"Again" Li You, who was fined Yulu, hid in the room and snickered again and again. If the Empress Dowager or Chitose, or the Outer Dynasty, collides with the cabinet of Jinghe's early heyday alone, I am afraid it will be difficult to win. But they all united to support him, and the cabinet gradually weakened, under the general trend, what is there to be afraid of him?

It's just that not many people see this general trend clearly. The authorities are fascinated, and the bystanders are also fascinated, and Li You, who has had a lot of contact with all parties recently and has an accurate grasp of the mentality of all parties, should have taken care of one and the other, but the man who should have taken care of one or the other was the first to realize this. In this regard, he sighed that a crisis means a turning point, and future generations will not be deceived.

In the eyes of Li Sheren, the cabinet is still famous, the shelf is still there, and he is still the de facto prime minister in the eyes of hundreds of officials in the imperial court. But the situation facing the cabinet has become much worse, and the status and strength have begun to be unequal. Wouldn't such a target be the best object for prestige?

The bachelors who are still immersed in the glory of the prime minister under one person, above ten thousand, and the extreme of the ministers, and are proud of it, don't know how to feel if they know that they are being regarded as a "coward" who is holding himself hostage.

The five scholars who are currently in office (including the first assistant who has been recuperating for two years), except for the last Dongge University scholar Yang Ge Lao who was added to the court last year, the others were all appointed by the emperor. Eight years have passed since Jinghe Tianzi ascended the throne, and the peace time is a bit long... Li Sheren, who finally found a way to Huashan for himself, finished secretly refreshing and began to work.

When you work, don't forget to take revenge. Yuan Ge Lao made Li Sheren too unpleasant, so Li You divided all the troublesome affairs and affairs that would offend people to Yuan Ge Lao, which was enough for him to drink a pot in the long run. Now it is a system of dividing votes, and if it is divided, the responsibility will be assigned to the person, Yuan Ge can't shirk it if he wants to, and he doesn't want to pull others to bear it together.

After sorting in the afternoon, Li You personally held a stack of chapter books and went to Wenyuan Pavilion to find the elder Yang Ge. People and things can't be done, a few days ago, I had recognized Yang Ge as a benefactor, and I must make a statement at this time.

Li You went out of the East Pavilion and re-entered the Wenyuan Pavilion, and all the colleagues he met along the way avoided him, as if he was afraid of him. The majestic Li Sheren was a little proud, very vain, and in the cabinet, only the elders of the cabinet should have encountered such treatment.

It is said that the architectural structure of Wenyuan Pavilion, the first confidential place in the world, has a front width of five bays and a depth of two entrances.

The middle room and two entrances are the so-called "middle hall", and those who have seen the braided play should be familiar with this word, which is the origin of this. There are sage tablets in the middle hall, there are several seats, the east and west are opposite, and it is the place where the elders of the cabinet deliberate. The only door to enter and exit Wenyuan Pavilion is also open in the middle hall.

On both sides of the nave leads to the elders' offices, which are divided into eight rooms according to their width and depth. There are four rooms on the left and right, half on the south side and half on the north side.

Li You entered Wenyuan Pavilion and entered the west aisle of the middle hall, and saw a room with candlelight flickering, so he knew that it must be where Yang Ge Lao was.

It is estimated that some officials want to ask, what candles are lit in this broad daylight? You must know that after the renovation of Wenyuan Pavilion according to Emperor Sejong's plan, the windows were opened to the courtyard in the south, but the north side is still an airtight wall. It is estimated that it is for safety, after all, the north side is close to the palace road, and the traffic is chaotic.

Therefore, of the eight rooms outside the middle hall in Wenyuan Pavilion, only four on the south side have windows, and the four rooms on the north side do not. It is not only in the inside, but there are no windows, and the visibility of the four rooms on the north side can be imagined, and the lighting is indispensable in the end.

Under normal circumstances, there are six scholars, and the first four four-hall scholars naturally occupy the four rooms with windows on the south side. As for the two post-university scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion and East Pavilion, there is a lot of room for choice, and they can freely settle in the small black house on the north side, and no one will come to grab it.

Therefore, as soon as Li You saw that there was a candle-lit room on the west side of the middle hall, he knew that it was Yang Ge Lao's territory.

Elder Yang Ge's attitude towards Li You was quite cold, but it was also expected by Li You. Today he swept the face of the entire cabinet, and it is no wonder that Yang Gelao's attitude can be good.

Li You gently put the chapter on the case next to him, and smiled at Yang Ge Lao: "Today, I am angry for a while, and I have no brains to say and do, so don't mind Ge Lao." ”

Yang Ge Lao said sarcastically: "A moment of anger? It's clearly deliberate. How can a mindless person sit firmly in the position of the book in the division of votes? ”

"Xia Guan's original intention was just not to resentment Yuan Ge Lao, and he had become a fire and water with him. When you are presumptuous, you will inevitably hit the deputy car by mistake, which is not deliberate. ”

The meaning of Li You's words is that his target is just Yuan Ge Lao.

Of course, Yang Ge Lao understood, and raised his hand to stop Li You from continuing, but his face gradually softened. He sighed in his heart, fame and fortune, and he couldn't jump over it after all. He also said a lesson: "Don't think that if you are a relative of the Queen Mother, you can be in the palace..."

What the? Relatives of the Queen Mother? Li You hurriedly interjected: "What does this Queen Mother's relative mean?" ”

"Don't pretend to admit it." Elder Yang Ge said impatiently: "There is a rumor today that you are the daughter of the Queen Mother's family in Suzhou Mansion. The old man vaguely remembered that he had posthumously presented the queen mother's biological mother back then, and her surname was indeed Li. Before and after, this statement is true, otherwise why would the Queen Mother be extremely partial. Everyone in the palace knows that the Queen Mother values family affection. ”

Li You was speechless, and it only took more than half a day for this rumor to come out? Coincidentally, the Queen Mother's mother is also surnamed Li... Coincidentally, he is also from Suzhou... There are more than one million people in the world surnamed Li, of course he knows his family affairs, and he must have nothing to do with the Queen Mother.

Li You thought again, no wonder those colleagues who were also Zhongshu Sheren were extremely in awe of him, and it turned out that they regarded him as a relative of the Queen Mother. As a low-minded petty official in the inner court, if you offend the elder of the cabinet, you may just not be an official, but if you offend the Empress Dowager Bingzheng, I am afraid that you will not be able to be a person.

"This rumor is really untrue." Li You said sincerely.

But Yang Ge Lao obviously didn't believe it, and after educating Li You, he waved his hand and sent him away.

The sun was setting in the west, and Li You patted his ass and got off work. On the way home, he always felt as if he had forgotten something today.

Then he took out a notebook from his sleeve, and then remembered that he had looked for him in Henan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate yesterday, and rumored that he had passed the hall today, but he was completely forgotten.

Forget about such trivial things.

The official department Shangshu praised him to the top, the military department Shangshu was his predecessor, the left capital imperial history was his umbrella, Guide Chitose had affection for him, and he felt that he had established a firm foothold, Li You's arrogance in Suzhou Mansion was relapsed, and he tore his hand into pieces contemptuously and threw it into the Jinshui River.

The next October 27 is the Queen Mother's Holy Birthday Day, and the court has a day off. From the beginning of the workaholic Emperor Taizu to set the rules, the officials of the dynasty rarely had a holiday all year round, and there were only a handful of them.

In order to show the filial piety of the Son of Heaven, the Queen Mother gave everyone a holiday when she was born, and at the same time, everything from Jian Qunchen did not have to be congratulated, and it did receive the effect of celebrating with the whole world.

Although he doesn't have to go straight, Li You still has activities to participate. I received an invitation last night, the Department of Education rehearsed some new programs, and several Lang officials in charge of the Ministry of Rites invited Li Caizi, a famous poet in the Jiangnan cultural circles, to guide the work and care about the production and life of the female surname.

There is a free lunch to eat, and Li You happily goes to it.

(To be continued)