The three three directors stepped back, thinking about the methods of this prince, and their hearts were awe-inspiring.

After the crown prince woke up at the canonization ceremony before, many people expected that Zhang Yizhi and Zheng Zhizhong's position in the political hall must be at the end, even if Wei Chongrun, who has more virtue and prestige, will not be able to sit down. You must know that these three are actively opposed to the establishment of the princess of Qin as the crown prince, can the prince not be liquidated? Even if the prince doesn't hold a grudge, can she be happy to use three people who oppose her to continue to defend herself? - Obviously not.

This is not a question of whether the prince is lenient or benevolent, but between the monarchs and ministers, the most important thing is trust. If there is a gap in the heart, where can you trust? The monarch is suspicious and worried, and this has become a taboo in the government.

These three ministers are also very wise, and on the second day of the prince's imprisonment, they were on the list of resignations.

In addition to Wei Chongrun's resignation on the grounds that he was in poor health and could not bear the burden of the prime minister, Zhang Yizhi and Zheng Zhizhong both reviewed their improper handling of the prince's canonization, and it was not appropriate to resign for the sake of the prime minister.

If Li Yuzhen accepted the resignation of the three, everyone felt that this was the way it should be.

However, surprisingly, the prince did not accept the resignation of the three people, but retained and encouraged him, saying in the court that the three ministers were in the matter of appointing the prince as a prince, and she had no intention of blaming her, nor did she take this matter as a gap; As long as any minister has the virtue and ability to govern, be loyal to the king, and be impartial, she will give her trust. He also ordered two imperial doctors to stay in Wei Chongrun's mansion to treat and recuperate for him.

The reputation of the prince came out, and they all said that the prince was broad-minded, meritocracy, and regardless of previous suspicions.

However, the three directors all knew that the prince had found them and asked them to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Zhang and Zheng.

Why won't the prince let them go? It is clear that they are not allowed to resign, but to quit because of sin! - Wei Chongrun didn't mention it, it is estimated that the prince still has the meaning of preservation and retention, and Zhang and Zheng, the prince not only wants to go to the prime minister, but also wants them to get out of the imperial court, and it is possible to attack the two major families of Wujun Zhang and Xingyang Zheng. After all, resignation is only a matter of one person, and all major criminal cases at home and abroad involve the entire family.

Although there is no conclusive evidence for many of the alleged crimes, after all, with the identities of the two family heads and family forces, these things do not need them to act directly, once they are found by the imperial court, someone will confess their guilt, and the Zhang family and the Zheng family will be picked cleanly: every qiē is deceived by the people below; However, being involved in so many crimes, even if it is only "suspected of guilt", is enough to make these two prime ministers of the family get out.

The prince's scheming methods can't help but make people's hearts awe.

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When the government opened on the eighth day of the first month, the officials of the various offices in Beijing had not yet recovered from their annual leave when they heard a thunderous news.

Zhang Xianggong and Zheng Xianggong were jointly signed by the Supervision Department and the Independent Commission Against Corruption Department, and participated in the impeachment of as many as 278 counts.

Suspected of bribery, illegal private occupation, tax evasion and other amounts as high as tens of millions of taels of gold...... My good boy! Many officials are scolding, they have worked hard for several lifetimes, and they can't make so much money.

The news quickly spread to the people, and the people in Chang'an exploded, how many people's fat and ointment have been looted! Then someone dug up the previous incident and sarcastically said that it is no wonder that the two ministers opposed the proposal of public benefit medical care, and dared to love that they had money and did not need to get public benefit medical care. …… As soon as this voice spread, the common people became angry, it is your business that you have money, so you have to let us live. Everyone is in awe of the family and dare not scold publicly, but in private, it will be passed on, and the reputation of Zhang Yizhi and Zheng Zhizhong in the government and the opposition has dropped to the freezing point.

The prince ordered the two to be refuted, and they could only be returned to their posts after the Second Division of Supervision and Integrity and the Second Division of Integrity were verified by the Imperial Historical Observatory and confirmed that they were not guilty.

According to the practice of the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister can not be impeached by the imperial history, because the imperial history has the right to rumor and impeach the minister; However, the Minister of Impeachment of the Supervision Department and the Department of Integrity must at least conduct an external investigation and collect evidence on suspicion, and once they are impeached by these two departments, they must be suspended from their posts pending investigation and suspended from official affairs until the suspicion is lifted. Of course, whether the result of the investigation is "suspected" or "guilty" - there is still a lot of room for maneuver - the key is to look at the emperor's attitude.

If the emperor trusts or wants to continue to use the respondent, even if it is verified that he is guilty, the emperor will punish him overtly and covertly, and after a period of demotion, he will use it again - unless the crime is obvious and the impact is bad, the emperor cannot use it again; If the emperor no longer trusts or no longer wants to use the person who has been impeached, the emperor will be inclined to be "guilty" even if the suspect is still suspected after verification, and the evidence of the crime is not clear. Now that Li Yuzhen is in charge of the country, the departure and stay of Zhang and Zheng Erxiang of course depends on the attitude of the prince.

At the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, many courtiers did not see Zhang and Zheng Erxiang appear on the tower of Danfeng Gate, so they knew the prince's attitude. - According to the convention, the ministers of the Yuan Night Lantern Festival will be given to climb the Danfeng Tower to watch the lanterns, Zhang and Zheng are still prime ministers, and they are still eligible to be given the tower, but the prince did not give them this glory, which shows that they are already inclined to be "guilty".

Although the verification is still in progress, everyone knows that these two prime ministers are already a certainty, and the only thing that is uncertain is to see how far the prince will be investigated.

The courtiers who saw the shape clearly all silently adjusted their positions.

Of course, it is impossible for the family to be so obvious, how to socialize and how to socialize. After all, the rise and fall of the Gaomen family is not a matter of temporary ups and downs. What's more, the strength of the family is more outside the officialdom, and the relationship between the family is advancing, retreating, or remaining still, not based on the ups and downs of officialdom as a weather vane, but mainly depends on the interests of the two parties outside the court.

And the people of Chang'an don't care about these entanglements of interests in the upper echelons, and they can't afford to care, they only care about one thing: Zhang and Zheng Erxiang, when will it rain and leave?

The joys and dislikes of the people of Xiaoping are very shallow, but also very direct, and those who care about the interests of the small people, they like and support; Corruption. The corrupt and bad officials, they hated it, and they expected the saints to be wise, and they dealt with these traitors.

And the saint and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the prison country did not disappoint them.

On the twenty-first day of the first month, the imperial court's edict of dismissal appeared outside the Danfeng Gate and in the official newspapers of the empire.

Zhang Yizhi and Zheng Zhizhong were dismissed from their positions, including the rank of scattered officials to the end, and the title was also reduced from the Duke of the State to the Marquis.

The people of Chang'an and the rest of the empire said that the saint and His Highness the prison were wise.

Of course, in the eyes of the upper elites, this is a power game between the prince and the two families of Zhang and Zheng.

In the following month, the officials of the Beijing Dynasty and the local officials of the Zhang and Zheng dynasties were transferred, relocated, or dismissed from their posts for various reasons, and if the charges were established, they were sentenced to prison...... In a short period of time, the forces of the Zhang clan of Wujun and the Zheng clan of Xingyang were hit by a blizzard, and at least in the officialdom, their power was greatly reduced. - Obviously, the crown prince won this game. And this victory is inseparable from the support of the family forces of the prince's family, otherwise, the Zhang family and the Zheng family would not have fallen so quickly in the officialdom.

As soon as Zhang and Zheng left, to be precise, after Li Yuzhen took charge of the country, the courtiers were speculating about who the new prime minister would be?

And the appointment of the new minister was expected by everyone, and it was unexpected by everyone.

The emperor first moved to Zhongshu Zuoqing with Zhongshu Youqing Xie Zhenqing, which was the usual advance, and everyone was not surprised. Generally speaking, the left official is more senior than the right official, and the jurisdiction is slightly heavier. And the one who took over the position of Xie Zhenzhong's right secretary was Shen Lun, the left secretary of the Ministry of Rites, which surprised everyone a little, of course, in terms of official qualifications, political achievements and ability, Shen Lun is qualified to be qualified to worship the deputy minister, but he has only been promoted from the local government to the left secretary of the Ministry of Rites for less than a year, and he has announced that he has worshiped the prime minister again, which inevitably makes people jaw-dropping and feels that he is too fast.

Some people think of the construction of the public benefit medical system that is now being opened up in the capital and local provinces, which has made the disciple of the medicine king of the Taoist sect famous-isn't this Shen Zhiyuan Taoist master the biological daughter of the new Shen Xiang who was born in the Wuxing Shen family? …… Maybe Shen Lun is on top, and he also has the bonus of his daughter?

Xiao Yan also made such a guess, so he asked A-Niang's opinion.

Li Yixun smiled and said: "The Shen family is the Shen family, and Shen Zhiyuan is Shen Zhiyuan." ”

Zhaohua took Shen Lun as the prime minister, and considered Wuxing Shen. And the Shen family must have surrendered to Zhaohua, and the neutral faction chose the Apocalypse faction. - Shen Lun is indeed the most courageous of the Shen family heads in recent generations.

It seems that there is a father and a daughter? Shen Zhiyuan has the courage to break the cauldron in the matter of Baoshu. Shen's generation, judging from the current appearance, whether it is courage or mentality, vision or means of acting, it is she, the best married girl. - Mr. Sun really has eyesight.

Xiao Yan listened to her mother's words, thought for a while, and agreed: "What A-Niang said is true." The next road for my sister is the Medicine Palace, not the Shen family. "It can't be the Shen family.

Li Yixun glanced at her, and suddenly said: "On the eighteenth day of the first month, that is, the day after your Aunt Anfu's birthday, Zhaohua issued a recruitment edict to Shen Zhiyuan. ”

Xiao Yan was stunned, "Huh? ”

She had only been to Immeasurable the day before yesterday, and my sister didn't tell her.

The recruitment edict is a kind of meritocracy order, which is the emperor's edict to promote talents, once the civil meritocracy is found, the emperor wants to use it, and he will issue a recruitment edict and call him to the court as an official. This kind of recruitment is generally life-threatening. The points are relatively high, compared with the imperial examination jinshi from the seventh or eighth grade struggle, they are generally four or five rank official positions as soon as they enter the court, but correspondingly, the requirements for their talents and achievements are higher. Xiao Yan was not surprised that Shen Qingyi could get the recruitment edict from the imperial court, and she was fully worthy of the title of "virtuous and talented person" with her talent and vision, but what surprised Xiao Yan was that this recruitment edict was issued by Li Yuzhen.

Her face was a little strange, she thought that Li Yuzhen had a problem with Shen Qingyi, but she didn't expect that she still valued his talent and was willing to abandon her suspicions and recruit him.

She looked relieved on her face, and said in her heart that although Li Yuzhen lost her temperament, she was still open-minded, not a narrow-minded person, and she had the ability to tolerate people and the instrument of being a prince.

She rejoiced at the thought of it. One is happy for Shen Qingyi, and the other is happy for Li Yuzhen.

"But Shen Zhiyuan didn't accept the call." Li Yixun followed and said.

“…… Yes. Xiao Yan opened his eyes slightly, but he was not very surprised, nodded and said, "Sister's ambition is not in the court. Although Zhaohua attaches great importance to his talents, his sister's interests are not here, and he can only miss it. ”

Li Yixun smiled.

She didn't want to tell her daughter the truth, at least, not now.

Zhaohua's recruitment edict, although there is a reason for valuing Shen Zhiyuan's talent pattern, it is also a kind of temptation-testing Shen Zhiyuan's reaction.

And Shen Zhiyuan's resignation was not accepted, which also confirmed Zhaohua's uncertainty in the last two points.

Xiao Yan looked at A-Niang's smile, and always felt that there was something meaning, and said suspiciously: "A-Niang, what do you want to say?" ”

Li Yihun smiled and said: "I want to say, if your sister doesn't quit the call, today in addition to worshipping the Zhongshu Youqing Tongping Zhangshi is another person - in short, the surname will not be Shen." ”

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, and then understood.

The prime minister surnamed Shen can only produce one.

If a sister is called to the court, no matter what official position she holds, she will definitely be the prime minister after about ten years. Of course, the Shen family can't produce two prime ministers in a row. This is the same for any family with the surname A.

Xiao Yan sighed softly and said, "No wonder. ”

No wonder the head of the Shen family was appointed as the prime minister.

The Shen family always has to come up with someone.

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