The next morning, the civil and military officials wearing court clothes penetrated into the imperial city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Above the court meeting, the civil left and the military right, the civil officials are headed by the four cabinet members, and the military attaches are headed by the metropolitan governor's mansion and the five left governors, but now only one of the six governors in the metropolitan governor's mansion is in the court, and the remaining five people are guarding the place, so the court is more and more strong and weak.

is already strong and weak, and there is Lan Yu, the head of the cabinet who has been in charge of the government for 50 years, so the court is more and more like a hall of words for civil officials, and it is often a scene of civil officials generously stating and military attachés being silent. The civil servants are headed by the cabinet, and all four cabinet members of the cabinet have been awarded the rank of university scholar, namely the first assistant Lan Yu, the second assistant Han Xuan, the group assistant Li Zhenji, and the group assistant Cho Zongxian.

The first assistant Lan Yu is in charge of the cabinet to draft power, and the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are tightly held in their hands, and the personnel appointments and words are all under its control, and the second assistant Han Xuan re-entered the cabinet, in charge of the household department and the Ministry of Industry, it can be said that he controlled the money bag of the imperial court, and the group auxiliary Li Zhenji was in charge of the criminal department, and the group assistant Zhao Zongxian was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and the latter two were far from being comparable to Lan Yu and Han Xuan.

In the first year of Chengping, Han Xuan dismissed and retired, and his cronies and protégés were deposed one after another, and the temple no longer had a clear party affiliation, because the temple has become a hall of blue jade, and the only thing that can check and balance blue jade is the master of ceremonies who has the power to criticize red, so it has become a dispute between the inner court and the outer court, until Han Xuan returned to the temple in the twenty-first year of Chengping, and the blue party that had been silent for 20 years resurfaced, and at the same time, the "inverted blue" statement began to circulate quietly in private.

As for who can lead the "inverted blue", it is naturally Lan Yu's old opponent, Han Xuan, who competed with Lan Yu's temple twenty years ago.

When it comes to temple qualifications, although Han Xuan is not as good as Lan Yu, he is not far behind, he is also an old man who followed Emperor Xiao to fight the world, ranked thirteenth among the heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and was awarded the title of Shangzhu State, the prince and young master, the special Jin Guanglu doctor, and the Ming Ying Gong.

In addition to Lan Yu and Han Xuan, the two high-profile temple bosses, there is one more eye-catching figure in today's temple, Wei Wuji, the right governor of the Dark Guard Mansion who rushed back to the imperial capital from the south of the Yangtze River.

If the other two governors show up, it is most likely an indication that there are special circumstances.

Then there is the "inner minister" Zhang Baisui, who is the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and the eunuch, wearing a black python robe, which is particularly conspicuous among a group of vermilion purple.

In addition to the head of the military attaché, the Metropolitan Governor Wei Ban is still absent, and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is estimated to continue to remain silent, the rest of the cabinet, the celebrant supervisor, and the leaders of the Secret Guard Mansion have already arrived, so today's court meeting is particularly grand.

The reason for this is that the posts of the governors of the three major border armies in the northwest, south of the Yangtze River, and southern Xinjiang have all expired one after another, and today's meeting is to discuss the candidates for the new governors of the border armies.

According to the legal system, the Metropolitan Governor's Office has the right to command troops, but it does not have the right to transfer troops, let alone the right to appoint personnel, so even if the Metropolitan Governor Wei Ban is absent, it is not a big problem. Even if it is the ministry, there is only the right to appoint officials below the third grade, and several Zuodu governors are from the high position of the first grade, in charge of hundreds of thousands of elite border troops, which is related to the safety of the frontier of the Quartet.

Now Zhang Wuxian took over as the governor of the left army is a sure thing, he was Han Xuan's old department, he was dismissed because he was implicated by Han Xuan, after Han Xuan re-emerged from the mountain, it was natural for him to be promoted and reused by his old department, but he never thought that Lan Yu would recommend Zhang Wuxian as the governor of the Northwest Army first.

In the Weiyang Palace, Emperor Xiao sits on the dragon chair above the ninth-order Danqi, sits in the north and faces the south, and there is a red sandalwood chair under the Danqi, sitting on the first auxiliary blue jade of the dynasty.

The master and apprentice, one on the other, have worked together to run the temple for 20 years.

Now, the apprentice who already knows the destiny of heaven no longer needs this old master, but the Great Qi Imperial Court still needs this old shoufu, so Lan Yu still has to sit here peacefully, even His Majesty the Emperor can't drive him away.

In fact, as early as a few months ago, the cabinet had begun to discuss the candidates of several governors of the left, but in addition to Zhang Wuxi, the remaining two candidates voted by the cabinet did not meet the wishes of His Majesty the Emperor, and they did not let the celebrant wear red for a long time, which dragged on to today's court meeting.

In fact, the candidates for the left governor of the two major border armies in the northwest and southern Xinjiang are all good to say, after all, one is a bitter cold and a hundred battles, and the other is a barbarian land full of miasma.

Jiangnan is a prosperous place in the world, and it involves Jiangdu, especially the Daomen who have repeatedly shot in Jiangdu, so the position of the Jiangnan Army has become more and more important. The reason why Emperor Xiao and Lan Yu had a disagreement on the selection of this position was, in the final analysis, because the two had different attitudes towards Daomen.

Emperor Xiao intended to appoint a new governor of Zuodu, while Lan Yu wanted Chen Qiong to remain in office.

It's just that after the court meeting began, Emperor Xiao kept silent about the appointment of the left governor of the Jiangnan Army, but Wei Wuji, the right governor of the Dark Guard Mansion, took the lead in Chen Zuo.

Lan Yu frowned, Old God Han Xuan was there.

The voice of the person who used to work with Zhang Wuxian and others was not loud, but it was clearly heard in the hall, "Your Majesty, the minister was ordered to go to Jiangnan to investigate the case, and it has been found that Chen Qiong, the governor of Zuodu, has committed five major crimes. ”

"On the third day of the ninth month of the eighteenth year of Chengping, Chen Qiong secretly met with Kong Yixi, a Qing guest of the Wei Palace, in the private residence of Jiangdu, and accepted 50,000 taels of gold from Kong Yixiao afterwards, which was one of his major crimes. ”

"In December last year, the pirates gathered more than 1,000 people, robbed the fleet, plundered property amounting to 300,000 taels of silver, and killed and injured hundreds of people. ”

"Since the pursuit and suppression of the White Lotus Sect bandits, Chen Qiong's report has been arbitrarily delayed, deliberately deceiving, and even the military affairs have not been completed for a long time, and his major crime is three. ”

"According to His Majesty's decree, a thorough investigation of Chen Qiong's ancestral house, there are more than 80,000 taels of gold, more than 120,000 taels of silver, and countless jewels, totaling about 4 million taels, Chen Qiong's annual income is only more than 3,600 taels. ”

"After the autumn of this year, His Majesty's secret decree ordered the Jiangnan garrison to be transferred to the garrison thirty miles outside the Jiangdu City. Its gravel sin five. ”

"A confession and stolen goods have been registered and presented to His Majesty's Imperial Inspection, and a witness and a prisoner are temporarily detained in the Imperial Prison of the Secret Guard Mansion. ”

Emperor Xiao placed his hands on the armrests of the dragon chair, his face expressionless.

Han Xuan slowly stepped out of the queue and said calmly: "These five major crimes should be punished." ”

Silence reigns through.

If Han Xuan wants to compete with Lan Yu, he can't be a soft-hearted good man.

Han Xuan raised his voice slightly, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, all these things are difficult to write, and it will be punished in a canonical manner, so that you can hear it correctly." ”

Many courtiers who had figured out His Majesty's thoughts came out one after another to second.

Several important ministers of the Blue Party wanted to come out to refute, but they were stopped by Lan Yu with a look, and in the end they still did not appear.

Emperor Xiao slowly spoke: "Wei Wuji, this matter is still supervised by you, immediately arrest Chen Qiong and enter Beijing, and will be tried together with the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Secret Guard Mansion, and report to the celebrant after being convicted." ”

Wei Wuji knelt on the ground, "The minister's order." ”

Emperor Xiao got up from the dragon chair, looked down at the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, his eyes finally fell on Lan Yu's body, and said softly: "Yu Kuang, the capital of the Qi Palace, temporarily took the post of the governor of the left capital of the rear army, and the old Han Pavilion proposed a ticket to be submitted to the celebrant and retired from the dynasty." ”

After the human cat Wei Wuji took the lead out of the palace, hundreds of civil and military officials also came out.

Lan Yu and Han Xuan came to the end, and they stood side by side in front of the gate of Weiyang Palace for the first time, looking at the ministers who were walking down the steps one by one.

The last time they stood side by side like this twice was when Emperor Xiao ascended the throne fifty years ago.

Lan Yu said slowly: "The sea is inclusive, and tolerance is great. Elder Han Ge, can't you leave a way out? ”

Han Xuan said indifferently: "The wall is thousands of people, no desire is rigid, I, Han Xuan, have no wife, no children, no relatives and no friends, no admiration for Ronghua, not a good woman, alone, and time is short, in the final analysis, it is just a death, I am not afraid of life and death, why should I retreat?"

With that, Han Xuan left directly.

Lan Yu stood in place and whispered to herself, "What a desireless one!"