In the study, Su Wei was talking to Han Shouzhong. Su Wei valued Han Shouzhong very much. Not only because they were fellow villagers, Han Shouzhong was poor and unable to study, but he was smart and studious. He was admitted to Su's family and received funding from the Su family, which enabled him to embark on the career path step by step.

Moreover, Han Shouzhong was an official, honest and self-disciplined, and was not afraid of the powerful people in Guanlong. In the fifth year of Daye, when he was a county magistrate in Lantian County, he blamed the son of Yuanshou, the powerful minister who violated the law. He was deeply praised by Yang Guang and promoted him to Sima of Hanzhong County.

Although honest and self-disciplined and not afraid of the powerful and powerful, it is easy to offend people, but in a newly established dynasty, this is definitely a golden sign in the officialdom. Su Wei knew this truth well, so he recommended him to Yang Yuanqing. As expected, Yang Yuanqing was attracted by him and appointed Han Shouzhong as the powerful censor of the Book of the Sect.

Although Han Shouzhong is honest and self-disciplined, he is not an idiot in the officialdom. He also needs to find his own backstage, so his backstage is naturally Su Wei.

"Last time, the King of Chu talked with me, and was preparing to gradually reform the court official system. The Censor was preparing to be promoted from the fourth rank to the third rank. As a kind of comfort position of a meritorious official, he had no real power. The Censor of the Secretary will be renamed the Censor Central Committee, and will control the real power of the Censorate and be promoted to the fourth rank official. The Censorate will become more and more important, and you will have a long life, and your future is boundless!"

Su Wei's narrowed eyes flashed with brilliance. Although he was leaking some news to Han Shouzhong, he was also hinting that he needed to stand in a good team.

Han Shouzhong understood what he meant and hurriedly bowed, "Without the love of the Master, there would be no such thing as a humble position today. The kindness of the Master, the humble position will be remembered in my heart."

Su Wei smiled with satisfaction, the wrinkles on his old face stretched out, and he slowly said, "I'll call you today. Actually, there are some things I want to talk to you to let you understand the intentions of the King of Chu, and then you can follow his intentions step by step so that there will be no deviations."

Han Shouzhong nodded silently. Although Su Wei was very kind to him, he did not agree with Su Wei's actions. Su Wei had no backbone. He blindly thought about the superior intentions and had too much selfishness, so Han Shouzhong was more respectful to Su Wei than obedience.

However, he had to admit that Su Wei had a very skilled vision and could see through the political situation. This was extremely important in the officialdom. He remained silent and listened quietly to the revelation Su Wei gave him.

"You should understand that the King of Chu is basically winning over the famous families now. The five ministers of Ziwei Pavilion, except for me, are all famous families. Most of them are occupied by the famous families. However, this does not mean that the King of Chu wants to establish such a dynasty. On the contrary, he does not want to do it now. He just has to do it."

"I can understand this."

Han Shouzhong said in a deep voice: "Now the Sui Dynasty must obtain the support of Shandong gentry to compete with the Tang Dynasty, which was supported by Guanlong nobles."

"But the problem is that the Pei and Wang families in the court are too powerful and are above other gentry. If this problem is not handled well, it may cause dissatisfaction and hostility from other gentry members, which will cause the Sui Dynasty to lose the support of the gentry members, so it is urgent to weaken the Pei and Wang families."

Su Wei paused for a moment, and saw a sudden look in Han Shouzhong's eyes. He knew that he understood what he meant, and he couldn't help but stroke his beard and smiled proudly. He continued: "In the past, because the foundation of the court was in Hedong, he had to rely on the two families of Chong Pei and Wang, so the King of Chu had been tolerant, but now he has taken over Hebei. With the addition of major families in Hebei, the power of the court would have to re-adjust and balance, turning the two families into a heroic alliance. This is actually weakening the power of the aristocratic families in disguise."

"I understand what Ge Lao means. After the King of Chu returns from Hebei, the next step will be to suppress Pei and Wang families. Is that true?"

Su Wei nodded with a smile, "That's right, at this time, your role as the censor of the Book Master is very important,"

Han Shouzhong was silent for a moment, and he had already fully understood what Su Wei meant. Su Wei came to him to be his pioneer and suppress the Pei and Wang families. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "But you can't make a name out of nothing, just talk nonsense! As a censor, the most important thing is to be based on facts."

Su Wei felt that Han Shouzhong was good everywhere, and his only disadvantage was that he would not be able to adapt and he had to pay attention to evidence in everything. There were no so many reasons to say in the officialdom. As long as it was a power struggle, even if there was no evidence, he had to create evidence.

Su Wei studied the current situation for his own interests. His Su Party was too weak, so he wanted to make a profit in the process of Yang Yuanqing suppressing the Pei family and the Wang family, so that his Su Party gradually grew stronger.

At this time, he needed to cooperate with Yang Yuanqing's actions to get Yang Yuanqing's value. It is precisely because of this that he attached great importance to Han Shouzhong.

But Han Shouzhong's stubbornness made him a little helpless, so he could only sigh and said inwardly: "Of course I won't let you do something contrary to morality. Does this assassination of the Princess Chu really have nothing to do with the Wang family?"

Han Shouzhong shook his head, "I found no evidence that this matter is related to the Wang family."

Su Wei's face darkened, his heart was a little unhappy, and his voice also increased, "How could it be okay? As the Yin of Jingzhao, shouldn't Wang Su be responsible for this matter? He has to let it go, no one has the responsibility. When the King of Chu comes back, how can we explain to him?!"

Su Wei stared at Han Shouzhong with a stern look, his tone was full of dissatisfaction and threat. Han Shouzhong felt the huge pressure Su Wei put on him. He pondered for a long time and finally nodded, "Jing Zhaoyin is indeed responsible for this assassination."

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The next morning, Han Shouzhong formally filed an impeachment case to Ziweige, impeaching Jingzhao Yin Wangsu was responsible for the assassination of the princess of Anjinsi.

Although Wang Xu repeatedly determined that Jingzhao Yin was unable to stop such incidents, and the person responsible for defending the safety of the princess and the prince at that time was the army, not Jingzhao Yinhe County Government.

But Ziweige still held that Jingzhao Yin was responsible by a majority vote of three votes in favor, one vote against, and one vote abstention.

The princess’ butler had notified the county government two days in advance that the princess would go to Anjin Temple to do rituals, but the government did not send anyone to Anjin Temple for inspection. This is the government’s dereliction of duty, and dereliction of duty cannot be used as a reason for exemption from liability.

Ziweige immediately proposed to remove Jingzhao Yin Wang Su, which took effect after Yang Yuanqing's approval.

At noon, a carriage drove out of Jinyang Palace under the escort of more than a dozen followers and headed towards Taiyuan City.

In the carriage, Pei Ju silently watched the children chasing and running on the street. The bright smiles on the children's faces reminded him of his childhood. It seemed that his childhood was not as happy as ever. In his childhood memories, there was only his father's stern eyes, cold rulers, and mountains of books.

A few old farmers who had sold their vegetables and were about to leave the city came towards him. The satisfied smiles and carefree expressions on their faces also made him feel a little sad. Although he had been a prime minister for more than ten years and had a high position and a powerful position, he had never had such carefree smiles.

Pei Ju felt an indescribable feeling of fatigue in his heart. This feeling of fatigue comes from an anxiety that is difficult to grasp of his own destiny.

In today's Ziwei Pavilion vote, he voted abstained. When the final result of the removal case came out, he knew that the Wang family was over. Wang Su was just the first step, and the next one would be Wang Xu. After the Wang family ended, it was the Pei family's turn.

In fact, Pei Ju had known that such a result would be there. Half a year ago, Yang Yuanqing promoted Pei Qingsong to join the army in the Records Office, and was already hinting that the person who replaced him as prime minister in the future would no longer be a child of the Pei family. Yang Yuanqing had already used the position of joining the Records Office as compensation for the Pei family.

As an old prime minister, Pei Ju knew in his heart that the Pei family had too much power in the New Sui Dynasty. It had already threatened Yang Yuanqing's power. If the Pei family did not know each other again, the consequences would be very serious, and the future queen would probably not be Min Qiu again.

This is a consequence that he cannot accept anyway.

The carriage crossed the Guardian River and slowly stopped in front of the gate of the Chu Palace. His granddaughter Pei Minqiu was assassinated and he had not come to visit him yet. This was a bit unreasonable.

"Is the Prime Minister Pei visiting the princess and prince?" The butler came out and stepped forward and smiled.

Pei Ju nodded and asked again: "Is the princess here?"

"The princess is here, and the master and wife are here too."

"Which master's wife?" Pei Ju asked in confusion.

"That is... the princess' parents."

It turned out to be his own son, Pei Ju smiled. "It's just right, report to the princess for me."

Although Pei Ju is Pei Minqiu's grandfather, his identity is a prime minister and a minister after all. He cannot be as casual as before. Too casual will make Yang Yuanqing disgusted. For some reason, Pei Ju was a little afraid of Yang Yuanqing.

After a moment, the housekeeper came out and smiled and said, "Prince, the princess is welcome!"

Pei Ju walked into the palace and soon came to the inner hall. She saw her second son Wenyi and her daughter-in-law Wang sitting in the inner hall, talking to Minqiu.

Pei Ju coughed heavily and walked into the inner hall. Pei Wenyi and his wife quickly stood up and bowed, "Father!"

Pei Ju smiled and waved her hand, "Don't be so polite. This is not the Pei Mansion, you can sit down!"

Pei Minqiu smiled and said, "Grandfather, please sit down."

Pei Ju sat down and asked with concern: "Minqiu, are you and Ning'er okay?"

Pei Minqiu shook his head, "We are fine, thanks to Chuchen's quick reaction, he saved our lives at the critical moment. Otherwise, we are both mother and son, and now we are afraid of thinking about it."

Wang next to him gritted his teeth in hatred and said, "Who did this? Can't the government find out?"

She seemed to be talking to herself, but in fact she was asking Pei Ju, the so-called scriptures that every family was difficult to recite. Wang was Pei Ju's daughter-in-law, but her relationship with Pei Ju was very bad. Because of the unfair treatment her husband received in the Pei family, she had ignored her father-in-law for many years.

Pei Wenyi was afraid of another unhappiness, so she asked: "Father, is there any clues in this case?"

Pei Ju shook her head and smiled bitterly, "This matter is being investigated by the Censorate. Today, Censor Han came to report that there was no clue behind the two dead assassins. The government has drawn images and offered a reward for identification. This case will take some time."

Pei Wenyi sighed and said, "We all hope that the government can catch the murderer behind the scenes sooner, otherwise my heart will always be hanging in the air. I wonder if there will be another next time."

Pei Ju nodded, "The government will try its best to catch the murderer, and there will be no next time!"

At this time, he saw a resume on the table beside Minqiu, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and asked, "Whose resume is that?"

Pei Minqiu showed a sense of embarrassment on her face, but she didn't dare to say it. Pei Wenyi hurriedly bowed and said: Report to my father, we want to find something for me tomorrow.

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Before he finished speaking, Pei Ju changed color, "This is absolutely not possible!"
Chapter completed!