Chapter 295: The universe is the great (2)

Autumn is coming to Chang'an, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the city is filled with fragrance. Wei Yuanzhong arrived at Di Renjie's mansion and immediately said, "It's not good."

"What happened?"

"I heard that the emperor held a banquet at Prince Yong's Mansion and invited Lai Heng, Zhang Da'an and Xue Yuanchao to accompany him."

Lai Heng was the son of Lai Huer, the general of the Sui Dynasty. His three brothers and his father Lai Huer were killed during the Yuwen and during the rebellion. He also had a younger brother named Lai Ji. In the second year of Yonghui, he was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat. Because he opposed Wu Zetian as the queen, he was demoted to the governor of Tingzhou. He was a civil servant, did not understand the military, and did not wear armor to fight against the Turks, and was dismissed in the army. Lai Heng was taciturn, but he was old and had a deep qualification.

Zhang Da'an was the son of Zhang Gongjin, a founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. He had a good reputation and was upright. This is also a unique phenomenon. Most of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty had military generals, because Li Shimin said that he governed the world with culture, so he asked his descendants to abandon martial arts and cultivate literature, and few sons inherited their father's business as generals.

Xue Yuanchao was even older. He was a disciple of the Xue family in Hedong and the son of Xue Shou, the confidant counselor of Li Shimin. Xue Shou died of illness and was only 33 years old. Li Shimin once told Fang Xuanling that if Xue Shou was there, I should serve as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat. There were two other famous cousins, Xue Deyin and Xue Yuanjing, who were called the Three Fengs of Hedong at that time. She was the Changchong, Deyin was the Gangchong, and Yuanjing was the youngest as the Gangchong. This Xue Yuanjing has always been in charge of the Hanlin for Li Shimin and is very respected. Therefore, although Xue Yuanchao lost his father in his early years, he grew up with a golden key in this environment. At the age of nine, he inherited the title of Fenyin man and was eager to learn. Li Shimin respected him and promised to be Li Yuanji's daughter and the lord of Jing County.

But we cannot think that it is not serious. After the Xuanmen Wu coup, Li Shimin killed Li Yuanji and his five sons, and he also blamed himself in his heart. He asked his son Li Ming to be Li Yuanji's stepson, and paid more attention to Li Yuanji's daughters than his own. All of them were outstanding people in the time. The Shouchun County Lord married Yang Shidao's son Yang Yuzhi, and the Wen'an County Lord married Duan Yan. He also asked Xue Yuanchao to be the prince's servant. Therefore, as soon as Li Zhi ascended the throne, he was appointed as a high-ranking position in the office, and was only twenty-six years old! Five years later, he was moved to Huangmen Assistant Minister, and three years later, he became Dongtai Assistant Minister. When he was about to be reused, he was a fool. Li Yifu Liu was a man of silly. In Lingnan, people were forbidden to ride horses, Yuan Chao submitted a petition and was demoted to the governor of Jianzhou. Then he sat in close contact with Shangguan Yi and was assigned to Liuzhou. After being pardoned, he was reused immediately. Li Zhi was in the hot spring school and the chiefs of the foreigners accompanied him with bows and arrows. Yuan Chao said that it was neither a clan nor a clan, but he must have a different mind. However, Li Zhi was not annoyed and accepted it immediately. Not only that, this person was in his early fifties and was at a time of great success. He also recommended Ren Xigu, Gao Zhizhou, Guo Zhengyi, Wang Yifang, Meng Lizhen and others. Most of these people are now important officials in the court.

Regardless of his personal relationship with Li Zhi, family background, or influence in the court, this person is not a minor matter.

Now that the court has set aside a few seats for the prime minister, the three of them are invited to visit Prince Li Xian's mansion, and the emperor uses meaningful meaning.

Di Renjie said: "So what?"

"You really don't know?"

"Lai Heng is old and doesn't want to be troublesome. Xue Yuanchao was a supreme person in the past, but he was actually wrong. This person is good at fame and has literary relations with Shangguan Yi. The reason for recalling was that the queen of heaven could understand and was able to be used. It was difficult for King Yong to accept it. However, Zhang Da'an has a straightforward personality and is easy to bewitch. It depends on whether King Yong has the ability to fold this person in his palm." Di Renjie paused and said, "Censor Wei, if you don't come, I still want to visit your mansion, and there is something to discuss."

"What's the matter?"

"It's also about Xue Yuanchao. Actually, I have noticed it a long time ago. This person is weak in character and suffers a lot. He is prone to losing power. His wife and the county lord Jing like to make money. And just so happens that King Yong has now received a huge sum of money, totaling 6,000 gold."

"Six thousand gold? Where did he get this money?"

Six thousand golds were nearly 50,000 yuan. Li Zhi was frugal, but he started to waste some extravagance and limited expenses. Wu Zetian practiced the Dragon Gate Buddha to fulfill his wish, but he only took out 20,000 yuan of "powder money". As the cost of King Yong was normal, the cost of 50,000 yuan was also a huge sum of money.

"This is exactly what I want to say to you. In recent years, I have asked the prince for some money, arranged manpower, and secretly monitored Ming Chongyan and Pei Yan's movements, for fear that they would be unfavorable to the prince. Pei Yan, as the prince said, was unfathomable and did not see anything. Instead, Ming Chongyan got some news, and there were other things besides his medicine test. Do you know that Xu Jingzong used to say that he was a loyal servant named Xu Zhong?"

"I don't know this," Wei Yuanzhong shook his head.

"This person is one of the most trusted servants under Xu Jingzong. At that time, I sent someone to investigate the case of Xu Jingzong. This person happened to go to Luoyang, probably to find Ming Chongyan or someone else to escape. Because he was involved in the face of the Tian family, he urgently dealt with it and let the person go. Later, someone was sent to supervise Ming Chongyan, because he used Chang'an people mostly, and accidentally met this person. Then he saw him appearing in Ming Chongyan's mansion, and then went to Yangzhou."

"Yangzhou?"

"Well, Xu Jingzong was not in Yangzhou for the sake of cunning rabbits, but in order to make money, where did he buy an industry. After Xu Jingzong fell, this industry was not seized. Not only Yangzhou, but also Luoyang, there were some secret industries, including the farm, but not the people of the Xu family were managing it. Luoyang was a businessman named Xiao Yun. Yangzhou was managing it. I wonder what Xu Jingzong thought, and handed over all these industries and manpower to Ming Chongyan."

This explanation is reasonable, otherwise Ming Chongyan would have a very poor background and would have been useless when he arrived in Shenzhou and would not dare to cause trouble.

"Later, for some reason, the roar Quan Hu, whom Xu Jingzong gathered, got the identities of my two adopted daughters and spread the matter to the capital. Ming Chongyan immediately judged that this was not good, and he killed someone to silence him and tried to cut off the clues." At this point, he smiled proudly. Because the emperor was the prince's confidant and kept suppressing him, it was not necessarily a bad thing. Once he moved, he was placed on the tip of the sword, which was not good. As the chief of the Dali Temple, he had the authority to investigate the case. The people were very afraid and invisibly resolved many troubles of the prince. Otherwise, there would be more things happening in the past few years.

"Then, the people who were following went to Yangzhou and found something. Liang Jinzhu and Luma managed the salt farm. What you know was the instruction of the prince. Few people knew about this person. However, soon, Zhang Asu immediately became the second person to run the salt farm. He made a lot of money in recent years. Some time ago, when he heard that Pei Yan was the minister of the Yellow Sect, Ming Chongyan knew that the emperor might redistribute the power of the court and asked Zhang Asu to exchange money for gold, which was 6,000 taels. He secretly transferred it to Dongdu with a car and presented it to King Yong. King Yong hesitated for a long time before he took it down."

The 50,000 scattered coins are very heavy and can be transformed into gold, but not much.

"Why..." Wei Yuanzhong earnestly.

It means eating it. Anyway, it’s black money, which is better than putting it in Li Xian’s hands.

"No, I have been thinking about this for a long time. The prince has a name and his real power is very small. Even this name is just a good reputation, but his reputation is not as good as His Majesty. This time His Majesty intends to praise King Yong, because he is worried that the controversy between the Queen of Heaven would be loud and that the Queen of Heaven and the King of Heaven would be restrained by the Queen of Heaven. But what would the Queen of Heaven think?"

This is easier to understand. Li Zhi gave Wu Zetian the power to hinder his son, not really wanting to give this country to Wu Zetian. However, among Wu Zetian's sons, although the prince often contradicted him, overall, he was still very filial. Li Xian has always been very opposed to his mother like the previous prince. Li Xian had no good feelings for the princess because of the tragic death of the princess, and Li Xulun was young.

Wu Zetian was also unhappy in doing this, but Li Zhi's goal was achieved, and he had a balance between multiple parties. In fact, it was very clear that you supported the three of you and maintained the balance and immediately moved you to prime minister. This kind of support is not to let the three of you be aides, but as long as you express your support on the surface, just like Dai Zhide and Hao Chujun and others, support the prince. It is not very difficult, and it is not a concern that the prince ascended the throne in the future. Of course, the second son has the ability to subdue the three, and Li Zhi is happy to succeed. He has always tolerated the prince, which means there is no good candidate in the future. This is like opening a Danshui Canal and cultivating a reserve army. If Li Xian becomes angry and the prince is unfilial, he can immediately abolish the deposed prince and support Li Xian.

However, the Xia Chu incident had just ended, and he was afraid of causing public controversy, so he did not dare to act too seriously.

This is the bad side of the matter, the good side. Now the prince and the queen have a deep conflict. Li Zhi helped Li Xian and would transfer the conflict.

"I'm afraid it's the court in the future..." Wei Yuanzhong smiled bitterly.

It can be imagined that in this way, you will inevitably be shuffled from the court and the place.

"Yes... So King Yong thought for a long time and finally accepted the money sent by Ming Chongyan, mainly because of his weak power. With this money, he could bribe Hejing County Lord, and the emperor instructed him. It is possible that he could take Xue Yuanchao under his disciples. Xue Yuanchao had many important officials in the court and China. In addition, when he heard about His Majesty's direction, some ministers who were eager for quick success and instant benefits would come to join him immediately. However, King Yong was still not as good as His Highness. If His Highness could not pass this level, it would be difficult for him to surpass His Majesty in the future."

Di Renjie's views on Li Zhi and Di Renjie are very fair. If it weren't for his illness, His Majesty would be a capable king, no less than the two emperors Wen and Jing.

"Xue Yuanchao is ultimately weak and afraid of power. If the queen forced him, he would inevitably turn against him. This person is not afraid, but there is one person who is afraid of, Pei Yan. This person is unfathomable, but it is not something that King Yong can win over. Even if he wins over, he will never be used by King Yong. Without the support of important officials in the court, others are not worthy of cherishing. Even if King Yong gathers up his subordinates like you and me, he can only plan and cannot be used when it is important." This is not self-esteem, it is sober. For example, in the April dispute, Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong could not help.

"But I still don't feel that it's great."

"It's not good. The court has a group of important officials, so the position of the prince has been consolidated. But the grandson, Dai and Zhang, are all old. Because of the constraints, there are some people who are eager for quick success and instant benefits. Several ministers are in power, and the building can be stable. When several ministers leave, the court will be in chaos. And the queen is smart, you can see that..."

“That’s exactly that.”

"But it's not impossible to solve. Ming Chongyan's gift of gold to King Yong means that he can't stand it in Shenzhou. Your Majesty is now a little healthy in the dragon body, but the root of the disease is deep. Once he falls ill, it will undoubtedly worsen. Ming Chongyan also wants to come out."

"You mean..."
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