readx; As night fell, a carriage drove into Xingdaofang quickly, more than 100 guards vigilantly guarded the left and right, in the carriage, sat Zhang Yun, who had just been promoted to the right minister, Zhang Yun was lying comfortably on the wall of the car, squinting his eyes to look at the situation on the street, and some small details that he was familiar with became vivid in his eyes at this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Groups of children chase and fight, refusing to go home when it gets dark, two women sit at their own doors and ask each other for dinner, with comparisons and show-offs in their tones, and a drunkard hides near his house, desperately washing his face with ice and snow......

Zhang Yun smiled and closed the car curtain, he was indeed full of ambition in his heart, and the appeal of more than ten years has finally become a reality today, and the political hall has unanimously passed a resolution to agree with the proposal of the Queen Mother, and officially appoint him as the right minister of the Zhongshu Order.

Zhongshu ordered the right minister, the head of a hundred officials, when the emperor was vacant, the power of the right minister became more important, but it is a pity that the ruling pen rotates in the various phases, otherwise Li Linfu's power back then could not compare with him now.

Although he couldn't get back the ruling pen, Zhang Yun was still satisfied, what he wanted was this title, the title of the right minister of the Tang Dynasty.

The carriage was swaying slightly, Zhang Yun closed his eyes, he wanted to think about it again and talk to Li Qingan later, this was his official debriefing before taking office.

In fact, Zhang Yun also understands that the reason why Li Qingan chose him as the right minister is not because of how much ability he has, the right minister he really wants to appoint is Pei Min, those people in the privy council, those are the real ministers who govern the country, but now he needs to make a transition, and after he ascends the throne, his right minister will come to an end.

This is also the reason for reusing his son, so that he can retire willingly in the future, these Zhang Yun understands, he doesn't care, what he wants is a name, as long as he can sit in the position of right minister, even if he only sits for a year, he is satisfied.

The carriage gradually slowed down and stopped in front of the gate of Li Qing'an's Zhao Wangfu, Zhang Yun got out of the carriage, straightened his clothes, and walked briskly to the steps.

Generally speaking, the visit between important ministers is very particular, first of all, the appointment time, it is estimated that the time is almost up, the visited party will send the son to wait, or brother, and then the host will come out to greet him, in short, he cannot let the guest stand in front of the door and wait, which is not only a kind of rudeness, but also a manifestation of great disrespect for the other party.

Of course, if you are not invited, that's another matter, in that case, the visitor will sit in the carriage and wait, not stand at the gate, like a flower child, waiting for the host to come out, and the face will not be good.

However, there is a bit of an exception in Zhao Wangfu, Li Qing'an's son is only more than a year old, he can't greet his father, and he doesn't have a brother to help, Li Qing'an won't come out in advance to wait in the cold wind, even if he arrives early, the visitor doesn't dare to sit in the carriage and wait, after all, Li Qing'an is already a powerful person, just like being summoned by the emperor, the emperor is eating, and Xiangguo can only bask dry under the poisonous head.

Zhang Yun walked up the steps and smiled at the porter: "Please go and report to your prince, just say that Zhang Yun is visiting." ”

"It turned out to be Xiangguo, please wait, I'll go!"

The porter rushed away, Zhang Yun stood in front of the door of the house, waited patiently with his hands behind his back, and after a while, there was a sound of footsteps in the door, and then the side door opened, only to see Li Qingan greet him with a smile, "Let Zhang Xiangguo wait for a long time, it's rude!" ”

Zhang Yun's heart was relieved, Li Qingan actually greeted him in person, instead of letting the soldiers take him in, in his memory, Li Qingan personally went out to welcome the guests, all of them were led in by the soldiers, and Zhang Yun's face suddenly felt glorious.

"Where! It's me who came early to disturb His Highness's rest. ”

"Zhang Xiangguo is polite, in my memory, this seems to be the first time Zhang Xiangguo came to my house!"

"I've wanted to come for a long time, but I'm afraid that His Royal Highness will not let me enter the door because of the amount of food I eat."

Zhang Yun's humor made the two laugh out loud, and the atmosphere immediately became relaxed, "Please! Please! Please! There is still a little rice in the rice tank at my house, so I can afford Xiangguo. ”

The two walked into the mansion with a smile, and Li Qingan invited Zhang Yun to his outer study, which is also a great honor, a man invites a friend into the study, just like a woman lets others look at her wardrobe, and there is no special relationship that she can't enjoy this kind of treatment.

Zhang Yun saw that Li Qingan did not invite him to the reception room, but went to his study, he was really a little flattered, and he felt that Li Qingan attached importance to him.

The two sat down in the study, Li Qing'an's concubine Rushi served them fragrant tea, which is also a very high treatment, Zhang Yun has never heard of Li Qing'an letting his concubine serve tea to guests, usually maids, or pro-soldiers.

Li Qingan's detailed arrangements made Zhang Yun feel that today's meeting would be unusual, and Li Qingan must have a big deal to discuss with him, but Zhang Yun did not directly enter the topic, but chatted about family life first.

"I heard that His Royal Highness has adopted another adopted daughter, which is really gratifying!"

Li Qingan sighed and said, "Hey! Speaking of which I am not afraid of Xiangguo's jokes, I like children the most, but the heirs are thin, so far there is only one son and one daughter, lonely under the knees, fortunately, the princess is about to give birth, I hope she can add another child to me. ”

"Actually, I think it's because His Royal Highness has few wives and concubines, His Highness has only five wives and concubines so far, which is a bit out of line, and the ministers of the court and the central government also have a lot of complaints about it!"

"Really?" Li Qingan smiled: "I don't know ...... Zhang Xiangguo"

Men are always a little proud when they mention that they have many women, whether it is a porter or Xiangguo, Zhang Yun smiled and said: "I only have one wife, but there are twenty-four concubines, which is not enough to worry about!" It's not enough to worry about it! ”

In fact, there are clear regulations on how many wives a man can marry in the etiquette system, according to the status and status, the higher the status, the more wives can be married, and you must marry enough, you only eat green vegetables and tofu when you are a leader, and how can your subordinates be embarrassed to fish and meat all day long, so Zhang Yun said that the courtiers have a lot of complaints about Li Qing'an marrying a wife, which is what he refers to.

But no matter how you marry, there is an upper limit, beyond this limit the more courtesy, the ancient Zhou Li is like the current marriage law, although there is an upper limit, but there is no upper limit for men's **, so the workaround comes out, the number of wives that can be married refers to the famous, and outside the name, men can have unlimited ownership, just like Li Longji's harem concubines also have a quota limit, but he can have 40,000 harems, and then for example, the three little four, the little five, the little six......

Ancient and modern male hormones are the same, so the essence will not change.

The two talked and laughed for a while, and the topic gradually turned to tonight's business, Li Qingan took a sip of tea and said with a faint smile: "I invited Xiangguo over today, because I want to discuss something with Xiangguo." ”

Zhang Yun's spirits perked up, he knew that he was starting to get to the point, so he smiled and said, "Your Highness, it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”

"Hmm!" Li Qingan pondered for a while, and then said: "After Pei Xiangguo was assassinated, there was one less person in the political affairs hall, which did not meet the requirements of the singular, and Zhang Xiangguo moved from the left to the right, so that the position of the left Xiangguo was vacant, I don't know what Zhang Xiangguo thought, who would be better to move to the left?" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Yun was a little hesitant, as if he hadn't considered this issue. In fact, he has already thought about this problem, the left minister, that is, the subordinate servant, from the power structure, the left minister is a constraint on the power of the right minister, the order of the book, the door thinks it is inappropriate can be dismissed, because of this, after Li Linfu became the right minister, he let his echo insect Chen Xilie be the left minister, Yang Guozhong was the right minister, and he let Wei Jiansu, who was weak, be the left minister, which is the reason.

Although the throne is now empty, and many major events are discussed in the political hall, Zhang Yun still attaches great importance to this position of the left minister, he is most worried about Wei Tao as the left minister, although the big things are fine, but he is worried that the small things are not smooth, if Wei Tao uses the power of the province to refute and give him small shoes everywhere, his right minister will be boring.

Now that Li Qing'an has raised this question, Zhang Yun knows that Li Qing'an must have thought about it, so he wants to understand Li Qing'an's thoughts first, and then put forward his own suggestions, so that he can better achieve his goals.

"I am still immature to consider this position of left minister, I don't know if His Highness has a suitable candidate?"

Li Qingan smiled and said: "It's okay, I just listened to Zhang Xiangguo's thoughts, it's okay to be immature!" ”

Zhang Yun saw that Li Qingan had to say it first, so he had to say his thoughts implicitly, "Although Cui Shangshu is young and promising, after all, his qualifications are a little shallow, and it is not appropriate to be a left-hand minister, Zhang Hao has always been honest and selfless, and has an outstanding reputation, I think it is more suitable to be a left-hand minister." ”

He only listened to Cui Ping and Zhang Hao, and never mentioned Wei, Lu, and Wang, which meant to tell Li Qingan that this position of left prime minister could not be done by the Wei party, otherwise everyone would screw it up in the future, and the affairs of the dynasty would not be able to continue.

The political hall is stiff, and there is just a privy council to take over the affairs of the court, which is Li Qingan's previous idea, but after all, the privy council is only a temporary transitional method, it cannot really replace the political hall, the court has two sets of decision-making bodies, just like the southern government and the eunuch north in the history of the Tang Dynasty, sooner or later there will be a great chaos in the court, and the people of the Tang Dynasty will be harmed in the end.

Now that Pei Zunqing has gone, the Privy Council can gradually merge with the Political Affairs Hall.

Li Qingan smiled and said: "Maybe Zhang Xiangguo didn't understand what I meant, I actually have two questions, one is that the current political hall is a double number, and it needs to become a singular number, which is also in line with common sense, and the second is who is the left minister?" ”

After a pause, Li Qingan glanced at Zhang Yun's expression, and saw that he was thoughtful, so he slowly said: "Although Zhang Hao is honest and capable, he is jealous and hateful, and he doesn't know how to be flexible. ”

It turned out that Li Qing'an took a fancy to Cui Ning, Zhang Yun thought about it, this person is not bad, very capable, and good at flexibility, so he nodded and smiled: "Your Highness means to add Cui Ning to the political hall and increase the number to seven, right!" ”

Unexpectedly, Li Qingan shook his head, "I mean, the political hall has been reduced to five. ”

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(To be continued)