At today's court meeting, Jin Lanting, the minister of the Ministry of Rites who was extremely low-key at the end of the second year of Xiangfu, suddenly became the most voiced official in the temple, and even Tang Tiexhuang, the Ministry of War, was stolen from the limelight.

With the advice of Jin Lanting, the court passed a series of policies on the spot without going through the small meeting, including Xu Gong, the Minister of War, who patrols the border and Liaoning for the emperor and made military achievements last year, was finally able to retreat from the cold palace in Liaodong. Not only did he successfully return from the pass, but he also led 20,000 elite troops from the capital to reinforce Lu Shengxiang. Li Chang'an, the military general who had just been promoted, served as deputy to Xu. Young officials such as Gaotingshu and Kong Zhenrong in the Ministry of War, followed the two adults to leave the Beijing Li together.

Lian is finally expected to make its mark. General Yuan Tingshan of Jizhou led 10,000 cavalry and infantry each to leave the border, entered the Central Plains from the pass Jizikou, and advanced together with Xu Gong's army. In addition, he issued an order to Western Shu, ordering King Chen Zhibao to draw another 10,000 elite troops from Shu to participate in the suppression of the rebellion of Guangling Road. This army will be led by Xu Gong and Chen Zhibao. Compared with Jin Lanting's loyalty to the country, he will solve the problems of the court everywhere. The proposal of the Imperial College Superintendent Yao Baifeng at the end of the court meeting immediately made the already solemn court become more and more silent

, This Neo-Confucian scholar from the northwest suggested that the matter of the canal transportation, the Jing'an Dao Zheng commander Wen Taiyi had arrived at the local area, and the government affairs were already heavy, and it should be left to the officials within the canal transportation to be responsible for the specific affairs. Lord Wen only needs to grasp the overall situation. If it were in the past, without the Emperor's Majesty's words, countless civil servants and generals would jump out to refute Lord Zuo Jijiu. However, today the young world sat on the high dragon throne, without saying a word, and his eyes wandered, but almost within his sight, there were only ministers who bowed their heads and remained silent.

No one of the officials who raised their chests and spoke boldly. In the end, the young emperor slowly withdrew his gaze from far away to near, stayed on a group of Huang Zigong, a group of six ministries. In the end, someone finally stood up. It was Chen Wang from the Ministry of Education. Chen Wang did not overturn Yao Baifeng's opinions, but put forward a compromise statement. First, the Ministry of Personnel strictly reviewed the resumes of the main officials of the grain transport. After the court finalized the candidates, the strategy asked Wen Taiyi to put down his burden. The Guangling grain transport was still fully responsible for the time being.

After retreating from the court, His Majesty the Emperor had no intention of convening a small court meeting, so all the officials then left the hall and headed straight to the yamen.

Jin Lanting, who became a laughing stock in the officialdom at the end of last year, was very proud today. It is unnecessary to think about it. Some officials who forgot to visit New Year because of the "many trivial matters" had to flock to the crowd and waited outside the Minister's Mansion. Of course, the gift list was heavy and the gift list was received.

Yao Baifeng was surrounded by officials today, and the old man didn't care. He didn't rush to walk down the steps. Looking at the imperial road in his sight as if bound in the gate, he was stunned.

A young voice sounded beside the old man, "Sir Zuo Jijiu, your stove is cold, it will be difficult to start a house in the future."

The old man did not turn around. There were not many young people who dared to speak like this with a cynical tone to the seniors. There were only a handful of young men from the court in Yang, and there were even fewer people who were qualified to attend the court meeting. Sun Yin, a poor man from the northern Liang Dynasty who had been ups and downs in the officialdom in the capital at a young age.

Sun Yin continued to tease, "Mr. Yao, you are really a scholar. You should be a loyal minister at this time and deserve to be a tea-cold person."

The old man laughed at himself and said, "I have to choose when I am a loyal minister?"

Sun Yin nodded and said seriously: "No, I have to look through the calendar to see the time before going out."

The old man laughed it off, "I can't do such a loyal minister."

Sun Yin smiled gloatingly and said, "It is actually a good thing that Lord Yao has the intention to retire. I, Sun Yin, fell down in the Imperial College. I always think about when I will make a comeback from the Imperial College. The seat of Zuo Jijiu is empty, so I will have a chance. Even if I am Sun Yin, I have to thank Lord Yao in person."

Unexpectedly, the old man was not angry and angry, but nodded and said, "It's better for you, Sun Yin, to go to the Imperial College. I understand that the Imperial College is not my place to teach, because it is no longer a place to study."

Sun Yin said in surprise: "Master Yao wants to resign from his post and return home, right?"

The old man smiled and said, "I'm not stupid, can I go back at this time? I just slapped the court in the face, and I will come again soon. How many lives will I have in Yao Baifeng?"

Sun Yin said, "It turns out that Lord Yao is ignorant of the world's ways of reading, and it is not yet at the point where he can't help but be hopeless."

The old man with a rigid temperament joked for the first time: "It's rare that someone is willing to shoot me horses now, I thank you."

Sun Yin waved his hand and said, "Don't just say it. Remember to give me a few good words when Lord Yao submits his resignation."

The old man did not nod or shook his head, but said with emotion, "Yuan Tingshan in Jizhou, entered the Central Plains at Jizikou. Haha, although I am a sour scholar who cannot even talk about military affairs on paper, I understand that the 20,000 people did not go to Guangling Road to quell the rebellion, but to intercept the Northern Liang cavalry. When the troops and horses in Jizhou were gone, the ten thousand Shu soldiers happened to be almost in the north of Guangling Road. It is estimated that at the same time, Mr. Xu's military talisman should also be in the army, one after another. It is difficult for the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Rites of Jin Lanting, to worry so much about military and national affairs, and it is even more rare that the advice he gave was adopted by the court."

Sun Yin whispered: "Mr. Yao, do you really think it was Jin Lanting's idea? Do you really think it was a good thing for Xu Gong to leave the two Liaos to lead troops south?"

The old man turned around and asked with a smile: "I really don't understand these things as a scholar. I have any knowledge here?"

Sun Yin smiled and said, "I heard that Lord Yao has hidden some good wine in his house?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, grabbed Sun Yin's cuff, walked down the steps together, and lowered his voice: "Green Ant? I had already drunk me when I heard the result of the Liangmang battle last year."

Sun Yin smiled but said nothing.

After all, the old man was not a person like Sun Yin who was as thick-skinned as the city wall. He said helplessly: "Only two or three jars are left, don't make any decisions about them. No matter how expensive other good wines are, I will treat you."

Sun Yin looked contemptuous.

The two walked out of the door side by side. Sun Yin suddenly stopped selling the Green Ant Wine that kept the old man from being deceived, and whispered: "Jin Lanting and Tang Tiexhuang have joined the line, which will make Xu Gong run to fight to the death with the Beiliang cavalry."

The old man was stunned at first, then sighed, looked around, and finally gave up completely. This was indeed not the place where he taught.

Sun Yin turned around and left, laughing and said, "Mr. Yao probably has no posthumous title, so I, Sun Yin, will not go to drink Green Ant Wine."

Sun Yin took a few steps, turned around suddenly, reached out and patted his chest, "I bowed, it is not suitable to give it to Mr. Yao in full view of everyone, but keep it in my heart."

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Twenty years later, in midsummer, Sun Yin had just become the second Minister of Personnel in the Liyang New Dynasty and the powerful second-rank Tianguan Lord.

One day someone suddenly visited the busy Sun Mansion. He claimed to be a child of the Yao family. The gatekeeper, who was already busy, ignored him at all. He really couldn't take care of it. Until the dusk, the Sun Mansion was about to close and reject guests. The dusty young man still refused to leave and had to report his grandfather's name. Although the gatekeeper was born and versatile in the capital, he thought for a long time and didn't know that there was a boss like Yao Baifeng in Liyang officialdom. Later,

I finally remembered that many years ago, an old man named Yao from the Imperial College in the previous dynasty served as the Zuojijiu. However, in the past twenty years, the Neo-Confucian master has not been introduced to the Central Plains. Times have changed, and I guess he is not as good as a new Huangmen Lang who has recently entered the Hanlin Academy of the New Dynasty. The gatekeeper gritted his teeth and saw that the young man traveling thousands of miles to the capital and making people go back to the house. It was really pitiful, so he surpassed the rules and ran to Lord Shangshu to report.

Lord Shangshu, who was barely waving under a melon shed, jumped up from the recliner and ran to the gate of the yard before he could put on his boots. However, he finally stopped and said lightly to the stupid manager, saying that the man could leave the things behind, and there was no need to receive them in the house. If the young man showed a slight resentment, the things would not have to be taken into the yard.

Finally, the manager carefully took a cloth bag to the yard.

Lord Shangshu laughed happily.

Since it is not the descendants of that old man who hope to use this as an advancement in the officialdom, that's great, it's great.

In the dusk, two jars of green ant wine that had been covered with dust for many years were placed on the stone table in the courtyard. Sun Yin was unable to bear to drink it hard on Kaifeng.

The next day, an old man from the previous dynasty who had been forgotten suddenly became famous all over the world.

Yao Baifeng, a Taoist native of Beiliang, was posthumously named Wenjie.

Even though he was already a high-ranking minister, Sun Yin, the Minister of Personnel, who was still known for his unruly rebelliousness, walked out of the hall and stood at the top of the steps for a while after retreating from the court, and then came alone to a place next to the Yudao Street. Although there was no one, Sun Yin still bent down respectfully and bowed. This matter quickly spread to a strange story in the capital.

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For some reason, not only did Emperor Liyang not hold a small court meeting today, but also returned to the magnificent hall, where Song Tanglu, the eunuch in charge of the seal, guarded the door alone.

The young emperor stood near the dragon chaise, and the ground of the hall behind him was paved with gold bricks. Therefore, even if the doors and windows were closed, it was just as the sun was rising. Because light was passing through the window paper, the hall would not look too dark.

There are four pairs of majestic furnishings on both sides of the dragon throne, treasure elephant, crane and incense burner, which together represent the "forever country and country, and the longevity of the country" that countless kings have dreamed of.

The young emperor walked down the steps and stood in the hall. The so-called gold bricks under his feet were actually not made of gold, but tribute bricks from Guangling Manufacturing Bureau. They have the reputation of "stepping silently and knocking like jade chimes."

Zhao Zhuan looked up and saw that the pillars of the hall were made of nanmu wood cut out from the deep mountains of Nanzhao. In his early years, the censors of Liyang had complained that "a thousand people entered the mountain, half of them came out of the mountain". Later, in the hands of the late emperor, the pillars of the Liyang Palace Pavilion were replaced with more easily harvested Liaodong pine wood.

Zhao Zhuan walked to a pillar, reached out to touch the brilliant pillar with powdered gold-patterned cloud dragon pattern, and murmured: "Father, you have a blue-eyed son Zhang Julu, a half-inch tongue Yuan Benxi, and someone has a cat Han Shengxuan. Where is me? A dragon robe, a dragon chair and a hall?"

"Can't this world give me a moment to work hard to govern? Ten years, no, in just five years! I can let the northern Liang, southern border, northern miracle be destroyed! Let the rioters have no place to stand, and let the people of Leaving Yang enjoy peace forever."

"Father, now I don't believe anyone. I don't believe in Qi Yang Long Huan Wen in the temple and Gu Jiantang Lu Shengxiang outside the temple were the young people who were deliberately suppressed and left for me to promote and apply, Song Li and Sun Yin, and I don't believe any of them."

"The only Chen Wang is too young and has insufficient prestige, and has no foundation in the Liyang army. Even if he is willing to turn the tide, he is powerless."

Zhao Zhuan suddenly retracted his hand, his face looked ferocious, he clenched his fist, and smashed it hard on the corridor column with a punch.

The young emperor was panting, and his hands were filled with biting pain.

He glared at the pillar and said angrily: "You are destroying my Zhaoshi fortune in the Imperial Heavenly Prison. I am just asking two lackeys to make things difficult for the grain. Do you dare to openly send troops to Guangling Road?! What's the difference between this and rebellion?!"

Zhao Zhuan punched the column again, and this time the surface of the column was stained with blood. "I really thought that my Li Yang would not dare to stay with you in Beiliang?!"

The young emperor lay on the ground of the hall, looking at the golden dragon lying in the middle of the caisson, with his head down and his mouth holding a giant bead.

Looking at the huge night pearl, the young emperor thought of his sister for no reason, Princess Sui Zhu Zhao Fengya.

Princess Sui Zhu of the Zhaoshi in Liyang is dead, and Zhao Fengya is still alive.

This is probably the only thing that Zhao Zhuan did that the young man in the Xu family in Beiliang did that made Zhao Zhuan not hate so much.

The exhausted young emperor closed his eyes and remembered the stupid parrot raised by the queen.

It turns out that the so-called king of the Nine Five is also a bird in a cage.
Chapter completed!