The person sitting across from him was none other than Li Jinzhong, who had caused Xu Wenqu to break his leg back then. Now, he has been serving as minister in the capital for two years.
Li Jinzhong fell in love, looked at Lin Fujian's expression, and said cautiously: "Teacher, today, both the prince and that man went to the Imperial College."
Lin Fujian laughed: "They are the ones who do these useless trivial things and talk about step-by-step procedures. It's ridiculous!"
Li Jinzhong said: "Teacher, do you think this is Xiang Xu's handiwork?"
"Not necessarily," Lin Fujian said, "It may not be him who did it, but he must know it."
He said with a smile: "Xu Xiang, this person, has been defeated by this 'playing both ways' all his life. He tries to have both sides in everything. In the end, he shoots himself in the foot."
"That's right," Li Jinzhong said: "I recommended the person who went to court, and only received a light thank you, not even a thank you gift, so forget it... A few days ago, that person was killed for no reason.
The daughter of the Xu family has been downgraded two levels in a row and has become Chang Zai. This can be regarded as repaying a favor with a grudge, right?"
Lin Fujian laughed out loud: "You are wrong, that person may not even know that Concubine Jia is related to Xiang Xu."
"I don't know? No way?"
Lin Fujian said with a smile: "She is originally from the countryside, has no knowledge of court affairs, and has such a temperament. Whether she is a concubine or a court official, which family she comes from, what is the relationship behind her, what is the relationship, she is afraid that she is
I’ve never thought about this before. I wonder what’s so strange about it? It’s the emperor who wanted to be promoted to a concubine in order to repay Xiang Xu’s favor for her, but she didn’t want to, but it was she who took her down.”
He laughed a few times: "I know this, and Xu Xiang also knows it, but what can he do if he knows it? Can he go over and tell that person? To take a step back, even if she knows that this is a daughter of the Xu Xiang clan,
Are you really going to swallow your anger and watch her ascend to the throne? She feels very reasonable, and she dares to say anything to the emperor. When the time comes, the most she can do is to settle for the middle ground, neither promotion nor demotion."
I have to say that Lin Fujian is extremely accurate in judging people.
The more Li Jinzhong thought about it, the more he was right: "Then Prime Minister Xu is really aggrieved."
"Of course I'm aggrieved," Lin Fujian sneered: "With such a rampant person here, who knows who she will bite next? Who is really innocent? Anyone who offends her will bite her
If she bites her to the death at the slightest moment, who can risk all their money to fight against her?"
He clicked again: "Therefore, this person must not stay in the court."
Li Jinzhong said: "Only when people share this mentality can they go to the Imperial College."
Lin Fujian smiled and said: "These methods are neither painful nor itchy, and they are meaningless. If you ask me, her biggest problem is that she thinks that as long as the emperor loves her, she can do whatever she wants and no one has to be afraid. So...
…”
He narrowed his eyes slightly, held a chess piece in both hands, and shook it gently, "You have to teach her to be good, and make her understand that sometimes, the emperor cannot protect her, and her rampant nonsense will only make things worse.
Worse, if you want to solve the problem, you must learn...our way."
Li Jinzhong said: "But this man has a cruel temper. He would rather be broken into pieces than to be ruined. He will never learn to be submissive even if his head is broken."
Lin Fujian smiled: "If it is her own business, of course it is, but what if it is someone else?"
He said slowly: "She holds grudges as well as gratitude. Although she has a ruthless temper, she protects her own people closely. Therefore, the best way is to deal with the people around her, such as Xu Wenqu. For example, Tang
Shi Rong."
Li Jinzhong suddenly said: "That's right."
He was suddenly startled: "Teacher, do we want to deal with her? Didn't you say that the time has not come yet?"
Lin Fujian smiled: "At that time, the time had not come, but now, the time has come."
"But now that she has built a powerful cannon, it is at the peak of the sun..." Li Jinzhong put down his chess and stood up and saluted, "Please ask my mentor to clear up my doubts."
Lin Fujian waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down: "I said the time has come precisely because she created the powerful cannon."
Seeing that Li Jinzhong still didn't understand, Lin Fujian laughed and said, "Let me ask you, is this divine cannon enough to dominate the world? And the emperor sold it to Mobei without any regrets. This shows that the emperor has something more powerful than the divine cannon.
Cannons and better things. These are enough to make me, Dayan, undefeated for two to three hundred years..."
He leaned forward slightly and looked at him steadily with a pair of sharp eyes, "That's why I said the time has come."
Li Jinzhong had already realized something, but he still said: "Teacher, this..."
Lin Fujian said word for word: "The emperor may have a father-daughter love for her, but he wants to use her seven times. But she has a father-daughter love for the emperor, and a third part for Mingjun... I have said before
However, as long as she does not commit the crime of treason, she will be favored throughout her life. Just because she has expectations, she can always be raised. But now..."
He laughed: "Dayan is already invincible. No matter what she does in the future, it will just be the icing on the cake! At this time, her temperament, her actions, her abilities, and even her status as emperor
The wantonness in front of her... is all her reminder!!"
"Of course!" Li Jinzhong suddenly said: "With her extreme temperament, who knows when she will turn against her. Besides, the attention of all countries is on her. If she is kidnapped, it will be like a powerful cannon and so on.
Give it up! Instead, she became Dayan’s only danger!”
Lin Fujian nodded with a smile, and Li Jinzhong said, "Then do we want to give it a push?"
"No," Lin Fujian said: "We have to teach her, slowly win her over and take her under my control. Teach her how to behave and do things, how to always be favored by the emperor, how to continue to fight, rush, and fight.
,Bump! Pave the way for us to build a bridge!"
Li Jinzhong was so impressed that he said, "My teacher is brilliant!"
He lowered his voice: "Then, who should we deal with first?"
Lin Fujian smiled and said: "The people on Tang Shirong's side can start to take action slowly. When the matter reaches the capital, it will take two or three months. Xu Wenqu's place, let's serve some snacks first.
!”
He lowered his eyes slightly and said the last word with a loud sound: "You lose."
Li Jinzhong really didn't have the ability to play chess while talking: "My mentor is very skilled in chess, and my disciple has never won."
The cabinet of this dynasty has far greater power than the Zhongshu Province of the previous dynasty.
The Zhongshu Sheng only drafts and issues edicts, while the cabinet can vote on memorials to various places and can refute the emperor's edicts. The checks and balances between the monarch and his ministers are in the cabinet.
Now that the first assistant of the cabinet has submitted a letter begging for the body, and the second assistant Sun Xuancheng is a scholar, the dispute between the first assistant and the first assistant is gradually becoming clearer.
It is almost acquiesced that Lin Fujian will be the next chief minister. Even though Lin's party was jealous of the emperor due to the previous imperial examination, it can be said that governing a big country is like cooking a small dish. Who can uproot masters, disciples, disciples, and cliques in the DPRK and China?
rise?
Neither can the emperor.
Over there, Yan Shiyue came out of the Imperial Academy and returned to Xishan with the fifth prince. (To be continued)