Half an hour later, Li Yu, who was bored, suddenly heard a knock on the door behind him, and a completely different prince walked out of the main room of the Imperial Horse Supervisor. At this time, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes were full of joy, and his high chest and stable and confident emotions all showed that the result of this 'exchange' between him and Lu Xiangyin should be really good.

Since the crown prince took charge of the state office, the court meeting in which officials above the fourth rank had to participate was temporarily suspended because of the tension of the war; If there is any state report, it will also be carried out in the Winter Warm Pavilion. Of course, the ministers who are qualified to enter the Winter Warm Pavilion on the three roads of Youbei can be counted with both hands.

In the early morning of the second day, the prince, who was still in a good mood, finished washing, and after breakfast, he instructed Li Yudao:

"Convey the will of the prince of the prison country: Summon, Yin Wei Anheng of the Beijing Mansion, Yan Fujiu, the king of Qi, and Zhang Huangling, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, will discuss matters in the Winter Warm Pavilion."

Li Yu should go out of the house, and only half an hour later, he returned to the Winter Warm Pavilion with some embarrassment:

"Prince Yu, Lord Zhang Huangling is handing over the city defense at this time, and he can enter the palace within half an hour; And His Royal Highness King Qi drank too much yesterday and has not woken up from a hangover. According to Tai Baiwei, within an hour at most, he will definitely be able to wake up; And Lord Yin Wei'an Hengwei of Fengjing Mansion ordered his subordinates to report to the Ministry of Officials three days ago, saying that it was due to improper weather and exhaustion, and he was still bedridden......"

After Zhang Huangling and his Flying Tiger Army withdrew and returned to the city, they naturally shouldered the burden of defending Fengjing; Coupled with the current tension with the Prime Minister's Mansion, he has no way out. Therefore, he will honestly enter the palace, which is naturally expected by Yan Day. And Zhang Huangling's chess piece is actually a secret piece left by Yan Hunt for himself to bring down Li Deng; I didn't expect the world to be impermanent, but in the end, I was picked up by myself.

And Yan Fujiu, the king of Qi, is different from his father, who is known as the 'sword of the Yan clan', he is a prodigal character, except for spending time and drinking, he has no great ambitions at all, and the second prince Yan Qinghong is simply a nest of snakes and rats, as if a mold is carved out; of course, it is precisely because of his temperament that he can shoulder the important position of leading the Taibai Guard. Because whether it is Yan Tian or Yan Hunt, they are very relieved to let him guard the gate of the palace: such a person, who is addicted to wine all day long, what can he think? With such a princely identity, what kind of bargaining chips do you have to open to buy him?

The only thing that made the prince uneasy was Yin Wei Anheng of Fengjing Mansion. This old fox has been a parent official in the capital for half his life, and he is even more loyal to his father. Not only that, but over the years, he has been able to shuttle easily under the turbulent undercurrents of the court; And the position of Fengjing Mansion Yin is extremely important, and he must be a person who all the light and dark forces want to try their best to win over. But after so many years, not only has he never fallen to any side, but he can also keep his family well-being. From this, it can be seen that this Lord Guardan Hengwei usually looks cautious and cowardly on the surface; But for the sense of danger and the means of avoiding danger, it is certainly the same.

is such a mellow and cunning person, who is seriously ill and bedridden at this juncture! You don't need to ask to know that the serious illness he contracted must be just a heart disease.

Since it is a fraudulent disease, Wei Anheng, a mouse, clearly sensed the danger, and in order to avoid trouble, he called him sick and bedridden. What could be the danger that might keep him from showing up?

It has not been a day or two since the Pingbei Army entered the territory of Youbei, and if it was to be 'infected', it would have been 'infected' a long time ago, and it was impossible to survive until now. Because according to the examples of previous years, this war between the two norths has actually entered the final stage after Guo Xiao's death. At this time, for him, the Yin of Fengjing Mansion, there is no threat at all.

Since danger does not come from a strong enemy, it can only be born in the midst of civil strife.

But now that he is in power, and his father and Li Qing's master and servant are also trapped in the Yongling Hall all day long to worship their ancestors and 'recuperate', and there are five or six out of ten ministers in the court, and they have been replaced by their own henchmen and protégés, let alone a threat to him! What's more, now even his uncle and prime minister have already called him sick......

Thinking of this, Yan Tian suddenly shivered!

After the fire in Beilan Palace, his uncle Li Deng said that he was ill, and according to the reports of spies around the Prime Minister's Mansion, this Prime Minister Li Cheng rarely even showed his face, let alone walked out of the mansion; There is no prime minister in this court, and Wan Changning, who can represent the will of the prime minister, has reached a 'strategic alliance' with himself.

From the moment Li Deng became ill, with the help of Wan Changning, he began a large-scale purge from beginning to end.

The key ministry hall yamen of Youbei 3rd Road is divided into four: the military department, the household department, the engineering department, the official department, and there is also a clan mansion, with Yan Jiuning as the sect and a family of its own.

From the beginning of the founding of the country, the military department was in the hands of the Guo family, while the household department and the Ministry of Industry were in the hands of the Li family, and the official department was in the hands of the Yan family; Today, nearly a hundred years later, except for the two departments in Li Deng's hands, which can still be firmly grasped, the rest of the departments, including the clan government, have all been under the jurisdiction of the Yan family.

Since Li Deng claimed that he was ill and did not go to court, Wan Changning, the head of the household department, secretly formed an alliance with him, which also led to the negligence of the household and the work department, which were originally monolithic. Wan Changning, who can represent the prime minister, joined forces with the prince of the prison country to clean up these leaderless scholars and civil officials, isn't it still easy to capture? With only a slight effort, he mixed more than half of the two yamen with sand; That's it, the prince still remembered the feelings of his nephew and uncle, and wanted to leave some decent results for Li Deng.

Everything went well, the only thing that was a little strange was that after they dismissed the young officials, most of them would ask people to give gifts and find a way to do other errands; And after he dismissed some old ministers, they willingly packed up their family wealth and dragged their families directly into the inn; Look at the meaning, as long as the war is over and the curfew is opened, they will go directly back to their hometown to recuperate.

And after these old ministers were dismissed from office, they didn't even write a letter to defend themselves; The strangest thing is that, according to the spies, after these degraded officials returned their official seals, they immediately smiled, and some old ministers who had good friendships even ran to tell each other and say hello to each other. Look at what they mean, if it weren't for the current national disaster, they would definitely invite a few troupes to come and sing for three days in a row!

Yan Tian shook his head, he felt that he couldn't understand something, so he simply let it go; Maybe in a few days, the answer will come out on its own.

"Li Yu, after Zhang Huangling enters the palace, there is no need to let him come to the Winter Warm Pavilion, just let him go out of the palace with Uncle Qi Wanghuang, and take Taibai Wei to the Prime Minister's Mansion to get people!"

Li Yu nodded yes, and was just about to go out to deliver the decree, when he suddenly turned around and asked the prince:

"Your Highness...... Who did you command the two adults to lock up? ”

"Shen Gui! If someone dares to stop Li Fuzhong, take it together! ”

“…… Your Royal Highness, if Prime Minister Li Cheng personally ......? ”

The crown prince fiddled with the seal of the prince of the prison state on the table, and then stood up with a light 'heh', and said to Li Yu word by word:

"Hear me clearly, what this king said is, one! Combine! Take! Finish! ”

To say that the official of the three roads in the north is both good and bad.

If you are an official of the Ministry of War, although you will not be underfed and clothed, you will only be able to make a living for the family; However, there is a little advantage, that is, the large and small wars between the two norths have lasted for a hundred years, and when I am on an errand in the military department, I don't have to worry about not being able to get military merits, and I don't have to worry about how to mix up officialdom qualifications, thinking that I am the first to enter the ranks.

Similarly, if you are an official of the ministry, although you will not be destitute, most of them will have no oil and water to fish. Because of the appointment and dismissal of local officials and the annual performance appraisal of political performance, except for the emperor's imperial seal, all of them were personally reviewed by Prime Minister Li Deng. In addition to being in charge of foreign affairs and maintaining the post road, the biggest advantage of this ministry is that it is responsible for preparing various ceremonies and sacrifices. However, once you enter the ministry, it is equivalent to returning to your hometown in advance. As long as there is no big mistake, it will be tied wherever it is sent, and the career will end here.

The two key yamen, the household department and the Ministry of Industry, are the fattest errands in the whole Youbei. Although the work of these two departments is complicated and the accounts are also detailed and cumbersome, Prime Minister Li Cheng, who is at the helm, is a good boss who is sympathetic to his subordinates.

Li Deng has been an official for a lifetime, and the Li family has calculated the accounts for several lifetimes, and for those small tricks in numbers, they have long been at the level of the grandfather. Despite this, he usually controls his subordinates but adopts the principle of grasping the big and letting go of the small: as long as you do your job well, those small tricks and corruption that are not in the stream, Prime Minister Li Cheng is still enough to turn a blind eye and let his officials occasionally make a small fortune. Of course, the premise of all this is that the person must be self-aware and not do things to the end of the road.

Today, the prince asked Zhang Huangling and Yan Fujiu to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to arrest Shen Gui, which was a thankless errand. Yan Fujiu is nothing, he has lived more than 30 years without skin and face, since he was a child, he was affected by the father who defeated the Eastern Customs, he has suffered endless ridicule and white eyes, and he has long been numb; But Zhang Huangling's situation is different from that of His Royal Highness the 'Second Generation King of Qi'.

He is a native of Dongyou, and he is the son of the Li family. Although he is vacillating at the moment, in the eyes of people who don't know the inside story, he Zhang Huangling is still the most hardcore henchman of the Li family!

Even if I need to pass by the road near the Prime Minister's Mansion on weekdays, I am used to hiding far away in a big circle; But today, it's good, the prince actually let himself take a drunken cat prince to his previous head of the house to get people!

And if Li Deng stopped him, he would even take it from him!

It wasn't until he and the drunken cat Yan Fujiu came to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion with a hundred Taibai guards that he still hadn't come up with a solution.

"Phew! There was no swill poured at the door, so why did you bring this thing? ”

Li Fu, the housekeeper who was sitting on the bench at the door and watching the wind, squinted at Zhang Huangling with his eyes. When pronouncing, a trace of dantian qi was also carried to ensure that the more than 100 people present heard it clearly.