Hu Zongxian drank a lot, thoroughly, and was drunk. For the first time in ten years, I was so drunk and comfortable. When shouldering the great task of resisting the Japanese, even if you sleep, you have to keep your eyes open, the Japanese robbers, gentry, merchants, and the imperial court, walking a tightrope among various forces, playing balance, even if they are super masters, they must be careful, and if they make a slight mistake, they will pay the price of blood.

At one time, Hu Zongxian was very confident that if he could level the Longtan Tiger's Den in the southeast, nothing could stump him. But when he arrived in the capital, he found out what it means to eat people without spitting out bones.

His method in the southeast didn't work at all, with open guns and hidden arrows, conspiracies and calculations, emerging in an endless stream, and everyone was like a little ghost with countless faces, hideous and terrifying. They can smile at you and stab deadly weapons at the same time. It is said that the Japanese are cunning, but in fact, the Japanese are just a collection of losers, and these officials in the capital are the sum of the wisdom of the Ming Dynasty, almost all of them are ten times more powerful than Wang Zhi!

Tired, tired, Hu Zongxian, who is no longer young, has no fighting spirit.

Let the horse come over, no matter what, Lao Tzu will admit it!

The depressed Hu Zongxian made Tang Yi feel distressed, and also made him a little lucky, maybe in this way, he could avoid a direct conflict with Yanguan Qingliu and keep Hu Zongxian's peace......

Tang Yi became extremely cautious, he felt that he had to see Xu Ge Lao's routine clearly before making his next move. For this reason, he called Mao Kun, Zhu Xian and others over.

In addition, there are two new friends, namely Wang Yin and Shen Mingchen.

They are all Hu Zongxian's staff, hardcore henchmen, and they can't entrust Zhao Bingran, Wang Yin and Shen Mingchen are disheartened, so they want to retreat to the mountains and forests. Fortunately, several seniors in the southeast came forward at that time, retained them, and recommended them to Tang Yi.

These two did not agree immediately, but found Hu Zongxian, which was interesting enough for his old friend Hu Zongxian, he took two people and found Tang Yi, and in an ordered tone, Tang Yi must accept them and arrange a good position.

Of course, Tang Yi is happy to obey his fate, these two are both great talents in the world, and they have not coveted them for a day or two, and they can be included in his command, Tang Yi's strength has improved a lot.

As the first staff collective meeting after the fall of the Yan Party, the big guys were open and honest and expressed their views on the situation in the DPRK.

The first to speak was Mao Kun, who had been in the capital for the longest time and could see it most clearly.

"My lord, Your Majesty is strict but not Yan Song, give Song Zhishi, the court, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and they are all Yan Song's people, as long as there is a will, Yan Song can make a comeback at any time. In fact, His Majesty has already revealed his attachment to Yan Song, and has mentioned several times that he wants to re-use Yan Song, but he has been blocked by Xu Jie! ”

As Tang Yi's mastermind, Mao Kun can see all kinds of secret news, whether it is Jinyiwei or the head of the palace, there will be news for Tang Yi and the strategists' reference.

Mao Kun continued: "The current situation is the replacement of the old and the new, and Elder Xu Ge wants to quickly clear Yan Song's forces and hold the court situation in his own hands, so the first thing he has to control is the Kedao Yanguan. Although the position of the official is not high, he has great power and can grasp the direction of public opinion. pinched Ke Dao, Xu Ge Lao grabbed the Heavenly Divine Sword, and no one wanted to fight. ”

The big guy nodded frequently, in fact, Xu Jie did this, Hu Yingjia, Ouyang Yijing, Xin Zixiu and so on scolded the rise of the gods, they aimed the spearhead at the cadres of the Yan Party in the past, the offensive was fierce and fierce, it was beyond imagination, the thief bit into the bone for three points, was targeted by them, impeached endlessly, and soon the reputation was stinky, and he no longer had the shame to stand in the court.

Mao Kun was worried and said: "At present, Xu Gelao's first step has been successful, and the victory of impeachment of the Yan Party is like a bamboo. The next step is to take down the three law divisions and grasp the power of criminal names, so that you can impeach with your left hand, convict with your right hand, and take life and death, all in Xu Jie's single-mindedness! ”

"After these two steps are completed, it should be the six cabinets, and all the places with oil and water and power will be replaced by Xu Jie's people. After unifying the court, Xu Jie may still attack the local governor, all in all, this old man's ambitions and means are as good as Yan Song's. For a long time, the Ming Dynasty will be shrouded in the shadow of Xu Jie, those who follow Xu will live, and those who reverse Xu will die! ”

After listening to Mao Kun's overall analysis, everyone's faces were full of sorrow, they wanted to say that the situation would not be so bad, and Xu Jie would not be so crazy, but after repeated analysis, everyone had to admit that Mao Kun's analysis was reasonable, and it was almost Xu Jie's plan.

The key has become how to stop Xu Ge Lao's footsteps, big guy, you say a word to me, one by one ideas come out, Tang Yi listens to it, but he has few feasible ideas.

In the end, Tang Yi had to sigh, strength, or strength!

Xu Jie's ten years in the cabinet, under the painstaking experience, his strength is huge, especially after defeating Yan Song, he took the equipment of Yan Ge's old body in his hands, and his combat power doubled all of a sudden, becoming even more terrifying than Yan Song.

Xu Jie has Yan Song's scheming and Yan Song's minions, but he does not have Yan Song's weaknesses or Yan Song's infamy. Even Jiajing can't dispose of a Shoufu with an excellent reputation and no big mistakes at will.

The first assistant of the cabinet, who was originally just the secretary of the Son of Heaven, worked as a consultant, but with the development of the times, especially after the chaos of the Zhengde Dynasty. Yang Ting, the first assistant, and the commander of the hundred officials, welcomed Jiajing to join the succession, and established the supreme authority of the cabinet in one fell swoop, and the first assistant of the cabinet also became the de facto division of the hundred officials.

The so-called Great Rites Discussion, to put it bluntly, means that the cabinet wants to expand its power and force Jiajing to accept the rule of the vertical arch, while Jiajing insists on restoring the imperial power, and the Holy Son of Heaven is arbitrary.

The two sides took advantage of the reason for the great ceremony, and they killed the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon were dark, and in the end, although Jiajing won the victory, it was also quite miserable, causing the gentleman and the virtuous minister to deviate from morality.

In order to avoid the minister's endless challenges, he had to retreat to Xiyuan and push Yan Song out as a shield.

Who knows, this hand was used, but it accelerated the fall of imperial power.

Yan Song formed a gang and overwhelmed the six departments, including the official department Shangshu, all of whom became the subordinate officials of the first assistant, and above the court, no one could compete with the first assistant.

However, Yan Song's reputation was too stinky, and he was never able to control Kedao, which became his biggest shortcoming, and in the end, Yan Song was also planted in the hands of Kedao Yanguan.

Xu Jie is different, he paid attention to public opinion from the beginning, and used the Six Departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate as his base camp to fight back against Yan Song. With the fall of Yan Song, Xu Jie can proudly say that the old man has no shortcomings and is invincible in the world!

According to Mao Kun's analysis, Xu Jie's second step is to take down the three law divisions, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has fallen into Xu Jie's hands, and the rest is Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, but Wan Yu and Cai Yuncheng, who are sitting in the two yamen, are the core of the Yan Party and the people who took the lead in taking refuge in Tang Yi.

Whether they should be protected or not, and how to protect them, suddenly became the focus of discussion among the big guys.

Zhu Xian said: "I think we must protect it, once the Criminal Department and Dali Temple fall into the hands of Xu Jie, as Mr. Lumen said, the complaint and conviction are all in the hands of Xu Jie, and it is not that you can kill whoever you want, and the situation of adults will be extremely critical." ”

Wang Yin, who was newly joined, shook his head slightly, and Tang Yi hurriedly asked, "Does Mr. Shiyue have any teachings?" ”

"Alas, I can't talk about teaching, it's just a little superficial, say it, adults may wish to refer to it."

Wang Yin said politely, but in his demeanor, with a hint of pride, he is not an ordinary character, Wang Yin was born in a wealthy Hui merchant family, participated in the imperial examination in his early years, and later he thought that the imperial examination was a waste of life and money, and resolutely abandoned the road of the imperial examination, and turned to seek the Tao, learning the art of Lao Zhuang, and later became interested in the Shi family, and studied Zen hard.

When he was fifty years old, Wang Yin studied three religions at the same time, and he had no papers and knowledge, and he was the top in the world.

Hu Zongxian admired talent and learning, and was hired several times, but Wang Yin barely got out of the mountain. After entering Hu Zongxian's shogunate, every trick can be called Hu Zongxian's right and left hand.

In the face of such a talent, Tang Yi didn't dare to be the slightest bit lazy and listened carefully.

"My lord, Xu Huating has become a big trend, Wan Huan and Cai Yuncheng and others have too close a relationship with Yan Song, but they are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers from adults, they temporarily take refuge, but they are just praying for the protection of adults, once the Yan family gets up again, they will become Yan Song's loyal lackeys again, to put it bluntly, they are two wolves that are not well raised, adults must not take risks for them and ruin your reputation."

Tang Yi nodded thoughtfully, "Shiyue Gong, what you said is reasonable, but I am worried that these two people will not be able to keep it, it will chill the hearts of the people below, and the people who belong to my subordinates will disperse, and when the time comes, facing Xu Huating, the strength in my hands will be even weaker." ”

Wang Yin smiled: "My lord, let me say something unkind, if you want to compete with Xu Jie, it is simply wishful thinking, even if you pull all the people of the Yan Party over, you don't think you have a chance of winning." ”

Tang Yi gasped, revealing strong suspicions, he had been working hard to calculate, was it so difficult that it was useless?

"My lord, in the past 20 years, the Yan Party has become infamous, the so-called general trend, Xu Jie's purge of the Yan Party, I have to admit that in Shilin's view, it is to respond to the sky, and the adults want to fight, but they are going against the sky, it is easy to go against the sky, it is difficult to go against the sky, even if Zhuge Kongming, he will die in Wuzhangyuan, don't fall into it!"

I have to say that Wang Yin's words reminded Tang Yi that although in Tang Yi's eyes, Xu Jie and Yan Song are almost the same dog, there is no difference, but the people of the world don't see it that way. How much resentment they have against Yan Song, how much hope they have for Xu Jie.

And at this time, it is Xu Jie's honeymoon period, and whatever he does, there will be a large group of stinky feet. On the contrary, if you confront Xu Jie, you will be beaten into a strict party, your strength is not as good as others, and if you lose your righteous reputation, let alone go against the sky, you can't even get into it, Tang Yi felt powerless.

"Shiyue Gong, I don't have self-knowledge, but I don't fight, and Xu Jie won't let me go, in order to make him the person he likes to choose for the position, any means will be used."

Wang Yin smiled, "My lord, the old man didn't let you confront Xu Jie, but he didn't let you fight!" Xu Huating still has weaknesses! (To be continued.) )