "My lord has been working hard for the court recently, and the old body will not disturb the lord's rest much, so I will leave." ”

Shen Mi took the two ingots from Fusang and handed them to Cheng Wei, Cheng Wei paused, took one of them with a smile, and said deeply: "Your Excellency is polite." Then he stepped out the door.

Shen Mi was sent outside the mansion, and the smile on his face disappeared in an instant.

Shen Yan didn't come out to receive the order before, but that didn't mean she didn't see this qiē.

When Shen Mi entered the study, he couldn't help but follow: "What did my father do to make the emperor happy?" ”

Shen Mi sat on the chair, looked at the priceless jade screen that the people were carrying in the courtyard, first frowned, and then was silent for a long time before sighing: "If you lose your horse, you don't know what is good or bad." Then he told him about the affairs of the cabinet that day and the summons he had been summoned to the palace before.

"I didn't expect the emperor to reward me so carefully, after all, even if this strategy works, I just put forward an idea, if the situation in Eastern Liao is now decided, and there is no deviation in it, I won't be too surprised."

Shen Yan heard him talk about the situation in Eastern Liao, but he couldn't help but change his face.

She remembered very well that in her previous life, the situation in Eastern Liao was indeed unstable since this year, so Wei Guogong, who was supposed to return to the court after the kingdom of the Liao King in August, was also stripped and never returned, but the details of this battle she later learned from Qin Shou were very different from Shen Mi's strategy.

Shen Mi's attitude now is obviously the main peace, and he took advantage of the opportunity to help Wuyun pacify the Eastern Liao, and did not approve of the use of troops against the Eastern Liao, but the imperial court did use troops at that time, and the battle took place two years later, the Zhou army suffered heavy losses, and the Duke of Wei was martyred, and then Han Ji naturally became the prince and got the military power......

The Han family didn't care in advance, but only said that in his previous life, did Shen Mi propose his own construction to the emperor to prevent this war?

She remembered that in the three years she was in Jinling, Shen Mi's official position moved twice, once after the spring of this year, she moved to the position of the priest of the fourth grade of the country, which is the promotion is currently expected, but at the end of next year, it was moved again, and then moved from the national eunuch to the ministry of Ren Langzhong, this time it is the important member of the sixth department and the fourth grade!

The death of the Duke of Wei in the spring of the following year should be the time when the dark clouds had already destroyed Geltai and Battell, and were fighting against the old Mongol king, and the Zhou army took advantage of the weakness to enter and hoped to exterminate the Eastern Liao in one fell swoop.

In this way, Shen Mi's promotion at the end of next year should be after Battle and Gertai were defeated by the team, no matter what, the loss of two tiger generals in Dongliao is a good thing for Da Zhou, so is it possible that his promotion is precisely because the strategy he proposed has been confirmed, and the emperor has rewarded him?

She frowned and asked Shen Mi, "Father thinks that the emperor will really obey your advice and not send troops to Eastern Liao?" ”

If it weren't for the emperor's order to go to war, the Duke of Wei would definitely not dare to use troops without authorization in such a situation in the court. Without this battle, Wei Guogong would not have died in battle, no matter how many festivals there were between her and Han Ji, after all, the Han family was a hero, and it was also a meritorious person to pacify the country, and the loss of such a general would not be beneficial to the people of the Central Plains, let alone her.

Shen Mi paused and said, "I didn't think about it. After speaking, he was silent again, remembering the emperor's question in the imperial study, his face couldn't help but become solemn again: "What do you mean, could it be that the emperor let Wei Guogong be a bystander on the surface, secretly waiting for an opportunity?" His expression became unpredictable, both surprised and abrupt, "But I can't think of why he did it?" ”

Shen Yan couldn't think of it.

An emperor who insists on going his own way will only get farther and farther away from the hearts of the people, and now the Great Zhou can't afford to bear a big war, if the emperor really does this...... She thought about the situation in the court after this battle, although she did not lose this battle, she did not get any chance of winning, and after the body of Wei Guogong was transported back to Beijing, Yanmen Pass was locked.

Because of this war in the country, the relationship between the emperor and the cabinet Xu Jingfang, Guo Yunze and Zhu Zhifei became tense, but fortunately, there was no crisis in the treasury, so there was no major turmoil.

At that time, Shen Guanyu had not yet entered the cabinet, only Liu Yaze and Yu Gang of the Criminal Department supported the emperor, and Wen Zheng, the Shang Shufang of the Ministry of Rites, remained neutral. The old ministers in the cabinet are all the founding fathers, and the emperor has to be polite in front of them, is the purpose of the emperor's insistence on fighting this battle is to fight against these old ministers?

She couldn't be sure, after all, she knew too little about the emperor, and if it weren't for the fact that she had come back from her previous life, she wouldn't have thought that the emperor might not have taken Shen Mi's advice to heart at all.

She suddenly remembered Shen Mi's obscure look before, and couldn't help but say, "Then why did my father look like that to Cheng's father-in-law?" "Cheng Wei is the big eunuch next to the emperor, and he won't go out of the palace to do these errands, but now not only did he come in person, but he also only received a ingot, which is not a big face.

"You also think Cheng Wei is very surprised at this, right?" Shen Mi stared at him. As a lady of a family, and living at the foot of this imperial city, the Shen family is a place where members of the palace often come, and Shen Yan naturally understands these general personnel relations in the palace. Seeing Shen Yan nodding, he continued: "What I feel is unusual is that they are so popular.

"Even if I have to be favored by the Son of Heaven, and even if the strategy I proposed is deeply rooted in the emperor's heart, the emperor doesn't have to give such a big reward, and secondly, there is no need to send a special Cheng to come. He did this just to tell the people in the Jingshi how favored I was.

"Although the emperor has been on the throne for ten years, he has also followed the army all the way north, but he has never made any achievements, and now the relationship between those old ministers in the cabinet and the emperor seems to be harmonious, but in fact, there are cracks, if I guess correctly, he did this because the first few ** were favored in the Xu family."

Shen Yan couldn't help but widen her eyes, could it really be as she thought, the emperor sent troops to gamble in front of the old ministers?

She said, "Then if he is really afraid of these old ministers, where did he have the courage to kill so many heroes?" Isn't it more likely that he will provoke the displeasure of his courtiers by doing so? R1152