The Imperial Palace of the Northern Jin Dynasty, the Imperial Study

Looking at Shangguan Ye who jumped out, Emperor Liyang's brows unconsciously wrinkled slightly, and the corners of his mouth, which were still a little smiling, drooped down directly, and his eyes were full of indifference.

The position where King Duan stood was quite close to Emperor Liyang's dragon chair, and he could see the changes in Emperor Liyang's expression clearly, and he smiled secretly in his heart.

The father really made no secret of his dislike for the right minister!

Not only did King Duan see Emperor Liyang's dislike of Shangguanye, but the rest of the ministers present were not blind, and the ministers secretly changed their eyes to each other, except for the people of King Jing's party, most of them had a schadenfreude attitude.

After all, Shangguanye is the right minister, and his official position is among the best among today's ministers, if he is disliked by the emperor and degraded for it, won't they have a chance to take the throne.

In fact, Emperor Liyang was disgusted with Shangguan Ye, and many people in the court knew that since the marriage of Shangguan Ye and King Jing, a king and a minister have come and gone frequently, and Shangguan Ye took his protégé and former officials to cheer for King Jing every day, and did not shy away from showing his attitude of supporting King Jing to seize the heir, which directly led to a great decrease in Emperor Liyang's trust in him.

In just two years, the relationship between Emperor Liyang and Shangguanye has changed from being suitable for monarchs and ministers in the past, and trusting them in every way, to being cold and alienated now, and even disgusted and disdainful.

This made some ministers who had witnessed the close relationship between the emperor and the prime minister at the beginning, and the current monarchs and ministers were cold, and they couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

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Shangguanye is the right prime minister of the Northern Jin Dynasty, and his status in the court is very high, only inferior to the left prime minister Bao Huaiwei and the head of the military generals, Di Yi, who is a well-deserved pillar of the court, under a few people, above tens of thousands of people.

Shangguan Ye can sit in the position of Zaifu of a country, in addition to his own outstanding ability, of course, it is also inseparable from the promotion of Emperor Liyang.

In fact, in the Northern Jin Dynasty, Bao Huaiwei, the left minister, is not a descendant of Emperor Liyang.

When Emperor Bao Cheng was still in the first emperor Kanghua, he was the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, Emperor Liyang had just ascended the throne not long ago, the original Ministry of Shangshu died of illness, Bao Huaiwei relied on his unparalleled prestige in the Ministry of Officials, and he was appointed as the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Officials, and his status as a civil official in the Northern Jin Dynasty ranked among the top five.

After that, Bao Huaiwei stayed up for six or seven years from the position of the secretary of the ministry, and with the profound qualifications of the important ministers of the two dynasties, the official worshiped the prime minister of Zuo, and was the head of the civil officials.

It is not difficult to see from this resume that Bao Huaiwei himself has not relied too much on the power of Emperor Liyang, but more on his own merits and qualifications.

Because of this, the relationship between Prime Minister Bao Cheng and Emperor Liyang is better than that of ordinary monarchs and ministers, but it is not close.

Compared with it, Shangguan Ye, the right prime minister, is different, when Emperor Liyang just boarded the plane, Shangguan Ye was just a small six-rank Hanlin bachelor.

Later, because of Emperor Liyang's appreciation, Shangguanye was able to emerge, and then all the way to the top of the clouds, middle-aged worship.

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It can be said that everything in Shangguanye today is based on Emperor Liyang's hand.

Therefore, Emperor Liyang also regarded Shangguan Ye as a confidant, and liked to communicate and discuss with him about any problems on weekdays, because of the emperor's trust, Shangguan Ye was extremely powerful in the court, and even Zuo Xiang gave him a few points.

Originally, it went on like this, with Emperor Liyang's trust in Shangguanye, when Bao Huaiwei was old and old in a few years, Shangguanye was 100% promoted to the left minister, and Liyang was a dynasty, and the emperor was compatible, which was also a good story of monarchs and ministers.

However, I don't know if Emperor Liyang was too generous to Shangguan Ye, or Shangguan Ye himself was too ambitious.

Prime Minister Shangguan thought that it was too short to be the prime minister of the Liyang Dynasty, and he actually wanted to intervene in the dispute between King Jing and King Duan, and wanted to continue to consolidate his own powerful position by supporting the merits.

After a chance temptation, Shangguan Ye found that Emperor Liyang seemed to value King Jing more, so he quietly got involved with King Jing.

Later, in order to stabilize the alliance between the two sides, Shangguanye did not hesitate to marry his concubine to King Jing as a side concubine, and wholeheartedly became King Jing's father-in-law.

But I didn't want to, Shangguan Ye's performance greatly stimulated Emperor Liyang, who was not in good health at the time.

Emperor Liyang, who was very afraid of his longevity, was very resistant to words such as "storage position", "death", and "new monarch", and Shangguan Ye and King Jing made a marriage at that time, which directly made Emperor Liyang have the idea of Shangguan Ye betraying him.

He felt that this prime minister, who had been promoted by himself, ignored his years of knowledge and kindness, and while his dragon body was not safe, he had no worries at all, and he was impatient to press his son so that he could be the new monarch's auxiliary minister.

Emperor Liyang was very cold, and since then, although he has not reprimanded Shangguanye, his attitude has become more and more estranged, and over time, even if the relationship between the monarch and the minister has not reached the freezing point, it is not too much worse.

Like now, in front of all the ministers, Emperor Liyang unabashedly showed his boredom with Shangguanye, which shows that the relationship between him and Shangguanye has long since disappeared.

If it weren't for Shangguan Ye's strength in the court over the years, and now with King Jing behind him, rashly denouncing it would easily cause turmoil in the court, I'm afraid that Shangguan Ye, the right prime minister, would have been unstable for a long time.........

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Shangguan Ye, who took a step forward, felt Emperor Liyang's cold eyes and gloating eyes, and his heart was full of wry smiles, but he didn't regret it.

Emperor Liyang is already old, and his body is declining day by day when he is over fifty years old, with his current body and bones, everything is safe and stable, and he can survive for a few years.

But if there is a sudden big emergency, the emperor will be gone.

Shangguan Ye is thoughtful and far-sighted, and he has been planning for the future of Emperor Liyang since he had long ago.

As the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier, he himself has the trust of Emperor Liyang, so he sits on the right minister, and his own qualifications and connections can not be compared with Bao Huaiwei.

In the future, the new emperor will ascend the throne, and he will definitely promote his own people to the throne, Bao Huaiwei is a veteran of the three dynasties, and the influence is very wide, and most of the new monarchs will not move, anyway, the old man is old, and he will not live for a few years, and the courtesy is held.

But Shangguanye is different, when the new monarch ascended the throne, he was enough to break through fifty years old, in the prime of life, the emperor could endure Bao Huaiwei, but he could endure him for this, and it was estimated that it would be a year or two of hard work, and he would have to abdicate honestly to make way for Xian.

The Shangguan family was born in a noble family, and there were no outstanding figures in the ancestors, and it was not until Shangguanye's generation that it became popular, but the tiger father and dog son, the next generation of the Shangguan family are mostly mediocre generations, and they can't inherit the mantle of Shangguanye at all.

At that time, once Shangguanye retires, the political influence of the Shangguan family will plummet, and the good situation that Shangguanye has managed to defeat will be ruined.

Prime Minister Shangguan is unwilling, he dreams of building the Shangguan family into the kind of family that has a great influence on the court for generations, so he can't retreat, he has to extend his political career as much as possible, until he cultivates a suitable successor, he can retire with his whole body.

So, for the sake of the family, Shangguan Ye made up his mind to participate in the succession, if he won the bet, even if the Shangguan family could not prosper for generations, it could still guarantee fifty years of luck.

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With this premise, even if he was rejected by Emperor Liyang, Shangguan Ye never regretted it, and supported King Jing wholeheartedly.

The same is true at this time, although he knew that as soon as he appeared, Emperor Liyang's eyes were cold and the knife was thrown at him, but after getting a hint from King Jing, the right minister did not think much about it, so he immediately stood up.

"The frontier envoy has a lot to do, Yan Kui is from a shallow background, he is only a weak crown, and his qualifications and prestige are all at the bottom of the generals, how can he take on such a high position?"

Although he already knew that Zhuang Jia had raised similar reasons with Emperor Liyang, and then all of them were refuted, Shangguan Ye still repeated the same old tune.

There are two reasons, one is that this is indeed the biggest and most obvious reason to oppose Yan Kui's ascension, and it has to be asked, and second, Yan Kui has made outstanding achievements, and there are no other black spots, and the Jingwang Party can only hold on to this point in a hurry.

Emperor Liyang frowned, and stared at Shangguan Ye coldly: "Yan Qing has repeatedly made military exploits, is brave and resolute, and is familiar with the border of Jin and Zhou, and has won the support of the border soldiers, how can he not be the deputy envoy of the frontier?" ”

Shangguan Ye's face remained unchanged, and he said in a deep voice: "Or even so, but the deputy envoy of the frontier pacification envoy is related to hundreds of thousands of border troops, and he should be cautious, although Yan Kui is brave, he lacks training, and he is still a little hot to be a deputy envoy." ”

No matter what Emperor Liyang said, Shangguan Ye insisted that Yan Kui was young and talked about things, and then said that this matter was important and could not be taken lightly, so he didn't agree with Yan Kui's ascension.

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Emperor Liyang was very annoyed when he saw the quibbling Shangguanye, and couldn't help but ask the ministers, but his eyes mainly looked at King Duan next to him.

He knew that King Duan and Yan Kui were relatively close, and Shangguan Ye was desperate to prevent Yan Kui from taking the throne, and his third son was probably in a hurry.

The facts are indeed as Emperor Liyang thought, Duanwang saw Shangguan Ye disagreeing with Yan Kui's ascension to the throne with all kinds of excuses, and his stomach was about to explode, if it weren't for the city's steady stability, I'm afraid he would have jumped out and refuted it.

Now that he saw that Emperor Liyang asked his ministers to discuss it, he immediately motioned to the Duanwang Party to come out and speak for Yan Kui.

As for him himself, because of his sensitive identity, it is inconvenient for him to speak.

Under the hint of Duanwang, the Duanwang Party immediately stood up to Shangguanye to express his opposition, saying that the virtuous talent does not ask the source, the hero does not care about the age, Yan Kui is brave and good at fighting, and has the great merit of Hongyang, so he should be reused.

Shangguan Ye is not alone, seeing that someone from the Duanwang Party came out to refute it, the King Jing Party immediately stood up and several ministers echoed Shangguan Ye, and the two sides insisted on their own words and argued endlessly in the imperial study.

Emperor Liyang sat on the dragon chair, looking at the noisy ministers below, his eyes turned on the faces of his two sons, and there was a hint of darkness in his eyes.

He found that King Duan seemed to be a little too keen on Yan Kui, and the relationship between the two sides might be closer than he imagined.

In this way, if he really reuses Yan Kui, and King Duan has the support of some border troops, wouldn't he want to make it bigger?

Emperor Liyang hesitated a little, until he looked at the Jingwang Party who had prepared in advance and couldn't hold back the Duanwang Party who was in a hurry to fight, and Emperor Liyang's eyes changed.

Is the fourth (King Jing) in the court already better than the third (Duanwang) so much?

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If King Jing knew that "he let people prepare in advance, and then defeated the Duanwang Party and won the debate", it fell into the eyes of Emperor Liyang, but created the illusion that he was powerful in the court, I am afraid that he would like to directly slap himself to death.

The sky can be learned, originally Emperor Liyang had already hesitated about his previous thoughts because King Duan actively defended Yan Kui, and he had met King Jing's "divine assistance", but Emperor Liyang, who had been hesitant, was suddenly relieved.

Since King Jing is "powerful", for the sake of balance, he must give some help to the king of Duan.

However, Emperor Liyang was suspicious of the relationship between Yan Kui and King Duan, and he was not as decisive as before.

As a result, Emperor Liyang added a new deputy envoy to the basis of the original two pacification envoys, one positive and one vice, to weaken and divide part of Yan Kui's powers.

This deputy envoy is on the same level as Yan Kui on the surface, but he is not also a general of the town guard, and his subordinates have no direct military power, so his status is lower than that of Yan Kui, and he is regarded as the third-in-command of the border army.

It is especially worth mentioning that the new deputy envoy made by Emperor Liyang is Cao Yuanjiang, the prince of the British prince and the general of Pingxi............