Chapter 52: The Wind and the Cold and the Rain are Heavy II

Among the prime ministers of the Yuanhe era, Li Fengji may be the most mediocre and featureless one, if there is no series of "wonderful" performances behind. In fact, in the entire Yuanhe era, many prime ministers were only supporting roles, and the political spotlight was always focused on Du Huangsheng, Li Jifu, Wu Yuanheng and Pei Du and others. But Li Fengji is unwilling, unwilling to play tricks forever, and he can't play a supporting role, he wants to be the protagonist and the male number one.

Li Fengji was born in the Li family of Longxi, which is a powerful family known as the first in the world. It is said that according to Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the distant ancestor of the Li family in Longxi was an immortal, a famous immortal, and at one time, he was once the highest god of Chinese Taoism. Before becoming an immortal, Taishang Laojun was a historical figure, a famous historical figure, the founder of the Taoist school, Lao Tzu. Of course, the prominence of the Li clan in Longxi is far more than that, because some of them became emperors and established a huge empire, by the way, the Tang Empire. Therefore, although Li Fengji is not a member of the Tang royal family, he is related to the Tang royal family and has a common ancestor with the Tang royal family.

As a disciple of Gaomen, Li Fengji's career has always been very flat and boring: Jinshi and Di, and then went to the Shogunate of the Domain Town to raise his qualifications, and after returning to Chang'an, he first started from a small official like Zuo Shizhi and Zuo Buque, and changed to serve the imperial history, and successively served as a Qing official such as Wailang, Langzhong, and Duzhi Shizhong and Zhongshusheren. Don't get me wrong, the Qing officials here are not Qing officials like Bao Zheng and Hai Rui, but Qing Wang's officials, to put it bluntly, they are officials who don't work much, take a lot of money, or just take money and don't work. Not only that, these Qingwang officials can often deal with the emperor, and show their faces in front of the emperor from time to time, regardless of whether they have political achievements or not, it is certain that they will be familiar with their faces, and such a beauty difference will naturally not fall into the hands of ordinary people, because it is the exclusive benefit of the children of the nobility. Li Fengji is not an ordinary person, he is a veritable son of an aristocracy, so he can easily get the beauty difference that ordinary people can't get. By the way, in addition, Li Fengji also got a beauty difference, a big beauty difference, and the prince served him. The prince's attendant, as the name suggests, is to accompany the prince to study, this is a great opportunity to tie up the prince of the empire, Li Fengji naturally will not miss it, in fact, Li Fengji's most politically proud time is his old classmate Li You's years as emperor.

This is Li Fengji's political resume, the standard resume of a noble child, of course, only the first half of his life.

There are neither dazzling gorgeous performances, nor misdeeds that make people point fingers and poke at them; There was neither an exceptional promotion, nor any setbacks, just like that, Li Fengji went all the way to the eleventh year of Yuanhe without any danger, and in this year, he presided over the tribute examination; This year, he became prime minister.

This is a mediocre person, if you evaluate Li Fengji like this because of this, then you are wrong, very wrong. In fact, Li Fengji is a poisonous snake, a poisonous snake that is hibernating, he has been dormant for decades to accumulate venom, once this poisonous snake wakes up from hibernation, it will definitely stretch out his two extremely poisonous fangs and bite down viciously.

Now, Li Fengji had woken up, carefully stretched out his fangs, and stared at Pei Du with a cold gaze. Yes, it's Pei Du, and his goal is Pei Du. Because Li Fengji knows very well that if he wants to enter the focus of the political spotlight and become the male number one on the political stage, he must bring down the Pei Du who is in the sky. But how to bring down a hot opponent is really a problem, a very tricky one.

Li Fengji is hiding in a dark corner and has been watching for a long time. He was well aware that Pei Du's political fate was closely linked to his idea of cutting down the feudal domain by force. As long as Li Chun does not give up the policy of cutting the feudal domain by force, Pei Du, the firm executor of the military domain, is a towering tree that cannot be shaken. However, now, the war in Huaixi has reached a stalemate, the war in Chengde has not improved, and Li Chun, the son of heaven, seems to have begun to waver. Li Fengji confidently thinks that the opportunity has come, and he can't wait.

Wait, let's wait a little longer, before squirting out the deadly venom, Li Fengji, who is suspicious by nature, has to do an investigation, investigate the attitude of Li Chun, the son of heaven, and the strength of Prime Minister Pei Du's counterattack. Therefore, the hole cards can not be completely opened, Chengde, right, Chengde, just take the problem of Chengde, and test the reaction of Li Chun, the son of heaven, and the prime minister Pei Du.

"It is advisable to take Huaixi first, take Huaixi Ping, take advantage of its victory, and take back Hengji, such as picking up mustard ears!" On the Yanying Palace, Li Fengji talked eloquently, and his arguments were the same as those of Zhang Hongjing and Wei Guanzhi. But don't get me wrong, the same argument hides different intentions. Wei Guanzhi is dedicated to the public, Zhang Hongjing is both public and private, and Li Fengji is selfish, and his character is completely different. But Li Fengji, who has the most despicable character, is the most politically discerning of the three, and he saw the opportunity, so he succeeded!

Looking at the impassioned Li Fengji, a wry smile appeared on Li Chun's face, this person appeared at the right time, because he had long wanted to end this war. In fact, Li Chun didn't want to do anything to Wang Chengzong at all, not because he didn't hate, but because it wasn't time. Because, Chang'an's war against Chengde is actually just a show, a show that has to be done.

The assassination of the Zai is not a trivial matter, and as the king of a country, he has to give an explanation to the people. Everyone on the earth knows that the mastermind behind the scenes is either Li Shidao, the envoy of the Ziqing Festival, or Wang Chengzong, the envoy of the Chengde Festival, he weighed it again and again, chose Wang Chengzong, and insisted on the crime of assassinating the prime minister on Wang Chengzong's head, and issued an edict announcing his crimes, cutting off his tribute, but did not announce the date of the crusade. Li Chun wanted his subordinates to understand that this was just a show, but his painstaking efforts were not understood by the courtiers, and the Shangshu who asked to crusade against Chengde was one after another, and the Wei Bojie Du made Tian Hongzheng go to ten twists and turns in one breath, and he had to comply with the will of the people and announce the crusade against Wang Chengzong, but he deliberately did not arrange a commander, so as to let several feudal towns understand that this is just a face project, and the meaning is fine.

Yiwu Jiedu made the birth of Hun Ho, which once made Li Chun's eyes light up, thinking that there might be an unexpected joy, but in the end, the Hun Ho was stripped of his clothes by his subordinates, which was really disgraceful. Now, Wang Chengzong has learned a lesson, and he should be honest for a while, which is equivalent to cutting off one of Wu Yuanji's arms, which can be regarded as a small return. The show has been done, and it has also received certain results, and it is difficult for the empire's financial resources and troops to support it anymore, it is time to end this war, but Li Chun still lacks a step, a step of armistice.

At this time, Li Fengji jumped out, and just a little sleepy, someone sent a pillow, and Li Chun just got off the donkey and pushed the boat down the river. Of course, Li Chun also has to take care of Pei Du's feelings, after all, he is also one of the victims, and he is still his most powerful helper, so everything can't be too fake. Once, in order to tell Pei Du that he was on his side, Li Chun successively deposed Zhang Hongjing and Wei Guanzhi. Now, in order to comfort Pei Du, Li Chun deliberately hesitated for a long time and reluctantly agreed to Li Fengji's suggestion.

However, there is also the question, who will act as the messenger of this peace? You must know that Wang Chengzong is definitely not a good bird, and ordinary people estimate that he will not be able to enter his Hengzhou, and he may not be able to return to Chang'an if he enters. But this problem is not a problem at all with Li Chun, because as early as the beginning of the war, he had already chosen a peace envoy, and this person was of course Zhang Hongjing, and Zhang Hongjing, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu.

Zhang Hongjing and Wang Chengzong have a good personal relationship, Li Chun has already heard of it, Zhang Hongjing even in order to pull his brother, several times to admonish directly, Li Chun took advantage of the topic to play, drove Zhang Hongjing out of Chang'an, rushed to Hedong, and became Wang Chengzong's neighbor. In the campaign against Chengde, Hedong was originally one of the six major feudal towns, but Li Chun deliberately did not let Zhang Hongjing interfere, so that Zhang Hongjing not only did not tear his face with Wang Chengzong, but even had kindness to Chengde, Wang Chengzong had to sell his face.

The war against Chengde ended in nothing, it seems that Chang'an consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, but did not get anything, in fact, in this seemingly futile battle, Li Chun basically achieved his goal, he not only skillfully diverted the attention of the people, to the greatest extent to eliminate the negative impact of the assassination of Zai, but also taught Wang Chengzong a lesson, cut off one of Wu Yuanji's arms, although it can not be said that it was earned, but it can be regarded as basically keeping the capital.