When Yang Daosi arrived at Liu Ji's mansion, he was greeted not by Liu Ji himself, but by his third son, Liu Guanghui.

"Glory see Yang Xiangguo."

"Nephew, when did you come back?"

Yang Daosi was quite surprised, Liu Guanghui served as the governor of Yangzhou as the assassin of Yangzhou, without the permission of the imperial court, he could not return to Fengjing casually, although he was sick at home, but the relevant matters of the ministry, Yang Binglin will inform the first time, in the recent personnel transfer of the ministry, there is no relevant information about Liu Guanghui, is he returning to Beijing privately? This is no small matter.

Liu Guanghui explained: "I returned on my father's orders. ”

"What about your father?"

Liu Guanghui's face was a little gloomy: "My father is sick and can't greet Yang Xiangguo in person, please forgive me." ”

"I see, take me to your father quickly."

Yang Daosi nodded, only then did he understand why Liu Guanghui went out to greet him, not Liu Ji, after all, whether the two of them were seniority, seniority or status, they didn't want to go up and down, Yang Daosi came to Liu's mansion in person, Liu Ji didn't have any reason not to come out to greet him in person, it turned out that he was sick.

When he saw Liu Ji, Yang Daosi was taken aback, the skinny and sallow-faced person in front of him was still Liu Ji?

"Brother Ziqi, I haven't seen you for more than a month, why did you become like this?"

Yang Daosi exclaimed, I haven't seen it for a long time, the once high-spirited and energetic Dangchao Zuo Xiang has become like this, how can Yang Daosi not be surprised?

Liu Wei raised his hand, motioned for Yang Daosi to sit down, and then sighed and said: "Yang Xiangguo don't need to be so surprised, before I went to the Momeng Grassland, my body was already a little unwell, and after returning to Fengjing, many old problems broke out together, and I couldn't suppress it." ”

Yang Daosi nodded, Liu Wei is the same age as himself, strictly speaking, the month is a few months older than himself, the old man in his seventies, after thousands of miles, went to the cold and barren places such as Momeng, and it was not easy to come back alive.

Liu Yu chuckled and said, "The courtiers think that you and I are pretending to be sick, and who knows that I am really seriously ill at home?" ”

Yang Daosi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Liu Ji, you are like this, and you don't forget to make sarcastic remarks about me, it seems that you can't die for a while." ”

Liu Yu smiled and said meaningfully: "Yang Daosi, do you regret it now, you didn't take action at the first time to cut off the source of the whole incident, and now, I'm afraid you can't control the situation." ”

At this moment, the two of them spoke very openly, in the past, whether it was Yang Daosi or Liu Ji, the words were very subtle and tactful, and they would not call each other by name.

Yang Daosi was silent, half loud, raised his head, glanced at Liu Guanghui who was standing beside Liu Ji, and asked softly: "It seems that you and the emperor have already reached an agreement." ”

There was a hint of pride on Liu Wei's face: "Yang Daosi, you and I have been fighting for so many years, I have always been pressed by you, I can win you once this time, and I have no regrets even if I die." ”

Yang Daosi said in a deep voice: "Liu Ji, what does the emperor want to do?" ”

Liu Wei said: "Yang Daohei, it's not what the emperor wants to do, but what do you Yang family want to do?" ”

Yang Daosi was silent, since the political affairs hall Xiangguo, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Hongzhi and the Ministry of Rites Right Attendant Lang Wang Manuscript successively retired, the emperor originally intended to let Qin Anming replace his position, Yang Daosi and his political forces, at first did not have any other intentions, but when Yang Binglin picked up some ministers in it, for them to show Zhao Zhi, hoping to take over the position of the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites by himself, but was vetoed, Yang Binglin ignored Yang Daosi's persuasion, and connected many ministers of the Yang family's party to impeach Qin Anming and replace him as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. even expressed strong opposition, Zhao Zhi had no choice but to temporarily put this matter down and ignore it, and let Qin Anming enter the political affairs hall as the governor of the political affairs department and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites has been idle for more than a year, although this matter finally ended with Zhao Zhi's compromise, Yang Daosi and even Liu Ji met with Zhao Zhi several times to try to resolve and downplay the incident, but the effect was obviously weak, Zhao Zhi was already more suspicious of the Yang family's party and even Liu Ji.

Zhao Zhi needed the stability of the court, and he was not in a hurry to do it, that was because the battle of Longyou was imminent, he needed the cooperation of Yang Daosi and Liu Wei, the battle of Longyou finally ended perfectly, and the matter of Huang Zhi broke out, Zhao Zhi finally found a breakthrough, and had an excuse to do it, intending to reorganize the forces of all parties in the court.

Liu Ji obviously wanted to persuade Zhao Zhi at the beginning to deal with the matter of Huang Zhi gently, but was obviously rejected by Zhao Zhi, Liu Ji could only retreat in the end, and reached some unknown agreements with Zhao Zhi on the condition of telling the sick and standing by.

The reason why Yang Daosi succeeded Liu Ji and was also sick at home was that although he saw some of Zhao Zhi's intentions and wanted to try his best to resolve them, but in the end, he found that he was powerless at all, and his position in the court was even more embarrassing, some of the words he said and some things he did were no longer supported by the Yang family, such as Zhao Zhi, who was getting older, and the struggle for the position of the prince was getting more and more intense, and many ministers began to stand in line to choose to support the prince of their own purpose, the Yang family, and now the same, Yang Daosi is nearly eighty years old, how many years can he live? In the clan, Yang Binglin is now the most vocal, and has the full support of many ministers of the Yang family, if he and Yang Daosi's concept and means of doing things are different, once Yang Daosi is strongly suppressed, it will inevitably lead to the split of the entire Yang family, the country and the family, Yang Daosi finally chose the latter, such a result, he does not want to see, but unfortunately, people in the rivers and lakes, involuntarily, many things, Yang Daosi thinks well, but in the end, he can only do nothing.

Liu Yu glanced at Yang Daosi, who was in deep thought, and said silently: "It seems that the emperor's candidate for the crown prince has already been decided. ”

Yang Daosi was still silent, as if he hadn't heard Liu Ji's words, but his brows were slightly furrowed, and he was combing through what had happened in the court recently.

After Hong Zhi and Wang Manuscript retired, many people competed for the two positions of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites, Yang Binglin failed, and turned to fully support the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites Yang Yu to take the position, Zhan Tai Yi Huan argued, seeing that he could not do anything, he transferred to the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites and went another way, and now it seems that Zhan Tai Yi Huan should have fully fallen to Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi is ready to support his position.

Yang Daosi couldn't help but think of Wang Renzi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Xiao Zheng, the governor of the political affairs, these two important ministers of the imperial court, and his son Yang Binglin in the past two years, have had too much contact, and obviously there is a tendency to fall towards the Yang family.