As soon as Li Gu returned to the mansion, he saw the man running to report and said, "The head of the family, the prince of the prime minister has come to deliver the post." ”

"Oh, got it." Li Gu was helped by the big girl in the room to change his clothes and ties, and he didn't immediately read Wang Pu's post.

Today is a day off, Li Gu is busy, leading his wife and concubine to go to the wonderful spirit temple outside the city.

Miao Lingguan has not been very famous before, after the Empress Dowager Fu hangs the curtain, because she often goes there to pray for incense, in a short period of time, it has become a famous view of the capital, and the popularity is close to the Great Xianggong Temple.

It wasn't until after drinking half a cup of tea that Li Gu slowly walked to the desk, picked up the post sent by Wang Pu, opened it, and dared to invite him to a banquet tonight.

In recent years, Li Gu and Wang Pu have become very close. Both of them want to pull Fan Zhen off the horse, and for the sake of common interests, they must huddle together to keep warm.

It's just that Li Gu also knows very well in his heart that the day Fan Zhen is pulled down is actually the time when he and Wang Pu are friends.

Although Li Gu doesn't understand the following famous saying: There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, but this does not affect anything, everyone does this, but it is not condensed and summarized.

When Li Gu was a teenager, his life was relatively hard, and once he gained power, he had to enjoy life even harder.

Today, the beautiful concubines in Li Gu's mansion are more than five times more than Li Zhongyi's copper stink.

There are more women to raise, and the expenses are naturally getting bigger and bigger, even if Li Gu's salary and rewards are unusually rich, they are becoming more and more stretched.

Unlike Li Zhongyi, who is a copper stinker, Li Gu only reads sage books and has no ability to make money in business. The family background is gradually empty, and Li Gu can only follow the trajectory of corruption and degeneration of scholars in the past dynasties.

At the beginning, Li Gu still knew shame and secretive betrayal, but he was afraid that people would know about it.

Later, after Li Gu was demoted to be a privy envoy, he took the opportunity to take charge of the promotion and demotion of martial arts, and he made a lot of money, and he was at ease.

Speaking of which, the status of the military ministers in the Five Dynasties period was unusually high, and it was commonplace for them to enter the prime minister.

Among Chai Rong's eight phases, Li Qiong, Li Yun, and Li Zhongyi, all three of them were military ministers, which was unimaginable in the Zhao and Song dynasties when Chongwen suppressed martial arts.

On the contrary, Wenchen's position is quite embarrassing. The ministers in the political hall, their futures are all blocked by Fan Zhen alone, and to put it mildly, they are just eating together. Moreover, in the foreseeable future, the ministers have no chance of turning the tables at all.

Li Gu knew that Wang Pu was actually not a womanizer, but in order to have a common language with him, he raised a group of beautiful singers at home.

A lot of times, things don't stand up to scrutiny. For example, Li Gu and Wang Pu are both rulers and have the same status, and Wang Pu is also a scholar who doesn't understand economics, why is he not short of money to spend?

On weekdays, Li Gu didn't think about anything else, but today was different from the past. On the way back, the descendants of the Li family saw with their own eyes that the third housekeeper on Wang Pu's side actually got into an ox cart with Zhao Kuangyin and the second housekeeper of the Zhao family.

The well-known political affairs hall was actually mixed up with the front of the palace, which made Li Gu not think about it.

What is the relationship between Wang Pu and Zhao Kuangyin? Li Gu has always pondered this fateful big problem.

If it weren't for the accidental discovery of Wang Pu's secret, Li Gu would have been kept in the dark, thinking that Wang Pu was just forming an alliance with him in private.

To be honest, since he found out about this, Li Gu was stunned. When Wang Pu secretly has another way out, the cooperation model between them will definitely need to make a new change.

The Yang family of the volcano king, after all, is a century-old military family, and they can't engage in the economy, but they do have several brushes for training and fighting.

When Guo Huai rushed to the outside of Linzhou with 5,000 Han cavalry and 5,000 party cavalry, the Yang family had already withdrawn.

Along the way, Guo Huai deliberately slowed down the march, the purpose was not to irritate the Yang family, thinking that they were here to pick peaches.

In fact, after the Yang family offered to cede Linzhou, Guo Huai had been very hesitant, and he did not want to disrupt the fragile military balance in the western part of Jinyang.

It's just that after Li Zhongyi learned the news, he immediately made a decision: to exchange thousands of miles of fertile land in Shengzhou for the barren Linzhou of the Yang family, and he must not treat honest people badly.

Guo Huai definitely doesn't know that the Yang family in history is actually a killer who has a string missing in his brain and seriously lacks experience in political struggle.

Compared with the Fuzhou family, the political wisdom of the Yang family in Linzhou is almost negative. The Yang family relied on a bloody and brave spirit, and the deliberate friendship of the Fuzhou family, so they were based in Linzhou and became a warlord.

In fact, if Li Zhongyi had not been born, in more than 20 years, the Yang family would have become a widow's house under the "wise" command of Zhao Laosan, and the men in the family would almost die, and the family road would have slipped since then.

On the contrary, the Zhe family has always stood proudly at the top of the tide of the Western Army. Even if the Northern Song Dynasty perished, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Zhejia army always had a place, what kind of family history and survival wisdom is this?

Zhao Laosan doesn't know how to cherish the real loyal and brave generals, Li Zhongyi, a copper stinker, but he values the Yang family very much.

You must know that in order to fight against the Khitans, the men of the Yang family went forward one after another, and the spirit of fighting without fear of death was exactly what Li Zhongyi needed.

Therefore, after Li Zhongyi learned that the Yang family had opened his mind, he generously waved his pen and rewarded the Yang family with the most fertile anointing place in the Hetao, Shengzhou, as a new century-old foundation of the Yang family.

The land of Shengzhou, five times that of Linzhou, is not only suitable for raising cattle and horses, but also fertile land and a lot of yield per mu.

Of course, because it is across the river from the Khitans, although Shengzhou is wide, the population is only slightly more than that of Linzhou, which can be regarded as a restraint policy reserved by Li Zhongyi in advance.

The Zhi and Yang families were originally aligned for generations, but since the Zhe family wanted to get greater benefits from Li Zhongyi, it was naturally impossible for Li Zhongyi to sit back and watch the Zhi and Yang alliances continue to grow.

Checks and balances of power, divide and rule, has always been the basic principle of Li Zhongyi's management of the army. Whether it is the four guards of the Yulin Forest or the warlord feudal town, it is impossible for one person to have the final say.

After the unification of the Central Plains, as expected by the old lady, Li Zhongyi will inevitably reduce the feudal domain and strengthen the centralization of power in the imperial court.

The Yang family in Linzhou gave up their ancestral foundation, although they were forced by the situation, in the final analysis, the Yang family was more honest.

Can't let honest people suffer, has always been Li Zhongyi's basic view of employing people, so the Yang family obtained Shengzhou, which has a much larger territory.

Although Shengzhou was at the forefront of the resistance to the Khitans, after all, it was much safer than Linzhou, which bordered Jinyang Liu Han on land, across the river.

Under the rule of the Yang family, there are wars in Linzhou almost every year, and the economy and people's livelihood have never been able to settle down. It can be said that the more you fight, the poorer you become, the more you fight the fugitives, the strength of the Yang family is not as good as the folded family, in fact, it is a normal thing.

After all, the Yang family has a thin face, and since they have abandoned the inheritance passed down by their ancestors, it is better not to see Guo Huai than to meet him.

So much so that until Guo Huai ascended to the head of Linzhou City, he never met a member of the Yang family. Guo Huaixin said, this is good, so as to avoid the embarrassment when meeting.

In this era, forcing people to give up their ancestral inheritance is definitely a big event that will increase hatred.

Wang Pu was at home, waiting for Li Gu to come on the left, but still didn't come on the right, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart, could it be that something happened?

Regarding Li Guqi and his people, Wang Pu has some unique opinions after interacting with him over the years. When sitting alone in the study, Wang Pu asked himself that the relationship between him and Li Guzi was just a short-term political alliance formed in order to defeat Fan Zhen.

Once Fan Zhen is defeated, no matter whether Li Gu can successfully ascend to the position of prime minister, "friendship" will become Wang Pu's inevitable choice.

If Wang Pu took over as prime minister, Li Gu would have been the prime minister of the dynasty, although he was demoted to be a privy envoy, even if he returned to the political hall, there was still not much change in his status.

If Li Gu took over the position of prime minister, Wang Pu's heart would definitely be uncomfortable and dissatisfied, and his qualifications for entering the political hall were much earlier than Li Gu.

"Someone, go to the door and watch, as soon as Li Xianggong arrives, come to me quickly." Wang Pu has always been a calm old bureaucrat, and today he doesn't know what's wrong, and he looks particularly impetuous.

After waiting for the next person to go, Wang Pu paced indoors and circled a few times before gradually calming down his impetuous mood.

Waiting for the big girl in the room, she was trembling, but she was afraid of being angry by Wang Pu, until Wang Pu sat back at the desk, she held the tray and served tea.

In essence, Wang Pu is not a womanizer, but only in order to vote for Li Gu's favor, he raised a group of singers at home.

Moreover, unlike the greedy Li Gu, Wang Pu is an aspiring prime minister. It's a pity that Empress Dowager Fu listens to Fan Zhen and believes in it, completely ignoring his Wang's outstanding talent for governing the country.

The time of Empress Dowager Fu's reign is not short, Wang Pu has been figuring out his intentions in private, and he was surprised to find that although Empress Dowager Fu has made rapid progress, after all, she was only a deep palace woman in her early years, and she did not have a good education in governing the country, and her shortcomings are also extremely obvious.

In Wang Pu's view, Empress Dowager Fu is shrewd and has excellent learning ability, but her shortcomings are also fatal: be careful.

The careful eyes of ordinary women are, at most, disturbing the back house. As the Empress Dowager Fu who listens to the government, her careful eyes are particularly clear about love and hate, which makes people panic and uneasy.

Empress Dowager Fu trusted Fan Qian, so she fully authorized it, and as long as Fan Qian's proposal, more than nine out of nine, would be approved.

Li Zhongyi, the copper stinker, has always been disgusted by the Empress Dowager Fu, and he is very completely disgusted. If it weren't for Li Zhongyi's strong army and letting the court throw a rat trap, I am afraid that he would have lost his head and died and the clan would have been wiped out.

Unlike Li Gu, the nerd, Wang Pu saw through a truth from Li Zhongyi's self-respecting behavior: If the unfavored prime minister wants to succeed, he must have his back to the gun.

Han Tong's guy doesn't eat oil and salt, he only knows that he is loyal to the Empress Dowager Fu and the little emperor, and no one cares about anything else. Wang Pu has tried to woo Han Tong in private several times, and that stupid pig-like rough man has been ignoring it, which is really annoying.

Forced to be helpless, coupled with Zhao Kuangyin's initiative to get closer, Wang Pu secretly hooked up with Zhao Laoer.

However, until this moment, Wang Pu had no disobedience at all, but just wanted to take advantage of Zhao Laoer's momentum so that he could stand more securely in the court.

The appointed time has passed for an hour and a half, and Li Gu has not yet come, Wang Pu finally realized: It is very likely that something has happened.

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