After Lu Chen sank slightly, he nodded slightly. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Actually, he didn't want to go before, the ancients had a cloud: the wealthy family is like the sea, not to mention the palace, Lu Chen is unwilling to interact with those ministers of the DPRK and China too often.

In his previous life, Lu Chen didn't like the intrigues in the officialdom. He would rather face the reckless but straightforward men of the military than communicate with those civil servants who are inconsistent with each other.

However, since his mother brought it up, and he has been in the limelight for a while. If he didn't go, Lu Chen was afraid of arousing Tang Xuanzong's suspicions. Once the emperor is concerned, the consequences are very scary.

Seeing that Lu Chen agreed, Li Lan began to explain to him some things to pay attention to, after all, this is the birthday of today's saint, once he says something wrong, the consequences will be very serious. In the past, there was a minister who wrote a poem to the emperor in order to be appreciated because he celebrated the emperor's birthday. However, when he didn't get the appreciation, some ministers pointed out that there was a sense of accusing the Holy Lord of not governing the country strictly, and the minister was directly put on death row.

Hearing what Li Lan said, Lu Chen was very speechless, this guy seemed to have been framed, but he didn't know who had such a deep hatred with him.

However, this year's Tang Xuanzong's birthday celebration is not the same as before, because he is more optimistic about the growth of the younger generation of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, before Lu Chen came back, Tang Xuanzong released his words, saying that on the day of his birthday, a competition between young people would be held, which was divided into two parts: cultural fighting and martial arts.

It is said that if you get a good ranking, you can get a reward prepared by Tang Xuanzong himself, and as for the content of the reward, no one knows yet. But what the emperor personally prepared could never be too bad.

What's more, if he wins these two battles, he will be the first person of the entire young generation of Datang, at least the first person in the entire Chang'an City, this is a very dazzling aura, and there are many teenagers who are going for the reputation of this 'first person'!

In fact, Tang Xuanzong's purpose in holding these two competitions was to let the official family and some young people from famous families have an example. Tang Xuanzong has attached great importance to the younger generation of Chang'an City over the years, otherwise, Lu Chen and Li Xinran would not have been able to be promoted to the fourth rank so easily.

Although the two of them only have this official rank and no corresponding army, they are less than twenty years old, and they have become loyal generals of the fourth grade, which is rare even throughout the history of the Tang Dynasty.

There are still a few days to go, and Tang Xuanzong's birthday is coming. Li Lan prepared a pair of blue jade for Lu Chen, a very precious natural jade at this time. Even in those places where jade is abundant, there are few blue jade with such a pure texture. It can be said that if you want to get this kind of jade, it depends entirely on luck.

Lu Chen carefully put the blue jade into a beautifully carved sandalwood box. Lu Chen asked his mother about the officials who celebrated Tang Xuanzong's birthday this time.

After knowing these officials, Lu Chen went back and sorted out these people's camps one by one, these dense and intertwined relationship networks, Lu Chen had a headache to watch, but he couldn't help but understand. You have to figure out who is a friend and who is an enemy!

Especially some neutral ministers, you should be more careful when talking to them, in case you accidentally offend them, it will not be easy to deal with. Because these people are the target of many forces, if you really offend them, your hostile forces will immediately jump out to help them deal with you. In this way, a neutral big man will be pushed into the opposing camp by you.

Of course, such people are only in the minority. After all, if you don't rely on those factions in the court, you can't survive at all, and only a few important ministers in the court who don't like to win over each other, or who have not developed their own subordinate forces for various reasons, can survive.

As for those officials with slightly lower ranks, if they are not attached to a certain force, they will be squeezed by all the factions in the DPRK and China, unless you offer to resign and go home.

Therefore, as long as you encounter a neutral minister in the court, you must be cautious, these people are either inextricably linked with the royal family, or they are in high positions, and even those factions are not willing to provoke easily.

After sorting out these headache-inducing relationships, Lu Chen slowly breathed a sigh of relief, the relationship between the DPRK and China is too complicated, Lu Chen secretly said in his heart: I will go to celebrate Tang Xuanzong's birthday this time, or don't provoke anyone.

However, although he didn't want to provoke others, he didn't want others to come to him for trouble, after all, Lu Chen also belonged to the military, and General Zhenguo was from the same faction as the hussar generals.

Moreover, Lu Chen learned from the old butler that the military, which had always maintained neutrality, seemed to have begun to diverge recently. There are even quite a few generals who have been co-opted by some big factions in the DPRK and China.

Lu Chen had a hunch that once there were different factional disputes in the military, it would not be far from a civil war. Tang Xuanzong seems to have recognized this problem, and in recent years, he has been appointing and dismissing a large number of military generals. For example, Lu Chen and Li Xinran, if it was before, they would not have been promoted so quickly, but now it is because there are a large number of vacant positions in the military that it is the turn of the two of them.

Now seeing that the army of the Tang Dynasty began to split, Tang Xuanzong should not be able to sit still, and he began to vigorously promote those generals who were willing to remain neutral, such as the people of the hussar generals.

However, at this time, there were not many troops under the real control of Tang Xuanzong. Especially those troops guarding the border of the Tang Dynasty are vigorously stockpiling grain and grass, looking like they are going to fight. It is said that there is a general who, after receiving Tang Xuanzong's order to summon him back to Beijing, has been delaying! It was not until recent days that Tang Xuanzong sent an army to arrest the general and directly behead him on the charge of disrespecting the order.

Although this incident also shocked the entire Tang Dynasty and made the generals in the frontier restrain a lot, many people also saw Tang Xuanzong's helplessness. Fortunately, now several military leaders such as Hussar General and Lu Yi have been supporting Tang Xuanzong. Otherwise, those troops on the frontier would not have paid attention to Tang Xuanzong's orders at all.

From the words of the old housekeeper, Lu Chen had already felt the decline of the Tang Dynasty and the helplessness of Tang Xuanzong. The emperor seemed to see that the current ministers of civil and military affairs already had a sense of factional belonging, and it was impossible for them to resolve the contradictions. Now the only solution to Datang's dilemma is to start with the younger generation.

In any case, the young generation has not entered the WTO deeply, and the young people are also the time when their enthusiasm is the strongest, and now Tang Xuanzong wants these young people to form a kind of loyalty to the country. This is also the fundamental reason why he attaches so much importance to the development of the younger generation.