The road out of the palace was quite long, and Zhao Ling walked very slowly.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

The second prince has been trembling for more than ten years, and his sense of smell is the most sensitive.

Today, Zhao Shang suddenly came forward, and the purpose behind it is intriguing!

Politically, he will always be a weakling, no matter how good and excellent he is, he will still be a concubine.

Zhao Han once said to him: "The second son is the second son, and only by accepting his fate can he live long!"

The cold weather couldn't help but make Zhao Ling tighten his clothes, and his heart was depressed and unbearable.

was walking forward, but saw He Shujun standing there outside the hall looking into the distance.

Zhao Ling tidied up his clothes and came over to salute: "Prime Minister He." ”

Looking at He Shujun in the distance, he turned his head and saluted back: "Your Highness, it's cold this year, I'm wearing thin clothes, I can't walk, I really hope to go home and bake the fire soon!"

Looking at He Shujun, Zhao Ling nodded, made a gesture of reaching out to please, and the two walked side by side.

The square in the palace is wide, and the two of them walk on it like a court.

He Shujun sighed as he walked.

Zhao Ling asked, "Why did Prime Minister He sigh?"

He Shujun looked at Zhao Ling and smiled slightly: "Actually, the Holy Lord has already planned for Xinzheng's affairs, just to see what we think." ”

Yang Feng dust.

Zhao Ling inadvertently blocked it with his hand.

As if he was reminiscing, he put down his hand and looked at He Shujun: "What does the prime minister think of me?"

The two walked forward slowly, He Shujun looked ahead, his face was faintly worried, and he replied: "Your Highness thinks, what is the way of the king?"

"The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies," Zhao Ling replied without hesitation.

He Shujun frowned and looked at Zhao Ling, raised his hand and touched the long beard on his chin, and remained silent for a long time.

"Don't Prime Minister Wang think that's not the case?" Zhao Ling asked

Sighing, He Shujun shook his head and said, "Anyone can say big and empty words, but what will happen when it really comes to yourself?"

Zhao Ling lowered his head and walked silently.

This road is like duckweed, and his heart is uncertain, and he suddenly thinks of something, and turns his head to look at the Jinluan Hall behind him.

As if he was sad, he stopped for a few minutes, wiped away his tears, and quickly followed He Shujun.

The prime minister seemed to turn a blind eye to this, and did not say anything, but kept brushing his beard and frowning.

"Prime Minister Wang, if you don't save me, my life will be over! I know that I am arrogant, but I believe that I am more suitable to sit in that position than him, and if it were me, that kind of thing will not happen! When I went to Nantang last year, I was also determined to die......

"Fight?"

Suddenly stopped, Zhao Ling looked at He Shujun in amazement.

looked left and right, more cautious, and then motioned for Zhao Ling to continue walking. He Shujun looked at him seriously: "How does His Royal Highness know that he is more suitable? His Royal Highness Chengwang was better at strategy back then, and he was more liked by the first emperor, why did the first emperor finally appoint the crown prince in the order of the eldest son?"

Zhao Ling was dumbfounded.

"Heaven and earth are constant, there are no rules, and there is no circle. The imperial system has always been about standing tall and not young!"

He Shujun said lightly: "I shouldn't have mentioned this matter as a minister, and it was just a careful way to leave a way out for myself." Your Royal Highness! The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the society, which is indeed good, and he has won the great success of the world, with fine clothes and jade food, a group of beautiful women, and a happy one, but if you blindly enjoy it, the collapse of the previous dynasty is an example! If you live in a temple, you are worried about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you are worried about your king. It is a worry about advancing and a worry about retreating. But how many emperors have done it throughout the ages?

"I'll try!"

"Hehe, if Your Highness really wants to be the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world, do you still use nonsense with me here?" He Shujun still maintained a smiling face, but what he said made Zhao Ling embarrassed.

He Shujun didn't care about this, He Shujun touched his beard and still strolled, and continued: "I, He Shujun, am a cloth cloth, and I also wanted to have a clean breeze on my sleeves and live alone! When His Majesty changed the government, I thought that the time had come, and I asked Your Majesty for the plan to change the government! Your Highness remembers!"

Zhao Ling nodded and said with appreciation: "If it weren't for Prime Minister He Cheng's reform plan, I would not have been able to open up the situation so quickly, even the current Taishu Bureau also took Prime Minister He Cheng's reform plan as an example to teach us students!

In this regard, He Shujun waved his hand slightly but did not have any joy, and said with a long sigh: "Your Highness, do you know how long it took for my plan to change the government to be handed over to His Majesty, and how many times have you changed it?"

Zhao Ling shook his head.

"Eight years!"

Somewhat surprised, the second prince looked at He Shujun blankly.

He Shujun continued: "When I first handed over this political reform plan, it was robbed and seized by higher-level officials before it could be passed into the hands of the saints! To them, it was waste paper! At first, I waited for several months, thinking that the saints would see it! But no! I wondered if there was a problem, disclosure, or mistake in what I wrote? So I began to change it, changed and handed it over! But again and again, it was all like a stone in the sea! Until one day, a colleague laughed at me and called me stupid! I didn't even know that my political reform plan was used as a piece of paper for burning firewood!" He Shujun paused and looked at Zhao Ling with a surprised face.

Smiling slightly, he continued: "I have been revising for two years, but I am useless!

Zhao Ling fell silent and stood in place.

Stopped, He Shujun smiled slightly, this kind of thing seems to be light and light, just normal, and the old face does not show any vicissitudes and emotion.

"Later, I realized that if I want to get ahead and make myself different, the only way to do that is to become the kind of person I hate the most! So I spent three years of hard work slapping the horse, touting and flattering, and even marrying Ding Ji's daughter as a wife for the sake of the official position, which is an ugly woman known to the whole Jian'an! Hehe, fat and ugly! Insatiable! Arrogant and domineering!"

With a long sigh, He Shujun smiled and said: "Others think that I want to be an official and want to be crazy! But I know that only being Ding Ji's son-in-law is the fastest way to be promoted, because he is a Zhongshu Ling, and only when I become his son-in-law can my political reform plan be passed on to the Shengshang! It is possible for the Shengshang to take a look!"

"However!" He Shujun seemed to laugh and asked, "Do you know how the Holy Lord reacted when he first saw my political reform plan?"

Zhao Ling looked at the prime minister of the Great Construction Dynasty.

"I took a look at it, and I lost it!"

"Lost?" Zhao Ling felt incredible!

"Hehe, don't you believe it?" He Shujun took out a thing from his arms, it was a book wrapped in a white silk handkerchief, and when he opened it, it read: "Admonition, He Shujun" but it was marked with a big X with a red pen.

Frowning, Zhao Ling looked at this political reform plan. Looking at He Shujun again, the old man was still smiling, unfazed.

He Shujun put this well-preserved letter, but the paper industry still left signs of wear and tear because of its age, and said with emotion: "This book was approved by the saint when it was placed on the desk of the saint for the eleventh time! At that time, because of this incident, my father-in-law Ding Ji almost lost his official position! When he came back, he severely reprimanded me. If it weren't for the fact that I was good to his daughter, he would never have helped me!"

It seems to be a plain thing, the past of this imperial prime minister, the history of the struggle of a cloth-clothed prime minister, is so difficult and legendary!

Zhao Ling knew that not long after He Shujun served as prime minister, the emperor rewarded him with a beauty, which was the daughter of a recorder in Luzhou Mansion, who entered the palace for a year, and then was rewarded to He Shujun, and it was in that year that He Shujun's wife died, and the beauty of this reward is now He Shujun's wife.

When the courtiers all said behind their backs that He Shujun had attained the Tao, he kicked away the ladder to climb the wall, and when he saw the beauty, he killed the ugly daughter-in-law.

He Shujun seemed to remember the past vividly, couldn't help moistening his eyes, there was a trace of vicissitudes on his wrinkled old face, sighed slightly, and continued: "At that time, I didn't give up, and I changed, just change it was not enough, I spent financial resources to get some people who could deliver words, let them speak for me, let them appreciate my political reform plan, until the Holy Lord listened to it, and this political reform plan was put on the Holy Lord's desk again! At that time, more than eight years have passed since I wrote this political reform plan!"

He Shujun said to Zhao Ling seriously: "Why did I write this political reform plan in the first place? It was just because of enthusiasm, because of my youthful impulse, that I could change the country, and that my political reform plan could make the country rich and strong! But the result was beyond my expectations, at that time I was stubborn and refused to admit defeat, but I was broken every time! For this I was once locked up in the cowshed by my boss for three days! Later, I realized that it was not enough to rely on enthusiasm and impulsiveness! I need to climb up, I need to climb up at any cost to get this done! So I started to pay bribes, I started to pat my boss on the back, so that my boss thought that I was the most loyal dog by his side! Only then would he promote me! I used to spend a lot of money on women, just to give them to my boss for his pleasure, in exchange for the opportunity to promote me! That's it, I was promoted step by step, and I lived the way I hated the most, but I always had a belief that I was different from them, that I was for this country, for the people of this country to live a prosperous life. I'm righteous!"

When the prime minister said this, his lips trembled, and he looked at the ground as if he wanted to cry without tears, and the old hand grabbed Zhao Ling's arm and said: "I did it! But what happened? I killed them all! I found that the new ones were blacker and more corrupt than them! I was very angry, but my son once said to me, "Am I not their role model?" How did I get up? That's how I climbed up! They are just learning from me!"

Zhao Ling closed his eyes and was sad.

Just as the prime minister of cloth cloth said, after he took power, he vigorously cracked down on corruption, and those old officials, his former bosses, were sent to prison by him, and their homes were raided! He is in a high position and power, and everyone is afraid of him!

Glamorous?

Glossy!

Beautiful scenery?

Beautiful!

But what lies beneath the façade?

Collusion!

He Shujun squeezed Zhao Ling's hand tightly and said: "Gradually, I am getting old! I find that I have a family background, I have children, and I have someone worthy of my protection! I am beginning to be afraid! I am afraid that someone will sue me! I am afraid that I will be like those who were defeated by me before! I will destroy my house! I am afraid! So I dare not offend anyone! Holy Lord! Queen, Prince, you, and even those court officials!"

With a sigh of relief, the prime minister was more like an old man in his old age: "I have had the idea of retiring several times! But think about it, Yu'er, Hongcheng, Hongyu, Qingni, Qingyue, and my grandchildren! I don't dare! They are all too young, they all have what I thought back then, they all want to get ahead, and they all want to change the country! But they haven't thought about what they will be once I go down? They are not bullshit! They can't even see the face of the saint! They still want to change the country! They are bent on impetuous dreams! Think that if you talk loudly in front of the saints, you will be appreciated?"

"Now it's not the same as it used to be! The country has stabilized, and the saints are old, and those things that change the government of the world are in front of people like you who think they will become virtuous kings?

Zhao Ling is undeniable.

The old man took Zhao Ling's arm and said, "Sometimes the person who stands in front of you may not be your enemy, but your colleague, yourself. Everyone wants to live the way they want to live! But you have to admit that there is a gap between the ideal and the reality. Often when we change others, we also change ourselves, and live like we once hated the most! But before that! Before you want to live the way you dream, you have already compromised yourself! You already plan to live like you hate the most!

The old man glared at Zhao Ling and scolded: "What are you pretending to be? Even if you die, you should admit it!"

The second prince wept bitterly and grabbed He Shujun's hand tightly: "Prime Minister, I don't want to die......

"Then find a way to live! It's better to take the initiative than to throw the decree on your head!"

......

The old prime minister left alone.

Empty Zhao Ling was left blank and watched the old and weak shadow go away.