(The third one will be sent!) ）

Zhou Yanru was sore, struggling, and hungry. Sitting alone in a sedan chair and passing through the palace gate of the Forbidden City, the mood was extremely bad.

Today, for the first time in the Prime Minister's Office, the important ministers of the internal and external dynasties arrived, and the young emperor also came, but Liu Jiye repeatedly embarrassed him and made him unable to step down. But Wu Fu also followed and opposed him, deliberately praising the martial arts, and even Liu Zongzhou, a stubborn donkey, sang and harmonized.

At the first meeting, the prime minister held a meeting, and not only did he fail to establish the prestige of his chief minister, but he was embarrassed. lost face in front of the Son of Heaven and important ministers. In the end, nothing was discussed at this meeting, and the whole meeting finally became a hall of Liu Jiye's words, and it completely became a stage for his performance.

This martial artist didn't expect to have a clever mouth, which is really clever.

In the end, the little emperor was completely coaxed by his brother-in-law, and directly announced that the household ministry and the cabinet would be responsible for formulating the budget statement, and then the next meeting of the Prime Minister's Office would be a financial meeting.

Others sat in the sedan chair, and they just wanted to go home and take a bath immediately, washing away the sweat stains and greasy on their bodies and the grievances all over their bodies. Then eat a big meal, and then invite the young and beautiful Xinna concubine in the backyard to accompany her and sleep well.

"When this budget is made, the old man will see what else you can do to bounce."

After returning to the mansion and bathing and changing clothes, Zhou Yanru's anger still did not dissipate.

"Master, Wu Langzhong is here, and he is waiting in the living room."

"Help me tell me, I'm tired today, let's do it another day." Zhou Yanru said.

The butler bowed, "Okay sir, I'll go see off the guests right away." ”

"Forget it." Zhou Yanru called the housekeeper, this Wu Changshi is his mastermind, and the support of the Restoration Society depends on him, and at this time, Wu Fu and Liu Jiye are working with him. Even Liu Zongzhou frowned at them, but he couldn't offend Wu Changshi anymore, otherwise, he would really be alone. "You can entertain me first, and say I'm changing."

After changing another set of clothes for visitors, Zhou Yanru walked into the living room, and Wu Changshi was waiting for him.

Wu Changshi was a very important position in the Ministry of Officials, which was about equivalent to a department-level director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee in later generations. The grade is not low, and the rights are heavier. It's the official hat that governs. And he is still a member of the Restoration Society, and he is also the eyebrows of the Restoration Society, the so-called eyebrows are role models, and he is an important upper-level member of the Restoration Society.

Although Wu Changshi was born in a large family in Wujiang, Jiangnan, his family was also down, and later he Chongzhen was raised in four years and Jinshi in seven years. At that time, his half-brother, who had been a former member of the Ministry of Labor, was seriously ill because he had no children. He let Wu Changshi's son inherit his family business, because Wu Changshi only had one son, and finally let his son pick two heirs on one shoulder and inherit the two families. After the death of his brother. He inherited the wealthy family property of his brother, who left the Wu family with his mother when he was a child and lived in his mother's Huang family.

Wu Changshi joined Yingshe in his early years and was a follower of Zhang Pu, and later joined the whole Yingshe with Zhang Puju and several other societies to establish the Fushe. Since then, he has become a die-hard member of the Restoration Society.

However, Wu Changshi did not serve as an official after Chongzhen's seven years of Jinshi. At that time, Wen Tiren, who opposed Donglin and Fusha, was in power, and Fusha did not have the opportunity to speak in the DPRK. Wu Changshi did not become an official, but built a garden at home. ran an opera troupe until the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, sent Wu Changshi to Beijing.

After Wu Changshi entered Beijing to take office, he soon became acquainted with Xue Guoguan, the first assistant who ruled completely in accordance with Wen Tiren's line. In the end, Wu Changshi personally planned and used his nephew to be Xue Guoguan's confidant, and successfully framed Xue Guoguan and removed him. Even after Xue Guoguan resigned, he finally sent Xue Guoguan to the vegetable market.

After that, Wu Changshi and the Fushe worked at full strength, raised a huge amount of money, and finally successfully sent Zhou Yanru to reinstate, first sitting in the position of the secretary of the ministry, and then replacing Mei Zhihuan as the first assistant.

Because of this relationship, Wu Changshi and Zhou Yanru had an excellent relationship, and the Restoration Society also fully supported Zhou Yanru for a time. Zhou also repaid Wu afterwards and promoted him to Langzhong of the Ministry of Officials.

Recently, Wu Changshi has been planning to be promoted to the servant of the Ministry of Officials, but because Wu Fu has been working with him, Zhou Yanru has not done this for a while, so he is not very willing to see Wu Changshi.

Wu Changshi is a person who has the means, but he is also a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, in order to bring down Xue Guoguan, he put his own nephews in the vegetable market and beheaded them.

As the secretary of the literary selection, Wu Changshi was in charge of the selection, vacancies, promotions, readjustments, and promotion of civil servants across the country, which can really be described as an important position with real power.

But he wasn't satisfied, he always wanted to rise higher. Zhou Yanru was single-handedly planned by him and Zhang Pu to be sent to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, and it was their silver and the public opinion of the resumption of the society that allowed Zhou Yanru to successfully recover.

An anthology Shiro obviously can't satisfy him.

"Ge Lao, Zhang Pu is dead."

As soon as they met, Wu Changshi said to Zhou Yanru with a little excitement.

Zhou Yanru was stunned for a moment, and then he understood a lot of information from Wu Changshi's eyes. Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, is actually a protégé of Zhou Yanru.

Zhang Pu, the world-famous leader of the Restoration Society, participated in the examination, and Zhou Yanru knew that there were many Jiangnan celebrities such as Zhang Pu in this subject, so he temporarily replaced the examiner and went into battle himself, so he became Zhang Pu's teacher.

At the beginning, Zhang Pu saw that Wen Tiren, Xue Guoguan and other people in power in the DPRK and China were squeezing out Donglin and the Restoration Society, so he planned to operate to let Donglin leader Qian Qianyi return to Beijing, but in the end, seeing that Zhou Yanru's conditions were more suitable, he pushed him back.

Zhou Yanru sat in the position of first assistant for the second time, it can be said that Zhang Pu and Wu Changshi made great contributions, one of them was in the rear, and the other was in the front, and successfully killed the former first assistant Xue Guoguan, and sent Wu Changshi to Beijing as the secretary of the ministry, and then succeeded as the first assistant a year later.

When Zhou Yanru entered Beijing, Zhang Pu asked Wu Changshi to send him two booklets.

A booklet was a list of Donglin and Fushe's opponents, and asked Zhou Yanru to drive these people out of the imperial court.

In a booklet, there are people from Donglin and Fushe, who were mostly demoted or dismissed from their posts in the township, and he asked Zhou Yanru to reuse them.

Zhou Yanru is still very good, and after he took office, he was indeed from the United Restoration Society and Donglin. However, because after the fall of Xue Guoguan, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng served as the first assistant and the second assistant, these two people were the elders of Donglin, and they reigned for a year, and they have recalled many Donglin people back to the court.

At the beginning, Zhang Pu had the intention of giving up cooperation with Zhou Yanru because of this. If it weren't for the early death of Mei and Li, Zhou Yanru really wouldn't have had a chance to be the first assistant for the second time.

He sat on the first assistant for the second time, and soon clashed with Donglin Wu Fu, and soon formed a faction, Jiangbei and Jiangnan factions fought, at this time Zhang Pu's attitude changed again, and he was ready to support Wu Fu. It was Wu Changshi who came forward and finally persuaded Zhang Pu.

After that, he was on the same page with Liu Jun again, and this time Zhang Pu turned to Liu Jun again. Wu Changshi tried to persuade him again, but this time Zhang Pu couldn't persuade him to come back, seeing that the Restoration Society was about to support Liu Jun under Zhang Pu's call, Wu Changshi, who had an enmity with Liu Jun, was unwilling.

Then, when Wu Changshi met with Zhang Pu not long ago, Zhang Pu had diarrhea, and then he died

As soon as Zhang Pu died, the Fushe is now also facing a situation of being divided into three factions, and one faction naturally takes him as the leader and continues to support Zhou Yanru. One faction was led by the Fourth Prince of the Restoration Society and Li Chunjiang, who supported Liu Jiye, and the other faction was mostly members of the Restoration Society in Jiangbei, who turned to support Wu Fu after the death of the leader Zhang Pu.

This result is not what Wu Changshi wants, but after all, it is stronger than the entire Restoration Society to support Liu Jiye.

Zhou Yanru was not very happy when he heard the news. If the news had come sooner, he would have been happy. But now, Zhang Pu is really nothing, and Liu Jiye annoys him too much.

Wu Changshi listened to Zhou Yanru talk about what had happened these days, and pondered for a while.

"In this way, the four auxiliary ministers are now divided into four factions, the Jiangbei Party of Ge Lao, the Jiangnan Party of Wu Fu, the Chu Party of Liu Jiye, and the neutral faction of Liu Zongzhou. Moreover, this Liu Jiye is not silent, he is a blockbuster, and he dares to openly disagree with the cabinet elder at the prime minister's meeting, Wu Fu and Liu Zongzhou still support him, it seems that even if they do not secretly unite, the situation is not favorable to the cabinet elder. ”

Zhou Yanru sighed, "Yes, this Liu Jiye holds the handle of the knife in one hand, but he holds the money bag in the other, and there is an edict from the first emperor to entrust Gu, so he can't get rid of him." ”

"Since Liu Jiye wants to fight with us, let's kick him away first." Wu Changshi said with a sinister smile.

Zhou Yanru felt bitter in his mouth, picked up the teacup and poured a big sip, "How to kick?" ”

Wu Changshi picked up the teapot and poured a cup for Zhou Yanru very leisurely, and then said, "Actually, it's not difficult to say, didn't the elder say that Liu Jiye was very high-profile in front of His Majesty, and asked the cabinet and the household department to make a budget table for the withdrawal." ”

"What's the solution?"

"Elder Ge, please listen to me, now the imperial court is short of money everywhere, and by the end of the year, it will take at least 20 million silver dollars to fill these holes, but Liu Jiye has already given His Majesty and the impression of hundreds of officials, and he can solve these problems. I don't think his solution will be very clever, but he will first make up a sum of money, first plug the most important holes, and then tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, etc., which is not the case in the imperial court over the years. ”

"Are you saying that Liu Jiye is really sure that he can plug the hole?"

"If he is left to block, it is possible. But let's not let him stop it with peace of mind, Ge Lao, the nine towns of Gyeonggi are in arrears for March, last year's great famine, this year's grain prices have risen sharply, and Gyeonggi grain prices have also risen sharply. The soldiers of the Beijing army are also waiting for money and food to feed their families. You say, if the Gyeonggi soldiers knew that Liu Jiye had a sum of money in his hand at this time, and it was likely to be spent elsewhere, do you think they would still sit and wait? ”

"Isn't this bad, in case those soldiers make a disturbance, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up." Zhou Yanru said with some scruples.

"Don't worry about the elder pavilion, Liu Jun must also be afraid of chaos, when the soldiers will make trouble, he can only give money to settle things. And if this money is used as a military salary, then there is no way to do it elsewhere. When the time comes, see how Liu Jiye explains! ”

Zhou Yanru stroked his beard, thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was really the case. At the moment, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "Gao, it really deserves to be the eyebrows of the Restoration Society, hahaha, just do it, see that he Liu Jiye is still so arrogant and proud, and then he will be anxious!" (To be continued.) )