was swept away by this Xun commander, although Lord Li was very annoyed, he would not spill his anger on the little officials who stayed behind. He has been in officialdom for so many years, and he doesn't know how many ups and downs he has experienced, and after a little thought, he has a way to take revenge.

After Li You returned home, he wrote a recital overnight, and the next day he took the recital and sent it to the General Administration. When passing by the vicinity of the Ministry of Rites, I met Mr. Zhu Fanghe of the Shangya.

Zhu Bulang asked with concern: "Yesterday you went to the Midtown Terracotta Division?" ”

Li You couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Is this unacceptable thing spreading so quickly?" How did Brother Zhu find out? ”

"Last night I was drinking with someone, and someone at the dinner party talked about it. Commander Na Xun is the second son of Wu Anbo, and he is very well-connected among the magnates of the Beijing Division, so it is not surprising that the news came out. How are you going to be? Do you want me

Li You handed the book to Zhu Fanghe, Zhu Fanghe opened it and glanced at it a few times, and the general content was: "The Chenguan Zhongcheng Terracotta and Horses Division has the convenience of the whole city, and the place under its jurisdiction is relatively valuable, so please station the General Institute of the Terracotta and Horses Division in the department, control the five cities, and directly manage the Zhongcheng place.

As for the Soldiers and Horses Command Division in Zhongcheng, it can be abolished as much as possible, and the original officials and soldiers are all retained for the General Courtyard of the Soldiers and Horses Division. This is simple and easy to do, which not only avoids repeated harassment of the locality, but also saves the country's expenditure, and does not require additional allocation of money and two people. ”

The meaning is very simple, please ask the imperial court to abolish the Zhongcheng Terracotta Division, and change the original Zhongcheng Terracotta and Horses Department to the yamen of him Li You, the governor of the five cities, as for the Zhongcheng Jiufang, because of its important status, it will be directly governed by the Yamen of the Admiral of the Five Cities, and there will be no longer a Zhongcheng Terracotta Division.

If this letter can be approved, the benefits will naturally be many. First, it saved people, money and property for the imperial court; Second, he, Li You, can have a formed government office and officials in an instant, and he can quickly get rid of the passive situation of empty and unscrupulous.

In fact, there is a third benefit in Li You's heart, with a ready-made government officer, then there is no need to continue to go to the Sixth Department to grind with the bureaucratic machine, he thinks that his personality is not suitable for this.

This time, it was Zhu Fanghe who smiled bitterly, and Li You's counterattack was as sharp as ever. For Xun Fei, the current commander of the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division, this is Li You's stubborn desire to occupy the magpie's nest.

Without the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division, Xun Fei, the commander, lost his substantive position and became an official to be elected. What kind of official position can a person from the country who was born in the prison be elected after being selected? Not to mention that the Ministry of Officials is controlled by Li You's old connections, and it is possible to hang him for a few years.

Zhu Fanghe thought about it again and decided not to persuade Li You to settle the matter, how could he not let him fight back after suffering such humiliation. Xun Fei, as a subordinate, was really a little ignorant of the superiority and humility in his actions yesterday, and even if he was instructed by others, he seemed arrogant.

He just reminded him euphemistically: "The situation is different now, and it may not be useful for you to enter the inner court," Also, Commander Xun may have been recommended by Guide Chitose back then. ”

"Give it a try." Li You replied quietly. But I was taken aback in my heart, it turned out that there was still this layer of insiders, no wonder Xun Fei was able to serve as the commander of the soldiers and horses in Zhongcheng after Xungui. From this point of view, the inconspicuous Zhongcheng Terracotta Division among the countless yamen in the capital division is the territory controlled by the eldest princess?

"What if it's dismissed?"

Bidding farewell to Zhu Fanghe, Lord Li Shi Shiran went to the General Administration Department to submit the script. On the other day, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. In this major festival, Li You naturally will not bring the unhappiness in officialdom to his home, and only spend the festival happily with his wife, concubines and children.

After the fifteenth of August, Mr. Li, who was bored, went to the lobby of the Ministry of Officials every day to squat, and almost became a supernumerary official of the Ministry of Officials.

According to the normal procedure, the manuscript was entered into the inner court, and after the cabinet vote was drafted, it was submitted to the Son of Heaven, and then approved by the Son of Heaven (often the celebrant and supervisor did the work), and then sent back to the cabinet, and then the cabinet drafted the edict, and then sent it to the six sections. Finally, after the six departments review and record the matter, it will be transferred to the department and the handling will be supervised. …,

The book before the Mid-Autumn Festival of Lord Li involves the abolition of the official yamen, and if it is issued, it should be followed by the officials, so Li You will be very diligent in squatting in the officials' department.

A few days passed in a flash, but the manuscript was as thin as a yellow crane, and there was no echo from the inner court. Li You is very dissatisfied with this, whether it is quasi-performance or veto, there should always be an explanation.

Otherwise, in the face of a cloud of air, how can he respond to the opportunity?

"My lord, your recital must have been left behind." The old official in the lobby of the ministry said with great experience, "In addition to urgent matters such as military information, disaster conditions, appointments and dismissals, which must be approved in a timely manner, it is very common for other non-urgent matters to be left in the middle and not issued. Especially my lord, although you have some truth but it doesn't conform to the will of heaven, and whether you approve it or not doesn't affect anything. ”

Really... Li You stood under the eaves of the lobby, overlooking the cool and clear sky of autumn in the imperial capital, and his thoughts were flowing for a while. Is this the Queen Mother staying in the middle and not sending it?

The center of the inner court adheres to the secret, and without Xu Cifu and the eldest princess of Guide, he lacks the ability to influence the center's profits. For him, the greatest significance of these two people lies in this, and now that they are missing, they are really inaccessible immediately.

When he was humble, his own affairs could not alarm the center, and Xu Gushan, who was the heavenly official at the time, was enough to do everything.

At the beginning of his career, the errand was to divide the votes in the cabinet, and he personally held the center and handled the secret, so naturally there was no problem of accessibility.

When he was in Yangzhou, he seemed to be far away from the court, but there was Xu Cifu, a powerful backer, sitting in the center, and the eldest princess who was far away from producing beauty.

Now that I am in Beijing, I am only a few steps away from the Forbidden City, but it seems to be thousands of miles away.

Although he can talk to Yang Gelao, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, Yang Gelao himself is shallow, and he is alone, and his strength in the cabinet is insufficient. At the same time, the relationship between him Li You and Yang Ge Lao is not as close as Xu Cifu, and it is impossible to take the trouble to harass Yang Ge Lao in big and small things.

said that Li You often proudly thinks that he is a capable person, but now that he is far away from the center, he suddenly feels that he is nothing.

It should be said that this is the norm for the vast majority of officials in the world, and their thoughts may not come true, and most of the time they can only look up to Jiuzhong. It's just that Master Li was used to having his hands and eyes open to the sky, doing whatever he wanted, and making drastic moves, so he couldn't adapt to it for a while.

Thinking of this, Li You sighed and said, today I know the nobility of the close ministers! So he made up his mind, he had to think about it in the future, and it would be better to get closer to the Son of Heaven, according to his visual opinion, the danger of today's son was not very great.

From this point of view, Xu Cifu Ding's return to his hometown is conducive to him getting closer to the Son of Heaven, because he no longer has to think about the position of the backer, and he has no scruples.

Befriending other faction bosses, I am afraid that I will be suspected of betrayal, and getting close to the Son of Heaven can only be said to be human nature, don't forget that Master Li is the minister who first discussed the pro-government of the Son of Heaven.

Suddenly, a miscellaneous servant came to spread the word, saying that Zhao Liangren, the secretary of the ministry, wanted to see him. Li You hurriedly retracted his autumn feelings and went to the inner courtyard of the ministry.

Zhao Tianguan knows a lot about Li You's movements in the past few days, "It is a good thing for young people to know that they are motivated, but your enterprising spirit is too strong. ”

Take a step back and open the sky... Hearing this, Li You suddenly clasped his fists and saluted: "Thank you for the teachings of the boss, the lower officials understand!" Please wait and see! Xia Guan will definitely take a step back and open the sky. ”

Seeing Li You's deeply gained, enlightened, and imminent appearance, Zhao Liangren had a little confusion in his heart, what did he teach him? …,

The more you grasp the errand, the more others can take advantage of it, so the master quit! Li You thought.

In the Donghua Gate of Miyagi, not far from the west of the Wenhua Palace, there is a courtyard that has been abandoned for more than ten years and has been renovated, and now it is also tightly guarded.

This is the first yamen of the inner prison, where the celebrant is located. It has only been ten days since the master of ceremonies and father-in-law took office, but he is already in shape.

The eunuch Mai Chengen, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, lay on the soft couch and flipped through the recital, as long as he was in the prison office, he was usually half-lying. Because he felt that he had spent too much time standing and waiting for people, he should lie down when he was in his own territory, and he could lie down comfortably. He entered the palace at the age of ten, and it took him thirty years in the palace to get out of this position where he could lie down and work.

Now the Queen Mother is gradually letting go of government affairs, so after the Chinese and foreign recitals are circulated by the palm prints of the celebrant and the pen, only the important reports can be picked up, and the rest can be approved according to the system.

Mak read a few copies of the notebook and picked up the next one. The cabinet sticker on the cover of the concert did not express his opinion, but only indicated that he would be invited to the Holy Judge, which made him feel strange.

After opening it, Mai Gonggong first glanced at the signature, which was "Li You, the imperial envoy of the right side of the school and the commander of the five cities of the army and horses".

frowned slightly, and Grandpa Mai concluded without reading the content that this must be a hot potato, otherwise why didn't the cabinet draft a vote and send it directly to the Holy Judge. Just take a closer look at the content:

"The commander of the minister, the soldier and the horse division, was originally set up for the decentralization of the power of the Beijing division to arrest thieves and prohibit adultery, and the imperial court wanted to coordinate the whole city.

Recently, I heard that the Holy Mother had sent an edict to the ministry to set up a special commander to patrol and arrest a member of the camp, so that there are two admirals in the five cities to deal with the danger of robbery and adultery, is it not contrary to the original intention of the autocracy?

In the future, there will still be many politics, how is it different from before? The ministers were afraid that others would be ignorant and criticize the saints, so they were willing to resign from the commander of the five cities to send the soldiers and horses, so that the commander was left alone to patrol the five battalions, so that the power of the city affairs could be kept single-minded, and they would not be hindered by each other.

I beg Her Majesty to give the heart of the virtuous and to be heard. ”

To sum it up, this Li You heard that the Queen Mother was going to set up five battalions of admirals to patrol and arrest, so he took the initiative to resign from the dispatch, and he didn't want to be the commander of the five cities. And the cabinet didn't know whether to approve this matter or not, so it was pushed to the Holy Judge.

Mai Chengen, as the master of ceremonies appointed by the Empress Dowager Qian, naturally knew the thoughts of the Empress Dowager Qian, and when he saw Li You's recital, he couldn't help but curse secretly, this trick of retreating is endless, is it greasy?

Then he turned over and got up, and hurried out of the celebrant to the Cisheng Palace...... ）