Ten true imperial histories plus a temporary imperial history appointed by the prime minister's yamen.

It took more than half a month to finally return to Chengdu. One after another, within two or three days, all of them returned to the Prime Minister's Imperial History Yamen to resume their lives.

He took out all the three-word pleadings he had harvested from his bosom like a treasure and put them into the filing cabinet of the Yushi Yamen.

The dinner that day was a banquet specially arranged by Chen Letian for them in the Imperial History Yamen.

As for the ten guards led by Feng Shan who temporarily served as the imperial historian to collect the petition, they were not eligible to participate in this banquet. Zhang Yushi said to Chen Letian, Lord Chen, these brothers have been working very hard these days, they have been driven to the shelves to do something they have never done before, and they are doing a good job, they should drink this wine.

Chen Letian refused, saying that they just did what you taught, they are equivalent to your doppelgangers, without any credit, and besides, they are just my guards, without any official status, how can they drink with adults. Arranging my people to do things is already an unruly behavior, which is already a big excess, and I can't even participate in this reception banquet, so Master Zhang doesn't need to say it anymore.

What else can Zhang Yushi say?

The banquet Chen Letian is specially invited from the Shu Palace's famous chef to take charge. So the taste of the dish naturally does not have to worry.

After the wine and food were served, Chen Letian picked up the wine glass and stood up: "Your Excellency has worked hard. In the past half a month or so, the official has been waiting for you at home, you are the one who runs outside, you are the one who solves all kinds of problems, and you are the one who collects problems from the people, and the official is ashamed. I would like to say thank you to all of you. "Anyway, drink it all.

The ten deputy imperial historians also drank all the wines in their glasses.

This Jian Nanchun and their imperial history can't drink it a few times a year, it's not that they can't afford to drink it, but they never go to personal banquets. First of all, few people in the capital dare to invite them, invite the imperial historian, if it is not a good personal relationship, it is to put a knife on their neck and put a rope on their head. In addition, they usually do not accept invitations from others. If they were that kind of people, they would not have been selected by Zhongcheng to help appease the people of Shu.

Therefore, this Jian Nanchun is in the stomach, and the good wine enters the throat and stomach, and the feeling brought by it is really different from the bad wine.

Today's meal is just and bright, and it is beyond reproach before reporting to His Majesty's jade case.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Chen Letian said: "My lords, this official was wrongly loved by His Majesty and was appointed as the prime minister's imperial history, but I know that compared with your lords, I can't be regarded as a qualified imperial history at all, first of all, I don't have this qualification, and I haven't even been a small official in the past." In the past, I did rough work in the barracks, but after returning to Beijing, I worked as a student in the academy, and that's it. Unlike your lords, you are the pillars of the Goshidai. The Imperial Historical Observatory has always been a place that we all admire, where there are people like you who ask for their lives for the country and the people, regardless of personal gains and losses, and even their lives. ”

Chen Letian praised it highly, and these imperial historians stood up and humbly said that we are just doing routine official business, just doing our job, not as Lord Chen said. Besides, I don't know how many people are better than us in the Goshidai, and we are nothing... Yunyun. He also said that Lord Chen is young and promising, so young he can already see the disadvantages of Shudi, and what is more difficult is to let the people of Shu pay more attention to the imperial court, after this time, no matter what, the life of the people of Shu will definitely get better and better, there is no doubt about it. If it weren't for Lord Chen, in another three or five years, the officialdom of Shu might not take the initiative to become clear. How many courtiers can do this kind of skill throughout the ages?

Chen Letian and the imperial historians came and went, and they praised each other for a while through wine. Chen Letian's ability to brag is not small, but only then do I know that none of these imperial historians are fuel-efficient lamps, which ones are not characters who can fight with their tongues, and which ones are not iron-mouthed copper teeth?

At the end of the banquet, Chen Letian toasted all the imperial historians with a glass of wine, and then began to talk to everyone about business.

I won't have a special meeting, but I will say it directly at this banquet. It also seems to be more familiar with the deputy envoys and has a closer relationship.

Chen Letian said: Since these days, I have thought about it a lot and thought a lot. I think that the purpose of our Prime Minister's visit to the Imperial History Yamen is twofold, one is to calm the anger of the people, and the other is to clean up the rule of Shu officials, these two points are actually mutually exclusive. Purging the rule of officials is the best way to calm the anger of the people.

All the people can see is that a corrupt official has been arrested and killed, which is what the people want to see the most. The people continue to enjoy impunity for corrupt officials, which is the last thing they want to see. From the people's point of view, what do they think is the punishment of corruption? That is, to kill corrupt officials and punish corrupt officials.

As the Prime Minister, the Imperial History Yamen, as sent by His Majesty, what we have to do is to satisfy the people's wish to calm the hearts of the people.

But from the perspective of our imperial history yamen, who purged the rule of officials, we actually have a more important task. Reading the Book House

Behind the scenes, the officials of the entire Shu officialdom are truly purged, and the officials are put under the greatest pressure, which is something that the people can't see but we have to do.

It can be said that the former is to appease the people, and the latter is the only way for the people of Shu to get long-term peace and stability.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think everyone can understand this truth, Zhang Yushi, you can talk about it. Chen Letian turned his head to look at Zhang Yushidao.

Zhang Yushi arched his hand and wanted to stand up, but Chen Letian said that if you stand up and say that I have to stand up too, so Zhang Yushi just moved his buttocks, and he didn't stand up after all, and said, "What Lord Chen said is extremely true." This official thinks so too. After all, the villagers can only or only want to see happy things, cutting off the heads of corrupt officials. But the villagers don't know what to do to make Shu as little as possible or less corrupt officials. The folks don't even think about it. We can't ask too much of the folks, we won't discuss that. After a pause, Zhang Yushi continued: "Lord Chen has already spoken very thoroughly. We can't think the same as the villagers, catch a few corrupt officials and kill a few corrupt officials and forget about it, what we have to do is the difficult thing behind this. It can be said that this is the rarest thing. Master Chen, do you have any ideas for the next step, tell us that we have a good preparation and plan for the next step. ”

Chen Letian thought to himself that he likes a smart person like you, and you will know what I think as soon as I speak. And I asked you to express your opinion, and you were all echoing my intentions when you talked about it on the phone, and finally threw me the next step, and all this was done so naturally without a trace, admiration and admiration. A person like you will definitely be a member of the six authentic products in the future, and I have to take this opportunity to get close to you in the near future, and I can find you if I have difficulties in the near future.

Chen Letian thought so in his heart, but there was a humble expression on his face, and he nodded slightly towards Zhang Yushi and said, "Colleagues, what does this official mean..."

In the time of a stick of incense, Feng Shan asked people to remove all the dishes on the table and replace them with tea and paper and pen as required by Chen Letian.

The banquet hall was temporarily used as a meeting place.

Soon, Feng Shan cleared all the people and left, while he took a few guards to guard the door of the restaurant and not let a single mouse enter.

Chen Letian directly said his next arrangement.

In the past half a month, the imperial historians have worked hard outside to collect the pleadings in thirty cities, and he has not rested, he has thought a lot, calculated a lot, and planned a lot. In the end, I came to the two key tasks that I just told you about their coming to Shudi.

He made the decision after careful consideration. This is the request of His Majesty, the request of the imperial court, and at the same time, the request of the villagers.

Although the villagers in Shu think that what they want is the death of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they know that in addition, what the villagers need more is that the next batch of corrupt officials and corrupt officials can be less and less. Otherwise, killing this new group of officials and replacing them with them will be tantamount to doing it in vain.

"We need to know better than the villagers what the villagers want, and this is what all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, including us, need. For the court, for the Great Song Dynasty, for the villagers, for ourselves. Chen Letian said.

The ten imperial historians all nodded their heads after hearing this, and Lord Zhongcheng often told them that if you do things for the people, you will also do things for yourself. It is true that you have done your duty as a royal historian, and the people are living and working in peace and contentment, safe and healthy. But your relatives, friends, and future generations will also be beneficiaries. So in that respect, your efforts today are doing your duty, and you are doing your best. So never have a mind that has nothing to do with you, if anyone has this thought, then I advise you to go home early, don't do it in our Yushitai, it's meaningless, you can't do these things well, and even you will make our Yushitai dusty.

So they can understand what Chen Letian means by himself.

But then again, if these imperial historians didn't even understand this simple truth, they wouldn't have been valued and sent by Lord Zhongcheng, and they wouldn't be sitting here today discussing their next move with Chen Letian.

Chen Letian is really satisfied with these imperial historians.

Compared with him Chen Letian, these people are familiar with officialdom, and these people are not only capable officials, but also people with integrity and perseverance.

If it weren't for these people, he Chen Letian wouldn't know what to do.

No matter how well-connected he was, he didn't have the experience to deal with so many magistrates at once. Just the Governor's Mansion of Chengdu City, the Mansion of the King of Shu, the Chengdu County Government, and the county offices of the thirty cities below, have to deal with each other, so it is not easy for him to do a good job even if he scratches his head.