Lord Zhongcheng of the Imperial Historical Observatory must be on this side, but the cabinet means that Shu has been autonomous for so many years, and now if he suddenly intervenes in the rule of Shu in such a big way, it will inevitably be inconsistent with the situation that the ancestors promised Shu autonomy, and I am afraid that the people of the world will gossip. Second, after the imperial history goes down, it is still necessary to borrow the power of the Governor's Mansion and the Shu Palace, especially the power of the King of Shu, if the King of Shu does not cooperate, then the final effect is actually not guaranteed.

For this reason, Lord Zhongcheng and the head of the cabinet, Lord Han, argued in front of His Majesty.

However, they are all literati, and they cannot be regarded as arguing, they can only be said to be convincing each other.

His Majesty listened for a long time before he raised his hand to stop the argument between the two parties, and said, "I understand the meaning of the two lords, one of you is resolutely asking the imperial court to send someone to deal with it, and the other is worried that the result of the handling will not be ideal, but it will make the people even more dissatisfied. And I think that in fact, the opinions of both of you are unified, and you both think that it is definitely a good thing for the court to intervene in this matter, but how to ensure that the result of the intervention is good depends on what the court does. ”

After hearing this, the two adults unanimously said yes.

In fact, the two of them are just pretending, after all, in the entire court, the only one who cares about the emperor's feathers is probably the emperor himself. The rest of the people's minds are full of the fact that I am an official of the imperial court, I have to be a good example, I have to do something for the evaluation in the history books in the future, as for Your Majesty, will it be written in the history books, Yu Shudi, Gao Bird is good to hide the comments, then it doesn't matter about our courtiers.

They all want the imperial court to intervene in the affairs of Shu, and the sooner the imperial court intervenes in Shudi, the sooner the end of Shudi's autonomy will come. Only by ending self-government can we achieve real progress in the administration of officials.

In fact, they were all waiting for His Majesty to say a word, but His Majesty just didn't say it.

As for whether His Majesty knows about their careful thoughts, it is actually not important to them or even to His Majesty.

It doesn't matter if His Majesty knows, they are for the well-being of the people of the Great Song Dynasty. On the other hand, if Your Majesty does not know, they are still for the well-being of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the result is the same.

After all, this kind of 'careful thinking' is not for themselves, not for themselves, and no one is afraid.

His Majesty stood up, walked in front of everyone, and walked back among the high-ranking officials who were standing, and looked at them, and after a long time, the emperor said, "Just send the imperial history down." Lord Zhongcheng, Yushitai has enough people, no problem. ”

Many days ago, Lord Zhongcheng strongly recommended sending the imperial history to Shu to investigate the results and was vetoed by the emperor, and now the emperor handed over the matter to the imperial history platform to do, firstly, from the perspective of duties, the imperial history platform was originally to supervise the hundred officials, which is a matter of duty, and secondly, it can be regarded as the emperor's late promise.

"I think it's still inappropriate. But the emperor didn't expect that Lord Zhongcheng seemed to be reluctant again.

The person who asked me to authorize you to send the imperial history down was you, Lord Zhongcheng, and now it's still inappropriate for you to say that it's still inappropriate, so what do you want? The emperor looked at the eyes, returned to the dragon chair and sat down, and said, "What's wrong?"

In the imperial history, Cheng stroked his beard and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, as I said before, after the imperial historians of the imperial history platform go down, for the situation in Shudi, for the previous Cao County Order case, it can be said that the eyes are dark, I don't know anything, everything has to be sorted out from the beginning, and I have to slowly get acquainted with it, if the Shu Prince's Mansion and the Governor's Mansion can cooperate well with the imperial history, then it is better, if the cooperation is not tacit, then this matter is half the effort." This is where what the minister said is inappropriate. ”

The emperor said, "What does Aiqing mean?"

Lord Zhongcheng said: "The minister wants to find someone from Shu to replace the direct subordinate of the imperial court." In this way, the people in Shu are more aware of the situation in Shu and know it well, and we can also know what the people are thinking when we communicate with the people. ”

"There are also imperial histories in Shudi, and you can just use those imperial histories. "The Emperor said.

Zhongcheng said: "Although there is a royal history in Shu, but for so many years it is just a decoration, they have no prestige in Shu, and the work of collecting news on weekdays is acceptable, let them accept the people's complaints, and even try the complaints, the people's trust in them is probably not as good as the Governor's Mansion and the Shu Palace." ”

"Aiqing means to find someone who has prestige, at least can make the people believe in Shudi, so that such a person can do things well, right? Most of the prestige imperial histories are in the capital, thousands of miles away from Shudi, and the prestige of the reputation has to be discounted after it spreads there. You can't let Aiqing go in person..."The emperor said, laughing.

Lord Zhongcheng was taken aback when he heard this, and said in his heart, my old bones can't stand the bumps back and forth, Your Majesty's joke is too big. hurriedly said: "The reputation of the old minister is definitely not enough. Your Majesty, this person has to look for it, this person must have enough reputation, at least he will not be coaxed down by the people without saying a few words in the hall, and secondly, he must have the ability to have a good reputation, such as the Confucians, their reputation is very loud, but they don't have the ability to do it, and the people's complaints are strange, and the ability to do it is definitely not possible to solve the hatred in the hearts of the people. Your Majesty, be cautious. ”

His Majesty stood up again, and after thinking about it, who else could he look for: "Is it okay for the Governor?"

Everyone said again, the Governor will definitely not work, the Governor has no one under his hands, and the Governor will still have to do things in Shu in the future, this matter will definitely offend some people, if the offense is ruthless, the Governor will not be able to do things in the future. The duty of the governor is actually to keep an eye on the Shu Palace.

The reason why it is inconvenient to declare it is that the Governor's Mansion can only be attached to the imperial court and become the eyes of the imperial court in Shudi, and once other functions are taken over, they will have a substantial effect, which is not good.

The emperor knew this very well, and he just said it casually.

Everyone discussed and discussed, the Shu Wangfu is definitely not good, no one in it can have such great prestige in Shu, and even the King of Shu himself is disliked by the people, not to mention other ministers in the small court. Neither can the Governor, and the people can't even remember a few names except His Excellency.

The question of this candidate was discussed for an hour, and the discussion from morning to noon was still fruitless.

The emperor asked the chamberlains to order food, and let the ministers eat whatever they wanted for lunch.

The emperor also followed suit.

After eating, the group continued to discuss.

Han Priest Han took a sip of the teacup, looked at the floating tea leaves in the teacup, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and hurriedly put down the cup and said to the emperor: "The minister thinks that he can let that Chen Letian do it." ”