[Vol. 1] Chapter 177: The Storm of Zhang Tang's Grudge

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Zhang Tang's real career did not start with the Empress Chen witch Gu case, the Chen case only brought him into Liu Che's field of vision. After the witch Gu case, Zhang Tang was promoted to Taizhong doctor, and within a few years, he was promoted to court lieutenant. In the second year of Yuanjia (121 years ago), Gongsun Hong died of illness, and Li Cai, the former imperial historian, was appointed prime minister, and Zhang Tang was appointed as the imperial historian.

From the small official of Chang'an to the imperial doctor, Zhang Tang's career was smooth, Zhang Tang made many royal relatives and nobles, and there were two people who brought a turn to his fate, they were Zhou Shenghou Tiansheng, Wu'an Hou Tianwei.

Tian Sheng's fame is not good, but his background is not small, he and Tian Wei are siblings, and they are also Liu Che's uncle. This benevolent brother is estimated to have lived a hard life since he was a child, and once he became an official and made a fortune, he forgot his roots, and accidentally put himself in prison.

People who go to prison for the first time are prone to six gods without masters, and Tian Sheng is no different. It was at this time that Zhang Tang learned about Tian Sheng's situation and knew that this was a good opportunity to get acquainted with the nobles. Therefore, Zhang Tang did his best to help Tian Sheng.

Soon after, Tian Sheng was released from prison. Thanks to Zhang Tang's care in prison, Tian Sheng didn't suffer much, you know, nowadays cool officials are on duty, no matter what you come from, the prisoners will inevitably have to make human flesh sandbags, such as Zhou Bo suffered losses in this regard.

After being released from prison, Tian Sheng was grateful to Zhang Tang and introduced him to the Chang'an magnates, who was able to serve as an assistant to Ning Cheng, another famous cool official, and was later appreciated by Ning Cheng and recommended him to be transferred to Maoling Lieutenant.

Although it is a chore to be ranked in the central government, it is a very honorable position, and it is difficult for ordinary people to get it, because Maoling Captain has to be in charge of the planning, construction, and security work of Maoling. If this job is done well, the future will naturally be no longer a problem.

Sure enough, Zhang Tang's good luck came, and after Tian Wei became the prime minister, Zhang Tang was recruited as the prime minister.

Prime Minister Changshi Zhilu Qianshi, although for Zhang Tang, he is a little condescending, but he can finally go to the court and show his face in front of the emperor, and he will occupy the position first.

Zhang Tang did have a few brushes, and several of his admonitions attracted Liu Che's attention, and Liu Che made up for the imperial history in his long history position. We have introduced the imperial history before, you have to have real talent and real learning, otherwise you can't do well in this position, it is equivalent to the emperor's senior adviser, not only to give the emperor ideas at any time, but also to have considerable professional knowledge.

Zhang Tang was undoubtedly a high-level talent with professional knowledge, and his mastery of the law made Liu Che amazed. Therefore, in the case of Empress Chen's witch Gu, Liu Che's first thought was Zhang Tang.

The case of Empress Chen's witch Gu is actually big or small for Liu Che.

He solemnly asked Zhang Tang to investigate, which was also a test for Zhang Tang.

Liu Che is a smart emperor, and he knows that to investigate a talent, we must not only listen to what he says, but also see what he says.

As a result, the witch Gu case made Liu Che see Zhang Tang's quality of not being afraid of the powerful and daring to say and do. At that time, if Liu Che wanted to make a difference, what he needed most was this kind of courtier.

Zhang Tang embarked on the road to the Three Princes, and he successfully became the second-in-command of the imperial court, the Imperial Doctor.

He is called the second-in-command, and he actually has more say than the first-in-command.

In order to increase taxes to support the war against Hungary, he proposed a monopoly on salt and iron, made platinum and five-baht coins, cracked down on the rich merchants, and issued a decree to expand the scope of taxation on the property of merchants.

Zhang Tang has been suspected of overstepping his authority by doing these things, and he, the minister in charge of supervision, has started administrative work, so it is no wonder that many people call him the acting prime minister.

In this way, Zhang Tang is a little psychologically unbalanced, do you see this like words, Li Cai occupies the position of prime minister, and he can't think of a fart idea, why should I do the boss's thing with the second hat, with my ability, I should wear the boss's hat, and do the second child's work by the way. And it's obviously the boss, but there is a big and three thick person on it, which is really uncomfortable and unpleasant. From that time on, Zhang Tang decided that he would definitely drive Li Cai away if he had the opportunity.

Zhang Tang didn't know that such a power structure was intentional by Liu Che.

His prime minister has to be honest with scheming people, if the prime minister is not honest and has the ability, the inner dynasty he has built up with great difficulty will be threatened.

Prime Minister Li Cai is not a person who is afraid of things, but it is still difficult to be the prime minister for him, he has served in the army with his cousin Li Guang since Emperor Wen, and in the early years of Emperor Jing, he was already a senior cadre of 2,000 stones. In the fifth year of Yuan Shuo (124 BC), he followed Wei Qing to attack the enemy of the Hetao.

The prime minister is a meticulous job, and Liu Che is really meaningful.

Li Cai's abandonment of Wu Congwen is not so much his original intention, but another small trick by Liu Che. Because Li Cai is a meritorious minister, no one criticizes him as prime minister, and there is still a precedent for a prime minister who was born in the military since the founding of this dynasty, such as Zhou Bo.

In Liu Che's eyes, the prime minister who was born in the military is not only rough-hearted, easy to control, but also easy to make mistakes, in case he doesn't like it one day, it is easy to bring him down.

Sure enough, without waiting for Zhang Tang to make a move, Li Cai made a mistake and privately occupied a vacant land in front of the first emperor's mausoleum.

Don't think it's a trivial matter, but don't underestimate this open space, anything that is stained with the emperor's words, even if it's mud, you can't take it away casually, not to mention a vacant land in front of the imperial mausoleum, although it is in front of the imperial mausoleum, it is also stained with the emperor's words.

also deserved Li Cai's bad luck, the matter was exposed, and Liu Che sent a message to ask him for the crime.

Someone from the Tingwei Mansion asked Li Cai to go and confront him, and Li Cai thought about it, thinking about his dignified prime minister, and wanted to be interrogated, wouldn't it be a great shame.

In the end, Li Cai followed the old path of his cousin Li Guang and committed suicide.

The position of prime minister is vacant, and Zhang Tangle is in his heart. He was surprisingly comfortable, and he went through all the important ministers of the court, and found that no one was qualified to be the prime minister except him.

If nothing else, Zhang Tang must be the prime minister.

Under one person, above ten thousand, how comfortable it is, Prime Minister Zhang, it sounds comfortable!

However, it backfired, and Liu Che's announcement at the court meeting shocked him for a long time.

Liu Che continued his standard in the selection of prime ministers, and was succeeded as prime minister by Zhuang Qingzhai, who mainly lived a chaotic life.

Zhuang Qingzhai, the third generation of Hou, and he is also a member of the prince's faction, and previously served as the prince's young master.

Zhuang Qingzhai's biggest hope at the beginning of his tenure was that nothing would happen, and he would be thankful that he could finish his term safely.

It's terrible what's coming, but something happened, there were thieves in Maoling, it happened to be the day when Zhuang Qingzhai was on duty, and Zhuang Qingzhai couldn't get rid of anything.

Things happened, Zhuang Qingzhai thought of the only way to apologize to the emperor, in order to reduce the guilt, he went to see Zhang Tang, hoping that Zhang Tang would go to the court tomorrow to apologize, Zhuang Qingzhai took it for granted that if there was an accomplice, he could be exempt from punishment, and the emperor would not be angry, and kill the prime minister and the imperial historian together.

Zhang Tang patted Zhuang Qingzhai's chest and agreed, saying that there must be difficulties, which made the new prime minister Zhuang Qingzhai moved to kneel down for Zhang Tang.

The facts poured cold water on Qing Zhai, and when he went to ask Liu Che for guilt with confidence, Zhang Tang remained unmoved.

Zhuang Qingzhai only came back to his senses at this time, you kid yin me!

Fortunately, Liu Che did not treat this matter as a major matter, and he habitually threw the matter to Zhang Tang and asked him to investigate.

Zhuang Qingzhai guessed well, Zhang Tang not only wanted to yin him, but also yin him more ruthlessly.

Who told you to take away the prime minister that belongs to me?

Zhuang Qingzhai got the news that Zhang Tang was going to play to the emperor soon, and the content of the fold was directed at Prime Minister Zhuang Qingzhai and wanted to frame the prime minister for already knowing about the tomb robbery.

Regardless of whether the news is true or not, Zhuang Qingzhai's Prime Minister's Mansion is urgently mobilized with bright lights.