Chapter 231: The tide rises again

After the meeting, the treacherous ministers said goodbye to Xiao Fan with satisfaction.

They had satisfied smiles on their faces, and today's meeting was rewarding for them.

The minister who can be ranked among the court has already been admired by the people of the world, but people's desires are like a ravine and will never be filled. If they can be promoted or promoted to another position, who would not want to? A fool would not want to do so!

Although the treacherous ministers are doubtful in character, they are by no means fools, and they are more elegant than monkeys.

The ministers who have been in the throne for a long time actually do not have high principles or bottom lines. All decisions they make are due to the interests of their individuals or families. As long as they are beneficial to themselves, the enemies who kill their fathers can sit together as warm as brothers.

Xiao Fan advocated the great martial arts and had a conflict with their interests. However, Xiao Fan later made a wish to be promoted to everyone, which greatly alleviated this conflict, and they could make choices without considering it.

This is how things in the world are. Every pecking and drinking, every effort is rewarded. If there is profit, the unity will be shared, and if there is no profit, the division will be divided.

If the proposal to reform the military system was proposed in the Golden Palace, it might be firmly opposed by most ministers in the court. No matter what, at least these treacherous parties would stand on the same front with him, which would be enough.

——Facts have proved that people do need a few friends in their life, either fox or bad friends.

After seeing off the traitors, it was already time to take the lights and it was time for Xiao’s house to start dinner.

Xiao Fan's three wives were all having meals in the inner courtyard, and there were only Zhang Sanfeng, Taixu and Xiao Fan in the dining room next to the front hall.

The family is having a happy and warm atmosphere.

Cao Yi happened to enter the Xiao family's door at this time.

Xiao Fan raised his eyebrows at him and said politely: "Have you eaten?"

"have eaten."

"Eat some more?"

Cao Yi was very pleased: "Okay!"

He ordered the servants to add dishes and chopsticks. Cao Yi honestly and unceremoniously carried a jar of wine, tore off another chicken leg, and started to chew it.

Xiao Fan looked straight at Cao Yi's eating habits and said, "Your appearance really makes people feel appetite..."

Seeing Cao Yi swallowing voraciously, Taixu couldn't help but be anxious. He quickly started to grab the dishes on the table with Cao Yi, but Cao Yi's number of dishes was obviously much higher than his. In a calm and unhurried manner, he casually brought the dishes into his mouth. His big furry mouth squirted a few times and then swallowed them, both calm and free.

Taixu kept chewing hard in his mouth, his hands quickly rose and fell in the dish. His small eyes stared at Cao Yi, and he showed an expression of anxiety and hatred.

Xiao Fan and Zhang Sanfeng sat calmly, watching the two of them snatched up dishes around the table.

I don’t know how long it took, but Taixu couldn’t snatch it. He slapped the table in anger and said angrily: “Who is surnamed Cao, are you here to smash my job today?”

Cao Yi looked at Taixu in shock with a look of inexplicable expression: "…………”

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After drinking and eating, Cao Yi burped in satisfaction. Only then did he realize that Xiao Fan was holding the rice bowl and holding the chopsticks, motionless, looking at the table with a blank expression.

Cao Yi was stunned: "Why don't you eat?"

Xiao Fan knocked the dish with chopsticks and said expressionlessly: "...what do you want me to eat?"

The dishes on the table are clean and slim, and they are even whiter than Taixu's face.

Cao Yi smiled embarrassedly and scratched his head and said, "...Your cook is good, where did you hire me?"

Xiao Fan sighed, "You came to my house for free when you were eating at dinner time, right?"

"I'm here to talk to you about official business,...I've had a meal by the way."

Taixu, who was standing beside him, said angrily: "You fart! You ate all the portions of the three of us by the way. Are you embarrassed to make the old man hungry?"

Cao Yi smiled awkwardly: "…………”

Xiao Fan rolled his eyes and said, "Master, we are no longer as depressed as we were in the mountain temple in the past. After we finished the dishes, we asked the chef to make a few more. Why are we angry..."

"Whether to eat or not is another matter. The problem is that the boy named Cao is in a wrong attitude! He doesn't know at all what respect for the elderly means..."

Zhang Sanfeng knocked on the table impatiently and said lightly: "Junior brother..."

"exist."

"Shut up!"

"Yes." Taixu was as honest as a grandson.

Xiao Fan immediately ordered the chef to cook a few more dishes, then put down the bowls and chopsticks, and talked to Cao Yi about the serious matter. Taixu held the chopsticks with a resentful look on his face, searching for the remaining meat in the dish plate, and putting them into his mouth one by one, not letting go of a single star.

Cao Yi took a small bamboo stick and reported to Xiao Fan on his work while casually picking his teeth.

"... The spy sent by the Jinyiwei to the homes of the ministers sent the news. The censor Huang Guan somehow knew your idea of ​​reforming the military system. He gathered several Qingliu ministers and cursed you at his house..."

Xiao Fan's face twitched for a moment and said coldly: "What did he scold me?"

Cao Yi smiled dryly and said, "This... you'd better stop asking. It's not a good thing anyway, so why bother to make yourself feel uncomfortable?"

"Well, skip this question, which ministers did he invite to his house?"

Cao Yi counted on his fingers and said, "Zhang Yu, Minister of Rites, Minister of Justice Yang Jing, Minister of Justice Bao Zhao, Censor of the Left Capital, and Zhuo Jing, Right Minister of Revenue."

Xiao Fan sneered: "Qingliu*** is rekindled again. What else would these pedantic and stupid scholars do besides ruining the country and the king?"

Cao Yi sighed: "I finally ruined Huang Zicheng, and Huang Guan's group of people are proud again. Damn it! The Yangtze River's back waves are connected to the previous waves. When will it be the end!"

"As long as the court is still there, these self-proclaimed loyal ministers will not be lost. There are always such a group of people in history who are upright. Except for themselves, the civil and military officials in the court are all treacherous ministers and treacherous ministers. Only they are loyal to the court and the emperor, and the loyalty of others is false..."

Cao Yi sighed: "Now your enemy is emerging again, what are you going to do?"

Xiao Fan grabbed the scalp in distress and said, "To be honest, I don't know what to do. I can't kill these people, and I can't catch them. If possible, I really want to kneel in front of them and call them "Master, please let me go, don't always make things difficult for me..."

Cao Yi thought about it, and suddenly his eyes were fierce and said, "No poison is not a husband. Why don't I send my confidant to set a fire on Huang Guan's mansion and burn all the bastards inside. Then he responded to Yingtian's prefect, and said that the candlesticks were knocked down in the study of the Huang Mansion and left the water. If this matter was done secretly, it would be seamless and no one would doubt it. Once these people died, who would come out to lead the Qingliu in the court? A good opportunity is God-given! Brother Xiao, what do you think? Make a decision quickly."

Xiao Fan was shocked and shook his head quickly and said, "This matter must not be done! Brother Cao, this is a sin!"

Cao Yi said anxiously: "They are your enemies, how can they be so kind and ruthless to the enemies?"

"Brother Cao, it's not that I am kind. These people are important officials in the court, two ministers, one minister, and two leaders and the court censors. If they die, the court will inevitably cause a big shock. Now the kings and the princes are unstable, and they are all stopping to watch the court's movements. The King of Yan is even more ready to be wary of the emperor. If so many important officials die at the court, it is difficult to guarantee whether the King of Yan and the other kings will make any noise. Besides, I just returned to the capital yesterday, but Huang Guan and those ministers who were disagreeing with me were burned to death today. Is there such a coincidence in the world? This is a big loophole. The censors in the court are not fools. How could they not doubt it? If the news spreads to the emperor, I am afraid that they will become suspicious of me from now on. This move is not worth the loss, and we must not do it!"

Cao Yi was a rough man, and he could not think of any other way except to kill and set fire. He heard this and said anxiously: "This is not OK, that is not OK. Then what do you think of?"

Xiao Fan thought for a while and said, "Did Huang Guan and the others say anything besides scolding me?"

Cao Yi said angrily: "Huang Guan said that tomorrow we will start to connect with the censors of various departments to the officials. Everyone agreed that if you really openly propose reforming the military system at the court meeting, causing the court's atmosphere to focus on martial arts and neglect the literature, they will definitely attack them in groups and impeach the emperor to harm the country and chaos. Then they will advise them to death and force the emperor to chop your head to clear the emperor's side."

Xiao Fan's heart was filled with blood, and his handsome face turned red with anger. He slapped the table hard and said angrily: "What a poison! What did I, Xiao Fan, have done something wrong? I am so unwilling to be tolerated by my colleagues! Brother Cao, go and set fire to them and burn them to death!"

Cao Yi responded happily, then walked out.

"Slow down! Come back!" Xiao Fan stopped him.

Cao Yi walked back in confusion.

"Just pretend I didn't say anything just now, just sit here and pick your teeth..."

Cao Yi: “…………”

At this moment, Xiao Fan's anger gradually eased, his expression returned to calm, and he said, "Those words just now were just telling you that Swenren also have a temper..."

Cao Yi: “…………”

"The temper is the temper, but don't play it really, the consequences are very serious..."

Cao Yi: “…………”

Taixu, who was carefully picking the meat in the dish, grinned his teeth and said with a strange smile: "Sure enough, what kind of apprentice is the master who taught him what kind of apprentice? You are not even more in tune than me!"

"What are you going to do?" Cao Yi had no choice but to sit down, pick his teeth helplessly, and asked lazily.

Xiao Fan shrugged and said, "I am a slow-temperature type. Let me think of a solution. Anyway, as long as I don't openly propose the reform of the military system in the Golden Palace, Huang Guan and the others will not be able to participate in me. This time the initiative is in my hands."

Cao Yi said excitedly: "Do you want to kill someone?"

Xiao Fan wiped his sweat: "It shouldn't be necessary..."

"Would you like to set fire?"

"No need..."

Cao Yi suddenly became depressed and weak, "I'm playing with your conspiracy again? Don't kill people or set fires. What's the point of fighting like this?"

“…I’m bleeding.”

Cao Yi grinned, picked his teeth with a small bamboo stick, and said listlessly: "It's up to you, if you want to use me, just open your mouth..."

The two chatted together, Zhang Sanfeng, who was standing beside him, closed his eyes and meditated, while the chopsticks in Taixu's hand rose and fell in the dish plate, and he was very happy to pick the meat on the plate...

Xiao Fan and Cao Yi were chatting and suddenly stopped talking. The two of them stared at Taixu, who was eating meat very happily.

"Old...Old immortal..." Cao Yi's voice trembled a little.

"What are you doing?" Taixu didn't raise his head and replied angrily.

"You ate all the meat in this plate?" Cao Yi stared at Taixu in shock.

Taixu snorted angrily: "You have eaten all the meat. Can't I eat some meat?"

Cao Yi squeezed out a smile that was even worse than crying: "That meat foam was picked out by me..."
Chapter completed!