Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao is still working in the East Hall of Jinxiang Hall, reviewing memorials on a daily basis. The memorial is the main method of communication between the emperor and the ministers, the center and the localities at this time. In Guo Shao's view, it is a bit like a company's email system in later generations; of course, the efficiency of the memorial is much slower.

After he returned to Tokyo, he maintained a very regular activity. On the first and fifteenth day of each month, he met with officials above rank five in Beijing in the Jinxiang Hall. As long as it was an office day, he almost met with a dozen of the most important civil and military officials in the East Hall in the morning;

These activities have a practical effect. Courtiers may have selfishness and cliques, causing some things to be unfair; but theoretically, the emperor will not have too much selfishness, the country belongs to the emperor, and the emperor is logically unwilling to tear down his own power. It is easy for ministers to see that the emperor and Beijing officials can go to court every month, so they are given a channel. If there is a way to let the emperor know when the conflict is too intense, let the emperor uphold justice... This is probably called "smooth speech", but it is actually very simple to do.

Therefore, Guo Shao didn't think he was doing well in etiquette and other aspects, but he thought he was a qualified emperor.

But he is not always open minded, and now he is almost swayed by anger! The person he was dissatisfied with was Fan Zhi.

Guo Shaoqing knows that it is not a good thing to deal with things based on subjective emotions, so he seldom employs people according to his own likes and dislikes. But this time he really had the urge to kill Fan Zhi!

Damn it, he didn't bring down the country, I let whoever I want take power! Even Wang Pu, the privy envoy, was fine, so Fan Zhi came out and jumped around! Lao Tzu hates the kind of people who seem to be loyal and behave like a gentleman at every turn, but they are actually here for business and are extremely stubborn. If that guy came out to stir up trouble, what real benefit would it have for the imperial court?

In the meeting hall before, Guo Shao wanted to ask the guards to drag Fan Zhi out and chop him up on the spot!

Fortunately, Guo Shao is still a little rational, he understands that he can't do that, and even scolds Shi Yanchao to protect Fan Zhi's face... This is not Guo Shao's personal wish.

Because Fan Zhi was the prime minister in the previous dynasty, any attitude of the emperor towards him would cause many officials to watch quietly; while most of the civil servants in the Great Zhou Dynasty were former ministers of the previous dynasty, Guo Shao had to pay attention to his own influence. Furthermore, Fan Zhi is now the prime minister of this dynasty, and Guo Shao's indulgence of his prime minister being humiliated is destroying the authority of the court.

So he scolded Fan Zhi secretly to Shi Yanchao in his heart, but expressed another gesture with duplicity.

...At this time, Shi Yanchao's memorial had already arrived in the East Hall, right in front of Zuo You.

Zuo You and Huang Binglian were responsible for reading the content of the memorial, and then wrote a concise summary on yellow paper and pasted it on the cover of the memorial. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the cabinet assistant government will see the content of the memorial before the emperor.

When Zuo You saw the contents of the denunciation in the memorial, his feeling was really hard to express.

He immediately realized the seriousness of this memorial.

He went to Luo Yanhuan's house for a drink last night, and he, Luo Yanhuan, and Li Chuyun stayed together, who knows what they said in private? This morning, most people did not express their attitude towards Fan Zhi's memorial, but Zuo You supported Fan Zhi's proposition... It has to be guessed, what Zuo You discussed with Li Chuyun, and Zuo You was speaking for Li Chuyun this morning.

And why did Li Chuyun support Fan Zhi? It's nothing but Empress Duanci's power, which can affect the power and status of the Fu family. If Li Chuyun intends to help the prince born to his daughter, then he is definitely not on the same side with the Fu family, and of course he does not want to see the Fu family continue to grow up.

If you think about it a little deeper, you can also suspect that Li Chuyun, Fan Zhi, and Zuo You are colluding with civil and military forces and forming cliques for profit!

Zuo You was on pins and needles for a while, and turned to look at Huang Binglian. Huang Binglian was holding a pen and writing something without looking sideways, as if nothing had happened... The entire East Hall study was very quiet, deadly quiet!

Zuo You really wanted to tear up this memorial now! However, he understood that it was of no use at all. Even if Huang Binglian didn't see it, the memorials were first classified and numbered by the Privy Council (after Fu Jinzhan took power on the west side of Jinxiang Hall, all memorials had to be classified and sent to the East and West Halls respectively). Moreover, Shi Yanchao can continue to write books.

Shi Yanchao of Dog|Day|! Zuo You cursed secretly in his heart.

Zuo You had no choice but to put Shi Yanchao's memorials in the pile, hoping that Guo Shao would not see them...Guo Shao didn't approve every memorial, some he didn't want to do, he would mark it, and then send it back to the Privy Council and the Political Affairs Hall for the ministers to deal with it as appropriate.

For the next half a day, Zuo You was in a daze and restless. It is not easy for him to have today's status and future. If there is a gap between him and the emperor in this kind of shit, it will be too uncomfortable.

...However, Guo Shao quickly discovered Shi Yanchao's memorial when he looked at the yellow stickers on the memorial. And he is very concerned, because people like Shi Yanchao basically don't write memorials.

Guo Shao looked at the content and couldn't help observing Zuo You from behind the screen. Through the thin silk surface, Zuo You's face seemed to be very pale.

At this moment, the sound of bells and drums outside the Xuande Gate came, indicating that the hour of You had arrived.

Guo Shao pondered for a moment while holding the memorial in his hand, and then stood up: "After you finish today's work, you can go down to the task yourself."

Zuo You, Huang Binglian and the others stood up, bowed and said: "Respectfully send off Your Majesty."

The eunuch sang: "The emperor drives!"

... Zuo You walked out of the Donghua Gate of the imperial city with a heavy heart, and couldn't help but look back at the majestic Miyagi in front of his carriage.

He got into the carriage, took out a pen and paper from the carriage, licked the tip of the pen with his tongue, and wanted to write a letter to tell Li Chuyun what happened today.

But when Zuo You picked up the pen, he couldn't write it on the rickety carriage... If this matter was known again, wouldn't it be more evidence of collusion?

There is a group of people in the Imperial City Division who are secretly investigating spies internally. It has never been heard that Guo Shao instructed the Imperial City Department to monitor the internal ministers, and it should and indeed did not. But things are just in case.

Zuo You has never felt such fear as now.

He finally gave up and gave up his plan to tell Li Chuyun. Some things, when you are not sure, simply do nothing, probably should be like this.

...

On that day, Li Chuyun didn't know about Shi Yanchao's letter, but he smelled an inexplicable sense of crisis. It is probably a person who has been fighting all year round. If he has no intuition for danger, it is difficult not to suffer a big loss.

After returning home, Li Liangshi, the younger brother of the family, came to see Li Chuyun again.

Li Liangshi regarded himself as a resourceful Confucian scholar, and believed that Li Chuyun was a military commander who lacked strategy. In fact, Li Chuyun seldom listens to this person's advice, but thinks that the clan brother is quite smart, at least he can remind himself of some negligence.

The road I have traveled in person, the ups and downs of experience and intuition, cannot be compared by reasoning.

Li Liangshi came in and said: "Unexpectedly, Fan Zhi came out in the first place. He really helped the lord a lot. Fan Zhi is the prime minister, not to mention that he has a lot of party members, at least he has friendship with many people in the officialdom; he came forward to say that (against Fu Jinzhan's long-term ruling), the officials have to think carefully. From the words of the lord, the court should want to do big things recently. He definitely doesn’t want to do anything else at this time.”

Li Chuyun said calmly, "What do you want to say?"

Li Liangshi said: "I'm here to congratulate you, I think Empress Duanci can't continue to be in power."

Li Chuyun stroked his big black and thick beard, shook his head, and muttered again: "Everyone checks in front of the palace..."

"Master?" Li Liangshi looked at him puzzled.

Li Chuyun was still pacing up and down, a little restless.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Li Liangshi's suggestion. Li Chuyun also wanted his grandson to be a prince, which would be of great benefit to the Li family's future. However, the higher you are, the more you cannot take it lightly.

If you can't even keep what you have already got, what's the point of greedy for more?

He silently recited the word "all checks in front of the hall" again in his heart. Besides the honor, he also felt that the chair was really hot! In the line of generals, the highest position is that they have been inspected in front of the hall, and they are the most senior generals in the entire Great Zhou.

The position in the Forbidden Army is already the highest, the sky is above, there is no road, and there is only an abyss below the clouds. But this does not prevent others from thinking that he is as tall as the sky, which is why Li Chuyun smells danger.

The more he pondered, the faster his steps became. After a while, he sat down in the chair, but got up again immediately.

Li Liangshi asked suspiciously: "My lord, why are you worried?"

Li Chuyun said: "I have nothing to do with Fan Zhi!"

He pointed out the window again: "I just want the portrait to be in the Xuanren Gongde Pavilion after death, and the descendants to shine on the lintel and place my memorial tablet in the main room."

Li Liangshi said: "My lord is right..."

Li Chuyun stroked his beard vigorously, and said: "Empress Duanci was expelled from the West Palace. Others think it is what I want to see most. As you can imagine, the civil and military officials in the court are not stupid! Fan Zhi jumped out at this time and said, why should he say that? It's none of his business."

Li Liangshi was thoughtful, but now he was speechless.

"Then, could Fan Zhi be ordered by me?" Li Chuyun said in a deep voice, "As a general, I am really capable, and even the prime minister ordered me to do it. Is that okay?"

Suddenly, Li Liangshi slapped his forehead and said, "I'm really wrong!"

Li Chuyun glanced at him angrily.

Liang Shi said: "When you are in the position of the lord, the most important thing is to gain the trust of the officials. If you are suspected, you may really be in trouble."

Li Chuyun sighed, he had joined the army during the (later) Jin Dynasty, and he had never seen anything. Jin, Han, and Zhou Li dynasties suffered internal strife, and there were no deaths or injuries. It was almost the end of the jealousy of the monarchs and ministers... Even the Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty was killed | the whole family. In these dynasties, only those with military power were suspected.

It just so happens that Li Chuyun is now the person with the most military power under the emperor!