Han Yu is gone, Liu Zongyuan is dead, who will be the next unlucky? Speaking of which, you may not believe it, it is Pei Du, Pei Du who has worked hard. Once, Pei Du was Li Chun's most relied on minister; Once, Li Chun was Pei Du's strongest backing; Once, they were kings and ministers; Once, they worked together; Once, they sincerely cooperated to rectify the decadence of the late Tang Dynasty; Once....... It's a pity that everything that was once was just a past.

As the first hero to pacify Huaixi, Pei Du's heart will always undergo some changes, some subtle changes. In fact, it is not surprising at all, with such a great achievement, it is inevitable that everyone will have some pride, and it is understandable that they will their tails. Fortunately, Pei Du is a measured person and does not do anything excessive. However, even these subtle changes were seen by Li Chun, and then they were expanded, infinitely.

All along, Li Chun has a string in his head, a very tight string, party struggle. Li Chun, who has a strong desire for power, is ruthless and resolute in cracking down on anyone and anything that may endanger his power. Whether it is the loyal Li Jiang or the upright Wei Guanzhi, as long as they are hit by the rumors of party disputes, they are all ruthlessly ousted by Li Chun. Now, the protagonist of the rumors has become Pei Du, can he escape the fate of being degraded?

In order to prevent the slightest escalation, in order to strangle all possible dangers in the cradle. Pei Du, the time has come for you to leave, whether you are a party or not. It's just that I still need a chance, a chance to drive you out of Chang'an.

Soon, the opportunity came!

The war is not over yet, the smoke of gunpowder has not yet dissipated, and pride has been written all over Li Chun's cheeks. In recognition of his great achievements, Li Chun decided to give himself a reward, a big reward. But what to appreciate is the question, is it the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, or the silk and satin? Is it a treasure, or is it a jewel? Is it a BMW fragrant car, or is it a beautiful jade? No, it's neither, Li Chun is already annoyed and tired of these, if you want to reward a big one, it is best to be both happy now and keep it for the future. In this way, after he ascends to the fairy world, he can also leave some relics in the rolling red dust for future generations to watch and admire. At the same time, it also allows future generations to remember the immortal exploits of Li Chun, the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty, in reorganizing the rivers and mountains and the prosperous atmosphere of the Tang Empire. How can this be done? Carved stone Jigong? This, already, is in Huaixi. Leave a name in history, this, for sure, but that's in the future, I want now! By the way, do a project, do a big project!

The first step of Li Chun's image project is to overhaul the Lin De Palace. Li Chun, who was full of interest, never expected that this first step would meet resistance. The resistance comes from two people, two people who are not very important, one of them is Zhang Fengguo, the commander of the Right Dragon Army, and the other is the general Li Wenyue.

Dissatisfied is dissatisfied, and they have no problem, because in the Tang Dynasty, they have no weight in their words, no weight at all. So, they found Pei Du.

Pei Du hadn't taken action yet, but Li Chun had already seen everything. In addition to anger, Li Chun suddenly realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, realizing this, Li Chun took action without hesitation, he vigorously disposed of the two mouthy unlucky ghosts, transferred Zhang Fengguo to Hongluqing, and cut off his military power; As for that Li Wenyue, he kicked out of Chang'an directly. Li Chun wants to use this way to warn Pei Du, as well as the civil official group behind Pei Du, you, you'd better be good to me, otherwise, hum!

Sure enough, Pei Du remained silent about this matter. Because, he knows very well that most of this matter is aimed at himself, and if he is rashly involved, it will only make things worse. Pei Du remained silent, and the civil official group behind him also remained silent, taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Chun repaired the Linde Palace, dredged the Longshou Pond, and built the Chenghui Palace. At this time, Li Chun was completely immersed in the pleasure of building an image project, completely ignoring the feelings of the ministers, and not paying attention to the cold gaze inadvertently revealed by the ministers.

After winning the first battle, Li Chun was interested, and he decided to make persistent efforts to override Pei Du. The current prime minister's team is almost all Pei Du's people, and they must be replaced! In fact, he already had an ideal candidate in his mind, and there were not one, but two, these two people who were selected by Li Chun, one was called Cheng Yi, and the other was called Huangfu Rong.

Cheng Yi is a good person, however, a restrictive adverb of time should be added in front of it, once. Yes, once, Cheng Yi was a good person; Once, Cheng Yi was a filial son, and the history books said that he was "filial to his father"; Once, Cheng Yi was a loyal minister, enthusiastic and loyal; Once, Cheng Yi was a righteous person who stuck a knife in his friend's ribs; Once, Cheng Yi had a group of like-minded friends and comrades, their names were Wang Ling, Wang Shuwen, Liu Yuxi, and Liu Zongyuan...... That's right, Cheng Yi used to be the cadre of Yongzhen Group, one of the famous "Yongzhen Eight Simas". When Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan embarked on the long road of debasement, Cheng Yi also embarked on the long road of derogatory Yuezhou, and soon, he was demoted to Chenzhou Sima, which was another downgrade.

Perhaps it was this derogation that completely changed Cheng Yi. Cheng Yi, a hot-blooded young man who once pointed out the country, exalted words, and dung the marquis of Wanhu back then, accidentally kicked into a quagmire called politics, and fell deeper and deeper, until he sank to the bottom of the pool. However, Cheng Yi, who sank to the bottom of the pool, suddenly realized that he had turned into a loach, drilling around in the black and deep quagmire, which was really like a fish in water, like a tiger with wings.

Cheng Yi, who is like a fish in water and a tiger with wings, soon ushered in a turning point in his career, because he was appreciated by a person, this eyeless or very eye-opening person is named Li Xun, Li Xun, who was the salt and iron transport envoy at the time.

It's strange to say, the best financial management masters of the Tang Empire seem to be concentrated in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the decent Du You is just that, Liu Yan, a prodigy in the Dezong period, is a great financial expert, under his governance, the empire's tax revenue has reached a new height, and, in the following decades, Liu Yan has been imitated, never surpassed, even the old and virtuous Du You can't, until Li Xun appeared.

From Du You's hands, taking over the position of salt and iron transfer envoy, Li Xun showed his superhuman financial talent. After serving for one year, Li Xun equaled Liu Yan's record; In two years, Li Xun left this record far behind; In three years, he set a new record, which is a full 1.8 million more than the original record!

However, the best financial management master in the Tang Empire does not seem to be Li Xun's turn, because there is still a Cheng Yi, Yongzhen Yu Cheng Yi.

Under Li Xun's care, Cheng Yi quickly left the cold Xiaoxiang and returned to the bustling Yangzhou, regaining the seat he had sat in many years ago, and staying in Yangzhou.

Here, Cheng Yi's unparalleled financial talent has been vividly brought into play; Here, Cheng Yi has created his own brilliance. He went deep into the Jiangbiao to discover the source of taxes, and in his hands, "the disadvantages of Jianghuai Qiangu have been eradicated many times", and the empire's finances have been greatly improved because of the difference. It is no exaggeration to say that if there is no Cheng Yi, there will be no magnificence of thousands of horses galloping on the Huaixi battlefield; If there is no Cheng Yi, there will be no chic when Li Chun built the image project. In this sense, the greatest hero of the Huaixi Campaign was neither Pei Du nor Li Yu, but Yongzhen Yu Cheng Yi! Therefore, even the history books that have always belittled the "two kings and eight Simas" have to admit that Cheng Yi is a person who has contributed to the empire.

However, Cheng Yi is still isolated, because he is an eternal remnant of everyone who looks at him; Because, he is a money valley official who does not enter the clear stream; Because, he is a villain that one person despises.

Saying that he is a villain should not be wronged, because, judging from all indications, it seems that he did do some disgusting things, such as stabbing his friend in the back, and the friend he betrayed is likely to be Liu Zongyuan, a generation of literary heroes Liu Zongyuan.

When Cheng Yishi's journey was smooth sailing and the sesame seeds were blooming, his old man, Liu Zongyuan, a generation of writers, was struggling in the land of miasma. In order to avoid the bleak ending of dying in a foreign land, Liu Zongyuan pinned his hopes on the end of his pen. As a result, letters with humble words flew into the hands of large and small magnates in Chang'an. These people, of course, had his friends, but there were also strangers he had never met, and even political enemies who had attacked his father-in-law, and poor Liu Zongyuan only hoped that among them might reach out a helping hand to help him out of his current predicament.

Cheng Yi's visit to the prime minister should have been Liu Zongyuan's last and best opportunity, because they used to be like-minded comrades; Because, they used to be best friends who poured out their hearts and lungs; Because, they used to be brothers of the same spirit. However, Liu Zongyuan, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, did not send any signal to the former old man for help. In his thick collection of poems, we do not find a single poem in which the two of them sang harmony with each other. Obviously, former comrades, friends and brothers have long since parted ways and completely broken up. As for the reason for the rupture, perhaps, we can find the answer from Han Yu's "Epitaph of Liu Zihou". In this not too long epitaph, Han Yu spared no effort to portray a kind of villain who fell into the well: when his friends were proud, he wept and swore to die; When his friend was down, he turned against him and fell into the well. Although he did not name names, we have reason to believe that what Han Yu is alluding to is Cheng Yi!

Yes, Cheng Yi is a villain, but he is a talented and useful villain. Needless to say, a respected moral role model is not necessarily a well-educated Confucian, such as Hai Jui, as some people comment: Hai Jui, you are a good person, but useless; Similarly, the innocent villain referred to by Qianfu is not necessarily an ignorant and reckless person with an empty belly, such as Cai Jing, whose despicable behavior of bringing disaster to the country and the people is certainly well known, but his beautiful calligraphy also has to make us sigh: This old boy is really talented!

Useless gentleman, useful villain, if you are the leader, who do you choose? We have no way of knowing how others choose, anyway, Li Chun chose the latter.

If Cheng Yi is a hypocrite, then Huangfu Lu is a real villain, a complete villain, the best of villains, the best villain!

Cheng Yi's brazen skills have obviously not been cultivated to the extreme, and he still needs to take care of his own face, so he naturally has some scruples when he acts. Compared with Cheng Yi, Huangfu Lu is the number one master who is proficient in brazen skills, because his skin is thick enough, thicker than the bend of the city wall! When the brazen skill is cultivated to a certain level, the skin is thick to a certain extent, it will become thinner, and it will be so thin that there is no skin, and the emperor will reach the highest level of no face and no skin.

After a few years of ups and downs in the sea, Huangfu was keenly aware that Li Chun was a strong monarch, very strong. Any minister, in Li Chun's eyes, is just a chess piece, so he can treat it as nothing. Therefore, as long as you serve the high Son of Heaven, you don't have to care about the cold gaze that can be seen everywhere in the court. Since then, how to shoot the emperor's sycophant, no, it should be said that the dragon's fart, has become a problem that the emperor racked his brains to think about: Li Chun favored the eunuchs, so he condescended to the nobles and hooked up with the eunuchs; Li Chun was superstitious about Buddhism, so he spared no effort to recommend Fangshi; Li Chun needed money, a large sum of money, so he openly wrote a letter to ask for a reduction in the salaries of the ministers of the interior and abroad, which was not enough, and he took a large amount of property from the people and offered it to the Son of Heaven as a surplus; The silk fabrics in the inner treasury are piled up, many of them have become obsolete, Li Chun has a headache for this, and Huangfu Yu obediently moved the user department to buy these worthless rags at a high price, and then supply them to the soldiers at the border gate...... Li Chun was thirsty, so Huangfu brought the best fragrant tea that was neither cold nor hot; Li Chun was hungry, so Huangfu skillfully handed over the exquisite snacks that had just come out of the drawer; Li Chun was sleepy, and the emperor sent a pillow to him; Li Chun misses a woman, do you guess, will Huangfu Lu give his wife happily? In this way, the emperor's dragon farts one after another, patted Li Chun comfortably.

filmed Li Chun comfortably, and Huangfu had a better time with his own small life, completely ignoring the mountains of impeachment notes for him in front of Li Chun's imperial case. 's mother is dead, and the emperor who still haunts Willow Lane on Flower Street in a big way, how can he take these so-called public opinion in his eyes? As long as the Son of Heaven likes it, everything is OK, and everything can be done.

Such two villains referred to by Qianfu actually worship each other at the same time, which is unbearable! Pei Du was angry, completely angry, and the angry Pei Du had no way to look forward and backward, he stood up without hesitation, and wrote three times, and his words became more and more intense each time. He strongly demanded that Li Chun dismiss Huangfu and Cheng Yi, two "market merchants" and "clever villains", otherwise, he would be ashamed to be with them and go away.

Pei Du naively thought that in order to keep himself, Li Chun would definitely dismiss those two villains. But, Pei Du, you are wrong! What a mistake! Because, he had fallen into Li Chun's trap, and when he read Pei Du's recital, a sly smile flashed across the corners of Li Chun's mouth, and with a stroke of his pen, he drove Pei Du out of Chang'an.