Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 198 The Influence Expands
Privy Council!
"Wei Xianggong!"

Luo Youdu warmly greeted Wei Renpu, a famous official with whom he had inextricably linked.

If there was no case between Zhao Kuangyi and Wei Renpu's son-in-law, Luo Youdu would not be where he is today.

Wei Renpu didn't have the slightest birthright, and greeted him warmly: "I've been looking forward to it for a long time, but Brother Youdu is here. I'm alone now, I'm weak, and I need strong support."

Great Zhou did not lack good generals, but lacked famous ministers.

It is quite normal for a truly capable person to hold several positions.

Wei Renpu now holds three positions, Zhongshu Shilang, Tongping Zhangshi, and Privy Envoy at the same time.Corresponding to Zhongshu Senior Officials, Prime Minister and Chief of General Staff of Da Zhou respectively.

According to Wei Renpu's strategy, he is fully capable of holding several positions, but there will inevitably be friction between the prime minister and the privy envoy.

In this era, civil and military affairs have gradually separated. The Prime Minister's Council Office is responsible for government affairs, and the Privy Council is responsible for military affairs.

The Council of Parliament puts the people's livelihood first, while the Privy Council focuses on the military.

Both parties have different goals, but without exception, they all need money.

How to balance the two is not just a matter for Guo Rong to decide with one word.It also depends on the constant contest between the Council Hall and the Privy Council.

Wei Renpu holds two positions, so his status is a bit embarrassing.

In addition, Fan Zhi and Wang Pu in the Council Hall are famous ministers and capable ministers, and Wei Renpu is alone, and he will suffer a lot from them.

Especially the last time, Meng Shu sent someone to send this year's share of New Year's coins at the end of the year.

This extra money was immediately targeted by the Council and the Privy Council.

The City Hall wants to use it to dredge the Kaifeng River, and re-plan and clean up the hundreds of miles of surrounding rivers and canals.

And the Privy Council wants to use it to buy military horses from Fugu and Dingnan Army.

As a result, Wei Renpu was defeated by Fan Zhi and Wang Pu one after the other.

In the end, Meng Shu's old coins were included in the council hall, and were used to manage water conservancy and transportation centered on Kaifeng, Bianjing.

This kind of civil and military struggle ultimately benefits Da Zhou.

Guo Rong was also happy to see the Council Hall and the Privy Council getting red-faced and sitting high to watch the excitement.

As soon as Luo Youdu came to the Privy Council, Wei Renpu began to pour out his bitterness, introducing him to the situation of the Privy Council, and talking about the difficulty of the Privy Council.

Luo Youdu secretly smiled in his heart: This old fox has military and political power on his shoulders, and his life is indescribably comfortable.Eighty percent of the time it was a throw away, and it wasn't his fault that he didn't win the Meng Shu Sui coin, but that the enemy was too cunning.

Who knows which side his ass sits on?

There is also his seat in the Council Hall.

According to the information Luo Youdu currently has, the overall plan for dredging the Kaifeng River Canal was proposed by Wei Renpu himself.

Luo Youdu understood it, and said with righteous indignation: "Fan Xianggong and Wang Xianggong are too much, and let them take advantage of it. Wei Xianggong can rest assured that armament is a major issue for the country. From now on, I will follow the lead of Wei Xianggong and charge for our Privy Council."

Wei Renpu nodded in satisfaction.

Although the Privy Council said he was the top leader, Guo Rong's preference for Luo Youdu was well known.

If you don't handle the superior-subordinate relationship with him well, you won't be a good privy envoy.

Wei Renpu introduced the structure of the Privy Council to Luo Youdu: "The Privy Council has ten rooms: the North Room, the Branch Office, the Beijing Room, the Review Room, the Military Register Room, the Militia Room, the Official Room, the Miscellaneous Room, the Supporting Horse Room, and the Small Official Room. Cao Shishi is in charge of military and state affairs, military defense, frontier preparations, and military orders. In addition, the guards' squads, the recruitment of internal and external bans, examinations, relocation, garrison, and rewards and punishments also belong to the jurisdiction of the Privy Council."

Luo Youdu couldn't help nodding his head while listening, and said: "I'm new here, and I'm not very familiar with all the affairs of the Privy Council. I plan to start with the trivial matters, understand some of the operations of the Privy Council, and learn from my husband first, and then consider the specific distribution of powers. , what does Xianggong think?"

In other words, it is doing odd jobs, doing everything, but not making decisions about anything.

Wei Renpu nodded and said, "That's fine, if Brother Youdu doesn't understand something, you can consult with someone at any time."

Luo Youdu bid farewell to Wei Renpu, and did not go to his own office, but came to the archives room, looking through the administrative files that the Privy Council had processed before.

These handled affairs are just the best model for learning from the experience of the senior members of the Privy Council.

Of course, Luo Youdu's real purpose is to see who is in charge of the current inspection of Kaifeng's four gates in Bianjing.

This inspector is signed by the inspection department and the official name is the inspection envoy. It began with Emperor Zhuangzong of the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties. His main task was to patrol the prefectures and be responsible for the overall defense and maintenance order of Bianjing Kaifeng, especially the security at night.

This position is not powerful, but it is fat.

Especially the patrol envoys in charge of the east and west roads, the shops on these two long streets gathered, and the soldiers patrolling the streets held their swords for a few times, and immediately a big merchant invited them into the house to serve tea, and greeted them with delicious food and drink.

Looking at the names of the four inspectors, Luo Youdu made up his mind.

Then I waited, waiting for the army in front of the palace to mess up by themselves.

It is true that Zhao Kuangyin has great prestige in the Dianqian Army, but he is not yet the leader of the Dianqian Army, let alone control the overall situation.

Shi Shouxin's prestige in the front army of the palace may not be as good as that of Zhao Kuangyin, but he is not a small man who no one cares about.

During the Later Han Dynasty, Shi Shouxin was subordinate to Guo Wei, the privy envoy. After Guo Wei ascended the throne, he was promoted to the Marquis of Yu, the personal guard of the Imperial Guard, and was already a member of the Imperial Guard of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Later, Guo Rong reformed the military system and separated the Dianqian Division. Zhao Kuangyin and Shi Shouxin were the backbone of the first batch of Dianqian Division.

Moreover, Shi Shouxin is bold and loyal, and can disregard his own interests for his brothers.

Even Zhao Kuangyin couldn't do this.

Si Shouxin had a certain prestige in front of the hall, and Zhao Kuangyin could hold back Wang Yansheng and Luo Yanyu's bad words about Shi Shouxin behind his back.

They are all big bosses, and no one has said a few bad words.

But after Wang Yansheng was caught by Shi Shouxin, not only did he not admit his mistake, he even beat Shi Shouxin in public to make him look bad.

In this situation, Zhao Kuangyin overestimated his prestige a bit if he wanted to make a big deal into a small one.

Anyway, the boss of Dianqian Division is called Zhang Yongde, not Zhao Kuangyin.

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Yanyi Que, the imperial city.

Wang Yansheng and a group of brothers planned to go to the duty room through Yanyi Que, not wanting to be blocked by a group of soldiers at the Que Gate.

"Brothers, give up!"

Wang Yansheng shouted.

They were all brothers of Dianqiansi, Wang Yansheng didn't think too much about it.

"Yo, who am I? It turned out to be the hard-boiled and loyal Wang Jian'er who recognized the eunuch as his father and kowtowed when he met Jin soldiers! It's a pleasure to meet you!"

Han Chongyun stretched out from the crowd.

After the fall of the former Shu, Wang Yansheng moved to Luoyang. His first boss was Meng Hanqiong, the eunuch and minister of the Later Tang Dynasty.The relationship between the two is very good, and it was Meng Hanqiong's recommendation that Wang Yansheng was able to join Li Siyuan's command as Ren Dongban Chengzhi.

However, there are not many truly loyal people in this era. Shi Jingtang recognized Khitan Yelu Deguang as his father, and with his father's prestige, he overthrew the Later Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Wang Yansheng surrendered and later Jin.

As for the throwing of the man behind, Han Zhongyun still knew the taboo, so he didn't say much.

Wang Yansheng's expression suddenly changed when he heard the words and he shouted: "Commander Han Du, what do you mean?"

Han Chongyun scratched his head, and said, "It's not interesting, I just wanted to ask, our eldest brother is upright, didn't he do anything to offend Commander Zhao, did he? He just made a friend and recognized a brother, so I'll tell you it's okay." Traitor. Then I would like to ask, what kind of a guy is you who kowtows to the eunuch as a son, and is afraid of death to kneel down to the Khitan's son emperor as a dog?"

"Come on? Evaluate yourself?"

"Iron-boned?"

"Faithful?"

"Is it better than livestock?"

Wang Yansheng shouted angrily: "How dare you insult me!"

Han Chongyun put his arms around his chest and said, "So what if I insult you?"

Wang Yansheng drew out his sword, and shouted angrily: "Han, you have the guts, let's practice in the next game, don't use your tongue."

Han Chongyun laughed loudly and said, "You don't need to know if I have something wrong, anyway, I have never been a eunuch's son."

He knew that he was not Wang Yansheng's opponent, so he didn't want to humiliate himself, but said: "The road is being built in Yanyi Que, either climb in or get out."

Wang Yansheng sneered: "You think you can stop me?"

Han Chongyun strode up to Wang Yansheng, stretched his neck and said, "Then if you have the guts, cut it this way?"

Wang Yansheng's momentum was taken away, and he took two small steps back.

"Bah! You bastard!"

Han Zhongyun spat on the ground.

Then went back to build the road.

It turns out that not everyone's name is Xu Chu.

Wang Yansheng was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go another way."

The episode of Yan Yique soon reached Zhao Kuangyin's ears.

"asshole!"

Zhao Kuangyin punched the case table, and all kinds of pens, inks, papers and inkstones on the case table flew up into the air and scattered on the table.

"Go, call the commander of the Crane Control Army!"

As soon as he took the order, he stopped the guard and said, "Forget it, there is no need to go."

As Zhao Kuangyin said, he strode out of the classroom and came to Yanyi Que's classroom in person.

"I have seen the commander in front of the palace!"

Han Chongyun saluted Zhao Kuangyin respectfully and said hello.

Zhao Kuangyin heard Han Chongyun's address and sighed, "Brother Han is still blaming me!"

Han Chongyun said, "Don't dare."

Zhao Kuangyin said angrily: "We are all brothers, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of flesh, there is a conflict, what do you want me to do?"

Han Chongyun said: "So the subordinates don't mean to blame the commander. Wang Yansheng is the elder brother's brother, and it is normal for the elder brother to protect him. But he is not my brother, so I have no reason to protect him. If the elder brother wants to punish him, he will be punished. I admit it. "

"But in front of my elder brother, I just said it. Don't think about Wang Yansheng standing in the area I'm in charge of. If elder brother doesn't like it, just remove me."

"You..." Zhao Kuangyin knew that he was wronged, so he flung his sleeves and left.

Han Chongyun looked back at Zhao Kuangyin with a complicated expression.

The Wang Yansheng incident broke out completely in front of the palace as Han Chongyun broke through this layer of paper.

If there was a conflict between Zhao Kuangyin and Shi Shouxin, most of the officers in front of the palace would stand by Zhao Kuangyin's side.

Nothing to say.

But Shi Shouxin and Wang Yansheng's quarrel, obviously the majority are on Shi Shouxin's side.

Zhao Kuangyin unconsciously favored Wang Yansheng, which made people even more aggrieved by Shi Shouxin.

Zhao Kuangyin was unfair.

　Thank you book friend Yuriko Matsuzaki for the five hundred rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)