Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 988
The news of Zhuge Linggong's death has not yet passed, and the world heard another shocking news. The former Jimin Mansion servant She Yuan Xi was appointed as the minister, and he took over Zhuge Linggong's will and was about to command all the mansions. Everyone was shocked. , Yuan Xi? ?Can he do it well? ?For him, everyone is deeply suspicious, and this cannot be blamed on others. It is because Yuan Xi has never done anything amazing in these years.

He also has no feats that have impressed everyone. He has been busy with disaster relief all these years. He does not have a wide network of contacts in the temple, and his reputation is not obvious. On the contrary, he is famous among the people. At the level of Linggong, in the process of disaster relief over the years, he does not seek meritorious service, but only seeks to be innocent, and because he clearly recognizes his own lack of ability, he will do his best in everything and lead by example. Therefore, the people respected him very much.

In several areas such as Liangzhou, some people even set up temples for him and worshiped him.

Coming out of the court meeting, Yuan Xi felt the alienation from the ministers around him. It doesn't mean that they are all hostile to him, but they can't treat him like Zhuge Linggong. Full of suspicion, full of distrust, he had no friends in the temple before, and now he is even more isolated, especially Zhuge Ke, who has just been promoted and became a servant of the Jimin Mansion.

This young man is very ambitious and has always regarded himself as the successor of Zhuge Linggong, and he also attaches great importance to the position of official servant, hoping to use it as a stepping stone, but when Yuan Xi was promoted, he suddenly took over. Yuan Xi became a servant of the Jimin Mansion, and he must be unhappy in his heart. He walked to Yuan Xi's side, looking a little irritable and blushing. Yuan Xi smiled at him and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Zhuge?"

"You can't compare to my uncle in your life!"

Zhuge Ke said coldly, fixed his eyes on Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi was taken aback, nodded, and said: "Your words are very true." It seems that there is no anger on his face, Zhuge Ke Ke snorted coldly, turned around and left. Yuan Xi watched him go, and the officials gradually walked away. Yuan Xi then walked towards the Hall of Houde, and the officials were arranged in the meeting hall outside the hall. After that, the Hall of Houde returned to the hands of the emperor.

Yuan Xi was going to pay homage to the Son of Heaven. Speaking of which, the Son of Heaven should pay homage to him, because the position of these three orders is comparable to that of the Three Dukes, and such a minister needs to be worshiped by the Son of Heaven in person. This is the etiquette of a great man. Yuan Xi came to Houde The gate of the hall was blocked by several yellow gates. Of course, these yellow gates did not dare to be too rude. After all, this is the minister who just took office. What an eunuch can offend.

"Excuse me, can you tell me that I want to meet with His Majesty and discuss the upcoming political affairs."

"Don't dare, dare not", the yellow gates were a little panicked, they hurriedly avoided Yuan Xi's salutation, and walked into the Houde Hall, Yuan Xi stood straight outside the hall, looking at the surrounding scenery, suddenly a little lost Confused, he stood there for a long, long time, and I don't know how long it took before Huangmen came out. Huangmen looked a little uneasy, he bowed himself, and said: "Return to the Minister, the country is not feeling well, and said that another day The Shang Shuling will be summoned."

Yuan Xi nodded, "If that's the case, then I'll go back, and I hope you can pass on a message for me. May your majesty recover soon and take care of yourself!" After he finished speaking, he turned and left here, Huangmen looked at him He left with a long sigh. He had never seen such an unpopular Shang Shuling. He just changed the language of the country a little bit. The country simply hates this person. Dissipated and no one could take his place, Liu Qu was naturally in a very bad mood.

Today's appointment and dismissal of Yuan Xi may not be out of anger. Seeing Yuan Xi's reluctance to serve as Minister of Ministers, he was furious, so he let him be Minister of Ministers.

After walking out of the palace, Yuan Xi was taken aback. It turned out that there was a fat man waiting in the distance. Seeing Yuan Xi coming out, Liu Yi came over, cupped his hands and said, "Meet Yuan Shangshu!", Yuan Xi Xi was helpless, "Are you waiting for me here? Let you wait for a long time."

"It's only half an hour. The emperor also values ​​you, so he kept you for so long." Liu Yi said, obviously, he didn't know about the situation in the palace.

"I haven't seen His Majesty before. Your Majesty is not feeling well. I waited for a while and then came out."

Hearing this sentence, Liu Yi's complexion changed greatly, and he said with some displeasure: "You are a minister, how could your majesty be so rude to you, no! I want to enter the palace!" Walking over to the palace, Yuan Xi hurriedly stood in front of him, "Don't do this, even if you are an elder of His Majesty, you shouldn't be like this, don't hurt your peace because of me. Forget it, forget it. "

Liu Yi was still very angry, but Yuan Xi held him tightly, and he couldn't find Liu Qu. He dragged Yuan Xi into the carriage, Liu Yi was still a little irritable, and he said, "I see, this Shang Shuling For you, it's not a good thing at all, you don't have enough prestige, you don't have any friends except me, even His Majesty doesn't like it, I see, how many people are waiting to see your jokes."

"Pang Linggong is the same, I think he just wants to lift you to this position, and take the opportunity to weaken Shangshutai's power!"

Yuan Xi didn't say a word, and sat silently in the carriage with his head down.

"What are you talking about, 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 resign from the emperor's order. As for the assistant, I don't need it. Can you send me to Shangshutai?" Yuan Xi asked.

Liu Yi was anxious, "Where did the arrogant Yuan Xianyi go when he was young?? Why is he so cowardly now, without any claims?!"

"If I were like Liu Linggong, and I had a father who could protect me, a mother who was kind, and brothers who supported each other, I would definitely not be like this." Yuan Xi said calmly, and bowed to Liu Yi, As he was about to get off the car, Liu Yi blushed and didn't know what to say, so he hurriedly stopped him, "It's my fault, don't blame me, I'm not holding back my words, but I'm not."

"It doesn't have to be."

"Xianyi, how about making a bet with me?"

"it is good."

"If you can sit at Shangshutai for ten years, I will play drums and music for you!!"

"What if I can't?"

Liu Yi thought for a long time before he said with a smile, "Then you will be my grandson's first teacher!"

"It's a word."

The two smiled at each other.

After returning to Shangshutai, the officials in Shangshutai had heard about today’s events. After seeing Yuan Xi get off the carriage, they rushed out to greet them. Yuan Xi came down to meet them one by one. There are only 13 capable officials under Zhuge Linggong's command. Yuan Xi is also very polite to them. These officials are finally relieved. They are afraid that the new Shangshuling will remove the influence of Zhuge Linggong power to drive them out.

Although Zhuge Linggong is gone, the Zhuge family still exists, and the relationship between these officials and Zhuge Zhan and Zhuge Ke is also very close.

After Zhuge Linggong passed away, his son and nephew all received great rewards, and now their status in the temple has risen rapidly, and they have also become the most prominent existence among the younger generation.

Yuan Xi sat in the top position, and the rest of the officials were sitting on both sides of him. These officials looked at him a little strangely. After all, this position originally belonged to Zhuge Linggong, but for Yuan Xi, he sat He felt uneasy in his heart, after all, he used to sit on both sides, and after a moment of silence, Yuan Xi asked them about various matters in Shangshutai, and the officials answered them one by one.

The Shangshutai is mainly responsible for supervising the implementation of the governments. Strictly speaking, it is in command of the governments. It is necessary to distribute them reasonably and manage their cooperation to prevent conflicts between them. , the other is to help the 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 put everything together. It's all recorded.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he said: "I have already recorded these things. I think the original decrees implemented by Zhuge Linggong are very suitable. There is no need to improve them. I will continue to follow the original order. Let’s continue to handle those rules, what you have ordered before, you just continue to do, I will not say more.” Yuan Xi’s words made everyone overjoyed.

They were also worried that Yuan Xi would mess up after taking office, and changed many of Zhuge Linggong's policies. Fortunately, this person still has self-knowledge and hasn't messed up. Since he followed the original rules, it would be easy to handle , everyone bowed to him, and just now they got busy, Yuan Xi also entered Zhuge Linggong's study, and began to busy with other things that Zhuge Linggong had set.

The first is the matter of the canal. Zhuge Linggong has been working on this matter for nearly four years, but it has not been completed. It is still being excavated and built. Yuan Xi just looked at the huge water conservancy map in the study, and his head hurt. Looking up, the densely packed map is all future water conservancy plans. Yuan Xi was dumbfounded looking at the various picture marks. Fortunately, he knew in his heart that he was not as talented as Zhuge Linggong, and he didn't feel any sense of loss.

He took out a planning book about water conservancy and canals from the bookshelf, and compared the signs on the map, he began to study it seriously.

The ministers of the court originally thought that Yuan Xi's appointment as Shang Shuling would definitely be a major event that would change the situation in the temple, but they did not expect that after Yuan Xi took the position of Shang Shuling for a long time, the whole temple was extraordinarily quiet, and Yuan Xi treated others very well. According to the officials in the Shangshutai, in order to understand Zhuge Linggong's strategy on the canal, this guy actually studied in the study day and night. For several months, my hair was about to fall out, but I haven't been able to study any tricks yet.

In the end, what was handed over to the officials was just an ordinary canal excavation document, without any bright spots.

(End of this chapter)