Yang Min and Cui Junyong, Ji Guoliang, Han Wei and Hou Xie have been sitting in the hall for half an hour, and they can't help but feel worried. Although he was specially congratulated and won the victory, he was really not easy in his heart.

How can I say this, Yang He's father and son have occupied Dongxiang for a long time, which has made Fuzhou and Nanchang restless.

Linchuan County and Hongdu County were cut off from tax revenues, the officials and soldiers shrank in the city and trembled, and the officials reported all day long with sorrowful brows, saying that "the thieves are very powerful and cannot be controlled."

But Zhao Chongbi actually won the battle, and the fifth county town has been recovered in a blink of an eye! The 2,000 officers and soldiers plus the 2,000 regiments practiced as if they had entered a no-man's land, and people were dazzled to see it.

Yang Jin really didn't know whether to congratulate the emperor or lament the end of his official fortune. He was in a complicated and contradictory mood, and couldn't help but secretly raise his eyes to look at Ji Guoliang opposite.

"This person is now proud, hum! He must be waiting for the old man to step down, so that he will naturally take over the day when he will be the first assistant! Yang Min was secretly annoyed.

Ji Guoliang was so excited that his face was shining, after Yu Gan's great victory, he recovered the five cities in a row, which couldn't help but make him, the secretary of the military department, happy, this is the most faceless moment of the military department!

At this moment, he was holding his white beard in his hand, looking at somewhere in the ceiling, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and his mind didn't seem to be here at all.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I've been waiting for a long time." Eunuch Liu suddenly came out of the corridor behind the throne, and his appearance made several old ministers stand up, and the emperor was coming.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm in a hurry to write a letter to a minister, so I'm really sorry for the delay!" Zhao Tuo has always spoken politely to the bosses of the cabinet.

"The ministers don't dare to apologize to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has every opportunity, and the ministers should wait a little longer." After Yang Min and the others finished saluting, he took the lead and said.

"Where, respect for the elderly, due righteousness." After Zhao Tuo finished speaking, he motioned for everyone to sit back in their respective positions: "You Aiqing are here to ......?" ”

"Oh, the ministers have come to ask Your Majesty for victory. Thanks to His Majesty Hongfu, today he received a victory from Jiangxi, first saying that he had recovered Jinxian, Dongxiang, and Yujiang, and then another messenger reported that Jinxi had also been trained by Yang Yi, the training envoy of Li Dan's subordinate Anren regiment.

The enemy defenders were caught off guard and attacked the city in the night, beheading more than 400 people and taking 400 prisoners. Since then, Yang He has been surrounded by his abdomen and back, and the way to come has been cut off, and the day of his destruction is not far away! Congratulations to Your Majesty on ......! Four other cabinet members also stood up to congratulate.

"I am also very happy, and I would like to congratulate you with you."

Yang Min listened to this and felt that the emperor's words were warm on the surface, but in fact, they were cold underneath, and it was obvious that people had already gotten the news, so they didn't have a happy expression when they first heard it.

He couldn't help but glance at the emperor, but he didn't see any clues from the young emperor's face, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Zhuqing, you are very happy and relieved to come to report the victory, and you have finally heard some good news after so many hours. It seems that the father and son of the Yang family are not enough, and he will not be able to bear it immediately as soon as the commander is replaced. Ha, I'm looking forward to his extermination, and I've heard the news of this thief's beheading! ”

Zhao Tuo said and picked up a copy of the recital from the tray in Eunuch Liu's hand: "This is the Jiangxi political envoy Shi Hao Mi who received it when I came to the Qiande Palace, saying that it has arranged for six thousand officials and troops to meet Fengcheng, cut off Yang He's escape to the north, and set up an ambush outside the mountain, waiting for him to get into the cage!"

Zhao Chongbi rushed behind, Li Dan stopped in the south, and worked together to drive this trapped beast into the cage of the official army, and then close the gate to see how long he could be rampant! ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Yang Min followed everyone in his mouth, and realized in his heart that the emperor knew about it after receiving Shi Hao's secret music.

"But my lords, I can't be happy in my heart." The emperor got up and walked in front of them: "Think about it, why did the officials and soldiers have no way to deal with Yang He's father and son before, but now they can move forward step by step and triumph everywhere?" ”

This sentence made the cabinet ministers unable to sit still, and they immediately lay on the ground and pleaded guilty.

"It's all that Yang Tao has ruined the situation, the enemy is the first to be restrained and has no solution, this person is incompetent!" Cui Junyong said.

"The minister seconded the proposal, the minister impeached Yang Tao, as a feudal official, he was drunk in wine and songs, but he couldn't deal with it in the face of a strong enemy, it was really a traitor to the country!"

Han Wei said as he took out a piece of music from his sleeve and raised it above his head. Eunuch Liu hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up and sent it to the emperor. Zhao Tuo tilted his head to look at it but didn't take it.

"The old minister thinks that it is inappropriate to just put the responsibility on Yang Tao, is it not that we are the princes here who are not responsible?" Ji Guoliang suddenly said bitterly:

"I think the cabinet should reflect on what is wrong with itself! Zi said, 'Three times a day, save yourself'. Only by reflecting on ourselves can we speak of the mistakes of others, otherwise how can we serve the people and lead the ministers? ”

"Well, Lord Ji's attitude is very correct, I appreciate it!" The Emperor stretched out his hand to lift them up from the ground, and sat down again, then continued:

"What Lord Ji said is a gentleman's attitude towards things. You are all old ministers, people who were used by the former emperor, even if there is a mistake, how can I really investigate it? He waved his hand to stop the old ministers from speaking, and continued:

"Our monarchs and ministers get along, and the difficult thing is to have a 'know' word, the ministers know the king, and the monarch also knows the ministers, so that the stability and stability of the court can be continued." After he finished speaking, he looked at a few old ministers.

At this time, Yang Min was sweating, and he thought to himself, what does this mean, is he urging me to stand up and take responsibility, and then just step down?

Yang Min didn't want to end up like this anyway, he looked forward to being able to make an edict from the emperor in the future, and then give money back to his hometown.

In any case, it is much better and more beautiful than taking responsibility for failure and improper employment in this way, right? His instincts told him that the Emperor was expecting someone to step up and take on all this, but he was unwilling.

Yang Min felt his heart beating wildly, cold sweat flowed like ants on his back, and he wanted to swallow saliva, but his mouth was dry. The teacup was there, but he didn't dare to move. He was like an old turtle, with his head tucked into his shell, motionless.

The emperor seemed to sigh, maybe he heard it wrong, Yang Min couldn't be sure.

He wanted to take a gamble to see if he didn't say or do anything, if the emperor could take out his 'Taige Shoufu', or in a fit of anger, he would beat the old ministers of the first emperor and drive them out? He felt that the emperor would not dare to do this.

"Okay, if you want to reflect on the lessons, you can go back to the cabinet to talk." The emperor really didn't have such determination, so he continued:

"I just don't want what happened in Jiangxi to happen elsewhere! I would like to remind you that the Hunan official army has entered Jiangxi to fight, so will Miao Yao and the barbarians take this opportunity to make trouble?

The army has left the country, and it is so empty, if I would not have been able to hold it back. Don't just think about the lessons you learned, you have to take precautions! ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

Yang Min walked out of the temple door, and then took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead and cheeks. He stood on the steps and looked at the backs of his colleagues, and then sighed and walked out of the palace.

Today is another hurdle, but what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? He knew in his heart that the emperor wanted him to propose to go to the wilderness by himself, but after so many years of tasting power, how could he be willing to abandon it for once?

Unbeknownst to Lord Shousuke, the emperor had been staring at his back through the window lattice, from him walking down the steps of the palace until Xiaoshi was outside the palace gate. Zhao Tuo sighed softly: "Is this thing like power, is it so delicious?" ”

Of the five people, none of the five old ministers took the initiative to resign or take all the responsibilities, and even Ji Guoliang, who was impassioned, did not say a word.

Hmph, this old fox, he wants others to charge, but he still has to stay in the camp to strategize!

Zhao Tuo closed his eyes and made a gesture of recuperation, and once again considered the selection of the future cabinet in his heart. The three people who are most likely to be replaced are Yang Min, Ji Guoliang and Hou Xie.

Zhao Tuo knew that the thoughts of the martial artists were the best guess, they just wanted a candidate who would not despise the martial artists too much to take Hou Xie's position.

For example, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who was born in the Wuxun family, the left attendant of the military department, Lang Gulin, or can be directly promoted from the martial arts, such as the former military governor, Fan Dayuan, the bachelor of the Xuanwei Academy.

Both of these people are from the Northland, so it is almost certain that Hou Xie will still be taken over by someone from the Northland.

And the literati are much more troublesome. Yang Min is from the North, Ji Guoliang is from the south of the Yangtze River, Han Wei from Jinghu and Cui Junyong from Liaodong, and there are three people from the Northland in the current cabinet.

Now the most fierce competition is a native of Anyang, Henan, who is still a student in Shangshuyi of the Criminal Department; Xie Minhong, a bachelor of Tiren Pavilion from Zhuji, Zhejiang, and a senator of Zhongshu right; As well as Jinghu Yichang people, Tongshan Pavilion straight bachelor, and Zheng Shou, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials.

Yi Zhongsheng has good qualifications and personality, and he is also the oldest of the three, forty-seven years old this year, just in the prime of life!

But Xie Minhong and Zheng Shou represented the Jiangnan and Chuanhu factions respectively, and Zhao Tuo was very dissatisfied with the open competition for positions in the court, so he was reluctant to let them enter the cabinet to avoid the struggle being brought to the top of power.

But if you don't take one of the two from him, then who else can be put in the cabinet? Zhao Tuo has not thought about this matter. Therefore, he has not made up his mind to change the cabinet.

But today he changed his mind. Instead of swapping out three at once, let's do them one by one! And he also wanted to see that after he started to act, the two major groups of Chuanchu and Jiangnan must be shocked, Zhao Tuo was curious about where these two guys could fight each other?

In the evening of that day, a piece of news was like thunder, which blew everyone up and made everyone anxious: the emperor issued an order, and Lang Gulin, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and the left attendant of the military department, took over as the secretary of the military department and entered the cabinet.

At the same time, the emperor turned out the excerpt that Ji Guoliang had asked for Zhishi in the past and gave him permission, and gave him gold, a son Yin Guozi Eunuch, and a carriage and horse to return to his hometown. was extremely honored, so that Ji Guoliang almost fainted from crying!

The little emperor's hand was beyond everyone's expectations, and even the old and spicy Yang Min was bluffed. Only then did he know what he was rubbing shoulders with in the main hall, and it turned out that the target of His Majesty's shot was not himself, but Ji Guoliang, who thought he was proud!

Seeing his father sitting on pins and needles, the youngest son Yang Di hurriedly stepped forward to serve tea and persuaded: "Father doesn't have to be like this, it's just a matter of going into the wild." If His Majesty wishes so, it is better to grant his wish. ”

"If I go into the wilderness, who will support you?" Yang Min glared: "Do you think that without the old man in Beijing, you can do whatever you want?"

Hmph, let me tell you, when the villains of such forces see it, they are afraid that they will immediately swarm up, not only to stuff the impeachment fold into the study, but also to eat the three of your brothers to the bone!

Hehe, do you think it's as simple as the old man throwing his sleeves and going back to his hometown to fish? ”

"Well, this, really...... If you knew today, why bother in the first place? Yang Di muttered a little impatiently.

"Presumptuous!" Yang Min slapped the table, but Yang Di was not afraid of him. Yang Min is old enough to have a son, Yang Di is only nineteen this year, and he has been pampered since he was a child, so he also knows that his father is just scaring him, but he has never really acted angry.

Miao is Yang Di's own length, white skin, bright eyes and bright teeth, a proper jade tree in the wind of the small ya, plus poetry, calligraphy, chess and painting are famous in the capital, so this year has been opened by the emperor as the Hanlin Academy Lin Yuan Pavilion attendant, the size is also a noble official.

He is not afraid that his father will move the family law, and he will not be able to punish the doctor. No matter how bad it is, you can run to Mrs. Tai! Hearing his father's loud drink, he just pursed his mouth and stopped stinging him.

"Alas, the old man is not greedy for power. It's just that at this point, it's hard to get out! Yang Min frowned: "If you are not careful, it will be difficult to achieve both loyalty and filial piety!" I can't say that your grandmother still has to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person, and it will be too late to regret it then! ”

Yang Di was stunned: "After all, my father is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, so it's not like this, right?" ”

"Not really? Hey! Yang Min pointed out the door with his hand: "Look, isn't that Ji Guoliang an old minister of the Three Dynasties, not the first emperor like me?"

When Your Majesty is not serious, it is useless for you to ask for bones no matter how many books you put up, but if you take it seriously, you can turn out a book of Zhu Criticism and make a stroke, and the prosperity of decades will come to an end, who would want to get it? He paused and lowered his voice and told his youngest son:

"From the day I left Beijing, you went to see him off on behalf of your father, and presented Cheng Yi with three hundred taels for me to express your gratitude. Alas, I'm afraid that's all we can do. ”

"It's only three hundred taels?" Yang Di frowned: "Father, although the two of you were always noisy before, it's not only worth three hundred taels of friendship, right?" ”

"Nonsense!" Yang Min sneered: "I have been an official in the same dynasty for decades, why not so?" But not too much, someone will see it in their eyes and remember it in their hearts.

I don't believe you watched carefully and coldly that day, looked at the faces of the send-offers, and then let's see how people behaved after they left the tea.

At that time, you will know why your father is afraid to leave this position, it is better to cultivate, die in office, and get a comment of dedication. If only I could be like him, I would be at ease! ”

Yang Di couldn't fully understand his father's thoughts, but he still nodded heavily: "Yes, my son will go to see off Uncle Ji when the time comes, and I will do what my father says!" ”