Chapter 49: This year's flowers are as good as last year's

Revenge, revenge! Pei Du, the new official, the second goal, of course, is to take revenge, for himself, but also for the dead Wu Yuanheng!

Heaven follows people's wishes, and soon after Pei Du paid his respects, he received a big gift: the assassin was caught, and it was a small person named Zhang Yan, but behind this little person, there was a big figure, the arrogant and domineering Chengde Jiedu envoy Wang Chengzong. At this time, Pei Du would never have thought that the assassins were actually someone else, and the mastermind behind them was not the treacherous and cunning Wang Chengzong, but the gentleman Li Shidao.

caught the murderer, Pei Du couldn't help but boil his blood, he couldn't wait to kill Chengde immediately, and pulled off Wang Chengzong's head as a night pot. Practice has proved that emotions can be contagious, and our Tang Dynasty Emperor seems to have received Pei Du's emotional contagion, and his attitude towards Chengde has taken a 180-degree turn, gradually rising from verbal warnings and written condemnations to force suppression, and finally simply announced the removal of Wang Chengzong's official titles, and ordered Hedong, Youzhou, Yiwu, Henghai, Weibo, and Zhaoyi to discuss.

In fact, Li Chun and Pei Du can't be blamed for not being able to hold their breath, because Wang Chengzong's house is really hateful. He seemed to expect that Li Chun would not do anything to him, of course, not because of how good the relationship between the two was, but because most of the Tang Dynasty's troops were fighting with Wu Yuanji in Huaixi, so how could they have the spare strength to deal with themselves. In addition, he was detained by Li Chun for no reason to assassinate the prime minister of the dynasty, and he was really unwilling, so he did not openly make trouble, and at the same time kept making small moves, setting fire here, grabbing some money there, making several nearby feudal towns miserable, so they asked Wang Chengzong to be scolded.

Li Chun didn't have a good impression of Wang Chengzong, a few years ago, it was this Wang Chengzong who made himself disgraced, and now he is ready to move there, Li Chun's anger is pressed again and again, he can't hold it back, he can't bear it, he doesn't need to endure it anymore, Li Chun finally made up his mind, flattened him, the kind that hurts him!

It's just a matter of using soldiers in Huaixi, and you have to crusade against Chengde! A Huaixi has already made Chang'an anxious, plus a Chengde who is on par with Huaixi, isn't this embarrassing for himself? This time, someone couldn't sit still.

The first to stand up was Prime Minister Zhang Hongjing. Zhang Hongjing and Wang Chengzong have always had a good relationship, and it is estimated that he may have received black money and taken people's money, so he naturally wanted to eliminate disasters with others, and hurriedly discouraged him. "Who knew that Li Chun was Wang Ba eating scales this time, and he was determined to give Wang Chengzong some color to see, and he didn't urinate Zhang Hongjing's pot at all.

In times of crisis, unable to pull his brothers, Zhang Hongjing felt very embarrassed and had to ask for a resignation. For this Zhang Hongjing, Li Chun still has to take care of some face, because his grandfather is Zhang Jiazhen, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, and his father Zhang Yansheng also used to be the prime minister of the Tang Empire, plus him, it is the prime minister of the three generations of his ancestors and grandchildren, even if there is no credit, after all, there is still hard work! What's more, Li Chun doesn't hate Zhang Hongjing, on the contrary, he admires his elegant temperament. After thinking about it, Li Chun decided to let him hang the title of prime minister and go to his hometown, Hedong, to be a festival envoy, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of benevolence and righteousness.

Zhang Hongjing left, but the opposition did not disappear because of this. Unexpectedly, this time it was none other than Pei Du's good friend, Prime Minister Wei Guanzhi.

Unlike Zhang Hongjing, who takes care of both public and private interests, Wei Guanzhi is a person who is dedicated to the public. After the three-year policy of Yuanhe, Wei Guanzhi was first demoted to the history of the Guozhou thorn, and when he was still trekking on the road of derogation, another holy decree had flown in, and this time, he was deposed to the history of the Bazhou thorn. However, the repeated derogation not only failed to damage Wei Guanzhi's reputation, but made his prestige increase day by day. Soon, Li Chun recalled him back to Chang'an and appointed him as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites.

One of the main duties of the Ministry of Rites is to preside over the imperial examinations, which is a lot of oil and water. However, in the two years that Wei Guanzhi presided over the imperial examination, he abandoned the people who asked for it, resisted the flashy literary style, and his reputation reached the extreme, winning the name of "integrity" for Wei Guanzhi, and also won the affirmation and appreciation of Li Chun, the son of heaven. Soon, Prime Minister Li Jifu died suddenly, and Li Chun naturally gave this vacated position to Wei Guanzhi.

Wei Guanzhi, who became the prime minister, did not change his lofty and arrogant personality, and liked to screen the officials' bad products, this is a gentleman, and that is a villain, which makes many court officials very uncomfortable. Those so-called court officials are uncomfortable, as long as they grasp the emperor's favor, they can only stare dryly, but Wei Guanzhi, who is tall and arrogant by nature, naturally does not know how to observe words and looks, and slap horses, in fact, after coming to power, some of the things he has done make Li Chun very dissatisfied, such as Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and others' "volume shift", such as Bai Juyi's "recovery".

If the emperor is unhappy, it is okay, as long as he has a good relationship with Pei Du, the most powerful minister of the dynasty, he can turn around at a critical time. It should be said that Wei Guanzhi and Pei Du have a good foundation, the two are not only friends, but also have close cooperation on the issue of Liu Yuxi and others' "quantitative shift", although the final result is not satisfactory, but the friendship between the two has grown by leaps and bounds because of this incident. Wei Guanzhi proceeded from the interests of the country, believing that the focus of the work at this stage should be on Huaixi, and when Huaixi was resolved, it would be easy to turn back and clean up Chengde. But Pei Du was anxious for revenge and couldn't listen to different opinions, so the two quarreled several times in the court, which annoyed Pei Du and, of course, Li Chun.

Yes, Wei Guanzhi is such a person, in his life dictionary, there is only the Tang Empire, and there is no personal selfish desire. For the benefit of the Tang Empire, he could watch his friend Bai Juyi being framed and belittled, not only did he not help, but he even had to step on one foot; Similarly, for the sake of the interests of the Tang Empire, he did not hesitate to offend Pei Du and the high Son of Heaven, but he also insisted on his opinion. He is not like Zhang Hongjing, whose suggestions were not adopted, so he took the initiative to resign and ended up at ease; He neither took the initiative to resign, nor did he refuse to give up his claims, but persevered in his disobedience, and even did not hesitate to argue fiercely with Pei Du in the court. Pei Du and Wei Guanzhi, two former friends, have a deep estrangement in this way.

In fact, it's just a matter of offending Pei Du, but Wei Guanzhi also offended another person, a villain, the upright Wei Guanzhi didn't know, when he was chattering with Pei Du in the court, one, no, two cold eyes were already staring at him.

The owner of those eyes is called Zhang Su, and the left makes up for Zhang Su. Zhang Su was originally a cloth cloth, and when Li Chun, the son of heaven, was still Li Chun, the king of Guangling, he won Li Chun's favor with his sharp teeth, and since then he has been on the rise. Therefore, although Zuo Buque is only a petty official from the seventh grade, Zhang Su's energy really cannot be ignored.

If Wei Guanzhi is an out-and-out gentleman, then Zhang Su is an out-and-out villain. But don't forget, "Noble is the epitaph of the noble, meanness is the pass of the despicable", once the gentleman offends the villain, the last person to suffer must be the gentleman, now, the gentleman Wei Guanzhi has offended the villain Zhang Su, so Wei Guanzhi is going to be unlucky, he is going to be unlucky.