"Shi Xiaoshu, please accept Lonely, thank you for not only saving Lonely's daughter today, but also saving Lonely's knife man, thank you!" Li Shimin took the initiative to salute Shi Bufan and said.

Shi Bufan replied: "King Qin doesn't need to be polite, the so-called Buddhism has clouds, and saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter." Since I have a way to save it, then I don't need to say anything more, just save it. But if I can't help it, then I'm at a loss. ”

"No matter what, the Lone King still has to thank you!" Li Shimin said.

"You may be seated!"

Shi Bufan sat down, and then he really saw this Li Shimin. The Tang Emperor, who created the rule of Zhenguan in history, is actually quite generous, and almost any of the founding lords is also very generous, because if he is a mediocre person, it is impossible to have this kind of bearing. Although the various systems of the Tang Dynasty were established during Li Yuan's martial arts period, Li Shimin was more of a Xiao Gui Cao Sui. But it is undeniable that Li Yuan and his two sons are also very talented, and there is no doubt about this. It is precisely because of their talent, ability and ambition that their father and son love and kill each other, which led to the consequences of the later Xuanwumen Change.

"Shi Xiao Shulang, the lonely king saw you for the first time this time. In fact, the lonely king regrets it, he really regrets it! At that time, why did the Lone King send a talent like you to the Xiuwen Museum, the Lone King should stay in my Qin Wangfu, and such a talent was actually sent to the Xiuwen Museum, what a pity! For example, a great talent like Shi Xiao Shulang went to the Xiuwen Pavilion to be talented, and he was really very talented. Li Shimin said regretfully.

But Shi Bufan secretly thought: "I'm afraid it's not me, it's my wife Dugu Daxue and my father-in-law Dugu Kaiyuan, right?" I'm talented, but it's not enough for you to treat me like this. ”

Shi Bufan was very calm, he knew that although he was talented, the position he was in was not a very important position. Although Shi Bufan is talented, Li Shimin doesn't need to pay too much attention to it, because as long as Li Shimin becomes the emperor after the mutiny, then even if he wants to reuse Shi Bufan, he can do it at any time. If it weren't for the fact that Shi Bufan's fiancée Dugu Daxue and father-in-law Dugu Kaiyuan were in a very critical position, so Li Shimin would please him so much and attach so much importance to him. Relying on Shi Bufan's ability alone is not enough to make Li Shimin pay so much attention, because even if Shi Bufan does not take refuge in Li Shimin, it will be a monk who can't run to the temple, as long as Li Shimin becomes the emperor, he will listen to him sooner or later.

"Hmph, I can be regarded as holding your seven inches, without the support of my wife Dugu Daxue and father-in-law Dugu Kaiyuan, I am afraid that your Xuanwumen coup will not be able to play! Although I can't decide anything, but I can make you vomit blood, and if you don't vomit blood, then won't I suffer this beating in vain? Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan took the initiative to say: "King Qin, during this time, I heard that the prince is eyeing King Qin. Although I teach in the Xiuwen Pavilion, I heard that the crown prince once sent all the vassals around King Qin to serve abroad, and King Qin was left with the eldest grandson Langzhong. ”

Li Shimin also said with a "bitterness": "Yes! The prince is eyeing the lonely king, and the lonely king has been tolerating, but the prince actually sent out all the important ministers of the lonely king to serve, which is really not at ease with the lonely king, and wants to cut off the wings of the lonely king! The lonely king is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but why does the prince force the lonely king! My father is also eccentric, hey! ”

Shi Bufan snorted lightly in his heart, and secretly thought: "You are loyal to Datang, I don't doubt this, because your target is the emperor of Datang, you are also the royal family of Datang, Datang Tiandu is your family, if you are not loyal, who else in this world will be loyal?" As for saying that you sent Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui out? There's something wrong with that! In the changes of Xuanwu Gate back then, there were a lot of cats! ”

In the inner room, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui eavesdropped here, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng didn't know that Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were actually not sent out, and Li Shimin kept these two important advisers by his side by stealing beams and changing pillars, but they didn't make it public.

"Keming, do you say that this Shi Bufan will take refuge in King Qin?" Fang Xuanling asked Du Ruhui.

Du Ruhui shook his head and said: "I don't know, the current value of Shi Bufan is not high, but his fiancée is the Tang Shang Palace, and the location is just right." If we want to ...... Xuanwu Gate, then I am afraid that we really can't do without the help of Dugu Shanggong and General Dugu Kaiyuan. And Dugu Shanggong is Shi Bufan's fiancée, I don't know if he will be willing to help us. Last time, he really used the wrong means, and actually asked Wang Hui to beat him, but he guessed that we did it in the back, and instead lost a big house. The most important thing is that I don't know which step this Shi Bufan guessed, how much he knows about me, and this is the most terrible thing. ”

However, at this time, Shi Bufan's words came in.

"King Qin, as a person with lofty ideals, how can you not have a few staff? Back then, Huan Wen didn't also have Xi Chao as the mastermind, and King Qin, you should also have a few advisors! Shi Bufan said.

Li Shimin suddenly laughed, but this one was a little embarrassing. And Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who were in the inner room, heard Shi Bufan's words, but they were also speechless.

"This is extraordinary, it's beating us! He doesn't talk about others, why do you just say Huan Wen and Xi Chao, this is beating us! Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly.

Li Shimin also knew that this was something that Shi Bufan told him again, and he already knew these methods. Li Shimin naturally knew the allusion in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Wen was ambitious, and he recruited the strategist Xi Chao. As a result, when Huan Wen and Xi Chao were discussing secrets, Xie An suddenly visited. Huan Wen asked Xi Chao to hide in his curtain, and the curtain was a place of private life in ancient times, it was very private, and ordinary people could not enter it. At this time, Huan Wen and Xie An responded, while Xi Chao was eavesdropping. But a whole wind blew, the curtain was blown open, and Xi Chao's eavesdropping was seen by Xie An.

So Xie An said sarcastically: "Xi Sheng is also a guest in the scene!" ”

Xi Chao's word is also "guest", this is a pun, on the one hand, it is satirical Xi Chao, on the other hand, it does not directly offend people, after all, the word "guest" is not only Xi Chao's word, but also the meaning of important guests, so Xi Chao and Huan Wen can only suffer a dumb loss. And from this, there is also a sentence - the guest who enters the curtain. The guests who entered the curtain originally referred to those important staff members who were able to enter the private curtain of the lord. However, it was later used by some as a metaphor for the important guests of important singers.

But when Shi Bufan mentioned Huan Wen and Xi Chao at this time, he was actually telling Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui behind him that their methods had been known to Shi Bufan. So when Shi Bufan mentioned Xi Chao and Huan Wen, it was actually indirectly using the allusion of the guest to ridicule them.

"Before the Xuanwumen Rebellion, Li Shimin wanted to gather his staff to come back to discuss whether to launch a mutiny. But at that time, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui had already been released from their official positions, but they actually returned to Chang'an in just twenty-four hours. Let me go, with the ancient traffic conditions, did you come back by plane? Shi Bufan complained in his heart, it was obvious that Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui would come too quickly at the time of the change of Xuanwu Gate, and it was impossible to come back so quickly with the ancient traffic conditions.

So there is only one explanation, I don't know what means Li Shimin used to keep Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui by his side, and he didn't really let them out. If it is really released, the transportation capacity of ancient times is simply not enough to quickly let them come back to plan and participate in the Xuanwumen Change.

"Shi Xiao Shulang, my father attaches great importance to you, and he also gave you the daughter of General Dugu Kaiyuan, the Dugu Shanggong of the Tang Dynasty. And Dugu Shanggong is shrewd and capable, and his appearance is gorgeous, Shi Xiaoshulang is blessed! Li Shimin said.

Shi Bufan thought to himself: "The fox's tail is exposed, right?" It's not me you're paying attention to, it's my wife. Although I am talented, you can wait until you become the emperor before you are promoted, but if you don't become the emperor, you won't be able to use me even if I am talented, so what you value more at this stage is my wife Dugu Daxue, not me! ”

"Hehe, this is really the emperor's grace, the emperor attaches great importance to me, and I and Neiko must swear allegiance to the Tang Dynasty!" Shi Bufan said.

Li Shimin immediately asked tentatively: "Shixiao Shulang, loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is to be loyal to my Tang royal family, as long as it is for me Li Tang, it is okay." ”

"Oh, now you say that you are loyal to the Tang Dynasty is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and when you ascend to the throne, I am afraid that you will be promoting allegiance to the emperor personally, it is really the ass that decides the head!" Shi Bufan complained again in his heart.

Shi Bufan let out a faint "um", and didn't make too much of a statement.

However, Li Shimin saw his hint and didn't know whether it was working, and he couldn't find out his attitude through this "um". However, Li Shimin's mind turned and he immediately had an idea.

"Shi Xiao Shulang, Gao Huitong, the knife man of the Lone King, is very grateful to Shi Xiao Shulang, but after all, she is the sword man of the Lone King, and it is inconvenient to get too close to the ministers. Therefore, the high knife people plan to set up a private banquet to invite Dugu Shanggong to enjoy their faces! Li Shimin said.

Shi Bufan thought to himself: "That's good, your brain earns quite quickly, you know how to go to Mrs. diplomacy?" ”

Since Li Shimin knew that Shi Bufan was very cunning, it was not easy to pry open Shi Bufan's mouth, so he planned to find another way to communicate through his female dependents. This method of communication through female dependents was very popular in ancient times and in later generations. There is even a so-called "lady diplomacy" between countries, so this is also a good way to take the lady diplomacy route. There are many things that are not suitable for men to come out to discuss in person, and it is also a good choice to let the wife come forward.

Since Li Shimin thinks that Shi Bufan is very "cunning", it is better to find another way, bypass the difficult "mountain" of Shi Bufan, and directly let Gao Huitong use Shi Bufan's life-saving grace as a reason to feast Shi Bufan's fiancée. As for the reason, isn't that very reasonable? That is, Gao Huitong is a female dependent, and it is not suitable for the male minister who is too close to Shi Bufan, and it is reasonable to communicate between female dependents, and ordinary people will not think that there is anything.

"Okay, King Qin, then I thank you on behalf of my grandson!" Dugu Daxue agreed.

"King Qin, Da Xue's younger brother is still young, Da Xue wants to fight for a future for his younger brother, what do you think Qianniu is preparing?" Shi Bufan said.

Dugu Daxue also looked at Shi Bufan suspiciously, feeling incredible, this Shi Bufan actually wanted to ask for a Qianniu reserve position for his younger brother. According to the current regular promotion channels for the children of officials in the Tang Dynasty, there are nothing more than a few kinds. Although the children of Tang Dynasty officials could enter the government through the so-called door shade, this channel was often divided into different levels of officials, and there was also a distinction between civil and military officials.

During the Tang Dynasty, if the descendants wanted to go through the civil official channel, most of them would often be arranged to serve as deputies in a central department of five or six grades. Generally speaking, it may be the palace province, although the palace province is responsible for the daily court affairs around the emperor, but they are also pure masters, not eunuchs. Although the real power of the palace province is not large, the grade is not low, and it is often the first way for many senior officials to enter the second generation. There are several departments in Datang that are gathered by the second generation of officials, and the province of the palace is often used as a transfer official for the second generation of officials, as a first to promote the rank, and then find an opportunity to promote the post. For example, before Du Ruhui died, Li Shimin arranged for Du Gou and Du He to be the five-grade official position of the palace province, which was regarded as allowing Du Ruhui to let him see his son's wealth before he died.

If the descendants of the prime minister want to take the road of civil officials, that is, to serve as idle posts in a department of the fifth or sixth grade of the central government or to serve as a deputy for others, they should learn how to handle government affairs well, and then seek to be released or go to more important departments.

Of course, it is not that some aspiring second-generation officials disdain to take this road, but also that some second-generation officials take the initiative to choose the imperial examination and choose this road of crossing the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops. For example, the original Pei Xingjian, he was able to directly enter the office, but he had to pass the imperial examination, but he still let him pass. Although the imperial examination system in the early Tang Dynasty was a lot of tricks, it was also regarded as an ambitious second-generation official.

As for the way of military attaché, that is, to be the emperor's personal guard or honorable guard, the personal guard is the descendant of the imperial family and first- and second-class officials to be qualified to be a personal guard. As for the guards, they are for the descendants of those third- and fourth-rank officials. Although this personal guard and Xunwei have no real power, they are in fact a guy who acts as a meat shield for the emperor, but he is a real seven-rank official. Mix up a rank first, and then seek to serve elsewhere later, at least mix up the ranks.

However, Shi Bufan proposed to seek a position for Dugu Daxue's younger brother to prepare for a thousand cows, which was not in line with the promotion practice of officials during the Tang Dynasty.

Dugu Daxue also looked at Shi Bufan very anxiously, Shi Bufan's condition was too much, it was simply very excessive. The meaning of Qianniu's preparation is not the same thing at all as that ordinary and simple mixed-level guard, and the meaning of Qianniu's preparation is different!

Sure enough, Li Shimin's face also changed a little.