In the main hall of Ganquan Palace, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was dressed in formal clothes, and although he was full of silver hair, his body sat straight.

It had been a long time since he had faced so many courtiers, and Emperor Wu of Han swept over everyone's face, and he could name these people and know their positions.

"Why didn't Dr. Goshi come?" His gaze swept over the ministers, and Emperor Wu of Han suddenly asked.

Prime Minister Sun He was imprisoned, and it is normal that he did not appear here, but without the Prime Minister Yu Shi Dafu is the leader of the foreign dynasty, Du Zhou was not involved in the witch Gu case, but now he has not appeared, which makes Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty have to ask.

"Back to Your Majesty, Dr. Yu Shi was seriously ill half a month ago and has been bedridden for many days!" The crown prince is above all the courtiers, and he is only a zhang away from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he is the supervisor of the country, and he can answer the matter of the imperial historian very appropriately.

"The prime minister was imprisoned, the imperial doctor was seriously ill, and the court didn't even have three dukes...... What have you been doing for the past two months? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suddenly looked pale, and in front of the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the prince was reprimanded.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty himself did not expect that the imperial historian would not be able to preside over such a major matter, and the prince did not even come to inform him. With the crown prince and his group of officials, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty knew without asking that the government was already in chaos.

"This ..... The nine secretaries of the DPRK and the central government and the princes perform their duties, and everything is normal! Liu Ju lowered his head and replied without confidence.

"Hmph...."Emperor Wu of Han snorted coldly, showing extreme dissatisfaction in his heart. However, Emperor Wu of Han did not continue to dwell on this matter, and he summoned his important ministers to come to Ganquan Palace to discuss more important matters.

"Now that the position of prime minister is vacant, I want to follow the example of the Governor's Mansion of the Western Regions, divide the prime minister's long history into two mansions, and set up two prime ministers on the left and right. Ordered Liu Quyu to be the prime minister of the left, seal Peng Hou, and take 2,200 households in Peng Land as food. The position of the right prime minister is reserved for the sage. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty announced a decision that he had been thinking about for a long time in front of the important ministers of the palace.

"Thank you Your Majesty, and the ministers will be crushed to repay Your Majesty!" Liu Quyu also attended it, and when he heard that he was the prime minister of Zuo and was made a marquis, he hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, there have been eleven prime ministers and Gongsun He, who is still in prison. Among these eleven prime ministers, only Shi Qing a few years ago died a good death in the prime minister's office, and there is no prime minister who can die a good death except Shi Qing. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been thinking about how to weaken the power of the prime minister, and finally he found that Huo Guang's method of separating the left and right Changshi is very good, and it is just possible to separate the two prime ministers on the left and right, which not only greatly weakens the power of the prime minister, but also allows the left and right prime ministers to check and balance each other.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Gongsun He, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally justifiably set up the left and right prime ministers. And his nephew Liu Quyu became the first left prime minister, and the candidate for the right prime minister Emperor Wu of Han was temporarily vacant before he could think about it.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been weakening the rights and status of the Three Dukes, he found that this court is really inseparable from the Three Dukes, or a person who can lead the overall situation in the court. Just like this time, without Gongsun He and Du Zhou, and the prince's ability is insufficient, there is no one in the court who can justifiably lead the overall situation, so that many important things have been backlogged.

No one has any objection to Emperor Wu of Han's decision. The vacancy for the prime minister must be taken to the position, and now there is a vacancy for the right prime minister, which still has a chance for those who originally had the opportunity to win the prime minister's position.

"Let's talk about the Western Regions." The matter of the prime minister belongs to internal troubles, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty convened the important ministers this time in the case of internal and external troubles, and the external troubles are naturally the war in the Western Regions.

Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and most of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were wary of Huo Guang, they were even more reluctant to see Huo Guang defeated.

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that although the Metropolitan Governor retreated to Wu'an City, he did not ask Chang'an for help, indicating that the Metropolitan Governor thought that he still had the strength to fight. In this way, we have enough time to prepare, and the defense against foreign enemies is nothing more than the army and the food and grass. What should be done now is to gather a large army to requisition food and grass in case of contingencies. As one of the few people in the DPRK who can be called a general, Lu Bode was the first to stand up at this time, and what he said was decent.

When the Western Regions War had been going on for three months, Chang'an finally discussed how to deal with it for the first time.

Emperor Wu of Han swept over the faces of these important ministers again, and after a while, he was a little stunned to find that there were no more talented generals among the important ministers in the hall. It seems that the only ones who can barely be used are Lu Bode and Yang Fu, and the Han Dynasty, which was originally star-studded, has become a withered talent since then.....

"Where is Su Jian now?" After a long time, Emperor Wu of Han suddenly called out an unfamiliar name, and when he called out this name, all the important ministers in the hall looked at each other, and some people showed deep worry in their eyes.

"Your Majesty...... Su Jian had already died two years ago, and he had been appointed to the post of Daijun Taishou....." Lu Bode lowered his head and said helplessly. Lu Bode couldn't help but think in his heart: "The emperor is really old!" ”

"Is Su Jian also dead?" Emperor Wu of Han muttered to himself in a trance. This change of his fell in the eyes of the important ministers in the palace, and it made these people believe that the emperor of the Han Dynasty was really old, and he had even begun to make mistakes!

The famous generals during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, except for Wei Qing and Huo Quai, in fact, the rest were basically the generals of these two. Su Jian is Wei Qing's general, and he once achieved the highest rank of Wei Wei, ranking among Jiuqing for a while. However, Su Jian was defeated in a battle of great disparity in strength, and that time Su Jian led only 3,000 cavalry, but encountered tens of thousands of troops of the Xiongnu alone, and Su Jian's entire army was annihilated under the head-on battle, and he escaped alone, and then was demoted to a commoner.

Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also felt that the defeat was not caused by Su Jian's negligence, so he found an opportunity to let him be the Taishou of the Daijun. However, perhaps providence destined that Su Jian, who was originally likely to become a generation of famous generals, also died in the post of Daijun Taishou shortly after Wei Qing's death. At that time, because of Wei Qing's death, Emperor Wu of Han didn't pay too much attention to other things, and forgot that Su Jian was dead.

"Then first mobilize the soldiers and horses of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou to assemble in Chang'an." Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty couldn't think of anyone to command the troops for a while, so he just asked the three major states closest to Chang'an to gather troops and transfer them to Chang'an.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made a move, and without letting the courtiers give any opinions, he basically settled the matter. It seems that a few simple decisions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made the courtiers feel a lot more at ease, although the decisions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty actually had no impact on the war in the Western Regions. But after this meeting of the Ganquan Palace, the government was once again on the right track, and Chang'an City quickly returned to its former prosperity.

Only some discerning people can see that it was not these deployments made by Emperor Wu of Han on the face that ended all this, but his order to stop the investigation of the witch case. Without the rumors of the witch case, the courtiers all devoted their minds to the government affairs, and the merchants and ordinary people did not have to worry about being arrested by the people of the captain of Sili on the road.

The witch Gu case quickly came to a conclusion, and Prime Minister Gongsun He was killed by the Yi clan, and thousands of people involved in Gongsun He were beheaded, including the Marquis of Changping and the two princesses. Although the witch Gu seemed to be over, the relationship between the crown prince and the empress and the emperor fell to a freezing point.

Du Zhou, the imperial historian, seemed to be very ill, and when everything calmed down in Chang'an, he still couldn't stay and walk. After sending several waves of people to visit, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally reluctantly relieved Du Zhou of his post as the imperial historian. And this time, the biggest gainer once again fell to Sang Hongyang's head, and his position as Jiuqing was further advanced, and he became one of the three princes of the Han Dynasty.

Because Sang Hongyang has been in the court for a long time, and his henchmen are even more numerous, after the power of Prime Minister Sun He was collapsed, Liu Quyu was a new master of the court, and Sang Hongyang, the imperial historian, became the first major force in the court. Even because he is also ranked as the third prince, and Liu Quyu is not the prime minister in the real sense of the word before, Sang Hongyang, who is the imperial historian, has the tendency of acting as Zhang Tang back then.

In Sang Hong Yang's mansion, a slave stood behind Sang Hong Yang. At this moment, Sang Hongyang stands on top of the attic in the house, and he can see the beautiful scenery of most of Chang'an by looking at the railing.

"It's still this lively and prosperous Chang'an...... But some people always want to sabotage all this......" Sang Hongyang couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the lively Chang'an bazaar, the merchants who traded back and forth and the people who purchased goods.

Sang Hongyang is now in his forties, and this grade is not young. And he finally fulfilled the dream he made when he was young, realized the ambition in his heart, and ranked third as the third prince.

Thinking of the opponent who was far away in the Western Regions, even Sang Hongyang, who was already a doctor of imperial history, couldn't help but have some admiration in his heart. Sang Hongyang is one of the few people who knows that Chang'an and even the entire Han Dynasty can still be so peaceful and prosperous now, all of which are due to Huo Guang's protection of the country, and even Huo Guang played a great role in ending the witch case ahead of schedule.

In all fairness, Sang Hongyang felt that if it weren't for the fact that he had too many irreconcilable contradictions with Huo Guang in his early years, he really hoped to have the opportunity to sit down with Huo Guang and talk about how to govern the country. But Sang Hongyang also knew that even if he and Huo Guang did not have those contradictions in the early years, the difference in ideas between the two would eventually be difficult to shake hands and make peace.

Later generations often listed Sang Hongyang as a representative figure of Legalism, and the representative figures of Legalism have a fatal shortcoming, that is, they will go on their own way for the path of change of the law that they recognize, and there is no room for flexibility and turnaround. Although the purpose of their reform is to make the country rich and strong, and people like them ignore the most important point, they may know, but that may be the price of the reform of the law, that is, the contradiction between the state and the aristocracy or businessmen.

There are too many such Legalist figures, Wu Qi of the Warring States Period, Shang Ying, etc., as well as Wang Anshi of later generations.... The same includes Sang Hongyang, these people have indeed made the country rich and strong through reform or reform, but they have harmed the interests of a class, and none of these people can die well in the end.

This may be their glory as representatives of Legalism, but also their sorrow......

Sang Hongyang, who is now a royal doctor, found that the witch case seemed to be over, but in fact it was not over. While he and Huo Guang were trying their best to end all this, there were still some people secretly snare a huge net.

"Has Su Wen been in and out of Li Guangli's mansion a lot lately?" Retracting those distant thoughts, Sang Hongyang asked as if casually.

"Not only Su Wen, but also Zuo Prime Minister Liu Quyu, Hou Han of the Shore Dao, and Zhang Gan of the Imperial History." The servant behind Sang Hongyang whispered, reporting several names.