The affairs of the court will never be solved only in the court.

After the next dynasty, a group of officials scattered at the palace gate. Yang Qu and Wu Xuannan had been waiting outside the palace gate for a long time, and when they saw Xia Yan striding out of the door, the two glanced at each other and hurriedly stepped forward.

Xia Yan stroked his beard and smiled, but he didn't speak, just boarded the car with the two.

The carriage moved leisurely, and the servant in the carriage handed the three men the freshly brewed hot tea, and then withdrew from the carriage and sat down beside the handlebars.

Wu Xuannan took a sip of tea, nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Drinking a cup of Biluochun at this time is really a great joy in life." ”

Yang Qu also smiled and said, "This hot tea is not suitable for us to drink now, but we should give Yan Shangshu a taste, haha." ”

Wu Xuannan smiled and asked, "Pavilion Elder, Your Majesty, have you made up your mind to reduce the number of court officials?" ”

Xia Yan shook his head slowly, put down the teacup, glanced at the two of them on the left and right, and said, "I have to add another fire." ”

Yang Qu also frowned slightly, hesitated, and said: "Don't be too hasty, Jin Niangniang is our internal response, if she shows her feet, let's try to deliver a message to Your Majesty again, it will be difficult." ”

Wu Xuannan touched his nose and thought, and said: "Jin Niangniang mentioned this matter before, and now there are salt officials who cover up each other's loss-making treasury, reduce the government, and clean up the personnel should be a matter of course, what is Your Majesty waiting for!" ”

Yang Qu also opened his mouth hesitantly, glanced at Xia Yan, thought to himself, and said, "Could it be that Your Majesty is afraid that the court will tilt towards the cabinet, and that the cabinet will be too powerful?" ”

Cabinet.

Xia Yan is the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yang Quye's words are clear at a glance. He guessed that maybe His Majesty was afraid that handing over this matter to the cabinet would allow Xia Yan to take the opportunity to plump his wings?

Xia Yan snorted: "Ha." Then he said: "The old man has been serving the country and the people for decades, and he has done his best to die, and His Majesty has speculated so much about me, this official is not interesting!" ”

"Pavilion Elder !" Yang Qu also shouted with a tone of reproach. Then he said, "How can you say such a thing again?" ”

Xia Yan was silent, but his fists were clenched angrily.

Yang Qu also said slowly: "At any time, you must remember that you are the humerus of the country, but you are also the courtier of His Majesty." The first thing to be a courtier is to obey, and no emperor needs to be a courtier with high merit. When you leave, are you going to hand over the court to those villains? You don't care about the Ming Dynasty? You don't care about the people anymore? How many times have you been persuaded to say such words, how can you still say angry words? ”

"Zen Tu!" Wu Xuannan said warningly.

Yang Qu also bit his lip and arched his hand: "In the next heart, I will be the elder of the pavilion, and my words are invisible, and I will ask the elder of the pavilion to be strange." ”

Xia Yan sighed lightly, shook his head, raised his hand to stop his arched arms, and said, "The old man is just angry, thank you Mr. Yang for reminding me." ”

Wu Xuannan looked at Yang Quye reproachfully, that is, Xia Yan, and didn't care about him, if he was replaced by another master, he would be beaten out if he was displeased.

Yang Qu also said apologetically: "Elder Ge, for the sake of Daming, don't be so persistent." As a human minister, you can never have a temper greater than that of a human king, are you right? ”

"yes." Xia Yan nodded and said, "This matter, you see..."

Yang Qu also asked: "How does Your Majesty explain the matter of salt administration?" ”

Xia Yan said: "Handed over to the cabinet, it is really tortured." ”

Yang Qu also said: "This matter should be handed over to the Third Division for trial, but Your Majesty said that it should be handed over to the cabinet, and after thinking about it, it should be because Guo Xun died in prison, and His Majesty still failed to fully believe in the elder of the cabinet, so he took this matter into consideration." ”

Wu Xuannan frowned and said: "But Guo Guogong obviously died of poisoning, and he has nothing to do with Yan Song's father and son. ”

Yang Qu also thought about it for a while, but suddenly smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Wu Xuannan asked.

Yang Qu also laughed heartily twice, and then said, "Brother Wu, don't be in a hurry, and listen to it slowly." ”

"When Guo Guogong was imprisoned, His Majesty's original intention was to abandon him, whether he was dead or alive was a trivial matter for His Majesty. The point is who is disobedient and who secretly engaged in this little action. ”

"Your Majesty knows that Xia Ge Lao is powerful, and he can't move his fingers if he wants to kill Guo Guogong, but he also suspects in his heart, first, Xia Ge Lao's conduct is obvious to all, and second, Guo Xun's crime has been decided, and it is not too long before he dies, can Xia Ge Lao do this trick? At this point, His Majesty was vaguely suspicious of this matter. ”

"Now, he handed over this matter to the elder of the pavilion, just to take the opportunity to see if the elder is loyal and whether he can find out anything else."

Wu Xuannan asked suspiciously: "Other things?" ”

Yang Qu also smiled and waved his hand, and then arched his hand to Xia Yan and said: "Elder Ge, escort all the people involved in the case to the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen, and interrogate them frankly and openly under the noses of His Majesty's people. There is really something about Yan Song, he can't run away, if not, you can also win the trust of His Majesty, no matter whether you advance or retreat, this is a good thing! ”

Xia Yan took a sip of tea lightly, and finally smiled comfortably.

Yang Qu also smiled, and then said: "What we can think of, Yan Song and his friends can also think of it, tomorrow morning, you will ask Your Majesty to play, and ask Jinyiwei to send people to bring people from all over the world to Beijing, and if anything happens at that time, it will have nothing to do with you, this merit, the elder of the pavilion has decided!" Ha ha! ”

"Brother Yang Xian is really a think tank, hahahaha." Wu Xuannan stroked his beard and smiled.

Xia Yan sat still, smiled left and right, and said, "Yang and Wu, Meng Bu is not out of focus, they are both think tanks that are difficult for old men to find. ”

"The old man is serious." The two of them bowed their hands and smiled separately.

At this time, in the inner court, Concubine Cao Duan was sitting with Wang Ningfei, drinking tea and enjoying flowers together.

As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. The two women have been competing for favor with each other in the inner court for a long time, they look down on each other, and they don't bother to talk to each other, if it weren't for the birth of Jin Xianxian today, it would be impossible for these two people to sit together even if they broke their bones.

Why?

It's just because this Jin Xianxian's status is even more humble, he is a slut who came out of the Eight Hutongs, but now he has the emperor's favor, how can he not be hated to the extreme?

In order to win the trust of Wang Ningfei, Concubine Cao Duan deliberately praised Yang Jinying as a palace maid who combed her hair and served herself closely, so as to gain face.

Yang Jinying hated Concubine Cao Duan to the extreme, and she would never forget all kinds of bullying and insults she had made herself the chief palace maid today.

For Wang Ningfei, she hated it even more, she knew all the inhuman treatment she suffered in Yikun Palace, but she turned a blind eye, and pretended to deceive herself as an expedient measure, in order to let herself give her life?

Yang Jinying grew up in the inner court since she was a child, what kind of intrigue and pickled dirty dirty haven't you seen? How chivalrous she was to Wang Ningfei in the past, and how much she hates her today.

She stepped forward to serve tea to the two of them, and then smiled and went to stand in the corner as if nothing had happened.