The bank's business is still hot, and now it has opened a branch in Dongshi, coupled with the use of a travel agency, Xu Chen has become a new upstart in Chang'an City.

Of course, after all, the businessman has a low status, rich but not expensive, but although Xu Chen is a waiter, he does business under the banner of the princess's mansion, and he comes and goes, although the government and the opposition know that this horse is in business, but most people will not have any objections. There won't be anyone who doesn't have a long eye to seize this matter and find trouble with Xu Concubine.

Just allowing the horse to enter the harem at any time has already made the officials understand one thing: this horse must not be offended.

Even if Yang Guozhong is the prime minister of the dynasty, there is nothing he can do about this colt for the time being, and this colt has never been very cold to him, not to mention the collapse of his rich usury, even his precious grandson is beaten correctly, and he does not show mercy to Yang Guozhong at all.

It is said that with Yang Guozhong's character, anyone who offends him will not end well, he is self-authoritative and authoritative in the world, and he can't allow others to challenge his authority, but this horse is really special, and more importantly, Yang Yuhuan was bought!

Thinking of this, Prime Minister Yang couldn't help but get angry, and it was precisely because of the protection of this Yang family's sister that the reason why he slowed down the attack on the crown prince Li Heng in recent years was because he smelled the threat of An Lushan, so he tried every means to discredit the fat man, but in fact, it had little effect.

It's all because of Yang Yuhuan, but he himself forgot that it was because of Yang Yuhuan that he had today's status.

For Xu Chen, Yang Yuhuan naturally wanted to win over the object, and this woman also unexpectedly made many contributions to Xu Chen, for example, the position of Nadu Zhilang was invited by Yang Yuhuan for her, but it is indeed disgraceful to use a woman to take the position, and the original purpose of Xu Yuma's heart is naturally to use this group to make a big move, and only he can make convincing achievements. Talent is made so that those who are talented are willing to serve him.

As for the poems and songs that were once taken out to pretend to be forced, they are just pretending to be forced, and they will not be on the stage of history after all.

However, it cannot be denied that it is precisely because of several accidental and indirect pretenses that it is precisely a channel, which can be regarded as the foundation of the upper position.

As soon as October begins, the Ministry of War is obviously busy, because it involves the registration of soldiers in the coming national army, and the annual officer assessment will be held at the end of November, the Tang Dynasty assessment system. Most of them go to Beijing at the end of the year to report on their work, and they are conducted once a year, which becomes a small examination, and a major examination is generally held every three to four years. The small test evaluates the political merits of the year, and the big test evaluates the political performance of the person during his tenure.

In each examination course, the examinee himself or herself has recorded the merits and demerits of the year, which is equivalent to self-appraisal, and then the governor of the department and the governor of the department read it to the public to discuss its merits and disadvantages. If the examinee raises an objection, he or she can re-submit a review, and the organs in Beijing will generally conclude the examination of the Beijing staff at the end of September and send it to Shangshu Province on November 1. The local officials completed the examination at the end of October, and handed over to the Shangshu Province in early December, which was the responsibility of the Ministry of Officials.

The assessment of the generals in the border towns is roughly similar, and of course, military merits are naturally considered in advance. The information on the evaluation of generals must be reported by the military department to the official department for use as materials, but the promotion of generals is generally decided by the military minister. What was reported to the ministry was only a result.

This military census and the assessment of military generals are particularly important to Xu Chen, as a squire of the military department, he has a lot of power in this examination, if he wants to cultivate his henchmen, it is the right time.

In two months, Xu Chen's prestige in the Ministry of War naturally needless to say, and there were many officials who were dismissed by him.

This is not an exaggeration, on the contrary, things are indeed very simple, just such an official position as a squire in the Ministry of War, but he has a lot of say in the Ministry of War, and Natian Cheng Shangshu thinks about the battlefield all day long, so he naturally doesn't care about the trivial matters of the Ministry of War, and he also puts on a posture of cultivating Xu Chen.

And Xu Chen's dismissal of those officials above the fifth grade, just say to the old emperor OK, of course, we have to pay attention to some ways and means, but those who were expelled Xu Chen can show evidence, they are all corrupt and bribery, foolish officials, as soon as the evidence is taken out, the old emperor will naturally not say anything, and a few minor officials will be exempted.

With this shortcut, Xu Chen directly avoided Yang Guozhong and the officials for the appointment and dismissal of those officials, and Xu Chen only had to say one sentence to the objections raised by the officials: the saint had already agreed.

As a result, the officials could only get one result, and Yang Guozhong could only stare dryly and couldn't intervene.

Prime Minister Yang is anxious, he didn't catch Xu Yuma at the moment, because of the favor of the old emperor and Yang Yuhuan, it is too difficult to make a fuss, and the last birthday banquet was to use the poem to make a fuss, but instead did a good thing, so not angry!

As insidious as Yang Guozhong can also sense that Xu Yuma's forces have exploded in recent months, he can also smell a little taste: This old emperor seems to want to disperse my forces!

Xu Chen is naturally able to realize the emperor's intentions, he, a concubine, has been favored by many royal forces, and because he is Li Shuang'er's concubine, Li Longji will push Xu Chen to officialdom.

If the old emperor wanted to let this concubine and Shuang'er live a peaceful and quiet life without political affairs, then now the old man has obviously changed his mind, first Arita Rong's concubine, Princess Yuzhen, and King Qi's strong recommendation, Li Longji decided to put this concubine in the officialdom, and as soon as he released it, he was a soldier of the military department.

And the reason for doing this is naturally to take into account Prince Li Heng.

At that time, Concubine Wu Hui was favored, so she wanted to push the longevity king Li Mao (Yang Yuhuan's ex-husband) to the throne of the prince, and Li Longji has always been a "mother is expensive, son is expensive" mentality, and there is no plan to set up the eldest son, which made Concubine Wu Hui make up her mind, and the three princes Li Ying, the king of E, Li Yao, and the king of light Li Ju were extremely disgusted with Concubine Wu Hui, and occasionally said bad things about Concubine Wu Hui, so that people with a heart listened to it, and said more and more about Concubine Wu Hui, So Concubine Wu Hui often spoke ill of the three princes in front of Li Longji, which directly triggered a palace coup directed and acted by Concubine Wu Hui.

Concubine Wu Hui first informed the prince: "There are thieves in the palace, please enter." Then he sent the news to the two princes, and the three princes decided to lead the troops into the palace to rescue the driver as soon as they discussed, which happened to fall into the mouth of Concubine Wu Hui, Li Longji was even more shocked, and then demoted the three princes to concubines.

This is the famous disaster of the three concubines in the early years, and it is precisely because of this reason. Li Longji has always been unwilling to see Li Heng, and he didn't dare to give him too much power, so that Li Linfu persecuted him like that, and now Yang Guozhong is even more so, and the old emperor, who is about to be seventy years old at this moment, also realized the mistake he made, and once asked Gao Lishi: "The disaster of the three concubines, am I wrong?" ”

Colliers immediately replied: "It's too big!" ”

Therefore, these old emperors have a very serious repentance, and they are also a little guilty for being harsh to Li Heng, but he is afraid that he will hand over all the authority to Li Heng now, and he is afraid that the emperor will not be the head in a few days, he wants to be the emperor, and he is even more greedy for this throne, and the strong contradictions in his heart erode his feelings towards Li Heng.

He knew that Yang Guozhong now had a lot of power, but the state affairs all depended on him, even if he couldn't show anything to him, and Xu Yuma's opportunity came at the right time, not only my opinion, this is the recommendation of the royal family and nobles, and it is also a cover for supporting the crown prince instead.

As an emperor, he will not easily admit his mistakes, he used to be harsh to Li Hu, he didn't want others to see that he had done wrong, and with a comfort in his heart, Li Heng would inherit his throne in the future, and the most suitable thing to do was to make the balance of power as high.

Raise a colt to balance the power of Li Heng and Yang Guozhong!

What makes the old emperor happy is that this horse is performing well, and the control of power is also in place, the old emperor naturally thinks that he can cultivate a loyal An Lushan, Yang Guozhong, this horse will definitely be loyal to himself, in this way, even if the horse has considerable rights and is in the East Palace, Li Heng can't do anything to heaven, and his throne is still his own in the end.

Once this throne is seated, it can be said that no one wants to give him up......

It's just that this horse is still young after all, and it is not so easy to cultivate him, and the way that the fastest promoted officials without any objections is naturally to have military merits, which has been tried and tested in An Lushan, and Emperor Li San naturally has a plan in his heart.

Xu Chen can also guess a rough idea, the right is such a thing throughout the ages, this old man's trust in himself is not fake, where can the little Jiujiu in the old man's heart hide it from Xu Chen.

And Xu Chen wants to seize this opportunity, Li San has the heart to be a chess piece by himself, so he has to see who laughs at the end......

There are a lot of trivial things in the military department, and now it is the assessment stage of the upright officials, but obviously the assessment of this period has already tended to be a formality, Yang Guozhong has been the prime minister for several years, and Li Linfu has been more than ten years, the corruption of the Tang Dynasty has already been deep to the bones, Yang Guozhong is a blatant traitor, and those local officials will definitely not take the examination to heart.

The military department is like this, corruption and bribery are extremely serious, and they are all open bribery, so Xu Chen will seize some tricks and remove those officials, but this is indeed a small fight, the entire Tang Dynasty officialdom is rotten, you are the only one who acts like the military department, who can really serve you?

Of course, Xu Chen expected this. (To be continued......)