In the next few days, Yun Zheng followed Yun Lan's arrangement and went to the governor's yamen most of the time. Firstly, under the guidance of Zhang Futai, he gradually understood some of the main institutions and responsibilities of the governor's yamen. Secondly, he also wanted to find out more about the yamen.
In addition to the general operation, he went to the Yanyunwei camp. He was a newcomer in the governor's yamen, but his prestige in the army was quite high. He was still very popular in Yanyunwei, whether it was
Soldier or general, respect for Yun Zheng comes from the heart. This is because he has the aura of the heir apparent of the Yun family, and secondly, because he has fought all over the army for several consecutive years. As for the reason why he went to the Yanyun Guards
Regarding the matter of the Chinese people, he originally planned to transfer a few from the Yingyang Guard, but after thinking about it, he felt it was not good, so he sent Yun Kun, Yun Sheng, Yun Xi, Yun Ji, Guo Zhengbei, Du Xincheng, Jiang Guangsheng and others.
People were called in and asked to promote a few young and capable people from among their cronies to certain positions. They were all young commanders of the Yanyun Guards, with four commanders and three deputy commanders.
There are some close confidants, and most of the people taken away by Yunjun and Yungang are at the level of thousands and centurions. It is just right to promote them from among their subordinates.
Just a few days after the leisurely days, something big happened. Yun Zheng received a message from Yun Lan early that morning and hurried to Yun Lan's study.
As soon as he entered the door, Yunzheng was stunned. All the high-ranking generals of Yanyun Guard who stayed in Yanjing had arrived. At the same time, as the main generals of the Yun family, Yun Yi and Xu Shaoyang had also arrived. As for Li Mo, he was still in Huai'an at the moment.
Doing scientific research?
As soon as Yun Zheng entered the door, a group of generals immediately stood up and came forward to salute. Yun Zheng returned the salute with a slight smile, and then heard Yun Lan say: "Okay, everyone is here. Please stop being polite and talk about business."
Everyone immediately stood in awe, and everyone stood up. Yun Zheng also quickly moved to the first place on the left and stood there. Yun Lan waved her hand: "Everyone, sit down."
Then everyone sat down carefully. Yun Lan glanced lightly. Yun Zheng felt that his eyes stayed on him for a while, but this feeling was very subtle, and he was not very sure.
"At the beginning of the year, Chengfeng went south to supervise the training of Yingyang Guard. You all know what happened to Yingyang Guard later. It should be said that Chengfeng's ability to train and lead troops is passable. So after he comes back this time, I plan to
Let him serve as the governor of Hebei and train in government affairs. As for military affairs, he can be released for the time being. But the day before yesterday, I received an urgent message from my second brother Yuanshan, saying that after the emperor urged General Shen to be dismissed from the prime minister, the pressure in the court was also great.
, especially our Yun family has completely remained silent, which makes some people in the court very worried. On the contrary, the Qin family, which has been relatively low-key in the past few days, has come forward. People from the Qin family often complain about the resignation of Prime Minister Shen, so the emperor seems to
There is an idea to transfer me to the capital to quell some rumors. This news was confirmed yesterday. The emperor has issued an order to call me back to the capital. According to the imperial edict, the emperor may appoint me as a Taiwei..."
As he spoke, he glanced at everyone and said, "Do you think I, the commander, should take up the post of lieutenant?"
Of the people here, Yun Yi was usually the most carefree one. When he heard it, he immediately said: "What the Marshal said is strange. The Taiwei is the head of a hundred officials of the first rank. His position is equivalent to the Prime Minister. The imperial court has not established one for many years. Now,
With such an opportunity, why doesn't the commander-in-chief go? The general thinks that it would be very beneficial for our Yun family to have the commander-in-chief become the captain. As long as the commander-in-chief is obtained, he can stabilize the power of the other three families. That surname
Zhou's side can only envy him."
As soon as Yun Yi opened his mouth, Yun Kun, Yun Sheng and others also started to help and supported Yun Lan in returning to the capital to serve as a lieutenant. The other generals looked at each other and one of the veterans said: "If the commander-in-chief intends to serve as a lieutenant, I'm afraid it will take a long time to leave." Be prepared to be at the forefront of the storm. Although the Shen family and my Yun family are allies, after harming the interests of the Shen family, the compensation falls on our Yun family. In this move of the emperor, will there be any consequences? Is there a meaning of deliberately causing discord between my Yun family and Shen family? Once the Yun-Chen alliance breaks down, depending on the emperor's skills and the implementation of the current new laws and policies, it is very likely that he can secretly assassinate us and destroy the strength of our two families. If you go down a long way and the commander-in-chief goes to Luoyang, the affairs in Yanjing will be complicated... I ask the commander-in-chief to think twice about this."
Yun Zheng suddenly understood on the side. Yun Yi took the lead in supporting Yun Lan to go to Luoyang to become a captain. I am afraid there is another meaning in it. Once Yun Lan leaves Yanjing and goes to Luoyang, then Yun Zheng, as the prince, must be the "supervisor". country." This would be good for Marshal Yunzheng to send his troops to take power.
Correspondingly, there is opposition from the veterans. Most of the veterans were promoted by Yun Lan. In fact, they also know that once Yun Zheng comes to power, their group will definitely be replaced. According to the arrangements of the past commanders, the new commander will take office. Sometimes, at most three or four veterans will be retained as assistants. The rest of the important positions will usually be replaced by new coaches within three years, and no more than five years at most.
Yunlan became famous at a young age, and is not very old now. She is still barely thirty-seven or forty. At this age, in the official circles of later generations, she is still a "young cadre" and is still far away from retirement, so these veterans feel that she is young. It is very bad for the Shuai faction to have the intention to seize the class and seize power now. They are not old yet! So they opposed Yun Lan's move to the capital to be appointed as Taiwei. After all, although they are veterans and have senior qualifications, this society is a blood clan system. In this society, once Yun Lan leaves, there will be almost no limit to the power of Yun Zheng, the heir apparent. As long as he doesn’t do anything outrageous like starting a rebellion, the entire Yanjing—no, the entire Northern Xinjiang—will have no one. Can fight against his will
People from the two factions started arguing, but since most of them were from within the family, the intensity of the dispute was not very serious. It was just a matter of reasoning between the two sides.
Yun Lan listened for a long time and suddenly asked Yun Zheng: "What do Zheng'er think?"
The surroundings suddenly became quiet. No matter which faction they were in, they all stared at Yun Zheng. Yun Zheng's attitude at this moment may determine the commander's decision. But they also knew that Yun Zheng's answer was actually difficult to make. If you support it, you may be impatient to seize power. If you don’t support it, wouldn’t it be in vain that you have been fighting for so long? Doesn’t this chill the hearts of your followers?
Yun Zheng straightened his body and said calmly: "Actually, what everyone said makes sense. At this time, if you want to be a captain, you will definitely be at the forefront of the storm. Every move and every word of the commander-in-chief is... It may bring unpredictable changes to our Yun family and even the entire Wei Dynasty. This can be said to be good or bad. But on the other hand, if we don't go, the Yun family will be unable to say anything about the changes in the government. Now the government is in chaos, and various factions People and horses are making a mess, and no one knows who wins and who loses, but looking at China for thousands of years, we can know that at this time, as a powerful power group, we should have a mouthpiece in the DPRK. We can express our demands and let our will participate in the country's decision-making. So when we look back, do we have such a mouthpiece? Yes, it is the Shen family. But the Shen family is an independent big family after all. They have their own interests. As a family of civil servants, their interests cannot always be consistent with the interests of our Yun family. For example, right now, the Shen family is being suppressed by the emperor, but in fact, the emperor's current behavior has not only harmed one of our allies. Apart from making us a little unhappy, it actually didn't do much harm to us, so we didn't feel the pain. So we thought it didn't matter whether the captain did it or not, and it didn't matter whether the emperor wanted compensation or not."
Yun Zheng looked around at the generals and said solemnly: "But I want to say that this kind of thinking is superficial! As an ally of our Yun family, the Shen family's interests have been harmed. In fact, our interests have been harmed. They The weaker the strength, the weaker the strength of our Yunchen Alliance, and the smaller our voice in the DPRK - of course, no matter what the outcome of the change is, the smaller the benefits we can get to solve this problem. There is only one solution to the problem. Let us speak louder in the court! Let more people clearly hear what our Yun family means. Whatever they want to do, they must also consider that our Yun family is supportive. Still opposed! So how do we make this voice louder? In the past, we used the words of Mr. Shen. As the left prime minister, Mr. Shen’s voice was naturally loud enough and had enough weight. But now Mr. Shen The Prime Minister has retired, and the Shen family's voice in the court has been suppressed by His Majesty and has become much smaller. At this time, if we continue to rely on the Shen family to help us speak, won't the voice become even quieter? So this requires us to have another person to speak. A louder voice appeared - that of Taiwei! Taiwei is one of the three nobles. Although there are establishments in this dynasty, they are rarely actually awarded. There are only a few ministers who have ever held the post of Taiwei in the past two hundred years in the country. Man, if Commander-in-Chief Father can be granted the title of Taiwei this time and stay in the capital, then the voice of our Yun family in the court will suddenly become several times louder! In this chaotic situation, the possibility of catching a big fish is very high. At least several times higher. Based on the above, Zheng believes that Commander-in-Chief Father should take up the post of Taiwei."
-------------------- Yun Lan dismissed everyone and returned to the backyard, feeling quite heavy. This time he convened the generals to discuss whether he would be appointed as Taiwei. In fact, there were After taking a look at what everyone was thinking, the result was just as he expected, the so-called "Dashuai Faction" and "Young Shuai Faction" had indeed begun a head-on confrontation.
He sat on the chair and let out a long sigh
Ning Wanting came over and asked, "Why, did you not have a pleasant conversation with the generals today?"
Yun Lan said angrily: "A bunch of brats just want me to go to Luoyang quickly so that they can control the situation in Yanjing. They almost had a falling out with the veterans in the study today."
Yun Lan told Ning Wanting what happened today. Ning Wanting frowned and said, "I didn't expect Zheng'er's disciples to be so eager now. I don't know if they promoted so many people to pave the way for Zheng'er." After some time, now that I think about it, Zheng'er's strength in the army is really not weak anymore, but... Zheng'er shouldn't have any evil intentions?"
Yun Lan said: "Zheng'er is very smart. He doesn't have any evil intentions. In fact, his group of people don't have any opinions on me as a commander. They just think that they are capable and that a group of veterans are somewhat They are blocking the road, so I hope to take advantage of my going to Luoyang to expand their strength a little bit."
Ning Wanting said: "What does Zheng'er mean about whether to go to Luoyang or not?"
"He supports me to go," Yun Lan said without hesitation.
Ning Wanting's expression changed slightly: "He is also anxious?" But she felt a little confused in her heart. She usually didn't think her son meant to take power. How could this happen? Could it be that he was inexperienced and didn't see the meaning?
Yun Lan shook her head: "His reasoning is quite sufficient and he thinks deeply." Then he looked at his somewhat confused wife and smiled: "Don't worry, considering my husband's current understanding of Zheng'er, even if I go
After leaving Luoyang, he will not make any major adjustments in personnel arrangements, at least he will never move some key positions."
"Oh?" Ning Wanting was a little surprised: "Why do you see my husband?"
Yun Lan smiled and didn't say much. She just said: "Zheng'er has matured a lot in the past six months." Seeing that Ning Wanting still didn't believe it, she laughed and changed the topic: "Once you go to Luoyang, the most troublesome thing will be
I’m afraid that’s how to deal with Qiu Linjiang, the new left prime minister.”
When Ning Wanting heard about Qiu Linjiang, she sneered: "Qiu Linjiang wants the emperor to monopolize power. It's really childish among Confucian scholars. That's what they say about Confucian scholars harming the country. But he doesn't want to think that if this is true, the emperor can kill and seize ministers at will.
, It would be fine if he was a wise emperor, but if he encounters a foolish and unprincipled emperor who only favors, flatters and flatters people, why don’t all the capable officials in the dynasty kill him cleanly? Then sooner or later our great Wei Kingdom will be destroyed by other countries."
Yun Lan nodded and suddenly asked: "A few days ago in Luoyang, during Zheng'er's wedding, His Highness the Crown Prince once got into trouble. My husband felt that His Highness the Crown Prince... was very problematic."
Although Ning Wanting was surprised by her husband's sudden jump in thinking, she did not care about it and said with a wry smile: "Zheng'er and the prince have conflicts not once or twice. His highness the prince likes to cause trouble for Zheng'er when he has the opportunity. This is nothing
Strange”
Of course Yun Lan knew the reason. Yun Zheng had been friends with brother and sister Lin Xi and Lin Yuyan since childhood. After the queen's death, Emperor Wanchang gave most of his favor to their mother and concubine. This made the prince Lin Xu extremely resentful.
, has always hated Lin Xi deeply, and often bullied their brothers and sisters. It was not until their protective umbrella Yun Zheng appeared that they restrained themselves. However, they also hated Yun Zheng because of this. After that, they made trouble for Yun Zheng, which was just a way to put Lin Xi and Lin Xi into trouble.
Lin Yuyan's anger is only on Yunzheng
Yun Lan recalled the time Yun Zheng beat the prince into a pig's head when he was a child, and shook her head: "Zheng'er also went too far at that time."
Ning Wanting curled her lips: "What's wrong? Let's not talk about Lin Xi, let's talk about Yu Yan, a well-behaved girl. When she was a child, she was bullied by Lin Xu and stayed with her mother and concubine all day long without daring to go anywhere. Just know that Lin Xu
What kind of role is this prince? Let’s talk about Zheng’er. If he really didn’t dare to beat that prince because he didn’t dare to take action, I won’t let it go.”
Yun Lan scolded: "Nonsense, he is the crown prince, what can you do to him? If Zheng'er continues to pamper you like this, something will happen sooner or later."
Seeing that her husband was really angry, Ning Wanting wisely stopped mentioning the matter. She thought for a while and said: "It's not good to take responsibility for the Chenglei brothers and throw them away to Yunzhou like this. I'm afraid they will feel bad."
If their relationship causes them to be at odds with each other in the future, it will probably be detrimental to Zheng'er."
Yun Lan said with a headache: "If they are not allowed to go to Yunzhou and take charge of the elders, there will be many of his people in Yanjing Mansion and even in the yamen throughout Hebei. When Zheng'er takes charge of government affairs, it will be difficult for these people.
He will throw a weapon against rats.”
Ning Wanting frowned and said: "If these people have no problems, Zheng'er will naturally not touch them. If they have problems, is it because the responsibility lies with Yanjing, so Zheng'er will not dare to touch them? If Zheng'er suddenly
There are many people in the clan who are dissatisfied with taking charge of Hebei. If we don’t establish a firm foothold as soon as possible, there may be endless troubles in the future.”
A maid suddenly walked in in a hurry, looking panicked and said: "Master, madam, the third young master has beaten the king's accountant who is in charge of the accounts in the house."
Yun Zheng had been sullen since he came back from Yun Lan's study. Xiao Lian was used to him laughing and joking in an inappropriate manner. Seeing Yun Zheng like this today, she was a little scared. She hid aside and trembled, not daring to speak. Even Xiao He
I also feel a little uneasy
Yunzheng knew that what happened today was a signal. Through this signal, the Dashuai Faction and the Young Marshal Faction really began to confront each other. Although the "Dashuai Faction" was not the faction supported by the Dashuai, after all, it was promoted by the Marshal back then.
It is actually a bit unwise for the Young Marshal faction to confront them at this time. Yun Zheng felt that it was necessary to remind his people. But now it is more and more obvious that his father's commander-in-chief wants to delegate power. I'm afraid they can't listen to his words.
It's hard to say
The more Yunzheng thought about it, the more headache he got. He didn't know what to do. He suddenly shook his head, remembered something, raised his head and shouted: "Xiaohe"
Xiao He came over and said, "What are your orders, Master?"
