While Zhang Ji was accompanying his wives and concubines in the Luonan fiefdom, the political structure of the Qin Dynasty's court also underwent some changes, which may not be big, but definitely not small.
Lu Buwei asked Ying Zheng to resign!
This news caused an uproar throughout the world!
Lu Buwei is only forty-five years old this year. Although the average life span of people in this era is not long, for the powerful, life can really be bought with money.
With more refined food, better doctors, and more expensive medicinal herbs, in most cases the rich and powerful can live longer than the common people.
As for Lu Buwei, he was able to stabilize the country with his literary skills, and destroy the Zhou Dynasty with military force. He did not hold the power to himself for a long time. It can be said that he was in the prime of life, and he would not resign at all.
For a time, rumors were flying all over the sky, and people began to wonder whether Ying Zheng had completely secured the throne and therefore could no longer accommodate Lu Buwei, even though Lu Buwei was Ying Zheng's elder, both his father and his teacher.
There is nothing the world can do if they think so.
After all, Lu Buwei had indeed once monopolized the power to restrict Ying Zheng's monarchy before, and the Qin State had no shortage of precedents of taking action against the auxiliary ministers left by the previous king.
King Huiwen killed Shang Yang, King Wulie chased Zhang Yi, and King Zhaoxiang dismissed Ganmao. King Zhaoxiang left King Xiaowen with his prime minister Ducang. Because King Xiaowen kept his filial piety as the prince, he was spared in order to win over his old ministers. However, After King Zhuang Xiang came to the throne, he was dismissed and appointed Lu Buwei as prime minister.
Although this kind of thing is not unique to Qin, it is the same among all the princes in the world.
As the emperor and his ministers, which king would not like the prime minister to be his confidant?
But in this era, it is politically correct to belittle Qin, so many Shandong scholars have opened up those old scores.
In the prime minister's house, Ying Zheng quietly came to Lu Buwei's house under the protection of a group of Langguan and Yulin troops.
"Father Zhong, why are you doing this? Although Zheng may not be as ambitious as the ancient sages, he is not that ungrateful and ungrateful person."
Ying Zheng ignored the ceremony and sat directly next to Lu Buwei, holding Lu Buwei's hand: "If Father Zhong hadn't fought desperately to repel the six-nation coalition, Zheng would have become the king of the country. But now, if Father Zhong hadn't supported him , Zheng can't hold the power, Zhongfu is the Duke of Zhou of my great Qin Dynasty, Zheng will never forget Zhongfu's achievements."
"If the hero cannot escape unscathed, how can Ying Zheng stand in the world!"
"I also ask Father Zhong not to resign, but to continue to assist in political affairs and bring peace to the world."
Lu Buwei was a little confused. Although he was very happy that Ying Zheng expressed his closeness to him like this, he didn't say that he wanted to retire!
Immediately, Lu Buwei reacted.
Lu Buwei has no intention of retiring. He is just kidding. He is still in the prime of life. At the age of forty-five, he is a powerful man. If it were not for the restriction of national mourning, he would have brought two concubines into the house.
He just submitted a letter to resign, but he did not resign completely.
However, as usual, a resignation memorial needs to be submitted separately, and the real purpose of Lu Buwei's resignation is in the second memorial that is uploaded to the imperial review along with the resignation memorial. But when Ying Zheng saw the resignation memorial, he I can't stand it any longer, so I can't think of continuing to read the next memorial.
According to the rules, the official's resignation memorial must be handed over to the censor first, and then to the Yingzheng Yulan. The news of Lu Buwei's resignation was also revealed by the censor who reviewed the memorial, making it known to everyone.
Ying Zheng was stunned after hearing Lu Buwei's explanation, and immediately sent his concubine Meng Jia back to Zhangtai Palace to get another memorial from Lu Buwei.
It wasn't until he read Lu Buwei's second memorial that Ying Zheng understood Lu Buwei's thoughts.
In today's Great Qin, the Prime Minister is only in charge of the national government affairs in name, but in fact, both government and military affairs are inseparable from the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's Mansion under his command. In wartime, the Prime Minister can even serve as the commander-in-chief of the army. Most of the previous Prime Ministers of the Qin State have He once commanded a large army and achieved certain military exploits, otherwise he would not be able to convince the people of Lao Qin.
For example, Gangchengjun Cai Ze, who replaced Fan Ju, was considered average among the previous prime ministers of the Qin Dynasty. However, he had to resign a few months after taking office because he had no military merit.
But the power of Xiangbang was so great that it could even threaten the military power and eclipse the King of Qin.
Therefore, King Wulie of Qin chose to divide the position of prime minister into two parts, changing it to the left and right prime minister, weakening the power of the prime minister.
However, this system only lasted a few years before being abandoned due to the untimely death of King Wulie of Qin.
Now, Lu Buwei feels that this system needs to be re-established.
Sooner or later, the power of the prime minister will be weakened. Instead of waiting for Ying Zheng to face many obstacles in the future to weaken it, he, the prime minister who is now in great power and has a father-son relationship with the King of Qin, can take the initiative to propose it. Then there will be no obstacles to this matter. .
Even in the era of future generations, if someone proposes to re-establish the state, they will be criticized.
Are you as good as Lu Xiangbang?
Do you have a close relationship between Lu Xiangbang and the King of Qin?
Even Lu Xiangbang was unwilling to continue to serve as prime minister, and divided the position of prime minister into two!
At what level do you have more power than Lu Xiangbang?
Understanding Lu Buwei's good intentions, Ying Zheng didn't know what to say. He just stood up silently, bent down, and saluted.
"Li Si...that's all."
Ying Zheng, who sat back down next to Lu Buwei, called Li Si's name, but received no response. Then he remembered that when Beidi County and Longxi County were affected by the earthquake a few months ago, Wang Shu, Wang Jue's son, was sent to Beidi County by him. Li Si took charge of disaster relief matters, and Li Si took over the post of Longxi County Sheriff Yang Kai, who unfortunately died in the line of duty in the earthquake.
Li Si was young and had little qualifications. Although he was a senior official in Yingzheng, he was not from a good background and could not rise as smoothly as Feng Quji and Feng Jie.
After all, the Li family in Xia Cai is just a small family and cannot really provide much support to Li Si. No matter how depressed the Feng family in Shangdang, where Feng Quji and Feng Jie were born, is, after all, it is a big family in Shangdang and has the support of Wang Ye, so Li Si can only He can be sent to a remote county to serve as a county guard and gain qualifications.
However, Li Si is lucky. At least he was a Langguan of the King of Qin. He was already a minister before the King of Qin came to power. At least the post of Longxi County Sheriff is vacant. At least he has a teacher who is a contemporary Confucian master. Otherwise, the County Sheriff One job...haha.
"Meng Jia, plan a move for me."
Meng Jia took out a piece of silk from his sleeve. As the middle concubine of Yingzheng, Li Si, Feng Jie, Feng Quji, Mi Qi, Mi Dian and other former colleagues were all sent out to serve. As the middle concubine, Meng Jia naturally had to work at any time. Prepare to draft an edict for Ying Zheng.
"The Prime Minister Lu Buwei was granted the title of Lord Ying, the city was changed to Yangzhai with 150,000 households, and chariots and horses were given with fine clothing..."
Lu Buwei looked at Ying Zheng in shock.
One hundred thousand households in Yangzhai!
In the eyes of others, they may wonder why Ying Zheng punished Lu Buwei, but in Lu Buwei's eyes, Ying Zheng gave him a great gift!
Four words jumped out of Lu Buwei's heart and made his heart beat faster - Return home in rich clothes!
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