Now Cui Jingsheng was directly mad!

He couldn't believe that not only Pei Wenju would refute his face, but the rest of the people would not give him face, especially Liu Pingyuan, who was not on the verge of rebellion, and was now ready to fall into the ground, which made Cui Jingsheng angry.

But everyone is like him, all of them are the heads of the big families or the children of wealthy soldiers, and they are not afraid to face him alone, and now that everyone is united, they are even more afraid of him Cui, so even if he opposes it, even if he turns his face against everyone, it is meaningless, so he can only hold back and not speak.

"Then everyone has no objection, this time the matter of the four princes is decided!" Pei Wenju said, paused, and continued, "As for the Third Highness, it is a bit abrupt to enter the Privy Council and rashly serve as the deputy privy envoy, but it is still okay to serve as a fellow privy councilor, what do you think?" ”

The Privy Council is only half a level behind the deputy privy envoy, this is Ji Qingchen's previous official position, at that time in the Privy Council was second only to Bai Jin and Li Muzhi, and now Ji Qingchen's official position has been withdrawn, and this position was given to the third prince Ji Hongchang by Pei Wenju. However, now the Privy Council has no deputy privy envoy except for Li Muzhi, the privy envoy, and let the third prince Ji Hongchang serve as the Privy Council's Tongzhi, and he is still the second person in the Privy Council, and there is no difference between the rights of the deputy privy council, so Pei Wenju's suggestion, everyone did not object, and immediately agreed with his suggestion.

"Does Privy Envoy Li have any opinions?" Pei Wenju asked Li Muzhi.

Seeing that everyone agreed, even Cui Jingsheng did not object, Li Muzhi was unable to support himself, what else could he say, he could only say that he agreed.

In this way, after Emperor Yan became critically ill, Dayan's power was divided between the four princes and the family behind them.

The second prince Ji Ping was in charge of the Ministry of Officials and the Criminal Department, and together with the third prince Ji Hongchang, he was in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the third prince was in charge of part of the affairs of the Privy Council in addition to being in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Of course, the power of the Eighth Prince is not small, even if Pei Wenju can suppress the Eighth Prince and Cui Jingsheng, but because of the special existence of the queen, the strength of the Eighth Prince is not small among the four.

In this distribution of power, in addition to the dissatisfaction of the eighth prince Ji Qian, people like the second prince Ji Ping, the third prince Ji Hongchang and the fourth prince Ji Wen are very satisfied.

And the reason why it appeared in the all-out distribution was unexpected by Cui Jingsheng.

Because Pei Wenju wanted to give Liu Pingyuan more benefits than he promised to Liu Pingyuan, Cui Jingsheng only gave half of the Privy Council to Ji Hongchang, but Pei Wenju not only did this, he also gave half of the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Ji Hongchang, even in the short term, whether it was the second prince Ji Ping and the third prince Ji Hongchang, it was difficult to really control the Metropolitan Procuratorate that had been controlled by the Eighth Prince Ji Qian's henchmen, but this was a matter related to his own interests, and he handed over Dayan's supervision to him, how could Liu Pingyuan not be tempted?

That's why he defected to Cui Jingsheng and fell into the trap.

At the same time, the reason why Liu Pingyuan was reluctant to cooperate with Cui Jingsheng was because of Li Muzhi. Because Ji Hongchang entered the Privy Council, he couldn't help but compete for power and profit with Li Muzhi, and Li Muzhi was the person of the eighth prince Ji Qian. In this way, even if the two sides cooperate, the two sides cannot coexist peacefully, so why should he cooperate with Cui Jingsheng?

However, the real beneficiary of this benefit distribution is the second prince Ji Ping.

Because he unconditionally supported Prime Minister Pei Wenju, not only did he not lose the officials and criminal department under his control, but he also obtained the power to be in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, although the current Metropolitan Procuratorate is still in the hands of the Eighth Prince, and he can have the ability of the second prince Ji Ping, he doesn't believe that he can't take the Metropolitan Procuratorate in half a year.

Therefore, for him, he has gained a lot from this distribution of power.

Of course, the gains of the third prince Ji Hongchang and the fourth prince Ji Wen are not small, if you just talk about this power distribution, Ji Wen's harvest is not as big as Ji Ping and Ji Hongchang, but he himself is the secretary of the country, plus he is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, so his power in the imperial examination has increased, which is very beneficial to him.

And the most uncomfortable is the Eighth Prince Ji Qian, he was in the political hall because of Cui Jingsheng's relationship, he didn't dare to speak out against Pei Wenju's proposal, but when he returned to the mansion, he was furious, and asked his uncle Cui Jingsheng loudly, "Uncle, how can you back down with them today?" Today's distribution of power is related to the future position of the East Palace, we are fighting with them to the end, and we can't back down! ”

"Do you mean to make us turn against them? Do you think that with their attitude today, we can get what we want by fighting with them? Cui Jingsheng asked rhetorically, his tone was not good, he was also angry by today's political affairs hall meeting, but it was better than Ji Qian.

"However, whether to fight or not is a problem, but whether to fight is another problem, it can't be confused, this is a matter of attitude, just to let them know that we are not vegetarians!" Seeing that Cui Jingsheng's tone was not good, the attitude of the Eighth Emperor Ji Qian eased a lot, but he still argued.

"You, why don't you see the situation today?" Cui Jingsheng looked like he hated iron but not steel, and said bitterly, "At today's meeting in the Political Affairs Hall, it is still obvious that Pei Wenju, Wang You and Liu Pingyuan have united together to target us, and if we turn our faces with them at that time, wouldn't it be in harmony with Pei Wenju's intentions, and let us offend the second and third princes because of this matter?" If you think about it, even if we offend the two of them, we will not get what we want in the future, and once we offend them, we will be isolated by them in the future, and what else can we do in the future except to be slowly consumed by them? ”

"But now we don't fight, don't say anything, we even gave them the Metropolitan Procuratorate, what's the use of guarding a Ministry of Industry and a Honglu Temple that doesn't have any rights at all!" The Eighth Emperor Ji Qian said obviously a little discouraged.

"Not necessarily! It's up to us to do it! Cui Jingsheng said calmly, "The Ministry of Industry and Honglu Temple are already ours, let's not talk about them now, just take the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an example, the right imperial envoy Cha Shenxing is our person, he has now completely controlled the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as long as we can act cautiously in the future, at least within a year, the second prince and the third prince will not want to get involved in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and one year is enough time for us to do a lot of things, and after this year, it is not certain who the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be!" ”

"Yes! Hearing my uncle say this, there is some truth in it! Ji Qian, who had calmed down, thought about it slightly, his mind suddenly came to life, and he couldn't help but say, "Uncle, do you think you want your stepmother to come forward to put some pressure on Pei Wenju again?" You can't just compromise with them. ”

"Nope." Hearing the suggestion of the Eighth Prince, Cui Jingsheng suddenly refused, he pondered for a while and said, "Do you know what Pei Wenju can unite with Wang You and Liu Pingyuan to suppress us this time?" ”

"For what?" The Eighth Emperor Ji asked reverently, "Isn't it for the distribution of power between the government hall and the Privy Council?" ”

"It's because of the distribution of power in the government of your four brothers, but this is not entirely the real reason why the three of them have joined forces to deal with us." Cui Jingsheng shook his head and said.

"What's the real reason?" The Eighth Prince Ji Qian asked confusedly.

"Because of your mother!" Cui Jingsheng said in a cold tone.

"What? Because of the queen mother, she is an old man? At this moment, the eighth prince Ji Qian was even more puzzled, so he asked, "What does this have to do with the queen mother?" ”

"Yes. Because of your mother's queen mother, and this time Your Majesty is critically ill, it is because of her identity that we can control the situation, let you smoothly supervise the country, and let my uncle preside over government affairs, and the three of them are afraid of us, afraid that we will threaten the interests of their family with all our strength, so they will deliberately suppress us. Cui Jingsheng said word by word, "Because we have the support of the queen's mother, our power in the Dayan court is already very large, if we are given another part of the power, wouldn't we be the only one in the court of Dayan?" ”

"That's why Pei Wenju will join forces with Wang You and Liu Pingyuan to deal with us?" The eighth prince Ji Qian also raised incredible.

"Yes, it should be said that it is for this reason that Pei Wenju was able to unite the Wang family and the Liu family to suppress our Cui family." Cui Jingsheng sighed and said, "So, sometimes our advantages are also our weaknesses. Therefore, in the future, we must be a little more low-key, after this imprisonment, we have become the target of public criticism, and we must not get carried away in the future! ”

At this time, Cui Jingsheng also thought of the reason for his rude today, so he said this to the Eighth Emperor Prince Ji Qian, in order to remind Ji Qian to keep a low profile in the future and stop being as arrogant and domineering as when he was in prison.

Because Ji Qian was too arrogant and domineering in the prison country, he took Yulin Cavalry for his own use, and mobilized 80,000 elite soldiers into King's Landing City, forcing Pei Wenju to give up handling government affairs, handing over government affairs to Cui Jingsheng, and appointing Cui Jingsheng as the prince, and at the same time letting the queen intervene in the court politics, all these actions have touched the interests of the Pei family, the Wang family and the Liu family, and may even have made the Bai family and the Li family dissatisfied.

That's why there is today's lesson, just when Cui Jingsheng planned properly, there was an unexpected result, which made his plan collapse and his efforts in vain.

"Uncle, don't worry, I remember!" Seeing that Pei Wenchao said so seriously, the Eighth Prince Ji replied piously and obediently. In the face of Cui Jingsheng, he was very respectful, and even a little afraid of Cui Jingsheng, which is also the reason why Cui Jingsheng fully supported him, because Cui Jingsheng also needed a prince or even an emperor who obeyed him, not a king with his own opinions.