old grace

Xie Qinghe can't really let Shangguan Shiyi get angry every day, and go to Shangguan Shiyi to discuss countermeasures the next day.

Shangguan Shiyi has implemented the countermeasure for 200 years, which is "out of sight, out of mind".

The Hanjiang Sword Sect doesn't care about worldly affairs, but the situation of the Chen family is completely different now.Chen Qi has already brought down almost all the country and mountains, and it is time for him to make a big difference, so he can't wait halfway to see the world in chaos, right?

Even if Xie Qinghe wanted to do it for him, his seniority and status would not be enough.Without Chen Qi, the whole Chen family will be in chaos.

Xie Qinghe has a preliminary idea.

"Father is only in charge of military affairs."

"Except for a few small frontier states, only the royal capital is left alone. The Chen family has already established a dynasty."

"In three or five years at the latest, the family will also be called the emperor. Now that the three provinces and six departments are being unified to fear that the family will seize power and cause chaos, can we build a central center first, and draw people who are good at managing affairs from the army staff in the East Building, and stay in the Qingzhou handles civil affairs. From then on, all civil affairs in various places, except military affairs, will be directly reported to Qingzhou, and will be handled by other palaces."

Xie Qinghe's idea is to set up a small imperial court one step ahead of time, and separate the military administration from the government.

No matter at any time, the military power is in hand, and the situation is under control.Shangguan Shiyi still presides over military affairs, and the Chen family will not be in turmoil.

Another "imperial court" was established in Qingzhou, and all civil lawsuits under the Chen family's rule, including military supply rationing, etc., were all handed over to Xie Qinghe for disposal.In this way, Xie Qinghe blocked all the messy things, and Shangguan Shiyi didn't have to listen to all kinds of bad briefings forcibly, and then went to explain to his subordinate Wenwu after he had thought through it thoroughly.

"All important matters will be transferred from Qingzhou to Father." Xie Qinghe said.

This is very similar to the structure of the Hanjiang Sword Sect back then.Xie Qinghe is in charge of specific affairs, and Shangguan Shiyi is in charge of force deterrence.

If the father and son were replaced by other monarchs and ministers, it is likely that they will be suspicious of each other and have a bleak ending.Xie Qinghe and Shangguan Shiyi have been experimenting for many years, they trust each other, they have a tacit understanding, and there will be no accidents.

Shangguan Shiyi also immediately understood the details that Xie Qinghe didn't explain clearly.

In order to form the situation Xie Qinghe described, there is a necessary condition - he and Xie Qinghe cannot live together.

No one can understand why Shangguan Shiyi is impatient to deal with mundane affairs.For so many years, Chen Qi has always firmly grasped the military and political affairs in his hands. Zhan Xuanji among the staff and Shan Xugang among the generals, no one can cover the sky with one hand.Such a tyrannical hero, why did he suddenly separate the military and government, and hand over civil affairs to his only son who is underage?

If Chen Cong is ten years older, or if Chen Qi is ten years old, he will lose energy and want to cultivate the prince, this is also understandable.

However, Chen Cong is too young, far from the time when he should be alone.

The only possibility is that Chen Qi had to travel around for some reason and had no time to deal with important matters efficiently and quickly, so he was forced to entrust this mess to him.Otherwise, he and Xie Qinghe are both in Qingzhou, why don't they handle government affairs by themselves?

"(Chen Qi) originally planned to go to the Jingxian area for patrol after the beginning of spring, and take a look at the racecourse over there. There are too many casualties in Tianjing River, so we have to go around." Shangguan Shiyi said.

Those who died in Tianjing River were all the most confidant and elite descendants of the Chen family. After Chen Qi fled back to Qingzhou, he spent more than half a year on the road. There are dishonest generals and soldiers from all over the country who have a different heart and have to run around non-stop, beating places.

Now that Shangguan Shiyi said that he was going to "go around", it was not simply to beat and intimidate.

Earlier, Chen Qi made a statement that elites would be drawn from all over the country to enrich the front line.The rear army becomes the front army, and the front army advances to the middle army.Shangguan Shiyi followed Chen Qi's original plan to go to various places to recruit a group of people, and appease the localities along the way.

Most of the Chen family's territory was conquered after Chen Qi took charge of the army. If the expansion is too fast, the place will inevitably become unstable.

In the case of a big defeat on the front line, it is a test of skill to deploy local troops without shaking the foundation of Shouzhi.According to Chen Qi's plan, another group of people will be recruited in the second half of the year, and another group will be recruited next year to replenish the army and restore its wings.

"Ask Tian Anmin to come to Qingzhou." Shangguan Shiyi said.

"I would like to invite my uncle to come to Qingzhou to sit in town." Xie Qinghe also had his own considerations, "Mr. Tian has an old relationship with the Zhao family. If he presides over civil affairs in Qingzhou, I am afraid that Mr. Bai will not be very happy. Besides, if he comes, son We can only continue to leave Mr. Xu Zhang unemployed."

Shangguan Shiyi remembered this, Tian Anmin and Tian Wen are father and son.If Xie Qinghe wanted to reuse Tian Wen, Tian Anmin would have to give way to his son. There was absolutely no reason for father and son to be in the same center and both to occupy high positions.

"I'm afraid Zhan Xuanji won't come." Shangguan Shiyi mused, "Forget it, I'll write him a letter to apologize."

Xie Qinghe didn't bring his younger brother with him this time. Hearing this, he went to spread paper and grind ink himself, and said, "Uncle is not so stingy. However, Father is willing to send him a letter. He feels at ease and runs faster on the road. .”

Back then Chen Qi and Zhan Xuanji had a quarrel over the massacre of the city, and they sent Zhan Xuanji back to Xiangzhou with a single sentence, Zhan Xuanji was of course sad.

Shangguan Shiyi wrote a letter to Zhan Xuanji to apologize, he scolded all "Chen Qi", and he didn't think he was "Chen Qi". alright.Without waiting to discuss the details with Xie Qinghe, he first called Chen Jian and ordered the letter to be sent to Xiangzhou Zhan Xuanji immediately, and Chen Jian quickly took the order and left.

Shangguan Shi Yicai turned around and asked Xie Qinghe: "So you're not moving in Qingzhou?"

"Father, what do you think?" Xie Qinghe didn't mention moving, of course he just didn't want to move.

"I know your concerns. First build the Ministry of Agriculture, and then set up the center. If you move to another place, you are worried that this is a sign of the establishment of the dynasty and the capital, and they will fight for power and chaos. However, Qingzhou and the capital are mutually exclusive. For the sake of my heart, if I leave Qingzhou, An Ying has few soldiers, and now I can't send troops to you, I'm afraid there will be chaos." Shangguan Shiyi was more worried about the safety of the two apprentices.

Speaking of this, Shangguan Shiyi suddenly said: "I don't lose my temper every day. I just don't scold you in the future."

Xie Qinghe couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not just for this. The small court should have been set up a long time ago, and the specific affairs can be prepared. Now the local governance power is in the hands of Zhu Mushou. In the future, the king's capital will be broken, and the dynasty will be established temporarily. The imperial court is bound to be in a hurry, so it’s better to prepare early.”

Shangguan Shiyi has lived for 200 years, but Xie Qinghe's experience in the enchanted world is far longer than him.

Just the process of seizing power in troubled times and establishing a new dynasty, Xie Qinghe watched and participated countless times from the winner, the loser, and the irrelevant neutral side.He is just too experienced.There will be thrilling failures and betrayals in the process of conquering the world, but the most dangerous thing is actually when the pork is divided-how many arrogant soldiers and elite advisers died in the first ten or twenty years of the Li Dynasty?

It's always good to plan early.

Shangguan Shiyi asked again: "Aren't you going to Puyang?"

"Everyone knows that my father sealed me in Qingzhou. If I move to Puyang, there will be too much noise." Xie Qinghe said.

Shangguan Shiyi stopped persuading: "I will write to Shan Xugang and ask him to dispatch some troops to you."

Given the close relationship between Chen Qi and Shan Xugang, this is really something Chen Qi can do.

Xie Qinghe didn't object either: "Thank you Father."

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The news that Chen Jian hurried back to Xiangzhou to meet Zhan Xuanji quickly spread throughout Qingzhou.

No one guessed the real intentions of the father and son.

Bai Zhifeng was also quite surprised, he leaned on the couch and secretly thought about it, did he do something that didn't meet the Lord's wishes?Otherwise, why did Lord Lang go all the way to recall Zhan Xuanji?He was indeed Zhan Xuanji's deputy, but he had already taken the top position in the East Building's staff, how could he step down calmly?

Many aides who had good friends with Bai Zhifeng rushed over to discuss "countermeasures" with him.

Bai Zhifeng only served drinks, and said with a smile: "Nothing."

When it was busy, I received a call from Ziyang Palace: "Patriarch, Mr. Bai, please speak."

Bai Zhifeng ordered his servants to entertain his good friend who came to see him, and then drove into the palace alone to meet him.With the experience of entertaining Shen Yu last time when Shangguan Shiyi was there, Xie Qinghe is not in the main hall this time, leaving Shangguan Shiyi alone to win over Bai Zhifeng.

It was clear that both master and apprentice wanted Zhan Xuanji to stay in Qingzhou to preside over the center, and Shangguan Shiyi even hypocritically said beautiful words to Bai Zhifeng: "I can't leave Xianrui around me, military and civil affairs, whenever there is something incomprehensible, I always ask Mr. .Whether you leave or stay, you are reluctant to part.”

Bai Zhifeng wouldn't be so stupid as to ask, since they can't do without me, why not keep things as usual?

Previously, Chen Qi was in both civil and military teams, and they all followed him around the world.At first, the base camp was in Xiangzhou, then moved to Puyang, and stayed in Shuzhou for a short time.After Tianjinghe was defeated, Puyang was withdrawn from Shuzhou.

Now that Chen Qi suddenly wanted to split civil and military affairs, Bai Zhifeng's death was unexpected because Shangguan Shiyi was too lazy to deal with civil affairs.

In his view, this matter is not unreasonable.

At the beginning, Chen Qi announced that he would take his annual leave in Qingzhou, and left all his staff in Puyang. Then, after the sudden death of the new emperor, Bai Zhifeng led people from Puyang to Qingzhou to chase after him.

It's not that Chen Qi or Bai Zhifeng dared to split their vacations in two places without a sense of crisis.

Except for the Chen family, there is no army in the world that can fight in winter.Most of the soldiers did not have cotton clothes to keep out the cold, and their luggage could not keep up.As long as Chen Qi has no plan to raise troops, there will be no war in the cold winter months.What's more, it was Chen Qi's willful refusal to stay in Puyang to sit on the banner, insisting on going to Qingzhou to see his wife and children. Most of the staff's homes moved to Puyang, so of course he stayed in Puyang and waited for the spring to start working again.

Just because of the sudden death of Emperor Qin Tingxin, Bai Zhifeng had to admit that he was wrong if he failed to appear beside Chen Qi immediately.

"The master's words are serious. A certain master loves blue eyes. He first manages civil affairs, and then follows the military affairs. Both of them will get a little income. Either leave or stay, and only rely on the master's order. You must concentrate on it, and you will die." Bai Zhifeng thought in his heart. I have a plan to continue to follow the army to get the name, and stay in Qingzhou to preside over the center. However, if I follow the army to capture the king's capital, there is still a huge honor waiting for me.It doesn't matter whether you leave or stay.

Shangguan Shiyi thought about it for a moment, put his arm around Bai Zhifeng's shoulders, and said earnestly, "Xuanji, he was stabbed in the Xiangzhou encounter, and I'm afraid he can't afford to go back and forth. Xianrui, you are young, and you can go back and forth on horseback." .I'll be more cruel and work on you."

Bai Zhifeng instantly remembered the pain of being knocked apart a few days ago, and said with a wry smile: "Yes."

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When Zhan Xuanji rushed to Qingzhou on a light horse, Shangguan Shiyi had already taken Bai Zhifeng and others to Jingzhou.

Some of the East Tower's staff, such as Wang Du, Chu Ai and others, stayed in Qingzhou, and under Xie Qinghe's guidance, they started their careers as central counselors.When Zhan Xuanji was greeted, these former aides and current counselors all had strange expressions, hesitant speech, and ambiguous smiles.

After Zhan Xuanji received the letter, he rushed to Qingzhou. Chen Jian, who delivered the letter, asked three questions, and he gradually understood his situation on the way.

The staff members who were left by Bai Zhifeng in Qingzhou were all weird, and Zhan Xuanji couldn't help feeling confused.

He had a good relationship with Sun Xian, and took the opportunity to find Sun Xian and asked, "Why do you all look like this?"

Sun Xian opened his mouth and sighed first, then shook his head and said, "I think it's compared to the past, my expectations have come to nothing, but I really can't say it."

"Qingjun!" Zhan Xuanji urged.

Sun Xian glanced left and right, Zhan Xuanji was the guest of honor at today's welcome banquet, everyone's attention was on Zhan Xuanji, the two of them wanted to talk with their backs, and deliberately found an excuse to change clothes to hide in another room to talk.At this time, Zhan Xuanji's servants were guarding outside, so it was very safe.

Zhan Xuanji immediately realized that this matter probably has something to do with Mr. Xiao Lang.

Sun Xiancai said: "Lord Lang is preparing to build a 'central center' in Qingzhou, and he will select 'counselors' from the staff of the army to take charge of local civil affairs. Everyone is thinking, isn't this the yamen where the middle school, the book, and the book are combined into one? What a move Lightweight."

Needless to say, Sun Xianming, Zhan Xuanji also knew that in order to compete for the number of counselors, he would break his head, and he received requests on the way.

This is like the preliminary selection of the three provinces in the future. As long as they do well in Qingzhou and take the lead, the future selection of officials will be smooth.

"Earlier, Mr. Xiaolang led the Qingzhou pastor, with Shen Yingzi as his long history. For two years, he only studied and practiced martial arts in the other palace, and he didn't care about the civil affairs of Qingzhou Prefecture—so he interrupted and recommended a few people to Shen Yingzi— —I haven’t been to Qingzhou Mansion much. Huh, everyone guessed that Mr. Xiao Lang has a temper that doesn’t like to worry, and he is also a temporary post in the center. Is he a young master? It’s not easy to ask him to stand aside.”

"Then who wants to get it? Change the norm!"

"Civil affairs from all over the country, when they send news, they must do everything by themselves, and never leave a word. It is said that everyone is helping to sort out the newspapers, hum, bragging, flattering, flattering... Anyway, it doesn't matter what kind of mess As long as there is a word in the notebook, all of them have been approved."

"So many people are locked in the room every day, copying the reports and approvals, keeping records, and copying endlessly."

Sun Xian said it with a smile on his face, but there was still a trace of indescribable... admiration in his bones.

Mr. Xiao Lang emptied the entire center by himself, and used all the counselors as documents.He does not need counselors to participate in decision-making, and all matters are resolved with one word.The counselors who originally dreamed of controlling the power of the central government and guiding the country could not speak, so they could only work as printing presses bitterly.

What made these counselors helpless the most was that Mr. Xiao Lang seemed young, but his various decisions were not immature.

Even if they wanted to find a flaw to dismiss the quarrel, or secretly read a joke, it was actually hard to find a chance.At the beginning, I was waiting for Mr. Xiao Lang to be unable to cope with his many affairs and inexperience to cause a catastrophe, but now almost two months have passed, and everyone has given up on it.

The nephew in Zhan Xuanji's impression didn't have such a weird temper. He nodded thoughtfully and said goodbye to Sun Xian.

Everyone was waiting for Zhan Xuanji to fight Xie Qinghe.

——If Mr. Xiao Lang is not so independent, Zhan Xuanji may still cooperate with him. After all, Zhan Xuanji is not independent.

Now that Xie Qinghe monopolized the power, the entire center was his monopoly, and he didn't give any counselor a chance to speak, so how would he deal with Zhan Xuanji who came to sit in the center?

It is absolutely impossible for Zhan Xuanji to be a vegetarian.

He came to preside over the overall situation under the order of the Patriarch, so he can't be controlled by a young junior, right?

All the counselors who suffered a secret loss under Xie Qinghe's hands secretly hoped in their hearts, fight, fight!

The banquet was lively and lively, and Xie Qinghe and Zhan Xuanji talked very affectionately, but they talked about their aunt and uncle, and all the flowers, birds, insects and fish raised in Xiangzhou's hometown. thing.

When the show was about to end, Xie Qinghe was about to leave, so he said with a smile: "Uncle rests earlier, and will come to the hall early tomorrow."

The central yamen was placed in the southeast corner of the other palace. According to legend, there are two places, Qianshou Hall and Mingze Hall.

All the counselors in the room suddenly had the interest of "Yo yo yo, there will be a good show tomorrow".

Zhan Xuanji smiled gently, showing no sign of fighting for the front: "Yes, I'll come earlier."

After Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan left, there were many counselors who wanted to have some "intimate private conversation" with Zhan Xuanji. Zhan Xuanji left the meeting early on the pretext that he was exhausted from the journey and that he had business duties tomorrow.After returning to the apartment, Zhan Xuanji ordered his servants to thank the guests behind closed doors, and went to bed very early with the lights on.

Early the next morning, Zhan Xuanji washed and changed his clothes, had breakfast, and went to the other palace early.

A lot of counselors who came to see the play also came and greeted Zhan Xuanji one after another. Chen Li personally invited Zhan Xuanji in.

"There is a ginkgo tree in this yard, which has grown for a thousand years. The house near here is called Qianshou Hall. It is used by Mr. Xiaolang and Xiaolang Jun to deal with affairs on weekdays. The counselors are all in the Mingze Pavilion over there. An errand." Chen Li introduced Zhan Xuanji while leading the way.

Zhan Xuanji looked at the three words "Thousands of Longevity Hall" hanging in front of the house, and felt that his nephew was a little narrow, so he smiled slightly.

Longevity for the Son of Heaven, and Thousand Life for the Prince.Where do ordinary people dare to overstep?

Qin Ting is qualified to live here either the prince or princess, or the emperor's concubine, so it's not a problem to hang on the front of Qianshou Hall carelessly.

Chen Cong is the young master of the Chen family and also the future prince. Even Chen Jun will not be able to lose the throne in the future, and both of them deserve the word "thousands of longevity".Now that Xie Qinghe deliberately chooses to work here, the counselors of the Mingze Pavilion dare not come here to "stay on the throne".

Before entering the door, there seemed to be movement in the room, and soon Fu Chuan came out, bowing his knees and saluting: "My son pays homage to uncle."

Zhan Xuanji thought to himself, the status is different.Just as he was thinking that Xie Qinghe would not come out, when the door curtain was lifted, Xie Qinghe also walked out quickly, and bowed to meet him: "Uncle is here."

Zhan Xuanji quickly supported him with sharp eyesight, gave Fu Chuan a hand, and said with a smile, "Didn't you tell me to come earlier?"

The three of them walked in hand in hand, while Chen Li stood guard outside the door, patrolling with sharp eyes.

"These are a few seals temporarily used by the center." Xie Qinghe first took out the seal box and put it on the table.

Zhan Xuanji's eyelids twitched.

"This is a report that has already been assembled, and it is not yet time for approval." Xie Qinghe pointed to the bamboo slip hill on the left.

"This has already been approved, and the Mingze Museum will be called to transcribe and record the file immediately, and then send it to the local area."

"Here is the key to the bookcase for the night."

"...This is," Xie Qinghe picked up an unfamiliar thread-bound paper book, and before he could flip through it, Fu Chuan came over and grabbed it in his hand, showing a sweet smile to Zhan Xuanji.Xie Qinghe patted his head, "This is Brother Jun's chess record, right?"

Fu Chuan's smile on Zhan Xuanji became even cuter.

Zhan Xuanji already understood a little bit: "You are..." Isn't it?

"Here are some files of important approvals, uncle had better take a look first." Xie Qinghe continued to introduce.

"Other things are mostly my personal belongings with Younger Brother Jun. I will send someone to take them out later. The room is quite big, and there is a sleeping room next door, but we have to go around from the outside. Uncle needs what he needs and what he lacks." , write a note, and I will send younger brother Jun to pick it up."

Saying that, Xie Qinghe bowed his hands: "I will trouble my uncle for everything."

Zhan Xuanji: "..."

A lot of words, don't have to say too bluntly.

The current situation is special, and Xie Qinghe is unwilling to sit back and watch the infighting, so he does not allow counselors with different positions to participate in decision-making.

For this reason, Xie Qinghe didn't hesitate to drag Fu Chuan, and the two jointly arranged all the approvals of the center, big and small.

He also doesn't need Zhan Xuanji to reproduce the "□□" between him and Fu Chuan.Zhan Xuanji has been the master planner in the East Building for many years, and he is very familiar with these counselors who were born in the East Building. Zhan Xuanji is completely free to decide what each person's position is, how to coordinate, whether to use it or not.This is Zhan Xuanji's advantage.

This is absolute trust.

Not only trust Zhan Xuanji's loyalty to the Chen family, but also trust Zhan Xuanji's ability to use people to control his subordinates.

Zhan Xuanji couldn't really make a decision with one word.After the matter is done, it must be handed over to Xie Qinghe for review before it can be issued.

However, this is also too happy and thorough, right?

Xie Qinghe was talking to Zhan Xuanji in the house, but Fu Chuan had already run out and took off the "Thousands of Life Hall" on the forehead.

"Yes, what does uncle want to inscribe? Just write it down, and I'll get someone to do it right away. It can be hung up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest." Xie Qinghe just wanted to use the "Thousands of Life Hall" to stop the human flesh printing machine in Mingze Pavilion, I don't want to stop Zhan Xuanji, an excellent laborer.

Zhan Xuanji: "..."

You shouldn't feel soft-hearted when you see Chen Qi's handwriting!

Pidianpidian ran to Qingzhou and fell into such a big pit!Is the girl from the Chen family so easy to marry? !