Back in the imperial city, Lao Wei came to report: "Your Majesty, Weiyuan Boxue Ziqi and the Ministry of Shangshu Shi Gongyi are here. ”

Emperor Xuanyuan said: "Then let's meet together." ”

In the Temple of the Bright Heart.

Two middle-aged men, one is an idle and wealthy person, the other is a powerful official, cold-hearted and cold-faced, and they are far away from each other, ignoring each other.

Seeing the emperor enter the palace, the two greeted respectfully: "Weichen has seen Your Majesty. ”

Emperor Xuanyuan smiled and waved his hand: "Don't be polite, sit down." ”

As he spoke, he looked at them with interest, and both of them hesitated, glancing at each other before opening their mouths, and finally closing their mouths again.

For a moment, silent.

Seeing that the two of them were silently tormented for a while, Emperor Xuanyuan smiled and said, "I also know the purpose of your here." However, if you are truly grateful, I want to be a peacemaker if I ask for nothing else. You say, as models of in-laws in the world, how can you say that you will turn your face, this will be seen by outsiders, and there may be some rumors!"

Xue Ziqi smiled bitterly: "The subordinate has already visited the door many times, but unfortunately the threshold of his Shi family is too high, and I am not allowed to enter." ”

Shi Gongyi snorted coldly: "My Shi family really can't afford such a family, where have we treated her harshly over the years, and love her like a daughter, but this is how she repays us, if it weren't for Your Majesty, how could my old face dare to gain a foothold in the court!"

Xue Ziqi wanted to raise the bar and say, but you also made my daughter widowed, and the best ten years of my life were all in your Shi family as a daughter-in-law in name only, and no one was allowed to remarry for the face of your Shi family......

Of course, I also thought about this in my heart, and when I said it, the guy on the other side would definitely pounce and scratch his face.

Emperor Xuanyuan waved his hand and said, "Isn't it that it didn't happen, don't make unnecessary assumptions about things that have been resolved." If you really come to thank you, I don't care what you do in private, but no matter what, you have to pretend to be the way you used to be. ”

He even said to Shi Gongyi: "In a few days, the Christmas state banquet will be held, and my four younger brothers will also return to China, and Xue Guifei will naturally follow Dongbo to Gushang. Since I have facilitated this beautiful conversation, it will end successfully, and on the day they leave, you will also bring your wife to see her off in the capacity of her former father-in-law and mother-in-law. Let people see that you still love each other as a family!"

Shi Gongyi opened his mouth and stammered, and said in his heart, Your Majesty, there is no such persecution as you!

I only heard that Peng Wenbai was played with by His Majesty in various ways, and I didn't know how powerful it was, but I didn't expect it to fall on my head today, so I knew what it tasted like.

Watching the two of them thank him and leave, Emperor Xuanyuan was happy in his heart.

At the beginning, Dongbo Qingcheng couldn't play with people, but was embarrassed by Zhao's younger sisters. The woman surnamed Xue was also detained by her in the East Pole Palace.

The second child, who had never asked him for help for business, entered the palace overnight and begged him to take a hand, and he knew that the identity of the woman surnamed Xue was not simple. She is not only the eldest daughter-in-law of Shangshu Shi Gongyi, but also the beloved daughter of Weiyuan Boxue.

Not to mention the righteousness of the Ministry of Officials, he has been in charge of the Ministry of Officials for many years, he is fair and iron-faced, and he is stricter in discipline and self-discipline, and his official reputation is much stronger than that of Peng Wenbai, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. has always been regarded as the most likely successor to the prime minister after Qin Mu.

And although Wei Yuanbo Zhongzi is the same rice worm as Zeng Fatzi, he can't stand the rivalry of his son, and the eldest son Xue Fuzhen has shown extraordinary talent in martial arts and military management, especially the latter, who is regarded as the most powerful contender for the position of imperial general after Wei Chiba. And now, even Xue Sishao, who is the most unsuccessful, has become the hardcore friend of the second king, and the relationship is directly connected to the sky.

Anyway, both of these are the supernova families of the Empire. And the in-law relationship between the two families formed more than ten years ago is praised as full of wisdom and foresight.

His "righteous action" this time, coupled with the tacit understanding he had reached with Qin Mu and Wei Chiba, can be regarded as completely stabilizing the general trend of the empire.

It's time to take bigger steps.

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In the first year of Jian'an, the last great court meeting.

The last Hajj of the year, also known as the Hajj.

In addition to dealing with all kinds of family and country affairs as usual, there is the most important item in the end, that is, all the heads and ministers of the province and the prefecture and the courtiers with outstanding performance at the government level should come to the Jinluan Hall on this day to make a pilgrimage to Emperor Xuanyuan, and the court will evaluate the merits and losses of the year, and those who have merit will be rewarded and those who have done so will be punished.

Taizong Holy Ancestor divides the world, 100 million square kilometers is a road, that is, a square square, the territory of the empire is the center of the road, and the god capital is located in the center of the empire, so the empire is more than 7,000 kilometers away from the farthest place of the god capital, coupled with the thousands of years of uninterrupted transportation construction of Xuanyuan Station, the traffic is extremely developed, and you can go back and forth in a few days by riding birds.

The Hajj will not delay local governance in the slightest, but will greatly enhance the efficiency of governance. With this practical action, he warned the local ministers that there was no such thing as "the sky is high and the emperor is far away" in the empire.

And this year's Hajj has set off huge waves in the political arena of the entire empire, which can be said to break the precedent and open up a new situation.

And only the courtiers in the court vaguely knew that this was related to the one who had been sitting firmly like a clay statue on the Jinluan Palace, looking at the figure of the Zijinluan, they all had a faint sense of palpitation, and slightly touched the mystery and horror behind the other party's clay wood carving.

Qin Xiang, who has been dictatorial to the dynasty for decades, actually has a faint implication of looking at his horse.

And this subtle comprehension, only every time the officials who participate in the Great Dynasty Conference can experience, but no one will share this feeling, in the eyes of others, it is still Qin Xiang who speaks and makes decisions, and Emperor Jian'an is always going through the process.

The list of officials for this year's Hajj was drawn up by the Secretariat's cabinet as early as a month ago and distributed to all localities in the region.

In the past, in addition to all the provincial and state leaders and ministers, only the first and second leaders with outstanding performance at the prefectural level had the opportunity to win tickets, and officials at the county, county, and town levels below were not qualified to do so. And this year, this invisible threshold has disappeared, and no matter how low the position is, as long as he has made extraordinary achievements in his position, he will receive an invitation letter from the secretary's cabinet.

Moreover, not only the first and second leaders and officials in charge of the government in various places, but even the lower officials, there are also nearly 100 officials who have been invited by the Secretariat Pavilion to participate in the Hajj because of their extraordinary talents.

Among them, there are experts in bookkeeping, tax collection, research, Tian Sang, and other experts, criminal investigation experts, and elites in fast arrest - that is, those who are miraculous in folklore, and even those who rely on their own legal knowledge to help the people fight lawsuits...... And so on and so forth.