Pei Gonggui

As soon as Pei Jun's voice fell, the remaining six people behind him immediately seconded the proposal one after another:

"The minister votes." "The vote." "The minister also votes."...

The votes one after another complied with Tianxin and cabinet discussions, just like a vast river flowing eastward, undoubtedly turning the implementation of the New Deal into a foregone conclusion—and when everyone took this step forward, towards The only Prince Jin in the hall who stood still and did not agree with this policy, naturally became an extremely eye-catching reef in the rushing torrent.

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows and looked behind Jin Zhu, and he saw that among the royal relatives, King Jin was also looking at him.

King Jin was smiling, even though Pei Jun's untrustworthy actions made him a target of public criticism in the future, he smiled indifferently, and immediately met Pei Jun's eyes, he didn't even hesitate at all, and just raised his hand from a distance. With the teacup in his hand, he paid respects to Pei Jun in a graceful manner, and continued to talk with the King of Thailand beside him.

The main hall has once again heated up discussions. Almost everyone looked back and forth at Zhang Ling, who was at the end of the cabinet, and Pei Jun, who was at the head of the six departments. They all said that the two masters and apprentices had been arguing about the New Deal so far, and even the master and apprentice Enyi had quarreled. They almost turned against each other, how come this Pei Jun has changed now and is going to help the New Deal again?

Zhang Ling, who was in the nine seats of the cabinet, was also full of astonishment. At this time, he looked at Pei Jun who was standing far away with a cold face, and he had already squeezed the wat board tightly and leaned forward.

Cai Yan, the leader of the Nine Seats, raised his gray eyebrows, and calmly took the deeds of the two into his eyes, and then lowered his eyes without saying a word. Beside him, Cai Yang, a scholar of Dongyang Temple, approached with his brows tightly frowned. He lowered his voice amidst the chaotic voices: "Father, our behavior may change if we do this."

Cai Yan groaned, and still sat leisurely with his eyes closed, and only said softly: "This kid from the Pei family has woken up and figured it out. He is going to make trouble."

Since the founding of the country, this dynasty has paid attention to Confucianism and advocated "officials and emperors govern together", which not only preserved the cabinet system, but also promoted the way of voting.Officials are taken from the people and used for the people. This move by the imperial court can show that the heart of heaven and the people are in the same place, and it is in line with the people. Therefore, the previous generations of emperors have great talents, good fortune and prolong their lives. The great achievements are free to be built here, but Jiang Zhan In the reign of his father, Emperor Suning, the king was sick and weak and could not hold power, so the government affairs in the court were gradually taken over by the cabinet.Before and after the death of Emperor Suning, the crown prince Jiang Hu, who was supposed to be enthroned, was suddenly reported by his palace staff about the witchcraft that cursed his father, and was deprived of the right to inherit the throne, causing chaos in the court.After some shocking and secret changes, the cabinet ministers made an agreement with the royal family and selected the second son of the queen, Jiang Zhan, to succeed him. Based on the principle that the young emperor was young and needed assistance, he managed the affairs of the court naturally and cautiously.

Since Jiang Zhan ascended the throne for eight years, although there have been minor changes in the cabinet, the nine resident cabinet ministers are still Sangong and Six University Scholars.Most of these nine were officials with high morals and a wide range of students. Among them, the main officials formed a faction headed by Cai Yan, who had already emptied the imperial power by relying on the power of votes and the intricate relationship between the Panhuan Dynasty.And the decision-making of the cabinet always needs five temples and six departments to implement. Therefore, after Pei Jun entered the six departments in his previous life, in order to make Jiang Zhan able to compete with the cabinet, he worked hard everywhere, using the experience he had with him in the Qingyun Prison. All kinds of connections between the first and the second class have opened up the six ministries, and formed the six ministries into one party. Once the political opinions differ, they can use the voting system to oppose the cabinet from one dynasty to another to preserve their own interests. They are not as good as the nine cabinet ministers, but when they are connected, they can control the flow of most of the real power in the court.

In this way, the imperial court has several factions: one is the imperial relatives under the imperial power of the young emperor Jiang Zhan and the Qingliu school headed by Zhang Ling; the other is the important officials and state officials headed by the Cai family; One of the middle-level officials of the party, later also known as the Pei Party; the fourth is the imperial relatives and military forces who are closer to Jin Wang Jiangyue-most of them have no right to vote, although they cannot compete with the policy decisions of North Korean and Chinese officials. However, every step of the government can be ahead of the consequences of the overturning of iron palms.

Whenever there is a new policy, new policy or reform in the imperial court, the emperor will hand it over to the hundreds of officials for voting, so the officials who have the right to vote will naturally think about how to stand in line and protect themselves among the various factions in the court, and their anxiety is naturally From the success or failure of the New Deal they are concerned about——

They were concerned with whether and how much their powerful camp would benefit if the New Deal succeeded, and whether they would survive or lose something if the New Deal failed.A part of the officials actually just made a resolution to ensure that they could gain a foothold in the court, and they were unable to take into account how many people and border officials and state officials would be blinded by this resolution and lost their lives, while the other part was followed by the followers. Among the important ministers, most of them only care about one result, and only a very small number of people pay attention to the process.

In the previous life, Pei Jun was still young and his vision was still shallow, so he failed to become one of these very few people, but Cai Yan was the best among these very few people.Precisely because he foresees that the New Deal proposed by Xue and Zhang can grab huge benefits, he supports it from the beginning to the end. In this way, he has gained the leading power in the New Deal, and in just a few years, the Cai family has spread all over the place. If it hadn't been for Pei Jun's belated awareness and efforts to develop powerful officials to wrestle with him, it would not be a surprise that Jiangshan Sheji would change its name and surname ten years later.

Pei Jun in this life is well versed in this principle, so he will naturally strike first.

At this time, the tickets from the six departments made the officials of the five temples feel a long breath, and they were all grateful for the momentary Gou An's standing. Bloody finally let go, put it back into the sleeves, and even the tense shoulder line relaxed, and the corners of his lips gradually raised into a smile.

The meeting broke up amid whispers.Yan Yuliang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, led the two men from the Ministry of Industry to squeeze Feng Jiru away, and together with Pei Jun, they went out one after the other: "Zi Yu, I have a drink appointment with Li Duancheng of Dali Temple tonight, are you coming?"

Pei Jun gave him a funny look: "After all, it's the brother's quick hands and feet, and this is how he is."

"Since we're all on the same boat, we will naturally get there before the cabinet members." Fang Mingjue, the servant of the household department, also followed, and smiled and touched Yan Yuliang's shoulder. Shall I? I'll take a few little brothers from Honglu Temple, let's carry out the wine order!" After a few words, the wine table became bigger and bigger, and he even pulled the head of the Ministry Minister, and asked behind him: "Master Go too!"

Cui Yu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, was a bit older, reticent and dignified. Hearing this, he glanced at the servant of the headquarters, nodded slightly, and looked back at the two men in the Ministry of War: "Master and Mr. Jiang, too?"

His master, Shen Shangshu, who is over fifty years old, said that he is not strong enough to handle it, and waved his hands: "We will still get together in a few days, let's forget about it today, you juniors go play."

Jiang Shilang next to him was not a few years younger than him, so he just said it, and while everyone was leaving the hall together, he just walked up to Pei Jun and asked: "Master Pei, what happened to Enke in the next year..."

"Mr. Jiang has said this, and he said it a long time ago. Wouldn't it be unfair to give something?" Pei Jun raised his hand and patted his right arm and smiled, "This junior can never afford it."

When the words were spoken at the scene, Jiang Shilang also knew it well, he only said "it's just a little thought", and said that there will be a big thank you after the thing is done, only Pei Jun has spent his time and thought, and he is very grateful.

Pei Jun chatted with the officials of the six ministries, walked on the stone steps outside the Hall of Qinghe and looked up, seeing a stone blue shadow in front of him about to go down the steps and enter the corridor, he hurriedly called out: "Lord Jin Stay."

But the King Jin in front of him didn't stop, as if he hadn't heard of it, he went straight down with all the royal relatives.

Pei Jun smiled helplessly, so he had no choice but to stay away from the six people, took two quick steps, and raised his voice again: "Jin Wangye! Jin Wangye stay a step!"

This sound was heard by all the relatives and nobles around, and they couldn't help but look sideways at King Jin.King Jin had no choice but to bid farewell to the royal relatives. He stopped and turned around with his hands behind his back. He suppressed the slight coldness under a faint smile, quietly looked at Pei Jun who was walking fast, and sighed in pretending regret: "Pei Jun My lord has made the orphan suffer."

Pei Jun shook the sleeves of the wat board, held his hands, and bowed to him with a smile: "How can I be a minister, my lord has wronged me."

The king of Jin suffered from Pei Jun's secret loss of "not being able to reverse the vote", and naturally woke up the moment he was betrayed by Pei Jun. At this time, he smiled even more indifferently, squinted at him, and said coolly: "Chaozhong Everyone said Mr. Pei formed a party for selfish interests and was a traitor. Gu Yuan thought that although Mr. Pei has roots everywhere and is active in politics, he still has the courage to fight for this new policy. He is probably just a traitor. Unexpectedly... Mr. Pei is still blind."

Hearing this, Pei Jun swallowed what he was about to say, and looked straight at King Jin, quite aggrieved, and said, "Your Majesty, I have been serving as ministers for so many years, what I have seen is the government of my family, the state, and the government of the Ming Dynasty." Long live, Yu Jingzhao works hard in the Ministry of Rites and forgets to eat and sleep. Even if he has deafness and blindness, how can he be called blind? Your lord has wronged your minister again."

King Jin chuckled noncommittally, and when he raised his eyes to look at him again, a cold and stern look flashed across his eyes, and the rest didn't know whether to mourn his misfortune or be angry at him, and finally only hid in the chill of the exit: "Pei Your Excellency is so eloquent. Since Mr. Pei still doesn't know which eye is blind, I will give Mr. Pei a gift today, and help Mr. Pei take off the blindfold on his head, so he can be sober."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Pei Jun to say anything else, turned around and walked down the stone steps into the long corridor, leaving Pei Jun standing in front of the empty hall after the early morning, looking at the handsome back who once again disappeared into the royal family, Gradually raised his long eyebrows, full of bewilderment.

Then I went to the Ministry of Rites and beat him, and it was afternoon when I left the imperial city.Pei Jun was thinking about catching ducks for Prince Jin, and paving the way for Wuguang Salt Industry in the future, so he got into the sedan chair again and said to go to the mansion of his old friend Cao Luan.

The slightly warm winter sun shone on the surface of the sedan chair, and it staggered to the front of a Wumen house in the south of the city.The plaque on the gate of the courtyard is simple and frameless, and there are even horizontal cracks in the wood, but the word "Cao Fu" is still written in large strokes, which seems to be unintentional, but it is a bit undeveloped.

Inside, Linglong's servant was quickly greeted, causing Pei Jun to feel the warmth of the soles of his feet as soon as he entered the porch. He thought that the earth dragon had already been burned early, and he was even connected to the wall heater, so he felt even better after drinking tea in the front hall. He was hot, untied his fox fur and sat listening to the ticking of the western clock beside him. He had just looked at the dazzling array of gadgets in the room, and waited for a tall and handsome man to step into the living room and smiled: "Pei is very busy, he is a rare visitor." , now that you're here, I can't even take a nap!"

Pei Jun watched Cao Luan come in with a smile, and sat on the chair without getting up: "Brother is such a golden bowl, how much money do you think you have lost in sleep? It's better not to sleep." He said in a pleasant way: "Sister-in-law and Where is Xuanxuan?"

"Pick things up in the backyard." Cao Luan frowned and sat on the chair next to him at the table, took a sip of the hot tea that just happened to be brought by his servant, and took a sip to refresh himself. If you want to go to Jiangling to do business in the future, take them along."

As he said that, he glanced sideways at Pei Jun, and said strangely: "This is about to go, what are you adding to me? Couldn't it be about today's New Deal vote? I heard that there is no request for a counter-vote Get over it, who can you offend?"

When Pei Jun heard this, he stretched out his hand to scratch his ears, "Brother, your ears are too long, you should cut them off, so as not to hit your sister-in-law in the face at night."

"Go! Don't make trouble." Cao Luan put down his tea and slapped his hand, laughing, "If I don't care about this big thing, then I will stop doing business and wait to close the door. What are you looking for? Son? Don’t say that I will charge you money.”

"No, no, no, I'll say it." Pei Jun withdrew his hands to support the table, and got back to business, "I'll ask my brother to help me catch some good-looking ducklings, white-haired ones."

"...Little duck, does it look good?" Cao Luan stared at him for a while, narrowed his eyes slightly, then nodded deeply after a while, and drank the tea again: "Okay, how much do you want?"

Pei Jun thought for a while: "It must be a few hundred—"

"Cough! Cough cough...what?" Cao Luan was choked by the tea immediately, and finally calmed down, raised his eyebrows and looked around Pei Jun's body: "How long has it been since you've been stained, A few hundred...can you bear it?"

"Hey, what I want is a real white-haired duck, not your little officials who sell skins." Pei Jun really convinced Cao Luan's messy mind, and sighed that it was really the same as Mei Linyu's estimate. They were exactly the same, so I made it clear: "A few days ago, I dirty the fur of Prince Jin's fur in Qingyun prison, and asked Master Mei to fix it for me. Come to trouble you."

Cao Luan suddenly realized, and was amazed: "It turned out to be that dress—then you are really lucky. Prepare your money, the expensive thing about the clothes is not the duck feathers, but the potion."

Pei Jun didn't doubt Cao Luan's words at all, and he was ready to spend a lot of money to save Deng Zhun, so he just said: "Give me a number, if I don't succeed, I can only hug the crook of Jin Wang's leg and cry gone."

Cao Luan laughed at him and said, "The potion came from overseas. It was originally a wound medicine. I heard that how many boatmen died to fish out a big shark to make it, and how many big sharks are needed to make a bottle of it. Come on, you can see bone growth and muscle growth when you apply it on your body. Don't you know that the Xianglin Empress used to rely on this potion to keep her face and charming her ancestors. If you don’t have two bottles, where can I find them for you? You have to ask to know.”

But after all, there is always a slight chance of finding something that no one can find, and Cao Luan always has a chance to find it, so Pei Jun agreed: "Okay, I'll have to trouble my brother. When will I be able to find it?"

"I'm going to Jiangling the day after tomorrow, tomorrow night at the latest." Cao Luan thought of another matter as he spoke, "By the way, has Mr. Cui of the Ministry of Punishment recently had a banquet?"

Officials in Beijing and China must file a record with the Ministry of Rites for banquets to control the ostentation. By the way, they also ask whether they will conflict with anyone in the funeral. Therefore, Pei Jun probably knows whether the senior officials in the court will hold a banquet: "His youngest son will be born next month. One year old. What, is there something wrong?"

"My son is one year old... that's not very appropriate." Cao Luan frowned and thought for a while, but to no avail, he simply said to Pei Jun, "I have a deal to ask me to bail someone out of prison. He is in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. His name is Li Si .”

"In the place of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, you leave a few acquainted principals and don't ask for it. How can you find Cui Yu's old wood?" Pei Jun folded his sleeves and looked at Cao Luan with a smile. It is the Shangshu who has the seal of changing the sentence... you are not going to protect a murderer, right?"

"What's wrong with the murderer? Human life has a price, as long as people can afford it." Cao Luan laughed, "What does Cui Shangshu like? Gold or silver?"

Pei Jun leaned on the chair and said slowly: "Old Cui doesn't like money."

Cao Luan guessed: "Cui Shangshu is also dignified, so he should like antique calligraphy and paintings?"

Pei Jun smiled: "Old Cui is only a judge, but he can't tell the difference between Li Du and Wang Bai."

Cao Luan thought about it carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Cui Shangshu...?"

Pei Jun nodded his head and clapped his hands together: "Hey, you're right this time. Old Cui's mouth is very hot. If you get a good one, you should give him more. He has worked so hard to find it." .”

Cao Luan was amazed: "I can't see that Cui Shangshu can still play."

"It's easy to see where someone is." After Pei Junxian finished talking to him, he stood up and was about to leave, "Didn't we fight for a few years back then, why did you think about drinking tea together today?" Speaking of this, he remembered the scene in the prison in his previous life, and looking back at Cao Luan's eyebrows, eyes, lips and nose, which were much younger than he remembered, he felt a little bit sad.

"What are you thinking?" Cao Luan was getting up to send him out, seeing him staring at her face, she couldn't help but feel a little strange, "It's been a few years, and you finally fell in love with me? It's too late, Ziyu, I can't Already married."

"I don't dare to snatch someone from my sister-in-law." Pei Jun raised his hand to cover his heart, imitating Mei Linyu and winking at him pitifully, "Brother, just think of me and come to have a look. I don't blame you."

Cao Luan was so disgusted that he couldn't speak, so he pushed him away: "Forget it, you'd better get out. I've found the duck and the potion and sent them directly to Shao Mei. Don't worry about it."

Pei Jun smiled and exchanged a few more words with him, just happened to meet Mrs. Lin and her daughter Xuanxuan coming out to look for Cao Luan, and then teased and coaxed Xuanxuan to call her godfather for a while, and let the little girl ride high, before saying goodbye After leaving Cao's house, he went out of the house and got on the sedan chair.

When he returned home, Liujin was waiting at the door under the big yellow lantern to watch him, and when he saw him get off the sedan chair, he came up to him and called, "My lord, a lord is here to see you!"

Pei Jun frowned and asked who it was, and seeing Liu Jin shook his head and said, "I don't know. That adult is very strange, he has never seen it before, and his face is cold when he sees it. He led a man to kneel in the hall with his head covered. It's scary, we just say wait for the adults, and we dare not ask."

Suspiciously, Pei Jun walked into the gate of the mansion. As soon as he arrived at the front hall, he saw Zhang San, a disciple of Prince Jin, sitting on the chair on the right hand side of the front hall. Master Pei is gone."

Pei Jun glanced at him, then looked past him to the hall behind him, only to see a person kneeling there.

This man was thin and small, wearing blue and gray cloth clothes, with a sack on his head, his face was invisible, and he was kneeling on the ground trembling.

Pei Jun asked Zhang San: "Master Zhang, who is this?"

Zhang San clasped his fists and bowed to him again, without changing his face, he said: "Lord Pei, let me tell you that today Dongcheng Bingmasi sent this person to Yushi Taili, and I was entrusted by the lower officials to send him over to Lord Pei."

Hearing this, Pei Jun glanced at the kneeling man, raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Who entrusted you? Your master?"

Zhang San didn't answer, just bowed his eyes and saluted: "Since the person has been delivered, I don't dare to disturb Mr. Pei, so I will leave." After finishing speaking, the servant led him out of the mansion.

Seeing his back disappearing into the corner of the corridor, Pei Jun thought of what he said in his mind about the inexplicable gift-giving words of Prince Jin after the court meeting ended in the morning. At this time, he walked slowly to the kneeling man, and took his hand to cover his face. sack of sackcloth.

For a moment, the man raised his head and looked at Pei Jun in a panic, causing Pei Jun to recognize him at a glance: "...Eunuch Suixi?"

And when Liu Jin who had been hiding behind him for a long time saw this man's face, he let out a surprise and said crisply: "My lord, this is the man who came to look for Brother Nanshan!"