When I walked out of the greenhouse, it was already time for people to settle down. (from 9:00 to 11:00 pm, at the hour of Hai, classical China prefers to call it "deciduous")

The night is as desolate as water. Under the dim starlight, the Jianzhang Palace is quiet, with only the wind singing softly, and the temperature outside has dropped to about one degree Celsius.

It's indeed a little cold!

Zhang Yue subconsciously tightened his clothes, lifted up the Piao Yao Sword placed at the door of the greenhouse hall, hung it to his waist, and walked outward.

"Don't you need a lantern?" Shangguan Jie showed up in front of Zhang Yue with a palace lantern in his hand and handed the palace lantern to Zhang Yue. He asked with a smile: "I heard that the ginseng soup cooked by my brother, Your Majesty is very happy to drink it!"

"Thank you brother..." Zhang Yue took the palace lantern, thanked him, and replied: "Sustaining Your Majesty is the responsibility of my brother Yu. I dare not say it is OK, but I hope your Majesty likes you!"

Shangguan Jie laughed and said, "My brother is too humble, too humble!"

He already knew everything that had just happened in the greenhouse hall.

After the emperor drank this Zizhong ginseng soup, it was said that he was almost reborn, so Longyan was very happy and wanted to praise him as the Marquis of Guannei and give him a fief of 2,700 households!

This incident almost made Shangguan Jie crazy with jealousy!

He worked hard and worked hard for so many years, racked his brains to please His Majesty. After more than ten years of hard work, it would be better to be cooked a bowl of ginseng soup in the end!

This really made Shangguan Jie feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Brother Zhang declined, otherwise he wouldn't know how to come out and say hello.

But while being jealous, Shangguan Jie knew very clearly that one thing was this virtuous brother. Zhang Zizhong and Zhang Chiyou would probably become an important and powerful minister in the court.

As soon as the matter spreads tonight, all the clever people should know that they must go and shoot.

Because from then on, this Shizhong official will have an important and even unparalleled influence in front of Dangxizi.

Maybe, with just one word, one can easily decide a prefect, even three ministers and nine ministers, and even the destruction of national major policies!

So, hug your thighs quickly!

If you don’t hold your ready-made thighs tightly, do you have to wait until the thighs are full of people and can’t squeeze in and then hug them?

By that time, I'm afraid I can't hold it anymore even if I want to.

Only by beating with horses and flattery can Shangguan Jie become today, of course he is smart.

So, he smiled and approached Zhang Yue, and asked softly like a subordinate, "My brother, I may be lucky enough to be the Grand Master after the New Year..."

"Your brother also knows that the Taifu was the traitor Gongsun He and his son for more than 20 years. All of them were from those generations. My brother Yu was afraid he was not capable of taking office at the beginning of the day. Moreover, my brother has always been extremely talented and intelligent. I wonder if he has any opinions, so he can refer to Brother Yu?"

This is almost equivalent to raising your hands and asking Zhang Yue to guide Taifu’s affairs.

For the scholars and officials, they cannot do such things even if they die.

However, Shangguan Jie had long lost all his shame and thorns, so he didn't care what others said.

He only knows one thing now, which is the future reform and improvement direction of Taipu. Without the participation of this "virtuous brother", there may be a risk of failure at any time.

If, after taking office, I had something that I didn’t do well and was not in the appetite of this 'virtuous brother', when I was cooking ginseng soup for the emperor, I casually said: "Oh, Shangguan Jie is not reliable in doing things. Your Majesty, you see, something about the Taifu is turned into this way..."

Then, he, the maid, can still sit steadily?

I'm afraid I have to pack up my bags and go home to farm.

Although, from now on, Shangguan Jie feels that this matter is unlikely.

But what if?

Furthermore, if he can further gain the support of the other party, he can do whatever he wants in the Taipu Yamen in the future.

Whoever dares to go against him will be ready to go home to farm!

Zhang Yue listened and knew what Shangguan Jie meant.

This palace is actually the same as the people.

Most people praise high and push low.

Whoever gains power, whoever wins favor, whoever takes power will be the boss!

Not to mention the other side, even within a private family, the brothers who can make money are relatively more popular with their parents than the pauper brothers, and have more say and status!

So, Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said to Shangguan Jie: "Brother is so serious!"

The affairs of Taifu are related to the future development of the Han cavalry.

Zhang Yue has no reason to refuse the opportunity to intervene and exert influence.

Of course, it cannot be too explicit or exaggerated.

You must grasp the right measure!

Therefore, after a little thought, Zhang Yue said, "In my humble opinion, if my brother wants to master the Taipu and do a career, the first thing he needs to do is to eliminate the remaining poisons of the traitor Gongsun He and his son! If the remaining poison is not pure, there will be endless disasters. Therefore, Confucius said: Qing's father will not die before Lu!"

When Shangguan Jie heard this, he immediately exaggeratedly said, "My brother, good brother, good brother!"

If Zhang Yue doesn't say this, he will do it too.

but……

After carefully savoring Zhang Yue's words, he felt very moved!

"Scholars are different!" Shangguan Jie sighed: "Eliminate the traitors Gongsun He and his son Yu Poison, OK! OK! OK!"

This statement is much more wonderful and high-end than what he once planned.

Moreover, if you master the great name, you can take the opportunity to integrate Taipu's superiors and subordinates.

Anyone who is disobedient can be labeled as a "remnant of the thief ministers" and put it in another book, so that he will never turn over!

Once this banner was launched, even if the old forces of Taifu wanted to quarrel, they could only kneel down and beg for mercy.

"It seems that I also need to strengthen my cultural cultivation. I must not stop reading, nor can I not study without understanding it!"

Thinking of this, Shangguan Jie asked again: "I'll give you another advice..."

If he had just wanted to hold on to his legs and strengthen his relationship before, Shangguan Jie was really asking Zhang Yue for advice.

There is no way, they are so sharp!

A slogan of "Qingfu Qingfu is not dead" and a policy of "clearing the poison of traitors and ministers" almost perfectly formulated the basis for him to grasp power.

"The Taipu 36 Yuan, 5 supervisors and six stables, there are more than 100,000 officials and herdsmen, and there are more than 100,000 officials and slaves. The system is huge, and the joints are complicated. The traitor ministers and fathers and sons have long controlled the Taipu, causing all kinds of disadvantages. I heard that some officials and slaves even lack food and clothing and died in distress. If the elder brother is appointed as the Taipu, the primary task is to eliminate the old ills and make everyone have peace. At least, the official slaves and slaves must be well-fed and well-dressed! " Zhang Yue said softly: "If you want to do this, you must streamline the institutions, eliminate the officials and reduce the deployment!"

Each of the nine ministers and ministers of the Han Dynasty is a huge independent institution!

Like the Shaofu, it employs more than 100,000 workers, tens of thousands of officials, and millions of servants. It has its own official office, manor, workshop, prison, army and law enforcement officer.

Taichangqing and Dahonglu even had a field army under their own jurisdiction, which could conquer the unjust officials at critical moments!

And the Taifu is also very majestic!

In his heyday, the Han Taifu, five prisons and six stables, had 400,000 horses in the railings and millions of other livestock.

It is the engine of the Han war machine.

Therefore, among the nine ministers, Taipu's voice in war was ranked very high.

Moreover, the Taifu also holds a considerable portion of the military expenditure distribution rights.

Gongsun Jingsheng died of embezzlement of military expenditure of the Northern Army.

However, the glory of the past has long been in the past.

Over the past twenty years, the Taifu has gradually declined under the random command of Gongsun He and his son.

Now, there are 5 prisoners and six stables in the Thirty-six Gardens of the Taifu, and 200,000 officials, servants and herders.

But the number of horses in the railing is less than 200,000!

The number of qualified war horses is less than 100,000!

There are more people than horses!

The current Taifu has completely become a bureaucratic organization.

Just a little bit, you can reach the terrible level of the four main battleships of the Royal Navy that Sir Humphrey is proud of, equipped with sixty admirals!

The bloated officials have led to the increasing decline in efficiency of Taipu, and the decline in efficiency of Taipu further deteriorated Taipu's finances.

So, Zhang Yue saw in Lantai that in the pastures under the Taifu, not only the livestock were becoming increasingly withered, but the pastures were declining year by year, but even the slaves and herders responsible for shepherding livestock were becoming increasingly difficult.

Only those bureaucrats, who eat fat heads and big belly, and have big belly.

Shangguan Jie listened and looked serious.

This problem was known long ago when he was still raising horses for the emperor.

Gongsun He and his son controlled the Taipu Yamen and misappropriated a large amount of funds and resources to enjoy themselves.

What you do above and what you do below will work.

So, the whole family divided the funds of Taifu together, but everyone was going to embezzle. What should I do if no one did it? Someone had to do it! So a large number of officials were expanded to let the newly added officials do it, but the newly added officials were not stupid? You are so popular and spicy, and your labor and capital work hard? It is impossible! So I joined it.

The vicious cycle began. In the past twenty years, the number of bureaucrats over 100 stones of Taifu never exceeded 3,000, and quickly increased ten times. Now nearly 30,000 people!

Therefore, even the imperial horses in the Emperor's stable were not adequately fed.

It is said that even the Longma Prison where the sweat-blooded horses and Dayuan horses grazing in the Dayuan stables have died in large numbers due to malnutrition.
To be continued...