Chapter 520: Handing over power

The news that Yue Yang was ready to let Hailou step down from the position of governor of Shanxi, and then that the new governor would be appointed by the imperial court did not spread, and the imperial court remained as calm as usual for several days. This morning, after Yue Yang dispersed the dynasty, he did not return to the Horse Mansion as before, but came to Wenyuan Pavilion with Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and others.

Due to the addition of three scholars, Wenyuan Pavilion was also a little more lively than usual, and it was no longer as calm as before. However, today, these bigwigs in Wenyuan Pavilion did not work, but sat in the small living room and drank tea.

Today is the day when Yue Yang, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou three cabinet scholars officially settled in Wenyuan Pavilion, as the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhou Tingru contributed his treasure of Wuyi Mountain's big red robe, it is said that this kind of big red robe is worth a lot of money and has always been a royal tribute, even if Zhou Tingru as the first assistant of the cabinet can only get less than one or two, he is hidden like a treasure on weekdays, but today he made an exception to take it out.

Next to the coffee table, Xue Guoguan picked up the delicate purple sand teapot and filled all the teacups next to him, then picked up the steaming teacup in front of him and took a few deep sips, his face showed an intoxicated look, and then drank it all.

Yue Yang smiled and took a sip of the teacup, and suddenly a refreshing fragrance suddenly entered his nasal cavity, and when he took the teacup and drank it all, this fragrance seemed to enter his heart and lungs from his throat.

"Well, good tea!"

Even Yue Yang, who didn't know much about tea, couldn't help but exclaim, let alone the people next to him.

Chinese people are good at tea, especially the Chinese literati regard tea as a kind of inheritance and culture, today with Yueyang sitting with these people put aside their character and character, just from the perspective of cultural level, these people are now a handful of top literati in the Ming Dynasty, the understanding and perception of tea is naturally much stronger than Yueyang's two knives.

A round of tea is finished. Lu Xiangsheng put down the teacup and smashed it, and praised it: "Today, we are blessed by Zhou Shoufu to drink such a high-quality tea, if you can drink such good tea every day, you are not willing to be a scholar!" Zhou Shoufu, why don't you give this tea profit to the lower officials? ”

Everyone laughed when they heard it, Zhou Tingru smiled and pointed at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Okay, you Lu Jiandou, the old man just ordered such a good thing, he originally planned to enjoy it slowly by himself, but you started to play it one by one." The old man can tell you, it will never work! ”

Although Zhou Tingru rejected Lu Xiangsheng, his words were full of peace and jokes. Yue Yang on the side immediately saw that Zhou Tingru was really treating himself and Lu Xiangsheng as people who could talk to him on an equal footing. Because in the eyes of these people, only those who have entered the cabinet are the small group of people who can really decide the fate of the Ming Dynasty, just like the elders of the Celestial Empire Elder Group in later generations, only these few people are the ones who really control the fate of the Celestial Empire.

After everyone laughed a few words, Zhou Tingru said to the three of Yueyang: "Zhenghong, Jiandou, Yanyan, the three of you can enter the cabinet, which also makes the three of us breathe a sigh of relief, the cabinet has a lot of affairs." We old guys are almost too busy these days, and your presence has finally relieved us! ”

Listening to Zhou Tingru's sincere words, Yue Yang sighed in his heart that Zhou Tingru was able to tell nonsense, as if the little tricks he played a few days ago had nothing to do with them at all. However, Yue Yang was not surprised by this. People who don't know how to talk nonsense can't play politics, and the more people in high positions, the more so.

Lu Xiangsheng arched his hand and said: "Zhou Shoufu has won the award, and the next official is the last to learn, so he should ask Lord Shoufu for more advice." ”

Everyone is in the same house. I also know each other very well, and after a few gossips, I get to the point. Zhou Tingru turned his gaze to Yue Yang, and said with a hint of puzzlement and doubt in his eyes: "Lord Yue." Yesterday, the emperor summoned the official into the palace and asked the official to discuss the new candidate for the governor of Shanxi, I wonder if this matter is true? ”

Zhou Tingru's words sounded very unreasonable at first glance, and the imperial court wanted to send a governor below to ask for his opinion, isn't this a mess? But no one here would think so, except for Zhou Tingru, everyone showed an unbelievable look, especially Lu Xiangsheng looked like he had seen a ghost. Just a few days ago, he mentioned this matter to Yue Yang, and this guy almost turned his face with him on the spot, but he didn't expect such a divine turn to come out today, could it be that this guy suddenly changed to a vegetarian diet?

Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, Yue Yang said very calmly: "This is naturally true, Ben Hou plans to go to Shanxi in a few days, and take all the relatives of the family to the big man, and the power of Shanxi should naturally return to the imperial court." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other, and their faces showed a look of contemplation. Shanxi is where Yueyang started, it can be said that Yueyang's power in Shanxi is the strongest, and now Yueyang actually said that he wants to take his family from Shanxi to the big man, which shows that this guy is really going to withdraw from Shanxi, thinking of this, many people's eyes showed a trace of essence.

Shanxi as Yueyang's old nest for many years, Datong, Hunyuan Prefecture, and Yingzhou are quite wealthy, and the annual taxes handed over to the imperial court are as high as two million taels.

However, everyone is worthy of being an old fritter who has been rolling in the officialdom for many years, and after being excited, a question popped up in their hearts after thinking about it.

Zhou Tingru asked leisurely: "Marquis Yue, do you also plan to step down from the post of Governor of Xuanda after you go to the Great Minister?" ”。

As soon as everyone heard this, their hearts tightened, obviously Zhou Tingru's words were to the point, why Yue Yang can be so awesome, is because he not only has silver, but he also controls an elite army of more than 100,000 people, as long as there is this loyal army in his hands, no one dares to touch him in the entire Ming Dynasty.

And now that he thinks about it, Yue Yang seems to have generously handed over the position of governor of Shanxi, but as long as the tens of thousands of troops stationed in Shanxi are still in his hands, even if others are not in Shanxi, he can continue to exert his influence on Shanxi.

"Hehe......"

Hearing this, Yue Yang smiled, and he looked at Zhou Tingru with a smile: "Could it be that Zhou Shoufu also hopes that Benhou will also hand over the position of Xuanda Governor?" ”。 (To be continued......)