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Volume 1: Never give up being a Lingnan native Chapter 275: Changes in Chang'an

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    Three days later, Wang Zhongsi returned to Moli City safely.  On the second day, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, who joined the White Water Army, left Moli City and followed Zhang Wei and Zhang Xiu to Fuqi City.  In the next period of time, the entire eastern part of Longyou Road temporarily returned to calm.  The Tibetans, who were severely weakened, were eager to stabilize the new defense line, while the Tang army, which had just acquired a large area of ??occupied land, was also busy training new soldiers and internal construction, so there was peace between Tang and Tubo.  The Turks in the north still went south to harass the Tang Dynasty from time to time, but Cui Xiyi, the governor of Hexi Province, was not a soft persimmon. Whenever the Turks led their troops south to plunder once, Cui Xiyi would send an army deep into the Turks' territory to retaliate.  As a result, the activities of the Turks in the Hexi area have converged a lot.  The Tubo and the Turks are two races that dogs cannot change. Although they have some wolfish character, they also have the obvious dog nature of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and being fierce and cruel. Once they get no advantage in Longyou and Hexi,  After that, he naturally turned his aggressive gaze elsewhere.  Tuesday is only a general of an army. He is unable to protect the peace of the Tang Dynasty, so he stays in Fuqi City and seizes the time to train and expand his troops. This makes some people in Chang'an City who have calculated and dealt with him  People breathed a sigh of relief temporarily.  In the year without Tuesday in Chang'an, everyone obviously felt that there were a lot less bad things. It seems that Erlang of the Zhou family is really a god of plague!  Time quickly entered the winter moon. Due to the ice and snow and the unbearable cold in the frontier area, people hid in the city and houses, and Chang'an, which was located in the heart of the empire.  But it is still crowded and prosperous.  In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, the imperial capital Chang'an was about to open a new chapter, when several major events suddenly happened.  At the end of the year, Zhang Jiuling, who had served as Zhongshu Ling for four years, did not move forward according to the destiny track originally recorded in historical records. Not only was he steadily promoted to a local official, he became a second-rank minister, Zuopushe, and was granted the title  After special promotion, he was awarded the official title of Shaoguo County Duke.  Win the honor of Zhuguo!  At this time.  The Shangshu Ling, as the leader of the six departments of Shangshu, has been out of existence for many years, and Zuo Pushe, who is the deputy of the Shangshu Ling, especially Zuo Pushe, who respects Zuo, is actually the first person in charge of the Shangshu Province.  Prime Minister Pei Yaoqing, who has worked with Zhang Jiuling for many years.  This time I was promoted.  He became the minister's right servant.  Continue to become Zhang Jiuling's deputy.  "However, although Zhang Jiuling and Pei Yaoqing were promoted to official positions and made Lords.  However, they left the Political Hall, where only prime ministers could enter and leave, and their influence on the government weakened in the future.  The reason is very simple. Although the ministers at this time, Zuo Pushe, were responsible for the Shangshu Province, the six ministers nominally belonging to the Shangshu Province were directly under the command of the Political Affairs Hall, and some of the prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall even directly served concurrently.  The position of minister of a certain ministry.  This is like the chairman of a certain association and the chairman of a certain committee in later generations. Although they are higher in rank than the ministers and deputy prime ministers of various ministries, the real power in their hands is not great. The real power is the prime ministers who join the cabinet!  Zhang Jiuling and Pei Yaoqing made way for others, and the emperor naturally wanted to appoint new Zhongshu Ling and prime ministers.  The third prime minister Li Linfu, who had always been deeply favored by the emperor, was appointed by the emperor as Zhongshu Ling and also the minister of the Ministry of War. Because of his old age, Li Yi, the former minister of the Ministry of War, was awarded the post of Prince's Young Master.  Take care of yourself in the capital city.  Because of Li Linfu's strong recommendation, Niu Xianke was awarded the position of Shizhong by Li Longji this time. He also served as Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and knew everything under Zhongshu's sect, becoming the second-ranked prime minister.  Chen Xilie, who had served as the deputy envoy for the wedding of Princess Shou, had previously served as the judge for Zhang Jiuling in the Jixian Academy. This time, he had some good luck and was promoted by the emperor to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and he also knew the affairs of the Zhongshu family.  Became the third prime minister of the Political Hall.  The number of prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty was always determined by the emperor's mood.  When Wu Zetian was in power, there were at most six prime ministers, but when Li Longji was in power, there were generally only two or three prime ministers.  When there are two prime ministers, they are called left prime minister and right prime minister.  This time, the Zhengshitang still followed the practice of establishing three prime ministers, with Li Linfu as the leader and Niu Xianke and Chen Xilie as assistants.  In addition to the appointment and dismissal of these heavyweight officials, Li Shizhi, the imperial censor, was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and there seemed to be signs of entering the government hall; Zheng Ji, the young Yin of Jingzhao Prefecture, assumed the position of Secretary and Young Supervisor; Sima and Shanzhou Sima,  Zhou Ziliang, the Right Chancellor of the Inspector of Schools, continued to have a prosperous official career. After only one year, he was promoted from the lower level of the fifth rank to the rank of Zhongcheng of the Royal Fifth Rank. He also held the post of Zuocheng of the Inspector of Schools!  The highest-ranking official in the Yushitai is Yushi Dafu, but this official position is more often an honorary position, and the specific affairs are handled by Yushi Zhongcheng.  Now, Zhou Ziliang has been promoted to Yushi Zhongcheng, and he has achieved great results.He is equivalent to being the top leader of the Yushitai. From then on, officials from all states in the government and the public will be afraid of hearing his name of being selfless!  Zhou Ziliang can be promoted at such an astonishing speed. On the one hand, he is really capable, both in terms of official reputation and reputation. On the other hand, it is because of the glory of his youngest son Zhou Chengye.  Li Longji now has great expectations for Zhou Chengye, and he also favors Zhou Ziliang, and wins over Zhou Chengye by promoting Zhou Ziliang from time to time.  In addition to the promotion of these officials, what is really surprising and surprising is that Yan Tingzhi, the Minister of Household Affairs who was expected to enter the political hall, not only failed to be selected this time, but was demoted from the capital and became a fourth-rank official.  Mingzhou governor.  According to Zhang Jiuling¡¯s original idea, he planned to make Yan Tingzhi serve as the second-ranked prime minister, concurrently serve as the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and also know the affairs of Zhongshu¡¯s family.  Only in this way can Yan Tingzhi have the strength to compete with Li Linfu, who serves as the chief assistant, and restrain Li Linfu's excessive power desires and ambitions.  However, things backfired. Instead of going further, Yan Tingzhi left the court due to an unexpected incident and was demoted to Mingzhou, Hebei Province as the governor of Xiazhou.  Xiao Jiong, who was originally demoted to Zezhou as the governor, turned around in less than a year and returned to the Ministry of Household Affairs as a minister!  What happened is this: Wang Yuanyan, the governor of Yuzhou, was accused of embezzlement during his tenure before the end of the year. Li Longji informed the Yushitai to go to Yuzhou to verify his accusation, and the Yushitai reported that the corruption was generally true.  Because Wang Yuanyan was a third-rank official, the case was jointly reviewed by the three divisions of Dali Temple, Yushitai and the Ministry of Punishment. Dali Temple sent people to arrest Wang Yuanyan and bring him back to Beijing, and then put him in prison. The three divisions followed the case handling procedures.  Conduct a trial.  Zhang Jiuling, the Zhongshu Ling at that time, had always hated officials who were corrupt and perverted the law, and this Wang Yuanyan had been found to have evidence of corruption, so Lao Zhang wrote with a stroke of his pen and ordered the company to handle matters fairly and not to engage in malpractice for personal gain.  Li Linfu, who had been secretly looking for an opportunity to bring down Zhang Jiuling, Yan Tingzhi and others, saw an opportunity after the Wang Yuanyan case was committed!  It turns out that Li Linfu secretly learned that Wang Yuanyan's wife, Wang, was Yan Tingzhi's wife before marrying Wang Yuanyan. It was this little-noticed connection that Li Linfu caught and took action.  Li Linfu¡¯s evil dog Luo Xishi has now been sent to the position of the legal director of Jingzhao Mansion.  When Li Linfu learned that Wang Yuanyan was about to be captured and returned to Beijing, he found Luo Xishi and said to him: "After Wang Yuanyan was captured and returned to Beijing, neither Dali Temple nor the Ministry of Punishment had prisons. According to common practice, they would imprison Wang Yuanyan in Jingzhao Mansion.  In prison, from tomorrow on, you must keep an eye on Wang Yuanyan and ensure that he will not commit suicide or die of illness. No matter who he meets or what he says, he must report to me! " Luo Xi!  Xi received Li Linfu's order and squatted in the prison every day from then on, secretly monitoring Wang Yuanyan's every move.  Suddenly one day, Wang Yuanyan¡¯s wife Wang came to visit.  Mrs. Wang asked Wang Yuanyan: "There are rumors outside that you have committed embezzlement. Are they true?" Wang Yuanyan replied with a guilty look on his face: "It is true that I spent a small amount of money, but according to usual practice, I didn't spend it.  As for the person who was used as evidence of guilt by Yousi." Wang said with tears, "Yes, if you really embezzled a lot of money, I am your wife, but I have never seen you take a penny home secretly!"  He asked again: "Have you confessed?" Wang Yuanyan replied dejectedly: "The witness is conclusive, how can I deny it? You don't have to worry too much, the amount of money I misappropriated is not large, even according to the data of the Tang Dynasty  The punishment under the law would be to demote me, but the crime would definitely not lead to death." Wang was extremely angry and scolded: "What you said is easy. Is it really easy for you to be demoted to this third-grade official position?  , Our previous efforts and hard work have all been in vain!" Wang Yuanyan was unwilling to be scolded by his wife, so he had to say: "Now I have admitted the fact of embezzlement to the Third Division, and it has been recorded in the case file.  , it is basically impossible to find me not guilty. If you want to help me, you can only find someone to go out and intercede for me. Maybe someone will give me a lighter sentence, so you don't have to be punished.  Demoted." After hearing Wang Yuanyan's words, Mrs. Wang showed hesitation, because she understood who the person mentioned in Wang Yuanyan's words was!  The person Wang Yuanyan mentioned who could help him was Yan Tingzhi, Zuo Cheng, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Household Affairs, who was in great power.  The reason why Mrs. Wang showed hesitation was because she felt sorry for herself at the thought of asking her ex-husband Yan Tingzhi for help.  "You stupid bitch! At this point, how can you care about your own face? If you are demoted to your husband,?You don¡¯t have to go to other places to suffer!  " Being scolded by Wang Yuanyan like this, Wang immediately made up her mind, then nodded heavily and said, "Now that things have happened, I can only beg him shamelessly!  ¡± ps: Qingyang thanks book friends I am Chinese Dragon and egretwang for their monthly support! Thanks to book friend q595980609 for the reward. Before 24 o¡¯clock, today¡¯s three chapters were finally completed, and Qingyang fulfilled his promise  ¡­
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