Pei Jun is a shameless person, very shameless. In order to soar in the officialdom, he fell down at the knees of the eunuchs and became the godson of Dou Wenchang, the lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army. After Dou Wenchang became a servant, Pei Jun continued to befriend Quan Xing and became a dog raised by the eunuchs. Of course, dogs like bones, and Shangshu's right servant shot is a bone that Pei Jun has coveted for a long time, but Prime Minister Li Jifu despised Pei Jun's personality very much and came forward to obstruct it, which made Pei Jun and the eunuchs behind him very annoyed. Now, the bones have not yet been eaten, and someone dares to attack his master, which still makes people not live, Pei Jun is angry.

Pei Jun, who was out of anger, was ready to dig a pit and dig a big pit, and he had many targets, including Huangfu Xiang, Niu Shengyu and Li Zongmin, as well as the examiners Wei Guanzhi and Yang Yuling, as well as Pei Yan and Wang Ya who were reviewed, but his biggest target was Prime Minister Li Jifu. Of course, if this pit is to be dug well, it also needs the help of his master, that is, the eunuch.

Soon, the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, inside and outside the palace of Daming Palace, were spreading a rumor: Huangfu Xiang, Niu Shengyu and Li Zongmin maliciously attacked the eunuchs, and they were instructed by Li Jifu, the Zhongshu Shilang Tongping Zhangshi. At the same time, the eunuch's head began to cry in front of Li Chun. So, Li Jifu couldn't sit still, and also ran to the Son of Heaven to confess, in order to prove his innocence, Li Jifu not only pointed the finger at the examiners Wei Guanzhi and Yang Yuling, but also pointed at Pei Yan and Wang Ya who reviewed the papers. Huangfu is Wang Ya's nephew, and according to the regulations, Wang Ya should be avoided, but he did not say it to the Son of Heaven; As a colleague, Pei Yan knew the relationship between Huangfu and Wang Ya, but he didn't raise any objections.

Li Jifu's career was once very bumpy, and he was once a very powerful person. When he was young, Li Jifu disagreed with the then prime minister Lu Zhen, and was driven out of Chang'an and traveled between the Jianghuai River for fifteen years. Suddenly, one day, he was inexplicably appointed as the assassin of Chungju. There, he met an old acquaintance, Lu Zhen, a former political enemy. It turned out that the traitors in the court first demoted Lu Zhen to Chungju, and then transferred Li Jifu to Chungju to serve as assassins. This is obviously killing people with a knife, wanting to get rid of Lu Zhen with Li Jifu's hand, but Li Jifu disappointed those traitors, he and Lu Zhen not only met with a smile and hatred, but also respected him. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Li Jifu, who had been adrift for many years, finally returned to Chang'an and became a staunch supporter and follower of Li Chun's policy of "cutting the feudal domain by force". In the war of Pingshu to destroy Wu, Li Jifu firmly stood on Li Chun's side and made immortal feats.

There is no contradiction between the magnificent Li Jifu and Wei Guanzhi and others, and there is even a good story between him and Pei Yan that has been recited through the ages. It was still the first month of the second year of Yuanhe, and there were two vacancies in the prime ministers of the DPRK and China. With his achievements in the past two years, Li Jifu, a bachelor of Hanlin University, is very confident that he can go one step further and become the prime minister of all eyes. At this time, the will of the Son of Heaven came from the palace, ordering him and another Hanlin scholar, Pei Yan, to draft two edicts to worship the prime minister. The one drafted by Li Jifu was for Wu Yuanheng. Didn't you even pay a respect? Li Jifu, who was extremely frustrated and disappointed, let out a soft sigh. At this moment, Pei Yan calmly got up and congratulated him. The moment the two hands clasped together, Li Jifu burst into tears and said to Pei Yan emotionally: "I have been living in the Jianghuai River for more than ten years, but I didn't expect to be favored by the Son of Heaven and become the prime minister."

Grateful to Li Jifu with a hundred times the enthusiasm for work to repay the trust of the Son of Heaven Li Chun, because of the perennial wandering outside, Li Jifu is still a little unfamiliar with the personnel of the capital, he sincerely asked Pei Yan to recommend talents for him, Pei Yan was also moved by his sincerity, did not shirk, wrote the names of more than 30 people in one breath. A few months later, these people were successively reused, and the government and the opposition were full of praise, and Li Jifu's prestige reached its peak, becoming a virtuous prime minister in the eyes of the Manchu ministers.

However, now, Li Jifu, who is standing on the cusp of the storm, has no choice but to sacrifice his former allies for the sake of his innocence, in order to keep his position, and in order to realize his ideals and ambitions of "cutting down the feudal domain by force".

Li Jifu's crying put Li Chun in a dilemma. In all fairness, Li Chun didn't think that Wei Guanzhi, Pei Yan and others were at fault, in fact, he admired Wei Guanzhi and Pei Yan's integrity very much, so he didn't want to punish them. But Du Huangshang is dead, and Li Jifu is now the person in charge of the great cause of cutting the feudal domain, and is his most powerful assistant, so he must maintain Li Jifu's authority. Those eunuchs who hold military power cannot be easily disposed of, not to mention that they are empathetic, they are their own pistachios, and they are also indispensable for themselves. After weighing it again and again, Li Chun made a mistake and announced the final verdict: Pei Yan and Wang Ya, the scholars of Hanlin, were dismissed, and Wang Ya was even assigned to the distant state of Yuzhou as Sima; Wei Guanzhi was first demoted to Guozhou to serve as a assassin, and a few days later he was demoted to a more distant Bazhou, where his position was still a history of assassination; Another, more innocent examiner, Yang Yuling, was sent to Lingnan. Seeing the important ministers of the court who supported him being degraded one by one, Huangfu Xiang, Niu Shengyu and Li Zongmin did not dare to have any extravagant hopes for their future, and left Chang'an one after another, and went to the feudal town to become a staff member.

It seems that Li Jifu won, but in fact he did not, because he lost public opinion and reputation. Pei Yan, Wei Guanzhi, Yang Yuling and others are all high-charactered, loyal and upright people, and the reason for degrading them is so far-fetched. The former virtuous prime minister Li Jifu became a powerful minister who attacked the way of speech in the eyes of the Manchu ministers, and the dark tide in Chang'an City was surging, and Li Jifu's phase was in jeopardy. A month later, the Hanlin Bachelor and the left Bai Juyi Shangshu complained for Pei Yan and others, using "up and down, the hearts of the people are turbulent" to describe the reaction of the government and the opposition, and the jealous and hateful Bai Juyi even used the collective resignation of the Hanlin Bachelor to threaten the Son of Heaven. This situation was unexpected by Li Chun, the son of Yingming, and Li Jifu, the virtuous prime minister, and half a year later, under pressure, Li Jifu had to voluntarily ask to leave Chang'an and serve as the envoy of Huainan Jiedu. Li Jifu gave up the phase, and Li Chun gave Pei Yan, a former Hanlin scholar who was implicated in the case.