When I saw Zuo Si, I naturally wanted to ask him about Zuo Ying's news. Zuo Si told me that Zuo Ying has given birth to a son, a daughter and two children, and now she is living happily.

Zuo Si and my father's generation are now over half a hundred years old. Seeing him again, he no longer has the same tendency to get ahead as before, he looks peaceful and steady, and it is much more pleasing to the eye.

In that case, he shouldn't hate me. His Zuo Ying, although nominally changed from a princess to a people's woman, in fact, got rid of the sad fate of the deep palace white-headed ** and got the happiness of mortals.

It is Pan Yue, who seems to have fallen from an immortal who does not eat fireworks in the world to a mortal. When I met him at his mother's house in Taiwei's Mansion a few years ago, he was still a little shy and beautiful. Now, he is slapping me and the emperor vigorously, with a flattering face, which also makes his world-famous handsome face greatly tarnished by being cheesy.

After sitting for a while, the emperor and I got up to say goodbye, and everyone naturally knelt on the ground again.

When I left, I asked Zhang Hong to quietly tell Liang Jingren to come to my emperor's temporary living room.

First, I want to know something about him; Second, the emperor has always wanted to extend him into the court as an official. This Liang Jingren is a rare talent. In the future, the fall of the Yang family will inevitably involve many officials, large and small, and the entire bureaucracy will be equivalent to a major change, and at that time, many new people will definitely need to be added. The emperor and I are very optimistic about Liang Jingren.

Soon, Liang Jingren arrived at the appointment.

The temporary reception room of the Yang family, because the entire courtyard was guarded by us from the palace, and the palace maids and eunuchs were also standing in the corridor outside the window. So, I was safe and bold to ask him something.

He also told us a lot of the inside story. Some of them were completely unexpected.

For example, Yang Ji really wants to resign, not hypocritically. It's not a trick to retreat.

According to him, for Yang Jun to seize power. Yang Ji has always been worried. He even used outsiders as "like facing the abyss, walking on thin ice" to describe his situation and mood.

Yang Ji once bitterly persuaded Yang Jun, "Only when my brother recruits Sima into the court and retreats to avoid it, can our Yang family keep the peace." Otherwise, I am afraid that there will be a danger of extinction in the future. ”

The great Sima is Sima Liang, the king of Runan. When the emperor was alive, Sima Liang's position was also the great Sima., and the computer station was updated the fastest. Yang Ji hoped that Yang Jun would invite Sima Liang back again and work with him to assist him.

In fact, it was originally the emperor's true will to let Yang Jun and Sima Liang jointly assist the government, but the edict was tampered with by Yang Jun, and it became his dictatorship.

Seeing that Yang Jun was obsessed with power and refused to "retreat and avoid it", Yang Ji persuaded again, "Then after he is recruited to return to Beijing, his brother will govern with him." If there is anything, the two of them will discuss it. The so-called one person is private, and two people are public. Only in this way can the suspicion of the dictatorship of foreign relatives be avoided. My brother has been an official for so many years, don't you still understand the truth? As a minister. Don't have a monopoly on power. Relatives in particular should avoid this! Now the brother is estranged from the clan, which makes them resentful of the Yang family. It is tantamount to putting yourself in an isolated position. Only when relatives and the royal family rely on each other can they rely on each other and be invincible forever. ”

It's a pity that Yang Ji's bitter words have been said in vain, Yang Jun is so greedy that he is not willing to give up even a little bit of power.

Ironically, he also used another very clumsy way to show that he had adopted Yang Ji's advice, that is, to recruit stunning prostitutes and then pretend to be his daughter to the emperor, so as to consolidate the relationship with the royal family.

This is what he understands as "leaning on each other, and relying on each other".

Liang Jingren said that after he conveyed the promise of me and the emperor to Shi Chong, Shi Chong has also been helping Yang Ji persuade Yang Jun to relinquish power and return to the emperor and Sima Huang.

After repeated persuasion failed, one day Yang Ji went to Shi Chong's house, and once asked Shi Chong with a worried face, "What is the evaluation of my brother outside?" ”

Shi Chong replied unceremoniously, "Brother Ling banished the king of the clan and set up the emperor, and now the people are talking and complaining." ”

When Yang Ji heard this, he became more and more worried, and took Shi Chong home on the spot, and asked Shi Chong to say these words to Yang Jun in person, but Yang Jun still couldn't listen to it.

In addition, Liang Jingren also told me and the emperor a very important information: Meng Guan and Li Zhao, the leaders of the forbidden army, are now very tense with the Yang family.

Originally, when the emperor died, Yang Jun blocked the road to intercept the edict, and standing behind him at that time was the forbidden army led by Meng Guan and Li Zhao. If it weren't for the fact that Yang Jun was surrounded by guards with knives, Hua and He Shao would not have handed over the edict so easily.

In other words, in the process of Yang Jun secretly changing the edict and usurping power, these two people made great contributions. But after Yang Jun came to power, he ignored these two people, not only did he not give them an official promotion, but he didn't even care about them anymore. The two "hated deeply".

I also told Liang Jingren about the last time Sima Wei, the king of Chu, went to Mingguang Hall to be an important official, of course, I didn't mention the word "coercion", but just asked him some about the situation of the king of Chu in the feudal country. Because, as far as I know, the king of Chu has traveled back and forth between Chu and the capital several times in the past two years.

Liang Jingren's opinion on this is: "If he wants an official, he will be an official." ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "What he wants is Duzhi Shangshu." How can a reckless person like him manage the world's money

I also smiled and said, "Du Zhishangshu will do it for him, it is better for Liang Aiqing to do it, where will he take care of the finances." ”

Liang Jingren hesitated for a while and said, "The King of Chu, according to the few times I have dealt with him, is a person with a flamboyant personality and extremely selfish desires, he has long been dissatisfied with Yang Jun's dominance, and between his words, it seems that he will not get rid of the Yang family and then quickly." If the emperor is willing to use him, he will bear the brunt of it and help the emperor deal with the Yang family. ”

It means that the king of Chu can be used as a thug to fight for the emperor.

"However, how old is the King of Chu this year, how can he deal with the treacherous and cunning Yang Jun?" I mainly don't believe in the self-control of the king of Chu. I still remember vividly in my mind that the last time I was in Hanyang, he made another drunken mistake, killed his wife and concubine, and then cried and looked for death.

Liang Jingren smiled and said, "Although the King of Chu is not very old, he has soldiers and horses in his hands. He recruited 5,000 people in Jingzhou this year, and now he is practicing every day. No matter how cunning Yang Jun is, he was able to change the edict last time, didn't he rely on the Praetorian Guards of Meng Guan and Li Zhao? The Yang family is a foreign minister and cannot have their own private arms. But the kings of the clan, especially the princes of the lineage, can have hundreds or even thousands of troops of the vassal states. This is the fatal wound of the Yang family, and it is also the greatest reliance on the emperor to regain power. ”

Hearing that the King of Chu had an army of 5,000 people, the emperor and I both widened our eyes.

Although, according to the Jin system, the princes and kings can have their own private armies according to their rank. As the son of the former emperor, the king of Chu was a prince of the family, and his private army could be as many as 5,000. But the king of Chu, who is only in his twenties this year, actually secretly trained an army of 5,000 people, and the emperor and I were still surprised.

What the hell is he going to do? Is it to deal with the Yang family, or is it to deal with the emperor? Or do you want to deal with both?

In fact, in addition to giving preferential treatment to the princes and kings in the army and food, the Jin system did not give them the administrative power in the feudal state. Even the subjects who belonged to the fiefdoms of the princes and kings were given administrative power to the local officials appointed by the central government. So. Those princes and kings who did not hold official positions in the central government had even less political and administrative status than a county order.

Therefore, these soldiers and horses of the king of Chu are not included in the local army settings, but only his private army. It will not be included in the local finances, and he will have to raise and take care of all the expenses that should be raised. No wonder he asked the emperor last time he wanted to support the book, he was short of money. It takes a lot of food to raise an army of 5,000 men.

At this time, the emperor asked Liang Jingren with a complicated expression, "What does Aiqing mean, let the king of Chu lead troops into Beijing?" ”

I can understand the emperor's feelings, no matter what the Yang family says, it is his mother's maiden family, and we are still in the Yang Mansion. If he really wanted the King of Chu to lead troops to deal with the Yang family, he still couldn't bear it.

He can't accept Yang Jun's dictatorship, but he can't bear to let Yang's mansion be infected with blood.

Liang Jingren is also a perceptive person, and immediately said, "The emperor can let the king of Chu lead his troops north, but don't enter Beijing, let him settle in the suburbs of Beijing." This is not only easy to control, but also timely deployment when needed. In particular, for the Yang family, it can play a role as a police camera, so that they dare not be too presumptuous. ”

"Especially," he paused, "I heard that the king of Runan also had a few thousand soldiers and horses. The king of the clan with soldiers and horses in his hands can't let him dominate. ”

"You mean, let the king of Chu and the king of Runan contain each other?"

Liang Jingren nodded.

I can't help but think that these princes all have soldiers and horses in their hands, but the one with the most noble status doesn't. The first emperor guarded back and forth, and only guarded his own brothers.

After discussing for a while, the emperor smiled and said to Liang Jingren, "I have decided to appoint you as a counselor." You've just given me a lot of advice, and I've made you worthy of your name. ”

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