Chapter 242: Lifting a Rock and Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Cisheng Palace opened the meal, no, it should be called the beginning of the Holy Birthday Feast, and Li You, who had nothing to do with it, went out of the palace.

Until the Chengtian Gate, Zhang San, who was waiting in the corner, greeted him and asked, "Where is the master?" ”

Li You looked at his head, and when it was a quarter past noon, it was not too late, so he said, "Still go to Yanle Hutong." ”

On the way, Li You suddenly remembered a question, after this play in front of the Queen Mother today, "Yuanqu" must be released, otherwise it is equivalent to committing the crime of bullying the king. But I don't know who is going to hit the big luck and become famous!

Li Caizi himself said publicly that he needed to find inspiration. No matter what kind of beauty she is, as long as she gets involved with Li You, she will inevitably be associated with "Yuanqu", that is, she will enjoy the benefits of fame, and her worth will double.

Will the poem "Round Song" be popular? Li You can be sure of the answer of the surname, it will be! The first is that there is such hype in today's Cisheng Palace, the second is that the quality itself is very high, the third is that the theme of love and love and legendary female surnames is the most popular, and the fourth is suitable for singing. Don't you see the example of hating songs back then? So if it's not hot, it's unreasonable.

I don't know whose family the good luck will fall to, and make wedding clothes for her... Li You sighed. This kind of reputation can only be regarded as an icing on the cake for him now, and it doesn't mean much anymore, but it is someone else who makes a gimmick and fulfills it.

I wanted to be very pure eating, drinking, and having fun, looking for flowers and asking willows, but I didn't expect it to be pure.

As soon as he thought of being selfless and benefiting others, he felt taken advantage of by others, which made Li You entangled. Don't force it to be self-interested, but at least think of a win-win way.

So before making up your mind, don't linger in Fengyue, and go to be a wealthy boy, Li You made up his mind, so he turned around and went home. And rest assured that the beautiful palace maid will come to warm the bed, fortunately, "Round Song" is a long song, and it is normal to delay it for a while before releasing it.

The rest of the day was spent in plain and bland, but the beautiful palace maid that Li You was looking forward to was not delivered to the door for a long time, and every night he had to get into the cold quilt alone. He suspected that Guide Chitose deliberately delayed, or bleached his reward, what a corruption [***]!

However, there are also places where ordinary life is not ordinary. There are many idlers in Beijing who have nothing to do, and there is a lace news circulating in the streets and alleys, that "if life is only as first seen", Li You vowed in front of the Queen Mother to make a masterpiece comparable to "Song of Long Hatred" and intends to collect wind in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion.

As a result, there were all kinds of ambiguous invitations sent to Li You's house, and they were not just invitations.

One day, Li You came back from the palace and entered the inner room, and Xiaozhu handed the master two letters.

"Which one?" Li You took it strangely, pinched the letter cover, but found that it was a little thick inside. After dismantling it, it first dropped a ball of colorful things.

Li You took it in his hand and looked at it, it turned out to be a woman's red belly, and it was sprinkled with powder, which was fragrant and swaying.

"What a shame!" Xiaozhu shouted with a red face and resolutely expressed his position.

Li You laughed, shook his hand and gestured on Xiaozhu's chest: "It seems to be older than you." ”

This belly wrap is the first but not the last, and the subsequent invitations are also mixed with embroidered shoes, small pants, and sweat towels, which feasts the eyes of Han Zong, the only virgin in the house.

However, on a cold morning, when the old man was not at home, Xiaozhu burned these shameless things to keep warm.

It was the beginning of November, and Li You lived every day with a court, no ticket distribution, no ticket home, and sleep at home. It's not close to women at all outside.,It's very clean.,Can be a moral model.。

It is said that Li You looked through various introductory history books in his previous life, and felt that the inner court court was at the center of the world, upholding the great politics of the world, and it was very fierce and enthusiastic. It seems that there are major events brewing at every moment, and earth-shattering conspiracies and tricks are produced anytime and anywhere.

But when it was his turn to enter the center, after the novelty passed, he found that the so-called major events in the world were just a book of music from his hands, which was so dull that it was boring. In fact, most of the time, dealing with government affairs is so boring... Among the many homogeneous performances, which one is the major event that may determine the direction of history? Li You found that he couldn't see clearly, and thoroughly understood the meaning of the authorities' obsession. Flipping through the history books, the descendants who have God's perspective feel different from the parties concerned.

For example, if the impeachment of the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion in front of him leads to the resignation of the elder of the cabinet, it will be a major event, and it will not be recorded in the history books; But if there is no response, it is just one of the hundreds of garbage pieces every year, and no one pays attention.

In the end, what will happen in the future, it is not an old fritter who has been in the dynasty for decades and is well versed in allusions, and he can't judge it at this moment.

Throwing down the music, Li You couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he was really into the play. There's no need to think about it so much, he's not a big man on the mountain, a temple zaifu, this heart is really redundant, and he can concentrate on doing his job well and sorting the chapters.

Of course, the most difficult ones were assigned to Scholar Yuan as usual, and we would see how long this pavilion elder could support over time. There is such a torn face enemy in the cabinet, which makes Li You very uncomfortable, and of course he will find a way to squeeze him away.

It is estimated that some people are strange, this trick can also stump Yuan Ge Lao? The dignified scholar of Zaifu University, doesn't he even have this responsibility?

This is where the subtleties of the situation lie. In recent years, the Cabinet has gradually encroached on the power of all parties, and today it certainly has enough responsibility and power to withstand all kinds of pressure. The Cabinet as a whole, the problem is not big. But after the implementation of the split, the responsibility is assigned to the person, and the problem arises.

If several scholars consciously share the responsibility, each of them can cope on the one hand. But now Li Yougong privately uses the communiqué for personal vendettas, and deliberately assigns Yuan Ge Lao to deal with all the complicated government affairs, so that he touches on all kinds of complex conflicts of interests alone.

In this case, if Scholar Yuan does something, he will definitely offend many, many people, but if he doesn't do something, he will first be impeached by Li You and the corpse will be vegetarian, and there are all the witnesses. This is equivalent to the pressure that should be put on him by the whole cabinet, and how can it be easily accepted?

If Yuan Ge Lao's prestige is strong enough to a certain level, he can also bear it, just like when Zhang Juzheng was alive, but unfortunately Yuan Ge Lao does not have this level. Li You is waiting for him to resign and go home if he can't stand it, or if he provokes someone to make a mistake and is forced to resign, the more he does, the more wrong he will be.

Indeed, as Li You thought, Yuan Ge was miserable during this time. Originally, he has always been biased towards the royal line, but his popularity among the ministers is not so good, and he has a letter of distribution that wholeheartedly helps him pull hatred, which is very difficult.

Every time, Yuan Ge Lao came the earliest in the cabinet and left the latest, and he worked hard and diligently, and he did his best, but he was still scolded at the court meeting and the court meeting, and he was still the kind in person. Fortunately, it was still short, and it could barely support it.

After the morning of this day, Yuan Ge Lao received another piece of music that was more than a foot high. Seeing this, his attaché Shao Sheren admonished bitterly: "Why is the elder so bothered, it is better to ask for sick leave to go home and retreat as advance." Xia Guan is willing to invite colleagues all over the place, jointly sign the Empress Dowager, and impeach Li Zhongshu for unfairness! ”

"Throughout the ancient and modern times, villains are rampant and unrestrained, and there is no one who is not defeated! I'm going to keep my eyes open and see how long Li You, the dog of power, can be arrogant! Yuan Ge Lao gritted his teeth and said, but he did not lose his mind, and ordered: "There is no need to impeach him now, and wait for the opportunity, the old man can afford to wait." ”

In fact, Yuan Ge didn't say it, and he regretted it in his heart. When he first proposed to set up a sub-vote Zhongshu to resolve the dispute over the minister's vote, he did not strongly oppose it in order not to offend the queen mother at a critical time, and probably other scholars thought so.

Originally, I thought that a little Qipin Sheren would be responsible for dividing the votes, and there would be no big changes, which Sheren would dare to offend the university scholars? There are twenty or thirty middle school scholars in the cabinet, and there is no shortage of this one. Who knew that there was such a cunning and difficult character as Li You who dared to act, it was easy to ask God to send God, and now he really regrets not being at the beginning.

It's like lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, Yuan Ge sighed.

At lunchtime, Li You sat alone in the dining room, surrounded by sparse people.

He, a newcomer who broke into the cabinet and broke the original order with a rough and violent style, is a famous murderer, and his grade is half a grade higher than that of ordinary scholars, and others stay away from him no matter what kind of mentality. In other words, the first Zhongshu Sheren in the history of the Ming Dynasty who could frantically suppress the elder of the pavilion always seemed very weird, which made his colleagues feel inexplicably afraid.

Li You suddenly felt that this was not good, and the long-standing problem of not being good at uniting colleagues needed to be changed. At this time, I looked up and saw a few people coming in, among which was a Qin She person, who led him into the door on the day he took office. The relationship is okay, and General Liba is the most familiar one.

"Brother Qin!" Li You beckoned.

Qin Sheren looked left and right, and repeatedly made sure that Li You was calling him, so he had to make a bitter face and move to Li You's table.

"Brother Qin, what kind of expression is this? Could it be that he looks down on Li? Li You said dissatisfied.

"Hehehehe, I have self-knowledge below, and I don't dare to sit at the same table with Li Zhongshu."

In the cabinet, they are all Zhongshu Sheren, and they are generally called the last two words, but recently the title of Li You has gradually changed to take the first two words, and I don't know whether it is irony or praise.

After pulling a few mouthfuls of rice, Qin Sheren gradually let go, remembered something and whispered to Li You: "Li Zhongshu listens to the next persuasion, don't go against Yuan Ge Lao." ”

"What's wrong?" Li You asked.

"It's bad for the reputation, and your colleagues are talking about your lack of open-mindedness, and you are too much to bully Yuan Ge." Qin Sheren carefully considered the words and said.

If it weren't for this occasion, who would believe it when it was said that a seven-rank official bullied a scholar to the point that others couldn't see it? It's just a dream.

"He is pretending to be pitiful and deceiving public opinion, and this set of officials will be left in Suzhou Mansion." Li You said disdainfully.

Qin Sheren said again: "Actually, from the perspective below, you look like this, you are powerful on the surface, but it may not be a bad thing for Yuan Ge Lao. ”

Li You sat up straight when he heard this, "Would you like to hear it in detail?" ”

"If Yuan Ge is really a big talent, after such a tribulation for a while, wouldn't he become the only person among the university scholars who can shoulder the burden alone? After a long time, no matter whether it is praised or distributed, all officials have to think that Yuan Ge is a solid person? There really will be a day when he becomes the first assistant, Li Zhongshu, where do you put yourself? ”

"Taught." Li You fell into deep thought.

I have studied in junior high school textbooks, and the heavens have fallen on the people... Could it be that the predicament he set up instead created opportunities for Yuan Ge Lao, who was originally not prestigious? But to take back the difficult revenge, it seems that you are cowering, and it is too damaging to your own face.

Lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot, Li You sighed. It was really difficult to ride a tiger, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

(To be continued)