Guo Song put Meiyu on the table and said with a slight smile: "Although your mother's criticism has her reasons, as far as I know, the outside is more of a compliment for your refusal to live in the palace, praising you for being frugal and pragmatic, and opposing luxury, which are basically positive comments, and no one will laugh at you." ”

Xue Tao was a little embarrassed and said: "This makes me even more ashamed, my original intention was not to be frugal, I just didn't get used to living in the palace." ”

"So don't worry about this kind of thing, although your mother is a little verbose, but Qing'er's child is really good, even Li Mi is full of praise for him, praising him as a genius Puyu, listening to him, it seems that he wants to take Qing'er as his own closed disciple, this child came too timely, his arrival gave Cheng'er the motivation to learn, and practiced calligraphy more hard."

Xue Tao sighed and said quietly: "Actually, I just think that Cheng'er is too lonely, he has no partners since he was a child, he has grown too old a young man, and it is secondary to whether Qing'er comes to read or not, the key is that he accompanies Cheng'er, which is the most important thing." ”

Guo Song took a few steps with his hand, turned around and said: "You're right, I happened to discuss this matter with Li Mi today, because he wants to be the chief examiner, and he will have to be quarantined for at least several months, so during this time, I plan to let Cheng'er go to Guozixue Primary School to study, and let Qing'er go with him, there is a group of prodigies in the primary school, all of whom are excellent children selected by various families, and they are all eight or nine years old. ”

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Chengdu, although Guo Song led the army to seize the Guannei Road two months ago, but the local people in Chengdu did not care about it, and even the civil and military officials who should be very concerned about this matter were not on this mind, and they even condemned such a major event as Zhu Jun's usurpation of the throne and passed it over.

In the past two months, the struggle between the ministers of civil and military affairs and the eunuchs of the imperial court has reached a white-hot level, and Li Shi, the son of heaven, in order to limit the power of the courtiers, specially gave the eunuchs of the Privy Council the right to review the affairs of the court, and all the decisions made by the imperial court must be approved by the Privy Council before they can be promulgated, which caused a big uproar in the imperial court for a while, and the former prime minister Jiang Gongfu was even more full of criticism of the eunuchs for interfering in politics, but he was poisoned.

Although this also involves the dispute between the prince of King Su and King Qin, but the death of Jiang Gongfu made the court officials angry to the extreme, hundreds of officials collectively resigned, and Li Yu, the son of heaven, saw that the matter was big, so he came forward to appease the hundred officials, canceled the eunuchs' right to review court affairs, and buried Jiang Gongfu and gave him the title Zhongsu, which quelled Jiang Gongfu's assassination.

Two months have passed, although the eunuchs no longer interfere in politics on the surface, but the salt and iron supervisors, tax supervisors, mine supervisors, tea and wine supervisors, city ship supervisors, mule and horse supervisors and other important financial institutions are still firmly in the hands of the eunuchs, directly managed by the Privy Council, and the money obtained goes into the inner treasury, except for a part of the subsidy for the military, the rest of the money goes directly into the Qionglin treasury, that is, Li Shi's personal treasury.

The dispute between the crown prince is still inconclusive, but everyone knows that sooner or later this matter will lead to a new round of struggle between the eunuchs and the courtiers.

The Privy Council is an institution established after Li Shi's reinstatement, and it is also the core of the Beiya, there are more than 30 eunuchs in it, all of whom are coarse and ink, divided into six prisons and one cabinet, and the six prisons are naturally corresponding to the six major financial sources such as salt and iron prisons, and the leaders of the six prisons are called the internal supervision order, and the six people selected are all the righteous sons or henchmen of Song Chaofeng.

And a pavilion is naturally the Hidden Sword Pavilion, the Hidden Sword Pavilion founded by Gongsun Auntie has been reduced to the power of eunuchs, with hundreds of secret warriors in their hands.

The archdeacon of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion was personally served by Song Chaofeng, who was in charge of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the leader of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion was Ying Caihe, Li Man's female deputy back then, and now she has become Song Chaofeng's lackey.

In the council hall of the Privy Council, Song Chaofeng's six internal supervisors discussed the situation of Li Ge, the king of Qin, Li Ge was in a bad situation recently, Li Shi, the son of heaven, thought that Li Ge was lazy, indulged in too much alcohol, did not care about the government and politics, and was very dissatisfied with him, and Li Qian, the king of Su, cared about the suffering of the people, and often donated his money and food to widows and orphans, which won the unanimous praise of hundreds of officials.

But Song Chaofeng learned the details, Li Qian had any money, it was all arranged by his father-in-law, Zhao Chongwen, the secretary of the ministry, Li Qian never asked, but Zhao Chongwen did good deeds in the name of Li Qian.

"Let's talk about it! What should we do, once Li Qian enters the East Palace, it will be the second Li Yi, we will all be finished, and we must reverse the current situation. ”

The internal supervisor ordered Yan Xin to raise his hand and said: "Father, the best way is the easiest way, we can't move Li Qian, but we can kill Zhao Chongwen, just like the last time we killed Jiang Gongfu, but this time we had better be secretive and let Zhao Chongwen die in the hands of the enemy." ”

Song Chaofeng shook his head, "It's not proper, you will still guess, and it doesn't make much sense to kill Zhao Chongwen." ”

At this time, Song Chaofeng saw that the sixth Liang Xiu glanced at him, so he said: "Everyone go and think about it!" I'll tell you the results when you've thought about it. ”

Everyone dispersed, but Song Chaofeng asked Liang Xiu to stay, and Liang Xiu whispered: "The child suggested that it is better to use bitter meat tricks, the effect will be better." ”

Song Chaofeng's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly asked, "What kind of bitter meat plan?" ”

Liang Xiu whispered a few words to him, and Song Chaofeng nodded again and again, "This plan is very good!" Wonderful! ”

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Not everyone is unconcerned about Guo Song's capture of Guannei Dao, the great significance of Guo Song's capture of Luoguan still attracts the attention of many well-intentioned people, and Li Shi, the son of heaven, is one of them.

Li Shi knew very well what the loss of Luoguan meant, which meant that the Jin army could enter the pass at any time and cut off the connection between Zhu Zhu and the Central Plains, as long as Guo Song was willing, he could completely attack from east to west and seize Tongguan and Pujin Pass.

But Guo Song did not move, which made Li Shi very annoyed in his heart, he knew better than anyone that his army was not the opponent of Zhu Zhu's army at all, not to mention that to recapture Guanzhong, even holding Bashu was dependent on the terrain and natural danger, and he wanted to return to Chang'an There was only one hope, that is, relying on Guo Song.

Li Shi deposed Xue Xun in a rage before, and after Guo Song seized the pass, he immediately pardoned Xue Xun and renamed him a scholar of Hallym University.

At night, Li Shi stood in front of the map with his hands in his hand, staring at Guanzhong, but he was thinking in his heart why Guo Song didn't trigger it, what did he want to do?

After a long time, Li Shi secretly sighed, in fact, he vaguely guessed that Guo Song's refusal to seize Guanzhong was because of himself.

What else does he want? He let his family live in Jinyang Palace, and endured it himself, he appointed assassins and generals by himself, and never asked the opinion of the imperial court, at most he sent a list afterwards, so that the imperial court admitted that he also endured it, what is the difference between him and the feudal town? Now that he has to wait for the price to sell, what else does he want? Is he going to give up the throne to him himself?

Li Shi was furious, he had to endure again and again, and when he asked for help, he had to lower his posture, it seemed that he had to secretly send an envoy to negotiate with Guo Song.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the hall, and a eunuch reported in panic outside the tent, "Your Majesty, King Qin has been assassinated!" ”

'Ahh Li Shi was taken aback, hurriedly walked outside the tent, and shouted angrily, "How is King Qin now?" ”

The eunuch trembled and said: "I was shot in the left chest by an arrow, and I have ..... There is no hope! ”

Li Shi's body shook, his eyes were dark, and he fainted on his back.

The palace maid and eunuch next to him hurriedly supported him and shouted, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

"Come on! His Majesty fainted. ”

There was a big chaos in the palace, two imperial doctors came, and after a while, Li Shi woke up slowly, he cried loudly, King Li Ge of Qin was one of his most beloved sons, and he was assassinated, how could he not be heartbroken.

At this time, a eunuch came and whispered a few words to Zhao Chun, the deputy head of the inner house, Li Shi saw it at a glance, wiped away his tears and asked sharply: "Is my son dead?" ”

Zhao Chun hurriedly knelt down and said: "People can't be resurrected after death, please mourn Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body!" ”

Li Shi gritted his teeth and said, "I must catch the murderer and break him into pieces!" ”

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At the same time, in the privy hall of the palace, Song Chaofeng slapped Ying Caihe fiercely, and scolded: "Useless slut, I let you do a bitter trick, you actually killed him, the slut is a big deal for me!" ”

Ying Caihe knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Originally, I just wanted to shoot him in the left shoulder, but I didn't expect him to know a little martial arts, and as soon as he flashed, this arrow hit him right in the chest." ”

Song Chaofeng kicked it again, "Whoever asked you to shoot with a crossbow, can't you poison it?" ”

"Time is pressing, the humble duty is not well considered, and I am willing to accept all punishments."

At this time, Liang Xiu, the son of Feng Yizi of the Song Dynasty, persuaded: "Father is angry, it is indeed difficult to master the heat of the bitter meat plan, if it is shallow, it will be recognized, and if it is deep, it is easy to cause serious consequences, the time of the pavilion master is too short, it is too late to prepare, in a hurry, it is inevitable to miss, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to blame the cabinet master, and now I can only find a way to deal with it urgently." ”

"And what do you say now?"

"First of all, how is that assassin now?"

Ying Caihe hurriedly said: "It's been extinguished!" ”

Liang Xiu nodded, "If you don't do anything, you will blame Zhao Chongwen for this matter." ”

Liang Xiu whispered a few more words, and Song Chaofeng let out a long breath and said to Caihe: "If you miss again this time, you will cut yourself!" ”

"This humble post will come out in person, and I will never miss!"