On the day of the big sacrifice, the will of the Queen Mother Cui Xiaofu was announced, canonizing Zhang Huan as the King of Yong, supervising the country of the Tang Dynasty, and all major military affairs were decided by him, in other words, this edict means that the Queen Mother Cui Xiaofu officially retired to the deep palace and no longer interfered in military affairs.

As soon as the sky was bright, a group of soldiers rushed into the Daming Palace, they controlled the palace, guarded the important places, and ordered the eunuchs and palace maids to pack up and move to the Taiji Palace.

Cui Xiaofu's dormitory, Cui Xiaofu sat there motionless since early in the morning, last night, a guard came to report, "From tomorrow, she will officially move to the Taiji Palace, there is an order, there is no room for negotiation, Cui Xiaofu knows, the day she was afraid of has finally come, this period of time, she doesn't know what happened outside, no one told her that Zhang Huan returned to the sect in the Taimiao sacrifice, and no one told her that now Zhang Huan is the king of the prison country, she is like an isolated person, One after another high palace walls were like the siege of a great prison, imprisoning her forever.

If it is forever imprisoned, maybe Cui Xiaofu is not afraid, she has been spent in captivity for decades, what she is afraid of is the arrival of death, at this moment, this woman who is only in her forties has been washed away, quietly waiting for the arrival of death, there is no palace maid and eunuch by her side, only her most loyal old slave Feng Endao is waiting by her side.

Feng Endao returned to Cui Xiaofu's side from the East Palace after the death of Lu Taiyi, he did not complain at all about the master's former ruthlessness, as if his parents treated the wrong children's books, not only that, but he comforted Cui Xiaofu instead, without the trouble of power, she can slowly raise her body book and restore her former gorgeous appearance, he is like an old man who has seen through the glory of the family. comforting his daughter in despair.

"The Queen Mother, please rest assured, he Zhang Huan will not easily hurt the Queen Mother, only if the Queen Mother is alive, he can use the name of the Queen Mother to suppress the party members who oppose him, at most the Queen Mother will live in seclusion, that's fine, don't care about those worldly things, isn't the Queen Mother a believer? simply concentrate on cultivating, maybe the Queen Mother will achieve something. ”

Feng Endao spoke neither fast nor slow, eloquently. Cui Xiaofu's nervous heart slowly relaxed, and before she could speak, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside, and her heart, which had just been calm, suddenly hung in the air.

"Wait for the old slave to take a look." Feng Endao walked out of the room quickly, and in a moment he heard his angry shouts. "You can't be so rude, she is the queen mother, just to leave decently, how can you be escorted by you five big and three rough men."

The tension in Cui Xiaofu's heart was quietly put down, but her face was swollen and red again, and she soared! He stood up and strode outside.

Outside, I saw dozens of soldiers in armor standing in a row with swords on their shoulders. An officer who looked like a lieutenant was explaining to Feng Endao, "We didn't take the Empress Dowager to Taiji Palace, we were just worried that the Empress Dowager would be unsafe on the road, so we were specially ordered to come to protect it, and we had no other intentions." "What if the mourning family neither goes to the Taiji Palace nor accepts your protection?" Cui Xiaofu suddenly asked coldly.

"Why does the queen mother have to be embarrassed and humble, besides, the Daming Palace is about to close, and all the palace maids and eunuchs have already moved away. What does it mean for the Queen Mother to stay in Daming Palace alone? The captain saluted and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Cui Xiaofu stared at his eyes, and gritted his teeth for a long time and said, "What a Zhang Huan." The mourning family can be regarded as insightful. ”

As Cui Xiaofu's carriage gradually disappeared at the end of the overlapping palaces of the Taiji Palace, boom! There was a loud bang, and the gate of the Xuanwu Gate slowly closed.

Zichen Pavilion of Daming Palace, which has always been the office of the Tang Emperor, means where the bubble power is, but since these two days, Zichen Pavilion has been renovated again, the glazed tiles have been removed, and the wood that has rotted for a long time has been extracted. The huge columns and beams were also to be replaced with new ones. From morning to night, hundreds of craftsmen are always busy in the tint of tin.

Zichen Pavilion is under renovation. Naturally, there is no office in it, so in the Daming Palace, the court room of Pei Jun, the original right minister, has a new owner, and Zhang Huan temporarily moved here from the military department, waiting for the restoration of Zichen Pavilion.

But if you look at this matter from another angle, although there has not yet been an official decree to remove Li Mian from the post of acting right minister, in fact, Zhang Huan's move is tantamount to announcing to the government and the opposition that there is no longer a status certificate for Li Mian here.

Datang's positioning of Xiangguo is the chief hundred officials of Zuo Tianshu, governing everything, and its responsibilities are heavy. Because it is important, it will never be dedicated to one person, so that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been no full-time Xiangguo, but a group of Xiangguo, such as Zhongshu Lingtong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, the Ministry of Shangshu Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, etc., the key to this is the position of Pingzhangshi under the Zhongshu Men, to obtain this qualification, it can also be called Xiangguo, until the late Tang Xuanzong, the power of the Tang Dynasty has always been a process of collective governance.

Xiangguo's office is located in the political affairs bar, the political affairs bar is a mobile place, sometimes in the province of Menxia, sometimes in the province of Zhongshu, the ruling pen in the political affairs bar is also the sign of the power of the country, each Xiangguo takes turns to enter the political affairs bar office, and take turns to grasp the ruling pen to exercise the power, and in the later period of Tang Xuanzong, Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and others were able to monopolize power, that is, because they had been stealing the ruling pen for a long time.

After the implementation of the cabinet system, the cabinet ministers are the former Tongzhong Shumen under the Ping Zhangshi, which is to adapt to the demands of the major families for power, everyone is in the phase, collective decision-making, but the ruling pen is in the hands of the right minister, but everyone takes turns to do the right minister.

In the later period of Pei Jun's reign, the family began to decline, and the cabinet system evolved into a balance of power between the three major forces, but the fundamental point of the right prime minister's control of the ruling pen remained unchanged.

And now, with the demise of the Xiangguo Party and the Queen Mother's Party, the original power structure obviously cannot adapt to the new situation, but in any case, before the new power structure is introduced, the right minister still holds the power in the world.

Zhang Huan did not ascend the throne at this time, but he adopted a milder transitional method, exercising military power as a prisoner, so that another question arises, whether Zhang Huan is a bubble or a minister, if it is a bubble, then his office location should not be Zhongshu Province. It should be in Zichen Pavilion, or directly in the Lin De Hall of Daming Palace, then his whole family should also move into Daming Palace, but things don't seem to have developed to that point.

But if he is a minister, how should the power of the prison state and the right minister be divided, so in this embarrassing situation, Zhang Huan adopted an ingenious technical method, he first closed the harem of the Daming Palace, and drove away the nominal owner of the bubble, which was to tell the government and the opposition. He is the real bubble master of the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, the renovation of Zichen Pavilion not only avoids the adverse effects caused by his immediate accession to the throne, but also takes the opportunity to move into the office of Zhongshu Province and seize the power of the right minister. So that the prison state and the right minister can be combined into one.

It can be described as a plan to kill two birds with one stone, so he is now both a bubble and a minister, and he will have the right to bubble and the power of the prime minister, as for the acting right minister, Li Mian can only return to the Ministry of Rites and be his secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Now. In Zhang Huan's court room in Zhongshu Province, Zhang Huan, Pei You, Cui Yu, Lu Qi, Han, and Yuan Zai were secretly holding an emergency consultation, and the content of the consultation was that Chu Xingshui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was unwilling to return to Beijing for a long time, and the reason for his refusal to return to Beijing was very simple, according to his own account, it was because Huaixi Jiedu made Li Xilie want to attack Huainan, and he had to stay in Guangling to take precautions. However, Zhang Huan got the information that Li Xilie's ministry was in internal strife, and his generals Liang Chongyi and Liu Qia each occupied a county and did not buy Li Xilie's account. There was a tendency to stand on his own, and the number of troops in the hands of Li Xilie was actually only 20,000.

Li Xilie has already taken care of himself, how can he have the energy to attack Huainan again, then Chu Xingshui's excuse to defend Huaixi is a fake land, and what he really wants to guard against may be Lin Jiuhan's department stationed in Yuhang County.

Zhang Huan never thought that Chu Xingshui would become the last family fortress, the Pei family gave up the military power, the Cui family also gave up the private army, and the Chu family, which was originally the easiest to solve, became a thorn. True. On the one hand, Zhang Huan was unable to give the Chu family more power, and he had given the left and right ministers to the Cui family and the Pei family respectively. For Chu Xingshui, he originally planned to give him the secretary of the ministry, but the condition was that the Chu family abandoned the army, but Chu Xingshui was obviously not satisfied with this condition; But on the other hand, it was Chu Xingshui who was unwilling to give up the Chu family's control of Huainan, and he wanted to maintain the status quo.

But Zhang Huan is not only worried about Chu Xingshui's refusal to give up the army, he is more worried about Li Shidao, who was privately accepted by Chu Xingshui, that is a wolf, it is Cui Qinggong's second, the Chu family is a little careless, it will be swallowed by him, Jianghuai, especially Huainan, is already the granary and economic center of the Tang Dynasty, and the hope of the rejuvenation of the Tang Dynasty.

"As far as I know, Chu Xingshui also took precautions against Li Shidao, and broke up his Puyang army into the Huainan army, Li Shidao is currently a soldier and horse envoy, and he has no more than 5,000 soldiers under his command, and he has only 2,000 soldiers in his heart, and he can't afford to turn up any storms for the time being, but Chu Xingshui has 100,000 troops in his hands, and in order to feed this 100,000 army, he needs at least one million dollars and grain every year, so that he will inevitably encroach on the interests of the imperial court, so that the imperial court's transportation income will be greatly reduced, which will be a long-term serious consequence."

After clarifying Zhang Huan's royal identity, he saw the general trend clearly, resolutely took refuge in Zhang Huan, and took the initiative to hand over the tens of thousands of training troops in the western Zhejiang regiment to the Ministry of War, so he also won Zhang Huan's weight, he has made it clear that if Chu Xingshui is obsessed, Han will take over as the secretary of the criminal department, and will be directly in charge of the criminal department.

At the same time, Han Yin had been an observer of western Zhejiang for a long time and the assassin of Yuhang County, and he knew the situation of the Chu family well, so when he got up to speak, everyone listened very attentively.

"Since the rise of the Chu family in the early Yuan Dynasty, they have been working hard in Huainan, although they did not interfere in the taxation of the salt and iron prison, but they almost monopolized the most profitable place in Guangling to make a living and did not pay a penny of taxes, not only that, the Chu family has occupied 200,000 hectares of Shangtian in Guangling County, Jinling County, Danyang County, Wu County and other most fertile land for decades, and obtained millions of stones of grain every year, all of which are hoarded in the warehouses of Danyang County, I have seen with my own eyes, the food hoarded there is less than 10 million stones, so Cui Qinggong is bent on attacking Huainan, There is also this reason. ”

Han said that he was hoarding tens of millions of stones, and everyone invariably let out a low cry, no one thought that the Chu family, which had always been low-key, would be such a rich country, at this moment, everyone's eyes looked at Zhang Huan together, the key was him, Chu Xingshui was his own uncle, first of all, what his attitude was, could determine everyone's thinking.

Zhang Huan didn't answer immediately, his original intention in calling everyone to a meeting was how to relieve the Chu family of military power, but Han Di's words made him realize that the reason why the Chu family refused to give up military power was far from being as simple as the difficulty of power, but the need for them to protect the huge economic interests of the Chu family, and things became complicated.

He needs to think about this matter again before he can decide, Zhang Huan pondered for a while and said: "I summoned everyone to discuss a little hastily, I didn't give you a chance to think deeply, now I will give you a night to think about it, I hope you go back and think about it again, I want to solve the matter of the Chu family together with Li Xilie's problem, tomorrow at three o'clock, we will reunite here, now it is past the time of the next dynasty, everyone will go back directly!" ”

When everyone saw this, they stood up and said goodbye to Zhang Huan, but Zhang Huan stopped Han who was about to leave last, "Han Envoy Pao, I want to know more about the situation of the Chu family, please ask Han Envoy to come to my house for a while, have a light meal, are you willing to appreciate your face?" ”

Han hurriedly gave a deep salute, "The invitation of the prison country, Han is so honored, how dare you disobey!" ”

Zhang Huan smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go back together." (Lao Gao is really too busy these days, his parents came from his hometown, and he went on a business trip to Xiamen, so there are not many updates, I'm really embarrassed to speak, but the top six monthly pass classifications are indeed in jeopardy, especially cheeky to reach out to you, if there is still a monthly pass in your hand, I beg to support Lao Gao, I am grateful!) ）