He walked around the palace again and again, and then issued an order to transfer Cui Chuai back to the capital to serve as Zhongshu Province's minister.
Lin Yutong knew about this as soon as she turned around. She was copying family scriptures with Li Hong and Li Dan in the mourning hall. At this moment, she handed the new copy to Li Dan and asked him to burn it. Liu Ren was coming over there.
Already.
In the inner hall of the mourning hall, only Li Zhi's personal attendant was waiting on him.
Liu Ren just came in, came over and told Lin Yutong the matter in a low voice.
Lin Yutong frowned. Cui Chuai was Li Xian's father-in-law. He was the governor of Bozhou before. In fact, the Cui family and the Wei family are different.
How capable his father is. But the current Queen Cui is not. The Cui family not only comes from the Boling Cui family and has a glorious surname, but also the Cui family is full of talents. There are many children of the same clan who serve as officials in the court.
The direct and close relatives of the current queen are not incompetent people.
Although Cui's grandfather Cui Renshi is no longer alive, he served as prime minister during the Zhenguan period. Cui's father, Cui Chuai, was Cui Renshi's eldest son and was promoted to the governor of Bozhou not long ago. Cui also has three uncles, the second of whom was a meritorious officer in Yongzhou who joined the army.
, the third uncle is the governor of Hengzhou, and the fourth uncle is the minister of household affairs.
In fact, the configuration of the Cui family is already very high. It is completely different from that of Webster's year. Obviously, Li Zhi really put a lot of thought into choosing Li Xian's concubine.
However, Li Xian is still so bad at employing people! In this situation of the Cui family, don’t be anxious and slowly move up. With the Cui family’s background, you will not be used by no one! This is also the fact. The Cui family is almost
Prime ministers are produced from generation to generation.
You just want to eliminate the Cui family now, so could you please promote your wife's fourth uncle first instead of directly promoting your father-in-law?
My fourth uncle, Cui Yi, has already become the Minister of Household Affairs. You have been promoted and become the Prime Minister. This is in line with the promotion process, right?
As a result, they were greedy! I had to keep the Minister of Household Affairs, and the Prime Minister had to give me one.
Liu Ren all knows that this is extremely inappropriate!
Aren’t you here to find yourself?
Lin Yutong asked, "Then what do you think I should do?"
Liu Ren sighed, "The old saint spent a lot of energy choosing a concubine for today's saint."
If he doesn't follow the echelon arranged by his father, who can beat him? "Besides, if I take care of him, he will inevitably become nervous. The more nervous he is, the more mistakes he will make. Fortunately, it is just an exception to promote Cui Chuai! Although this person has seniority
Qian, although the family has a strong foundation and a daughter has become the queen, it is just a little bit off and unconventional, which will make others feel uncomfortable, but it will not cause trouble. "
Yes! That’s all I can think about.
It stands to reason that with such a promotion, Li Xian should stop in moderation. This is something that everyone thinks is understandable. But he didn't. Maybe he felt that Pei Yan didn't stop him, and Empress Wu didn't stop him either, so he became more and more wanton, and then
Crazy adjustments were made to the Cui clan, and ten Cui surnames were removed in seven days.
It's too much, but when we got here, the ministers below still endured it and were speechless!
Of course, Pei Yan must be feeling uncomfortable.
Why? Because of this, the process of promoting officials is fixed! First, you have to draft the edict at the Zhongshu Ministry. After that? It also has to be reviewed by the Ministry of Men. If it fails to be reviewed, it can still be rejected!
Therefore, whether it is Zhongshu Province or Menxia Province, they are places where the emperor's decrees cannot be circumvented.
Pei Yan was in charge of the Zhongshu Province, and Empress Wu ordered the other two provinces and six departments to take the lead of the Zhongshu Province to highlight Pei Yan's status. Therefore, whether it is the Zhongshu Province or the Menxia Province, they are actually within the scope of Pei Yan's rights
As for Li Xian, he first placed his father-in-law as a servant in Zhongshu Province and served as Pei Yan's deputy. This is equivalent to the promotion of officials, which can often bypass him Pei Yan.
Okay! Pei Yan endured it and was speechless. Immediately after Li Xian promoted ten more surnames Cui, Pei Yan was still speechless. It was time to draft the edict and he drafted the edict to give the new king face.
But immediately afterwards, Li Xian wanted to transfer his father-in-law to the Menxia Province as a minister. The vacant position of the minister in the Zhongshu Province was given to the queen's third uncle, who was promoted to be the governor of Hengzhou.
He took up this position.
What would happen if Li Xianqian succeeded in this matter? The sage issued the edict, the father-in-law drafted the edict, the sage sealed it, the uncle reviewed it, and then issued it. The edict can be completed in the hands of three people, you
Pei Yan, go ahead and play.
Can Pei Yan endure it? I don’t even serve as a minister. The queen has given me great power. I cooperated with the queen. I am shameless. Not to mention my loyalty to the late emperor. I have been infamous all over, and then you tell me to get out?!
I paid such a high price, I can't end up becoming a joke.
Then Pei Yan went on strike. I didn't draft your father-in-law's transfer decree! I didn't draft your uncle's transfer decree either.
He took practical actions to show that Zhongshu Province was on strike and refused to draft the emperor's edict.
Many ministers went to remonstrate, saying, sage, Prime Minister Pei was right this time! You can reward the descendants, but the process of abduction cannot be so wantonly destroyed, as this will destroy the imperial court.
But Li Xian feels that every new official has three things to do when he takes office. I just started, and you called me back! Will you have to tie my hands and feet from now on?
He was so stubborn that he not only refused to give in on the appointment of the Cui family, he also issued another decree to confer a fifth-grade official to his wet nurse's son: Zhongshu, please give it to me immediately
Draft an edict or bear the consequences.
Pei Yan laughed angrily, and then he went to the palace to see Li Xian, and made it clear: "If you employ people like this, the Zhongshu Ministry will definitely not agree." The Zhongshu Ministry did not draft the draft, and the Menxia Ministry rejected it. What can you do?
Li Xian suddenly felt that sitting on the throne, there was nothing he could do!
It's not that he doesn't want to compromise, but compromise cannot be made under such circumstances, right? Now that the whole court is in trouble, everyone knows it, and I have backed down? Where is my majesty?
Yes! I might have been impulsive because of my lack of consideration. However, the majesty of the king cannot be lost! The wet nurse’s son couldn’t be a fifth grade, so I just casually agreed. Later, I actually felt it was inappropriate, but then,
When I think about it, these five-level officials are also divided into priorities, right? Would it be okay to ask him to take care of the royal affairs, or to take care of the crops in the imperial manor?
It's okay! My wet nurse took care of me for a while, and now I ask my wet nurse's son to take charge of the private property of me, the emperor, in an official capacity. Is it so intolerable?
You just feel that this matter is inappropriate, then come and tell me properly, won't I walk down the steps and humbly accept advice? Or you agree first, then tell me this carefully later.
There are pros and cons in it, can we remove him again? Why do you insist on being so stubborn with me? You don’t regard me as an emperor at all! What does your attitude mean? It means that you just want to control me.
.
If this is the case, how can I compromise?
He was in an extremely bad mood to begin with, but when he thought about his current situation, he felt that everything was wrong, and it was all Pei Yan's fault! It was you, the minister who cared about life, who wasted the last emperor's orders, and that led to today's predicament.
Now you are still shy about not agreeing. Why don't you agree? Thinking about this, the anger in his heart became more and more intense. He asked with a sneer: "Pei Yan, whose world do you think belongs to this world?"
Naturally, it is the world of saints!
You also know that it is my world! "Since it is my world, then I have the final say. Not to mention that I want to promote a few people, but I will give this world away to others. What do you want to do?"
Give this world away?
hehe!
Pei Yan took a deep look at Li Xian, said nothing, and resigned.
Li Xian sneered and didn't care.
But Pei Yan turned around and went to see the Queen of Heaven, who is now the Queen Mother.
When he saw Empress Wu, she said, "Mother, the sage said that even if he gave away the world to others, he would not do anything like ministers and others."
Shangguan Wan'er was stunned when she heard that, and then the corner of her mouth curled up, Li Xian deserved it! But this Pei Yan was too unreasonable. Li Xian said that, wasn't it an angry word? Who is angry?
Why don't you say one or two angry words? It's better for you to turn around and come to see the Queen of Heaven just because of these angry words.
Of course, this person is unrighteous, but that doesn’t mean that he does things out of compliance with the rules! After all, it is said in the imperial edict that if there are any undecided military and state affairs, the Queen of Heaven should be taken into account. Now the new king has said that he will give away the world to others.
If you insist that this is related to the security of the Tang Dynasty, it is really incontrovertible.
If anyone opens his mouth to defend Li Xian: Those words are not serious, they are just casual remarks of the saint.
Then Pei Yan must have said something back: Why is the emperor joking?!
That's right! The emperor has no jokes! He can't speak without restraint and say everything.
Look! Li Xian is giving the obvious handle to others.
Shangguan Wan'er felt that the Queen became excited instantly! Yes! What the Queen was waiting for was an opportunity. She thought the opportunity was far away, but who knew, it had only been a few days? The clue came to her door.
Sure enough, Empress Wu had a serious look on her face, as if this joke was really a big deal. Then she said seriously, "Pei Aiqing, what do you think we should do about this matter? The late emperor trusted you and left you to take care of his fate.
Minister, the late emperor trusted me and left me to supervise the affairs of the government. Now that I think about it, this may not be because he does not trust this saint!"
Pei Yan nodded: Yes! The late emperor died in the twelfth lunar month of last year. When he died, the late emperor was fifty-six years old and the Queen was sixty years old. But the current saint is already twenty-eight. Now a year has passed and the new emperor is twenty-eight years old.
Nineteen years old! He is almost 30 years old, but he is still so out of tune. No wonder the late emperor is worried!
I heard Empress Wu say again, "...the saint is determined to have his own way, but he can't listen to the advice of you, a minister who cares about life. If he could listen to my mother, the empress, how could he be like this?" Yes! Queen of Heaven.
This statement makes a lot of sense. As a mother, if the Queen of Heaven could take care of herself, wouldn’t she have taken care of her already?
Pei Yan nodded with deep approval, as if he particularly recognized Empress Wu. He wanted to see what Empress Wu would say next and what she planned to do.
But Empress Wu sighed and said: "...So many courtiers have tried to persuade me, but now it seems that it is of no use. No one listens to their advice..." As she said this, she looked troubled.
, pretending to be casual and asked: "Pei Aiqing, what do you think... what should we do?"
Shangguan Wan'er thought to herself that the Queen of Heaven was throwing the topic to Pei Yan again. How could the Queen of Heaven bring up what she wanted to do first?
Over there, Pei Yan clicked his finger in his heart, and he probably figured out the Queen's thoughts. If this emperor failed, he would have to find a way to find another one. But Pei Yan had concerns. Who doesn't know that the princess of Zhenguo is the most upright person, even if she is with the saint?
There was discord, but I was afraid that she was upholding orthodoxy. What would we do then? Princess Zhenguo really dared to chop off her own head in the court hall with the Emperor's Sword on the grounds that she had disobeyed the late emperor's order.
Therefore, it is not that the matter cannot be done, but the opinion of the princess of Zhenguo must be sought.
Therefore, he said, "If not, please persuade the princess of Zhenguo?" If you persuade me, then the matter will be over; but if you fail to persuade me, then the princess shouldn't think that we are too rebellious, right?
Empress Wu said in her heart that it would be damned if the Zhenguo could hope that Li Xian would become the emperor!
But, of course, you can't say that! She looked very approving, nodded her head, and then ordered: "Well, if you go to invite Zhen Guo, you must ask her to come and give her a good advice.
Don't be in a hurry to do anything else, just accompany the princess. Maybe the saint, for the sake of his imperial sister, is willing to listen to the advice this time?!"
So Lin Yutong saw Pei Yan, who was brought in by Liu Ren. He came in to meet Li, and told Li Xian what Li Xian had done in front of Li Hong and Li Dan.
Li Hong coughed violently, his body bent into a shrimp shape due to the cough, and his face turned red from suppressing it.
Lin Yutong quickly gave him a massage, "Brother Huang, why are you still angry?"
Li Hong was so angry that he took a sip of the water brought by Li Dan and struggled to say: "...it's better to worry less when you are grounded!"
This actually gave Lin Yutong a way to deal with it. If it didn't work, he would put Li Xian under house arrest! If he was under house arrest, he would call his mother the regent.
Yes! It will be fine once the queen mother is gone and there is no more fighting for power and gain.
This was all heard. Li Xian was careless in his words, and Empress Wu was using the subject to play off the topic. Li Hong believed that what Li Xian did was not that he was really stupid. In fact, if he was really given the power of the emperor, he would not
He would go to this extreme. Therefore, he believed that it would not be much of a hindrance to take charge of the government later in life.
Putting Li Xian under house arrest and his mother acting as regent can solve the current dilemma.
Lin Yutong smiled without saying anything, and told Li Dan, "Don't let Brother Huang endure it, support him and rest for a while. Your body is the most important thing!"
Li Dan is well-behaved and obedient, and serves Li Hong without any hesitation.
Lin Yutong raised his feet and walked out, with Pei Yan following closely. He was actually a little afraid that the princess would actually follow the words of the former prince. Really! Based on his relationship with this king, if this person returns to power in the future, he and himself
I'm afraid it will be difficult for his descendants to die a happy death.
He wanted to communicate with the princess, but when he saw that she was dressed in mourning clothes, her face was extremely cold and solemn. He did not dare to say a word.
When Li Xian heard that Pei Yan had arrived with Princess Zhenguo, he was no longer afraid! Even if the emperor's sister beat him up, she would not disobey his father and do anything to him.
So, he went to the door of the hall to greet her in person, with an aggrieved look on his face, "Sister, you are here."
Without waiting for Lin Yutong to greet him, he pulled the person in first, but seemed not to see Pei Yan and asked him to stand outside the hall.
It was a day in the first month of the year, with a cold wind blowing. Pei Yan, a person who was inferior to one person and surpassed tens of millions of people, was not only ignored, but was forced to stand like this!