Sending Gao Pei away, Chen Yiming couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and at the same time, his face was full of bitterness.

Seeing this, his wife asked with some doubts: "What's wrong with today, master, why are you sighing?" ”

Chen Yiming told his wife what Gao Pei and others asked for one by one.

After hearing this, Madam sneered and said, "Master is true, as a celestial official of the Ministry of Officials, except for what Zheng Ge Lao wants, no one needs to pay attention to it, what are you afraid of them doing?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Yiming shook his head with a wry smile and said, "What do you know as a woman?" ”

"What don't you understand about the concubine?" Madame said embarrassedly, "Could it be that they have a few concubines, and you will have to be a man with your tail between your legs in the future?"

If that's the case, sir, what your officials are doing is really not interesting. ”

"Ignorant woman!" Chen Yiming said, "The old man has been an official for so many years, what kind of powerful people have not seen it, and they will be afraid of a few of their relatives?" ”

"Then why is the master timid?" Madame asked, puzzled.

You must know that when Chen Yiming was the secretary of the Criminal Department, there were many princes and ministers who were executed, and I never saw him so sad.

Chen Yiming explained: "Why do they want to install officials in Jiangnan? is clearly testing the old man. ”

Seeing the look of confusion in his wife's eyes, Chen Yiming said: "Several nobles in the palace have been pregnant this year, and these relatives in the court must not be arranged in advance?" ”

"It's like Gao Pei, his daughter Gao Guifei has always been favored in front of His Majesty, if she gives birth to a prince in the future, who will be the future prince?"

"How so?" Hearing this, Madame couldn't help but be surprised, "Didn't the queen mother already give birth to the eldest son for Your Majesty?" ”

"How not?" Chen Yiming sneered and said: "Although the queen mother gave birth to her eldest son, what is the mother's Anguo Mansion like, you don't know it, and you can't help Adou at all."

When the eldest prince becomes an adult, the Anguo Mansion will not talk about helping the eldest son of the emperor, but I am afraid that it will be good not to drag the eldest son of the emperor.

And Madame thinks about it, how many other nobles in the palace are easy to match?

Concubine Gao, Concubine Zheng, Concubine Wu, Concubine Cao, Concubine He, Concubine Yan, and Concubine Zhu, their fathers are either important ministers of the imperial court, or they are feudal officials, who is easy to be with them?

I'm afraid that when the time comes, there will be people vying for the position of the crown prince. ”

Seeing her husband say this, Mrs. thought about it, isn't that the case?

The queen's mother's maiden family is just staring at the title of the princess's mansion, and there is no power in the court, while other nobles, whether in the court or in the locality, have a large number of people to support them.

Who will be the future crown prince, it's really not certain.

Others said that their husbands, as the head of the six ministries, naturally became the object of everyone's wooing.

Now these ministers of the DPRK and the central government are ostensibly asking their lords to install a few cronies, but in fact they are asking their husbands to express their positions.

If your own master doesn't express his position, it will become the target of everyone, and everyone will attack him.

"How's that okay?" After thinking about it, the lady frowned.

"It's okay for now!" Chen Yiming said, "Although there are several nobles in the palace who are pregnant, it is not certain whether they will be born male or female at that time.

Besides, now that Your Majesty is in the prime of life, there are still many years to wait for the princes to grow up.

Now, they are just testing the old man's attitude, and it is not worth making a fuss. ”

In his heart, Chen Yiming said: "After more than ten years, God knows if he has returned to his hometown?" ”

Besides, when the formation reaches that point, Chen Yiming will definitely resign and not go to this troubled water.

……

Although Zhang Lingyang was busy with his feet not touching the ground, he still heard the news that Gao Pei and others were actively running.

With a sneer, Zhang Lingyang said in his heart, "Now that the concubines have not given birth to the prince, you can't live in peace, I'm just afraid that when the prince becomes an adult, some of them will be caused by you."

Let's take one step at a time, I want to see where you can go?

By the way, I also look at these ministers in the court, what kind of attitude they have! ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Lingyang didn't pay attention to this matter.

Now that Zhang Lingyang wants money and soldiers, he naturally won't take these relatives who have gradually grown in his eyes in his eyes.

Besides, don't look at these relatives hugging each other, protégés and former officials are all over the world, Zhang Lingyang really wants to take care of them, it's just a matter of one sentence.

What about your entrenchment in the DPRK?

Do you have any money?

What about your big roots in the place?

Do you have soldiers?

Since you want soldiers but no soldiers, and you don't have money to ask for money, then don't jump up and down in front of me.

As the successor of communism, Zhang Lingyang of later generations has understood a truth from history textbooks since he was a child: power is in the barrel of a gun.

Of course, there is another one: money can be spiritual.

Just having money or soldiers doesn't pose any threat to you.

The real threat to themselves is those who are both soldiers and money.

It's like after the Jiangnan Rebellion, although Zhang Lingyang was afraid of the Ningguo Mansion, he was not worried that the Ningguo Mansion would seek to usurp the throne.

The Ningguo Mansion has deep roots in the army, but in terms of money and food, the court is stuck with him.

After the son of Ningguo Gongzi Qicheng was promoted to the governor of Anhui, the Ningguo Mansion had a certain financial and grain base, and Ningguo Gongsun Ding'an understood this, so he retreated bravely.

Zhang Lingyang also understood this, so he allowed Sun Dingan's resignation after 'three resignations and three concessions'.

If Sun Qicheng had not served as the governor of Anhui, Zhang Lingyang would not have agreed to Sun Ding'an's resignation so easily.

After all, Sun Ding'an is a real battlefield veteran.

That power is not covered!

Therefore, after hearing about the restlessness of the relatives of the DPRK and China, Zhang Lingyang did not think of it at all.

After all, they either have no soldiers or no money, and they can't make any climate at all.

At the same time, Zhang Lingyang is also full of confidence in his three royal armies.

In the future, once the flintlock pistol came out, Zhang Lingyang's confidence was even more sufficient.

The Firearms Bureau has the sharpest weapons in the world, and the three royal armies are all the elite of the elite, so naturally they are not comparable to other weak chickens.

Now, Zhang Lingyang has heard that in Europe, flintlock pistols have been popularized, so Zhang Lingyang naturally has to introduce them as soon as possible.

One of them, of course, is to strengthen one's own strength.

On the other hand, it wants to balance the trade surplus with Europe a little by purchasing new firearms and machine tools from Europe.

After all, if Da Zhou's trade with Europe is still surplus in the future, God knows when those barbarians in Europe will hit Da Zhou's doorstep for gold and silver......