In the study, Su Wei was talking with Han Shouzhong, Su Wei valued Han Shouzhong very much, not only because they were fellow villagers, Han Shouzhong's family was poor and could not afford to study, but he was smart and studious, and he was admitted to Su's family study and received financial support from the Su family, which made him step by step on his official career.

Moreover, Han Shouzhong was an honest and self-disciplined official, not afraid of the power of Guanlong, and in the fifth year of the great cause, when he was the county lieutenant in Lantian County, he beat the son of Yuanshou, a powerful minister who violated the law, and won Yang Guang's praise and promoted him to Sima of Hanzhong County.

Although it is easy to offend people with honesty and self-discipline and not afraid of the powerful, but in a newly established dynasty, this is definitely a golden sign in the officialdom, Su Wei is well aware of this truth, so he recommended him to Yang Yuanqing, and was really favored by Yang Yuanqing, and appointed Han Shouzhong as the secretary and servant of the imperial history with great power.

Although Han Shouzhong is honest and self-disciplined, he is not an idiot in officialdom, he also needs to find his own backstage, and his backstage is naturally Su Wei.

"Last time the King of Chu talked to me, he is ready to gradually reform the official system of the imperial court, and the imperial historian is ready to be promoted from the fourth rank to the third grade, as a kind of appeasement position for meritorious officials, there is no real power, the secretary and the imperial history will be renamed the imperial history Zhongcheng, grasp the real power of the imperial history platform, and be promoted to the fourth rank official, the imperial history platform will become more and more important, longevity, your future is immeasurable!"

Su Wei's narrowed eyes flashed, although he was leaking a little bit of news to Han Shouzhong, but at the same time, he was also hinting that he needed to stand in line.

Han Shouzhong understood what he meant, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Without the love of the elder, there would be no humble position today, the grace of the elder of the pavilion, the humble position will be remembered in my heart." ”

Su Wei smiled with satisfaction, wrinkles stretching on his old face. He said slowly: "I brought you here today, in fact, there are some things I want to talk to you about, so that you can understand King Chu's intentions, and then you can follow his intentions step by step, so that there will be no deviation." ”

Han Shouzhong nodded silently, although Su Wei had a great favor to him, he didn't agree with some of Su Wei's practices. Su Wei has no backbone, blindly trying to figure out his intentions, and his selfishness is too heavy. can't become a real celebrity, so Han Shouzhong has more respect for Su Wei. Instead of being submissive.

However, he also had to admit that Su Wei had a good eye and could see through the political situation, which was extremely important in officialdom, and he was silent and listened to Su Wei's revelation to him.

"You should be able to understand that now the King of Chu is basically enveloping all the major famous families, and the five phases of Ziwei Pavilion, except for me, the others are all famous families. Including other important official positions, most of them are occupied by major famous families, but this does not mean that the king of Chu wants to establish such a dynasty, on the contrary, he does not want to. Now it's just a last resort. ”

"I can understand that."

Han Shou said in a deep voice: "Now the Sui Dynasty must have the support of the Shandong Shi clan in order to compete with the Tang Dynasty, which has the support of the Guanlong nobles. ”

"But the problem is that the power of the Pei and Wang families in the court is too great now, and they have overtaken the other scholars, and if this issue is not handled well, it is likely to be dissatisfied and hostile to the other scholars. On the contrary, it will make the Sui Dynasty lose the support of the scholars, so it is urgent to weaken the power of the Pei and Wang families. ”

Su Wei paused, and when he saw Han Shouzhong's eyes showing a sudden look, he knew that he understood what he meant, and couldn't help but smile proudly, and continued: "In the past, because the foundation of the imperial court was Hedong, he had to rely on Pei and Wang, so the king of Chu has been forbearing, but now that he has taken Hebei, with the addition of the major families in Hebei, then the power of the imperial court will have to be readjusted and balanced, and the two dominant families will become a group of heroes, which is actually weakening the power of the family in disguise." ”

"I understand what Elder Ge meant, after the King of Chu comes back from Hebei, the next step must be to suppress the Pei and Wang families, is that so?"

Su Wei smiled and nodded, "That's right, at this time, your role as a scholar and servant of the imperial history is very important,"

Han Shouzhong was silent for a moment, he already fully understood what Su Wei meant, Su Wei came to him to become his vanguard and suppress the Pei and Wang families, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "But you can't make something out of nothing, just talk about it!" As an imperial history, the most important thing is to be based on facts. ”

Su Wei felt that Han Shouzhong was good everywhere, the only shortcoming was that he would not be flexible, everything had to pay attention to evidence, how could there be so much truth to talk about in officialdom, as long as it was the need of the power struggle, even if there was no evidence, evidence had to be conjured.

Of course, Su Wei's study of the current situation is also for his own interests, his Soviet Party is too weak, and he wants to profit from Yang Yuanqing's suppression of the Pei family and the Wang family, so that his Soviet Party will gradually grow.

At this time, he needed to cooperate with Yang Yuanqing's actions in order to be reused by Yang Yuanqing, and it was precisely because of this that he attached great importance to Han Shouzhong.

But Han Shouzhong's stubbornness made him a little helpless, so he had to sigh secretly and said: "Of course I won't let you do anything that violates morality, is it really unrelated to the Wang family when Princess Chu was assassinated this time?" ”

Han Shouzhong shook his head, "I didn't find any evidence that this matter was related to the Wang family. ”

Su Wei's face sank, he was a little unhappy in his heart, and his voice also raised, "How can it be okay, Wang Su, as Jing Zhaoyin, shouldn't he be responsible for this matter?" It can't be stopped, no one is responsible, when the king of Chu comes back, how can we explain to him?! ”

Su Wei stared at Han Shouzhong sternly, his tone was full of dissatisfaction and threat, Han Shouzhong felt the tremendous pressure that Su Wei exerted on him, he pondered for a long time, and finally nodded, "Jing Zhaoyin is indeed responsible for this assassination...... Early the next morning, Han Shouzhong formally submitted an impeachment case to Ziwei Pavilion, impeaching Jingzhao Yin Wangsu for being responsible for the assassination of Princess Anjin Temple.

Although Wang Xu made three points to distinguish Jing Zhaoyin from being able to prevent such incidents from happening, and the person responsible for protecting the safety of the princess and the prince at that time was the army, not Jing Zhaoyin and the county government.

However, Ziwei Pavilion still held Jing Zhaoyin responsible with a majority vote of three votes in favor, one vote against, and one abstention.

The princess's housekeeper had already informed the county government two days in advance that the princess would go to Anjin Temple to do business, and the government did not send someone to Anjin Temple to inspect, which in itself was a dereliction of duty on the part of the government. Negligence cannot be used as a justification for exemption.

Ziwei Pavilion immediately put forward a proposal to remove Jingzhao Yin Wang Su, which would take effect after Yang Yuanqing's approval.

At noon, a carriage drove out of Jinyang Palace under the escort of more than a dozen followers and headed for Taiyuan City.

In the carriage, Pei Ju silently watched several children chasing and running on the street, and the bright smiles on the children's faces reminded him of his childhood, as if his childhood had never been so happy. All he could remember from his childhood was his father's stern gaze and cold ruler, as well as mountains of books.

On the street, a few old farmers who were ready to leave the city after selling vegetables came to meet them. The satisfied smiles on their faces, the carefree looks, also made him feel a little stunned. Although he has been a Xiangguo for more than ten years and has a high position, he has never had such a carefree smile.

Pei Ju felt an indescribable feeling of exhaustion in his heart, and this feeling of exhaustion came from an anxiety that was difficult to grasp his fate.

In today's vote in Ziwei Pavilion, he abstained from voting, and when the results of the final recall case came out, he knew that the Wang family was finished, Wang Su was just the first step, and the next one would be Wang Xu, after the Wang family was over. It was the turn of the Pei family.

In fact, Pei Ju had long known that there would be such a result, half a year ago, Yang Yuanqing promoted Pei Qingsong to join the army, and he was already hinting at him that he would succeed him as the person in the future. will no longer be a child of the Pei family, Yang Yuanqing has already used his position as a secretary to join the army as compensation for the Pei family.

As an old qualified Xiangguo, Pei Ju knew in his heart that the Pei family's power in the new Sui was too great, and it had already threatened Yang Yuanqing's power, if the Pei family didn't know each other again. The consequences will be very serious, and the future queen will probably no longer be Minqiu.

This is a consequence that he cannot accept in any way.

The carriage crossed the moat and slowly stopped in front of the gate of the Chu Palace, and his granddaughter Pei Minqiu was assassinated, and he had not come to visit him, which is a bit unreasonable.

"Pei Xiangguo is visiting the princess and the prince?" When the housekeeper heard the news, he stepped forward and smiled.

Pei Ju nodded, and asked again, "Is the princess here?" ”

"The princess is here, and the lord and lady are also there."

"Which old lady?" Pei Ju asked with some puzzlement.

"It's just.... The Princess's parents. ”

It turned out to be his own son, Pei Ju smiled, "It's just right, report to the princess for me." ”

Although Pei Ju is Pei Minqiu's grandfather, his identity is Xiangguo after all, he is a courtier, he can't be as casual as in the past, too casual will make Yang Yuanqing disgusted, for some reason, Pei Ju is a little afraid of Yang Yuanqing in his heart.

After a while, the housekeeper came out and said with a smile: "Xiangguo, the princess is invited!" ”

Pei Ju walked into the palace and soon came to the inner hall, only to see the second son Wenyi and his daughter-in-law Wang sitting in the inner hall, talking to Minqiu.

Pei Ju coughed heavily and walked into the inner hall, Pei Wenyi and his wife hurriedly stood up and bowed, "Father!" ”

Pei Ju smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be so polite, this is not Pei's Mansion, you can sit down!" ”

Pei Minqiu smiled: "Grandfather, please also sit." ”

Pei Ju sat down and asked with concern, "Minqiu, are you and Ning'er okay!" ”

Pei Minqiu shook his head, "We're fine, thanks to the quick reaction to the dust, it saved our lives at a critical time, otherwise our mother and son are finished, and it's scary to think about it now." ”

The Wang family next to him gritted his teeth with hatred and said: "Who did this, can't the government find out?" ”

She seemed to be talking to herself, but she was actually asking Pei Ju, the so-called scriptures that are difficult for every family to read, Wang is Pei Ju's daughter-in-law, but her relationship with Pei Ju is very bad, because of the unfair treatment her husband has received in the Pei family, she has ignored her father-in-law for many years.

Pei Wenyi was afraid that there would be another unpleasant incident, so he hurriedly asked, "Father, is there a clue in this case?" ”

Pei Ju shook his head and said with a wry smile: "This matter is being investigated by the Imperial Historical Observatory, and today Han Yushi came to report that there was no clue behind the two dead assassins, and the government had already drawn an image and offered a heavy reward for identification, and this case will take a little time." ”

Pei Wenyi sighed and said: "We all hope that the government can catch the murderer behind the scenes as soon as possible, otherwise our hearts will always hang in the air, and I don't know if there will be a next time." ”

Pei Ju nodded, "The government will try its best to catch the murderer, and there will be no next time!" ”

At this time, he saw a resume on the table next to Minqiu, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, so he asked, "Whose resume is that?" ”

Pei Minqiu's face showed embarrassment, but he didn't dare to say it, Pei Wenyi hurriedly bowed and said: Report to my father, we want to find something for Ming'er to do...... Before he finished speaking, Pei Ju suddenly changed color, "This is absolutely not good......