On the way back to the palace, Empress Dowager Dou and Liu Shengzu and grandson talked about a lot of things.

When the imperial chariot slowly stopped outside the west gate of Changle Palace, the three princes and nine ministers in the court, as well as the important ministers who may become the three princes and nine ministers in the future, were basically mentioned by the ancestors and grandchildren.

Overall, the opinions of the ancestors and grandsons are quite the same: before Liu Sheng was crowned pro-government, the only thing that needed to change the ministers of the DPRK and China was to gently pull Tao Qing down from the position of prime minister, let Liu She of the Shaofu go up, and pass the addiction of a golden seal and purple ribbon and a hundred courtesy;

Shaofu became the prime minister, and he also needed to find a replacement to control the affairs of Shaofu.

For this candidate, Liu Sheng successively put forward several possibilities, but they were all rejected by the Empress Dowager Dou in order.

- Fengchang Dou Pengzu, who was rejected by the Empress Dowager Dou as 'relatives cannot hold financial power';

With Empress Dowager Dou's sentence 'Relatives can't hold financial power', Liu Sheng's maternal uncle Jia Gui, and Wei Qihou Dou Ying, who has been idle at home for many years, obviously lost the opportunity to become Jiuqing because of the same reason.

As for the other candidates, Liu Sheng was reluctant, Empress Dowager Dou was noncommittal, and Liu Shengzi also knew in his heart: Shaofu is in charge of the internal money, almost the personal butler of the Son of Heaven, in charge of the Son of Heaven's money bag, and it is not just a matter of carrying someone up casually.

As a result, the candidate for the new Shaofu has become a test for the new monarch Liu Sheng from the Empress Dowager Dou.

Whether or not you can find a suitable Shaofu will directly affect Empress Dowager Dou's judgment of the level of business ability of 'Tianzi Sheng'.

If this test is completed, Liu Sheng will be able to accumulate a certain amount of credibility in the Empress Dowager Dou - the emperor is okay, he can pick a good young mansion, and ordinary things should not be difficult for the emperor;

But if it is not completed, then there will be some unnecessary variables - even a suitable Shaofu can not be found, if you want to take charge of the dynasty, it is better to hone and hone first, and then learn more······

In this way, in the Daxing Emperor······

No;

It should be said that it is Emperor Xiaojing.

In this way, on the seventh day after the death of Emperor Xiaojing, Liu Sheng ushered in the second test of his career as the son of heaven: to find a suitable Shaofu to replace Liu She, the Taohou who was about to be worshiped as prime minister.

As for the first test, Liu Sheng has obviously handed in a perfect answer.

This is not?

Liu Sheng gave a perfect answer, and on the evening of the same day, most of the high-level buildings of the Chang'an court hall of more than 2,000 stones were gathered in the prime minister's mansion of Hou Taoqing in Kaifeng.

is exactly what Liu Sheng expected: the protagonist of this dinner is the servant Yuan An.

Except for Yuan An, everyone else at the meeting had a worried and even anxious look······

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"Please also ask the servant to give us some advice."

"What did Your Majesty do today?"

"What is your majesty's plan?"

This dinner was initiated by Prime Minister Tao Qing, and was first approved by Uncle Nei Shi Tian.

Judging from the lineup of guests attending the meeting, it is no exaggeration to say that the ministers and officials above the court this morning, except for those small shrimps who have no right to speak, are almost all absent from other important ministers who are qualified to take the initiative to play.

- Prime Minister Tao Qing is the main one, and the imperial historian Chao is wrong to attend the meeting;

Among the Jiuqing, Uncle Tian of Neishi, Zhao Yu of Tingwei, Liu She of Shaofu, Gongsun Kunxie of Dianke, Fengchang Dou Pengzu, Yuan An, and Wei Wei Zhi were seven people present.

As for the two people who didn't arrive, one was Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren, who had never liked this kind of large-scale gathering attended by three people;

The other is Zongzheng Liu Piqiang, like every Zongzheng who was born in the Liu Jiao family of the king of Chu Yuan: for the private gathering of important ministers of this level, he did not hesitate to express his position of 'too lazy to take care of you'.

In addition to Tao Qing, Chao Cuo, Tian Shu and other nine ministers, Lieutenant Wei Wan and Lang Zhongling, Bei Thief Du Lieutenant and other 2,000 stones, also sat at the end of the guest hall.

At the top, Tao Qing was the first to speak, and the attention of the entire guest hall was attracted by Yuan An, who was seated in the first seat of the east seat······

"Yes, yes!"

"Your Majesty first said that he wanted to build a temple for Emperor Xiaojing, and then skipped this matter without hesitation, what does it mean?"

"After the dispersal of the dynasty, the imperial servant also went to Changle with the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty, have you heard any rumors?"

is about to step down, and he is quite a little desireless, just out of the consideration of 'saving a game for the big guys, so as to exchange feelings', Tao Qing, who organized this dinner, naturally drank himself after making the opening remarks.

- I have been a prime minister for a few years, but I haven't made any achievements, and now I am about to step down unexplained, Tao Qing said that he was very depressed;

But no one noticed the ministers and ministers who were present today, or no one cared about Tao Qing's loneliness.

Everyone's eyes converged on Yuan Ang's body with the sound of uneasy inquiry······

"What does Your Majesty mean by today's matter, the princes will not be unintelligible."

"Since you understand, and you specially came to me, what the princes want to ask is definitely not Your Majesty's intention."

"But the performance of the princes today surprised me;"

"It's just that before I could open my mouth to ask, I was preempted by the princes?"

Feeling the urgent gaze that gathered on him, Yuan Ang only adjusted his sitting posture comfortably, and then held on to his wide sleeves, and personally poured himself a handful of wine.

took a small sip of wine, and his intriguing gaze swept over Uncle Tian, Zhi Budo and the other four in order.

——Today's early dynasty, there are no four people who stand up to support Liu Sheng and fight for the temple number for Emperor Xianxiaojing.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally couldn't hold his breath, raised the wine jue, and strode in front of Yuan An.

"I respect the servant!"

said a word solemnly, and drank all the wine in the jue by himself, and then wiped the cloth with a big grin, and bowed deeply to Yuan Ang in front of him without doubt.

"What kind of person I am, the servant knows."

"Don't say it's me - the ministers and officials of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China don't know much, don't make friends, or don't know their temperament."

"What happened today really made me, a stupid person, unable to see what His Majesty meant and what he wanted to do."

"I have been an official in the DPRK for many years, and I vaguely feel that I seem to have made some mistakes in the DPRK this morning."

"If the servant can point out the mistakes I have made and avert the calamities that my clan may face, then I will not doubt the kindness of the servant, and I will not dare or forget it for ······the rest of my life."

Calmly stated his intentions, and forcibly stopped the beautiful maid next to him who was going to pour wine for herself, first poured wine for Yuan An, and then poured a duke for herself, and drank it all again without doubt.

It's just that unlike Fang Cai, when he saw that he didn't doubt drinking, he hurriedly raised his head and drank - this time, Yuan Ang looked at Zhi Budo in front of him with embarrassment, and the wine lord in his hand was only stuck in the air for a long time······

"Alas······"

"Sehou, what's the trouble······

Sehou is an undoubted title.

It is undoubtedly the marquis of Che who participated in the pacification of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu as a general, and set up a martial honor, so as to win for himself.

It stands to reason that as an emerging military nobleman who has just been crowned, there is no doubt that he should be out of the highlight of his life in fresh clothes and angry horses;

It's just that at this moment, Zhibu, who is responsible for the position of Marquis and Captain, is full of sincerity and deep in front of Yuan An, who has no marquis title at all, and is just a servant······

"Sehou, please get up, please get up, please get up······"

Shaking his head and sighing for a moment with a melancholy face, Yuan Ang finally drank the wine with a complicated face, and then put the wine back on the eucalyptus table in front of him, and then lifted up with both hands;

When Zhi Budo straightened up with a bitter face, Yuan Ancai let out a long lament to Zhi Budo as if he were no one else.

"Alas······"

"Obviously a gentleman, Saihou, why can't you understand this?"

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"Your Majesty's decision to build a temple for Emperor Xiaojing may indeed be an inappropriate and inappropriate move."

"But as a guard captain, why should the Marquis consider whether His Majesty's actions are reasonable, the merits of Emperor Xianxiaojing, and whether a temple should be built?"

"——The title of Marquis Sai was personally enshrined by Emperor Xianxiaojing~"

"Saihou, the guard captain, was personally received by His Majesty and appointed by the edict~"

"In the future, after the coffin of Saihou is decided, he will also be buried under the Yangling Tomb, for the rest of his life, and be the courtier of Emperor Xiaojing······"

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"After receiving such a favor from the emperor, Saihou did not miss the kindness of the emperor at all, and when His Majesty proposed to build a temple for the emperor, he was ambiguous and ambiguous?"

"In the future, when you come underground, what face does Sehou have to go to see Emperor Xianxiaojing?"

The words that seemed to be straightforward, but in fact were vague enough, finally provoked Zhiwu to bow his head with shame, and almost wanted to speak, but in the end he was just speechless and unable to speak.

After being entangled for a long time, in the end, he only silently bowed again, poured wine and drank it again, and then returned to his own actions, Yuan An's eyes moved to the other people sitting opposite.

"Nanpihou is a relative of the Empress Dowager and a relative;"

"Since the Zhulu disaster in Chang'an, my Han family court has faintly had a tacit understanding that 'relatives are officials and not ministers'."

"——Back then, Zhang Wuhou Dou Guangguo Dou Boss missed the opportunity to become prime minister, which is the most intuitive embodiment of this tacit understanding."

"But Nanpihou still did Fengchang."

"As a relative of Enfenghou, he has never been in charge of troops or battles, and he is not even the first Enfeng Marquis, and Nanpihou is still an official to Jiuqing."

"Why is that, Nanpihou, don't you understand?"

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"If I asked Saihou just now, I won't ask Nanpihou again."

"I just want Nanpihou to think about it: Who gave the title of Nanpihou?"

"——Is it that Emperor Taizong Xiaowen defied public opinion, risked the disapproval of the world, and risked the oath of disobeying Emperor Taizu Gao's oath that 'no merit shall be crowned marquis', and enshrined Nanpihou's dead father as a foreign relative?"

"Who appointed Nanpihou?"

"Isn't it that Emperor Xiaojing first, thinking that Nanpihou is the clansman of the current Empress Dowager, he didn't even want to put the responsibility of Fengchang into the hands of Nanpihou?"

"Nanpihou, are you worthy of Emperor Taizong's favor?"

"Is it worthy of the trust of Emperor Xianxiaojing?"

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"Now, the elder of Nanpihou is sitting on the imperial couch in the Changxin Hall of Changle Palace, and is the empress dowager of my Han family;"

"And Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who was enthroned as the Marquis of Nanpi, is the grandfather of His Majesty today;"

"The first Xiaojing Emperor who appointed Nanpihou as Fengchang is the biological father of His Majesty today."

"Nanpihou, do you treat Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's eldest grandson and Emperor Xianxiaojing's eldest son like this?"

"Just treat the current Empress Dowager like this, and love her grandson since she was a child?"

"——Isn't Nanpihou the cousin of Emperor Xianxiaojing, and not the cousin of His Majesty today?"

For today's events, Dou Pengzu didn't have much psychological burden.

As a regular member, Dou Pengzu himself has the privilege of 'unrestricted rules for pursuing the ultimate';

And Liu Sheng is 'unruly' today, as a regular Dou Pengzu, he is undoubtedly the most confident to stand up and oppose and dissuade Liu Sheng's ministers.

——Fengchang is always in charge, and what is in charge is the rules of the government and the opposition up and down!

But after Yuan Ang questioned for a while, Rao didn't have much guilt, and Dou Pengzu still lowered his head in shame.

Because of Yuan An's words, Dou Pengzu suddenly remembered one thing that had been forgotten before.

I am not just Jiuqing, and I am not just a 'can talk about the rules without restrictions';

Dou Pengzu's main and most distinctive political label is actually a relative······

"Wei Wei, Fengchang today, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be very disappointed."

"But Your Majesty is a very frank and generous person."

"-Even the marquis who once showed disrespect in front of the former emperor, His Majesty also made him the prince Shaobao, and specially taught himself the things in the military formation;"

"Even the Marquis can tolerate it, and it is impossible for Your Majesty to be angry with the two of you because of today's incident."

"It's just that in the future, I'm afraid the two of you will need to think carefully: is it the young and uncrowned new monarch who is sitting on the royal couch, or the county official of my Han family······"

A simple speech, as if nothing had been said, and inexplicably thought-provoking, only caused the congregation to bow their heads;

Some people are 'ashamed and have no face to raise their heads', and some people are involuntarily caught in thoughts.

It was at this moment when the entire guest hall fell into complete silence that Yuan An's eyes finally fell on Uncle Nei Shi Tian.

"I have always been very respectful to Ziqinggong."

"But today's matter, I still have some words, I want to ask Ziqing Gong to think about it."

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"Emperor Xiaojing of Daxing, the bones are not cold;"

"—but even then, it's bones."

"Today's saint is not the crown;"

"—Even if it is not as good as the crown, it is also the ······ today"

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"Something, it's changed."

"Ziqinggong, you should also understand what these changes mean······