Seeing Cao Shen fall into thought again, the corners of Liu Ying's mouth couldn't help but raise a subtle smile.

If it was in his previous life, Cao Shen came to such a "your father asked me to discuss this matter with you", then Liu Ying might really be stupid 'big talk', and by the way, he fell into Cao Shen's set.

But after a few years of 'love and hatred' in her previous life, Liu Ying, who was able to start over, is no longer the young child.

In other words: the significance of today's dialogue, Liu Ying at this time, is too clear.

On the surface, all this seems to be so reasonable - the son of heaven Liu Bang is sick, the prime minister Xiao He is old, the prince Liu Ying is young and the country is in prison, and the 'quasi-prime minister' Cao Shen is about to take over.

At this time when the throne and phase are in the transition stage at the same time, Liu Bang, the son of heaven who is 'seriously ill and bedridden', and Xiao He, the prime minister who is 'too old to see politics', handed over the vacant position of Jiuqing in the DPRK to Liu Ying and Cao Shen to discuss, which seems to be the right reason in the question.

According to common sense, most of the vacancies in Jiuqing seem to need to be implemented as soon as possible, so as not to affect the government affairs of the court.

But in fact, this matter is far from the hidden doorway, but it took Liu Ying the entire past life to reach the point where she can see through one or two······

First of all, from the perspective of facts, the outermost layer of this matter is the test of Liu Bang and Xiao He, the two successors of Liu Ying and Cao Shen.

That is: Do the quasi-heavenly son and the quasi-prime minister have enough ability to control the court situation in the future?

That's a very good judgment.

If they are confident that they can control the situation in the future, then Liu Ying and Cao Shen will choose the safest way to deal with this large-scale appointment of Jiuqing.

This is also the reason why Liu Yingfang suggested that 'the former Jiuqing official be reinstated' to reply to Cao Shen.

-- The reinstatement of the officials who once served as Jiuqing is undoubtedly the safest, and it can also avoid some of the negative effects brought about by the 'new officials' to the greatest extent.

On the contrary, if there is no confidence in controlling the situation in the future, then in this appointment, Liu Ying and Cao Shen will try to mix sand into the court and install a team to ensure that there will be enough power in the future.

is like Liu Ying, although he doesn't dare to think in a sensitive position like Wei Wei for the time being, he is likely to be in a position like Tingwei that is not sensitive, but can also have a certain right to speak in the court, and arrange his humerus henchmen.

On the other hand, Cao Shen, as the future 'head of a hundred officials', is not convenient to express his views on the selection of Jiuqing.

This is also the reason why today, Cao Shen put on a posture of 'I don't mention candidates'.

- Because for the prime minister, Jiuqing is the tentacle of the prime minister's control of the court situation, and it is precisely for this reason that the prime minister himself often needs to remain silent on the appointment of Jiuqing to avoid the suspicion of 'unauthorized power'.

Therefore, if Cao Shen does not have the confidence to firmly control the situation in the future, then Cao Shen's attention will inevitably be placed on his future reservation: the Prime Minister's Mansion.

arranged his own people to hold key positions, Cao Shen naturally did not dare; But moving some 'thorns' that obviously won't give you what you want from you is not a problem for Cao Shen.

Here's a very simple example.

- Cao Shen thinks that in the future, he will not be able to fully control the court, and his prime minister's mansion will have a 'thorn' like Zhang Cang.

In this case, Cao Shen can come up with a reverse operation.

For example, in this large-scale appointment of Jiuqing, it is mentioned that Zhang Cang is a talented minister, and he can be worthy of the post of Jiuqing.

In this way, there is a high probability that Zhang Cang will be 'promoted' to an idle Jiuqing like a pawn and Fengchang, and Cao Shen can also quickly integrate the Prime Minister's Mansion and then focus all his attention on the court.

And at present, judging from the reactions given by Liu Ying and Cao Shen, it is obvious that both monarchs and ministers have full confidence in controlling the court situation in the future.

In other words, even if they don't have this confidence, the two of them also know in their hearts: in this test, what kind of performance should they give in order to make the son of heaven Liu Bang and Prime Minister Xiao He feel at ease.

And the 'test' is only the outermost political meaning of this matter.

One level further inward is the temptation.

As the Son of Heaven, Liu Bang needs to determine through such a temptation: after his death, whether Liu Ying, as his successor, will take 'stability' as the primary task of the transfer of power, or 'efficiency' as the main principle.

Liu Ying is 100% sure that Liu Bang does have this intention.

- Cao Shen has made it clear that in this large-scale appointment of Jiuqing, Liu Ying and Cao Shen are just 'giving candidates after discussion', and as for the final result, it is still up to Liu Bang, the son of heaven, to make the decision himself.

This is the very common 'insurance lock' in the political arena: I give you the power to 'discuss', but I still have to put the power of 'decision' in my own hands.

If the result of the 'discussion' satisfies me, then I will be 'as good as a stream', and everyone will be fine, but if I am not satisfied, then I will be embarrassed, and I will have to make my own decision.

Liu Ying was tested by her father to 'see if she would be in a hurry', while Xiao He's temptation of Cao Shen was more complicated.

As the current prime minister, Xiao He needs to determine whether Cao Shen is worthy of the big job; But as a mortal 'person', Xiao He will inevitably escape from some worldliness.

After all, the tragedy of the death of a person is a nightmare for every politician······

In addition to the outermost test, as well as a slightly deeper test, there is also a layer of deep meaning in this matter.

- Judgment.

At this point, Liu Bang and Xiao He have the same goal: to judge whether the 'partners' of Liu Ying and Cao Shen have a tacit understanding to cooperate with each other.

If there is, then the candidates given by Cao Shen and Liu Ying will most likely be exactly the same, or even directly submit the same list jointly by the two;

But if there are signs of 'discord' between the two, then Liu Bang is likely to be subject to two completely different lists.

But for this test, Liu Ying is not very worried.

Because of the result of this 'judgment', it will not affect Liu Ying.

- If Liu Bang and Xiao He's judgment result is that 'Liu Ying and Cao Shen have a tacit understanding', then they will be fine;

Even if the judgment result is 'no tacit understanding', or even if there is a discordant call-up, it is impossible to shake Liu Ying's already stable position as an old dog.

Therefore, at this level, Cao Shen needs to give a more perfect answer to ensure that he will not be temporarily replaced.

Combined with all this, Cao Shen gave a posture of 'I don't speak, you are the prince, what do you say, I will be a microphone'.

But Liu Ying is also convinced: Cao Shen, who is still pretending to be a grandson in front of him at the moment, will definitely conduct a comprehensive analysis of Liu Ying's candidates in order to show his 'responsibility' and professional ability, and give his own opinions.

- After all, Cao Shen, the warden (prison Peng) was born, and he is very professional in finding fault with others.

Cao Shen's posture of 'I am temporarily pretending to be a grandson', and Liu Ying's posture of 'I am as steady as an old dog, not panicking at all', the core part of this dialogue can be regarded as the result.

According to Cao Shen's previous expectations, this conversation can basically come to an end here.

But what made Cao Shen vaguely feel a little uneasy was that Liu Ying seemed to have set himself a big set······

"Uh······"

After a moment of hesitation, he quietly looked at Liu Ying's expression, and saw that Liu Ying's face still had that humble, serious, and extremely hypocritical look, Cao Shen finally said tentatively: "Uh······ on the home. ”

"Today, the nine kings of the dynasty, the young government, the imperial servant, and the Lang Zhongling have all been appointed;"

"According to the will of the family, the three of the guards, the court captains, and the Fengchang should be reinstated by the former incumbents;"

"Another pawn and Zongzheng, you can temporarily dismiss the ······"

said with a lonely voice, and stared at Liu Ying for a long time, but finally failed to see Liu Ying 'wake up', so he could only give Liu Ying a little doubt.

"That being the case, the post of governing the internal history of Su ······"

"According to the family's wishes, what should I do?"

He asked a question full of loneliness, and when Cao Shen raised his head, he found that Liu Ying's face quietly swelled with a smile that Cao Shen didn't want to see······

"What about Pingyang Hou?"

Quack!

Before Liu Ying's words fell, he heard a crisp sound of grinding his teeth, which made the huge Phoenix Hall suddenly fall into a long silence.

Looking at Cao Shen's gloomy face in an instant, the smug smile on the corner of Liu Ying's mouth became more and more substantial······

"Since the Han Dynasty, although the name of my family is 'Wang Tianxia', most of the countries in the Kanto region are the land of princes with different surnames;"

"So in the past, there were often jokes in Guanzhong: the world, Guanzhong also; Han Xiang, internal history also. ”

"For this reason, since the time when my father returned to the Three Qins, he has never served as the post of 'governing the internal history of Su';

"And ······ Today"

Speaking slowly, Liu Ying's gaze at Cao Shen was also more and more scrutinizing.

"Today, the king of Kanto has a different surname, and Wu Chen, the king of Changsha, is the only one; More ago, his father swore a blood oath to behead a white horse and swear a blood alliance with the prince of Gonghou: if it is not the Liu family, it will not be the king; If it is not as promised, the world will fight together. ”

"In this way, in the future, the countries of the Kanto region will be the princes of the clan and the counties in parallel."

"In the future, the prime minister will not be in charge of the affairs of Guanzhong, regardless of the reason of the Kanto······"

Speaking of this, Liu Ying smiled and waved her hand, and said with a smile: "This is just a lonely and superficial view, and I will try to talk to Pingyang Hou to 'discuss' it." ”

"I don't know what Pingyang Marquis means, the history of the governance of the Han family has reached the time to take office?"

"If you are in charge, who should be in charge of the internal history?"

Asking this last question in a calm tone, Liu Ying lowered her head with a smile, grabbed the tea bowl in her hand, and secretly gloated with the help of sipping tea.

——In her previous life, Liu Ying was 'two-faced man' by Cao Shen's trick, and she didn't raise her head for the rest of her life!

Liu Yingshang still remembers that in his previous life, Cao Shen also returned to Chang'an at this time and served as the imperial historian.

At that time, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, and Xiao He, the prime minister, may have also evaluated Cao Shen.

It's just that at that time, Liu Ying didn't understand anything, just thought that his father was cultivating a team for himself, and he could be said to be a crosser to Cao Shen, so he almost didn't say that he was a traverser!

As a result, Cao Shen can be good, in front of Liu Ying, he is implementing Ruyi's 'Ah, yes, yes', 'Ah, good, good', looking back, in front of Liu Bang, there are two sentences: 'The prince is young', 'The prince is innocent', and 'I can't take on a big responsibility for the time being'······

It is precisely because of this that in Liu Ying's previous life, until his father Liu Bang died, he failed to get one of the two jade tiger talismans!

'The crown prince is still a stunned young man for the time being, and he can't hold power', and since then it has gradually become the consensus of the entire court.

And in this life, when Cao Shen was in front of him again, "Ah, yes, yes", "Ah, good, good", Liu Ying's heart showed infinite malice towards Cao Shen.

- Don't you like to be a two-faced person and like to be 'preemptive'?

Then I'll force you to speak!

Daddy and Xiao He are still there, who will be the next prime minister, I think you dare to be a turtle with a shrunken head!

Obviously, Liu Ying's reaction was completely beyond Cao Shen's expectations.

To be precise: Liu Ying's actions were worse than the worst result Cao Shen expected, more than a little bit worse······

There is no doubt that Cao Shen's calculations have barely escaped Liu Ying's fiery eyes.

But for Cao Shen at this time, Liu Ying's unexpected 'maturity' is still secondary.

At present, the most critical issue is: as a 'quasi-prime minister', Cao Shen cannot express any opinion on the topic of 'whether the internal history should be appointed' no matter what!

First of all, as Xiao He's successor, if Cao Shen said that 'Neishi should be appointed', it would be to admit that he was incompetent.

- Xiao He can 'concurrently' internal history by himself, why can't you Cao Shen?

No matter why it doesn't work, as long as it doesn't work, it's your Cao Shen can't do it!

But if it is said that 'internal history should not be appointed', then Cao Shen will fall into another strange circle.

- Xiao why don't you appoint Neishi, that is a powerful person, and reliable; You Cao Shen haven't been the prime minister yet, so you want to pull the internal history into your own bowl, and while you are in charge of the court, you also have to hold Guanzhong in your hands?

Hey!

In the future, the Lord Shaoguo is suspicious, you are a highly respected prime minister, and you will also coerce the court and hold the entire Guanzhong······

What do you want?

Therefore, as early as when he received Liu Bang's instruction to 'discuss the appointment of Jiuqing', Cao Shen made up his mind: no matter what, he must not mention internal history!

But Liu Ying didn't mention the internal history, which made Cao Shen suddenly fall into a very embarrassing situation.

——After receiving the instruction of Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, to 'discuss the appointment of Jiuqing', then Cao Shen will definitely bring the results of the deliberation of all positions to Liu Bang.

But Liu Ying didn't mention the internal history, or inadvertently 'omitted' the internal history, so Cao Shen could only open his mouth to 'remind'.

Now it's all right.

It's good not to remind, but when I remind, the problem was kicked back to Cao Shen by Liu Ying like a kick: What does Pingyang Hou think to do?

was attacked by Liu Ying's 'perspective hanging', Cao Shen was in a mess for a while, and he didn't know what to do.

It was also when Cao Shen was in a dilemma that Liu Ying's words finally drew a perfect end to a 'grievance' that spanned the past and present lives.

"The Marquis of Pingyang has the trust of his father, and Xiao Xiangguo himself said that 'he can be succeeded to the Han Dynasty', and he should always have some opinions on the affairs of the court?"

"If not, in the coming day, the Marquis of Pingyang will be as noble as the Han Minister, and he will not live up to the trust of his father?"

seemed to say this without malice, and saw Liu Ying get up with a light smile, looking at Cao Shen's gaze, but there was a faint touch of surprisingly warm cheerfulness.

"It must be known that even if the father and emperor do not dare to listen to the fallacy of the corrupt Confucian, he would rather not be the 'Holy Son of Heaven' in the mouth of this bureaucracy."

"The Marquis of Pingyang is the marquis of Che, with more than 10,000 households, and he is abundant and from the left and right of his father, and he will be the noble ······ of the Han Dynasty."

"—Don't you even know what 'responsibility' is?"

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