When Xue Shao returned home, he met Chen Xian'er's uncle Liu Sheng. He brought some gifts today to thank Xue Shao and Princess Taiping, and helped him get an official position and be restored.

Xue Shao asked him what kind of official position he was, but before Liu Sheng could answer, Princess Taiping was angry first, "It's really angry with me!" Then Wei Xuantong is too bad to give face to this palace! ”

Xue Shao was surprised, "What's wrong?" ”

"Your Royal Highness Princess, calm your anger!" Liu Sheng hurriedly bent down and bowed, and bowed to ninety degrees, "There is no virtue and no talent, and it is a great luck to be able to recover in half a hundred years." It is also a good thing to be a county magistrate in the north to be a parent official, and to be able to work for the welfare of the people on behalf of the Tianxun herdsman! ”

"Prefectural order?" Xue Shao frowned, "Mr. Liu, you don't have to say it first. Xian'er, please go down and rest your uncle, so that you can entertain you. ”

Chen Xian'er agreed and hurriedly asked his uncle to go down.

Princess Taiping was full of anger, she hadn't been so angry as she was today for a long time, and said hatefully: "When Wei Xuantong's old mother was celebrating her birthday a few years ago, I called Shangyu Hongye to make a special trip to congratulate her. I think that the old lady is just a third-grade foreign wife, and this princess personally visited Daohe, which is enough to give them face, right? ”

"Of course." Xue Shao frowned lightly and said, "You made a special trip to run this trip just to ask for an official for Liu Sheng?" ”

"Not exactly." Princess Taiping said, "Wei Xuantong is the secretary of the ministry, and the ministry has the most important official evaluation of the four virtues and twenty or seventy, and he has great power in his hands. It wouldn't hurt you that I had a good relationship with him, would it? Moreover, many of Yu Hongye's activities in the capital will be inextricably linked to the officials, and I deliberately took Yu Hongye to this trip, also to give her a rise in value, acquaintance, and facilitate her future actions. ”

"That's good, what's wrong?" Xue Shao asked.

"What's good?" The more Princess Taiping spoke, the more annoyed she became, "At that time, Wei Xuantong and her old mother were very respectful and enthusiastic. But not long after we returned, he sent a servant to return the gift we had given. ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Wei Xuantong is known for his honesty in the court, it must be that the gift you gave is too luxurious, and he doesn't dare to accept it." Moreover, your princess is too big, and he is afraid that outsiders will say that he climbs the dragon and attaches the phoenix. So, just make a show to show pride. Confucian scholars and doctors all have this kind of bad problem of hypocrisy. ”

"Well, even if you're right, I won't blame him for these subtleties." Princess Taiping was so angry that she sped up her speech, and said like a cannon, "I once said to Wei Xuantong in person that Sima Liusheng, the former Bingzhou Sima Liusheng, was previously ranked due to illness, and now he has recovered and wants to make a comeback. He promised to make arrangements in detail. But as a result, Liu Sheng was actually sent a Daizhou Wutai County Order! -- Qipin County Order! Or is it far away in a remote border town like Daizhou, how is it different from exile? What does this make Princess Ben lose face?! Could it be that Princess Ben's face is so worthless? It's really annoying to me!! ”

Xue Shao thought about it after hearing it, and thought about it from the perspective of Princess Taiping, this matter was quite annoying.

Liu Sheng used to be Sima of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of Bingzhou, a high-ranking official from the fourth grade, and he was much more angry than the general thorn history. Now the comeback is actually used as a Qipin county order, or the county order of Wutai County, a small county under the rule of the war-torn and impoverished and remote Daizhou border pass. Even if there is no princess Taiping to intercede in person, the officials will seem a little unkind and even mean and suppressive when they make such an arrangement. It's like a relative in distress who comes to defect, and you let the family live in a firewood house and eat some dog food, then it is better to directly tell him that I can't live in my house.

"Xue Lang, what do you mean, Wei Xuan and him?!" The more Princess Taiping spoke, the more angry she became!

"Don't be angry just yet." Xue Shao grabbed her waist and stroked her back, persuaded her for a while, and said, "Wei Xuan and I also know him, he is not such a mean person. In fact, the process of selecting officials has always been very complicated. Over the years, there have been so many scholars who have promoted the Ming Jing and promoted Jinshi, and only a few have really obtained official positions, and some people have not been official for ten or eight years. It is even more difficult for officials who take the initiative to reinstate. ”

"You're talking about generalities." Princess Taiping was really angry, and said hatefully, "This princess has come forward to say something, is that still a general matter?!" ”

"That's right, that's right." Xue Shao coaxed her with a smile and said patiently, "Nominally, it is the official election of the ministry, but the power is not all in the ministry. The Ministry of Officials is only responsible for evaluation and recommendation, and then reports to Shang Shufu for approval. After the servant shoots and approves the review, it will be reported to the political affairs hall. Depending on the situation, if the appointment of officials above the fifth rank needs to be approved by the second saint, the officials below the fifth rank can directly review it in the government affairs hall, and then submit the deliberation to the Zhongshu draft, the subordinates for review, and finally return to the Ministry of Officials, and then the Ministry of Officials will formally implement the appointment of officials. ”

Princess Taiping was angry, but her mind was quite clear. Hearing what Xue Shao said, she immediately reacted, "The officials reported to the servant for trial, and the current servant shot Liu Renliang has long been ignoring political affairs." Wouldn't that be directly reported to the government hall and reviewed by the prime ministers of the cabinet? ”

Xue Shao nodded, "Who is in charge of the political affairs hall now?" ”

"......" Princess Taiping was sullen for a long time, gritted her teeth and scolded, "Pei Yan, you old thing!" I'm going to have to pull out your beard! ”

Xue Shao suddenly smiled dumbly, "An Ran, how can you scold such rude words?" ”

"I just want it!" Princess Taiping was almost so angry that she jumped to her feet, "I have been a princess in this palace for so many years, and the only time I came forward to say that Xiang was seeking an official, I ended up like this!" That Pei Yan didn't give me face, he knew Liu Sheng's relationship with us, and he deliberately made it bad like this! It's clearly to humiliate us by humiliating Liu Sheng! ”

"There are so many links in the process of appointing officials, there is no conclusive evidence, and it is not necessarily Pei Yan who is obstructing it." Xue Shao said calmly, "Besides, even if Pei Yan makes a stalk, we can only admit it." Because he is the prime minister who holds the authority, he has a reason for everything. ”

"I don't recognize it!" Princess Taiping said angrily, "I'm going to see the queen mother, and I'll spread out this matter!" I just want to know who caused the bad from this, and what is the difference between that and slapping my princess Taiping in public? ”

Xue Shao frowned, patiently hugged Princess Taiping into his arms and comforted her for a while, and only after she was slightly relieved did she say: "An Ran, if you take the initiative to go to the queen of heaven to talk about this, not only will the queen not help you, but will slap you again." So I advise you, it's better not to go. ”

"I don't believe it!" Princess Taiping is very stubborn.

"You'd better believe it." Xue Shao said patiently, "The queen of heaven is very fond of you, but the premise is that it will not violate important political principles." The election of officials in the imperial court is a strict political system, and the decision has been made from the official department to the political affairs hall, and it will never be changed again. Even if the queen knows that there are people who are in the way, she will not raise doubts, let alone make changes. Because the system of electing officials is the foundation of the country's governance, and the authority of the prime minister and the secretary of the book is the element that commands the hundreds of officials and commands the ministers. If you destroy the system and change the resolution of the prime minister and Shangshu because of your pride in yourself, it will be more than worth the loss in the eyes of the queen of heaven. She would never do this kind of thing. So this time the dumb loss, we can only admit it. It's only that our own strength is too weak, and there are no available people in the central yamen like the Political Affairs Hall and Shangshu Province. Let me give you an analogy, if my good brother Guo Yuanzhen becomes a scholar or the prime minister of the cabinet, and wants to ask Liu Sheng for a suitable official position, is it still a problem? ”

"Then Xue Yuanchao, isn't it your clan uncle?" Princess Taiping figured it out and dissipated a little anger, but she was still a little angry.

"Don't say it's an uncle, even if it's an uncle, then Xue Yuanchao will tear his face with Pei Yan for such a trivial matter?" Xue Shao smiled bitterly and said, "Besides, Xue Yuanchao was beaten to the end on the spot just after a while before, and he was sent home to farm, and he hasn't slowed down until now." Where did he get the strength to charge in the political hall? It's not what Pei Yan says, how he agrees. ”

"Xue Lang, hurry up and be the prime minister for me!" Princess Taiping was so angry that she resorted to the method of housekeeping-unreasonable!

Xue Shao laughed, "I want to, but I don't have the ability!" ”

"Who says you're incompetent?" Princess Taiping came out of Xue Shao's arms, and with her hands crossed her waist angrily, she put on a rare "scolding street" pose, and shouted, "In my opinion, you are much better than those white-bearded old men!" They are full of bad water, thinking about how to fight for power and profit, how to suppress dissidents, and thinking too much about this kind of thing makes their brains confused! ”

Xue Shao was amused by her appearance, got up and hugged her from behind, and whispered in her ear: "Enron, don't be angry." Is it worth it for your dignified princess to sulk over such a trivial matter? Liu Sheng's matter, let's put it aside for the time being, and we'll talk about it later. Now I'm going to tell you something more important. ”

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

"Of course."

Princess Taiping woke up, "Say it quickly!" ”

Xue Shao smiled bitterly and hummed in Princess Taiping's ear: "I was really caught and thrown into the right feather forest guard." ”

"What?!"

Princess Taiping almost jumped up on the spot.

"Don't get excited." Xue Shao hugged her tightly, "Isn't this expected?" ”

Princess Taiping was speechless for a long time, and learned Xue Shao's habitual movements, patted her forehead and shouted, "My mother, why are you doing this?" ”

"You can't decide by your mother alone." Xue Shao hummed in her ear and said, "Since the formation of Yulinwei, because of the leadership of His Majesty's personal guards, his status has jumped above the twelve guards of Nanya. I have to confer the post of General Lin Wei of the Right Yu, from the general of the third grade, among all the army generals of the Tang Dynasty, there is only one Cheng Wu who can be bigger than me. Is this kind of position something that can be decided by a diva patting her head? That must have been the result of the two saints' discussions with the prime ministers and ministers. ”

Princess Taiping blinked, "Why isn't it the general of the third grade?" ”

Xue Shao smiled bitterly, "You'd be happy to say that?" ”

"I've been promoted, can I not be happy? Do you know that since the founding of the People's Republic of China by Li Tang, many generals have worked hard for decades, and they have not been able to be promoted from the fourth-rank Zhonglang general to the third-rank general? It's a chasm! Princess Taiping frowned, and muttered bitterly: "But, why is it the right Yu Lin Wei?" …… What kind of evil did this princess do today, and bad things came one after another! - I'm not alive!! ”