The husband and wife were talking, and Princess Taiping and Cui Riyong were also ready.

Cui Riyong is a two-faced person in the eyes of others, he originally took refuge under the door of Zong Chuke, and later turned against the water and took refuge in Chen Longji, but this is all seen by outsiders. In fact, whether it is Cui Riyong or Zong Chuke, they are Chen Jingheng's people.

Now after the coup d'état, Cui Riyong was the third rank of the Yongzhou Assassin Shi Tongzhongshu Men, and he was the prime minister who governed the vicinity of the capital, and he was also a high authority.

Today's plan for Su Yunjun is to ask Cui Riyong and Wei Anshi to withdraw at the same time, transfer both of them out, and send them to Yanbei first. It's just her plan, but she didn't explain it to these two.

This is arranged, and Su Yunjun also sent a letter to Su Guangtao, telling her the plan here.

Although Su Guangtao had been dissatisfied with the oblique officials for a long time, he wanted to take this opportunity to remove all the oblique officials, so when he received Su Yunjun's letter, even though he knew that they had their own plans, he was still a little unwilling in his heart.

However, Su Yanyan thought about it the most, immediately patted Su Guangtao's shoulder, and only said: "Chen Tang's affairs, someone will take care of it, what you have to plan for now is the future of your daughter and son-in-law, as well as the future of the Su family." ”

Su Guangtao had no choice but to nod and ordered someone to reply to Su Yunjun.

After waiting for only two days, before the edict of the Ministry of Officials to dismiss the oblique officials was decided, thousands of oblique officials gathered together to make trouble in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

clamoring to ask Su Guangtao to come out and give an explanation, after all, this matter was brought forward by the ministry, and Su Guangtao was the secretary of the ministry, so everyone asked him for an explanation.

Su Guangtao got Su Yunjun's letter, so he naturally knew in advance that there would be such a thing, so he sat in the yamen according to Su Yunjun's instructions. waited for about half an hour to make trouble outside, and then took Zhang Shuo out.

As soon as he went out, he saw a thousand people blocking the yamen of the officials' department, and one person was noisy and shouting together, and Su Guangtao couldn't hear anything clearly.

These oblique officials were all used to buy officials in the first place.

Some were originally small officials and used the money they collected to buy a big official, some were officials bought by merchants in the two cities, and some were pawns of peddlers. Some are their own money, some are borrowed money, in short, none of them rely on serious imperial examinations or recommendations, so the level of this person is uneven.

There are some who quarrel, and some who scold.

Su Guangtao, who was watching, had a headache, and couldn't help shouting: "There are so many of you, one person is noisy and shouting, so how can I hear clearly." ”

Only then did the crowd fall silent, and then one of them asked, "We heard that the emperor ordered the ministry to remove all of us oblique officials, is this true?" ”

The emperor wanted to remove the oblique official, but he didn't say it, but he just had this idea, Su Guangtao naturally couldn't say that the emperor really had this intention, so he paused slightly.

At this moment, the crowd suddenly burst into an uproar.

"If Lord Su doesn't speak, that's it, since Lord Su doesn't say what the emperor meant, I'm afraid it's the will of the officials themselves, and they want to remove all our officials. At the beginning, our officials gave money at a clear price, and 300,000 yuan was donated to an official, even if it was donated when the emperor was alive, and now that the emperor is on the throne, he will not recognize this account. ”

"Yes, the emperor doesn't want to admit it."

"We want to remove our officials and let the emperor give an explanation!"

"The officials are trying to rectify us in the name of the emperor, if the officials don't give an explanation, this matter is not over!"

For a time, the entrance of the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials was more lively than the vegetable market.

The onlookers almost blocked the entire street.

Su Yunjun and Chen Jingheng also changed their clothes, stood in the private room of the restaurant in the distance, and looked at the door of the official department through the window.

Zhang Shuo and Su Guangtao couldn't stop seeing the commotion for a while, so they had to shout loudly: "You don't want to be so noisy, so how can I speak, it's better to elect a few people to talk to me about this matter." ”

This thousand oblique sealing officials had already been discussed, and when they heard this, they immediately pushed out three people, stood at the front of the crowd, and faced Su Guangtao and Zhang Shuo.

"Xiaguan, Zhang Jian was awarded the matter."

"Xiaguan, Jia Changfu has been awarded the same rank as the outside."

"Xiaguan, Qiu Lide was awarded the inspection school."

Su Guangtao looked at the three people standing in front of them, Zhang Jiannai looked like a scholar, and he looked at the official for a short time, and estimated that his family had donated an official. And Jia Changfu is simply a person in the market, he can't see the slightest official, but more like a rough outcast. Only Qiu Lide is a slightly intelligent person, dressed in a robe, his hair is neatly combed, and he looks relatively stable.

Glancing at the three of them, Su Guangtao spoke: "Why do you have so many people coming to surround the ministry?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jian was the first to speak: "We heard that your officials deliberately want to abolish the official positions of our people, Su Shangshu, although we don't have any actual positions now, but they have also been signed by the emperor himself, and the officials are going to be appointed by the official department, which is a regular official of the state, how can the officials be abolished if they want to abolish it easily." ”

Hearing this, he didn't wait for Su Guangtao to answer, so he listened to Jia Changfu scolding and scolding: "What Zhang Jian said is that in order to get this official, how many people I entrusted and how much money I spent, how can I say that it is gone now." Su Shangshu, Master Su, even if we are officials in the hands of the former emperor, the first emperor is the elder brother of the current emperor, and the current emperor should admit this account for what the former emperor did. If you don't admit this account today, I will die to show you, I tell you, you have received my money, you should do things for me, if you are not allowed to become an official, you have to return all the money I spent at the beginning, otherwise this matter is not over. ”

Where is there still a little bit of an official between the words, he is completely a ruffian, Su Guangtao can't wait to beat such a person and throw it out. But there are thousands of people at the entrance of this ministry's mansion, and most of them are like this, so they can't be called one by one.

When he met such a person, he really responded to that sentence, Xiucai met Bing and couldn't explain it clearly, Su Guangtao was a little ridiculous: "What kind of reason are you talking about, who took your money at the beginning, you just have to go to whoever you are now, what's the matter here, the money you paid to buy officials didn't reach the yamen of the ministry." ”

Jia Changfu's eyes widened when he heard this, and the beards on both sides floated up: "Dog officer, you still want to repay the debt." The imperial court spent our money, and now it's just turning its face and denying it? At the beginning, not counting the side expenses, the official position alone was 300,000 yuan with a clear price, and now you want to send us away with a word. This time I told you that if you don't let you become an official, you should pay back the money, and you have to pay the bills, but you wrote the receipts in black and white. ”

Jia Changfu's words undoubtedly spoke to everyone's hearts, and suddenly the people below clamoured and cried along.

Qiu Lide is the only one among the three people who seems to have some knowledge, he was originally a scholar, and when he fell into his name, Sun Shan found such an opportunity to buy an official, and saw Jia Changfu blowing his beard and glaring at Su Guangtao. came out to make a round and said to Su Guangtao.

"Master Su, Master Zhang, although Brother Jia spoke a little rough just now, but after all, it is this reason, the lower officials think that the emperor has just ascended the throne, and now is the time to employ people. The lower officials dare to ask, is this dismissal of oblique officials the meaning of the emperor or the meaning of the officials? ”

Su Guangtao naturally couldn't say that the removal of the oblique official was the emperor's intention, that is, he was silent. For a while, everyone thought that it was because the officials wanted to invite merit, so they came up with this bad idea to remove the oblique official. And Su Guangtao and Zhang Shuo are the first and second leaders of the ministry, so they have become the culprits in the eyes of everyone, and for a while, everyone pointed the finger at Su Guangtao and Zhang Shuo, and they all stared at and scolded the two of them.

Su Yunjun and Chen Jingheng stood in the private room of the restaurant, naturally they couldn't hear what they were saying, they could only hear the noise at the entrance of the ya.

Thousands of people from the yamen of the ministry shouted together, not to mention the restaurant where Su Yunjun was, even the people across the two streets could hear it.

"Look, it should be almost, but can you send someone to inform Cui Riyong?" Su Yunjun looked outside and couldn't help but ask Chen Jingheng.

Listening to Chen Jingheng, he chuckled and said: "Cui Riyong is the assassin of Yongzhou, and the entire capital is under his jurisdiction, and now that this is happening, do you think he will not know." Besides, you have sent a letter to mention it before, and it is estimated that you have already received the letter and rushed here, so you will wait and see, princess. ”

Chen Jingheng said and walked to Su Yunjun's side: "Open your mouth." ”

Hearing this, Su Yunjun reflexively opened his mouth, and was stuffed with a piece of crystal cake in his mouth by Chen Jingheng, and the sweet taste instantly melted on the tip of his tongue.

Without waiting for Su Yunjun to finish eating, he saw Chen Jingheng hand over another bowl of white fungus lotus seed soup: "I didn't see you eat well in the morning, now hurry up and eat more, there are not a few taels of meat, the more hungry you are, the thinner you are, and then your father-in-law will think that I have abused you." ”

Su Yunjun couldn't help but move his mouth and replied: "I really can't eat it." ”

The hand still took the lotus seed soup very honestly.

The couple here looked lively and sweet, and someone over there had already told Cui Riyong about the matter at the entrance of the ministry.

Cui Riyong was looking at the approval sent from the government office in Yongzhou, thinking about how to distribute it, and saw the official outside running in quickly: "My lord is not good." ”

"What's the matter, so alarmed?" Cui Riyong couldn't help but put down the approval and looked at the officials.

I saw that the official was full of panic: "Lord Qiqi, at the gate of the Ministry of Officials, thousands of people have gathered to make trouble, and the small one has just sent someone to inquire, saying that they are all a group of officials who signed the seal when the emperor was alive two years ago, and now they are gathered in the Ministry of Officials, and they want Lord Su of the Ministry of Officials to give an explanation." Looking at the momentum, I am afraid that I will tear down the government of the ministry. ”

Cui Riyong couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.

A few days ago, because of the case of Pan Yue's purchase of officials, Ruizong was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the case, and he must rectify the rule of officials and put an end to this kind of oblique official calamity and chaos in the government. Wei Anshi and Yao Chong proposed to remove all the oblique officials who had been sealed during the previous emperor's years, and those who were talented and virtuous could re-participate in the assessment of the officials.

Every day the court is discussing this matter, but it is after the early dynasty, several prime ministers in the political hall and the six books discuss together.

Cui Riyong is the assassin of Yongzhou, and he is the third product under the same Zhongshu door, and he is in the ranks of prime ministers, so he naturally knows about it.

But how could this news leak out, and it was actually known by these oblique officials, after all, they spent money to buy officials of different levels, but no one is qualified to enter the prime minister's team.

Cui Riyong didn't think about it for a while, and felt that if someone really leaked the news about this matter, there should be only one person behind it, and that was Princess Taiping.

After all, a large part of the oblique seal official was handled by Princess Taiping, and many of them were people who took refuge in her Princess Taiping, if she really wanted to remove the oblique official, the first thing that would affect her interests was her, and she was afraid that she would be the initiator of this matter.

Cui Riyong couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart, now whether it is this matter caused by Princess Taiping or not, and it is not something he can manage, the top priority should be to suppress this matter first.

Thinking like this, Cui Riyong directly led people out of the Assassin's Mansion, and the officials around him hurriedly asked, "My lord, but go to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials?" ”

Hearing this, Cui Riyong shook his head, but his eyes looked at another place, and then said, "Go to the military department." ”

"My lord, we shouldn't go to the ministry first, after all, the matter at the ministry is so troublesome..."

Cui Riyong was sitting in the carriage, and even the yacha knew that he should first solve the matter at the entrance of the official department, how could he not know.

It's just that now the entrance of the official department is like that, thousands of people, not to mention blocking the yamen, it is not impossible to directly dismantle the yamen.

Now the only way to do this is to transfer troops and use the army to suppress these people. Although he is the assassin of Yongzhou, but Yongzhou is at the foot of the Son of Heaven after all, and the assassin history of Yongzhou is not as strong as the assassins in other places.

So now he's going to the military department to borrow someone.

Two days ago, Su Yunjun sent someone to send him a letter, in which he said that he was afraid that Princess Taiping would not agree to the dismissal of the oblique official, and he must be a hindrance from it, so that he could beware of something that would happen, and if something really happened, he would go to the Ministry of War to find Guo Yuanzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Guo Yuanzhen is a subordinate of the former Prime Minister, and he can be regarded as an upright general, and he is also an old minister of the Three Dynasties. It's just that I don't look down on Cui Ri on weekdays, and these people who relied on a coup d'état to make meritorious contributions and leap to the sky have never had any contact with each other in the past.

If it weren't for Su Yunjun's letter, Cui Riyong wouldn't dare to go to Guo Yuanzhen rashly.

When his carriage arrived at the military headquarters, the military personnel heard that he was coming to find Guo Yuanzhen, and they went in to report without being embarrassed.

After a while, I saw the deputy general next to Guo Yuanzhen walking out quickly: "Master Cui, please come inside." ”