Li Zhongshu, who came out of the Wuying Hall and made another vote, wanted to return to the cabinet, and when he walked to the Guiji Gate, he saw the old man Lu of the Ministry of War standing in the porch.

Li You hurriedly stepped forward and asked earnestly, "What is waiting here, my lord?" Don't freeze, wait for the juniors to find a brazier. ”

"No need, the old man has something to say to you."

Li You listened to it.

Lu Shangshu frowned and said, "If someone else sits in your place, they will probably be satisfied, and they won't think about it again for the time being." But in you, you can only see self-esteem, fighting for power, quick success, and manic spirit. ”

Regarding Lao Shangshu's words, whether he listened to it or not, Li You could only respectfully and silently.

"In my guess, it's all inferiority complex, causing you to behave narrow-mindedly, are you just afraid of being looked down upon by others? At the beginning, you were just a small official, although you were unrestrained and wanton, you still did not lose your freedom, and now the small officials in the past suddenly stood in the temple and palace, I think you are restrained and suppressed in your chest, so that things will be restless..."

It's a pity that everything is inferior in these years, only reading is high. Li You, a family heirloom official, who has no half of his education, but the miscellaneous stream in the miscellaneous stream is mixed in the temple, and when he sees Lu Shangshu, he only dares to call himself a junior, but he can't be called a late student.

After feasts, court meetings, and deliberations, the surrounding education is so high that it is at least a second-class jinshi, and it is difficult to see even a third-class jinshi with a low ranking, or it is the prince and the noble, and the spiritual pressure of Lord Li, who is located at the grassroots level, is not what ordinary people can imagine? After all, when he came to power, he was too short, but his bearing took time to precipitate. Even if the mentality is unbalanced, why not do everything possible to prove yourself through various means, or the little people instinctively erect spikes to protect themselves?

"It's also common to be similar to you, and most of the people who are on the side are unstable after they become wealthy, and most of them are like this. But you are too exaggerated, the old man has been in the sea for decades, and he has never seen a person as good at fighting as you, and he actually fought out of the world. Now you have some qualifications, and many people can't reach them in their lifetimes, so what else do you want. Therefore, Hugh should be inferior and self-angry again, and it is best to calm down and be a mediocre official first. ”

When he said this, Li You confided in his true heart: "Most of the juniors are sent by the ministry, and the official position in the [***] system is not an exaggeration, how can the younger generation be at ease?" ”

"If you don't feel at ease, you have to be at ease!" Lu Shangshu talked about others again, "Jinghe is the fifth year of the competition, Chen Yingzhen is the second in the second grade, which can be called the best, but he is not allowed to be elected to Hanlin as a common man, you should know about this?" ”

Chen Yingzhen is the old boss who promoted Li You to the officialdom, as if Chen Zhixian Chen Xundao of the protagonist template. He was born in a wealthy family, he was a poor scholar who was selected as an enlightenment teacher when he was a child, and after 20 years he became a secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu and is expected to enter the cabinet, he won the fifth place in the Jinshi at the age of 23, he promoted a little brother in the county to be able to conquer the world and pull the prefect off the horse, he had a good opportunity to serve as a real five-grade small official at the age of twenty-five... Even Li You, the horn of Allah, is still ashamed of himself.

Of course, Li You vaguely heard about the past of his old boss. Of course, the best way out for Jinshi is to enter Hanlin, followed by the six departments, and Lord Chen, the fifth Jinshi, does not enter Hanlin and does not stay in Beijing, but runs to the local magistrate county, which is indeed an unusual road. "It seems that he was too low-key back then, so others didn't know his relationship with Xu Shangshu, and he was replaced when he was elected as a magistrate, so he left Beijing to become a magistrate."

Lu Shangshu asked rhetorically: "With the power of the official secretary, can't Chen Yingzhen, who should be righteous, be added to Hanlin?" Everyone in the world regards Beijing officials as precious, but why did Lord Xu put Chen Yingzhen in Jiangnan, which is far away from Beijing? ”

Li You still didn't understand what Lao Shangshu was talking about Chen Xundao.

"In the past two years, it must have been a troubled year for the imperial court, and Lord Xu just kept Chen Yingzhen away from Beijing to avoid trouble. How many times have you seen the real turmoil in the Huan Sea? Know what's awesome? Even Lord Xu doesn't want to put his beloved apprentice in Jingshi, and you, the person who rushed in by mistake, dare not be low-key and forbearance as a rafter? If the old man remembers correctly, the original intention of you to come to Beijing was to go to prison. ”

Although Lu Shangshu said it was more vague, Li You couldn't even hear the warning meaning, so he had really been in the officialdom for nearly two years... What other plans can Xu Tianguan, who is already a supreme minister, have? Do you want to go directly to the cabinet as the first scholar? It's not impossible to think about it, the two top-ranked candidates in the cabinet now are Yuan Ge Lao and Peng Ge Lao, who are not good in Li You's eyes, and they don't have the temperament of the first assistant.

Among the civil officials of foreign dynasties, Xu Tianguan's prestige is not low, and his voice is the highest. If Xu Shangshu and Zhao Zongxian carry out a round of purge of the Beijing officialdom at any cost, and then rely on the election of foreign dynasties to directly enter the cabinet and jump to the first place, the probability of success of becoming the first candidate for the first assistant in the future is not small.

All in all, the spirit of today's speech is nothing more than that: Xu Tianguan's plan is very big, and the accompanying risks are also great, and even what he brings to you is not small. Before, you were considered a powerful miscellaneous current, and you took advantage of the momentum of the heavenly official to jump to a position that no one had ever seen before. But it's time to stop here, with your background and age limitations, even if you jump fiercely in the future, can you still surpass your current status?

In this general trend, everyone with a reasonable surname should understand that of course do not do things that only bring risks but no benefits.

Just like Li You, who saw the clouds, he had to be convinced, the pattern in his heart was indeed a little worse, and we also had to learn to be a person with a big pattern.

For the whole afternoon, Li Zhongshu sat in the cabinet and pondered his own path. From my own point of view, the pioneering and enterprising stage should indeed be over, the borrowing momentum is almost borrowed to the top, there is nothing to forge ahead, and the following should be the main thing to keep ... Be low-key, low-key.

When Li You returned to his residence in the evening, he saw Han Zong, who was guarding the door, taking out a post and reporting: "Guide to the master of the horse and invite the master to come over for a drink." ”

Li You automatically replaced the three words "Horse Master" with "eldest princess" in his ears, warmed up his body in the house, and went out to the east of the city.

The reason why Guide Chitose summoned him, Li You doesn't need to think about it, it must be related to the salt matter, and today he just presented the three salt laws.

When we arrived at the Horse Mansion, it was already dark. Li You nodded to Lin Yuma and Wang Yannu in a friendly manner, and walked into the warm pavilion to wait for the drive.

But today, it's strange that Guide Chitose has actually arrived first. She was dressed in a plain dress with emerald green dark stripes, and she was flipping through a book inside, reading very intriguedly.

"Let Your Highness wait for a long time, for sins and sins." Li You bowed his hand and saluted.

"Well, I happen to be reading quietly here."

Li You sat down casually and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Compendium of Wu Zong's Records. I saw that Liu Jin, a generation of eunuchs, in the early years of Zhengde, in order to gain a reputation for being able to do things, specially presented the four articles of the salt law. Sure enough, as you said, history is always strikingly similar. "His Royal Highness Chitose said seriously.

…… The other party was too noble, and Li You didn't dare to ridicule him, so he could only express his dissatisfaction with silence.

The eldest princess of Guide put down her book and talked about business again, "The one surnamed Cheng, can you introduce me to me?" ”

"Don't you have the surname Cheng in your hand?"

"Don't be confused, you know who I'm talking about."

Li You sneered, even if you are the eldest princess, you can't pick peaches so justifiably?

Guide Chitose smiled a little proudly: "It's impossible for you to handle the salt matter, rather than holding on to it, it's better to introduce the surname Cheng to me." ”

After such a few intimate contacts, Li You was already quite familiar with some of the expressions of the eldest princess, and at this time, when he caught a glimpse of the smile on the corner of her lips, his heart suddenly lit up. Pointing and shouting, "It turned out that you were doing bad things for me!" ”

Today, the Empress Dowager in the Wuying Palace will secretly pass on the minister, and she must have nothing to do with the woman in front of her! Maybe she coaxed the Queen Mother to do this!

The eldest princess of Guide turned a blind eye to Lord Li's fingers, did not admit or deny it, and just commented: "I have been in the palace for many years, and I have never seen such a strange performance, and it is really eye-opening to write together the provisions that may be circulated with the black book that slanders others in private." But your three are very good, and you do have some worldly talents, and even I underestimated you before. ”

Li You, who felt that he had been hacked, was angry, could it be that his face was still a little cheaper? A little excited: "You are like this again, and you are like this..."

However, in order to keep the plan, the strong woman in the palace in front of her still has to make friends. In case Xu Tianguan loses without fighting, she can also be regarded as a life-saving straw, so Li Zhongshu can only forcibly suppress dissatisfaction.

Besides, a low-key policy has been set, and it is okay not to mix those bad things that involve the interests of all aspects, anyway, I have successfully established a new image by sacrificing the three articles of the salt law, and it is not a loss.

Thinking of this, Li You said: "Tomorrow, I will ask Old Man Cheng to visit the princess's mansion, and you will be as you like." ”

The eldest princess couldn't believe it, and Li You, who had always been slippery, agreed so simply and happily? She prepared six contingencies to deal with Li You, but none of them took into account the situation that someone had promised in one go.

What tricks does this man have up his sleeve? Guide Chitose sat in the soft chair and meditated, puzzled.

Li You reluctantly drank a few sips of tea, got up very boredly and said, "Your Highness continues to think, I take my leave." ”

The eldest princess put aside her distracting thoughts and couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you ask me?" Why am I preventing you from going to the salt business? ”

"Do you need to ask? God knows, you know, I know. Li Youli pretended not to care at the door of the house, and his mouth was full of yin and yang.

Guide Chitose's pink face twitched a few times, held back his anger and gritted his teeth and said: "Do you know that Taizu has a law, and Su people are not allowed to be officials in the household department!" Therefore, I don't need the Su people to handle the affairs of the household department, you really want to do the salt affairs with the household department, I am afraid that the impeachment of you can drown you in an instant! Do you know what's wrong! ”

Ah, so I misunderstood her again? Li You returned to the house in embarrassment. "Who told you to always do something misleading. At this time, it was too cold outside, so I still didn't leave. ”

(To be continued)