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Wei Zheng suddenly spoke: "Li Baiyao and Gao Biaoren, the pharmacist can find a way to make friends." ”

Li Jing was slightly stunned: "Why do you want to befriend these two frustrated civil officials?" ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "Li Baiyao has always been famous, and this person is not quite the right way with Yang Guang, he was the former prince Yang Yong's East Palace bachelor at the earliest, and later after Yang Yong was unlucky, he was promoted by the lord and became a member of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Guang, who was the prince at the time, also wanted him to return to the East Palace as a staff member, but he refused, so Yang Guang must have a grudge against him, and it is estimated that this time the governor of the state and county will definitely demote him to a remote area." ”

Li Jing nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, revenge will be avenged, which is in line with our emperor's character." But what is the need for Gao Biaoren to make friends? In order to win over the high servant to shoot? ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "No, Gao Xi and Gao Servant will not be co-opted, I'm talking about Gao Biaoren." Lord, you won't be upset, will you? ”

Wang Shichong thought of the two talents who had broken Li Baiyao and Gao Biaoren, and he was amused for a while, and a smile appeared on his face, and his brows, which had been a little frowning just now, stretched out: "The third son of high school has a few hard bones, the Gao family has been unlucky in the past few years, and he has stayed at home all day, but he must hate Yang Guang to death." ”

Wei Zhengzheng said: "Gao Biaoren is a nerd, but he also has a bit of backbone, and he has a bit of high-mindedness. After Yang Yong's accident, Gao Biaoren never divorced the county lord of Daning and broke off the relationship with Yang Yong's family, but the husband and wife were very affectionate. This matter is rumored to be a beautiful talk in the capital. In recent years, Gao Biaoren has also cultivated himself. often corresponded with famous literati such as Li Baiyao and Ouyang Xun. Although he is not an official, he can be regarded as half a celebrity. ”

"My lord, in the troubled times, this kind of Qingliu celebrity represents the taste of the family, and it must not be offended. Otherwise, even with the dignity and authority of the lord, if you don't get the approval of these people. If you are given a non-violent non-cooperation, that is very difficult to do. ”

Wei Zheng turned to Li Jing and said, "After the pharmacist returns to the Eastern Capital, I am afraid it will not be easy to get acquainted with high-ranking generals or important ministers in the court, but it is still possible to associate with Li Baiyao and Gao Biaoren." ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "In this case, should we also have a good relationship with Xue Daoheng, the current leader of the literary world?" His influence among the literati is much greater than that of Li Gao. ”

Wei Zheng immediately said: "Absolutely not." ”

Wang Shichong let out an "oh" and asked, "Why not?" ”

Wei Zheng sighed and said, "The lord doesn't know, this Xue Daoheng and Su Wei had a good relationship back then, and they could wear a pair of pants." After the incident of Su Wei's party and private window. Xue Daoheng was also unlucky and was exiled to Lingnan. At that time, Yang Guang was still the head of Yangzhou. heard about Xue Daoheng's matter, took the initiative to make friends, and asked him not to go to Lingnan, but to come to his governor's mansion as a staff member, and after a while, Yang Guang pleaded with the emperor to settle the matter. ”

But as a result, Xue Daoheng was too high-minded, refused Yang Guang's invitation, and went directly to Jingzhou to Lingnan, without even going to Yangzhou to meet Yang Guang, which hurt Yang Guang's heart as a literary young man who wanted to get close to his idol. Lord, how do you think Yang Guang will treat Xue Daoheng with his personality? ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Xuancheng, are you thinking too much?" According to what you say, then Li Baiyao has also offended the emperor, why do we want to befriend him again? ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "The situation of the two people is different, although Li Baiyao is talented, his reputation is far inferior to Xue Daoheng, and he can't get into Yang Guang's eyes, the reason why he wanted to win him over at the beginning was only because Li Baiyao was a former Donggong bachelor, and he was Yang Yong's person." Yang Guang also did this for Yang Yong's subordinates in the past, in order to calm his mind. In fact, it doesn't matter if Li Baiyao comes or not, even if he refuses Yang Guang, he won't take it too seriously. ”

"But Xue Daoheng is different, he is the current leader of the literary world, a super idol, who refused Yang Guang's initiative back then, and the harm to Yang Guang was so deep that I am afraid that Yang Xuangan took the initiative to refuse Yang Guang's door-to-door proposal."

Li Jing suddenly said: "But I heard the news that Yang Guang is going to recall Xue Daoheng, who is an official abroad, back to the capital to serve as a secretary and supervisor, specifically responsible for drafting the edict. ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "Now is Yang Guangchu's ascension to the throne, and he still has to calm people's hearts, so it's not the time to start." Including last year's Yang Liang rebellion, Yang Guang also gave Yang Liang a life in order to show his leniency. But whether it is Yang Liang or Xue Daoheng, they will be liquidated sooner or later, and even Gao Xi and Gao Servant can't avoid this ending. ”

A huge shadow floated in Wang Shichong's heart, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Didn't the emperor let Gao Servant shoot back as an official? Why are you going to attack him again? ”

Wei Zheng sighed and said to Li Jing: "Pharmacist, the high servant you said just now has come out to be an official again, what kind of official is it?" ”

Li Jing said: "The letter that Li just received the day before yesterday was brought by my brother who asked the post guard to come to Yingzhou to take office. The letter said that Gao Servant was reinstated as Tai Changqing, responsible for ceremonial music and sacrifices. ”

Wei Zheng's face became extremely ugly, and his eyes barely moved, obviously contemplating and thinking, and after a while, he spoke: "If I remember correctly, one of Yang Guang's most favored ministers now, Pei Yun from Hedong's Wenxi Pei family, is now being Taichang Shaoqing." ”

When Wang Shichong heard this, his brain suddenly "boomed", and he was suddenly speechless.

Pei Yun is from the branch of the Pei family in Shandong Wenxi, and the same as that Pei Ju, it can be regarded as the branch of the Pei family. During the Wuhu Rebellion, Pei Yun's ancestor crossed to the south of the Yangtze River, Pei Yun's grandfather served as a guard general in Nanliang, and his father Pei Ji did Nanchen's Duguan Shangshu (Criminal Department Shangshu), and Pei Yun himself also did the Zhige General in Nanchen, Xingning Ling.

When Wu Mingche, the general of Southern Chen, went on the Northern Expedition, Pei Ji set off with the army, and was later captured by the Northern Zhou Dynasty with Wu Mingche, and died of depression in the north more than ten years later. And Pei Yun is because his father is in the north. I saw Nan Chenjun again clearly. It will be destroyed by the Northern Dynasty. So he secretly gave Yang Jian a table and asked for it as an internal response to the Sui Dynasty's southern expedition.

Later, after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Yang Jian summoned all the well-dressed people in Jiangnan who had been officials in Nanchen, Pei Yun was also among them, Yang Jian remembered that Pei Yun had taken the initiative to take refuge in the table, and out of the need to win over the hearts of the people in Jiangnan at that time, Yang Jian immediately decided to give Pei Yun an official position with the same five grades.

Gao Xi thought that this official position was too high, even if it was a famous general of the Southern Dynasty like Zhou Luohu. It was only an official position of Yitong, and Pei Yun was just a seventh-grade county magistrate in Nanchen at that time, just because he secretly gave Yang Jian a seal to ask for internal response, he suddenly became a fifth-grade Yitong, which is really unreasonable.

So Gao Xi bluntly said that this official position was given too high, and admonished in the court: "Pei Yun has no merit for the country, but he was awarded a high-ranking official, and the minister thinks it is inappropriate." ”

Yang Jian immediately responded: "Then be a master for Pei Yun." All of a sudden, Pei Yun's official was promoted from the fifth rank to the fourth grade.

Gao Xi was in a hurry at that time, and further bluntly admonished, but in exchange for Yang Jian's words: "Then add another mansion!" So Pei Yun was suddenly promoted to another level. has become the Kaifu Yi and the Third Division of the Fourth Grade, the same as the official position of Yang Xiang, the former Nanchen General who really led the party. Gao Xi didn't dare to speak anymore. I'm afraid that if I open my mouth again, I will help Pei Yun continue to be promoted.

After Pei Yun entered the Sui Dynasty, he has been the assassin of Yangzhou, Zhizhou, and Lizhou for more than ten years, and he has been shrewd and capable in office, and his political achievements have been excellent, and he has always been praised. As soon as Yang Guang ascended the throne this time, he recalled him from the post of Lizhou Assassin and entered the central court as Taichang Shaoqing.

When Wang Shichong thought of this, he understood that Pei Yun was blocked by Gao Xi in front of his official path, and he must have a grudge against Gao Xi, and now Yang Guang has made this Pei Yun Gao Xi's deputy, and he is responsible for this ritual and sacrificial affairs, and it is clear that he wants to catch Gao Xi and put him to death.

When Yang Jian was in power, he was thrifty, and once asked Niu Hong to be in charge of disbanding the royal band of the Northern Zhou Dynasty on the spot, leaving only a small number of members who played and sang orthodox Yan sù ritual music, and all the other musicians were sent home.

And with Yang Guang's greed for money and lust, and the personality of pursuing enjoyment, he will definitely re-recruit those artists who can make a sound and have strange skills into the royal court band. Pei Yun did this in the position of Taichang Shaoqing, but Gao Xi, an old-fashioned and upright antique, would definitely oppose this matter, so his ending was basically predictable.

Wang Shichong thought of Gao Xi's dismal fate in the future, and thought that he had received a lot of care from this high servant when he was under Gao Xi, although he also killed An Suiyu in the end, but in any case, he was also a kind old man to himself, and his heart was a little uncomfortable for a while, and even his nose was a little sour.

Li Jing also realized this and sighed: "Yes, above the officialdom, every step is frightening, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, when the emperor was there, although the high servant shot was exempted from the official at home, but at least he could protect his life, and now that Yang Guang has ascended the throne, I am afraid that the high servant shoots will want to ask for a field and will not be able to get it." ”

Wei Zheng felt that the atmosphere had become a little depressed and dull, so he snorted: "The pharmacist is right, blessings and misfortunes are relied upon, and misfortunes and blessings are lurking." It is destined that Yang Guang will shoot at Gao Fu, which will create conditions for us to win the support of Gao Biaoren and Li Baiyao. After the pharmacist returns, he must not get too close to them first, so as not to be implicated, these people have no soldiers and no power in their hands, only some fame among the literati, and there is no need to have deep friendships. ”

"All you need to do is show some sympathy for what they're going through, and comfort them when they're frustrated. They are not stupid, and if that happens, they will know what to do. ”

Li Jing nodded: "Li knows how to do it, so please rest assured." ”

Wang Shichong was bowing his head and pondering together just now, and after Li Jing and Wei Zheng finished speaking, they looked at Wang Shichong together, and Wang Shichong didn't seem to realize that his two subordinates were waiting for him to make a decision, or thinking in a daze, until Wei Zheng called out softly, "Lord", he slowly raised his head.

Wang Shichong glanced at Wei Zheng and said slowly: "I don't have any opinion on Xuancheng's measures just now, please ask the pharmacist to handle it accordingly." Xue Daoheng, are we looking for someone to notify him, let him close the door, and refuse guests to come to the door, so as to avoid trouble? ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "Now that the lord himself is difficult to protect, don't make any more extraneous branches." If the lord really can't rest assured that Lord Xue is down, then Wei will repair a book. Let one person go and persuade Lord Naxue. Lord Xue will definitely listen to him. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "Xuancheng." Are you overconfident? Xue Daren, the leader of the humanities, a generation of writers, even his father may not have the face to persuade his old man to close his door, although you are famous in Hebei, but after all, the foundation is still shallow, and now you are clothed, which royal family and nobles can be persuaded to make Lord Xue obedient? ”

Wei Zheng's face showed a confident smile: "The person I'm talking about is the former chief Ge Ling. Supervising the imperial history, Fang Yanqian. ”

Wang Shichong suddenly thought of the Kanto talents he had recommended to him when Wei Zheng first voted for him, and there was this Fang Yanqian's son Fang Xuanling, not only laughing.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Lord, this Fang Xuanling Li has also heard of it, and it is very famous, although Li has not seen this person, but the comment of the high servant of the Ministry has already been in Daxing City. It spread among the younger generation of officials in Shangshu Province. Perhaps because of the big wind, this Fang Xuanling was not transferred to Shangshu Province. Instead, he was given the official position of a county lieutenant and was sent to Xicheng in Bingzhou. ”

Wang Shichong suddenly lost his voice and said: "Xicheng? And state? So he became Yang Liang's subordinate? ”

Wei Zheng showed a regretful expression on his face, nodded, and said: "Yes, that's right, although he didn't follow Yang Liang to rebel together, but persuaded the county order to close the city gate and hold on until the official army arrived. When the lord's army conquered and annexed the state, he also helped solve a lot of logistics grain and grass transfer. However, he was implicated in Yang Liang's rebellion, and almost all officials in the prefecture were dismissed or demoted. ”

Fang Xuanling was no exception, he was demoted to Fuzhou, north of Guanzhong, as a treasurer from the eighth grade. Before Wei came back to Yingzhou, he also went to see him off. ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "This Fang Yanqian Fang Xuanling father and son are extremely rare talents, Xuancheng, according to what you say, we should make friends with such talents as soon as possible, and find a way to use them for us in the future." It can be much more effective than Li Baiyao and Gao Biaoren's stream. ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "This matter must not be done, it is impossible for this father and son to join our future plans now." ”

Wang Shichong said curiously: "What's the matter? When Fang Xuanling was the emperor for seventeen years, he said such a lot of rebellious words to Xuancheng, and now he has been demoted and transferred, will he still be loyal to the court? ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "No, no, Fang's father and son may not be much loyal to the imperial court, but they are very accurate in their positioning, that is, they are good ministers of the auxiliary country, not overlords." You expect them to divide one side like Xiao Miao, become the princes of a town, and even want to win the world, that is impossible. ”

"So to put it bluntly, they are good birds that choose trees to perch on. Although Fang Xuanling has never discussed this kind of major event with Wei since he discussed the general trend of the world with Fang Xuanling seven years ago, Wei can see that his heart is still not calm, and he basically has no hope for the Great Sui under Yang Guang's rule, and now he just wants to find a master in troubled times. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "In this way, this Fang father and son are actually essentially the same as the pharmacist, and they want to go down in history as virtuous ministers, do you think they will follow us in the future?" ”

Wei Zheng sighed, shook his head, and said, "I'm afraid it may not be." ”

Wang Shichong's face changed and said, "How can this be? ”

Wei Zheng looked at Wang Shichong squarely, and said: "Lord, do you know, Fang's father and son are typical Shandong families, although the Fang family themselves are not one of the five surnames and seven wangs, but they are only willing to be loyal to the super family such as the Wang family, the Xie family, and the Xiao family who were born in the five surnames and seven wangs, or the Southern Dynasty. ”

Wang Shichong couldn't cry or laugh, he heard for the first time that someone would think that the royal status was not noble enough and refused to be an official: "Then this Fang family has been an official in Qingzhou for generations, could it be that the Murong family of the Xianbei clan, Liu Song who was born in the low-ranking scholar clan of the Southern Dynasty, and the Gao family of the Northern Qi Dynasty, they are the five surnames and seven wangs?" ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "That's different, the world was divided at that time, who can dominate the world is not yet known, the few families you said are just a small dynasty established by secession of Qingzhou, if you can assist such a country to dominate the world, then the Fang family can leap into a top wealthy family comparable to five surnames and seven hopes." ”

"But later, the Great Sui Dynasty dominated the world, the five surnames Qiwang and the Guanlong military nobles, as well as the families in the south of the Yangtze River have occupied the high-ranking positions in the court.

Later, this was exactly the case, although Fang's father and son were famous, and there was no shortage of famous ministers like Gao Xi and Gao Xiaoji, they couldn't be promoted. Fang Yanqian is now over the age of sixteen, and he is just a Sima of Yunzhou, and Fang Xuanling is an eight-rank official in charge of the treasury in the state government, and he doesn't know how many years he will have to wait if he wants to come out. Therefore, Fang's father and son should have been disappointed in Da Sui a long time ago, and now they are just observing it coldly. ”

"Fang Xuanling once mentioned this to me, he thinks that if the royal family is noble enough and is the kind of super family, then there is no need to promote people who are also from a big family or a famous general family to support themselves above the court."

"And the more emperors from small and medium-sized families, or even commoner emperors, the stronger their own family power is, the more they need to rely on the big families to help them stabilize the world, or they need to marry powerful relatives."

"Lord, it can be seen that what the Fang family wants to take refuge in the future is probably the real super family, although the lord is famous all over the world, but I am afraid that it will not be in the eyes of their family, and he may not choose the lord as the lord at the beginning."

Wang Shichong sighed: "I can't imagine that this Fang father and son are so knowledgeable, but they still can't avoid the opinions of the superiors, which is chilling." ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "This is the general view of the middle families, in the troubled times, the common people follow the strong and follow the heroes, but these ordinary Han families are interested in the family or the royal family, the former is famous, and the latter has the name of righteousness." Lord, if you can play the card of Yang Zhao at that time, maybe Fang's father and son will come to take refuge. ”

Li Jing hurriedly said: "Yang Zhao? Are you talking about Yang Zhao, the prince of the East Palace? ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "Exactly, this person is completely different from Yang Guang, the reputation of Corporal Chongli has spread all over the world, and he is a truly benevolent person." ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "The prince's benevolent name is well known to both the government and the opposition, but his current situation is not good." The crown prince was thrown in Daxing by a person, and it seems that he wants to repeat the mistake of Yang Yong, the king of Fangling (after Yang Yong's death, Yang Guang gave him a posthumous title of the king of Fangling, but he could not shadow his descendants, so Yang Yong's children are still the identity of the concubine). ”

Wei Zheng glanced at Li Jing and continued: "But in this way, inside and outside the government and the opposition, in the public opinion of the world's corporals, Yang Zhao has received great sympathy, just like the emperor back then, even if he abolished the world's schools, he failed to block the world's scholars' sympathy for King Fangling. ”

And now Yang Zhao is more pitiful and innocent than the King of Fangling back then. In addition, he has always had the reputation of benevolence and filial piety, and he is also benevolent and righteous to his wife Xiao Cui, and his reputation is much better than that of King Fangling, who is addicted to wine. If he can really survive until we get into trouble, and when the time comes, after we remove the tyrant from the throne and help him ascend the throne, then mainstream families like the Fang family and his son will definitely surrender to us with sincerity. ”

Li Jing stroked the beard under his chin with a smile and said, "What Mr. Wei said is extremely true. Li admired. ”

Wang Shichong's face became ugly, and his brows were deeply locked: "But can Yang Zhao survive until that time?" ”

When Wei Zheng heard this, his body shook slightly, his face became a little pale, he closed his mouth and couldn't speak.

Wang Shichong looked at Wei Zheng, pondered for a while, and said, "Let's discuss one last thing today, how to deal with Changsun Sheng in the future, pharmacist, Xuancheng, what do you think?" ”

Wei Zheng smiled, didn't speak, and looked at Li Jing, the meaning was obvious, and he wanted to hear his thoughts first.

Li Jing pondered for a moment and said: "Li wants to figure out one thing first, the story of General Changsun's division of the Turkic khans and finally using various military and political means to defeat them is well known, but what else is there that ordinary people don't know?" For example, as the lord said just now, when Renshou Palace changed, what was Changsun Sheng, who was in charge of guarding Daxing City at that time and leading the soldiers of Fanshangfu outside the city, doing? (To be continued......)