When Xu Xun said this, Li Dongyang remembered that when he went home yesterday, his wife had said that today's Mid-Autumn Festival was cloudy, but his mind was full of those major events inside and outside the court, and he didn't expect so many when he came over early in the morning. At this moment, although he was still a little afraid of looking at the nine-story brick tower, he finally nodded when he thought about the deep moat in front of him in reality, which was no less than this brick tower.

Since Li Dongyang agreed, Xu Xun slapped his face, and immediately a monk walked over, but it was the supervisor of the Shuangta Temple. After saluting, he led the two to the brick tower, and then unlocked the padlock on the door. When Xu Xun told him to guard the place and not let the others down, he agreed repeatedly, and when the two of them went in, he covered the door with his backhand.

Suddenly entering the dim tower from under the sun, although the walls around it were lit with dim lanterns, it was difficult to hide the uncomfortable feeling of dark shadows. Especially Li Dongyang is now old, walking on the wooden stairs, listening to the creaking sound, he couldn't help but feel a little trembling under his feet, until a hand stretched out next to him and firmly held his arm, and his feet were a little more stable.

"Isn't it true that Yuan Fu has never climbed this famous Haiyun Master Tower?"

Xu Xun's voice came from the side, Li Dongyang frowned and then smiled bitterly: "I want to suggest that this Twin Pagoda Temple is on the edge of the West Garden, and the tower can not only look at the West Garden, but also reach the palace. ”

"I see." Xu Xun smiled when he heard this, seeing that the second floor had arrived, he helped Li Dongyang to climb the last step, and then said casually, "In the past, when Meng Yuan ruled the Central Plains, it is said that this Twin Pagoda Temple is in a straight line of the south city wall, and it is a bend around the south city wall of the capital. Although this is because Meng Yuan believes in Buddhism, and the presiding Haiyun was once the head of the world's Zen forest, in charge of the world's teachings, but this Haiyun master once tried his best to save many people's lives during the war, and this tower can be regarded as worthy. Moreover, climbing high and looking far away, has always been the normal feeling of people, there is a way to be the top of the mountain, a glance at the mountains are small, climb high to see the end of it, want to build Beijing at the beginning, but no one has ever said that the twin towers are not good.

Li Dongyang knew that Xu Xun was young, but fighting with him was the most stupid thing, so he listened to him talk so much, but he simply didn't answer for a while, but he secretly sighed in his heart that Xu Xun even inquired about the allusions of the Shuangta Temple for today's trip. It wasn't until he slowly climbed all the way to the third floor that he suddenly opened his mouth and asked: "Hou Ye just said that he would be at the top of the mountain, and he could see all the mountains at a glance, this ambitious ambition is not small!" ”

"This is Du Gongbu's poem, but it's not mine, he has suffered such a setback, and he can still have such ambitions, let alone me? Determined to stand up, in order to establish virtue and meritorious speech, Yuan Fu thinks so? ”

Since Xu Xun himself said it, Li Dongyang simply picked up the unfinished words he had in the Ye Mansion, and immediately said sharply: "Whether it is virtue or meritorious service, Hou Ye is certainly a hero, but now, there is the heaviest roadblock in front of you, is Hou Ye going to bypass it, or is it going to smash it?" ”

Xu Xun said lightly: "Although it is a roadblock, for me, it is not impossible to bypass the past." ”

"If Hou Ye just said this when he returned to Beijing, it would be fine, but now Hou Ye lost Zhang Xilu first, Lin Hengda had to give office, one thing and the other, the other party has been the Ministry of Soldiers, Wen Xuan and Wu Xuan are all in the palm of his hand, and the cabinet still has Jiao Fang Yang to snort, if Hou Ye is still like this, even if he can use the previous victory in the first battle of Jinan to frustrate him for a while, but if it is long, it will be difficult to support alone!" …,

Xu Xun looked at the high steps in front of him, and suddenly continued to climb to the fourth floor without looking back, until he reached the highest level, he turned around and said, "What does Yuan Fu think I should do?" ”

Although his legs and feet were a little sore, Li Dongyang didn't want to talk to people under his feet at all, so he struggled to go up step by step by holding on to the railing, and when he reached the fourth floor, he tried to adjust his breathing, and then he said: "It's already time for Tu Poor Dagger to see, does Master Hou still need me to say?" ”

"However, I have even heard that when two tigers fight, one will be injured. And the snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits. Xu Xun said such a sentence with a smile, and seeing Li Dongyang's face tightened, he said with a smile, "Yuanfu was a teenager back then, and now he is even more famous all over the world, so may he explain this to me?" ”

When it came to this, Li Dongyang didn't bother to hide it anymore, so he said bluntly: "Although I am full of peaches and plums, there are not many people who come and go now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that I am exhausted." If the Hou Ye is worried about being taken advantage of, then when the matter is completed, I will immediately do it? ”

Li Dongyang's words were categorical, and he did not drag the mud and water at all. In the face of his resolute attitude, Xu Xun no longer blindly just prevaricated in circles, but said in a deep voice: "Yuan Fu Zhishi, who do you plan to replace yourself?" ”

Hearing Xu Xun ask like this, Li Dongyang's heart suddenly jumped. He originally thought that it would take a lot of words today to move Xu Xun to take the final action, but who knew that the other party had already made up his mind, and even asked about his successor. Agitated, he clenched his fists and tried to calm himself down, but his voice was still inevitably a little hoarse.

"Yang Tinghe, the left attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials."

"Nope."

Regarding the candidate proposed by Li Dongyang, Xu Xun bluntly rejected it with two simple words. Seeing that Li Dongyang's face sank, he said lightly: "Yang Tinghe is only in the Beijing official position, and he has been wandering around the pavilion all the time. Of course, I didn't mean to accuse Yuanfu, after all, you also came out of this road, but there is a way that it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles, and I have never been out of the capital to really govern the people, I really can't believe that people will govern the world well. This Yang is not as good as the other Yang, why doesn't Yuanfu recommend Yang Di'an, who has the same friendship as you? ”

Yang Yiqing!

Although Yang Yiqing is indeed in the same door as him, he has a deep friendship with Xu Xun and Yang Yiqing, and Li Dongyang can push Yang Yiqing into the cabinet, but he really doesn't want him to come back to take charge of the cabinet. Yang Yiqing is a feminine person, he is the same as himself, a person who can compromise and compromise and thin the mud, but Yang Tinghe is a soft and rigid and arbitrary temperament on the inside, and he needs to make drastic moves next, and he can't let the court situation be the same as when he was in power! Therefore, he took a deep breath and quietly threw out a sentence.

"Yang Di'an left Shaanxi, and Hou Ye is not afraid that Xiao Wa'an will go south and the lives in the northwest will be ruined?"

"He is not the commander of the battlefield to respond to the situation, if the repetition is successful, it will be ironclad to enter the court. He has given up several opportunities at his fingertips for Shaanxi, and no one among the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty can be so high-spirited. If it was really him who was ruined as soon as he left the northwest, then wouldn't it be that all the martial arts in the northwest were incompetent? ”

Otherwise, why did he leave Chen Xiong as the chief soldier of Ningxia, and prepared to transfer Cao Xiong to the chief soldier of Yansui, plus Zhuang Jian's Datong general soldier, Zhang Jun's Xuanfu general soldier, this line is almost connected?

Speaking of which, Xu Xun simply opened the skylight and said brightly, "All in all, no matter how senior you are, Yang Yiqing is far better than Yang Tinghe!" What I can accept, there is only such a candidate, and please think twice. ”…,

Yang Ting and this person seem to have a calm and steady temperament on the outside, but in fact they are extremely stubborn and dictatorial people, and they haven't dealt with him a few times, if such a person is allowed to govern, sooner or later he will be a tiger!

The old and the young stared at each other intently, and for a long time, Li Dongyang knew that he wanted Xu Xun to make concessions. So far, although he still retains a lot of strength at hand, it is not enough to bring down Liu Jin. If Xu Xun hadn't made a move, he would have died with the mud, and I am afraid he could only watch those backbones in the upper echelons being driven out of the center little by little, just like Yang Tinghe.

"Okay, then it's up to you! Recently, I tried to get people to push Yang Di'an into the cabinet, and after I became a minister, I should be succeeded by him! ”

"Motosuke can make up his mind so quickly, and he admires it." Xu Xun arched his hand directly, and seeing that Li Dongyang's face was a little bitter, he said: "There is a rumor that Lao Yuanfu has released the news that Wang Wei is exhausted and plans to go to Shi, and I want to come to the Wang Pavilion Elder who couldn't survive it in the first place, and he will do it immediately." As for Yang Di'an's entry into the cabinet, there is no need to rush for a while, on the tenth day, Liu Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Cao Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, will seek to enter the cabinet. ”

Liu Yu also forgot it, I heard that the Ministry of Officials was controlled by Zhang Cai, but he couldn't control the power of the election at all, and it was of course a long-cherished wish to be able to go further; However, Cao Yuan's ass of the military department secretary has not yet been hot, how can he think of squeezing into the cabinet wholeheartedly? Although he was a little unbelievable in his heart, Li Dongyang was not afraid of itching now that there were more lice, and he nodded after thinking for a while.

Now that the most important layer has been pierced, the next two of them slowly climbed the tower all the way, but they talked about inconsequential little things. However, when Li Dongyang heard that Xu Xun was going to transfer He Jingming to the position of Guozijian Siye, his face still couldn't help but turn a little blue. Li Mengyang went to Shanxi with resentment and demotion to the official, which he knew that the other six of the seven sons hated him deeply, and he also knew it. Originally, he had some knots in his heart for these young people who were determined to start a sect at a young age, but now it is not an exaggeration to say that he is out of place. What's more, Xu Xun also plans to transfer his protégé Lu Duo, who he has always valued, to Nanjing Guozijian!

Therefore, after thinking about it and thinking about it, he finally couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "In this case, Master Hou, please also promise me a quid pro quo, and after I send him to Shi, transfer Yang Tinghe back!" ”

Xu Xun saw Li Dongyang's face heavy, and knew that if he didn't agree to this condition, I was afraid that the cabinet chief assistant would really turn his face. Therefore, he nodded happily and said, "Yes, when the dust settles in his day, I will transfer him back!" ”

Other personnel that do not involve Li Dongyang's protégé, of course Xu Xun will not take it out at such a time. By the time he was already sweating and his legs were a little sore, he finally reached the ninth floor of the Haiyun Master Tower. And Li Dongyang, who is over sixty years old, is naturally even worse, sweating profusely, not to mention, and even has to support the wall to maintain his slightly trembling legs. However, when standing on the top and looking into the distance, the two of them still had a feeling of relaxation and joy.

Looking to the northeast from here, over a few houses on the edge of West Chang'an Street, it is the water surface of the sparkling Taiye Pond in the sun, and further south, you can vaguely see the Sheji Altar and the Taimiao, and you can also see the noon gate, as for the palace and pavilion in the distance, etc., at most you can only see a majestic roof. Still, the feeling of overlooking the palace from here is not trivial. Even if Li Dongyang and Xu Xun are all people who often come and go in the palace, they haven't spoken for a long time.

I don't know how long it took for Li Dongyang to be the first to break the silence: "It seems that I was not wrong to suggest that people should be forbidden to climb the tower. In recent years, the ban has been relaxed, and it is time to reiterate the strict prohibition! ”…,

Since Li Dongyang was about to use this tower, Xu Xun shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't speak. When the two of them went around to the other side, they saw that there were gradually a lot of pilgrims in the temple, and in the smoke of incense, many good men and women bowed and worshipped, as if the top of this tower could also hear the sound of prayer. The things that should be talked about have been discussed, and the two of them have no choice but to return the same way. And Li Dongyang is not as bad as he said after all, although he walks slowly step by step, the pace is still steady. However, when the two of them went down to the fifth floor, they heard a commotion coming from downstairs. After a while, it was as if the door had been pushed open with a rude babbling.

"Someone broke in again?"

Xu Xun suddenly frowned. Although he did not arrange too many people in the temple in order not to attract attention this time, the monk is the supervisor of this Shuangta Temple, not an ordinary monk, and this is not a first-class incense temple in the capital. However, after listening for a moment, he suddenly recognized one of the voices, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Yuanfu, if I'm not mistaken, one of the people below is Jiao Fang's son Jiao Huangzhong, who knows you and me. Although it is not a big deal for me to be seen by him, Jiao Fang should cause you a lot of trouble. Now, I'll do you a favor and go down and get rid of the person! ”

Li Dongyang saw Xu Xun arching his hand with a smile, so Shi Shiran went downstairs, and he was immediately angry. What do him a favor, I heard that Xu Xun and Jiao Fang had some Liang Zi in their early years, but these two years are just because of Liu Jin, so they no longer have anything to do with it, and today Xu Xun seized this opportunity, will he let it go? Thinking of this, he simply stood against the railing of the staircase, and then heard the sound below.

"If you want me to say, it's a pity that the two towers of the Twin Pagoda Temple are empty. You should learn from the title of the Chang'an Wild Goose Pagoda back then, and let the Jinshi who tried to climb the first place in the palace to climb the heights and leave their names, so that the scholars of the whole country will not be full of ambition and forge ahead? ”

"Brother Jiao is high-minded, high-minded ......"

However, in the midst of echoing and flattery, Li Dongyang heard a familiar ridiculing voice: "What a high opinion, it's just ignorant, gibberish!" ”。 ）