Chapter 177: Court Meeting
Huo Guang left Chang'an for nearly two months, and that night Du Yannian, Shangguan Ji and other subordinates came to visit in person. The fastest update at the apex is a visit, and these subordinates are naturally here to report on the situation in Jingzhao Yin's Mansion in the past two months.
"Your Majesty, Fu Lihou has arrived!" Just as Huo Guang was talking to several henchmen, Huo Tang walked to Huo Guang's side, lowered his head and said something in Huo Guang's ear.
Huo Guang immediately got up when he heard this, and then said to a few subordinates in the house: "Let's stop here today, and you should go back to rest early." Although everyone didn't know what Huo Tang said, they also retired with interest when they saw Huo Guang's actions.
Lu Bode is the help that Huo Qu arranged for Huo Guang before his death, and he is also the person with the highest status under Huo Guang at present. If it weren't for Huo Qu's illness, Huo Guang would not be sure if Lu Bode would really return to him, but at least for now, Lu Bode is still obedient to his words.
Huo Tang accompanied Huo Guang to a study, this time Huo Tang did not go in, but kept standing outside the door and waiting, Huo Guang went in for a long time and no one knew what he said to Lu Bode. It wasn't until a long time later that Lu Bode left Anyang Jun's Mansion with a worried face.
"Hey, why hasn't Sister Tang gone to rest yet?" Huo Guang walked out of the door and saw Huo Tang under the eaves. In just over a month of getting along, Huo Guang has already treated Huo Tang as his sister, and he naturally became Sister Tang.
"I don't know where you are sleeping tonight? Slave maid good to arrange! Huo Tang lowered his body slightly and asked, now Anyang County Mansion not only has Li Yan, the main lady, but also the concubine of the golden bottle, so there is Huo Tang's question.
"In the future, you can let the subordinates do these little things in the house, and treat this place as your home! You've been working hard these days, so go get some rest early. I have a court meeting tomorrow, and I will ask my wife to accompany you to visit Chang'an City. Huo Guang said with a smile, he asked Huo Tang to participate in the secret, so naturally he didn't treat her as a subordinate.
Huo Tang was moved in his heart, but he only bowed his head slightly and whispered "yes".
Outside the Weiyang Palace was already crowded, and Huo Guang's frame also appeared outside the Weiyang Palace no sooner or later. He is an important minister of the two thousand stones of Jingzhao Yin's rank, only slightly ahead of people at the level of the Three Princes and Nine Qings. Just as Huo Guang stepped off the frame, the frames of Jiuqing and Sangong also arrived one after another.
When these important ministers of two thousand stones also arrived one after another, the originally lively scene outside the Weiyang Palace was a lot quieter, and everyone consciously lined up, and there was no sound of conversation, at most they just nodded slightly. Although Huo Guang has not appeared in Chang'an City for two months, and he has not been seen in the last few court meetings, most of the courtiers today look at Huo Guang with a hint of envy.
Many people are actually speculating in their hearts that today's court meeting may be the protagonist of Huo Guang again, and Huo Guang, one of the nine tripods, has the largest share of the credit, but the reward for Huo Guang has not come down for a long time. Everyone estimated that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was going to reward Huo Guang in person, and there were even rumors that Huo Guang would be crowned a marquis this time. In the early period of the Western Han Dynasty, there was no provision that military merits should not be crowned marquis, but Huo Guang had military merits to pacify the Hanoi Rebellion, and at that time he was only promoted to Jing Zhaoyin by Chang'an Ling, and there was no reward on the title.
When the first rays of morning light fell on the top of the main hall of Weiyang Palace, the courtiers of the Western Han Dynasty entered the main hall of Weiyang Palace silently. After His Majesty arrived, the crown of Emperor Wu of Han appeared on the main hall. Emperor Wu sat down, and the courtiers also knelt in their respective seats.
"Your Majesty has a decree, and Anyang Jun Huo Guang will receive it!" Emperor Wu of Han's side, Su Wen took a few steps forward, unfolded a brocade scroll in his hand, and read it aloud before the courtiers could react.
Huo Guang heard that it was related to him, and he couldn't care about being surprised now, so he got up and knelt down and said, "The minister accepts the order!" ”
"Anyang Jun Huo Guang won the Qingzhou Ding of Jiuding in Fenshui, Yu Gongsheji, and specially overflowed to seal thousands of households, and rewarded ten gold taels of brocade." After Su Wen read out the reward for Huo Guang, he stood beside Emperor Wu of Han again. At this time, Huo Guang raised his head slightly to look at Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, only to see that his eyes were just facing the gaze of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although a few zhang away, Huo Guang seemed to feel that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was smiling and nodding to himself.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Huo Guang bowed. Although there was no feudal marquis as rumored in the market, Huo Guang already had 1,300 feudal estates, which many princes did not have.
There are no less than hundreds of marquis of the Han Dynasty, but less than half of them have fiefdoms and euppossessions, and the seven or eighty percent of the latter half are only a few hundred fiefdoms. And the marquis of Qianhu already belongs to the high-level princes, as for the marquis of Wanhu, even since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there are only more than ten people, and this is still plus those whose inheritance is severed and the country is removed because of sin.
The courtiers also whispered, Huo Guang is not a marquis, and he has already sealed 1,300 households, which is a special case that has never been seen in ancient times. It stands to reason that at this time, the title of the prince is not as good as the marquis, in the past, Huo Guang had 300 households, even if he put aside his title of feudal monarch, his status was only equivalent to the lowest rank of the marquis. From now on, what should those princes below the thousand households do when they see Huo Guang? Is it to honor Huo Guang or the marquis?
However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been rewarded, and there is no possibility of changing it, and these courtiers are also very good, and if it really comes to that situation, there will be no embarrassment with the way of life and cheekiness of these people.
The reward for Huo Guang came to an end, and then the normal process of this court meeting began. At first, it was still a painless thing, but he was not in Chang'an for two months, and Huo Guang found that there were obviously two factions above the court meeting, one faction was headed by Zhang Tang, the imperial historian, and the other faction was headed by Prime Minister Zhuang Qingzhai. I don't know what these two factions think, but whenever one side throws out a point of view, the other side will hold opposing opinions, no matter how big or small the matter, no matter whether it is reasonable or not, anyway, I feel that the two factions are incompatible.
Huo Guang's eyes were slightly closed, and he looked like he didn't care about himself. It seems that these two factions have been raising each other's bars for too long, and people like Wei Qing and Du Zhou are also like Huo Guang, putting on a posture of not helping each other.
The contradiction between Zhang Tang and Zhuang Qingzhai Huo Guang was also clear in his heart. After Li Cai's death, Zhang Tang had the best chance of becoming the prime minister, and even Zhang Tang thought so at that time, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suddenly appointed Zhuang Qingzhai as the prime minister, which was understandable, but Zhuang Qingzhai did not make concessions and excuses at that time, which made Zhang Tang very unhappy. Later, Zhuang Qingzhai became the prime minister, because he believed in Huang Lao's technique, but also adhered to the rule of inaction, and did not intend to be in the limelight, so Zhang Tang's power became bigger and bigger, and even sometimes he had acted as the prime minister. In addition, Zhang Tang has always been highly used by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and even killed Yan Yi, one of the Nine Qings, for the crime of slander last year, and since then, Zhang Tang has been even more unpopular. But Zhuang Qingzhai is the prime minister after all, even if he retreats everywhere, there are still many places where there will be conflicts with Zhang Tang, and the contradictions between the two parties will become more and more intensified over time, and the prime minister does not represent an individual, but the entire prime minister's mansion, and finally the two forces have become tense recently.
"Enough! If there's nothing else to do, that's the end of today! Suddenly, the majestic voice of Emperor Wu of Han sounded, and it was obvious that Emperor Wu of Han was a little impatient.
Emperor Wu of Han's voice sounded, Huo Guang suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes, and his gaze fell on Lu Bode in front of him through everyone. Seeing that Emperor Wu of Han was about to get up and leave, and the courtiers were about to get up, Lu Bode's body suddenly moved, and then shouted: "Your Majesty, the ministers have something to do!" ”
"Huh? What else is the matter with the Guard? Emperor Wu of Han stopped getting up and asked lightly.
Lu Bode straightened his robe and said: "Your Majesty, I have not received any other news since I received the news of the South Vietnamese Mission a few days ago, and the previous news was stamped with the seal of the letter, these two points are quite strange, and I am afraid that there will be a change, so I implore Your Majesty to send an order to Han Qianqiu, the guard of Yangshan, to find out the movements of the mission." ”
"What do you have to say?" Emperor Wu of Han looked at Shang Qiucheng and asked.
"Your Majesty, it stands to reason that the mission should have a message sent back every day, but it has not been received in the past few days, and the minister has sent a document to the Prime Minister's Office a few days ago to seek advice, but he has not received a reply so far." Shang Qiu Cheng said. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not report everything to him in all yamen, this time the news of the mission lagged behind, Shang Qiucheng sent a document to the Prime Minister's Mansion as usual, but the Prime Minister's Mansion was busy fighting with the Imperial Doctor recently, so this matter was delayed.
"Prime Minister, what's going on?" Emperor Wu of Han asked in a deep voice.
Zhuang Qingzhai hurriedly replied: "Recently, there have been a lot of documents piled up in various places, I am afraid that the little official missed the documents of Honglu Temple, and the minister will thoroughly investigate the matter after he returns." ”
"Your Majesty has something to say." At this time, Huo Guang suddenly spoke, originally Zhang Tang wanted to take the opportunity to attack Zhuang Qingzhai, but was interrupted by Huo Guang intentionally or unintentionally.
"Speak." Emperor Wu of Han only said one word.
Huo Guang came out and said, "The ministers have been looking at Nanyue for a long time, and they quite agree with what Wei Wei said, and I am afraid that there is fraud in it." The minister thought that the top priority was to contact the South Vietnamese mission and find out the situation in South Vietnam. If you think about the worst, you have to prepare early! ”
"Jing Zhaoyin is too trivial, isn't it? Do you have to plan ahead based on speculation? Jing Zhaoyin's so-called plan is nothing more than to prepare for war, right? Now that the treasury is tight on money and grain, South Vietnam is thousands of miles away, and the road is far away, so where is the imperial court going to transfer troops now? "The first person to come out against it was none other than Sang Hongyang.
As soon as Huo Guang and Sang Hongyang spoke, the entire court became whispering. When Lu Bode said that the news of South Vietnam was blocked for several days, many people already had a lot of speculation in their hearts, and at this time, even the courtiers who did not want to believe that South Vietnam dared to rebel had to have doubts in their hearts.
"Immediately order Han Qianqiu to find out the situation in South Vietnam, and Wei Wei immediately reorganize the prisoners in Gyeonggi to prevent changes in South Vietnam!" A moment later, ignoring the whispers of the courtiers, Emperor Wu of Han issued two orders in a row. Now there may be no one in the court who knows Zhao Yingqi, the king of Nanyue, better than Emperor Wu of Han, if Zhao Yingqi is still there, there will definitely be no current situation, Emperor Wu of Han has a bad premonition, so he will respond so quickly.
When Huo Guang heard Emperor Wu of Han's order, he didn't expect Emperor Wu of Han to have the worst plan in his heart. At this moment, Huo Guangdu sincerely admired Emperor Wu of Han's vision and determination.
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