"From Brother An, Ji Guoliang went to the field, this is my brother's chance!" Yang Zhong, who was sitting in the living room, didn't care about the tea, and said to Xie Minhong excitedly.

"Min Zhou said cautiously, he Ji Guoliang has been in the cabinet for so many years, and the emperor has generously allowed him to give him gold and wisdom, which is a great favor, but what does it have to do with me?"

Xie Minhong smiled and shook his hand. He is forty-one years old, with a square face and a tall nose, and he is in the prime of life, so he is very ambitious.

But after many years of life in the sea, he has long understood the need to hide the truth, and Yang Zhong spoke so bluntly, of course he couldn't pick it up.

Although everyone in the house is the so-called pro-Xie faction, or the officials of the southern faction, Xie Minhong still doesn't want any mistakes to be passed on to the emperor, then it's not beautiful!

Among the people who came today, there are two people who are the most powerful and Xie Minhong value the most: Gao Moling, a member of the Zhongshu Provincial Committee, and Du Yushi Feijin, the right man of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the former is his brainstorm, and the latter is his sword.

The outside world commented on these three people and gave them the title of the Three Elders of the Southern Sect.

When Xie Minhong replied to Yangzhong, his eyes swept towards Gao Moling intentionally or unintentionally, and when he saw him with a sneer, he knew it in his heart, so he looked at him again, and the latter was always expressionless and silent.

"You can't say that, everyone knows that this is a signal, Your Majesty must be determined!" Yangzhong's remarks were echoed or endorsed by several officials present.

"Yang Taige has been in power for too long, and although His Majesty has given face to the old ministers since he came into power, he has no choice but to have bad news one after another.

Not to mention Jiangxi, Guangnan, and Guizhou, now that the position of Yimali Khan in the west has been decided, Tieli Khan has invaded Hami and Shazhou several times, and Taige blindly retreats and forbears, and the emperor is obviously dissatisfied.

After the Tatar royal court fled north, the seven divisions of Egu entered the southern part of the steppe and gradually grew stronger, and it was already a trend of tail failure, and the Taige still used inaction as an excuse to sit back and watch them oppress the border defense line, which the emperor was also dissatisfied.

Not to mention that he also allowed Liaodong women to go straight and abandon Nanjiao, and the intrusion of Nangan prohibited the intervention of the Yunnan Xuanwei Division. This kind of practice is no different from selling the ancestral inheritance!

Your Majesty is wise, how can you let such a person continue to control the court? So a cabinet change is imperative and imminent.

Master Xie is the right senator of the Chinese book, and the Son of Heaven is also a close minister!

The lower officials thought that this adjustment had been added to the Shangshu of the Ancient Lord's Receiving Department and merged into the cabinet, and the right minister, after the Taige retreated, the next step would definitely be to select a Nanchen into the cabinet. Isn't this an opportunity for adults? ”

"Hehe, I'm afraid Lord Yang is too optimistic, right?" Fei Jin suddenly opened his eyes and shook his head. Although he is only a fourth-rank official, due to the special status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, no one dares to refute even if he says something abrupt.

Yangzhong's face changed, he smiled awkwardly, but said humbly: "I must have a high opinion again, and I am willing to hear about it." ”

"The lower officials heard that the emperor summoned some northern officials from time to time, although in the name of consulting, but it was not without the intention of wooing. Especially considering the shock of His Excellency Yang Tai's wilderness to the northerners, it is the right thing to properly appease and compensate.

Therefore, the lower officials thought that they could not think that they would definitely elect southerners, and they could not say that the emperor would make up for the northerners again, and it was not known! ”

After saying this to Yangzhong, he turned to Xie Minhong and nodded: "If we want to maintain the advantage of our southerners in the cabinet, I am afraid that we still need to do some work."

Let alone...... Now that the northerners are in power and the south is in trouble, do they really understand the south and can govern it properly? From the point of view of 'securing the outside and the inside', if the external government is not enough to worry, the internal strife will shake the fundamentals.

There are precedents of Huangchao and Fangla, and the emperor can't help but think more about how to maintain the stability of the south. Xia Guan thought that if he wrote from this angle, His Majesty must have a kinship. ”

"In this case, can you come again?" Xie Minhong asked with a smile.

"It is my duty to fill in the gaps for Your Majesty. I'll be reading tonight, and I'll be reading tomorrow morning! ”

"Good, great!" Xie Minhong clapped his hands to express encouragement, and said: "Reasoning, as Minzhou said, but our young son of heaven is not ordinary, how can we ignore it?"

The British lord is in power, and we had better think more for Your Majesty, as Fang just said again, it is my generation's duty to pick up the missing and make up for the shortcomings. ”

"Your Excellency is right!" Yang Zhong first flattered, and then said: "But it seems that Your Majesty still cares about the face of the old minister, and he will not take the initiative when he is idle."

This time, I am afraid that Ji Guoliang Zhishi will also do it for Taige, I hope he can understand. I guess Taige is designated to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and will not answer the topic of His Majesty. ”

Xie Minhong smiled and didn't speak. Listen to him and say, "Why don't you borrow Your Majesty's strength to push it?" In this way, I can't say that the emperor can still have the impression of a direct minister. Hearing this, Xie Minhong was a little speechless and impatient, and he turned his head to the other side:

"Qingsong, you and Ji Congxian can still talk, when he leaves, help me to send it off, just say that it is inconvenient for me to come in person, and give Cheng Yi three hundred taels, please take care of him!"

Gao Moling got up and arched his hand, and said, "Xiaguan must bring the words." He sat down.

Yang Zhong saw that he ignored his suggestion, and was a little disappointed in his heart, and was about to speak again, only to hear the hard work next to him and say, "What Lord Yang said is common sense.

However, at present, His Majesty is most concerned about the matter of Ji Guoliang Zhishi, the position and performance of hundreds of officials. said that they couldn't send each other, and there were the captain in brocade clothes or the people of the Yellow Gate secretly observing the scene.

The lower officials thought that the lord was a senator of Zhongshu Province, and he had a colleague and subordinate relationship with Lord Ji, but at the same time, he was also a role that His Majesty trusted, so he could express it slightly, but he should not show too closeness.

If an adult sends someone to give Cheng Yi, it is okay, but if he sends it in person, the Son of Heaven will inevitably dislike it, so it is very good to deal with it like this now!

If it is as Lord Yang said, the lower officials think it seems reasonable, but it may not be worth implementing at present. It's better to be patient and wait for the opportunity, and even if someone impeaches the Taige, it seems better for adults to cover up one or two.

Since it is a matter of time before your Excellency is in the wilderness, just wait and observe, why bother doing it and making something out of nothing? ”

This made Yangzhong very unhappy: "Eh, how can this be said to be 'out of nothing'?" ”

"Lord Yang, don't like to listen to it, let me ask you: I have heard that Lord Yang and Taige have a teacher-student friendship, why are you trying to force him to go to the field as soon as possible?"

"This," Yang Zhong's face turned red: "I, I have no actual teacher-student relationship with Taige, but because he was the main examiner in the imperial examination back then, I just called him teacher according to the custom." Again, what do you mean by this, do you want to impeach Yang for his conduct? ”

"Don't dare." Fei Jin sneered: "Correcting hundreds of officials, where the duty lies." But even if it is a private meeting, there are no taboos, Min Zhou can speak, and a certain can also be asked. Where is the word 'impeachment'? Lord Yang was a little more sensitive. ”

Yangzhong is also a third-grade high-ranking official, but most of the people present are seventh-fourth-grade, and only Xie Minhong is at his level. Therefore, Yang Zhong's eyes swept over, and everyone either looked away or snickered, in short, the room was so embarrassed that it was silent.

He got up and said angrily: "I have been kind enough to persuade and have many suggestions, but I have not seen the trust. Anyway, if the way is different, don't conspire, and the next official will resign! Anyway, he didn't wait for Xie Minhong to call the housekeeper to send him off, and went out on his own.

Xie Minhong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said to Fei Jin: "Why should you offend a third-grade official for no reason? ”

Fei Jin Zhengse said: "This person's heart is not right, and he speaks lightly, and a gentleman cannot be friends." The public is a person who does great things, how can he be in the company of the villain? ”

"Well, I also know that you are right. But since he is a villain, he is afraid that he will have to write a secret fold when he goes back tonight, and the plot of the princes talking to the official here will be handed to the Yellow Gate early tomorrow morning, and the names of the monarchs will be seen by the emperor, so why bother? Xie Minhong sighed.

"Why can't adults talk to us about tea? Moreover, he just talked about sending Ji Gong and giving Cheng Yi. Those dirty topics were all talked about by him Yang Minzhou, and we and the adults did not accept this topic, so where are we afraid of him? ”

He shook his hand vigorously: "If the emperor asks because of this tomorrow, I will play a book of impeachment with him, and see if he is afraid?" ”

"Alas, don't be presumptuous!" Xie Minzhong exchanged glances with Gao Moling, and hurriedly persuaded.

But the next day, nothing happened in the court, I don't know if Na Yang handed in the book, anyway, there was nothing to do, Xie Min and the others slowly put their minds at ease. But they were all wrong, in fact, Yangzhong still handed over the book.

When Zhao Tuo came back from the scattered dynasty, he said that he was hungry, and Eunuch Liu was busy ordering the palace people to peel two plates of fruit and come in. The Emperor flipped through a few newspapers and secret folds with relish, and ate the fruit at the same time.

Eunuch Liu swept his eyes and knew that these books were all related to the officials' actions against Ji Guoliang, including the Wing Dragon Guard and the Huangmen Eunuch, as well as courtiers like Yangzhong.

"Hmph, big companion, look, let's knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, and by the way, jump out of these many yellow sheep and hares!" Zhao Tuo said.

Hearing his analogy, Eunuch Liu couldn't help laughing out loud, and hurriedly accused the scolder of being rude, and said: "Your Majesty's hand is really clever, and now they are all locust rats in the city so that you can see clearly." The old minister admired it so much! ”

"This is just the beginning." Zhao Tuoyang raised the fold in his hand: "Sometimes I really want to lift the table off, but no, this is governing the country and not playing the leaf card." You have to be patient, take your time! ”

"Your Majesty." Eunuch Liu habitually praised him, and then asked: "But ......, if the old lady pavilion pretends to be confused and ignores us, how can it be good?" Why don't you send a yellow door to give him a wake-up? ”

"Not good!" Zhao Tuo shook his head: "He is in love, and I told him again and again that he can't fall in love!" If I don't want to give face like this, then I won't have to worry about anything in the future. ”

After he finished speaking, his fingers tapped lightly on the table, and he suddenly asked, "There is no battle report from Shihao today?" That being the case, while I have time now, I went to the Huiwen Pavilion to find a few books to read. Swing! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty's dictation, drive the Huiwen Pavilion!"

Huiwenguan was founded in the first year of Emperor Renzong, when a large number of books, calligraphy and paintings captured in Yanjing were transported southward, and they were collected in more than 4,000 large camphor wooden boxes to be transferred to Jinling.

Renzong thought that these books should be shared with scholars rather than in the deep palace. Therefore, the establishment of the Huiwen Hall on the north side of the Yingzhou Temple and the Guozijian Temple in the southwest of the imperial city is to take the meaning of "gathering the essence of literature".

At first, the books in the Huiwen Museum could only be consulted by the bureaucratic class, but when Emperor Xuanzong arrived, his old man was in the habit of leading soldiers very heroically, and he waved his hand and issued an order: all people who read in the world can borrow and copy regardless of whether they have merit or not, and they are only allowed to carry them out of the museum.

At this moment, he won the favor of all the scholars, and there was an endless stream of scholars entering and leaving the Chongli Gate every day. What an honor it is to be able to go to Chongli Gate, Huixian Embankment, and Shixian Bridge when the officials go to and from the Beijing Dynasty!

Although it is close to winter today, the weather is sunny, and there are still many literati who come to the Huiwen Museum.

Therefore, after Zhao Tuo's decree, the guard of honor did not go out of the palace, but first went to Chengxuanmen from Qianyuan Palace, changed clothes in the Chengde Hall here, and then changed to a small sedan chair from the west sandwich road between the former dynasty and the Yanwu Palace, avoiding the eyes and ears of the princes of the previous dynasty.

Finally, from the west side of the Chengtian Gate under the right gate of the antlers, in front of you is the Tianjin Bridge and the Zhuque Causeway, and in the hand is the vast and sparse Nanhaizi.

The emperor was dressed in cotton robes and hemp shoes, followed by Liu Funian, the eunuch and the head of the guards, and three or five guards from afar. From a distance, Zhao Tuo looked like an uninhibited yaman with a housekeeper.

Liu Funian's civil and martial arts background is good, and he seems to be a harmless guest to accompany him, and the guards are all selected to help both civil and military.

The group crossed the Tianjin Bridge, went east from the Lingxing Continent, and went to the west embankment of Huixian. The emperor admired the Fangsheng Bridge in Kyushu for a while, looked south thoughtfully at the Zhang Xun Temple, and watched the herons flying on the Bird Island, and felt that he was in a good mood, and walked along the embankment with his hands behind his back to Fangyingzhou.

Seeing the door of the Huiwen Pavilion, I suddenly saw a group of scholars walking out of the alley, some of them were dressed in brocade and jade belts, some were plain robes and linen shoes, some were high-spirited, and some of them were silently accompanied by different lengths and unevenness.

These people were noisy and shouting, surrounded by a crying and laughing prisoner, and shouted: "If you don't make poems today, you won't let you go home, and see if the little lady is in a hurry!" ”

Zhao Tuo was shocked, looked at their backs and smiled, and asked: "I listened to their words, it seems that they want to go to the poetry club, but I don't know that the poetry club is still useless and not allowed to go home to coerce." ”

Liu Funian smiled silently and said, "Your Majesty, this is a common thing, and I have fun in the same year." However, it is also this good time, when the rivers and lakes are frozen, there are fewer people who have the heart to continue composing poetry.

Especially in the spring of tomorrow, there is a big competition, everyone is jumping in the room and memorizing the book, how can they still have the heart to be so happy? ”

The emperor is right to think about it. Suddenly, he looked back at the group carefully, and remembered that the prisoner of the country seemed to have seen him in the hotel by the dock, and his surname was Han. I don't know how he got here as a prisoner?

He didn't care about these students, and continued to walk into the Huiwen Pavilion, and asked softly without looking back: "Who is on duty in the Huiwen Pavilion today?" Go and ask, if Zhu Zhan is here, you can ask him to come and see me. If he is not there, the rest need not be alarmed. I found two books and left. ”

"Yes." Eunuch Liu turned around and beckoned Liang Wu, who was disguised as a small servant, and muttered in his ear, Liang Wu's eyes and bones turned, and after hearing this, he immediately ran to the duty room.

After a while, he came panting with Zhu Zhandong, a straight scholar of Huiwenguan, and Eunuch Liu stepped forward to greet him and shook his head solemnly at Zhu Zhandong, who gave his hand to show his understanding.

Then he followed him lightly to a row of bookshelves in the depths, bowed to the young emperor, and said softly with a trembling voice: "Minister Zhu Zhandong, welcome the holy driver." Your Majesty Unknown has never been far away, please forgive me! ”

Zhao Tuo took his eyes off the book and said with a smile: "You fat man is so cunning, you say you don't know, how can you forgive your sins?" Left and right are my fault. ”

Zhu Zhanji smiled, straightened up and took out a handkerchief from his arms to wipe his sweat, and replied to the emperor's words: "The minister is fat, these few steps are ...... Eh, don't talk about it! In short, if Your Majesty feels sorry for the minister, it is better not to be so sudden in the future.

Uh, you came to the Huiwen Pavilion today, and you specially named your surname to see the minister, don't you have any instructions? No, it's better to have a decree come down, so why bother with it? ”