Chapter 289 The Emperor's Strategy (9)

March comes after the Wanshou Festival. The spring in Liangjing came very early, as if only overnight, the peach blossoms in the city bloomed one after another. The clouds in the forbidden palace were as bright as yellow, and the stone roads were covered with peach blossom petals.

Yao Ji sat in the imperial chariot and left Tai Chi Palace to Da Zheng Palace. She walked all the way, and there was spring scenery everywhere. When she arrived at Da Zheng Gate, the buildings in the previous dynasty were always solemn and solemn, and the beautiful Luoying was gone just inside her eyes.

Because of the good weather, she was in a good mood, but she just discussed a big event.

It turned out that the second prime minister Linting died last month, and now there is only Zhang Jing'an, so a doctor wrote: Prime Minister is an important minister of the country, so he should not be vacant. He begged the saints to choose the most respected prime minister to share the worries of the saints.

Zhang Jingan also listed: Nowadays, affairs are complicated, and after Mr. Lin passed away, I feel deeply inconvenient. I still remember that at last year, there were three ministers in the Political Affairs Hall, including me. Later, Mr. He Ding You, and then he went to Mr. Lin again. Although there is no fixed number of prime ministers, only one minister is not appropriate.

What he said made sense, even if no one complained today, Yao Ji knew that sooner or later someone would mention this.

The prime minister is the most important minister, who doesn’t want to do it?

Now it is not as good as the previous dynasty. There is only one prime minister in the political affairs hall that monopolizes the power of the emperor. Even for the sake of the stability of the imperial power, the emperor will not only leave Zhang Jing'an as the prime minister.

But the candidate for this new appearance needs to be carefully considered.

Zhang Jingan said this naturally without aimlessly. Seeing that Yao Ji was allowed to report, he said: I recommend Jiang Yong.

When Yao Ji heard this name, she suddenly felt her heart moving, but her face was silent.

Jiang Yong is also a son of a noble family, and he is the head of the Nanwang Jiang family, a top family among the family.

During the Ningzong Dynasty, he was also the prime minister. Later, he resigned due to illness and planted flowers and grass at home. He had not come out of the mountain for eight or nine years.

He has both qualifications and hopes. As soon as Zhang Jing'an proposed it, there was a voice of echoing when the palace was in place, and the ones that echoed were naturally all aristocratic families.

Now that the Regent is in great power, he finally went to a neutral Lin Ting. The aristocratic family naturally hopes to have a prime minister who is beneficial to them and join Zhang Jing'an to fight against Xiao Yu together.

This is exactly what Zhang Jing'an intended. Yao Ji thought of the memorial a few days ago, and the Dou family's legitimate branch was deposed. Not to mention that it completely declined, she also fell from a first-class family to a third-rate family. The aristocratic family had lost such a large force, so she naturally had to find a way to make up for it from another place.

Once Jiang Yong becomes an official, it means that the Jiang family, who has been silent for many years, has returned to the political center, goes to the Dou family, and comes to the Jiang family again, and Zhang Jingan has made a good plan.

In this way, Xiao Yu naturally didn't want him to do what he wanted.

But just as the doctor's memorial was made, not everyone could take on important officials like the prime minister.

Xiao Yubing hasn't been in power for a long time. Although he is now extremely powerful, most of the people who rely on him are upstarts and first-class people. Some of these people have strong abilities, some have deep qualifications, and those who are both good at it are not.

Therefore, although he implied that the people below opposed Jiang Yong's court, if he found someone more suitable than Jiang Yong, there would be no one for a while.

The people from the court quarreled over this, and the faction said that Jiang Yong was not suitable, and cited all kinds of inappropriateness.The whole group was stubborn and said: Since Mr. Jiang is inappropriate, then would you recommend a more appropriate person?

Xiao Yu then said: This matter is serious, so it is better to postpone it and discuss it again.

Zhang Jingan was not willing to let him drag him down. He was so arrogant that he could not give in. He refused to give in and turned his gun to Yao Ji: What is the holy intention of unknown?

As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Ji saw Xiao Yu's eyes pointing to her.

Because it was a court meeting, he was wearing a court uniform with a vermilion embroidered python and wearing a golden crown on his hair. Such noble and solemn outfit taught her to think of the gentleness of his eyebrows that snowy night.

She lowered her eyes, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly, as if a butterfly flapped her wings: Zhang Xiang’s words are reasonable, Jiang Yong was the prime minister of the late emperor, and I think it’s good. Since all the dukes said he was good, that’s him.

As soon as this said, even Zhang Jingan was stunned for a moment. He quickly figured out the key points and immediately beat the snake and followed the stick: Follow the holy will.

In this way, Jiang Yong's reign as the prime minister became a foregone conclusion. Xiao Yu had never been slapped in the face like this since Bingquan, but he was very cunning, and he had not shown any of his face. He had a glimmer of light in his eyes, and he smiled on his lips, and he respected with the court officials.

But after the sanchang Dynasty, he taught Yao Ji in Tai Chi Palace, so he naturally could not remain silent.

At that time, Yao Ji was sitting under the window, changing into her homely clothes, her head was covered in black hair, and her beautiful face was as beautiful as a jade, and outsiders didn't know that she was a daughter. They all said that the older the saint, the better the child was.

She was holding a book in her hand, but she didn't turn a page for a while. When she heard Xiao Yu speak lightly, she suddenly felt sober.

Can the sage know why Jiang Yong resigned from office back then?

Yao Ji's hand holding Shuyuan tightened slightly: Isn't it because of illness?

Xiao Yu smiled: Since you are in front of me, why should the saint say these things to outsiders?Although the saint was still young when the late emperor passed away, I thought that some of the words that the late emperor had said were: Jiang Yong was more forced by the late emperor than resigning from his post. It was just that the late emperor protected him to the public and acquiesced to him that he had resigned due to illness.Now that I have brought him back to the court, wouldn’t it be a shame to the late emperor?

Yao Ji was also clear about this matter, as Xiao Yu said.

The reason was that Jiang Yong and Chen Qi were incompatible at that time, and the struggle was fierce. The two factions in the court and China had many conflicts, which were even more sharper than the moment.

These two factions are naturally aristocratic families and the other is a new nobleman who unites the nobles and common people.

At that time, Xiao Yu was only over ten years old and was still a famous wanderer in the capital. Yao Ji was young and was still studying and enlightened.

But although she lived in the palace, she knew that the two sides were fighting openly and secretly, even to the point where even the women in the harem knew.

Chen Qi wanted to suppress the aristocratic families and support the common people, but Jiang Yong wanted to maintain the glory and tradition of the aristocratic families.

Of course, the aristocratic family lasted for several dynasties and generations, so it was naturally not easy to shake, but Chen Qi, with the support of Ningzong, was also pressing him step by step.

The final result was that Chen Qi was imprisoned for his crime and was executed by the whole family, while Jiang Yong stopped on the grounds of being sick and weak.

In the eyes of outsiders, the aristocratic family naturally won a great victory. However, as the Jiang family withdrew from the center, the power of the aristocratic family entered a vacuum period. Ningzong took the opportunity to simply recruit talents and support nobles, and unknowingly occupied many of the aristocratic family forces. After thinking about it carefully, both sides suffered losses.

Now that she heard Xiao Yu say this, Yao Ji Fang slowly said: I naturally know this. The late emperor once told me that Jiang Yong is a prime minister, but he has no prime minister’s weapon. However, she changed her mind. If it weren’t for Jiang Yong, who else could be the prime minister?

I know that Uncle Qi was afraid that Jiang Yong would enter the court, which led to the great power of the aristocratic family. She changed her family's intimate name and her tone became more gentle. However, the children of the aristocratic family were originally more outstanding than the common people, which is an extremely refuted fact.Their inheritance has been passed down for a hundred years, and the children in their families have been studying since they can speak. Their background is far beyond the reach of poor families.If you reject it just because of your origin, wouldn’t it be too narrow-minded?

In fact, she felt a little guilty when she said this because she knew that Xiao Yu was not such a person, but that she supported Zhang Jing'an, so she had to come up with a high-sounding reason before she could say this.

Xiao Yu smiled slightly, and his smile was so faint that it was almost invisible: What the saint taught him was.He was angry when he spoke.

Yao Ji had no choice but to say again: Uncle Qi once taught me that the way of being a king is to pay attention to balance and oppression too much, and I am afraid that the aristocratic family will cause trouble.

If she had found such a ladder, Xiao Yu would have gone down the donkey. After all, the order had been issued, but if she was dissatisfied, what else could she do?

Xiao Yu is not the kind of person who will get entangled in useless things.

But she noticed that Xiao Yu seemed to be particularly disliked by Jiang Yong. This was strange. When Jiang Yong was in the court, Xiao Yu had never had any contact with the government affairs at all. How could the two of them have grudges?

Before she could figure it out, Xiao Yu had already turned his mind and talked about the article in the book.

Yao Ji had no choice but to listen to his teaching until the get out of class was over at dusk. Apart from the few words he had commented on when he was reviewing his course, the two of them never said a single extra sentence.

Yao Ji was worried and was absent-minded. When she heard the rustling sound of clothes rubbing, Xiao Yu stood up and bowed to her as a tribute: Let's stop here today, I will leave.

She didn't know why, but her mouth opened and closed, and she wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say.

Until Xiao Yu walked to the door and was about to cross the threshold, he suddenly turned around.

At that time, the golden crow sank in the sky, and the dan rays fell like broken gold. In the sunset that was so bright that it was almost stunning, it seemed to be split into tiny pieces by the golden light, changing rapidly, and it was about to dissipate.

You still don't believe me after all.

No... She choked in her throat with a word, and Xiao Yu's figure could no longer be seen.