After ending the call with Li Yongji, Sun Wang immediately looked at Sun Gui, who was half-squinting and re-smoking his hookah, and sighed: "Father-in-law, you are like a god, Your Majesty really asked me, and I have already replied according to your wishes, but I don't know about such a big thing, can Your Majesty believe it?" ”

"Even if you don't believe it, you're skeptical at best." Sun Gui smiled, "The empire is so big, there is so much information every day, you are a human being, not a god, and it is understandable that there are occasional omissions." In short, you have to be sure that you were negligent before, and only focused on military intelligence, such as those rebellions, the changes of the Russians, and the turmoil of the Japanese faction, and there will be no big problems if you don't discover the abnormalities of domestic officialdom in advance. ”

"But this is a deception......

"Son." Sun Gui sighed and interrupted Sun Wang's words, "You have to understand one thing, if you don't say that, it is the real crime of bullying the king, and the end will definitely not be good." ”

"Why is that?"

"Still don't understand?" Seemingly frowning at the other party's incomprehension, Sun Gui said dissatisfiedly, "If you don't understand, think again!" ”

"I see what you mean." Sun Wang thought for a while, and then said, "I know, if Your Majesty asks, I will immediately confide the truth, then Your Majesty will think, since I already knew about this situation, why didn't I report to him in advance before, and I had to ask before I said?" However, I wanted to tell me about these things in advance, but you asked me to hide them and not report them, what I don't understand is this, why didn't you let me report the information I collected in the first place, not the Empress Dowager, and the Prime Minister? ”

"Are you blaming me?" Sun Gui glanced at him.

"No, no, no, how can it be, father-in-law, don't be careful." Sun Wang hurriedly waved his hand, "I just don't understand." ”

After a pause, Sun Wang continued: "At that time, when I was going to report. You stopped me from reporting it, I asked you at the time, you said that the time was not right, but now that it is like this, it should be the right time, right? I could hear it on the phone, and His Majesty was quite dissatisfied with me, which ...... Anyway, you should make it clear to me. ”

"Hey, it's because you still don't understand it that I'm sad." Sun Gui shook his head. "Do you remember what I told you at the dinner table the night you became the head of the intelligence department?" ”

"Remember, how can you not remember." Sun Wang nodded, "At that time, the Wang family had just been destroyed, and you told me that this Li family kid has great ambitions and powerful means, and he will not be a thing in the pool in the future." If you follow him, sooner or later you will have a chance. ”

"Well, yes, when you were the CIA. Do you remember what I told you? ”

"Yes." Sun Wang nodded, "You took me to the study alone that night and said to me. The Sun family is not a wealthy family, and they can't help me much, but I. Wenzhi and martial arts are not too top-notch, and there are no qualifications that are too passable, so they are inconspicuous in the eyes of capable generals.

And such a me, but I have mastered a secret service like the CIA, which is similar to Jinyiwei, and has a lot of information, and I will inevitably be scrupled and hated by others.

Therefore, if I want to live a safe and prosperous life, I must understand my position, and get close to those civil ministers and military generals, not only useless, but also can only be a dead end, only loyal to the emperor, be a loyal dog around the emperor, and do not enter the living, so that I can be stable, because as long as the emperor does not fall, others will not be able to help me, and the emperor also needs people like me, and he will inevitably try his best to protect himself. ”

"Yes, that's what I said." Sun Gui nodded, "It's rare that you still remember this." ”

"The son always remembers the words of the father-in-law." Sun Wang replied cautiously, "And my son also knows that my father-in-law has contributed to my status today." ”

"I know you're a dutiful child." Sun Gui reached out and patted Sun Wang's palm with relief, "But ah, this court is no better than elsewhere, it is really frightening step by step, the clouds are treacherous, one wrong step is a catastrophe, I believe you have seen a lot in the past few years, so I don't need to mention it." In short, in the face of these old foxes, if you don't learn how to protect yourself and deal with things early, how can you be good in the future. ”

"I have a father-in-law, and I am not afraid of anything." Sun Wang said with a smile.

"You." Sun Gui shook his head, "I'm old, and I don't know how many years I can live, and I can't always be by your side to take care of it, so there are some things that you have to learn to deal with by yourself, otherwise, what if you have a case?" It is precisely because of this that I don't tell you a lot of things, but I just let you understand for yourself, but now it seems that I am still in a bit of a hurry. ”

"I'm sorry, father." Sun Wang lowered his head, "I disappointed you." ”

"No, no, no, you didn't let me down." Sun Gui said with a smile, "When I was your age, I was far worse than you, and I also suffered too many losses to have such a little knowledge, judging from your age, you have done very well." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Gui suddenly became stern: "However, I was different from you now, I was just a little guy at that time, I can come back if I fail, and I should learn a lesson if I suffer, but you are different." You are now in a high position, standing above everyone, holding great power, and I don't know how many people envy you, hate you, care about you, and I don't know how many people want to replace you.

In short, your current situation is not tolerated, if you make a mistake, it will be light to lose your life, and our family will also be involved, so helping you is helping myself, there is nothing to say, after all, from the moment you recognize me as a father-in-law, we are a family. ”

"Father-in-law, I'm the one who has troubled you......"

"Where is the problem, it should be our family that touches your light." Sun Gui said, "Without you, who in this world knows who my Sun Gui is, and the Sun family would not be able to have a good life today." ”

"Father-in-law......"

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Sun Gui sighed again, "Actually, I have long seen that you are a good boy who values love and righteousness, but in this court, it is useless to know this, and you must learn to schem." There will be no schemes. I don't know how I'll die sooner or later. ”

After a pause, Sun Guicai continued: "Let's take this matter as an example, why didn't you let you take the initiative to report it in the first place?" Well, since you still don't understand, then I'll tell you now why it is. ”

After taking another puff of the hookah, Sun Gui said slowly: "Let me ask you, if you had reported all the materials and the emperor had known about the Queen Mother's resale of the imperial flag, what would have been the situation?" ”

"This. I guess I would have stopped this in advance. Sun Wang replied.

"Yes, it will be stopped in advance, but what will happen after that, have you thought about it?" Sun Gui asked again.

"This ......" Sun Wang frowned, "After that, the Queen Mother will definitely stop, right?" ”

"It's going to stop, but if the Queen Mother stops, it means that the benefits won't be available, do you think the Queen Mother will be happy?" Sun Gui sneered. "No, the Queen Mother will definitely be unhappy, and the Queen Mother will definitely find someone to be angry. He must want to know who dared to be so bold to poke the matter out and report it to his youngest son. So what do you think. Can you hide what you reported to His Majesty the Emperor? Even if Your Majesty doesn't say it's you, wouldn't the Queen Mother and her old man think that you did it? ”

"This ......" Sun Wang's eyelids jumped. His mouth opened, but he didn't say anything more.

"Looks like you've thought of it too." Seeing Sun Wang's expression, Sun Gui nodded, "No matter how wrong the Queen Mother is, she is also the Queen Mother, and she is the mother of the current emperor." Moreover, not only is the whole world owned by the Li family, but the queen mother and her old man's maiden family are not fuel-efficient lamps, do you think the emperor is the kind of person who can kill his relatives on the spur of the moment?

Therefore, no matter what the Queen Mother did wrong, it was an internal matter of the emperor's family, at most, it was handled internally, and the Queen Mother was still the Queen Mother, the Emperor was still the Emperor, but what about you? What do you do? ”

“……”

"Yes, once you report the Queen Mother's resale of the imperial flag in advance, you will be hated by the Queen Mother, with the Queen Mother's character, she will definitely trouble you, do you think the Emperor can keep you? Is the emperor willing to break with his own mother for you? Well, even if the emperor can save your life because of your merits, your power will definitely be affected, at least the director of the CIA will definitely not be able to sit still, and once you lose your power, what do you think will happen to you? There will inevitably be a bunch of people falling into the well!

If the emperor is by his side, it will be better, everyone will restrain himself, but you and I both know that the emperor is now in North America, and in the United States with troops to fight!

These two places are thousands of miles apart, and although there is a radio that can communicate with this place, there are too few of them, and they are all in the hands of very few people! Once you're no longer the CIA's director, do you think that call will continue to be in your hands? It must be mastered by someone else!

Once you lose the convenience of talking directly to Your Majesty, after a long time, others are afraid that you will return to power, and they will definitely say more bad things about you in your ears, such as you have resentment, think that the emperor is unfair, and so on...... What do you think His Majesty the Emperor will think when he hears this? I won't use you anymore, and once the emperor is separated from you, and you have too many secrets, in time, your fate will be ......."

"This, this ......" Sure enough, Sun Wang's brain made up, thinking of the scene at that time, he was immediately frightened into a layer of white sweat.

Seeing him like this, Sun Gui continued to say sternly: "What, now that you know that you are afraid?" I'm not scaring you, it's a very possibility! In my opinion, being an official is like playing chess, you must take one step, look at three steps, and each step falls, you must think twice, otherwise one is not good, you think it is okay at the time, but maybe after a few steps, you will fall into the trap and fall into the lore game! ”

“……”

"What I just said is just one of them." Sun Gui continued, "Do you know, if you took the initiative to report the affairs of the Queen Mother to the emperor at that time, you would offend not only the Queen Mother, but also the Prime Minister and the Queen Mother. ”

"Why is that?"

"Confused!" Sun Gui glared, "Can't you see this?" The Queen Mother, even if she is the Queen Mother, but no one matches her, how can an old lady who lives in the inner courtyard of the deep palace catch up with the wealthy businessmen outside? Who are those who pull the strings? It's a member of the Shen family in Qingpu!

That's right, the Shen family in Qingpu is related to King Yi, and the Queen Mother is a family, but don't forget, the Shen family also has a Shen Shiming, he is the current prime minister!

Although Shen Shiming is a concubine, his surname is Shen, and the princess who married King Yi. If you marry out, you won't have the surname Shen, and the righteous king is not as good as the prime minister in terms of power and means, and now he is not as good as the prime minister, if you are the head of the Shen family, the two waves of people want to pinch each other, who do you help? ”

"This ......"

"That's right, it must be to help Shen Shiming." Sun Gui said, "The righteous king is just more noble, and the young lady of the Shen family who married has not given birth to a child so far, but the gentleman of the Qi family has become a little prince." So now Miss Shen's status in the Yiwang Mansion is not good at all. What's more, the prime minister is in charge of state affairs, and the affairs of the Shen family can be said to be under the management of the prime minister, once the prime minister has an unpleasant quarrel, the Shen family will be destroyed in an instant, but it will be a fall out with the queen mother, with the character of King Yi, there will be no big problems. ”

"What do you mean, the Shen family who took the initiative to connect the Queen Mother. Yes, was it the Prime Minister's idea? ”

"Quite possibly." Sun Gui nodded, "This emperor has a woman and a child outside, and his two sons are not around all day." And the queen mother is by her side, but she has a weak temperament and will not come to trouble, so the queen mother has been depressed for some time ago. This time. A mother-in-law of the Shen family came to the Queen Mother to chat, and when she talked about the way to sell flags to make money, do you think this matter is so simple? Or rather. The Queen Mother can't think of the key to this, the Qingpu Shen family is a time-honored wealthy businessman, can she not see the problem here? ”

“……”

"So, nine times out of ten, Shen Shiming gave the Queen Mother a deduction, that is, to get through this matter to the Queen Mother, and then take advantage of the situation, find an excuse to attack some people, and by the way, establish his prestige as prime minister, hum, it's really a good calculation."

"I see, father-in-law." Sun Wang said, "If this is really the prime minister's calculation, then if I destroy his calculation, I will definitely be hated by him, right?" ”

"Yes."

"But what does it really have to do with the queen? Although we don't have any information on the queen's side, as far as I know, the queen's mother has always been indifferent and only on the prince all day long, how can it have anything to do with this matter? ”

"Queen? Hum. Sun Gui sneered, "Maybe the queen mother in the past was really indifferent and didn't care much about the things around her, but now it's different, she has a prince, even if it's not for herself, she has to think about her own children, right?"

Now that the emperor is fighting outside all day long, although the news of victory has been coming, no one dares to say that there are no accidents. And once the emperor has an accident, how does this make the queen and the prince deal with themselves?

To put it mildly, once something happens to the emperor at this time, the queen and the crown prince will definitely not be able to compete with the righteous king, so even if it is just in case, she will cooperate with Shen Shiming. Otherwise, the Shen family would listen to Shen Shiming so lightly and dare to calculate their grandson-in-law's family? ”

"Hey, after listening to your words father-in-law, I finally understand the truth that there is no trivial matter in the heavenly family." Sun Wang sighed, "It seems that this official is indeed terrifying." ”

Sun Gui also sighed, and continued: "I'm counting people, and people are also counting me, you can't expect everyone else to be stupid, only you are smart, and you can't expect everyone else to be a chess piece, only you are playing chess." Even if he is as wise and martial as the emperor, he is not being calculated. If you have to say it, the emperor just has a greater advantage, but in the big chessboard of heaven, earth and people's hearts, he is just a chess piece. ”

After speaking, Sun Gui continued: "Nowadays, the emperor himself is young and vigorous, but he is too superstitious about force, relying on his great martial arts, and does not take the heroes of the world in his eyes...... Let's not talk about what will happen to the emperor in the future, at least for now, there is no doubt that the emperor is a strong person.

And to do things under a strong emperor, you must understand one thing, that is, the other party doesn't care about the courtiers below doing wrong things and doing stupid things, anyway, no one is as wise as the emperor, but what he cares most about is the loyalty of the courtiers below, and he hates that someone hides his small actions and hides from him...... cough cough cough ......"

Speaking of this, Sun Gui coughed twice, and before he could recover from it, Sun Wang quickly picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea, gently picked up the teacup, blew it, and then carefully offered it with both hands: "Father-in-law, drink a cup of tea, moisten your throat first." ”

"Yes, good." Sun Gui nodded, took the teacup and drank it all, exhaled, and then said, "Where did you just go?" ”

"Speaking of which, the Holy One hates people today to hide from him to make small moves."

"Yes, that's right." Sun Gui nodded again, "Although I have seen little of the emperor, but looking at the history books, most of the emperors with strong martial arts do not like the people below to deceive and conceal, nor do they like to form parties in private, but as I said before, there is the queen mother there, if you don't hide it from the emperor, you yourself will suffer first, and too many people will trouble you, so this is a dilemma." ”

"yes." Sun Wang said with a sad face, "This is indeed a dilemma, you see, now the Queen Mother will not blame me, but the emperor is ...... Father-in-law, how do I break this game? ”

"It's very simple, take the initiative to expose your flaws, neglect this clown, and cover up the big ugly bully." Sun Guidao, "You know Wang Jian of the Qin Dynasty, he is a famous general of the Qin Dynasty, and he has made great martial arts for the Qin Emperor to sweep away the Six Kingdoms, but when he led the army to wipe out the Six Kingdoms, in order to calm the suspicion of the Qin Emperor, he took the initiative to ask the Qin Emperor for money and things, and put on an image of greed for money, although his reputation was damaged, but he calmed the suspicion of the Qin Emperor, and finally died a good death, I said this person, can you understand what it means?" ”

"Understood." Sun Wang nodded suddenly, "You mean to say that as long as I am sure that I am negligent in my work and do not find out in time that the Queen Mother is reselling the royal flag among the people, then the emperor will at most think that I am negligent, but he will not think that I am deliberately concealing and not reporting because of this?" ”

"Well, yes, yes."

"But can the emperor believe it? Can he believe that I am negligent and does not know? ”

"Then you'll have to find a way to convince him." Sun Gui smiled and said, "Wait for a while, you will hand over all the materials, anyway, now that the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother have already started a war, it will be nothing if you hand over the materials again, they will not target you." However, you must be heartbroken at that time, and even take the initiative to resign, in short, you will take all the fault on yourself, as if it was because of your negligence in your work that you led the Empress Dowager to do such a thing.

As long as you act like a little bit, anyway, the matter has come to this point, the emperor probably won't investigate whether you are really negligent, or deliberately conceal and not report, at most criticize you without pain, and you will have to deal with bigger problems after that. ”

"I see." Sun Wang nodded, "But, no matter what, after this incident, I must have a stain in the emperor's mind, what if the emperor no longer trusts me in the future?" ”

"You don't have to worry about that." Sun Gui shook his head, "If a person is never wrong, then the superior will really worry, but if you are a little negligent, the superior will not be too difficult." ”

"That's right." Sun Wang nodded.

"You remember." Sun Gui continued, "If the emperor understates you, but you must ask for punishment, either ask the emperor to reduce your authority, or ask the emperor to set up a new department to divide your power, in short, you must take this opportunity to divide part of the power in your hands, you must remember!" ”

"Why is that?"

"Idiot!" Sun Gui glared and reprimanded, "You can't even figure this out? Is your mind blocked by mush? ”

"Yes, yes......" Sun Wang's eyes rolled, "I understand, I have too much power now, and I know too much, the emperor is afraid that he will not be at ease for a long time, so it is the safest to share a little power out, at least to appease the emperor's heart." ”

"You can teach." Sun Gui nodded with satisfaction, "If I can have this thought, I will be relieved." (To be continued......) R1292