Neighbors with powerful ministers

After waiting for a while, the clan rabbits counted the number of people, only to find out, no, it seems that one is missing.

Mr. Tai Wang had a headache, and he was a little awkward to speak: "Which one of these people is not good enough and didn't come out together?"

He has built the ladder like this, even if he doesn't understand his hints and can't play by ear, he should at least learn to follow the crowd!Didn't you see everyone running out of the dragon's pond and tiger's lair?

Someone raised his hand: "It seems, probably, it might be Dolphin."

All: "..." Honey was silent.

Xie Jie sat awkwardly on the chair, almost forming a vacuum around him with him as the center.It's not that he's not smart enough to retreat with the big troops. In fact, he was the one who shouted to send his uncle and grandpa down, but before he could stand up, he met Shenzong's eyes, and the meaning was very straightforward. Bai, if you dare to abandon me, we will kill our relatives and friends today!

Can Xie Jie die with his uncle?

can!

He told himself so, but still chose to stay.

Xie Jie is the only one left in the clan, so it is meaningless to the courtiers.It is impossible for them to vote one by one. At the beginning, the clan clan came here just to make up the number, creating a feeling that there are so many people that people can understand at a glance which side "justice" is in.Obviously, if there is only Xie Jie's small physique, with him or without him, there will be no big changes for both sides.Even though Xie Jie represents the eldest princess, no one believes that he can really be his mother's master.

This is the benefit of being a dandy who is well known in the world. No one counts on Xie Jie at all, so Xie Jie naturally doesn't have to worry about being forced to do something.

Therefore, the focus of the courtiers next became to tear up those neutral factions who did not stand on either side. If they wanted to use pressure to force them to make a second decision, they had to stand in line!The two sides share the same hatred: it's such a time, where is there no idea?Is the imperial court giving so much salary every year just to support a group of answerers?What about the strength of character of the literati?What about the insistence of literati? !

Xie Jie thought that Fang Chaoci would be a neutral faction, but after a careful search, he found out that it was not at all.

Probably Fang Chaoci had guessed the current scene long ago. The neutral faction will not please both sides, and will only be regarded as a fool in the later stage. It is better to stand in line early, and it can be all about winning or losing. He has his own ideas and ideas. asserted reputation.

And Xie Jie can be 100% sure that Fang Chaoci's side will lose.

Because Fang Chaoci is the opposition.

The faction that opposes Mount Tai's enshrining of Zen.Shenzong and Empress Dowager Nie accepted this well.It seems that this has been discussed a long time ago, and Fang Chaoci can be regarded as his own person who broke into the enemy.For the people over there, Fang Chaoci is also his own.That's what's really going to play.Jane is in the emperor's heart, but it will not give people a feeling of flattery like Sun Shenzheng.

The most important thing is that Fang Chaoci's chief examiner who took part in the imperial examination back then was Shao Xiang Shao Zhizhong, who had just become the prime minister. There is such a tacit teacher-student relationship in the officialdom. In the public understanding, Fang Chaoci has always been It is a young force prepared by the Shao faction to be cultivated in the future.It is impossible for him not to follow the decision of the Shao family.

In fact, it was the same. Riding the breeze of the Shao family, among the people of the same seniority as Fang Chaoci, there was no one who soared faster than him.

Fang Chaoci did have feelings for the Shao faction, but his real communication partner was Shao Zaizhi's father.

Yes, the old man of the Shao family is still alive.He and Taizu belonged to the same period. He had just passed his [-]th birthday not long ago. Although he often said that he was dying, people who had actually met him would not have any doubts that he would live to be a hundred years old.Don't be too energetic, old man.

If Shao Zaizhi is old and refined, then his father Shao Laogong is old and strong.

Everyone in the world knows that Shao Laoguo and Taizu are good generals and military advisors, and the monarch and his ministers will get along with each other for a lifetime. Shao Guogong is still one of the few people with different surnames who have been named Dukes of the country.It's a pity that the title cannot be passed on. This is also the rule of most of Daqi's courtiers after they get the title, and the title will be removed after death.Taizu and his elders are so stingy in terms of titles, they can't even be cruel to their own sons, let alone outsiders.

Old Shao Guogong also served as Zaizhi several times.Every time a new emperor takes office, he will be invited out of the mountain once, with a high position and authority to preside over the overall situation.When the court is stable, the old man will write a letter to beg for the bones, tell the old man to go home to entertain his grandchildren, "not loving power but being loyal to the emperor" is almost synonymous with him.

In a sense, the dead emperor Wen's family has been tossing back and forth like this, the country is still not in chaos, and has an inseparable relationship with old Shao Guogong.

When Shenzong succeeded to the throne, old Shao Guogong also came out to be the prime minister for a period of time.Then he took the blame and resigned when the country was in chaos.

Daqi is different from other dynasties. It is not very popular for the emperor to issue an edict to sin against himself, and it is often the prime minister who takes the blame and resigns.Because Daqi took the path of the king and the scholar-officials co-ruling the world, the emperor managed too many official affairs and took too much power, and he would be implicitly condemned by the imperial censor.In other words, the prime minister is really in charge, so he is also the one who resigned after the accident.

What if the prime minister just doesn't take the initiative to resign?Don't be afraid, because Daqi also has a unique system of admonishment, and someone will "help" the prime minister to resign.

The group of people who supervised the prime minister was a group of people who caused headaches for Shenzong and Xie Jie: Yushitai and Jianyuan.Their official positions and powers are very special, and they rely on scolding others and the emperor to get promoted and make a fortune. Therefore, even the prime ministers with real power can scold them as they please, which is a kind of political restraint on the prime ministers who have too much power.

Can't go into details because...

No matter how detailed, Xie Jie doesn't know anymore.He really only knows superficially about politics and officialdom, very superficially.

The barbarians invaded and occupied the capital. In fact, everyone knew that this had nothing to do with Mr. Shao.But the old man still took the blame and resigned, causing Shenzong to feel guilty.Occasionally I am a little envious, why can't the emperor also take the blame and resign?

In order to make up for this guilt, Shenzong proposed Shao Zhizhong, the eldest son of old Duke Shao, who was old enough to be Shenzong's father, as Zaizhi.

Shao Zaizhi didn't respond to the phrase "a tiger father has no dogs". Instead, he was very ingenious in reading and reading, more than conservative, but lacking in courage. The only thing that Shenzong liked was that he was the son of old Shao Guogong, and he was a The less extreme main combat faction does not agree with the idea of ​​being in a corner.But in many cases, Shao Zaizhi still needs his father to support him in handling government affairs.Rather than saying that the Shao faction obeys him, it is better to say that everyone still obeys Shao Laogong.

This time, whether it was Shao Zaizhi's opinion to oppose Mount Tai's enshrining Zen, or the old Duke Shao's, no one knew.

Shao Zaizhi's strictness in etiquette is well known throughout the world, he really dared to speak frankly to the God Emperor, do you have any meritorious deeds to go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, don't you have any points in your heart?Even the British Lord Taizu Taizong, who let the Haihe Qingyan feast, never thought about Taishan Fengchan, where did your Shenzong get the courage?

Anyway, I will not disagree, and I will not agree to death!

This is also the reason why Empress Su asked Shenzong to bribe Vice Minister Sun instead of Prime Minister Shao.Shao Zaizhi is upright, he won't accept your bribery at all, maybe he will write a book to scold you, and the troubles will be known all over the world.

Shao Zaizhi's advantage is obeying the rules, and his disadvantage is also obeying the rules.

In comparison, Shao Zaizhi's father, Shao Gongguo, is much more tactful. Even if he does not agree with Shenzong Fengchan, he will definitely choose a more gentle method, and will not confront Shenzong head-on in the court, saying that would directly lead to death if.This also made many people suspect that Shao Zaizhi had made his own decision this time.

Those who support Taishan Fengchan are represented by Sun Canzheng. Some want to please Shenzong, and naturally some are really fooled by Sun Canzheng.They said, how come the officials have no merit?Take the recent Nanjing city as an example, isn't it the achievements of the officials?

It is true that the city was guarded by Princess Zhen Guo, but it was also under the wise leadership of the officials.

At the beginning, how many people in the court were secretly afraid that the eldest princess's stubborn resistance would be retaliated and counterattacked by the barbarians even more?How many people don't believe she can win?Isn't it because the officials tried their best to resist all opinions, asked for money for money, asked for food for food, and always believed in their own daughter-in-law?

what's the result?The eldest princess has won!

Moreover, the point of Taishan Fengchan is not to brag about how many great things the emperor has done, but to prove the emperor's legitimacy, stabilize the hearts of the people, and make the world submit.Isn't this exactly what the current precarious Daqi needs?

the most important is……

In fact, everyone thought they knew Shenzong's real purpose of going to Taishan to enshrine Zen. He wanted to establish the little prince's orthodoxy.

The little prince is still just a prince, not a crown prince.If they wanted Emperor Wen's child to succeed to the throne, they would definitely agree with Shenzong's move, wouldn't they?People's hearts will change. Although Shenzong seems to be very resistant to the position of Ninth Five Supreme, who can guarantee whether Shenzong will let go after he has tasted the taste of power?They must have settled this matter before Shenzong had any other ideas.

This is also a good way to establish the future team of the crown prince early.

In the end, there is no way for this reason to be brought to the surface, and everyone can only be anxious in their hearts.

On the contrary, Shenzong had no sense of shame, seeing that the situation in the court was too stalemate, he directly hugged the little prince Nian'er from the hands of Empress Dowager Nie, and then handed it over to Xie Jie, motioning Xie Jie to carry the child to Shao Zaizhi.

Shenzong pointed at Nian'er and questioned Shao Zaizhi: "If I don't go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, how will you let this child deal with himself? Look into his eyes and say! Are you worthy of his father's respect for you in the past?!"

Shao Zaizhi was not Zaizhi when Emperor Wen was in power, but he was already a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and there were various additional officials behind him, who were highly valued by Emperor Wen, otherwise he would not have been the chief examiner of the imperial examination.Emperor Wen was clearly cultivating disciples for him, and the meaning was already very clear. If nothing happened later, then Shao Zaizhi would definitely become Zaizhi sooner or later, and what was more legitimate, was not the Zaizhi recommended by his old father.

Zaizhi during Emperor Wen's period had already taken the blame and resigned because of Emperor Wen's death, and even almost committed suicide because of excessive guilt, and followed Emperor Wen.He was really ruthless in attacking himself, and he is still recovering from his injuries, with more breath than breath.

When Emperor Wen was mentioned, the former Zaizhi was shaken.

Xie Jie didn't make a sound, but Nian'er sent him off under Shao Zaizhi's nose.Nian'er was also very powerful, her big moist eyes looked at Zai Zhi without blinking, full of trust.

Shao Zaizhi obviously began to lose his mind.

Shenzong saw that there was a door, and wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but he heard a light cough that was neither high nor low, and stopped abruptly.He didn't know why he was stopped, but he did it without his own will.

"Everyone, go down and think about it. I'm tired, so I'll come here first today."

Following Shenzong's words, today's long and tormenting court meeting finally came to an end.

Xie Jie had been dozing off in the hall before and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. When he came out and saw the sky was bright outside and the sun was shining high above his head, he realized that the court meeting had been held from early morning to noon.Simply insane.

No wonder I was hungry, Xie Jie stroked his flat stomach, it could be described as hungry.

Fang Chaoci was still chatting with people from the same faction, but suddenly seemed to sense it, smiled apologetically with others, and temporarily withdrew from the team first, and found Xie Jie accurately.He took out a few well-wrapped delicate soft cakes from his sleeve and stuffed them into Xie Jie's mouth.

Xie Jie was stuffed by surprise, but he was captivated by the sweetness in his mouth, and he started to eat like a squirrel, his cheeks swelled, he couldn't be too happy.

It turns out that you can sneak snacks.

"Won't it be confiscated during the inspection?" Xie Jie didn't dare to bring the snacks that the old man prepared for him this morning, even though the old man had repeatedly assured that his father did the same when he was a Hanlin scholar.But Xie Jie still didn't bring it, but he didn't expect Fang Chaoci to bring it.

Fang Chaoci bowed his head, as if he was teaching the secret book: "If the inspector knows you, it won't happen."

Xie Jie, who has always been hailed as a senior backdoor target, suddenly felt a little unwilling. He actually lost to Fang Chaoci in the back door!God damn it!No, he will do the same tomorrow!Bring not only snacks, but also other things!

Yes, continue tomorrow morning.

I don't know who made the bad move for Shenzong. If he didn't get a satisfactory result, he would have to go to court. This is simply killing people with soft knives and mental torture.Xie Jie glanced at Fang Chaoci while gnawing his snacks.

"I was wronged." Fang Chaoci sincerely stated that he did not do this trick to Shenzong.

Thank you for not believing it!

When the King of Thailand came out, he was supported by others, and he acted in a complete set. Although everyone may know that he pretended to be sick, he still needs a fig leaf.The clan members rushed forward to serve the senior Zongzhengsi Minister, stepping on the wind, walking faster than anyone else, like a group of students who wished to rush to the cafeteria after class.No one can stop them!

When passing by Xie Jie, someone asked about the situation in the court hall. After learning the bad news that no matter who is going to court tomorrow, the whole person felt a kind of despair.

Someone also kindly said to Xie Jie: "Then when we walk together tomorrow, you must follow, don't fall behind."

Life in the side hall is good, at least you won't be hungry.

Unfortunately, Xie Jie couldn't leave at all. QAQ also doesn't know that his uncle is so unhappy with me, no one should think about where the trouble of being happy comes from, it's really too bad!Xie Jie, who once had this kind of thought, didn't think there was anything wrong with him complaining about Shenzong at this time.

For three consecutive days, he went to court every day.

Even my body made of steel and iron couldn't bear it.The clans who have not suffered any crimes are still sighing there, they got up too early, too early, they can’t eat well, the chairs in the side hall are hard, they can’t rest well, they are going to lose weight!

What can the courtier say about this?I can only laugh.

The king of Thailand fainted yesterday, the king of the county has a headache today, and tomorrow he might make some excuses, come to the palace to eat, drink and have fun every day, how dare he complain?Don't think that we don't know that the expenditure of the imperial dining room has increased significantly recently, and it has doubled several times!

……

Shao Zaizhi and the King of Thailand are of the same generation, about the same age, and went to school together when they were young.

It seems that the two have nothing to do with each other, but in fact...

There is really no intersection.

The fact that the clan does not make friends with foreign ministers is not an unspoken rule, but a written rule, written in "Taizu's Precepts".As long as the courtiers are smarter, it is impossible for them to fall into the trap and give their opponents means to criticize themselves.Especially the veterans who came from the time when Taizu and Taizong were still alive pay more attention.

The marriage between Princess Zhenguo and Hanlin scholar Xie He is a special case, because Princess Zhenguo is a special case in the clan, and Xie Jie and Fang Chaoci can befriend each other without any burden, because Princess Zhenguo is a special case .

The most important thing is that Xie Jie already has a foreign surname. In the eyes of many ministers, he cannot shake the orthodoxy.

Of course, the situation would be different if the ministers knew about Shenzong's idea of ​​passing the throne to Xie Jie.But before the whole world knew about it, Xie Jie refused, and he didn't have the brains to tell this kind of thing to others.Only Shenzong and Xie Jie knew about this matter, so the years have been peaceful until today.

When Shao Zaizhi came to the door, the king of Thailand was playing house with his little granddaughter.The white beard was tied crookedly by the little girl with colorful strings, but the old man can still smile and praise me with a good temper. Our girl's craftsmanship is really getting better and better.

The little girl is only a few years old, and she still doesn't understand how terrifying her grandfather who is the minister of the Zongzheng Temple and in charge of the clan's ethos is.As if just watching her smile, you can no longer worry.

Suddenly heard that the female envoy came to report, Shao Zaizhi came.

It's really impolite to arrive suddenly without a bow, which makes people unprepared.But the other party is Zai Zhi, he is the biggest besides the emperor, although the king of Thailand is a prince, but the real authority is a third-rank official.It's not easy to complain that Shangfeng has no rules, and the other party really doesn't need rules.It's like when the emperor comes to your house, do you need to pay homage first?unnecessary.

The purpose of saying so much is to explain that when Shao Zaizhi was brought in, the King of Thailand had no time to remove the colorful ropes from his beard.Most importantly, he doesn't look sick in the slightest.

But in the last few days of the court meeting, except for the first day, the old man showed up for a while, and the rest of the time he asked for sick leave.

In the next few days, other clans followed suit, and the number of people who came to participate gradually decreased, and there was no hope at all.

"Cough, cough, cough." As soon as Shao Zaizhi came in, King Tai started to cough instantly, as if he was about to cough up his lungs. Even if he was dressed a little differently, it didn't affect him in the slightest, as if he was really seriously ill. .

"Okay, stop pretending." Although Shao Zaizhi and the King of Thailand had never met before, they grew up in the same era after all, and they also struggled together in Taizu's barracks. It was the first time for the [-]-year-old eldest princess to go out in red makeup and change her arms, and even counting the number of times she looked up and down in the court hall every day, it was already much more than the average person.They understand each other's personalities fairly well.At least the king of Thailand knew that Shao Zaizhi was a father, and Shao Zaizhi knew that the king of Thailand was a showman.

Therefore, no matter what Shao Zaizhi said, the king of Thailand would still cough, and his dedication was incredible: "I don't know why Zaizhi came here?"

"You know it well."

"I don't know."

The peak confrontation between the two old foxes, no matter what it is, is actually their protective color, and the calculations in their hearts are crackling.After a few exchanges, you can figure out the other party's plan and express your own position.

Although King Tai didn't express his opinion, he definitely supported Taishan Fengchan. After all, Shenzong belonged to his family, even if his family made mischief, it was still his family!It is not clear whether this is the intention of the King of Thailand, or the position of the entire clan, or the instruction of the eldest princess of Zhenguo who is far away in other places.

Shao Zaizhi was very wavering, he abided by the rules, not because he was such a rule-abiding person, but because it could help him gain a firm foothold within the entire bureaucratic group the fastest.After all, the surname is Wen in this world, and there is no need for another Shao Xiang who is as smooth as a ghost.

So he came to King Tai just to ask for a guarantee that Shenzong really only wanted to pass the throne to Emperor Wen's son, and had no other plans.

"Uncle Shao asked you to come, right?" King Tai saw through what Shao Zaizhi was trying to cover up at a glance.

"Aren't you also a lobbyist of the government?!" Some people will take the initiative to attack when they are lobbyists, while others have the ability to get people to come to their door.

The two wrinkled old men stared at each other angrily for a long time, and finally they stared at each other, but they laughed out of nowhere, as if they had returned to the age when they hadn't won the world in an instant.One was persuaded by her father to do her best to assist the young lady Wentian who was fighting for the first time, and the other was also hinted to persuade the other party not to make trouble.

"Why did I bump into you again?" The two sighed at the same time.

"How have you been all these years?" Shao Zaizhi took the initiative to give way.

"As long as you don't come to the door all the time, I will live a better life." Mr. Tai Wang hinted implicitly.

Shao Zai paused, and it was rare for him to want to say something for this young colleague: "There are some things I shouldn't say..."

"Then don't say it!"

"...But I want to say, you really won't be reconciled?" You have great ambitions, but you keep yourself as a bird, spending your life building bridges and roads for others, and wasting energy and energy for other people's children and grandchildren.

Mr. Tai Wang looked deaf and committed another crime, and refused to answer Shao Zaizhi's question.

The optional BTE is just that convenient.

Shao Zaizhi also looked at him stubbornly for a long time, but he still couldn't get an answer, so he felt bored and prepared to get up and leave.Maybe they could have become very good friends and the most intimate confidants, but unfortunately, that was just possible.

It wasn't until Shao Zaizhi was about to leave the door that he suddenly heard a sentence from behind:

"you are not a fish, how to know the joy of fish?"

You are not me, how can you know my happiness?

Without the King of Thailand, the clan would not be what it is today, and Shenzong would not be what it is today.In the past, the two dynasties of the Western Jin Dynasty perished, foreign tribes invaded, and the eight kings rebelled, and the world suffered a lot.The same is true for Daqi today, but the will is united, only for the restoration of the country in the future!

Even if no one knows that it is the king of Thailand who saves the people from suffering from his own people, the king of Thailand can happily eat two bowls of rice.

and……

"My girl will be able to win the honor of Emperor Ji in the future, but this is not what my father promised me."

It is every emperor who enthroned.From Renzong to Shenzong, they all whispered in private, not for kindness, but for guilt.They will not mention to others what they have compensated, because they don't want people to think that the King of Thailand is trying to figure out something about the royal family, but it is because of this strange and stagnant tacit understanding between generations that it is even more commendable.There are not many female relatives in Daqi, and the example that can be compared is today's Princess Zhenguo.How many promises this promise has is self-evident.The King of Thailand is very content, even without these things, he will do what he wants to do, but he will be happier after all to be remembered so much.

Who says they are the descendants of others?Aren't they also his family?

Shao Zaizhi suddenly felt that maybe he was deaf too.

So he couldn't hear King Tai hugging his little granddaughter, coaxing happily: "Weng Weng didn't drop the rope on purpose, don't be angry, we are going to be Empresses in the future, does Empress understand? Generosity."

The author has something to say: *Many titles in the Song Dynasty were life-long titles, which were removed upon death and not hereditary.He is a hero, but not a shadow of his descendants.This is also the reference in the article. The old Duke Shao himself is the Duke of the country, but his son Shao Xiang is a white man, and he has to fight for everything by himself.

*The Song Dynasty actually had the meaning of a constitutional monarchy. Of course, the power of the emperor in the Song Dynasty was still great, and it was not really emptied, but usually when something happened, the prime minister took the blame and resigned. It is similar to modern Britain. prime minister.

*Taiwan admonishment system can check and balance the power of the prime minister very well. The most famous example of the prime minister and the censor fighting in the Song Dynasty is Wang Anshi's reform.The reformers and the conservatives are almost at the mercy of each other, and the last cannon fodder is... a famous gourmet in our country, a great talent from Su.Because of a single complaint from Su Da, the Wutai poetry case was triggered, and he did not know how it happened. He miraculously offended both sides. Of course, many people pleaded for him, so...he was demoted.Su Shi:? ? ?