Chapter II. 275
Of course, Wei Anheng knew that Wan Changning's current question was clearly testing how sincere he was. Don't look at him now, he is not yet 30 years old, but after all, he has been with Li Deng since he was a child, and he has been exposed to it for many years, how can he not see the 'little doorway' in this?
"Shi'an, Shi'an, you will have this question, it is clear that you still can't trust Wei! Wei has been sitting on the chair of Sipin Mansion Yin for most of his life; If you really have such ambitions, why don't you wait until today to start doing it? Besides, even if Prime Minister Li really has no successor, the vacated post of prime minister will definitely not be Wei Mou's turn to take over...... According to the next thought, the queen's current promise, not only is not trusting Wei's performance, but has already moved to kill under it! ”
Whether it is a timid person or a thin animal, the 'sense of smell' of danger is naturally more acute than that of those 'heroes' who are full of courage. This is both their natural advantage and their survival instinct. As a foreign official, he Wei Anheng certainly didn't know what kind of woman the queen Li Lian was; But just from the edict sent by the queen, he had already smelled the cold and piercing killing intent behind him.
Lord Wei's speculation is not cranky.
After all, it took two generations of hard work for the father and son of the Yan family to move down the Guo and Li families; If, according to the queen's promise, they will personally support their own wall grass to the position of prime minister in the turbulent situation in the future, wouldn't that be equivalent to supporting another 'Li Deng' with their own hands?
Could it be that their Yan family put on such a big formation just to pave the way for their descendants?
In Wei Anheng's view, the little abacus in the prince's heart should be to wait for Li Deng to fall, immediately transfer back to Pei Ya, the governor of Zhongshan Road, and force him to hand over his military power, and then be the previous puppet prime minister; Then he made an exception to promote two poor scholars, and let the two 'protégés of the Son of Heaven' go to Dongyou and Zhongshan Road single-handedly to take office, and become the young governor who is 'helpless, rootless, and powerless'.
In this way, although it will inevitably lead to the temporary suspension of the Youbei court, the advantage is that the upper pattern will not change much; And the Great Wilderness City and Qingshan City with the new governor, even if there is a little turmoil, it will definitely not last long.
Therefore, Wei Anheng, who waited left and right, and couldn't wait for Li Deng's 'healing' comeback, could no longer hold back the anxiety in his heart, and personally came to the Prime Minister's Mansion to 'surrender'.
Since Yan Tian took up the post of superintendent, Li Deng, as the prince's maternal uncle, has already claimed that he is ill; Not long after, Wan Changning, the number one fighting dog under the prime minister, also went home to recuperate. Anyone can think of such changes: between the two nephews and uncles, there must have been a great dislike, although for the time being, the two have not completely turned their faces, but judging from Yan Day's personality and that baht must be compared, as long as he succeeds in inheriting the throne, then the Li family will completely fall, it will only be a matter of time......
However, now under the attack of these internal and external troubles, Yan Tian is temporarily unable to hold a succession ceremony; In other words, although it seems that the two sides are unbalanced, it is actually a battle between the prince and the prime minister. Prime Minister Li Deng needless to say, the actual person at the helm of Dongyou Road, the president and founder of the Sanbei Academy, holds the power of the household and the industry, and his protégés are all over the government and the opposition, and after Guo Yunsong's complete downfall, he seems to have become the de facto helmsman of the Youbei Third Road; On the other hand, the crown prince Yan Day, before he succeeded to the throne, compared to Li Deng, he only had the title of the prince of the prison country, and the orthodox blood of the Yan family; The only power he can really control is the Imperial Horse Supervisor who has lost Lu Xiangyin.
Under such a disparity in strength, Guardanheng, who has been cautious all his life, will make a decision to participate in this gamble related to his life.
After Wan Changning listened to his confession, he knocked on the wooden handrail again, and looked at Wei Anheng with a smile and said:
"Lord Wei, Lord Wei, are you afraid that the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not allow you, so you are not afraid of stepping on the sunken ship of the Prime Minister's Mansion? Don't forget, the teacher's official reputation and popularity are far from the prince who just passed the difficulties with the three roads of Youbei! ”
Wei Anheng looked at Wan Changning, who was asking knowingly, and knew that if he didn't take out all his thoughts, he would definitely not let go:
"As early as a few days ago, Wang Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was imprisoned in the prison of the clan mansion. Yan Tian convicted him of 'being a member of the imperial court, allowing his eldest son Wang Zhi to incite the scholars of the Sanbei Academy to gather people to discuss the affairs of the Heavenly Family. Listen, what kind of crime is this? Whether it is Emperor Zhaolie Wuji of Youbei Sanlu a hundred years ago, or Emperor Tianyou of the Northern Yan Dynasty today, who would fabricate a crime that is not in the laws of the imperial court and convict a member of the imperial court? What's more, he is only in the name of the crown prince now, so what qualifications does he have to issue a holy decree? It can be seen from this that I am afraid that our Youbei Sanlu, the future emperor, should not be an arbitrary monarch who acts in accordance with the laws of the imperial court...... is the so-called cold lips and teeth, Lord Wang, as a first-class member, still ended up like this; What's more, I'm the prefect of the fourth grade......"
Wei Anheng shook his head weakly as he spoke. Ren can see that Wei Anheng, who is discouraged and lazy, has already had the idea of retreating.
Li Deng looked at Wei Anheng's current mental outlook, and all kinds of feelings came to his heart for a while. What he didn't expect was that in addition to Shen Gui, Youbei Third Road now has another Wei Daren, who can have a preliminary understanding of his unspoken ideals for many years.
Think what kind of outstanding person he Lee Deng used to be? He traveled the world at a young age, and when he was not yet twenty years old, he was widely known in the world; Before the age of thirty, he was among the ranks of the great Confucians of the time; Whether it is Beiyan or Nankang, they are all eager for his great talent, and they have promised high-ranking officials and Houlu, wanting to recruit him as an immortal talent.
Moreover, the two 'thirsty' kings are different from the Yan family, and they have never coveted the Li family's 'great business' at all. Those two lands are located in the hinterland of the Huayu Continent, which is very different from the poor and cold Youbei Sanlu. Don't look at the Li family's family business, which is worth most of the Youbei Dynasty; But if it is placed in the land of Beiyan and Nankang, and a big businessman is called out casually, it will never be inferior to the Li family by half a point.
is such a well-known talent, after the end of the study tour, he resolutely returned to that bitter cold place. Except for Youbei No. 3 Road, no one suspected that Li Deng would return to his homeland because he was reluctant to leave the family business on Dongyou Road.
Because at the beginning, those Nankang people, in order to be able to keep Li Deng, had built a gorgeous and unparalleled mansion for him in advance on the shore of the West Lake in Lin'an City; After that, countless skilled craftsmen were collected at a higher price, and a seven-story 'Qiyuan Building' was built in the middle of the mansion.
And this ownerless empty house is still carefully maintained by special personnel to this day.
The reason why the people of Nankang made all these arrangements was only because when Li Deng traveled to Lin'an City as a young man, he told his friends that he wanted to spend his old age on the shore of the West Lake.
As long as they have seen the 'Qi Yuan Tower' on the shore of the West Lake, who would doubt Li Deng's sincerity?
And it is this 'Qi Yuangong', who 'no one in the world knows the king', who has been the prime minister of Youbei Third Road for decades, but he has been quietly submerged in that ice and snow.
The reason for all this is also related to Li Deng's academic thinking. The young Li Deng, who once worshiped the Confucian school of the Northern Yan Dynasty, also received 'academic enlightenment' there. Since then, Li Deng has germinated an ideal that is somewhat 'unrealistic' in his heart: he wants every ordinary person living in the land of Youbei to be able to live with dignity.
Often, the more vague the idea, the more problems will be found in the implementation. Li Deng, who returned from school, relied on his world-famous talent, and in less than a year, with the joint support of the Li family and the Guo family, he successfully took over the prime minister's seal of Youbei Third Road.
The two generations of kings of the Yan family were not 'careful people' who were proficient in government affairs, and Guo Yunsong, the king of Zhongshan at that time, was also a reckless man who only knew how to fight on the battlefield; As a result, the complicated government affairs accumulated over the years by Youbei Third Road were pressed on Li Deng, who was newly ascended to the stage.
At that time, you could call it a 'reader' if you knew a few words, and you could read the account books as a compliment of 'Wang Zuozhicai'. It took Li Deng less than two years to sort out all the problems of Youbei No. 3 Road in such a harsh environment.
Youbei Third Road has fertile land and a sparse population, and it should have become a rich land; However, due to various reasons, the life of the people is still extremely miserable. The technical problem is relatively easy to solve, but the most difficult problem is that there is no extra land on Youbei Third Road!
Although it may seem ridiculous, it is a real and cruel reality. is because as early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yan Wuqiu, the founding monarch, did not understand government affairs, and he was extremely heroic in rewarding him on weekdays, and he had already rewarded all the land on Guanbei Road to those brothers in the clan who had followed him to fight the world together; And the Guo family is also from Orion, so naturally they are also like this, and they pointed to the map in the handsome tent and divided the Zhongshan Road into one and two; Only the ancestor of his Li family, 'Mancang Li', still holds the land firmly in his family's hands, and only collects the rent on time in the form of lease.
Although this kind of large-knife division of meat is painful, in this way, the three roads in the north have become a lifeless 'dead land'.
As a young man, Li Deng had already foreseen the seriousness of this problem, but if he wanted to break the deadlock, he could not do it at that time. Man-made disasters are far more serious than the lack of technology, the shortage of population, and the cold climate.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about the Yan and Li families, it is impossible to cut off their own flesh for the sake of his Li Deng's ambitions and ideals!