Chapter 068: Yang Yuhuan's Hidden Worries and Li Longji's Temptation (I)

"Furthermore, I reuse An Lushan, but I use Hu to make Hu ......"

"Overall, An Lushan's merits outweigh his faults. As long as he doesn't dare to go beyond the rules in front of me, I can tolerate his little problems of being greedy for money and perverting the law. As for the slightest expansion of ambition, I can burn it at any time and extinguish his undeserved ambitions. ”

When Li Longji said this, his face was bright, and the power of the Tang Dynasty Emperor and the Heavenly Khan was radiant.

Yang Yuhuan listened silently, but sighed faintly in his heart.

She has followed Li Longji for so many years, and she knows too well his suspicious, authoritarian and self-righteous temperament. Yang Yuhuan is actually very suspicious, An Lushan sits on the big side, can this emperor really be able to firmly control him?

Li Longji rarely really believes in any of his subordinates thoroughly, whether it is Zhang Jiuling and Li Linfu before, or Yang Guozhong and An Lushan now, they have never won all of his trust.

Supporting An Lushan outside, it seems to be mediocre and conniving at the ministers, but it is actually a secret layout. The more favored An Lushan is outside, the more he will involve Li Linfu in the court. And slowly cultivating Yang Guozhong is also to balance Li Linfu.

And now that Li Linfu is dead, the value of An Lushan's existence has obviously changed from a balance on Li Linfu to a balance on Yang Guozhong. Yang Guozhong was originally a pawn to balance Li Linfu, but in the blink of an eye, he became the object of being checked and balanced by others, and this kind of identity replacement is not something that Yang Guozhong can understand.

Li Longji's power and conspiracy are so profound that playing with the Tang Dynasty is in the palm of his hand, which can be seen from this.

In other words, Li Longji is currently suspicious of the Yang family, which has gradually become a force. Although Yang Guozhong is reused, he is now ready to calmly start cultivating the "pawn" who will fight against Yang Guozhong in the future - and Zhang Xuan, the little Langjun, is afraid that he is the candidate that the emperor likes at the moment, or one of the candidates.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuhuan smiled tentatively, "San Lang, from the perspective of the slave family, why don't you let Zhang Xuan be a small official in the Ministry of Rites Acting by Guozhong first, and then slowly cultivate to see if he can become a great weapon in the future." ”

Li Longji sighed, but smiled disapprerovitously, "Lady, don't worry about these idle things in the court, Rong Zhen will think about this matter again." ”

"I went to the imperial study to review the folds, and then came to dine with the lady in the evening." After speaking, Li Longji stood up and strode away. Behind him, a group of palace maids and eunuchs hurriedly followed in a panic.

"Send Saburo." Yang Yuhuan got up and shouted, but a touch of resentment quietly floated on her charming face.

Looking at the back of Li Longji's departure, where Yang Yuhuan stood, his thoughts were ethereal but soft.

She actually doesn't like Yang Guozhong and dislikes him for being rude. But in the years she has been in the palace, she seems to be extremely favored, but in fact, because she has no heirs, she hides a silent crisis.

This was the key factor in her inability to be made empress by Li Longji. Now that the red face is still there, it is easy to say that the emperor is doubly favored, but when Shaohua passes away and her youth is gone, what will she expect when she has lost thousands of faces?

Therefore, in her heart, the emperor may not be reliable, only the Yang family is really her reliance in Chang'an City.

Compared with a few years ago, the emperor has recently apparently begun to suppress the power of the Yang family. Although Li Longji has repeatedly covered it up, how can the delicate-minded Yang Yuhuan not notice it?

In Yang Yuhuan's view, this is a sign of her declining grace. Once the Yang family loses power, it is also the season when she, the concubine of the Tang Dynasty, falls out of favor.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuhuan sighed faintly, turned around lonely, and waved his hand, "Come on, this palace wants to bathe and change clothes." ”

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For Zhang Xuan, the sharp turn of fate and the arrival of opportunities were too fast, and they did not leave him much time to weigh up.

At the court meeting on the second day, as expected by Yang Yuhuan, Yang Guozhong proposed to recommend Zhang Xuan as an official.

Zhang Xuan's courage and insight and his faint "hostility" towards An Lushan won Yang Guozhong's favor, and he felt that if such a young and promising scholar was cultivated, he would be his right-hand man one day.

Moreover, Zhang Xuan was born in a famous family, and there was not only the Zhang family behind him, but also the Cui family, a family and a super backer like Princess Yuzhen, and taking Zhang Xuan under his door had far-reaching positive significance for Yang Guozhong to stabilize his position of power and win over the Qingliu faction in the DPRK and China.

In Yang Guozhong's view, he was nominated and recommended by Zaifu, the head of the hundred officials, and Zhang Xuan's fame was widely known and deeply appreciated by the emperor, which was almost a certainty. But what he didn't expect was that Li Longji was expressionless after hearing the performance, that is, he did not agree or object, and his attitude was a little weird.

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In the morning, Zhang Xuan was "exercising" his body in the courtyard.

This body is too weak, Zhang Xuan gets up early every day and travels out of the city with weights, runs outside the city for several miles, and then walks slowly back to the city, going back and forth for an hour, and has been persisting for a long time. If nothing else, he will continue to persevere.

The body is the capital of the revolution, especially in this troubled Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xuan takes this matter very seriously.

Back in the house, I had breakfast and read for half an hour. Sometimes Pei Hui would rush over to study with Zhang Xuan, and when Pei Hui didn't come, Zhang Xuan would play Tai Chi in the memory of his previous life in the courtyard, moving his body.

People are full of vigor and majesty in boxing, but Zhang Xuan's boxing moves seem to be soft in the two little girls like smoke and jade, pushing left and right, twisting waist and swinging hips, like the dance of the singer, the more I look at it, the more strange I feel.

The two girls got together and watched Zhang Xuan boxing slowly and methodically, while whispering something. At this time, the subordinate Zhang Li hurriedly came from the front yard, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he shouted: "Third son, son!" Overjoyed, the two elders had good news and asked the third son to go to the front hall to talk. ”

Zhang Xuan put away his fist, let out a sigh, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Zhang and said indifferently, "Zhang Li, what's the matter with all the shouting?" ”

"Come on, I can't ask you about being ugly. Okay, you go back, I'll wash my face and go to the front hall. ”

With that, Zhang Xuan turned around and walked towards the room.

Ruyan and Ruyu hurriedly ran away, a gust of wind seemed to rush in front of Zhang Xuan, one went to wash Zhang Xuan's face with a face plate, and the other carefully wiped the sweat beads on Zhang Xuan's forehead with a sweat towel.

When Zhang Xuan washed his face and changed into a robe, and when he went to the front hall, everyone in the Zhang family—Zhang Jiuming, Zhang Jiugao, Liu, Zhang Huan and Zhang Ning brothers, including Zhang Huan's wife Song, and Zhang Ning's wife Jiao, were all waiting in the hall excitedly and anxiously.

At today's court meeting, Yang Guozhong, the chief assistant of the court, took the initiative to nominate and recommend Zhang Xuan as the Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, which is an official title from the five-rank reward rank, and it is also the actual position of the key Yamen of the Ministry of Rites. When the news came, Zhang Jiuming and Zhang Jiugao almost cheered.

The two of them have been up and down in the sea for decades, and they have only mixed up with the official position of Cong Sipin, and this nephew of his own does not need to pass the Chun Yu scientific examination to obtain the actual position of Cong Wupin, such a high starting point - and it is clear that he wants to become Yang Guozhong's protégé, how can he not make the two excited?

Therefore, after going to the court, the two of them didn't care about returning home, so they came to Zhang's house together and informed the Zhang family of the good news.