The two prime ministers were at the same time, and this matter was like a bomb, which immediately made the central court of the Tang Dynasty, which was originally just an undercurrent surging, and was calm on the surface, suddenly made a noise and commotion.

Compared with this, whether it is necessary to establish a yamen in the Jianghuai transfer envoy, whether it is appropriate for Li Xi to be in charge of a yamen when he is too young, and whether it is necessary to rebuild the Guangtong Canal with great effort, naturally no one cares about it anymore, even if it is the crown prince Li Hong, who was most concerned about this series of events before, at this time, with Xiao Song and Han Xiu, the two prime ministers, he couldn't help but be diverted, and instead put most of his attention on the court.

So, just when the government and the opposition were boiling all of a sudden, and at the same time the undercurrent began to surge, Li Xi once again beat his horse and left Chang'an.

Of course, he also likes to gossip, although he is not qualified to participate in such a big game at the moment, but it is not a pleasure to hide and watch the excitement, but he knows that for his current self, there is an extremely important thing waiting for him to do, and he really does not have time to waste his mind on these things.

Of course, he also knows that if the candidate for the prime minister is someone who is more on the right path with him, such as Su Jin, such as Li Linfu, such as Zhang Jiuling, etc., then there is no doubt that he will provide better support and help in the next rebuilding of the Guangtong Canal and other follow-up Cao Yun affairs, and if it is replaced by those who do not deal with him very well, or even people who have a certain degree of rejection of themselves at all, then there is no doubt that even with the support of Emperor Xuanzong, I, the Jianghuai transfer envoy, will also be constrained to a certain extent.

Therefore, before leaving, he deliberately set the charter.

He asked Li Yifeng, who stayed in Chang'an, and Luo Kedi, the shopkeeper of the Jiannan Shaochun Chang'an store, to summarize the news in Chang'an City every day, and even asked the two people to attach their own views and opinions, and then, report it every day, and directly send the news to him with a fast horse, so that he could stand outside Chang'an City at any time and watch this political drama.

If nothing else, Zhang Jiuling and Li Linfu have already written in history that they will definitely take the stage to pay respects to the prime minister, but the question is, will they succeed in the turmoil of the government and the opposition this time?

Regarding this point, even Li Xi, a traverser, is not sure.

On the contrary, before leaving Chang'an, Luo Kedi had analyzed it like this: No matter experience, vision, skill, prestige, and status in His Majesty's mind, etc., Zhang Jiuling has reached the level of worshipping the prime minister, if it is not surprising, this time after Xiao Song and Han Xiu paid homage at the same time, he may have at least seventy percent of the surnames on the stage to worship the prime minister. The only obstacle is that he is still mourning his mother at the moment, so it is difficult to say whether His Majesty will take the situation away.

As for Li Linfu, he has been very favored by His Majesty in recent years, but the problem is that whether it is prestige or actual control, he is more than one grade worse than Zhang Jiuling at the moment, so the possible surname of his worship is about less than 20%. Of course, to put it mildly, when Xiao Song paid homage to the prime minister, it was obviously deficient in all aspects, but as long as His Majesty was optimistic about him, he would also take the stage to pay homage to the prime minister, so in the final analysis, it still depends on the meaning of Emperor Xuanzong.

Compared with the two future prime ministers that Li Xi is familiar with, when analyzing, Luo Kedi is more optimistic about Pei Yaoqing, who was the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion and the Jianghuai transit envoy at the time.

According to his analysis, first of all, Pei Yaoqing was born in a famous family, and his father Pei Shouzhen once served as the head of the household, first of all, this foundation is different, and secondly, he is an official and has a good reputation in the government and the opposition.

Third, he has a rich resume, and no matter what he is in, he has significant political achievements, he was a boy at an early age, and then successively served as Chang'an Ling, Jeju Thorn History, Jing Zhaoyin and other official positions, last year the imperial court north expedition to Khitan, he was also appointed as the deputy general of Xin'an Wang Li Yi, responsible for coordinating logistics such as grain and grass, and made great contributions to the final triumphant return of the army.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that he served as the commander of Chang'an in the early years of the new century, and he has great political achievements, and until now, the methods he used to govern Chang'an are still being used, which is extremely praised. To some extent, he is an official who has only begun to emerge since Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, and he is a symbol of the surname that Emperor Xuanzong has worked hard to create during his tenure.

Such a person, although he looks at the qualifications and so on at the moment, may not be enough, and even he has never been in the central government, and has always been a magistrate, so when everyone speculates about the candidate for the new prime minister, even if they think of him, they all lightly let it go, thinking that there is no possibility, he wants to pay homage to the prime minister, at least he has to go to the central court for a few years to experience enough qualifications. However, Luo Kedi felt that judging from the current situation, the possibility of him paying homage to the prime minister was not necessarily absent, and it was not even small.

Of course, this is just Luo Kedi's private analysis, Li Xi doesn't remember that there is a character Pei Yaoqing in history, but after coming to Chang'an, he gradually heard about his reputation and deeds, so he was skeptical. However, thinking of his historical level, he has no confidence to overturn Luo Kedi's inference, besides, Pei Yaoqing is the Jianghuai transfer envoy, his own boss, and his attitude towards Cao Yun is fully supportive, Li Xi really can't wait for him to come to power.

Before leaving, when he went to the Yin Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to report to Pei Yaoqing and resign, he also talked about the candidate for the new prime minister, and even Li Xi was a little tempted, but Pei Yaoqing's reaction was extremely flat.

He just said at the time: "Xiao Han and the two are both public and gentle, the government and the opposition are all excited, and they all want to take this opportunity to fish in troubled waters, in fact, how stupid, at this juncture, you are willing to leave Chang'an and go out to do something down-to-earth, this is a good thing, do it seriously, do it well, and there will be everything you should have." ”

These words sound both affirmation and encouragement to Li Xi, as well as disdain for the current chaos in the government and the opposition, but what exactly it means, Li Xi can only figure it out in private, and he does not dare to say anything about it.

On November 21, Li Xi left Chang'an, leaving Li Yi in charge of handling the general affairs of the Jianghuai Transit Envoy Department, and Yang Shenyu in charge of continuing to move around the other yamen in the DPRK and China, and continuing to win all kinds of support.

On 24 November, after Weinan County joined Wei Yue and other people who had come out earlier, a group of officials and officials from the Jianghuai Transit Mission, including Li Xi and Wei Yue, including a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, including relevant people urgently transferred from Jingzhao Prefecture and Shaanzhou, and a group of school captains who had followed Li Xi out last time, traveled eastward again along the old road of Weishui and Guangtong Canal, which had begun to freeze, and collected information on various terrain and water conservancy along the way, and after various discussions, Finally, a plan for the re-dredging and repair of the canal was formulated.

On the seventh day of December, Li Xi and others returned to Chang'an again, and after three days of intense busyness, they formally put forward three plans for rebuilding the Guangtong Canal, with the Jianghuai Transit Envoy Yamen as the mainstay, supplemented by the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, Jingzhao Mansion, and Shaanzhou.

This efficiency alone is jaw-dropping.

However, now the issue of the selection of the new prime minister in the court is still secretly surging, and there are many discussions on the surface, not to mention that there is no one in charge of the political affairs hall without the prime minister, and even the yamen such as the six departments and nine temples of the imperial court have no intention of working seriously at all.

Therefore, although Li Xi officially submitted three sets of plans for rebuilding the Guangtong Canal after Pei Yaoqing countersigned, after receiving this plan, whether it was the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Households, it was only temporarily thrown aside, and no one paid attention to it.

just caught up with such a tense moment, even if Li Xi was in a hurry to do things, he was not very easy to urge.

Xiao Song and Han Xiu sent a message at the same time, and for a while, there seemed to be a sudden power vacuum in the court, and Emperor Xuanzong had no clear meaning and direction for the new prime minister.

Therefore, not to mention the eagerness of the scholars of the six departments, even some people who seem to be impossible at all have begun to move up and down, at this time, people's minds are not here at all, if you have to urge people to work for you, but you don't want to recruit people, or even offend people.

Besides, anyway, now that Weishui is frozen, the entire land of Guanzhong is frozen hard, even if the court has raised enough manpower and material resources to pass the plan, it is impossible to start construction immediately, so even if you wait, it's nothing.

So, after serving as the deputy envoy of Jianghuai and being busy for more than two months, Li Xi was rarely idle again. At this moment, although Li Xi is also extremely concerned about the selection of the new prime minister, the water in this is really too deep, with his current qualifications, he will feel scared if he doesn't step on one foot in it, and if the wave is a little bigger, it may be possible to get him, a petty official from the sixth grade, into it and never struggle again, so he will not be stupid enough to walk around.

And in fact, after Li Xi returned to Chang'an for the second time, Su Jin also specially sent someone to send a letter, telling him about this matter, and he also said that now that the waves in Beijing are uncertain, let Li Xi not mix indiscriminately, or do things honestly. Even he said euphemistically in the letter that if there is no matter too important, it is best not to go to him in the near future.

In this paragraph, not only Su Jin, but also several others such as Li Linfu, Pei Yaoqing and others are all closed-door guests without exception.

In this case, although Li Xi has not experienced any changes in officialdom, he also knows it very well, so in addition to going to the yamen every day to look at the past cases and records, and reconsider his own methods, most of the rest of the time he is at home to read books and practice calligraphy, and he will never come out.

However, in the midst of this rare leisure, on December 14, someone suddenly came to the door, and Song Jing, the prince of Guangping County, suddenly sent someone to invite him to come over to the house.

(To be continued)