"Damn, I didn't say goodbye, Zhang Shizhi didn't take me in his eyes at all!" Liu Qi slammed Zhang Shizhi's resignation letter to the ground.

Nei Shi Chao, who was accompanying him, silently picked up the resignation letter, spread it out and read it carefully.

"Teacher, I want to take him back and chop him alive, so that those courtiers who can't be used by me can be a warning!"

Chao saw that Liu Qi's face was flushed with anger, and he did not answer immediately, but his eyebrows were half-opened, as if he had something else in mind. After many years of getting along with Liu Qi, he couldn't be clearer about the personality of his student Liu Qi, he knew that Liu Qi was just talking about a momentary anger, and if he was here to answer his questions, he could only add fuel to the fire, not help solve the problem.

Liu Qi did not get a response from the teacher, and gradually calmed down. Liu Qi also knew that whenever Chao Wrong had an objection, he would put on such a demeanor, and wait for him Liu Qi to finish his temper before speaking.

Therefore, Liu Qi stabilized his emotions and wanted to hear the teacher's thoughts.

Chao Cuo's slightly open eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to Liu Qi: "Your Majesty, you must not punish Zhang Shizhi!" On the contrary, it should be praised for its hard work! ”

"He, why can't I punish a courtier who leaves his post without permission, but instead praise his merits, in this way, where is the outline of the national law, in this way, isn't the court a place where you want to stay and go, where does my face exist?"

"Your Majesty, the minister's advice has three meanings, one is that His Majesty was the emperor at the beginning, and he should unite people's hearts, Zhang Shizhi is the first emperor's minister, and he has a will, not to mention that he has great prestige among the people, if he decisively kills him, I am afraid that the world will lose his heart, and he needs to know the grace and power and give it as the way to control the ministers, this is one; Second, Zhang Shizhi and His Majesty have a gap that is known to the whole world, if His Majesty not only does not investigate his crime of leaving his post without permission, but treats him heavily, then the people of the world will definitely think that His Majesty is benevolent and holy, this is two; Three, Zhang Shizhi's resignation is nothing more than the fear that His Majesty will investigate the previous crime of disrespect, and His Majesty's move will definitely make Zhang Shizhi grateful to His Majesty, His Majesty can issue an order to reprimand him for not saying goodbye, and at the same time agree to his resignation as the court lieutenant, but he must be reappointed as the minister of Huainan to clamp down on the princes for His Majesty, this is three! ”

When Liu Qi heard this, he suddenly opened his mouth for a while, and said with a hearty smile: "The teacher is really smart!" Why didn't I think of that? Okay, just do what the teacher says. The teacher is talented, and I am very lucky!"

Chao Cuo was not humble, smiling with a triangular beard and smiling again and again.

Soon after, Zhang Shizhi, who took the initiative to resign, rushed to Huainan to serve as Huainan Minister, for Zhang Shizhi, who was already desperate for his career, as long as he could leave the place of right and wrong in the capital, it was a great luck.

Chao mistakenly handled Zhang Shizhi's advice, which won a lot of praise and popularity for the new emperor.

Immediately afterwards, under Chao Cuo's advice, Liu Qi ordered the reduction of the penalty standard, and reduced the land rent and tax, and continued to increase the efforts to recruit people to migrate to the border.

When the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was discussing politics, Liu Qi was a little frightened in the face of the ministers because of his lack of experience, and whenever this happened, he habitually asked Chao Cuo: "What does the teacher think?" ”

Chao Cuo naturally patiently planned one by one, Chao Cuo's eyebrows fluttered, and when the spit flew, Shen Tujia on the side could only tremble with anger.

Who is the prime minister? Shen Tujia was puzzled.

Liu Qi, who is already in his prime, is not unable to perceive the subtle atmosphere of the scene, but who can he trust in the current imperial court?

Among the Jiuqing, only Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren is currently the only one who is the court lieutenant, and Zhang Ou, the court lieutenant, is Liu Qi's old subordinate.

However, these two people hardly helped in the court discussion, Zhou Ren was good at martial arts, and Zhang Ouzhong was honest.

Only Chao is wrong, can be eloquent, assertive and resourceful, and is familiar with government affairs, under his teaching, Liu Qi gradually found the feeling of being a king.

After Liu Qi ascended the throne, the operation of the imperial government turned the Neishi Mansion as the center of operation, but the prime minister and the imperial historian were left aside.

The old prime minister Shen Tujia became restless because of this, the Son of Heaven only listened to Chao wrong, and didn't care about his words as an old minister, no matter what, this was a very dangerous signal.

Shen Tujia believed that he was a veteran of the four dynasties and should not be treated like this. He worked step by step from the grassroots level, from the material officer to the team rate, from the team rate to the captain, from the captain to the county guard, and then from the county guard to the imperial historian, and even the prime minister, all of them were all a knife and a gun, bit by bit, and accumulated a lifetime of hard work in exchange. But what was he wrong? became the prince's teacher with only a few articles, and now that the villain is ambitious, he doesn't take anyone in his eyes, why? With his talent, wrong, big mistake, to talk about talent, Jia Yi is ten thousand times him, but Jia Yi does not have his luck, in the final analysis, Chao Wrong is based on luck, not real talent. Such a treacherous person, why should I give in everywhere and be forced into a corner by him.

The more Shen Tujia thought about it, the more angry he became, and the fire of jealousy and hatred for Chao Cuo was burning more and more intensely in the depths of his soul.

Shentu Jia is an honest and hard-working person, treating people kindly, from Liu Bang to Liu Heng, it is precisely because of diligence and kindness, so he has been promoted repeatedly, and finally climbed to the top of the ministers, with the seniority of the elders of the four dynasties, he can even Yuan An, a sharp-toothed and arrogant person, can be cited as a guest, but this mistake, he can't suppress his jealousy for him!

Chao Cuo's aggressiveness made Shen Tujia feel a huge existential crisis, originally thought that when the new emperor took office, he would naturally rely on his confidant ministers, but now it seems that not only relying on him, Liu Qi wants Chao Cuo to replace him.

This old man, who was over the age of sixteen and had been loyal to his duties all his life, was overwhelmed by a huge sense of shame, and it was difficult to sleep and eat.

As long as he sees Chao Mistake, Shen Tujia will inevitably look at him angrily.

Chao Cuo didn't think so, in his eyes, the prime minister's position would be his, and Old Man Shen would come down sooner or later, but now he lacked a suitable reason. Chao Cuo's victory has attracted him countless defectors, as well as countless enemies.

Among them is Yuan An, who is also sharp-tongued.

Yuan Ang had many disagreements with Chao Cuo in his early years, and the two often quarreled in the court, and neither of them obeyed anyone. Later, the evil consequences of the dispute finally evolved into deep jealousy, and even the occasion with Yuan Ang must not be found, and the occasion with the mistake must not be able to see Yuan An.

Yuan An's life has been not good, when he first showed his head in the imperial court, he was very appreciated by Liu Heng, Yuan Ang repeatedly violated Yan Zhizhi, Liu Heng was angry and demoted him out of the capital, demoted to Longxi as a captain, because of the meritorious service in governing Longxi, moved to Wu Wangxiang.

Although Wu is far away from Chang'an, Yuan Ang has always been on the frontier and cares about the imperial court, so he also lobbied Prime Minister Shen Tujia to become his guest. Therefore, Yuan Ang was still well aware of the turmoil in the capital, and when he learned that Chao Cuo was flying in the imperial court, he had a premonition that there would be a big change in the imperial court.

Yuan Ang has an indescribable jealousy towards Chao Cuo, and Chao Cuo's victory makes him even more painful and frightened, in case Chao Cuo gets a firm foothold, it is difficult to ensure that he will not be poisoned. But in the absence of clarity about the situation, he decided to be patient for the time being and see what was going on.

As expected. Shen Tujia gave up simple forbearance and defense, and launched an offensive against Chao Cuo.

Shen Tujia knew that dealing with such a person would be useless without conclusive evidence. Therefore, Shen Tujia was silent on the surface, but secretly he was very close to Chao Cuo.

In handling government affairs, Shen Tujia's people deliberately did not cooperate with Chao Cuo, hoping that if Chao Cuo made some mistakes, he could put him to death.

But what amazed Shen Tujia was that not only could he not find a big problem on Chao Cuo's body, but he couldn't even find a small problem, and this new internal history master was not only clean and self-conscious, but also an out-and-out model worker.

This is bitter for Old Man Shen, and he can only suppress his anger in the daily stuffy wine.

In the second year of Emperor Jing (156 years ago), in June, the old man Shen was playing with flowers and plants in the courtyard. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, although the matter was not decided by Shen Tujia, at least he could handle it. As soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, he completely changed, his advice was useless, he didn't need to do things, and all the civil and military affairs became decorations.

Cough! Shen Tujia couldn't help but sigh every time he thought about it.

Just as he was sighing, the elder came to whisper.

Shen Tujia's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said loudly: "Is this serious? ”

"Seriously, the old servant went to investigate it himself!"

Shen Tujia's eyes rolled slightly, the discouragement just now was swept away, he ran straight to the lobby excitedly, and finally instructed the old man: "Call the confidant guests to come to discuss the matter!" ”

It turned out that the old man had been staring at Chao Cuo for several months, and finally had some gains, Chao Cuo was so bold that he actually dug the palace wall privately without permission. As previously introduced, the layout of Chang'an Palace can be summarized as 11 districts, 8 streets, and 12 city gates. The northern half of the palace is horizontally arranged from east to west for Mingguang Palace, the North Palace, Gui Palace, Mingguang Palace and Guigong were not built at that time, and the southern half of the palace is Changle Palace and Weiyang Palace from east to west. Chao Cuo's Inner History Mansion is in the northeast area of Chang'an City, and every time you want to go to Weiyang Palace, you must pass through the downtown street. Over time, Chao Cuo felt a lot of inconvenience, and the dignified 2,000 stone officials had to mix in the market every day, wouldn't it be too wrong to kill Chao. If Chao Cuo is just an internal history, he has nothing to say, but he is now called an internal history, and he is actually a prime minister, and he can't deal with big and small things every day, and sometimes it is common to enter the palace several times a day.

Chao Cuo thought about whether there was a way to shorten the journey to Weiyang Palace without going through the street.

He wandered around the Inner History Mansion to investigate, and he aimed at the Changle Palace due south, as we all know, Changle Palace and Weiyang Palace are interconnected, that is to say, as long as the Mingguang Palace and Changle Palace are connected, you can save a lot of time.

In order to conceal a little, Chao Cuo chose the Taishang Huang Temple in the southeast corner of Mingguang Palace, and the back of the temple is the outer wall of the Taishang Huang Temple, which is also the wall of Mingguang Palace. Chao Cuo's idea is very smart, after all, the Taishang Emperor Temple is a place to worship the dead, and there are few people who go in the past, and there is a small door there, and there are very few people who can know. And it is a dead end in the palace, the queen mother and the emperor will not pay attention to this kind of place, and those palace maids and eunuchs who know about it will not dare to spread it as long as they are gracious and powerful.

Chao opened a small door on his own initiative, but did not report it to Liu Qi, the master of the palace.

Shen Tujia is happy about this, if Liu Qi personally approves it, then he has nothing to say, after all, the emperor's own corner is pried, the emperor is not in a hurry, others are in a hurry.

"Chao Wrong, you are really arrogant to the extreme, this time the old man will not participate in your book, and if you don't play down, the old man will live a lot of years in vain!" Shen Tujia expected that he would definitely die this time, and even if he was not punished, he would not escape the doom of dismissal and demotion of officials.

In terms of etiquette, Chao Cuo has committed a serious crime, you must know that in the palace, anyone who touches the emperor character is casually touchable, even if it is a dragon case engraved on the ground, if you want to spit on it, it will be bad luck, not to mention digging the corner of the royal wall.

Chao Cuo is not ignorant of rules and etiquette, the reason why he dares to do this is because he has enough self-confidence, even if Liu Qi learns about it, he will not punish him!

Shen Tujia hurriedly found his confidants and guests to discuss, and finally agreed that he would definitely die if he made a mistake in the court council tomorrow morning. Many guests have already begun to congratulate Prime Minister Shen on his victory over the 'traitorous ministers', and after the agreement, Shen Tujia had the most comfortable night since Emperor Jing ascended the throne.

However, there is a saying that we often talk about, today is the end of today, and the opportunity is fleeting.

Just when Shen Tujia was trying his best to bring down Chao Cuo, Chao Cuo arranged the eyeliner next to Shen Tujia, and the person who was regarded as a confidant by Shen Tujia brought the news to Chao Cuo.

Chao Cuo didn't care if the news of the excavation of the Emperor's outer wall leaked, but he didn't expect that Shen Tujia would go to great lengths to make a fuss about it.

The principle of being a wrong person has always been that the heart of harming people is indispensable, but the heart of guarding against others is indispensable.

In case Shentu Jiajie is allowed to take the lead and shake it out first, or add oil and make mistakes, it is difficult to ensure that the emperor is not in a hurry and makes a decision in a hurry.

Just in case, Chao Cuo trotted all the way, went to Weiyang Palace overnight to ask to see Liu Qi, and informed Liu Qi about the opening of the south wall.

Liu Qi yawned and waved his hand: "Teacher, don't ask me for advice on such a trivial matter!" ”

Chao looked at Liu Qi's demeanor, and his heart relaxed.

After a long night, Chao Cuo couldn't even sleep, and he was very excited, because tomorrow he could see how Old Man Shen swept away his majesty in front of the emperor and ministers.

This may be an opportunity.

The next day, Shen Tujia got up early in the morning and presented the crimes of impeachment and contempt for the emperor, the emperor, the king's law, and the usurpation that were written yesterday.

For Shen Tujia, he still doesn't want Chao to die, when people are old, they should accumulate some virtue.

Chao is wrong, don't blame the old man, if you want to blame, blame yourself, why are you aggressive? Why are you arrogant?

Shen Tujia walked tremblingly and prepared to present the impeachment of the emperor's favored ministers for the first time in his life, which made him a little honestly afraid.

At the court meeting, Liu Qi's sleep yesterday was not very good, and he sat on several cases and yawned repeatedly.

Under the voice of the herald, Shen Tujia squinted at Chao Cuo, but saw that he was smiling and calm.

Shen Tujia scolded secretly in his heart, and then came out and played: "The old minister has a book to play!" ”

"Old Aiqing, please speak!"

"Ten counts of the internal history of the minister, please check it out!"

As soon as the words came out, there was an uproar in the court, since Liu Qi ascended the throne and Chao Cuo came to power, no one in the court dared to jump out to impeach Chao Cuo, which made Chao Cuo more and more arrogant. Many of the ministers also secretly applauded Shen Tujia, "The old prime minister is a hero, he has courage!" There are also courtiers who support Chao Cuo who disagree: "Just with Old Man Shen's old bones, he can also bring down Lord Neishi, and he can't do it!" ”

When the ministers whispered and discussed, Shen Tujia had finished reading out the ten guilty charges, and as soon as Shen Tujia's voice fell, everyone's eyes looked at Liu Qi in unison.

Liu Qi listened very seriously, but he was expressionless, in his ears, Shen Tujia's so-called ten charges are nothing more than impeachment Chao mistakenly chiseled the south wall of the Mingguang Palace, what is disrespectful, arrogance, etc. are too exaggerated.

Chao was also calm, as if he was out of the matter, he could judge from Liu Qi's expression that Shen Tujia had lost again this time.

Shen Tujia looked at the emperor and said the decision, and the ministers also quietly pricked up their ears to listen, staring wide-eyed, one was highly respected, the other was sharp, and the referee among them could decide who won and who lost with a few words, or even a word and a look.

Everyone in officialdom is well aware of this lethal horror, which is a signal for an open rupture and a duel.

Liu Qi didn't think about it, although the old Prime Minister Shen in front of him was a minister left by his father, but he was old and pedantic, not good at government affairs, and he would oppose it whenever he had a new proposal with his teacher, frankly speaking, Liu Qi didn't like this kind of person.

Liu Qi paused and said, "The matter of the teacher's digging of the south wall, he has already reported it to me in advance, but I feel that the matter is not big, and I have not reported it to the ranking family!" As for the other charges, I think that my accession to the throne was short, and that it would be appropriate to discuss it later. What does Lao Aiqing think? ”

"Your Majesty..."Shen Tujia didn't expect that his plan to forget to sleep and eat would be doused with such a scoop of cold water.

He suddenly felt extremely humiliated, once upon a time, he planned so solemnly that he would fail so miserably, if this continued, what would the minister think of himself, and how would the emperor view himself. Shen Tujia was choked up for a while, and he couldn't speak.

At this time, I only heard the people who supported Chao Cuo chanting: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

All the ministers in the court couldn't help but shout.

When Shen Tujia went down to court, he was carried out, and like a defeated rooster, he not only broke his wings, but also broke his courage to fight again.

He really couldn't figure it out, that day the old man told him that the emperor didn't know, the old man had been with him for decades, so naturally he wouldn't betray him, so it was the guests, no, no, those guests were all life and death! Is it family?

He has always been loyal and upright, and he is a trustworthy man, although he vaguely knows that it will be a disaster, but he has never been able to accept the fact that the people around him betrayed him.

For a while, the silt actually slashed through his heart like a sharp sword, and Shen Tujia used his last strength to shout out loudly Gaozu Taizong, and then turned into a pile of black blood and spurted out.

Shen Tujia's violent pawn made Chao Cuo finally wait for the opportunity for further promotion.

Two months later, Liu Qi changed Tao Qing, another good old man, to the prime minister, and promoted Chao Cuo to the imperial historian.

Chao Cuo, who has infinite ambitions, has finally waited for the time to make a big difference. The so-called person who is like Shen Tujia is nothing more than the soul of his soul on the way to the peak of the people.

Regardless of whether the future is happy or bad, Chao Cuo is determined to create a great cause for the ages.

This achievement is one of the endgames left by Liu Heng, cutting the domain.