Yongjia City.

On both sides of the royal street to the north of the palace are the various ministries of the imperial court, six of which are not far from each other, and any disturbance may soon be known by colleagues.

In the structure of the Great Qi court, the military department has always been a relatively awkward yamen.

The other five ministries all had clear and fixed terms of reference, but the Ministry of War was not only subject to the jurisdiction of the two prime ministers and the Zhongshu, but also had to carefully handle the relationship with the Privy Council.

It is not easy to be a secretary of the military department, this is the consensus of the government and the opposition.

However, the current chairman of Shang Shuding is good at dancing, relying on the appreciation of the left minister and his own family background, he sits extremely firmly in this position, and basically has not made any mistakes in the past seven years.

Therefore, even though Li Duan did not like his temperament, he never had the idea of replacing him.

In the duty room, Ding Hui sat on the Taishi chair, flipping through the official documents on the table, but there were some thoughts in his heart.

Hou Yu's case is unsolved, Nanya's side is calm, and Hou Lushen of Shanyang, who is in charge of investigating the case, can be described as living in a simple place these days, and this matter seems to have turned a big thing into a small matter, but Ding Hui doesn't think so.

From the perspective of court stability, of course, this case should not be big, but Lu Shen's style of action is difficult to infer with common sense.

The night of the Moyuan Night Banquet had already proved that Lu Shen would not be vain to the Jiangnan Gate Lords, and even superficial kung fu was not uncommon, and he stood on the side of the Son of Heaven with an iron heart.

It's just that his foundation is in the north of the river, and the magnates in the south have nothing to do with him even if they want to.

At best, set a fire.

Thinking of the burning of the storefront warehouse of the Lu family's firm, Ding Hui couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

He didn't know about this matter at first, and it wasn't until after the incident that he realized that it was someone's decision, trying to remind Lu Shen in this way and make him restrain himself a little in all aspects.

"A bunch of idiots."

This is the only thing Ding will say about them.

To deal with a ruthless person like Lu Shen who fought on the battlefield, it is enough to not move, and one move must be a fatal killing move, so as to achieve results.

What's the point of using this method of scaring the grass and scaring the snake?

As soon as he thought of this, Ding Hui couldn't help but say to himself: "I just don't know who has the courage to make a move against Lu Shen......"

Before the words fell, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside, and then a confidant subordinate officer walked into the duty room and said nervously: "Lord Shangshu, the Marquis of Shanyang came with a lot of personal soldiers, and now he is outside the yamen." ”

Ding Hui's heart tightened, and he frowned and asked, "What is he here for?" ”

The subordinate official said ashamedly: "The subordinate official doesn't know." ”

Ding Hui looked solemn, got up and said, "Gather everyone and greet each other at the gate." ”

"Yes!"

The subordinate officer took the order and left.

After a while, Ding Hui led a group of military officials to the gate, and saw the young prince standing with his hands in his hands, with a calm bearing, and dozens of fierce soldiers behind him.

A humble smile appeared on Ding Hui's face, and he stepped forward and saluted, "I've seen Lu Hou." ”

Lu Shen replied: "I've seen Ding Shangshu." ”

Ding relaxed a little when he saw this, and his tone became more and more cordial: "I don't know what advice Lu Hou has when he comes to the Yamen of the Military Department today?" ”

Lu Shen raised his eyes to look at the crowd behind Ding Hui, and asked indifferently, "Dare to ask Chen Xincai Chen Shilang is there?" ”

A middle-aged man over forty years old stood up from behind Ding Hui and arched his hand: "Back to Luhou, the next official is Chen Xincai, the right attendant of the military department." ”

His appearance is square, his temperament is elegant, and although his words abide by the etiquette of humility and humility, his attitude still seems neither humble nor arrogant.

Lu Shen bowed slightly, and then said in a shocking voice: "Chen Shilang, your matter has been released, go with Benhou." ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

Chen Xincai was even more incredulous, and frowned: "What does Lu Hou mean by this?" What did the lower officials do? ”

Lu Shen said unhurriedly: "Chen Shilang, during the period from the second year of Jianwu to the eighth year of Jianwu, you were appointed as the military commander of the military department, is Benhou right?" ”

Chen Xincai suddenly remembered one thing, his face couldn't help but turn slightly pale, and he said forcefully: "Xiaguan did have this resume. ”

Lu Shen continued: "During your tenure as the Commander of the Martial Arts, you were in charge of the selection, promotion, replacement, and reward of the generals of the governor's offices of various prefectures. Now Ben Hou has found out that during his tenure in the Chengzhou Governor's Mansion, Hou Yu, the Marquis of Nan'an, there were 12 problems in the report of military exploits, and 11 of them were handled by you. In addition, according to the warp weaving department, Hou Yu has bribed you seven times with gold, silver, calligraphy, painting, jade, etc., totaling about 90,000 taels of silver, which is only the evidence that Ben Hou currently has, and it is not excluded that there are omissions. ”

Every time he said a word, Chen Xincai's expression became flustered, and finally his body trembled slightly.

Lu Shen's eyes finally showed a little disdain and disgust, and he waved his hand: "Take it!" ”

"Obey!"

Several wolf-like soldiers immediately stepped forward.

There was an instant riot in the room.

"Wait!"

Ding Hui stopped in front of Chen Xincai, and then saw Lu Shen's cold gaze.

This military department Shangshu thought about it, and said with a straight face: "Does Lu Hou have the will of the Holy Lord?" ”

The right squire of the military department is a high-ranking official with purple clothes, and the imperial court has a complete set of accountability and punishment procedures, how can it be dragged away by Lu Shen on the street? In this way, wouldn't the military department become a laughing stock in the eyes of other yamen, how would it manage the military affairs of Daqi in the future?

Even if Chen Xincai really committed something, he couldn't let Lu Shen use this method to trample the face of the military department under his feet.

No matter what his personal relationship with Chen Xincai is, whether he is afraid of the young marquis in front of him or not, Ding Hui must stand up at this moment, this is his responsibility as the secretary of the military department.

Hearing this, Lu Shen raised his left hand and stretched it back, and Qin Zilong, the commander of his own army, hurriedly took a volume of bright yellow holy decrees and handed it to him respectfully.

Seeing this scroll of holy decrees, Ding Hui's face changed greatly.

This has nothing to do with Lu Shen, but Ding Hui finally realized a serious problem, the Son of Heaven does not intend to be as tactful as usual this time, and he will give absolute support to Lu Shen's idea.

Lu Shen didn't even spread out the holy decree to read it, he just looked at Ding Hui coldly and said, "Ding Shangshu, do you want to resist the decree?" ”

Ding Hui showed a slight bitterness, lowered his head and said, "The lower officials don't dare." ”

Behind him, Chen Xincai was already full of disgrace.

"Take it away."

Lu Shen repeated, and his own soldiers immediately stepped forward, simply put Chen Xincai's arms on his shoulders, and took the right attendant of the military department away from the gate of the military department.

Looking at the departing figure of this group of people, the officials of the military department looked at each other, and many of them actually felt sad that the rabbit was dead and the fox was dead.

The decency of an official is the decency of the imperial court, even if Chen Xincai made a mistake, he was a squire of the military department of the third grade, and now he was dragged away by a group of tiger and wolf soldiers in the yamen of the military department, without leaving him half of his face.

You must know that this is on the royal street, and there are court officials all around, and many people are witnessing this scene at this moment.

"Lord Shangshu?" A close confidant, Lang Zhong, came to Ding Hui's side and asked with a worried face.

Ding Hui's face turned pale, and he said slowly: "You don't have to worry about Chen Shilang, later this official will enter the palace and ask His Majesty to intercede for him." The Marquis of Shanyang acted ruthlessly, and in the long run, it would be harmful to the imperial court, and the official would inevitably speak out and advise! Ladies and gentlemen, do your own thing first, and don't talk about it to the outside world. ”

A number of officials responded one after another.

Ding Hui turned his head to look in the direction of Lu Shen's departure, his eyes were still gloomy, but there was not much anger in his heart, but there was a strange excitement.

He silently said in his heart: It seems that things are really as Brother Li said, Your Majesty can't wait to take back his authority, then let this fire burn more vigorously, and see who will provoke the fire in the end!

……

Privy council.

General Wang Yan hurriedly walked into the festival hall and asked directly, "Where is Lu Shen?" ”

The privy envoy Guo Congyi sat indifferently, holding a tea cup in his right hand, which was soaked with the jade leaves of this spring, and the fresh and fragrant tea fragrance was refreshing.

He leisurely blew on the tea leaves, took a shallow sip, and then smiled: "It's gone." ”

Wang Yan frowned and said, "Gone?" ”

Guo Congyi bowed slightly, and said: "He also took away Yu Shouwen, a general under the command of this official, saying that he helped Hou Yu cover up his traces and destroy the evidence of the crime a few years ago, so he was implicated in this case." The official did not stop him, nor did he ask him for relevant evidence, and directly asked him to take Yu Shouwen away. ”

Wang Yan couldn't help but look at him in a daze when he heard this.

Guo Congyi continued: "Today, Lu Shen can be said to have gained a lot, not only taking Yu Shouwen from this official, but also Chen Xincai, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, Wei Jixiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Inspection, Qiao Wendian, the director of the Ministry of Works, Shi Wangping, the previous governor of the Chengzhou Governor's Mansion, and Chen Zhixun, the previous marching army, and so on. This official estimated that if it weren't for the right minister and others to stop him, he might have arrested the former governor of Chengzhou and the old marquis Ning, who was already idle at home. ”

At this point, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Wang Yan slapped the table and said, "Dare to erect!" ”

Guo Congyi raised his eyes to look at him and said gently: "General, it's time for your temper to change." ”

Wang Yan said coldly: "The Privy Counsellor still has the leisure to laugh? Lu Shen relied on the name of Qincha to wantonly arrest so many powerful officials at once, causing panic in the people of Beijing and putting themselves in danger, and ruining the stable and peaceful atmosphere of the Great Qi Dynasty for more than ten years! If he is allowed to continue to do whatever he wants, before the enemy from the north comes, we will be in chaos ourselves!" ”

"Don't worry, sit down."

Guo Congyi raised his hand and beckoned, and then smiled: "Actually, this is not a bad thing. ”

Although Wang Yan was angry, he did not lose his judgment of the court situation, and soon understood the origin of Guo Congyi's peaceful attitude.

He stepped forward and sat down opposite Guo Congyi, and said in a deep voice: "I know what the Privy Master thinks, Lu Shen's doing this will inevitably cause public anger, but now that he has the full support of His Majesty and the help of those eagle dogs of the Warp Weaving Division, it will be too passive for me to wait like this." ”

Guo Congyi picked up the teacup and said calmly: "It's okay to let some wavering people see the situation clearly, and let them know that Your Majesty has made up his mind, and if he retreats this time, it will be a place of no return." Therefore, tomorrow the court will be able to see the difference. ”

"Tomorrow's Tomorrow ......"

Wang Yan repeated these words, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Maybe it's time for Your Majesty to understand who is supporting the vast territory of Daqi." ”

(End of chapter)