Chapter Forty-Eight: What is Zhang Dang?
Zhang Dang came because of Zhang Kuan, and because of Prime Minister Zuo.
The administration of the Holy Han Empire is in the shape of a pyramid, and the highest power is naturally the emperor, and there are four institutions at the first level of power than the emperor, namely the imperial family, the Senate, the Left Prime Minister's Mansion and the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, of which the imperial family naturally does not need to say much, and the role of the Senate is to persuade the emperor to issue wrong decrees in a timely manner. Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion is a yamen institution, not the home of Prime Minister Zuo Zhang Kuan, the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion includes six institutions, namely Tai Academy, Tai Shi Yuan, Fan Li Yuan, Inspector Yuan, Wentian Yuan, and Tai Hospital.
Tai Academy is the highest institution of learning in the Holy Han Empire, the holy place in the hearts of all scholars in the world, the students of Tai Academy participate in the imperial examination every three years, five out of ten, and the number of students admitted to each imperial examination is only one hundred and eighty. (There are 30 people on the heavenly list, 60 people on the earth list, and 90 people on the human list.) Even if you are a child of the scholar clan and want to enter the Tai Academy, you need to win the recognition of three doctors of the Tai Academy at the same time with your true ability before you can enroll.
The Taishi Yuan is the department that records all the archives of the empire, and there is a stone tablet at the entrance of the Taishi Yuan, and no one except the historian is allowed to enter the Taishi Yuan to check the records of living people - including the emperor, he does not know whether he is good or bad among the historians.
The Vassal Yuan is the institution that deals with relations with neighboring countries, but the Holy Han Empire is used to being arrogant, and has only one attitude towards neighboring countries, that is: you have to listen to me, and if you don't listen to me, I will beat you. After all, a strong country has only one foreign policy, and that is self-interested foreign policy, there is no so-called peace and win-win, only I live, and you don't want to live well.
The Inspectorate is responsible for supervising the governance and morality of officials, although the imperial historians are not big, but they are staring at every court official, after all, the role of the imperial history is to find faults. And the Holy Taizu has long stipulated that the final Holy Han Dynasty will not kill the imperial history, so the imperial history is also very jealous - sometimes they will impeach the imperial family, except for the emperor, they dare to impeach.
Wentianyuan is a place dedicated to the study of the astrological Zhou Yi alchemy sacrifice, and this institution is also responsible for managing all the religions in the Shenghan Empire, but the Shenghan advocates Taoism, so much so that Taoism flourishes in the Shenghan country. However, Wentianyuan is basically not involved in the DPRK and China, so this department is not important.
The same as Wentianyuan is the Tai Hospital, which not only treats the imperial family, but also treats the nobles, but basically rarely treats the common people. The Tai Hospital originally belonged to the imperial family, but twenty-nine years ago, a great plague even poisoned the Emperor of the First Emperor Dao. Emperor Taiqian moved the Tai Hospital from the palace to the inner city, and recruited good doctors from all over the world, which led to the current status of the Tai Hospital. But Tai Hospital, like Wentianyuan, has no ability to fight politically, and is also an idle cloud and wild crane, although he obeys Zhang Kuan's orders, he is not a member of Zhang Dangmen.
Zuo Prime Minister Zhang Kuan has been in charge of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion for 20 years, and before that, he also served as the Taixue Ling of Tai Academy for 12 years, and his protΓ©gΓ© was a former official for half the world. His students didn't need Zhang Kuan to say anything supportive, so they had already privately formed colleagues and close friends to support the teacher, so Zhang Kuan's Zhang Party was established.
It can be said that Zhang Dang controls the literary scene of the Holy Han Empire, and if he offends Zhang Dang, Shilin students and Youyou will drown others with spitting stars. As for the crown prince, what he hated the most was Zhang Dang and that group of students, who fought against the crown prince all day long, and boasted all day long about how talented the five princes were.
The fifth prince Xuanyuan Zixiao was literate at the age of three, wrote at the age of five, wrote poetry at the age of seven, and was talented at the age of twelve. Although Xuanyuan Zixiao was removed from the champion, he was allowed to enter the Hanlin Academy at the age of sixteen to study political arithmetic with other Hanlin students.
Xuanyuan Zixiao's grandfather is Zhang Kuan.
Therefore, how can Zhang Dang, who is the best in the world, be able to climb a small lieutenant like Zhang Xiaowu.
Su Yu smiled indifferently and said: "After all, this Zhang Xiaowu has real skills, he can fight and kill, and it is not fake to shoot back the Inuyi army with three arrows." General Cheng said that according to his merits, he could be a lieutenant. But you also know that the five lieutenants and Du Zuo of our prisoner camp have all been sold by me, who will he replace? Nobody can't change it, right? So if he wins, let's have an explanation to the outside world, it's not that I, Su Yu, want to promote Shi Jing, but he has real skills. If he loses and dies, hey, we don't have to spend any money. β
"Your Excellency is wise." Guan Xiang patted the horse.
Su Yu said with emotion: "In fact, the reason for his bad luck is Shi Jing, Shi Jing is even more unlucky, there is an elder brother who is a student of Zuo Prime Minister Zhang Kuan." Zhang Kuan's grandson is the fifth prince who competes with the current crown prince. His Majesty is most taboo about his ministers' participation in the establishment of the Prince, and those who participate in it will not have a good end. β
Guan Xiao said: "In this way, General Shi's death was killed by the crown prince?" β
Su Yu said: "No, it was actually Zhang Kuan who killed him." β
Guan Xiang was taken aback and said, "Why Prime Minister Zhang?" It's too late for him to be partial. β
Su Yu nodded and said, "It was because he favored Shi Jing that he killed Shi Jing." In February of the 28th year of Taiqian, the Qinglong Army swore to the Northern Expedition without faith, and Shi Jingguan worshiped the general of the 27th Regiment, led an army of 18,000 to act as the vanguard, and was the first to kill the two wolf passes. Shi Jing subdued Mucheng, Huocheng, and Shuicheng, if it weren't for the military advisor Gu Yong, who was afraid that he would collect five cities in a row, he would immediately go east to subdue Tucheng, but he was afraid that the crow-gold granary would be subdued. This Shi Jing can fight, but he is a member of the Zhang Party, the more he can fight, the more he is slapping the prince's face? β
Guan Xiang nodded without folding.
"That Zhang Kuan has been the prime minister of Zuo for 20 years, and his protΓ©gΓ©s and former officials are all over the court, and he blatantly supported his grandson during the dispute between the prince and the prince two years ago. But if you think about it, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng is already in charge of half of the court, and the fifth prince is only eighteen years old, if the emperor is in a few years...... drove the crane to the west, isn't the world of the Xuanyuan family in charge of the Zhang family's relatives? After Su Yu finished speaking, he smiled.
Guan Xiang said: "So even if the five princes never forget it, the article is well-known in the literary world, and it is called a prodigy that is rare to see in a hundred years?" The emperor must also appoint the third prince as the crown prince, just because the relatives of the five princes are too strong. β
Su Yu said: "Yes, he is a prodigy, but who made him the grandson of Prime Minister Zhang." β
Guan Xiang frowned and said: "But even if General Shi is a member of Zhang Dang, now that the prince is already the prince, why does he have to kill General Shi, and even the Shi family is sent to the frontier?" β
Su Yu said: "Shi Jing's eldest brother Shi Chong is the left servant of the Criminal Department, and he has a great hope of becoming the secretary of the Criminal Department in the future. Five years ago, the father of the crown princess, Yongzhou Mu Zhangji, embezzled money for disaster relief, causing tens of thousands of people to starve to death after the flood in Yongzhou, and His Majesty instructed the Criminal Department to handle the case. At that time, it was Shi Chong who asked the nine clans of Zhuzhangji to abolish the crown princess, and His Majesty had to give Zhang Ji a cup of poisoned wine to end the matter. Zhang Ji was killed by a dove, the prince and the princess were so sad that they didn't eat or drink for three days and three nights, this revenge, do you think the prince will revenge? β
Guan Xiang immediately reacted: "So the prince doesn't send troops? β
Su Yu shook his head and smiled: "Then you are wrong, even if the prince hates the Shi family and Zhang Dang, he will not blatantly not send troops, and Gu Junshi is the first military division in the world, and General Li is the first military general in the world, how can they not send troops to rescue." However, the reinforcements are also sending troops when they walk five miles a day, and they are also sending troops when they walk fifty miles a day, and they need sixty days and two months to walk five miles from Mucheng to Tucheng, and they need sixty days and two whole months - two months, and even the daylily is cold. Su Yu tapped his cane on the ground and said coldly: "It's too easy for the crown prince to kill anyone." β
In this way, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng will gradually ...... in the court in the future Quitting the court? Guan Xiang thought about it and suddenly realized: "It turns out that there are so many secrets in this, and the adults are not one of the young masters of Longdu Su Mansion, and the news mind is first-class." He really benefited a lot from following Master Su by his side. β
Su Yu was proud for a while, and then said with hatred in his eyes: "It's a pity that I'm not the eldest son, otherwise the Su Mansion will definitely be carried forward in my hands, at least I will make more money than my eldest brother." It's a pity, it's a pity that my straw bale brother is the young master, ala......s, "I may feel that I have said too much, especially at home, he doesn't like to mention it." Guan Xiang also shut up, and hurriedly began to arrange a gladiatorial fight, which was related to his interests, following an official who was greedy for money and would make money, even Guan Xiang, who was once a scholar, became greedy for money.
Su Yu made a game, invited the general of the sixth regiment Cheng Chu, the deputy general Xiahou Bao, Zhou Wenqi who joined the army, and the captains and captains of the army to go to the prisoner camp, and threatened that Badener's grassland three kings wanted to fight Zhang Xiaowu, the captain of the 27th regiment, and the grievances between the two sides must be ended in a battle.
In order to set off the atmosphere of this gladiatorial battle, Su Yu also asked people to compile Zhang Xiaowu's record in Tucheng, saying that this person killed thousands of people in Inuyi, and how strong his martial arts were. I don't know where he found a storyteller, compiling Zhang Xiaowu's three arrows to shoot back the dogs, single-handedly killed the 36 generals of the dogs, and almost captured the Wuhuan Xiaowang Wu Lili. If Wu Li collapsed here, he would have to be so angry that he would vomit blood by the story arranged by Su Yu.
But precisely because the story made up by Su Yu is too magical, and the story of the 27th Regiment's battle damage to Tucheng is too tragic, the people who can be killed from Tucheng are naturally stained with the smell of death, and the listeners are all curious. The generals accepted the invitation, but more people couldn't help but be anxious without an invitation, and even some squires in Mucheng were curious. I also heard that I could buy invitations at my own expense, so I bought invitations and went to the prisoner camp to watch this gladiatorial fight. There is another world in Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, the gimmick and hilarity of the battle of the century.
Su Yu's ability to make money has been vividly reflected, and even before this gladiatorial battle began, Su Yu, who sold invitations, first earned 10,000 taels of silver.