Liu Xiangshu said seriously: "There are some urgent matters that I want to discuss with you in private."
Lu Xu quickly stretched out his hand: "Brother, please come this way!"
Lu Xu led Liu Xiangshu into the main hall and retreated, leaving only two people. Lu Xu stretched out his hand and said, "Brother, I wonder if you have anything to tell me?"
Liu Xiangshu took out a bright yellow scroll and handed it to Lu Xu. Lu Xu's eyes narrowed. He knew that only the royal family dared to use this color in Daliang, and this thing looked like an imperial edict.
Although he was disdainful, he still pretended to be respectful and stood up to bow to the imperial edict.
"Brother, what does this mean?"
Liu Xiangshu said: "This is the emperor's decree for me. Can you take a look?"
Lu Xu sat down again and picked up the imperial edict and took a look at it. He saw that the edict was an imperial edict conferring an official position. The general meaning was that Liu Xiangshu was granted the official position of an idle ministerial officer.
Although it is an idle official position, after all, he is a civil servant, not a casual official like Lu Xu. He is a serious official.
Lu Xu was a little confused. In his impression, Liu Xiangshu temporarily gave up fighting in the officialdom and went home to farm because he was dissatisfied with his father's actions. Why did he become an official again now?
Seeing Lu Xu's appearance, Liu Xiangshu said calmly: "I am no longer Liu Xinhou's son. Not long ago, with the grace of my grandmother, I was adopted into the second wife's name."
Lu Xu was shocked. Since Liu Xiangshu and Liu Xinhou became the same clan from father and son, Liu Xiangshu could not be an official while Liu Xinhou was still in office!
Lu Xu asked tentatively: "Could it be that..."
Liu Xiangshu stretched out his hand to stop Lu Xu's temptation: "Don't think too much, the outcome is not yet known."
"Your Majesty did this just to test the attitudes of all parties. Although my official position is called a ministerial official, due to the large number of redundant personnel in the imperial court, my official position has long been essentially a casual official."
"The Holy Emperor granted me this position. Although it is not very ceremonial and legal, it does not completely violate the ancestral system. Moreover, even if he wants to remove me from such an official position, he can remove me at any time. But as long as I am here, Mr. Liu
It will be like a ray of light on his back, and it will be impossible for him not to express his position no matter how hard he thinks about it.”
"The emperor can afford this violation of etiquette, and the Liu family can barely afford it, but Mr. Liu cannot afford it! Faced with the crowd of courtiers attacking him, he must come up with a satisfactory answer.
Already."
Lu Xu nodded. After Liu Xiangshu's guidance, he probably understood the profound meaning of this imperial edict.
Daliang ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety, but Liu Xinhou's mother and son both stood up to oppose him. It was obvious that the word benevolence and filial piety had nothing to do with him. Even the emperor did not want to go against the Qingliu people for such a person whose reputation was ruined.
So he made such an imperial edict to imply that Liu Xinhou took the initiative to resign. At the same time, in this imperial edict, the emperor obviously gave Liu Xiangshu a cold seat. This was also a statement from the emperor that he did not completely block Liu Xinhou's return.
road.
However, Liu Xiangshu was naturally very dissatisfied with this result. The Liu family was certainly not satisfied with this result either.
The three generations of the Liu family are loyal and good. To describe them as having disciples and former officials all over the world is definitely to underestimate them. This word is used to describe Liu Xinhou himself, but it is really an understatement to describe the accumulation of the three generations of the Liu family.
If it weren't for the fact that the royal family now wants to use the Wu family to suppress Qingliu, and the Liu family's political resources are also under attack, Liu Xiangshu might have accomplished a lot now.
Under this situation, combined with the fact that the Liu family is gradually declining, if the Liu family does not have a suitable successor, they will probably sit on the bench. But Liu Xiangshu is talented, and he was a young man no worse than the original owner.
genius.
In addition, he has many friends among scholars, so he should not sit on the bench under any circumstances!
However, the royal family obviously still needs the Wu family to check and balance Qingliu, so he still hopes that Liu Xinhou, a general of the Wu family, can inherit the political resources of the Liu family. Therefore, he does not want to give up Liu Xinhou completely. On the contrary, if the Liu family wants to support Liu Xiangshu to become the leader, then he must
Ryu Shin-hoo defeated him.
To put it simply, the core battlefield of this chess game is the battle between Wen Yuanzhong and Shen Binhong.
A little outside the core battlefield is the battle between the royal family and the Liu family over the distribution of the Liu family's political resources.
The royal family wants to use its power to stabilize Yoo Shin-hoo's position, while the Yoo family wants to fight to the death and does not want to break away from the Qingliu group, because this group is their roots and the source of their influence, so they are now desperate to get rid of them.
Yoo Shin-hoo pulled it down.
Seeing Lu Xu focus on him again, Liu Xiangshu knew that Lu Xu had figured out all the key points. He nodded and said, "You must have seen that Mr. Liu is only one step away from being completely finished."
One step away.”
"For people who don't know the truth, they will definitely think that you, who was once his favorite disciple and was also sent to prison by him, must know many unknown secrets of Yoo Shin-hoo. So I think,
It won’t be long before someone comes to you to cooperate with them.”
Lu Xu raised his hands and asked, "Brother, please teach me, what should I do?"
Liu Xiangshu smiled bitterly: "I thought you would ask me what I need you to do for me. It seems that I underestimated you!"
Lu Xu said: "My elder brother underestimated me. In my younger brother's heart, you have always been a just person. Even if you and Mr. Liu have broken up, he is still your biological father after all. You will never completely trample on him."
Into the dust, you will give him a dignified exit."
Liu Xiangshu said with emotion: "Brother Xian really understands me! In this case, I have something to say directly. Now I am also in the middle of the game, and I don't see the way forward very clearly."
"I'm just here because I guess you don't know about my joining the officialdom, and I'm afraid no one around you will give you the news. So I'm here to remind you, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a statement on behalf of my Liu family."
Lu Xu's heart moved, and he stood up again and said respectfully to Liu Xiangshu: "Brother treats me like this, I really let my little brother..."
Liu Xiangshu stopped Lu Xu's words again. He stood up and held Lu Xu's arm and said, "Brother, although Mr. Liu is kind to you, you are also kind to my Liu family. Naturally, our Liu family cannot be sorry to you!
"
Having said this, Liu Xiangshu patted Lu Xu's hand and said, "I believe you already know what's going on. Then Brother Yu will take his leave."
Lu Xu indeed knew what was going on.
The current situation is that the Liu family, which has a large and deep roots in the scholar forest, has been divided into two. Liu Xiangshu and his family continue to work deeply in the scholar forest.
Liu Xiangshu's visit to Lu Xu this time was, on the one hand, to separate the feud between Lu Xu and Liu Xinhou from the Liu family. On the other hand, it was to renew the relationship between the Liu family and Lu Xu, and to allow Lu Xu to regain contact with the Qingliu faction.