The atmosphere of the Shang Dynasty this time seemed very unpleasant, not only Yuan Shanjian felt it, but even some people from the Yuan clan also felt it, Gao Huan may have a big move in the future. But they had no choice but to wait, the economic and military power of the entire country was concentrated in his hands alone, and the emperor was just an ornament, not to mention the nobles who relied on Gao Huan's snort.

Gao Huan this time Yang Xiuzhi, Xu Mingzhi, Gao Longzhi, Yang Kan, as well as Sima Ziru, He Batsheng, Sun Teng, Murong Shaozong and others all gathered in the palace of the king of Qi, except for Gao Yue, who was also in charge of suppressing the town in Taicheng, they were all his henchmen, and they were the core figures of his ruling group.

First of all, he proposed to establish his own shogunate, similar to the military attaché ruling body like the Great General's Palace, and then set up a cabinet group, tentatively designated as Zhongshutai, the main person in charge is Yang Xiuzhi and Sun Teng, Sun Teng is the right order of Shangshu, is positive, Yang Xiuzhi is Shangshu left order as the deputy, but the powers of the two are almost the same.

The general's mansion is a sacrificial wine for the army, and at the same time, he is also the secretary of the Qi Palace, which is equivalent to Gao Huan's dual core personnel. His eldest son, Yang Tan, was a squire in the household department of Shangshu Province. The second son Yang Qiu served as a supervisor in the Yushitai, and the third son Yang Kun served as a Lang official in the Ministry of War. Obviously, this can be arranged by Gao Huan, his purpose is to win over the bureaucrats of Nanliang, so that more Jiangnan scholars who want to serve but sell their reputation like Yang Kan can rest assured and boldly follow him to fight the world.

The leaders of the military group in the Northeast are basically Sima Ziru's old subordinates, which is also instructed by Gao Huan, after Sima Moru stepped down from his retirement, he planned to let Murong Shaozong take over his position, sit on the handle of the nineteen counties of the three states in the northeast, and reclassify Anzhou, Pingzhou, and Yingzhou into his sphere of influence. However, the Luoyang area and the prefectures of Dingzhou, Xiangzhou and Shandong are more annoying, and there are forces from all sides, and there are dogs and teeth intertwined, including the territory of the royalist Yuan, the pro-Gao Huan Li Erhu forces, and the neutral faction in the DPRK.

It's easy to do in other places, Gao Huan is most worried that there will be problems with the headquarters of Yecheng, he and Yuan Shanjian have a very general relationship, and the two have also had a lot of contradictions, and they have been public and semi-public. So it is very questionable whether the emperor will support him to re-establish a ruling system. However, Gao Huan also has a unique skill, he gathered all his 200,000 troops in the Neihuang area of Dunqiu, nominally to rest the whole part for review, but in fact, he wanted to use force to coerce the emperor.

This trick was Yang Xiuzhi's idea for him. These people all want to be from the dragon, but Gao Huan has never expressed his intention to seize the throne and become the emperor, which makes them very embarrassed, and they don't dare to say something too clear, but at this time, these people obviously feel that Gao Huan is in a different state from before, and it is very likely that he will do something big. This made them feel hope that their wish to climb the dragon was about to be fulfilled.

Gao Huan did not expect that as soon as his new management structure and mechanism were introduced, they were obstructed by the old diehards, and many government decrees could not be promulgated. Gao Huan has more things to deal with every day, and they are often not official affairs, but he is reconciling the contradictions between various new departments and old departments.

"Prime Minister, we can't continue to consume like this, the New Year has passed, but our new management mechanism is almost paralyzed, and it will be very dangerous to go on like this." Yang Kan took advantage of Gao Huan's lack of business that day, so he discussed with him. Gao Huan has indeed been busy enough because of these things recently, and they are all trivial things, but most of them are related to those old school obstructions, which makes him feel unprecedented pressure and frustration.

Gao Huan put down the cinnabar pen in his hand, looked at Yang Kan and sighed: "Alas, I won't tell you, I've really had a headache because of this matter recently." I can't find the point to start at all, so tell me how to get these things done. Yang Kan then said: "Prime Minister, in fact, this matter is also simple, but we haven't found the key." Gao Huan asked with great interest: "How do you say it, you can tell me in detail." ”

Yang Kan smiled and said: "The reason why the new rules cannot be implemented is entirely because the old ones are unwilling to give up their established interests, and they are not willing to start adapting to the new rules again. Gao Huan said in his heart, didn't you say the same? It's something we all know, and it's all about how to solve it. Yang Kan saw that his face was not worried, so he continued: "The conservatives refuse to back down because they think they have someone to support them, so they dare to resist together. And they have to get their key core people right, and this thing will be easy to do. ”

Gao Huan thought about it when he heard this, what Yang Kan said was a way, but how to find the black hands and core characters behind them? Yang Kan continued: "The emperor's power is still too great, and it needs to continue to weaken, and some old clan ministers in the court should also retire and retire, and some of them are really unable to do their current work but they still sit in a high position and command. The people below who have a bit of backbone and can't go along with them have been exiled or even demoted, and those who remain are flattering villains, this officialdom will only become more and more corrupt, how can it get better? ”

Gao Huan understood Yang Kan's meaning a little in his heart, it turned out that the primary purpose of reform was to eliminate corruption and forming parties for personal gain, not to set up any new rules, which was just a palliative approach for a management group. So Gao Huan humbly asked: "Then where should I start?" Yang Kan said with a smile: "If there are those people in the old school who advocate boycott in the court, we will give priority to eliminating these people." As for the emperor's side, I think Cheng is more aware of it. ”

As soon as Yang Kan said this, two faces instantly appeared in Gao Huan's mind, one was Yuan Shanjian's uncle, Zhongshu Provincial Xingtai Shangshu, Guangyang Wang Yuanhong, and the other was Taifu Zhou Wenqing, these two old thieves have always been against Gao Huan, although they didn't dare to disobey openly, but many things were done by him privately, and many times Gao Huan couldn't get off the stage, Gao Huan had long thought about cleaning up these two old things.

But how to deal with these two people, Gao Huan had an idea in his heart, first the Taifu Zhou Wenqing opened the knife, this old thief is a womanizer, sixty-eight years old this year, the family has just married the forty-seventh aunt's wife, he is not satisfied, and recently he is looking for a new little wife, this person is full of benevolence and morality, and his stomach is full of obscene things of male thieves and female prostitutes, and people have privately nicknamed him the old perverted pig.

It was too easy to bring down Zhou Wenqing as Gao Huan, he asked Xu Mingzhi to collect evidence that Zhou Wenqing bullied men and women, and then let many victims gather together and go to Dali Temple to sue him, and then arranged for Yang Xiuzhi to personally supervise the case, so that all the officials who took over knew in their hearts that it was he Gao Huan who was drumming up this case.

Soon Zhou Wenqing was sentenced to dismissal, told the old man to return to his hometown, before leaving, Gao Huan deliberately sent three hundred taels of silver tattooed silver and a set of imperial court clothes, pretending to see him off, and those friends and disciples of Zhou Wenqing in the court and other officials were all seen clearly by Gao Huan, and after he came back, he was transferred or found an excuse to be dismissed and investigated. Zhou Wenqing's faction was quickly cleaned up.

So now Gao Huan has to deal with Yuan Hong, this is actually not simple, although he is over seventy years old, he still has an amazing amount of food, and he can also ride and shoot, Gao Huan is not afraid of him when he arrives, but he is worried that he will not be able to completely remove his cancer. Because Yuan Shanjian will definitely come out to stop his actions, and he will not sit idly by like he did with Zhou Wenqing.

Therefore, if Gao Huan wants to move Yuanhong, he must be correct and conclusive and have good reasons, but such people rarely have a handle in the hands of others, and Gao Huan can't bear to be lonely. At this time, there was a case that made him instantly feel that he could bring down the number one enemy in the imperial court, and this matter was very sensational, and even the Luoyang area had heard of it.

Because of Yuan Hong's special identity, and he is a relative of the emperor, so the pomp is particularly large, there are three housekeepers in the palace alone, one is the housekeeper of the inner house, one is the housekeeper of the outer house, and the other is the housekeeper of the bookkeeper, among the three housekeepers, this housekeeper of the inner house is the most powerful, why? Because many foreign officials and local petty officials who have no way to pay a visit to Yuan Hong, this housekeeper of the inner government is usually responsible for receiving these people, so in the eyes of ordinary people, this housekeeper is not good.

Yuan Hong's downfall was unfortunate for this housekeeper, so what happened to make him all dragged into the water? It all starts with this housekeeper second. This person is a native of Yecheng, and he grew up drinking the water of the Zhanghe River, but this person is bad when he is young, and he belongs to the kind of pus on the soles of his feet and sores on his head, which is very bad. When he grows up, he has nothing to do and is idle, and he follows a group of scoundrels in the market all day long as bastards, and he hasn't married a wife in his thirties, which girl is willing to give him such a person?

Coincidentally, Ji Er has a relative's son who works as a janitor in Yuan Hong's palace, and it stands to reason that this position has no future, but he often sees some people dressed very luxuriously from his relative's house, and he also comes to visit this relative's son with gifts, Ji Er is very puzzled, so he often deliberately approaches this person, and the two families are also relatives, plus the two are of the same age, so they became good friends.

The son of this relative told Ji Er that he was in the palace, although he was the gatekeeper, and in the eyes of the prince and the housekeeper, he was a watchdog, but they had a way to make money, and some officials from other places who went to Beijing to report on their work almost all had to go to the Guangyang Palace, and if you want to see the prince in the palace, you must first pass the housekeeper's pass, but if you want to talk to the housekeeper, you must first give the doormen a little benefit, more or not, in short, there is still a silver of one or two taels at a time.

I can earn a tael of silver at a time, my mother, how much do I have to earn in a month, and how much do I have to earn in a year? If you can watch the door in the palace, you can build a small building and marry a daughter-in-law in a year, and life will be different from now on. So he begged the son of this relative to help him say good things, and he also wanted to get into the palace as an errand boy. Where does the son of a relative have such a big face, so he honestly said that the palace will start recruiting people at the beginning of the year every year until the fifteenth day of the first month.

Ji Er was relieved that if he wanted to enter the palace, he only needed to have a relationship with the steward who recruited people in the palace, so he inquired in many ways that the person in charge of recruiting people in the palace was a person named Sun Liu, and Ji Er tried his best to get close to him, spent all the money to buy Sun Liu, and even mortgaged his own house. Later, his father found out about this and was half angry to death, and almost didn't beat him to death.

Sun Liu is really a trustworthy person, and he received the money from Ji Er to do things for him, and soon informed Ji Er to prepare to go to work in the Wangfu report, Ji Er thought that he could also go to work, who knew that when he arrived in the palace, he learned that he was arranged to be a waiter for Yuan Hong, what kind of post is this, that is, after Yuan Hong sleeps at night, Ji Er is guarding in the outside room, and the prince wants to get up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet or needs something, at this time Ji Er has to run to arrange for him. That is, a drudgery that specializes in night shifts.

Ji Er was very unconvinced, his dream of making a fortune was completely in vain, and he went bankrupt into the palace, and now he is good to show people the toilet and wipe his buttocks, if his father knows about it, he may be angry. The maids and old mothers in the house often make fun of him, and they have to go to the toilet at every turn, and they are angry, but they don't dare to quarrel with the girls, thinking in their hearts, you wait for me, if I get up one day, see how I clean up your stinky girls. (To be continued.) )