Out of the vertical arch hall, Wang Zeng took a deep breath and closed his eyes in the face of the blowing north wind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It took a long moment before he let out a heavy breath and strode across his head.

In the past six months, he has been suppressed by Lu Yijian everywhere, and Wang Zeng felt that he was about to be unable to stay in the political hall. Today, I finally let out a bad breath, which caught Lu Yijian off guard, and I felt extremely happy.

The two prime ministers, Lu Yijian, were busy cultivating party henchmen, installing people, and gradually controlling the government in their own hands. Wang Zeng was pro-government at the beginning of Zhao Zhen and he was young, so he was afraid that young people would be impulsive and bad, so he advocated stability everywhere. As a result, after a year or two of hard work, Wang Zeng, who advocated that Lao Cheng should be serious and not make trouble, was slowly marginalized, and the political affairs hall almost became Lu Yijian's hall.

Wang Zeng had his own views on the affairs of the court, but the more he went to the back, the more he found that he was restricted by Lu Yijian, and it was almost impossible to move an inch. Moreover, he is a pure gentleman, he does not engage in personal interests in his life, and he is even more disgusted with Lu Yijian's self-interest. The close comrades-in-arms who once supported each other when Empress Dowager Liu was in power eventually drifted apart, and Wang Zeng still stood on the opposite side of Lu Yijian.

If it was a year ago, when Xu Ping was still in the capital, he would have been the first to oppose the new policy with such fanfare as he is now. But at this time and at that time, Lao Cheng's serious result was to give up power to Lu Yijian, and Wang Zeng's mind began to change slowly. Since he can't stop Lu Yijian from controlling the government, why not let Xu Ping, a stunned young man, rush away? Lu Yijian, who has already woven a large net of power, is most afraid of change now, and it is easy to get out of control when it changes, and many layouts are useless.

In just one year, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng's attitude towards Xu Ping has dropped, the world is impermanent, but that's it.

Back in the political hall, Lu Yijian sat by the brazier and closed his eyes to recuperate, silent. Song Shou and Cai Qi handled some official business, and it was obvious that they were absent-minded. Wang Zeng was in a relaxed mood, watching Song Shou and Cai Qi handle official business, while picking up the official documents on the table and looking at them one by one.

The days of winter are short, and as soon as the yamen of the imperial court pass noon, the officials go home one after another. At noon, Song Shou excused himself from some trivial matters at home and left first.

Cai Qi looked at the sky and said to Wang Zeng: "Xianggong, it's gloomy outside, and it may snow when it will be, so it's better to go home as soon as possible." There is nothing urgent left and right, so there is no need to stay here. ”

"It's okay, I'll go back first." Wang Zeng stood up, turned to look at Lu Yijian, and smiled, "It's not good, Tanfu should go back to the house with me." Dutang chores, just leave it to Zisi. ”

Lu Yijian slowly opened his eyes and said unhurriedly: "I'm not in a hurry first, I'll deal with the backlog of official documents here, and then it's not too late to go back." Xiaoxian's mansion is a little farther away from the imperial city, one step ahead. ”

The ministers in the political hall, if there is no urgent business, you can go home when you come out of the Ouchi, and there is no reason to sit in the yamen every day when you reach this position. There is a deacon on duty in the government hall every day, and the affairs that are not very important are handled directly. Today is Cai Qi on duty, and everyone else can go home from work.

At this time, Wang Zeng was really not at ease with Lu Yijian, the two had dealt with each other for many years, from friends to enemies, and they knew each other very well. Wang Zeng knew that Lu Yijian was a person, selfish, and wealthy, but if he said that he was abolishing the public because of private interests, he would not do it. The desire for power in his heart is extremely strong, but he is sleek and spicy, and he will never let people grasp any handles. In fact, everyone in the court knew that Lu Yijian had formed a party for personal gain, but no one could say which people were Lu Yijian's party. This is Lu Yijian's shrewdness, and it is also Wang Zeng's helplessness, knowing that Lu Yijian's mistake is there, but it is like the wind, he can't see it, he can't catch it, he can only cry out in vain. Compared with the previous powerful minister Ding Wei, Lu Yijian really didn't know how clever he was.

Walking to the door, Wang Zeng turned around again, looked at Lu Yijian, who was sitting there, and then looked at Cai Qi, and finally left the political hall. With Cai Qi here, Lu Yijian can't make any of them, right?

The wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, howling and manic, and the windows were rattling.

Lu Yijian opened his eyes and sighed: "In such a cold weather, what is the matter with a few plates of coal?" There is a fire in Xu Ping's Yongning Hou Mansion, and I heard that the room is as warm as spring in the cold winter. When you have time, you can install it in the government hall, so that in winter, it will not be able to sit here. ”

Cai Qi said: "Although I said that, it's just not good to really do this. When the saint sees the minister, he still doesn't make coals, how can we, as courtiers, put those in the yamen? When it was passed on to Ouchi, everyone's face was not good-looking. ”

"I heard that Xu Ping installed a lot of them in the Sansi Yamen back then, and I didn't see anyone say anything."

Cai Qi shook his head: "Xianggong knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other." Xu Ping's pretending in the yamen of the three divisions is also a place where officials do things, as well as those big rooms for classes, and his own governor's hall are also not pretended. However, I heard that Sanya made people pretend to be fire, and several generals in charge of the army were not left behind. ”

Lu Yi simply got up, shook the sleeves of his robe and said, "That's it, how can we deal with a few martial artists?" If you don't pretend in the political hall, don't pretend, don't you come over after so many years without fire. ――By the way, are there any important documents today? ”

"No, it's just a daily chore. By the way, the Xijing Left-behind Division sent a table of worship, and Li Shu, the sheren, drafted an edict back to them, I have already put it on the case of the Xianggong, and you can return it to them after you sign it. ”

Lu Yijian nodded, and picked up Li Shu's edict on the table with an expressionless face to watch.

The Hanlin Scholars of the Academy are internal, in charge of drafting edicts, and are responsible to the emperor, and the foreign rulers have no right to intervene. Of course, the scope of the internal system is strictly limited, except for the ceremonial texts such as worshipping the heavens and the earth and worshipping the ancestors, as well as the words that show the immensity of the emperor's grace such as the Deyin Amnesty, and then the appointment and dismissal of personnel whose status is equivalent to that of the prince and so on. The intellectual system of the Sheren Yuan is an external system, which belongs to the outer dynasty and is responsible to the prime minister. The general official affairs of the imperial court were drafted by the Zhizhi of the Sheren Yuan and approved by the prime minister, although the imperial decree was also issued in the name of the emperor, but it was actually handled by the prime minister.

At this time, there was no independence in the house, and the prime minister could send it back for revision if he was not satisfied with the text drafted by the system, or even if he didn't send it back, it was normal for him to change it directly. In history, it was not until later that Cai Xiang went straight to the House of the People, and he insisted that the prime minister was not allowed to revise the edict drafted by himself, either it was refuted or directly issued, and the House of the People had a certain independent status relative to the Chinese book, forming another force to contain the prime minister.

Of course, the initiative has always been in the hands of the prime minister, and in the end, the House is a subordinate institution of the Chinese book, and if a person does not write an edict according to the will of the prime minister, then replace another. All the housekeepers are against the prime minister, and they can also use various names to temporarily transfer scholars to write, and there is always a way to bypass it. However, in this era, Lu Yijian is Li Shu's top boss, and there is no need to use other tricks in this kind of thing. It is precisely because the prime minister has the absolute initiative that Li Shu, the intellectual, has always clinged to Lu Yijian.