People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1457: Too much is not enough, too easy to die

The ministers walked around in front of the ministers of the political affairs hall, and finally placed the silver plate covered with red cloth in front of Li Xian.

At that moment, Liu Rengui, Pei Yan, Xue Yuanchao, Cui Zhiwen, Li Yiyan and Wang Dezhen all looked at the silver plate.

This round, everyone's eyes were fixed on each other.

They want to know what others voted for, but all the truth is blocked by the red cloth.

Seeing Li Xian's hand on the silver plate, everyone's breathing became heavy.

Once Wei Bai's vote does not exceed four votes at this moment, the Zhengshitang will send the memorial recommending Doulu Qinwang as the Minister of Rites to Empress Wu's desk tomorrow.

Cui Zhiwen was even more like this. Li Xian's cold eyes just now made Cui Zhiwen's heart skip a beat and his whole body trembled.

We must not let Wei wait for a price and not even reach the second round.

Cui Zhiwen didn't know what Pei Yan and Wang Dezhen were thinking just now, but they also voted for Doulu Qinwang.

Didn't the two of them agree to remain neutral? Now everything was exposed.

Pei Yan, Wang Dezhen, Cui Zhiwen, and Li Yiyan all supported the Prime Minister.

So do these four prime ministers also support the king to succeed to the throne over the prince?

The situation suddenly became serious.

Everyone's breath had already been held heavily.

If it were this time, the number of votes Wei waited for would not exceed...

The red cloth was lifted directly in an instant, and what was revealed in front of everyone were four red beans and two white beans.

The four prime ministers agreed that Wei Daiji should be appointed as the Minister of Rites, which was the same as Doulu Qinwang.

……

It seemed that everyone was just giving Shiro some face.

Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Liu Rengui.

Liu Rengui looked cold, and Xue Yuanchao on the side also looked cold.

Li Xian was stunned, and his face gradually turned cold.

Before I voted for Doulu Qinwang, except for Liu Rengui and Xue Yuancao who voted for white beans, everyone else voted for red beans.

Now when voting for Wei Wei, four people voted for red beans, which means two people voted for white beans.

In addition to Liu Rengui and Xue Yuanchao, there are two people who voted by mistake before, and there are two people who firmly voted for Lu Qinwang.

In other words, among the six prime ministers present, two of them had actually fallen in favor of Shiro.

Of the six prime ministers, two were on his side, two were on Shiro's side, and two were neutral.

Li Xian understood the situation instantly, and his eyes fell on Pei Yan at the first moment.

Pei Yan nodded to Li Xian with a solemn expression, and Li Xian nodded slightly in return.

It seems that Prime Minister Pei is a neutral person.

Li Xian looked at the other three people, Cui Zhiwen, Wang Dezhen, and Li Yiyan. All three of them looked surprised.

He seems to be very surprised by the current result.

It was obvious that they were also aware of the problem with the two white beans.

But who voted for those two white beans?

Li Xian's eyes passed over Li Yiyan, Wang Dezhen, and Cui Zhiwen.

Li Yiyan is from the Li family in Longxi, so he should be the one who relies on him, so Wang Dezhen and Cui Zhiwen?
Wang Dezhen belongs to the emperor, so he should have no position in this matter. Could it be Cui Zhiwen and Li Yiyan?

Cui Zhiwen, not long ago, Cui Zhiwen fully supported him on behalf of the Cui family. Why did his attitude suddenly change? Did he make a mistake?

Li Xian's eyes fell back on Pei Yan. Could it be that his judgment about Pei Yan was wrong.

Li Xian also had a headache for a moment. Among all the comparisons, two people completely stood on Shiro's body, which was almost equal to his status in the political hall.

This was something Li Xian never expected, and I'm afraid Liu Rengui and Xue Yuanchao also didn't expect that such a change would happen today.

Who is going to support Shiro?

The six prime ministers of the current dynasty, even if Liu Rengui and Xue Yuanchao are put aside, the remaining four are not simple.

Pei Yan was the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and was promoted to the rank of Shizhong for his work in checking out the land.

Cui Zhiwen had served for many years on the border. He was appointed as Shangshu Zuocheng and became the minister of Huangmen.

Wang Dezhen also had military merit, and went from being the Minister of Hubu to being the Minister of Huangmen.

As for Li Yiyan, he was from the Li family in Longxi. Although he was not a member of the clan, he was still closely related to the clan.

In particular, Li Yiyan had a very good relationship with his former Prime Minister Hao Chujun, and he was dissatisfied with Empress Wu's rule. How could such a person get close to people like Beimen Bachelor?

Li Xian had a huge headache for a while, and he couldn't even tell who was one of his own and who was the enemy.

"Your Highness, since the votes of Doulu Qinwang and Wei Daibao are the same, the second round will begin. Who will be the Minister of Rites will be revealed in this round."

Liu Rengui looked at Li Xian calmly, but did not look at anyone else at all, as if he was not in a hurry to uncover the truth.

Or maybe he had seen through what was going on.

"Okay!" Li Xian nodded seriously, then looked at the crowd and said: "My lords, now there are Wei Baiji, the Minister of Hubu, and Doulu Qinwang, the Minister of Hubu, who can be promoted to the Minister of Rites. Those who agree with Wei Baiji vote for Hongdou; they agree. Those who admire the bean will vote for the black bean; those who disagree with both will abstain from voting for the white bean."

"Here!"

……

Cui Zhiwen's face became solemn, just like the others.

Liu Rengui began to cast his first vote, but Cui Zhiwen's eyes directly glanced at Li Yiyan and Wang Dezhen.

Previously, there were four votes for Wei.

In addition to Liu Rengui and Xue Yuanchao, Pei Yan should also vote.

This can be confirmed from the way Pei Yan keeps looking over. The so-called excess is never enough.

Pei Yan is the minister, and in the province under the sect, Cui Zhiwen and Wang Dezhen originally joined forces to fight against Pei Yan, but now Cui Zhiwen and Wang Dezhen not only join forces, but even bring Li Yiyan, the minister of Zhongshu.

Pei Yan immediately voted for Wei Baiyi without any doubt.

Doulu Qinwang got four votes before. If Wei Daiji gets three votes this time, Doulu Qinwang will win this round of the game of the Minister of Rites.

That not only meant that Empress Wu and the emperor would pay attention to the out-of-control political affairs hall at the same time, and would inevitably have to clean it up in the future, even Pei Yan would not let them go.

Pei Yan is a person with a domineering personality. If he finds out that the Prime Minister's Palace has connected three prime ministers to stir up trouble in the political hall, even he will not let them go.

The previous layout of the Prime Minister's Palace was to use Cui Zhiwen and Li Yiyan to fight against Xue Yuanchao and Liu Rengui, and then find the North Gate bachelor to persuade Empress Wu.

But if Pei Yan is also involved, the situation will immediately tilt.

This tilt is very serious.

Even the tilt of the smile angle means the death of countless lives.

So in the third vote, Cui Zhiwen voted for Wei Baiyi without any hesitation.

That's right, the fourth vote for Wei Bai came from him.

Sure enough, to his surprise, Li Yiyan and Wang Dezhen voted to give up.

Fortunately, they did not vote against it. Otherwise, a negative vote would mean that everyone was completely torn apart.

In the current situation, the East Palace still has the advantage. If the conflict suddenly breaks out fiercely, they will only be the unlucky ones. After all, the prince is still the prince.

Not to mention, there is an emperor.

Once the emperor intervenes, they may be dismissed from office, and their families will be destroyed in an instant.

Cui Zhiwen felt an inexplicable sweat on his back. Someone was secretly taking advantage of the situation to plot against him.

This is not just a calculation, it is to completely kick the Cui family away from the center.

Regardless of this time, Xiang Wang does have a chance, but there is also a saying that his prosperity will be rapid and his demise will be rapid.

Some people just want them to completely expose their faces, and then use thunder and lightning to completely destroy them.

So what if King Xiang has another chance to ascend to power? If everyone around King Xiang dies this time, then King Xiang will be nothing more than a puppet if he has another chance.

What a profound calculation, what a cruel method.

Is it the emperor?

Cui Zhiwen couldn't help but think of the emperor hiding in Zhenguan Palace. After all, the beginning of this game was the emperor's delegation of power.

But soon, Cui Zhiwen gave up this idea.

The connection between the Zheng family and the Prime Minister's Palace was extremely covert, even hiding outside Luoyang City. The emperor's hands and feet were not that fast...

King Peng.

Li Xuan, dressed in black brocade clothes, holding an eight-sided Han sword in his hand, and with a cold expression, appeared in Cui Zhiwen's mind.

Almost instantly, he confirmed his idea.

Before on the Wei River, Cui Zhiwen promised Li Xuan that he would support the prince in everything, but now he is walking with the prime minister and stabbing the prince in the back.

With Peng Wang's vengeful personality, it might be strange to let them go.

Moreover, that man's calculations were extremely deep. As a right-guard general, the power he could mobilize outside Luoyang City was far greater than that inside the city.

In other words, their conspiracy with King Xiang has been discovered by King Peng.

That's why today's vicious human plot came about.

What he wants is not their failure, but the destruction of their families.

Even if Doulu Qinwang really becomes the Minister of Rites this time, King Peng, who has made calculations in advance, will not let them get much benefit at all.

Even the price paid was extremely painful.

A silver plate covered with red cloth appeared in front of him. Cui Zhiwen grabbed a large handful from his own silver plate and put it under the red cloth of the silver plate in the hand of the person in front of him.

Then there was a clear "stare" sound, and Cui Zhiwen had already grabbed a handful of beans and took them back. Only one was missing.

A red bean, Cui Zhiwen still chose Wei Bai this time.

It was not Doulu Qinwang who had reached an agreement with the Prime Minister, but after sensing the extremely dangerous situation, Cui Zhiwen threw himself at the prince without any hesitation this time.

This time, he stabbed the Prime Minister in the back.

……

The silver plate that had passed in front of Liu Rengui, Xue Yuanchao, Pei Yan and Cui Zhiwen came to Wang Dezhen.

Seeing Wang Dezhen also put a bean unknown to outsiders into the silver plate, Cui Zhiwen's eyes narrowed.

If he remembered correctly, Wang Dezhen served as the deputy general manager of Luo Xuedao's march to transport food and grass to the military to pay homage to the prime minister. Although he and King Peng had no contact since then, who knows if there was any difference between the two secretly. A well-known secret.

The silver plate continued to rotate, and Cui Zhiwen looked at Li Yiyan.

It was also a bit strange. Li Yiyan obviously had a bad relationship with the Queen of Heaven, but this time he voted for the Prime Minister who was surrounded by North Gate bachelors. There was something wrong with this.

These two people, could it be said that they have been captured by King Peng...

"Everyone!" Li Xian took the new silver plate from the minister, then looked at the prime ministers, and said with a forced smile: "Now that the voting is over, whoever gets more votes will be the Minister of Etiquette recommended by the Political Affairs Hall. Minister, if there is a tie, then..."

"Let the Queen of Heaven make the decision." Liu Rengui turned his head and glanced at everyone, and then looked under the red cloth.

"Yes." Li Xian nodded and opened the red cloth without any further hesitation.

Three red beans, two black beans, and one white bean.

Wei Daiqi was the Minister of Rites.

Cui Zhiwen looked at Pei Yan in disbelief for a moment.

(End of this chapter)