Yuwen Rong yīn came in with a calm face, reluctantly arranged the next affairs for his subordinates, and then got up to leave, and even went to a few subordinates who he trusted him, he didn't say a word to them. In the face of this scene, thinking of what someone had just come in and said, everyone had their own guesses. Especially Li Cheng, who was first a judge under Yu Wenrong and is now a member of the official household department, even stopped Guo Quan, the superintendent of Yushi who had some personal relations with him, when he went out, and the two got on the horse and left Yu Wenrong's mansion together.

Li Cheng is the son-in-law of Zhang Shuo's sister-in-law. When Zhang said that when he moved to Xiangzhou to assassinate the history, he once examined the subordinate officials, and finally took a fancy to Li Cheng and Zheng Yan. Zhang said that he married his daughter to Zheng Yan, but married the daughter of his sister-in-law Yīn Xingzhen, who had a good relationship with him, to Li Cheng, and then tried to transfer Li Cheng to his command when he was appointed governor Shi. It can be said that the relationship between him and Zhang Shuo is not extraordinarily close. Therefore, when Yu Wenrong dominated the field of the field, he played it as the judge of the supervision of the imperial history, and then because of the meritorious work of the field and the household, he was really awarded the supervision of the imperial history, and when he was sealed last year, he was recommended as a member of the household department.

is such a character who was supposed to be a mediator between Zhang Shuo and Yu Wenrong, but now he feels that he is caught in the middle. On the old reason for the sake of relatives, Zhang said that he had the virtue of a nephew and the grace of simplicity; can talk about the importance of carrying equipment, Yu Wenrong first named him as a judge, and repeatedly recommended him to be in an important position, and Li Cheng is even more empathetic to this virtue. So, now at the age of thirty-seven, he is in his prime, but in the past two years, he has added countless gray hairs, and he looks even older than Guo Quan.

"Brother Guo, do you know, what is the reason why the Yuwen Household Department is bothered today?"

"Looking at the appearance of Yuwen Hubu, I don't want to say it to people, how can I guess?"

Having said that, Guo Quan still had some guesses in his heart. He is good friends with Du Shiyi, and he has Yuwen Rong, so he knows that the two of them have a close relationship and advance and retreat together, so he has naturally been very relieved. After all, everyone sees this Li Cheng's dilemma, and no one wants to replace the person caught in the middle with himself. Two months ago, Yu Wenrong also summoned him and asked Du Shiyi about the law of the two tax system, he really hadn't heard much of it, so he could only rack his brains and tell everything he knew, and then he felt that Yu Wenrong had something else in mind. Yuwen Rong went out for a trip today and suddenly became so angry, do you know if it's not because of this?

Seeing Guo Quan shaking his head, Li Cheng couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Yuwen Hubu has been a lot more irritable recently, and he often shines in both the Yushitai and the Hubu, and I also know that it is because although Yan Gong is the prime minister, he is still the right prime minister of Shangshu and the history of the country." It's just that when I went to see Yan Gong before, I saw that he was much older and no longer arrogant. Now that the victory and defeat have been divided, why bother with the struggle of will? ”

There are many officials under Yuwenrong's command, Li Cheng knows Guo Quanbing, so he can't help but pour two sentences of bitter water, seeing Guo Quan smiling bitterly and shaking his head, he knows that the next words are not suitable to say again, so he raised his hand to say goodbye when he left the door. After walking only a short distance on the street, he finally stopped his horse, and when the left and right entourages stepped forward to inquire cautiously, he said in a deep voice: "Go to the Yanguo Mansion"

Zhang said that although he was dismissed, the position of the Duke of Yanguo and the right prime minister of Shangshu was still in his body, and although the snub of the court was inevitable, the Zhumen Column Halberd still had the atmosphere of a splendid and wealthy family. Although Yīn Xingzhen has passed away, and Li Cheng is a subordinate of Yu Wenrong, everyone in the Zhang family knows that Li Cheng is a junior who Zhang Shuo is quite important.

The history of the country is all repaired in the palace history museum, and it is a rare grace to be allowed to repair history at home like Zhang Shuo. And this also made the Zhang family finally feel at ease, so for his brother Zhang Guang's original ear-cutting lawsuit, from Mrs. Yuan to Zhang Shuo's sons, everyone was grateful to Dade. At this moment, Mrs. Yuan knocked on the door, then gently pushed the door open, and gestured to Li Cheng's chin again: "Speaking of sitting idle recently, although the anger is more peaceful than that of Rì, sometimes the anger is still unstoppable, Li Lang is more careful when he speaks. ”

"Thank you aunt for the reminder."

married Zhang Shuo's niece, although Li Cheng still calls Zhang Shuo Yan Gong outside, but at the moment he is in a private house, so he naturally calls him closer. So, when he entered the room and saluted and called his uncle, he saw Zhang Shuo waving his hand, but motioned for himself to sit down without saying a word. He sat down cross-legged on the seat on the left-hand side of the bookcase, and after deliberation and deliberation, he finally spoke.

"Uncle, I'm from the Yuwen Household Department." Seeing that Zhang Shuo didn't have much reaction when he heard the name Yu Wenrong, Li Cheng said solemnly, "Uncle, the past has passed, and Bixia still has feelings for you, and always consults on state affairs and cultivates national history." I heard that my uncle secretly ordered his relatives and friends to secretly find the mistakes of Yuwen Hubu and Dr. Cui and others, and fought endlessly in the court, but the Anzhi sage didn't see it in his eyes? ”

Seeing that Zhang Shuo was still silent, Li Cheng couldn't help but be a little anxious, and actually raised his voice and said: "Uncle, you must know that there is more than one Yuan Xiangguo in the political affairs hall now, and there is also Du Xiangguo, who is the new prime minister, Li Xiangguo, you have already quit the prime minister, if you fight with the Yuwen household department again and again, this is a snipe and a clam fighting, and the fisherman profits."

Speaking of which, Zhang Shuo finally raised his head, but there was a bit of ridicule on his face: "Do you think I won't know?" ”

Li Cheng turned his heart on the side today, and decided to make his words clear, but he didn't expect Zhang Shuo to reply to himself like this. A little dumbfounded, he looked directly at Zhang Shuo, and only after a while did he ask in a difficult voice: "Since my uncle knows, why bother?" ”

"Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there have been only two people in the Manchu Dynasty who have risen after the resignation of the prime minister, one is the good old man of Yuan Qianyao, and the second is my Yan Guogong Zhang said" After saying such a sentence, Zhang Shuo, who was originally old, stared at each other, and it seemed that he had suddenly regained his vitality and vigor, as if he was still the prime minister who was strategizing

However, that momentum only lasted for a moment, and then finally disappeared without a trace. He narrowed his eyes, and said lightly, "At the beginning, I was calculated by Yao Chong and almost fell to the bottom, but even in a place like Yuezhou, I still survived, and I still came back." However, such a thing as repetition can never be repeated

If he was dismissed because of his kind of crime, and he could still be revived, wouldn't it mean that the original crime was wrong, and the Son of Heaven was wrong?

Even if this kind of thing is like Li Cheng, he won't say it clearly, seeing that he frowned as if he didn't understand, Zhang Shuo sighed softly: "You don't have to persuade anymore, Yu Wenrong thought that he had offended me to death before, and if he didn't put me to death, he and Cui Yinfu would never give up." As for me, it's the same, since it's difficult to ascend to the throne again in this life, for the sake of my family, I won't allow such a poisonous snake to sleep soundly on the edge of the couch As for the two new ministers in the political affairs hall, I overthrew Yu Wenrong, a son of heaven who may threaten them all the time, and they can always tolerate me to retire with peace of mind."

When Li Cheng came out of the Yanguo Mansion in vain, Guo Quan also received a letter from Du Shiyi to himself at home, in addition to writing to Yu Wenrong. Originally, he was just secretly guessing in his heart, but now he finally understood the reason for Yuwenrong's anger. It turned out that Du Shiyi not only refused to ask Song Jing to re-mention the implementation of the two tax laws in the country, but also advised Yu Wenrong not to chase Zhang Shuo too much, so as not to lose both, or the snipe and clam will fight and the fisherman will benefit. Du Shiyi also said in the letter that if Yu Wenrong can figure it out, please try to persuade him again, if he can't figure it out, then he will treat it as if he doesn't know such a thing.

"The arrow has to be sent on the string, and it is human nature that Yuwen Hubu is reluctant to turn back. Brother Du Xian, how are you doing this to me? ”

Thinking of Du Shiyi's help and introduction to him, and Yu Wenrong's support and reuse of himself, Guo Quan can be regarded as realizing the difficulties of Li Cheng being caught in the middle. And Du Shiyi mentioned in the letter that in case of defeat, the fate that these Yu Wenrong's cronies may incur, he feels even more heavy in his heart. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and actually carried the letter in his hand, and hurriedly went out again.

"Guo Lang, this is ......"

"I'm going to go to the Uwen Household Department again, and I'll ask Mrs. at home."

Guo Quan hurriedly went out with such a sentence to his wife, and when he arrived at Yuwen Mansion with only one attendant in civilian clothes, the people in front of the door did not expect him to go and return, and he was taken aback for a while, and then hurriedly reported in. After a while, a message of invitation came from inside. Although Yu Wenrong had been to Guo Quan many times in this mansion given by the Eastern Capital after he was promoted to the head of the household department, the more he walked in at this moment, the more he could feel the trembling on the faces of the servants who came and went. Before the battle that ordered Zhang to say that he was the prime minister, he had also noticed this atmosphere, but he didn't expect it to reappear again today.

"You're here." Yu Wenrong just moved his chin slightly to say hello to Guo Quan, and after seeing him salute solemnly, he took out a roll of paper from his sleeve and sent it to him, he raised his eyebrows and took it in his hand, and sneered after sweeping the ten lines at a glance, "Du Jiulang is really thorough, it doesn't matter if he wrote me such a letter, and let you be a lobbyist"

"Ubun Tobe"

"Needless to say, I don't know the truth, I'm just annoyed, he is so unoptimistic about me Yu Wenrong" Yu Wenrong angrily slapped the case, stood up and paced back and forth for two steps, he said angrily, "From the ninth year of Kaiyuan, I have been from the supervision of the imperial history on the eighth grade, to the imperial history of the palace from the seventh grade, from the imperial history of the sixth grade, from the military department member Wailang on the sixth grade, the imperial history of the fifth grade, zuihou to the household servant under the fourth grade, in less than six years, I have arrived today, Invincible, invincible, even Zhang Shuo returned home, why does he think that I will lose to Zhang Shuo this time

Guo Quan was excited by Yuwenrong's words, and couldn't help but shout again: "Yuwen Hubu, the times are different, please ......"

"It's no different, I can't hold it anymore at this point. I also know that there is little hope that Yu Wentong hinted at his success before, even if he Du Jiu did not expect himself to lead the matter of the two taxes on behalf of the rent, Song Guangping may not be willing to let me take the lead. ”

Yu Wenrong laughed twice in a hoarse voice, revealing an indescribable tiredness: "Bixia doesn't like the battle in the court to be too fierce, so in the past, the political affairs hall has always been one positive and one auxiliary, and now these attacks on each other must be in his eyes." But if he hadn't said that he had to look down on me, he had to pull me down, and he had to be unable to tolerate people, how could he have come to this point today? You don't have to worry, maybe I can cross this ditch and I can go further."