Before the news of Zhuge Linggong's death had passed, the world heard another shocking news. Yuan Xi, the former servant of Jimin Mansion, actually served as Shangshu Ling, took over Zhuge Linggong's will, and was about to command all the governments. Everyone was shocked. , Yuan Xi... Can he do a good job? Everyone is deeply suspicious of him. This cannot be blamed on others, because Yuan Xi has never done anything amazing in these years.
He has no meritorious service that impresses everyone. He has been busy with disaster relief work in various places over the years. He does not have wide connections in the temple and his reputation is not prominent. On the contrary, among the people, his reputation is very great, only second to Zhuge At the level of Duke Ling, over the years, in the process of disaster relief, he does not seek merit, but only seeks no faults. And because he is clearly aware of his own shortcomings in ability, he will do his best in everything and take the lead. Therefore, the people respected him very much.
In several areas such as Liangzhou, people even set up temples for him to worship him.
After coming out of the court meeting, Yuan Xi felt the alienation from the ministers around him. It's not that they were all hostile to him, but they couldn't treat him the way they treated Zhuge Linggong. Full of suspicion and distrust, he had no friends in the temple before, and he was even more isolated now, especially Zhuge Ke, who had just been promoted and became the servant of Jimin Mansion.
This young man was very ambitious and had always regarded himself as the successor of Zhuge Linggong. He also valued the position of Pushe in the Lifu and hoped to use it as a stepping stone. However, Yuan Xi was promoted and he suddenly took over. Yuan Xi became the servant of Jimin Mansion, and he must have been unhappy. He walked up to Yuan Xi, looking a little irritable and blushing. Yuan Xi smiled at him and said, "What's the matter with Mr. Zhuge?"
"You will never be as good as my uncle in this life!"
Zhuge Ke said coldly, staring at Yuan Xi with his eyes. Yuan Xi was stunned, nodded, and said: "What you said is absolutely true." It seemed that there was no anger on his face, Zhuge Ke said. Ke snorted coldly, turned around and left. Yuan Xi watched him leave, and the ministers gradually walked away. Yuan Xi then walked towards the Houde Hall, and the ministers were arranged to the meeting hall outside the palace. After that, Houde Hall returned to the hands of the emperor again.
Yuan Xi wanted to pay homage to the emperor. Speaking of which, it was the emperor who should pay homage to him, because the positions of these three ministers were higher than those of the three princes, and such ministers needed to be paid homage to by the emperor. This was the etiquette of a great man. Yuan Xi came to Houde The entrance to the palace was blocked by several yellow gates. Of course, these yellow gates did not dare to be too rude. After all, this was the minister who had just taken office. Even if he was no longer favored by the emperor, he would still be the third order, not how many of them A eunuch can offend.
"Excuse me, could you please tell me that I want to see your Majesty to discuss the next political affairs."
"Don't dare, don't dare..." Several Huangmen were a little frightened and quickly avoided Yuan Xi's salutation and walked into the Houde Hall. Yuan Xi stood upright outside the hall and looked at the surrounding scenery. Suddenly he was a little lost. He stood for a long time, and I don’t know how long it took. Then Huangmen came out. Huangmen looked a little uneasy. He bowed and said: "Go back to the minister, the state... body I feel unwell and said that I will summon Shangshu Ling another day."
Yuan Xi nodded, "In that case, I will go back. I hope you can send a message to me. I wish your Majesty a speedy recovery and take care of yourself!" After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Huangmen looked at him.
He left with a long sigh. He had never seen such an unpopular Shangshu Ling. He had just slightly changed the language of the country. The country simply hated this person. The pain of Zhuge Linggong's recent death was not there yet.
After disappearing and no one could take his place, Liu Qu was naturally in a very bad mood.
His appointment and dismissal of Yuan Xi today may not be without some element of anger. Seeing that Yuan Xi was so unwilling to be the minister, he was furious, so he asked him to be the minister.
After walking out of the palace, Yuan Xi was stunned. It turned out that there was a fat man standing in the distance, waiting. When he saw Yuan Xi coming out, Liu Yi came over, bowed his hands and said: "Meet Yuan Shangshu!", Yuan Xi
Xi Helpless, "Are you waiting for me here? I'll keep you waiting for a long time..."
"It's only half an hour. The Emperor values you so much that he has kept you for so long." Liu Yi said. Obviously, he was unaware of the situation in the palace.
"I have never met with Your Majesty. His Majesty was not feeling well. I waited for a while and then came out."
Hearing these words, Liu Yi's expression changed drastically, and he said with some displeasure: "As a minister, how can your majesty be so rude to you? No! I want to enter the palace!" Liu Yi said and went to the palace.
As he walked towards the palace, Yuan Xi hurriedly stood in front of him, "Don't do this. Even as His Majesty's elder, you shouldn't do this. Don't hurt your kindness for me... Forget it, forget it.
Already..."
Liu Yi was still very angry, but Yuan Xi held him tightly, and he failed to find Liu Qu. He pulled Yuan Xi into the carriage, but Liu Yi was still a little irritable. He said: "I see, this Shangshu Ling
For you, this is not a good thing at all. You don’t have enough prestige, and you don’t have any friends except me. Even His Majesty doesn’t like it. I see, I don’t know how many people are waiting to see your joke..."
"The same goes for Pang Linggong. I think he just wants to lift you to this position and take the opportunity to weaken the power of the Chancellor!"
Yuan Xi didn't say a word, sitting silently in the carriage with his head lowered.
"You want to say something, what are you going to do next? If you want to give up this position, I can help you. Of course, if you want to continue, I will help you find some assistants..."
"I dare not refuse the emperor's order. As for the assistant, I don't need it. Can you send me to the minister's desk?" Yuan Xi asked.
Liu Yi was furious, "Where has the arrogant Yuan Xianyi gone when he was a child? Why is he so cowardly and without any ideas now?!"
"If I were like Liu Linggong, with a father who could protect me, a kind mother, and brothers who supported each other, I would definitely not be like this." Yuan Xi said calmly and saluted Liu Yi.
When he was about to get out of the car, Liu Yi blushed and didn't know what to say, so he hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's my fault. Don't blame me. I spoke freely. In fact, I'm not..."
"It doesn't have to be this way."
"Xianyi, how about a bet with me?"
"good."
"If you can sit in the position of Chancellor for ten years, I will play drums and music for you!!"
"What if I can't?"
Liu Yi thought for a long time and then said with a smile: "Then you will be my grandson's first teacher!"
"It's a deal."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Returning to the Shangshutai, the officials in the Shangshutai had already heard what happened today. After seeing Yuan Xi get off the carriage, they hurriedly came out to greet them. Yuan Xi came down to meet them one by one. These people were all
There were not many capable ministers and officials under Zhuge Linggong, only thirteen. Yuan Xi was also very polite to them. These officials finally breathed a sigh of relief. They were afraid that the new Shangshu Order would remove Zhuge Linggong's power.
influence to drive them out.
Although Zhuge Linggong is no longer here, the Zhuge family still exists, and these officials are also very close to Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Ke.
After the death of Duke Zhuge Ling, his son and nephew received great rewards. Now their status in the temple has rapidly improved, and they have become the most prominent among the younger generation.
Yuan Xi sat in the upper position, and the other officials sat on both sides of him. These officials looked at him a little strangely. After all, originally this position only belonged to Zhuge Linggong, but for Yuan Xi, he sat on
In fact, he felt uneasy. After all, he used to sit on both sides. After a moment of silence, Yuan Xi just asked them about various matters in the Chancery, and the officials answered them one by one.
The Shangshutai is mainly responsible for supervising the execution of various government affairs. In a strict sense, it is the commander of the various government offices. It must reasonably allocate the various government offices and control their cooperation to prevent conflicts among them.
, and in order to provide help to various governments, Yuan Xi picked up the pen and ink and wrote down their words very carefully, which made the officials very uncomfortable. After more than an hour, Yuan Xi finally summarized everything.
All recorded.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he said: "I have already recorded these things. I think the original decree implemented by Zhuge Linggong is very appropriate and does not need to be improved. I will keep it as it was before.
Just continue to follow the rules. Just continue to do what the Duke ordered before. I won't say more..." Yuan Xi said this, and everyone was overjoyed.
They had previously worried that Yuan Xi would mess up after taking office and randomly change many of Zhuge Linggong's policies. Fortunately, this man still knew himself and did not mess up. Since he followed the original rules, it would be easy to handle.
, everyone bowed to him, and then everyone started busy. Yuan Xi also entered Zhuge Linggong's study and started busy with the other things decided by Zhuge Linggong.
The first thing is the canal matter. Zhuge Linggong has been working on this matter for nearly four years and has never finished it. It is still being excavated and built. Yuan Xi just looked at the huge water conservancy map in the study and his head hurt.
When he got up, the map was densely packed with future water conservancy plans. Yuan Xi was dumbfounded when he saw the various pictures and symbols. Fortunately, he had long known in his heart that he did not have the talent of Zhuge Linggong, and he did not feel any sense of loss.
He took out a planning book on water conservancy and canals from the bookshelf, compared it with the signs on the map, and began to study it carefully.
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The ministers of the DPRK originally thought that Yuan Xi's coming to serve as Shangshu Ling would be a major event that would change the situation in the temple. However, they did not expect that for a long time after Yuan Xi took office as Shangshu Ling, the entire temple was extremely quiet. Yuan Xi treated others very well.
His gentleness usually stayed in the Shangshutai without leaving home. According to the officials in the Shangshutai, in order to understand Zhuge Linggong's plan on the canal, this guy actually studied in the study day and night.
After a few months, my hair was falling out, but I still couldn't figure out anything.
What was finally handed over to the officials was just an ordinary canal excavation document, without any highlights.