Li You glanced at the two envoys of the princess's mansion, paused for a moment and said, "Lord Wang has great kindness to this official, and he is courteous, and this official must receive it. Wait here for a while, and wait for the official to finish talking with Mr. Wang. ”

Later, Li You invited the prefect of the palace into the house to drink tea and chat.

The two inner prisoners were hung in the courtyard, and they were relatively helpless, so they could only keep thinking about the silver road in their hearts, if they were in the year of the Apocalypse, why would they be like this... Why? The princess casually summoned the ministers, which was unreasonable. But the eldest princess of Guide is already an unreasonable existence in itself, and the Ming Dynasty has not seen any princess as a housekeeper in the palace in three hundred years.

Chitose dared to openly send someone to invite, but Li You didn't dare to go. It's not that I'm afraid, it's mainly what can I do? What are the benefits?

If he was persuaded to take refuge in Virtue, he would not have agreed; If he is persuaded to give up the position of the book in the ballot, he will not be able to be the master.

In other words, the princess Chitose should go to talk to Xu Shangshu, and it is redundant for him Li You to go to see the eldest princess, and if one is not good, what suspicion will be aroused.

"Between you and the eldest princess... Could it be related to the Chinese scholars? When he arrived at the house, the prefect of the king asked.

Li Youqi said: "How do you know about this? ”

It turned out that the prefect of the Wang Dynasty entered the court this time, and he still had another thought, that is, to change the age... He is already sixty years old, and he has just become the master of the Sipin Zhengtang, and he is happy, but he doesn't want to be urged to be urged in a few years, so he wants to open up the joint and change his age.

Many officials of the dynasty have two ages for various reasons, one is the official year, that is, the age on the file, the age of the public; One is the real age, that is, the real age, the age that only oneself and one's relatives and friends know.

Of course, old man Wang should be changed to a smaller one, which can take a few more years; Li You should actually modify the old ones, so as not to have hairless ridicule, but Master Li doesn't have this mind, and it is not necessary to change it.

This is also an unspoken rule in the officialdom of this dynasty, and no one will really get to the bottom of the age issue.

There are two steps for an official to revise his age, from a technical point of view: one is to revise the yellow register of the place of origin, which is the analogy of the situation in the 21st century, which is the household registration in the police station; The second is to revise the name of the ministry, that is, the personal file.

There was a classmate in the prefect's palace who was in prison and served as a miscellaneous official in the ministry, so he came to the door to ask for help. Coincidentally, Li You, the former governor of Suzhou Prefecture, who was going to be the secretary of the Chinese book, suggested that the prefect Wang also go to Lord Li to ask. After all, Li You is a person who can talk to Xu Shangshu, and he is a person who can be pushed to the top by Xu Shangshu regardless of his face, and the relationship is not bad.

When the prefect of Wang learned that Li You had such a connection, he was naturally overjoyed and took the initiative to visit. As long as the joints of the book can be opened, and then the handling scribe is fed, changing the age is not a simple and stable thing.

"Okay, if I can see the heavenly official and give it a try, I won't be blamed if I don't succeed." Li You agreed.

Wang Zhifu was very determined, looked out from the window sideways and said, "Those two inner prisoners are still waiting, you really don't care?" In any case, the eldest princess of Guide is a royal person, and she has a deep brotherhood with His Majesty, even the old man has heard of it, and you still refuse to see it? Maybe it can be simplified in the emperor's heart, and there will be a soaring creation in the future, and there will be no if you miss it. ”

When the old man turned around after speaking, he saw Li You looking at him with pity in his eyes, but he said with a little pride in his mouth: "If you foreign officials don't understand the affairs of Beijing, don't talk about it, so as not to make people laugh at it." ”

It is no wonder that the prefect of the king is ignorant, but because he was born as a prisoner, he does not have a well-informed network, and he has been a local official, and he has not been a real power official for nearly 30 years, so he is naturally very closed to the inside situation of various courts. In fact, Li You was originally even worse, but now he is slightly stronger than the Wang Governor's Mansion.

However, the prefect of the Wang Mansion was not stupid, and he didn't care about ridiculing Li You's villain, so he immediately asked shamelessly: "I vaguely heard that Cisheng (Queen Mother) is fighting for power with Jinshang, do you have this concern?" ”

Li You couldn't help but say: "This kind of knowledge is the level of foolish men and stupid women in the market buying and selling vegetables and bargaining, how can the imperial court be so child's play?" ”

The people of Wang's prefect's mansion are old and sophisticated, and they can see some clues. It is estimated that Master Li, the former chairman of the Suzhou Mansion, was aggrieved when he arrived in Yanjing, where there were many powerful dogs, and took the opportunity to learn and sell him to find psychological balance. was too lazy to bother with Li You, and only made a thirsty appearance at the moment to give Li You enough face.

Li You said: "When I saw the heavenly official the night before, he once said that the Son of Heaven should live in the ninefold and rule by hanging the arch. ”

Nine is the supreme, and the nine is the palace inside; Vertical arch rule, easy to rule the world peace. Both words are used to describe the Son of Heaven, and others dare not mess with them.

But the old prefect tasted it carefully, but it tasted a little meaning. These words are indeed exclusive to the Son of Heaven, and they do have respect, but the whole sentence is strung together to make the Wang Governor's Mansion feel a subtle sense that can only be understood and cannot be spoken.

Elder Wang raised his head and glanced at Li You, but did not continue to discuss this sentence.

Can this be said in words? Do you want to make it clear that the Son of Heaven should honestly learn from the statues in the temple, without saying a word, without moving, just sitting dignified and like sitting in the nine major halls to receive worship incense, and don't care about anything else. In this way, we can not add chaos and achieve "vertical arch governance".

"Do all the courtiers think so?" Governor Wang asked again.

Li You sighed: "It's not clear below, but it should be quite a lot." ”

"How did this happen?" Wang Zhifu muttered.

Li You sighed: "It should have been the master and the young country, but now the country is suspicious." ”

Anyway, Li You's luck is really... The night he first met Xu Shangshu, Xu Shangshu casually asked him about the ownership of major politics, which was a difficult test.

Li You was ignorant and didn't know the inside story, he didn't know how to answer, and he felt too sensitive to answer directly. Then he had an idea, and he didn't discuss right and wrong head-on, and talked vaguely about the old things of the four dynasties of orthodoxy, righteousness, Wanli, and the Apocalypse, anyway, it was written in the history books with ironclad nails, and no one could criticize him for being wrong.

Unexpectedly, this is in line with Xu Shangshu's psychology, at his level, and in this sensitive period, of course, looking at people mainly depends on political opinions. People who have the same line, are politically reliable, come from a "clean" background, and are shrewd and dexterous should be reused. In the end, Xu Shangshu made up his mind to replace the previous candidate and wedge Li You into the cabinet.

Of course, it's good to know these things, and no one will talk about them.

The prefect of the palace sat down and thought about it again, the pool of water in the capital is too muddy, which is the rumored queen mother and the Son of Heaven in the court? What is there to fight about a mother and a child?

Eight achievements are a group of ministers who are not at ease with the Son of Heaven and carry the Queen Mother to suppress the Son of Heaven. As for the Empress Dowager's administration, there is no ancestral law and precedent, and it is easy to deal with congenital deficiencies.

Thinking of this, Governor Wang got up and said, "The official still finished his work quickly and returned to Suzhou." "The capital is not easy, how can he say that he is also the prefect of the third capital in the world who supplies one-tenth of the taxes of the imperial court, in case he is concerned by people with ulterior motives, the ghost knows what will happen, and he has no chance of Li You in a supporting role.

At this time, it was getting dark, and Li You did not stay at the guest when he achieved his goal. I thought in my heart, it has been delayed for this time, and the eldest princess of Guide should be embarrassed to see him.

In the evening, he summoned the young and handsome foreign minister to the palace for a secret meeting... I'm afraid I can't afford this kind of public opinion pressure.

(To be continued)