Chapter 605: The Death of Xiang Pei (Part 2)

After a moment, Zhang Zhijie walked into the study and bowed deeply to his father, "I'll see my father."

Zhang Yun's eldest son Zhang Xun was born to his wife. He worked as an official in other places for many years and rarely came back. He had a relatively weak relationship with Zhang Yun. His second son Zhijie's mother was Zhang Yun's former confidante. He had a very high talent in poetry and was a famous prostitute in Chang'an. However, he never talked about poetry and did not sell himself. Later, he fell in love with Zhang Yun. However, because of her background, Zhang Yun's father, Prime Minister Zhang Shuo, refused to allow her to enter the Zhang family. She had never been able to marry Zhang Yun. Soon after giving birth to a son for Zhang Yun, she passed away. This was Zhang Yun's biggest heartache in more than 20 years.

Love the house and the Wu, he also liked her son the most. Although Zhijie has been well-read in poetry and books since childhood, and has a very high talent, and with his ability as a prime minister, it is easy for his son to be an official, but Zhang Yun was reluctant to let him go and kept him by his side to handle some social matters for him. This time, if he had not expressed his loyalty to Li Qing'an and reversed his image as a fence-bearer, he would never let his son join the army.

Zhang Yun hadn't seen his son for three months. Seeing that he seemed to have become darker and thinner than last time, he couldn't help but feel distressed and asked, "Does my son work hard in the army?"

"Regarding my father's words, the Anxi Army has strict military discipline. At the fifth update, we must line up at the 5th minute. There are many things. Although it is very hard, the child feels very fulfilled. Moreover, when he heard that Pei Zhili is also a clerk and has been a senior in the exam for two years, he can endure such hardship, so why is the child not as good as him?"

Zhang Yun nodded. His son knew how to be ambitious. This is a good thing. Nowadays, many of the important officials in the court are playboys. His son is obviously different from them. This makes Zhang Yun feel very pleased. Although he had to send his son to the Anxi Army to join the army, he now feels that he seems to have done the right thing and that talents can be produced in the training of the Anxi Army.

What impressed him the most was Pei Yu, the young minister of the Honglu Temple. Although he was not old, he was well-off and had outstanding talents, and had extraordinary conversations. He had become the best among the younger generation. He had to admit that Li Qing'an promoted Pei Yu not only because he married Li Qing'an's sister, but not only because he was the grandson of the Pei family. He was indeed very talented and could do much more than many old guys.

This is because he went to Anxi for several years to exercise. After he came back, he felt like he was reborn. Seeing that his son also had a few shadows of Pei Yu, Zhang Yun felt great joy in his heart. He had someone to succeed!

He stroked his beard and smiled, "Very good, you made your father very pleased. You have been modest and disciplined since you were a child. Then go to the Anxi Army to temper yourself for a few years. I believe that you have a bright future for your father."

After a pause, he asked again with a smile: "Why did you think of going home tonight? Are you resting?"

"Report to my father, it was the general who asked me to come back."

"Li Qing'an!"

Zhang Yun was shocked, "He, has he returned to Beijing?"

Zhang Yun's heart was suddenly in chaos. Li Qing'an returned to Beijing and the others didn't know at all. It was obvious that he was back for Pei Zunqing's death. He tried hard to restrain his inner chaos and asked, "What did he ask you to come back to do?"

"The General asked me to bring a message to my father."

"What?"

"The general said, please cheer up and preside over the court, and quell the impact of the assassination of Pei Xiangguo as soon as possible, so as to get the court on track."

Zhang Yun was excited and hurriedly said, "Is this his original words?"

"Yes! This is the general's original words."

Zhang Yun's heart was so angry that a gust of spring breeze blew into it, and it suddenly became alive. He heard what Li Qing'an meant, and it actually meant to let him be the right prime minister. The right prime minister! He has been waiting for many years, is it really coming to his head? Wait, don't think too beautifully, things have not reached that point yet.

"Is there anything else?" Zhang Yun tried his best to calm down his excitement.

"Father, the general is going to transfer me to Hu Benwei to make clerical and seal scripts."

"Oh!" Zhang Yun was even more surprised. A series of things happened today seemed to be in his favor. Could it be that Li Qingan wanted to activate him?

Although he was surprised, he felt more happy. His son was valued and used as the right prime minister. The seal script of the Hu Benwei's seal script means that his son will enter Li Qing'an's inner circle of power. Generally speaking, the seal script of the seal script will be around Li Qing'an. He heard many secret matters, and only the confidant was qualified. Why did Li Qing'an promote his son? Aren't he afraid that some secrets of Anxi Army would be known by him?

Zhang Yun was puzzled. He looked at his son again, and saw that his son's eyes were clear and upright, biting his lips tightly. At this moment, Zhang Yun suddenly realized something? A sense of loss surged in his heart. As a father, he was not as good as Li Qing'an to understand his son. He had to admire Li Qing'an's way of employing people. Even if his son knew the inside story of An Xijun, he would never reveal it to him. This was also a test for Li Qing'an to his son.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yun smiled bitterly and said, "I understand. You can go to the Hu Ben Guard with peace of mind. You will not make things difficult for your father and will not harm your future."

The reason why Zhang Yun is called a tumbler in the officialdom is not that he is good at managing or that he is good at everything. More because he has a political wisdom that ordinary people do not have, and can grasp the right degree in many major events. For example, Li Longji once wanted to invite him to the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Zhang Yun chose to give up Li Longji at the last moment. He saw that Li Longji was already the end of the day. Even if he was orthodox, he did not have the strong strength of Li Qing'an and the vitality of Li Qing'an.

So despite his fall, he finally followed Li Qing'an. Compared with Yang Guozhong, Wang Gong, Chen Xilie, Yang Shenjin and other people of his contemporaries, he was the only one who remained in line.

Similarly, although his son entered Li Qing'an's inner circle and could know more insider information, Zhang Yun knew that he could not interfere. Although obtaining insider information could make him temporary gains, it would ruin his son's future and the future of their family. Compared with the so-called confidential information, the future of his son and the future of his family are much more important than the so-called confidential information.

Zhang Zhijie was also most worried about what his father would tell him to do. He felt that Li Qing'an had always trusted him. He did not want to betray this trust. If his father forced him to do something or say, he would feel very painful. Now his father can finally understand him and promised not to make things difficult for him. This surprised and happy Zhang Zhijie and bowed deeply: "Thank you, father, for understanding the child."

Zhang Yun nodded and smiled, "Go! Go back to the military camp now. Since it's not a holiday, you can't miss the day of tomorrow. Go back quickly! You can still keep up with the city gates."

"The boy is gone."

Zhang Zhijie suddenly knelt down, kowtowed to his father, turned around and left quickly. Zhang Yun was stunned to listen to his son's footsteps walking away, his eyes getting a little wet.

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Not long after Zhang Zhijie left, Zhang Yun was preparing to sort out the recent political affairs that happened in the court. Since Li Qing'an asked him to take charge of the court, he had to act like this. He probably said this. Then he would not enter the city for the past two days and would stay outside the city for the time being, waiting for the political situation to stabilize.

At this time, the housekeeper came to report again: "Master, Secretary Wei is here, I have something urgent to ask for my visit."

What did Wei Tao do? Zhang Jun pondered for a moment, then immediately stood up and said, "Prepare the carriage, I'm going out."

This is the decisiveness that a politician needs. He and Wei Tao got together in order to deal with Pei Zunqing together and joined the Wei Party. With Pei Zunqing's death, there were signs of mutual suspicion between them. It was not because they suspected that the other party killed Pei Zunqing, but because the basis for the alliance between them no longer exists. This is politics, there are no eternal enemies and no eternal allies.

Now that Li Qing'an has entrusted him to preside over the court, he must draw a clear line with Wei Dang. Zhang Yun did not want to have too much entanglement with Wei Tao, and he didn't even want to ask him to go to the study to discuss in detail.

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Wei Tao waited in front of the mansion for a while. At this time, the side door of the Zhang mansion opened wide, and Zhang Yun walked out in his formal clothes, "Haha! Let Wei Shangshu wait for a long time."

Wei Tao was about to speak, but suddenly saw the carriage behind Zhang Yun. The guards were ready to ride horses. He couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Brother Zhang is going out?"

"I was about to go to the court room to get a few official documents, and I would like to approve them to the Privy Council tomorrow, but I didn't expect that Secretary Wei would come. It's a coincidence!"

Wei Tao frowned. Zhang Yun ignored government affairs these days, and when did he want to take any official documents again? It was obviously a rebuttal. He didn't want to invite him to see him.

Wei Tao sighed in his heart. He thought Zhang Yun was still dissatisfied with him because of suspicion. He came to Zhang Yun to clarify the matter. At this critical moment, he needed to get Zhang Yun's support. Since Pei Zunqing died, Wei Tao should take over as the right prime minister. Judging from the power structure of the court, the Wei Party is now the dominant party.

Even if Zhang Yun doesn't want to see him, he still wants to have a good talk with Zhang Yun.

"Then I'll go with Brother Zhang! I have a few words to say to Brother Zhang."

Zhang Yun really wanted to sort out some information to the room. When he saw Wei Tao refused to let him go, he nodded and said, "Okay, Secretary Wei asked him to get on the carriage."

The two got on the carriage, and the carriage started to accelerate and galloped towards the Daming Palace. One hundred sword-bearing guards were riding on horseback, and Wei Tao's carriage followed closely behind.

They sat opposite each other in the carriage, and Zhang Yun's book boy served them hot tea. Zhang Yun picked up the hot tea and took a sip and smiled: "Shu Wei was a little restless, why is this?"

When Wei Tao heard that he called him Shangshu Wei, not Brother Wei in the past, the subtle change in the title seemed to make Wei Tao feel something. He sighed and said sincerely: "I want to apologize to you. I was inappropriate in the last meeting and was a little reckless."

"How could I take a little thing to heart? Didn't I also suspect that it was Wei Shangshu's actions? It happened suddenly, and everyone was not prepared and got confused for a moment. This is reasonable. Wei Shangshu doesn't need to apologize to me."

Zhang Yun spoke up with Shangshu Wei, which made Wei Tao feel particularly harsh. He was silent for a while and said slowly: "I wonder if Brother Zhang had thought of it, who did it?"

Zhang Yun shook his head and said, "Everyone is possible, no one is possible. New Party, Wei Party, An Lushan, Li Heng, but there is no evidence. I think it would be better to leave it alone. Give him a name behind him, which can be considered as an explanation to the Pei family."

Wei Tao was silent, and he only heard him muttering to himself: "It's up to you, I'm afraid that the Pei family will not agree, and he won't accept it..."

His voice became smaller and smaller, and at last he was almost inaudible. Zhang Yun glanced at him and asked with a smile: "Why, Shangshu Wei knows the truth?"

"No!"

Wei Tao shook his head hurriedly, "I don't know, how could I know, it's just some random guesses. As Brother Zhang said, anyone is possible, no one is possible. Without evidence, I dare not speak nonsense."

"Um!"

Zhang Yun sat upright. At this time, he no longer wanted to test each other anymore, so he raised his voice slightly and said, "Although that's it, I think this should be related to the Southern Tang Dynasty! Shangshu Wei, tomorrow I plan to propose to convene a joint meeting between the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council to conclude this matter. The death of Pei Xiangguo has the greatest relationship with the Southern Tang Dynasty. In short, this matter must be completed as soon as possible and it cannot affect the operation of the imperial government affairs. What does Secretary Wei think?"

It was said that it was left alone just now, but now it is necessary to set the tone of what the Southern Tang do. Zhang Yun's words are obviously contradictory, which makes Wei Tao unable to figure out what he is thinking?

But for those heavyweights, these erratic words are actually not important. The key is to listen to the hidden things under these erratic words. Wei Tao was stunned for a moment. Zhang Yun wanted to convene a meeting. What does he mean? Does he want to preside over government affairs?

Originally, Wei Tao was looking for Zhang Yun today to ask Zhang Yun to support him to dominate government affairs, so that he could become the de facto leader of all officials. In the end, Li Qing'an could not accept the facts and made him the right prime minister. But now, he could hear from Zhang Yun's tone that Zhang Yun was also thinking about this dominant position. Wei Tao suddenly felt alert in his heart. Perhaps this Zhang Yun was his real opponent, and it was dangerous! Wei Tao immediately swallowed all the things he wanted to say later.

He glanced at Zhang Yun deeply and could not say anything more to this person.

The carriage was galloping rapidly on a small street, the moonlight appeared and disappeared in the clouds, and the light passed through the car windows, and their faces were sometimes bright and sometimes dark. Both of them were thinking about their worries. Wei Tao thought of contacting Wang Jin, reorganizing the Wei Party, and removing those who were disinterested; while Zhang Yun was considering tomorrow's meeting, where should he start to successfully realize his leadership over Pei Zunqing's affairs.

The two of them remained silent. When they arrived at Zhuque Street, Wei Tao said lightly: "Zhang Xiangguo, it's time for me to go home. I'm sorry to bother Zhang Xiangguo tonight."

"It's okay! It's okay! Please give me a message!"

When Wei Tao heard his tone of extreme coldness, he became angry and turned against others so quickly. Humph! He wanted to dominate, but he refused to let him dominate. He set the tone of Nan Tang, but he did not admit it. Let him Zhang Yun dream!

"Goodbye!"

Wei Tao got off the carriage and walked towards his carriage angrily. Zhang Yun looked at his carriage and walked away, and couldn't help but smile proudly. If he had no opponent, how could Li Qingan feel at ease to let him be the right prime minister? Isn't the opponent coming?

"The carriage turns around and go to Pei Min's mansion!"

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Chapter completed!