In the twelfth year of the reign, the thirty-first day of the ninth month, the night

The city was quiet, there were patrols at the important street entrances, checking the occasional passer-by, and the houses were dimly lit, and there were many oil lamps, but it was the women who were spinning.

In the streets and alleys, there are watchmen carrying small lanterns and banging gongs or bangzi.

Wang Zunzhi, the envoy of Wenyang Mansion, was in the study, thinking about things.

In front of him, there was an object, which was put away in a brocade box, and he was considering whether to give it away.

After a long time, Wang Zunzhi finally made up his mind, summoned a close attendant, asked him to pick up the brocade box on the table, and said: "This is the table I submitted to the imperial court, you can quickly send someone to Hu Ce, there can be no mistake." ”

"No. Although he was curious about what was written in the recital, the man was very knowledgeable, and bowed his head and only complied.

After retreating, he found a team of fifty people, handed it to the team leader, and ordered them to set off immediately and send it to the doctor Hu Ce, who would present the recital to the imperial court.

Hu Ce was actually an official of the imperial court in Jiedu, who was originally an overseer, but now he has no real name, although he has the official position of supervising the army.

Although he is in name only, he still takes the lead in dealing with the imperial court.

In the twelfth year of the reign of the Emperor, on the twenty-third day of October

Jinling

The big Sima Wei Yue drove back to the house, and when he arrived at the door, the guards were already kneeling in a row and welcoming back.

Wei Yue ignored this, got out of the car, walked through the front garden, and walked to a room in the back, sat down on a large chair, and took a breath.

Wei Yue is nearly fifty years old, of medium stature, with black temples and beard, and bright purple eyes, giving people a sense of majesty.

At this time, a middle-aged man heard the voice, habitually straightened his robe, and walked out of the duty room, and he was about to walk in carefully, when a close attendant walked out. He hurriedly took a step forward, arched his hand, and asked in a low voice, "How is the general feeling?"

The attendant didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and the two staggered.

The man entered inside, knelt down towards Wei Yue, and made a big salute, Wei Yue casually let him get up, and asked, "What news is there in the palace recently?"

The man replied respectfully: "The emperor was furious again and threw a few cups, which is said to be for the sake of Changdingzhen." ”

Wei Yue sneered, took a cup of tea, the faint fragrance of tea was refreshing, smacked it lightly with his lips, looked at the cup thoughtfully, and said, "Let's hear it." ”

The matter of Changding Town, due to the convenience of taking the waterway, was transmitted to the imperial court on the 13th, Wei Yue read it first, did not say anything, and handed it over to the emperor for approval.

At this time, Emperor Dayan was actually a puppet, and even if he was a puppet, he had a few rights.

At this time, the imperial power was not yet weak enough to be completely ignored.

Wei Yue continued to devour the power of the imperial court and wanted to stand on his own, but nominally gave the chapter to the emperor and made him a palm seal official.

Maybe it was a bad mood, maybe Wei Yue deliberately disgusted the emperor, the news of Changding Town made the emperor furious, and turned back to the dormitory, and soon after, in the dormitory, there was a sound of smashing things.

The emperor was like this, and an attendant stepped forward to comfort: "Your Majesty, don't be angry!"

"What do you know?!" Another artifact was smashed to the ground, and the emperor said angrily: "What a bold group of people! These people, relying on the military power in their hands, don't take me seriously! I am the lord of the world! They actually fight each other in private, and what do they think the court regards me? Bastards! It's just a bunch of bastards!"

He cursed loudly and kept throwing objects at the ground in his hands, but fortunately most of them were gold and silverware, and few of them were damaged.

Only this banging sound, the serving attendants were frightened and didn't dare to come out.

No matter how the emperor puppets, kill them, it is effortless.

After a while, the fire in his heart was tossed enough, and the emperor sat down on the chair tiredly, but his face became more and more gloomy.

What kind of situation the imperial court is, he knows that the feudal towns nominally respect the imperial court, but in fact, they do their own politics, and they don't take him as the emperor in their eyes at all!

This emperor seems to be the lord of the world and enjoys the four seas, but he is just a puppet.

The emperor has long passed his youth, and he can understand his current situation, but in the end he is still vigorous, and his heart is still unwilling, he roared angrily: "Don't approve, do such a contrarian thing, and want me to approve it, don't approve!"

The man prayed one by one, secretly looking at Wei Yue's facial expression and his subtle movements as he examined the teacup.

Wei Yue stood up, paced back and forth in the room for a moment, and said with a smile: "The emperor really hasn't grown up yet!"

This man thought in his heart: "If it weren't for the fact that the emperor's teacher was not even invited, how could it be like this if he was allowed to play wine in the palace? ”

But the mouth is yes and again.

Wei Yue walked a few steps, sat down in front of the desk, and unfolded a picture, this picture is a landscape painting, made by the famous Gao Shaocheng, Wei Yue appreciated it very much, and then looked at it casually, and saw that there were many imprints on it, and now there is another "Chengqian Great Seal" Yangwen Zhu Yin, this is his ambition.

For a moment, after laughing, Wei Yue was silent.

In fact, the situation in the court, he can get a report at any time, there are three eyeliners, not only the person in front of him, the emperor no longer has the right, but also has a righteous name, he started by the court, how dare he be careless.

"The palace is the most important, this is where the emperor is driving, so you must be good at defending and not letting villains snoop on you. Wei Yue said calmly.

"Please rest assured, the little one will take care of the emperor!"

"Well, you can go back, as for the matter of Changding Town, who told him to provoke the emperor's anger, only to refuse. Wei Yue said casually.

Shu is already beyond the reach of the whip, and in fact, it is somewhat meaningless to the imperial court.

Although it was approved, the festival made a layer of righteousness, and the court also had more face, but it was only so.

The feudal towns of the two counties did not particularly attract his attention, and since he happened to encounter the emperor's anger this time, he had no choice but to refuse.

"Yes!" the man prostrated again, got up from the ground, and withdrew respectfully.

Hu Ce was at the inn at this time.

Although he is an official of the imperial court, since the supervision army is useless at this time, this official is meaningless, and he returned to Jinling, and he didn't even have an official residence, so he had to live in an inn with grievances.

Jinling is a famous city, now it is the imperial capital, the water and dry wharves are complete, but it is also prosperous, Hu Ce and Hu He father and son are not generous, just chartered a suite, the boss gave two guys, carried luggage, served meals, and boiled a large bucket of hot water, sent to the room.

Hu Ce rested in the house for a while at this time, half-lying on the quilt at random, took out a book, and was reading it, when suddenly, there was a sound outside, and he saw his son Hu He coming back angrily.

Hu Ce motioned to sit down and said, "What's wrong?"

"Father, you see, the emperor rejected the marshal's recital, did not appoint a clear will to appoint the young marshal to succeed him, and even reprimanded!"

"What?" Hu Ce was shocked, stood up, and walked around the room.

"Father, what should I do?" asked Hu He.

Hu Ce got off the kang and walked out of the door, and he didn't speak, the guy in front of the store had already seen it, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Guest officer, what do you want?"

Hu Ce looked at the dense stars in the sky, smiled indifferently and said, "Come out and breathe the wind!"

As he spoke, he took his son, took his steps, turned his feet and went out of the second door.

There were about twenty rooms next to each other in this inn house, and there were not many rooms, and at this time there were several guests in the rooms who were gambling and shouting and drinking, and a few of them were drinking alone in the room, with the door open.

Outside, the streets were prosperous, people came and went, and after watching for a while, Hu Ce sighed and said: "Although Liang Yuan is good, it is not a place to live for a long time!"

Hu He's mouth squirmed, but he didn't say anything, and after waiting for a while, Hu Ce said, "I've resigned from the imperial court!"

"What?" Hu He's surprise was not trivial.

"Our Hu family has also been in Shu for thirty years, and the official of this prison army is not interesting, neither trusted by the imperial court nor trusted by the marshal, these are the two ends of the first rat. ”

"I didn't get the will of the court this time, I'm afraid that we won't need to be an official who runs errands back and forth in the future, speaking of which, if we come back now, can we really be an official?"

"It's been thirty years, and this homeland is really the homeland, and there are no more favored families. ”

"It's better to resign from the official position of the imperial court now, and concentrate on being the official of the marshal and the young marshal in the future, maybe it will come to work from time to time, and it will have a future. ”

Hearing this, Hu He couldn't help but swallow his saliva and asked, "Then what should I do next?"

"What else can I do? If the marshal endures, there is another way, that is, the marshal has the opening of the palace, and the following officials can be appointed, at most the five grades, and the title of the young marshal can be conferred, or other five-grade official titles. This empty name and the edict are both original, and there is no difficulty. ”

"The rank of five-rank official, in this case, in the official, I am afraid that it will be difficult to control the second county. Hu He muttered, "Father, what else?"

"There is also the fact that the marshal should not be ordered at all, and he does not want the approval of the imperial court, and he directly approves himself, and there are many things about this, which one in Chengdu, isn't he a self-appointed starter?" Hu Ce said with a sneer.

"Father, then you say, which one will the marshal choose?"

"If it was before, maybe I was wronged, but now I have two towns, there is no big enemy outside, and I didn't say that I could use this crusade, hum, I'm afraid that there are many self-styled, so I said, this court official, can't be a person - if we are self-appointed, in what name do we stay in the town?"

"But the imperial court ......" Hu He always minded.

"The imperial court can't count on it, if the affairs of this feudal town can be put on the table, the imperial court will approve it, and it will leave some face and righteousness, and if it is not approved now, it will be forced to rebel...... The emperor doesn't know, doesn't Wei Da Sima and Wei General know?"

"If Wei Yue still needs the face of the imperial court, why don't he maintain it? Looking at it like this, Wei Yue has already made up his mind to usurp the throne, so he doesn't cherish the face of the imperial court. ”

"What is the use of such a court, if we come back?" Hu Ce said this, although his tone was agitated, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

The decline of the imperial court, it turned out to be so!