Prime Minister

Chapter 727 Returning to Beijing?

"Official homage to the direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion!"

When Zhang Zhi knew the news of Zhang Yue's promotion, he was too surprised to speak.

Straight bachelor, official to third rank.

What the third grade means to the officials, this is already a high-ranking minister.

This is not only a matter of Zhang Yue alone, but also a matter of a family.

Seeing Zhang Zhi's appearance, Cai Que was very dissatisfied and said, "Why do you look like this?"

Zhang Zhi said: "Uncle must be promoted too fast."

Cai Que hated his inconsistency and said, "If you don't want to be a son of man, if you don't be a son of man, you can talk like that."

Huang Lu said with a smile: "Honestly, my son is a kind person, don't joke anymore. Yes, let me tell you, the two of us didn't come to congratulate you. When your congratulators come, we will help you entertain Then one."

Cai Que heard the words and scolded with a smile: "Zizheng, have you seen it? Uncle Huang is the most cunning one. You don't even need a congratulatory gift."

Zhang Zhi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't congratulate the gift or not, you just waived the wine money for going to Qingfenglou a few days ago."

"Don't think about it!"

Huang Lu, Cai Que said in unison, and then squeezed into the gate of Zhangfu together.

Cai Que paced back and forth, "It's really shabby to live in such a place for the direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion."

Zhang Zhi said: "It's not easy to change. When the number one scholar Ye Dunli (Ye Zuqia) came here to visit his third uncle, he said that this is Jiangdu's spinning horse. It is a good story among people in Beijing, so it is not easy for us to change for a while."

Huang Lu said: "There is no need to care about what people say."

While talking, an official came in and said congratulations.

Everyone saw that it was Xu Jiang who was in the limelight now.

In December last year, after Xu Jiang arrived in Beijing, he was appreciated by the officials and was promoted to You Zhengyan.

Xu Jiang was the No. [-] scholar in the eighth year of Jiayou. According to the earliest practice, after Shi Brown, the No. [-] scholar, he should first be appointed as Jiancheng, then moved to Zuo Lang, and then moved to You Zhengyan.

But this is the old calendar, starting from the fourth year of Jiayou, the top three will be restrained.

Zhang Yue was promoted from Zhuo Lang to Secretary Cheng and then to You Zhengyan.

Xu Jiang is already the author Zuo Lang, and Wang Anshi also plans to restrain the award according to the rules, and only award it to Dr. Taichang.

However, it was stopped by the hall official. At that time, Wang Anshi had already written a word of Tai. The hall official grabbed Wang Anshi's pen and said that it is not as good as it used to be, and the old rule in the fourth year of Jiayou is not appropriate.

In the past few years, Wang Anshi has promoted his own people to the sky, while others have been stingy.

After thinking for a while, Wang Anshi changed the right part of Tai character to 口, and finally it became a right character.

In the end, Xu Jiang was promoted to You Zhengyan. The next day, the officials let Xu Jiang go straight to the hospital, and on the third day, Xu Jiang was sentenced to Liu Neiquan.One important reason why the officials wanted to promote Xu Jiang was that he was not Wang Anshi's confidant, and at the same time he did not oppose the reform.

At the beginning, Xu Jiang and Zhang Yue had a good relationship, but Zhang Yue is not in the capital now.

This time knowing that Zhang Yue had been promoted to a Bachelor of Longtuzhi, Xu Jiang was the first to come to congratulate him.

Now Xu Jiang vaguely regards himself as the fourth member of the Zhang Party.

So who is the fifth person?

At this time, Zhang Zhi saw his uncle Zhang Fang, and Zhang Yu also came to visit.

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"Zhang Duzhi must return to Beijing, and he must not be allowed to command troops in Xihe again."

After the banquet, as a storyteller in the Chongzheng Palace, Wang Yu, who had just finished speaking for the official family, said to Zeng Bu who was beside him.

Zeng Bu took a look at Wang Yu. Just now Wang Yu suddenly mentioned Anlu Mountain to the officials while he was lecturing in the hall. It seems that Shi Siming's allusion was not aimless.

Zeng preached: "Yuanze is too worried, and this chapter is not safe, the generation of history."

Wang Yu said: "Zixuan, you said that a person has tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people in the Xihe prefectures, so it doesn't matter if he is an Shi's generation?"

"Those who have been emperors throughout the ages have killed not those who want to rebel, but those who can rebel."

Zeng Bu was startled and said, "Yuanze, you want to kill him? You can't do that!"

Wang Yu smiled and said: "It's not about killing, but about guarding against it. You are a kind person, and you don't know the secrets of it. Many things can only be prevented before they happen."

Zeng Bu nodded.

Wang Yu said slowly: "The direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion is second only to the direct bachelor of the Privy Council among the cabinet bachelors, and ranks third in the official rank. The position of a civil official is higher than that of obtaining the iron certificate of the alchemy book. Even simple crimes can't cure him. .”

"If you want to dismiss an official of the third grade or above, you have to stand in the wrong team and follow the wrong person, and then you have done nothing wrong.

"You and Lu Jifu were both Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou, and were admitted four years earlier, but now you have to pay homage to him when you see him."

Zeng Bu said honestly: "I'm fine with that, Zhang Duzhi almost became my brother-in-law, but Jifu probably refused, Yuan Ze just said that Duzhi was on the wrong team."

Wang Yu said: "That's right, I asked Cai Zhongyuan (Cai Yanqing) to be the transfer envoy of the Xihe Road Capital at the beginning to take care of everything, but I didn't know that Zhang Duzhi took him as his master for mere military tactics."

Zeng Bu knew the nature of Wang Anshi, Wang Yu and his son, both of them wanted to control everything, and Wang Yu was much better than Wang Anshi in this regard.

Wang Xi wants to completely control the situation. As he said, the emperor does not kill those who want to rebel, but those who can rebel.

Previously, Wang Yu wanted to use Cai Yanqing to take full control of the opening of the Xihe River, but Cai Yanqing went to Xihe Road but got along with Zhang Yue in harmony, and gave up the leadership to Zhang Yue.

Wang Yu couldn't lead Xihe to open the side, which made him very uncomfortable.

The bottom of Zeng Bu's heart is also like a bright mirror. Originally, Wang Anshi relied more on Lu Huiqing, but Wang Yu has always worried that Lu Huiqing will become the essence of the second person in the new party and challenge Wang Anshi's authority. Promoted himself.

In the future, when Lu Huiqing returns to the court, he can also restrain him.

Compared to Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu knows his own advantage, that is, he is more obedient and loyal.

The emperor uses prime ministers, one for energy and one for loyalty, and this is also the reason.

"So Yuanze wants to transfer Zhang Duzhi back to the capital? But Xihe is in the current situation, thanks to Zhang Duzhi's power. Is it okay to transfer him at this time?"

Wang Yu nodded and said: "That's right, Zhang Duzhi seems to be just a coordinator at the opening of the Xihe River, but he really has to take this job."

"I'm not so arrogant that I can just send anyone to replace him. Wouldn't it ruin the great cause of the court? I just transferred him back to Beijing for the time being to report to the officials. It's his duty to offer prisoners. treatment, but when he returns to Xihe, it will not be the same as before."

Zeng Bu nodded and said thoughtfully, in the past when the general led the army to station abroad, the emperor would call him back to Beijing from time to time to test his loyalty.At the same time, once the general leaves, he always entrusts power, as long as he entrusts the subordinates, ambition will grow.

That's why when Wang Yu was giving lectures to the officials, he deliberately mentioned Anlu Mountain and the matter of Shi Siming, paving the way for the officials, so that Zhang Yue could return to Beijing to report on his duties and offer prisoners.

This strategy is really high!

Zeng Bu silently praised Wang Yu.

(End of this chapter)