Chapter 289: The dispute over the canal transport (Part 1)

"Empress Dowager, how can you agree to Cui Yu's suggestion? He will definitely not have any kindness!" Li Mian said with some concern in the imperial study of Cui Xiaofu in Zichen Pavilion: "I'm worried that we finally fought for Zuo Shangshu of the Ministry of War. If something unexpected happens, will all our efforts be wasted?"

Half an hour passed, Cui Xiaofu still felt exhausted. She wanted to go back to the palace to rest, but there were still many things that could not be delayed, so she had to force herself to come to the imperial study room.

At this moment, Cui Xiaofu relaxed all over, closed her eyes and lay half behind the imperial case. A eunuch stood behind her and carefully rubbed her temples. Li Mian's inexplicable concern made her funny. She did not open her eyes, but just smiled and said, "My dear, you are too worried. I know Cui Yu's thoughts. He simply hopes Cui Qinggong snatches the canal ship and impeach him for Li Huai's dereliction of duty. But he did not expect that if the canal ship can arrive in Beijing smoothly, we can let Li Huai take charge of the regiment training legitimately. Everything is a double-edged sword. He only thinks of hurting us, but isn't he afraid of cutting his own hands?"

"The Empress Dowager is so confident!" Li Mian exclaimed and asked tentatively: "The Empress Dowager is so sure, I guess there have been arrangements on Cui Qinggong's side!"

"There is no arrangement, but I will warn him."

As soon as Cui Xiaofu finished speaking, Lu Taiyi's report came from the door, "Empress Dowager, Cui Qinggong is here, waiting outside the hall to see him!"

Li Mian was startled and hurriedly said, "Empress Dowager, that minister will take his leave first."

Cui Xiaofu opened her eyes and glanced at him, and smiled lightly, "Okay! You can take your leave."

"I'm leaving." Li Mian slowly retreated. When he left, Cui Xiaofu sat up. She waved her hand and ordered the eunuchs to go down. She was the only one left in the room. She sighed deeply. Today's court meeting was mixed. She was happy because she took half of the Ministry of War, but the emperor showed his sharpness. This was a side she had never seen before. He was ten years old this year and was still eight years away from independence. Will he have nothing in eight years?

A sense of oppression that had never been before made Cui Xiaofu breathless. She couldn't help but think of King Qin.

"Empress Dowager, Cui Qinggong is here." Lu Taiyi's report interrupted her thoughts.

"Xuan him come in!" Cui Xiaofu temporarily put down Li Miao's affairs, straightened her waist, and waited for Cui Qinggong's interview with a smile.

After a moment, Cui Qinggong strode in, but his face was still angry. He met Li Mian at the gate of the hall just now. Li Mian actually warned him to put the overall situation first and what does the overall situation first? Does Cui Qinggong still need someone to teach him a lesson?

"I'm going to see the Queen Mother!" Cui Qinggong bowed his hand, his face extremely unhappy. Li Mian's words must have been Cui Xiaofu's instigation.

"Second brother, please sit down!" Cui Xiaofu looked at his face, and when he sat down, she smiled slightly and said, "Why, do you feel neglected in the court today?"

Cui Qinggong said with a long face: "It's not a question of neglect. I'm just a martial artist. I'm not good at intrigues."

"Second brother, don't say that. Intrigue is not a skill. Strength is the first. Second brother has an army of 200,000, which is more important than anything else." Cui Xiaofu comforted him softly, paused, and said with a smile: "Second brother, have you heard about the new cabinet?"

When it comes to the cabinet, Cui Qinggong's attention was diverted. He also heard a little in the morning, three head palaces and six auxiliary palaces. I wonder if there is his seat here?

Cui Xiaofu seemed to know what he was thinking, so she smiled and told him, "Li Mian is the leader of the palace, one is Wei Er and the other is the second brother. In fact, you are both the same, and it is up to me to decide."

"Li Mian?" Cui Qinggong's fire rose up, and his face sank, "I'll ask you, since you always say that strength is the most important thing, why don't you let me be the head palace, but let a white-faced scholar ride on my neck? Why is this?"

Seeing that he was aggressive and did not obey the etiquette of the monarch and minister, Cui Xiaofu was slightly angry when she saw that he was aggressive and did not obey the etiquette of the monarch and ministers. She was slightly angry in her heart. She tried her best to restrain herself and said, "Let Li Mian be the minister of the head cabinet. First, his qualifications are older than you, and secondly, he is often in the capital, but you are outside..."

Before he finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Cui Qinggong, "Your reason is really unreasonable. What does it mean to be older than me? If you talk about qualifications, can he compare with Wei Yan? Then why don't you let Wei Yan be the minister of the head cabinet? It's even more nonsense to be in the capital. Zhang Huan is the minister of the head cabinet, but does he often be in the capital? This is clearly because you don't take me seriously."

"Enough!" Cui Xiaofu couldn't bear it anymore. She stood up and scolded him angrily, "Are you so presumptuous in front of Ai's family?"

Her chest was so violently that tears were about to come out, "You are right. I didn't take you seriously. I dare not take you seriously. Look at what you did, how many people you killed in attacking Xiangyang, in Zaoyang, you almost slaughtered the whole city, and even a few years old girl was not spared. I can't fulfill this matter for you. With your virtue, you still want to be the minister of the Shou Pavilion. Do you know how far you are from Zhang Huan? Just because someone gave up Jiangxia and instead rescued the people of Xiangyang, he won the hearts of the people of the world. How many ministers have defected to him? Do you know who he is? He is the son of Prince Yu, and he wants to compete with me for the enemy of the world! Have you ever thought about these for me?"

At the end, Cui Xiaofu was almost hoarse. She was so excited that she hit the imperial desk with paperweight, and tears surged out of her eyes. At this moment, the woman's weak side was vividly expressed in her.

Cui Qinggong was a little stunned. He had never seen his sister get so angry before. His lips moved, and he was stuffy in his heart. He just gritted his teeth and lowered his head without saying a word.

The room was quiet, as if the storm had dissipated after the storm. After a while, Cui Qinggong stood up and turned around and walked out.

"Stop!" Cui Xiaofu stopped him, "Where are you going?"

"I'll go back to Ruyang." Cui Qinggong said coldly: "Since you can't do anything about Zaoyang for me, then I'll go back and kill a group of people and let you have an explanation."

"You can go back, but I want to warn you not to allow your idea of ​​transporting the canal. This matter is of great importance. You must put the overall situation first."

"Prefer to the overall situation first." Cui Qinggong hummed and walked away quickly.

When Cui Xiaofu saw him go, she fell down weakly. She had never been as tired as she is today.

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After retreating, Cui Yu hurriedly got on the carriage and rushed to Xuanyangfang without stopping. Today is the day when the eldest brother Cui Yuan returns to Shandong. He wants to meet him before the eldest brother leaves.

The yard was already full of luggage, and the eldest grandson Cui Yao was directing people to load the carriage. When he saw Cui Yu coming in, he hurried forward to salute, "Suncle Cui Yao gave him the second grandfather."

Looking at this clever and polite grandson, Cui Yu suddenly remembered the little emperor Li Miao in the court today. The two of them had some similarities. He moved his heart and waved to him, "Come here, Grandpa II has something to ask you."

Cui Yu found a suitcase and sat down, asked Cui Yao with a smile, "Have you ever met the current emperor?"

Cui Yao nodded, "I have read with him, he is one year younger than me."

"I'm not talking about this." Cui Yu was a little confused about how to express his meaning, "I mean, what kind of person do you think he is? Evaluate him from your feelings."

"What do I feel?" Cui Yao pondered for a moment and said, "I think he is very smart and has a very organized approach to considering problems, but he has a weakness. Perhaps ordinary people are not weak, but as his identity as the emperor, I think it is very problematic."

"What weakness?" Cui Yu's interest increased greatly.

"He is a little emotional, especially when it is not good for him, he can't control his emotions."

"How can I tell? You can give an example."

"Yeah." Cui Yao sighed slightly and said, "Last summer, the Master gave us a question to write Zhuangzi's "Autumn Water Chapter". He was a moment later than me and also misled a few words. When the Master praised me, he became furious and tore my Mo's book to pieces and threw it on my face. Since then, I have never entered the palace again."

"So that's it!" Cui Yu smiled and said, "Do your grandfather know about this?"

Cui Yao shook his head, "No, I didn't tell my grandfather, for fear of affecting his mood, I only told him to my aunt."

"You are very sensible." Cui Yu stood up and touched his grandson's head lovingly, "Are you grandpa here?"

"Oh! Grandfather is in the study, I will take Grandpa second there."

"No need, I'll go by myself, you can do it!"

Cui Yu looked at Changsun's calm little figure, and he nodded slightly. The Cui family's hope was probably here.

Cui Yu walked through a corridor and came to his elder brother's study. A guard went in and reported to him. After a moment, he came out and said, "Master, please come in."

Cui Yu walked into the study, but saw his nephew Choi Hyun also there. When Cui Xian saw him coming in, he quickly stood up and bowed to him, and then said to Cui Yuan: "Father, the child is a little worried, I'll go and take a look."

"Don't worry, your son is better than anyone else, and you don't have to worry about it at all." Cui Yu smiled and he sat down immediately.

Choi Yuan glanced at him, but said to Choi Hyun: "Go! Let Yao'er stay with his mother for a while, and we'll set off tonight."

"That boy is gone."

When his son stepped down, Cui Yuan then looked at Cui Yu and smiled slightly, "Xian'er had already told me about the court meeting just now. The second brother is such a finishing touch."

Cui Yu sighed and said, "I came to see my elder brother for this matter. At that time, I felt something vaguely, but I was not sure. I felt a little impulsive at that time."

Cui Yuan narrowed her eyes and smiled, "I just understood Zhang Huan's layout. It's true that she is smart. If I guess correctly, Zhang Huan originally arranged for the Chief Censor Zhang Yanshang to give you that suggestion, but you took it first."

After hearing what the elder brother said, Cui Yu finally felt relieved. He hesitated for a moment and asked again: "I just don't understand. Since he doesn't want to give up the position of Minister of War, he just started to do it directly, but why did he have to go around such a big circle?"

Cui Yuan couldn't help laughing, "Second brother, you might as well think more deeply, why did Cui Xiaofu appoint Li Huai as the Minister of War?"

"You mean King Sishou." Cui Yuanyu was stunned, and he finally realized it suddenly.

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At night, the sky drizzles. The April rain is warm. The raindrops are extremely thin and thin, fluttering with the wind, quietly nourishing the earth and people's hearts. In this misty raindrops, the lights exude a soft and fusion mood.

In Zhang Huan's study, the owner, who had been tired for a day, was writing something at his desk. He would get up and go to Jiangling and Changsha early tomorrow morning. Before leaving, he needed to arrange many trivial matters.

In the afternoon, in the Secretariat, at an extraordinary meeting of dozens of Shangshu, Minister of the Secretariat and Senior Officials in the Supervisory Commission, Pei Jun officially announced the implementation of the new cabinet system. Pei Jun, Zhang Huan and Li Mian were the chief cabinet ministers, Pei You, Lu Qi, Cui Yu, Chu Xingshui, Wei Yan and Cui Qinggong were the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, and the review power of the staff was cancelled, and the secretary was instead responsible for sorting the documents and convening the meeting.

In principle, a cabinet meeting will be convened once a month to discuss and decide on military and national affairs and major personnel changes. If you are sick or are not in Chang'an, you can authorize others to attend on your behalf.

This is the most significant change in the political system of the Tang Dynasty since the implementation of the cabinet system of the aristocratic family in the first year of Qingzhi. It actually confirmed the distribution of the power interests of the three major forces of the court in terms of system. From then on, the Tang Dynasty entered the era of three powers.

Zhang Huan was writing a letter to Hu Yong in Longyou, informing him of this major change in the court structure and the plan for the new militia in Longyou.

"Master, Miss Yun is here." The butler's low report came from the door.

"Let her come in."

Zhang Huan seized the time to finish the last line of words. As the footsteps of "Shark!" sounded, he finished writing the last word and put down his pen.

"Brother, are you asking me for something?" Li Fanyun walked in with a smile.

"Sister, please sit down." Zhang Huan quickly took out a soft cushion and handed it over with a smile.

"Tell me! What's the matter?" Li Fanyun did not greet her. She sat down and asked straight to the point. It must be a big deal if my brother came to me so late.

The smile on Zhang Huan's face gradually disappeared. He pondered for a while and said, "This matter is of great importance. I hope my elder sister will take a trip in person."

He stood up, walked quickly to the bookshelf to find a volume of Huaibei map, spread it on the table, and pointed to the eight hundred-mile-long canal channel. "In about half a month, a million guan will pass through the Huaibei Canal north to the Central Plains. The envoy is Li Huai, the Minister of the Ministry of Recruitment. If I guess correctly, Cui Qinggong and Wei Deqing will take the lead in seizing the canal ship...."

Zhang Huan described the task in detail and finally asked her: "Do you have any questions?"

Li Fanyun thought for a while and asked, "I am only worried that Cui Qinggong would obey Cui Xiaofu's persuasion. If he gave up on the idea of ​​robbing the canal ship, what should I do?"
Chapter completed!