The three brothers Pei Xiu came to Du Mu not all for the sake of his external transfer, there is currently an opportunity, if he can grasp it well, Pei Xiu may go further.

This opportunity is Ma Zhi's mistake, although it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but with so many people staring, small things can also be big things.

Du Mu also understands the reason, and he also hopes that Pei Xiu will take the position, so that he may not need to be transferred.

"Second brother, what should we do now?"

Pei Xiu is not a little pedantic like the eldest brother, he is tactful, and he is the backbone of the family.

"Although Ma Zhi made a mistake this time, this matter made His Majesty unhappy at most, and it has not yet reached the level of the monarch and minister's opposite, Bai Xianggong and they should be more anxious, let's just wait and see what happens."

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Imperial City Shangshu Province.

The officials who do the work come and go, it is very busy, and this is the political center of Datang.

Bai Minzhong sat down at the desk in a room to check the papers, and circled them with a pen from time to time.

This is located in the innermost shade of Shangshu Province, the outside of the house is full of old trees, and there is a high platform on the side to block the sun, it is very cool in summer, Bai Minzhong has recently come here to be on duty.

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If it was another season, he would return to the main hall to sit in the office.

Bai Minzhong is fifty-eight this year, more than 20 years younger than his cousin Bai Juyi, but his legs and feet are already a little bad, and his knees often hurt on rainy days.

Today is also cloudy, with dark clouds in the sky, and it looks like it will rain heavily soon.

He sat on the couch, and the scholar who was accompanying him persuaded him while helping him beat his legs: "Xianggong, it's going to rain heavily, or go back first, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave if it's late." ”

Bai Min didn't raise his head, and said, "Don't be impatient, there are still some things that you haven't paid attention to, if the rain is too heavy, you will stay here tonight." ”

Shangshu Province has six departments, the prime minister of national affairs, Bai Minzhong should summarize the major events, discuss with the other four prime ministers, and then give preliminary handling opinions, and submit them to the emperor for ruling.

As for the daily details, it is up to him to decide, and his functions are like those of the premiers of the State Council in later generations.

In addition, he must often accompany the emperor, such as the three teachings held in the palace these days, he must attend.

The minister also needs to write poems every festival, so after the Middle and Tang Dynasty, only people from Jinshi can be prime ministers, and a large part of the reason is that if the prime minister does not write poetry well, he will be laughed at, and Jinshi is a poem, and his skills are definitely enough.

But it's not that you can be a prime minister if you write poems well, but also look at the ability and luck of being an official, otherwise it should be Bai Juyi sitting here, not Bai Minzhong!

During the period of the Niu Li Party dispute, Bai Minzhong has always been quiet as a centrist, and his qualifications are actually much shallower than Liu Gongquan.

If you want to say anything about being virtuous for the country, he Bai Minzhong can't reach a virtuous word, but Li Deyu thinks it's easy to control.

Unexpectedly, after the new emperor succeeded to the throne, this person conspired with the emperor to pull Li Deyu off the horse, and then drove out other prime ministers one after another, rising from the fourth to the first, and became the first assistant of the current dynasty.

At that time, everyone scoffed at him because of a counterattack at a critical time, but this Bai Xianggong didn't care at all, he is now the winner, in order to prevent Li Deyu from making a comeback, he even ruthlessly framed the design, and finally demoted the old benefactor to Yazhou, and promoted the centrist Ma Zhi to be the prime minister.

But the DPRK is not his sole party, Cui Xuan and Zhou Qi, who were activated by the emperor not long ago, are all from the Niu Party, and Cui Xuan is the most famous.

And Zhou Qi had a straight temper and spoke very impulsively, Bai Minzhong kept holding back, and finally simply pretended to be sick and used the power of Shangshu Province to provoke the contradiction between Ma Zhi and Zhou Qi.

At that time, Zhou Qi was a squire of the Ministry of War, and Ma Zhi was a squire of the Chinese book and a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, both of whom were in charge of the six departments of Shangshu Province, and they were both Tongping Zhangshi, and began to compete for the right to speak in Shangshu Province.

And Cui Xuan, another Chinese scholar, also had a lot of confrontation with Zhou Qi within the Niu Party, so he colluded with Ma Zhi and took the opportunity to drive Zhou Qi out of the court!

Bai Minzhong seized the opportunity at this time and recommended Wei Fu from his own faction to pick peaches.

Because Ma Zhi wanted to take the throne and started to manage the power by himself, he was already not on good terms with Bai Minzhong, and he generally stayed in the Daming Palace Zhongshu Province and did not come to the Imperial City Shangshu Province.

Taiji Palace and Daming Palace only Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, Shangshu Province and Liubu are in the imperial city in the south, called the Outer Dynasty, but also the origin of the name of Nanya.

Zhongshu Province is responsible for the edict, which is equivalent to the secretariat, and Menxia Province is responsible for advising the emperor on the gains and losses, which is equivalent to a staff officer, both of which must often see the emperor, belong to the inner dynasty, and the office is of course located in the palace.

Both Taiji Palace and Daming Palace have yamen of these two provinces, which are located outside the main hall.

Wei Fu is the squire of the military department of the six departments of Shangshu Province, and he is also in the imperial city, as long as Bai Minzhong is on duty, he will inevitably come over to discuss matters.

Bai Minzhong raised his head at this time, rubbed his brows, stretched his waist and looked at the door, according to the usual practice, Wei Fu should also come over.

Sure enough, he saw a figure walk in, it was Wei Fu.

The two had a deep personal friendship, so there was no need to report it, and Wei Fu came in and gently greeted him: "Brother Hui." ”

Bai Minzhong raised his hand and made a gesture to sit down, waiting for Wei Fu to sit opposite.

He opened his mouth to let the scholar make tea, then sent it out, turned his head and said to Wei Fu: "Brother Xiangzhi, it's hot outside today, take a sip of tea." ”

Wei Fu took a sip of tea, threw a fan on the couch, he picked up the fan twice, and then said: "It's really hot and humid this day, it seems that it is going to rain heavily." ”

"Yes, but I don't know if the Thor Electric Mother has ever returned."

"It took a lot of effort for Wei to get this thunder god to make a move, and it must have been a thunderbolt, which made that person's heart frightened."

Bai Minzhong laughed and said, "Okay, good, this time we must teach this ungrateful person some lessons!" ”

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Guo Hong came back from Ma Yuanzhen, and the emperor really asked the next day.

He knew that there must be Ma Yuanzhen's eyes and ears around, so he didn't say anything, but found an opportunity to wait for the emperor alone in the afternoon, and told him about Ma Yuanzhen's banquet for Li Han.

The emperor's face was gloomy, and then he rewarded him with a jade pendant and asked him to go to Mafu to inquire about the news.

Guo Hong is thinking about how to sow discord, so that he is in the middle of the situation.

The next morning, Guo Hong still followed to the palace.

The court meeting began, and the emperor took his seat.

After worshipping, the ministers below were silent for a while, and a minister stood up and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, the minister Sun Jingshang has a book. ”

As soon as the emperor saw that it was a servant of the imperial history, he nodded.

Sun Jingshang said: "The minister impeached Ma Zhi, the secretary of the Zhongshu and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, connived at his subordinates to extort bribes and engage in favoritism, please remove him from the post of prime minister!" ”

The ministers heard a whisper, and the master of ceremonies and eunuchs hurriedly shouted, "Silence! No noise in the temple! ”

On the side, the palace attendant Yushi secretly wrote down the people who were in the ear in a small notebook, and he had to go back to a bullet stamp.

This is called the loss of honor in front of the palace, which is not a human subject, and there is a corresponding punishment, but it is not very serious, that is, the punishment of copper.

At this time, Sun Jingshang presented the impeachment seal, and after the emperor read it, he said: "This official is named Dong Yu, and he extorted money in the name of Ma Zhi and accepted bribes from other officials, which amounted to a huge amount. ”

The emperor was a little displeased, and he had no idea of changing the prime minister for the time being.

Although there will be eunuchs who call out and have a play, it is not that he, the emperor, is idle and has nothing to do, like a porter, he has to come over every day and wait for the minister to play.

The court meeting was held only because of major events, and in the late Tang Dynasty, the emperor did not have to go to the morning court every day, and the prime minister determined that there was a major event that could not be decided, so he asked for the holy ruling, and the emperor also wanted to see the opinions of the courtiers through court discussions, and brainstormed to convene the court meeting.

Today's topic has been set, there are three things, the first is the civil strife in Tibet, the Tang army five ways concurrently, among which Jingyuan Jiedu made Kang Jirong take Yuanzhou and Shimen, Yizang, Muxia, Sheng, Liupan, Shixia six passes, high good news, the prime minister fixed the reward, and asked for instructions on the strategy of marching.

In addition, there is a matter of granting Zhang Zhongwu's son Lu Longjie to stay after Zhang Zhifang Jiedu, this matter is easy to do, the most troublesome is the Xuzhou military rebellion in May, the expulsion of the Jiedu envoy Li Kuo, the Xuzhou army has been unruly, and it is necessary to send a capable minister to suppress these soldiers, so this third thing is to elect the Xuzhou Jiedu envoy.

There are a lot of issues, but the imperial history uses some trivial things to impeach the prime minister, and he really doesn't know what to do.

But the emperor's city was very deep, nodded quietly, and said, "Let's discuss it." ”

Ma Zhi hurriedly knelt down and saluted and said, "The minister is impeached, please allow Your Majesty to recuse himself!" ”

This is the rule, the emperor nodded in agreement, Ma Zhi retreated, and glanced at Yang Fa, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, before leaving.

Yang Fa didn't move, bowed his head slightly, and Ma Zhi walked out with confidence.

The ministers began to speak one after another, more than half of them attacked Ma Zhi, some remained silent, and only a few asked the emperor to verify before they were released.

The form is very unfavorable to horse planting.

Guo Hong saw that Ma Yuanzhen's face was gloomy and frightening, he had also made some friends in the palace recently, and he had heard that Ma Zhi and Ma Yuanzhen agreed with the sect, it seemed that this old guy was also a little angry.

The emperor took a look at the courtiers who spoke to demand the dismissal, and saw that they were all Bai Minzhong's faction, and Sun Jingshang, who provoked the matter, was a good friend of Pei Li in the imperial history, and the three Pei brothers were speechless, and they understood a little in their hearts.

This is Shousuke wooing Pei's, but it seems that the other party has not contributed.

The emperor glanced at Pei Xiu, this is with a smart person, he should see that he has no intention of changing the prime minister, and he doesn't want to offend Bai Minzhong, so he shook a shot and threw out a pawn to test the reactions of all parties.

Ma Zhi has always been a good candidate to check and balance Bai Minzhong, and he can't be changed yet.

The emperor glanced at Yang Fa, the three brothers of the Yang family are very famous, especially that Yang Shui, although the official position is not high, the reputation is spread all over the world, and the wisdom is outstanding, it is said that he is also comparable to Chen Ping's talent.

I wonder how his brother will cope with this situation?

Yang Fa had been paying attention to the emperor's expression, and he already had a judgment in his heart.

He saw that the discussion gradually calmed down, so he went out of class and knelt down to speak for Ma Zhi, although he and his younger brother were not optimistic about the prime minister, but they had been classified into the Ma Party, and they had both prosperity and loss, so they could only struggle to survive.