When Murong Xue heard Li Bing say this, she immediately secretly screamed in her heart: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young and vigorous, and he is eager to make achievements in governing the country, so it is easy to be bewitched by Xie Guanglao and Jianhua on the topic of "making meritorious contributions".

Once Li Bing approves the performance of the Yuzhou Assassin History, I am afraid that even the imperial capital will not be able to stop it. After all, Emperor Li Chengwu had previously issued an edict to the world, and the East Palace would take care of the government and supervise the country, and except for major military affairs, everything else was basically handed over to the crown prince.

Now it seems that the so-called method of sticking to the country is not easy for Li Bing to do. Young people, bold, aggressive, and have an adventurous spirit in everything they do, and Lao Jianhua also sees this, and with a little encouragement and agitation, it is far easier for Li Bing to accept than Murong Xue's "cautious action".

Seeing that Li Bing was gradually led away by Xie Guanglao Jianhua, Murong Xue had no choice but to make a temporary decision and change his strategy. He knew in his heart that if he continued to chatter and sing the scriptures in front of Li Bing, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to convince the young prince, but he would also cause the other party to be unhappy and completely expelled him from the circle of deliberations.

Therefore, Murong Xue's mind changed sharply, and she retreated as a way forward: "Your Highness, although Lord Lao's analysis just now is a little far-fetched, Weichen can also understand his original intention and painstaking efforts. If the governance of the main road of the Jinhe River can really be successfully completed, it will indeed be a good thing for the court and the people to benefit the present and future generations. However, after all, the river control project is very important, and in the scribbling of the history of Yuzhou, it is only submitted to the imperial approval for this discussion, and the detailed river control strategy has many omissions. For example, the progress of the project, the raising and allocation of funds, and the arrangements for the mobilization of civil servants are not something that can be planned by a local state government. Therefore, the minister thought that it was possible to first order the Ministry of Shangshu to arrange for the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to study a set of effective plans, and then submit them to His Highness for discretion and decision, and then approve them together. ”

His suggestion was reasonable, even if Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua were worried about extraneous branches, they couldn't find any strong reasons to refute it for a while.

Seeing that everyone was speechless, Li Bing nodded and agreed: "That's very good." Then it was proposed that Shangshu Province should instruct them to plan a specific so-called implementation strategy according to the suggestions of the Yuzhou Assassin History, complete it within a month limit, and report it to the palace for review. If you have any good ideas, you can also write them in and refer to them together with the imperial capital. ”

When the ministers heard this, they hurriedly replied: "The ministers obey the order." ”

Li Bing patted the book case happily and took a long breath: "Okay, this is the end of the matter of governing the main road of the Jinhe River, and next, let's talk about the Long Knife Legion." ”

As soon as they heard the prince mention the matter of the Long Sword Army, Xie Guang and his family couldn't help but be secretly worried.

Previously, on the issue of Feng Yiwei, the commander of the Long Knife Army, the attitude of the imperial capital was very clear, and the intention was also very clear.

The reason why the imperial court reported the matter to Li Bing for decision was not only because it was necessary to follow the rules of the government and supervise the country, and asked the prince to interrogate the personnel power, but also to test the current relationship between Li Bing and Xie Guang.

If the crown prince approves Feng Yiwei's promotion to the rank of lieutenant and hands over the military power of the Long Knife Legion, he can not only successfully cut off Xie Guang's henchmen, but also ensure that Li Bing has not become a puppet of the powerful minister Xie Guang.

On the contrary, if the East Palace has been swayed by Xie Guang and directly rejected the new appointment of Feng Yiwei, it doesn't matter much. When the time comes, only the emperor Li Chengwu needs to issue another special edict, and Feng Yiwei can also be replaced.

The official system of Shengtang can be said to be very strict. Normally, the appointment and dismissal of officials above the fifth rank are proposed by the officials of Shangshu Province, reviewed and approved by Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province at various levels, and finally submitted to the emperor for approval before they can take effect. The final approval power has always been firmly in the hands of the emperor.

Because now the prince of the East Palace is ordered to supervise the country and act as the Son of Heaven's order. Therefore, for the appointment of Feng Yiwei, formally speaking, Li Bing is needed to make the decision.

However, there is another relatively rare channel for the selection of court officials, that is, the imperial decree directly issued by the emperor. At some special times, the Emperor of the Holy Tang Dynasty can also bypass the personnel administrative examination and approval system of the imperial court without the recommendation and approval of the three provinces and six ministries, and directly appoint officials, and this method is the famous "ink oblique seal" in history.

However, for those officials who were deeply influenced by the ideology of the Holy Religion, they often preferred to take the right path and gain the approval of the imperial court and colleagues in order to maintain their official reputation and reputation, but on the contrary, they were not very willing to accept the direct appointment of the emperor's "ink and oblique seal".

The so-called "upright seal, oblique seal flattery".

But whether it is a positive seal or an oblique seal, it is not difficult to see that even if Li Bing does not agree to the appointment document issued by the Ministry of Officials this time, Feng Yiwei's fate has already been decided.

In response to this thorny problem, Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua finally came up with a solution after repeated discussions: the East Palace will not be released.

So what is "stay in the middle and don't send it"? To put it simply, the emperor left the minister's concert in the palace forbidden, and did not discuss or reply.

If the crown prince can temporarily stabilize Feng Yiwei's affairs and neither agree nor object, then it is likely that the emperor Li Chengwu will not easily use the imperial edict out of consideration for the dignity of the imperial court. In this way, the power of the Longsword Legion can also be preserved.

And the key question is, will the crown prince Li Bing adopt the means of "staying in the middle and not sending it" as they wish?

According to Lao Jianhua's observation, it is difficult.

His Royal Highness the young Crown Prince seems to be gentle and weak on the surface, but in fact, he has a very abrasive stubbornness in his bones. Sometimes, once he gets into the horns, his stubbornness will be very aggressive, very tough.

The last "Imperial Capital Mutiny", it was by no means any prince who had the courage to follow Xie Guang to do it, nor did any prince have the courage to point at Murong Xue and shout "give way".

After coming to Luoyi, the eastern capital, Li Bing had a very stiff relationship with Xie Guang for a while because of the matter of supervising the country, even if he was surrounded by people from the Taifu Mansion, he was very unkind to Xie Guang.

This fully reflects that the prince is a very assertive and even stubborn person.

It's not easy for someone like that to get him to do exactly what you think, especially to keep silent about a major decision.

Besides, at this time, there was also a Murong Xue from the imperial capital by Li Bing's side, how could he let Xie Guang and them easily take advantage of the loophole?

In view of this, how to skillfully and unobtrusively influence Li Bing is a great test of resourcefulness.

If some of the words are not in place, it is very likely that Li Bing will directly approve Feng Yiwei's promotion under the full encouragement of Murong Xue, then everything will be over; But if some of the words are too good, once Li Bing gets excited, he may veto the recital of the officials on the spot, and then cause the emperor to use the "ink oblique seal", then everything will also be over.

If you want to control the fatal lawsuit of "promoting Feng Yiwei" in the most delicate realm of fire, it is really difficult to kill Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua.

After thinking about it, Lao Jianhua figured out a trick: he suggested that the two sing a double reed play.

The so-called double reed play is to make Xie Guang pretend to agree to the promotion of Feng Yiwei and make him surrender his military power; As for Lao Jianhua himself, he expressed resolute opposition and fought on the basis of reason. The two of them had a big quarrel in front of the prince and the ministers, and Xie Guang tried his best to make his words ambiguous and flawed, interfering with Murong Xue's suggestions from the side; Lao Jianhua only said half of what he said, which seemed unfinished and plausible.

As long as they can master the rhythm well, most of them will make Li Bing feel in a dilemma, and he will not be able to make a decision immediately.

Taking advantage of this time, Xie Guang saw the opportunity again and suggested to the prince: Since what everyone said has its own reason, it is better to leave this matter for the time being, and wait for His Royal Highness to consider it properly before making a decision.

In this way, the Longknife Legion will be able to protect itself for the time being.

According to this strategy, when Li Bing finally mentioned Feng Yiwei, Xie Lao and the two immediately glanced at each other and began the pre-designed drama.

In the main hall, the two guys who were eager to breathe out of the same nostrils suddenly became obsessed, and they started a fierce debate on the question of the commander of the Long Knife Legion, and the more they talked, the more excited they became, and the more noisy they became.

Such a strange situation not only made Li Bing a little confused, but even Murong Xue couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

This is grateful...... I'm afraid I didn't take the wrong medicine today, right?

On the way to the palace for a consultation, Murong Xue had already prepared a bunch of rhetoric, planning to have a verbal battle with Xie Guang and them about Feng Yiwei's departure from the Long Sword Army.

But he never expected that Xie Guang's goods were unusual, and he actually actively advocated the proposal to promote Feng Yiwei, and before Murong Xue could speak, Mrs. Xie first quarreled with Lao Jianhua.

In this way, it makes Murong Xue feel that there is no place for heroes.

Of course, Murong Xue is not an innocent and innocent little white, he knows in his heart that Xie Guanglao Jianhua and his ilk are never willing to give up the military power of the Long Sword Army easily, so naturally there is no reason to support the idea of the imperial capital. Even if Xie Guang was forced by the situation and finally accepted the reality that the imperial court had no choice but to take back the military power, he would not be like now, arguing with his staff in front of outsiders with a white face.

So, the two of them must be playing tricks.

Murong Xue secretly raised her guard, and while watching coldly, she thought about the plan behind the other party, and chose to stand still for the time being.

Unlike Murong Xue, the crown prince Li Bing did not put all his mind on speculating on the intentions of Xie Lao and the others. Although Taifu's attitude was indeed a bit unexpected, even very weird, Li Bing was more concerned about the issue itself - whether Feng Yiwei should be promoted or not.

At the beginning, when Lao Jianhua met Li Bing for the first time, he once said that the stability of imperial power must be guaranteed by military power.

Of course, Li Bing agrees with this sentence very much. However, the young prince also knew very well in his heart that the Longknife Legion might not be loyal to him.

As the commander of the army, Xie Guang had the courage to confront the emperor and the imperial court because of three conditions: the crown prince, the Holy Religious Covenant and the army in his hands.

And those armies include Feng Yiwei and his long knife army.

If it is said that the prince and the prince are now in a cooperative relationship of interests, then the bargaining chip of Xie Guang's cooperation is both a help and a threat to him Li Bing.

From this point of view, Li Bing could not help but consider his own calculations.

Just as Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua were arguing, the prince, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked lightly: "If Commander Feng goes to Beijing to take up his post, who can take over the position of the Long Knife Legion?" ”

This question was asked thoughtlessly, and suddenly the ministers, including Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua, were slightly stunned, and Murong Xue hurriedly responded beside him: "Your Highness Qiqi, the candidate proposed by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War is General Wang Huan, the commander of the Forbidden Army. The new commander of the Forbidden Army was appointed separately. ”

"Wang Huan, Wang Huan," the prince whispered twice, and said leisurely: "Feng Yiwei has made outstanding achievements and worked hard, and it is time to return to the imperial capital to enjoy the blessings." However, Wang Huan, who succeeded him, felt that it was not suitable for the palace......"

Murong Xue was also a little surprised: "According to His Highness's intentions, which general should take over the long sword?" ”

Li Bing showed a sly smile: "Well, this palace really hasn't thought about it carefully...... Xie Taifu is a leader in the Shengtang military, and no one is more familiar with military affairs than him. Since Taifu also thinks that Feng Yiwei can be promoted and transferred, it must be reasonable, then this palace also agrees with this proposal. ”

Hearing the prince suddenly say this, Xie Guang and Lao Jianhua's faces turned green on the spot, and they were about to open their mouths to defend themselves, but they heard Li Bing continue: "However, the Long Knife Legion defends the western frontier and guards the Turks, and they have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, so the candidate to replace Feng Yiwei cannot be hastily designated. Although Wang Huan's qualifications are good, he is responsible for the safety of the emperor, and he is not the best candidate according to the palace. Murong, you drafted an edict for the palace, and ordered the officials and the military department to reformulate the list, list a few more candidates, and select them at the discretion of the palace. Only by deciding on the new commander of the Long Knife Army as soon as possible can Feng Yiwei return to Beijing. ”