In his own study, Zheng Shuqing, who had already served as the Imperial Historian, was reading an official document from the imperial court, which was the palace servant Yan Zhenqing, who impeached An Lushan, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu.

The specific content is all cliché. It's like a border provocation, like a torture and killing of a Khitan chieftain, like a private expansion of the army, and an increase in the scale of the troops born next to the city.

In fact, Li Longji didn't care about these things at all, and he didn't care very much. In Zheng Shuqing's opinion, Yan Zhenqing is completely finding fault with nothing!

Khitans, beasts also.

The mainstream ideology of Tang Dynasty society believed that these barbarians who were not regarded as people in the Tang Dynasty society were not necessary to be polite to them, and there was no restraint of benevolence, righteousness and morality.

The nobles and even commoners from Li Longji down in the Tang Dynasty all have similar views.

Even if there are some Khitan tribes who have taken refuge in the Tang Dynasty, it is the same, such as the Li clan in Liucheng. Li Guangbi, a close confidant under Wang Zhonghei, is a Khitan and comes from the Li family in Liucheng. And they still can't enter the inner circle of Datang politics and can't be treated equally.

In the Datang military circles, even if the upward channel is not closed, not everyone is equal.

It's like saying that a tamed dog is also an animal, and an untamed wolf is also an animal, and there is a formal difference between the two, but there is no essential difference. For An Lushan's iron-blooded policy implemented in the border town, the Datang Center is very satisfied, at least most of the people, most of the time, including Ji Ge.

An Lushan killed the Khitans in the border town, but Ji Ge didn't see it with his own eyes, and he didn't know if it was really that cruel.

But An Lushan sent thousands of Khitan prisoners of war to Guanzhong, these people worked hard in Guanzhong to create value for the imperial court, and Ji Ge didn't have to give a penny, which was really cool.

Brother Ji saw this in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. An Lushan's move was very popular with Brother Ji.

Therefore, regarding the content of Yan Zhenqing's twists and turns, Zheng Shuqing, who is a superior in the same department, has nothing to say. Regarding Yan Zhenqing's dissatisfaction and private complaints, at least on the side of Yushitai, he will not say anything, let alone stand up for him.

Not even a splash of water.

Knock knock!

There was a knock on the door to the study.

"Who, it's already so late."

Zheng Shuqing put down the piece in his hand and asked dissatisfiedly.

"Ah Lang, Zheng Ping, a member of the household department, asks to see him."

The voice of a personal maid came from outside the door.

"Alright, bring it in."

Zheng Shuqing said in a calm tone.

Zheng Ping is his same clan, and the relationship between the two is a bit far away, so they can only be regarded as distant relatives. But this person has a special identity, that is:

Zheng Ping is Li Linfu's son-in-law!

Xingyang Zheng, as a big family, of course, bets everywhere, and it is not unusual for someone to be Li Linfu's son-in-law. Of course, Zheng Ping does not have Zheng Shuqing's ability to be an official, and he can become a member of the household department, purely by relying on Li Linfu's support.

Above the officialdom, those who can be party henchmen are best related to their relatives. Family affection is a bond that strengthens the relationship of interests, and how to use this relationship is purely dependent on the parties.

Zheng Shuqing understands this very well, but this does not mean that he looks up to Zheng Ping very much. It's like Fang Chongyong is not a big official, but Zheng Shuqing looks down on Fang Chongyong very much, and even treats the other party as a master, which is a reason.

After a while, Zheng Ping was brought in, and his embarrassed appearance made Zheng Shuqing's heart gloomy.

Zheng Ping is young, at least a dozen years younger than Zheng Shuqing, but his temples are already white, but he looks older than Li Linfu!

I don't think this one is living so comfortably in the household.

If virtue is not worthy, it will be blamed. does not have the ability to be an official of the Sixth Ministry, but is in a high position as a member of the household department, and it is inevitable that life will be difficult.

Zheng Shuqing, who knows Li Linfu very well, knows this, but he has no ability but becomes Li Linfu's son-in-law, and he must be a man with his tail between his legs.

For this right-hand minister of the Tang Dynasty, anyone is a tool man, and he can be pushed out to death if necessary. Li Linfu spared no effort when promoting people, but he never offended Li Longji because he wanted to keep someone, and he would not sacrifice his holy family because he wanted to keep someone.

This is a cold political animal, not humane at all.

"This official is not your Shangguan, so what is Zheng Yuanwai's late night visit for?"

Zheng Shuqing rubbed his hands and looked at Zheng Ping with a smile and asked.

If you are out of Wufu, you are not a relative, even if you are of the same clan, it is impossible for Zheng Shuqing to have any friendship with Zheng Ping.

The words are straight to the point.

"Zheng Yushi, the right minister commands you. There is one thing, when the court meeting tomorrow, Zheng Yushi must judge the situation and not stop it. ”

Zheng Ping respectfully bowed to Uncle Zheng and said.

"Assess the situation?"

Uncle Zheng chewed on what Zheng Ping had just said in his mouth, frowning slightly.

It is said that now that Li Shizhi has just served as prime minister, it is not enough to threaten Li Linfu's position. Even if Li Linfu cleans up Li Shizhi, Li Longji will still find another replacement, maybe it will be more difficult to deal with than Li Shizhi.

Li Linfu can't say that he killed a prime minister, right?

Moreover, Zheng Shuqing felt that Li Linfu did not come in person about this matter, nor did he ask him to go to Pingkangfang to discuss, but sent his son-in-law to pass the word...... There's got to be a lot of weirdness here!

"What does the right minister say, what is it for? You still have to tell the official what the right minister means. ”

Uncle Zheng asked in a deep voice.

After decades of experience in officialdom, he realized that the current atmosphere in the court was very delicate.

"Sage, let the portraits of him when he was the king of Bohai County enter the Lingyan Pavilion, and in the future, the portraits of some heroes of the Kaiyuan period will be sent to the Lingyan Pavilion.

In this matter, the right minister hoped that Zheng Yushi would not stop it. The thunderous wrath of the saints, that's no joke. ”

Zheng Ping said very respectfully, anyway, he is also a messenger.

"What?"

Zheng Shuqing was stunned, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

Zheng Ping had no choice but to repeat the matter of Ling Yan Pavilion again.

After listening to Zheng Ping's explanation, Zheng Shuqing was silent.

Li Linfu was from the clan, and his understanding of the meaning of Lingyan Pavilion was not so profound.

This is purely because of the problem of identity, which makes Li Linfu unable to empathize.

But Zheng Shuqing, who is from five surnames and seven families, has his own unique understanding of what "Lingyan Pavilion" means. Zheng Shuqing's understanding is actually the understanding of some great families in the Tang Dynasty.

The political pattern of the Sui and Tang dynasties originated from Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty who went south to Luoyang, thus forming a situation in which the Han family and the Xianbei family were co-governed in the north. This situation lasted for about 20 years, from the Rebellion of the Six Towns to the Three Kingdoms period after the Northern and Southern Dynasties and then to the establishment of the Great Sui, and a new situation was formed in which the Xianbei nobles and the Guanlong family merged and suppressed the wealthy families of the Kanto region.

It was not until after the change of Taizong's Xuanwu Gate that the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty began the process of "suppressing the family" to "integrating the family" and then to "uniting the family".

The five surnames and seven families are more of a loose alliance that participates in government affairs as an economic fat sheep, and a military dwarf. The Guanlong forces, which emerged in the last years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, were based on government soldiers, maintained deterrence militarily, and married and cooperated with these great families politically, which was both suppressive and united.

Guarding against each other, competing with each other and closely combining.

Lingyan Pavilion, in essence, is a "political chastity archway" set up by Emperor Taizong. During the Gaozong period, the portraits of the heroes in it were modified many times, and several times I wanted to take the opportunity to add my own people in, but in the end I couldn't help it, and only modified the portraits of the old people.

So why did Tang Gaozong and even Wu Zetian change the portrait of the heroes of Lingyan Pavilion?

Because of the former ministers of Lingyan Pavilion, some people rebelled, some people's exploits were underestimated in hindsight, and some people's political positions changed. Therefore, some portraits should be beautified, and some should be ugly, and these must keep pace with the times!

The heroes of Taizong and Lingyan Pavilion are the core of the national ruling class in the Zhenguan period! These people, and their descendants, are at the top of the political spectrum! The people of the family, including those from five surnames and seven families, must be behind!

And now, Li Longji proposed to let himself enter the Lingyan Pavilion, not because the emperor depreciated himself and was on the same list as his courtiers, but to "show" the political correctness when he ascended the throne!

That is, it changed the momentum that the political center of the Wuzhou period moved eastward, and the political interests of the Guanlong forces were consumed or even betrayed, and the political pattern of the Zhenguan period was restored to "set things right" and returned to the political pattern of the Zhenguan period!

After all, when Wu Zhou was in the New Year, the ruling order of the Tang Dynasty was indeed chaotic, and Li Longji's ascension to the throne was, to a certain extent, the restoration of the ruling class order in the Zhenguan period! After decades of development in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, in the Tianbao period, Ji Ge felt that it was time to strengthen the ruling order.

What I have done for so many years needs a clear statement, which is equivalent to "closing the coffin".

In the popular words of Fang Chongyong's previous life, it is called "repairing and strengthening the national superstructure"!

Zheng Shuqing can expect that this is just the beginning, and it is far from the end.

What Li Longji wanted to do was to form a ruling group with himself as the core, with the heroes of the "New Lingyan Pavilion" in the Kaiyuan Dynasty as the periphery, so as to establish his absolute dominance.

In this way, no prince can replace Li Longji, even if the coup is successful, he will be ousted from power!

Li Linfu felt that this kind of thing didn't matter, anyway, he was a side branch of the Li Tang clan.

But Zheng Shuqing is different, his choice must be very cautious, and if he is not careful, he will be ruined.

If Zheng Shuqing agrees with this matter, then at least ensure that there is a person from the Zheng family in the "New Ling Yan Pavilion", even himself! In this way, he broke away from the circle of five surnames and seven families and entered the core of imperial rule.

This can also be regarded as a lost harvest of mulberry elm.

Otherwise, this matter will be a pure loss politically, and it will not do you any good, so it is better to resign and retire to the mountains and forests.

Identity determines the position, no matter how much Zheng Shuqing wants to kneel and lick Brother Ji with his conscience, there is no room for compromise and retreat in this matter.

Zheng Shuqing can't enter the circle of emperors, so he can only continue to stay in the circle of five surnames and seven families, mixed in the circle of scholars and doctors in the civil official group. Even if you do nothing, you can't just take the lead and betray the political group you belong to.

Perhaps understanding his difficulties, Li Linfu did not directly ask Zheng Shuqing to go to the mansion of Pingkangfang to discuss this matter, but asked his son-in-law to send a message to inform him.

"You go back and tell the right minister, and say that the official knows."

Zheng Shuqing nodded slightly and said, he did not express his position, and his answer was very vague.

"In this case, then the official will leave."

Zheng Ping cautiously bowed and slowly withdrew from the study.

After he left, Zheng Shuqing stood up and paced in the study, struggling in his heart, anxious but there was no feasible and useful countermeasure, and no one could discuss how to deal with it.

There are portraits of twenty-five people in the Lingyan Pavilion, it has been a long time, this is the Zhenguan archway of Taizong.

If Li Longji builds a new "memorial hall", gets the portraits of heroes in the Kaiyuan period, and makes a "Kaiyuan archway", it is guaranteed that no one will say anything more!

But now Brother Ji is going to touch the Porcelain Lingyan Pavilion, and he wants to compare himself with Emperor Taizong, which is a very taboo thing.

When a person is old, then what will he want?

A question popped up in Zheng Shuqing's mind.

The young man is lustful, the young man in the aristocratic family, of course, hopes that the more women in the bed as much as possible, the more beautiful the better, and their young bodies can also play, and they can make how they want.

Zheng Shuqing is from the past, and when he was young, he was also very lustful. But since he became an official, the desires in his mind have become less and less, so that after becoming the middle prince of the imperial history, he has almost no feeling for women.

What is it compared to power for women!

When the emperor reaches old age, things like beauties will not easily cause them to make waves.

Money and the like are like dung.

What an old man who is over the age of sixteen cares about, if he puts aside the immortality that everyone dreams of, then I am afraid that "fame" is already the only pursuit and obsession.

Zheng Shuqing suddenly discovered that in the matter of Ling Yan Pavilion, he was afraid that Li Longji would not give up.

No matter how many people are dismissed, this Tang Emperor will carry it out to the end!

Li Longji has enjoyed everything he should enjoy in this life. As his body ages, there are fewer and fewer things that interest him.

What could be more appealing than going down in history?

In the Tang Dynasty, being able to compare with Taizong was the highest honor of the emperor.

Now what Brother Ji is thinking about is that Taizong has come up with the genealogy of the heroes of Zhenguan Lingyan Pavilion, and Brother Ji also wants to make his own genealogy of the heroes of Kaiyuan Tianbao Lingyan Pavilion!

However, this matter can be regarded as invisible to others, but what does the Goshidai do?

That's to be a professional troll!

This kind of thing can not be said by the head of the household, and if the imperial history is also regarded as invisible, it will definitely be ruthlessly whipped by the historian and notorious.

Thinking of this, Zheng Shuqing already made a decision in his heart.

……

Early the next morning, in the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, many courtiers gathered, and they were all invited by Li Longji to participate in the "Little Dynasty Meeting".

The left and right ministers, the six Shangshu and the squire, the imperial historian and the imperial historian Zhongcheng and other high-ranking officials were all present.

Before Gao Lishi announced the start of the court meeting, Zheng Shuqing, the middle of the imperial history, went directly out of the queue and put his official hat on the ground.

He knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "Qiyu Sage, Weichen has a heart disease and can no longer serve as the Imperial Historian. He also asked the saint for permission to allow Weichen to return to his hometown in Xingyang to recuperate, so as not to delay the saint's major affairs and fail the country. ”

Uncle Zheng knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, sobbing slightly, his body trembled, as if his body was really not right.

The so-called "heart disease" does not refer to heart disease, but more to mental illness. Symptoms of neurasthenia or abnormal hyperactivity due to long-term overuse and high tension may occur when you are working.

In ancient times, it was the so-called "heart disease".

This kind of person who is a bit like a porcelain driver says that he has a headache and needs to go to the hospital for examination.

He said he was sick, but he couldn't find out what was going on.

You say he's not sick, and he cries out that he has an unbearable headache.

Whether you are sick or not depends entirely on what the person concerned says.

As long as you want to be an official, you will not be sick if you are sick; If you don't want to be an official, shouting about illness is just an excuse.

Li Longji, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was slightly stunned, then stepped forward and helped Zheng Shuqing, who was kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down his face.

"Since you're sick, let's go back to my hometown and recuperate. After Aiqing returned to Xingyang, he served as the commander of Xingyang County. Let the court issue a decree, Aiqing can hand over all government affairs to the county, and recuperate at home. ”

Li Longji held Zheng Shuqing's arm and said warmly, looking like a gentleman and a minister, the air was full of indescribable warmth.

"Thank you for the grace of the saints."

Zheng Shuqing wiped the tears on his face with his cuffs, bowed deeply to Li Longji, and then waved his sleeves and turned to leave, leaving only the official hat of Yushi Zhongcheng in the Zichen Palace.

Zheng Shuqing did not dare to betray his political group, nor could he bear the responsibility of opposing Li Longji's contribution to Lingyan Pavilion.

His choice is only one word: Run!

No one can afford to provoke him, Zheng Shuqing directly resigned from the official position of the center, and returned to his hometown to become a county magistrate!

After Zheng Shuqing left, there was an awkward silence in the Zichen Palace. Before the court meeting was held, they left the imperial history first, and many people had a premonition that something bad was going to happen. Linked to Zheng Shuqing's style of being an official on weekdays, it seems that what will happen when he waits seems to be predictable.

"Sage, Weichen has a book."

Li Linfu's son-in-law, Yang Qixuan, the counselor, came out of the column and bowed to Li Longji, who was sitting on the dragon chair.

"Xuan."

Colliers shouted.

(End of chapter)