"Cui Yuan?" Hearing this name, Zhang Huan's eyes burst out with a chilling murderous intent for a moment, but immediately disappeared without a trace, regaining his usual peace and composure. uctxt

He immediately instructed the guards around him: "Cui Ge's old legs and feet are inconvenient, you go and help." ”

A few guards received the order, and ran to the outside of the hall, and after a while, Cui Yuan was carried in while sitting on a rattan bed, and as soon as he entered the door, he said loudly: "Your Majesty, the old minister can't bow, please forgive your Majesty!" ”

Zhang Huan hurriedly stepped forward, took Cui Yuan's hand and said apologetically: "It should be me who went to visit the elder pavilion, it was rude." ”

"Your Majesty is the king of a country, working day and night for state affairs, the minister is an old man who is about to enter the earth, and it has no effect, how can you make Your Majesty give up state affairs to visit." Cui Yuan was full of anger when he said this, he washed his original sick appearance, now his complexion is ruddy, and his body is a lot fatter, except that he can't stand up, there is no difference from before, which is an old man who is about to enter the ground.

Zhang Huan smiled faintly, and then ordered someone to serve tea to Cui Yuan, he sat back in his seat, pointed to the folds on the table and said with a wry smile: "I have to review four or five hundred folds every day, and many things that should be handled by Xiangguo are all thrown to me. ”

Cui Yuan's eyes flashed with a hint of brilliance, and then dimmed again, with the improvement of his body, it has always been his dream to be a re-appearance, but he has a disability, he can't let him sit on a rattan bed and be in the court! So his dream of Xiangguo can really only appear in dreams, and now Zhang Huan is just talking about it.

"Your Majesty. Since ancient times, the diligent emperor is extremely hard, so a perfect government system is needed to alleviate the emperor's hard work, Xiangguo is actually a supplement, I Tang Dynasty has set up a multi-phase system since Taizong, one is to prevent the dictatorship of independence, the other is to brainstorm to reduce the mistakes of arbitrariness, the emperor only cares about major affairs, grasp the direction of the country, and it is not necessarily the blessing of the country to bow to himself, but nevertheless, His Majesty the Emperor is also extremely hard-working. Moreover, it is impossible to cover all the major affairs of the country, so it is necessary to set up another Hanlin for the emperor's advisers, and now His Majesty can work hard for a while, but he must not work hard for a lifetime. The old minister hoped that His Majesty would give priority to the society, properly delegate power to the Xiangguo, and then set up the Hanlin Academy, in order to select the world's talents to enter, at that time, His Majesty was not only much easier, but could even inspect the world to hear the public opinion, the old minister reverented. I hope Your Majesty will think twice. ”

Zhang Huan nodded silently, although Cui Yuan is unscrupulous for the interests of the family, what he is saying now is indeed a good word, and his advice is also something that Zhang Huan has been considering, the reason why there is the rule of Zhenguan is because there is a broad-minded Emperor Taizong who is like a stream, but if you trace back to the source, Emperor Wen of Sui's foresight is even more indispensable, if you want to become an emperor who can be compared with Taizong. It is far from enough to rely on diligence in the first place, and even as Cui Yuan said, it is the disaster of the country to bow down to the people, and a perfect system of checks and balances of power is the first important, which means that we must dare to delegate power and dare to let the power check and balance the monarchy. It is necessary to give priority to the society of thousands of generations, and to take into account that there may be a faint monarch among future generations, and the emperor's power must not be indefinitely expanded, and on the other hand, as long as the military power is tightly grasped, there is no need to worry about the possibility of treacherous usurpation.

Thinking of this, Zhang Huan smiled slightly and said, "Cui Ge Lao's advice I accept, in fact, I am already thinking about this matter, and I am also ordering someone to repair it." Soon after the opening of the department. I'm about to start the selection of talents, and now I have one more thing to ask the elder. ”

"The old minister didn't dare. Your Majesty, please do what you command. ”

Zhang Huan pondered for a moment and said, "I have decided to abolish the door shadow system. I wonder if the elder thinks the time is ripe now? ”

Cui Yuan was silent. Although this was expected by him. But I didn't expect it to come so quickly. Zhang Huan is not the result of a balance of several interest groups. He relied on his own strong strength to ascend to the throne step by step. Nature. He will not have any scruples about cutting off the interests of the family. If restricting land is depriving the family of their flesh and blood. The abolition of the door shade system is to remove the bones of the family. From the perspective of the country. He was in favor of Zhang Huandi's decision. But from the family point of view. Again, he wished the day would come slowly.

Cui Yuan hesitated for a long time and did not speak. Zhang Huan must have made a decision in this matter. Asking yourself is just trying to test the extent of your own opposition. He suddenly smiled and said, "In fact, most of the children of the local officials and eunuchs who rely on the door shade system are also talented people. Even if you participate in the imperial examination, you may not be unable to make the list. The old minister supported His Majesty's decision. It's not about who makes the list. It's about building a fair system. ”

Zhang Huan stroked his palms and laughed. praised again and again: "The elder of the pavilion is really a word of gold and jade. I've been taught. ”

The atmosphere of the study room is very relaxed. Zhang Huan looked at the copper leak. It is estimated that Pei You and Duan Shengyun should also arrive. He smiled and said, "Elder Ge came to me today." Something is going on! ”

"The old minister is specially here to kiss." Cui Yuan stroked his beard lightly and smiled: "Your Majesty has personally promised." Marry Cui Xuezhu as a concubine. Your Majesty is the king of a nation. Marriage events can't be untrustworthy! ”

Zhang Huan looked at Cui Yuan and smiled without saying a word, neither refused nor agreed, it was okay to marry Cui Xuezhu, but what about the conditions? He believed that Cui Yuan was a smart person, and sure enough, Cui Yuan seemed to have been prepared, he saw Zhang Huan smiling and not saying a word, knowing that Zhang Huan was waiting for his conditions, after pondering for a while, he finally slowly said the decision that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"Your Majesty, if Kenna Xuezhu is a concubine, the Cui family is willing to give 90,000 hectares of land as her dowry."

Cui Yuan has already left, Zhang Huan looked thoughtfully at Cui Xuezhu's eight-character post on the imperial case, although Cui Yuan's purpose is extremely obvious, but if the land problem left by the Cui family can be solved from this, this may not be impossible to consider, the core of the emperor's mind is the balance of power, this is true for hundreds of officials, and the same is true for the harem

At this time, An Zhongshun reported at the door, "Your Majesty, Pei Xiangguo and Duan Shilang are here." ”

Zhang Huan woke up from his contemplation all of a sudden, and he immediately waved his hand and said, "Please wait a while, and invite Pei Xiangguo to come in first." ”

"Your Majesty has a will, Xuanyou Xiangguo Pei You will meet you!"

"Your Majesty has a will, Xuanyou Xiangguo Pei You will meet you!"

The eunuch's shouts spread out, outside the Zichen Pavilion, Pei You walked up the stairs worriedly, the impeachment seal Zhang Huan gave him had obvious intentions, that is, he wanted to do it himself, this is not only to use Pei Jia's matter to clean up the dynasty, but more importantly, the Zhongshu Ling and the Zhongshu Shilang are in the hands of the Pei family, and Zhang Huan can no longer tolerate it.

This time Pei Jia must not be able to save, Pei You sighed, he had already persuaded Pei Jia to resign from the post of Zhongshu Shilang, but Pei Jia snorted coldly, and ignored him at all, since Pei Jun's death, the head of the family has caused the poison of the land to this day, after the battle of Hebei, because he agreed to Zhang Huan's conditions without authorization, he handed over the army, but he only had to go to the field 10,000 hectares, while the Cui family got 100,000 hectares, which made the Pei family generally dissatisfied with him, so although Pei Jun left Pei Mingyuan as the head of the family, there were many people who opposed it, and on the contrary, they supported Pei Jia, Pei Mingyao's clan has a lot of people, it is the head of the family who has been dragging on for a long time, and the Pei family has been faintly divided into two factions that are evenly matched, one faction is him, and the other faction is Pei Jia, and the two factions do not buy each other.

Now, Zhang Huan has pushed this impeachment of Pei Jia to him again, and asked him to make a decision, making it clear that it is to intensify the internal contradictions of the Pei family, Pei You knows very well in his heart that if he is not careful, the Pei family will follow the old path of the Zhang family.

There is also Pei Mingyao, who has been impeached for the stupid thing he did yesterday, and when these two things are combined, the matter is really serious.

Pei You walked quickly to Zhang Huandi's imperial study, he hesitated, but still walked in.

"Minister Pei You pleads guilty to Your Majesty!" As soon as Pei You entered the room, he knelt down.

Zhang Huan asked in surprise: "What does Xiangguo mean by this, why did he ask me for guilt?" ”

"Yesterday's two impeachments were both aimed at the Pei family, and the ministers were terrified and asked His Majesty for their guilt!"

Zhang Huan didn't speak for a long time, and after a long time, he said coldly: "I don't understand the meaning of Xiangguo, the imperial history impeached the Tang Dynasty ministers and not the children of the Pei family, if even Xiangguo has to be jointly and severally guilty, then I am really confused, is this court the court of the Tang Dynasty or the court of the Pei family?" ”

The sweat on Pei You's forehead brushed the ground, he was in a hurry, and without a little consideration, he actually violated the emperor's taboo, he was even more frightened in his heart, and kowtowed again and again: "The minister didn't mean that, the minister is the right minister, and he should restrain the officials of the Pei family, but now they have committed two crimes in a row, and the minister cannot be shirked, so I am here to ask for the guilt!" ”

It was very quiet in the study, and it took a long time to hear Zhang Huan's cold voice, "Xiangguo get up!" I don't like ministers who bend over their knees. ”

Pei You stood up, he was sweating profusely, he didn't stand or sit, he was embarrassed to the extreme, Zhang Huan glanced at him, and shook his head secretly, Pei You was too far behind Pei Jun in terms of temperament and connotation, and he was really incompetent as a right minister. "Then what is Xiangguo going to do with these two?"

Pei You's body was shocked, he knew that if he dealt with Pei Jia and Pei Mingyao, the contradictions of the Pei family would inevitably intensify, and it was very likely that they would split from there, this was something he could never do, he gritted his teeth and handed the two copies back to Zhang Huan, "The minister is willing to follow His Majesty's will to do it!" ”

"Humph! You, as the chief of a hundred officials, have pushed the matter to me, well, this matter will be decided by me. ”

At noon, Zhang Huan's will came out of Zichen Pavilion, and Pei Jia, the Chinese scholar, took the secret music back to the house for approval without authorization, causing the leakage of major secrets of the imperial court, and he was responsible for his crimes, fined him for one year, removed from the post of the Chinese scholar, and no longer held a substantive position, and was reappointed as a regular doctor; Pei Mingyao, the young secretary of Guanglu Temple, insulted and beat officials in the imperial city, lost official morality, was fined for one year, and was demoted to Zuo Zanshan Doctor of the East Palace; Zhongshu ordered Pei You to manage the Zhongshu Province not strictly, resulting in the secret music to fold and take out, and he should be responsible for the second responsibility, and was removed from the post of the right minister of the Zhongshu Order, and was reappointed as the secretary of the ministry, retaining the qualifications of the Zhongshu Sect Pingzhang and the ruling minister.

The leak incident led to the demotion of the three members of the Pei family, which caused a sensation in the government and the opposition for a while.

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