(Xiexie's reward for protecting who is a book friend)

Li Yuan is good at persuasion, and in terms of vision and knowledge, he is like an elder brother, teaching Li Zheng the experience of the ups and downs of life.

With the current power of the Li family, it doesn't matter whether Li Zheng is the prime minister or not. The most important thing is that as long as Li Yuan is the martial king of the Qin State, then the glory of the Li family will not decline. On the contrary, if Li Yuan falls one day, even if Li Zheng becomes the prime minister of Qin, it will be a castle in the air, and he can't withstand the slightest wind and waves.

Li Zheng didn't understand these truths of glory and loss, he was just stunned by Xiangguo's position for a while, and if he really studied it carefully, he and Chen Ping were really incompatible, and if you have to fight to the death, it is not the case. Speaking from the heart, Chen Ping has many abilities to deal with things, but he Li Zheng does not have.

Thinking of this, Li Zheng couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

He was once confused by beauty and power, and while talking, he was full of regret. From this point of view, Li Zheng is not only the same in appearance and knowledge as Li Si, but also similar to Li Si in temperament.

"The important ministers of the country do not care about the form, but in the heart. That is, taking the interests of the country as the foundation and doing things with one's heart, the second brother must remember this. Otherwise, the position of Xiangguo will never be related to you. Li Yuan said lightly.

Putting aside his personal discipline, Li Zheng's ability to do things has been trained enough to be qualified for important official positions such as the Qin State's Imperial Shi Cheng, the county guard, and the doctor, and now, what he needs is to be deposited

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

Li Zheng's confession allowed Li Yuan to quickly grasp the details of Chen Di and others' schemes, and the role played by everyone involved in this incident gradually became clear.

Ji Di, the initiator of the impeachment of the greedy ink, is actually just a small character to be used. Ji Di himself has a straightforward temperament, he can't tolerate a little sand in his eyes, and his relationship with Chen Yuan is extremely poor, and his temperament falls in the eyes of people with a heart, so he has become the vanguard of attacking Chen Ping.

Guan Yue, the head of the agricultural superintendent.

He was also an old acquaintance of Li Yuan when he was in Xingyang, but this time, the role he played was not glorious, because his identity was no longer as simple as assisting Li Zheng, behind a series of clan shili schemes. Guan Yue gradually became the new think tank of the clan Shili.

Guan Yue's family.

It stands to reason that he has no intersection with the clan, but things are often so incredible, while Guan Yue followed Li Yuan's gradual promotion, his family's ambitions also began to be revealed, from small to large, from shallow to deep. Those clans that have been influenced for a long time have also accumulated step by step in this way at the beginning, and the Guan family and the declining Chen family have reached a tacit understanding, and the two sides have decided to support each other in many aspects. to shorten the time it takes for each other to rise.

This alliance of mutual exploitation is the eternal theme of the mutual annexation and dissolution of the various shili in Guanzhong, from the ancient pre-Qin to the Tang and Song dynasties. In the end, the pattern of the seven surnames of Guanzhong in the Tang Dynasty, the surname Zhong and the surname Yang in the Song Dynasty was formed in the northwest, and now, Guan Yue is so risky. It is to contribute to the growth of the family.

At the same time, the change in Guan Yue's mentality is also due to another reason, that is, Zhao Ben's death.

In Xingyang City, Zhao Ben, Guan Yue and Chen Di once had a thrilling past, at that time, Li Yuan was just a small military marquis who broke through the siege of Daliang, and Guan Yue was already the Gongcao of Xingyang, an important town in Sanchuan County, Zhao Ben was even more expensive as the county guard, and Chen Di was a member sent by the imperial court to inspect.

Guan Yue is very lucky, he seems to have chosen a good direction.

At the beginning of Li Yuan, he wavered, but then under the persuasion of Ying Yushu, Gongsun Ying and others, he chose to continue to follow Li Yuan's subordinates.

After entering Guanzhong, Guan Yue showed his shrewd and capable side in Yongqi's governance, especially in Zheng Guoguo's agricultural affairs, but this kind of dull days, especially the strict requirements for official abilities after the Qin State became strong, made Guan Yue feel uncomfortable.

People change.

Humans are also fickle animals.

Guan Yue, with his sleek and flexible way of disposing of it, stood in this era, and when he was on the right track in the Qin State, hoping that more young and enterprising fresh blood would join, and hoping that the incumbent officials could continue to learn and keep pace with the times, Guan Yue's thinking could not keep up.

He didn't want to give up his existing power, and he didn't want to work hard to keep up with the fast-paced pace, if he chose one of Chen Ping and Li Zheng as prime minister, it would naturally be better for Li Zheng to fool him.

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The beginning of the new year.

First Prime Minister Chen Ping took bribes and greedy ink, and asked for self-punishment for three years, and at the same time, part of the family's wealth was returned to the state treasury as compensation. Some county guards and middle- and lower-level officials of the Chen family, such as Chen Yuan and others, who were directly involved in embezzlement and bribery, were dismissed from their official posts and sent back to their hometowns.

Then, at the court meeting, Li Zheng, the imperial historian, made a special statement on the matter of Ji Huang and the straightforward statement not long ago, and discussed some laws and regulations on the evaluation of officials' deliberations, focusing on stipulating the scope of speech involving slander and malicious attacks, and prohibiting officials from making evil accusations in the name of direct advice.

After the two incidents, the Qin dynasty was revitalized, and then, a group of backward officials in the performance appraisal such as Guan Yue, the agricultural supervisor of the capital, were removed from their corresponding positions and replaced by younger and accomplished officials.

In addition to these changes, one night, a group of forbidden troops entered Li Zheng's Imperial History Mansion and began to arrest Chen Di and other remnants of the clan.

Chen Di's corpse was thrown into the barren mountains deep in Lishan, and what awaited him was the gnawing of wild beasts in the mountains and forests. The rest of the Chen family were exiled to the border areas, and the bitter fruits they planted themselves can only be borne by themselves, while in the border counties where the clan Shili has no living soil, their descendants can only support themselves with their hands, and perhaps after a few generations, they will integrate into the people of the border areas and truly become a part of self-reliance.

In the handling of these court changes, Li Yuan did not formally come forward from beginning to end, he was only secretly paying attention to the changes in the general direction, paying attention to which was beneficial to the Qin State and which was unfavorable, when the spring of 199 BC arrived, Li Yuan suddenly found that he had crossed the age of thirty and stood up. (To be continued......)