Li Guanqi slammed the pen, finished writing the last stroke, put down the brush, took the towel handed by the palace maid next to him, wiped his hands, and took the tea offered by another palace maid, took a sip, and then said with a smile: "I really can't use this brush on the table, if I don't hurry up to practice, I'm afraid that the ministers will laugh at it in the future!" ”

This simple sentence made Cao Yuanshan, who was called Sai Zhuge not know how to answer. Because Li Guanqi's writing with a quill pen is still in the past, but the brush characters are indeed not ordinary ugly, and he is afraid that he will be misunderstood by Li Guanqi for deliberate sarcasm; But you can't go along with saying that the emperor's words really need to be practiced, the emperor can say himself, but others can't say it.

In fact, these are not difficult for Cao Yuanshan, the most important thing is that Li Guanqi said "Approve excerpts in the future", he has been the emperor for a few months, and there are hundreds of excerpts, but now that he listens, it seems that he has never approved excerpts. It may not be too much thought about it if you let it go to others, but Cao Yuanshan, a master who has a few more bowels than others, naturally does not think that Li Guanqi is talking nonsense.

In fact, Cao Yuanshan also knew very well what Li Guanqi was talking about. Zu Donglai single-handedly controls the overall situation of the dynasty and politics, except for the secret fold directly handed to the emperor, all the other folds must first pass through Zu Donglai's hand, and all the folds that Li Guanqi can really approve are inconsequential excerpts such as please An Songsheng, and the rest are directly handled by Zu Donglai.

After hesitating for a moment, Cao Yuanshan said with a dry smile: "The minister thinks that the less the emperor's ink treasure flows out, the better, so as not to be used by some people with ulterior motives!" ”

Cao Yuanshan's words were also obvious, Li Guanqi glared at Cao Yuanshan heavily, he understood what Cao Yuanshan was referring to: the only time he left "Mobao" outside was to write the poem that Ying and Liu Hanyan wrote in Meixianglou. Last time, the Queen Mother had already moved the idea of abolishing the emperor once because of the so-called adultery between herself and Yue'er, if her "Mobao" really fell into the hands of people with ulterior motives (such as the one in front of you), then I really don't know what the consequences will be! Of course, Cao Yuanshan didn't know that the poem at that time was not written by Li Guanqi himself at all, but by He Ziming.

"It seems that this Cao Yuanshan is really not an easy master to deal with!" Li Guanqi couldn't help but be a little more careful in his heart, but he didn't bring it out on his face, but continued to smile and said: "Before you came over just now, I just looked at your resume, and you are the champion of Shengyuan (Emperor Muzong's year name) for eight years!" If I'm not mistaken, the main exam that year was Yang Bozheng, right? ”

"The emperor remembers it well, that year was indeed the spring festival presided over by Yang Shangshu!" Cao Yuanshan didn't know why Li Guanqi suddenly mentioned this, so he had to answer honestly.

"Then I really think it's weird!" Li Guanqi had a very exaggerated expression on his face, and said: "Since Yang Bozheng is your teacher, why are you so close to Zu Donglai, but you are more distant from Yang Bozheng?" ”

Li Guanqi's words can be said to be very explicit, Cao Yuanshan's eyebrows couldn't help jumping twice, he knew very well that this was not easy to answer, not to mention what kind of attitude Li Guanqi had towards Zu Donglai, that is, there was no contradiction between the two monarchs and ministers, so as the emperor, he must hate his friends. Zu Donglai is now in power, the name of the ancestral party is not a new thing, if you are not careful today, the emperor sits on the truth of the party, what the consequences are really unimaginable!

After a few quick circles in his mind, Cao Yuanshan decided to make a fuss from his friends, and said at the moment: "Heaven and earth have dignity and humility, and monarchs and ministers have reputations." Those who are ministers should only know that there is a king. It is the emperor who is loyal to him, not Yang Bozheng, nor Zu Donglai. Although Yang Bozheng is the seat teacher of the minister, he is in charge of the Ministry of Rites and has no political contacts with the minister, so the minister has little interaction with him; Zu Donglai was the governor of the three provinces, and all the affairs of the officials were under his jurisdiction, so the ministers had more friends with him. But all things are righteousness, not selfish feelings! Please also ask the emperor to take a look! ”

Li Guanqi saw that Cao Yuanshan could actually say such righteous words about things that did not exist at all, and while laughing secretly in his heart, he couldn't help but admire him a little, and his heart of wooing increased a little, although he met today, until now, he still can't enter the door, but he is unwilling to give up such a "talent".

After thinking about it, Li Guanqi nodded and said with a smile: "What you said is very good!" Monarchs and ministers are righteous, and friends are private feelings. If a man should destroy his selfishness with public affairs, how can he take care of his own feelings and violate justice? When I was in the domain, I had no relationship with the Manchu courtiers. The first emperor saw that I was fair and selfless, so he left an edict on his deathbed, so that I inherited the unification. ”

Li Guanqi said this eloquently, and on the surface it sounded like he was talking about himself, but in Cao Yuanshan's ears, he also understood very well what was going on. These words can be heard by a little brain, Li Guanqi is actually talking about Zu Donglai.

What to say "has nothing to do with the Manchu courtiers". If you don't deal with the ministers, how can Zu Donglai be able to have party henchmen all over the world and tilt power towards the government and the opposition?

Moreover, Li Guanqi pointed out how he was when he was in the mansion, and no matter how it sounded, it sounded a bit like he was alluding to the meaning that Zu Donglai and King Qi were too close.

Although Cao Yuanshan understood every subtext of Li Guanqi, he made up his mind to play stupid with Li Guanqi to the end, so when Li Guanqi finished speaking, he said seriously: "The emperor has to ascend to the throne, which is really a blessing for the courtiers and the people of the world." The ministers are willing to work with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, all the ministers, big and small, as one heart, and jointly assist the emperor to create a great cause! ”

Li Guanqi specially summoned Cao Yuanshan today, the original intention was to be able to pull him over from Zudonglai, after all, last time in Meixianglou, this Cao Yuanshan helped him once, maybe he still leaned towards himself in his heart. Who would have thought that he had repeatedly tempted, this person called "Sai Zhuge " was a human spirit, but he just pretended to be stupid and didn't take his own stubble at all, only to know that he underestimated the charm of Zu Donglai and the mind of Cao Yuanshan.

Li Guanqi couldn't help but feel a burst of irritability in his heart, through so far, although everything is not going well, but he has never failed face-to-face like today, he feels that this Cao Yuanshan's scheming is too deep, Rao is hard work, but he still can't see through what is in his heart.

Li Guanqi secretly let out a long breath, tried to suppress his irritability, and pretended to smile lightly and said: "I called you here today, in fact, there is nothing important, but I suddenly remembered that I borrowed two thousand taels of silver from you in the building last time, and I haven't paid you back." The emperor owes his courtiers money, but it's a bit unreasonable! ”