In the early morning of the next day, when Zhang Siwei saw Lu Tiaoyang with bloodshot eyes in the cabinet duty room, he was surprised to find that the old man, who was usually healthy and full of energy, seemed to have aged ten years overnight, and the whole person seemed to have no energy, and he didn't recognize it at first sight. He hurriedly instructed his subordinates to prepare tea, and asked with concern, "Yu Weng, what's wrong with you?" But the body is not cool, do you want to find a Langzhong? ”

"Thank you Fengpan for your kindness, no need." Lu Tiaoyang shook his head, "From yesterday afternoon until late at night, there have been no visitors to the house. Everyone was congratulating again, drinking again, and some old friends came to visit, and there was no way to rest. In the second half of the night, when everyone was gone, it was time to go to the upper court again. After all, it is a few years old, and the body and energy do not have to be at the beginning, and people who stay up late can't stand it, and the old bones seem to be scattered. Taiyue Xianggong's mansion drinks and feasts all night every day, and the next day he can come to the cabinet full of energy, I really don't know how to do it. Anyway, the old man asked himself, is it because he has the extraordinary energy. People say that this time Yuan Weng Ding is worried, I must take over the position of first assistant, but if you want me to see, this thing is absolutely not feasible. If I don't mention it, I can't do it if I only talk about one energy. ”

Lu Tiaoyang is a low-key person, and he is subject to Zhang Juzheng's decision when he encounters problems, and he only echoes the sound of the worm, and is a famous companion of the elders. Most of the time, the courtiers will forget that there is such a character, and it was not until Zhang Juzheng faced Ding Wei's departure this time that the courtiers suddenly remembered that there was such a person.

Gao Gong is paralyzed, Xu Jie is old, and Lu Tiaoyang takes over the position of first assistant by the second assistant, which can be regarded as a matter of course. With this cognition, and thinking about this person in the past, the courtiers suddenly found that compared to Gao Gong or Zhang Juzheng, Lu Tiaoyang was the best candidate for Shoufu.

First of all, this person is kind enough, he doesn't take it to heart when he is ridiculed on weekdays, and some old enemies have never retaliated after he became an elder, and he is a real prime minister. The second is that he has always acted steadily rather than quickly, and he has never thought of cleaning up drastically, whether it is for officials or heroes. prefers to use gentle means to moisturize things silently to solve the problems faced by the imperial court. If Zhang Juzheng is like a fire, Lu Tiaoyang is a bay of clear water, and water is always more comfortable than fire, so many courtiers support him more and more from the bottom of their hearts as the first assistant.

Lü Tiaoyang originally did not cultivate private individuals, and there was no so-called Lü Party or Guangxi Party in the imperial court, so he was able to get the common support of all the mountains. Zhang Juzheng Ding was worried about the chapter, in the entire Beijing Division's civil and military yamen, more than eighty percent of the officials changed into red robes to Lu Mansion to congratulate him, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs seemed to have become the Lu Party, which was also a rare wonder in the entire Beijing officialdom.

Zhang Siwei didn't go to Lufu to congratulate him, just like he didn't go to Zhangfu to condole, he had his own plans and showed a neutral posture. Looking at Lu Tiaoyang's appearance, he couldn't help but flash a trace of joy in his heart, and the flame called hope quietly rose in his body.

Lu Tiaoyang is old and useless, if he also falls ill, then he will be left alone in the cabinet. Of course, it should be in charge of the pivot...... As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Siwei felt that his heartbeat was beating fast, and in the quiet duty room, it seemed that in addition to Lu Tiaoyang's coughing sound, it was his own heartbeat like beating a drum.

The news of his promotion to Shoufu spread in his mind, and the ministers in the court wore red official uniforms to his mansion to congratulate him. He is so much younger than Lu Tiaoyang, and his health is far better than him, if he takes over as the first assistant, he can be in charge for twenty years. Those who are ministers can only be regarded as one person under ten thousand people at that point, worshiped by hundreds of officials, and have no regrets ......in this life.

His thoughts were interrupted by a sound of footsteps, and what walked in from outside was the six Shangshu headed by Zhang Han, the secretary of the ministry, as well as the general political envoy and the left capital of the Imperial History.

All of these people had been to Lufu yesterday to congratulate them, and when they came at this time, it was a more formal mountain worship. The key departments of the entire imperial court are basically in the hands of these few people, and with their support, this chief assistant will be able to control the entire imperial court in his hands, and there will be no phenomenon that the government decree will not work.

Among these people, the Jiangling Party has an overwhelming advantage, and even if Zhang Han is a non-Jiangling Party, it is Zhang Juzheng who is promoted to the top position, that is, he is a single member of the strict liquidation. But he lost some face in the just-concluded Zhou Shichen case, and was obviously angry with Zhang Juzheng, and supporting Lu Tiaoyang at this time was his way to fight back.

The important ministers of the DPRK and the central government spoke relatively vaguely, and everyone just took advantage of the moment to chat a few words, and then took their leave. But the meaning revealed in the words is that he will sincerely cooperate with Lu Xiang in the future and work together to maintain the situation.

They inevitably had to say hello and talk to Zhang Siwei, in terms of attitude, they were not more cold than Lu Tiaoyang's side, but Zhang Siwei still felt the difference between the two. They expressed their absolute support for the future first assistant, and for their own group assistance, it was just the word cooperation. The difference between the first assistant and the group assistant is one word, and the treatment is worse for one day and one place. People fight for a breath, Buddha fights for a pillar of incense, and many times the so-called struggle is caused by the treatment or difference of this seat.

After this interruption, Zhang Siwei's heart calmed down. He was originally a person who was extremely deep in the city, and his mind was lost for a moment, and then he had returned to normal. Looking at the appearance of the Jiangling Party showing favor to Lu Tiaoyang in front of him, he felt both funny and a little sad in his heart.

The situation has always been like this, and the children of the merchant family see this more thoroughly than ordinary scholars. Zhang Juzheng is in the day, these people are naturally his allies, once he can no longer shelter these people from the wind and rain, it is reasonable for them to throw another high branch. If they were in charge, most of them would now worship their own mountain gates.

But...... These people are going too far, aren't they? Zhang Siwei thought back on the changes in the past two days, and felt a little sad for Zhang Juzheng in his heart, and faintly felt that these ministers were in a hurry. If you wait until Zhang Juzheng is officially worried and then come to congratulate the new first assistant, it will be a happy situation.

However, these people were probably worried that the imperial court would promote other people as the first assistant, and they would not be as easy to get along with as Lu Tiaoyang, so they deliberately made such a show, which was both a show of favor and a demonstration. Let the court see that the hundred officials support Lu Gelao, so don't think about other people's ideas. Of course, this can ensure that Lu Tiaoyang will take over the cardinal position, but Zhang Juzheng's mood, they seem to have forgotten to think about it.

With his own understanding of the same year, Zhang Juzheng's mind is not so broad-minded, and he will not pass this matter like this. Even if he really wanted Lu Tiaoyang to be in charge, he was afraid that he would change his mind now. In this matter, the civil and military princes are afraid that they have helped Lu Tiaoyang.

His mind turned, thinking about how to make a move at this time if he was Zhang Juzheng. Ding Wei is the general trend, people go to tea and cool, it is impossible to leave the court for more than two years, and his subordinates still maintain absolute loyalty to themselves. If it is operated by himself, he will put some nails next to Lu Tiaoyang, make trouble with him in big and small things, as a means of checks and balances, and then arrange people in the palace to say bad things about Lu Tiaoyang, and at the same time praise himself. As long as Long Live remembers his own benefits, and then feels that Lu Tiaoyang can't control the government and is old and incompetent, he will naturally be reinstated to his official position and oust Lu Tiaoyang from power as soon as the mourning period expires.

But Zhang Juzheng's temperament is different from his own, this kind of feminine means is not without but disdainful, he prefers to do things with one force to reduce ten meetings, with the general trend of Mount Tai pressing the top of the people, so that people can neither parry nor avoid, can only hand over life and death to their injury control. If he wanted to get rid of Lu Tiaoyang, he should have removed Lu Tiaoyang from his position as a cabinet minister in a simpler and more direct way, but ...... After ousting Lu Tiaoyang, who will he use to take over the seat? And what crime did he have to use to solve Lu Tiaoyang?

Lu Tiaoyang sent off the guests, returned to his seat, shook his head and sighed: "This Shoufu is really a tiring errand. Not to mention errands, it is the word favor, which makes people annoying. These court officials are still good, and some people who are really difficult to serve are the ones who are tired of parrying. ”

Zhang Siwei naturally knew who the so-called difficult person was referring to. In fact, when the news of Zhang Wenming's serious illness spread, there were several such people in his house. Without exception, all of them are relatives of the emperor, including relatives of the former dynasty and the maiden families of the second empress dowager Li and Chen of this dynasty. The people were very polite, and the words were tactful, and there was only one main idea: to try to abolish a whip law and stop the inventory of Huang Zhuangzi's grain fields.

Although Zhang Juzheng's idea has not yet been truly implemented, the news has leaked. In the hands of these royal princes and nobles, they all control a large number of shady fields. As a part of the royal family's income, the Imperial Estate was not subject to taxes and forced labor, and its total number was strictly limited.

But now, the imperial estates have seriously exceeded the limit, not only do they not pay grain taxes to the royal family every year, but on the contrary, they also ask the imperial court for subsidies, otherwise it will be difficult to continue. If this rotten account is shaken out, the consequences will not be much smaller than Zhou Shichen's case, and since those people can find their own mansion, Lu Tiaoyang will not be an exception.

Zhang Siwei did not accept gifts from those people, but he did not refuse the other party's request. Strictly speaking, he replied to these people's requests with such ambiguity that it was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Afterwards, he also made a detailed list of the time, place, number of people, intentions and gifts given to Zhang Juzheng to prevent Zhang Juzheng from suspicion.

Lu Tiaoyang is different from himself, and he will never report this matter to Zhang Juzheng, and most of his temperament is to refuse in person. But these royal relatives can't be offended too ruthlessly, and they are used to having no skin and no face, once they hit a wall, they will come next time, and they will inevitably receive such guests in the Lu Mansion last night.

After drinking a bowl of ginseng tea, Lu Tiaoyang's state was not much better, and he still had no energy, so he closed his eyes and recuperated. After a short time, there were staff members of the General Political Envoy Department outside, who sent today's recital.

Before the emperor was in power, Shoufu was actually a stand-in for the emperor, dealing with government affairs on behalf of the emperor. In addition, Lu Tiaoyang also replaced Zhang Juzheng as the teacher of the Son of Heaven and lectured for the Son of Heaven. Yesterday there was a special day to suspend it, and today it cannot be postponed again.

Lu Tiaoyang looked at the concerto, then at the hourglass, shook his head and said, "It's a little too late, I'm afraid it will be delayed." These recitals were placed here first, and the old man went to lecture for the Son of Heaven first. Feng Pan, you should have read these concerts first. ”

Of course, Zhang Siwei didn't want to refuse such a good opportunity, so after Lu Tiaoyang left, he picked up a book and unfolded it. This is a recital on the yamen of the river, summer is approaching, and the Yellow River may be flooded as soon as the rain comes. Now is the time to seize the time to dredge the river and strengthen the embankment, and pay the household as usual.

River work is a major event of the country, and this kind of concert does not need to be discussed, it is all approved immediately, just go through the process to get money. Zhang Siwei picked up the pen and didn't wait to write, when suddenly there was a cough outside the door, and when he looked back, he saw a young eunuch standing at the head of the door.

Zhang Siwei looked at his eyes and recognized that this eunuch was Feng Bao's henchman, and the celebrant was Zhang Dashou. In terms of identity, Zhang Siwei is naturally far higher than Zhang Dashou, but his attitude is extremely modest, and he took the initiative to get up and greet him:

"Mr. Zhang? Why don't you have a good time today, go around here and sit in the house. There is a new tea sent from my hometown, although it is not better than the tea in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is also a different taste, just ask Mr. Zhang to try it. ”

Zhang Dashou walked into the duty room and looked around, and said unhurriedly: "Today is the first day that Lu Ge Lao has given a book to the Son of Heaven, Feng Sili has to wait in the Qianqing Palace, and he really can't come, so send the little one over and say a few words to Zhang Ge Lao." The two of us are the same surname, five hundred years ago, we were a family, and some things are inconvenient to say to others, but Mr. Zhang can make it clear. ”

"Mr. Zhang is polite, Siwei has just joined the cabinet, and he doesn't know the rules of everything, and I hope Mr. Zhang will give him more advice."

"I can't talk about teaching, the rules of this world are all set by you scholars, we only have the part of listening and learning, not the part of teaching. It's just a microphone to tell Mr. Zhang what Feng Sili wants to say. He looked at the piece of music that Zhang Siwei hadn't had time to approve yet, "Hegong asks for money, what kind of charter does Zhang Ge always have?" ”

"Following the old practice, it is naturally approved according to the rules of the Gangneung Minister's Office."

Feng Sili sent the little one here to remind Elder Zhang Ge. When you first enter the duty room, you don't know a lot of things, at this time, you must ask for stability and not fast, the cabinet of the pen in the hand is as light as a feather, and the paper is as heavy as Mount Tai. Thousands of silver and countless lives are at stake. When a stroke falls, the fortune and misfortune are unpredictable, and the idle can not be moved. For example, the matter of this river work is hundreds of thousands of silver at a moment's notice. If something goes wrong with such a large amount of money, whoever is the first to draw up the ticket will have a lot to do with it, which is not a joke. ”

Zhang Siwei thanked him, untied a golden cicada made of red gold on his belt, and handed it to Zhang Dashou. Zhang Dashou didn't shirk and stretched out his hand to take it, and said with a smile: "For the sake of our ancestors, the little one should say a word more, and the pivotal pen should not be moved lightly." This kind of thing, whoever is the first to draw up a vote will be responsible. Xiao Gui Cao Sui is always right, Zhang Ge Lao is neither the first assistant nor the second assistant, but he can't be the first to write. Everything goes with the leader, and there is no mistake. You're busy, little goodbye. ”

Seeing Zhang Dashou leaving, Zhang Siwei first wondered why Feng Bao kindly reminded him of this, or was it that he had the audacity to reach out to the river workers? But after thinking about it, I felt that this was not Feng Bao's style of acting, not to mention that if he was greedy for the river work money, he should urge himself to draw up a ticket instead of refusing it, which was really inexplicable.

After thinking about it for a long time, a thought suddenly popped up in Zhang Siwei's heart: he was close and his body was inexplicably cold. If this is the case, Zhang Juzheng is afraid that he will not be able to go this time. Thinking of such a situation, Zhang Siwei was secretly afraid, fortunately he was not in a hurry to express his position before, and there was still room for withdrawal at this time. He carefully closed the piece and put it back in place, no longer looking at the neatly stacked piece, closing his eyes and recuperating with peace of mind.