"Uncle Liang, you must not miss this Dongtang banquet."

In Cui's mansion, Cui Zan looked at his son in front of him seriously.

Cui Zan's son is called Cui Hong, and he is studying in Taixue at the moment.

His personality is different from his father, he is upright and serious, and when the Taixue Etiquette School and the Metaphysical School fought, this was the first to do it.

Because of this upright character, he is easy to offend others, but Cui Zan is not angry, he admires his son's character very much, and he feels that his son has the talent to be a royal historian.

At this moment, hearing his father's words, Cui Hong did not choose to obey, but asked: "I was not invited, but spontaneously went to the banquet, what can this gentleman do?" ”

Cui Zan shook his head, "For the sake of the world's righteousness, etiquette can be ignored for the time being. ”

"Your Majesty is in charge today, and I asked you to go to the banquet, not to please and flatter Your Majesty, but to get to know Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty has a strategy and great ambitions, but he is too young, I am afraid that His Majesty is impatient and not conducive to the world."

Cui Hong frowned, "You want me to find out His Majesty's tone?" ”

"This is even more of a villain's move."

Cui Zan was still not angry, and said again: "This is for the sake of the Great Wei world, your Majesty is now in power, we should do our best to assist, Your Majesty is young, and has no experience in governing the world at all. ”

"I don't mean to be unfavorable to Your Majesty, Your Majesty once said: Those who know that their father has made mistakes and do not advise them must not be loyal and filial."

Cui Hong was still a little displeased, but he still nodded and expressed his obedience.

Cui Zan was about to give another order, when someone hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words beside him.

Cui Zan was shocked, hurriedly got up, opened his mouth to let Cui Hong leave, and went out of the inner room.

"Xun Gong."

"Cui Gong!"

When Cui Zan walked out of the mansion, Xun Yi was standing at the door.

Xun Yi saw Cui Zan come out and hurriedly bowed to him.

Cui Zan hurriedly returned the salute and led him into his mansion.

No one expected that after the fall of the Three Princes, this Xun Yi became the biggest beneficiary, and overnight, he became the actual ruler of Shang Shutai, the real minister of the empire, and the number one minister of the emperor.

Xun Yi was not fluttered by this sudden promotion, he seemed more humble and cautious than before.

Probably because the last few people who were fluttering and celebrating before the matter started died miserably, Xun Yi temporarily learned their lesson and did not publicize it.

The two went all the way to Cui Zan's study, and then sat facing each other.

Now many ministers in Shangshutai can be said to have suffered heavy casualties, Lu Yu, Wang Guan, Fu Yi and several other leaders have fallen, and there are still a few old ministers such as Xun Yi, Cui Zan, Guo Zhang, and Yuan Kan.

Among the remaining people, Xun Yi's status and fame are undoubtedly the highest.

Xun Yi asked seriously: "General Zhendong sent people to Luoyang, I don't know if you have heard of it?" ”

Cui Zan nodded, "I've heard about it." ”

Xun Yi sighed, and then said: "Your Majesty takes Biqiudian as the middle of the imperial history, and wants to use the son of Wen Thorn Shi to reorganize the tiger and leopard ride." ”

Cui Zan was stunned, "I haven't heard of this yet." ”

Xun Yi said helplessly: "Your Majesty is already young, and now the ministers recruited by Your Majesty are the same, these people have no experience in governing the country, Your Majesty is in a hurry to let them ascend to a high position, this is definitely not a good thing." ”

"I heard: There is a person in the Song country who thinks that the seedlings he planted are always not tall, so he went to the ground and pulled them up one by one with his hands.

When Cui Zan heard this, he hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to say more.

Seeing that you have been so honest these days, I thought you had grown a little, why, did you forget how Gao Rou and they died??

He will not only pull out the seedlings, but also pull out people's heads!

I knew I wouldn't have let this guy in!

Cui Zan couldn't help but complain in his heart, he felt that this Xun Yi was really crazy.

The emperor has just finished killing people, and the blood on the knife has not been wiped clean, why do you want to stick your head out??

Xun Yi looked at Cui Zan's pale face and said solemnly: "Don't be afraid. ”

"I don't mean to be against Your Majesty."

"Gao Rou and other traitors rebelled, but we never participated, now, we are Your Majesty's ministers, and since we are Your Majesty's ministers, we have to help Your Majesty govern the world well."

"Your Majesty is wise, a benevolent monarch, not a tyrannical king."

"Even if our thoughts are different from Your Majesty's, as long as it is beneficial to the world, Your Majesty will not embarrass us, Your Majesty likes ministers who advise."

"Since Emperor Wen, the appointment of the two thousand stone ministers in the temple has to be decided through the court, and it is necessary for the ministers to discuss and then decide, and there is no reason to say that His Majesty can directly order to appoint."

"In the past, Gao Rou rebelled, and the ministers were suspected of being in the same party, so they couldn't distinguish it for His Majesty, but now it's different, the temple has been cleared, and they are all His Majesty's ministers, and they should re-participate in these things."

Xun Yi said very beautifully.

But Cui Zan knew that he just wanted to take back the right to appoint again.

After Cao Pi, the appointment of important ministers in the temple often needed the support of the ministers, and it was not the emperor who could let him hold an important position by pointing out a random person.

This is actually a lesson learned from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty finally sold the official so much that even the three dukes could be taken out and sold, although not everyone was qualified to buy, but this behavior still greatly angered the scholar class.

Therefore, in the Great Wei Dynasty, the personnel power was divided layer by layer, and the temple took back the local recommendation power to the temple, but this power did not fall directly into the hands of the emperor, but was transferred from the hands of the foreign ministers to the hands of the courtiers.

Xun Yi looked at Cui Zan, who was unmoved, and immediately smiled bitterly.

"Cui Gong, I know what you think, but this is not something I can decide."

"That Chen Qian and Zheng Yuan, I don't know how many people have been dismissed and promoted these days, and they don't follow the original system at all, the ministers are restless, and the officials are frightened, and they all come to the door, let me stand up and make decisions for them."

"What else can I do?"

Since ancient times, this "phase" has not been so easy to treat, the prime minister should reconcile the contradictions between the emperor and the ministers, try to remain neutral, and be loyal to the emperor while also treating the ministers well and protecting the interests of the ministers.

Of course, Xun Yi was also afraid of the emperor, but he couldn't ignore the ministers.

He continued: "Gong Cui, now Shangshutai is dominated by the two of us, and Gong Zheng has never been careful. ”

"Even if I don't come to you, the ministers will come to visit, and now the two of us should support each other and solve it together."

At this moment, Cui Zan just felt a headache.

When they reach a certain position, many choices are not up to them, and a group of interest groups will automatically appear around them, and these groups will lead them to do things, and if they do something against the interests of the group, the consequences will be very serious!

As the three princes fell one after another, the ministers began to surround them.

Cui Zan looked at Xun Yi calmly, and said: "Xun Gong, I have heard of these things for a long time, but Your Majesty is now eradicating traitors, the momentum is unstoppable, we are all suspected of rebellion, Gao Rou is still imprisoned in the prison, and has never died." ”

"Duke Xun, it's best to ignore this appointment and dismissal now, and appease the ministers as much as possible."

Xun Yi wanted to speak and stopped, looking at Cui Zan, who was unwilling to help, his face was full of sorrow.

"Your Majesty is young and vigorous, if you don't help me this time, I'm afraid something big will happen in the temple."

Xun Yi stood up, didn't say anything more, turned around and left here.

Cui Zan didn't go to see him off.

Cui Zan doesn't care so much about the ministers at the moment, his clan has suffered heavy casualties, and the connection with the ministers is also much weaker, and the most important thing is that he is just an ordinary Shangshu now, even if something happens, it is Xun Yi's responsibility, why should he rush to participate?

Xun Yi had just returned to the mansion, and before he had time to rest, a distinguished guest came to visit again.

This made Xun Yi very angry, these people were really staring at themselves!

"Meet Xun Gong!"

The person who came was very polite, and saluted Xun Yi respectfully.

But Xun Yi's face was very unsightly, he looked at the young man in front of him, and said unhappily: "No need to be polite, I was late and made Feng Jun wait in front of my mansion for a long time." ”

This young man had a simple face and looked very simple, he didn't seem to understand Xun Yi's sarcasm at all, and hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, and don't wait too long." ”

Xun Yi snorted coldly, "Feng Jun is here, but what's the big deal?" ”

This person's name is Feng Zhen, his grandfather Feng Fu once served as the captain of Si Li, and his father Feng Yuan is now the Taishou of Ji County, and he himself, because of his family's closeness to the Sima family, became the captain of the Chinese army.

At this age, being able to serve as a captain in the Chinese army can be described as promising.

However, his promising future did not last long, this coup, he and Sima Gan and others were put in a pot by the emperor, not to mention the future, almost couldn't even save their lives, and they were finally released a few days ago and were able to continue their activities.

Xun Yi had a good relationship with his father.

Feng Zhen lowered his head and said helplessly: "Duke Xun, the ministers all want to know about the appointment, and they know that my father is good friends with you, so let me come to ask you." ”

Xun Yi's face darkened, what Feng Zhen said was friendship, in fact, what he wanted to say was that the ministers knew that he had come to his mansion.

If something happened to Feng Zhen suddenly, and he was held accountable by the emperor or something, the ministers would also know what the reason was.

This is clearly intimidating oneself and threatening oneself.

Xun Yi sneered, "I will tell Your Majesty about the appointment, what does this have to do with you?" You are still young, you should read more and increase your knowledge, instead of worrying about the temple affairs!! ”

"Only !!"