12. Double-faced man Guo Duan
If you enter the second hall, you must "a relative of the royal family, the empress dowager, the queen, the first rank of prime minister and the first rank of scattered officials, and the meritorious officials who have a good fortune will be granted the title of the capital, and the son of the Huangmen Minister of the Central Secretariat."
To put it bluntly, the Empress Dowager and the Empress's close relatives can still discuss that the princess's son is not enough, unless the prince consort takes office as a third-rank official.
So Princess Shouchang walked through the back door, and she found her sister, Princess Shengping, who was close to her, hoping to get in with the Fenyang Palace and send her son in.
In addition, in order to ensure the integrity, Princess Shouchang previously wrote a letter to Zhang Yanshang in private.
Because Zhang Yanshang was the minister of the disciple and the prime minister of the dynasty, and Hongwenguan itself was under the jurisdiction of the disciple, Duke Shouchang mainly came to "double insurance": the one in the Fenyang Palace took the Chongwenguan line, while Zhang Yanshang took the Hongwenguan line.
The cunning Zhang Yanshang agreed to Shouchang while intending to leak the news to Yanguang.
Then he asked Guo Zhuan to strengthen surveillance of the luminescence during this period.
Yan Guang, who had always been strong, did not suppress his anger. She knew that there was only one place left in the second hall, and Shouchang and herself could only have you and no one. After knowing that Shouchang was like this, she sat directly on the eaves and rushed to the Fenyang Palace to intercept Shouchang. The two sides immediately had a fierce quarrel.
According to Guo Zhuan's report, Yanguang had an absolute advantage in this quarrel.
Guo Zhuan described Yan Guang as saying when he showed his mighty attitude to Shouchang:
I have experienced four dynasties and are highly respected. Your Majesty will soon sign me as the "Princess of the Country". How is your status compared to me?
Pei Ye, the son of my ex-husband (Pei Hui, the Palace Chief), is now the son-in-law and is married to your sister Princess Jinyang, so I am also half of your aunt. The younger generation should be humble to the elders;
My daughter and I were born to my second deceased husband Xiao Sheng, the Crown Princess, and the future queen. So my youngest son Xiao Wan will be the queen's younger brother in the future. It is natural to enter the second hall. What is your son's identity and deserves to be the same as me?
In addition, Xiao Sheng was the cousin of Xiao Fu, the Minister of the Secretariat of the Court. Now Xiao Zhonglang is the ambassador of the Qizhen Xuanwei, and has won steadily in the war against Xifan and Dangxiang. His Majesty gave his clan a merit to the second hall for the reward. What happened? What great contribution did your family make for the country?
All four of them were aggressive. It is said that even Princess Shengping changed her expression, and Shouchang was so angry that he was speechless.
But after showing off his might, Princess Yanguang immediately felt that "the disaster came from the mouth" - the mother was so stupid that she did not hesitate to do the most stupid behavior.
Finally, it was mediated by Princess Shengping that the two princesses stopped fighting, but there was no reconciliation.
Yan Guang actually returned to his house with lingering fear.
However, she did not take this seriously in her heart. The worst result Yan Guang could think of was nothing more than Shouchang went to Li Shi to complain.
There have been all dynasties who have been punished for words, but Yan Guang has never seen any of the spy rule that has been punished for words in the previous three dynasties.
After the quarrel, although Princess Shengping tried her best to cover up because she knew the overall situation, she was still found out by the omnipresent Jinwusi children and told Guo Zhuan (Guo Zhuan was originally a relative in the Fenyang Palace). Guo Zhuan immediately came to tell Zhang Yanshang.
Zhang Yanshang sneered several times, "Xiao Fu, the opportunity to uproot you has finally arrived."
The unlucky politicians are all implicated by their ignorant relatives and friends.
To be fair, Zhang Yanshang has no selfless grudges towards Xiao Fu, and he hated Wei Gao and Gao Yue even more, so he had to kill Xiao Fu first, and then after mastering the Political Affairs Hall, he could naturally deal with Wei Gao and avenge the expelled one arrow from Xichuan!
After defeating Wei Gao, I will deal with Han Huan. Then I, Zhang Yanshang, as the prime minister, take charge of the world's government and financial power, Ma Sui, as my ally, holds military power, and Zheng Zhi, as my son-in-law, takes charge of the Hanlin Academy. I will become my biggest and only important official in Tang.
Therefore, Xiao Fu must not be allowed to achieve great achievements against Xifan. I have to defeat him at the critical point, otherwise even if he grasps the handle, he will not be able to shake Xiao Fu.
Yanguang provided him with a wonderful breakthrough.
So Zhang Yanshang told Guo Zhuan in person...
As the moon rises, Zhang Yankang is in a good mood and stands under the corridor to watch the moon. At this time, he sees his son-in-law Zheng Zhi and his daughter Bisheng walking towards him.
"Cough." Zhang Yanshang leaned his fist to his lips.
"Father." Zheng Zhi and Bisheng hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
"Yeah, yeah." Zhang Yanshang then asked Zheng Wei, is it still loyal and dedicated to serving His Majesty in the Hanlin Bachelor's Academy?
"Don't dare to neglect." Zheng Zhi answered very seriously.
"The Hanlin Academy is full of honors and stagnation, and civilization must be like walking on thin ice. The king's words that Your Majesty said and thought must not be revealed to the foreign ministers." Zhang Yanshang advised his son-in-law.
Zheng Zhi hurriedly thanked his father-in-law for his teachings.
But when Zheng Xian returned to his room, Zhang Yanshang went to his bedroom and said to his son Zhang Hongjing: "You find a few servants with quick hands and sharp minds and send me a secret letter."
Zhang Hongjing asked, who to send him to?
"Lingwu Kang Rizhi, Huainan Duya, of course, the most important thing is Masui in Hedong." Zhang Yanshang said.
After listening to his father's arrangement, Zhang Hongjing was a little uneasy, so he tentatively asked his father and said, "Is Guo Zhuan reliable?"
"I helped him clear his sins. He could put two lines on him, one is the line of Jinwu and the other is the line of Fenyang Prince's Mansion. Today, you see, the two lines are of great use at the same time." Zhang Yanshang said proudly, and then he taught his son experience, "Although Guo Zhuan was born in a lowly and a person in the market, because of this, I bent on him and he was flattered and must be devoted to me. In addition, his immediate superior Yin Zhizhen, the Privy Councilor of Jinwu, also had a good relationship with me, and had always had different relationships with Huo Zhongtang, Ju Wenzhen, Tan Zhizhong and others (these eunuchs had a good relationship with Gao Yue). If Guo Zhuan had any distractedness, Yin would also watch him for me."
But Zhang Hongjing was still scared. He asked his father silly: "If you attack Princess Yanguang, you may eventually involve the prince, and the situation will become uncontrollable."
Who would have thought that Zhang Yanshang was extremely cruel, "Then uproot the prince... Don't do it first, don't stop second!"
Seeing his son's face full of horror, Zhang Yanshang looked like a disappointed expression. He turned his head to look at the cold moonlight as cold as an arrow and murmured: "Crown Prince, what is my prince of Tang! Not only can I pull out the prince, but I can also use him to defeat other enemies." After that, Zhang Yanshang said in person, "There is also a letter, you have to give it to Prince Pu Fu, Meng Yu."
At the same time, under the pomegranate tree in the Jinwu Courtyard of the Daming Palace, the Privy Councilor Yin Zhizhen sat in the hall, and Guo Dun and other Jinwu judges stood under it. Yin asked about the situation he had learned about these past few days. When asked about Guo Dun, Guo said that there was no abnormality in Taiping, Chang'an City.
When Yoon Zhizhen announced the end of the dot seal, Jinwusi can be said to be everything.
On the deep spring night, Guo Duan returned to his house in the yard, and the curtain was lifted, and two young middle-level officials walked out of it, asking Guo Duan, "Is there anything you want to tell the emperor?"
Guo Zhuan hurriedly bowed with his fists, then approached the candlelight, and told the two officials softly for a long time.
Chapter completed!