Xu Shaoyan looked at the people around him: "When Daning opened the country, you and my ancestors had indelible achievements, and the tablet of Fengyingtang is still there, what a glory it is, and then look at your and current situation, to be honest, I am shameless to enter the ancestral hall to face the ancestors and ancestors, I don't know what you think, I only feel ashamed of my surname." ”

The one sitting next to him is called Gao Mingtang, his ancestor is also one of the founding fathers of Daning, next to Gao Mingtang is Gao Mingyang, the two are brothers, when it comes to the glory of the ancestors, the status of the Gao family will be more conspicuous than the Tang family, at that time Daning had just been founded, Emperor Taizu's sworn brother Tang Pi knelt in front of His Majesty, and insisted on not accepting His Majesty's desire to crown him king, Emperor Taizu had no choice but to change the title of Guogong, ranking first among the ministers, but Tang Rival This person is too smart so he knows what he should do, After he was made a duke, he asked for resignation from all military posts and moved his family to the northwest frontier.

Therefore, the Gao family is more brilliant than the Tang family, but at that time, the people of the Gao family were not high-profile, and they acted calmly and never ostentatious.

In addition to the Tang family and the Gao family, the most beautiful is the Xu family, Xu Jiazu Xu Ji is the most important adviser around Emperor Taizu, although he is a literati, he can also carry a knife on the horse, Emperor Taizu will not be among the eight major wars, but the strategist Xu Ji should be second to none.

However, Xu Ji was given the surname Li by Emperor Taizu because of his great merits, and became the first and only prime minister of Daning.

Xu Ji is the prime minister of the country, I have to say that his talent is enough to Anbang, but in his later years, he felt more and more that Taizu's reward for him was not enough, and he felt more and more that he was different, for the prime minister for sixteen years, the first ten years can be said to be conscientious, and the next few years I don't know why he has changed a person, not only greedy for a large amount of silver, but also openly sold officials, formed a party for personal gain, disciples all over the world, and even placed cronies in various ministries and offices to seize the real power, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition.

Emperor Taizu reminded him again and again at first, but he didn't take Taizu's words seriously at all as if he was stupid, so that Taizu was furious, took his imperial surname and degraded him to the common people, and handed it over to the Tingwei Mansion for investigation, but Emperor Taizu still remembered the old relationship after all, and only did Xu Ji alone without the whole family, and even gave Xu Jiguogong's title to his eldest son to inherit, it stands to reason that Xu Ji is a big sin, and it is already an extrajudicial favor for the family not to be implicated, and his heirs can still inherit the position of Guogong, which shows Emperor Taizu's feelings for him.

After Xu Ji's incident, Emperor Taizu went to the prime minister system and changed it to a cabinet system.

Under the Xu family is the Gao family, in fact, the Gao family is inferior to the Xu family in terms of power because it is smart enough, the ancestor of the Gao family is really one of the eight generals under the command of Emperor Taizu, he is humble and cautious, and has a very good relationship with Tang Rival in private, and listened to Tang Rival's persuasion to strictly restrain his family, so the glory of the Gao family has continued for a hundred years.

After that, the Gao family had accidents one after another, and it can be regarded as a family downfall.

It's just that hundreds of years later, the Gao family is already very low-key, but this low-key is not the deliberate low-key of their ancestors, but the fact that there is no one in the family who can afford to hold up the façade.

These people present, in addition to the Xu family and the Gao family, also include the Cheng family, the Zhao family, the Sheng family, the Yun family, and the Geng family...... Without exception, these old noble families have been suppressed during the current reign of His Majesty, and His Majesty likes to use people from humble backgrounds the most, such as the six people who are scattered and scattered, which makes these people who want to revive their families very powerless.

"Temptation?"

Cheng Fanghe looked at Xu Shaoyan: "Even if it is a temptation, it is like walking on thin ice for us, Your Majesty's attitude towards Shen Leng is not so obvious, you and I both know that now Your Majesty is going to pave the way for the second prince, if it is really as Xu Gong said, it is understandable that Your Majesty is slightly ill, Your Majesty can't wait, but what if not?" We go to temptation, and what temptation do we take? ”

"Naturally, we don't need our own people."

Xu Shaoyan said: "Take two steps. ”

He got up and paced in the room while saying: "First, each family has taken out a part of the silver, this amount is nothing to each family, just pay according to the share of five thousand taels per family, what accounts this silver is used for must be clear, part of it is used to collect the business of the Liuyun Society, it is a cash cow, even if the Liuyun Society is gone, but no one dares to make trouble in their business, let's try to take over as much as possible, the road is easy to walk, the silver is easy to earn, and the other silver is used to make friends with important ministers of the court, aside from Lai Cheng." , There are a lot of people in the cabinet who can get close, don't send silver directly, low-level, and annoying, think of a way, we have a lot of people, there are many ways, and the silver should be sent more beautifully. “

"Second, we have to know what Your Majesty's sincerity is, if the worry is that Shen Leng and the others are too powerful to threaten the second prince, then Your Majesty will not stop, or will continue to suppress Shen Leng and Meng Chang'an and others, at this time Your Majesty needs to employ people, let's try to hold up a few young talents, for the sake of fairness, each family chooses one person."

He paused: "If you want to know Your Majesty's thoughts, starting from small things, the Xu family first took out five thousand taels of silver, which is not included in the previous payment, and the five thousand taels will be used to buy people." ”

Buying people? “

Gao Mingtang was stunned: "Who to buy?" ”

"People who don't want to die."

Xu Shaoyan smiled: "If you want to test Your Majesty's bottom line, there must be someone who doesn't want to die." ”

He clenched his fists: "You must work together to restore the glory of your ancestors." ”

Everyone stood up: "Together!" ”

The next day, he was fasting.

The emperor leaned against the window in a daze, the emperor seemed to be more and more powerless these days, and he would occasionally wander when he reviewed the folds, and he was anxious in his eyes when he saw it, he took the risk of killing his head and secretly asked the imperial doctor what was wrong, but the imperial doctor said firmly, His Majesty had nothing to do, but he was depressed, so his spirit was worse.

"Your Majesty."

Dai Fangzhou carried the medicine bowl and put it on the table in front of the emperor: "It's time to take medicine." ”

The emperor's gaze slowly withdrew from the window, and he glanced at the bowl of medicine: "Let it go, drink it as soon as it is cool, release the boat on your behalf, you go and pass the decree, let Han Zhaozhi come in......"

The emperor was stunned halfway through his words.

"Let Fang Bailu come in."

"The slave obeys."

Dai Fangzhou sighed in his heart, thinking that His Majesty didn't know what was wrong, and sent Lord Han and Lord Ye to the side, but His Majesty himself was not used to it, how many times has this been? Dai Fangzhou calculated in his heart that at least four or five times, after His Majesty was stunned, he would either let him call Lord Han in or let Master Ye in.

Half an hour later, Fang Bailu hurriedly came in, he was not used to the role of being the capital of the Tingwei Mansion, and he was not used to coming in often to meet His Majesty, at that time, everything in the Tingwei Mansion was in charge of Lord Han, they only needed to do what Lord Han ordered, but now everything was on his shoulders, and everything had changed.

Fang Bailu came in cautiously, lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty." ”

The emperor snorted and pointed to the file on the table in front of him: "This is the investigation of the Tianqi ticket number of the Tingwei Mansion that you sent, I have seen it, you will arrange for someone to seize all the Tianqi numbers in Chang'an City tomorrow, and the arranger is optimistic, no one is allowed to be involved in this case except the Tingwei Mansion." ”

"Tomorrow?"

Fang Bailu asked tentatively.

"Tomorrow."

The emperor nodded: "Go ahead and do it." ”

Fang Bailu agreed, leaned over again and then went out, after walking out of the Mao Zhai, Fang Baijing let out a long breath, but the stagnant qi in his heart couldn't be spit out at all, he stood outside the door and muttered for a while, carefully recalled what His Majesty said, there were not many words in total, he carefully considered each word, and thought of tomorrow These two words were a little more steady.

All the business on the list for His Majesty was clean, but he filtered down all the things that involved the secret way, he raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky, it was only morning, His Majesty said to let him do it tomorrow, and His Majesty also left enough time.

After going out, he asked his subordinates to go back first, he walked alone towards the main number of the sky ticket number, and when he left, he also deliberately paid attention to observing, and deliberately detoured some roads to get back to the right road, he had to be careful, he also had to go to the sky ticket number in person, most of the people who should have been evacuated in the ticket number have left Chang'an, but Gao Xiaoxiang is still there.

When he was halfway there, he also found a place to buy a new set of clothes, which probably fit, and then found a place to change his clothes, and put on a hat to lower the brim, he knew that the people in the Tingwei's mansion were credible, but he didn't want to implicate people.

As he walked, he heard some commotion in front of him, raised the brim of his hat and looked forward, and found that there were many people gathered on the street in front of him, and he wanted to avoid it, but suddenly he remembered something, and then quickened his pace and went over there.

A group of people stood in front of a shop and pointed, about a dozen people, led by a man who looked five big and three thick, with a beard, and his accent was not a native of Chang'an.

"Not for sale?"

The bearded man sneered: "I'm in love with this shop, let's say, how much money are you willing to transfer to me?" As long as you make an offer. ”

Two little girls stood on the steps and stopped the people, their faces turned white.

"Say no, don't sell!"

"If you don't sell it, you can't do it."

The beard sneered: "You have to sell this shop if you don't sell it today." ”

He pointed to the seal on the shop: "This is a shop that has been seized by the government, I have inquired, although the shop has not been confiscated, but the government has ordered you to close the door, the shop is idle, sell it to me and you can get a large sum of silver to support the family, see that your little girl's family has no other skills, you can't sell it." ”

"You're looking for death."

One of the little girls had a cold face, and stepped forward and slapped her beard, she was a tall and small person, when had she suffered such a grievance.

With a snap, the little girl's wrist was grabbed by the beard: "Yo he, the strength of the fine skin and tender meat is not small, and I dare to hurt people in public, neighbors take a look, whose shop is this, no wonder it was seized, it turned out to be because it was too domineering and domineering." ”

He lowered his voice and said, "You guys hurry up and get out of here, you can't keep the shop, I said." ”