Almost at the same time, on the other side of the inner city of the capital, there were bright lights in an ancient mansion, and there was a banquet. Everyone at the dinner was extraordinary, and they were all powerful ministers at first sight.

However, the emperor is seriously ill now. Although the palace does not promote it, such news has long been spreading all over the city. The ministers have their own plans. On the surface, they still have to be more concerned. The higher the power of the person, the less extravagant he is, when he holds a banquet, he will not be extravagant and wasteful. He often has to gather together and pray for the emperor.

This is exactly what is happening here. The person who held the banquet was Gu Yin, the newly appointed Minister of Personnel.

The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of promotion and assessment of officials. The importance of their power is hard to describe for all officials, and they are sometimes called heavenly officials because they can determine the future of the officialdom.

Therefore, when the successive ministers of the Ministry of Personnel took office, they inevitably received greetings from other ministers and wanted to come to congratulate him. In this Darui Dynasty, it has almost become a custom. Even if the emperor was seriously ill, there was no change in this matter.

Therefore, Gu Yin followed the old rules and held a family banquet in the mansion and hosted some ministers.

Of course, there are still risks in doing this. After all, it was when the emperor was seriously ill. However, one of the important reasons why Gu Yin took the risk was that the banquet in Gu's house was actually a confusion, to confuse the royal eyes and eyes and cover up his real intention.

Compared with this intention, even if the spies from the Imperial City Department took the opportunity to cause trouble, it would be nothing.

However, in the officialdom, how can we not know the trend? Now that the emperor is seriously ill, the court has become the new Minister of Personnel. Even if Gu Yin makes a little mistake, he cannot really take over at this time, because this will affect the stability of the court's political situation.

Because of understanding these, this banquet in Gu's family can be said to be fearless.

The real protagonist of the banquet is not in that meal, but in the depths of the Gu family.

"This Qiu Yan is becoming more arrogant. If this continues, what's going on!?"

In the mansion, someone was slamming the table and getting up, and he talked about Qiu Yan angrily.

This is a rather closed room with the walls surrounding it, with seven or eight people sitting in the room. The man who spoke was thin and had a sense of awesomeness, like those smart and capable loyal ministers in the play, and his words were strong and powerful. Once the name popped out of him was accompanied by a vicious tone, it naturally gave people the taste of a treacherous minister.

However, the person mentioned by this person at this time was Qiu Yan.

Seeing this person, a handsome man with a handsome face said, "Why should Cai Xiang be so excited? Qiu Shenzhi, now relies on the emperor and the crown prince's attention to him, dares to do whatever he wants in the court. He doesn't even take us old ministers seriously. He can say something heartbroken. The so-called "The Lord's Country is suspicious, and the current priest's body is getting worse day by day. And when the crown prince is young, how can this huge country withstand the torture? Naturally, he will ask the queen and the queen to rule the country behind the curtain..."

This person is Gu Yin, the new Minister of Personnel. He is also from a noble family. His father was also appointed as the Minister of Personnel when he was the former emperor. He was only one step away from entering the Political Affairs Hall, but he missed the opportunity due to a local rebellion and missed the opportunity. From then on, his career stopped.

Now that his son has made a comeback, how could he be satisfied with the position of Minister of Personnel?

As for the one who was comforted by Gu Yin, Cai Que, who was in charge of the Censorate, now calls him Cai Xiang. After entering the Political Affairs Hall, he became more and more energetic, and his face changed a little. In addition, the righteousness he developed when he was in charge of the Censorate, he always said something loud and loud.

As for the meaning of his words, the few people present knew it, and even regarded it as a future reliance, intending to turn it over and trip Qiu Yan.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the Minister of Personnel Gu Yin and Prime Minister Cai Que, there is another prime minister Xu Yingyi. The remaining two or three are also ministers in the court, and they are among the six ministers and nine ministers. The combined power is powerful for a while.

Such people gather together easily, how can the royal family such as the Imperial City Department feel at ease? Even if it is national law, it will not be allowed easily.

I can only use this kind of banquet to welcome and send off as a guise and then have a secret conversation in the same room, but it cannot take long.

Today they gathered together, with only one purpose, which is to point the sword at Qiu Yan.

This is a bit strange. In theory, such a combination is powerful, not only in the world, but also in charge of all aspects. Qiu Yan is just a minister of the Ministry of War. Even though he is in the world, he is of high power, but in the entire court, the proportion of power he occupies is not large, so why does it cause everyone to treat him so seriously?

The reason is that after Qiu Yan returned to Beijing, he started with military affairs. He first opened up three new camps of new troops, and then mobilized his direct personnel in Jiannan, Shu, and continuously expanded his influence in the name of the new policy.

This matter is easy to deal with. As long as you post a few more memorable stories, you will be excited in the court. Even if the emperor is firm in his character, has his own opinion, and is willing to protect Qiu Yan, he must also consider the stability of the Japanese court and the stability of the country, and have to compromise.

But the border is unstable, so the repetition of the major tribes in the northern border has been cleared. Even the bandits in Qilu, Hebei and other places are also rising in a hurry, which just gave Qiu Yan the opportunity—

This minister's memorial could make the emperor compromise, but it was impossible to let the rebels be executed. At the critical moment, they would still have to send troops, which gave Qiu Yan the opportunity to continue to take power.

After a while, Qiu Yan's power grew increasingly powerful. In addition, he was originally authorized by the emperor and could enter the Political Affairs Hall to discuss matters. There was also a title of the Marquis of Dingguo who supported his position. In terms of power, he was not inferior to the magistrate. Once he really got his name, he could immediately suppress other magistrates.

Xu Yingyi and others have long been alert to such threats. Out of their political instinct to maintain their own power, and to snatch and exploit people like Qiu Yan. In the past period, Xu Yingyi and others used various methods to stop Qiu Yan's upward momentum.

The two sides were like playing chess, and the dangers hidden in it were no less than those of the battle with clear swords and spears.

However, Xu Yingyi and others had mastered many forces and connections. Although they had the upper hand at the beginning, Qiu Yan repeatedly made a move. Even the internal personnel of Xu Yingyi and others had already been infiltrated. They turned against each other at critical moments, causing many efforts to fail, and even put the interest groups of Xu Yingyi and others at a disadvantage. Qiu Yan had many evidence of crimes that could be called rebellion, and thus they were held down for seven inches and had to compromise from time to time.

But this kind of tolerance still has its limits, and Xu Yingyi and others have been waiting for the opportunity to fight back.

Tempering the hearing is undoubtedly their opportunity.

The emperor protected Qiu Yan and was very alert to the aristocratic family. Xu Yingyi had already realized it long ago, but he could not overthrow it. However, the kindness shown by the next generation of emperors to Qiu Yan made them even more worried. You must know that before this, they bribed the eunuchs around the prince and influenced the teacher who taught the prince in order to facilitate their actions in the future.

But now this road is changing at a glance, so their goals have turned to the harem.

Unlike the emperor and the prince, it is difficult for the harem to interfere in Darui, but if the prince is young, the matter of governing the country behind the curtain has also happened. After all, this tradition can be traced back to the period of the Middle Ages.

It is precisely because of the age of time that there was a customization. Although Taizu of Darui summarized the lessons of the previous dynasty and was very vigilant about this, the future development will not be subject to human will. When the country is too suspicious, if no one is in charge, it will be difficult to maintain stability.

After all, this person who was tempered was actually the officials of the court, and the signs recommended by them made their policy masters famous and occupy the great power.

But even so, all this still has to be implemented after the current emperor truly returns to heaven.

Logically speaking, the queen and the queen dowager may not be from wealthy families, and most of them are the daughters of innocent families. However, as long as they become queens and their status is improved, they will naturally gather momentum and promote their own status and eventually join the ranks of aristocratic families.

Therefore, the Queen Mother and the Queen are almost natural ally of the aristocratic families and have stakeholders.

Xu Ying was also worried when he heard everyone talking about Qiu Yan's arrogant behavior, and finally said: "This Qiu Yan not only did whatever he wanted in the court, but also wanted to compete for the orthodox of humanitarian theory. It was too ignorant. The people below have found out that before he passed the imperial examination, he had stains to borrow, and then moved to Zuoqu Village and other places, as if he had colluded with demons. As long as this was confirmed, it could be used as a breakthrough."

"Yes, this is not to frame him, but to criticize him with facts! Moreover, these small things cannot really trip him up, but it is a beginning!" Cai Que also nodded.

"In addition," Xu Yingyi pondered for a moment, and finally said it, "I heard from the Queen Mother that I wanted to ask a prince to supervise the country. We can also discuss this matter. After all, the prince is too young, and the Queen Mother and the Queen are not very familiar with governing the country..."

As soon as you said this, the atmosphere in the room changed immediately.

The Queen Mother and Queen's tempering are completely different in nature from the prince's supervision of the country. The former is only for the time being, while the latter is easily triggered subsequent chain reactions due to bloodlines, and has always been warned by the ministers.

But today is different from the past. The rise of the new party and the emergence of Qiu Yan have forced the interests of the aristocratic families to be constantly damaged. At this time, their primary task has become to safeguard their own interests, and Darui's stability has to be put behind.

"This matter should be discussed for a long time." Gu Yin frowned, "This dinner should not be too long. People attending the meeting must have royal eyes and ears. If they leave the seat for too long, they will have too many traces."

Xu Yingyi looked at Gu Yin deeply, then nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about this first, and you will grasp it next, and strive to be fatal to one blow!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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