The officials in the court are either the Liu faction, the Han faction, or the Xu Xiashang faction.

Those who do not have a party affiliation are also marginal people, and there is no need to win them over.

The Imperial History is the most unique faction, they are the courtiers of the court, they can hear about things, and they can also make suggestions on the government, and they are not restricted in any way.

Even if he is as strong as the Son of Heaven and as iron-fisted as Han Zhong, there is no good way to suppress Yushi.

As long as you are an imperial historian, you are not restricted by the laws of the country, and in addition to taking advantage of the bribe, any imperial history is safe under the protection of the ancestral system and the laws of the imperial court.

They can impeach officials when they hear about it, and they will not be transferred to other posts when they are released, but only for the purpose of observing the wind, observing the army, or patrolling all the way.

Unless the inspection is carried out, the imperial history will be separated from the supervision system, and when the time comes, it will have its own superiors and laws to restrain it, and before that, there is almost nothing that can restrain the imperial history.

Because the imperial court encourages the opening of the way of speech, neither the Son of Heaven nor the Minister of Power can prohibit the imperial history from speaking, and the imperial history has its own inheritance pattern, and even the imperial history can only exert influence, and the impeachment of each imperial history cannot interfere too much, otherwise the first thing is that the imperial history Zhongcheng himself is impeached.

The formation of this pattern is still in the Taizu period, it is undeniable that it still played a considerable crop, in the history of the Great Wei Dynasty for more than 200 years, how many powerful ministers and famous generals, cool officials or huge greed have been folded under the sound of the imperial history.

However, government affairs are related to the wind and the overall situation of the whole world. Today, it is difficult to find a royal history that is completely impeached by the public or expresses opinions on government affairs, or private intentions, or partisan disputes, or money bribery, truly uphold justice, do not attach to the powerful, do not use party selfish interests, do not buy with money, and the imperial history of tens of millions of people is already rare, and there is almost no trace.

Now it is the battle between Han Zhong and Liu Zhiyuan, Gao Feng, both sides are only close to fighting red, and the Jingshi seems to be calm, but in fact, it has become a mess.

The Han faction presided over the heavy position, and with insufficient taxation as the most important reason, the imperial history of the Han faction was sparse one after another, and it was extremely important to say that all kinds of disasters were serious, especially the imperial history of Jinghu Road, which exaggerated the tragic situation of the road tenfold.

In the pen of a certain Jinghu Road Imperial History, the road has almost ten rooms and nine empty, and the people have fled as a group of thieves, as long as a little spark is thrown down, the entire Jinghu Road can be blown to pieces.

Qinfeng Road, Yongxing Military Road, Hebei and Shandong Roads, the situation is not much better.

And the Liu faction attacked the Han faction for exaggerating and inaccurate imperial history, and various disasters were different, and the situation was different, how could it be the same? As for the wealth, the lack of state wealth, the biggest reason for the hardship of the people is, of course, the invasion of Donghu, the imperial court had to rearm many times, and each time the forbidden army was recruited and equipped with one army, the tax used was the annual income of the entire state capital.

This is a heavy burden, if you don't completely cross it, or hurt Donghu, if you come every few years, Dawei will never be able to solve and get out of the predicament.

The Great Wei could only defend again and again, the military was damaged, and the people were destroyed in the cycle, and finally the national strength was exhausted, and the barbarians kept bleeding, and finally exhausted the national strength and collapsed.

From a certain point of view, the Liu faction's statement is not completely unreasonable, the strategy of the Donghu people is indeed so, they will enter the country once every three years or so, the north will be more and more broken, and the losses of the Great Wei forbidden army are getting bigger and bigger, but the Donghu people are letting go of the wealth of the Great Wei, from Dingkou to cattle, sheep, horses and all the materials that can be grabbed, they are fighting to feed the war, the more they fight, the stronger they become, the soldiers take pleasure in the southern invasion, and the passive defense of the Great Wei will only become weaker and weaker.

This is the most critical place for a huge empire with a population of hundreds of millions like Great Wei, which was finally conquered and defeated by Donghu.

There is no elite cavalry counterattack, can only be passive defense, thousands of miles of defense line is completely full of loopholes, and although the Donghu people only have about a million Dingkou, they can fight stronger and stronger, and finally conquer Yanjing, mixed Yuan Yiyu, so that Huaxia is under the dust, the reason is that the nomadic fishing and hunting people have a natural advantage in the war of the farming people.

Many things are understood by everyone, in fact, neither side of the current court dispute has come up with a truly effective and feasible method, Liu Pai said that the good thing is to break the boat, and to say that the bad thing is to gamble, and put the future national fortune into a war.

Liu Zhiyuan may not know how risky it is to do this, but compared with his own worship, Liu Zhiyuan still chooses to cater to the preferences of the Son of Heaven.

The method of the Han faction is to be prudent and serious, and the bad thing is to be conservative and cowardly, and to be beaten passively forever.

In the major politics of the national movement, the two factions are only motivated by the interests of partisan private fighting, and neither side has come up with a real solution to the problem, or even whether to fight or not, how to fight, how to assemble troops and horses, from which way to attack, whether the specific forces of Donghu are superior, how to react, and there is not even a decent war game deduction.

For the defending side, how to sort out the wealth, reorganize the forbidden army, and how to harass the enemy cavalry every few years is also not a decent way.

Both sides are fighting each other, fighting, attacking each other for power, and they are helpless about what they really want to do.

The imperial historians also participated in the battle in the game, starting from the interests of the partisanship.

Han Zhong wants to take out 100,000 yuan, one is to reward his own people, and the other is to buy off those officials who are still neutral.

Imperial history, the people under the door, the people of the middle school, the scholars of Hanlin.

"It's really certain, the two states of Daimyo are hit by a snow disaster this winter." Han Zhong complained: "Actually, 100,000 guan is enough for disaster relief, Zheng Yumin refused to allocate funds if he carried it, saying that there was no money in the treasury, and if he wanted to talk about the Northern Expedition, he could get a few million guan out at once...... This stupid pig, after a while, the three envoys must be replaced. ”

Successive prime ministers, what they must master are the Ministry of Officials and the Three Divisions.

If the Ministry of Officials and the Prime Minister are working on each other, although the Prime Minister is the boss of the Ministry of Officials and the Secretary of the Ministry of Zuo Cheng, he is the boss of the Ministry of Officials, but on the surface he obeys the order and secretly pulls the skin, which will also give the Prime Minister a headache.

The second is the three envoys, who must also cooperate with the prime minister to the greatest extent and provide financial support.

In addition, in the imperial history, officials who have a good relationship with the prime minister must not be used, and the privy envoy must use candidates who have a cold relationship with the prime minister, or even some hostile candidates.

"Military power must not be in the hands of the public", this is the words of Taizu back then, the privy council and the political hall are best to cooperate in the confrontation, rather than in the confrontation, which involves the clever emperor's mental skills, and the placement of the subordinates is quite important, involving the overall situation of the court and political pattern.

The most sparse place in today's Zizi is the balance of power and art, and the privy council uses Han Zhong's old ministry and close friend Zhang Guangen, which leads to Han Zhong's deep influence in the military.

Although Han Zhong is also from a privy secret, if he used a privy envoy who was not right, he would have cleaned Han Zhong's old department in the army long after so many years.

Zhang Guangen obviously wouldn't do this, which is why Han Zhong still has a considerable amount of forbidden army strength now.

And the three envoys who need to cooperate with the prime minister's governance, the emperor just used Zheng Yumin, who did not deal with Han Zhong, although he did not quarrel everywhere, but when Liu Zhiyuan came up, Zheng Yumin quickly formed a political alliance with Liu Zhiyuan, the big staff, which made Han Zhong quite embarrassed and troublesome.

"I always feel that Liu Zhiyuan has moved a little bit recently." Yang Shidu didn't care much about Sanqianguan, but frowned, looking worried.

As Han Zhong's chief staff, Yang Shidu is a well-known and intelligent person in Hejian Mansion, four times in the promotion, four times in the Beijing test can not be in the Jinshi, and later reluctantly committed to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and obtained the power and height that ordinary Jinshi officials do not have, of course he is loyal to Han Zhong, Han Zhong is here, his staff is far more powerful than ordinary three or four officials, if Han Zhong is captured and ousted, Yang Shidu can only go home to retire.

Even under the political liquidation, Han Zhong may die at home safely, and many staff and subordinate officials such as Yang Shidu may not end well, and it is very likely that they will be locked up for a few years on random charges and confiscated from their family property.

The favorite thing of today's officials is to confiscate the officials' family property, which is one of the important sources of reasonable and legal additional income for the Son of Heaven's private treasury.

"The forces of the DPRK and China, we have analyzed it again and again" Han Zhong was not as strong and confident in front ......of outsiders as he was in front of his henchmen and staff, and he said a little helplessly: "The five chambers are all in command, and the one we have the deepest grasp is that the Dongcheng chamber is in command of Li Enmao, the Son of Heaven has Lang Wei, Liu Zhiyuan is the commander of the chamber in the west of the city Wang Tong, Zhongcheng, Nancheng, and Beicheng, and the three chambers are all in command to maintain relative neutrality, each with its own preferences, it may be a person who is a privy deputy envoy, or it may only obey the orders of the Son of Heaven, but Zhang Guangen and I are two, The strength of the forbidden army is always much stronger than Liu Zhiyuan, which is why they dare not use it......"

Under the command of each compartment is the forbidden army of ten armies, and no one can completely and truly grasp it, the so-called real mastery is that under an order, the forbidden army can go out of the camp and act according to the order, this degree is generally only the place where the Son of Heaven issued the tiger talisman, or the white tiger flag of the Son of Heaven appears, and the forbidden army will obey the order.

In addition to this, it is possible to take command of the army only by appointing officers of the middle and lower ranks, who are entirely private.

What Han Zhong really controls is not a single car, but an army under Li Enmao and his subordinates, even if it is an army, it will not be more than 2,000 people who can be pulled out at any time, and there will be quite a lot of officers who are timid in battle, or the forbidden army refuses to obey orders.

This is the greatest power that private individuals can wield under unlawful reason.

If it weren't for the cooperation of Han Zhong and the privy envoy Zhang Guangen, I'm afraid that even this force would not be able to mobilize.

What Liu Zhiyuan can mobilize is at most half an army, and the two sides are evenly matched.

In this case, the Son of Heaven is the decisive force, whether it is to give an edict, a military talisman, or send Lang Wei, it will be a decisive result, which is also the biggest reason why Liu Zhiyuan can't bear it, but he can only fight with Han Zhong from the perspective of officialdom and political disputes, but he doesn't dare to lift the table.

As soon as the table is lifted, who knows if it is the enemy or himself who falls?

Han Zhong also didn't dare to take risks, the Son of Heaven supported Liu Zhiyuan, even if Liu Zhiyuan's strength was a little weaker, what if the Son of Heaven made a move at the critical moment?

The soldiers of the forbidden army were at least superficially loyal to the Great Wei and the Son of Heaven.

When the prestige of today's son is not high, but it is still respected in terms of personal morality, and the inheritance of more than 200 years of Great Wei has always been based on the love for the people, and the prestige of the Son of Heaven himself is not high, which does not mean that the royal family of Great Wei is not respected, and it does not mean that Great Wei has lost the hearts of the people.

As for the fact that the Son of Heaven does not like Han Zhong and is bent on replacing Liu Zhiyuan, it does not mean that the Son of Heaven will think of using abnormal methods, although many of the official measures are chaotic, but raising troops to kill his prime minister, or supporting the governor to raise troops to kill the prime minister, this kind of crazy idea of the Son of Heaven is impossible.

Once there is chaos, what will be damaged is the prestige of the imperial court, but also the prestige of the Son of Heaven himself, and the Son of Heaven will always distinguish the most basic interests.

Han Zhong seemed to want to reassure himself, rather than appease Yang Shidu, and after some analysis, he still felt that the recent political disputes would still be carried out in an orderly manner.

As for the key point to break the game, Han Zhong felt quite confused and extremely tired, with Liu Zhiyuan being aggressive, and the suspicion and coldness of the Son of Heaven, at this time, Han Zhong already felt that he couldn't support it.

"Eun Xiang must hold on." Yang Shidu was very eager and a little anxious and said: "Liu Zhiyuan is ruthless, unless he takes the initiative to make peace and negotiates the conditions, if En Xiangyuan is forced to leave, he will definitely worry that En Xiangxin will be unwilling to plot to make a comeback, or secretly make trouble for him, after the teacher leaves Beijing, he has just entered the danger." ”

Han Zhong was skeptical of Yang Shidu's judgment, but of course he didn't want to give up easily, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, sir, you won't be able to call a villain to the point of chaos!" ”