"Your Majesty, Academician Zhou has arrived." The young eunuch saluted respectfully.
Empress Liang Zhao sat on the dragon chair, looked at the memorial in her hand, and ordered: "Let him come in."
"Yes." After the little eunuch saluted, he exited the room and brought Zhou Zhenwen in.
"I have met your Majesty, Zhou Zhenwen, the great scholar of Jidian Palace." Zhou Zhenwen bowed his hands in a salute.
"Um."
Empress Liang Zhao put down the memorial in her hand and hummed in response. She cast her eyes to the left and right and ordered: "You all go down."
"Yes." The eunuchs and maids quickly walked out of the imperial study.
Soon, only the empress Liang Zhao and Zhou Zhenwen were left in the imperial study.
Empress Liang Zhao looked at Zhou Zhenwen carefully. If it weren't for the picture in the Empress simulator, she would never have imagined that such a thin, handsome scholar could actually be a master-level second-grade martial arts master?
Are you also proficient in the art of war and ancient formations?
He hides it so deeply!
Zhou Zhenwen was also looking at the empress Liang Zhao.
young! Childish!
This was his first reaction.
Then, he noticed the other person's eyes.
The eyes are very clean and bright, and the deep black pupils do not have the depth and sophistication of the late emperor, showing emotions such as scrutiny and curiosity.
This is somewhat different from the image of the emperor who is unsmiling, calm and reserved at court meetings.
"Master Zhou, don't you have anything to tell me?"
Empress Liang Zhao seemed to realize that something was not right about the current atmosphere, and immediately spoke out.
Is there anything you want to tell him... Zhou Zhenwen narrowed his eyes slightly, and after thinking about it for a while, he responded: "May I ask what your Majesty is talking about?"
In fact, Zhou Zhenwen had some guesses in his mind. What the little emperor said was nothing more than the tit-for-tat confrontation in the morning and the matter of guarantoring Liu Yuanqi, the acting minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
"Master Zhou, why did you elect Liu Yuanqi to be the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel?" Empress Liang Zhao asked directly when she saw Zhou Zhenwen pretending to be stupid.
Zhou Zhenwen slightly cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, Liu Yuanqi has been in the Ministry of Personnel for many years and has a good understanding of the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He has been transferred to various states and counties many times. He is an honest official and is widely praised by the people. He is a good official and a good person. honest and upright official."
"I am willing to vouch for him because I believe in his character."
Zhou Zhenwen's answer was similar to that of the early dynasty.
Empress Liang Zhao stood up, stood with her hands behind her hands, and walked to the table: "Did you know that many officials in the court are rumoring that you, Academician Zhou, have colluded with Liu Yuanqi, and are suspected of forming a clique for personal gain?"
"Your Majesty, I am not afraid of shadows. I am willing to accept the investigation of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate." Zhou Zhenwen said in a serious voice.
Zhou Zhenwen's answer was clean and crisp, and his tone was extremely firm.
Empress Liang Zhao looked at Zhou Zhenwen who was acting like this, she smiled slightly, waved her hand, and said softly: "I know about Academician Zhou's loyalty to me and to the court, so I won't mention it for now."
"Since Academician Zhou is so optimistic about Liu Yuanqi, I am also willing to give him a chance to see what is so special about the person you recommended, Academician Zhou?"
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Seeing that Empress Liang Zhao's tone slowed down, Zhou Zhenwen took the initiative to give her the steps, and he followed the trend and walked down.
At this time, Zhou Zhenwen did not want to fall out with the emperor. For now, he had to get rid of the Queen Mother first.
Prompt title system?
snort!
Zhou Zhenwen snorted in her heart, this system gave the Queen Mother too many tricks.
Since ancient times, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!
The queen mother's appointment as the emperor was a model for the harem's involvement in politics.
If the little emperor was underage, he could turn a blind eye to this matter, but now that the emperor is an adult, the imperial power will naturally be taken back.
"I came to you today because I want to ask you something." Empress Liang Zhao pondered for a moment and then said.
"Your Majesty, please speak. I must know everything and tell you everything." Zhou Zhenwen replied.
Empress Liang Zhao nodded slightly, walked to the wooden board with a map of the thirteen states in the world, stretched out her hand to hold a small sandalwood stick, pointed to a red area outside the wilderness territory, and asked: "Master Zhou, are you red?" The number one scholar in the sixth year of the Long Dynasty, the imperial examination question that year was how to regain the land of Yanyun through governing the country?"
"Do you still remember?"
Zhou Zhenwen cupped his hands and said, "I remember."
“You wrote down many ideas for governing the country in the examination papers back then, and most of them have now become a reality. Only three ideas, namely, all people should practice martial arts and study, conduct trade with various places, and establish free trade zones, have not been realized until now. "
"You deserve the most credit for the development of the Great Wilderness to this day!"
Empress Liang Zhao sighed. In fact, why didn't she admire the chief minister of the cabinet?
He was able to become the chief minister of the cabinet at the age of less than 30 years old, surpassing other great scholars. Two of the six ministers followed him and realized the ambitions he had set back then.
If any one thing can be achieved, it can be regarded as an outstanding ability.
But what about Zhou Zhenwen?
He has accomplished so many things by himself, it is simply terrifying!
"Your Majesty is ridiculous." Zhou Zhenwen responded modestly, but in his heart he was thinking about Empress Liang Zhao's intentions.
Empress Liang Zhao held a small sandalwood stick, pointed to the location of Jiaozhou, and asked: "Jiaozhou borders the land of Yanyun, and is only a hundred miles away from the Jiuyou Kingdom. If the Jiuyou Kingdom plots the land of Jiaozhou and secretly supports the governor of Jiaozhou, With the intention of treason, Bachelor Zhou, if I send you to Jiaozhou, how will you break the situation?"
Nine Nether Country?
Jiaozhou?
Zhou Zhenwen thought about it for a moment and immediately understood what Empress Liang Zhao meant.
Where are Jiuyou Country and Jiaozhou?
This is obviously the Sirius Dynasty and Qingzhou!
The young emperor wanted to deal with Zhang Qi, the prefect of Qingzhou, but he was afraid of causing a rebellion in Qingzhou, so he came to ask for his opinion... Zhou Zhenwen understood clearly and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, in such a situation, the strategy should be adjusted according to local conditions and the actual situation. It is divided into three types, the upper, middle and lower strategies.”
"oh?"
"What's the plan?"
"Come quickly!"
Empress Liang Zhao suddenly became interested and asked immediately.
Sure enough, asking Zhou Zhenwen is the best way.
It will undoubtedly be too late to deal with everything after the Qingzhou rebellion!
"The best strategy is to attack the heart, the middle strategy is to attack the strategy, and the bottom strategy is to mobilize the troops."
Zhou Zhenwen's expression remained unchanged and he spoke eloquently: "The so-called best strategy is to attack the enemy's heart, which means to defeat the enemy's defense line and make him retreat in the face of difficulties."
"Due to the mutual checks and balances between the governor and the governor, the situations of the thirteen states in the world are different. Eight of them have vassal states of vassal kings. If among them, we can use the power of the vassal kings to cooperate with the governor and other counties. Siege, to achieve the effect of self-defeat without attacking."
"If the governor is strong, the governor is weak, and there is no vassal king to guard him, he needs to find a county governor who is loyal to the court and join forces with him to control other counties in advance to prevent rebellion in the entire state. The soldiers and horses of each state and county They are all limited, even the governors of core states and counties have no right to mobilize troops from other states and counties. As long as they are prevented from colluding secretly, the situation can be controlled within a controllable range."
"As long as the situation is narrowed down to one county and one county, the imperial court only needs to issue an order to allow other states and counties to mobilize troops and blockade the city. The enemy is weak and will naturally surrender on its own initiative."
Listening to Zhou Zhenwen's analysis, Empress Liang Zhao nodded slightly. This was also a method she had just thought of.
The future deduced by the empress simulator was mainly due to a lack of timely response. As soon as the supervisory censor Feng Qian arrived in the capital and reported the matter, the entire Qingzhou turned against him.
She was completely caught off guard. She didn't expect that Qingzhou Governor Zhang Qi had such control over the entire Qingzhou?
If she could know in advance, she would secretly send dragon guards to secretly control the governors of other states and counties to prevent them from echoing Zhang Qi and rebelling together.
Seeing that Empress Liang Zhao was a little moved, Zhou Zhenwen changed the topic and continued: "But if the 14 counties occupy more than half, it will not be so easy to achieve this plan..."
