Pei Ju came out of the imperial study and returned to his official room, his heart was still full of confusion, he was not puzzled about Zhang Xuan's being knighted, but the inside story hidden behind this matter.

What especially made Pei Ju a little uneasy was that Yu Shiji obviously knew about this matter, but he was concealed, which was a bad signal, and the saint no longer trusted him.

Of course, Pei Ju also knows where the source of this distrust is? It was because of Zhang Xuan that the Shengshang began to be dissatisfied with himself, and it was he who strongly recommended Zhang Xuan to the Shengshang in Zhuo County.

Pei Ju paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, a little restless in his heart, he was actually not upset because the saint had distrust of him, it was not the early years of the great cause, now the world was in turmoil, and the court was declining, Pei Ju didn't care whether the Son of Heaven trusted him, he was thinking more about the future of the Pei family.

What made Pei Ju feel disappointed was that the Pei family could obviously get the greatest benefit from Zhang Xuan, but he didn't seize the opportunity, but was taken advantage of by Yu Shiji.

Pei Ju already knew the key role played by Yu Shiji in Zhang Xuan's appointment as Hebei's envoy, and the saint originally wanted to appoint Zhang Xuan as the envoy to the Guannei to crusade against the Yan'an County bandit Liu Jialuan, and finally Yu Shiji persuaded the saint to let Qu Tutong serve as the envoy of the Guannei and Zhang Xuan as the envoy of Hebei.

In the final analysis, his mentality is wrong, he wants Zhang Xuan to become the general of the Pei family, so that there is a rift between him and Zhang Xuan, the fundamental reason is that he looked down on Zhang Xuan and valued Cui Wenxiang, which made him make a fundamental mistake.

However, Pei Ju also understood in his heart that his opportunity was not completely lost, and Pei Hong and Pei Xingyan were reused by Zhang Xuan. He knew that Zhang Xuan did not completely close the door to repair relations with the Pei family.

Where you fall, you get up again.

At this time, an attendant reported at the door: "Doctor Pei is here!" ”

Pei Ju was about to look for Pei Yun, but he didn't expect Pei Yun to come by himself, so he hurriedly said, "Invite him in!" ”

Soon. Pei Yun hurriedly walked in, and as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to ask, "Brother, what happened?" ”

Pei Ju was stunned, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Brother, don't you know? The government and the opposition were all in a sensation, the Son of Heaven actually crowned Zhang Xuan as the general of the Right Yiwei, the Duke of Qi Guo, the Kaifu Yi and the Three Divisions, even if the royal family did not have such a high official, what happened? ”

Pei Ju smiled bitterly. "You ask me, and who do I ask?"

"But my brother has just come out of the imperial study, will my brother not know?" Pei Yun obviously didn't believe Pei Ju's words.

Pei Ju walked to the door and instructed his henchmen who were standing outside the door: "Watch the door outside, except for someone in the palace who comes to deliver the news, I won't see anyone else!" ”

The entourage saluted and walked out of the outer room, and Pei Ju closed the door of the inner room. Only then did he wave his hand and say to Pei Yun: "Sit down and talk!" ”

The two sat down, and Pei Yun asked in a low voice, "There are rumors in the market." Jang Hyun is planning to rebel, are the rumors true? ”

Pei Ju sneered, "You have been a doctor for so many years, do you believe this rumor?" ”

"Of course I don't believe it, it's just that the Son of Heaven is a bit unreasonable to crown him this time, which makes me have to doubt it."

Pei Ju pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, I don't know what the reason is. The Holy One summoned me just to let me go to Qinghe County to announce the decree, but I knew that there must be an article in it."

As soon as Pei Ju said this, there was a knock on the door, only to hear the entourage say outside the door: "Pei Gong." A wax pill was sent to the palace. ”

Pei Ju hurriedly got up, opened the door and took a small wax pill, the entourage retreated, Pei Yun stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Who sent this wax pill?" ”

"It's the inner palace steward Wei's, when the saint was still the king of Jin, she was the personal maid beside the saint, and now she is named the secretary of the palace, in charge of the inner palace, now in the palace in addition to the queen mother, that is, she has the greatest power, the living of the Son of Heaven is arranged by her, even the queen mother can not interfere, but this woman is extremely greedy for bribes, before I gave her three thousand taels of gold, the palace affairs do not want to hide me."

Pei Ju said as he cut open the wax pill with a knife and took out a piece of paper the size of a fingernail from it, with only one word 'Li' on it.

Pei Ju slapped his head suddenly, it turned out that it was because of Li Yuan, all kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart like lightning, and he suddenly understood everything, "I understand, no wonder the Holy Lord wants to crown Zhang Xuan as a heavy lord!" ”

"Brother, what the hell is going on?" Pei Yun asked anxiously.

Pei Ju didn't answer directly, he sat down, pondered for a moment, and finally said word by word: "If I guess correctly, the Guanlong nobles are going to rebel." ”

Pei Yun was taken aback, "Could it be that the Li character on the piece of paper just now refers to Li Yuan in Taiyuan?" ”

Pei Ju nodded slowly, "It's him!" This is the reason why the Son of Heaven wants to reseal Zhang Xuan, stabilize Zhang Xuan, and go all out to deal with Li Yuan and the Guanlong nobles. ”

Pei Ju couldn't sit still, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands, he thought that the Wuchuan Mansion was re-established in the middle of the Yuan Festival last year, which meant that the Guanlong nobles began to openly oppose the Son of Heaven, after more than half a year of planning, the Guanlong nobles should be almost ready, and the Son of Heaven should have obtained secret information, so he was so nervous, and when he entered the palace, he saw that the Son of Heaven was very angry, in fact, it was not completely aimed at Zhang Xuan, a large part of it was aimed at the Guanlong nobles.

"Brother, what should we do then?" Pei Yun said worriedly.

Pei Ju sat down again and said in a low voice: "Actually, I've been thinking about this matter these days, and seeing that the world is about to be in chaos, our Pei family must make a choice." ”

Pei Yun nodded silently, he understood his brother's worries, the Pei family has today's status because of its proximity to power, if it loses power, the Pei family is afraid that it will be completely overwhelmed by the Taiyuan Wang family.

"Is my brother going to bet?"

Pei Ju laughed, "You are right, I decided to bet, I plan to cancel the marriage contract with Cui Zhao, Dou Qing once hoped that Dou Pei and the two families would marry, but I never agreed, and now I think I can consider it." ”

Pei Yun was taken aback, "Did my brother decide to let the Pei family detain the Long nobles?" ”

"No, I'm here to burn the incense of the Guanlong nobles, and the virtuous brother is in charge of the Shandong Shi clan, and our Pei family bets at both ends."

Since the news came out in the palace in the morning, the Son of Heaven named Zhang Xuan as the general of the Right Yiwei, the Duke of Qi, and the three divisions of Kaifu Yitong, Lu Zhuo immediately became the focus of attention of hundreds of officials, and all kinds of congratulatory words rushed to the face, and many officials sent a letter of worship, expressing their willingness to let their son worship as Lu's protégé, etc., so that Lu Zhuo was overwhelmed, and he asked for leave to return home under the pretext of being unwell.

Lu Zhuo's mansion in Jiangdu is located near Nanshi, it is a middle house covering an area of five acres, his wife Cui Shi returned to the old mansion in Zhuo County, Lu Zhuo has only one concubine Jiang to take care of his daily life, and Lu Chu's son Lu Youlin is studying in Jiangdu Taixue and also lives with him.

In the study, Lu Zhuo closed his eyes and recuperated, today he had a terrible headache, the concubine Jiang knelt behind him, and gently massaged his head acupoints, at this time, his nephew Lu Youlin said outside the door: "Uncle, Uncle Li Shi is here, do you want to see him?" ”

The Li Shishu mentioned by Lu Youlin is Shangshu Zuocheng Li Shoujie, the head of the Li family in Zhao County, and the father of Li Qingming, who joined the army under Zhang Xuan, and has the deepest friendship with Lu Zhuo.

It stands to reason that it is not impossible for Lu Zuo to see him, but he is now under the pretext of being sick and not seeing guests, if he lets Li Shoujie come in, it will offend other officials, so Lu Zhuo waved his hand, "Tell him that I am sick and ask him to come back another day!" ”

Jiang Shi reminded in a low voice behind him: "Master, it's not too good to go back like this!" ”

Lu Zhuo turned his head and glared at her, "What do women know!" ”

Jiang Shi was too frightened to say anything, but Jiang Shi also reminded him that such a refusal was indeed a bit rude, Lu Zuo thought about it, then went back to the table and wrote a note, walked to the door and handed it to his nephew, "Give him this note, please bear with him!" ”

Lu Youlin went down, Lu Zhuo lay back in Jiang's arms, pointed to her head, and asked her to continue massaging, on the surface Lu Zhuo was very annoyed, but in fact he was overjoyed, his son-in-law turned out to be a general, the Duke of Qi Guo, and Gao Xi was the same lord back then, how blessed their Lu family was, his wife actually disliked Zhang Xuan back then, fortunately his daughter insisted, and his daughter had a vision.

At this time, his nephew Lu Youlin appeared at the door again and reported in a low voice: "Uncle, Pei Yushi is here, and he said that there is something important to discuss with the uncle." ”

Lu Zhuo hesitated a little in his heart, Pei Yun held the power of supervision, but he couldn't afford to offend people, did he see it or not?

"Did he say anything?"

"He said that the uncle was about to come to a catastrophe."

Lu Zuo was so frightened that he sat up, Jiang Shi was caught off guard, and his chin hit Lu Zuo's forehead hard, Lu Zhuo didn't care about the pain in his forehead, and hurriedly covered his forehead and said, "Please ask him to wait in your guest room, I'll come right away!" ”

"Master, it doesn't matter!"

Jiang Shi herself was in tears, but she couldn't take care of herself, and hurriedly stroked Lu Zhuo's forehead, Lu Zhuo pushed her away, "Don't worry about this, change my clothes quickly!" ”

Jiang Shi hurriedly put on an official robe for him, and took a black cage hat for him to put on, Lu Zhuo gave a few orders, and then hurriedly walked to your guest room. (To be continued.) )