On the fourteenth day of the first month of the third year of Shun, the Son of Heaven sent an edict to worship Wang Jun for the two towns of Pinglu and Fanyang, which stirred up a political whirlwind in Bianliang City that night. The six departments and nine temples of the imperial court were in the left and right classes, the generals of the two armies in front of the palace, and the internal and external officials and ministers rushed back and forth to inquire about the news, and that night not only Wang Jun's mansion was crowded with Daohe crowds, but also the mansions of Fan Zhen, Li Gu, and Wang The three prime ministers on duty were also made popular by all kinds of people who came to knock on the side to find out the news. Everyone is speculating about the extent to which the emperor will be favored by this close comrade-in-arms and deputy commander, and Wang Jun's power will reach the limit of his ministers.

There are also discerning people who don't think so, and these people can see very clearly that what the emperor awarded Wang Jun this time is just two empty festival envoys. It is impossible for Wang Jun to leave Beijing and become a vassal without central power, so although these two positions are very prominent, they have no practical significance for Wang Jun.

Wang Jun's confidant Hao Chongyi is one of them.

He said to Wang Jun extremely explicitly: "Your Majesty would rather add two towns to the Xianggong, but refuse to know Kaifeng Mansion with Yan Yanquan, why not?" Pinglu and Fan Yang are all in the mirror, and if they do not leave Kyoto, they will be empty in the end, and if they leave Beijing to become a vassal, the central power will fall, and in the end it will still be empty. And Kaifeng Mansion is close to Gyeonggi, outside the imperial city are its governing land, although the rank is shallow, but it is the first pivotal position of the dynasty, who has Kaifeng Mansion Yin, who is the prince, this has become a convention, His Majesty does not use this position to confer Yan Yan, why not? Fei Yan Gong has no prestige and lack of talent, but because he acts only in the first place. Your Majesty is suspicious of his henchmen, and he is not at ease......"

Wang Junping is shrewd and resolute and courageous, but at this time, he hesitated, stroked his scalp and said: "With the relationship between Wenzhong and me, although the relationship between the monarch and the minister is different, it is inevitable that it is a little different from the beginning, but it will not be suspicious in two or three years, right?" ”

Chongyi's face was extremely gloomy: "Xianggong is confused, and when it comes to relationships." Xianggong thinks he is better than Taiyuan Hou? After the Qianyou tragedy. The Marquis of Taiyuan is the only heir of the land today. Xianggong deliberately isolated his father and son, and prevented him from returning to Beijing to govern, how could the Son of Heaven have no complaints in his heart? The matter of the prince is the foundation of the imperial court, and the prime minister himself refuses to spoil his righteousness, and he is unwilling to work this matter to make a fuss, isn't he sitting back and waiting for a catastrophe to come? ”

Wang Jun smiled: "Mu De's words are unreasonable. The world belongs to his Guo family, how can I, surnamed Wang, make a fuss about the matter of the national prince? ”

Chongyi said with a solemn face: "Since Xianggong can block the Marquis of Taiyuan from outside the capital gate, can't he push another person to the storage position?" Either you don't do it, you have to do it to the end, hesitate at both ends, and eventually harm others and yourself, and regret it too late! ”

Wang Jun groaned and said, "Chai Rong, the old man watched him grow up. I'm not as confused as Brother Wen Zhong. This person is obscene and suspicious by nature. There is no kindness in doing things administratively, and he is cold and unsentimental by nature. If he is in power, don't talk about me, none of these old brothers who fought the world together back then will end well. To tell you honestly, as long as this son has Guo Wenzhong's kindness, I will personally welcome him back and help him into the East Palace. ”

"Then we must come up with an idea and put it to death, so that we must be hit with one blow, or we will be in trouble!" Hao Chongyi gritted his teeth and said.

Wang Jun shook his head again and again: "Nonsense, do you want the emperor's life?" Wen Zhong experienced the tragedy of Qianyou, the family died, although this fake son is not biological, after all, it is the descendant of my younger brother and sister, if he or Concubine De has three long and two short, my old brother is only afraid that he will die of sadness that day! Don't look at him as the emperor, in fact, the love and hate in his heart are the most distinct, and he still protects the brothers who fight the world together, not to mention the relatives of the son and nephew? ”

Chongyi sighed: "In this case, Xianggong must make plans in advance, Taiyuan Hou can't be the emperor, there must be someone to be the emperor is serious, as long as the storage position is certain, Xianggong will not be afraid of Taiyuan Hou!" ”

Wang Jun smiled bitterly: "This matter is in a hurry!" Fortunately, my brother is not very old, and he has just learned the destiny of heaven, and it is unknown whether he may have children in the future! ”

"But I'm not a good woman today——!" Hao Chongyi said sharply, "There is only one concubine serving the emperor in the palace now, and this year is already close to the age of confusion, and it is extremely difficult to give birth at this age." If the emperor refuses to favor others, it is difficult for the heir to save the throne, and it is difficult to think about it, for the sake of the public, he still has to think more about this aspect! ”

"Ridiculous!" Wang Jun said softly, "The new dynasty has only been in place for two years, and the four seas are restless, how can my brother put aside the government and use his kung fu on women?" Don't say that he is not such a person, that is, he has that meaning, I, as the prime minister, how can I not admonish and persuade but condone and encourage? That's a sign of the country's demise! ”

Chongyi was speechless for a moment, and he smiled bitterly: "That Xianggong really has to sit and wait for death!" ”

Wang Jun smiled: "There is no need to be so pessimistic, now that I am in charge of the government after all, the current situation is much better than when the Liu family's bastard was in power!" Things always have to come step by step, this time the seventh brother played me as the festival envoy, it was redundant, his suspicious temperament no one can believe it, Wen Zhong let Zhang Yongde kid know Kaifeng Mansion, touched his heart, not to say that this old brother has changed his mind, to use the knife on the old brother and old friend, I privately persuaded him how many times he didn't believe it, I have to test it to be relieved, this is not, the temptation comes and goes, it was just to show me Pinglu Town, but it turned out to be more than Fan Yang Town, I understand his thoughts, How could the emperor not see? Wen Zhong is actually telling Seventh Brother that he has not forgotten the love between birth and death back then......"

"Seven Brothers" refers to Wang Yin, the envoy of the Tianxiong Army, who was also born and killed with Guo Wei back then

People, who are older among the heroes, now lead tens of thousands of troops and horses in Hebei Prefecture, and can be described as a veritable "King of Hebei". He is the seventh in his family, so Wang Jun and Guo Wei usually call him "Seventh Brother" or "Seventh Brother".

This time, Wang Jun's worship of the envoy is the beginning and end of the king of Hebei, and he can avoid the Zhongshu Gate and go directly to the front of the palace, so Fan Zhen and others can't see it. His intention in this stamping was originally to test Guo Wei's attitude towards these primitive heroes. Unexpectedly, Guo Wei not only complied with it, but also increased the code, and gave Wang Jun two titles of festival envoy at once.

Chongyi was silent, his view of the current situation was far less optimistic than Wang Jun's, but he couldn't convince himself that he was the lord, so he could only express his disapproval in silence.

Wang Jun also knew his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Mude doesn't have to be like this, things always have to come step by step." As long as the central power is in the hands. Chai Rong's little doll is no matter how big her ability is, she can't make many waves. Waiting for the feast. I'll play it alone. Feng Dao's old slippery head can't move, he can start with Fan and Li's two scholars first, and recommend Yan Yan and Chen Guan to Zhongshu as the phase, as long as the contact between Chai Rong and Zhongshu is cut off, he will have three heads and eight arms, and he can only stay honestly in Lanzhou! ”

Chongyi was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Xianggong, please forgive Chongyi for speaking out." If the Xianggong is not ready to move the Marquis of Taiyuan for the time being, the first thing to do now is to try his best to be obscure, and even invite himself to go out to lead a town, and with the prestige of the Xianggong, the territory of the soldiers and horses under his command will not be worse than the Tianxiong Army. If Xianggong finally wants to divide the high and low with the Marquis of Taiyuan, it will be better sooner or later. Strike first. After the next hand suffered. Delaying suspicion like this is no different from sitting and waiting to be killed......"

Wang Jun was stunned for a long time, shook his head with a smile and said, "That's not the case." Not so ......"

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There are many smart people in the world, not only Hao Chongyi, at this moment, in the North Lane Pavilion Station less than a mile away from Wang Jun's mansion, there is also a person who sees the true meaning of the emperor's worship of the town, not only that, but this person even concluded that Wang Jun's days of being happy in the center are numbered, and he even accurately calculated that this time should not exceed a month......

There is only one person in the world who can so accurately calculate the unlucky date of a powerful minister, and that is Li Wenge, the Eighth Route Army who crossed time and space to come to this era as a time-traveler.

As a traverser, Li Wenge may be far from being comparable to the politicians of this era in terms of power and ability, but in some aspects, he also has his own unique advantages.

When the news of Wang Jun's worship of the envoys of the two towns came, Han Wei was not with Li Wenge, and he returned to his father Han Tong's residence in Bianliang. Li Wenge should have followed him to visit this veteran of the military world and the number one martyr of the future Chai Dynasty, but considering that it was a very taboo thing to privately visit the generals of the forbidden army in other towns, not to mention that it was disrespectful to come to the capital to visit the minister before meeting the emperor, so Li Wenge did not go for the time being, but only asked Han Wei to pay tribute to the gift.

In the morning, Lu Duan came once, and the whole of Taifu Temple was very appreciative of the 100 good horses that Li Wenge generously took out, and said that he wanted to ask for a reward for Li Wenge.

This also let Li Wenge know that in this year, the local feudal towns have such a real offering of four horsehouses to the central court, and most of the horses offered are made up of horses, not to mention, and some feudal towns are crying and crying and refusing to sacrifice, no wonder, the territory of these feudal towns is far away from the horse farm, and the source of horses is very small, like Li Wenge's case, it is a special case of special cases!

The place that came to inform Li Wenge of this news was Zhan Nan, the envoy of the house, who was temporarily serving as the director of Li Wenge's personal office at the moment.

The new Yanzhou Domain muttered to himself after hearing the news: "There is one more Fan Yang Jiedu envoy ......", and then there is no follow-up, and there is no surprise and surprise at this news, Zhan Nan is afraid that Li Wenge does not know the significance of this news, and kindly reminded: "If Your Majesty is not declining to the king's privy saint, then we should also walk around the palace, and some messages from the top of the Beijing division have been extremely unfavorable to the marshal, Wang Shumi is about to make a big fuss, at this time, it is better to make more friends than to make more enemies! ”

Li Wenge smiled when he heard it, he admired the specious rumor, and the person who made up the message should be a very creative person, making up the whole story vividly, as if it were true.

He said to Zhan Nan: "Duke Zhan doesn't need to be anxious, the fall of the king and the privy minister is a matter of imminence, this edict is given, and his days in the center are numbered!" ”

Zhan Nan was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand why he could say it so surely, and Li Wenge couldn't tell him that this was written in the history books, so he had to scare the old man out of his nerves on the spot, so he had to explain from another angle: "The emperor would rather give Wang Xiufeng the false name of the two big towns." also refused to let Yan Yanquan know about Kaifeng Mansion, this is clearly suspicious of him, if this person is restrained and thanked, the emperor may tolerate him for a few more days - it is tolerance rather than trust, if he still does not know how to restrain and stretch out his hand to isolate the father and son between China and foreign countries, the emperor will depose him as a matter in front of him. Now he was given two festival envoys in one go, and his intention was to show his concession and tolerance. Another meaning is to stabilize him for the time being. Take down an important minister like Wang Jun. Even when a man like today, who is about to come out in the midst of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he must be prepared in many ways......"

Zhan Nan nodded again and again when he heard it, Bianliang tonight

In the dissemination of gossip and various analysis results, among these various types, Li Wenge's statement is the most convincing.

"As for the rumors about my identity...... Li Wenge looked at Zhan Nandao, "This is going to bother Zhan Gong to work hard, since they made up rumors and released them, we simply did it more ruthlessly." Make up a few more rumors and put them out, as long as people think that rumors are rumors, they will never have any power, and the more rumors are said, the lower the average credibility of each rumor, and when the rumors are endless and overwhelming, basically any kind of rumor is useless......"

This is the countermeasure that was discussed with Han Wei last night, and Li Wenge said without hesitation: "Bother Zhan Gong to remember it." Didn't they say I was Li Conghou's son? Since I can be Li Conghou's son. It may also be the son of Li Congrong, or the son of Li Congke, or the son of Zhuangzong's lineage, Yin......"

"Since I may be a member of the Later Tang Sect. Naturally, it may also be the serious eight hundred Tang Dynasty clan, which can be the descendants of Zhaozong, or the descendants of the deposed and fallen clans such as Prince Yin or Prince Chengqian, whose hometown is in Zhaozhou, or it may be the descendants of Wang Xiaogong's family in Hejian......"

"Hebei life is in Guanzhong...... This can also be linked to Li Maozhen, the king of Qin......"

Seeing that Zhan Nan was already a little dizzy, Li Wenge smiled: "These are about enough, make these rumors delicate and detailed, and release them, I'm afraid that the rumor of Li Conghou's orphan will no longer be noticed......"

Zhan Nan praised again and again, and when he was about to retreat, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Jieshuai, whose descendant are you?" ”

……

Laughing and laughing and sending Zhan Nan away, Li Wenge himself rested early in the morning, and got up early on the fifth watch of the next day, and after a while, Qi rushed over, waiting for Li Wenge to put on his court clothes and bring a fish bag, and then he took a car to the palace together.

Li Wenge did not dare to blatantly hold the festival on the streets of Jingshi this time, and the guard of honor only brought 20 people. This was already quite eye-catching among the ministers of the previous dynasty, and a group of people came out of Jiebei Lane all the way north to Donghua Gate.

After checking the fish bag outside the Donghua Gate, Li Wenge got out of the car, left the guards outside the door, and followed Qi all the way along the Yonglu Road to the west through the East Palace, and inspected the fish bag again at the right Jiasu Gate, and this time he also searched his body, but fortunately, Li Wenge's short knife was not brought out at all this time, and it was left in the museum post and handed over to Yiniang for safekeeping, so it didn't take much time.

As soon as I entered the right Jiasu Gate, the terrain opened up, and the surrounding temples and buildings gradually showed some momentum, and walked for about seven or eight minutes, and finally came to the heavenly street outside the Chengtian Gate, where there were already more than 100 ministers standing in pairs, most of them were in scarlet, and there were no more than ten people in purple robes, so the arrival of Li Wenge immediately caused a small commotion, and the surrounding civil and military ministers were privately speculating about the identity of this purple robe upstart.

Qi had no intention of answering those colleagues who quietly asked him about the origin of Li Wenge, he stood on tiptoe and looked in from the Chengtian Gate, the ministers and some of the prestige and grand ministers and elders had already entered at this moment, they could rest and have tea in the side hall in the palace, this is the grace of the Son of Heaven, but most of the courtiers are not qualified to enjoy this honor.

Soon, Li Wenge knew that he was honored to be among those who were entitled to this grace.

Qi led a burly and even fat forbidden army officer from the direction of the city gate, looking at the color of the suit in the armor and the pattern on the scabbard of the saber, this should be an officer of not low rank, a pair of small eyes on a black face are bright, and the heavy beard on the lips almost covers the entire mouth, so that Li Wenge can't judge his age for a while.

But judging by the steady and brisk pace, this person should not be very old.

Qi wiped his sweat and said: "General, the humble position is too low, you can only stay in the court with the hundred officials to enter the Chengtian Gate, you can only accompany the general here, the humble position contacted the forbidden army, and this palace directly led the general to enter the side hall to rest, there is still half an hour before the beginning of the early dynasty, and the general has time to sleep back to sleep......"

Li Wenge thanked Qi, and the black-faced fat man was neither humble nor arrogant and bowed to him, and said angrily in an urn voice: "I have seen a great general!" ”

Li Wenge said a few polite words, said goodbye, and followed the officer into Chengtianmen.

The officer seemed to be a very popular guy in the forbidden army, and everywhere he went, he was even exempted from checking the waist charm of the fish bag, and the army directly let him go. However, he was quite polite to Li Wenge, and said while leading the way: "The brothers of our palace division have all heard of the great general's heroic name, and now Guanzhong is the most heroic general, and even the palace marshal admires it, and the lowly officials are even more admired!" ”

The front division of the palace, Li Wenge thought that now the front division of the palace should still be Zhang Yongde's sphere of influence, this officer has heard of himself is not strange at all, he smiled and said: "You're polite, I'm a foreign general, but I don't deserve this compliment!" ”

The officer smiled innocently: "The general doesn't have to be humble, he often stands beside His Majesty and guards him, and listens to His Majesty's praise for you, Your Majesty is not an ordinary Son of Heaven who has achieved achievements in the deep palace, and there are not many people who can see his old man's eyes......"

Li Wenge suddenly became interested, turned his head sideways and asked: "Disrespectful, it turns out that your official is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, I don't know how to call it?" ”

The big man hurriedly turned around, smiled and signed up very humbly: "This can kill the lowly position, the former secretary of the lowly forbidden army hall is directly Zhao Kuangyin, and there is General Lao to inquire!" ”